#Controlling Interest Series

[theeditorreads]

Coercion by Amelia Wilde (Blog Tour)

Coercion concludes Will and Bristol’s story with their whole family finding their happy ever after unlike any I have read before. Series: Controlling Interest #3 Trigger Warning: Kidnapping

[platoapproved]

It was an outrageous request.

[mothocean]

The titles for the magnus protocol episodes that have come out so far seem... deliberate. First we have 'first shift', which could be seen to use 'shift' in the meaning of 'work hours'; it's Sam's first day at the OIAR. But it could also mean 'shift' as in movement or change; the first signs that the fears are shaping this world, 'shifting' it from how it is supposed to be. Then the two next titles, 'making adjustments' and 'putting down roots', are both describing actions. Hinting that the fears are already establishing themselves within the new world and beginning to reshape it.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

At rest, your lungs wish to deflate, and your ribcage expands outwards.

[blluespirit]

ok i have seen so many people mention zuko's oh god what the actual fuck reaction to katara blood bending but what i don't see many talk about how quickly zuko is like. Yeah this checks out actually. and moves the fuck on.

I like the idea that zuko never really asks abt it either. he just saw her do that and just... accepts it. it's probably weirdly relieving for katara as well. instead of waiting for an Ethics Discussion, when/if katara does bring it up, zuko just says that she did what she had to do.

zuko and katara just. accepting each other. yeah.

[deoidesign]

Thinks about my next series again... I drew the icon for it!

I'm planning to have it launched within a year! I'm hoping for summer 2025. I want to make a prelaunch page before Time and Time Again ends so people can subscribe if they're interested, but I'm worried the series return would be too early...

[moonshynecybin]

Hi! I have been thinking about Marc and the ways he expresses his anger... giving the cold shoulder... the silent treatment if you will (he will speak ABOUT vale but not TO vale let alone WITH vale)... need your input please....

hmm good question.... this got. STUPID long sorry

uhhh marc is, in general, good at keeping his (negative) emotions in check. like i think marc loooooves to think of himself on track as a mature, controlled, and rational dude. above distraction. a killer. a cyborg. idk his dad has talked about how he doesnt really complain much about injury and there's also allll these stories about what a mature kid he was... so i think that when he was young - ESPECIALLY in a racing sense because he was so much younger than most of the people he was competing against - he internalized that in order to do all the stuff he wants to do racing-wise, he reallyyyy has to keep a level head and not well. act his age! and i think that extends to a lot of how he manages his emotions today (at least in a public setting). even in places where im pretty sure hes PISSED (sepang. phillip island 2013.) he just kind of. visibly contains himself. not a confrontational dude in the outright sense he'll clench his jaw and try to work through it.

which is part of what makes his valentino-oriented crazy so interesting. bc people were noticing that marc in 2015 was kind of. being weird. as his and valentino's relationship deteriorated. like they were both outwardly very much like we can keep it on track :) until the big fallout towards the end of the year but uhhhh. well marc has said that vale started pulling back in september of 2014 like he was noticing SOMETHING, and they clashed on track A LOT in 2015, and i think marc sensed vale cooling on him and freaked a lil. hashtag neurotic 22 year old moments. he is my favorite crazy ex girlfriend. like usually he IS good at separating that stuff out and managing his emotions in the racing sense but in assen that year when vale overtook him off track after they made contact he raised a BIG stink with race direction and actually had some uh. not especially chill quotes about it. (it should be noted marc was also flopping for the first time in his motogp career. like in his brain he stopped winning AND vale stopped talking to him he was goin through it) adn all the reporters noticed too they were like. why werent you sucking and fucking in parc ferme. like vale's left turn wrt to spaniard sabotage comes outta nowhere but people WERE noticing that things were changing. i bet marc noticed too. BUT they are not the type of people to talk about these things so they keep it to vague flirting in presscons and escalating on-track tension slash proxy wars waged in race-direction contexts... liek truly you are 22 you are not going to keep your championship title and your hot sports idol bestie is no longer flirting with you on twitter and you COULD just talk to him about that but you'd rather DIE so youre going to ask honda to back you up to race direction about your last race where you DEFINITELY lost bc winning is the ONLY thing thatll make you feel better. even though thatll help convince your hot sports idol that you are engaging in a benedict arnold level betrayal scheme against him. an insane time to be marc marquez. 2015 really kind of is a study on how both of them handle losing: NOT WELL.

and then the thing about sepang is that then the lid is blown clean off and marc spends the ENTIRE race being annoying on purposeeeee. hes so fucking pissed and hurt at valentino that he decides to get under his skin for REALSIES instead of focusing on his race. like idk he probably would have fought hard for the win without the drama that how he works but uh. i think he was being annoying specifically to bite at vale's edges. and part of that is bc marc is naturally and effortlessly annoying. but i think part of it was SPITE. like his team advised him not to speak on anything from that presscon and he didnt, but he can still fuck him over on track. get under his skin. like he cant tell vale to his FACE that he's angry and confused and hurt. but he CAN let him know on that fucking racing line. where he cant be ignored. idk like i cant see marc letting anyone else get under his skin like that.

AND another big ass exception to the marc marquez anger management philosophy is from misano 2019 where vale messes with his qualifying lap. a lovely anon sent me some videos of marc talking to the press and jesus christ i dont think ive ever seen him angrier oh my god. AND the anon also linked the race from that weekend where he won and he celebrated harder than ive seen him celebrate some TITLE wins like he went. notably nuts. the commentators were all like uhhhh. he mustve REALLY wanted to get one over on vale adjfhlkdh... idk if any of this answered your question but his relationship to his emotions fascinates me hes so weirddddd. and its interesting to me that he can shrug off jorge ruining his last race at honda and be friendly but also be like. kind of aloofly pissed at bezz. because of valentino! he can repress the rest of it, but valentino shines through the cracks.

[veinsfullofstars]

👁️ Kirbtober 2024 Day 14: Miracle 👁️

(ID: Kirby series fanart of Zero Two looming over a newly-created Miracle Matter, gazing down upon it inscrutably with his single red eye, almost cradling it in segmented wings that burst with countless red, vein-like tendrils. The icosahedron gazes back blankly with red-and-black eyes on each of its sides… save for one in the center which sports an iris of orange and teal, tears leaking from it and dripping away into darkness. END ID.)

“Hush, my dear blade. Consider your failures forgiven. For only in such a penitent form may you reach even a fraction of my perfection.”

Based on my personal headcanon that Dark Matter Blade - after the second failed takeover in KDL3 - might've been “repurposed” by his resurrected god into Miracle Matter.

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Started on 09/18/24, finished on 09/19/24. | Kirbtober 2023 Comp

[raindrop2401]

Literally the only reason I like to think FNAF1 takes place some time after SL is because Ralph says something like "if the amimatronic do see you, try playing dead. Then they'll think you as an empty costume instead... but then again they might just try put an endoskeleton into you. Wonder how that would work" (not an exact quote). I like the idea of Mike either remembering the horrors that was Ennard or making some joke to himself like "gee I fucking wonder" when he heard that (or both). Any arguement that my timeline makes no sense will be discarded in the name of giving the stinky boi a PTSD trigger. (Also I like the idea of him being a bit snarky to Ralph's recording's in general. Like when he's reading off how Fazbear Entertainment would handle a death on their premises, Mike's just sighs and goes "glad to see the policies my father introduced haven't changed a fucking bit in the last decade")

[decaffeinatedpartymuggoop]

Everyone says swimmer Percy and, yes. But instead I raise you; roller derby Percy.

Everyone (including RICK) forgets that he’s canonically a skater. It’s his favorite thing. I’d argue it’s his special interest. I’m pretty sure there’s a scene where he sees a whole ass water park and goes “I wish I wasn’t fighting monsters so I could skate it 😕”

He brings it into every situation. There’s a scene in SOM where they’re talking about chariots and he somehow brings skate boarding into the conversation. His favorite activity that doesn’t involve RIDING a skate board or skating is SHOPPING for a skateboard. When Piper first sees him she goes “Annabeth’s man looks like a skater.” Skating is literally in the way he LOOKS.

He’s the son of Poseidon and uses water to fight and I’d argue he talks more about skating than he does about anything water related.

I know roller derby and skating is completely different from skateboarding but I still think he’d do it. Like for him I’m 100% sure it’s the next best thing.

I feel like he’d mostly use it to get it aggression out (especially after HOO) so I feel like he’d be really good but he’s so aggressive he’s constantly bench.

Like someone’s pisses him off so he trips them and then they put him in a corner for the rest of the game.

Anyway, Rick should bring back skater Percy

[theeditorreads]

Extortion by Amelia Wilde (Blog Tour)

Extortion continues Will and Bristol’s story, which ended on a sad note, but there’s still hope for them. Series: Controlling Interest #2 Trigger Warning: Kidnapping Warning: This ends on a cliffhanger and is Book Two of a trilogy.

[brittlebutch]

actually it's kind of funny how people will say Alex's fatal flaw is that he 'doesn't ask for help' and that it's his determination to handle things on his own that leads to his deterioration and eventual death when his whole introduction to the present-day timeline was a very literal cry for help that simply went ignored

[p4nishers]

are you. you know...his little pet that needs to be controlled?

[t8oo]

there is some symbolism iv never considered in that one episod of pt5 where zenigata rescues fujiko before she kills lupin

[feelingtheaster99]

The idea that different monsters sense different things, that they prey on each demigod’s weakness is interesting…

[thesamestarlight]

yassen gregorovich. character of all time. he’s a contract killer. he’s babygirl. he makes no damn sense. compels me though