#The Bingo Bango Theory

[moth-flavor]

Day 6: Outsiders

didn't knew what to draw for this day

forgotten about Brigh, and ended up deciding to draw Shelldon Gooper instead 💀

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[martuzzio]

HERMITCRAFT CATCHPHRASES

Hi, here's a (hopefully comprehensive) reference list of hermit catchphrases! The main goal here is to help writers and artists who (like me) might struggle with getting the characterization of some hermits right. Check out more info at the end of the post!

Note: this list updates a lot whenever I get new suggestions, which means reblogs aren't always fully accurate. I've linked this post to the top of my blog so it's easy to access the most recent version :)

Bdubs Shreep / uh-oh, gotta shreep! Crastle I love ya to death It’s gorgee Beyootiful Uh oh! Hell’s blazes! Hawsies YOU'LL SPEAK WHEN SPOKEN TO! Shuddup! Judas priest! Bdubs' PERFECT REDSTONE!! What in the world! Holy cow! Nuh-uh! Hoimycraaaaaf Whimsy Trying my heart out

Beef EEskall That was my nickname in college! Nailed it! Dangit! Beefy Tunes Smelly Etho Opulent Etho? Oh, yeah, I own him Eyy, I go up and I go down. Ladders! / Eyy, ladders! Beef taught Etho about redstone Oh my goodness! Oh boy! What the heck Oh, baby! Quote unquote A ton of __

Cleo Class dismissed! I don’t need your stinky torches I will break your legs Trash is fish The answer to everything is leather pants Not because it’s the sand castle you deserve, but it’s the sand castle I need! What did you do, Joe…. It's FINE, everything's FINE Lovely Silly I mean... Not gonna lie... To be fair...

Cub DA CREAMADA CROP Alright guys Nice, nice Ladies and gentlemen / ladies and gentlemen, we got ‘em Eeeeasy money Beautiful, absolutely beautiful Mmmmmhmmmmmm Holy smokes Let's goooo! Sweet Oh, baby! Man, oh man Without further ado Peace out Cheers / cheers, man There's some heat coming off that thing

Doc Are you kidding me now? Alright guys Can’t touch this The G.O.A.T. Etho, get to the damn land man! It all started when Grian touched my redstone… Epic

Etho Uh-huh Like-a so Oh snap Get your snacks! Holy smokes! Take care, have a good day, bye bye Aww snappers! Aww yeah Von Sway I barely know ‘er! Speaking of llamas Bright blue bamboo E. to the T. to the your mum Beefaroni / Beefers Speaking of llamas… That’s what she said! Free glass Eyy, I go up and I go down. Ladders! / Eyy, ladders! Suckerrrr! Check it out

False Blimey Awh dude Frick False Supremacy Oh my goodness I don't know about you guys, but... Props to __ I'm not gonna lie...

Gem Gem is great Her [name] is [adjective]! Gem will __ ("Gem will watch Impulse") Perfect! Epic It's true, I swear! Not gonna lie... Oh gosh! Trust the process Nailed it!

Grian Hello! My name is Grian Good… byeeeee! Pesky bird My heart! My little heart! Mumbo Mumbo you are AFK Can we just agree that Mumbo loses? What in Queen Elizabeth’s shiny crown was that? It wasn't me, it was the man in the chicken costume! SaAaaaAaAnd Chobblesome SCAR NO— / NO SCAR— In theory… Electric boogalooo What does this button do? What on earth? This is in shambles Get outta here! Hear me out... We don't have __. What we DO have is __ Just straight up Without further ado Crack on Bingo bango Yes. 100%

Hypno Right, right Mmhmm You guys Dang guy

Impulse What’s goin on everyone? Shovel Shuffle BEHIND YOU GEM! Peeps Geez Let's goooo! Are you kidding me? Oh, man Now we're talkin'! Holy smokes Oh my gosh How cool is that? Jeez! Dang it! Buddy Presi (for present) You bet!

Iskall Hallo -skall ("richskall") That’s mega / that’s looking absolutely mega Omega “Excuse me? Sir?” __ of doom Okay, lol And I will see you dudes in the next episode I’ve had a realization Oh for goodness sake! It’s not fat, it’s big-boned Not gonna lie SaAaaaAaAnd Very fine Great success! Bird poop Bumbo Cactoni Do you even bust? / Do you even bust bro E Pag

Jevin Hypno smells! Oh my god Sucker What the heck Dude Man I swear

Joe Howdy y’all! That’s the Joe Hills difference! I will now say a poem of my own devising Core concept Keep adventurin’! Time skip! Who’s the guy who conquers death? That’s Joe Hills No not rage quitting I have to pick up my daughter from school or my wife will rage quit me! Grow Hills / Expand Joe Joepacity / Jhost

Keralis Look into my eyes and nothing but my eyes Wanna buy a book? Spank you very much Just sit back, relax, and enjoy Like this, like that I can see my house from here! Bubbles, Shashwammy, Sweetface, Princess Lookie lookie at my cookie / lookie lookie at my cookie… no, please don’t Like-a so I love your face I’m a real boy! I don’t k-nove (know) Not like this! Booshes Clever girl But first… lemme take a selfie I’m sinking… mayday mayday we’re sinking! Hallo yes dis is de German coast guard what are you sinking about? Scary harry larry I’m alayve! Breathtaking — no you’re breathtaking Mm-kay Oh behave I’m a simple man MeOOOow Welcome to my humble abod-ee Not too shabby My face! My palms are sweaty, mom’s spaghetti Tag 2 Booga Booga Stiffy nipples Batman! First I was afraid, I was petrified...

Mumbo I worry about myself sometimes I'm not really quite sure if I like that or not Yeah… yeah that's looking good… I guess… Dude! Chuffed to bits It’s a bit pants I’m such a spoon Oh my word It’s quite simple, really / it’s actually quite simple Bonkers I’ll catch you in the next one. See ya Off you pop Oh goodness me! Hermit challenges — initiation! All done and dusted To be frankly honest Seriously seriously cool Absolutely nuts I don’t even know what to say Iskall I feel sick Peace, love, and plants Moon’s big Mumbo for Mayor Quite simple

Pearl Lovely Bonkers At this point... Cheeky / you cheeky What's this? Mate

Ren Now we’re cooking with gas / we be cooking with gas today Ladies, get in line! / ladies, gentlemen, everybody get in line! You picking up what I’m putting down My dudes Y’know what I’m sayin’ Coming atcha frommmmmm Dude Coming from left, right, and center Greetings cyberdogs and citizens of the Interwebs, this is Ren-diggity-dog comin at ya in another episode from the Hermitcraft server (ey!) Automagically Jazztastic Janktastic Oh baby Like nobody’s business Looking absolutely magnificent Anyhoozle Twaddle Renstone The Octagon is a well-oiled machine! [word]-age [word]-ation [word]-i (to make things plural You love / hate to see it I'm just sayin' / if you know what I'm sayin' Professional __ Jazz Anyhoozle Exqueeze me? Freakin' Some serious __ What's happenin', baby? Chesticles

Scar Scarred for life Woah, what in the world! It’s gonna be am-ay-zing LOOK at the siiiiize of that Well, hello there my fellow miners and crafters, GoodTimesWithScar here. Welcome back to the wonderful world of Hermits and crafting Don’t forget to subscribe or you might just become scarrrred for life! Looking super fancy Let’s hit super fast build mode! Look at the size of that Appreciate ya Hotguy! Operation: Aquathunder! That’s what she said! Rapscallion You silly goose Oh, sweet baby Jellie! Bayum! / Bam! The bee's knees Easy peasy, orangey squeezy

Stress Are you havin’ a giggle? / are you takin the mic? Mate Oh my god / oh my gosh / oh my good gordons Gorgeous Plonker Geezer Ohhhhh nooooo! Yeeeesshhh I legged it Such a pro / I'm such a pro Proper __ Cheeky Bloke Thingamajig Ain't [word]-age [word]-ies

Tango Happy fun sauce -ificator, -inator, -ness, -tastic Skadoodle Fearsome bunny slippers Noob juice So here’s the deal Holding shift Shwoop Flim flam Poop came out Extra dumb with dumb sauce / __ of extra dumb Flee with extra flee! / fleeing with terror! Boom booms Gah! The dungeon is ready for its next victim Behold! Results may vary! I think my math is correct, but it’s been known to be wrong This is the worst timeline. I hate everything Big no! You— you freak of nature! Jerkface Jerkbutt Excellent How embarassing This is true Zombert Bits This I gotta see! Right in the face! [word] is happening Yeah baby! Stupid jerks Boop This is the best / worst thing ever! Niner niner niner [general unintelligible noises]

TFC What in tarnation! Crap-tacular Humongous Butt-ugly Ugly as sin Oh, goody Ender-twits Bugger Oh, fart For crying out loud

Wels Words are hard If you will Super __

xB Aww yeah Mmkay Son of a biscuit Pretty frickin' __ Man Get frickin' wrecked! Chestacle Dang it Staaph it Oy vey Crap on a cracker Dang it, Bobby! Dang guy

Xisuma Oh goodness me Oh dangit Geez Peeps I’m such a derp Oh my days Chooturial Issooma Allo Woa’ah Brought (instead of bought) My dude Achacha

Zed Hello hello hello A-good a-bye Muckin' about I lied TaaaAAnnGoOOooooOOOo Hu-jah! Pretty darn __ Certainly Rubbish I'm [word]-ing [word] me [word]-iness What happens is... Get kersplatted! Epic Oh my goodness!

More Info

So I'm currently writing a HC fic and realized how little I know about some of the hermits (I unfortunately don't have time to watch all of them), which made it really difficult to depict them properly in my writing. I'm assuming at least some of you might also struggle with this, so, here we are!

If you know of a catchphrase from any hermit from any season, comment, reblog, send me a an ask or dm, dm me on discord, whatever works the best :D

Note: when I say "catchphrase," I mean anything a hermit repeats over an extended period of time. It can be something said during a single season (like "You'll speak when spoken to!" or "Hermit Challenges!"), or something that spans their entire careers (like "Aww snappers!" or "Plonker"). I'm not looking for one-off quotes that are never bought up again — there's some great sources (like @hermitcraft-correct-quotes) for that already :)

Sources (which will hopefully expand with time): This reddit post from four years ago This other reddit post also from four years ago Reddit from three years ago This cute diagram A more up to date source Another Xisuma's dictionary on his website HC character tv tropes page This incredible google doc

[paperbackribs]

For your WIP weekend, tell me about Demi-Eddie-Soulmate-Steddie!! ❤️

Thank you @eyesofshinigami!! 💚💚💚 An explanation rather than a snippet, this time:

Eddie shoves Steve up against the boat-shed wall and they say each other words - bingo bango, Steve's elated, he's found his romantic soulmate! Robin had tumbled into his life as a rare platonic soulmate last year and he can't wait for this next chapter of his life to begin, once they get rid of Vecna of course.

Eddie's a little more confused. He's never really experienced a keen sense of attraction so he's always just assumed he's straight. He lets Steve down as gently as he can and Steve takes it on the chin.

What else can he do, he explains pragmatically to a sympathetic Robin later. He may want the big R of Romantic Love, but he's destined for platonic. Not that that makes their bond any less, Steve hastily tries to reassure her.

Robin simply hugs him. Sad and confused on behalf of Steve. Wondering what the hell is the deal with Eddie because, as the plot unfolds, there's clearly something there but she thinks that the other guy just doesn't see it.

And Eddie doesn't. Season 4 rolls out, completes, Vecna's dead, everyone survives and Steve and Eddie become almost SteveandEddie with how close they are.

Naturally, after all, they're platonic soulmates.

Except the closer that Eddie becomes to Steve the desires that Eddie never really thought were his to own start to become more apparent, and they're decided on only the one person.

Meanwhile, an unaware Steve is respectful of the situation but he still wants sex and romance; he craves that intimate touch and, with Robin's encouragement, he starts dating.

Cue uncomfortable feelings for Eddie.

Cue increasingly jealous feelings from Eddie and a distressing need to unpack his assumptions about himself as he's about ready to tear Steve from every gal and guy that looks at him twice.

But he's still wholly not realised why he's jealous. Could it simply be that he had gotten used to Steve's attention? And obviously he can't steal him away from Robin so does that mean that Eddie has to get used to having less Steve in his life?

It's a conversation with Joyce that oddly makes Eddie understand himself.

Joyce talks about the meaning of soulmates and her theory of it being your best versions fitting together. Because Lonnie, her ex-husband and soulmate, was great when he was good.

Awful when he wasn't.

And, in the end, Joyce chose Hooper and she talks about the importance of trusting the heart, not just the soul. This strikes Eddie twofold. First, that he can make a choice without lables of straight, gay, soulmate or not.

Secondly, Steve's looking for someone to be happy with and Eddie knows that any person, soulmate or not, would be the luckiest bastard alive to have him. So he better get his ass in gear or he's fucked if that beautiful boy decides to pin his heart on someone other than Eddie.

[samjax-whistler]

First Ever Fourm

This a self created fourm for all the Big City Green lovers. I created this last night, cause this show needs more attention and love. And also a fourm. So come on in, grab a nice cold Splish and hang out. Let's discuss. Theories, ideas, etc. And remember to have fun. Bingo Bango

And I finally learned how to make a fourm link! Yes!

[gregoftom]

Wait can you tell me more about comphet greg and/or your theory (that I'm pretty sure you mentioned or I could be making this up) about them fucking somewhere in s1? <3

of course!!!! okay so like. we didn’t really get any sort of romantic interest wrt to greg [lol] until late s3 when he declared an interest in comfrey and just the way that he spoke about her - you’re a fascinating book i’d like to crack open! she’s a very nice…… person! almost he like forgot what he was gonna say at the end there lol. and like, he loses his ‘interest’ in her after the whole conversation with tom and her actually agreeing to go out with him like, uh oh she actually said yes?! didn’t expect that and now i’m stuck. except she seems to disappear later. and it’s the same wrt the contessa - he makes this big proclamation of love and then we never see her or have her mentioned again lol. then we have the fucking. god. 4.01 the holy grail of comphet greg. we Know he didn’t have sex with bridget because a. he said “we put our hands down each others pants” which means he’s straight up lying because she was wearing a dress, b. he says “bingo bango bongo” which is exactly what roman says about him and tabs at a point and we are explicitly shown that he doesn’t/cant fuck her and c. there was more horny sexual energy in the “tell me” rummage to fruition scene than any moment he had with that girl like, damn. and she too mysteriously disappears!!

wrt his rep that kerry mentions i honestly think it’s just bullshit spread around hyped up by like, the general idea that men are gonna pump and dump women in this environment, and kerry is obv wise to it. i don’t think he’s ever had sex with a girl personally. furthest he’s gone is a kiss. ppl seem to think he’s become this slimeball casanova and like lol, get real. it’s pretty clear at least to me that he’s comphetting to fuck for multiple reasons. his interest in women just doesn’t seem genuine. ‘crunchy peanut butter’ uhuh dude, sure.

in terms of s1 sex, it’s just me picking up the horrendously sexual tension those mfs are laying down. my thoughts were that they messed around a little in i went to market, not full sex but enough to make greg come/feel good for like the first time ever bc not only is tom an exceptional lover, i don’t think greg’s ever had a particularly good experience wrt sex, if at all. and like. maybe he used that to help like push greg to getting rid of those docs, like, cement his closeness with him and something like, “that felt good right? want more?” “there’s more?!” “ohhh yeah greg, yeah. if you take care of this for me there is.” and then that leads to the next episode where tom takes him out on the ortolan date and to the club, and then fucks him that evening for real ❤️

realistically i don’t think it happened that early but the WAY greg looked at tom on that balcony and the WAY that tom held his lower back possessively and would not let go and the WAY that greg looked back at him while he did that, sheesh!!!! it’s at least somewhat plausible lol. i think for sure at the very least they fucked somewhere in the show. in the s3-4 gap, i’d wager.

[normalcei]

One of the coolest things to happen to me was when a p cool person in my masters course asked me for a contact to buy mushrooms (she thought I was cool enough to have a dealer.........)

One of the worst things to happen to me was a guy at work assuming I'd be a bingo bango theory fan

[kc-meets-dc]

Spoilers for episode 13 season 4 but:

Do you think Mary is going to have a full corruption arc into villainy or is dc going to do another "this isn't the real you!!" type power of friendship shenangians

This one gets pretty long and in-depth, so I'm putting it under the cut.

tl;dr: Mary's addicted to power and won't give it up until she hits Rock Bottom which likely won't happen until next season.

Look, the thing with Mary is she's suffering from an addiction. Not to alcohol or drugs or anything like that, but to power. Granny Goodness is currently offering her a major fix, as they say, and that is going to corrupt Mary for a while I'm sure. I mean, who better to give Mary a fix for power than the general of Darkseid's armies? I doubt the Power of Friendship is going to be enough this time around. What needs to happen to get Mary out of the state she's in is she needs to hit her Rock Bottom. After the first attempt getting clean goes poorly in addiction stories on television, it's usually hitting Rock Bottom when the addict truly decides they need to get clean and they stay clean afterwards.

What I'm guessing is going to happen is Mary is going to stay on Apokolips' side until at least next season. My current prevailing theory is that next season is going to take place after a one year time jump and it's going to focus heavily on Apokolips and New God lore in general. I say this for two reasons: 1. We saw during the Chaotic School Bus' journey through time and space that one year later Big Barda seems to be making the jump from villain to hero given how she was around when Klarion was looking for heroes on Apokolips, and 2. Greg Weisman said before that when Young Justice first started, he and the rest of the crew mapped out a total of five seasons with the potential to do more if needed, but regardless I think the fifth season is going to be where the story comes to a head. It'll be where the final confrontation between Vandal Savage and Apokolips is going to happen. Now, could there be more story left to tell after that happens? Yes, absolutely. New villains could always surface, new heroes too of course, the DC Universe is always growing and changing and the same is definitely true about Earth-16.

But getting back to Mary for a moment. I think Mary is going to take Barda's place as Apokolips' head Fury. Once Barda leaves to join the heroes, a power gap is going to open where she once stood among Apokolips' ranks, and we all know that the one thing Mary is most drawn to is power. She will fill the gap, and then I imagine in a battle sometime later in the season she'll likely do something to hurt or even kill someone close to her and that is where she'll hit her Rock Bottom and decide she needs to get clean the only way she can: by giving up her connection to Shazam. No connection to power means no more access for her addiction to get its fix. Bingo bango bongo, she'll be good again and will likely take on a non-hero support role with the Team or the Outsiders or whomever from that point forward.

And that's my rant on Mary's arc. Man, it's been a while since I've done one of these. Hope I answered your question well enough.

[jadewritings]

Fractured Mind

Pairing: Sam and Dean Winchester x Reader

Word Count: 2.8k+

Warning(s): Angst, Fluff, Sadness, Mental Torture

Author’s Note: This may seemed rushed and i wont lie, it is lol. It’s been sitting in my drafts for a while but I don't wanna waste the idea so... it is what it is. This was forced too. Words forced to be written cause i so badly wanna get back into writing.

Summary: Everything was perfect, you got the guys, the kids, the white picket fence life. You were happy, until you weren’t.

“Mommy! Mommy! Look how high I’m going!” Your six year old son shouted at you from the swing. You smiled and sent a thumbs up his way.

“Make sure you be careful not to go too high, daddy.” You shouted at Dean who only laughed evilly.

You sighed and looked over to your left at Sam, who bounced your 2 year old daughter on his lap, making her giggle. It was contagious, making you both laugh.

“You two really make great fathers.” You told him, kissing his cheek lovingly.

“And you make a wonderful mother.” He smiled at you and pressed his lips to yours while one hand rested on your bump.

“Nah, I’m just a surrogate at this point. Mira and junior don’t even look my way anymore.” Sighing, you picked up your water and drank it.

“Y/N, tell me you don’t really believe that?” He asked.

“Sam, we’ve had two kids, working on our third and god knows how many more. They haven’t clung to me like they do you guys.” Mira blew a raspberry, and slapped her hands on Sam’s cheeks, effectively squishing them. “See?”

“Honey, they love you just as much as they do us. You carried them for nine months, you feed them, love them, hold them. They know you’re their mother.”

Mira turned her big y/e/c eyes toward you and squee’d in baby talk, stretching her arms out for you to hold her. You laughed, and being as hormonal as you can be for being five months pregnant, began to tear up.

You couldn’t help kissing all over her face and listening to her squeal and laugh. “You guys have no idea how much I love you.”

Sam turned your face to his and kissed you. Not just a peck, but a deep, full of love, passionate kiss.

“Whoa now, kids around.” Dean joked as he walked over to the table with junior. “Mommy! Did you see how high daddy pushed me!”

You sniffled and laughed, “You bet your butt I did! You were practically soaring through the sky bud!” Junior sat on your lap and drank his soda from McDonald’s.

Dean sat across from y’all, picking Mira from your lap and playing with her. Your heart swelled with love and pride, having two wonderful partners and two wonderful children. It was like nothing bad in the world could touch you, it was just you guys, happy and healthy.

Dean started to say something but when you looked at his mouth, no sound came out.

“What?” Dean repeated what he said but it sounded almost glitched.

“It’s... almost.. time.”

“Time? Time for what?” You looked over at Sam but it was as if Dean hadn’t said anything, he continued to eat his food.

“Guys, what’s going on?” The world started to lose its color, fading to black.

“No, no, no! Sam! Dean!”

It felt as if you were falling and your family was fading out of existence. When you opened your eyes, the room was dark and it reeked of death. Your shoulder ached and your body felt heavy. You looked around. There was no Dean, no Sam, no kids. They were gone.

You tried to struggle but the chains holding you up and the heaviness outweighed your will. You groaned, only just hearing the footsteps getting closer.

“Aw, somebody’s awake. Have a good dream?”

The man you saw when you looked up didn’t look human. His skin was pale, tribal tattoos covered every inch of his body. His eyes started to glow blue.

“Dream?” Your voice cracked from dehydration. You looked around, a needle stuck in your arm as you hung from chains connected to the ceiling. Then the flashes came. The happiness, the love, the pride, the feeling that nothing could go wrong. One big happy family. Tears threatened to overflow.

“It wasn’t real...”

“Oh honey, nothing that perfect could ever be real. Did you really think it was?”

Your face hardened, “You son of a bitch! I’m gonna kill you!” You struggled against the chains to charge forward but it was useless. Along with the dream, your strength was gone. The sight made the djinn laugh.

“Aaahh, I do love when they struggle. But, it’s time for you to sleep again and give me that sweet, sweet blood of yours.” He smiled and his eyes began to glow again, his tattoos seemingly moving down. You felt tired and went to sleep again.

“Mommy! Mommy! Look how high I’m going!”

3 DAYS EARLIER

“Dean, Y/N.” Sam called his brother, “Got a case.”

The case was in Houston Texas, almost a days worth drive. Sam had a theory as to what it was because they had seen their type before. This guy was leaving bodies in the wide open, blue handprints left on their stomachs. An easy giveaway, as Sam called it.

After setting up in the motel, Sam and Dean left you to your own devices while they went and talked to the relatives of one of the deceased. the case seemed like it was gonna be an easy kill and go home but when the brothers returned, they didn’t have any luck. 

Dean sighed and fell to the bed. He smoothed a hand down his face, he seemed quite tired.

“Dean why don't you just get some sleep? You too, Sam. I can do some research for now.” you smiled at both of them.

Sam, who reached into the small fridge on the dresser behind you to grab a water, put his hand to your shoulder. “Thanks, Y/N. That would be appreciated.”

He gulped some water and flopped onto the other bed in the room. Both of the boys were out in minutes. 

After a few hours you found that Djinns tend to live in ruins, usually – the bigger, the better. With that in mind, you looked up places like that and bingo bango, you had your target.

You started to open your mouth to wake up Sam and Dean but with the way Dean was snoring and Sam looking so comfortable under his covers, you couldn't bring yourself to do it. sleep was something they were long over due for. So, you grabbed your gun and knife and headed out, hot wiring a rusty old pickup truck in fear of Dean’s wrath if he saw you took Baby.

The only way to kill one was a silver blade dipped in lambs blood so you had to make a pit stop for that before reaching your destination.

It was pitch black outside, no doubt most people would be asleep. But nope, not you. Had to slice and dice before hitting that pillow oh so nice. You took a deep breath as you stood in front of a half burnt asylum. Best known because a patient who was getting abused here set it aflame. What better ruin to hide in?

“Better now than later, Y/N.” you surmised to yourself. If you could handle this on your own maybe Sam and Dean, the two big doofs would finally look your way. You feel in love with Dean first, the flirty of the two. You met him first on a ghost hunt. He almost stole it but you ended up working together on it. 

The next time you saw him was with his brother, when they needed backup for a case. One you were willing to provide, anything to see Dean again. Then Sam came swooping in making you fall for him too. His intelligence blew you away. The way he cared for those around him and would do anything for anyone who needed it. You’d been stuck to them every since that case.

The Winchester brother got you, hook line and sinker. There was no way around it, your thoughts filled with them. But you couldn’t confess that to them. Why would they even like you like that. At least you thought so.

You quietly stepped into the asylum, checking each room as you went by.

Sam groaned as he turned onto his left side, slowly blinking his eyes awake. He noticed the light of his laptop still on. He sat up, wiping away any sleep left behind.

“Y/N?” he looked over to his right, the bed empty. Then he looked at Dean’s, so was his except his brother. He got up and walked to the bathroom to see if she was in there but the light was off. He started to panic internally. 

Sam raced to the laptop to check what she had looked at. All of Y/N’s research was right there and even where she thought the Djinn was.

“Dean!” Sam grabbed his coat since he had fallen asleep in his shirt and jeans.

His brother jumped, “Huh- wha?”

“Y/N went after the Djinn by herself.” that snapped Dean awake.

“What?!” Sam tossed him his jacket and the keys, Dean slipping his gun in the back of his jeans and both of them rushing out to the impala.

The ride to the asylum was silent with tension in the air. Both brothers were worried of course, Dean angry at himself for not keeping an eye on her. She’d been with them for a while now. She was useful to them, not only that but they both came to care for her.

“She’ll be okay, Dean. She’s tough.” Sam cut through the tension. 

Dean didn’t want to say much, his thoughts going a million miles in his head thinking if she was safe or even alive, so he opted for, “Yeah.” His grip on the steering wheel tightened, something that hadn’t gone unnoticed by his brother.

Sam pulled out his phone, bringing up Y/N’s contact. If she was in trouble, they had to get to her fast.

You’d been walking around for a little bit now, but still no sign of the Djinn. Maybe you’d gotten the place wrong? Maybe there was another ruin the monster preferred. But this one was just too perfect to pass up, it had to be this one.

You walked further down a corridor, the walls had soot all over them, parts of it burned down to the dry wall. You turned when you heard something move in the distance. Your eyes narrowed when you saw nothing there. You faced the way you were walking again only to see the Djinn right in front of you, smirking. 

“Well, well, what do we have here.” You reacted immediately and jabbed the knife towards him, but he was quicker. He’d grabbed your wrist and twisted it so you’d drop your weapon. You groaned but that was the only thing you’d give him. Not wanting to give him the satisfaction of seeing you in pain.

He sniffed up you neck and into your hair, making you flinch away. “You smell... delectable.” With his last word, you saw a faint glow behind you and his hand come up to cover your eyes. After that, you were out.

*

Dean and Sam had just arrived at the location you had saved on Sam’s computer. They both agreed it was definitely the place the Djinn would be. They got their guns and knives ready, putting the knife in their waistbands and keeping their guns glued to in front of them.

They entered the same way you had but one brother went left and the other went right, splitting up to hopefully find you quicker. The hallways smelled old and a scent of burnt wood still lingered in the air. However long it had been since the fire, the reminders of it were still there. 

Dean couldn’t lie, the place had an eerie feel to it. He checked around every corner, in every room, and so far, no sign of you.

Sam did the same, checking carefully, making sure to stay quiet so he could have an advantage. He entered a larger room than the others he had passed. It almost looked like the nave of a church, benches lined up in rows with space in the middle to walk until you hit a few steps to climb. At the center of the steps, you hung from chains.

“Y/N!” Sam whispered trying to get your attention as he quickly made his way to you. You gave no response. You didn’t move at all and that worried Sam. He tapped your face a few times and held it up, whispering your name again. Nothing.

The doors flew open and Sam looked over from you. Dean’s body flew a few feet before he landed with a grunt.

“Dean!” Sam shouted to his brother. Dean grunted, “Heya, Sammy.” sarcastically. The Djinn walked in behind him.

“Is it Thanksgiving because it seems like I’m gonna have a big meal I’m thankful for.” Sam’s jaw clenched and Dean stood up from the ground.

“Get her out of here Sam, I got this.”

*

“Mommy! Mommy! Did you see how high I was going?” Junior shouted as he raced towards you. You smiled brightly, “Yes I did, Bug. Did you have fun?” he jumped up on your lap, nodding and breathing heavily. Dean walked up behind him and leaned down to give you a kiss. It was something you savored. You looked across the table at Sam who had your daughter in his hands, squealing at him as he attacked her face with kisses. But something in your gut told you this was too good to be true. You were kind of having Deja vu.

Then you heard it. Your name was being called. 

“Sam?” you asked. The Sam across from you looked up and frowned.

“What’s the matter?” he questioned.

Again. You’re name. But this time, you definitely knew it didn’t come from him. Something wasn’t right, you felt it. This world, it wasn’t real. Flashes of memory made you realize, you were a hunter. Hunters didn’t get to live like this. They either died from a monster or by the end of a barrel. They didn’t get the white picket fence happiness.

You set Junior down on the ground, slowly getting up.

“Y/N? Sweetheart, what’s wrong?” Dean grabbed your arm, his face twisted with concern.

“This isn’t real. None of this is real.” you whispered.

“Not real? Baby, this is as real as it gets.” Dean answered back.

“No. No no no. I have to get out of here.” The despair and sadness you suddenly felt tore your heart to pieces. You wanted so bad for it to be real. To be with the two men you so dearly loved, to have a family with them. But you knew it wasn’t your reality.

You reached into your purse, grabbing the keys and taking off in the impala. Your heart raced, you didn’t really know where you were going. At this point you just wanted it all to end. So, you pushed harder on the gas pedal and crashed into a metal pole.

You gasped awake, heart struggling to clam. The feeling of the crash still lingering. You currently sat in the back of the impala, the familiar rumble helped to sooth you.

“Hey, sweetheart. How are you feeling?” You looked up and saw Dean smiling at you behind the wheel.

“What happened? Where’s the Djinn?” you asked. Sam turned so he could face you, a gentle smile crossing his features.

“He’s gone. You don’t have to worry about him.” You nodded and the car fell into a silence. Dean glanced back at you through the rearview mirror and you had a feeling you knew the question he was itching to ask.

“We were married.” you spoke, the boys turning their attention to you.

Sam looked at his brother before clearing his throat, “W-What?”

Tears pricked at your eyes, “We had kids and I was pregnant.” You laughed and sniffled, “We had a white picket fence life. Junior, was Dean and I’s son, Mira was Sam and I’s daughter. We loved each other- I... loved both of you. I still do.”

“Y/N-” Sam was speechless.

“No- I, please, Sam. Just... don’t. I know we can never have that. You and Dean probably wouldn’t even go for that, let alone have feelings for me.” The tears spilled onto your cheeks and once again, the car was silent.

After a minute, the impala slowed and pulled off to the side of the road. You sniffed and looked up, Dean turning around in his seat.

“You don’t get to say that. You don’t get to say what I do and don’t feel because I know what I want. When Sam told me you’d gone off on your own, it scared the hell outta me. I didn’t know if we’d reach you in time or if I’d have to see you dead in some ruin. I know how I feel, Y/N, how we feel.” You followed his gaze to his brother. Sam smiled and nodded.

“We love you too, Y/N.”

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[cookingwithroxy]

do you leave trash on the ground simply because stores hire janitors? people like you are the reason retail workers have to work that much harder. do better and be considerate

Now. Watch as I quote my own post!

'But what REALLY marks this whole fucking thing as absolutely assinine and part of the bullshit black or white mentality so prevalent in the world today?

That some fucko will come in and immediately claim that I don’t push my cart back because I pointed out how fucking stupid this theory of morality is.'

Bingo bango boingo, welcome to being the shitbird I claimed would come to roost, Anon.

Does it make you proud to be exactly the kind of person I said was part of the problem?

Or better yet, how about this one?

Does it make you feel better to know that your response to someone calling out something you enjoy is to attempt to make their life worse with online harassment?

Does it make you feel good to know that you did not, in fact, follow the golden rule?

Does it make you feel wonderful to know you were neither a good person, OR considerate, meaning your message makes you the worst kind of hypocrite?

I damn well expect it did, until now.

I hope it BURNS, Anon. Knowing that you're the terrible person here. That you're everything you claim to oppose.

I hope it stays burning. Because that'll be the only way you learn.

[thelawyerthatwaspromised]

Episode 1 Should Have Been Titled “The Truth”

Simply put...there was major indications that we are getting dark!Dany, Jonsa, and political!Jon in this last season. The major signs and subtle nuances were extremely consistent. The only real complaints I’ve seen is the “flavor” of some of Jon’s actions in episode 1. It’s an understandable criticism but I really think we were fed quite well for a premiere and a TON of plot boxes were checked off and done so quickly enough that the “there’s no enough time!” argument against the Big 3 is really starting to ring hollow.

I think I’ll work largely going theory by theory here and showing what makes them all even more likely than ever.

Big 3 Jonsa Fan Theories

1.) dark!Dany

If you don’t know already...the dark!Dany theory is the idea that Daenerys Targaryen’s arc has been tell the story of an emerging antagonist - principally with Jon Snow as her main political foe. 

This is probably the easiest of the Big 3 to identify in Winterfell. Right off the bat, we get a glimpse. The Northerners don’t approve of Dany, very clearly. She gets satisfaction when her dragons flyover and terrify the bejeebers out of the commoners. 

Charming.

We move on to the terrifically uncomfortable first meeting with Sansa...and we all know how this went.

I think EC did a really good job conveying the air of superiority and her dissatisfaction with Sansa’s response.

Dany doesn’t have much a poker face. And it’s shown to be contentious for good reason.

This is the first time she’s ever been to WF and she expects to be called “My Queen” like everybody is Jorah Mormont. That’s just not how it works. The first town hall meeting with the North goes even worse than the initial greeting.

“What exactly do dragons eat anyway?” “Whatever they want.”

Bingo bango. If EVER you needed a money quote point to Dany both 1) being oblivious to what it means to be a good politician; and 2) being an entitled ruler who believes the rules don’t apply to her...this is it.

And it mirrors what we’ve seen before with regard to the dragons.

Ring a bell?

Then we get maybe the darkest Dany moment of the episode. Well...at least one of the top 10 darkest Dany moments of the episode.

“If she can’t respect me...”

Then what, Dany?

Her subtle head shake before she says it conveys a “don’t you get it, Jon?” She follows it up with a very intentional narrowing of her eyes...she’s letting Jon fill in the blanks of what she means here. It’s impossible to ignore the implications. 

Notice that Jon doesn’t look too thrilled and gets yet more confirmation that he is walking a very, very fine line.

Next, we get the culmination of a lot of offseason speculation that, as a Jonsa/dark!Dany/political!Jon believer...was told was NEVER going to become an issue: the burning of Randyll and Dickon Tarly.

Let’s recap...

Wonderful advice. Then..

We know how this turned out. And we were shown pretty emphatically that, yes, burning a father and son alive when they are prisoners of war is going to be viewed negatively by a family member of that father and son and it’s probably going to have an effect on how a region feels about you when your father started a war by deciding to burn a father and son alive (or burning a father and strangling a son, as in the books). 

So she bumps into Sam. Because Sam’s connection to Jorah does, again, matter. Sam happens to mention he belongs to House Tarly...and Dany’s demeanor gets noticeably stiffer and more steely. 

Let’s unpack this. 

Randyll Tarly wasn’t executed for being a bad father. He wasn’t executed as a form of justice for “betraying” House Tyrell. He was executed specifically because he would not bend the knee. Bending the knee would have allowed Randyll Tarly to have the exact same lifestyle he’d had before he’d bent the knee. So, again, this was not an act of justice. It was an act of dominance. Unequivocally. 

Then...she reveals that Dickon Tarly was executed likewise for:

...standing by his dad. Please, if you have belief in Daenerys as a hero at this point, consider the extraordinary meaning of her words here. 

The Loot Train Battle was a temporary triumph and a long term disaster for Dany. There’s not enough food to eat and she executed the members of maybe the greatest non-great house (in stature) in Westeros, people that could have at the very least been valuable hostages. And it’s hurting her now even double because the surviving son of the man she executed is best friends with the man she wants to romance and who holds her only chance for political cohesiveness in her newly “acquired” kingdom. What a complete and total disaster for her. Rightfully so.

2.) political!Jon

I’m going to say that political!Jon is probably the hardest of the Big 3 to identify in the episode...but then again it was hard to identify last season too. The difference is that I’ve actually been seeing much more popular speculation that Jon isn’t necessarily as blind and foolish as he might be leading on. 

First, let me remind everyone of what I think is basically the central thesis of political!Jon:

political!Jon is the theory that Jon’s main objective for the entirety of the time after he left Winterfell was centered on obtaining Daenerys as an ally so that her resources could be redirected to the Army of the Dead. This objective was the primary reason for every significant action he took in Season 7, culminating in Jon determining that he must bend the knee in order to get Daenerys’ help in the North.

What I’m seeing from Jon, maybe more than I even anticipated from Season 7 is that his actions are also colored by a distinct emotion that seems to be increasing as the “game” goes on: fear.

Yes, Jon is afraid of what Dany might be capable of doing. To his war efforts. To his home. To his loved ones. So now, I’m practically ready to amend my central thesis of political!Jon to read:

political!Jon is the theory that Jon’s main objective for the entirety of the time after he left Winterfell was centered on obtaining Daenerys as an ally so that her resources could be redirected to the Army of the Dead. This objective was the primary reason for every significant action he took in Season 7, culminating in Jon determining that he must bend the knee in order to get Daenerys’ help in the North - and an increasing realization that, at all costs, Jon must never appear to be a threat to Daenerys’ quest for power else he and his loved ones would become her enemy and he is not powerful enough to stop her.

It’s startling in a way. He truly is Torrhen Stark in this scenario. Think back to what Jon’s seen:

A terrifying first meeting where he’s told that by calling himself a king, he’s in open rebellion against Daenerys...

And asserted her belief that she is entitled to his home...

She leveraged his fear of destruction to demand that he bend the knee...

He watched her berate her Hand for the crime of not wanting his family dead quite enough for her liking...

He had to talk her out of using her dragons on King’s Landing...

He knows how she views her “children” as her source of “specialness” and that she craves being viewed as special...

Because she told him exactly that...

And he knows that even after SEEING the Night King, she gave him no indication that she was willing to halt her war efforts in the south to help save the world unless Cersei agreed. (she also stupidly believed Cersei)

So we get to the first town hall meeting...and Jon drops this incredible truth bomb...

Act surprised if you want...but he’s only confirming what he’s said the whole damn time...

He declared in front of EVERYBODY that he could not protect the North while holding onto his crown. He doesn’t care about Dany getting her chair. He doesn’t care about her war against Cersei. BUT because of who Dany revealed herself to be throughout the Season 7 (very powerful and very volatile) Jon’s learned that being her enemy is an untenable position. 

Follow this thought process if you’re still skeptical:

Did Jon believe his crown was important?

Yes, he refused to give it up during the season because of exactly that. It does matter.

Why would he change his mind then?

Theory 1: His relationship with Dany has shown him that titles don’t matter. Ok, well that’s hogwash because now Dany is threatening Sansa for not respecting her enough...and Jon himself was threatened in Season 7 for not bowing to her and calling her Queen.

or

Theory 2: Jon is intimately aware of how important titles are to Daenerys. And that’s exactly why he has to make her believe he could never be threat to her. He knows the things she’s said; the things she’s threatened. He knows how her priorities...else the Dragonpit summit wouldn’t have been necessary to get Dany’s agreement to help in the North. Jon is terrified of the idea of becoming her enemy because he knows how incapable Dany is at seeing things any way other than black and white.

Considering Jon explicitly states that having the crown prevents him protecting the North...I know which theory I find more plausible. You can make up your own mind on that.

This explains Jon’s behavior, I think, better than any other idea. Jon fears Dany. He fears that speaking out against Dany exposes people he cares about. He needs them to realize that this is a dangerous situation. And I think they get that - but I’m not quite sure yet that they understand the amount of destruction that Dany has openly threatened to exact on her enemies. 

Sansa is more outspoken now and more confident. When Jon jokes with Arya about Sansa thinking she’s smarter than everyone, he very obviously remembers back when Sansa said that Dany would try to force his political submission before he left for Dragonstone. And that’s exactly what happened. He told Tyrion that Sansa is smart. It’s not a secret that he knows Sansa is smart. But, in my opinion, his fear is centered on Sansa being outspoken to the point where she enrages Dany and puts herself at risk...which is EXACTLY what happened...

This is precisely what Jon fears. 

“I’ll protect you, I promise” and

“I had a choice: keep my crown or protect the North.”

His submission is his way of preserving lives. 

What’s the best indication that Jon fears Dany? It’s the R+L=J reveal.

So Jon’s finding this out for the first time...his initial reaction is disgust. It took Jon 16 seconds to say “I’m so sorry”. He was at a loss for words. And then Jon has to deflect, deflect, deflect. 

His next words? Do they address the problem? Or do they display the heart of Jon’s problem? The latter.

This is a big nothing from Jon. The reality is that this war has put Jon in an absolutely terrible situation and he hates it. But what “war”? Hasn’t he pledged himself in TWO wars?

Why would defeating the NK be in any way connected to Dany killing the Tarlys in the other war? The answer? Jon’s only doing what he’s doing and not openly confronting the realities of who Dany is because he absolutely believes that he MUST delay addressing this situation because raising issues with Dany when the war with the NK is so near creates havoc that Jon can’t even comprehend.

He’s terrified of addressing what’s happened to Sam’s family and he’s probably not even sure what to do next. 

To Sam’s credit, he cuts right through the bullshit and presses Jon on the “rightness” of Dany’s actions: “would you have done it?”

I’m not going to go into some silly discussion about “well gosh, hanging Olly is exactly the same as executing the Tarlys”. They’re not the same, but it doesn’t really matter because according to the writers - executing prisoners of war for not bending the knee is very very bad and significantly different than hanging someone who stabbed you in the chest. And we all know Jon Snow wouldn’t execute someone for the simple crime of not bending the knee and recognizing him as a monarch. Every single shallow thing Jon says back is countered immediately by Sam because we know that Sam’s right.

“I wasn’t a king” “But you were. You’ve always been.” “I gave up my crown, Sam...”

JON WALKS AWAY AFTER TELLING SAM HE GAVE UP HIS CROWN.

He’s visibly upset about it. Sam tells him that Dany executed his family...and Jon feels powerless to do anything about it. He tries to walk away when telling Sam he gave up his crown.

Ok, so, if titles don’t matter, then why does having a crown or not having a crown determine whether Jon can say whether he would or wouldn’t have made the same choice Dany made? Jon is saying it’s his not his place to say because he doesn’t have a crown anymore - just after saying that titles and crowns don’t matter.

They do matter. And Jon knows this. But he can’t say it. Not yet.

The last bit of powerful political!Jon evidence is in Jon’s reaction to being told he’s the rightful heir. That, in Sam’s opinion, Jon should be the King and Dany should not by Queen. (gonna go ahead and say this means Sam’s not going to be in favor of Jon-Dany marriage...)

Jon’s first thoughts are to step towards Sam and express anger that Ned lied all those years. Then Sam explains that Ned did it to protect him. And that Jon is the TRUE King. And this is where Jon’s episode-long poker face starts to really fall apart. Jon’s backing away. Stunned. Not totally unexpected...but it’s his first words that REALLY paint the picture.

He’s immediately terrified of the talk of succession. If Jon is SO SURE that titles don’t matter. If he’s SO SURE that she’s a good queen. If he’s SO SURE that “it doesn’t matter” - why are these his thoughts. Why is he panicked? Why is he unable to make eye contact? He learns that his birth wasn’t anything like he thought and his first real words about it jump to what it means for him politically.

Sam says what he thinks: she shouldn’t be the Queen. And this evokes terror in Jon’s mind...

It’s treason. His birth status would be viewed as treason. If Dany is a just queen. If she believes in the rule of law. Then Jon SHOULD be the King and Dany should not be the Queen. it’s the line of succession. But...again...titles DO matter. They matter to Daenerys above all. Jon has spent the entire time since he bent the knee trying to craft an image of himself as a total non-threat. 

He had made the best decision for the safety of his people.

“When you play the Game of Thrones; you win or you die.”

Jon had very intentionally played the Game of Thrones by not playing the game of thrones. It was the only way for him to survive. Now, The Truth of his birth throws his entire plan out the window. He’s scared. He’s backing away. He’s panicking. Because he knows what it means. He realized at some point that when it comes to Daenerys Stormborn or House Targaryen, you bend the knee and live or you do not, and you die. 

Daenerys essentially uses “you win or you die” as her motto. Jon chose the option that Mance refused. He bent the knee. He became Torrhen Stark. Except now imagine he is exactly the threat to Dany’s reign that he tried so tirelessly to avoid. 

It’s so clear in Jon’s reactions that he’s afraid. It’s so clear in what he said that he came to view his crown as a threat to the safety of his people BECAUSE titles matter so deeply to Dany. RLJ just exposed ALL of that because his reaction is utter terror.

I can’t even get to the Jonsa stuff because this got so long...but I’m going to end with the central question of the episode and one that Jon doesn’t answer, mostly because of the terrible implications of the question itself.

No. She wouldn’t. And he’s known it all along. And The Truth of that is what scares him most of all.

[ask-the-messenger-tf2]

Headcanons and Theories At Play In This Story

Howdy! I realized today I should probably address some of the specific features of this blog’s particular interpretation of some of the fuzzier bits of Tf2 canon. This list might grow, but here’s the key stuff for now.

RED vs BLU

My friend @xofreakydeakox came up with what I call the Shirt Swap Theory. Instead of there being a set of nine reds and a set of nine blus, there are ~20 mercs (the nine regular classes then Messenger and a different class counterpart) who are independently hired back and forth between the Mann Bros.

Say you’re Redmond Mann and you’re in a losing streak and you see that Blutarch’s sniper is doing really well? After this current contract with your mercs is up and everyone is up for grabs you might hire that sniper on to your crew- offering more money than your brother, of course.

Maybe you like a specific set of mercs that seems to be racking in the wins and working well together? 

Bingo bango the guys (tm) start getting hired together more and more often after the first few years. Sometimes Red, sometimes Blu- sometimes things shake up a bit- like right around before Mann Vs. Machine.

So what’s up with the “the guys don’t know Pauling and Admin are working both sides” in this case? The mercs were originally supposed to be on solid teams like they had been in the past with the Classics and the Originals, but the Mann Brothers had been getting more ornery and impatient with age. Not super long After WAR!, the first time the guys’ contracts were up for renewal, Blutarch hired Messenger and Sniper (M. Mundy) instead of his previous Sniper and the other 10th class, who Redmond hired to make up for his loss. 

Thus the “hiring war” began and eventually everybody except the Mann brothers and Potentially the soldiers kinda or flat out knew but they just...never did or said anything about it. Mainly because of the events in “Meet the Director.”

Constant Warfare and Respawn

I’m working with the theory that the “generations” of the Team Fortress were not as completely cut and dry as it’s somehow portrayed. The gravel wars in the Badlands have been going on continually with no true truce since the Original TF was hired. Intermittent peacetimes and “grunt” mercenaries fill in the gaps between the 3 Major Eras. And our current crew were not all hired at the same time: Scout was the last to be hired of the canon guys in 1966 (Which makes it so that he has been working with Pauling for 6 years as can be calculated from the comics.) Spy, on the other hand has been working in the Badlands since 1964, and Engie and Medic for much longer. 

Which brings us to respawn which has been in the works since Engie was hired by the Administrator (which is BEFORE he was hired by Blutarch but that’s a long story). Medic, Engie, and The Physician worked together to create the machine systems. There were a lot of early errors, and the team roster didn’t fill up to the OG 18 until early 1966 when the Scoots joined. Respawn was stabilized before then but Admin had difficulty getting scouts that weren’t too old and terrified of the respawn system and the concept of eternity. 

What it does: Respawns a merc in the state they were the last time they were scanned in their spawn chamber. Before each match, the mercs “zero” themselves in the chambers. Memories are not erased. This gets complicated but 2 words: brain upload. Don’t question it too much it’s tf2. 

Alternate Nine/Alternine

These are the nine mercs (in-game classes) that complement the “Teufort Nine” (it should be Teufort 10 if  you ask Messenger). The current alterSpy (Emilio) and alterHeavy (Boris/Borya) are the only two that came into the war after 1966. AlterSpy was hired shortly after the events of the “Meet the Medic” short- at which point the Teufort 10 were all on the same team for the first time. AlterHeavy was hired a few years later after a respawn error killed his predecessor. 

Homes/Do they Sleemp At the Base?

Heavy, Spy, Dell, Pyro, Demo, and Soldier are shown/suggested to have homes somewhere in NM. However, there is a dormitory on base with enough beds for everybody when there’s a long stretch of constant combat between peacetimes/contract shufflin- or for naps. Scout is. Pretty much the only guy who uses this room much at all. Medic sleeps in his lab, Messenger sleeps in a closet at night, and Sniper lives in his van. When Spy is around, he sleeps in his smoking room that he has for some reason. Sniper’s bed in the dorm has been claimed for Sascha. 

HC Names

This is for the guys who don’t have canonical/confirmed names and also Heavy’s last name is Sonovavich. It is literally never relevant but I like that one vine. Oh and Messenger’s name too.

Sniper: Mitchell (Mun-Dee) Mundy

Spy: Rémi Bonfils Chaput- if it sounds familiar yes this is in agreement with @dastardlydapperbastard ‘s Spio and HCs. Because that’s me.

Pyro: This will probably also never be relevant but their name is Roswell Goodnight. They are also a they. This was their identity for years before their mental state started deteriorating.

Messenger: Barbara E. Jared...Sorta. 

Thanks for reading!

[moriabn6-blog]

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[talesofdrunkennessandcruelty]

That’s it for me and the Phantom

"...I never had a contract to write the Phantom for the newspapers. There was never a mention of one when I started. Some years later I find out that everyone else who writes for Hearst/KFS is under contract and on the monthly payroll. My first editor set me up on my own unique arrangement. He told me to start cranking out stories and get the Phantom ahead of deadlines by two years. I’d be paid four, five, six times a year, depending on when I filed copy. He told me to invoice the company as needed and keep the stories coming. So that’s what I did.

It went without a hitch until this past November, when the company kicked back one of my invoices and said I needed to be under contract and on the monthly payroll before I could write another story.

I have a theory about that: I think it had something to do with Hearst/KFS licensing a production company to make a Phantom movie. Maybe these guys, maybe someone else. I’ve tried to get details, names, a look at the script. No dice.

As I say, just a theory, but I suspect that someone in Hollywood or New York realized over the winter that under federal copyright law my non-contract status amounts to a potential break in the chain of title to Lee Falk’s Phantom. In other words, Hearst/KFS sold movie rights that belong, in part, to me....

The company sought to avoid this nightmare scenario by time-traveling back to 1999 for a do-over. They wanted me to agree to a fiction: to say I was a work-for-hire writer the whole time. That was just plain weird; as if I had done something dishonest, tricked them into waiting 17 years to put a contract in front of me.

Work-for-hire means the company owns the rights to everything you produce, as if you’re an employee drawing a paycheck (which you’re not), sitting at their desk (you’re not), using their computer (not), their electricity (nope), covered by their health plan (ha!) their Social Security contributions (dream on), eligible for unemployment benefits if the work runs out (what are you smoking there, son?)

My lawyer in New York, Eric Rayman, told Hearst/KFS that retroactive work-for-hire is simply not contemplated in the text of the law. Work-for-hire requires a signed contract before the work begins. That’s all there is to it.

The company kept trying different word games to achieve a de facto retroactivity. (Pretty impressive how I can talk all that legal talk myself now, isn’t it? ipso facto, bingo bango, you name it.)..."

[robronotics]

Post Ep Ponderings January 20

It’s been awhile since we’ve seen overprotective mum Chas. Not that I’m surprised, it wouldn’t make any sense for it to be any other way. Just because Aaron has been in a better place for a few months now, just doesn’t mean that Chas didn’t have all that motherly worry still brewing inside her. It was actually kind of nice to see again, though I did feel really bad for Paddy. He did not deserve that. It was, however, clearly a plot device to make Aaron’s situation worse. If Chas hadn’t yelled at Paddy and sent him away, then she wouldn’t have seen DS Wise on her own and he wouldn’t have driven her back to the village. Then Paddy wouldn’t have over heard and gone blabbing to Rhona and Pierce, and Pierce wouldn’t have felt he needed to threaten Wise so that Paddy was still in the clear to date Chas (because he clearly still thinks that if Paddy is single then he’ll make a play for Rhona again). And then because of all this, Wise is going to have to back out of getting rid of Aaron’s original statement and bingo bango, we’ve got more trouble for Aaron.

You know, I knew it was complicated and intricate and all connected before I wrote that, but now it’s really hitting me. It’s verging on convoluted, at yet still believable. Really a solid soap plot device right there.

Not that I didn’t already know this, I think it’s just that it’s the first time I’ve really seen it since watching full episodes regularly, but Aaron is the master of holding onto bad feelings until they explode out of him in the worst ways. He just shut right down there. I get that he feels massively guilty, and I presume wants to be punished, but he’s taking it all out. He shouldn’t have beaten the shit out of Kasim, that’s for sure, and I think most good people, if they had done the same thing, would expect to have some sort of punishment (though I’m equally as sure that most people would try not to get sent down for it), but tonight it was like Aaron had just given up. He didn’t just feel guilty, he wanted the maximum punishment possible so that, I think, he could run away from his current issues. I’m starting to think that he really doesn’t know what to do. He loves Robert, and I don’t think could stay away from him for long provided Robert still wanted him (which he clearly does) but he also can’t stand how loving Robert has made him act lately and I think when he got arrested, part of him thought, ‘this is it, I’ll have that decision taken from me. Either I’ll get sent down, or Robert will leave me anyway.’ Now I’m just hoping that Robert’s eyes are fully open to the issues that Aaron is clearly still having and it going to work harder at proving himself. I think he needs to figure out the more than words theory. I also think Aaron wasn’t completely off base when he thought Robert still had his own issues, though I’m not sure Robert’s as simple as not being able to be comfortable with himself.

Finn is being a right shit. I have no issue with him being upset with Aaron for beating up Kasim, but that’s where it ends for me right now. They’re really making him more and more like Emma these days. He really can’t seem to accept that a lot of what happened was his own fault. Whether Aaron had been there or not that night, Kasim was still (rightfully) creeped out by Finn’s actions. And now he’s fully on stalking Kasim! This is going nowhere good, that much I can tell. I was going to say that if he keeps this up that he’ll never get Kasim back, but honestly, I think it might already be too late. At least for awhile, lol! It’s never actually too late in soap land, but it’s seeming like Finn has at least a year of no contact with Kasim at all before he could even think of starting again. And the new boyfriend in jail line he gave Robert? That is some daring shit. I had this thought, while I was typing this part, that I could see Finn having a huge wake up call when it eventually comes out that Emma was responsible for James’ death and the whole car accident. I think the result will depend on what state of mind he’s in when that happens. He’ll either pull an ‘oh shit! I’ve been acting like her, I better clean up my act!’ Or, he’ll get all sneaky and become more like her. He’ll say something creepy like he never would’ve met Kasim if it hadn’t been for her. Oh, that would be so awesomely dark!

Because who didn’t think this when I was talking about Robert?

[realwizardshit]

my mom has been watching bingo bango theory for literally over six hours straight

[mealsforsquares]

Chili

The saga to use the ground beef continues! I am never sad about the people that I live with*, but they both have occasionally and enthusiastic use for ground beef. I almost never have any use for ground beef. Even when I grind it myself, I still find myself wishing for something with more body. But, you know, these are the sacrifices we make, you know?

So it was, as Bart Simpson once claimed, time for chili. It was still cold at the time (I know, it seems weird, right?). The kind with ground beef and whatnot. The kind that we all (and by “we all” I mean the peopel in this particular house, not anyone who might be reading this) grew up on.

I started by spending seven billion hours of my life heating the dutch oven, then getting some oil hot in there. I browned the beef then pulled it out when it was brown. Browning ground beef is always such a pain, as you get almost all the way cooked before you pull it, and the odds that it’s going to dry out increase enormously. SIgh.

I added a couple of minced onions, a sweet pepper, a couple of jalapenos, and let them sweat out in the bottom there. When they were done I added I think three or four cloves of minced garlic and let them just start to get fragrant before I added two cans of some three-bean mixture I bought whimsically when I was full of whimsy about beans whenever I bought them. I added enough reconstituted chicken stock to cover, and then blitzed a can of tomatoes with the stick blender, and added them as well**. At this point I also uncased and added another chicken sausage. It didn’t get the browning treatment because chicken sausage is even dryer than ground beef, so I just got it into the broth and let it simmer away. I added a couple of bay leaves and wandered off to do other stuff while it bubbled away, breaking down and getting friendly.

I made cornbread. A and R both have a preference for cake-y northern-style cornbread, so that’s what I did. I’m nothing if not accomodating. I put together about half AP and half cornmeal in a bowl, gave it some baking powder and considerably less baking soda, a generous palmful of sugar, and whisked it all together. I added enough buttermilk that it came together, and poured the resultant batter into a pyrex, which I baked until it was done. Bingo bango.

On the theory that vegetables are good and tasty, and also that a savory meat and bean stew could use some lightening up, I made a quick salad. I had some radishes, so I quartered them and put them down in a bowl. I cut a carrot into half-moons, then added a couple of generous handfuls of mesclun. I combined all of that, then topped it with some raisins and some pepitas for crunch.

The vinaigrette was the same vinaigrette I make all the time for everything - some olive oil, a spoonful of mustard, a shot of pomegranate molasses and some rice vinegar.

The chili was pretty good, even if it could have done to be spicier (I always say that). The cornbtread came out well, and the salad was a salad.

This was, perhaps, the most non-spectacular meal I’ve made in a long time, but at least I didn’t screw anything up. Hurray for basic competency!

* Indeed, I have often stated that I live with just about the only two people on earth I could successfully live with

** ordinarily I don’t bother with the blitzing and just smash them up with a wooden spoon, because I like chunks of tomato in my chili, but I didn’t do that this time for reasons that elude me now, but probably existed and made sense at the time.