#I'm just genuinely confused as to what the heck these scenes were supposed to be if dean is not bi

[arabella-s-arts]

Scenes/Things in Supernatural that genuinely don't make sense to me if Dean was straight:

The confession booth scene.

Sam just rolling with the fact that Dean's siren is a guy while still thinking sirens infect people through sex.

Dean being flustered by several men: Gunner Lawless, Aaron, Doctor Sexy, etc.

All the parallels between Destiel and other couples. (A big one being "last night on Earth" bc how do you do that accidentally.)

Having all the gay jokes be on Dean instead of Sam.

Paralleling Sam meeting his childhood celebrity crush with Dean meeting Gunner Lawless.

The boner Dean got when Cas cleaned up.

Dean gulping after Cas does an impression from a Western movie.

Charlie, a lesbian, calling Castiel "dreamy."

The way Mary looks at Dean and Cas when they hug.

Dean wondering why everyone assumes he's gay, while Sam not caring.

The logic that Charlie can't flirt with guys because she's only attracted to women, but then having Dean flirt with the guy for her.

Dean seeming disappointed when learning that Aaron's flirting was fake.

The amount of time Dean and Cas spend staring at each other.

Dean canonically having an orgy with Crowley.

A woman saying that she knows when someone's pining for someone else to Dean, just for us to learn that Dean was never in love with Amara.

The set design and script choices that lead to a cross in the background while Dean said "I do." to Cas after he came back to life.

That time when Dean wanted to say something and Cas was like, "It's okay, I heard your prayer." But Dean still looked like he wanted to say something important.

Amara: [about Dean] "I can see inside your heart. Feel the love you feel. Except, it’s cloaked in shame.”

If you want to have a more expansive list, @destiel-is-real-idgaf added to this one quite nicely.

[after-nine-at-the-oasis]

OOP Bobby o.o

OHHHH GOSH

10 YEARS AGO O.O

I thought he was supposed to be a burn unit nurse FROM that time but oh gosh he was a victim :OO that makes so much more sense

Not that I thought it didn't but my gosh o.o

Also gosh that it's ten years ago xd 😭

Especially when I was recently rewatching some season too, specifically the Begins episodes (though others too), and Bobby's (I specify since I believe that was season 3)

Anyway AOUAGH THE FLASHBACKS O.O 😭

Is Bobby finding out like this too by the way o.o

AOUGH y'all stressing o.o

OOP Bobby D:

Fair but gosh :((

Uhhh??

Bobby where are you

BRO BETTER NOT BE GONNA GO FOR REVENGE O.O

UHHH

UHHH OHHHH THAT BETTER BE A MISLEAD O.O

UMMM???

Y'all I be stressing 😭😭 xdd o.o

Also forgot about these one plot promos xdd wild lol

Anyway

Gosh o.o

Scared thank you xdd xD

Well, that's the last of my last thoughts, so now it's time for the. . .

REVIEW

I loved this episode!! I thought it was amazing :D. There were a lot of great plots going on (okay right now for Eddie's I'm just confused and mad at him but that's besides the point xD it was wild so I'll count it as good because entertaining lol, it better go somewhere good though I'm also counting it for that), but Jennifer absolutely CARRIED this episode :O :D. Girl is an icon <33. And of course so is Maddie :') 🥰🥰. Henren may be committing crimes (as in they might be crimes) but we love them xD :D. Lol xD. All these idiots on this show I swear lol. But ah, I love them <3. Maddie and Chimney were not idiots this episode though to be clear they were icons <33. Anyway xD. Some really interesting plots, great storytelling all around (that's just what my brain decides to say just go with it ik it's kinda strange), and some great moments for everybody even if they weren't really in a main plot today :D. Also I'm stressing about Bobby o.o some really cool moments there too. But yeah, great all around!!

Okayy the next episode's in an hour so lol! Time for individual parts.

Bobby and Athena! They were great as always :D. Athena slayed the investigating! And Bobby coming in with the baby :'). I'M STRESSED THOUGH Y'ALL 😭😬. Anyway, I love them <33.

Tommy! I miss you 😔 xD.

Buck! Didn't see him much but he slayed :D. The scene with him and Christopher and Eddie at the end was :')). They're so silly your honor <33. I love him so much :'D.

Eddie! BOYYYYY. Someone stop this insane man 😭. Just realized I'm gonna have to deal with this again in an hour xd. Anyway, what the heck is going on o.o. His storyline was absolutely wild 😭. I'm glad we're addressing his grief but my gosh o.o xd. Anyway, lol, I love him xd. Usually <3. Nah but for real what's going on bro xD. He better be hallucinating or something I swear 😭 xd.

Hen and Karen! Y'all why are you being stalkers xD. Nah but genuinely I'm glad they were fighting for Mara :')). And AAHHHH I'M SO GLAD SHE AND HER BROTHER GOT TO SEE EACH OTHER :'DDD!! I hope the dad is okay with it so it can keep happening, not him find out and stop it or anything <3. It really is good for both of them :')). Anyway, I just love their little family <33. They ain't perfect but they try their best and Then and Karen fight for their kids and it's just so beautiful :')). I love them so much <33.

Maddie and Chimney! Y'all the FEELS they were making me feel this episode 😭😭😭🥺💔🥰. Jennifer absolutely ate, carried. She was so amazing :D. But seriously it was heartbreaking 😭😭 and then seeing Chimney support her and listen to her 🥺🥺🥺😭❤️ he is perfect <3. And they slayed so hard figuring out the abduction!! I'm so glad everybody ended up okay :'DD. They really figured that out, ate that for real 🥰🥰. Also the whole thing about the woman in the passenger seat :'(((( 😭😭😭🥺💔💔❤️. So good <333. I'm so glad they have each other <33 :'D. Also that scene with Jee-Yun at the end was absolutely adorable 😭😭❤️❤️🥺🥰. And Chim just looking on with how much he loves them in his eyes :')). Y'all I love them so much <333.

Overall, I really enjoyed this episode! I thought it was super good, and the acting especially was just on point (though of course it always is). It also set up some really interesting things for next time, which, while I'm scared about, could be really cool :O xd. And the calls were great! I'm so glad the main girl from the call and her baby are doing alright <33. They went through a lot but they'll be okay :')). The moment of her seeing her again and then reuniting was just so amazing 😭😭🥺🥰❤️. But anyway, everybody did great figuring it out, and just in this episode in general :'D. Don't know what Eddie's doing though lol, though he did do well on the calls xD.

So yeah! It was amazing, I really loved this episode. Certainly a wild one though. I'm excited and nervous for the next one! This has been my review of. . .

9-1-1, Season 7, Episode 7: Ghost of a Second Chance

It was really great! I'm so excited for the next one but I have no clue how it's gonna turn out. This is gonna be wild. I'll be back next week for my review of. . .

9-1-1, Season 7, Episode 8: Step Nine

See you next week!

[extraterrestrialechos]

There's not a bad guy of the show.

I'm back reading through Tumblr meta here, and this seems like a central misreading of the show I've seen in fandom.

Izzy is the henchman of the show. Ed is a hugely successful mastermind archetype villain. He's introduced through the Bond Villain chair which long ago even in my youth had descended into parody but means THIS IS THE VILLAIN.

At the first shot, and then again in the last shots. After Fang clubs Jim over the head and Frenchie comes in, the two of them literally break into the world's silliest MUAHAHAHAHA laughter.

No one is the "bad guy" of the show, but Ed is the villain of the show.

Izzy is his pathetic henchman with puffy sleeves who nobody particularly fears or respects who derives 100% of his authority from Ed (Fang thinks Izzy's a joke), because however bad they are at communication they're close and (now quite confirmed) have a long personal history.

Izzy is the guy polishing the Penguin's boot.

Heck, we even know there's a cut for time scene where he put bows in Ed's beard in episode 5. This gif happened on camera. Later Ed sees him dying and asks for tea. This is super thoroughly broadcasted. Ed says jump, Izzy (until late episode 10) says how high.

So while the show has dark and serious story beats, and there are also long tragic shots of Ed's face deadening as he turns away from flirting with Izzy, or Izzy standing there looking like a kicked puppy in his confusion when Ed gives him up after the duel -- that's what Izzy is, Ed's dog, having separation anxiety because as we see so swiftly a henchman without his villain cannot survive long in the wild.

When Izzy stares pathetically into nothing and says Bonnet's done something to his bosses' brain and Rory Kinnear makes the face of all time in, frankly, the scene of all time, those three were fantastic -- we're supposed to laugh.

When Izzy gets punched and lands ass up and comes up with his hair HUGE, we're supposed to laugh. At him.

Every moment of drama is firmly situated within a camp framework where the ridiculousness is used to gesture toward real emotions, but Ed still does a silly Baby Driver style sequence before brutally amputating Izzy's toe after, yes, Izzy threatened his life in what already almost became a domestic.

There's so much comedy here and so much parody here and so much FUN, and it's a subversion of film villainy, where Ed would be beyond Darth Vader level, he's king of the ocean. He's capable of equal parts violence and genius, but he's secretly vulnerable and dorky and traumatized and when a guy who has no idea who he is shows up right when he's ready to throw in the towel Ed... plots to murder him and desecrate his corpse and take his estate and money.

But then he learns he likes Stede. And Izzy is left bewildered because that's not how their archetypes WORK.

Heck, even Chauncey isn't the bad guy of the show. Because WE know he's a trash horrible imperialist colonizer, but he thinks he's Horatio Hornblower, pride of the crown, out there for honor and queen and country and he, too, absolutely breaks down when people stop acting out their tropes. In any classic seafaring series he'd be the hero. He ends up blowing his own head off in a fantastically scripted scene, but he never himself doubts he's the hero up to the moment his, like Nigel's, brain is obliterated.

(Nigel isn't even a proper villain, he's just a horrible, horrible person who frames how empty Chauncey's "heroism" is since he's "avenging" a waste of human flesh.)

I think a big issue in the fandom is just, wanting there to be clear cut good guys and bad guys in OFMD itself when the genuine brilliance of the script is the constant subversion of other media where there ARE good guys and bad guys.

‘izzy is not the bad guy’ is such a wild take like fair enough if he’s your blorbo i get it and if you don’t think he’s a bad person i get it but at least acknowledge that he’s the antagonist of the show. like if not him then who else. if the guy who sold them out to the british and nearly got mutinied by the entire crew and told ed he’d be better off dead than doing some gay pining is not the bad guy then please. who is

[xnervouscircus]

i didn't know if i was gonna bother watching shadow & bone s2 since general reviews were basically: "it's CRAP" but watched it on a whim this week and am mostly happy with it actually

preface that i only read the og grisha trilogy and haven't read the crow books or whatever the heck came next that i think starred nikolai? so i only vaguely remember the story of alina and co and know little to nothing about the jurda parem storyline and where it's going and who will be involved or at least was involved in the books

but man. just from the perspective of someone who was immensely displeased with the ending of the grisha trilogy: I LOVE THIS ENDING. they fixed my biggest beefs with the og ending, and up until the very last scene i was like "ah still a shame alina never went darkside though" aND THEN THEY WENT AND SAID "BITCH SHE MIGHT" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I LOVE IT

in the books i haaaaated the implication that mal and alina were only together bc of ~destiny~ and they were only drawn to each other by the firebird power and even after knowing that, they didn't question it at all and were just like, "welp the universe tossed us together so guess this is it for us huh." so not only do i love show!mal more in general--they fixed up his personality so much and made me actually mostly like malina--but i wanted to kiss him on the mouth for being the one to bring up the whole destiny thing and give themselves a chance to figure out who they are without it. and i wanted to kiss alina on the mouth for accepting and understanding it. i would absolutely not hate malina being endgame in this universe the way i hated it in the books.

though i'm confused if alina is still engaged to nikolai now? she gave the ring back to him a while ago so i figured that was the end of it, but at the end the apparat made it sound like the betrothal was still on, and alina was wearing that very elaborate tiara/crown and stood beside nikolai at his coronation so. nikolina still possible?

though i will say that i really didn't feel any chemistry between them in the show and they were portrayed much more as friends than potential love interests. honestly i loved it. love triangles are exhausting enough, having to deal with 3 potential love interests in the trilogy was just. blaaaargh. as much as i loved nikolina in the books, i was kind of happy that i felt nothing for them in the show and it seemed like i wasn't supposed to. they really just came across as allies doing their best for the country, friends at most. there were a few moments that kiiiiind of came across as potential romance, but there was nothing to make me be like "fuck yeah nikolina." since they made mal 2.0 so much better, i genuinely enjoyed not seeing nikolai as legitimate love interest material lmao. but i could be into it in the future if there's a s3 and they decide to go that route.

i was worried the condensed storyline would be crap since i knew they were apparently putting all of books 2 & 3 into this season, alongside whatever the crows would be doing, but it worked so much better than what i vaguely remember of the books. book 3 was pretty much all meaningless page filler of the group being trapped underground and then going on a completely pointless hike to look for the firebird, so i'm glad they cut all that out. i liked the addition of the blade, if only to expand the world more and show us another living saint--go be besties with her alina. and really the best parts of both s1 and s2 were the crows. sorry i haven't read your books guys but y'all are the best. i fuckign love inej and nina and of course my gay little heart was so very happy with jesper and wylan and wesper.

(i do mostly like kaz, he's clever and witty and really cares about his crows, but sometimes he's just a bit too edgelord for me. i kinda like kanej but at the same time i think inej deserves a hell of a lot of happiness and kanej is just all angst all the time and after 2 full seasons of it i'm kinda over it lol. i was honestly super into that extremely brief hint of . . . inya? tolej? lmao. but yeah tolya/inej honestly sounds amazing to me. ofc i hope kaz can deal with his trauma and be more open--not even in regards to touch necessarily, but just be less consumed with grief and revenge in general. but his whole life is shaped around it and inej has dealt with enough shit and i just want her to be able to laugh and have some genuine fun, ya know??)

it wasn't perfect, and a lot of the dialogue made me cringe (i'm still facepalming but also laughing over that one scene where some grisha girl started saying, "i'd hoped--" and seemed like she was just gonna say some bland thing like i'd hoped this would be over or even just i'd hoped i'd get to sleep in an actual bed tonight but the darkling interrupted her with this completely angsty and overdramatic monologue about hope LMAO CALM DOWN EDGELORD IT WASN'T THAT DEEP). but overall i thought it was good! s1 was better but s2 made a lot of improvements to the books and i appreciate that they were willing to deviate and take risks to try to make a better story.

what i loved the absolute most wasn't just that they changed her love story, i loved that they changed the entire ending of alina's story. because the trilogy ending for her was TRASH. a woman becomes the most powerful person in the world, comes to embrace and revel in her power, but her endgame love interest won't stop sulking about it so guess she's gotta lose all her power and suddenly want nothing more than a quiet life on a farm. LMAO WHAT. it was absolutely infuriating and still is almost 20 years later lmao. having her stay in the capital and plan to actually help the country she worked so hard and sacrificed so much to save makes infinitely more sense; sure, at the beginning of the trilogy she wished she wasn't grisha or the sun summoner, but she comes to love the power and the realization that she can save ravka with it. as far as i remember, once she embraces it, she never wishes it away again. so it just felt grossly unfeminist and lame to take her power away in the trilogy and pretend that actually she secretly desired being no one in the middle of nowhere just raising a bunch of orphans. nope, that was just not alina.

so i am LIVING for her still having her power (though i'm not sure if she's got all that fully amplified power or she's basically reset to pre-amplifiers power after destroying the fold? i wish they'd cleared that up) and continuing to follow her dream to reunite ravka and make a more peaceful world for the grisha, rather than just run away with her endgame boy ugh.

BUT WHAT I'M LIVING FOR THE MOST WAS WATCHING HER FINALLY DO THE CUT AND REVEAL THAT SHE'S GOT SHADOW MAGIC NOW AND RATHER THAN BEING SCARED OR DISGUSTED BY WHAT SHE'D DONE SHE WAS FUCKING RELISHING IT

DARKLINA LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO

(i just mean that in a dark alina sense, though i would not at all be opposed to the darkling coming back to life and making couple darklina a thing lmao)

do i believe they'll actually make her go anywhere near actually dark? no. do i believe her endgame boy will be anyone but mal? no. do i believe they won't ultimately have her story end the same as in the trilogy? not really tbh. but at least there's some possibility here and it could turn out really interesting, or at least more satisfying than the og trilogy.

so yeah i hope s3 gets the green light. at the very least, i'd definitely love to have more of the crows.

[exovapor]

I'm OBSESSED with your writing. Can you try.. Maybe, Donnie being a filthy boy being an 'stalker-ish' of his long time crush? Be checks their FB for new posts, saves every picture of them he finds? He doesn't mean to be a creep, feels guilty, but just doesn't know how to ask for more than friendship?

Good afternoon Anon. Here is my short story in relation to your ask.

I wasn't sure where you wanted me to take this, so I had to do a bit of guessing on my part. I hope this something like you were wanting.

I will admit that this ask was a bit of a struggle for me, not knowing a clear direction to take it outcome made me a little unsure of my writing and guessing abilities LOL. However, I will admit to crying along with the characters in this story more than once.

Thanks again for the ask and the initial compliment. I hope to continue to earn your favor in future posts.

· Stalker [noun]: 1a person who harasses or persecutes someone with unwanted and obsessive attention. 2a person who hunts game stealthily.

· Donnie stared at the definition on his one of his monitor screens while his various other screens were busy flashing receipts of files downloaded, text trail streams from your phone, notices of any social media post/update/like/heart/emoji, a GPS line grid of your routes today (overlayed over the routes you’d taken previously), and data search hits of anything and everything that pertained to you.

· At this point, the boy had literally every picture you had ever posted, anywhere, of yourself. In fact, he had all the pictures that other people posted of you in them. He had even gone through the effort of designing a face recognition program that picks you out of the background of total strangers’ pictures and, yeah, he had those in a file too.

· He has special file folders that compile things that you like, things you don’t like, things that make you happy, things that make you sad. He is your own personal Pinterest and you didn’t even know it… and maybe that is the part that keeps bothering him so much.

· He sits staring at that word and definition and chewing his bottom lip. True, he knows the word and the meaning, but he needed to LOOK at it, analyze it, mull it over in his guilt ridden brain.

· He just KNEW the word Stalker couldn’t apply to him.

· After all, he isn’t harassing or persecuting you, you don’t know! So, it isn’t necessarily ‘unwanted attention’. It is just…unknown attention.

· Stealthily, hmmmm, did that part apply to him? Well, He isn’t EXACTLY being stealthy.

· If you knew about technology like him, then you would probably see his programs running on your devices and be alerted to his activities. AND, if you shared his love and view of technology, then you would probably be more understanding of his activities and not consider them stealthy…just data mining. In fact, you might applaud him.

· ‘Ok, that was taking it a bit too far’, Donnie thinks to himself and he feels a band tighten and squeeze around his infatuated heart.

· He is almost certain that you would be shocked to learn of his extra curricular activities and how they revolve around every aspect of you.

· Regardless of how he tried to spin the truth and wiggle out of the definition of stalker, Donnie still felt guilty for invading your privacy. However, he honestly couldn’t help himself…at least not anymore.

· He has fought the urge, the nagging thoughts and the burning need, to know more about you for what seemed like an eternity.

· Listen to him, he is starting to sound dramatic like Mikey! What is his turning into? He is losing his rational edge!

· To be accurate, it hasn’t been an eternity. In fact, he has known you 1 year, 36 days, 14 hours, 11 minutes, and 23 seconds to be exact. However, you started occupying space in his mind 2 minutes into meeting you and your claim over his mind has grown exponentially over time.

· You were quiet and reserved during that first meeting, so there wasn’t much to go on. It started as a simple visual interest with a thought of ‘Oh. She’s pretty’.

· However, then you started talking and that changed everything.

· You opened up more and more each time you hung out with their little group, revealing layers and layers of interests and personality. You were fascinating…and that’s when his thoughts about you really started to snowball and spiral out of control.

· You went from being a simple pretty face to being a walking embodiment of everything he seriously ever dreamed of having in a mate.

· Early on, there were three sticking points that really made Donnie’s feelings problematic. 1. He was a nearly seven foot tall walking talking turtle and you weren’t. 2. You had a boyfriend that you were deeply in love with and adored. 3. Donnie was too insecure about #1 and how you felt about inter-species dating to let you know that you had started to OWN his heart.

· Now, thanks to his surveillance, there were only two sticking points….#1 and #3.

· He still remembers the feelings of that day, 44 days ago, when the blip of information popped up on this screen alerting him to the fact that your boyfriend was starting to stray.

· Donnie had severely conflicting feelings bombard him at once and it was overwhelming.

· The initial knee jerk reaction was elation, one of the problems blocking him from you may soon be null.

· However, the feeling of elation only lasted for a second or two before the intense anger and sadness set in. Donnie was honestly shocked at the depth of his anger, he didn’t even know he had that level of malice in him. Had he been in physical proximity to your boyfriend at that moment in time, Donnie isn’t sure that he wouldn’t have hurt your guy…or worse.

· How COULD this guy do this? WHY would he? He HAD YOU! What the heck was this guy thinking? Not only did he have you, but you thought the world of him. When you spoke about him you would smile so genuinely, your eyes would shine and gaze off into a bright imagined future. Donnie was always so jealous to watch it happen, he wondered what it would be like to be THAT GUY. And here the idiot was throwing it all away and meeting up with another girl!

· WHAT THE…(yes, this called for a curse) HELL…IS WRONG WITH HUMAN MEN?

· As the anger set root in his heart, the sadness engulfed Donnie like an all-consuming wave. He realized he was going to have to share this information with you, somehow, and that he was going to have to watch as it destroyed you.

· At first, Donnie had a plan to try and save you both from that fate. True, it would hurt him more to save your relationship, but he would rather be the one facing the pain and not you.

· He TRIED to circumvent the situation. He sent anonymous messages to your boyfriend stating that he knew about the infidelity and that he would tell you if needed. However, it didn’t seem like your boyfriend cared because he sent messages back stating Donnie could, basically, go fuck himself.

· Life had cruel sense of irony, thought Donnie, that is exactly what I do since this moron has the woman that I love.

· So, after trying for nearly two weeks to stop what was happening behind your back, Donnie had no choice but to let you in on the secret.

· Donnie couldn’t come right out and tell you that he caught your boyfriend cheating by hijacking your data streams and the data streams of those around you. So, Donnie intercepted some texts between your boyfriend and his mistress and he then sent you a text, under the guise of your boyfriend, telling you to meet him at a specified restaurant for a date.

· It had been a gut wrenching night for Donnie. He remembered watching it all play out on camera feeds from around the restaurant and street outside. He watched you dressed up in your pretty dress get out of your cab in front of the restaurant. You had such a lovely smile on your face, you must have thought you were in for a romantic evening.

· He watched as you walked inside and how the hostess got flustered and confused by a 2nd girl showing up for your boyfriend’s seated-for-two table.

· Donnie stopped breathing as your eyes found the new couple holding hands and giving each other sweet kisses across the table. Hands and lips that were supposed to be yours were touching some stranger.

· Donnie watched your smile and eyes die…the light of your inner sun go out…

· …and it killed him.

· He’s not sure who was crying the hardest, you standing there in that restaurant witnessing the scene or him back at the lair watching your world crush around you on his monitor.

· It had taken a while for you both to recover from that night.

· His brothers noticed his melancholy mood for a couple of weeks but Donnie wouldn’t tell them what was bothering him. And you stayed in your bed, refusing to face the world, for nearly as long.

· Eventually, the group began to notice your silence and absence, so April stopped by your apartment to check on you. She was the one to pull you out of bed, get you to shower and eat. She visited everyday and made sure you had someone to vent to and a shoulder to cry on.

· Donnie was glad that April could be there for you when he couldn’t. He didn’t think it was appropriate for him, a male, to be your confidant at that time. Especially since he felt so much guilt over having to be the one to expose you to that pain.

· No, he didn’t CAUSE the pain, but he did have to make you face it and he didn’t like not being able to protect you from it. You were such a rare, precious creature and watching you in pain felt like he was suffocating slowly.

· There were some points during those first few weeks that he questioned if he did the right thing, but logic told him it would have eventually come to pass with or without his involvement. It was better to rip the bandage of quickly and let you start to heal than it was to let you linger and drag out the inevitable.

· Donnie did secretly check on you every single night during patrol. And, of course, his surveillance feeds were always running. He watched from a distance as his beautiful phoenix burn down to ashes and, eventually, started to rise again.

· Now, it’s been over 3 months and you’ve begun to be more like your old self. Donnie can tell there is a silent sadness there, but you are able to laugh and smile with the group during your get togethers. And each time you two are left alone, his mind nags at him about those last two sticking points.

· Would you be at all interested in him? And HOW does he go about telling you that you have become the center of his world?

· Still staring at the monitor and the Stalker definition, Donnie sighs and rubs the bridge of his snout to release of the pressure now pushing against the inside of his head. The memories of what has happened, the emotions of what was and what is, it was all starting to be too much.

· “Bro, what’s all this?”, Mikey says standing behind Donnie’s chair, talking around a mouth full of pizza.

· “NOTHING!”, says Donnie, voice breaking from the stress of being caught. A startled Donnie quickly taps some keys on his keyboard and the screens revert back to the standard lair camera feeds.

· Mikey may look or even come off as naïve at times, but he’s no fool, he can sense that his older brother is trying to hide something. “Dude, seriously, what was that? I’ve been standing back here reading the screens. I saw Y/N’s name and that looked like her phone number on that other file…, you know the file that looks like texts messages. And why is there a plotted map of the area around her apartment, her work, and to the lair? What’s up?”, Mikey said giving a disapproving look at being thought a pushover.

· “Just standard surveillance, Mikey, nothing to worry about.”, Donnie says trying to placate Mikey’s curiosity. Donnie hates lying, especially to Mikey, but he’s feeling so guilty about being such a…(inward sigh)…stalking creep that admitting the truth is hard to do.

· Mikey stands there staring at Donnie and, as he does, Donnie begins to fidget with his computer chair armrests.

· Mikey stuffs the remnants of the pizza slice into his mouth and does his best Leo impersonation by crosses his arms and staring down at Donnie as sternly as his jolly face can achieve, “Dude, I’m not going to ask you again. You’ve been weird for months. We’ve let it go for the most part but now you are hiding things from me…from ME, dude! You and I, we’re like peanut butter and jelly, we’re ice cream and chocolate fudge, we young dudes have got to stick together. Trust me, bro, I’ve got you!”.

· Donnie stared at the floor, too ashamed to meet Mikey’s eyes any longer. He gave a heavy sigh and reluctantly started to speak, “Sorry Mike, I…I honestly don’t know what’s come over me lately. I’m doing things I never thought I would do, I’m feeling so guilty about it, but I don’t know if I can stop doing it either. I feel…lost.”.

· Mike relaxed his leader stance and leaned against one of Donnie’s lab tables, “Bro, I can tell you’ve been carrying some heavy stuff lately. You need to let it out.”

· Donnie felt the heat rise up through his body like he was suddenly being consumed by a fire and he ripped his glasses off his face and drew them down on the desk in frustration, “Mikey, I’m in love with Y/N. I have been for a while. I have been…”, Donnie hangs his head in shame, “…tracking all her digital foot prints and watching her. In fact, I’m the reason she found out that asshole boyfriend of her's cheated.”

· Mikey’s mouth drops open at Donnie’s demeanor and use of the word ‘asshole’, “Whoa, dude, why didn’t you say something earlier?”.

· Donnie can feel a stinging at the corners of his eyes, this was so embarrassing, so frustrating, so…..so many things at a once. He didn’t have a response for Mikey, all he could do was shake his head.

· Still with his head hung down and staring at the floor, Donnie starts to hear Mikey chuckle. Donnie looks up to see Mikey’s eyes on him and for some reason they are full of merriment at his painful dilemma. Donnie stares at his, normally, very considerate brother in astonishment, this isn’t like Mikey at all!

· “Mikey, I’m more than serious here, now is not the time to make fun of me. What is so funny?”, Donnie asks exasperatedly.

· Mikey shakes his bald head and claps his brother on the shoulder with his green hand, “Bro, she thinks you’re cute.”.

· “W-What?!”, Donnie stammers out.

· Mikey, still chuckling, says, “Yeah, dude, that’s why I asked WHY you didn’t say something about liking her sooner, she’s always thought you were cute. She and I talk about it all the time.”.

· Donnie just stares at his jolly brother in silence. His mind is too blown to form a sentence.

· Mikey turns to leave stating, “And by the way, dude, stop watching her like that…that’s just creepy.”.

@turtle-babe83 @tmntspidergirl @kokokatsworld @nittleboo @the-second-circle-of-shell

[thedandelion-writer]

❝what is beautiful and what is not❞

Summary: Albedo just wants to know. Why is it that you called him that?

A/N: Hi. Just wanted to do something self indulgent to avoid burnout (gotta finished the event soon aaa). Though, sorry for the slow output for regular requests and such. Exams are over next week so I'll be writing a lot more! And yes this was inspired by this post. Anon, you have successfully made me Albedo brainrot \\\

"Albedo," you called out to him. "My arms are cramping."

"Don't move starlight, I'm almost finished."

You sighed, but lovingly. You focused on him as he peeked out from behind the canvas occasionally to get a better look at the details to ignore the numbing in your arms and neck

The lighting had been exceptional this morning, and when he saw this, Albedo insisted to paint you. Again.

Not that you mind though, it was really sweet of him to do so, and you always praised the outcome.

"And finished," Albedo turned the easel round for your view. "Is it to your liking?"

You were supposed to be looking at the painting, you knew, but you found your sights wandering to the painter instead.

Albedo ran a hand through his hair, which was still rather messy since he had just woken up from a late night of experimenting. A dash of white on his cheek, a white blouse that exposed his chest and a loosely buckled belt.

In contrast with his usual neat demeanor, you found his rather lax appearance right now quite charming.

So much so that you felt as if you were in a trance, because you unconsciously muttered the words,"...you're so beautiful."

"Oh?" Albedo looked at you with an expression of interest, combined with a light dusting of colour on his cheeks. "But beauty is subjective darling, I may not be to another."

You didn't even get the chance to be embarrassed. Because what the heck was that answer? Wouldn't your opinion, as his s/o matter more?

Your mouth opened to retort, defending your views, but the words caught in your throat as you felt the wood of the tip of a paintbrush meet your chin.

"Tell me, what is it that make me 'beautiful' in your eyes?"

Now it was your turn to blush, heart thumping so loudly you could hear it in your ears. It was not like him to fish for compliments. Albedo probably genuinely wanted to know.

"Well," you moved closer to him so that you were sitting on his thigh, fiddling with one of his buttons. "Your eyes look like the sun has just hit an icy lake."

"Mhm that would make a good scene indeed," he said,"do go on."

"Your hair is beautiful too, akin to spun gold," you twirled a lock of his hair, kissing it and admiring how his ears turned a slight red because of that.

In retaliation, Albedo nipped at your collarbone, making you stutter.

Although struggling to keep your voice stable, you continued,"also how hard working you are, your curiosity, determination and mind amongst other things...you're beautiful, Albedo."

At this point, you were full on flushed, burying your face in the crook of his neck. You wonder if he could feel your heart beat in this proximity.

"Hm, is that so?" you heard him say. "Fascinating."

"What?" you retracted to look at his face, a little confused by his answer. "You sound like someone who found something out, not someone who just received compliments!"

"Oh, but I did find something starlight," Albedo gestured for you to stand up so he could too. "You simply prompted me to finding out how different people can affect the results of "what is beautiful and what is not". You simply made me the subject and I am honoured."

He began buttoning up his shirt and straightening his hair.

"This would surely be a nice side-project to research on after my current workload is finished," Albedo proceeds to get ready for work, completely oblivious to your stunned self. "This might make for interesting discoveries on perspective. Both people and beauty are fickle, after all."

He finished his little ramble with a kiss you and a goodbye.

You sunk back onto the chair. "That's not...what I wanted to get out of this," you said to yourself.

Now alone, and probably late for your guarding shift, you let your fingers trace over the now-dry painting, disappointment and confusion quickly turning into a smile that spread across your face, "ah well, as long as he's happy."

[the-kings-tail-fin]

Funny/ sad idea for the adoptive au like someone saying how cute little Monty is and what a great dad doc is etc and he just without thinking goes "oh I'm not his dad" and lightning looks at him in complete shock "your not?" And doc has to try and explain what he meant to an increasingly confused and upset Monty :)

Oh, man. The feels. Since the RS folks probably don’t know his real name, we’re gonna act like “Monty” never existed and he’s just been Lightning from the start, if that’s cool :)

“Thanks for the tune up, Doc.” the old Ford pickup truck extended his gratitude as the two of them exited Doc’s clinic. “Heck, if I didn’t live so far away, I’d ask to be a regular patient.”

“Glad I could help you out.” Doc wasn’t one for flattery, but he was satisfied that his services were still considered top notch by this traveler. “Next time though, make sure your timing’s right before you go ‘cross country, else you’ll end up with a knock.”

“I’ll remember tha-  whoa!”

A tiny streak of red came zipping around the corner of the clinic from Doc’s garage and nearly ran into the pickup, only to oversteer at the last moment and drive directly into a nearby tumbleweed before coming to a stop.

“Kid, what did I tell you about watchin’ where you’re going?” Doc said with the slightest hint of amusement showing through his professional facade. “You gotta behave yourself when there’s company around.”

Lightning squirmed his way out of the loose bush and tuned to face Doc with a huge grin. He had a few twigs sticking out from his wheel wells and was covered in dust from veering off road. He didn’t seem to notice these inconveniences as he paraded up to the old Hudson and bounced up and down on his front tires once for emphatic effect.

“Twenty-five!” he exclaimed. “I hit twenty-five miles-hour!”

Doc chuckled and reached over to pull the sticks out from underneath the kid’s fenders and brush the dust off. “Did you, now? That’s a new record!” he commended. “Keep it up and you just might be a racer one day.”

Lighting revved his engine and started skidding around in circles, showing off to the traveler, who was still sitting beside Doc, watching the scene play out with amusement and adoration.

“Cute kid, Doc.” the Ford complimented him again. “You must be one heck of a father.”

“Oh, I’m not his father.” Doc corrected him, turning to face the road and guide his customer into the rest of town. “We all look after him here. How about you go get yourself something at Flo’s before you head out of town? Tell her it’s on me.”

“Shoot, thanks, man. I’ll make sure and tell everyone I meet that if they ever break down, they should do it near this town. I appreciate it.” the truck was genuinely humbled by the gesture.

Doc smiled and nodded as the truck cruised down towards the station. He then turned back towards his clinic, but stopped when he saw Lightning looking at him with confusion strung across his face.

“You’re not?” he asked, staring Doc straight in the eyes.

“Not wha- ?” Doc stopped mid thought as he realized what’d happened. “Oh.”

He looked down at the little red racecar and saw tears begin to well up across his windshield. Doc felt guilt wash over him as he thought about what it must sound like to a kid to hear their adoptive parent say they’re not actually who they appear to be.

“Do- do you not want me anymore?” Lightning’s voice grew smaller and shakier as he tried to fathom Doc not being his father.

“What?” Doc wasn’t prepared for such a cutting question. “No! I- I mean, of course I want to-” 

He stuttered, trying to find the words to explain what he meant to the young child. Lightning looked almost scared, and started to slowly back away. Doc sighed and put on the most caring persona he could muster.

“Lightnin’, listen. I want to explain something to you. Will you come with me?” Doc asked him, driving towards his garage slowly.

Lightning hesitated and didn’t answer right away. If Doc wasn’t his father, did that mean he couldn’t trust him anymore? He looked up at the old blue car driving away before glancing at the rest of the town. Did that mean they weren’t family either? He suddenly felt very lonely.

“You comin’?” Doc called to him. 

Lightning wanted so bad to follow him. He thought back on all the good times they’d had. A couple words couldn’t change all that, could they? Doc was still a good person, right? His curiosity got the best of him, and despite his sudden onset sniffles, followed Doc into his garage.

Once they were inside, Doc flipped on a few lights and shut the doors behind them so Lightning would feel more secured (and less likely to run out). Then he turned to face the shaky, emotional child.

“Kiddo, do you know what family is? What it means to be a part of a family?” Doc asked.

Lightning nodded almost immediately and blinked away a few tears. Doc sat in silence for a while, looking at him expectantly. Lightning realized he wanted a verbal answer and tried to swallow the rising sob in his throat.

“It’s when there’s a mom and dad car with kids. Sometimes there’s aunts and uncles and cousins and stuff too.” he answered to the best of the ability.

“Well, that’s one definition, kid.” Doc smiled at him, trying be as comforting as he could manage. “But a family can be a lot of different things. Did you know that members of a family don’t have to be directly related?”

That concept was new to Lightning, so he shook himself ‘no’. He always thought the mom and dad car were a married couple that decided one day they wanted to take care of a smaller car, so they went out and got one. But as he thought about that definition, he realized Doc wasn’t married, and if Doc was supposed to be his dad, then who was his mom? That line of reasoning didn’t make the least bit of sense.

“Sometimes a family can be what you just described.” Doc continued. “But sometimes, a family is a group of people that really care about each other and take care of each other. Take a look at the folks in town - they all live together in harmony and are there for each other, just like a traditional family. Does that make sense?”

Lightning frowned as he considered it, but nodded. “But how do they decide when to have kids if there’s no mom or dad?”

“Well, you see sometimes the kids just show up.” Doc explained as simply as possible. “That’s what happened with you. You came to us, and we took you in. We swore we’d never let anything bad happen to you, and that we’d love you and take care of you just like a regular family would. You see, family isn’t about sharing a last name or physical traits with someone else. It’s about the relationships and love you have for those around you. It’s about caring for and supporting those who you truly care about. 

“When I told that truck I wasn’t your father, I meant I wasn’t your father in a hereditary sense. But you know what? I still consider you my son, and I love you as a son. I don’t have to be your physical father in order to be a dad for you, kid.”

That was a lot of information, but it all made sense. Lightning felt a little better, but it was going to be some time before he could reconcile this new definition and idea of family with what he’d always thought. He realized the townsfolk weren’t any different, even if they weren’t direct family. Nothing as he knew it would change with this knew knowledge other than his perspective.

“Can I still call you dad?” he asked a little timidly.

Doc looked down on him, noticed the tears had disappeared, and smiled. “Of course. You can call me whatever you want. Within reason, though!”

“Okay, dad.” Lightning smiled and immediately spun around to push through the double doors, ready to see the world in a new light.

[seigexweapon]

I present to you this

Scenes/Things in Supernatural that genuinely don't make sense to me if Dean was straight:

The confession booth scene.

Sam just rolling with the fact that Dean's siren is a guy while still thinking sirens infect people through sex.

Dean being flustered by several men: Gunner Lawless, Aaron, Doctor Sexy, etc.

All the parallels between Destiel and other couples. (A big one being "last night on Earth" bc how do you do that accidentally.)

Having all the gay jokes be on Dean instead of Sam.

Paralleling Sam meeting his childhood celebrity crush with Dean meeting Gunner Lawless.

The boner Dean got when Cas cleaned up.

Dean gulping after Cas does an impression from a Western movie.

Charlie, a lesbian, calling Castiel "dreamy."

The way Mary looks at Dean and Cas when they hug.

Dean wondering why everyone assumes he's gay, while Sam not caring.

The logic that Charlie can't flirt with guys because she's only attracted to women, but then having Dean flirt with the guy for her.

Dean seeming disappointed when learning that Aaron's flirting was fake.

The amount of time Dean and Cas spend staring at each other.

Dean canonically having an orgy with Crowley.

A woman saying that she knows when someone's pining for someone else to Dean, just for us to learn that Dean was never in love with Amara.