#Actually no there’s like a lot to unpack

[lover-of-mine]

i know everything sucks rn but something's been bugging me, wondering if you have any thoughts on buck's outfit when he's looking at apartments. it reminds me of the tsunami outfit?? (i know the shirt is redder but it's a similar color to what it looks like wet, i think)

Boy do I have thoughts. Red is a signature color for Buck, wearing this bright reds is a thing he does a lot. But he does not have a fully red outfit in 8 before that scene. He has red plaid, but not a fully true red outfit. And even in season s7, the reds we see him in are more muted tones. And they stop showing up in 704.

I have been WAITING for Buck to get a true red outfit all season. It is still a bit too orange, but I'll take it

Yes, it is similar to the wet version of the tsunami outfit.

But I think the important callbacks here are Buck, Actually and the is that really love speech in the s5 finale.

It's about Buck needing the change and feeling ready for more but not being able to reach it, to figure out how to get there. Buck has a lot of breakthroughs about love in red. The jacket over there is also in the scene about madney.

When he moves out from Abby's place because he needs to figure out what's next, when he actually talks to Abby about it all. It's about Buck being ready to do something about it. And with Oliver saying he wants Buck's next relationship to come from a well thought out place? I'm looking.

But the orange tone of that red actually got me thinking about this jacket.

Because Buck wants a house that feels like Eddie's. And the thing about the house is not the house, is that it is Eddie's. Home is not a place is a person yada yada. But I was thinking about this because Eddie's breakdown is the first time we see Buck using his key to the house. Like, he's been in it without Eddie before, but he's always already there. Opening the door while Eddie is breaking his room has a different connotation than just the camera panning to Buck somewhere in the house.

Anyway, I think they left the house thing vague on purpose, Eddie is moving back and Buck wants to move out, but he didn't pick somewhere yet, that opens a lot of possibilities. Not that I trust the show to pick the most interesting one, but there are a few nice ways this could play out. And putting Buck back in red at that particular moment could be about Buck being ready to truly look, since he kept ignoring the house being Eddie's and the whole metaphor for unpacking stuff they did with Buck's feelings and the house. Letting Buck think about what he wants and how he can get it and truly do this for him.

[qoldenskies]

i feel like out of everyone april would be the worst with self-deprecating humor. the boys have self-esteem issues but they're literally all the types to play up confidence or double down instead of addressing them (raph the least, but he can be pretty stubborn at times), but april's momentum only takes her so far and she is pretty willing to admit defeat if her usual methods dont work. the speed at which she falls back into the idea that she cant do anything right,,, there's probably a point where she jokes about it before it even happens to prepare herself for disappointment, right?

[hamzahsbaby]

WAIT just imagining how confused slushys would be in young dad!hamzah universe….. like why is this man posting fatherly inspirational quotes every fortnight & knowing a weird amount about labour. like boy why r u talking about being fully effaced mid mukbang 😭😭

ppl just accepting he was (finally) unpacking his daddy issues or maybe discovered his dream of being a gyno n averting their eyes LMAO

this made me audibly laugh i love you. it’s so funny because it’s so real, i can so see people posting clips of him from like his patreon or something of him talking about how he’s been thinking a lot about what it means to actually be a good dad and how he never really had a good solid emotionally available father, so he’s going to be one. and everyone is like “hamzah’s gonna be such a good dad in the future!” not knowing the ‘future’ is literally 4 months down the road cause ur ass already pregnant.

or him talking on the podcast w martin about how he recently had to assemble a baby crib with absolutely no help and everyone just assumes that he must have been helping a friend or something because there’s just no way hamzah got you pregnant …. like it deadass does not cross any of the slushy minds lol.

and yes oh my god it’s such a hamzah thing for him to do a shit ton of research on pregnancy after finding out the news. he’s like so worried about you and wants everything to go smoothly, esp the delivery so he’s like extra educated on that area lmfao

[inkyrainstorms]

jekyll and Hyde au with Ford and Stan. drops this and runs away before exploding into a bajillion million pieces

you are a fucking GENIUS and i’m going to explode right there with you, OH MY GOSH yes yes

okay. so the main thing about this sort of au is that it would follow the logic of the relationship between Jekyll and Hyde in The Glass Scientists — where Stan and Ford are essentially two sides of the same coin, two halves of the same soul. they want to pretend they’re not the same person, but at the end of the day, they’re inextricably intertwined with each other. there’s no jekyll without hyde. a jekyll without Hyde is half a man and no more

Ford without Stan is half of a pair and no more.

man, this would make their conflict all the more devastating, wouldn’t it? i feel like Hyde and Jekyll aren’t perfect 1-1 recreations of the twins (obviously), but Hyde would be Stan and Ford would be Jekyll.

Ford was always an outcast, so him starting up the Society of Arcane Sciences (cannot remember the full name atm this is my bad) with the help of Fiddleford would make a lot of sense! the social aspect of running that place…less so.

now i imagine that in this au, Ford and Stan would have a lot more amiable of a relationship than Jekyll and Hyde did — Stan wouldn’t be relegated to the night, he would likely take over for more presentational or social events, and help Ford have fun when they’re goofing off and being “the spirit of london (Jersey?) (lmao) night”

…. (Glass Shard Beach and the Glass Scientists.) (this is taking place on the jersey shoreline now. maybe the institution is in New York, and Ford’s home is still Jersey and he doesn’t visit as often as he should) (it can’t be in gravity falls unless gravity falls is full of rich sponsors now i fear) (… PRESTON)

Ford would handle the responsibilities, the science (he’s be a cryptozoologist, obviously) (which likely means that the split of their soul was a result of an accident with a magical creature and a bad reaction than an attempt to isolate the “bad parts of him”) (public speaking skills are Good actually), and generally upkeeps his reputation while Stan handles a lot of the rest of it.

Ford is still unhinged as hell when it comes to science, and Stan often has to play the voice of reason, despite how much he hates it. they bounce off of each other, play to each other strengths and weaknesses. take turns holding each other back from accidentally killing themselves

… GOD THIS IS SO LONG, THERES SO MUCH TO UNPACK ANON YOUVE GIVEN ME BRAINWORMS I FEAR

@kaykayli @afkphorabit < do you two see my vision

[musicals-and-mushrooms]

[the-woman-upstairs]

Can’t believe all it took for me to care about the MCU again was Yelena getting a super-powered boy toy with crippling depression

[flowersforthemachines]

What home smells like (Crossroads comments)

Note: judging by the audio I extracted and the conversation file, Bellara and Taash don't have lines for that event (if they actually have lines and I missed them, pls lmk).

Rook: That scent… I can't place it. Neve: For a moment… it smelled like Dock Town after it rains. Lucanis: Coffee. Like Illario and I smelled in the kitchen where we grew up. But that cannot be right. Harding: That's my ma's apple cake! But… how? Davrin: That's smoke from my old clan's campfire. But… how do I even know that? Emmrich: It's reminiscent of the mortuary's perfumes, but… ah. Of course. Emmrich: There's small enchantments around this place. From the old elves, welcoming their kindred home.

My DAVG Extracted Audio Masterlist

[hyakunana]

"My friend, my partner… my Guardian."

[qoldenskies]

i think its so funny when people take the way donnie acts at face value even though its a horrible lie because he's a horrible liar, while understanding leo is bullshitting very well despite him actually being GOOD at bullshitting. many such cases

[monaetheworldsdestroyer]

this is how writing is going

[thevegetablewhichnoonedaresname]

no one FREAKING understands jo march and friedrich bhaer the way i do

[swan2swan]

She's fifteen or sixteen years old and she Did Not Need This.

[thewhizzyhead]

also ngl the fact that warriors (2024) has VERY BLATANT anti-cop themes embedded in here with like no sympathy whatsoever makes me think a little bit better of lmm after 21 chump street's quite sympathetic portrayal of a cop that baited a kid to sell drugs on school campus. like,,,hurray for artistic growth fjdjdfkdk yay for warriors for having the balls to say fuck the cops

[bonefall]

maybe with the ending.. make it be like the link between Breezepelt's leaving to join Kin and his POV in AVOS? of course from Nightcloud's perspective but

like. she would be injured and recovering away from the clan. but they would be unaware that she is alive and like in canon assume she died and hold her a vigil. Breezepelt, who is already at low point, taking it very badly - yes he was pushing her away bc he was hurt and angry and started taking it out on her, but.. it's still his mom. his Mi. and she is dead? or is this stupid clan just going to believe this to make it easier? are they really giving up on looking for her, or her body??

i can see Nightcloud being the one of very few, if not THE Only one, things that kept Breezepelt in WindClan at this point. and without her, what's the point? it's not like anyone else likes him. the link is gone and they buried it in a bodyless vigil. so it's what pushes him to actuall take the step and leave.

not sure how well it would align with the timeline and events. and how soon Darktail was assembling cats from other clans like Breeze. but i think it would be interesting and heartbreaking if at the end of her SE, Nightcloud just arrived back to WindClan and asks where Breezepelt is and someone tells her.. he either was missing since this morning or just left the clan earlier the same day. like, just have them miss each other by a hair.

I'm thinking that the second-to-last chapter is her with Pickle, having a bit of a sabbatical to unpack everything that happens through the story. Mostly because I want to throw her into some kind of pretty garden as a nice setting for this lmaoo

A LOT of BB stuff is being added to Nightcloud's Pannage that wasn't in the main series; Hillrunner's abuse, her mentor Addersong, several expanded little background characters now complete with their own side conflicts. I think what I can bind all these things with is Nightcloud considering what a Clan means.

Because of her new reputation, I'm noticing I'm writing scenes where she's intentionally doing and saying things to try and sway them. While also grappling with her resentment towards them, and things she can't change.

There's a bit of a melancholy air so far, so I'm starting to feel like the best ending is just having a bit of space to herself to think. Ultimately, she decides that it's more than Breezepelt or Crowfeather that binds her to WindClan. It's the life and connections she COULD have.

WindClan cats are also quite religious next to other Clans, so I really do mean "sabbatical." I'm going to have Addersong die of old age shortly after they reconnect, so she's in Pickle's Garden talking to her new friend, choosing cats she's lost to pray to as patron spirits to give her the traits she feels she needs, and just recovering both physically from injury and spiritually from turmoil.

So all that to say; it works well that by the time she gets back, Breezepelt has joined The Kin. He was one of the first to join when he started calling for members anyway, so having Night be gone for about two or three weeks sounds appropriate.

[stargatebarbie]

fucked up that i'd never realised that i don't like being called someone's "girlfriend" until a straight man of all people asked what my preferred term would be. i spent 7 years with a trans woman who never once used "they" for me and pushed back against any and all reminders that i'm nonbinary and i got so used to avoiding talking about it with her that i hadn't even properly registered that a word i heard applied to me almost daily made me dysphoric. really goes to show that someone else's queer identity says very little about how they'll treat yours

[dungbeatposse]

the amount of mental trauma boboiboy has is astounding.

kid has never catch a break since the day he got his power watch, especially with the weight of the whole galaxy on his shoulders, and the amount of times the descendants of the first elemental users have seen boboiboy as their ancestors AND retakka… yikes…

i’m glad he’s deciding to stay on earth for the time being, lord knows he needs it 😭😭😭

he has yet to get the all third stage elementals, and also i would like to see the origins of the others’ powers too. i think it’d be interesting to see where yaya’s, ying’s, gopal’s and fang’s powers came from.

so we’ll see how that pans out (hopefully my boy’s gonna go clock in with the tapops psychiatrist before he does any shenanigans)

can’t wait for boboiboy galaxy season 3~~