#“ hotel: trivago !! „ | question: answered

[kindoodlereqs]

Are you still around?

very, very vaguely :) might try cleaning up my inbox and having a lil bit of a rebrand ‘round here

[helsex-moved]

Frien :33 🫶🫶 (I wanna be you irl so badly😭😭)

Tell me your anon opinions

[actual-changeling]

we do not talk enough about the moment right before crowley puts his sunglasses back on. the "nothing lasts forever" is devastating and if you're like me your eyes were so full of tears you couldn't see the screen the first time you watched it (just like crowley, look at us all twinning in sadness!).

there is a shift that happens in his eyes and i think it is absolutely fascinating and heartbreaking at the same time.

we begin with crowley averting his gaze from aziraphale's face and staring off into the distance instead, and you can see his spirit break. that crowley just lost the one thing in the world he cannot live without and we can see it written across his face like a neon sign.

then, as you'd expect, he gives into the need to cover up his pain, to try and make himself less vulnerable, and even before he lifts his glasses he looks down so aziraphale can no longer see his eyes.

now, the next part is what would not let me out of its grasp all day. we know it happens because of his demeanour afterwards and up until the kiss, but you can actually watch as crowley makes himself numb to the world.

i am intimately familiar with dissociation as a trauma and stress response, and while you can never fully control it, you do eventually find the switch in your mind that makes you snap back into the haze. crowley has had six thousand years to get really, really good at leaving reality behind when he needs and/or wants to.

that's exactly what he does.

he still looks sad, and yet there's just something distinctly distant in his eyes, the shift from openly heartbroken to "i don't want to feel any of this let me leave".

glasses? on

emotions? off

hotel? trivago

i have stared at those four frames more than any person probably should and i don't know if it's the light, if i am going insane, or if there is a single tear sliding out of his right (our left) eye. i'm probably insane and the light is a bitch so if anyone has some high resolution shots or anything that could answer that question without a doubt PLEASE do add it.

by now you are probably ready to threaten me with a knife in a dark alley but before you do that or drive your car off a cliff, let me tell you the best part:

aziraphale notices.

they might be communicating on two different frequencies but aziraphale knows crowley. he knows and loves him, and, most importantly, over the last few years he has gotten used to seeing crowley without his glasses. aziraphale could probably write a book on the expressions in his eyes alone and watches that shift happen and is devastated.

look.

he tries to make himself hope the same second, tries to convince himself crowley is putting on his glasses so they can leave together, but he knows.

aziraphale sees the light leave crowley's eyes, sees crowley leave, knowing that he is quite literally running away from him. you and me against the world, angel, but in that moment crowley firmly pushes him back to "the world" (or tries to, anyway).

the entire season we see crowley take off his glasses whenever he enters the bookshop to the point where he's running around without them on in broad daylight with jimbriel right there.

can you imagine how hurt and confused aziraphale must be?

because what crowley is telling him, if we really, really break it down, is that aziraphale is no longer a safe person for him. and repairing that trust is going to take time and work, no matter how much crowley loves him, how badly they love and need each other.

anyway to seal this off and really rub in the pain - how it started vs. how it ended. <3

oh one last thing: now crowley no longer has a single person he can be himself around, no one that knows him, no one he trusts. no one in whose presence he can take his glasses off.

and outside of the bentley and his own flat, he no longer has a place to do so either. the bookshop was theirs. with aziraphale gone, is it really a safe place anymore? is it somewhere he can just let himself be knowing he will be looked after and protected?

easy answer: no.

alright, off i go. see y'all on the next angst post or in the tags.

[mythica0]

Hello! It’s me! I wa stehe one who asked for lee isa and Dolores and ler pepa and juli

I was just coming to say that I loved it! But one thing I didn’t expect was taht it was very short and I was hoping it would be a little longer BUT🛑🛑🛑🛑

U may change it at ur own time or no need to change it in fine with any, I’m just glad u responded <3333

Have fun writing fics and I will definitely be visiting ur blog more often!

Thanks! Sorry it’s short, a lot of my fics tend to be as I’m not very good at extending out scenes, and my brain naturally goes to fast mode😅. Glad you liked it though!

[vermilionsun]

Hewoo, In light of the beach episode RSS is preparing for us, I wanted to ask if you could write how the LIs would react to seeing the MC for the first time in a bathing suit and discovering the have a spine tattoo (star and moon inspired).

Hope your doing well :3

Hi hii!! I tried to made this in a way that can be interpreted both romantically and platonically :))

Ais

✩ I–don’t–care–that–I’m–banned–from–the–beach–take–me–with–you

✩ Motherfucker wants them to put on a show “since I can’t tag along.”

✩ W̶a̶t̶c̶h̶ h̶i̶m̶ d̶r̶o̶p̶ o̶n̶ h̶i̶s̶ k̶n̶e̶e̶s̶ t̶h̶e̶ m̶o̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ h̶e̶ s̶e̶e̶s̶ t̶h̶e̶m̶ i̶n̶ s̶w̶i̶m̶w̶e̶a̶r̶

✩  PRAISES PRAISES PRAISES

✩ When he first gets a glimpse of the tattoo, he slowly walks towards them to investigate

✩ “Bold sparrow…”

✩ He’d lean down to admire it, close enough for him to see every detail but far enough so that he isn’t invading the MC’s personal space

✩ “Hm…” *poke poke poke*

✩ He’d then sneakily wrap his arms around them and pull them flush against his chest, his head coming to rest on top of their shoulder

✩ “You look damn good.”

Kuras

✞ If he holds something, it’s now on the ground. A very permanent blush creeping up his neck to decorate his cheeks. 

✞ He opens his mouth, and closes it again, before letting his eyes roam up and down their body for a fraction of a moment.

✞ He coughs. Then, with what looks like effort, he looks away.

✞ He shifts, leaning against the side of the nearest object that can hold his weight and crosses his arms.

✞ The look in his eyes when he sees the tattoo can only be described as intense curiosity.

✞ He steps closer. A hand reaches out, brushing over the dark ink staining their bare back. He pauses. 

✞ As if he can’t help himself, he trails a finger down the length of their spine. His touch is light, barely there, as the callused pads of his fingers skim over the design.

✞ His lips part as if he’s holding back words that are trying to force their way out of his mouth. He swallows, an almost imperceptible action.

✞ Suddenly, he seems to remember himself. He steps back.

✞ All while staring at their back as if it held the secrets of the universe.

Leander

🗡 Another I’ll–join–you–no–matter–what dudebro

🗡 His eyes wide in surprise, a faint blush creeping onto his cheeks and ears

🗡 A low whistle escapes his lips, eyes lingering on the tattoo on their spine.

🗡 Another touchy boy. His hands immediately reach out to trace the intricate design, feeling the slight bump of the ink against his fingertips, the symbols seemingly drawing him in.

🗡 “When did you get this? …I’m sure I'd remember that sight and every inch of it.”

🗡 “It really suits you! :D”

🗡 When he lifts his gaze, his eyes tell a whole different story

🗡 He’s looking at them intently, searching for something, any answer for questions he doesn’t care asking and isn’t willing to pay back for.

🗡 "Another little hidden secret of yours..." His knuckles graze the skin, every touch almost electrifying "I like it."

🗡 “Y̶o̶u̶ k̶n̶o̶w̶ t̶h̶a̶t̶ j̶u̶s̶t̶ m̶a̶k̶e̶s̶ m̶e̶ w̶a̶n̶t̶ t̶o̶ s̶e̶e̶ y̶o̶u̶ m̶o̶r̶e̶, r̶i̶g̶h̶t̶?̶”

🗡 "Sorry, got a bit carried away there.” He clears his throat and chuckles nervously, but his hand still doesn't move from the MC's back.

Mhin

🕊 Jaw? On the floor. Eyebrows? Reaching their hairline. Ears? Tomatoes. Body? Frozen. Hotel? Trivago.

🕊 “Oh… Oh…”

🕊 The inhale following is sharp; it could cut a fucking Soulless in half without effort

🕊 They seem almost entranced by the sight of it.

🕊 Even when they regain their composure, their eyes keep darting back to the design. 

🕊 Nonchalantness, casualness and apathy have evaporated from their vocabulary

🕊 They want to ask questions but don’t want to seem too interested.

🕊 They take a few steps closer without realizing, their expression faltering for a brief moment.

🕊 "It... It looks really good." They finally say, their tone almost begrudgingly sincere.

🕊 T̶h̶e̶y̶ m̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ b̶e̶ c̶o̶n̶s̶i̶d̶e̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ g̶e̶t̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ o̶n̶e̶ o̶f̶ t̶h̶e̶i̶r̶ o̶w̶n̶

Vere

✦ He blinks for a terrible, long moment, before his lips are morphed into a smirk

✦ He hums in interest, tilting his head to the side slightly.

✦ "Well, now, that's quite a lovely piece of art.”

✦ He takes a step closer to them his fingers tracing the outline of the tattoo.

✦ One would expect him to be teasing, scratching around, but his touch turns out gentle, careful

✦ He seemed lost in thought for a bit, his expression softening slightly

✦ before he stiffens and his gaze darkens, pink eyes now almost glowing

✦ If they try to move away at that point, they’d be stopped by the firm grasp he has around their nape, his hot breath fanning over their ear dangerously.

✦ “"It looks good on you…” He compliments, the words drawn out, voice so low it’s practically a pur. “Mind if I take a closer look?”

✦ "I̶ w̶o̶n̶d̶e̶r̶… h̶o̶w̶ f̶a̶r̶ d̶o̶w̶n̶ i̶t̶ g̶o̶e̶s̶...?̶"

[zeestarfishalien]

I Am Your Dad But Also Not?

[DPxDC Week 2023 Day 7: Clockwork // Accidental Baby Acquisition // Misunderstanding]

• In which, Danny is Richard Grayson from an alternate universe (the dna matches even if all the names and history don’t)

“Papa, hold me!” The words were Danny’s only warning before the bundle of flying child plowed into him. He spun with the momentum, hands quickly gripping the little girl so she didn’t go tumbling away.

Despite her sure and enthusiastic greeting, she was not in fact Danny’s child. Or maybe she is now? He’s starting to get really confused. Apparently he looks and feels like her dad since she’s so clearly attached herself to him. Clockwork’s cryptic smiling is not helpful so he takes his newly acquired magical toddler and leaves.

At least he’s assuming her powers are magic or something. The last time he tried asking something that “obviously papa knows already” she got a look not dissimilar to a sad baby seal. Sad baby seals are not something Danny can resist evidently.

So, asking Clockwork is out and asking the child in question is out. Danny is running out of options and he has half a mind to just assume she’s his child from the future.

Luckily Danny is a genius, maybe not literally but his point still stands.

His idea? Brilliant.

Implementation? Flawless.

Hotel? Trivago.

The little one is outgoing enough that when Danny prompts her to introduce herself to Sam and Tucker (visiting on holiday), she goes off into a rambling of questions and information without even pausing for anyone to answer her questions.

That’s how they learn that she’s Mar’i Grayson and she lives in Blüdhaven most of the time, except when her Papa and Mama go on trips, then she’s stays with Grandpa Alfie and Grandpa B and Uncle Damian, but also sometimes Uncle Damian comes to stay with her and Mama and Papa because he sometimes gets into disagreements with Grandpa B.

She says disagreements in such a careful and proud way that Danny makes sure Sam and Tucker compliment her on her awesome vocabulary.

That just leaves them with the problem of getting Mar’i back to her own home dimension and parents, who are probably worried sick by her disappearance.

Danny really really hopes that Mar’i’s actual dad and mom have such an abnormal life that they might be able to find the infinite realms because trying to find her exact universe from his side of things without Clockwork’s help will be nigh on impossible

He really hopes she’ll recognize her real dad. Danny is not equipped for parenthood.

Or at least not equipped for a toddler. He was able to skip the whole toddler part with Ellie.

Speaking of Ellie and her horrible timing, she has chosen this exact time to get back from her grand adventure aka traveling the worlds and she proceeds to laugh so hard she can’t even stay on her feet. She resorts to floating along behind Danny and Mar’i cackling and occasionally heaving non great gasps of air only to fall back into the laughing cycle once more.

Danny’s shooing motions are ineffective and he’s not about to show a five-year-old the violence or language necessary to get Ellie to go away.

When she finally does stop laughing, she starts snapping pictures at every angle she can imagine. Which is a lot given that she’s a half ghost like Danny. She has yet to let her feet touch the ground but that doesn’t bother Mar’i who seems to have similar ideas about gravity. Her own feet rarely touching the floor as soon as she realized that beings work differently in the zone.

~•~

In the end Danny can only keep the ruse of fatherhood up for a couple of days. Mar’i is no fool even if she is five. She figures him out and she’s not even mad when he explains that he didn’t want her to be scared if she knew she was alone with strangers in a new place like this. Her magnanimous forgiveness is one of the best things Danny has ever experienced. He understands why people have kids now.

At the end of a week with no news from Clockwork and an increasingly homesick Mar’i, Danny takes her back to Clockwork’s tower to demand some action himself or at least get some ridiculous riddle to keep him and Mar’i occupied until the “time is right.”

Clockwork’s smile upon their arrival is bordering on deranged in Danny’s eyes and he hugs Mar’i closer as though to protect her from Time’s hands.

“It is time,” the god says and bangs his staff on the metal flooring of the tower.

Before Danny can demand an answer about that, a portal opens beneath him and both he and Mar’i go tumbling through.

YOOOO by my time, I am not late on any of these prompts (even though they are a lot shorter and more vague than I’d like. Can’t help it with the thumbs being the way they are). But like legit I am proud of myself. Deadlines are a thing I struggle with especially when it comes to writing. But I’m finally getting better with it. Middle school and high school me would both be crying tears of joy rn.

I love that we started with found family fluff and ended with it. Danny and Mar’i are going to have a very lovely and entertaining adventure together. It’ll be great.

[hypnagogics]

haiii plutobae… u know what’s up…

🎨+🥤+🍄+🦋

get some eep when ur done yapping pls 🤎

YAYYYY YAPPING!!!!! ima lay this out how you did with the question in front of each answer instead of just...all in the beginning ok.

🎨 = favorite fanarts and link them.

well. my bestie. my bro. my pookie @sharkthrob made this of my baby hallway crush els..so obviously im obsessed with it. and she also drew my spider!ellie 🤭 LOVE U SHARKY WE GOTTA COOK AGAIN. if u even opened this app 🙄...i also love anything by @nramv can't pick just one! and duh. anything by the genius that is @trackinglessons ARE YOU FR?? i may have to mention this one meow.

🥤 = recommend an author or fanfic you love.

OH HERE WE GO. copy that romeo by @astralnymphh is one of my favorite fics to ever exist, i have gushed about it in the past, and i fear i will continue to!! drift by @sapphointhe21stcenturyposts is also an absolute banger of a fic, a thrill ride like none other!! oh, also anything by @vampiefemme . smut that'll make you lick your screen. MMMMMMM. and now my baes. sacrificial angel by @ennabear is HONEST. TO GOD. one of the best fics ever. in any universe, on any site, i don't give a fuck. my roman empire. and i ain't just saying that because i love you twin, but because it's seriously such a masterpiece in absolutely any area, it blows my little gay mind. the aesthetic? gorg. the pacing? IM JEALOUS. the characterization? perfection. the story and character development? flawless. the smut? ACTUALLY THE HOTTEST THING IVE EVER READ. hotel? trivago. and of course anything by the human type writer duo that are @andersonfilms + @absfawn ♡ gotta mention lonely is the muse by rayray, and electraplayer by them both! READ. READ. READ. the masters of long fics i fear, stunning, insane, delicious, wonderful, forever obsessed with anything they create. FOREVER!!!

🍄 = share a headcanon of one of your favorite ships or pairings.

hm. i really had to think about this tbh. but in my opinion... re2's claire and leon are absolutely perfect and adorable and i adore them together sm. a headcanon i have...ummmm.....oh i like to think they spook each other playfully LMAO. cleon > aeon in every universe don't come for me.

🦋 = share something that's been on your heart or mind lately.

lately ive been thinking too much and worrying about school as one does ugh, but i yap too much about it anyway 😭😭. also ive been loving the color changes in the leaves, it's always so beautiful. im really excited for the holiday season as well, it's like the older i get the more and more i look forward to it, idk what it is exactly. there's also this little coffee shop i go to every chance i get, im in love with it so that occupies my mind constantly...AND OFC GUILT WHEN IM NOT BEING PRODUCTIVE.

ok jeezus this yap is crazy. FINE. ILL EEP NOW 🙄🙄 but thank u for these heheh 💚💚

[burning-academia-if]

Saw this question on another blog:

What would the ROs look like if they were completely broken down? {heart: shattered, mind: spiralling, hotel: trivago (sorry)}

So I'd answer this if it didn't tread on spoiler territory because you will 100% be seeing the ROs at their Worst at some point in the story :>

[frogsndogs]

So recently I watched this pilot short: Epilogue of endings. It’s about 12 minutes long, created by a group of animation students over a single summer. I had never heard of the project before it showed up in my youtube recommended.

It changed my brain chemistry. I watched it 9 days ago and I can’t stop thinking about it to save my life. The music? Spectacular. The voice acting? Perfect. The art? astounding. The characters? I’m already emotionally attached. Hotel? Trivago.

Listen, I don’t tend to watch of a lot of things anymore unless I’m with other people, and I have this weird thing about engaging in new media, I think because a lot of what I’ve been watching recently has been kinda disappointing, or very… I don’t know… it’s hard to describe. It just feels like a lot of studios are making characters shallower, relationships strained, and half-assing their world building. A lot of media that I’ve taken in recently is trying very hard to make itself seem edgy and serious and that’s not what I want right now and definitely not what I need.

But this 12 minute pilot? This is everything I never knew I needed. The characters feel like real people, with complex motivations and interpersonal relationships. They’re flawed, but they’re trying their best with the situation that they have. They have things, other people that they care about and would fight for, they have motivations and backstories that you can see the breadcrumbs of, but have not been revealed yet, and the breadcrumbs are so good you can’t wait for the whole loaf. The world-building is exquisite, built up enough that you can see the beginning, but still drawing you in with more questions. 

I have a more detailed review under the cut, with SPOILERS, but I highly recommend that you go watch the pilot. It’s 12 minutes of time well spent in my opinion.

So the first scene. We’re introduced to Lucy, Blu and CG. I think Blu is already my fav, lol. In this scene, we see the three characters playing eye-spy while walking through a forest. It’s a pretty innocuous scene if we didn’t pan up to the sky and see the sun having broken open and Lucy becoming emotional over having to leave town, and presumably the rest of her life behind. Blu doesn’t answer her.

So Lucy clearly doesn’t know what’s going on, and I’m wondering if Blu has limited information himself. Maybe even Blu doesn’t know why or how any of this is happening. Maybe Blu literally can’t answer her question because he doesn’t have the answers. Maybe it hurts, being so helpless and out of control, so he’s in denial to a certain extent, trying to pretend that everything is fine. He’s trying to keep this little girl, happy and safe and alive, while also presumably dealing with his own shit, and no he’s not doing it perfectly, he’s flawed, as people and characters should be, but he’s trying and so far she is alive and safe to a certain extent so way to go Blu! I think this will probably cause some tension between the two down the road, but for now they just keep walking.

I wonder where they’re going, if anywhere specific? Why did they leave town specifically, we see there’s lots of danger pretty much everywhere, did something happen?

Anyways, then we get to this scene of someone fixing what appears to be a subway train. He stops, pulls out a journal and we get some exposition stuff. We find out that the world ended, and how. And WOW. This whole thing was gut-punchingly realistic I feel. People blowing up the competition trying to race off into space when it’s announced that the sun is going to die out? That’s something that unfortunately I can see people doing. I wonder/hope that this will become a plot point again later on, and we’ll find out what happened to all those people. But anyways that’s not even the craziest part; the fact the sun broke open and released a whole bunch of eldritch horror monsters??? Yep here we go. And then the next thing hurts. Like a lot. Because the narrator says that ‘people who hoped to live out their last days in normalcy quickly found out that their life-style was no longer sustainable’. That shit made me want to cry. The want for a peaceful death, a calm death, a painless death, but having even that ripped away from you. This setting that these characters are in is awful and very terrifying, and we can see how it is hurting them, torturing them, but I got to give props to the world building. It’s good writing. They set up the plot, the problem, what’s been going on the past couple yrs, some mysteries, to both the viewers and the characters, and in doing so give us some idea of the characters that we do have. Because the characters that we do have are trapped. The characters that we do have are abandoned. The characters that we do have are survivors. 

And then we pan out to see the narrator having an interaction with one of the Monarchs. And this scene? Gave me chills, man. I was so creeped out by this. Acedia’s ‘I do not like that response,’ Mole’s utter helplessness to do anything, his clear, potent fear of the creature, the way that it just lightly touches him and he flinches. Then the frustration that we see on his face after it leaves, the anger that turns into tiredness and then hopelessness? Someone needs to wrap this man in a blanket stat.

And this is where I’m starting to think that Blu doesn’t really know the full extent of what’s going on. There’s a good chance that Mole knows about the Monarchs because he’s being held prisoner by one. It’s possible that Mole is seeing the world collapse before his very eyes, while Blu is just seeing the aftermath and not knowing why and I can’t say which is more terrifying.

The ‘I have influence?’ line is peak. I love it so much, I can’t even say why. That whole little interaction with Lucy saying that she takes after Blu, Blu being so genuinely touched and CG being low-key offended is perfect and I love it. It shows how close they are, how much they care about each other.

The the… zombie ppl??? I love the detail of how unlike a lot of teenage protagonists, Lucy listens to Blu, and gets out of danger. She trusts him to handle the situation on his own, and knows that the best thing that she can do right now is get to safety. There’s an implicit trust there, in spite of her clear issues with Blu not telling her things, and this is what I’m talking about when I say the character relationships are complex.

Oh fuck. The transitions? The way that it cuts from one character to another, each unintentionally completing one another’s scentences, and unknowingly engaging in conversation. It’s amazing storytelling, an amazing presentation and for some reason it just confirms to me that these characters are family. They fit together like puzzle pieces. I don’t know what else to say.

We get more info on our mysterious narrator, Mole, who is an amnesiac, and clearly going through it. During this scene we see a crumpled newspaper of what seems to be a younger version of him, winning an award for his dedication at being a subway motorman. His name is crossed out in black ink, so we can’t see it. Which makes me question, did he do this to himself? Is his amnesia a trauma response to everything he’s going through? Did something happen to the point that his brain decided shutting down and forgetting everything was better than remembering this one thing? And it hurts, because in the picture in the newspaper he looks so happy. So young. So alive. It’s a stark contrast to the man we see with bags under his eyes, talking to himself and becoming increasingly distressed. I read through the article, and again, props to the team, some other people might have just did random letters or whatever but they put in a whole ass-story, giving the viewers more info about Mole than even he has. We know he was a dedicated subway motorman. We know he was inspired by his father. We know he had a sister. But these answers only serve to bring up more questions? What happened to his sister? Was his father still alive at the time of he end of the world and what was their relationship like? Because there’s a chance that their relationship was really good, and that’s why he went on to become a subway motorman, but there is also the possibility that he was pressured into doing so, and the way that he complains about being on a train when the world ended makes me kinda lean towards that option.

Then we see CG and Lucy walking around the underground tunnels and we get more info on them. We find out that CG was created by Lucy’s mom, which begs the question of where is Lucy’s mom???? What happened to her? Is there a chance that she’s still alive? Does Lucy know what happened to her mother?? Or is this just another thing that Blu is keeping her in the dark about? Does Blu know what happened to Lucy’s mother???? Or— as you can see I am totally normal about this woman. Anyways.

CG is a fun character, optimistic and bringing a lighter atmosphere to the show, but there is just something… off about her in this scene. The disregard for the danger, the naiveté, the joyful voice in such a horrible situation, feels so wrong to me. I wonder though if CG chose to be like this, or a certain amount of it is her programming? Does CG know what happened to Lucy’s mom? I think CG was created to be take care of Lucy but it seems to be the other way around here, why is that? 

And then we get info on Blu. Blu was a solider during the war when ppl were trying to get all the resources to race off into space. I wonder if Blu had believed that he would be granted a place on one of these ships. (If he managed to survive of course.) Or had he been in the military prior to all this, and was just pulled along? This makes me want to know more about his belief system before and after the end of the world. Also it is implied by CG that Blu is carrying a lot of pressure, and I wonder how that will be dealt with later on… hmm… 

Also the music that plays when Blu uses his arms to pull down the wall? Amazing, I love it, I love the scene, I love the fact that he’s a cyborg, I am so invested in these characters already it’s killing me.

Then we see Mole almost (accidentally) kill Lucy and CG. He’s out of it, he’s the only person running the trains, he didn’t expect to have to watch out for anyone, I think that we can give him a pass on this. Blu doesn’t think so obviously.

(Sidenote: the way that Lucy curls into Blu, as he protectively shields her is so cute, my heart, help)

Blu is pissed. His tone doesn’t change too much, it’s light, but there’s this threatening undertone there that kinda creeps me out. Mole tells them he doesn’t have a name, before Blu forces him to tell them that its Mole. Wait… is he called that bc Moles live underground? Anyways, Blu wants to leave him to die there, which shows an interesting side of his character. Prior to this we’ve seen him take a protective, fun role as Lucy’s guardian but here we see this apathy towards someone who is obviously not doing so well. A lot of other people would be excited to find another living person in the apocalypse, but he’s fine just walking away. Is this just because he almost killed Lucy? Or is there something more going on here? In Blu’s bio on the rainbott instagram, it says that Blu was ‘left to die in a mysterious incident’ and it’s interesting that he feels fine leaving someone else to die in such horrible conditions. Again - complex character writing, props to the team.

But Lucy doesn’t want to leave him. This shows her compassion and maybe too her want for connection with other people. Blu resists; ‘Lucy that is the most unimpressive man I have ever seen,’ this line has no right to be so funny, esp with Mole just staring at him in the background. Did he hear that or is he too far away, too out of it? Then he relents, perhaps solely because of Lucy, or maybe also because of his own want to do the right thing. He doesn’t like Mole, he makes that obvious, but if Lucy want’s to adopt this strange hobo man, fine, if it makes her happy. He’ll do whatever it takes to make Lucy a little more happy.

Mole’s ‘it doesn’t want me to leave’ scares the shit out of me, and the way that he just freezes up when Acedia shows up… 

The scene when it talks about humans really creeps me out, and makes me worried even more about Mole. Calling him ‘entertaining’ and saying that he ‘belongs’ to them. It sounds like it sees him as a toy at best, and reminds me of the way that Mole said earlier that the Monarchs had the power to ‘turn Earth into their own personal sandbox’. Did Acedia get rid of Mole's memories for that purpose? So that he would 'belong' only to them. I wonder though, why Mole, and if there were others, if Mole had to watch those around him die, or worse when they gave an answer that it didn’t like. I wonder what Mole has had to do to scrape by and survive, what he’s been through. But Blu pulls him along anyways, kind of against Mole’s will. Like obviously being with Blu, Lucy and CG is better than being with a horrifying shadow monster, but aforesaid horrifying shadow monster is going to be pissed at him. I wonder how he’s going to react to that, if he’ll lash out at Blu or worse, Lucy for rescuing him because now it’s gonna be angry and he’s gonna have to be the one to deal with the fallout of that.

Then the scene where Blu pretends to buy tickets to appease CG? It’s for comedic relief, but again it makes me think about Blu. Is he doing it because he knows CG will be annoying if he doesn’t? Or does he genuinely not want her to be hurt? I’m not sure. 

Then the campfire scene. Lucy looks away when Blu removes his mask, Mole tries to lean in to see what’s behind it. Blu doesn’t like this, I assume it’s a sensitive subject, but Mole is again, kind of out of it. Mole is scared of Blu and Blu clearly knows this, even kinda uses it to freak him out. I’m looking forwards to see that relationship developing, maybe one that contrasts Mole’s relationship with Acedia, I dunno, someone who cares about him in this really twisted way that hurts him, and someone who at first doesn’t care at all(at first), but still takes care of him in spite of it. I dunno… just vibes.

And Lucy’s little ‘what if we tell ghost stories around the fire’ breaks my heart. It’s like she too, is in denial to a certain extent. This is just a fun camping trip not the end of the world. Everything is fine. Everything will be fine.

Then the post-credit scene. There’s presumably, something left of the government that is working to try and deal with the Monarchs, which gives me hope that there might be a way to stop them, a way to stop all this death and destruction. I am curious about what’s left of this order, what the gov was like during the war, and how they’re operating now. Also the way the commander calls the droid C21, and the way that CG is called CG, and the way that he says ‘find the girl’ and C21 frowns and does this have something to do with Lucy’s mom??????? What does any of this have to do with Lucy? Does she know more than she’s letting on, or does not even she know what she knows??? Help I need answers.

Also all the characters in the credits. I desperately hope that they find the main cast and all become friends pls.

CG’s little song is beautiful and I think that it embodies the heart of the show. Like I said earlier a lot of the stuff I’ve watched recently tries very hard to be dark and edgy and a dystopian show where all the characters have been trapped and abandoned and tortured is the perfect setup for some grim and gritty TV. But it’s… not. The characters are funny and lighthearted and smiling in spite of all the shit that’s going on around them. The characters are trying to be nice, to be good. They are connected, they are a family. It is a dystopian setting for sure, but I think that the story is about family, about love and caring for each other. The story is about Blu, Lucy and CG playing eye-spy. The story is about Lucy smiling when she tells Blu her mom said he was a bad influence. The story is about CG wanting Blu to get some rest and take a break. The story is about Mole’s desperate panic at trying to stop the train before it hits Lucy, and Lucy not wanting to leave him to die. The story is about four people sitting around a fire, listening to music.

I really love this story, and I hope to see more of it one day. It’s really beautiful.

[henrysglock]

Timeline? Split. Universe? Destroyed. Hotel? Trivago.

As Em just put in this brilliant post (now with a diagram!) it's entirely possible that each UD is a destroyed version of the alternate timeline:

I want to bring in a little more support, because it makes perfect sense. If you're new here, or if you'd like a refresher, here's the reading list:

Nuclear Winter in the UD/One's Nuclear Bomb

Mirror Swapping and Wall Cracks Post

Missing Rainbow Room Wall Cracks Post

Multiple Dimension X Ones Post

Vecna Puppetry Post

Multiple Upside Downs Post

As I laid out back in March, we likely have 6 separate versions of the HNL massacre.

One set of factors is the swapped mirror:

The other set of factors is the crack patterns in the Rainbow Room, or lack thereof:

(Gate, dematerialization, and no-event cracks respective to photo order)

Dematerialization is a separate process from the gate, and the two aren't ever shown on screen together outside the one dual outcome overlay.

No gate, just dematerialization:

No dematerialization, just gate:

2 mirror alignments * 3 outcomes = 6 total outcomes

As we're shown in 4.07, when we follow One through the gate, it takes us directly to Dimension X:

And dematerialization, as we're shown in Season 1, pulls us directly to the Upside Down:

So that makes: Upside Down, Dimension X, and Right Side Up...and one of each of those for Henry and Edward. Still totaling 6!

This tracks with what I laid out about the two different Dimension X Ones:

Two different Dimension X's, two different Ones.

It also tracks with the post I made about physics and gravity in the Upside Downs:

(Orientations of the Upside Downs, gravity overlay, and directionality mirroring overlay respective to photo order).

Two different places...two different guys? (but different this time)

And then, of course, my two favorite pictures of all time:

Mirrored POVs. Inverted poses. Different hair.

Two different guys.

Dimension X: 2 guys. Upside Downs: 2 guys. Right Side Up: 2 guys.

6 guys.

Number of Jumpsuit Patterns? Six. ("But James, there are only 5 there!" I know. Consult the bloodless jumpsuits from before. There are two of them. Thus, JA, JB1 and JB2, JC, JD, JE. Six suits)

Back in May, I asked the "What happened to the other two non-Dimension-X jumpsuit guys?" question.

The answer may very well be: The Two Upside-Downs, becoming the physical Monster Vecna, one of which we see getting Flambéd™ by Nancy et. al.

Make sense? 1 Monster Vecna, 1 Dimension-X One, and one Normal Guy One per timeline: 6 guys. 6 places. The math is mathing.

This all also tracks with what I said about Vecna as a puppet/symbiotic partner of sorts who connects to Dimension X via ethernet tentacles:

It also explains how the USSR has an active Shadow, despite the Side-Side gates being shut:

There may be two of them. The one in Russia may have awoken due to the up-down gates being opened in Hawkins.

Now, you're probably wondering why I linked the nuclear winter/nuclear bomb posts.

As I said in my post about the Rifts:

One dropped a whole-ass nuclear bomb on Hawkins when he opened the rifts and began merging the Upside Down with the Right Side Up. This resulted in a gradually spreading nuclear winter. Thus, if any other timelines/universes were to collide, we could expect much the same effect:

As Em said in his post, it's entirely possible to have a timeline split based on which timeline/universe survived the collision, thus generating a set of 4. Two Upside Downs, two Right Side Ups...and both Upside Downs are experiencing the associated unending nuclear winter.

Then, of course, the question becomes: Which One collided the universes, why, and how?

Of course this is all speculation and relies heavily on what we might see in The First Shadow...but I know most of you have seen me speculating on the full extent of Henry's powers. If Henry isn't the ST4 Vecna, then we really have no clue what the extent of his powers are.

For example: Vecna couldn't open gates until he copy-pasted that power from El and cobbled it together into his own form of gate opening. Henry might not be constrained by that same lack of ability.

In fact, based on what information we have been given about The First Shadow, it's entirely possible that he did open a gate of some kind.

How do I figure that?

There are monsters in The First Shadow, and it's touted as being the origin of the Upside Down, not to mention Matt hinting the Brenner already knew that Henry had access to other worlds even before The First Shadow had been teased (That Deadline article is from July of 2022).

We also have BTS pictures from the filmed show of the Creel house fully decked out in UD tentacles...even in places Stobin+Nancy never visit when they go to fight Vecna.

Namely, we have tentacles in the parlor to the right of the front door and the dining room respectively...ft. Raphael as baby Henry:

(Note the light fixtures! They tell us which room we're in)

So...it's entirely possible that Henry did it by accident or otherwise back in 1959, which would explain why both versions of Upside Down Hawkins are completely abandoned: They may have been in a state of multidimensional nuclear winter for the past 27 years.

[starry-blue-echoes]

Well which is your favorite JoJo artist? The ones that I had seen are Hajnarus and therealsnipster in instagram? Btw you draw cute

thankee :D

but also, oof that’s a hard question to answer, there are a lot of really good ones on tumblr-

I don’t know if I have a favorite but there are definitely a few that I like which I HIGHLY recommend checking out if you haven’t already

@sboopie has some absolutely S U P E R B drawings, mostly about Bruabba. His art style is so neat and funky and the colors are nice and he flips back and forth between wholesome and Pain, it’s just neat :>

@goatpaste is just. So silly. Such a funky art style that works so nicely with the colors and shapes and it just scritches a little corner of my brain because of how Not Quite Abstract But Sometimes It Gets Close he can make things, like Bro How Do You Come Up With These Things /pos

And there’s also @cyphyree who has a bunch of neat little doodles. It’s just so. Funny and silly and I want to gently hold all her designs because they look so Smol And Squishy, and she also has stickers :DDD

OH AND @nothingbizzare! And just. Where do I even start. Their art style? Immaculate. The colors? Bright and incredible. Their ability to design absolutely BANGER clothes at seemingly the drop of a hat? Absolutely insane /pos. Hotel? Trivago

If you haven’t checked them out already, I highly recommend it, they’ve all got amazing art :D

[fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-liar]

This is actually really fascinating thank you! I'd assume that because of all those limitations people stuck to applying to colleges that were more local? Since no one wants to fly to, like, colleges in CA or NY if they're in IL to pick their classes. And I'd also assume that since it was so much more work people wouldn't apply to as many colleges, as opposed to today we see so many shotgunner applications applying to upwards of twenty, thirty schools (read: me)?

I digress, this is really cool stuff. Thanks for the info!

I'm being completely genuine here but how the fuck did people apply to college pre-internet?

How did colleges get all of your basic information - DOB, SSN, intended major, parents' levels of education, basic personal information, activities/extracurriculars, etc.?

Did you mail all of your supplementary material? Letters of recommendation, SAT scores, AP scores, essays, everything?

You had to wait for an unknown amount of time for a letter in the mail?

It's so foreign to me.

[nihilityart]

ALGG AU Incorrect Quotes

(When they first meet)

Rimuru: *Screams* Puss: * Screams louder to assert dominance* Perrito: Should we do something?! Kitty, observing: No, I want to see who wins this.

Puss, about Rimuru: Apparently we're getting someone new in the group. Kitty: Are we stealing them? Perrito: New or used? Rimuru: Wonderful responses, both of you.

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Rimuru: Puss isn’t answering their phone Kitty: I’ll call Rimuru: Perrito and I have both tried six times each, what makes you thi- Puss: Hello?

Rimuru: I currently have 7 empty notebooks and I have no clue what to put in them. Suggestions? Puss: Put spaghetti in it. Rimuru: I'm currently taking suggestions from literally anyone but you. Kitty: Put spaghetti in it. Rimuru: I'm currently taking suggestions from anyone but you two. Perrito: Put spaghetti in it. Rimuru: I'm no longer taking suggestions.

Kitty: We need a way to lure in new customers? Perrito: Maybe we could have some fun, interactive events! Puss: Rimuru bath water. Rimuru: ABSOLUTELY NOT!

Puss: ARE YOU- Rimuru: Fucking. Puss: KIDDING ME?! YOU- Rimuru: Fucking. Puss: IDIOT! Kitty: …What was that? Rimuru: Perrito banned Puss from swearing, so I’m helping them out.

Puss: Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, and wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. Kitty: That's deep. Perrito: That means that ketchup is a smoothie. Kitty: That's deeper. Rimuru: ...You guys are idiots.

Rimuru: *points at Perrito* A dog turtleneck, *points at Kitty* a narcissistic monster, *points at Puss* and literally the dumbest person I’ve ever met. Puss: And who am I? Describe me now.

Puss: Your smile? It makes my day. Kitty: Your happiness? I live for that. Rimuru: A room? Get one. Perrito: Hotel? Trivago.

Puss: What's the most efficient way to burn calories? Perrito: Exercise more! Kitty: Set yourself on fire. Rimuru: There are two kinds of people.

Puss: Good night. Perrito: Sleep tight. Kitty: Don't let the bedbugs crawl up to your ear and whisper threatening things that make you question yourself. Rimuru: Great, now Perrito's crying

Rimuru, pointing to the wall: What color is this? Perrito: Gray. Kitty: Grey. Rimuru, turning to Puss: Now tell them what color you think it is. Puss: Dark white.

Puss: *falls down the stairs* Perrito: Are you okay? Rimuru: Stop falling down the stairs! Kitty: How’d the ground taste?

Kitty, singing to the tune of I Kissed a Girl: I killed a guy, and I liked it- Perrito, whispering: Should we call the exorcist? Kitty and Puss are acting scary.. Puss, also singing: The taste of his cherry chapstick. Rimuru, appalled: Call the exorcist.

Rimuru: I am convinced Perrito and Puss share a brain cell. Kitty: And it's not in use very often, it seems..

*Kitty drunkenly wanders around the house and Puss is drunkenly giggling* Perrito completely sober: *sighs* Well, looks like it's just me and you against the world, Rimuru. Rimuru, going to their room: Nope, just you. *shuts door*

Kitty: HYDRATE OR DIE-DRATE! Kitty: *aggressively throws water bottles* Perrito: Uh... what's up with them? Rimuru: They're trying to yell mental health and wellbeing into us. Kitty: I APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU! Puss, crying: It's working.

-My own is below-

Announcer: "Choose your fighter!"

Camera pans to Puss: "The Dumbass Hero!"

Camera pans to Kitty: "The cute little narcissistic thief"

Camera pans to Perrito: "The pure ray of sunshine!"

Camera pans to Rimuru who has a deadpanned expression: "The Supreme Deity with an inferiority complex and depression!”

Death noticing Rimuru with Team Friendship: "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!"

Life, with wide eyes: "Ayo!"

*Life starts sobbing*

Death: "Yeah we're dead..."

(Quote comes from Lythero)

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[helsex-moved]

Hmmmmm not sure how specific it is, but I'm going to go ahead and assume that you're a fan of softer(?) relationships, and that you love angst ;P

yeah! i’m a fiend for angst, even if it does end with me cursing out the author through the screen. Also definitely love soft relationships,, like man <33

[kindoodlereqs]

If ReQs ArE cLoSeD wHy ReCeIvE mEsSaG🤔

bc people can ask questions silly