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[shanie]

Shanie's Action Figure Update! 6/19/2023

SPECIAL EDITION!

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So I haven't done one of these in awhile, but this isn't a normal update. This is specifically an update on my "Collections".

Because really, nobody ever asked for my picspam posts so maybe a text post you can skip is more palatable.

Discussion of Sami, Kevin, AEW Women, and The Bloodline figures under cut.

So in case any of you didn't know, I have "Collections" of things. namely, sets of figures that I'm trying to complete for display as a whole.

One of these Collections is a full, main line set of each First Time In Line AEW Womens figures.

The only update to that is that I have Jamie Hayter coming MOC in a protector some time in the near future. It was on backorder so I'm waiting for it to come in from Ringside Collectibles. But I will get it eventually.

That is all I need from that for the moment as there are no other figures out there right now. Although I need to get a loose Ruby Soho for my shelf.

The second collection I'm working on is my Zowens Matched Sets MOC collection.

That one, I have TWO updates for!

I just bought the Yep Movement Kevin Elite MOC. Good price, looks like it's in great condition. I already have the clamshell for it, I just need to have it delivered and put on my wall with the others.

The second one I bought was the Elite 101 Wrestlemania 38 Kevin.

Yeah, I gave in. I'm getting the WM38 figures.

Of course, Kevin WILL be opened. Very carefully. And his SCSA shirt is coming off and his heads getting swapped before being put back in the case and THEN put on my wall. I want him displaying his ACTUAL WM38 look if he's going next to Sami. (Sidenote: I really really hate that Sami figure, but it is what it is.)

That means the only figures left to get for that wall right now is the Yep Movement Sami (See below) and Wrestlemania 38 Sami.

And yeah, the Sami is still at Ringside, but that Sami, OMG SAMI.

Finally, my Extended Bloodline collection!

That one, I have a single update on. I bought a loose Elite 40 Umaga in the black and red (of course) which will be a placeholder on the shelf until I can find a way to make, buy, or commission a set of 3 Minute Warning figures. OCD prefers matched sets and having Umaga and Superhero Rosey rubs the sharkskin the wrong damn way, especially because there is no Superhero Rosey in Mattel scale, and if I try to put the Jakks one with it, it'll look weird.

Next on that list to get is Elite 15 Yokozuna, which I would love to find loose in good condition with a robe but I may have to settle for loose good condition WITHOUT Robe. The Summerslam Flashback version is the same figure as the Elite 15 but the colors are reversed (E15 – Black belt, red tights, SS – Red belt, black tights). I suppose I could settle for the SS one, but I really want the E15. 

Also on the list – Jakks Classic Superstars Peter Maivia and Rocky Johnson. Yes, there is a Mattel Rocky Johnson but good GOD is it awful. They gave him R-Truth's skin tone. It is BAD. Also, the gear is the wrong color.  

Outside of that, the only other person I could potentially want that’s been made is Deuce (Tamina’s brother) but again, he’s Jakks only and he wouldn’t fit on the shelf at ALL. Not unless I can find a way to customize him into his Sim Snuka persona which still wouldn’t fix the fact that he’d be out of scale with the rest of them (Outside of Peter and Rocky). 

At some point I’m gonna find a way to make a Jacob Fatu figure. There’s someone who sells the 3D printed heads (Same guy I got the Bloodline Sami head from) and I think I know a good formula it would just require some paintwork on the tights, some modified accessories, and painting the head. No, Jacob was never in WWE, but then this really isn’t about the WWE, it’s about the family. And anyone I can make and have the ability to make, I will. 

Anyway, that's the update.

Now, for the rant about Yep Movement Sami.

That figure *THAT FIGURE*

So, the original run of that line was defective. His newsboy cap did NOT stay on his head in package. It would fall off and either cover his face or rattle around inside the box.

So. They made a running change. They put out a second version of the figure with the hat packaged on the side.

But that running change was late in the release and was only ever available at brick and mortar retail, which by that point had mostly moved on past that wave.

So there was never a whole lot of that variant out there, to begin with.

So you can imagine how impossible it is to find a minty fresh MOC figure, from 2018, that was ONLY available in stores, that had an impossibly short release run in the first place.

I have literally seen ONE specimen online in two years that I would display and, when I bought it on sight, I was immediately refunded because the seller had already sold it off ebay to someone else and forgotten to take the auction down.

Outside of that I've only seen one OTHER listing PERIOD and the box was trashed.

I don't think I'm ever getting this one. I'm gonna keep looking but at this point I'm contemplating just buying the original release and opening the box, using sticky tack to affix the hat, then putting it back in box and in clamshell.

It pisses me off royally, but it really is what it is. I'll make it work somehow. In the meantime, I have the the two Kevin's I need on the way.

So, this concludes Shanie's Action Figure Update. Sorry for no pictures tonight. This morning. Today. Whatever. Sorry for no pics, but there's more than enough text here to make up for it.

Stay tuned for next time when, who knows, I might actually have photos.

[ageless-aislynn]

I ended up having my camera out so decided to grab some current pics of the Mess That Is My Desk™!

Here’s Noble 6, hailing a cab, lol! (I don’t know why, but that’s the first thing I thought of with that particular hand he came with so... 🤷‍♀️😁) You can also see my awesome Master Chief controller holder, which I use to hold my headphones. I love him so much! 😍

He can also hold other things, lol. 😂😁

Noble 6: “Um, thanks for the lift, Chief?”

Master Chief: 👍

Meet Lola and Lana! I was unboxing Lola (on the left) at my desk and just sorta stood her up there while I was getting her accessories out, looked back and she was holding Eobard’s hand so... I mean, if she wants to be the Reverse Flash’s henchwoman, who am I to question her career choice, right? You are valid, girl. Live your dream! When Lana arrived, I figured, eh, why not? Pretty sure that wrangling Eobard is a job best shared with a fellow henchwoman, right? 😉

Noble 6: “Niiice.”

Cortana: *is apparently staring at 6′s butt* “Niiiiiiiiice.” 😍

Chief’s gonna get jealous if you keep doing that, Cortana, I’m just saying... 😳😉

I also moved my adorable little Funko Soda Master Chief over there to get his picture taken. He usually stands over by Cortana right in front of my keyboard. 😉

Look, I made a Matt Letscher Eobard! 😍

Frost: “Why, hellooooo there, handsome!” 😍

(Okay, so he’s technically more of a comic!blond!Eobard but that’s close enough for this fangirl, lol!) I got the “recipe” from Toy Hunters Collective and it was really awesome that I actually already had the part I needed, namely the Neca Original Superheroes Flash Gordon who came with this unmasked head!

But wait, you may be thinking (if you were around when I was struggling to get the McFarlane Reverse Flash figure and he kept getting canceled and such), “Ais, you mean after all you went through to get that Eobard, you just ripped his head off???” 😱😱😱

Yes and no. 😉 I got a second one as a damaged box deal and he was who had to, um, lose his head.

Eobard: “ALAS, POOR ME’OBARD, I KNEW ME WELL, BARRY.”

Noble 6: “Yo, man, that shiznet is messed up!” 😳

I should note on the off-chance that somebody wants to make their own Mattobard, that the McFarlane Reverse Flash and Neca Flash Gordon do not have anything even remotely resembling similar neck pegs, which I didn’t know ahead of time, so this required some out-of-the-box thinking. Also: a hair dryer, a q-tip and a tiny piece of paper towel because I have no proper modding supplies at all. Necessity is the mother of invention, after all! I was shocked that actually worked but... it did! 😂😉

If you want to know about anything else you can see in these pics, let me know. Otherwise, I hope you enjoyed this little look at the beautiful chaos I love keeping on my desk, lol! ⭐⚡💖

[shanie-the-toyaddict]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHANE MCMAHON! (part... dammit I lost count)

FIGURES!

First Row: Bone Crunching Action and Ruthless Agression Figures, Titan Tron Live Figures Second Row: Mattel Flashback, Current Mattel Ring Gear Third Row: Mattel Street Clothes (The one on the Left and Right are customs) Fourth Row: Better Photo of Crown Jewel/Tag Champ Shane with World Cup and Marissa Custom Bottom Photo: Most Recent Custom - Corporate Euro Champ Shane

So, have a picspam of (almost) all my Shane figures!

Unlike Aly’s brilliant collection, I only have two customs, primarily because all but one of the customs I own I make myself, so I have to really get motivated to have a new one. There was one planned for today but shit happened and the fodder figure never came. But I have damn near every retail figure there is, including every Mattel.

I do have two figures not shown. One is the OG Titan Tron Live figure which is an absolute ABOMINATION and I’m not showing him off till I can swap the head. The other is the White and Blue basic which I ripped the head off for a custom and never put a new one on. But I do have it, waiting on a new head. (Actually, I think I HAVE a head, I just need to find it.) I have so damn many figures but see that one in the X-PUNK shirt in the top left? That was my first ever wrestling figure. I still have it, shirt and all! That thing sat on my dresser as a teen, on my windowledge in college, and now it sits proudly on my McMahon shelf as an adult!

Anyway, hope you all like my collection, especially the customs. I’ll let you know when I get the one I intended for today done. Should only take me a couple of days after I get the fodder fig. (It’s mostly just a repaint/headswap).

[florrickandassociates]

TGF Thoughts: 3x09-- The One Where The Sun Comes Out

This episode was way more engaging than the last. I talk a lot about Maia in this one; the writers finally figured out how to use her!

Reasons I shouldn’t write recaps after a year without seeing an episode: I forget basic stuff, like that it rained for all of season 3. You know, because ATMOSPHERE and WEIRDNESS and QUIRK. And SYMBOLISM. Can’t forget symbolism. 

To be fair to the writers, it did rain a lot last year. All I remember about the month of June is rain. They predict everything. 

Maia’s new job at a call center (I can’t recall if we’d seen her at the call center before this episode) is something she takes very seriously. Just kidding. She acts disdainful towards anyone who dares ask for her help and then hangs up on them. On one hand, this seems like a terrible job so I get her “fuck it all” attitude. On the other, she’s being suuuuuper bratty.

Right. I refreshed my memory. We did see Maia at this job in an earlier episode. 

Consult-a-Lawyer is where all the LGwhatever rejects go. Sounds miserable. 

Blum walks in, and Maia makes a, “Oh God, THIS asshole” face. Coincidentally, this is also the face I’m making as I realize I’m going to have to listen to this loud man I had blocked from my mind yell obscene things for two more episodes. 

Blum wants to hire Maia. She agrees, as does her friend Lili. I believe Maia has other choices (remember how she turned down Diane’s offers to help when they weren’t exactly what she wanted?) but also, yeah, I’d want to get the hell out of Consult-a-Lawyer too. 

Now it is hailing. Everyone from RBL is in blue. Remember those picspams we all used to make where we’d oversaturate the background to make everything blue? I wouldn’t need to oversaturate this image to make the blue pop. 

I truly don’t understand why the main page of All Access thinks I am in the middle of some random season 2 episode when I am clearly in the middle of 3x09. When I click on the show, it understands that I’m in the middle of 3x09 and allows me to resume watching. Why wouldn’t you optimize your homepage to encourage people to keep watching!? (All Access isn’t alone in this: HBO Go also makes it very hard to figure out where I left off when watching a series.) 

So, because Carl Reddick was a sexual harasser and RBL covered it up, ChumHum is insisting on an internal investigation, led by a woman who is-- you guessed it-- quirky. And even worse, it’s one of the quirks that’s actually not funny because it’s a real condition people live with?? How are we still doing this, show?

This is RBL’s best year ever. Yay! I forget if that tracks with anything we’ve seen. I guess the existence of ChumHum alone is enough to make that true.

Oh NO, Book Club is in this one too!? Liz, wisely, says she’s done and refuses to go with Diane. 

Maia tells Blum no, she won’t work with him. She thought he was rescuing her from hell, but he’s really “dragging her down deeper.” This is accurate. Maia may not be the smartest character on this show, but she’s got her eyes wide open when she works with Blum. 

Blum wants to work with Maia (duh) because her father is a piece of shit respected by other pieces of shit. This checks out. This is quite logical, tbh. 

Maia requires very little convincing. This is not because she is in such a hard spot she has no other options. This is because she is bored and hates the world because she didn’t get her way and had to deal with consequences. It took very little to turn Maia from an innocent to a villain. Perhaps that’s because she was always complicit. (If you’re 26 and went to law school and you can’t understand privilege even on the most basic level, it’s because you’ve been tuning out everything that challenges you.)

Maia seems way more confident now. She’s SO much more fascinating as a villain than as a protagonist, likely because even when she was the protagonist everything she did was so selfish it was hard not to see her as a villain. Props to the writers for recognizing that and leaning into it. They don’t explicitly tie her actions here to her actions at the start of the series, but this only works because Maia’s always been one slight away from going bad. 

And yes, I think villain is the appropriate word for someone money hungry and willing to work, no questions asked, with someone as slimy as Blum. 

Maia hires her friend Lili to help out, which, admittedly, is a nice thing for someone I just called a villain to do. 

After further “messages” from the con artist who started Book Club, the Book Clubbers want to SWAT someone. This sounds fucking terrifying. Diane pushes back and the rest of Book Club is totally ok with this strategy.

So Diane reveals that Valerie’s a con artist and it causes squabbling. It somehow backfires because people believe the woman claiming to have a message from Valerie. Even the one who can do all the IT things--the one who could very easily (by show logic at least) just simply look up the records and phone numbers herself-- believes her. 

Is a big group setting really the way internal investigations are done? I’m no expert, but this feels like a bad approach!!

Marissa doesn’t think the firm has racial issues! Ha ha. She thinks the racial pay gap issues are totally resolved because the associates got raises. As much as I want to believe someone as savvy as Marissa wouldn’t think like this… I kinda believe it. 

Lili also seems kind of terrible, like someone who can’t wait to go on a power trip and fuck over every person who has ever said anything mean to her. 

Oh goodie, we’re talking about sexism now. I appreciate that they’ve featured a few associates over the course of season three. I don’t remember their names since I last watched these episodes a year ago, but I remember that they’ve been in several episodes. I hope to see them in season four, and to learn their names. 

Someone says men weren’t considered to head up Lucca’s department. This is blatantly false. Also, idk what these other associates can do, but Lucca’s proven herself to be adaptable, smart, and someone who can go above and beyond. Plus, she is someone who is out for herself, with tons of career options. She’s someone you want at your firm. 

The female named partners are biased against men, says a (you guessed it!) male associate. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahhahaha no. 

Marissa calls the associate out on this, and another (female) associate steps in to say she’s in no place to talk since she’s stealing Jay’s job. If it didn’t seem like there was room for both of them, this would be true. 

In a move I appreciate, the mailroom employees are also in this scene, talking about how they didn’t receive any bonuses to correct for the pay gap because of their class. When one of the associates says they didn’t receive a bonus because of race, a mailroom guy calls her out for not knowing his name. 

And then it devolves, as so many of these scenes do, into people talking over each other.

While I like that they address these issues so often on this show, I don’t think “inequalities are controversial and there’s no solution so here are people talking over each other” is the best approach. Sure, I can appreciate different points, and I don’t need the show to tell me how to think, but at this point I think the show needs more of a POV on this. It feels, too often, like they’re saying “Controversy! Huh!” 

Marissa goes to Liz and mentions the other women Carl Reddick assaulted. Liz, understandably, hasn’t looked at the files Marissa gave her. She says she will but asks Marissa to keep quiet around the investigator. So sounds like she doesn’t intend to do anything. 

Oh no. Is this the ep with the retcon where Liz and Adrian actually did hook up!? And put it in work emails!? All I have to say about this is that it’s a bad decision. Sometimes the writers get so close to making a bad decision and then walk it back enough so that I can relax, and then bring it back later, for no reason. It’s even worse that way, because by that point I’ve already formed a strong opinion about it happening. The moment that set me off the most in TGW was when Alicia and Peter agreed to renew their vows at the end of 421, followed by a commercial break, followed by a promo with Alicia kissing Will. I HATED the love triangle at that time. I mean HATED. That commercial break allowed me to relax into the idea that the writers had ended the love triangle. The promo shattered that idea, and, in turn, I slammed my computer shut so hard it nearly broke. That is not a feeling I like. That is the feeling that learning Liz and Adrian fucked gives me. 

NOT EVERYONE HAS TO SLEEP WITH EVERYONE. IT IS SOMETIMES MORE INTERESTING WITHOUT THE ILLICIT AFFAIRS. THERE ARE MORE INTERESTING WAYS THAN HOOKUPS TO ADDRESS THAT THEY USED TO BE MARRIED. For starters, can we get an episode where Liz calls Adrian out on the condescending voice he’s always using when he talks to her?

Oh yes, this is also perjury. Why. Why is this happening? Why would Liz and Adrian admit this to an investigator knowing damn well they lied under oath, and also, why would they lie under oath? I know we saw it happen but was it really worth two partners perjuring themselves bc they fucked their ex??? 

When the stakes are high for no reason (or for a stupid reason) it doesn’t maximize drama. It just makes me tune out the drama. If I believed Liz and Adrian had a good reason to perjure themselves, maybe I’d care about this. Maybe they did. But the fact I don’t remember it-- and I’m someone who can name every single episode title of TGW in order-- suggests to me it wasn’t a good enough reason. 

Liz goes to shred the file with the rest of the info on her father’s victims. See, this is a bad choice that I understand. It’s her father’s legacy and her firm’s future, and she has all the power right now. It could come back to bite her, but I get why she takes this risk. I get why this situation is fraught. 

Credits time!!! 

Maia’s also decided to dress like a Bad Girl. She is trying VERY hard. But she’s pulling it off. She’s speaking without hesitation and actually taking an active role in getting things done. It speaks volumes about her character that the first time she’s been motivated about anything work related, it’s something morally bankrupt. 

Apparently the black and white associates are sitting apart from each other. Julius says it’s not intentional; there’s a hot desk system. That held up well.

LMAO people think Julius and Marissa are sleeping together. Julius does a spit take-- the appropriate reaction.

“You’re really a Rindell?” a potential client asks Maia. “Raised at his knee. Taught me everything he knows,” Maia says proudly, displaying a framed picture of her and her father. I’ve said it like five times already but it’s SO dark that Maia would use this to her advantage. We’ve seen some opportunistic shit on TGW/TGF but Maia gets so shameless, so fast, with no remorse. Damn. 

RBL is trying to disbar Blum. He doesn’t care. He tells Maia to take care of it and to use the allegations (which she doesn’t realize are real) against Carl to make it go away.

Diane is talking to a computer. I’m over all the Diane plots.

Liz is glad the Book Club is still fighting even if she’s not involved, which is the stance it always made the most sense for Liz to have. 

Diane allows Book Club to proceed with their latest scheme because she finds the dude they’re targeting deplorable. If this plot didn’t involve Book Club I’d find it to be an interesting moral dilemma. 

An actually interesting dilemma: Liz informs Marissa she will not be disclosing the names of any additional victims. Marissa clearly thinks this is the wrong call but keeps her mouth shut. An unusual amount of restraint for her. 

Maia and Marissa are still friends! Is this the episode with the bizarre Maia/Marissa kiss that I still don’t understand the point of? 

Marissa divulges info about the firm’s Reddick drama to Maia, which is uncharacteristically stupid of Marissa. But there’s no bridge Maia isn’t willing to blow up to help Blum. She’s prying and manipulating a friend who faked a drug test for her and got her through the worst time in her life so she can prop up a mean, cruel man. There are other paths for Maia. I want to be absolutely clear that I think she is choosing this one because things got the slightest bit challenging for her. 

Maia realizes what she’s doing and stops herself saying she has to go because “everything we talk about from now on, you’re gonna blame me for.” And rightfully so! 

OH, the kiss is because Maia is acknowledging she’s fucking over their frendship, isn’t it? Earlier they’re about to drunkenly kiss and one of them talks about not fucking friends they don’t want to fuck up the friendship. So the kiss is fucking over the friendship. Or maybe it’s just a kiss. 

“You’re gonna hate me. Just remember, this has nothing to do with us,” Maia says. Ha, I believe this less than I believe Alicia’s “this was never meant personally” in 5x05. (Hitting the Fan isn’t a bad comparison here, since Alicia does make a choice to fuck over friends when she has the choice to not fuck over friends. I think what makes that “gray” for me while this is villain territory for Maia is how fast this happens. Alicia’s taking the clients whose accounts SHE has sustained, and starting a firm she truly believes will be better (for herself, as a company, for her family). It’s a selfish decision. Her options aren’t reduced all that much either (she’s the governor’s wife, if she wants to leave her firm she could go anywhere). But I can see her side, I can see how fraught the choice was for her, I can see how the way things played out made the tensions worse. Maia burns her friendships to the ground so she can work with a loathsome man because the opportunity fell into her lap while she was hating the world too much to do anything productive with her life. 

Maia’s crying in the office when Blum finds her. She knows what she’s about to do. She’s sad she’s going to do it, but she knows she’s going to do it. I don’t think she considers, for a moment, not fucking over Marissa. As soon as Marissa gives her the intel (which, no matter what Maia says, she was totally fishing for), Maia’s mind is made up. Does it make it better if she cries about it? 

And Maia KNOWS it is a betrayal. She says she knows “a friend will interpret it as a betrayal” because she knows it is one. She tells Blum she doesn’t know if it’s a betrayal because “I’ve lost track these days” (that line sounds surprisingly Alicia-esque) and tells him what she knows. That’s one of those questions that if you have to ask, you know the answer. 

Thought experiment: Would it be a betrayal if Maia were an activist who wanted to get the word out about an abuser? I think a lot of why I react so harshly towards Maia’s choice here is that (1) she sees it as a foregone conclusion that she’ll use the info and (2) she is using it to help Blum. Blum isn’t shades of gray (50 shades of gray joke here). He is despicable. He isn’t morally ambiguous and you can’t even say his ends justify his means because his ends are despicable too! 

Ah, a scene I won’t have much to say about. It’s going to be Blum on his bullshit.

Oh, I do have something to say, but it’s a sad thing. Mark Blum, the actor playing ACDB lawyer Julius Kreutzer in this scene, sadly passed away from COVID-19 last week. 

Roland Blum representing sexual assault survivors to fuck over a rival law firm makes me sad.

Marissa does, in fact, interpret Maia’s actions as a betrayal. She calls her immediately and asks, “you fucked me over?” “Not intentionally,” Maia says. Oh, own it. You knew the moment she said it what you were going to do; this was an intentional action with an inconvenient consequence. 

The partners find out, thanks to Blum, that Julius is going to be a federal judge. And they are not happy.

More talking over each other! Cultural appropriation has entered the mix of complaints. Lucca decides to intervene by going to the partners about the new seating plan. And this is why Lucca, and not that associate, is heading up a department. She knows when to go to management and isn’t wasting her own time in these squabbles. (Tbh, Lucca recognizing that bickering with no resolution in sight isn’t productive makes me wonder if the writers have more of a POV than I’m giving them credit for. Maybe they’re trying to say that talking over each other is futile and aggravating.)

Why the hell does this investigator want to integrate the mailroom by firing black people so they can hire more white people?! Setting aside for a minute that that is a profoundly stupid idea, that can’t possibly be legal, can it??? 

RBL decides that, backed into a corner, it’s time to just own up to their wrongdoings. It works with the ACDB, at least until Blum brings Maia into things.

Book Club kills someone. I truly don’t know how to feel about Diane having literal blood on her hands. This scene should be way more dramatic than it feels. This is the problem with having stakes too big for the show. Instead of getting invested, I write off the far-fetched plots, and I can’t really care about character drama that stems from something so over the top I don’t believe it. 

Diane thinks Book Club didn’t want the guy dead. What about this group that was working to hack voting machines suggested that they wanted him to live???? 

Liz says Diane has to report them, but Diane worries she’s implicated. Who could have imagined that working with crime-loving resistance group would have legal ramifications?! It’s not like Diane and Liz are lawyers or anything.

Liz thinks Diane needs to convince Book Club that everything they’re doing is because of a con artist, but that’s a solution to a different problem. Diane knew Valerie was a con artist and still pushed forward with Book Club because she was committed to the cause. Why would any of these other women abandon the group at this point? What difference does it make if Valerie is a liar.

Shock of all shocks, Book Club is planning their next attack. It’s almost like they are a group of criminals who meet in shady spaces at odd hours. The time to be noble about this shit was weeks ago, Diane and Liz. You’re complicit. What did you think you were getting into? 

Book Club does not like that Kurt is conservative. Diane gets mad and basically threatens them.

���You two are just as culpable,” one of the Book Clubbers says. She’s not wrong. Maybe not JUST as culpable, but culpable for sure. It’s possible that I just don’t want to see Diane and Liz be culpable for things this atrocious and stupid so I resent this plotline. (That said, to go back to Hitting the Fan as an example of a character I love doing a thing that is morally questionable at best, I can accept my faves doing things I don’t like. There’s something about the scale of Book Club’s actions vs the scale of the show that feels off.)

“The truth is what you make it,” Blum tells Maia. A familiar lesson for this show.

!!!!!!!! Is CBS reading my unpublished word doc?! Because today All Access understands that I am watching 3x09.

It’s also updated the key art for TGF to the season 4 image, which says “What is memo 618” in larger font than the show’s title. I am sure I will come to care about memo 618; however, it doesn’t make me want to watch the show or tell me anything about the show, so I don’t get why it’s on the poster. 

ALSO there is no question mark on the image so that’s gonna drive me just a little crazy.

Blum manipulates Maia by telling her she shouldn’t let anyone control her. Maia doesn’t agree to help him; she heads home instead.

Liz and Adrian talk about sleeping together. They had previously said it was a mistake, but Adrian wants to reopen the discussion. All Liz wants is privacy. 

Adrian then asks her if she regrets “fucking”. Yes, he says fucking. Those are his words. Liz is like, what do you want to hear? And it breaks up the tension of the moment. THAT is more compelling to me than all the perjury stuff. (Also, neither of them regret it.)

I don’t think I have a problem with them sleeping together… just a problem with it happening off-screen (I don’t need a sex scene-- just want to know how they got there!), being retconned, and then being used to create drama. If they want to hook up, go for it. 

Oh, look, it’s a stock footage shot of the outdoors. Busy streets? People walking around? Seems fake.

The stock footage is to show that the rain has stopped, btw. It just feels like it’s designed to taunt me with the idea of public parks and bustling streets. 

The ChumHum report is out and the partners look very! Serious! But Liz and Adrian are in the clear. 

The investigator basically just finds the firm grew too fast and that’s their only real issue. The Carl Reddick issue will hurt, but it’s survivable.

But they’re still losing ChumHum. They were always going to lose ChumHum. Diane goes outside to enjoy the good weather while she can.

Maia doesn’t show and Blum gets disbarred. It’s fun to watch him squirm, having just lost his power. He rambles nonsensically. 

Maybe Maia isn’t a villain. I truly don’t remember this scene happening; I thought I remembered her showing up to defend him! Score one, Maia. This episode is the most interesting Maia’s ever been. 

I also don’t remember Diane singing on a park bench. But I like it!

Book Club is threatening Diane now. They’ll destroy her (or kill her?) if she tells on them. Dramatic!!!

[red-rps-sometimes]

i wanna rock ‘n roll all night

This is a request for the rock band chase is in, called the Blue Rails. This ad is really open. I’m just looking for some people that Chase can jam play with. They’ve been together for a few months now, mostly playing random bars and any other gigs they can get. They definitely aren’t famous, but they have a bit of a presence online and are hoping to make music videos and play actual concerts soon. At first, they mostly did covers, but now a few of the members (including Chase) have started writing their own songs that they play. Their style is a mix of alternative, punk, and some grunge. It would be like if you mixed twenty one pilots, Nirvana, and Green Day. Faces, ages, other occupations, personality, history are all up to you! The faces put are all suggestions (for picspam) so I’m open to any ideas you had. Keep in mind Chase is in LA, so everyone here will have to be as well. You can message me on tumblr or add me on discord (redpandguin#6608) if you have questions or want to talk.

// the leader //

- Lead vocals, rhythm guitar

- Unofficial leader/manager

- Sets up all of their gigs and probably has connections with bars and clubs

- Founded the group and brought everyone together

- Dad of the group and takes it upon himself to make sure everyone is

- Suggested face: Park Sungjin

// the best friend //

- Sub-vocals, main guitar

- Went to high school with Chase, also his best friend and roommate

- Convinced Chase to join the band and could get Chase to kill someone if he asked nice enough

- Nerd and proud: plays video games, has an action figure collection

- Chase has a bit of a crush on him and is constantly trying to get in his pants

- Suggested face: Park Jaehyung

// the disciplined //

- Keyboard/Synthesizer

- Has been playing piano since he was in diapers

- From a rich family and was groomed to be a professional pianist and do classical music

- Writes a lot of the original songs with Chase, they clash because Chase is very laidback and this guy is a perfectionist

- Seems like a snob, but is actually very soft and quite the sunshine

- Suggested face: Kim Wonpil

// the mystery //

- Drums

- Latest member to join and youngest

- Has a messed up past, so he ran away from home when he was sixteen

- Shy and awkward

- A bit of a mystery to everyone else, doesn’t share much of his past or life with the rest of the group

- Suggested face: Yoon Dowoon

[ms-katonic-of-tamriel]

Dream Daddy #2 - Dadsonas cont

Alistair, Dorian and Eliot!

Alistair said no to Robert because he is a Chantry Boy innocent who does NOT GO HOME WITH MEN HE MEETS IN BARS.  And that is how I found out Robert had actual dates lol.

Alistair had fun with all the puns, and Dad Jokes, and hangng out with all his new friends and having a good time.  He even managed the Robert dates, although annoyingly he bailed on the first one halfway through, the wuss.

I started the Craig first date with him, because the more intellectual ones weren’t going to happen for him, Robert is so far from suitability it’s not even funny (perhaps it is a bit), he’s the outdoorsy active type, might appreciate his old buddy, but it felt kinda wrong.  I realised this would suit Cicero better and stopped, played the Craig date with Cicero instead, and it worked so much better.  Alistair then ended up with Brian.  Because a) he needs a father-figure to look after him but b) doesn’t recognise attraction to men because he’s not used to it and no one told him how to recognise it.  It gets subsumed into competition instead, and the Brian arc works a lot better, what with Alistair finally having an epiphany on the Ferris Wheel, breaking down a bit and managing to be honest with himself at last.  All is well.

Dorian - I was running out of Dads by this point, but I wanted to redo the Damien arc and not screw up this time, so I did that.  It is a bit weird reading the Dad lines as spoken by Dorian the Not-American intellectual, but thinking of him as a mixed-race British intellectual with some sort of career in the theatre coming home to a cul-de-sac full of largely working-class or at least ordinary-ish Americans and suffering culture shock did make me laugh.  And then there’s Damien with the old-fashioned Gothic mansion and writing him exquisitely worded letters, and Dorian is all ‘praise Andraste, there is a fellow soul with taste and decorum here, please can I move into your pile of Gothic splendour’.  So Damien it was and the Vint and the Goth live happily ever after.  Even seeing Damien in civvies wasn’t enough to throw him by that point, although strong words need to be had about sandals and socks, Damien.

Next up, Eliot from Leverage, picked precisely because I needed someone who could look the Robert arc in the face and not flinch.  He did superbly.  Put up with his crap, matched whisky with whisky, didn’t talk unnecessarily, did what he had to on the last date and grifted like the pro he is.  And when Robert needed him to, he had the strength to stop the action, tell him what he needed to hear and saw him through a difficult time, giving him the strength he needed to mend bridges with his daughter.

And OMG VAL IS SERIOUSLY CUTE!  We like Val.  Val can come back any time.  She referred to Mary as the lady who was duel-wielding wine glasses.  She HAS A GIRLFRIEND!  She was offering to MENTOR AMANDA.  She’s awesome and I love her a bit.  We only see her in that one scene though.  :/

And Eliot being the self-sacrificing type, he was OK with Robert not being ready for a romantic relationship but still wanting closeness while he worked on himself.  He can take care of his bud in the meantime. 

I paired Argis up with Mat as he was the only one I hadn’t romanced yet, but I’m not sure it was the right decision.  Should have done a Varric Tethras runthrough, he’d have been great with Mat.  Sigh.  I have a feeling Argis is going to be taking after his father and doing Hugo instead, because Argis is also a colossal nerd about combat of all kinds.  I foresee new playthroughs.

I also foresee picspam of the avatars too.  :)

[ageless-aislynn]

Jordan: “At last...”

Jordan: “...the Cosmic Staff is mine!”

SuicideSquad!Harley: “Hiya, toots, whatcha got here?” Jordan: “Hey!”

SuicideSquad!Harley: “Yo, gals, come and look at this dude’s staff!” *snerk*

Injustice!Harley: “Ooo, nice staff you had there, Frosty Man!” Jordan: *facepalm* SuicideSquad!Harley: “So, what can this baby do, anyways?”

SuicideSquad!Harley: “I get the feeling it’s got some zoom-zoom to it!” Jordan: “This day just isn’t going the way I expected.”

BirdsofPrey!Harley: “Heya, Mr. Popsicle! Harley Quinn here, nice to meetcha!” Injustice!Harley: *pat pat* “Frosty hair, too, hee!” Jordan: “Wait, where’d the other one go with the Staff?”

SuicideSquad!Harley: “ZOOM-ZOOM!!!” BirdsofPrey!Harley: “Me, next!” Injustice!Harley: *poke* “Frosty tummy, too!” Jordan: “Madame, do you mind???”

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[ageless-aislynn]

How about an action figure picspam for Snowells Week 2019, Day 7: Free theme? :D

Longish, so under the cut. ;)

tv!Eobard: “Um, Cait? I saw something and it reminded me of you and... Well, I got you a little present.”

Caitlin: “Aww, Eo, that’s so sweet!”

tv!Eobard: “Here you go. Do you like it?”

Caitlin: “*gasp* Oh, it’s beautiful! Thank you so much! I love it!”

Caitlin: *hugs*

tv!Eobard: *forehead smooch*

Caitlin: “Um, you didn’t steal this, right?”

tv!Eobard: “No comment.”

Killer Frost: “Now that’s just stinkin’ adorable.”

comic!Eobard: “I agree with either the adjective or the noun. I’ll let you pick which one.”

Killer Frost: “Yeah, that attitude might fool some people, buddy, but I know you. You got me a present, too, didn’t you?”

comic!Eobard: “Do I look like the present-buying sort to you?”

Killer Frost: “No, you look like the present-stealing sort. Which I’m fine with, btw.

So what’d you get me? Jewelry? Gemstones? Cold hard cash works, too.”

comic!Eobard: “Well, how do you feel about a... DRAGON?” *ta-da*

Dragon: “Bleph.”

Killer Frost: “Um, it’s Killer FROST, you might recall? I’m not exactly fire-friendly.”

comic!Eobard: “Good thing he’s an Ice Dragon!”

Dragon: *shimmer*

Killer Frost: “Eee!!!”

Killer Frost: “We’re gonna have so much fun, little fella! Hey, does anybody know how to say dracarys but in ice? ”

Dragon: “Bleph!”

comic!Eobard: “Wait, so where’s my hug?”

Our cast (since, you know, they don’t yet have an official Caitlin or Killer Frost figure, so I thought you might want to know who I’m subbing in with until then ;) ) --

tv!Eobard: DC Collectibles The Flash TV Reverse Flash

Caitlin: Marvel Legends Scarlet Witch

comic!Eobard: DC Essentials Reverse Flash

Killer Frost: Marvel Legends Silver Sable

The rose is from DC Collectibles Bombshells Poison Ivy and the dragon, Lockheed, comes with Marvel Legends Kitty Pryde. ;)

[ageless-aislynn]

And since I had my camera out... Here’s a pic of my gorgeous DC Collectibles Reverse Flash statue, who is literally standing right next to my keyboard in front of the CPU so that I may, at any point in my computer time, merely look over and *sigh* in appreciation of his awesomeness. *SIGHS* I’m not alone in this, btw. ;) 

Also, yes, those are my stand-ins for Nash and Frost but the way I originally posed them, I put her arm out for balance (she’s standing on a little box to get her to the right height ;) ) and I came back the next morning and she’s holding Eo’s hand! O_O Anybody for some ReverseFrostNash? :P  (I have more than one Frost, btw; I like this one for her hair but the other has a face I think is a little more Frost-like so I swap them back and forth. It’s hard to find proper outfits for either of them, though. :S)

And speaking of BUT... Yes, my little Harley statue is TOTALLY smirking at Eo’s butt. That one I did on purpose, lol! ;) 

Harley liiiiiiiikes. ;) 

And yes, I do have a WHOLE BUNCH of Harleys and Eobards, far more than any other characters. I’m going to have to, I don’t know, vid them together or something one day. Just because. ;)

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