#HERE YOU GO NORA

[saturnisfallingdown]

the high school benjamin and oliver dynamic. to me

[ID: Simplistic art of Benjamin and Oliver from LUCIDS. Oliver looks forward calmly, thinking "I may love him but he's finally got another chance with Isabelle and he's so much happier these days and I would never take that from him I'm more than happy remaining his best friend". Benjamin, drawn with chin length hair and a ring necklace, says in a large speech bubble "dude we should start a band". An arrow points to him reading "achingly desperate to spend time with Oliver but might die or something if he tries to express it". End ID]

[wouldntbehim]

mix: firstprince (taylor's version)

[tara-the-star]

[crystalmethsthings]

“and was this fear, was this fear, because he hadn’t felt this since-”

I WILL NEVER BE NORMAL ABOUT THEM

[maybesomemilo]

As if this series wasn’t already my everything.

[messervixen]

I visited USC recently and am sad to report that Jeremy Knox was nowhere to be found 😔

[purpleshadow-star]

Pic context: Talking about the exy stadium at USC considering the fact that USC is a real school

I love how Nora just invents things in order to avoid complications with real-life things.

Like, using USC's football stadium as the exy stadium too would take a lot of work to figure out how that would be possible. Solution: invent a new stadium!

Having the characters play a real sport that already exists would mean looking into all the rules and regulations and history, etc, and there could be multiple elements of the sport that work against the plot of the story or complicate it in some way. Solution: invent a new sport!

I mean, it gives her full creative control over what happens in the story, and we as readers get to learn about a cool new thing without feeling the need to fact-check every element. Tbh, it makes so much sense to me.

Like, go off! Make stuff up! It's your world. We're just reading and enjoying and becoming obsessed with it!!!

[theartofloss]

I really love all the little parallels and similarities between Talanah and Aloy's stories

Losing a father (/figure) during an event where he fought to keep them safe

Living up to the legacy of their dead family, wheb all of them died courageous and selfless deaths

Fighting to make a change and serve a greater purpose

Feeling the weight of stereotypes placed on them by society

Training devoutly for years in order to achieve an almost impossible goal they set for themselves, trying to right a wrong that was done

[arrow-v-flash-polls]

Over the nine seasons of Flash, Barry and Team Flash came up against seven different speedster antagonists who all had their own reasons in wanting to see the fastest man alive along with his team trip and fall. But which speedster antagonist did you like best?

[rad-roche]

thinking about movie of all time (the thin man) and the part at the end of the scene where nick and nora link arms and skip out of shot like schoolgirls and how that wasn't in the script, william powell and myrna loy just did it because they thought it would be funny. and they were right and they kept it in. you can see them break character and everything. i have no point i'm making i just think it's great

[goldoradove]

nora & hana — 🍒🌿

cc linked under the cut (there's a lot)

🍒 NORA —

everyday 1 · hair · pants · shoes · earrings*

everyday 2 · hair · shirt · pants · shoes*

everyday 3 · hair · shirt · skirt · shoes · earrings* · tights

everyday 4 · hair · dress · shoes* · necklace · socks*

everyday 5 · hair · shoes* · earrings

formal · hair · dress · shoes · tights

athletic · hair · shorts · watch · shoes

sleep · hair · shirt · pants

party · hair · dress · shoes · earrings* · tights

swim · hair · swimsuit

hot weather · hair · shirt · shoes

cold weather · hair · pants · shoes* · earrings*

🌿 HANA —

everyday 1 · hair · shirt · pants · shoes*

everyday 2 · hair · shirt · pants · earrings

everyday 3 · hair · shirt · pants · shoes

everyday 4 · hair · shirt · shorts · shoes

everyday 5 · hair · pants · earrings · necklace

formal · hair · shoes · earrings · necklace

athletic · hair · pants

sleep · hair · shirt** · pants

party · hair · dress* · shoes · earrings* · tights

swim · hair · swimsuit

hot weather · hair · shorts · shoes · earrings

cold weather · hair · pants · shoes

* tsr ** simsfinds if you don't see an item listed here, it either from the game or the cc has been deleted. please ask if you want to know specific details!

[hella1975]

ur making it pretty hard to not be curious about aftg like what is going on can you infodump ur worst to me

so basically it's about a guy called neil who's not actually called neil bc turns out he's the son of a HIGHLY abusive mafia hitman and him and his mother have been running from this guy for years which ofc means changes in identity and a SHIT ton of issues ranging from good old fashioned paranoia to lighting cigarettes not to smoke them but to let them burn down bc the smell reminds you of your mother's burning corpse. but neil is obsessed and i mean OBSESSED with this made up sport called exy which is like lacrosse but with the violence of ice hockey and he joins a pro-team despite aforementioned ABUSIVE MAFIA DAD AFTER HIM and guess what! the guy who signed him is called kevin and his ex-team are affiliated with the mafia too! including neil's dad! neil just screwed himself over big time! but who cares when you have exy! enter: andrew minyard. andrew is a blonde, 5ft, ex-juvie, under-court-surveillance-for-grevious-bodily-harm goalkeeper currently working unofficially as kevin's bodyguard and, while we never get an actual diagnosis bc god forbid we handle mental health properly in this thing, it's implied that he has some kind of psychosis and, as part of his plea bargain, is legally obgligated to take incredibly mood-altering medication that makes him manic in exchange for being allowed to stay on the team (aka with kevin who he's VERY possessive of), done entirely for the wellbeing of those around him and effectively against andrew's will. does he stick to that deal? fuck no! but it doesn't stop there! andrew proceeds to spend the entire book being as violent and unpredictable and generally cunty as possible in order to figure out What Neil's Deal Is bc neil is capital S Shifty and andrew is convinced he's from kevin's old mafia cult team trying to hurt him. we spend an entire book watching the three of them wrestle between neil's paranoia, andrew's protectiveness and kevin's desire to Please Can We Just Play Exy. there are some keys involved. someone dies. there are two more books. inexplicably two of the characters can speak fluent german purely from high school classes.

[lala-blahblah]

i like being into things nobody else is that into so that i get to be right about it. On that note, let's talk about the gay subtext in all the songs by the long winters

[honey-gaze]

nora is adjusting sooo well to her new situation I'm ! so proud of her ! her hind quarters are paralyzed post-spinal surgery but she's still killin it & adjusting to her new normal, she loves to scoot n wheel around the house and I'm totally obsessed with her

[new-eyes-extra-colors]

Plots please, for Nora & Reed?(Or Mercy, or Delta if you want to include them too?)

[meme]

I'm unsure if Mercy ever returns to Vegas or would even want to, but in one of Nora's endings, she winds up living there for the rest of her life. I can imagine Mercy helping her and Shaun get there safely and introducing her around. Traveling across the majority of the country together would be quite the adventure.

Railroad shenanigans and missions where everything goes sideways are a favorite of mine for Nora and Reed. Hell, forget anything faction specific--I like the idea of them just working together out in the Commonwealth in general. I think the banter would be incredible. And both snipers, too--they'd mesh well as a team.

On that note, while I'm thinking of a joint Reed and Nora plot as a whole AU, I wonder how they meet. Do they wake up at the same time and start traveling together immediately? Does one of them wake up later? How would they meet up in that case? As part of the Railroad or Brotherhood? As Nick's friends? Would they have a relationship pre-War, since they lived in the same neighborhood? The possibilities are endless and I would love to write something for this now.

[nihilismtrcit]

90 npcs ready to go in my save & one world done !!!  i know i say this at least once a month (😅)  but i’m taking a hiatus/won’t be on much this week with it being the last week of school. this exact time next week, i’ll have one (!!!!) hour left with the kiddos and then one in-service day on Friday and i’m freeee ! the plan this summer is rotational gameplay using one save file. so excited