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inevitably-johnlocked · 1 year ago

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Five Fics Friday: December 1/23

Happy Friday everyone!! And Happy December!!! Let's start off this month and weekend with some great fics for us all to read! AND PLEASE CHECK OUT THE BOOSTED FIC THIS WEEK!!! It's my gift fic for Fandom Trumps Hate!!! Hope you guys enjoy!!

SIGNAL BOOSTING

The Skin Over My Heart by standbygo (E, 8,849 w., 1 Ch. || Post-Hiatus, Fake Relationship, Case Fic, Dog Tags, Military, Homophobia, Gay Bashing, POV Sherlock, Friends to Lovers, First Kiss / Time, Declarations of Love, Undercover, Haircuts, Angst with Happy Ending) – Sherlock and John are still trying to adjust to Sherlock's return from his hiatus when John's friend Bill Murray brings them a case. Someone is targeting the LGBTQA+ members of Bill's unit. John and Sherlock go undercover at the unit, but when they end up having to flirt to flush out the suspect, Sherlock realizes he's in over his head.

RECENT JOHNLOCK MFLs

Just Our Hands Clasped So Tight by MythAnd (E, 11,460 w, 1 Ch. || Platonic Petting, Friends to Lovers, Anal Sex, POV John, Minor Violence, Smoking, Light Angst, Happy Ending) – In which John Watson makes a brilliant discovery - namely, if you pet Sherlock's hair, he shuts up. Now if he can only find a way to make him eat three square meals per day....

We Go Anywhere But To The Ground by geordielover (M, 24,623 w., 1 Ch. || Post-TRF, Suicidal Thoughts, Suicide Attempt, Temporary Character Death) – Every second that ticks by is a reminder of the deafening quiet Sherlock has left behind. John feels his soul slip out of his fingertips, inch by inch, with every passing day. At some point, he stops trying to hold on. [TRANSLATION: Italiano]

Only You by urfavv_strawwberrywinter4 (E, 72,901+ w., 21/? Ch. || WiP || Vampire AU || Human / Vampire Relationship, Vampire Bites, Mutual Pining, BAMF John/Sherlock, Jealous Sherlock, Possessive Behaviour, Friends to Lovers, Non-Con Elements, Eventual Happy Ending, Cuddling/Snuggling, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Implied / Referenced Suicide, Abusive Relationships, John Whump, John / OMCs) – Marcus Maverick is one of the most feared vampires in the city of London. He is known for taking down what was known as one of the most powerful families among vampires, the Holmes. Sherlock Holmes was out of the way, and that meant Maverick had the privilege of taking his dedicated lover and partner, John Watson. John Watson was the most wanted human of all vampires due to his wealthy background and connection to the Holmes Family. Maverick kept John Watson as his partner for three years until his death on a rainy, cold night on December 31st. Right after John’s death, Maverick demanded his many sorcerers and doctors bring him back to him. Years later, after doing much assiduous work and using a bit of forbidden magic, Maverick’s followers found a way to give him his John back. Well, not exactly his John, but certainly someones.

RECENTLY BOOKMARKED LOKIUS

all the lights have turned down low by RunnyYolk (T, 2,839 w., 1 Ch. || LOKI SERIES || S01E03 Canon Divergence, Lokius, POV Loki, Roxxcart Divorce AU, Pre-Relationship, Protective Mobius, Canon-Typical Violence, Trust Issues, Catharsis, Introspection, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Implied/Referenced Torture) – Loki slowly lifts himself up on an elbow. Shakily, he brushes back some of his wayward hair as he considers the agent's extended hand. It remains still, ever patient. Once more, chaotic agitation meets unflappable regard. There's a desperate yearning within to be valued, appreciated, soothed. Chaos capitulates. Part 1 of where the edge began

#johnlock fic recs #my fic recs #five fics friday #loki fic recs #lokius fic recs

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jvlewis77 · 2 years ago

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TV Show Tracker - trakt.tv client

The Night Agent - S01E03 - The Zookeeper : https://trakt.tv/shows/the-night-agent/seasons/1/episodes/3

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heardchef · 2 years ago

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THE BEAR | episode three "i will dial business, you are everything else."

#cia agent by night russian gymnastics coach by day #the bear #the bear fx #the bear spoilers #s01e03 #syd adamu #sydney adamu #ayo edebiri #carmen berzatto #carmy berzatto #jeremy allen white #tvedit #tvfilmdaily #tvfilmgifs #gif #mine

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adultswim2021 · 4 years ago

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The Brak Show #3: “Time Machine” September 2, 2001 - 10:45 PM | S01E03 Adult Swim’s schedule initially started with Home Movies, then TWO Brak Shows back-to-back. Then, Harvey Birdman or Aqua Teen; they alternated weeks in the post Brak slot. Weird, but OKAY, I GUESS!!! In this episode Brak is punished for not doing his homework by being deprived of a family trip to Fish Pockets, his favorite restaurant. Alas, he spent the entire weekend playing Headkicker, an Atari-style fighting game with Zorak. Headkicker, if I remember correctly, was an actual playable game on the adult swim website. I think there was also a soccer game with Home Movies characters? I didn’t spend much/any time on those things, so these are pretty hazy memories. The solution of course is to travel back in time via Thundercleese’s “Time Shed”, which they do, but every time they go back in time they get carried away playing Headkicker with their past selves, causing them to need to go back in time yet again, with another set of past selves. The cycle continues until Brak’s bedroom is absolutely full of past Braks and Zoraks. This might be the strongest of the first batch of Brak Show episodes. The story makes enough sense. There’s enough absurdity that actually drives the story, and there’s solid jokes. I wish they all coulda been like this one. Also it ends with a catchy musical bit where Brak sings a surf-rock version of his catch phrase “yeah buddy!”. There’s not much to complain about in this one. Good! Pendants corner: back in the day when I was obsessive about this kind of thing, I made note of the production codes for these episodes and made my own episode guide. I think the Adult Swim website used to list them on the website. But somewhere along the way they revised the episode order. Goldfish is considered #1, The War Next Door became #2, and Time Machine became #3. Doesn’t reflect airing OR production order, and the earliest example of this order comes from the Brak Show DVD, and it’s listed this way on the Adult Swim website. Bawk Ba Gawk, which I like to consider the TRUE first episode, comes fifth, because that’s how it aired when they revised the pilot version. My own numbering is what makes sense to me.

MAIL BAG

I get mail! No, really! This is my pal Kon who ran one of the first Adult Swim sites I knew about (he sent me a few messages at once which is why it starts how it does) the following messages he sent a couple days later:

Sorry I keep thinking of shit man! In between Cartoon Planet and BRAK PRESENTS THE ETC. there was a project announced called Codename: Brak. It was going to be an actual children's program, was going to be fully cel-animated, and was going to be a pilot for the What a Cartoon Show. Maybe it was after Brak Presents actually? But it was going to be a kids show where Brak was a secret agent. Just sharing info man!

More vintage Brak memories coming to mind: I remember Brak Presents ep #1 being very heavily promoted and given a cushy timeslot, and then ep 2 being just dumped on the airwaves on some random night. So I had a sense even at that the time that the Brak Show bombed and there would probably be no more Brak stuff ever again (at least until Adult Swim/Leave it to Brak/The Brak Show were announced)

This means Code Name: Brak must have been announced and scrapped before BRAK PRESENTS because that was the harbinger of doom for more Brak content. I also remember missing episode 2 when it aired and not exactly being crushed about it. Idk how I saw it, it must have reran at some point between 2000 and 2001 because I don't think Adult Swim ever aired it?

Didn’t know any of this! It’s weird how little time I spent on Space Ghost’s online fandom. I always hung out on South Park message board because people were more ~tWiStEd~ there. Anyway, I don’t think Adult Swim ever aired Brak Presents, I remember the Digital Archive Project had it? The DAP??? Ring any balls???

#adult swim #the brak show #adultswim2021

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portmanteaurian · 7 years ago

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Murder She Wrote S01E03: Fuck Off Freddy

I adore this woman. I’ve already decided.

Anyway if this is the episode I think it is we are in for a wild ride and a bit of a mixed bag.

An idyllic scene to be sure. I can’t remember if every episode’s title card is a view of the lighthouse? We’ll see, I suppose.

Fave guest star name today: BART BRAVERMAN

Also noteworthy:

MARIAAAAAAA/I JUST MET A GIRL NAMED MARIAAAA

Only one of these people is dressed for jogging

Mr. Three-piece is demanding to be paid because he’s finished with...something he has agreed to do. Velour Tracksuit insists he’s not finished til Tracksuit SAYS he’s finished, and he won’t get the money til then.

Three-piece is named howard and his hair is very round

also sorry for implying this guy (Al) would wear a velour tracksuit I think it’s actually...corduroy???

Another guy, Mike, shows up, and also is trying to get money out of Al. He alludes to a deal. Al is not a well-liked guy!

i could give you context for this image of mike but I choose to let it stand alone

we meet Howard’s fiancee, who is attempting to stop a priest from aggressively upselling her on a bigger, more “festive” wedding

she alludes to an aunt from Maine and we all know what that means, she’s one of Jessica’s innumerable legion of relatives.

Howard and fiancee (we still don’t have her name) argue because he keeps having to cancel evening plans with her (five nights in a row!) to meet with “very important” clients and so forth. As audience members we already know Al has demanded Howard do something for him tonight, so we know Howard is ~keeping secrets~.

Meanwhile the priest is like “I do actually have things to do other than your wedding rehearsal, please set me free”

free him

We cut to dinner Vicky (that’s her name!) and Jessica, where we learn some details about Howard. He was a small-time actor in NY when she met him but now, she says, he sells life insurance. I have my doubts. (And am cheating because I do remember elements of this episode. but the doubts would exist regardless).

They’ve known each other for a year which I guess could be long enough to get married but does seem quick to me.

Vicky: I would love Howard no matter what business he was in. I really love him -- and he loves me! He really does, I mean, I know that. For a certainty.

Jessica...

seems a little concerned by how intensely Vicky is hammering this point.

there is a long and awkward pause.

Jessica talks about some last-minute doubts being normal and Vicky drops a bombshell: she stopped by Howard’s office to surprise him the other day, and was told he hadn’t worked there for a month!!

Jessica:

Vicky lays out other information she’s gathered: a lipstick-stained handkerchief, the smell of perfume, matchbooks from a nightclub. She wants to go there and find out what’s going on, but she also asks “if I love him, how can I justify spying on him?”

If I were her I would consider, like, TALKING to my fiance, but I am not a straight person and do not understand their ways.

We cut to the bar.

Surprise! Al’s in charge. We learn the club is very successful and that people have been trying to get him to sell but he has not been willing to. We also learn there’s a musician named Freddy who works there as an exclusive, and the guy who tells us this (his agent?) also informs Al that Freddy wants to be able to play other places as well. Al refuses.

Vicky ruthlessly attempts to finagle a table by capitalizing on Jessica’s fame. Al has no idea who this old lady is. After Vicky rattles off some of her accomplishments though, he is suitably impressed.

Sidenote: we learn here Jessica has SIX bestsellers and I officially have no idea how much time is meant to be passing between episodes of this show. In episode one she wrote her first book!!

Freddy appears. We learn he is a drummer/comedian??? An unexpected venn intersection. He’s not very good.

Carol Lawrence is here, as Al’s wife, and instantly brings up the episode’s glamour quotient several hundred percent.

Anyway speaking of glamour, Freddy (finally) gets off the stage and we are introduced to our headliner:

Michelle DuPont! She is a drag queen. It is a drag club!

Now I remember being skeptical of this reveal when I first watched the episode but pleasantly surprised at things being less bad than I’d feared. We will see if this remains true on rewatch.

Michelle’s set is interrupted by another queen running out from backstage and attempting to get out of the building, as the backstage manager yells for them to be stopped because “He’s a murderer!!”

The queen is tackled to the ground right by Jessica and Vicky’s table, and we learn she is Howard! This is the secret he has been keeping.

I’m not posting pictures of that specific revelation because I don’t love its visual framing.

Anyway, we learn Al has been shot and people are saying Howard did it. He is now under police guard in his dressing room. Vicky demands to be able to see him. The officer agrees

Anyway so here’s the thing I do like: it would be very easy for the show to treat this as a shocking and horrible revelation and really have Howard’s reluctance to tell Vicky be justified? Like, it could have had her react in a real gross and offensive way very easily.

But instead she’s thrilled to learn that he’s alright and that the thing he was hiding was a job not an affair -- and the nature of the job doesn’t seem to trouble her at all.

So thanks, Murder, She Wrote, for being chiller about drag and gender presentation than a lot of media that is made even today! As someone who presents as male-ish in day to day life but feels much more comfortable performing in a dress and other ‘feminine’ clothing, I genuinely really appreciate not being made to feel like that’s something incredibly shameful.

They’re so engrossed in “reconciling” (making out) that they don’t even notice when this guy comes in to arrest Howard for murder!

But that very much is a problem that still needs addressing.

Barb informs the detective that she didn’t see the killing per se but did walk past the open door and saw Howard standing over Al, with the gun. Given the flashiness of Howard’s stage clothes (and wig) and the fact that she presumably saw him from behind, I do wonder if someone else could have been wearing the costume -- but that’s a variation on the first episode’s mystery so we may not come back to that well just yet.

Jessica is also in the room, hanging out with the REAL star of this episode. She comments on the presence of a small white feather on Al’s jacket, to which the detective reasonably responds “who are you??”

He then asks her to do him a favour, she responds eagerly that she’ll help any way she can, and he tells her to leave. It’s one of the more realistic things to happen in this series.

Freddy can’t stop making bad jokes even while making a police statement about a murder. He’s the worst.

Jessica: [barges into room immediately after Freddy leaves]

Detective:

there’s no escape, buddy!!

“Lady, I’ve been up all night with this case” “I too have been up all night, and I have jet lag! I was supposed to go on a TV show this morning, but I cancelled! Now either you find time to talk to me, or I will go on that show and my subject will not be my next book, it will be the insensitivity and arrogance of this city’s homicide division”

I’ve said it before and will say it again: Jessica Fletcher is every horrible white woman demanding to speak to a manager, except she uses her powers for good.

The detective relents and lets her see Howard for ten minutes. Her first question to him is whether he killed Al, which he of course denies.

“Now, I’d like to believe that, but you did lie to Victoria”

Cold, Jessica. Cold.

Anyway Howard explains that after losing his job at the insurance company he knew that he still wanted to be a performer, and unless he gave it a real chance he knew he’d be unhappy and that would carry over into his marriage. Which is legit. Doesn’t explain why he didn’t talk to Vicky about it though.

Howard continues, saying that it was meant to be a temporary gig but that the audience liked him because he was clumsy and they thought it was funny, and that Al “wouldn’t let me quit! He knew I was broke, so he held back on my wages”.

“That still doesn’t explain why you were standing over him with a MURDER WEAPON in your hand!!”

Howard explains he had just gone into the room to confront Al about his money, and that he picked up the gun before realizing Al was dead (his chair was turned away from the desk, toward the back of the room). This means my earlier speculation was wrong and it was Howard Barb saw. He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

“Oh, Howard, I am so relieved. We’ve only had one killer in our family”

(she was talking about the revolutionary war, it is not as wild a story as it sounds)

Jessica returns to the club, where Freddy’s agent -- who is there for reasons I don’t understand -- promptly tries to get her to hire him. She politely demurs.

Mrs. Drake has taken over business now that her husband is dead and she berates Michelle (now out of drag), who insists that if Mrs. Drake is going to criticize performance, they do it in the privacy of the dressing room.

So...yeah. This is a thing I don’t like about this episode, is that they do go to some pains to show that neither drag performer seen is actually gay. Like...obviously plenty of men who do drag are interested in women but it is a bit disingenuous to have an episode about a drag club where you don’t actually have any textually queer characters.

Jessica goes and has a conversation with Freddy in his dressing room. They don’t talk about anything important but Jessica looks over to the couch and this happens

so clearly she did learn SOMETHING of note. She excuses herself in a hurry and eavesdrops on a conversation between Barbara and Mrs. Drake

“Frankly, Barbara, I don’t know how I ever could run this club without you. But I’m gonna try. You’re fired.”

guys I think Mrs. Drake might know about her husband’s affair.

Jessica entices Barbara into her cab, offering a lift to wherever she needs to go.

Mrs. Drake looms overhead.

In the cab, Barbara suggests she wouldn’t be surprised if Mrs. Drake was the one who did the murder, and described her as “Lucrezia Borgia in furs” which is a pretty solid burn. She then spills the beans on the affair Mrs. Drake and Mike were having.

This is Barbara’s gossip face. She said earlier that the most valuable skill she had as an office manager is knowing how to keep her mouth shut so either she’s full of shit or she has been holding in this gossip sesh for a LONG time.

In addition to her suspicions of Mrs. Drake and Mike (who apparently was secretly trying to buy the club), she points a finger at Bill Patterson, Freddy’s agent -- could he have wanted to get Freddy out of his contract?

Jessica: “It’s so nice to talk to someone who knows how to be discreet”

Portrait of a man defeated (Jessica has him running tests to see whether a gunshot would have been heard during Freddy’s act)

DEATHTRAP ALERT. second time this week I have watched someone nearly killed by falling theatrical tools. Thanks, Riverdale!

We cut to the following day, where Jessica has moved on to bothering the detective at home.

“The last thing in the world I want to do is interfere, Lieutenant”, says Jessica -- somehow avoiding being struck down by god for such a blatant untruth.

She immediately goes to interfere by talking with Mrs. Drake, who basically warns her to stay out of her business -- but also provides a lead Jessica did not have. Freddy’s contract was not with the club but with Al himself -- and with his death it is null and void.

Jessica proceeds to whisk herself off to go talk to Freddy some more. She’s admirably consistent.

celebrating in style

are you allowed to bring wine in to the hospital??

Anyway Jessica drops off some flowers, allows Bill Patterson to upbraid her a bit for potentially thinking he or Freddy could be involved, and then smiles and saunters off. She’s up to something.

naptime epiphany!

She has realized the sound of the shot was muffled with a pillow, hence why there was a feather on the body. And that means the murder could have happened earlier than was hitherto believed

Anyway the person who obviously would have had reason to make it seem like the shot happened during Freddy’s set was Freddy -- and that also explains the inexplicable couch closeup earlier, showing an absence of pillow.

And indeed, he shows up at the club where Jessica is explaining her theory to the lieutenant.

“I’m not just a comedian, I’m Freddy York! I’m the first guy who did his own rimshots. I’m like the Edison of comedy”

“Fair is fair. He gave me a shot...I gave him a shot” is a pretty dark fucking joke but it is also the closest to being funny out of anything Freddy has said all episode. He of course ruins it immediately with a sad little spoken “ba-dum-bum” at the end.

And we close with the wedding! I enjoy Vicky’s skirt-suit wedding outfit, very practical.

The fact that the only guests are the people from the club that accused Howard of murder, and the cops who arrested him......................

But Bill found him an acting job! Happy ending, smiles all around

SEE U NEXT TIME i need a catchy sign off phrase fuck

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