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[mismaeve]

Oh my darling. What a journey!!!! But I refuse to believe that I have reached the end of it yet, I have a tiny inkling that there's more in store for Amy and Lucas. This is such a brilliant and well-written series, and I recommend that people give this a read. The chemistry between the main characters Amy and Lucas (Richard Armitage) was so palpable and electric. They both complemented each other perfectly, and each contributing to the other's growth. The way I saw it, it wasn't only Amy that bore insecurities, Lucas had his own fair share, and to see them work on it together and support one another and bring out the best in each other, was pure bliss!!! I really do hope that we'll get to see more of Covert Eyes! 💕

Covert Eyes - MASTERLIST

Fandom: Spooks

Pairings: Lucas North x OC (Amy Holland) eventually

Warnings: Stalking behaviour, anxiety, smut, sexual themes, hospitalisation, gun shot wound recovery, PTSD, nightmares, kidnapping.

Summary: Lucas takes notice of a young woman, Amy, but his obsession and want to get to know her begin to spiral out of control.

Soundtrack listing

Special handmade collage that I made for this fic and have in one of my journals

(PROLOGUE) (Chapter 1) (Chapter 2) (Chapter 3) (Chapter 4) (Chapter 5) (Chapter 6) (Chapter 7) (Chapter 8) (Chapter 9) (Chapter 10) (Chapter 11) (Chapter 12) (Chapter 13) (Chapter 14) (Chapter 15) (Chapter 16) (Chapter 17) (Chapter 18) (Chapter 19) (Chapter 20) (Chapter 21) (Chapter 22) (Chapter 23) (Chapter 24)

[cyrranka]

A Star Is Born

[faunshiii]

love them

[snailification]

Idk who needs to hear this, but the reason your fic isn't getting a lot of attention is bc it's one big block!!

[frisky-p]

[billybangbang]

Disability In The Boys

Can we please talk about the disability representation of Kimiko in the boys?

I love seeing a disabled character as a disabled person and a disability studies student. However, I have a huge problem with Kimiko and her relationship with other people and the way they communicate.

Kimiko lost her ability to speak due to trauma she experienced in childhood. This led her and her brother to make up a sign language to communicate. This is an amazing aspect depicting for one, that children will find a way to communicate, that communicating with others is a part of being human, and that a disability does not mean you have to 'suffer' with it but can find ways to be included in social life.

However, The Boy's handling of Kimiko's muteness within the group is a problem. I love that Frenchie makes an effort to learn and communicate with Kimiko. It is so important! Disabled people deserve to be integrated into active society. Yet, the implication of ONLY Frenchie learning that Kimiko's language is 100% a negative representation in relation to who learns it. Frenchie and Kimikos relationship is portrayed with romantic undertones and in Season 4 a comfirmed romantic partner. It implies that only a romantic partner should make an effort to communicate differently.

Why do the other boys not learn even basic phrases of Kimiko's sign language? I understand Butcher not learning but the others?!

These people are her friends and like family to her. Families such as hearing parents with deaf children in real life are statistically more likely not to learn sign language almost 70%. And we as a society need to talk about this. It is a blatant form of discrimination and exclusion of disabled people.

So why does a show like the Boys who points out so many difficult issues within the show does not make an effort with their disabled protagonist? Furthermore only showing a love interest learning it. Even more so it is depicted as something romantic to learn to communicate wit Kimiko through sign language.

[dansidoon]

Girls get it (d)on(e)!

[msphagime]

What if, instead of engaging with the work in a normal manner, I made a self-indulgent AU that is not only a gigantic outlet for Game of Thrones/House of the Dragon references, but also something I'll only ever be able to make random doodles of and never write? Wouldn't that be fun?

And yes, this whole premise is mostly so I can give Hiccup, Heather, and my favorite villains cool outfits while they're stressing out over politics and wars and supernatural nonsense. No, I know no bounds.

[bugbart]

gotta let it out sometimes

[plethomacademia]

I commissioned @lucidpeech to put my villain in a nice dress! Sorry Zendaya, this dress belongs to Maeve now.

Since when does she use a rapier? Since I decided it was hot. She's a bard, the sword is just for swagger, don't think too hard. Just look at the neckline.

[scisetforever]

episode 6 of sex education has just fucked me up soooo badly - specifically the whole funeral sequence.

it’s so refreshing to see addicts as complex misunderstood characters who are also generous rather than straight up villains. i felt so bad for sean cuz i get how loved ones with addiction can seriously affect people, and it’s good that the creators put a character like him in the show to communicate that. i really liked how erin was portrayed in the show: complex but kind and caring and also horrible at times, but never a horrible person, and maeve understood that, and it’s clearer in the speech that she gave. the episode amazingly visualised the complexity off addiction and i fucking love the creators for portraying maeve, sean and erin as they did.

(couldn’t find a recent gif of maeve but she’s so amazing. i get why she loves complex female characters)

[not-jadzia-dax]

Did I draw edit and post this within 24hrs? What are you a cop???

[homielander]

the most interesting character detail about maeve through which i have extrapolated at least half my understanding of her is that she prefers to be called maeve. i frequently see "maggie" pop up in meta and fic as her chosen name, but quite literally nobody calls her that, including (and most significantly) elena. elena is maeve's tether to her humanity and her refuge away from vought, yet even elena only ever refers to her as maeve. (and in season 2, we learn that maeve started dating elena before she joined the seven -- before queen maeve's popularity would have become so inescapable that she would feel compelled to introduce herself by that name.) it's especially notable that in her final scene, maeve refers to starlight as annie for only the second time, but she is still called maeve by both annie and elena.

here's what we know about maeve's life as maggie: she had a rocky relationship with her father whom she doesn't seem to speak to anymore, she's from a "cousin-fucker hick town" as described by homelander -- i can't imagine this place being terribly lgbt-friendly, and she generally lacks connection with anyone she would have known before becoming queen maeve. she doesn't have fond memories of this time of her life, and perhaps that extends to all associations with it, including the name maggie.

i tend to think that becoming queen maeve was, in many ways, self-actualizing for her. the act that garners her national attention and earns her a ticket to vought is a heroic one -- she breaks every single bone in her right arm to save a school bus from falling off a bridge. and i know madelyn says she is responsible for the mythos of queen maeve, but this character was still aspirational, and likely someone maeve wanted to live up to. in any case, this new identity gave her a purpose and tools to achieve it: she wanted to help people! by her own admission, maeve enters vought bright-eyed and hopeful, not far off from annie. (maeve is also one of the only supes in the seven not to know about compound v -- she doesn't strike me as religious but believing she's among the very few born with powers would have strengthened her internal drive to be a hero.)

it's for the same reason that i think maeve actually... liked having powers? of course she says otherwise in her last season, but season 3 maeve is cynical and weary from about two decades of dealing with vought and homelander's abuse. they've used her first as the token woman and then the token gay person of the seven. after growing largely passive to the brutality of the job, the flight 37 incident forces her to confront all of the violence she's witnessed and tolerated. she's given pieces of herself away and she loathes the husk of herself that's left. i don't find it surprising that she would want to relinquish every single connection to vought, including her powers.

assuring herself that she will be better off without her powers comes with an added benefit: she gets to distinguish herself from homelander, who would be lost without his powers. and i think she is eager to make this distinction in her mind because there are some uncomfortable similarities between their initiations into vought. the mantle of homelander allows him to exert agency for the first time in his life, just as the mantle of queen maeve endows her with purpose for the first time in hers. (crucially, none of his current circle call him john, either.) they both enjoy being the most powerful superheroes in the world, the unending public adoration, and (in my interpretation) each other. they're also both overwhelmingly lonely and they know it -- homelander teases her multiple times about how she has no friends with a bit more bite in every passing season, while maeve is keenly aware of his isolation and exploits his yearning for love pretty effectively.

maeve steadily grows disillusioned with her position at vought because she still has a moral code, suppressed though it may be. even so, she nearly relents to homelander's vision: that they will be lonely at the top but lonely together. she's pulled out of her miserable state of inaction by annie and elena. annie reminds her of what a hero should be (what she was, once); elena offers her a way out of vought, serving as maeve's light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak.

she escapes that tower as maeve, not maggie. she rejects homelander's god complex which engenders his cruelty towards regular people and 'lesser' supes -- no one will call her queen maeve ever again, at least -- but it is still important to her to be a hero, and for better or for worse, she found that as maeve. i feel like she'd struggle to exist without her powers (possibly the self-awareness hasn't settled in yet) for all the reasons mentioned above. i like to think that eventually, she'll circle around to helping people and resisting vought however possible -- albeit on a smaller, more covert scale so she can continue living a peaceful life with elena.

[faunshiii]

tysm for all the love on my other starlight drawings!!!!! here's some more fanart, featuring other characters this time :DD

[spiky-berry21]

AHAHAHAGUSJFZTUXBH- *cough cough* pardon me. Just finished Calli's little character poster after... Multiple hours, and here it is!

Transcription (so sorry for the blurriness 😭):

Born: December 6th, 1899

Murray bridge, South Australia

Born and raised on the murky expanse of the Murray river, Calliope was always one for life on her family's cattle farm. And, undenounced to her parents, the life of a small-time bank robber in the latter half of her teenage years. Considered more wayward and rebellious the older she got, it came as a shock to her when her elder brothers, and father, were enlisted in the armed forces to fight in the great war. Leaving only her and her mother to take care of the farm for the years they were away. And by circumstances of a tragic heartbreak, Calliope left her homeland and became a stowaway on a cargo ship heading for the distant lands of the Americas. In the hopes of finding an opportunity to build a new life for herself.

Though as they always say, old habits die hard. With the young Australian lass getting recruited for little pay in the esteemed Marigold gang. Now both a well-known patron, and a long-time bootlegger. Nothing, and she means nothing, is getting in the way of her current life. Or... That's what she thinks at least.

Living a congenial life on the wooden panels and planks of the Marigold room's backstage area, and being mostly forgotten about by a certain Marigold night manager. Calliope enjoys a plethora of... Interesting activities. Those including: Precarious automobile operating, wrangling with almost any cattle you put in front of her, mending household appliances, and dutifully using a shotgun. Her weapon of choice.

Woo! Thank you for reading all that (if you did), Maeve and Angel are going to be here (hopefully) soon. Feel free to ask any questions!

As always, have a magnificent day/night! 😘

[supemaeve]

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