#Cut + Run series

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Nathan J. Northland/Vlad Blutstein- Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites by Joy Demorra

B Tyler Grady/Zane Garret- Cut + Run series by Abigail Roux and Madeleine Urban

Humaira Khan/Ishita Dey - Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar

Mark Bailey/Eddie O'Leary- You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian

[dailyfatefigures]

Nendoroid #2550 - Remnant Saber by Good Smile Company

[who-do-i-know-this-man-s4]

⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

[limpwristssavelives]

my thoughts on the wwdits final are very mixed. on one hand, i understand what they were trying to do with the ending and how the characters lives will go on without the doc crew filming. none of the episode arcs are finished and there’s no real conclusion because the crew abruptly left. but on the other hand, as an audience that feels unsatisfying. nothing was wrapped up, no goodbyes or send offs. it just stopped. and i think that’s a completely valid criticism no matter what they intended.

if they wanted that ending to work i think they should have built up to it a little more. like many have suggested, setting up that the doc is ending earlier in the season. i personally think they should have hinted that funding was running out by slowly cutting side characters screentime and using less cameras. by the end there’s only one camera left and that’s when they break the news. guillermo’s sad and confused but everyone’s like “how did you not notice?” it would have made it feel less rushed and given a reason for guillermo to join cannon capital. it also would explain why so many side characters were sidelined this season. sean gets one ep and then isn’t really seen again. the guide is hardly present. the baron isn’t seen after ep 9. i think they could have played a lot into it.

another idea i had about changing the final was that colin robinson is revealed to be behind the doc. like a post credit scene where he tells the camera that the doc was all his doing and he just cut the funding for it. the doc was just an excuse to always have someone around to drain or reveal that he can even drain through the camera so he’s been draining us, the audience, the whole time. or maybe he reveals that he’s been the one editing the doc and he’s been cutting out all the real juicy bits (like a nandermo secret relationship). he got bored with it or got what he wanted out of it. maybe even a tease like “in a couple years i’ll probably do this all again.” implying that he was behind the older doc as well.

i just feel like something silly like colin ending the doc for nefarious reasons and implying that he edits it would have at least made more sense and felt somewhat like closure. like colin’s mischief was the reason we didn’t get to see a goodbye. he could even admit that they filmed some but this would be a better drain. eyes flash blue and the rest of the credits roll. colin has the last laugh.

[zhouxiangs]

(we shall know hurt, ralph gustafson / pain, vernon scannell / betrayal, frances kitchell lamar / pain, linda pastan / a local habitation, seanan mcguire)

[deus-ex-mona]

when the slowburn makes the ship extra cute~~~

[bayofwolves]

After nearly ten years, Conor and Abeke's relationship has solidified into a fully platonic, familial one to me. Feeling surprisingly alright with this development.

We've come a long, long way.

Coneke used to be second only to Shaneke in my heart. But as time passed, and I revisited Spirit Animals with a fresh, adult perspective, my deep-rooted opinion changed. In an incredible turn of events, I can no longer envision Conor and Abeke as romantic. Not even a little bit.

But that's okay! There is something even better: Friendship and found family that transcends romance. That's how I view them.

I find it interesting how they both think of each other as siblings. No other relationship between the main characters is described that way -- they all think of each other as family, yes, but Abeke specifically calls Conor a brother, and he calls her a sister. In fact, this is one of only a few instances where non-related characters are shown to think this way about each other. It's significant.

Though they have plenty of tender moments throughout the series, I find myself only seeing those interactions in a platonic light (especially with the above in mind). The fact that they were still firmly friends by the time the series ended -- and the fact that I'm now okay with that -- really drove it home for me. I used to be disappointed by the fact that they never seemed to go anywhere. Now it makes me happy to see the platonic nature of their bond confirmed.

They certainly have a special relationship and it will forever be near and dear to my heart, but there's no romance there for me. They're just friends. Best friends!

Friends who can tell each other anything.

Friends who share a special kind of understanding.

Friends who think of each other as a sibling they never had.

I like it that way.

If little me knew I would someday denounce Coneke, she would be appalled. And I'm sorry, little me. But I think this is how they were meant to be interpreted all along.

[sweetonsugden]

Ok, I get that Abigail Roux had always pictured Karl Urban as her book character Ty Grady, but I’ve watching Supernatural and Dean has SOOOO many of the same characteristics and habits of Ty Grady. It’s uncanny!!

1. Dean’s deep, gravelly voice

2. Dean is about 3 inches shorter than his partner (his brother Sam)

3. Dean frequently poses as an FBI agent

4. Wears a brown leather jacket or canvas jacket

5. Has no patience for people

6. Jokes through every thing

7. Always picking up women

8. Short cropped hair, hazel eyes, full lips

9. Black diver watch one wrist and thin leather bracelet on the other

10. ALWAYS giving people nicknames

11. Charismatic and has the same type of humor as Ty Grady

12. Is in love with his vehicle and treats it like family.

13. Affinity for pie

I’m sure there’s a lot more. I’m only on S6 of Supernatural.

[iguessitsjustme]

North/Sonic/Kim special episode WHEN

[platypusisnotonfire]

I just found a draft of a WIP I totally forgot I was writing when I was a teenager and it is digging its claws into me

This book is really barely more than Strong Vibes but it had a character that was raised in a more intense and even more soulless version of the peacekeepers in Farscape, like military society, kids trained from basically birth, don’t know their families, but now with Even More Brainwashing and Creepy Cultlike Stuff.

Character doesn’t even have a name or permanent numerical designation, the absolutely only identifying thing they have is a chip in their wrist that is only readable by computers and is used when assigning missions. On every mission you get a different designation number or code name. They are stripped SO completely of any sense of identity.

Character never been on a planet, never even was taught about planets in schooling or taught what a family is or anything even academically. Has no concept of gender because reproduction is completely done in a lab and no biology of any type is ever taught to the grunt soldiers.

Additionally: never heard music.

Turns out they are an absolute musical prodigy the SECOND they are introduced to music

Like off the charts August rush nonsense.

Then proceeds to have crisis after crisis about that because if I wasn’t taught this then it must be heresy, but how could anything so perfect and beautiful not be from god

[junie-junette]

Small rant.

I've just finished reading "cut & run, Vol. 1" again for the 8373728th times and… I'M STILL SO UPSET THAT THE LIVE ACTION SERIE WAS NEVER RELEASED ?! I mean, it was literally Hawai 5-0 without all the queerbaiting ?! Gimme my real Ty and Zane, I will have loved them dearly.

The TV was just too scared that it was too queer BUT LOOK ITWV IS DOING JUST WELL SO WHY NOT MY COP BUDDIES ENNEMIES TO LOVERS SERIES ?!

[miodiodavinci]

taking a break from working to say man. if the end up having to cut content to fit everything in 24 episodes, my favorite chapter of dungeon meshi is almost certainly getting cut skdjfhglj

[hauntingblue]

Last arcane episode ever..... here we fucking go....

[okitanoniisan]

new rgg fans will never know what they missed back in ye olden days of the fandom (like, 2019), doubly so now that scott strichart's deleted his twitter and jon riesenbach's privated. twitter was so fucking fun and then whatever-the-hell at sega of america happened and caused a fucking snowball effect and now we have shitass localization and resulting discourse that makes every release nigh unbearable, misinformation, confusion, people complaining about "bad writing/mischaracterization" not realizing it's because of the shitass english loc, i'm sitting here like jesus christ these loc bitches massacred saejima's character voice, people will never see him as he was intended, as original yakuza 5 localization Correctly painted him, and now they're coming for kiryu. god help us. we used to be a proper fandom. before everyone was subjected to the remastered localizations and shaky eng characterization. no one had even played yakuza 3-5, people still called morning glory "sunshine" orphanage, kiryu was our only protagonist and people still called him "boring", it was beautiful...

anyway gaiden uses affective instead of effective because the current localization team is full of careless dumbasses who don't give a fuck about ensuring they're using correct english grammar and this is not an isolated incident

[cosmicrhetoric]

sorry it's just getting crazier and crazier than im unironically telling people that this is one of the best pieces of media ive consumed in my entire life. and im talking about this guy