#| not that jamie isnt important to me !! |

[angelst4re]

Hii its me (again) with a Caius request (pls tell me if im getting annoying with then i just love this Vampire sm) but i was gonna ask if you can do a angst then fluff? Again the reader is bellas sis, and it takes place in breaking dawn part 2 when they go to convince the volturi that renesmee isnt a vampire. The reader has been with Caius since new moon but she went to visit bella after she heard she was ‘sick’ and Caius gets m a d when he sees shes on bellas side. When a fight starts (but none of the volturi die like in alices vision) a wolf thinks the reqder is a vampire and attacks her. She has like no chance shes gonna survive so Caius turns her into a vampire and takes her back to Volterra and its all fluffy najsjsjsn omgs please tell me if thats too much i apologizee i have too much ideas😭 againnn i adore your work sm and youre one of the best Jamie writers i have readd❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

hi my love!!! ahh noo it's never annoying, i love getting requests :) (although right now i have 120+ which is mad! but it's always open for more!) but i loved this one so much and i'm thinking of possibly writing a part 2!! <3

Gods & Monsters- Caius Volturi x Reader

summary: in the request :)

warnings: none?

notes: i wrote this over three days so if there are any little plot holes or if something doesn't make sense then i'm sorry! it hasn't been proof read </3

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You had been with the vampire for an entire year now, and he still would deny changing you. You had tried reasoning with him, telling him it meant that you could live together forever, but he still insisted on you staying alive, keeping your soul. You already made certain commitments, such as living with him and even moving to Italy, but it seemed like it wasn’t enough. 

When you heard the news that your little sister was sick, you insisted that he took you to her, but he would not. It ended in an argument between the two of you, and you left that night, taking all your belongings with you. You told him you might return one day, you just needed some time alone and to take care of your sister, and if he were to follow you then you would never come back. 

When you got to the Cullen’s home, you were too afraid to look at Bella. You had never seen her so unwell, and even Jacob told you that he didn’t think she would make it. You would lie down beside her on the sofa, holding her cold body in your arms, and you wondered whether there was anything Caius could do to help- but you already knew what he thought about your sister and her husband. 

That night, Bella told you that she was pregnant, and that’s what was causing her to feel so sick. You reassured her that she’ll be okay, but everyone was worrying that she wouldn’t make it through the birth, even Edward had his doubts. Carlisle said she would go into labour in the next few days, and you worried that it meant she only had a few more days to live. 

In a panic, you left that night to return to Volterra, to return to Caius. You knew he wouldn’t show you any sympathy, afterall, he despised your sister, but he welcomed you back with open arms, letting you cry into his chest. 

For days, you had tried not to think about it. You had distracted yourself with books from Caius’s library, and had gotten through three in one day. However, your mind would eventually go elsewhere as you read, and you would worry about Bella again. Caius insisted you spoke to him about it, he could tell something was really upsetting you, but you didn’t dare to say a word about it. You knew his response would be something along the lines of ‘she’s done it to herself, she could have prevented it’ and although it did seem to be the truth, you weren’t ready to face it just yet. 

To your surprise, you woke up one night and Caius wasn’t in the room with you. He would never leave you alone, especially at night, so there was either two reasons for this:

One, being that he had something important and urgent to attend to.

Two, something bad has happened to him.

You hoped for the first one, and so you slipped out of the covers and wrapped your fluffy red robe around you, before leaving your room. You could hear talking, but you couldn’t quite tell where it was coming from. 

“The Cullen’s, they have done something terrible.”

You creeped closer to the heavy metal doors, where you assumed the voices were coming from, but it was almost impossible to hear what they were saying. However, you worried they would hear you, or sense that you were there, so you fled back to your room and waited for Caius to return. 

When he finally returned, you instantly started to question him. You knew he had set rules, and one of them was to not listen in to any conversations that would happen in that room, but you didn’t care about that right now, you only cared about your sister. 

“What’s happened? Is Bella okay? Has she given birth yet? Caius, please, answer me!” 

He sighed, as if you were bothering him.

“She’s fine. It’s not your sister that’s the problem right now, it’s the child that she was seen with.” He shook his head lightly, as if he couldn’t believe what was happening, “we’ve been informed it’s an immortal child. Do you know what that means?” 

You shook your head, adjusting your posture slightly as you sat up on your bed. 

“Then don’t worry about it, darling, we’re already working on sorting out this… situation.” 

“What does that mean?” You asked, “if you lay so much as a finger on my sister-”

“I told you,” Caius spoke, beginning to lose his patience, “it isn’t your sister that we’re concerned about.” He said before leaving the room. 

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You knew Caius said he wasn’t going to hurt Bella, but you couldn’t help but fear something terrible was going to happen- and you were glad you trusted your instincts. You were currently by Bella’s side, squeezing her hand reassuringly as you walked. You warned her that the Volturi knew about her daughter, and Alice had already had a vision that the Volturi were planning to punish the Cullens for what they had assumed had happened. 

As the Volturi arrived, you couldn’t help but worry about what Caius would do when he saw you with your sister, you even felt a little nervous when he looked at you, giving you a look that called you foolish. You knew how ruthless and sadistic he could be, but you would never in a thousand years believe he would hurt you. 

You gave Bella one last smile before you let go of her hand, letting her take Renesmee's as your eyes found their way back to Caius. You don’t think you have ever seen him look so angry before. 

Aro and Carlisle spoke, whilst Bella began to whisper to you, 

“Do you think everything will be okay?” 

“Of course,” you said, trying to believe it yourself, “I promise.”

“Aro,” Carlisle began, “let us discuss things as we used to, in a civilised manner.” 

“Fair words, Carlisle,” Aro spoke, “but a little out of place given the battalion you have assembled against us.” 

“I can promise you, that was never my intent. No laws have been broken.” 

“We see the child,” said Caius, his eyes focused on you as he spoke, “do not treat us as fools!” He snarled, his eyebrows furrowed in anger. 

“She is not an immortal!” Carlisle declared, but Aro wouldn’t give in so soon, he wanted proof, evidence- and he wanted it from Edward. 

So far, everything was going great for your side, and you even grinned smugly at Caius, who seemed to be getting more outraged by the second. Especially after Alice turned up, Jasper by her side. And in mere moments, the fight you were all anticipating had begun. 

Aro raised his arms, staying put with Marcus and Caius by his side whilst everyone else began to charge at each other. Kicks and punches were being thrown, wolves were leaping from vampire to vampire, in hopes of beheading their enemies. You weren’t too sure what to do, or where to go, as you were neither wolf nor vampire, and you felt like this wasn’t really your battle to fight. 

You watched in horror as people from both sides would fight, until you heard a low growl from behind you, before your body was flooded by fear and a sharp, agonising pain. 

The last thing you saw before it all went black was the pure shock and fear on Caius’ face before he dashed over to you. 

The wolf that bit you was chased off by another vampire, as Caius picked your limp body off of the snowy ground, holding you in his arms as he fell to his knees. In this moment, he could only care about one thing- and it was you. He couldn’t lose you, he had told you about his wife that had died whilst he was still human, and how he blamed himself for it everyday, and he knew he couldn’t let it happen again. There was only one way to save you, and as his teeth sunk into your skin he whispered a soft apology to you. 

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“Where am I? Caius? What happened?” You asked, blinking what felt like sleep away from your eyes. 

“Oh my- You’re okay!” Caius cried, a wide smile plastered on his face as he wrapped his arms around you, stopping you from sitting up, “I was so, so worried I’d lose you, sweetheart. I’m so sorry.” 

“What are you sorry for?” You asked, with a soft chuckle. 

“Don’t you remember what happened?” He asked, stroking your cheek with his thumb, feeling devastated at how your once warm skin was now ice cold, like his. 

You shook your head, looking at him cluelessly. 

“That’s okay, you’ve only just woken up,” he said with a gentle smile as your now red eyes met his, “we have forever together now anyway, you got your way, darling.” 

“What happened to Bella? And Renesmee?” 

“They’re perfectly fine, my love.” He told you, “she isn’t what we suspected, Bella and the Cullens are fine.”

You let out a sigh of relief, and smiled up at Caius. 

“Can I hold you?” He asked, and you felt your tummy swarm with butterflies. 

“Yes please.” You grinned. 

He sat down beside you on the bed and pulled you towards him, wrapping his arms around you and placing his hands on your waist, pressing careful kisses to your forehead. 

“I love you.” He said, taking you by surprise. You turned your face to look at him, clearly he was joking! But as you looked at him you saw nothing but adoration in his eyes, “I’m never letting you leave my side ever again, okay? In all the years I’ve lived, I don’t think I’ve felt such fear as I did when I thought I was going to lose you.” 

“I’m not going anywhere, Caius,” you assured him, “I love you.” 

His hand that previously stroked your cheek came down to your chin, slipping his finger underneath and capturing your lips with his. As he kissed you, you moved slightly, so you were sat on his lap, straddling his hips as he held you against him, not breaking the kiss for the slightest moment now that you didn’t need to pause and catch your breath. “So when do you think we should start planning the wedding?” Caius asked, jokingly. However, you both knew that neither of you would be opposed to getting married, from the moment you first met him you knew he was special, there was something about him that you couldn’t help but fall in love with. However, you couldn’t believe that Caius, who was infamous for being the most cruel and sadistic member of the volturi, loved you, and he would do anything for you.

[thepig]

jamie lee curtis isnt even a gilf to me i dont want to fuck her for grandma-like features i want to fuck her bc shes jamie lee curtis do you understand? you have to be attracted to the elderly qualities to be a gilf lover. otherwise you just want to fuck a person. this is important because i think a lot of people dont actually want to fuck milfs they want to fuck conventionally attractive women of any age. the crows feet are integral. the sag and the cellulite are attractive qualities. lieten to me. do you want to fuck someone with wrinkles or do you just want to fuck and they happen to have wrinkles. its important

[grasslandgirl]

top five poems, top five fh/fhsy npcs and top 5 fic tropes you love reading!

tysm moss !!!! <333

top five poems:

the orange by wendy cope. im not even worried about being basic here this is just like. aaaaaaaa yeah.

wild geese by mary oliver. again it's a big hitter here on tumblr dot com for a REASON babes

two-headed calf by laura gilpin. again fucking obviously.

THE GARDEN.

not a poem but it's written mostly in verse and the anne carson translation of antigone/antigonick (both are good in different ways) are so special and important to me forever

top five fh/fhsy npcs

ayda aguefort. this isnt even a fucking question. number one in my heart forever

garthy o'brien <33

sandra lynn faeth (jamie has talked to me about [REDACTED] and otuhgoughouhgh GOD you guys. aaa sandra lynn i am shaking u.)

jawbone o'shaughnessy. the biggest hug in the world to MY DAD !!

telemina lomenelda. not because i Like him but because the supercut of telemine scenes on youtube titled "brennan shitting on elves for twenty minutes" or whatever is one of the FUNNIEST things ive ever seen on the planet

honorable mention all of the seven maidens bc even though they're not really npcs they're all soososoo my best friends <33

top 5 fic tropes i love reading

honestly im such a slut for anything mutual pining. yeah babes sink into and suffer in your feelings and then finally accept you are loved as you are. aaaaaaaaaaaa

ballet au's. not a trope but by GOD i will put these in my MOUTH no questions asked

i love like. well integrated modern/contemporary magic. where it's like a flavor in the background and not a focus. this is so niche and its hard to find bc i Dont Like fics that are just written for the SOLE purpose of carrying an author's ideas for modern magic world building (they're just not my taste)

stupid miscommunication. yeah bitch dont talk about your problems and you both think the other person hates you and etc etc ohhoughguhh suffer about it!! and then DO talk about it and communicate and get on the same page!!!

im doing my fifth bullet for the second half of above bc so truly imo giving enough time for effective resolution after a misscommunication trope is UNDER DONE AND UNDER APPRECIATED. i love angst and suffering and stupid misscommunications as much as the next bitch but you have to spend EQUAL TIME working BACK up to communicating and dealing w the fallout and consequences of your actions AFTER the fact for it to be fulfilling.

feel free to send me other "top five ___" asks !!

[rosewoodconch]

RWCH Readathon 2024: Day 7

Undercover Princess - Chapter 19

Everything about this opening is amazing and I can really imagine it as a movie scene, panning around as you get used to the brightness and you see the curtains to the lighting to finally the throne room

Wilhelmina is a terrifying force, theres undeniable power in how shes introduced. Weve already met both ellies parents, but not her grandmother. So this introduction really consolidates how important and intense this is

Ellie and Jamie having no reaction really demonstrates how much of this verbal abuse theyve had to see and face and it's really quite scary

On the other hand, Lottie is so reactive and shows the drastic difference

The background check is really really scary, revealing more and more to the audience.

Again I'm coming back to how we learn these characters names. Ellie being unlike her true self in the prologue, and only being addressed by her full name and her title when shes in Maradiva, but introduced as Ellie when she has more freedom.

Lottie was more comfortable at home in her little attic, and we only learn her name is Charlotte when shes nervous and introducing herself to Binah.

Now, when Lottie is most scared and uncomfortable, her whole life being read before her by complete strangers, do we as the reader even learn her full name.

And i think thats a really powerful thing to have kept from the reader until this point, especially as the text brings up her dad for the first time too.

It shows incredibly well how embarrassed she is. This isnt on her terms. Shes scared and confused and wants no part in this. And we as the reader feel uncomfortable reading it and lwarning about it when shes not consenting to it.

But also Ellie and Jamie stopping them. Amazing, and it shows how much solidarity they all have to each other already

Its just such a brilliant way to convey this whole scene, using information even we don't know.

The sentences getting shorter and shorter as Lotties panic grows fills the reader with anxiety echoing her own

Jamie smirking at the mention that shes the 2nd highest in english is so funny to me i love that boy

The fact that they knew something that not even Lottie knew, about being chosen by Devine. Its so scary, it really fully reaffirms how different she was.

I appreciate that the King really did wish for Ellie to do well, for her to have her freedom

DEVINE COMING IN CLUTCH HELL YEAH

Lottie breaking every single rule to brag about her and show how truly impactful ellie has been, even if it doesnt reflect that on her paperwork

The Queen is so womderful, shes unassuming but also has a beautiful air of power, and the way she introduces the concept of a portman as "signing your life away to the maravish family"

Iconic

Love her

Want her to narrate my life please

In summary, i love the trial scenes.... so im doing the second half tomorrow. Mostly because im probably gonna squeeze 20 and 21 into one liveblog because theyre so short

See yall tomorrow for the wrap up of part one and the start of part 2!

[your-local-uwu-artist]

Okay I think I have the basic idea for the animatic and just need to storyboard

Idk how to do that

alright so get your audio imported and than theres a few ways to approach

ummmm ill use my kirby storyboard and charlotte animatic for examples ( i can find more examples if youd like too :3)

scattered tips and rambles under the cut nfsdkja

so i tend to only include the base poses for movement in my animatics and i also keep my sketches like, quick and simple, one thing thats visible in my kirby one is that i didnt keep the backgrounds consistent in the storyboard because once i had what i wanted for that sketched out i would switch to focusing on the character animaiton sense i could figure the background out later

i would recomend using minimal layers: it can be helpful to have 2 animation layers though so you can sketch the character movements independant from eachother: however for storyboarding just keep it to one layer

if you need to sketch out character anatomy id suggest doing that after your storyboard: on a second sketch layer, simmilar to how later examples of my kirby animatic had circles to keep track of the size and placement of characters, if you struggle with anatomy than try to sketch em more like stick figures or with less lines to keep the process simple

if your having trouble conveying a particular movement than it could be helpful to flesh it out further in you base storyboard so that you have it more figured out later on, but for the most part dont worry about the actual animation just the base poses

sense you havnt animated before id focus more on just getting your ideas down, if you animate more in the future than its important to study more about character movement and flow and directing the viewers eyes and all of that but for now try not to wory about making anything particualry amazing, i find for me putting to much expectations on an animations result makes the task feel even more daunting ^o^*

however if you want to be more ambitious and start learning some more storyboarding skills i can try to sketch out some guides~

a great thing to focus on now thats simple is just to keep in sync with the music, particularly for actual cuts

theres lot of editing you can do to make an animatic look more animated post production, any camera movemtns (like a slight movement from right to left or a zoom in out, or shakey little effect) dont worry about any of those rn, example of this is in my kirby animatic theres that one clip where theres drawings being shown and you can see how the shot isnt drawn to fit the full page: thats cause i plan to do camera movement to pan across the drawing

ummm i would suggest cheking out Jamie De Jonge - YouTube, and •[ Silliest_Light ]• - YouTube, cause there great examples where like, its generally more simple/less ambitous animations but look fantastic, and do a great job of storytelling

my charlotte animatic was done super quick, i did have a sketch layer if i remember correctly but like, it was pretty fast~

for that i just focused for keeping in sync with music and the actual like, framing to convey more emotion, theres only 12 frames in the whole thing actually

another small thing i did there is in the first frame charlotte's arms are like, down resting on the ledge where as in the next clip with her , her pose changed so her hands are on te ledge but her arms are strectched out, given that the action of her goign from the ledge to pushing herself ore upwards is a simple movement and also like, a very diagonal one? if that makes sense i think this pose change helped convey more motion in general despite the motion itself never being shown, i could try to phrase that better if that didnt make sense djnfajsd

all of this is really scattered so im not sure how much help it is but i hope it is at least somewhat neat idk dafkndjf

[icecreamkink]

im very aware that when people rec sports media by saying things like 'you dont need to like sports at all!!' what it usually means is 'enjoying this sport will actively get in the way of liking this media' and its fine. ok. but like. People Who Self Proclaimedly Don't Like Sports

for fucks sake stop saying that ted lasso is Actually a good and competent coach bc he ✨ Cares ✨ . one, not enough and two. he is actually really fucking not; gonna put this under a cut and its kinda negative beware etc

yeah the premise of the show is 'haha american dude doesn't know what hes doing' i know, and football isnt the point, i know, but its. you have to admit at some point that ted lasso wants to have it both ways; it wants the haha what Is football and it wants to defend teds coaching style bc he is a kind person. bc he knows how to bring people out of their shell on a personal level. and thats great.  there is a discussion in the fandom whether caring abt winning is or isn't more important than caring for the people on the team in professional sports, or if ted is or isnt a good coach bc hes not v confrontational, and in my view these are not issues at all. however what everyone seemingly ignores is that-

ted is and continues to be for the entire show, HUGELY incompetent and ignorant, just, completely ignorant of anything regarding football, by his own constant admission, and he never cares to or bothers to learn. anything, at all. at any point. no, his kindness is NOT enough to make him a competent professional. no, his mental struggles dont explain why he is uninterested in doing his job. not only that, his disregard with understanding what the fuck it is hes doing at all is actually a pretty big hole in the 'caring' and even the 'underestimated' characterization of teds. like, people claim he's helping the athletes "on and off the field" but thats not true; he's only helping them off the field. ted does shit all to help them on the field, shit all, even his match choices, like benching jamie and starting with roy, are personal decisions thinking about them off the field. but a team of professionals and a club that employs dozens more people than ted lasso portrays depends on him and the narrative seems not to realize this. this is their livelihoods, not a footy camp for children. giving them books is great, but its not a substitute to knowing even the basics of whats at stake , like relegation, for example and i cant get over how many people found this blatant ignorance cute.

the fact that at episode 8 ted doesn't know what relegation is; that months into the job we're still having 'what is offside lollol' jokes; the fact that on the day richmond is going to play everton, he has no idea they haven't won against everton in decades, which means he hasnt reasearched everton at all. that only the day before a match against man city , only then teds gonna bother with gameplan strategies, meaning, again, he didnt research their oponent at all even though its a crucial game and man city is a technically much superior team that would demand careful tactic to beat; the fact he sees that nate, a kit man, has some tactical understanding and then just settles with relying on him alone, not even like, getting someone else to exchange ideas and train nate as a coach, just 'sure this'll do'. (there is also the fact that richmond is illogically understaffed and it bothers me like an itch, but like. its a show, alright, whatever)

these are jokes, yeah, but they're also ted being bad at his job. he has not done the minimum, really not even the bare minimim amount of research. he doesn't get familiar with the game, he doesn't understand positions, tactics, rules, plays, he doesn't know football history, he doesn't research the oponents, he doesn't even know how the league works! again, that's months into his position; the fact on the last episode of season one, after training Richmond for half a season, on the brink of relegation, ted is still fucking telling rebecca he doesn't know anything. as if he doesn't have not only the ability, opportunity but also the obligation of yknow. reasearching. getting informed. doing his job. care, since ppl love to talk about how much he cares. the idea that ted can care about the players as people while at the same time apparently not giving a fuck abt understanding what theyre all doing here is a huge, gaping logical hole in ted lasso's writing; before analyzing whether or not ted is a pushover, whether or not teds too passive, whether or not hes too non competitive, whether his positivity is good or bad, we have to ignore the fact this show actually tried to get away with 'nate and roy (both inexperienced too btw) take care of pesky game strategy, performance analysis, a team training and ted, the manager, only takes care of the players hearts <3' as if thats not only fair, but a good thing. he is utterly uninterested in half of his job, and that makes him a bad professional (and contradictingly selfish, too);   and 'oh football isnt the point' simply doesnt cut it for me. its lazy, and its annoying.

AND. for the record . i think ted lasso misses gigantic comedic and storytelling opportunities by doing this. teds clueless fish out of water self would be a lot more endearing and a lot more interesting and a lot funnier if it came up when hes researching his job, being interested in it, learning about it instead of being passively told these things and continuing to ignore them. rebecca being frustrated that her plan is shaking bc ted is willing to do the work and step up to his role would have been so much more effective than her being stumped bc hes just so aw shucks nice, period. they couldve shown that ted isnt just kind, but responsible, self aware, caring. it definitely would've helped with the show not feeling slimily 'usamericans come to teach meanie brits how to Lowve and to show how their outlook on life is Better' at times ( which was thankfully made more complicated in s2, but its still kind of there in the story tbh). there are endless hilarious football drama that they couldve used or brought up. there are so many storytelling opportunities to be found within matches. many more and more interesting contrasts as to how the popular sports in the us work vs how football works. football has an extremely unique relationship with people (in good and bad ways) and the show baaarely touches on that. like fucking hell we never even see the secondary characters that we assume are passionate so much as watch a match.

So. for the love of god. and i say all this as someone who did enjoy ted lasso, if mostly isolated episodes or storylines. stop saying ted is a good coach. he might be a good friend, a good influence, a good motivational speaker, tocador de pandeiro. a good pov character. but he is really not a good coach, much less a good manager, and thats a very valid criticism of the show

[defiantdreemurrs]

bussyween, part two: halloween ii (1981)

im writing this about a week or so after actually watching it because i had attempted to start writing and didnt get more than half a paragraph in. ill follow it up with part three shortly since i watched the next one today. for now, heres part two of bussyween, covering halloween ii (1981), directed by rick rosenthal.

for starters im greatly impressed by the cinematography on several fronts. dean cundey outdid himself with a lot of the shots, and the hospital setting that most of the movie takes place in is shot with a beautifully claustrophobic feel. somehow they managed to make a tiny little hospital in the late 70s (more on that later) look good.

the other main reason im impressed with the cinematography is that while this was definitely shot and released three years after the original, it takes place literally on the exact same halloween night as the original. it picks up exactly where halloween leaves off and almost feels like more of a part two rather than just a sequel, and honestly aside from the obvious wig jamie lee curtis wears, it looks like it takes place on the exact same night. were it not for the wig and the drastically sonically different score i feel like you could edit these films together into one giant, 2.5 hour long cut, and someone who wasnt intimately familiar with these movies would probably be fooled into thinking it was one film.

speaking of the score, it leaves me with very mixed feelings. there arent a lot of particularly new compositions, most of it is comprised of newly recorded, much more synth heavy arrangements of the same themes composed for the original film. conceptually this doesnt bother me in the slightest but in terms of execution i think it could have been handled better. the classic theme sounds kinda goofy now that the piano has been replaced with a weirdly brassy sounding synth. its a sound design decision i dont really understand but if thats what carpenter and newcomer to the halloween series alan howarth (carpenters musical partner in the studio for most of the 80s) really wanted then good for them. the main exception is "the shape stalks again", which is a rearrangement of the stalking cue from the original, that is far more tense than its predecessor.

a notable difference between this film and the previous is that of the level of violence and gore featured. whereas the original is paced more like a thriller and uses that to its advantage instead of relying on extremely gory deaths, carpenter decided to reshoot some of the kills in this movie to make them more violent to compete with all of the clones that were popping up in the emerging slasher genre, most notably 1980s friday the 13th. i dont think this really detracts that much from the film, i think for the most part it ratchets up the tension nicely compared to the original. that said, i think some of them are somewhat unnecessary solely because of pacing reasons.

ive saved my thoughts on the films pacing and narrative for last because i wanted to get my more positive feelings out of the way up front. where i think this movie falls apart is in its pacing. scenes are drawn out far beyond where they need to be length wise and the whole film feels padded to hell. it isnt really until the last act that everything starts to flow really really well. the first act feels alright and sets things up well enough, even if i feel like the way they repeatedly have characters talk about how "that kid who killed his parents 15 years ago? yeah i heard he escaped" kinda cheapens things and just generally feels unnecessary.

the first act also sets up probably the least interesting part of the film: its new characters. mostly the trio of nurses who clearly only exist to pad out the films kill count. jimmy, the shy boy who develops a crush on laurie, is the only one with any real importance to the plot, and even he ends up being mostly irrelevant. the other two literally only exist to be killed off in admittedly a somewhat interesting and gruesome way.

the second act is easily the low point of the film, however. pointless scene after pointless scene attempting to flesh out characters that just arent anywhere near as interesting as the original films side cast. not to mention an arguably useless dr loomis, one of the standouts of the original, now reduced to wandering around town like an idiot looking for michael and giving exposition that leads to the eventual twist reveal in act three.

skip this paragraph if you dont want to be spoiled for a 40 year old movie, but this films main contribution to the series is the reveal that laurie is michaels long lost sister. i have to spoil this here because almost the entire rest of the series until the 2018 sequel is built off of this revelation, but i can imagine if youre reading this and have an interest in these movies already then you probably already know this. it is a central plot feature in seven other films including the two rob zombie-directed remake/reboot films, and is referenced extensively in those films, and it all started with this film when a bored john carpenter struggling with writers block decided "what if michael and laurie were siblings?"

aside from all these issues the last 40 or so minutes of the film improve drastically on the weaker middle, and from the moment laurie gets out of bed and starts running it is tense as fuck and i feel it almost outdoes the finale of the first film. the final few scenes are incredibly shot, and the last shot of the film in particular is such an effective shot to end a film on.

overall halloween ii is a good 60 minute part two to the original halloween, stretched out a bit too far to a 90 minute feature film. it clearly has almost as big a legacy as the original does, considering the only continuity in the series that does not acknowledge it in some way is the 2018 reboot timeline. were it tightened up just a bit i honestly think i might prefer it to the original as a standalone film, but as it stands i think the two work better together, as its sequel nature makes the less interesting parts marginally more tolerable.

join me next time on bussyween for a look at the franchises first and only attempt at branching out from the story of michael myers, halloween iii: season of the witch.

[matriarchjojo]

𝐘𝐎𝐔'𝐑𝐄 𝐆𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐀 𝐁𝐄 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐄, 𝐃𝐎𝐍𝐓 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍 𝐒𝐀𝐘 𝐍𝐎

YANDERE!JAMIL + BIMBO!READER

18+, NONCON/DUBCON, hypnosis kink, jealousy, cheating (?), corruption kink, misogyny, jamil Talks a lot abt purity, slapping, degradation, rough sex, switch!jamil, multiple orgasms, all characters are over 18, readers skin color is not mentioned

Jamil was already sick of kalim, but now hes got a crush on YOU?! you of all people..and then you even go on a date with kalim. No, no he won't have it.

Jamil couldn't take it anymore, this happened before..but..this is different.

He was sick of being kalims slave and being seen as less his whole life but now the woman he likes is also choosing kalim over him. This isnt fair, its just not fair.

You were supposed to be HIS. He always helped you with everything, he spent more time with you than kalim for godssake! How could kalim even think of asking you out on a date?! He should have known that jamil was deeply in love with you! Why does he keep ruining things for him?!

Jamil was sick at the thought of the two of you laughing together, holding hands or even worse, kissing!

He had to fight the urge to throw up while cooking FOR YOUR DATE NO LESS

everytime the thought of jamil losing you to his rival made him want to kill kalim with his bare hands, jamil hated the thought. But soon enough he got an idea..

Thinking back to when you 'adored' him when he overblotted, was his favourite thing to think about but that made him remember..

He could just control you.

Yes, yes of course! How didn't he think of this sooner?!

As soon as your dinner with kalim was over (which was pure torture for jamil by the way. Except for the way you looked, that was heaven) He was suppossed to escort you out, and that was the perfect time for him to hypnotize you, and keep you as his own~

While you were talking about how good his cooking was (which he could listen to All day, if he didn't have something important to do with you right now) he stopped and hissed

"Jami? Oh dear! Is everything okay?" There it is..that cute nickname you got for him..you might not be the brightest, like kalim, but that was different. You were an angel, and kalim is a Thorn in jamils eye.

"Ah..no, no..it's just something in my eye.." he chuckled awkwardly, rubbing his eye. Yes he used that old trick, but it worked on you.

you looked at him worried and walked up to the tall man "noo~ lemme see! Maybe i can help.." jamil smirked and as you took his hand away from his eye and looked at him he took the oportunity to use his spell on you.

You realized what was happening as your head started hurting, just like the first time you met him! "J-jami?! Wh-what are you.." you trailed off and got quiet as a little drool already threatened to drip from your plump lip

It made jamil laugh evily and put his Hand on your cheek afterwards "who am i to you, my love?" He asked caressing your cheek and holding your waist with his other hand "my dear master.." you smiled completely out of your mind, just how jamil liked you. Hearing you calling him Master just did it for him, you made him feel sinful feelings all the time but..now its even worse.

"good girl..what else am i, dear?" He asked, his face inching closer to you "you're the best man i have ever met..it would be an honor to become your loyal wife and bear your children.."

Fuck

This was all he ever wanted to hear! He couldn't help himself anymore.

Jamil suddenly pushed you up against the golden wall of the hall way to roughly kiss you, he fucking hoped kalim would come into the hallway to see you getting kissed so lewdly by his supposed 'friend', and your beautiful hands clinging onto him, pushing him closer to you.

Jamil broke the kiss with a heavy gasp "i want you, my dear..do you want me too?" His index finger ran across your jaw as a smirk grew larger and larger of his handsome face.

"I want you so bad, master." You suddenly began grinding your hips against his thigh and so jamil just grunted and had to suck in a deep breath before grabbing your hand and running off to his room with you.

After he shut the door he grabbed you by the throat and pushed you onto his bed "who do you love the most?" He asked, his breath hitting your pretty face.

"I love you, master! I always did!" You said, swinging your legs around his waist and pulling him closer to you. You looked so beautiful tonight, you always do of course but that beautiful dress that exposed your cleavage and hugged your waist so tightly was a sight for sore eyes, truly.

Hearing you finally say that you love jamil and not kalim was literal music to his ears

"I love you too, angel" he huffed out before roughly kissing you again and shoving his hot and wet tongue inside of your warm and welcoming mouth

He felt to good in your arms, every curve, dip and inch was made for him. And HIM ALONE.

kalim could never even get a taste of you, not when jamil has his grip on you.

He couldn't stop his hips from rutting against your clothed pussy anymore, he just needed some friction on his cock. "Tell me you love me again." He bit his bottom lip afterwards while staring into your eyes "i love you, master!" You whimpered out to which jamil smirked again "come on, my dear..let those pretty whimpers out as loud as you can~" he wanted the whole dorm to hear you screaming his name.

Everyone knew what an innocent little angel you were, dispite how quite slutty you dressed sometimes. Makes him think that you are just trying to make him mad, with how much attention you draw from the men

Jamil began to pull his hoodie over his head and then to unbuckle his dress pants, but he wanted to leave you in that beautiful dress for a little longer. He wanted to defile you in that beautiful—almost angelic dress.

Jamil slid his hand up your dress and felt how wet you already were, feeling it made him smirk then bite his bottom lip again. "Does me playing with you turn you on that much, my love?" He asked with a cocky smile. You just drooled more and whimpered "ye-yes..master.." your words became more slurred, and not as collected as before. This was a good thing in jamils eyes.

He wanted you to break apart because of him, he wanted to hurt you, dirty you, he wanted to be the one that owns that beautiful flower of yours between your plush thighs.

"Lift your dress up" he ordered caressing your thighs before squeezing them. You did as he ordered since you truly had no other choice, you couldn't say no..though you wanted to..you loved kalim, yet here you are..lifting your dress up for his best friend, and being so wet for, again, his best friend

Jamil grinned when he saw those cute white panties with a bow on it, already dirtied by your innocent pussy. "Come on. Spread your legs more" he slapped your thigh harshly and you proceeded to spread them widely for him, you wanted to cry, but you couldn't..no matter how much you wanted to say no to jamil..you..couldn't..and maybe you dont even really want to. The things he does for you, the way he treats you so dominantly..was so different from kalim, but in a good way..

Jamil hooked his fingers under the crotch of your pretty panties to show him your virgin cunt. "What a beautiful little flower..truly the prettiest" he licked his lips and began to hungrily dive into your wet pussy with his tongue.

Jamil has ruined kalims relationships a lot in the past three years, just out of spite and hate for the sweet and dumb man. He didn't like anything about those women, he just wanted them to fall for him to leave kalim. Then he would drop them.

But you, he actually did have feelings for you, before kalim did.

So he took kalims feelings for you as an attack on him, he will not have it. You are his and his alone, he will not share you..unless..

It may be a good tactic to let you marry kalim and just keep on pleasing you behind his back, jamil still believes that he deserves it. He has not learned from his past mistakes, he just learned that he has to hurt kalim the way he did to him for so many years.

He will make his beloved wife suck his dick everytime you are done having unsatisfying sex with your husband, and jamil will always be your number one, jamil will always be the one you run to when you feel needy, jamil will be the one you truly want.

As jamil got lost in his horrible, backstabber fantasies, he didn't notice how rough he went on your pussy. He lifted his head with his whole mouth and chin dripping with your juices to see your beautiful fucked out face and you breathing heavily.

"What a pretty angel you are~" he said before getting up and slapping one of your tits, you cutely whined at the slap and mindlessly begged for more. "Master! S-slap me again! More!!" Jamil grinned and slid his index and middle finger down to your clit to rub it in small circles before pinching it harshly "say you're my slut, Say you're my dirty slut"

Jamil felt such a rush from seeing your hazed eyes roll back into your head while your mouth hung open "i'm your slut, master!" Jamil wished that kalim could hear your adorable moans, moans that are begging for jamil and jamil only.

"Good." He said before standing up and just looking down at you "sit up and undress yourself for me." You did just as he said and slipped your dress off, along with your panties. Seeing your beautiful and soft body in front of him, all bare and ready just for jamil, it made him want to just slam your head down and take you right there.

But no, he wasn't going to rip your poor pussy open, though seeing your pretty pussy stained with blood because of him did get him a little excited.

But jamil isnt that cruel..

Jamil grinned evily as hos eyes scanned your body, every curve, dip and roll made his cock so much harder. Jamil laid you back down on your back and he placed his palm on the back of your neck "i have waited so long for this moment.." jamil whispered into your ear as he slipped his boxers off, revealing his thick, veiny and uncut cock, all red and begging for attention.

"To defile you, this beautiful angel..you're gonna be mine" he continued his sentance as his left hand played with your soft breast "isn't that right, dear?"

You nodded, with drool running from your plump lips "yess..master..yours.." you slurred, completely out of it. Jamil noticed you, trying to fight against his spell..it made him chuckle at how cute you are to think you of all people could fight against his spell.

"Spread yourself open for me, and dont hold any of those moans back." He ordered and you followed, against your will. You pressed your index and middle finger against you two supple pussy lips to then spread them open to let jamil see your throbbing clit and twitching hole.

Jamils cock twitched at the sight of it and groaned "dirty vixen.." he cursed and grabbed your thighs, so hard to the point of probably bruising them. But do you really think jamil cared? No, of course not. He wanted to Mark you up, so that kalim would see that you're a dirty slut who got fucked and dirtied by his supposed best friend.

Jamil leaned down and kissed your neck as your legs pushed him further against you with an erotic moan coming from you.

He suddenly bit down on your neck as hard as he could, making you cry out in pain

"Whore." He spat before diving back into your neck to suck dark spots into your soft skin and lining his throbbing cock up with your twitching cunt "please, master! Your dirty whore needs it!!" Jamils eyes widened as you suddenly said those words, he actually felt drool Pool in his mouth at your dirty and slutty mouth.

He couldn't help it anymore, jamil just pushed his fat cock past your pussy lips, into your tight and sopping wet hole. Your pussy gripped his sensitive cock so tightly, it made jamil audibly moan. He felt like a virgin all over again..

"S-say you love me.." he said between slow but hard thrusts, he grabbed your hair to make you look at him "do it." Your eyes went ftom hazed to soft and teary "i-i love you..j-jami.."

Jamil almost jumped back from that nickname, hmdid his spell wear off?? Does that even fucking happen? "J-jami! I love you!!" You said again before pulling him back down again to kiss him passionately. Jamil never felt like this before, he truly felt appriciated..and like he was your actual number one..

"Mhh..ah- i-i love you too.." he moaned between sloppily kissing you, your lips and tongue felt so good against his own..he could just drown in you, and the way your pussy clenches with every thrust

It drives him crazy, jamil just has to thrust even faster "f-fuck..i love you, i love you, i love you.." he slurred, still kissing you and sucking on your tongue, all needy and rough.

"I-i'm gonna cum- im gonna- f-fuck.." jamil whimpered as he came in hir and thick spurts inside and then continued to fuck his load deeper inside of your tightening cunt, you were about to cum but of jamil didn't pull out he feared that he might cum again. But as he was about to pull out you pushed him tighter against you and fucked back against him.

Fuck

This was too much for jamil, you were too much for jamil..this was the hottest thing he has ever witnessed, and then to top it all of, it was with you..his love, his angel, his one and only..

You drooled against his strong shoulder and came on his cock, the throbbing and gripping of your pussy almoat made it hard for jamil to breathe as he came again.

Jamil hugged your soft body as he tried to catch his breath, that was the best orgasm you ever had..it felt almost like you were at the gates of heaven, it had your toes curling, your back arching and you screaming.

Jamil lifted his head and looked up at you like he wasnt sure if he should even take a look at you "are you..back to your sense?.." he asked and you shyly looked to the side

"m-maybe.."

You said in that high pitched tone and those cute eyes trying to avoid eye contact. Jamil felt beyond embarrassed right now..but there was a question still lingering in his mind.

"Did you..did you mean it..?" He asked burrying his face im between your tits "did i mean what?" You asked dumbly

Jamil rolled his eyes "that you loved me..did you mean it?" He asked almost shyly

You blushed slightly and pouted your wet lips "yes..maybe..kind of?" You babbled. That was enough for jamil, he wanted to hear it again "say it again.." he said, lifting himself up by his arms to look down at you "say you love me"

You looked up at him like a little puppy and you nervously looked down, but jamil grabbed your chin to make you look up at him "say it and look into my eyes"

You gulped and nodded "i love you, Jami.."

"That means im better than kalim?" He suddenly asked and you got nervous "b-but i liie you both-" he then suddenly slapped you "i only wanna hear a 'yes, Master' do you understand?" He asked with a stonecold look in his eyes

There is that Feeling of dread again, you were scared of jamil...you suddenly came back to your full senses once he slapped you, "l-let me go.." you whimpered but jamil just slapped you again before making you look into his eyes again..

And before you knew it everything went black for you. "I am better than kalim, aren't i?" He asked again and you answered with

"Yes, master."

[danielgarcias]

❝Injured❞

Hook x fem! reader

not my gif!!

fluff fluff and more fluff but also a tiny winy bit angsty????

ꨄ english isnt my first language so i apologies for any mistakes!!

not proofread!!

You knew this was going to happen after winning your title. You had arguably one of your best matches to date, Jade was selling your moves perfectly and vice versa. The crowd was electric, chanting either your name or Jades. You finally pulled your finishing move, from the top rope. You got the pin and handed the title, you felt amazing, you body buzzing with the adrenaline, you felt as though nothing could bring your mood down.

Well weren’t you wrong, you heard the loud voice of the one and only Britt Baker; Jamie Hayter tagging alongside her. You guys had an ongoing fued after you had finally had enough of their bickering after it cost you guys a very important match, something that could have cemented the three of you as actual competitors, but no, the two of them started arguing whilst you tried to make a tag, completely forgetting about you, making your opponent pin you down and win the match.

Now here you were, getting brutally attacked by the girls you considered your closests friends. You laid there, breathless and panting as Britt got up onto the top rope, Jamie holding your arm out as she helped Britt jump right onto your arm. You let out a gut wrenching scream, tears pricking at your eyes, threatening to fall at any moment.

You were so dazed - from the what felt like 1000 punches and the attack on you previously injured arm - you could barely hear the eruption of screams as your boyfriend, Hook, made his way out into the ring, Jamie and Britt quickly scattering out of it.

Hook stared daggers at them, the look itself scaring them away as he turned his attention to you, who was laying on the floor in an unimaginable amount of pain.

You flinched slightly as he brought his hand to your hair; his eyes immediately softening as he moved your hair away from you face. He helped you get out of the ring, grabbing your title for you before putting it over his shoulder. Once you were out of the ring, Hook picked you up bridal style, carrying you all the way to medical. You placed your arms around his neck, securing yourself in his grip before whispering in his ear a small “You don’t have to carry me, I can walk”

“Mhm, I know, but I’m not gonna let you” He replied, nonchalantly, making you let out that giggle that he loved so much. He took the two of you into medical, refusing to let you leave the room until you had been cleared.

You had been given the ‘Okay’ to leave not long after, Hook driving you both home, making sure you were as comfortable as you could be. He had put on your favourite movie, grabbing blankets and placing them ontop of the two of you. You laid your head on his shoulder, completely engulfed in the blankets and his oversized hoodie he had given to you.

You grabbed his hand, interlocking your fingers as you caressed the back of his hand with you thumb, the small action making a blush creep up from his neck up to his cheeks.

“Thank you baby, for all of that” You whispered, just loud enough for him to hear.

He kissed your head, taking a second to smell the coconut shampoo you used, a scent he often associated with you before mumbling an ‘I love you’ into your head.

“I love you too” You replied, grabbing his jaw delicately and pressing a gentle kiss onto his lips. Not long after, Hook heard small snores escaping your lips, a smile making its way onto his face as he admired you for a second. Instead of waking you up to take you upstairs, he decided the better option was to just fall asleep on the couch, the love of his life cuddled into his side.

[fullmetalwindbreaker]

incomplete list of every dumb gripe and complaint and nitpick i have about dune (2021) (it’s still good don’t get mad at me)

- no explanation of kanly, choam, or landsraad

- like. the significance of open warfare and the forces that enable it as opposed to subterfuge steeped in tradition is completely lost without the cultural context

- prescience depicted as general future-sense instead of projection of probabilities based on observed & inferred cause & effect

- general failure to explain or depict or foreshadow transhumanist themes

- all the bullshit they did to my man yueh

- fucking all he does is betray, there’s no nuance to his character, every attempt the book made to humanize his motives or even to valorize his general character is completely gone. weird that they did that to the one asian character

- the overall costume and tech visual design is boring as hell. this is supposed to be the mythical gilded age of a sybaritic empire dripping with wealth and all their ships are grey blobs

- no “for the father, nothing”

- no “tell me about the waters of your homeworld, usul”

- kynes is introduced as “liet kynes,” no double identity whatsoever

- massively downplayed crysknife ritual significance, mapes doesn’t even cut herself

- gurney barely sings, no baliset even

- mentats are basically insignificant, and nowhere near autistic enough

- not enough people quoting fictional religious texts

- NO GLOWGLOBES WHAT THE FUCK

- no weirding room

- Galach isn’t named? most of the languages aren’t

- sardaukar not disguised

- jessica false flag entirely removed????

- The Voice isn’t supposed to sound like that, it’s something tailored to emotionally manipulate an individual person

- generally the bene gesserit “abilities” are hand-waved away as psyckhic superpowers instead of trained perception and emotional manipulation

- JAMIS FIGHT IS SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE SIETCH AND THEYRE SUPPOSED TO BE SHIRTLESS

- he doesn’t even fucking give water to the dead????????????

- but seriously like they would be plainly aware of the unnecessary risk of damaging stilsuits in ritual combat, and of removing them to do so anywhere but an enclosed area

- NO USUL AT ALL????

-the way they literally took what is explicitly referred to as the most important passage in the book and chopped it all out of sequence so it would block better on screen. jamis fight isnt part of the initial inciting incident anyway, it’s a response to how paul has been treated by stilgar’s band thus far

[cristinablackthornkingson]

My thoughts/comments on roughly pages 700-900 of COI.

**TW/CW**

Alcoholism

Miscarriage

Child trafficking

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Matthew and Elias are more alike than Cordelia thinks, Matthew is just a nicer drunk than Elias. They both have/had their demons and use alcohol as an attempted escape, let's just hope things turn out better for Matthew than they did Elias .

Ahhh I really hope there isnt going to be a love triangle between Matthew, Cordelia and James, unless they become a throuple, but I am more so rooting for MatthewxLucie. Isnt Jesse like 8 years older than Lucie? I mean I guess he's technically forever 17 and doesnt have much more life experience than her but still, I prefer them as besties.

Grace leave James alone!

Uh yeah Grace no duh the Bridgestocks dont like you, you're the woman Charles left Ariadne for, that could have ruined her reputation

GRACE FUCK OFF!

JAMES DO NOT KISS HER, Tessa needs to get back and slap some sense into her son jfc!

DAMMIT JAMES!!!

"I should go" Yes you should! And leave James the fuck alone!

The Famer at the Barrow is Wayland the Smith, calling it now

Yep I knew it!

I want a crossover series where Cortana meets Sumabrander/Jack from Magnus Chase 😂😂

Wayland the Smith wants payment for healing Cortana, uh oh, all magic comes with a price

Wait what is a paladin? Does Wayland want Cordelia to find the killer and stop the killings? Has she not already sworn fealty to Cortana? - Oh no she swore fealty to Wayland, makes sense. Go kick ass Daisy!

Yikes seems as if Lucie's powers might cause some trouble for her

Possible Lucie and Ariadne friendship? Will Lucie help her and Anna get back together?

Okay I fear for Lucie when Grace tells Malcolm about Annabell.

Always thought Malcolm was the one who helped Tatianna preserve Jesse's body, apparently not, new character maybe?

Ooh honey, Malcolm this is so much worse than Annabell rejecting you.

Glad to see Lucie inherited Tessa's sensibility

Ariadne and Anna being Lucie's protective yet kickass lesbian cousins, we stan

Awwww Anna calling Lucie "ducks" 🥺

Oh my God Grace was trafficked??? Tatiana is a child trafficker? As are the Cartwrights? Holy fuck poor Grace!

I hope James is okay, I wonder if he'll tell them about Grace? Or that hes in love with Cordelia? Or that he might be possessed by the killer?

I fucking love Anna fussing over Lucie and calling her pet names, more Anna and her cousins being wholesome please!

But surely Belial cant posses James? He had the spells of protection placed on him as a baby, and he didnt actually die in COG, like Jace did in City of Glass, but maybe its different because he is half Warlock and related to Belial?

Raum venom in my shoe, oh Christopher, never change ❤

"I think he is possessed" said Thomas "He is defacing a book" LMAOOOOOOO throw that shade Tommy!

"He felt an odd sensation, tingling between his shoulder blades, apprehension perhaps?" Jamie, sweetie, I'm demiromantic and have never been in love yet even I know you're feeling love and attraction to Cordelia

"Just wound me then, stab me in the leg if you have to" Ah, young love

Hmmm Cordelia and James spending the night in the same room, sexy times to ensue?

A crack in the gracelet? Perhaps James'true love for Cordelia is strong enough to break it? Could be going a OUAT route here, if they have kids they would be the product of true love, and very powerful, could play an important role in the future?

Lmao Cordelia blue balling James as revenge for him kissing Grace, good for you girl, good for you.

Oh Thomas POV, hope we get some Thomastair interaction, first kiss maybe?

I hope Anna and Thomas dont go in search of the killer, surely Anna is going to tell him to get his ass back inside? Or maybe she's about to talk to him about his feelings for Alastair? Is this gonna be the equivalent of Nora having to confirm to Alex that he's bi?

Nope the dumbass is going on patrol alone, I'm scared for him. Maybe he'll run into Alastair and they'll patrol together and talk about their feelings?

No James you love Cordelia, not Grace. Snap out of it man!

Jamie baby you owe no one anything, please talk to your parents and Jem!

Uh oh killers POV with Thomas out alone, I'm scared

Oh God the killer noticed Thomas and now we have a Thomas POV, I dont like where this is going. Alastair come save your man!

Nooo poor Lillian. I'm still scared for Thomas though, I think the killer is trying to lure him in

Uh oh, Thomas is about to get in so much trouble

Sshhhhiittt poor Thomas. Charlotte can surely help him tho, right? She knows he would never kill someone

Oooh so James has been going out in his sleep to try and stop the killer?

Is Enoch gonna tell them about Thomas' arrest? Will he be able to help Thomas?

I want a brother Enoch backstory!

Alastair was so following Thomas for his own peace of mind, and to protect him because he loves him.

I wonder why Bridgestock has it in for Thomas.

Consul Charlotte reminds me of President Ellen Claremont, I love it.

I think the pithos is what the killer used to remove the runes

I wonder if there's gonna be some Thomastair angst and confessions now they're locked in the sanctuary together for a day.

Why is the mortal sword in Paris? Seemingly with Will and Tessa? Was Charles tried by the mortal sword?

Charlotte and Henry have been TTC for years now with no results, my theory is that the miscarriage was complicated and caused a lot of scar tissue, and now Charlotte cant get pregnant, so once her time as Consul is up (which is presumably soon, given how the merry thieves theorize that Bridgestock is vying for Consul next term) she and Henry will adopt, either twin girls or 2 girls close in age, like 2/3 year age gap at max.

I really like Eugenia and would like to read more about her.

Alastair comforting Cordelia is so sweet, they are such an iconic sibling duo.

James thinking of Matthew, Christopher and Thomas as his brother's is so wholesome and sweet, I adore it!

[manifesting-author98]

The significance of reflections in Haunting of Bly Manor

Throughout The Haunting of Bly Manor, both Eddie and Viola use reflections to haunt Dani, but ultimately, they affect her in very different ways. Upon analyzing this, I think that the use of reflections in these different ways symbolizes the consequences of trauma and how they can affect self-perceptions.

Eddie

At the beginning, Eddie’s ghost only appears to Dani in reflections, which is extremely important.

When we look into mirrors, it’s often so that we can see ourselves. It’s a moment to confirm to ourselves that this is who we are, this is what we look like, we are here.

However, for Dani, looking into her reflection isn’t comforting because all she’s able to focus on is Eddie’s ghost lurking behind her, her trauma, rather than herself. She isn’t able to see a true self anymore. Instead, all she sees is her slow devolution into this different, terrified version that’s being haunted by her grief and guilt over Eddie’s death (symbolized by his ghost). And she refuses to face that trauma and to face the fact that she kind of holds herself accountable for his death too, which is why she avoids looking at her reflection at all.

And that’s ultimately why the reflection piece is so crucial. Because yes, Eddie’s ghost is there, but Dani herself is there too. Her own reflection is symbolic of her own perceived role in Eddie’s death. So she refuses to look at it- because she can’t face what she’s done (or what she thinks that she’s done).

That is, until she really finds a reason to move on: Jamie.

Eddie appears to Dani outside of a reflection for the first time after she takes Jamie’s hand (he appears in the doorway of the manor that night). This is because, maybe for the first time since his accident, when she’s with Jamie, Dani feels like she doesn’t need to keep blaming herself for Eddie’s death. She starts to forgive herself. The guilt (again, symbolized by Eddie’s ghost) begins to melt away because she’s finally letting someone else in (Jamie). However, dealing with grief and guilt isnt linear.

Dani already feels guilty for basically causing Eddie’s death. And then, when she starts to move on, a different type of guilt starts to pile on. She begins feeling guilty for NOT feeling guilty/sad anymore. There’s even that instance where Dani lights the candle for Eddie because she hadn’t been paying him enough attention- she felt bad for forgetting him, even though she herself felt much better.

So this is why Eddie’s ghost begins appearing outside of the reflections. It is no longer linked to guilt about Dani’s perceived role in his death. Instead, it has become a symbol of the guilt she feels for forgetting him, for beginning to move on. She doesn’t think she deserves to.

And this type of guilt is now blatantly intrusive. It makes itself known to remind her time and time again that she can’t move on. This is especially apparent when Eddie’s ghost appears in full when Dani and Jamie kiss for the first time.

Her guilt and trauma invade moments like this in an attempt to remind Dani that she needs to keep punishing herself. And this is how unproductive guilt works. It’s not there to help you. It traps you in a cycle of suffering- and makes you think you deserve it, which is exactly what the Eddie’s ghost does.

But after they kiss and Jamie storms away, Dani decides she wants to stop letting that unproductive guilt rule her life. She burns Eddie’s glasses (maybe symbolic of her beginning to see clearly) and the ghost appears to her again. But now, she faces him head on, confronts her guilt and grief by acknowledging it (“It’s just you and me then”), and is finally able to move on, or at least stop it from haunting her anymore.

Overall, his ghost was ultimately a symbol of guilt stemming from the traumatic situation surrounding his death, and his appearances in and out of reflections affect both the way Dani perceives herself and also how she perceives what she deserves going forward.

Viola

Later on, Dani is also haunted by Viola through reflections, but in a different way. Yes, the only times Dani actually sees Viola and really feels her presence coming up are when she sees her in reflections BUT unlike Eddie’s ghost, when Dani sees Viola in reflections, she only sees Viola. She doesn’t also see herself- her own reflection is gone.

This is important because it displays how instead of Dani’s reflection being something she doesn’t want to face because she’d have to look at herself (and face her guilt), now, her identity is getting lost completely in fear and trauma. At one point, Dani even says something along the lines of “When I look in reflections, it’s getting harder and harder to see me...”

I could see this as both as being symbolic of chronic mental illness, or even just of a different types of trauma in general.

Instead of being traumatized and guilty for something she did (as she was with Eddie’s death), instead, now Dani is the victim. She’s traumatized by her encounter with Viola, and slowly loses herself as a result. Viola’s reflection could be symbolic of Dani’s obsession with the encounter. She can’t stop thinking about it. She can’t live a normal life. She can’t be Dani anymore.

That, combined with her previous guilt revolving around Eddie (where a person she loved got hurt because of her), is why she’s so worried about hurting Jamie and succumbing to what Viola is making her.

So for Viola, the reflection aspect is more so about possession. Dani can see herself being overtaken by the darkness that feels inevitable. It slowly takes everything from her: her sanity, her autonomy, and finally, her happiness (with Jamie). This, again, could potentially be displaying how trauma isolates people, especially when they are a victim, something that other people who love them (like Jamie), may not be able to understand.

All of this to say, I think the reflections in the show (both with Eddie and Viola) are symbolic of the different ways that trauma can impact a person, especially in regard to their perceptions of themselves. And Dani has to deal with two different types- two difference ghosts and traumatic experiences that haunt her, which is much more than any one person should have to deal with.

So I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Justice. For. Dani.

[sothischickshe]

1 and 6 and 8??

fanx! <3

1: Is writing cathartic or stressful for you?

yes.

or well, yes and / yes but...?

like, writing can def be cathartic for me (both as a place to purge frustrations say with source material, but also in the feeling of finally offloading a story that's been hanging around in my head!), but i don't think it's ONLY cathartic, like it's also entertaining and enchanting and educational and challenging and frustrating etc etc etc.

i def think there are aspects of writing which are ~stressful to me (although i'd probs term as challenging and/or frustrating rather than stressful per se, but words are v imperfect vehicles so w/e). particularly around: snatching the time to write how i want to write, the struggle to express things with puny lil words ugh, the idea of sending something out into the world... BUT! generally i find that frustration points in the planning/writing/editing/publishing/whatever process are crackable, bc it's a process of working out what exactly the frustration is caused by, & once youve identified a problem, it's a lot easier to solve it!!! (or at least to acknowledge it as something to address better in the future.) so i think while writing CAN be a source of ~stress that's normally not a negative thing in itself bc it's presenting opps to grow n learn n improve n Understand n process-trust too

6: What are some topics you will never write about?

voici une liste, mais mmmmmmmmmm i cant really be trusted tho...............

8: How do you develop your OCs?

i write fanfiction to avoid having to, lol. you get all these characters for free in canon!!!! it's great!!!

well ok, i have written a few OCs i guess - mer in yourself and others and jamie in dirty game spring to mind (and rach in filing?!). i guess the ~development of them as chars was kind of... a trade-off btwn plot purpose & characterisation? like they def have specific plot purposes but i didnt want them to feel wooden, but also they're not pov chars so the info conveyed is going to be necessarily limited and i spose i think abt it similarly to say scene setting -- what info does the audience NEED, what is lost if additional info isnt specified / does it matter if the audience is filling in gaps abt this, how sparse is too sparse, what could the pov char(s) reasonably be expected to know/notice & how would they interpret it, does something seem needlessly cliché & if so how can that be avoided....?

the one(?) time i did deep OC development was for AHWSBNB and that was fairly accidental lol. originally i had C + L explaining like loads abt their life to each other and i kept cutting and cutting and cutting and cutting that out bc i. ppl monologuing details abt their lives feels a bit unnatural anyway to me ii. i was like this feels rather self-indulgent, idk that anyone wants to read abt the backstories of these randos wot iii. it felt kinda like i was explaining this to me? so it didnt really need to be directly on the page, but it could inform what was

i def think that was a useful exercise, but idk if i’d bother doing it for minor OCs? like they were kinda the main characters of that story, so i think that was necessary, but i  reckon it’d be overkill for randos who wander in to serve a drink or take kenny to a sleepover for the duration of the story or w/e.

oh!!!! and!!! doi!!! i think naming characters is an important part of developing them...? although also: hard. 

ff asks

[rosewoodconch]

RWCH Readathon 2024: Day 7

Undercover Princess - Chapter 18

Road Sky Trip!!!

I really this this better introduction to Jamie, and the pairs relationship

Ellie being lowkey dismissive of his importance and saying hes "Harmless"

I wish i could skip through airport security like that

Jamie is so serious at this point, and every trace of his slight humour or sarcasm is gone, which really indicates how intense 1. He can be. And 2. The situation is

Everything about the palace being animalistic is amazing, like the gravel growling

I want so so so mcuh art of the palace, its so gorgeously described and its so ominous. I'd love to compare how its described in later scenes or books

Edwina my belived

I love all the house staff so so so much, theyre so.... i wanna be friends with them so so bad they must know so much drama

Lottie is so touristy shes so precious

The trial just looming over them is so ominous and i really love it

Lottie already wanting to help ellie and save her before knowing how so perfectly prefaces this trial

Jamie immediately prepping and briefing her on all the rules, then her prompty nodding, befire later ignoring all of them makes me giggle.

Ellie really isnt taking this seriously at all, where jamie is so deathly serious

If i was lottie i think id have fainted with fear at this point

Jamie is trying so so hard to help ellie and make her take it seriously

Ellie on the other hand only takes it seriously when someone she sees as a real threat is there.

Theres no time left. Thats it.

Im going straight into the next one because if i stop now i wont restart because its midnight so no summary im sorry

[dykegardens]

fuckin rambling about jamie & gender at 2:30 am bc im mentally ill

i always think about nb jamie but probably bc im projecting but isnt that what fiction is for anyways?? i wanna talk about she/they jamie slash why she kind of is nb but also is into she/her nbism bc she fought so hard to be a woman tbh

i think shes rly proud of being a woman in a feminist way and in a lesbian way. the way her brother blamed the women in the family for their problems. being dehumanized/defeminized in prison. being a woman doing physical labour. being a masc woman. the community of women she was most likely around in london when she was struggling to survive. finding safety in other women. finding pride in being one of them, in loving them. the world wanted her to be ashamed of being a woman, and a woman who likes women, and she fought so hard against that to stand her ground and be exactly that.

but she is so... idk, not defined by her gender? shes like Not A Girl. politically a woman. maybe im projecting but its how i feel too. ur adling along being genderless and suddenly ur up against men and heteronormative society and you want to oppose it and stand up and say im a woman what are you gonna do about it???? yeah i can look like this and act like this and deeply threaten your masculinity for reasons you cant grasp and then shove my womanhood in your face about it, and you cant even have me the way u want to have other women, nor do you want me. you cant figure out how to dominate me because im not really a woman, but making you perceive me as a woman fucks you up harder.

thats so powerful. i think thats so jamie.

we get so much of jamies head and heart but we dont get anything in relation to her body or her sexuality which is so interesting.

with dani we tackle her sexuality and femininity head on, she expresses her gender in a feminine way.

we get none of that with jamie because honestly when she's dealing what she's dealing with in the present of the show, it doesnt matter. only matters up against peter. and with her back story.

we dont know her relationship with her body and physical gender and sexuality in that way. and i suppose thats to say its not important to her. she doesnt really pay it any mind. which is why she wouldnt actively go by she/they or seek it out. but if she happened upon it she'd be like oh yeah i suppose thats me, huh. and then move on. doesnt change anything for her.

and i can sculpt this entire complex JAMIE out of all this, and obviously it doesnt matter, but the only piece i have no clue about right now is her dynamic w sex. i just find it interesting to dig into a character through every aspect, see them through every lens.

i think she likes it. she was SO intense in that first make out with dani it was kind of beautiful. she is so much.

yeah i suppose shes as sexual as anyone else. probably vanilla honestly. she likes boring.

i like the idea in fics that she's talkative. it fits. she talks a lot when she feels safe around someone or when she cares about something a lot. shes good at talking. shes also good at listening.

anyways in conclusion im in love with her what else is new

[tenderjock]

Hey totally respectfully I do NOT think Ted should’ve been the one to punch out Jamie’s dad, that would have been super traumatizing for both of them! He stepped into Jamie’s life as a more positive father/mentor figure and if he’d acted violently there it would’ve felt like just replacing one violent dad with another. Also for Ted he’d never want to model that kind of behavior in front of his team, if he lost control in the moment he’d be horrified.

Beard or Roy on the other hand probably could’ve gone there.

hmm okay points. i would counter that ted isnt really a father figure to jamie (hear me out).

two parts to this: i think theres a tendency in fandom to conflate all positive platonic older/younger relationships with a father/mother figure situation (one example off the top of my head is in tog fandom how nile&joe/nicky and nile&andy are boiled down to "immortal dads/grandma"). i dont think this is necessarily bad, just not always accurate to the characters.

the second part (and i'm gonna flex my jock muscles a bit here) is that coach/player is a very specific vibe, one that isnt really the parent/child relationship that hollywood likes to sell. players dont really know much about their coaches, in the same way that students dont really know much about their teachers. your coach is proud of you, and loves you to a certain extent, but ultimately there is a difference.

idk ive always thought the way that t/ed l/asso has approached sports in general was very realistic (with a few minor exceptions - dont get me started) so my reading of ted&jamie was informed by my experiences as a player on a team with coaches that i looked up to but would be mortified to run into at 2am in the grocery store. mentor i can buy, but tbh i dont see ted playing a fatherly role (also i dont think people need father figures, like at all, but again - dont get me started).

besides that, i think that while jamie looks up to ted and he probably is the main or one of the main male role models in his life, its important to remember that A. ted has an actual son already, which is a relationship that really isnt comparable to a guy he's known for like two years and B. also jamie (like all the players) is a grown ass man. its nice to have a mentor in ted, but jamie doesnt need to be infantilized to the extent that ive seen fandom infantilize him.

that being said, i also think that non-sports fandom doesnt realize how fucking physical team sports - esp contact team sports, esp male sports - really is. i absolutely dont think that any of the team would be shocked/offended/upset by ted coldcocking a guy that was being that much of an asshole to one of his players. honestly, i'd believe that they would expect it. i absolutely do not think ted would be embarrassed by it or feel it lowered him in the eyes of the team. obviously, if you disagree with me thats fine, but i'm pretty firm in this belief.

anyway. i do see where youre coming from anon. good talk