#God. Was this season real or was it a fever dream

[picayunearts]

[x][x] The Félix and Kagami dynamic is unspeakably funny to me

[nymeri]

Ooooooh boy this episode is my favorite of the season by far it’s not even funny…

We’ve got Blackwoods and Brackens beefing and killing each other, we’ve got Baela and Raena with lines and real emotional stakes, we’ve got Harrenhall in all it’s ruined and haunted and damp as hell glory, we’ve got Rhaenys being not insufferable at all for once, Alicent and Helaena having a real conversation(!!) For the horny for Aemond girlies we’ve got full frontal Aemond, for the rhaenicent girlies we’ve got Rhaenyra finally reading Alicent’s letters, and MEETING IN PERSON I SWEAR TO GOD, we’ve got BAELA ON MOONDANCER HUNTING AND SCARING THE SHIT OUT OF CRISTON COLE LIKE A BOSS, AND MILLY ALCOCK IS BACK AND SEWING UP HER DEAD NEPHEW’S BODY IN AN ALYS RIVERS INDUCED FEVER DREAM OH MY GODD

I feel insane I feel sated I feel fulfilled

[actually-a-fish]

the best supernatural episodes

according to an autistic person with a special interest and the ability to make a list.

if youre really serious about supernatural spoilers then maybe stay away :)

None of the season one episodes made in on the list but I will give an honorable mention to S1 E2 Wendigo.

S2 E11 Playthings - A classic, creepy girls in a creepy hotel. Special call out to Sam getting SLOPPY

S2 E16 Roadkill - There's a ghost haunting the highway. the Boys help the spirit move on. This is an early example of monster empathy

S2 E18 Hollywood Babylon - Dean loves hollywood. I love dean. this episode makes me kick my feet like a little girl and i will not defend myself.

S2 EP 20 What Was Shall Never Be - all I have in my notes for this one is "Dean Djinn Dream" which was enough for me to remember the episode and get misty eyes. This is SEASON 2 my son will never know peace.

S3 E5 Bedtime Stories -I had to check the wiki on this one, I think i liked it cause it referenced classic fairytales

S3 Ep11 Mystery Spot - "HEAT OF THE MOMENT" RISE AND SHINE SAMMY!

S3 E13 Ghostfacers! - Im a Facer through and through

S3 E16 No Rest for the Wicked - S3 finale and the Boys are facing consequences! Classic Dean, Sam and Bobby episode.

S4 E1 Lazerus Rising - First Cas Episode. That handprint makes me feel things.

S4 E6 Yellow Fever - What if Dean had anxiety (The Eye of the Tiger blooper is also at the end of the episode which gives it bonus points.

S4 E17 Wishful Thinking - Make a wish? was it for your teddy bear to be diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder? Well thats what youre getting!

S4 E17 It's a Terrible Life - Sam ~ the sales rep. Dean ~ middle management.

S4 E18 The Monster at the End of the Book - There are books about Sam and Dean?! Written by this guy who loves self insert character? Surely the entire show isn't about to take a tone shift?

S5 E3 Free to be You and Me - Sam and Dean are fighting again, but this time Dean has a new heavenly boy toy to play with instead. (Cas has no rizz yet it's actually a little painful to watch)

S5 E5 Fallen Idol - Okay the Wax People episode is on here for one reason and one reason only. Paris Hilton.

S5 E7 The Curious Case of Dean Winchester - Old man Dean and old man Bobby. This is also the episode for HH Husk kinnies.

S5 E8 Changing Channels - Dr Sexy MD is that you?!

S5 E9 The Real Ghostbuster - *in a grizzly voice* "I'm Dean Winchester, this is my brother Sam. Have you experienced anything strange?" "Dude that was so good! Now we can go solve the puzzle" "Man you're breaking the immersion!"

S5 E10 Abandon All Hope - This is here for Crowley's first appearance and not because the end will make you cry.

S5 E12 Swap Meat - "uh... its Audi Nos". Freaky Friday starring Sam Winchester! An angsty teen and April Kepner from Grey/Sloan Memorial Hospital.

S5 E16 Dark Side of the Moon - The Boys lives flash before their eyes. Dean is pissed forever about Sams.

S5 E19 Hammer of the Gods - this is for all my pagans out there!

S6 E4 A Weekend at Bobby's - What do you think this episodes about idjit.

S6 E15 The French Mistake -  “For whatever reason, our life is a TV show.” “Why?” “I don't know.” “No, seriously. Why? Why would anybody want to watch our lives?” 

S7 E4 Defending your Life - consequences? for fucking people over? how about you stand trial.

S7 E20 The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo - The self insert character made for us :) Luv u 4ever Charlie XD

S8 E4 Bitten - found footage will always scare. this one reminds me that this show started as a psuedo horror.

S8 E8 hunteri heroci - Cas tries his hand at being a hunter

S8 E12 As Time Goes By - FINALLY THEY ARE CARVING TRAPS INTO BULLETS

S8 E17 Goodbye Stranger - verbatim here are my notes for this episode "Cas chooses Dean, but the way he handles Meg... Fuck Naomi"

S8 E18 Clip Show - If you only want to watch just one episode of Supernatural this should be it. It's not actually a clip show, theres a broment, bonding time with favorite characters and crazy plots that only supernatural could get away with.

S9 E5 Dog Dean Afternoon - Dean is finally a dog person

S9 E11 First Born - Another bro fight leads to shipping <3 SamxCas + DeanxCrowley <3

S9 E15 #thinman - the slender episode feat. GHOSTFACERS. You come away from this episode thinking "supernatural is so fucking gay why wont the boys kiss"

S9 E21 King of the Damned - my favorite crowley era change my mind. Also the way the Boys interrogate an angel is so funny

S10 E5 Fan Fiction - I would unironically fuck w a supernatural musical and if helluva/hazbin taught me anything the rest of you would too

S10 E6 Ask Jeeves - The Clue episode. (Pay attention to the improvised weapons Dean chooses. It brings me joy)

S10 E9 The Things we Left Behind - Cas is suffering a midlife crisis and his besties are there to help him repair his relationship with his daughter. Funnily enough, Crowley is also getting some family bonding in.

Okay, I'm all caught up on my list. Should I have stayed up late transcribing this with an 8am class tommarow?

Probably not but it did bring me great joy. Tell me your favorite episode! I'll continue to add to my list as I continue my rewatch :)

[floralcyanide]

⊱ 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑦 𝐺𝑜𝑙𝑑 ― 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑢𝑠 𝑆𝑛𝑜𝑤 ⊰

[ ᴀ ʜᴜɴɢᴇʀ ɢᴀᴍᴇs ᴀʟᴛᴇʀɴᴀᴛɪᴠᴇ ᴜɴɪᴠᴇʀsᴇ ғᴀɴғɪᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ]

1960s ᴜs ᴘʀᴇsɪᴅᴇɴᴛᴀʟ ᴄᴀɴᴅɪᴅᴀᴛᴇ!ᴄᴏʀɪᴏʟᴀɴᴜs sɴᴏᴡ x ғᴇᴍ!ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ

― ᴏғғɪᴄɪᴀʟ sᴏᴜɴᴅᴛʀᴀᴄᴋ !

∿ sᴇʀɪᴇs ᴛᴀɢʟɪsᴛ !

∿ sᴇʀɪᴇs ᴍᴀsᴛᴇʀʟɪsᴛ !

∿ ᴄʟɪᴄᴋ HERE ғᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ sᴘᴏᴛɪғʏ ᴘʟᴀʏʟɪsᴛ !

― 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘸 ⬎

Fool’s Paradise - XYLØ 

❝Turn off the TV, your suit and tie and hair all wrong. I had a bad dream, your face was on a dollar bill.❞

Million Dollar Man - Lana Del Rey

❝I don't know how you convince them and get them, babe. ; You're screwed up and brilliant, look like a million dollar man.❞

All Shook Up - Avila 

❝Please don't ask me what's on my mind, I'm a little mixed up but I'm feelin' fine.❞

Touch - Daughter

❝Love, hunt me down. I can't stand to be so dead behind the eyes.❞

Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Lorde

❝There's a room where the light won't find you, holding hands while the walls come tumbling down. When they do, I'll be right behind you.❞

American - Lana Del Rey

❝You make me crazy, you make me wild.❞

Us Against the World - Coldplay

❝The Devil as he's talking with those angel's eyes. ; Through chaos as it swirls. It's us against the world.❞

America - XYLØ

❝Real life is make-believe, all that glitters isn't gold to me. ❞

Something - Elvis Presley

❝Somewhere in her smile, she knows. All I gotta do is think about her.❞

Candy Girl - Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

❝I've been a-searchin' all this wide world, now finally I've found my candy girl.❞

National Anthem - Lana Del Rey

❝I'm your national anthem, God, you're so handsome. ; Red, white, blue is in the sky. Summer's in the air and baby, heaven's in your eyes.❞

Evergreen - BROODS

❝Since we found out that we're invincible, we've been living in a dream world. ; Only lost to be found, you're my hero now.❞

Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby - Cigarettes After Sex

❝Nothing's gonna hurt you baby, as long as you're with me you'll be just fine. ❞

December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night!) - Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

❝Oh, what a night! Late December, back in '63. What a very special time for me. As I remember, what a night.❞

Chemtrails Over the Country Club - Lana Del Rey

❝You're in the wind, I'm in the water. Nobody's son, nobody's daughter, watching the chemtrails over the country club.❞

Gold - Echos

❝I've got intentions of gold with my plans.❞

Young God - Halsey

❝He says, "Ooh, baby girl, you know we're gonna be legends. I'm the king and you're the queen and we will stumble through heaven. ; But do you feel like a young god? You know the two of us are just young gods.❞

Can’t Take My Eyes Off You - Frankie Valli

❝Oh, pretty baby, now that I found you, stay. And let me love you, baby, let me love you.❞

Neptune - Sleeping At Last

❝I'm only honest when it rains. If I time it right, the thunder breaks when I open my mouth.❞

Meltdown - Stromae, Lorde, Pusha T, Q-Tip, HAIM

❝Who to trust? Who to love? Who to run from? Who to hug? Respect only comes from the money or your blood.❞

you should see me in a crown - Billie Eilish

❝Bite my tongue, bide my time. Wearing a warning sign. Wait 'til the world is mine.❞

Dead End Love - XYLØ

❝I'm still lost in the maze of your mind, I'm never getting out again.❞

Before the Fever - Grimes

❝This is the sound of the end of the world. Dance me to the end of the night, be my girl. ; They will kill us, oh, have no doubt. There are many ways in, but there's only one way out.❞

Golden - Harry Styles

❝You're so golden. I'm out of my head, and I know that you're scared because hearts get broken.❞

My Eyes Adored You - John Lloyd Young

❝Headed for city lights, climbed the ladder up to fortune and fame. I worked my fingers to the bone, made myself a name.❞

hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have – but I have it - Lana Del Rey

❝There's a new revolution, a loud evolution that I saw. ; Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have, but I have it.❞

Eyes Open - Taylor Swift

❝Everybody's waiting for you to break down, everybody's watching to see the fallout. Even when you're sleeping, sleeping, keep your eyes open.❞

We Remain - Christina Aguilera

❝So, burn me with fire, drown me with rain. I’m gonna wake up screaming your name. ; Whatever happens here, we remain.❞

[oneatlatime]

The Earth King

As always, commentary off.

No. Sokka. No. Stop. This is your stupidest idea yet. I want to LEAVE Ba Sing Se.

Sokka. Listen to your sister. And your other sister.

Toph embodying my will manifested on screen.

What makes you think the Earth King is going to listen to four teens and their fluffy dog? When I put it that way, this is Scooby Doo. Scooby Doo plus Momo. Does that make Momo Scrappy Doo?

We're going back to Ba Sing Se. Great. Yay. I'm so excited.

It is rapidly becoming apparent that Sokka has lost his mind.

Surface to air rocks is funny. I'll give it to them, that's good.

This fight scene music is fantastic.

Aang took a level in badass at some point without my noticing.

I know these hats are inspired by real historical hats, and so I really shouldn't make fun, but these look like the lovechild of a toilet brush and a feather duster.

This fight is majority Toph and Katara. RIP the egos of these several hundred Earth Kingdom soldiers.

Please ensure your fluffy little butt is securely stored in the overhead bins before takeoff.

There's no way these guys are still alive. This is what was done to Jet, doubled. They dead.

The girl who doesn't even want to be here is doing all the work. Typical.

My congratulations to Toph, Katara, and Aang for demolishing an army without breaking a sweat. If only season 1 Katara could see you guys now.

I said in my previous write up that Zuko doing something good always comes back to bite him. I didn't mean it this literally. Did he have to take the jug out with him, or was that for the drama?

Good job guys!

Soka steals my job and points out the fulfillment of the Beat Up Sokka quota.

His earthiness has an interesting set of priorities.

So... is this episode just going to be talking?

He brainwashed your friend? Did you miss that he killed him too?

I said in my last write up that Long Feng was Avatar's first competent villain, but the tone he takes with the Earth King is so unsubtle that I'm thinking of rescinding that claim. Unless the King is so dumb that subtlety isn't required?

Toothprints. Sokka the idea guy coming in clutch. Too bad his brain wasn't engaged at the start of the episode.

Appa is a herbivore. Confirmed. Although he should have fangs for aesthetic reasons. Fanged Appa would be metal.

This king is a confusing mixture of endearing and infuriating.

No mere fever will prevent me from doing mundane actions in the most dramatic way possible!

Way back in the 90s there was a print ad for Chevy trucks that I remember seeing in magazines. It had a shirtless guy in jeans sitting on the bed of his truck in a field, pouring a bucket of water over himself. It was kind of at sunset and had a very late summer vibe. I had completely forgotten about it until I saw Zuko's bucket shenanigans in this scene, at which point I was abruptly -ABRUPTLY- reminded of how much time little me spent staring at that ad.

OH MY GOD. The King doesn't know about trains!!! BLASPHEMY.

Huh. So the King isn't stupid, he's just horrifically naive.

Positive attitude Sokka is kind of frightening. I do not like.

If I told this King that I had a bunch of puppies in my windowless van, he would totally fall for it. So much about the Earth Kingdom suddenly makes sense.

That one guard is having a doozy of a day.

Did the King just show a smidge of self-awareness? Wasn't expecting that.

Who is this? I have no idea who this is. I didn't realise how integral the scar was to the character's design. Give it back.

Yikes. A bunch of shmymbolism. I suck epically at decoding shmymbolism unless it's really spoon fed to me, so I'm not even going to try to understand this dream beyond 'poor guy has a really bad fever.'

Has anyone seen the Spencer Tracy movie Father of the Bride? There's a bit where he has a dream that the floor on the way to the altar does pretty much exactly this. Hungry floors must be a common dream experience.

Pretty.

If the King is really this completely ignorant of the war, who's been directing the army?

It's pretty neat that Sokka is the spokesperson of Team Avatar, and that no one disputes that.

Aang says "there's a comet coming this summer," but I heard "comic" and I know they made tie in comics for the show, so I was like "ooh a crossover episode!"

"You're already vulnerable. The Fire Nation won't stop until the Southern Water Tribe falls. You can either sit back and wait for that to happen, or take the offensive, and give yourself a fighting chance." -Sokka's dad speaking to the men of the Southern Water Tribe, while his son listens perhaps a bit too closely.

If the King really was completely in the dark about the war, how does he even know who the General is? Did Long Feng have the power to keep the General from mentioning the war?

"Your majesty I'm General How, head of the Council of Five." "What's that?" "It's in charge of your army." "Right. And what's the army up to these days?" ... " ...I planted a lovely tomato garden this year."

I love that earthbenders don't wear shoes, and that it's culturally normal. Makes an intriguing visual contrast to their fancy duds.

I have GOT to know what Mushi the teamaker's secret file says.

Toph can't read guys.

Sokka, Katara, I get it. You miss home too. But how would anyone at all from your tribe know to send a message for you to Ba Sing Se? Last time you all touched base, you were headed to the Northern Water Tribe. And those guys sent you off to Omashu, not Ba Sing Se.

Nitpick time! Katara starts reading the text of this letter out loud before she unrolls it.

Katara's voice acting while she's reading the letter is sweet. She's so excited.

Iroh. Priorities. Tea can wait.

"Huh? What's happening?" "You huffed a bit too much cave slime under Lake Laogai. Just ride it out."

This vase is lit like a main character.

"You're going through a metamorphosis my nephew." Iroh, he's a bit too old for that talk. Hang on I just realised that Zuko went through puberty on that ship. I bet that was rough.

I don't trust this. This news is all too good.

Aang referring to them all as "the family" hurts a little bit.

It is unbearably sweet to let Sokka go see their dad while Katara helps the Earth Kingdom plan, but Katara sucks at planning. Then again, the Earth Kingdom sucks in general, so maybe having a sucky planner will be a net improvement?

Either way it's good little sister content.

But there are six Kyoshi warriors. I counted in Appa's Lost Days.

Oh they didn't

Attack hug!

Airbender Zuko is a very effective jumpscare. Don't blame him for freaking out.

You know it's bad when finding the scar intact comes as a relief.

Nope. Don't trust it.

Fuck this guy.

Long Feng even eats rocks maliciously.

Fuck these guys.

Oh they did. Fuck these guys.

Final Thoughts

And just like that, it all went to shit. Or it will.

I was braced to be annoyed by how conveniently quickly the Earth King got with the program, but it actually fits well into the rest of the episode. Instead of a thing that goes improbably well, it's the one thing that goes right in episode filled with set up for everything falling apart. That bothers me less.

This episode was actually fun. At least until the end. It was mostly talking and Zuko on a bad trip. But it was win after win for everyone but my Ba Sing Se hating self, and it's always good to see your favourites having a good day. But! I have a glimmer of hope! So long as Sokka and Aang aren't completely written out until they return to Ba Sing Se, at some point I'll get some episodes outside of the city. And I have Appa back, so things aren't too bad in the grand scheme of things. I wonder that Appa wasn't upset at having all his people back for five minutes then having them split up again.

I do not like positive thinking Sokka, and I especially don't like that I have no idea where he came from. That point wasn't set up at all. I want my baby cynic back.

If letting Appa go was enough to trigger Zuko's morality crisis to the point of physical illness, why didn't letting Aang go in The Blue Spirit, or choosing to chase after Iroh rather than the Gaang in The Winter Solstice Part 1, cause a similar illness? What is different about this time?

Toph was once again the voice of reason in this episode, or rather my personal audience insert. Although it did surprise me how excited she was to see her mom. I thought that sending bounty hunters after their own daughter was kind of unforgivable, but either Toph doesn't know, or she's a more forgiving person than I am.

I realise now that this should have occurred to me when I watched Appa's Lost Days, but what idiot didn't take the Danger Ladies into custody when the Drill was stopped? btw I keep calling them the PowerPuff Girls in my head.

This episode was simultaneously a finale to a lot of threads and an introduction to a lot more. It was a chance to breathe between crossing the finish line of the 'find Appa' quest and starting the 'season finale' quest. It was also structured backwards. The big fight was like six minutes in. The 'what are we doing this episode?' was one of the last scenes. But it still works. I'll be interested to see what I think of this one when I rewatch it. It was such an info dump that I wonder if my opinion of it will be different once I watch it with all of the relevant facts known to me already. Either I'll appreciate the episode's other parts like the comedy, or I'll be bored. We'll see.

Two episodes left this season! I don't think I'll be getting to those before next year. See you all in 2024! (time needs to slow way down)

[exactlyhow]

but I DO MY MAKEUP IN SOMEBODY ELSE'S CAR and we order DIFFERENT drinks at the SAME BAR and I hear SOUNDS in my MIND, BRAND NEW SOUNDS in my mind and honey I'll be seeing you down 'EVER I go, yes honey I'll be seeing you down EVERY road and I'll come get my things but I CAN'T LET GO and I'm acting like I don't see every ribbon that used to tie yourself to me and WILL YOU SWAY WITH ME? go astray with me? and I'm gonna dream with a FEVER and jack and jill get FUCKED UP AND POSSESSIVE when it gets DARK and in the morning, you'll be DANCING with all the HEARTACHE and the TREASON, THE FANTASIES OF LEAVING, in the morning, you'll be dancing WITH US and i think that you might be the same as me, behave abnormally? and we'll end up PAINTED on the road, RED and CHROME and i am your SWEETHEART, PSYCHOPATHIC crush and CAN YOU HEAR THE VIOLENCE? megaphone to my chest, broadcast the BOOM BOOM BOOM and make em all dance to it and BLOW ALL MY FRIENDSHIPS TO SIT IN HELL WITH YOU and BABY REALLY HURT ME and CRYING in a TAXI and GO BACK into the arms of the girl I LOVE and all that a STRANGER would see is one girl swaying ALONE, stroking her cheek and you're a LITTLE much for me and EVERY PERFECT SUMMER'S EATING ME ALIVE and you're all gonna WATCH ME DISAPPEAR into the SUN and PLEASE could be tender? and i will sit close to you, let's give it a MINUTE before we admit that we're THROUGH and it's LATE and this song is for YOU and now we sit in your car and OUR LIVE IS A GHOST, well I guess I should go, yeah I guess I SHOULD go and i care for myself the way I used to care about you and why even TRY to get it right and IT'S TIME TO LET GO OF THIS ENDLESS SUMMER AFTERNOON and three years loved you EVERY single week, IT WAS REAL FOR ME, yup, real for me and now I'll fake it EVERY SINGLE DAY 'till I don't need FANTASY 'till I FEEL YOU LEAVE and BUT I STILL REMEMBER EVERYTHING!! HOW we'd DRIFT buying GROCERIES, how you'd dance for me and I'm gonna let go of LITTLE things 'till I'm far away from you SO FAR AWAY FROM YOU and gonna wanna TAPE MY MOUTH SHUT and LOOK OUT, lovers and lights are on and they've all gone home BUT WHO AM I? and we TOLD you this was MELODRAMA and the TERROR and the HORROR, GOD, I WONDER WHY WE BOTHER and all the GUNFIGHTS and the LIMELIGHTS and the HOLY SICK DIVINE nights and SORRY I WAS NEVER GOOD LIKE YOU and DID MY BEST to exist JUST FOR YOU and I am my MOTHER'S child, I'll LOVE you 'till my breathing stops, I'll LOVE you 'till you call the COPS on me and BET YOU RUE THE DAY YOU KISSED A WRITER IN THE DARK and in my DARKEST hours I stumbled on a SECRET power, I'll FIND a way to be without you, babe, and i ride the subway, read the signs, I LET THE SEASONS CHANGE MY MIND, I LOVE IT HERE SINCE I STOPPED NEEDING YOU and IN MY HEAD I DO EVERYTHING RIGHT!!! and COME HOME TO MY HEART!!!! and in your car the radio UP and maybe we just do it VIOLENTLY and every night I LIVE AND DIE and I HATE the headlines and the weather and SPILL MY GUTS underneath the OUTDOOR LIGHT and I'M 19 AND I'M ON FIRE and ALL of our heroes FADING and ALL the nights spent OFF our faces TRYING TO FIND THESE PERFECT PLACES and WHAT THE FUCK are perfect places ANYWAY and

[undiscovered-horizon]

"Unwanted Guests" - Morpheus x Reader

[Spoilers for "Season of Mists"]

{'Unwanted Guests: Crescendo' -> Where the night takes a different turn and Azazel reveals mortifying leverage}

[MASTERLIST] | [Sandman-inspired playlist]

SUMMARY: Having received the key to Hell from Lucifer, Morpheus is visited by various emissaries from strange, faraway lands. More than the unwanted guests, Dream of the Endless is angered by their interest in his wife.

WORDCOUNT: ~ 3.1k

Looking out of one of the tall windows in the palace, you noticed that the ground was strangely far away. Shaking your head, you knew exactly what had gotten Morpheus in such a sour mood but, honestly, you never expected this bizarre course of events to affect him that much. Most of the time, when he said he wanted to be alone, it didn’t include you - the queen of Dreaming was always welcome by the king’s side. It was those rare occasions when he made a show of his desire for isolation that even your presence was hardly wanted. In no way was that insulting to you as it seemed quite natural to you to require true solitude once in a while. Despite that, there was another pressing matter that prompted you to disturb Morpheus’s much-needed peace - guests.

If you were only passing by and did not focus on finding him, it would have been easy to overlook Morpheus in one of the unbearably empty halls with granite arches and questionable sculptures. Dressed in a t-shirt, barefoot and sitting cross-legged on the floor, he appeared like a troubled teenager rather than an eldritch king of dreams and nightmares.

“Morpheus, someone’s at the entrance,” you called out to him in a meek voice, worried that the disturbance would spoil his mood further. “Quite a lot of someones, might I add.”

“Yes, Gripphon has already told me," Dream answered in a slightly irked tone.

“What’s going on?”

"We're having guests, beloved," he informed in a displeased tone. Morpheus let out a raspy, tired sigh and got up from the floor. "Uninvited guests, although I should have expected them to come."

You’ve never seen so many people in one place, especially at the palace. Gods, demons, angels, elves, wizards… It would have been hilarious if it wasn’t ridiculous in its reality. How strange was that thought - Odin the Allfather was as real as one can be and, at the moment, he was a guest in your kingdom. It sounded like a badly written fantasy novel. Whether it was the appearance of a fever dream or your unbearable curiosity, you ventured among the various emissaries, hoping to hear the most unbelievable stories while fulfilling your duty of a hospitable host. Morpheus had told you countless times that you didn’t have to ‘mingle’ with his guests because they all came just to speak with him but the opportunity felt a little too exciting to pass up on it.

Although you knew it was awfully impolite, you simply couldn’t help yourself: demons just had something about them that made it impossible to look away for a longer period of time. Perhaps that affliction was not universal in any way and it was just your humanity wiping its sweaty palms. Staring at the black rift filled with jaws of fangs and teeth, you felt yourself gulp. Little did you know, the demons were also interested in you:

��Azazel, we could just take her as we did with the other mortal,” the two-mouthed devil suggested.

“She’s not mortal anymore, you hellish clodpoll. And she’s alive.”

“So what? It wouldn’t be much of a problem. Mother of Spiders could spin her into a nice cocoon.”

Something about that idea made him immediately change his mind. “Yes, it would do for a nice alternative,” Azazel’s voice drifted away as he began entertaining those horrendous thoughts. There was something else, after all, he could try…

Sudden noise of chattering teeth made you look over your shoulder. A gasp escaped your chest as you stared into the void of eyes and fangs. Being around demons was one thing but one of them specifically seeking you out? The black rift beamed with terror as he towered over you. If he so wished, the devil could swallow you whole before anyone noticed.

“I come with an offer,” Azazel announced. Judging by the wide, mischievous grin of his many sets of teeth, you weren’t going to like it. “If you convince Dream to give the key to us, rightful owners of Hell, I’ll consider a commutation for when I finally get my hands on you.”

You weren’t quite sure what to make of his words - did he know you were going to end up in Hell or was this only a bluff? Believing a demon, in any way, shape or form, sounded ludicrous and downright demented. Nevertheless, Azazel used to be the Prince of Hell, reigning alongside Lucifer. Perhaps he had access to some arcane knowledge no other devil was privy to. 

“I hold no power over my husband, Azazel,” you spoke calmly. Can demons sense fear? “Any haggling and bargaining you should direct at him.”

To not invite the demon to attempt changing your mind, you turned around and walked away without waiting for his response. Although you couldn’t see his face, if any part of Azazel could be considered that, you felt his gaze burning into your back. Your role in his lark wasn’t finished and no matter how much you told yourself to calm down, some part of you knew that you had to be careful as long as the key to Hell is in Morpheus’s hands. Then, a sudden realization made your skin crawl: you, too, were a bargaining chip in some eyes. A queen like cattle, as if!

Continuing to ponder Azazel’s words, feeling both anger and fear,  you were hardly paying attention to where you were going. Rid of the grace expected of you, your shoulder bumped into someone.

“I am so terribly sorry,” you spoke before you could even get a good look at the unfortunate receiver of your mindless stroll.

The Japanese god, Susano-o-no-Mikoto, gave you a polite smile. He did not seem to mind your mistake. Considering his neatly done coiffure of black hair and beautiful, silky robes, he appeared the most trustworthy out of the guests. Despite his impeccable appearance, he arrived for the exact same reason as all the other deities and creatures - in some way, he was no different from them.

“Please, do not worry,” he answered with a smile and a dismissing wave of a hand. “Her majesty, if this emissary could trouble you for a minute?”

“Of course, you can. Is something the matter?”

“I know many great envoys have arrived to claim the key to Hell but I believe it would be best if such important artifact was given to me. My mother, Izanami, the Queen of the Underworld, has turned Yomi into a quite efficient structure. If I could ask your majesty to put in a favourable word for my case.”

“You have my best wishes, Susano-o-no-Mikoto. However, I’m afraid I should not mediate in my husband’s affairs if he does not explicitly ask me to. Enjoy the night.”

“I apologize for troubling your majesty. Thank you.”

Bowing politely to the god of storms, you walked farther through the hall. In the apparent temporary absence of Dream, your eyes wandered around the spacious room to check if everything was in order. Never letting your gaze stay in one place as though you were specifically looking for a shortcoming to fix, you saw a scrap of dark, flowy material somewhere in the distance. In one of the corridors leading to the great hall, you noticed Morpheus quietly talking with two unknown guests. Judging by their long ears and ethereal, entirely enraging, beauty, they had to be elves. But why were they hiding in corners of the palace? Sneaking away to speak with Dream, who regarded the Magic Folk with nothing but fondness? But before you could get a better look at the strange situation, Bast placed her hand on your arm, firmly yet gently leading you away from the crowd in hopes of having a goddess-on-goddess conversation. Undoubtedly, it was only an excuse to speak of Hell, yet again. How interesting and popular one could get the moment they held something of importance, an object of desire.

Some guests, as Morpheus had just learned, arrived late to the unscheduled party. It had been quite a while since elves paid him a visit and seeing the tense movements of the two envoys, they weren’t expecting to stay long. Considering the fondness he felt towards them, it was upsetting that they decided on a social call when the kingdom of Hell was about to be auctioned off.

"By virtue of an old treaty, we must pay Hell tithe every ten years and sacrifice nine of our best every seven. King Oberon asks you to let Hell remain empty and save our people." Cluracan pulled the woman's arm towards Morpheus. Although she tried to keep a smile on her face, it was easy to tell she was disturbed by the part she had been forced to play. Her gaze lingered on Dream for no longer than a few seconds before it fell to her feet. "This is my sister, Nuala. Queen Titania would like you to have her as a gift, a token of goodwill. Do with her as you please, Ruler of Dreams."

Yes, Nuala was beautiful, unimaginably so: with her long, curly, golden hair and an elegant, long neck decorated with perfectly round pearls. The string of the necklace was long, forcing the onlookers' gaze a little lower than etiquette suggested, right to the frilly hem of her pink, sheer dress that exposed her breasts rather indecently.

But thoughts of the elven belle were barely a passing inconvenience in Dream's mind like a fly buzzing annoyingly loudly. Somewhere in the distance, he recognized your bright laughter and began carelessly wondering what colour of pearls you'd like the most. Although, their shade was completely meaningless - even the least appealing of colours would become exquisite the moment it lays against your collarbones.

"Thank you, Cluracan. I will consider the king's request. For now, enjoy my hospitality."

Leaving the elves’ side, Morpheus’s gaze was naturally directed at you. There you stood, across the enormous hall he had conjured only for this unprecedented gathering. Dressed in the finest jewellery made from starlight and a long gown weaved from the night sky of an abandoned world, there was nothing mundane about you. A quiet sigh left his lips. Although somehow bothered by the attention his guests were forcing on you, Dream couldn’t exactly blame them - he had fallen victim to your charm himself; a sated man is at no liberty to condemn the famished.

But then, something about you changed. It was a small thing, really. You began mindlessly rubbing your hands, while the usually present wrinkles of happiness around your eyes had disappeared for a moment. The possible reason for your apparent discomfort was merely a few feet away, impossible to miss because of his unordinary demeanour:

“Beautiful Lady of Dreams!” Thor exclaimed. Considering the amount of alcohol he had ingested, it was thoroughly impressive that he was still capable of speaking coherently but a man his size could probably drink more than an entire platoon. “Will you adorn my night with your charms?”

You felt your skin crawl. Remaining as calm as possible, you managed to give him a short, polite answer. Tonight felt terribly long. “I have no control over dreams, Thor, God of Storms.”

It wasn’t exactly true - you did have some power over Dreaming, just not directly. The palace never dared twist your paths unless Morpheus wanted it to and even then he did so only because he yearned to see you. As long as you wished for a clear sky, not a cloud went by; the sun rose when you did and it set with you. Often Morpheus himself would scour dreams in search of something rare to gift you like one of the extinct Hawaiian Moho birds, existing only in the dream of an old, feverish soldier. In other words, you had no control over dreams but held power over their king instead.

“She’s married, you dimwit,” Loki bemurmued to the stocky man when you were far enough. Although travelling with Thor and Odin was better than having the snake’s venom drip on his face, the trip could hardly be considered enjoyable.

“It’s no bother to me.”

Loki groaned in frustration.

Playing the role of good hosts, Morpheus and you had a chance to talk only when Cain and Abel were entertaining the crowd with their nearly-magical tricks. For a moment, you wondered whether the younger of brothers had been told what tortures he was going to fall victim to but maybe it was better not to think about it any longer. When the morning comes, Abel will be alive and whole again - that was the most important part. Cain-Houdini appeared a little too excited about sawing his brother in half.

Standing in a corner across the hall from the emissaries-turned-audience, Morpheus looked oddly paler than usual. Although standing straight as proud monarchs do, his shoulders appeared somehow slouched as though his confident posture was a conscious effort and not innate. In a natural, mindless manner, his hand reached for yours. Dream placed a soft kiss on your palm before speaking up. 

“Are you okay?” you asked in a soft tone, although it was quite obvious to you he wasn’t anywhere close to ‘alright’.

“I could ask you the same,” he answered.

You let out a tired sigh. Glancing over your shoulder, you saw Thor leaning towards Bast, who appeared no more impressed than you had. The ginger man was on his way to find out just what it meant to bother the cat goddess. Somewhere to the right, Azazel and his companions kept snickering and giving the other guests dirty looks. Cluracan and Nuala awkwardly chewed on flowers, clearly unnerved at the gathering of various entities as well as Dream’s refusal to make such an important decision in a matter of minutes. Only Anubis and Susano-o-no-Mikoto appeared generally unbothered or disinterested in the other attendants of the party. Somehow, none of the guests appeared concerned about Abel’s well-being while Cain, quite literally, cut and diced him while saying something about sausages.

Returning your attention to Morpheus, you were met with his intense, questioning gaze. Sometimes you wondered whether he was at all capable of simply looking at something, without a plethora of strange thoughts sprouting behind his eyes. "I think I got a millennium’s worth of threats, pleading and wax poetic.” 

“If any of my guests had offended you in your own home, I should-”

“Don’t.” You shook your head in a defeated manner. To stop him from his well-meaning impulses, your hand clung to the material of his robe. “This time tomorrow, none of this will matter.” 

“But you will,” he stated in a stern voice. Somehow, Morpheus was more concerned with the emissaries’ boldness than you were. “It would be a great indignity to allow such disrespect.”

“I am not offended, my love. In fact, I found those odd conversations quite enlightening. They are all so desperate to have that key but, if I’m at liberty to have an opinion on this issue, desperation never makes for a good ruler.”

“You are the queen of Dreaming, beloved.” Morpheus’s hand cradled the side of your face. “Your opinion matters more than their desperation.”

A flustered giggle left your mouth. “Just say you have a soft spot for me.”

Indecently so, Morpheus leaned in. His breath brushed against your cheeks, making your heart flutter in excitement. “Maybe if I were fond of euphemisms,” he said in a low, raspy voice while his eyes seemed to be unable to look away from your lips.

You were about to say something back to him but Cain, wearing sausage links around his neck for some reason, announced the end of the show. Abel was nowhere to be seen. Guests began getting up from their seats. Now, when the official part of the gathering was over for the night, came the unofficial, real, talk of bargains. Once more, it was time for Morpheus to go.

His lips grazed the back of your hand again. “Go. I’ll see you in bed.” It was hard to say whether he had known that you weren’t going to fall asleep while he was away from you. Maybe part of him enjoyed the thought of someone staying up to wait for him.

Sometimes you suspected that part of Dream’s regal appearance was stored in that robe riddled with holes because the moment he was out of it, he no longer looked all mighty and mysteriously dark, only skinny and grumpy. That night, the aura of utter fatigue was especially present and, as far as you could tell, it was only going to get worse.

Morpheus’s t-shirt felt pleasantly comfortable against your tired face. Your arms were tightly wrapped around his torso and your chin comfortably rested against his back. If asked, he’d never admit how much he liked being held like that, so you never said anything about it - a sweet, open secret between the two of you. His back was hunched as he sat on your bed.

“What should I do?” he asked quietly. “Each of them can give me something I want or need.”

You tightened your embrace around him. “I wish I could help you carry this onus, ease your strain even slightly. Alas, this burden is only yours to carry.”

“I’ve grown used to that,” Dream murmured as you gently pecked the back of his neck. Consciously or not, he leaned slightly backwards, closer to your body. “You should get some rest.”

“How can I sleep when you’re deciding the fate of the world?” you said against his shoulder blades. True, it was difficult to keep your eyes open but the worry for Morpheus rendered you restless. “Quite literally at that.”

“I do not wish to be the reason for your exhaustion, beloved.”

“That has never stopped you before.”

In the dead silence of the night, you could swear you heard him quietly chuckle at the allusion.

[senka-mesecine]

Ok so this may sound strange but I was inspired by the red-eyes fanart you made AND Halloween is close, so how you feel about an au where Barnes is some sort of spirit haunting you after moving to the Tennessee hills? I love your blog‼️

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Can envision the reader, present day, as a sort of hiker or someone just looking for a bit of peace and quiet out in nature for the season; so happens old homesteads out in the hills out in the country are aplenty and they're genuinely a cheap penny to rent. The precocious, slightly suspicious old man managing this particular cabin's all chatty and anecdotes, though, as he warns you that some odd fifty years ago a scarred mountain man he vaguely knew himself lived up there for a while before he went off to the 'Nam and the stories that came back about him weren't at all pretty along with the news of what conditions his wounds and face ended up being in. He mentions a name too to go along with the whole shebang but somewhere along the way it simply slips your mind. -"They say he looked like he was mauled by a bear and had them cold, dead eyes that could scare the soul right out of'ya."- You're told.

You don't think much about it.

Folk stories and tall tales are as frequent as can be down South (and almost function as a marketing ploy to draw people like you in) and you just take the stories with a kindly but pleasantly detached disposition, focusing the sights passing you by from the passenger seat's window instead, letting the man offering to drive you up there lest you get lost in the wild and 'end up being on his conscience' to spin whatever narratives he wishes if it makes him happy. You begrudge nobody, you're merely here for the nature. The peace. The fresh air. Regardless of the fact the old man tried to talk you out of spending two weeks up in the mountains all on your own. You forget about all the warnings for a while. Day one passes. Day two.

Day five.

But, as you sleep next to a squeaky, old wooden framed window looking out towards the moonlit, forested cliffside, you swear to god that out of the corner of your eye in the dead of night when it's quietest and when you're stuck between the thin line that separates being awake and being asleep you spot the silhouette of a man standing up there with what seemed like a rifle clenched behind his back, the place where his eyes rightfully should be two dim embers. Red dots. Primal fear goes through you so intensely you can hardly move. You jolt awake with cold sweat dripping off your back moistening the sheets under you like you've just been through a fever. You cannot seem to logically convince yourself it was simply a bad dream if it felt as real as it did. He had them cold, dead eyes that could scare the soul right of'ya, the old man's warning words come to mind and for once you believe them.

One thing you had to disagree with, though.

The eyes you witnessed weren't cold or dead.

They were hell's fire.

[meteor752]

Spent a whole week binging rwby because why not

Here are mah thoughts

Very interesting decision of the show to open on literally the best character, like I’ve heard of peaking early but come on

No but fr Roman is actually so special to me

I just finished volume nine and I broke down crying at his and Neo’s final moments

Thing is, I’m a person with daddy issues and my favorite family member is my uncle so like of course Qrow is second favorite guy

We love us a bisexual subby whore

Ozpin is number three so like guess what my favorite ship is

(Side note, My Own Worst Enemy by Elektric Angel is one of the best fics I have ever read and I cannot recommend it enough)

Why the fuck did this show start out with having one of the four main characters be racist?! What a bold choice

I hate Jaune so fucking much. If you like him, cool, but he’s one my most hated fictional characters ever, not just him but like what he represents

Tho it is worse with Neptune, who’s also like why tf are you here bruv

It’s very funny to have a borderline kinda racist character and a literal meme from 2014 be drafted into war

It took me five days to break and create ocs. They’re called Lemon Lime, Azure, Iris, and Koral. Team LAIK. Maybe I’ll talk about them more at some other point

Listen okay I know that animated shows like to have your hero be depressed in a whole arc, but like god Ruby was kinda grating in season 9.

Blake is kinda rolling with like, one personality trait, but ya know good on her for getting a cool gf

Yang is also the best out of the main four girls

So is Tai, Summer, and Raven’s relationship supposed to be a polycule? That must have been awkward for poor Qrow back in school

Why the fuck is everyone so mad at Ozpin all the time. Like boohoo, daddy didn’t tell you Santa isn’t real, get fucking over yourself Qrow you’re forty three

But fr what is the animosity about. I think Jelloapocalypse summarized it the best in his rwby video

Also did you know the top comment on there is from Technoblade? Check it out, it’s true. No idea he was a rwby fan, but like good for him

Season 6 episode “Alone in the woods” is the best episode by far. I really like when they do more unique stuff with the Grimm, other than just ‘monster’

That being said I’m always a sucker for a space whale

But the line from that episode, “No one was angry or sad or scared. No one was anything. And then, no one was left” is so powerful

Season nine is like fully a fever dream, but it helps with connecting to the main four again, so I like it

Also they need to stop introducing characters we don’t need any more it’s so cluttered

Why the fuck did the tree have Summer’s weapon? What the fuck was she doing there, frolicking in wonderland? Gurl…

I miss Oobleck. He hasn’t been around since like season 4, like what the hell man

What the fuck is Cinder and Emerald’s relationship supposed to be? Are they sisters? Friends? Is Emerald in love with her? Because she seems to be.

Emerald and Mercury are fully siblings tho. Also I love Mercury

Arthur’s monologue to Cinder was one of the best scenes in the show. I loved it, I’m sad he died

The character I relate the most to is little scorpion freak, because honestly dude saaaaaaame

God I want Salem to fuck me

The motivation of the villain being that they’re an immortal being, who wants the world to end because then they can die, is so fucking interesting and I’m surprised I don’t see more of it.

Do you guys think the only reason that Jaune was made leader of team JNPR was because they couldn’t think of a colour with those letters that started with P?

Do you think that’s how they choose all leaders?

How the fuck is Ren supposed to be a version of Mulan? Apart from him being Asian, there’s no correlation. Jesus Christ…

Him and Nora are very t4t tho. Very glad that they established boundaries about their relationship tho, like open communication is all I need

Why is Ambrosius kinda 💅

This isn’t related to rwby but there’s like a bird or smt screaming outside my window and it kinda sounds like a ghost girl and now I’m scared…

I feel like Salem and Ozpin’s relationship is very uncomfortable with Oscar stuck in the middle. Like why did they have to make him fourteen

Pupsicle!!!!

If I had a child in this universe I would absolutely name them something that starts with a vowel. Some of these team names are a fucking stretch, I mean SSSN?!

Another bold move by the creators is having the first few seasons villains be minorities fighting for Justice and equality. Like idk anything about these dudes, but it’s a little yikes

The fact that everyone in this world is an X-men and the show took four seasons to actually explain that is hilarious

Actually the show taking its time to explain anything is hilarious

Like, six seasons in and we find out the villain’s motivations. Hell four seasons in and we find out the villain

The first opening song was easily the best. Like I said, peaked early

The ship names of this fandom are fucking baller dude. Very creative

[sparrow-the-tired-lesbian]

Wine and Wheat as it pertains to Mobius

So, we love Mobius. I was listening to Wine and Wheat by Madds Buckley. It hit me pretty hard.

These lyrics fit Mobius so well! I’m going to be doing a little analysis (keeping it fun tho!)

LOKIUS CONTENT AHEAD

All I know is marble and stone, eyes that don't leave, watching over me

Those statues of the Time-Keepers and statues of Kang act the same way for the TVA agents as paintings or statues of Jesus and Mary do for religious people: they act as a reminder. “They’re watching you. They know everything.” Coming from a Christian, this can take a toll on you mentally. Your thoughts and actions are being judged by someone you cannot see.

All I know: I'm wholly alone, with filth-ridden fever dreams. 

Having these reminders of being watched keeps a person on their toes, knowing that their thoughts are monitored by whatever deity they have. Mobius likely has thoughts that he is ashamed of, like we all do. Especially about Loki. Loving a Variant seems like the biggest sin to him.

Oh, she sings prayers without words, yet she worships me

I imagine this referring to Loki. Halfway through season 1, Loki seems incredibly warm with Mobius, almost seeing him on a pedestal. Especially with the hug in episode 5!

All I know is paper-thin scripture holding the weight of my soul

These stories about the Time-Keepers held the weight of Mobius’s whole world. When they ended up being fake and untrue, it shattered his reality.

The pages are worn, and the lesson is torn, and my heart is his to burn or keep

The TVA seems like the kind to threaten that if their agents do something they don’t like, they’ll prune them. 

Dona nobis pacem, Miserere nobis, God have mercy on them. God have mercy on me

“For All Time, Always” seems like the TVA’s “Dona Nobis Pachem” to me. 

Hold my tongue in your teeth, oh sinner. Penitence on my knees, oh deliver me

In a Lokius context, this feels like Mobius asking Loki to keep his mind off the pain of knowing that the Time-Keepers aren’t real. A plea to keep him in a better place than the place his mind remains in.

What am I to believe when the Wine and the Wheat stain me this sinner's red, I bleed

Upon realizing that what he’s been doing to Variants, Mobius must feel guilty as hell about it, knowing that he’s “stained himself red” by doing these things to these people.

Give me strength in the sea, oh sinner. Be the light that I see when the light has left me. When you hold me I feel holy, when you kiss me I bleed

Loving Loki must feel like a sin for someone like Mobius. Loving him has to feel like he’s doing something wrong, even after he realizes that the Time-Keepers aren’t real.

Please add more if you want!

[fantasy-mixtapes]

Fantasy High: Junior year, Episode 1: Sunday Scaries Live Reaction

The energy in the dome is so chaotic right off of the bat this is what I live for

Lou’s dad got a job in cleiveland

LMAO NIGHT YORB CANON LOVE

My crops!

OOOOO RED WASTES!!!

Love getting into this in media res

Also LOVE THE NIGHT YORB ART AND MINI

THE LAZER THING FROM THE MUSIC VIDEO IS THE SOLAR LASSO THATS SO GOOD

This is such a wonderful way to reintroduce the party

Gorgug has his crystal in his mini <3

SQUEEEM?????

Hate the squeem noise

INVISIBLE DOG MOGGIE THE DOGGIE

GORGUGS HUMUNCULUS

BABY’S MINI IM GONNA DIE

Look at his little tail <3 <3

SEATED MINIS OH MY GOD

This is so fucking crazy to see them just unloading all of their new stuff

WHO ARE ALL OF THESE PEOPLE

WHY THE FUCK IS FABIAN FUCKING A MIRROR

Did they do a mini campaign to get ready for this???

Gym butch kristen <3

Bloked to hell and back

Sun gun <3

THE PHOTOSYNTHA-KIDS

Sleven

Shout out to my yorbies

Spell caster rizz!

Riz driving the Hangvan vs the stotes driving Truck

Maybe the mirror is named Ecaf because it’s face backwards?

Shout out to the Nat one coming back right after they say they’re better since jumping on tables

Damn this sucks but it’s so funny

Kindly slide your mini UNDER the hangvan

Love ecaf love ecaf “this fucking kid”

What the fuck is up with fabian being friends with possessed objects

Gorg-geous

YORBIES! LET’S DO IT!

Emily and murph Silvery barbs couple <3

Not fig vaping in the Yorbs shit

Sound design is truly amazing

New season new Murph!

Dice bartering while Emily does math

SQUEEM NO

CINNAMON CHALLENGE BEHAVIOR

someone please draw Gorgug as a fisherman

God not the Yerba mate powder

Adaine down!

The dry guys

WHAT

WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE

not the vulture again

NO BALTHAZAR

This whole fight feels like a fever dream

Jesus this mirror is playing him

NO BALTHAZAR

God the school email feels so real

Yassqueen?

Oh what the fuck that gulping noise sucks

Damn this circle of power is crazy

Return of the little beans - fuck those little beans

Dude what the fuck fig

GALEIR’S LEMON YOGURT WHAT THE FUC

lmao fig just has nyack from trinivale’s Jam parasite but it’s galeir’s yogurt

[delta-queerdrant]

Cut the crap, Hamlet! My biological clock is ticking, and I want babies NOW! (Elogium, s2e4)

I get the sense that "Elogium" is an episode that viewers find embarrassing. Maybe I am just projecting my adolescent feelings onto the internet consensus. It is certainly somewhat hamfisted, but it also belongs to a genre that we might call "reproductive health body horror" and, like... I'm kind of into it?

The premise of the episode is, of course, that space alien radiation causes Kes to enter estrus. (Unaccountably the Ocampan word for this is "elogium," which is a real Latin word for something else. Okay guys!)

Let's get the "bad science fiction watch" out of the way: Ocampan reproduction makes no sense from a population biology point of view. If an Ocampan couple can only reproduce once, they need to have a multiple pregnancy to maintain population levels, not the single child Neelix seems to be contemplating. (Also, having kiddos at age five means that grandparents would often not be around to participate in elogium rituals, as the Ocampan lifespan is 9.)

Additionally, it's hard to know what to make of the revelation that Kes hasn't reached "puberty" yet. The show seems to be decoupling intellectual/emotional maturity from reproductive capacity, but we are left with some very awkward questions about Kes's relationship with Neelix. Like, sex aside, what does romance mean for a young Ocampa? This show doesn't dare ask the question, such is its fragile allo/amatonormativity.

Still, I thought Jennifer Lien's performance was strong - emotional and a little weird while still respecting her character's personhood. In an important scene (one that frames her relationship with the Doctor as a parent/child one, thank god), she questions whether she wants a kid and makes a self-affirming decision that I loved to see, though I wish it had been dramatized more fully.

And, like, occasionally, having a uterus does make you feel like you're in a dirt-eating fever dream. I don't know if the alien physiology metaphor will work for everyone but I sorta dug it.

Neelix is, of course, trash in this episode, with the return of his jealousy subplot, his dreadful gender essentialism, and the extremely cliched portrayal of him as a reluctant father. His "should I be a dad" dilemma is fundamentally relatable, but instead of showing a real dialogue between a couple that's been avoiding the question, he and Kes start the episode with gender normative beliefs (she wants a baby, he wants adventure) and switch positions after some extremely light self-reflection. They're never on the same page, and they don't make the decision together.

On a happier note, this one's shippy! The episode starts with Janeway and Chakotay having one of their ridiculous whisper-conversations on the bridge. People are (shock!) hooking up and they need to decide what to do about it. This is very weird and silly because both Starfleet and the Maquis seem cool with fraternization, and they're 70,000 light years from home. Surely there is not even a conversation to be had, other than a need for some policies and mental health supports around breakups? But we do get Chakotay asking his extremely impertinent question about Janeway's personal dating plans, and the introduction of the Janeway chastity vow.

It makes sense for Janeway not to date crewmembers, especially in light of her commitment to Mark (this episode was originally slated for season one). But what about Chakotay? He is also everyone's boss?? I think that even in the 23rd century people should still not date their bosses, but this show does not seem to know this and it bums me out, particularly because of the gendered double-standard here.

(Mollie watch: Janeway is looking at a Mark/Mollie photo in the final scene. The show wants us to believe she's pining for her man, but honestly I think the baby talk is just making her miss her doggo. In my head canon Janeway is the type of person who responds to all child-rearing anecdotes with stories about her dog.)

Ensign Wildman, and her pregnancy, are also introduced, and we get another J & C scene where Janeway affirms the crew's right to have kids (hashtag reproductive justice) and contemplates the possibility of becoming a generation ship (whoa, slow down, lady! Like, of all the ethical questions about having kids while space marooned, assuming they'll continue your mission for you is quite a leap!)

Tuvok's line "It appears we have lost our sex appeal, Captain," sums this one up: despite all the innuendo, this is a very unsexy episode, and I think that's by design. Family planning is often unsexy! I just wish it had gotten a little closer to contemplating the real issues that emerge from our dual natures as people with bodies and people with agency over those bodies, and the push and pull of figuring out what that means for us, individually and in relationship.

3/5 bowls of mashed potatoes with butter (a Terran delicacy!)

[gift-to-literature]

1. Pilot : 1x1

2. Wendigo : 1x2

3. Dead in the Water : 1x3

4. Phantom Traveler : 1x4

5. Bloody Mary : 1x5

6. Skin : 1x6

7. Hook Man : 1x7

8. Bugs : 1x8

9. Home : 1x9

10. Asylum : 1x10

11. Scarecrow : 1x11

12. Faith : 1x12

13. Route 666 : 1x13

14. Nightmare : 1x14

15. The Benders : 1x15

16. Shadow : 1x16

17. Hell House : 1x17

18. Something Wicked : 1x18

19. Provenance : 1x19

20. Dead Man's Blood : 1x20

21. Salvation : 1x21

22. Devil's Trap : 1x22

23. In My Time of Dying : 2x1

24. Everybody Loves a Clown : 2x2

25. Bloodlust : 2x3

26. Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things : 2x4

27. Simon Said : 2x5

28. No Exit : 2x6

29. The Usual Suspects : 2x7

30. Crossroad Blues : 2x8

31. Croatoan : 2x9

32. Hunted : 2x10

33. Playthings : 2x11

34. Nightshifter : 2x12

35. Houses of the Holy : 2x13

36. Born Under a Bad Sign : 2x14

37. Tall Tales : 2x15

38. Roadkill : 2x16

39. Heart : 2x17

40. Hollywood Babylon : 2x18

41. Folsom Prison Blues : 2x19

42. What Is and What Should Never Be : 2x20

43. All Hell Breaks Loose: Part 1 : 2x21

44. All Hell Breaks Loose: Part 2 : 2x22

45. The Magnificent Seven : 3x1

46. The Kids Are Alright : 3x2

47. Bad Day at Black Rock : 3x3

48. Sin City : 3x4

49. Bedtime Stories : 3x5

50. Red Sky at Morning : 3x6

51. Fresh Blood : 3x7

52. A Very Supernatural Christmas : 3x8

53. Malleus Maleficarum : 3x9

54. Dream a Little Dream of Me : 3x10

55. Mystery Spot : 3x11

56. Jus in Bello : 3x12

57. Ghostfacers! : 3x13

58. Long Distance Call : 3x14

59. Time Is on My Side : 3x15

60. No Rest for the Wicked : 3x16

61. Lazarus Rising : 4x1

62. Are You There, God? It's Me Dean Winchester : 4x2

63. In the Beginning : 4x3

64. Metamorphosis : 4x4

65. Monster Movie : 4x5

66. Yellow Fever : 4x6

67. It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester : 4x7

68. Whisful Thinking : 4x8

69. I Know What You Did Last Summer : 4x9

70. Heaven and Hell : 4x10

71. Family Remains : 4x11

72. Criss Angel Is a Douch Bag : 4x12

73. After School Special : 4x13

74. Sex and Violence : 4x14

75. Death Takes a Holiday : 4x15

76. On the Head of a Pin : 4x16

77. It's a Terrible Life : 4x17

78. The Monster at the End of This Book : 4x18

79. Jump the Shark : 4x19

80. The Rapture : 4x20

81. When the Levee Breaks : 4x21

82. Lucifer Rising : 4x22

83. Sympathy for the Devil : 5x1

84. Good God, Y'All : 5x2

85. Free to Be You and Me : 5x3

86. The End : 5x4

87. Fallen Idols : 5x5

88. I Believe the Children Are Our Future : 5x6

89. The Curious Case of Dean Winchester : 5x7

90. Changing Channels : 5x8

91. The Real Ghostbusters : 5x9

92. Abandon All Hope : 5x10

93. Sam, Interrupted : 5x11

94. Swap Meat : 5x12

95. The Song Remains the Same : 5x13

96. My Bloody Valentine : 5x14

97. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid : 5x15

98. Dark Side of the Moon : 5x16

99. 99 Problems : 5x17

100. Point of No Return : 5x18

101. Hammer of the Gods : 5x19

102. The Devil You Know : 5x20

103. Two Minutes to Midnight : 5x21

104. Swan Song : 5x22

105. Exile on Main St. : 6x1

106. Two and a Half Man : 6x2

107. The Third Man : 6x3

108. Weekend at Bobby's : 6x4

109. Live Free or Twi-hard : 6x5

110. You Can't Handle the Truth : 6x6

111. Family Matters : 6x7

112. All Dogs Go to Heaven : 6x8

113. Clap Your Hands If You Believe : 6x9

114. Caged Heat : 6x10

115. Appointment in Samarra : 6x11

116. Like a Virgin : 6x12

117. Unforgiven : 6x13

118. Mannequin 3: The Reckoning : 6x14

119. The French Mistake : 6x15

120. ... And Then There Were None : 6x16

121. My Heart Will Go On : 6x17

122. Frontierland : 6x18

123. Mommy Dearest : 6x19

124. The Man Who Whould Be King : 6x20

125. Let It Bleed : 6x21

126. The Man Who Knew Too Much : 6x22

127. Meet the New Boss : 6x23

128. Hello, Cruel World : 7x1

129. The Girl Next Door : 7x2

130. Defending Your Life : 7x3

131. Shut Up, Dr. Phil : 7x4

132. Slash Fiction : 7x5

133. The Mentalists : 7x6

134. Season Seven, Time for a Wedding! : 7x7

135. Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel : 7x8

136. How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters : 7x9

137. Death's Door : 7x10

138. Adventures in Babysitting : 7x11

139. Time After Time : 7x12

140. The Slice Girls : 7x13

141. Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie : 7x14

142. Repo Man : 7x15

143. Out with the Old : 7x16

144. The Born-Again Identity : 7x17

145. Party On, Garth : 7x18

146. Of Grave Importance : 7x19

147. The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo : 7x20

148. Reading Is Fundamental : 7x21

149. There Will Be Blood : 7x22

150. Survival of the Fittest : 7x23

151. We Need to Talk About Kevin : 8x1

152. What's Up, Tiger Mommy? : 8x2

153. Heartache : 8x3

154. Bitten : 8x4

155. Blood Brother : 8x5

156. Southern Comfort : 8x6

157. A Little Slice of Kevin : 8x7

158. Hunteri Heroici : 8x8

159. Citizen Fang : 8x9

160. Torn and Frayed : 8x10

161. LARP and the Real Girl : 8x11

162. As Time Goes By : 8x12

163. Everybody Hates Hitler : 8x13

164. Trial and Error : 8x14

165. Man's Best Friend with Benefits : 8x15

166. Remember the Titans : 8x16

167. Goodbye Stranger : 8x17

168. Freaks and Geeks : 8x18

169. Taxi Driver : 8x19

170. Pac-Man Fever : 8x20

171. The Great Escapist : 8x21

172. Clip Show : 8x22

173. Sacrifice : 8x23

174. I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here : 9x1

175. Devil May Care : 9x2

176. I'm No Angel : 9x3

177. Slumber Party : 9x4

178. Dog Dean Afternoon : 9x5

179. Heaven Can't Wait : 9x6

180. Bad Boys : 9x7

181. Rock and a Hard Place : 9x8

182. Holy Terror : 9x9

183. Road Trip : 9x10

184. First Born : 9x11

185. Sharp Teeth : 9x12

186. The Purge : 9x13

187. Captives : 9x14

188. #thinman : 9x15

189. Blade Runners : 9x16

190. Mother's Little Helper : 9x17

191. Meta Fiction : 9x18

192. Alex Annie Alexis Ann : 9x19

193. Bloodlines : 9x20

194. King of the Damned : 9x21

195. Stairway to Heaven : 9x22

196. Do You Believe in Miracles : 9x23

197. Black : 10x1

198. Reichenbach : 10x2

199. Soul Survivor : 10x3

200. Fan Fiction : 10x4

201. Paper Moon : 10x5

202. Ask Jeeves : 10x6

203. Girls, Girls, Girls : 10x7

204. Hibbing 911 : 10x8

205. The Things We Left Behind : 10x9

206. The Hunter Games : 10x10

207. There's No Place Like Home : 10x11

208. About a Boy : 10x12

209. Halt & Catch Fire : 10x13

210. The Executioner's Song : 10x14

211. The Thing They Carried : 10x15

212. Paint It Black : 10x16

213. Inside Man : 10x17

214. Book of the Damned : 10x18

215. The Werther Project : 10x19

216. Angel Heart : 10x20

217. Dark Dynasty : 10x21

218. The Prisoner : 10x22

219. Brother's Keeper : 10x23

220. Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire : 11x1

221. Form and Void : 11x2

222. The Bad Seed : 11x3

223. Baby : 11x4

224. Thin Lizzie : 11x5

225. Our Little World : 11x6

226. Plush : 11x7

227. Just My Imagination : 11x8

228. O Brother, Where Art Thou? : 11x9

229. The Devil in the Details : 11x10

230. Into the Mystic : 11x11

231. Don't You Forget About Me : 11x12

232. Love Hurts : 11x13

233. The Vessel : 11x14

234. Beyond the Mat : 11x15

235. Safe House : 11x16

236. Red Meat : 11x17

237. Hell's Angel : 11x18

238. The Chitters : 11x19

239. Don't Call Me Shurley : 11x20

240. All in the Family : 11x21

241. We Happy Few : 11x22

242. Alpha and Omega : 11x23

243. Keep Calm and Carry On : 12x1

244. Mamma Mia : 12x2

245. The Foundry : 12x3

246. American Nightmare : 12x4

247. The One You've Been Waiting For : 12x5

248. Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox : 12x6

249. Rock Never Dies : 12x7

250. LOTUS : 12x8

251. First Blood : 12x9

252. Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets : 12x10

253. Regarding Dean : 12x11

254. Stuck in the Middle (With You) : 12x12

255. Family Feud : 12x13

256. The Raid : 12x14

257. Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell : 12x15

258. Ladies Drink Free : 12x16

259. The British Invasion : 12x17

260. The Memory Remains : 12x18

261. The Future : 12x19

262. Twigs & Twine & Tasha Banes : 12x20

263. There's Something About Mary : 12x21

264. Who We Are : 12x22

265. All Along the Watchtower : 12x23

266. Lost and Found : 13x1

267. The Rising Son : 13x2

268. Patience : 13x3

269. The Big Empty : 13x4

270. Advanced Thanatology : 13x5

271. Tombstone : 13x6

272. War of the Worlds : 13x7

273. The Scorpion and the Frog : 13x8

274. The Bad Place : 13x9

275. Wayward Sisters : 13x10

276. Breakdown : 13x11

277. Various & Sundry Villains : 13x12

278. Devil's Bargain : 13x13

279. Good Intentions : 13x14

280. A Most Holy Man : 13x15

281. ScoobyNatural : 13x16

282. The Thing : 13x17

283. Bring 'em Back Alive : 13x18

284. Funeralia : 13x19

285. Unfinished Business : 13x20

286. Beat the Devil : 13x21

287. Exodus : 13x22

288. Let the Good Times Roll : 13x23

289. Stranger in a Strange Land : 14x1

290. Gods and Monsters : 14x2

291. The Scar : 14x3

292. Nightmare Logic : 14x4

293. Optimism : 14x5

294. Unhuman Nature : 14x6

295. Byzantium : 14x7

296. The Spear : 14x8

297. Nihilism : 14x9

298. Damaged Goods : 14x10

299. Prophet and Loss : 14x11

300. Lebanon : 14x12

301. Mint Condition : 14x13

302. Ouroboros : 14x14

303. Peace of Mind : 14x15

304. Don't Go in the Woods : 14x16

305. Game Night : 14x17

306. Absence : 14x18

307. Jack in the Box : 14x19

308. Moriah : 14x20

309. Back and to the Future : 15x1

310. Raising Hell : 15x2

311. The Rupture : 15x3

312. Atomic Monsters : 15x4

313. Proverbs 17:3 : 15x5

314. Golden Time : 15x6

315. Last Call : 15x7

316. Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven : 15x8

317. The Trap : 15x9

318. The Heroes' Journey : 15x10

319. The Gamblers : 15x11

320. Galaxy Brain : 15x12

321. Destiny's Child : 15x13

322. Last Holiday : 15x14

323. Gimme Shelter : 15x15

324. Drag Me Away (From You) : 15x16

325. Unity : 15x17

326. Despair : 15x18

327. Inherit the Earth : 15x19

328. Carry On : 15x20

[asmeninas]

favorite moments in riverdale and why

oh god you’ve opened a cursed vault that will devour the entire world… we’re all going to hell and it is your fault I hope you’re happy…

Starting from the fact that this is an impossible question to answer I will simply be listing things here as they come to mind until I reach z I cannot stress enough that I did not sit down and try to think of the correct answer to this

a) Cheryl’s twin brother Jason who was also two years older than her dies and he’s Archie because everyone just compares Archie to him and Jason’s mother cries at how much they look alike and Cheryl has a vision that Archie is Jason at homecoming and then Archie is nice to Cheryl as no one but Jason had ever been nice to Cheryl so she kisses him. Cheryl lives in a gothic novel what else can I say.

b) Jughead kisses Betty for the first time and has a nightmare with a bunch of married straight people and Betty is wearing a huge ass ring and Jughead wakes up from this nightmare in the closet where he’s been sleeping.

c) Can't pick one craziest Jarchie moment but I'll narrow it down to three: (1) You know I had this stupid idea the two of us could live together in new york. what, our girlfriends? Yeah they can be in new york just far away from us. (2) Jughead leaving Betty's empty fully furnished house with electricity because it didn't feel right to be there after they've broken up because she cheated on him with Archie and then moving in next door to Archie's completely empty house to sleep in a sleeping bag on the floor of Archie's completely empty bedroom and then they cut the electricity and he was there reading Dune by candlelight, this after just finding Archie literally made out with his girlfriend AND (3) the statue

d) 3x05 the great escape when jughead writes archie's escape from leopold & loeb juvie by being the dungeon master of the evil dungeons and dragons game

e) cheryl starting a religion based around her brother and ending up thinking she's a living saint then finding out the town burned her ancestor abigail in a late 19th century witch hunt which leads her to curse the whole town which works

f) when archie saw only the eyes of the serial killer who almost killed his dad who later died anyway because real life and went around town looking for him and he told hiram lodge this and said "i've been going house to house to" and hiram lodge said "stare into men's eyes?" and then two seasons later Archie tells the school counselor that he's been going out at night and she instantly just says oh you're going cruising at the gay forest.

g) when archie is attacked by a bear and his fever dying dreams are the best thing that's ever happened to archie understanders

h) when s5 jughead was stuck inside Taylor Swift's right where you left me (he's still at the restaurant!!!!!!)

i) anything Percival Pickens ever did I love you Percival I'm a s6 understander to the end!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

j) when Cheryl said they needed to sacrifice Archie for the maple trees to make maple and said "the most powerful kind blood is that of a--" and Archie said "Cheryl, I'm not a virgin!" and Cheryl is like "yeah I know you slut" and then she cut his heart out of his chest

k) when chapter one hundred the jughead paradox was sent down to us from the gods

l) when betty got a concussion from falling from her bike when she was 8 and the hospital just did a 23andme on her dna and found the serial killer genes which even her father, who's literally a serial killer, doesn't have

m) when veronica and cheryl made out to save the world and it didn't work actually but it worked for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

n) whenever someone tells archie he's a good boy and he's not dumb and has a good heart but without like. putting a bunch of heroic pressure on him. just hey archie. you don't need to do all this you're such a good boy!!!!! has this actually ever happened or did I dream I went into the show and said that. probably dream! anyway

o) OUT OF THE WAY BERT AND ERNIE

p) forget it, jughead. it's riverdale.

q) when tabitha

r) both times kj apa freely decided to kiss casey cott even though no one asked him to. I think the first time it might have been casey who decided but I still bet on kj.

s) when betty's literary hero, toni morrison, told her to not rush this time of her life because it all goes by so fast at her age, you know, like toni morrison would, and archie said wow that is so true @waystarbuttco knows what I'm talking about

t) greg araki directing an episode and thinking "wow yeah this is pretty gay that's crazy"

u) when there were three jugheads

v) hedwig's the origin of love

w) when cheryl gets to kiss women other than her show longterm girlfriend because I think she was made to just hook up with women and not be in one mostly boring relationship no offense

x) when part because of the storyline part because of real life it looked like Betty hated Jughead's guts and it was plausible she would have killed him even to her friends and tbh also plausible that she would kiss his best friend because she hates him as he later told her through voicemail coming up with my favorite description of betty, "cold fake duplicitous bitch" like yeah that's betty!!!!!!!!! that's betty at her best.

y) when they had superpowers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PEOPLE HATE FUN AND THEY HATE ACTUAL COMIC BOOKS.

z) when i just turned 17 i'm master of my scene still something's sorta not completely cool yes i'm talking about the problem that i've got when things get chilly that is when i want them hot, it might sound silly but it bothers me a lot archie going left archie going right archie running any road that he can find archie never making up his all american mind making up his all american mind I LOOK AT OTHER GUYS with fire in their eyes they know the way their whole lives will play out me i don't have a clue of what i'm gonna do or even what my story is about i think it's time i make a big decision attack my problems with a sleek precision only then can i get rid of the vision of ARCHIE GOING LEFT ARCHIE GOING RIGHT ARCHIE RUNNING ANY ROAD THAT HE CAN FIND ARCHIE NEVER MAKING UP HIS ALL AMERICAN MIND MAKING UP HIS ALL AMERICAN MIND MAKING UP HIS ALL AMERICAAAN... MIND!

[mlobsters]

supernatural s13e15 a most holy man (w. andrew dabb, bob singer)

this episode open in malta and the choral voices and bells and candles and i'm thrown back to half remembering an episode about a haunted painting...? from florence? and trying to remember if that was actually an episode/fic/fever dream (it was, 10x16)

sam managing to find an even more uncomfortable place to use his laptop. fixed metal stool

SAM Worth a shot? DEAN Yeah. Good. Why not? I don’t think I can take another one of these cold pieces of Papa Giovanni’s.

what's up with the cheesy film noir music intro

LOL ok. is he usually annoyed when someone is coming on to sam? seems like he usually thinks it's funny, rolling his eyes or encouraging. i don't recall glaring at the flirt-er being in the repertoire

dean is going through a journey of emotions

interesting the differences in the emotional journey from this version of the script and what made it onscreen lol (production draft linked on wiki)

her voice keeps pinging alicia witt for some reason

spn s13e15 as richard greenstreet, the magicians s1e13 dominic burgess as ember

there's a character named emily greenstreet in the magicians and dominic plays ember who is a god that they're trying to get a powerup (aka jar-o-jizz) from (and they do a small blood sacrifice to him) lol

GREENSTREET I gave up on worthy causes years ago. And as I said, the blood cost me a fortune. Judging by your Montgomery Ward suits and your cheap ties, I’m guessing you don’t have a small fortune, or for that matter, two nickels to rub together. So I’m quite afraid this has been a waste of your time, and more importantly, mine. Good day, gentlemen.

montgomery ward, blast from the past. stores all shuttered by 2000 or something. random reference for this uk character

film noir heist mob movie sure. reminds me of the clue episode.

SAM So, this is what we’ve come to? Thieves? DEAN Hey, you want the blood, right? Well… besides, the thing’s already stolen. SAM Really? That’s your rationale? DEAN Hey, I’m not perfect. And by the way, neither are you, okay? Oh, so, what? Now you’re above a little, uh, chicanery? Look, this isn’t a perfect world we’re trying to save, okay. And if I’m not perfect trying to save it, then so be it. Come on. You with me or not?

not sure why sam's supposedly bothered over this. of all the morally questionable things they've done for The Cause, this is pretty low on the list

sam with the cockblock and all i can think while dean's flirting with this very lovely woman at the coffee shop is how they refuse to drop the busty asian beauties for dean's porn preference.

DEAN Look at you. You’re like a Boy Scout. You’re always prepared. SAM Yeah. You’re like uh… I don’t know what you’re like. DEAN Yeah. Thanks.

proud to pissed in 2 seconds flat. also, kind of cute but what is even going on

i mean. i. listen, they did some real fucking dumbass episodes in the early seasons too, so i shouldn't really complain that it's purely a late season phenomenon. but when the dumbass episode is surrounded by episodes i'm also complaining about it becomes somewhat of a .... 'what am i doing with my life right now' moment

he's been in a ton of stuff but probably the sopranos (which i never did finish) what i know him from

this is something all right. god and it's only halfway through 🥴😩🤪

DEAN Okay, I’m just saying, you’re taking a lot of shots to the head lately. I mean, I know that Disney Princess hair gives you some padding, but, uh…

listen they both surely have CTE by now with the number of concussions they've racked up over the years

FATHER LUCCA It’s not about luck, son. It’s about effort. All the time, I hear people saying the world’s not perfect. And they’re right. It’s not. But do you use that as an excuse? Do you use it to excuse your own sins? Your failings and your laziness? Do you use it to give a bad man power, because the world’s not perfect? Or do you work? Do you try and improve things in whatever way you can? Guys, the world will never be perfect, but if good men do good things, it can be better. Every day can get better.

???? are we trying to..... invigorate the boys to do what's right, have hope, ....???? i don't even know what. but i'm sure gonna start bristling over rando man implying they don't put in the effort to make things better. that's their job and they do fuck up and make bad decisions too but overall their schtick is literally making the world better. but instead we're getting some moralizing speech that i think is to make them feel bad about participating in the the continued theft of an item so that they can get the thing they need to save their family+new-kinda-god-adopted-son

SIGH. it's like this episode is supposed to be tongue in cheek, but it's too serious. so it's like just. fucking weird. because it's not serious enough to be like, slick.

FATHER LUCCA Yeah. He called me un uomo santissimo. SAM What does that mean? FATHER LUCCA “A most holy man.”

did they not google this phrase before this whole waste of time

DEAN Come on. I know that look. What’s on your mind? SAM I don’t know. Nothing. I mean – I mean, you know… You ever feel like we’re – we’re doing nothing but playing defense? You know, bouncing from one apocalypse to the next? DEAN Well, it’s not exactly our call. SAM I know that, and I’m not saying we don’t do good. But – but no matter how many people we save, there will always be more people that need saving. No matter how many monsters we kill–

DEAN There’s always gonna be another one around the corner. SAM Exactly. You think we could ever change things? I mean, really change things? You know, stop all the monsters, all the bad? DEAN That would be nice.

SAM Yeah. So, what are you thinkin’? Think that’ll work? DEAN I have faith.

loaded term that is for them. anyway, circles back to how for what felt like a while there, sam was the reassuring reasonable collected one and dean was needing some anchoring. but now it's dean's turn to be the one with faith they can get whatever done. but what got me about this exchange is that like.. dean often times would get a little defensive when sam would bring things up like this, brush him off. but now it's like he's actually listening and understanding where he's coming from and wishes it was better but accepts that it probably won't be. and it's honestly just nice to see dean being positive and a support for sam.

annoyed that there's that nice (for me) character moment in an episode that will otherwise likely erase from my brain in a few days

[actual-lea]

Fics I’ve written:

Baldur's Gate 3

In the Dark - Gale and Astarion are caught in a cave-in and no one has a good time.

To Replicate the Mask of God - Gale is captured by Absolutists and has an exceedingly horrible time. WIP

LOST

The Way Home - A canon-divergent AU series in which Daniel Faraday is rescued at the end of season 4 along with the Oceanic Six. Part 1 is completed, Part 2 is still in progress.

Obsidian and Sand - AU where Miles, Charlotte, and Daniel all grew up on the island. Daniel/Miles, WIP

Money Where Your Mouth Is (explicit) - a one-shot that feels a bit like a weird fever dream, in which Sawyer discovers bisexuality. Daniel/Sawyer

Real - A post-canon one-shot where everybody lived and everything is fine. Daniel/Miles/Charlotte

Marble Hornets

One-shots:

areyoudrowning - A short fic about Alex being trapped in his own head in Entry 49.

Strings - Another short fic that explores what Alex was thinking during his confrontation with Jay in Entry 47. 

PERMANENCE - A dialogue fic, in which Jay sells his car somewhere around Entry 69.

didyou eversee - Some good old fashioned Jay Angst (Jangst?), written the night Entry 80 was posted.

Wake Up - Okay listen you have to understand after Entry 80 the fandom went a little off the rails with creating random AUs, and one/many of those AUs just consisted of putting wings on EVERYONE. So here's a weird post-Entry 80 fic that is, uh. that.

Null - Short little AU where it was Tim in Entry 80 instead of Jay.

waitingon you - A sort of weird stream of consciousness thing, following what happened to Jay between 80 and 83. 

Side Effects - A rare and elusive Jessica fic, post-canon. 

Focus - In which Jay is hallucinating; Entry 82/80.

Multi-chaptered things:

Vanishing Point - More than two years after “everything is fine”, Tim gets a phone call from Jay. WIP I swear to God I'm gonna finish this someday

Somewhere Among the Stars - Star Wars AU. WIP.

Distorted - A short little exploration of how Entry 77 could have gone differently. Complete. I barely remember writing this tbh

Regards - Each year as Christmas approaches, Jay’s family waits for him. Each year, they get a phone call. Complete.

Tumblr-only shorts - mostly ask meme stuff:

Paranorman/MH crossover

“You’re going to be okay.” Alex/Amy

“Can you hear me?” Jay

“I’m not letting you walk, I’m going to carry you.” Jay/Tim

“Listen to me, you are going to be fine./Focus on my voice.” Brian/Tim

“Things you didn’t say at all” Jay/Jessica

“Things you said under the stars” Jay/Tim