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The US Green Card Lottery is launched by the government to welcome immigrants from all parts of the world for diversification. Once you win the lottery, you can start a new and happening life in the US.
#Diversity Immigrant Visa Program#Can I Immigrate Via Lottery#Diversity Visa Lottery#DV Lottery 2024 Results#Green Card Lottery#Us Green Card Lottery
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Explore the journey to US Lawful Permanent Residency with 'USA Green Card: The Ultimate Guide.' This comprehensive resource unveils the intricacies of eligibility, application processes, and essential steps to secure your permanent residency status in the United States.
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Latest US Immigration News Highlights Potential Spike in 2024 Green Card Fees.
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gingerbread sweet. / a reiner holiday ficlet
pairing: reiner braun x f!reader ( attack on titan / shingeki no kyojin ) word count: 1.1k summary: It's the Titan frat's annual gingerbread house competition. Your boyfriend, Reiner Braun, is determined to win. You, however, are determined to distract.
tags: modern au - university, holiday fluff, gingerbread houses, all the marleyans are in a frat bc i said so, devoted boyfriend!reiner, light sexual tension credit: dividers by @saradika
welcome to the eleventh day of the twelve days of amymas !!
âDoes the door look crooked to you?â
"The what?"
"The door. Look at it."
Thereâs nothing more amusing than watching your hulk of a boyfriend crouch over a tiny gingerbread house.
Reiner Braun squints as he presses a gumdrop to the front â circular windows make it modern, or so he claims â then pauses.
Distracted by a very minor detail, you can already feel his anxiety running his brain a mile a minute: a lopsided door may deduct a few points from Marcel's arbitrary points system from this very arbitrary holiday competition.
Because he's absolutely fucking determined to win.
Granted, the bragging rights are his, but the grand prize will not be â Reiner, of course, rarely rides this hard for something he wants.
No, heâs too willing to put everyone else's wants and needs above his own.
So the grand prize of the Titan fraternity annual gingerbread house competition is going to go to you, hell or high water.
Heâs going to win you that goddamn spa day gift card that Marcel has been dangling as a sweet little incentive no matter how long it takes him to mold this gingerbread house into his image.
"I think it looks straight."
The tip of his pink tongue pokes out a little from his pressed lips as he leans in closer. "...I trust your eye more than mine."
The blonde sits up to fish for the green icing piping bag. He's gentle with the way he eases the icing along the edges of the tiny confectionary door.
(An icing wreath, like this couldn't be anymore adorable.)
âReiner?â you coo.
âYeah, babe.â
Flat. Heâs in the zone.
âYou know you donât have to slave over this thing, right?â
You scoot your chair closer to his, dropping your temple to his large tricep.
âI can buy my own spa day card.â
âFalse,â he corrects. âIâll buy you the spa day card myself, but if I gotta cheat Porco out of winning for the third year in a row. Pieckâs gone at least five times on our dime.â
"When were the other two times?" you ask, not correlating the math.
"Well, our freshman year," Reiner begins, using the green icing to make little bushes at the foundation of the house, "we did a Valentine's day relay race that ended up with Bert in urgent care with a broken nose. Then, the one-and-only pool party chicken fight tournament â Pieck and Porco fought dirty."
"Is that why it was the one and only?"
"Yeah. Bert got another bloody nose, but that time from Annie going a little too hard."
He snorts.
"We had to save him from becoming the next Owen Wilson, so â no more chicken tournaments."
Titan frat is⊠well, excessively competitive, you've learned in your year or so of dating Reiner.
(Blame Porco and the new pledge, Eren Yeager, for only exasperating in this year with the month-long holiday challenges.)
You shrug a shoulder. âI could help.â
âAnd mess up your pretty nails?â Reiner shakes his head, glancing briefly through his peripheral vision. He smirks. âAinât no way.â
Right.
Reinerâs also very giving, during this season â in more ways than one.
First it was the fully-paid-for manicure yesterday.
Then it was the reservation for a Christmas Eve dinner to your favorite spot in the inner city.
Now heâs trying to win Marcel's approval in this ridiculous decorating contest in your name, and you feel⊠well, loved.
(There's no disputing that you've won the boyfriend lottery.)
Which, of course, means you have only one thing you can do in this situation.
Heâs too wound up.
Distracted.
So you reach down to the pile of icing supplies strewn about, picking the small red accented tube.
You swipe some on the tip of your finger, mindful not to get it under your nails.
Reiner doesnât even see it happening.
Heâs too busy playing fixer-upper on the front side of the house, his too-big hands delicately toying with the too-small decorations heâs pasting on the cookie.
You wait a few seconds, letting him place the door where he wishes, before swiping the icing over the side of his neck.
Reiner tenses, turning to see what the hell just hit his neck, but heâs too lateâ
Youâre already leaning in, sliding the tip of your tongue along his skin.
The man gasps, dropping his own piping bag to the supply assortment below.
âWhat are youââ
âDecorating,â you murmur nonsensically, grinning from ear to ear as his attention disappears completely from the gingerbread house to you.
âThe guys are in the other room,â he rasps, eyes wide.
The pledges, he means â banished to the enclosed patio as they work on their own poorly-designed houses.
Through the last year while dating Reiner, youâve learned very quickly how sensitive he is.
Sometimes all it takes is a look to get him hard.
Your ego has never recovered, and itâs not deflating now.
Except his eyes soften and a gentle chuckle exits his throat when his golden eyes search your face.
âWait, you gotââ
âWhat?â
His hand gently cradles your jaw.Â
âHold still, baby.â
His thumb raises to swipe at your nose, where his smile only grows.
You stay still, obedient to his command, unable to stop looking at him.
God, heâs gorgeous.
Heâs so fucking gorâ
Something touches your lips, and you belatedly realize Reinerâs taken it upon himself to push the red icing along the seam of your lips, parting them easily.
You can taste the sugary sweetness on the tip of your tongue.
âShit, sorry." When your brows knit in confusion, Reiner explains himself. "Seems like I missed a spot.â
Oh.
Oh.
His pupils dilate as his gaze drops to your lips, as if heâs ready to devour your whole.
Your entire body turns into flames.
âJust one spot?â you murmur, and a wicked smirk crawls to his mouth.
That same thumb drops to glide the remaining icing over your chin.
âI fear it's a couple of spots, but don't worry. I'll get you cleaned up.â He tilts his chin. âI take care of my girl, remember?â
(As if you could ever forget.)
His words get your blood pumping. Pledges and wandering eyes be damned.
âWhat about the gingerbread house?â you murmur, entranced by the way he continues absently swiping icing over your jaw, chin, and cheeks.
(Marking a trail his lips will devour.)
âWe can bring the icing upstairs,â Reiner suggests with an innocent shrug. You know itâs anything but. âIâll finish that damn house eventually, but I have something sweeter to tend to.â
Before you can say another word, the blonde stands from his chair and gently takes your hand into his.
You easily stand with him, unable to stop giggling as he tugs you eagerly upstairs.
Heâs determined to win, yes, but to him â
Heâs already won.
He has you, after all.
.
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#don't wanna do negativity under someone else's post so i'll do it under mine instead#but i swear...cheum better have five phones and a gf for each one for a second act fall from grace bc so far. nothing.#i'm seeing a lot of haha the lesbians are the only functional healthy ones and the gay men are all hopeless messbitches#and listen to each their own but i do not want that shit in my 2023 jojo tichakorn drama#no sir. if you thought i was here to watch two people be sweet and healthy and boring and pretty#you have profoundly misunderstood the appeal of your own oeuvre#there's still time and i hold faith i trust the process but i also don't so đđ#this far in and i could catalogue and alphabetise all of mark's tatts in a dark room but these lesbians have yet to touch lips#heinous#WHY DOES CHEUM WEAR THAT MUCH GLOSS IF SHE'S NOT SHARING IT W THE GF FOR FUCKSAKE#....i'm cool i'm fine [i'm frustrated but still clinging to hope] i'm good i'm sound
i'm not being bitter who fucking said that
#if you really wanted this kept in the tags lmk and i'll delete but LEGITERALLY!!#i was so hopeful bc the warp effect had ACTUAL lesbian drama#tfw you run into your ex when they're about to star in an action movie#and you're stuck pregnant and legally married to a gay urologist who sucks (affectionate)#bc ur gf who really wanted a kid won the us green card lottery and dumped you#and your ex is hot and kind and newly confident about who they are#and the timing is so so bad but maybe it's as good as it will ever get???#and in only friends. we get 'sure babe i totally get ur short films'?#introduced and resolved in one episode?? without so much as a kiss???#like sandray have an iron grip on me and i'm completely unhinged about them but STILL#only friends
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Past Lives: How can a movie be so beautiful yet painful?
I watched Past Lives this past Tuesday, and I have some thoughts. I wonât necessarily speak to the movie itself, but instead to how this movie made me feel. After I left the theater, I felt this wave of sadness rush to me. I couldnât shake the feeling of sadness as I thought about Nora and how her story is so similar to the stories of other immigrants. I know that a lot of people have been taken with the romance in this movie, but I think we all need to step back and refocus for a bit. This is a movie about immigrants, and how immigration can impact everything and everyone. As I was saying, I couldnât shake this feeling of sadness after leaving the theater. I could only think about my mother, and how her life would be different if she didnât immigrate to the U.S.
Would she still be a nurse? Would she have followed her passions of being an English teacher or a lawyer? Would she have more kids? Would my sisters and I know our mother tongue fluently instead of constantly asking, âWhat does that mean?â Would I be close with my grandmother whom I never see or understand? Would I feel the pressures of having to be extremely successful in order to feel like my life was worth it? That my parentsâ pilgrimage to the U.S. was worth it? That their sacrifice was worth it? How would being the eldest daughter be if not for my immigrant parents making me feel like I need to be the saving grace of the family? Would be mother be happy? Would we be happy?Â
Every so often, my parents pull out their old photo albums and show me who they once were. Photos of large smiles on faces I donât recognize. Photos of friends, aunts and uncles at parties that I have never met. Seeing my parents light up at the photos and hearing them go on and on about what life was like when they were in their home country. The community they once had, the lives they lived, the happiness they experienced. I could see the longing for those memories in their eyes, full of glee and sadness at the same time.Â
My parents, especially my mother, speaks in the future tense. âOnce I go back home...,â âIâm going to walk on the beach...â âI canât wait to see my sisters again...â âI hope I can see my mom one more time...â It pains me to think that the life that my mother lives is not one that she longed for. Itâs not a life she wanted. She longs for something I can not give her. And so Iâm left with the thought of what would life look life if my parents never won a green card in the green card lottery? Would my mother be happy?Â
Past Lives is a beautiful yet painful reminder that the life of an immigrant can be upended in seconds, whether for better or worse. It is more than just a love story, in fact, the romance between the two main characters acts as a vehicle to show us the real meaning behind the movie. Who were we? Who are we? And who will we become? It is sometimes too painful to think about what couldâve been, but something I learned from Past Lives is that it is also beautiful to reminisce on the past, embrace the present, and look forward to the future. I hope someday my mother can go back to her home country and live out the rest of her days, and I hope once she does that I never have to ask, âWould my mother be happy?â
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âWoah, you win the lottery or something?â
Jack doesnât know why he asks the guy in front of him at the checkout line that, but he does. Half the time, he couldnât give an explanation to why he says the things he does. He took one look at the huge pile of merchandise on the conveyor belt, overheard the cashier calculate the total, and couldnât help himself.
âNope,â the customer says casually, swiping his card through the machine. âJust having a mental breakdown.â He turns towards Jack, lips pursed in an awkward smile, and throws up a peace sign.
Jack blinks. âOh,â he says stupidly. He scrubs a hand behind his neck. âUh, sorry.â
âDonât be,â the stranger replies as he bags his various itemsâranging from a throw pillow with the word Iâm Pretty Sure I Seized The Wrong Day embroidered on it, to a coffee mug that says Live, Laugh, Lubricant. âYouâre not the dumbass roommate who got us evicted with an illegal gambling ring.â
Jack opens his mouth to reply, but isnât sure heâd know what to say anything.
The young man lifts up the pillow, frowning at the vomit green fringes sewn onto the obnoxiously turquoise fabric. âThis is the ugliest fucking thing Iâve ever seen. Why on earth did I buy it?â
âI have a theory,â Jack says.
The guy starts laughing, loud and obnoxious and it should be the most off putting thing in the world, but Jack is utterly enthralled.
This might be the most peculiar person Jackâs ever met, which is an incredibly high bar. Jack desires him carnally.
âYouâre funny,â the guy says, cracking a real, genuine smile this time, and Jack feels his insides become putty in this strangerâs hands. âIâm Davey.â
âJack.â He grins, extending a hand that Davey takes in a shake. âWe should hang out sometime.â
#javid#Javey#newsies#Jack Kelly#David Jacobs#wow look at me Iâm writing!#this is two shakes from crack#sorry yâall Iâm having a bit of a mentie b#and I donât believe in love anymore except in fiction#the way some people donât believe in ghosts but live horror movies#so this is how Iâm coping I guess#reblog it so I donât have to up my antidepressants#god this isnât even good Iâm gonna vomit fr fr what the FUUUUUUCK#someone get me a pillow I can scream into#wow look at me im writing!
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In the 2020s, love triangles are all the rageâat least in American literature. The last five years have seen a proliferation of novels about non-traditional triads. Raven Leilani arguably ignited the trend with Luster, followed by Torrey Petersâs Detransition, Baby, Julia May Jonasâs Vladimir, and Jen Beaginâs Big Swiss, among others. Each novel featured a female protagonist armed with a sardonic voice, and each used a love triangle to probe social issues related to sex, power, race, gender, and class.
Mostly, these novels have been about American lust. But a new addition to the list, The Lady Waiting by Polish novelist and filmmaker Magdalena Zyzak, offers an international spin on the genre. This mischievously delightful caper centers on the love triangle between a wealthy American couple and their Polish assistant, who conspire to steal a Vermeer.
Although Zyzak, like her predecessors, is interested in the dynamics of sex and power, she throws a new element into the mix: globalization. The Lady Waiting is, beneath the sex, a story of the global economy, where workers from countries on the periphery do most of the labor for a tiny slice of the pie, while investors from the core economies feast.
The Lady Waiting is the second novel by Zyzak, who was born in Poland but has lived in the United States since she was an undergraduate in the early 2000s. Zyzak writes in caffeinated English: On the spectrum of foreign-born writers who switched to English, she is far closer to Vladimir Nabokov than Joseph Conradâshe never passes up a chance at puns, chiasmus, or word play.
The novel opens when a 23-year-old Polish immigrant, Viva, spots a posh woman in a green cocktail dress standing on an island of Los Angelesâs 101 freeway. Viva stops to offer a ride to the woman, who turns out to be a rich Polish-American named Bobby. Soon, Bobby and her husband, Sleeper, a retired U.S. film director, offer Viva a job. They want her to be their live-in help. âSleeper says our household needs a wife,â Bobby explains.
Viva has been in the United States for a year and is floundering, going unhired because of her faltering English and her failure to absorb American social norms. (When an interviewer asks what her greatest weakness is, Viva answers, âmanipulatingâ; she doesnât get the job.) Viva never wanted to come to the country in the first place. But a boyfriend convinced her to enter the green card lottery; when she won, everyone told her sheâd be crazy not to cash in the ticket. In Poland, she has a âteaching degree, though nothing to teachâ; in America, the only job she can get is as a home aid for an older woman who soon dies.
Vivaâs reasons for being in the United States crystallize when she meets Bobby, who strikes her as the kind of woman you see on Los Angeles billboards. Bobby is rich and comfortable being rich. She charms Viva at an expensive lunch in Beverly Hills. The waiter brings out rosĂ© and sharing plates, and Bobby says, in characteristically gleeful free association, âPeople hate rosĂ© but I love it ⊠Doesnât give you as much of a headache, as long as itâs a quickie, not an affair. Never date a socialist unless heâs the champagne kind. Oh, hey, socialism! Weâre going to share all the plates!â
Viva is intoxicated not just by Bobbyâs money but also her command of English. When Viva speaks, she is hobbled by her adopted tongue; in Vivaâs narration, though, her internal monologue sounds kind of like Bobbyâs dialogue. Explaining her origins, Viva narrates: âThe man who had impregnated my mother in a rapeseed fieldânot a metaphor, a major Polish cropâhad ridden a motorcycle.â
After lunch, Bobby takes Viva to an expensive boutique, where she steals a $9,000 dress for her. Viva is distraughtâshe could lose her green card if sheâs an accomplice to a crime.
âWhy did you steal it?â Viva asks.
âBecause I could afford it,â Bobby says with a shrug.
The dress turns out to be a harbinger. Bobby convinces Viva to stealâor fake-steal, in a move that she claims is âneutral legallyââa Vermeer that went missing from a museum nine years earlier, from her ex-husband, a Russian mobster. The fictional Vermeer, âThe Lady Waiting,â is a small portrait of a woman seated in front of a window, gazing at her hands. The ex-husband recently acquired it as repayment for a debt, and heâs looking to return it to a German museum thatâs offering a 10 million euro reward.
Her ex is outsourcing the job because it would be difficult for a Russian on the Magnitsky list to claim the reward. If they succeed, the Russian ex will get the majority of the 10 million, paying out a million each to his German lawyer as well as the AmericansâBobby and Sleeper. In a mirroring of globalization, Viva, the laborer brought in to do the actual work and assume the actual risk, will get only 1 percent. But 100,000 euros is a life-changing amount for Viva. It might buy her a ticket on the elusive route from immigrant to expat.
As for the love triangle, Viva sleeps first with Bobby, who excites her in context if not action. (âIt was not the technique but the situationâthat she was my bossâthat aroused me.â) Sleeper excites her in a much more straightforward way: âIt was remarkable that other men had never made me come, because the whole thing had taken less than two minutes.â Itâs Bobby who pushes her to Sleeperâeach of them knows of Vivaâs involvement with the otherâand every time Viva sleeps with Sleeper, it seems to bring him closer to Bobby. She begins to fall for Sleeper, but also for Bobby, in a confusing way: âSometimes I like you so much I want to be you,â she tells the latter.
Sleeper and Bobby are idle rich. They live like ânineteenth-century aristocrats,â working little and drinking often, in constant pursuit of drollness. Viva is paid $1,000 a week for an unwritten and varying set of tasks that includes making breakfast, bringing ice to cocktail hour in the hot tub, breaking in Bobbyâs shoes, and, implicitly, sex. She is alternately ignored, fawned over, spoiled, and humiliated. âWas their behavior an abuse of power if that power was the very thing that turned me on?â she wonders.
Through Bobby, she gets a taste of American opulence. When she tries on Bobbyâs expensive boots, she feels a âdesire to own them that was akin to lust or hunger.â
âPoor girls from Poland, Russia, Ukraine in my generation had little to no inoculation against luxury products, communism having wiped out most hereditary wealth,â Viva says. âWeâd kill for a pair of designer shoes.â When Viva later climaxes with Sleeper, she fantasizes that she is Bobby, surrounded by designer shoes.
The plot to retrieve the painting goes smoothly, butâspoilers aheadâafter Viva brings it back, it is stolen from Bobbyâs closet. Viva, Bobby, and Sleeper travel to Venice to hunt down the Vermeer, all the while being tailed by a Russian mafia thug. Abroad, their affair turns more overt, and Viva begins sleeping with the couple together. At one point, she catches Bobby watching her have sex with Sleeper. Viva later tells Bobby that she wants to be the one spectating. Bobby replies, âdo you really think I care to know whatâs in your bird brain? This is my fantasy. Mine, not yours.â
This is when Viva begins to realize, if she hadnât already, that she is on the lowest rung of this ladder, and if she wants money, power, or choice, sheâll have to break out of the system. She tracks the now thrice-stolen Vermeer to a mining town in Poland, where she buys it from an old lady storing it in her car for a little more than $1,000. The woman lives in a communist housing bloc where, âin an apathetic nod to individualism, each cube was painted a different, faded underwear color: gray-white, dull red, brown-pink, lint blue.â When Viva talks to the woman, she notices in her mouth âa gap from a missing canine, a tiny black door to the mean world Iâd escaped, a world where youâre reduced, one indignation at a time, by cheap dentists, expensive priests, needy parents, treacherous children.â
Vivaâs emigration isnât easy for the Americans in the novel to understand. She didnât leave Poland to pursue a dream: âWhere Iâm from, fantasies tend to be about revenge, not aspiration.â Nor is she, as a friend of Bobbyâs assumes, fleeing âsome hellhole where men raped sheep and women gave birth in ditches.â Poland, which acceded to the European Union in 2004, is something of a development success story, and itâs often seen by its neighbors to the east as a land of prosperity and opportunity. But opportunity is relative.
In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieâs 2013 novel Americanah, a Nigerian Ă©migrĂ© says of the white people in his adopted country:
they would not understand the need to escape from the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness. They would not understand why people like him, who were raised well fed and watered but mired in dissatisfaction, conditioned from birth to look towards somewhere else, eternally convinced that real lives happened in that somewhere else, were now resolved to do dangerous things, illegal things, so as to leave, none of them starving, or raped, or from burned villages, but merely hungry for choice.
Viva ambivalently left the âshabby comfortâ of home for opportunity. But once sheâs walked in the shoes of her U.S. employersâ blend of boundless optimism and reckless shortsightedness, she canât go back. She swipes the painting, cuts off contact with Bobby and Sleeper, travels to Berlin, gets her own German lawyer, and claims the reward. The consequence of her actions quickly becomes clear when she sees that Interpol has declared Bobby and Sleeper missing, last seen in Russia.
In the real world, it would likely be the worker who bore the consequence of a scheme gone sideways. But Zyzakâs world is more just than ours, in a sense, while still adhering to the hierarchy. Here itâs the wealthy American investors who must answer for their actions and Viva who claims their spot as the aspirational rich.
Toward the end of the story, Vivaâs German lawyer recommends that she give up her green card and settle in a tax haven such as the Cayman Islands to keep more of her reward money.
âI think I want to keep my green card,â she says.
âMay I ask why?â the lawyer asks.
âBecause,â Viva says, âI won it in the lottery.â
Viva may be a millionaire now. But more importantly, sheâs an American.
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Some floofy friends and one of my current reads. I am in fact using a playing card as a bookmark.
22|04|2023
What better way to enjoy my few days off uni than going on a hike with llamas and alpacas. Today I was paired with a llama named Gandalf (absolutely best name ever), he was super floofy, a bit of a rascal but we got along, and I even got to hug him twice because he was very much up for cuddles.
Productivity and self care:
llama and alpaca hike
hugged a llama for the first time (life dream come true I was about to cry when the owner told me i could go for it)
new bedding! (when I got it I was hoping for another style that was of a darker shade of green with very subdle squares but it was way too expensive so I had to compromise)
wrote the first draft of a book review
practiced Irish on duolingo
đ: The Lottery and Other Storues by Shirley Jackson
đ”: The Way You Miss Me by All Time Low
#studyblr#studyinspo#uniblr#bookblr#journal#book#currently reading#productivity#self care#book cover#animals#llama#nature#studying#knife gang#journaling#mine#the---hermit
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United States Announces Green Card Lottery Dates
To check the status of a US Diversity Visa, visit the Diversity Visa Program website, use the Entrant Status Check, and enter your confirmation number, last name, and year of birth. This service typically opens in May following the application period. It provides the current status of your application. If selected, further instructions are given for the immigration process. It's crucial to monitor your status regularly.
#can i immigrate via lottery#diversity visa lottery#dv lottery 2025 results#Green Card Lottery#us green card lottery#us green card visa#Diversity Immigrant Visa Program
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Make well-informed decisions about your U.S. immigration journey by exploring the diverse visa categories available. This guide breaks down the essential details, guiding you through the intricacies of each visa type to ensure a successful and informed application process.
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It's time for the end of season 2- The Deep Dive Caper!
What an absolutely showstopping finale!! I'm so thrilled to liveblog it. This episode gets serious like no other episode really does before or since. Lets get started!
Late, as usual. Buy a lottery ticket the day I do one of these on time. Notes under the cut as always!
right off the bat this episode is pretty much unlike any other. they try to have a caper setup- the vile drive- but it's not long before we realize that EVERYTHING is gone. even in the last finale the sort of "caper" of the episode was rescuing devineaux. this episode is all about answers.
"all on my own. the only sure way i know." hrnnrgh carmen
their boat is being so nice and stationary in the middle of a raging storm and waves taller than they are
"MY FIST IS GOING TO MAKE YOUR GUTS EXPLODE" ivy never change
its ALLL GONE
rip vile island we hardly knew ye
the cs team is just showing off their background artists đ
ah would you like some mashed shadowsan with your steak
maelstrom your plan sucked babygirl sorry. should have sic'd brunt on her on the train like a rottweiler
interesting plan though. if shadowsan really had killed dexter, what would carmen have done? beat him up? sent him to acme? just thrown him out? she promises to hunt him down if he runs but like what were you going to do after that? murder for a murder?
malestrom: maybe she'll show up in botswana âš carmen who's been out for the count for half a year and has no reason to have even shown up in botswana as early as she did:
the teddy bear <3
in love with cleo's boob straps. that safety harness does not even clip in the front its like if a backpack was securing you to a car
that explosion animation is so good though its so impactful
its a damn good thing devineaux showed up when he did he could have been blown to the gates of hell in one second flat and no one would have been any the wiser
chase drinks so much disrespect women juice the first two seasons that he blames julia for an impression of her that his own mind dreamed up i love him for that
angry carmen is so babygirl to me. go bestie show emotion. get so mad about that shit
mmm and theres the shot i used for our title card! and what a fantastic one it is. shadowsan's motif playing in the background as carmen pauses at the oni, but the show itself telling us that he is still on her side with that gigantic, massive symbol of him framing carmen in a circle of red. if you pay attention and learn the colors the team likes, you don't even have to worry about this ep its all cool
you know what the dominant color in this entire scene of carmen trying to find out the truth is, though? blue. even when she's in the server room or staring at shadowsan's oni, the water isnt tinted green like they easily could have made it. its. all. blue.
obsessed with how zack wakes up he's being exorcised and the demon was the peppers and onions
agree it would have been hilarious if devineaux finally gets rescued and it turns out to be a really, really pissed off carmen sandiego
roundabout has the air of a theater kid who always got the leads but had to act surprised about it
evil ihop
i love how confused roundy looks its so funny
devineaux stabbing himself and the scream makes me cry laughing every single time
devineaux really goes âïžâïžâïžâïžâïžâïžâïžâïžâïž
i would watch a series about devineaux being left to fend for himself on the island and slowly losing his mind
his supervisor was so excited about firing him
okay here we go it all gets real now
carmens realization going from my dad was a cop -> my dad was literally the exact opposite of a cop and neither of those things being things she is happy about
i love the realization hitting her face (even if it was animated. a touch blandly)
shadowsan's face s just animated fantastically here. his eyebrows are up- he realizes carmen is there, maybe confused about why she isnt saying anything. then his eyebrows drop, his face falls ever so slightly. he knows the jig is up
also. yes. "your silence is like thunder" is just. ough its such a good line
he isn't even surprised by the question he knew it was coming eventually
"if you run, I will find you." its not a threat its a damn promise. for older viewers its easy to draw the connection between the famous i will find you and i will kill you. it doesnt have to be said.
mm and carmen rejecting the offer to sit and be comfortable around him. she just can't
even in the flashbacks your can see so much of carmen in him its so great. its dishonorable, and everything carmen stands against, but she is undeniably her father's daughter
the plot for this flashback is so sophisticated its so so good. they treat the audience really well about it
also young faculty designs <3
the red on the inside of dexter's jacket to symbolize his secret with carmen im sobbing
also the decision to make carmen have his eyes is. hrngh.
already been pointed out but the way the music softens when shadowsan says "you" HURTS
THAT BABY IS A SNITCH. carmen. snitchdiego
the heartbreak when present carmen speaks again gfgrgh
i like the new mask he hangs behind him before carmen confronts him, by the way. its green and white- the shadow of vile and his past looming over his shoulder, maybe- but also the mask of vile he had to put on to lie about what really happened to wolfe
BABY CARMEN CRYING AS DEXTER TRIES TO HIDE HER :(((
the dolls rdhg im not crying you are
anyone have any thoughts on a dexter voice claim btw?
also also i sprang this on rueitae already but "dexter" while referring to dexterity and his skill as a thief can also mean "the one who dyes" which. jesus. it refers to dying cloth but the double meaning is ouchie
he locks her in gay baby jail!!!
i gotta stop making jokes about the most serious part of the entire series sorry
there's a little bit of a pink panther hint to his theme as he sneaks out the window which is interesting
rue's also already covered it but what WAS this man's plan for just leaving baby carm in there. like shadowsan says desperation i guess
god young chief shooting and killing an unarmed dexter wolfe and presumably orphaning her is the twist. of a fucking lifetime
the despair in the music cue when it reveals it was only his car keys
the matryoshka dolls getting burned in that fire ahrhgfrdshgsghds
love that shadowsan not only sets the house on fire while he and a baby are still in it but gives said baby an object that just got set on fire
also vile protocol dictating that he should have just burned a baby alive?? what the fuck!
bellum's apathy, mael's mild interest/concern, and cleo's disgust towards baby carm shdfjads
little tiny baby carmen shunting her butt at cleo is hilarious
faculty: omg she's a real natural thief she stole that thing without anyone noticing baby carmen in broad daylight five seconds earlier:
btw bb carm is so cute she's so round
carmen finally just sliding to the floor under the weight of all of that information. now that she has at least the idea that shadowsan was not the one who murdered her father, even if she still needs proof
"why would you make me find out on my own?" is one of the most heartbreaking lines in here. she had to go through this realization almost completely alone. her trust in the man she was coming to see as a father was shattered and he could have just told her. he could have just told her
ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh shadowsan crying theyre so family
you can just hear the regret and fear and sadness in his voice paul nakauchi is literally so good
REAL CHIEF!
COMMANDER!!!! oh shittt i missed the one and only canon commander caturday rip...
ivy violently hitting the cash register is a mood
the little reveal even in the music as it pans to ivy in the starbucks uniform
chief nailed the good natured but a little exasperated "hmm" when dealing with people who have no idea what they are doing
ivys little look as she sees carmen walk in. the smile drop off her face as she walks away
carmen's theme ahrugdhjdsg the music in this show is so good
what is her hand doing
oh chief no honey
the deadpan "i wouldnt drink it"
i love the little nod/head bow thing of acknowledgement of carmen's efforts
the sinister music as carmen ever so casually pulls off her little trick is GREAT
i didnt know chief could open doors đ€š
congrats on being gay agent argent you did it again
player hack chief so bad the logo goes off of the screen
"somethings wrong" yeah no shit julia
chiefs oh shit face is so funny shes like aohhhhhhhhhhhh noooooooooooooooooo
little guy
im so mature
we love digging up graves
that dawning apprehension on carm's face as she realizes there's a chance she might be about to see the decayed corpse of her twenty-years-dead mom in there
carlotta being modelled after old carmen was a cool choice. lots of fan theories about old carm being her mom this day đ«Ą
"are you with me?" "to the end of the line." grgfhgjhsdhjsgds im shaking them violently in my teeth if i ever got a cs quote tattoo or something it would probably be that line
the only thing i dislike about this cliffhanger is that in s3 they kind of try to deliver on this big wide promise that this finale gave us and then give up until the last episode of the entire series. like. isk. i feel like they should have either gone harder on the carlotta mystery or left it alone although they did leave me the opportunity to write a 66 thousand word fic series on the concept so i guess i cant complain
half clean shaven half very unshaved chase is so funny its cursed. he shouldnt have no hair but he shouldnt have that much worst of both worlds
devineaux's theme mixing in with that iconic action/danger soundtrack as he grins devilishly is just fantastic shit
chief waiting for a response as chase just silently smirks into the mirror
anyway GOODNESS GRACIOUS i cannot believe we're already through season 2????? what???? tis the end of my favorite season :( but s3/4 are nothing to sneeze at, either!! im super excited to get into more. (plus tsonts? are we doing that?)
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