#S-Hawk was SERVING in this episode

[beif0ngs]

S✪Hawk

[deantrenh]

Let's take a closer look at the 80s. Yes, there are few of them, but we will look at them anyway.

In one of the episodes (if my memory serves me correctly, this is specifically the 4th episode)

Hawke says, " He is as zealous in his (Tim)leftist views as he was with McCarthy's support"

Do you see that smile on his face? He is literally looking at the person with whom Hawk would be willing to share his entire life until his death. But society and time dictated their own rules to them .I think that look literally says, "I fucked up everything.But I'm so glad to see my boy. "At that point, Hawk already knew that Skippy was very few left. We've seen Fuller's reaction to this. And I understand that it's not easy for both of us. Because both of them couldn't be absolutely happy.And I'm truly sorry. what is LGBT And I'm truly sorry. what is LGBTK+ The community had to go through so much pain and horror in order to gain freedom. And that the fight for it is still ongoing. Just imagine how many such "Hawks and Skippies" there were, how many died and how many more will die simply because society and the government say that this is "wrong and contradicts completely incomprehensible principles and views"

It 's the same here . Tim was able to find a little bit of happiness only when he was already dying. But when Hawk arrived and they just had dinner, they just sat with friends. And at the same time, as soon as Hawk sat down in the circle, their gazes crossed with Tim. It would be therapy for them, for all of them, even though they had a little quarrel later. But in a long-term relationship, this is not something new.In the 80s, they would have screwed up everything that they had missed. I can't even imagine how Hawk felt when Skippy was taken to the hospital. Because here it is an emotional break literally. And the moment when he goes to bed with Skippy and a lot of such small moments warm my soul and make me believe in their love. In their sincerity . I think I like how their relationship started and what it eventually led to. We see the price for homosexual relationships at that time. I promise that in my head these two are together and happy. Because they deserve a good ending there and all that they didn't get in the canonical universe. The 80s are a reflection for us for We see the truly happy within the limits of the possible Timi, we see the happy within the limits of the possible Hawk. Yes, there will always be flaws and irregularities in their relationship. But a healthy relationship is one where both partners are satisfied with everything. That's why it's interesting to watch. And of course, thanks a lot to Jonathan and Matt for these two wonderful characters. For how you feel about them, capturing all these microscopic moments that I will be looking at under the microscope of my heart for a long time.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Stephen A. Crockett Jr. at HuffPost:

I’ve always been stunned at former President Donald Trump’s physical prowess.

I mean, who can forget when his White House director of communications, Anthony Scaramucci, gushed about witnessing Trump throw a perfect spiral through a tire? Or his claim that he’s seen the confirmed thousand-aire at Madison Square Garden in a top coat at the foul line swishing free throws? And despite all of us knowing that the former president’s diet relies heavily on fast food, that didn’t stop his White House physician, now Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), from praising his genetics. “Some people just have great genes,” Jackson told reporters in 2018. “I told the president if he had a healthier diet over the last 20 years, he might live to be 200.” So it has been quite the show watching the gymnast-like contortions of the former president to avoid getting to know, or actually court, Black people to support his campaign. Earlier this month, in his latest episode of “See? Black people like me!” the president stood during an obvious photo-op at an Atlanta Chick-fil-A while smiling Black workers appeared to pose while taking his order. Trump reportedly ordered 30 milkshakes and some chicken, dealing out fast food for free publicity before heading to a high-dollar fundraiser in a largely white neighborhood.

A Black woman in the restaurant said, in her best untrained actor voice, “I don’t care what the media tells you, Mr. Trump, we support you!” I later found out the Black woman was in fact Michaelah Montgomery, a conservative activist who had arranged the entire scene. To her credit, the bigger story was supposed to be a conversation between students from nearby HBCUs and the presidential candidate about conservatism and possible inroads with the Black community. The moment became a meme. As with most Trump moments. Because what Trump and those around him don’t understand or care to involve themselves with is that Black people, more specifically Black women (also known as the spine of the Democratic voting bloc), are three dimensional, alive, actual human beings.

In Trumpland, Black people are caricatures of all of the worst stereotypes that have ever been imagined. They are rapists, thieves and murderers who want to terrorize… wait, no, that’s immigrants. But the point remains: The idea of even possibly courting Black voters never moves past stereotypical ideology. Which is comical when you consider that in 2024, the year of our lord Dawn Staley, an actual presidential strategy for winning the Black vote was… wait for it… sneakers. In February, Trump unveiled his $399 “Never Surrender High-Tops” at SneakerCon in Philadelphia. Trump didn’t just premiere the gaudy gold high-top decorated with an American flag motif, the sort of faux patriotism that’s truly become Trump’s signature brand, he actually went to the event to help hawk the ridiculousness that was an attempt to capture not just youth culture but ... well, I’ll just let Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo say the quiet part out loud. “This is ... connecting with Black America. Because they’re into sneakers. They love sneakers. This is a big deal. Certainly in the inner city.”

Arroyo got bashed for his take, as he should, but his take was a glimpse into how many Republicans, especially Trump, see Black people as sneaker-loving, inner-city dwelling and easily swayed by shiny, expensive things. It’s Republican typecasting in which a Black person remains the villain/magical negro who serves only to further the white protagonist’s storyline. And make no mistake about it, in the story of Trump, as told by the narcissistic narrator, the former president is always the hero.

Which brings us to Blacks 4 Trump (aka Black Voices for Trump), you know, that hodgepodge group of Blacks (mostly men) who have proclaimed their allegiance to Trump and who stump for him despite his lackluster attempts at any tangible metrics with the Black community. Don’t act like you don’t remember Michael Symonette, Maurice Woodside and Mikael Israel (these are not three people; it’s one man who has gone by three names), more commonly know as “Michael the Black Man” (his name for himself, not mine) who magically appeared behind Trump at a 2017 rally in Arizona. Always strategically placed in the camera’s view wearing a shirt that says “Trump & Republicans Are Not Racist” or “Blacks 4 Trump.” The funny thing is that the group Blacks 4 Trump didn’t ever seem to really do anything other than allow their Blackness to be co-opted for the then-president’s political gain. The group didn’t have an agenda or a political manifesto (at least it never presented one) that noted how Trump could actually earn the Black vote. They just showed up and allowed their images to be used to sell a product.

Because, never forget, Trump is always in the Trump business. Which leads to arguably the most disturbing attempt by Trump’s campaign to court Black voters, which Trump’s camp openly admits they need to win over in the upcoming election: Insisting that because Black people have been the victims of an unjust criminal system, they relate to Trump more because he, too, is a victim of the Man.

[...] Trump acknowledges that there is discrimination and, more important, that Black people have been discriminated against. This means nothing to him, of course, as that only serves to get him to his second point, which is that he can relate, which therefore makes him more relatable to the discriminated class. He doesn’t want to fix the problem, he only wants to leech off of the sympathies related to it. It is in this brushstroke that Trump ― who has been charged by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, a Black woman; Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Black man; and New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Black woman ― that he, too, is a victim of systemic racism.

“When I did the mug shot in Atlanta, that mug shot is number one,” Trump said. He added that the Black population “embraced it more than anyone else.” He also said: “I’m being indicted for you, the Black population.” First, the obvious. I’ll just let President Joe Biden’s campaign spokesperson Jasmine Harris explain it. “The audacity of Donald Trump to speak to a room full of Black voters during Black History Month as if he isn’t the proud poster boy for modern racism. This is the same man who falsely accused the Central Park 5, questioned George Floyd’s humanity, compared his own impeachment trial to being lynched and ensured the unemployment gap for Black workers spiked during his presidency,” Harris told The Washington Post.

“Donald Trump has been showing Black Americans his true colors for years: an incompetent, anti-Black tyrant who holds us to such low regard that he publicly dined with white nationalists a week after declaring his 2024 candidacy.”

Stephen Crockett Jr. wrote in HuffPost that Donald Trump's attempt to court Black voters is based on stereotypical traits of Blacks from a conservative POV, including by claiming to relate to being victims of an unjust criminal system that Black folk face.

[damnitiloveyou]

This part of an interview that Max Gao did with Ron Nyswaner and Robbie Rogers (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna122481) perfectly sums up my feelings towards 80s Hawk and the complexities of Hawk/Tim's relationship by the time we see them in 1986:

“In the ’80s, you see a side of Hawk that is much softer, and even if it’s a look or him going to San Francisco to see Tim, you’re like, ‘Oh, there is something more here that he’s not showing us.’ It takes Hawk much longer to express and to see how much he loves Tim,” Rogers previewed. “I think early on you get a sense of that, because we’re not just with him in the ’50s where Hawk is much harder. But when you see old Hawk, it’s impossible not to feel for him as well.”

Although there are moments in the series when Tim could have cut Hawk loose for making self-serving decisions that put an intentional strain on their relationship, Rogers said he doesn’t think of Tim as someone who should be pitied for how his life has turned out with or without Hawk.

“We all behave differently, and we all protect ourselves in different ways,” Rogers said. “Tim is much more expressive, and he would maybe even more so than Hawk believe that he deserves love. Although I wanted to protect him, I never felt any pity for him, because their love story is complicated — and I think the best ones are.”

Yes! That is perfect!! Hawk is complicated and messy and infuriating. No one is arguing that but I don't understand how some people refuse to acknowledge his pain or why he is the way he is. Tim and Lucy are not the only victims and rather people like it or not (some of you look away) they're not victims of Hawk. They are all victims of the era they were born into. Hawk and Tim were not allowed to openly be who they truly were. Lucy grew up being told she had to be a wife and mother. Marry a respectable man with a respectable job, who also has the approval of her father. She was then instructed to just close her eyes to the uglier parts of her marriage. None of them had a chance. The really sad part is that by the time society was in a place where they could have made, at least some, different choices, Tim was the only one who did. He lived a life as true to himself as he could. Sadly for Hawk and Lucy making those choices would have come at a higher cost. Neither one was willing to do that, and I don't fault them for staying where it was comfortable and familiar.

I do believe Lucy was in love with Hawk at one time, I do not believe she's in love with him anymore, and I don't think she has been for a long time. I think she only knows this one way of life, which Hawk represents, and the idea of not having it scares her, as it would anyone. Hawk has never been in love with her. He loves her in his own way but he has never been in love with her. He can't love her like that. It's not who he is. He is in love with Tim and Lucy has known this since the 50's. You can make the argument that Hawk robbed her of a chance at a life with a man who could have loved her like that, and that's a fair argument to make. It's why I genuinely don't understand the group of people who want the two of them to run off to Milan together in the last episode. That's a fraudulent life and they have been living that life long enough. They both need out.

I really liked the comment about not pitying Tim. I don't pity him for spending his life being in love with Hawk. I pity that he's dying and at this point in our history no one in a position to help gave a shit that he was dying. I wonder if we will see Hawk have this realization as well. The man he loves is dying and he can't do anything to help him but there are people who could and those people just didn't care. I keep waiting for his snap moment and I feel like it will happen in the last episode.

[thebreakfastgenie]

Tbh I think the joker is wild is only so disliked because of where it is in the shows whacky continuity. If it didn’t air like 7 episodes before GFA where we see Hawk at his lowest it would’ve been better received and not so much as BJ fuckin with his deeply mentally unwell friend. Honestly I could see it taking place a little bit after period of adjustment as another form of BJ coming to terms with this is going to be his life for a while. Trapper left, Radar left. Bj is stuck. Idk when I was younger I always loved it cuz haha Bj pranks his friend !! But now I have mixed feelings

I can't speak to why anyone else dislikes The Joker Is Wild. For me, it's the following reasons:

As you said, it feels cruel to do to Hawkeye in season 11, especially in hindsight knowing what's coming. In that sense, it probably would play better if it happened earlier in the show. That being said, the narrative of that episode seems to assert that Hawkeye deserves it, and I don't think that was ever true. It's disproportionate to drive him to paranoia, but more than that, Hawkeye's pranks were rarely cruel, and when they were the victim was Margaret or Frank or, on a handful of occasions, Charles (BJ always helped with those) and it was never acknowledged as cruel. I think it was @majorbaby who first suggested this episode would be excellent if Margaret was the mastermind and I agree. That would be a well-executed continuity nod and a successful metacommentary on the early seasons of the show. As written, it is neither of those things.

I struggle to believe that Margaret or Mulcahy or Klinger or someone wouldn't have questioned the plan once it became apparent how it was affected Hawkeye. I know that was impossible because of the reveal, but I think it's unfair to those characters (for reference, I don't think Fallen Idol is unfair to any of them or OOC).

This episode characterizes pranks as cruel which they never were on MASH before. Even episodes like April Fools and An Eye for a Tooth end with even the victims laughing. The exceptions are, of course, early pranks on Frank and Margaret, but they were antagonists and considered deserving. Dear Sigmund, the episode that establishes BJ as a prankster, is pretty straightforward about what pranks mean at the 4077th. Sidney describes the practical joker as a folk hero. The pranks are meant to make everyone laugh and they serve to boost morale. Even the victims usually enjoy them and they're fairly harmless.

The Joker Is Wild tries to do a continuity nod--rare for M*A*S*H--and does it badly. This is more or less unforgivable to me. All of the references to Trapper as a gifted practical joker make no sense, because that was never Trapper's thing. Trapper only ever participated in pranks with Hawkeye, and while the offscreen ones may have been more equal, onscreen Hawkeye masterminded them. Hawkeye has an entire storyline in Showtime where he engages in a solo prank war against Frank; Trapper is not involved. By contrast, pranks are BJ's thing, as established in Dear Sigmund.

The pranks just aren't good. The ones BJ does, the ones Hawkeye talks about that Trapper supposedly came up with... their sophistication and epicness are purely informed attributes. If you're going to do this kind of an episode, you need writers who are good at pranks. An Eye for a Tooth works because it was based on a real prank war in the cast.

BJ was already unsympathetic to me when he nailed Hawkeye's shoe to the floor because For Want of a Boot really struck a nerve for me and he just left a hole in that shoe!!!

BJ did not win the bet. There is no room for interpretation here. There is no "well the real point was..." It doesn't matter, because the episode treats it as if he won the bet, and he did not. The bet was not that he could get Hawkeye, it was that he could get six people. He got one person. He lost. Period. What bothers me the most about this is I don't think the writers realized this. I think they forgot what the bet actually was. The meat of this episode is the rivalry between BJ and Hawkeye and I think somewhere along the line someone just failed to notice that the set-up didn't make sense. That's sloppy writing and I dislike it.

Most of these issues are magnified by bingewatching. I think a casual viewer--and even a lot of dedicated viewers in the 80s--gets what you got as a kid: haha, BJ pranks his friends! If you can enjoy it on that level, good for you! I can't change that I watched the show in sequence and it made me deeply uncomfortable (and I do think it's poorly written). I would personally not like it more if it came after Period of Adjustment, but I might if it happened in seasons 4-6.

[cartoonygothopossum]

Ladybug and Cat Noir: The Movie

I saw this movie being mentioned a couple times on social media, but when I first became aware, I had not yet caught up with the latest episodes of the main series. Thankfully, I managed to avoid spoilers, for the most part, except for that one fan art that I liked on Tumblr. So, over five months after its initial theatrical release, I got around to seeing it. The movie was sweet, romantic, and action-packed, just like the series it was based off of.

The first thing I noticed about the movie was that the character models all looked... different. The art style looked closer to what I tend to see in most recent Disney movies. I wonder what the reason(s) for the different art style was. I didn't expect that the movie would be a musical, also like a lot of Disney movies. I enjoyed the songs, though I would've preferred if they were sung in the characters' normal voices. Speaking of voices, I thought there was something different about the characters' speaking voices too, but when I checked online, it appeared that most of the English dub cast reprised their roles. Actually, the only character whose voice sounded completely different in the movie was Nooroo, who had a feminine voice in the movie but a masculine one in the show. The two criminals that Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth hired looked vaguely familiar, but I don't remember which akumatized characters they were.

At first, I thought that the movie was going to be an in-depth origin story for Marinette and Adrien, but as the movie progressed, I started wondering how canon it was supposed to be, in relation to the show. The plot moved in a direction that would've contradicted the events of the show. I liked how Adrien called out his dad for being so absent from his life. I was surprised to see Hawk Moth find out that one of his adversaries was his own son, before reverting back to his civilian form. When Gabriel confessed that he was trying to bring his wife back, it looked like there was a chance for redemption. I mean, he seemed remorseful enough. It wasn't clear what exactly happened to Adrien's dad after that scene, but he still would've had to face consequences for his actions. Of course, in keeping faith to the show, Gabriel somehow got a hold of his wife's body and hid it under the house. On a more positive note, I was glad to see Marinette reveal to Adrien that she is Ladybug and that she (probably) figured out Adrien is Cat Noir. Though secret identities serve an important purpose, they can mess with your love life when you have to pretend to be two different people. Overall, I would say this movie functions more like a standalone work than a part of the main show's canon, and perhaps that's not necessarily a bad thing.

[mashficolympics]

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Write about privacy. The lack of it in a place without hard walls. The difficulty in achieving it in the latrine, the showers, your bed, anywhere. Even those who sleep alone - Margaret, for example - can't maintain any sense of genuine privacy. The clerk sleeps indoors, behind a door, and they're always at the ready for the phone. They're cut off from the world, except when they're not, and they're never cut off from each other. It's get used to it or go mad - and the flip side of not having privacy is guarding secrets closely, because there's nothing else. from @cosmictuesdays

"Where are you going to sleep tonight?" "In a bed." from @cosmictuesdays

write a fic about a break up and a makeup. canon at any time — pre, during, and post — or any AU. from anonymous

Write a fic based on the plot of a Grey’s Anatomy episode — preferably one from seasons 1-5. from @quolant

[ TW : main character death ] The Life You Save AU where the sniper didn’t miss Charles. The rest of the camp is left to cope with the loss of the life they couldn’t save. from anonymous [FILLED]

[ TW : gunshot injury , main character injury ] Deal Me Out AU where, in the struggle to save Frank from the gunman, Trapper winds up being shot. from anonymous

Crisis AU where Charles is there and he and Henry are both snoring in The Swamp. from anonymous

someone has an injury that requires they be on crutches for a bit, and we see how everyone chips in to help them out. carrying stuff for them, getting their tray ready in the mess tent, helping them balance, etc. from anonymous

someone gets bridal/princess carried for any reason. injury, asleep, for the bit, just because. from anonymous [FILLED]

Takes place after Rally ‘Round the Flagg, Boys where a vengeful and completely unhinged Colonel Flagg returns to get his revenge on Charles for outsmarting him. Only to get outsmarted by him again. from anonymous

peg character development fic, gay or bi awakening while bj is away. from @hyperbo-lee

punnicutt noir au (pls i will freak out with joy) especially if hawk and bj are the Very Smart private investigators on the surface and peg is the Actual Brains Behind It. from @hyperbo-lee

McLean and Wayne don’t leave at the end of Season 3 but Alan does and is replaced by DOS. So we have Henry, Trapper, Frank, and Charles. from anonymous

[prince-of-elsinore]

Dear M*A*S*H: S1 Ep 02 “To Market, to Market”

Previous episode here.

This is a tight episode that establishes some important recurring aspects of the series, namely the black market and idiocy, absurdity, and inefficiency of military bureaucracy and regulation. It is supremely ironic that Hawkeye and Trapper must scam to save lives; they must lie to the army in order to do the job the army expects and pays them to do--or at least, to do it well. Here is a further development on the theme established in the pilot, that the priority of these surgeons is saving lives, not merely ticking off boxes and following orders--doing things “the army way.” The episode provides a snapshot of how impossibly broken and corrupt the system they find themselves in is: black market and army both, each making the doctors’ jobs impossible, squeezing them from both sides.

The show never misses a chance to lampoon the brass: General Hammond won’t provide the hospital with more hydrocortisone, which will presumably save lives, because they’ve already received the allotted supply. Never mind if it was stolen; the box has been ticked off. And the General has more important things to do than talk to a lowly Lt. Colonel pleading for life-saving medicine; he has a meeting with MacArthur. Self-obsession, self-aggrandizement, and absurdly misplaced priorities are the hallmarks of the military and every antagonist on the show.

Crucially, the answer the characters provide to the problem of rampant theft is not stricter regulation and harsher discipline. If you can’t get rid of it, work with it. The solution to theft and the black market is: theft and the black market.

Charlie, the black market boss Hawkeye and Trapper go to see, is a stark contrast to General Hammond in many ways. First of all, check out his sweater and silk scarf. He looks relaxed and approachable. And the guy clearly cares about appearances, a fact Hawkeye picks up on and uses to his advantage. “For Charlie Lee, nothing but the best,” Charlie says with a winning smile and Midwestern accent. He’s personable, enjoys the finer things in life, and comes across as reasonable. No, he won’t help Hawk and Trap out of the goodness of his heart; he’s not running a charity. But he has real, concrete reasons for turning them down, unlike Hammond, who refused on empty, abstract principle. And when Hawkeye makes an offer that appeals to his vanity, he can’t refuse.

It’s also worth pointing out that Charlie and Hammond--who is simply the Brass of the Week--aren’t so different at their cores. There are plenty of instances over the course of the series wherein military men are shown to be equally susceptible to self-serving plans, even if they go against regulation. While not the focus of this episode, the hypocrisy of the brass and their “do as I say not as I do” attitude is often put in the spotlight. In this respect, the biggest difference between Charlie and Hammond is simply that Charlie never pretends to be anything he isn’t. The criminal world is like a fun house mirror to the military; it reflects back its human flaws, but wears them proudly on its sleeve.

You all know how it turns out; Henry’s oak desk, introduced as nothing but a gag about Henry’s own self-obsession, becomes the linchpin of the caper, the leverage that will allow Hawkweye and Trapper to get the hydrocortisone. Of course, stealing from one man overly concerned with appearances to give to another is presented as a morally correct action. Stealing from the rich, to give to the rich, and get what they need for the poor. Hawk and Trap are the Robin Hoods of the 4077. And while Henry is far more sympathetic and likable than either Hammond or Charlie, his fate is narratively sealed in his opening scene when he appears far more concerned with his shiny new toy than with the doctors’ dilemma. For the sake of ethics, he’s got to be taken down a peg.

(Seriously, Henry, why are you looking at your desk like that? While rubbing it and talking about solidity and strength?)

Other thoughts:

This episode was especially egregious with the use of “humorous” music cues and stingers: for instance, the “boing” sound when they open the back of the truck to find it empty. I assumed moments like that might be made slightly less awkward by a laugh track, but I checked and that’s a moment without the canned laughs!

I don’t think we ever hear again that weird “funky” version of Suicide is Painless that plays at the end as the helicopter flies off with the desk. Thank goodness.

Biggest laugh: Frank and Margaret’s exchange in Henry’s office in the dark while Hawkeye and Trapper hide behind the desk. Frank’s idea of seduction is truly something else. “Us, you, me... meeting like this... the way the flashlight catches your hair.” Cringe humor before cringe humor was a thing.

Parting thoughts: Overall, a solid follow up to the pilot. In fact, “To Market, to Market” is a classic caper that I was surprised came so early in the series, considering how that final gag of the helicopter flying off with Henry’s desk has stuck in my mind. 

[toastess-with-the-mostess]

Let's Rewind! Toast watches Voltron: Defender of The Universe (1984)

Season 1, Episode 13: The Witch Gets a Facelift

Man they really didn't pull punches with their titles huh I hope we can bring that back

Oh shit Haggar herself is on Arus this time?? Shit's about to get REAL

Hunk is reduced to a fat joke Pidge is an animal whisperer! He calls over a carrier (messenger?) hawk after the boys see it land inside a potted plant in the castle

Allura got so excited that another kingdom on Arus had survived and ran out in only a towel, to which the boys laughed about instead of gawking at her (except Keith I think) Once she has a robe on Coran tells her it's from her aunt Orla, her mother's sister maybe her mother was a half sibling? Still trying to make sense of why she was buried outside lol

I know Allura is excited to see a possible relative but Coran is right, it might not be good news or her at all

She looks cute! She's getting to the castle by carriage Except Haggar jumps them and steals her identity

"Orla" is found unconscious by the team and Pidge is yelling about someone being no good for knocking her out, but his heart eyes say he thinks she's pretty

Haggar can't hide that she's cold-blooded so when Allura tells "Orla" she's freezing she lies and says it's from shock When Nanny tries to kiss her hand she rips it away making her fall and getting a laugh from the boys, as they should

Man Haggar can't even fake being nice, she takes one look at the mice and yells about them being disgusting They walk off pissed that she insulted them like that

Now her cat is at the castle to get rid of the mice, but they're seen by Pidge and now everyone is on high alert And Keith being Keith, he guesses the plot immediately after being told Haggar is nearby

Allura obviously is pissed that they even think that, so she dismisses it Once again I get why she's so defensive but there have been like 2 other times at least that someone has disguised themselves as an ally only to be the enemy

Hunk yells for the cat, and then get s face full of it's claws I feel bad that he's almost always the punching bag

The floor is waxed in prep for the mice to lead the cat to the team, except when they get there, Lance Pidge and Hunk are dumbasses and slip on the wax Keith is the only one smart enough to use a rope to catch the cat

Honestly I don't think it was the best idea to expose Haggar in front of a group of people because imagine who she could if it wasn't any of them or Allura But that's what they do, and she reveals herself before Keith can through a bowl of punch on her Classy commander

See I was right! Nanny comes in to serve more food, but Haggar uses that chance to get a hostage! Guys please plan better ffs

omg Pidge is so cute hiding behind Hunk like that

Haggar is doing such a great job fighting the team omg, she has two of them captured already, and she's taken the lights out so nobody can see Ah shit alfor ex machina strikes again, he's the reason the team is saved and Haggar runs away for the team to bring out their lions

Allura chases after her and almost gets her ass before obviously a robeast gets thrown into the mix and throws Allura into a nearby lake I noticed they've been calling the robeasts claw-beasts, that's an interesting different

ALMOST THERE THE ICONIC PREAMBLE IS ALMOST THERE JUST ONE MORE REVISION

Robeast defeated, Allura finds her real aunt, and now they can actually celebrate that another royal family member survived the initial war

Episode end! I wonder if because Orla is alive and already a queen, then she'd take over ruling Arus for a bit until Allura is of age Especially because they don't know how many other royal houses survived the war, so they'd have control over the planet basically Or maybe Allura's mom married into like The Royal Family and Allura is forever going to be the ruler until she has an heir

[onekisstotakewithme]

I do love how M*A*S*H basically offers up the Poly ship potential on a silver platter.

From season 4 onward we get to see Hawkeye falling in love with BJ, and BJ falling in love with Hawkeye (although both would deny it in the name of their friendship).

But at the same time as BJ is falling in love with Hawkeye, he never falls out of love with his wife, whom he is deeply in love with when he goes to Korea and when he goes home.

One love doesn't replace the other.

In fact, given that Peg and Hawk conspire at least once (in "Oh, How We Danced"), and how there are jokes about it in other episodes, it really is teed up for us that BJ doesn't have to make a choice.

He's stealing a helicopter for Hawkeye one episode and sending his wife money for a down payment on a house the next. He goes home to his wife and daughter but leaves his best friend a heartfelt goodbye (and an implied "I love you").

TL;DR MASH basically served up a poly ship on a silver mess tray, and to that I, a bisexual, say, "finally some good fucking food!"

[beej-honnecticutt]

My M*A*S*H 10x14 ( A Holy Mess ) fav moments;

This was too good so I’m just gonna drop a few facts and encourage everyone to watch it!!

We have two plots:

1- a man has gone AWOL and first Pierce and Hunnicutt try to help him, then send him over to Father Mulcahy.

2- they get fresh ( FRESH ) eggs

( it all makes sense )

So this man goes AWOL and Hawk and BJ kinda cover him, as he’s just a kid and they understand his reasons, but the MP’s eventually find him and he uses Sanctuary.

Father Mulcahy talks to him in the mess tent, and everyone is freaking mad bc they can’t use the mess tent to eat the eggs ( as they’ve locked themselves in it ) and BJ&Hawk try to make time

I loved this scene in particular because Colonel Potter trusts Father Mulcahy SO much ( such a badass Mulcahy episode tbh ) that he also tries to make time for them without making anything ilegal, and when the lieutenant MP insults the Father, he jumps with this:

And here we have them talking with BJ & Hawk on the background trying to keep the crowd of rioting, serving them the eggs as a picnic instead of a brunch

I think everyone should watch it!

[razzle-berry]

Hello! I recently found your blog and saw that you are taking request and I was wondering if you could do some HC of Hawks with a S/O that has Bipolar Disorder??? Hope you feel comfortable doing them but if not, then what about some HC with Hawks with a young S/O (not that young, but maybe three years)? Thank you!

Kinda worried about posting this one, but I can try. I'll do both

Disclaimer: I do not have Bipolar Disorder, and my knowledge on it is purely from an educational standpoint since I am studying psychology and have done research on it. However, I do not have field experience and I am not certified to diagnose or treat any mental illnesses. Please do not take what I say here as a means to self diagnose. Also note that Bipolar Disorder isn't the same for everyone and I tried to keep my writing somewhat vague and general as to not stereotype or exclude anyone.

Warnings: talks of depression and mania, some swearing, Hawks being a little shit

Character(s): Hawks

S/O Who Has Bipolar Disorder

I think that at first he might have had a misconception on Bipolar Disorder and just thought that it meant you were just moody

Once you explain what it actually is he'd actually be very accommodating and tries his best to help you through your moods

He'll do as much research as he can and ask you questions on how to best help you

If you experience frequent manic episodes, he'll take on the role of the voice of reason and tries to keep you from endangering yourself in any way

If you tend to make large purchases during these episodes he'll talk you out of it if it's a really unnecessary one that will serve you no use in the future

If he can't, he honestly might just take over the expenses for the house until you're no longer manic

He learns some grounding techniques to help you if you experience panic attacks or even just general anxiety symptoms

If you experience depressive episodes, he's understanding and makes sure you're taking care of yourself still even it is the bare minimum like brushing your teeth or showering and eating

If you take classes and he'll do his best to help you with them whenever you are depressive or manic since he knows your concentration and drive can depend on which episode you are dealing with at the moment

He'll also help you even if you aren't experiencing an episode

Don't expect him to be much help though in either scenario he's just as confused as you are

If you work, the same thing applies where he'll remind you to wake up to go to work or calls in for you when it's really bad

He encourages you to talk to a therapist and if you have one already he keeps in mind when you have appointments in case you forget, if not he'll help you find one if you need it

He gives you a feather that you can keep with you so that if you need him you can alert him and he encourages you to do so for whatever you need, even if it seems unimportant to you because you're important to him

Medications will be religiously checked and if you're the type to forget to take your medication, he's like your personal alarm

S/O Who Is Younger Than Him

If you happen to be younger than he is, he'll tease you to he'll and back

Like you can be anywhere from a day younger to three years and he will not stop teasing you about it

Will say things like "When I was your age" and "Hush little one, the adults are speaking"

Just punch him at the point he deserves it 😤

And if you're shorter than him???

He's not letting you live that down

"You're short AND younger than me? Damn, kid, double homicide."

Whenever he buys you something, his gag gift to you will be something from the kid's aisle of the store like a block toy set or Mickey Mouse backpack

He's a menace and not ashamed about it

(You ripped your actual bag one day and the only one available was the Mickey Mouse one and he held that over your head for a good month, RIP to you)

He's honestly so protective of you thought it's not even funny

Like if you're not a hero, he will keep you far away from his work and if you are, you're relationship is private. Not even the commission really knows, he's super tight lipped about it

[bisexualamy]

i really like ds9′s commitment to deconstructing and demythologizing war & revolution i think it’s one of the strongest things about the show

i appreciate how they’re able to walk this line between saying that the bajoran resistance was right to resist cardassian occupation but that doesn’t necessarily make them moral (or more specifically, that doesn’t make every action they took an inherent moral good). it’s a hard needle to thread and i think the show is so strong because they’re generally able to pull it off

i just finished the s5 episode about the executions and kira’s quote about how nobody got out of the resistance without getting a little dirty is a really great summary of this point. but, even more so, i love the fact that this episode made that point through odo because he does fit into this legendary wartime archtype. the man who was able to serve a higher moral purpose throughout immoral chaos. and just as you’re getting comfortable with that concept, the show says no, people don’t work that way. and war, occupation, and imperialism certainly don’t let people work that way even if they want to. he’s the perfect character to use to make that point. the bureaucracy of the cardassian empire, for one, literally works against that sort of due diligence. and sometimes our odos shunt due diligence to the bureaucracy because they’re busy or because it’s easier/incentivized. and when they do that innocent people die.

and how quickly we can rewrite history. how in less than ten years, odo can be turned into a legend. so much so that his own friends are surprised by the truth.

i like that ds9 has the war hawks and the fighters trying to do good and the people who are just trying to survive and live under empire and the comfortable civilians shielded by their bureaucracies and ultimately each of them are interrogated for their role in the larger geopolitical system and each of them have some impact. it varies (and the question of fault certain varies) but it’s all there. and i really love that kira doesn’t shy away from calling herself a terrorist. i appreciate the show’s willingness to let that label operate in a more neutral space than it usually occupies.

i know a lot of what ds9 was talking about was the united state’s foreign policy at the time (mainly in the middle east, though i don’t know that for a fact) and watching it now, during the withdrawal from afghanistan with the war hawks back on tv rewriting history, it’s sobering to see that we’ve literally been saying the same thing for decades.

[peaxhcringe]

S/O who has really bad aniexty

At first I was debating on doing this idea as I didn’t want to look like I was glorifying or romanticizing a disorder. I went through with this idea because as someone who has severe aniexty and suffers with the things mentioned in this hc , I wanted to use this to bring more awareness to this disorder. I really am sorry if it comes off that I’m romanticizing this, because I really am trying not to. I hope you enjoy!

⚠️Warnings: mentions of aniexty, scratching, anxiety attacks, slight blood, crying, self induced vomiting.

Genre: fluff, comfort

Characters: Bakugou, Kirishima, and Todoroki

Request: Open

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Bakugou

Even before you two got together Bakugou never really payed any attention

It wasn’t that he didn’t care he just wasn’t super observant

Everyone in the class knows about your anxiety, but not the true level it is

The students always try to help you if you feel as if you’re about to have an attack or even if you just don’t feel well that particular day

One day you aniexty had been particularly bad

You were scratching your arms and neck a lot more than is usual

Almost every 2 mintues you were scratching at your arm or lifting your hand up and scratching your neck

A few students in the class noticed, but before they had time to confront you about it it was time to practice

As Aizawl split everyone up into groups of 2, Bakugou had came over to you, his eyes glancing down to your neck and noticing just a bit of blood

He can be observant when he wants to be

When he asked about it you proceeded to tell him about your aniexty and explained your persistent scratching

Afterwards he took you to recovery girl and had her heal up your skin that had turned raw

Ever since then Bakugou watches you like a hawk

If you move to start scratching yourself his hand is instantly in yours to stop you

It took him a bit to get the confidence to do that in public as Kiri or Denki usually commented about him “being soft” or “whipped” for you

If you take medication to keep it under control then he’d always have some of your medicine in his room or even on him at all times

If you don’t, then he’ll look up ways to help you

He didn’t want to admit it, but he hated seeing you come to class with a bandage on your neck from scratching it raw the day before

He tries his best to distract if you have an itching episode and if it fails he just holds your hands in his until it’s over

Kirishima

Kiri knew from when he first met you you had aniexty

Before you two had begun dating he’d help you calm down when you had attacks and was alway there

The only thing he didn’t know about it was how it affected you and taking any type of medication

One night, you both are in your room doing homework and studying for an upcoming test

About 30 mintues prior you had taken a headache pill to help with a migraine you had

As you sat next to Kiri, watching as he wrote down an equation you didn’t really understand, you felt your heart beat pick up

You could suddenly feel your heart beating in you head, your breathing became slower, and you felt like you are going to faint

Instantly you got up an rushed to the bathroom, leaving the door wide open and leaving a confused/worried Kirishima behind

You flicked on the light and quickly placed yourself in front of the toilet

Reaching your middle and ring finger into your mouth you made yourself vomit

Not even a mintue after you entered the bathroom Kirishima came in, worry lacing his expression as he watched you

He called your name before coming over to you, and placing a hand on you shoudler

Once you removed your fingers from you mouth you looked at him, tears streaming down your face as you were shaking

Kirishima grabbed you a cold wet towel before helping you stand up

When you return to your room, you hid in his arms until you eventually stopped feeling faint

Later when you explained to him your aniexty with medication and how vomiting helps he quickly understood

Kirishima ended up looking for way to help you aniexty

Which led to you and him going to recovery girl when you needed to take medicine to calm your aniexty down

If your aniexty ended up getting bad again Kiri would hold you in his arms tightly, and would whisper sweet things into your ear until you calmed down

Todoroki

This is another boy who is rather clueless

He doesn’t mean to be, he just really isn’t observant

He’s either clueless or too blunt about something

When you had mentioned to him you had aniexty he just looked at you, a little shocked as you didn’t look like the type of person to have it

You then had to explain to him aniexty and that it’s a common thing most people have

The first time he ever saw your aniexty hit its peak was when you both were having your weekly movie night

Everything was fine, you both just laying next to eachother and enjoying each others company

At least until your brain randomly decided to bring up the upcoming provisional exams

Unaware you to a small rash had begun to grow across your arms, blooming up from your elbow and up to your shoudler

It wasn’t until you felt a burnning then a serve need to itch your arm when you noticed it

Typically when you get a rash like this you have a cold compress that helped it fade within 30 minutes

You looked over at Todoroki, a bit embarrassed to ask for you could his right hand

Taking in a deep breath you tapped his shoudler then quickly asked him to borrow his hand

He looked at you confuse until you very quickly explained what was happening

With a hint of uncertainty he moved his right hand over to your arm, before applying a soft amount of pressure and cooling down his hand

Ever since then if he noticed a small red patch growing on your arms, legs, and even your neck he’d quickly pull you aside and help you

If he couldn’t do if though, he’d hold your hands to stop you from itching it

[codynaomiswire]

TTS/RTA Egyptian Mythology AU

Also known as the Uraeus AU!

Several months ago, I made a post about a developing idea for an Egyptian mythology AU for TTS/RTA. The idea was prompted in large part by the snake-hair Varian (“Snakian”) scene from the series’ finale, and the concept of the uraeus in Egyptian mythology. Since first posting about this AU, Xiel and I have really been developing the idea further on the Discord, and here’s what we’ve come up with so far. Hope you all enjoy it!

Note: As a fan AU, this is of course subject to change and variations, so things may change or develop differently as time goes on and more new ideas spring up. This is just what we have in mind so far!  :D

Champions and Friends:

Varian - The kingdom’s seer and champion of Wadjet (aka “the Uraeus”). In this AU, Varian was born to Quirin and Ulla with his “twin brother” Ka - a living uraeus bestowed upon him by the snake goddess Wadjet. (More on Ka and Wadjet down below.) Having grown up with Ka, Varian is not (usually) bothered with having a snake attached to his head, and sees Ka as being like a brother to him. Varian also grew up being told by Quirin and Ulla to keep Ka a secret, as the family was worried Varian and Ka would be taken away from them if anyone knew about them. So for many years, whenever Varian would go outside, he would wear a head covering so Ka would remain hidden from the world. Once he did try to show Ka to some of the kids in his village, but they all ran away screaming, and he got in trouble with the parents for “pulling a mean prank with a snake.” So he and Ka never tried that again. However, things start to get trickier as Varian enters his early teens, and he starts to get visions about events to come, and has a couple episodes of sleepwalking in the middle of the night. Despite Quirin’s best efforts to keep the two safe, things finally come to a head when some kidnappers (led by Andrew) are hired by Set’s cult to capture Varian and Ka, and bring them back to be dealt with. Out of self-defense, Ka ends up landing a venomous bite on Andrew, who nearly dies from the poison. However, Varian has also taken an interest in alchemy by this time in his life, and learned how to create an antivenom for Ka’s bites. (While Varian himself is immune to snake venom due to his connection with Ka and Wadjet, he learned how to make it in case there was ever an accident involving someone else.) Varian manages to make the antivenom in time and save Andrew’s life, but this incident ended up taking place out in the open, and thus Varian and Ka have their cover blown. Quirin tries to prevent Varian and Ka from being taken away, but the next day the pharaoh’s soldiers come and take Varian and Ka to live in the palace, as the priests of Wadjet are certain that the time has come for the seer to step into his duties for the kingdom. Varian is at first very unhappy with being forced to live at the palace, but is befriended my Rapunzel quite quickly. And when his visions start coming on with even greater intensity, Varian must do what he can to help protect the people from Set’s plans and Apep’s impending return.

Ka - A living uraeus and Wadjet’s other champion. (Note: In this AU, “the Uraeus” refers to Ka, Varian, or the two taken together. The term applies to all three.) His character is inspired by the snake-hair character in the RTA series finale (though Ka has the added feature of a cobra hood), and his name is inspired in large part by the “ka” aspect of the soul in ancient Egyptian philosophy (meaning “double” and known as the protective aspect of the soul). His name is also reminiscent of Kaa from The Jungle Book, though it’s spelled differently. Given to Varian by Wadjet upon his birth, Ka has been with Varian since the beginning. While he and Varian are the same age, Ka grows up faster than Varian mentally, so he tends to be the more mature of the two. However, he isn’t adverse to causing some mischief from time to time. Growing up, Ka was pretty readily accepted by Ulla, but Quirin...was more leery of him. Especially given Quirin’s own past (more on that below), he first saw Ka as an interloper on what was supposed to be a peaceful family life. Despite this attitude, Quirin and Ka did have their moments of reliability from time to time, and Ka grew up seeing Quirin and Ulla as his parents (calling them “Father” and “Mother” respectively). For years Ka had to hide his existence from the outside world, and thus could get very lonely. It seemed that he would have to resign himself to a life of obscurity...until Varian started getting weird visions of things to come, and Ka started getting his own premonitions of things to come in the short term (i.e. waking visions of things close at hand). Ka also learned through his premonitions how to hypnotize people, which he would use mostly for therapeutic purposes, or to compel people to tell the truth if need be (though this function especially can take a lot out of him, so he’s not OP with this ability). Things take the most drastic turn for Ka when he lashes out at would-be kidnappers (as told in Varian’s description above), he becomes known to the wider world, and is then thrust into the champions’ efforts to save the kingdom from ruin. Ka also does that snake thing of prolonging his ‘s’ sounds when he talks, and when he first has the experience of talking to new people he takes to referring to himself in the third person. Just to be fancy I guess.  xP

Quirin - Varian and Ka’s father, member of the Brotherhood, and champion of Khonsu. Quirin spent a good portion of his adult life as a member of the Brotherhood in Karnak who - in this AU - are a warrior guild with allegiance to Khonsu, Egyptian god of the moon and time. While serving under Khonsu, Quirin acquired the ability to manipulate time in certain small ways - i.e. stopping time within a certain radius (usually a few yards), or around a certain person or object. This ability is very risky though, as if it’s used too often or too intensely it can have the side affect of “taking time” from the one wielding it (hence why Quirin appears a bit older than Adira and Hector, who are only a few years younger than he). After a good many years of service in the Brotherhood, Quirin decides to leave his service and settles down with his wife Ulla to start a family. However, upon the birth of their son Varian, Quirin is shocked to find that Varian was born with a living uraeus attached to his head (whom Ulla names Ka). After his dealings with the gods while serving Khonsu, Quirin is afraid of what Ka’s presence means for Varian, and does all he can to keep Ka a secret from the wider world. At first, Quirin is very leery of Ka, which does not go unnoticed by the rest of the family. Quirin is never cruel to Ka, never ignores him, nor dotes upon Varian while leaving Ka out of it, but it is clear that he sees Ka differently from Varian. Things become especially hard when Ulla dies when Varian and Ka are about ten years old, and Quirin has to raise the two on his own. Eventually, Quirin and Ka begin to grow closer, and Quirin does all he can to make sure he and Varian don’t get taken away from him. But after their cover is blown, Quirin is left worrying about his sons after they are taken away to live in the palace. As Quirin prays to Khonsu one night asking what can be done, he is informed that his duty as the Uraeus’s protector is not over, and that he will also be called upon to join in the effort to stop Set and Apep in the days to come.

Rapunzel - The princess of Egypt and the champion of Ra. Rapunzel was kidnapped by Mother Gothel as a baby, and was raised learning how to use her sun powers. However, when the champion of Horus comes to save her, Mother Gothel is defeated by her own evil designs, and Rapunzel loses connection with her healing powers in the ensuing struggle. After returning home, life is happy for the princess, and she quickly befriends many in her kingdom. However, when news comes to the palace that Wadjet’s seer has appeared in the land, Rapunzel begins her real journey to find her destiny, and must use her powers to save the land from its deadliest threat yet.

Eugene - The prince of one of Egypt’s major cities, and the champion of Horus. (Naturally, this was inspired by Eugene’s birth name being Horace in the canon series. xD) The son of King Edmund of Karnak, Eugene actually grew up in his family’s palace in this AU. When he was born, Eugene bore a birthmark on his shoulder blades that resembled wings. After consulting with the local priests, Edmund learned that the birthmark was a sign of the blessing of Horus, and that Eugene would come to wield great powers. Afraid for his son, however, Edmund has a hieroglyph painted onto Eugene’s back every few weeks or so to keep the power of the mark at bay. Eventually though, when Eugene is in his early teens, Horus’s blessing breaks through the barrier induced by the hieroglyph, and after a painful first transformation, Eugene has found that he has sprouted giant hawk’s wings from his back. After the initial shock, Eugene learns how to use and control this ability, and after some of Horus’s guidance, he manages to find the lost princess of Egypt and rescues her (while also falling in love of course ^^). After rescuing Rapunzel, Eugene decides to remain living in the capitol at the palace, though he keeps in contact with his family and home city.

Cassandra - Mother Gothel’s daughter, Rapunzel’s best friend and champion of Sekhmet. After being born to Mother Gothel, Cassandra grew up as a child servant in the cult of Set, and was left entirely on her own after Mother Gothel left her to horde Rapunzel’s sun powers for herself. Being miserable in her life situation, Cassandra eventually called out to the other gods asking for their help (she was probably about six or seven years old at this stage). Sekhmet heard her, and gave Cassandra some of her powers so she could don a lioness form and bust her way out. (Although, this blessing also left its mark on Cassandra, as she now permanently sports cat-like eyes, even when not in her lioness form.) After fleeing the cult of Set, Cassandra wanders around for a while until she is found by the Captain of the Guard, who came after he heard reports of a dangerous feral child wandering the desert near the outer villages. The Captain takes pity on Cassandra when he finds her, and takes her in as his own and teaches her how to fight and how to have discipline so she can control her powers. In addition to transforming into a human-lioness hybrid, Cass can also talk to felines and request favors from them, like spying on enemies and scouting and stuff. After gaining the trust of everyone in the capitol, Cass also came to be known by the revered title, The Lioness.

Lance - Eugene’s best friend and fellow resident of Karnak. While Lance is not a chosen champion, he is still a gifted member of the group, and is invaluable as a supportive friend and skilled wordsmith. When Kiera and Catalina travel to the capitol after Catalina becomes a champion, it’s Lance who is the first in the group to befriend the girls. Lance also has a background in being a treasure hunter, which comes in handy when the group needs to locate legendary artifacts, ancient temples and other things that will be vital to the success of their mission.

Catalina - Sister to Kiera/Angry, and Champion of Anubis. (A quick thank you to the Anon who prompted us to consider Catalina as a fellow champion!) Like Cassandra, Catalina’s blessing from Anubis allows her to don a feral form (this time in the form of a werewolf/werejackal) to help fight against the agents of Set and Apep. However, Catalina was chosen to wield Anubis’s blessing specifically because her heart was the only one judged by the scales of Anubis to be able to balance the powers contained within his blessing. As the son of Set and a god of death, Anubis’s blessing is extremely powerful and volatile, and only a certain kind of heart can learn how to balance it and avoid being destroyed by it. While Catalina still struggles with her power (especially during the first few transformations), she is able to gain great control over it with time. While she is considered an outcast from most of the rest of society, Kiera stays by Catalina’s side, and together they travel to the capitol to join the other champions in their mission to stop Set and Apep from destroying the world.

Kiera/Angry - Catalina’s sister. While Kiera/Angry is not a chosen champion, she is still skilled and is a beloved member of the group. After her sister Catalina receives the blessing of Anubis, Kiera stays by her side and travels with her to the capitol to join the rest of the group to help save Egypt and the world from impending doom.

Adira and Hector - Members of the Brotherhood, Quirin’s honorary siblings, and Varian’s “aunt” and “uncle”. While Hector and Adira were also servants of Khonsu like Quirin, neither were given special powers by the deity. Nevertheless, their work as members of the Brotherhood proves invaluable for the group, and they are more than ready to help with their skills and knowledge for whatever may come their way. When Hector isn’t serving at Khonsu’s temple in Karnak, he is the more adventurous of the two, and spends a good chunk of his time being a sellsword for the caravans traveling across the desert. He also has an affinity for animals, and thus relates to Ka very well upon meeting him for the first time.

King Edmund - Ruler of Karnak, head of the Brotherhood, and father of Eugene. A lot of his role was already laid out in Eugene’s description.

Frederic and Arianna - The pharaoh and queen of Egypt in this AU.

Egyptian Deities:

Wadjet - A snake goddess of protection and healing, Wadjet is the deity who chooses Varian and Ka for the mission to stop Set and Apep. In this AU, Wadjet is also a goddess of farsight, and thus allows Varian and Ka to be her seers on earth. While a powerful and graceful deity, Wadjet also has a “soccer mom” kind of personality to her as well. In this AU she has the form of a naga - i.e. human upper body with her lower body being a long snake’s tail.

Khonsu - The god of the moon and time, and the deity served by the Brotherhood. Khonsu is a rather mysterious figure, and while he can see through time and its various possible outcomes, he does not have direct control over how events play out. However, he does impart the ability to manipulate time in small ways to Quirin, though the ability does comes with a price if used to excessively. Khonsu’s personality is quiet, stern, yet also with a touch of levity here and there.

Ra - The god of the sun, and giver of Rapunzel’s powers. Unlike the other deities in this AU, Ra seems strangely absent, despite his sun constantly moving through the sky overhead, and Rapunzel serving as his emissary. He only speaks to her very sparingly throughout their adventure, but when he does it’s always at key moments.

Horus - The son of Ra, protector of the sun, and arch nemesis of Set. Horus chose Eugene to be his champion on earth, and gifted the prince with his wings and ability to fly. (Haven’t really ironed out more of his personality yet to be honest. More may come later!)

Sekhmet - A lion goddess and protector of Egypt. Like Ra, Sekhmet doesn’t make too many appearances in this AU, but she does give Cassandra her incredible lioness warrior powers.

Anubis - A god of death, judgment and the son of Set. Despite commanding a lot of respect, Anubis is a deity that many Egyptians fear and don’t like to talk about. He has a very serious personality (given his job that only seems natural), and really doesn’t like the idea of Set and Apep wreaking havoc on the world and making his job as psychopomp all the harder. (Basically, one of his motivations for wanting to stop the end of the world is so he doesn’t have a ton of more work to do with all the death and destruction that would result. ...Yeah, not the most altruistic reasoning, but guess the guy’s just being practical. xP) When choosing his champion, he weighed the hearts of all in the kingdom to determine which one could balance his powers best, and the scales determined that it would be Catalina, hence him bestowing her with his blessing.

Villains:

Mother Gothel - A former priestess of Set. After learning about the princess’s sun powers, Mother Gothel kidnaps the princess in order to use her powers so that she may remain young forever and never die. However, her evil plans collapse in on her when the champion of Horus comes to save Rapunzel, and Mother Gothel is destroyed in the process. (This is pretty much the extent of Mother Gothel’s role in the story.)

Zhan Tiri - High priestess of Set, and one of the main antagonists of this AU. For many years, Zhan Tiri ran the cult of Set from the underground, and kept her identity as high priestess hidden while posing as an advisor to the pharaoh’s court. However, after her attempt to eliminate the Uraeus fails, Varian and Ka see through her disguise, and she is forced to flee from the capitol and run the cult of Set from the underground in the temples and caves in the Egyptian wilderness. She’s pretty much a generic villain like in the series, where she just kinda craves revenge and destruction because...evil.

Set - The “big bad” of the AU alongside Apep. Where Apep is the brawn of the evil duo, Set is the brains. Set plans on using his cult to help release him and Apep onto the mortal plane, basically wreak as much havoc as possible, and take over the world.

Apep - The “big bad” of the AU alongside Set. Where Set is the brains of the evil duo, Apep is the brawn. As the giant serpent of chaos, Apep’s one goal in life is to destroy the world and all living things. He’s kind of the antithesis of Ka in this AU. His voice sounds a lot like Smaug from The Hobbit movies, and while big, strong and scary, he isn’t super clever.

Aaaaaand I think I’ll leave this post at that for now. Whew! I’ll probably make another post a bit later concerning a general outline of events, and maybe also some other posts with some dialogue snippets that Xiel and I have come up with if there’s enough interest.

[stillness-in-green]

When MVA/MLA Arc gets animated, what will you be looking forward to the most? What (canon-compliant) additions and/or changed do you want or think Bones should make, if any?

There’s--a lot.  Does that surprise anyone?  There’s a lot.

o  I have been foaming at the mouth for voice actor announcements for almost a year now, particularly for Trumpet, Geten and RD.           Trumpet’s superpower is literally his voice!  I mean, nothing about that statement requires that voice be particularly entrancing, but it certainly seems like it should be, right??             Geten is a boku-type in the manga, but that was literally the only hint foreshadowing his pretty boy face through 21 solid chapters of Pure Feral Gremlin.  Everyone was shocked by Geten’s face reveal!  How do you maintain that surprise value with an actual voice actor in the mix?  Do you not even try?  Do you play up the disparity--in which direction?  I can’t wait to see what they do.           And Re-Destro!  Re-Destro requires so much range!  From his peppy, silly businessman persona, to the urbane commander, from the overeager yes-man to the raving zealot--who on earth do you get to believably cover all that ground?  I can’t even begin to guess, but I am living in anticipation of that article going up on ANN or the official Twitter sources.

o  I’m also much looking forward to getting official coloring on Trumpet and Geten.  Skeptic seems pretty straightforward--black, black, more black--and RD and Curious, we have color art for, but I wonder if Trumpet will also be all black clothes, to go with that dignified politician image of his, or if he’ll get some color to pep him up a little.  What color are those tinted shades of his?  His eyes?  The wicked-cool Sevens Loud?           I assume Geten is all wintery shades, but it’ll be great to confirm which ones.  I mean, we all assume he’s white-haired to better annoy Dabi with family parallels, but what if he turns out to be platinum blond?  And are his eyes blue?  Gray?  White?  What color is that awful parka?           Also, Re-Destro’s stress powers.  Having been writing them as black since at least August--Rorschach test blots are generally black, after all, and they’re the clear inspiration--I would much like it if the anime would have my back on this.  They made Destro’s mask a dark cinnamon brown, though, so I’m prepared to be unpleasantly surprised in this matter.

o  Predictable MLA adaptational choices aside, I’m also eager/anxious about how they’ll handle Spinner’s narration.  What I really hope is that they actually straight-up hand him ALL the narration duties--not just the stuff he dictates directly in the manga, but also e.g. the name and quirk explanation material that Present Mic normally gets, or the previews that are always handled by Deku.           The opening and closing sequences are another big structural thing, of course--based on the flashed snippets of Hawks and Endeavor in both our current and the previous OP, I’m expecting we’ll see at least a bit of something referencing the upcoming internship arc (which I expect to close out the season), but I hope the villains just walk away with the closing entirely.  I want my slice of life villainy ED, dangit.

o  Another thing I’m eager/anxious about would be Kotarou, and the Shimura flashback generally.  There’s a brittle edge of to Kotarou that I really love, and I hope he manages to keep it in the anime, despite the anime being generally not so great at moments that I would describe as “delicate.”  For example, I’d like it if he doesn’t get a super deep voice, and if they could manage to keep his pretty face, and capture how deeply bitter and tired he looks in the scene where he’s reading the letter Nana left him.           Also, I hope they keep the little montage bits and, crucially, the changes of clothes the family goes through.  We see Tenko in no less than five, possibly as many as seven, different T-shirts through the course of that flashback.  It seems like a small thing, but it’s one of the factors that makes me skeptical that AFO gave Tenko Decay, when so many days clearly go by between the opening with the man at the door and the tragic end.  It’d be nice not to see too much resurgence on that just because the anime can’t be bothered to come up with more than one outfit for the Shimuras.

I have enough issues with the anime’s usual adaptation choices that I’m trying not to get my hopes up too high on the actual content of the episodes.  The staff is diverting too much of its major talent to the movies (BAH) these days for me to expect the whole season to look all that great, and it’s never been particularly creative or daring outside of its climactic sakuga-heavy fight scenes anyway.  I’ve also long had a bone to pick with its scoring decisions, and am already eyeballing the climax of the RD/Shigaraki fight and imagining the minor-keyed terrifying dirge I fear the anime will play there, at the moment that Re-Destro (and, shortly afterward, Spinner) are supposed to be experiencing something akin to religious awakenings.           There’s also the issue of the violence and gore--judging by how the anime handled the scene where Shigaraki and Compress maim Overhaul, I have some severe reservations about how much blood they’ll be allowed to get away with, particularly in the scene where the League brutally decimates that CRC group and, of course, Shigaraki’s backstory.  I’m looking at MVA to serve as a preview for how all the same issues will be addressed in the War Arc.

That bit of pessimism aside, as to what I’m hoping they’ll add or change?  Well, off the top of my head.....

o  I would love to get a full episode devoted to the time the League spends fighting Machia.  Not that first tussle, but the six grueling weeks in the mountains.  There’s so much you could add there for character building and atmosphere that Hori didn’t so much as montage through.  Where was their food coming from?  How’d they pick out places to pitch camp?  How much access to news from outside did they have, and how frequently?  What were the circumstances in which Gigantomachia “told them himself” about his great sense of smell??  Stuff like that!             I don’t think we’re at all likely to get this--honestly, the series of late has had enough of a problem with trimming bits and pieces that I’m as worried about what they might cut as I am hyped about things they might add--but the one thing that gives me some hope is the training camp arc.  Specifically, the moment 1-A first gets to the Pussycats’ forest, they get jumped by earth golems, a fight that the manga off-panels entirely, but the anime spends a modest amount of time on, giving the kids a little bit of time to show off their moves and such.  I’d love to get something equivalent for the League.

o  On a similar note, I wouldn’t turn it down if they fleshed out some of those running street fights a bit.  One obvious thing comes to mind: there’s a weird jump in the manga between Skeptic and a horde of his golems being all but on top of Twice at the beginning of 233 and then that fight just--doesn’t happen.  There’s no mention of it at all.  I think the suggestion is that either Machia’s appearance or the tower going down interrupted it--Skeptic breaks off from his fight the same way Geten and Trumpet do theirs, shifting focus to protecting Re-Destro--but it’d be nice to see the anime touch on it.

o  It’d be nice to get a bit of expansion on the nature of the bullying Spinner endured.  We’re told he was, but was it limited to verbal?  Did he get beaten up a lot?  Was there an online element?  Deku’s our only other reference point for “bullied kid,” and whatever one might think about the story’s development of Bakugou’s mentality, it’s been made clear in retrospect that there was a lot more too that than just the matter of Deku’s quirklessness.  I’d love to know how Spinner’s bullying looked in comparison (not least because of some of the theories about Spinner and Deku needing to come to some kind of accord to free Shigaraki from AFO).

o  Make the Villa (both here and during the War Arc) look more realistic.  By which I mean, I know Horikoshi is capable of drawing interesting and lived-in interior spaces--he has an entire chapter dedicated to it in the 1-A dorm room contest, after all--but he normally doesn’t bother much with it.  At UA, it’s not too distracting, because we know good and well that that whole building is probably maintained by Cementoss anyway.  Ditto places like Tartarus (intentionally, dehumanizingly barren) or the League’s post-Kamino hideouts (abandoned homes and industrial spaces).  But the Villa?            For heaven’s sake, it’s called a mountain villa.  It has a clear reception desk on the ground floor; it’s obviously some sort of high-end hotel, if not an outright resort or rentable retreat lodge.  Speaking as someone who’s worked in one, places like that don’t look as fuckin’ bare as the rooms we see there always seem to.  For fanfic purposes, I’m happy to go on telling myself that e.g. the pool and the bar and the restaurant(s) and the gym are in the building Cementoss doesn’t tear in half, but it’d be nice if the anime could class the whole place up a little, maybe put some real furniture and decor in the rooms that are in use.  (Yes, I know this is a ridiculous nitpick.)

o  This is less a change and more a correction, but for fuck’s sake, BONES, give us white-haired Shigaraki.  The climax of Deika is a solid time for it, given that it’s obvious in the manga that Shigaraki’s hair gets paler in Deika--you can see it in the way Horikoshi inks it (which is to say, the way he stops inking it)!  I think if we ever get white-haired Shigaraki in the anime, a somewhat better time as far as narrative justification goes would be when Shigaraki gets out of the tube in the War Arc; you could easily justify it as a side-effect of the surgery.  Still, I’d rather see it here.  I want white-haired Shigaraki, gleaming and brilliant through the scattering ash in that crater, a veritable angel of sacred destruction.           Honestly, more than anything, the crater sequence is the one I hope I love.  It’s probably my favorite single moment in the entire manga, as Shigaraki wins over Re-Destro, Spinner and Gigantomachia in the same moment, and finally comes into his own.  If they can at least nail that, I’ll consider myself pretty satisfied.