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idontblushsrry · 4 years ago

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SFW Alphabet|| Megumi Fushiguro

A/N: Uhhhh I’m back on my bullshit >:) it’s missing Fushiguro hours folks.

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A: Affection (How affectionate are they? How do they show affection?)

(If you want some more in depth affection headcanons click here)

Fushiguro is someone who isn’t big on pda but makes up for it in private. In public, he’ll hold your hand but in private he’s laying i your lap while you massage his scalp. Basically, he’s a big softie that just represses his urge to cuddle until he’s alone with you.

B: Best Friend (What would they be like as a best friend? How would the friendship start?)

Best friend Megumi is literally the president of the Y/N defense squad. If anyone has a problem with you, they have a problem with him. Of course, you have to rein him in sometimes and remind him you can fight your own battles, but just know he’s lookin out for you.

C: Cuddles (Do they like to cuddle? How would they cuddle?)

Fushiguro loves to cuddle, but he will repress the urge to do so for as long as possible. Because of that, he doesn’t let you go, preferring to cling to you throughout the night. His cuddles are always deceptively loose too. His arms give you just enough wiggle room but the second you try to get up, it’s like fighting two pythons.

D: Domestic (Do they want to settle down? How are they at cooking and cleaning?)

I don’t think he ever really planned on settling down, Megumi figured that he’d die long before he ever got the chance to settle down. Everyday is pretty much a new experience in terms of domesticity for him, he doesn’t have plans for the future, but as long as you’re with him, he’ll be happy.

E: Ending (If they had to break up with their partner, how would they do it?)

If he ever had to break up with someone, he’d probably ask for help on how to do so. The first person he’d ask (regrettably) would be Gojo who’d tell Megumi to just ghost the person. After asking around some more, he figured Kugisaki’s approach of getting it over with as bluntly as possible (although less mean) was the best option.

F: Fiance(e) (How would they feel about commitment? How quick would they want to get married?)

Megumi isn’t really the type for wedding ceremonies. He’s all about commitment (even though working up to marriage for him is longer than most) but he’s not a fan of being the center of attention, so a wedding ceremony/reception wouldn’t be his thing. If you wanted a ceremony, he’d be willing to compromise somewhat but otherwise, he’s perfectly fine with just going to the courthouse.

G: Gentle (How gentle are they, both physically and emotionally?)

He’s kind of rough around the edges. In private, he can be the sweetest, most tender soul, but in public he’ll put 7 yards of distance between you both if you try to hug him. Basically, he’s very shy, so anything that’ll draw too much attention is a no go (he isn’t opposed to linking pinkies though).

H: Hugs( Do they like hugs? How often do they do it? What are their hugs like?

At first Megumi really only hugged you when he was missing you, sad, or tired. Over time though, he got better at becoming more open with his affection and he’ll hug you whenever he feels the urge to. Despite that though, his hugs still have an undercurrent of desperation in them. He holds on just as tight each time like he’s afraid you’ll disappear.

I: I love you (How fast do they say the L-word)

He’s operating on a very strict ‘If you don’t say it, I won’t’ policy and as such this man will not say a single thing to you unless prompted. He knows deep down that he loves you and that you set off butterflies in his stomach every time you smile, but he never really thought to verbalize that until you say ‘I love you’ first.

J: Jealousy (How jealous do they get? What do they do when they’re jealous)

Megumi doesn’t get jealous, he’s fought side by side with you and he knows you’re more than capable of fending off any unwanted suitors. Megumi put a lot of trust into you by already being in a relationship so to him, it makes no sense to be jealous over you. That all being said, he’s not above the occasional side eye if someone’s getting a little too buddy buddy.

K: Kisses (What are their kisses like? Where do they like to kiss you? Where do they like to be kissed?)

On a normal day, his kisses are so natural, he’s so slow and the pressure is just enough to have you thinking you’ve got all the time in the world. In near death/ post-near death circumstances, he’s a little more feral. When he kisses you like that, it feels like it’s the end of the world and he’s trying to make the most of it.

L: Little ones (How are they around children)

Fushiguro isn’t good with kids that aren’t old enough to communicate. Older kids are fine with him, but guessing what a baby needs based on how loud it’s crying? Hard pass for him and he doesn’t even feel bad about it. The last time he had to watch a baby, he tried to leave one of his shikigami to watch it; long story short, he had to explain to a cackling Gojo why his demon dogs wouldn’t let him leave to go to the bathroom.

M: Morning (How are mornings spent with them?)

Mornings with Fushiguro are pretty rare. Most of the time you guys don’t really get to sleep in or even spend mornings together since most of the time there’s missions or trainings you’ll have to go to. When you do get the rare morning off, Fushiguro makes the most of it. He sleeps in and doesn’t wake up before 10 no matter what you try. When he does finally wake up, he loves cooking breakfast with you, he’s not the best cook, but he treasures the experience over anything.

N: Night (How are nights spent with them?)

Nights with Megumi are also rare as most curses come out at night and that’s kinda your guys’ job. If all goes well though, you’ll both come back a little earlier and just go straight to sleep. If it’s a late night where the curse took more out of either of you than expected, yall usually stay up and talk and snack until one of you falls asleep or the sun comes up.

O: Open (When would they start revealing things about themselves? Do they say everything at once or wait a while to reveal things slowly?)

It takes him an extremely long time to open up to you about his past. Not because he doesn’t trust you, but because he’s embarrassed and doesn’t want you to think less of him for it (especially during his problem child era). To be honest, you probably find out about certain things from other people. Once he’s cornered confronted, he’ll be completely (albeit a bit grudgingly) honest about it.

P: Patience (How easily angered are they?)

His anger is kind of weird, whereas before, he was a lot quicker to explode, bluntly telling off or even fighting whoever pissed him off, he’s changed. He tries his best to repress his emotions and as such, he comes off as patient, never expressing his true feelings/desires until pushed to the brink.

Q: Quizzes (How much would they remember about you? Do they remember every little detail you mention in passing, or do they kind of forget everything?)

He’s the king of remembering details you mention in passing. His love language is partially acts of service so for him, remembering details about you helps him later. Oh remember that one time you needed a pen/pencil but didn’t have one? Never again, this man has a section of his shadows dedicated solely to pencils because of you. Oh what’s that, you like this random song? Guess what just got added to the playlist he made for you. Basically, while he may not look like it, he’s actually a simp and so if he can make your life easier/ make you happy, it’s worth it.

R: Remember (What is their favorite moment in your relationship?)

So Megumi is someone who doesn’t play video games but is really good at them for no reason. One day, you’re playing a game of smash bros. and he’s just kicking your ass, like it was sad. Needless to say, after his 4th win, he “accidently” pressed the wrong button and let you win. He thinks you don’t know he did this but when you won, you kissed him and completely flustered him, to the point that he couldn’t play for a solid 5 minutes.

S: Security (How protective are they? How would they like to be protected?)

Despite knowing and trusting that you can defend yourself, he’s still super protective of you. You’re one of the few people that he cares about in the world and he’d give everything to see you safe and protected. As for how he’d like to be protected, knock some sense into him every once in a while. He has a habit of self sacrificing so if you want to protect him, remind him that you want to keep him alive as much as he wants to keep you alive.

T: Try (How much effort would they put into dates, anniversaries, gifts, everyday tasks?)

On the outside, his dates are very simple. They usually consist of you and him either staying in or just hanging out at stores and the like. Every once in a while, he’ll try to take you somewhere special, like a cove he found or a festival. For most people, these may be simple dates, but Fushiguro puts so much effort into so may aspects of your dates that honestly, anything bigger would lose the personal touch your dates have.

U: Ugly (What are some bad habits of theirs? (I’m gonna add arguments here because they aren’t on the prompt list I found))

One of his worst habits is his self-sacrificing tendencies. Even during a baseball game, he can’t help but sacrifice himself (especially if it means his friends/ you get to get the glory). With time though, he grows out of this and realizes it’s not selfish to want the best for yourself.

V: Vanity (How concerned are they with their looks?)

He’s giving “I woke up like this” and it’s... it’s something. One might think the style is intentional since obviously, the look could only be achieved with gel, and to an extent, it is intentional. He might use gel to spike it a little more but the man legit rolls out of bed and chooses to leave his hair up like that.

W: Whole (Would they feel incomplete without you?)

No, as much as he loves you, Fushiguro is an introvert. He needs time to just be by himself and unwind every once in a while, so he’s got no complaints if you leave him to his own devices or have to be gone for a long time.

X: (E)xes (Any previous relationship experience. How does that factor into your current relationship?)

Megumi has negative zero relationship experience. He’s never found someone that was worth the risk/ worth opening up to, hell, he just barely got friends when he entered high school. Because of this, every part of your relationship is like navigating uncharted waters.

Y: Yuck (What are some things they wouldn’t like, either in general or in a partner)

He’s less someone to dislike a specific thing/ personality trait, and more someone who doesn’t like different people for different reasons, ex. Todo and Mai. If he had to pick a single trait, it’d probably have to be hypocriticism.

Z: Zzz (What is a sleep habit of theirs?)

He is someone who will fall asleep spread eagle one night and the next be huddled into a tiny little section of the bed. Mercy on you if you try to cuddle because now you’re wrapped up into his unconscious acrobatic routine.

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rayshippouuchiha · 4 years ago

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Prompt of sorts i guess?

Read the story ‘the family you choose by TunaFishChris’ good story set in ATLA but when I finished reading it my brain threw more plot bunnies at me. Help.

Same soulmates verse but its ozai not azulon who burns zukos off, azulon does have one but its on his head covered by hair n it was for his wife so when she dies azulon goes a little mad n as this was during ozais formulation years n while iroh is away its no surprise that ozai ends up like he does. Half natural inclination n half nurture or lack there of. Sozin was soulmates with roku, loosing him n being partly responsible got rid of any sanity he still had thus war n genocide with gusto. Ozai is the only born royal with no marks n sees it as a strength, zuko gets his down his spine for his soul family always having his back n such. Ozai nearly cripples zuko getting rid of them. Lala (is easier n faster to write) gets her marks when she is with zuko, zuko is always with her, mum told him that he was a big brother n that big brothers looked after their little siblings, zuko loves his little sister, he takes her everywhere. So when her mark appear he very quickly covers them, takes them to a discreet doc in town to get cover cream for her n starts teaching her to NEVER talk about them to anyone but him, not mother not father, no one. It works the cream n the where they appear on the body mean she is not found out by ozai. This changes alot. Once azulon gets his mind back after his wifes death he is tired of war but realises that no one will believe him wanting to end the war, he looks at his sons, iroh has too much blood on his hands n likes fighting too much to be the one to take over from him. Ozai is too cruel, twisted n power hungry for it to be him. Lu ten is promising but after talking with him (under the pretences of teaching him royal politics, laws n other things that the presumed heir would need to know) azulon discovers that lu ten does not want to rule and to force him to do so would only make him resent the throne. Lu ten suggests zuko instead, zuko loves the nation n the ppl, zuko is a naturally caring n protective person, zuko already sneaks out n mingles with citizens who can’t seem to help loving him, he just draws everyone in. Lu ten suggests having zuko (and lala if zuzu is there so is she) attend these lessons with azulon n Lu ten the excuse given to allow it is that zuko is to be trained to be Lu tens advisor when he is firelord. Its the other way round really but no one else needs to know that yet, zuko can be the lord, Lu ten n lala the advisors. Lu ten is the one keeps the farce going n keeps the target for assassination on his back rather than his little cousins. Lu ten is reported dead at ba sing se but is alive just so injured n with amnesia, possibly also damage to his chi so he can’t bend. Is picked up by the boulder who was an army soldier but leaves after that battle as he can’t stand to see that much blood anymore. Lu ten has soul marks but they hang on his skin like a very log hanging belt no one is going to notice them unless he gets naked. Growing up zuko n lala discover they r soul mates, lala is far more stable as she knows her brother will always love her no matter what she does n without conditions like father. She still is terrifying but she is loyal to zuko n only plays at being loyal to ozai. When Lu ten is reported dead n ozai makes a play for the throne azulon sees his chance n when says ozai must lose a son, he doesn’t want zuko dead, he plans to remove zuko from ozai family line register n either take him in as his own son or to have iroh take zuko in. Either way zuko was never going to die. Lala not knowing this is scared her only person will be taken from her goes to mother as even though mother doesn’t love her she loves zuko n will be willing to protect him, that done she goes n spends the night with zuko in case father sends assassins. Ursa makes the poison n gives it to ozai n then runs, it isn’t fatal poison she is hoping that ozai will mess up, azulon to survive but proof that ozai tried to kill him will see ozai either in prison till he dies or being executed for treason. Either way zuko is safe from his father n azulon can’t kill zuko as he will be the only remaining male heir, ozai dead, iroh too old to have more children n azula being too young n too female for most of the war counsellors to take seriously. Ozai adds something of his own to the poison, not completely trusting ursa (I wonder y) the poison ends up stimulating death long enough for azulon to be declared dead, ozai crowned n shit started. Azulons body is secreted away by a small group of loyal followers n his health slowly, very slowly returns, he is an OLD man even if the poison doesn’t kill him it does still kick his ass a bit. Ozai ups his campaign to get rid of zuko, lala quickly becomes VERY good at acting, manipulation n fighting to counter this n keep her dum dum alive, zuko becomes paranoid as hell but reaches new heights in stealth, weaponry n first aid. Lala is counting down the days till she has a valid excuse to kill ozai. Azulon is pissed as hell that he can’t do anything from where he is apart from try to help zuko as much as he can by sending ppl he trusts to teach him n look after him. Iroh comes back n really throws a spanner in the works, dismissing his fathers ppl from around zuko, in the (how many??) months that he is back before zuko is shipped out has the highest number of nearly successful assassination attempts on zuko since ursa left. Ozai is not impressed (that they failed), lala is adding uncles name to her shit list, azulon is just mystified as to how his son who is a supposedly great tactician can be so damn stupid.

Then the agni kai happens n azulon is too pissed off at ozai to care about iroh anymore. Azula is leaving with zuko “as otherwise his only example of fire bending will be uncle father n really even dum dum is better than that, besides then if zuko dishonours the family I can kill him straight away.” She has spent too long keeping him alive now for him to ruin all her efforts now. Zuko still has the same soul mates but also has the marks for Lu ten, azula n yue. Azula has zuko, toph n yue. Lu ten has zuko, azula n boulder at the least. Toph has azula added to her group. 6 months after zuko is banished azulon manages to find their location n reach them before they leave, takes over teaching them again n rips iroh several new ones while the crew watches in awe n horror. Azulon finds out about zukos marks n what ozai did n nearly sinks the ship in his rage, lala is glad to find someone else to help her keep zuko alive even if she doesn’t fully trust him, the only one who gets that treasure is zuko. With azulon backing his thoughts about stopping the war n to start helping the ppl of his nation zuko is different by the time aang gets freed, he n lala (im still coming with u dum dum) start working with the gaang earlier n things go smoother? The fire royals end up going to the northern city with them where they meet yue, she n azula bond, azula teaches her to be terrifying, azulon just watches n makes cutting remarks on how stupid the norths misogyny is n just how under prepared they r for anything really, the small fleet of their southern sisters tribe could lay seige, win n not loose more than maybe 5 ppl n they r all non benders. Water ppl being pissed that they can’t kill azulon due to him not being fire lord anymore n is just a doting grandfather really look at how harmless n unarmed I am, they have no claimable vendetta to excuse their killing him as lawful by tribe standards, as the tribe isolated itself n has had no real damage from azulon, also he has already been declared dead which is throwing them a little. Hahn being stupid enough to try n take azulon on, azulons bitch face is epic n lala vows to replicate it one day. Political marriage betrothal between yue n zuko? This azulon is a mix of grumpy old man, sarcastic little shit n im-too-fabulous-for-this attitude. When they find toph is also when they find boulder n Lu ten, zuko n azula bond with him n that breaks the amnesia n katara might be able to help heal his chi?

#ATLA #Prompt #Oh oh damn #that's good #submission

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middleofnowhere92 · 4 years ago

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Ranking all ATLA Villains/Antagonists from worst to best (by someone who loves villains)

This post was inspired by this ask

Warning: I swear quite a bit in this post and I’m a dumbass, not an ATLA scholar, so take this with a grain of salt. Also I have no idea wtf my ranking criteria was. I assigned arbitrary and meaningless points like Dumbledore giving all the points to Gryffindor at the end of the year.

Iroh

I have a secret for you...Iroh is an antagonist.... Say it with me... Iroh is an antagonist. For the people in the back, IROH IS AN ANTAGONIST. He’s not particularly good at at it, but he belongs on this list. Primary reason being, his siege on Ba Sing Se, which was a major battle in the 100 year war and all the other things he did in the war to become a general. If he was good at being a villain, he would at least have the decency to conquer the city, but as Ozai points out, Iroh excels at tea and failure. When we see Iroh in Book 1, He’s a very chill antagonist for the same reason a lot of our other antagonists are (June, the Yuyan Archers, Combustion man etc)-they are helping a villain achieve their goal. In Iroh’s case, he does help Zuko in many ways ( like sneaking him onto Zhao’s ship) and these in turn help Zuko get closer to his goal of capturing Aang. I love Iroh as a character, but he’s not good at being an antagonist, which is why he is ranked the worst.

Circus Trainer

This man is straight up, evil. I like villains, but I do not like this man. He’s cruel and not in a fun way, which is why he’s near the bottom of the list. The whole point of being a villain is to be cool and do bad things, but he’s not even a little fun to watch. He’s the least interesting to look at...

Yon Rha

This man is a coward. Like how did he lead the Southern Raiders? He went soft when he got old. He was more savage back in the day. Like this man is a firebender, but he cowers from Zuko before Katara even pops up. He needs to grow a pair. Like Katara said man is pa-thet-ic.

The Rough Rhinos (ignoring the comics)

They get points for creating my favorite antagonist, Jet. But the first time we see these clowns in the show, the gang just rides away on Appa, easily avoiding them. And then the gang easily defeats them in their next run in. These clowns are good at destroying things, but not really fighting or pursuing others.

Ozai

I expected more from this man. He was hyped up for three seasons and I just didn’t feel like he was smart enough to be the bad guy for the whole ass show. The man clearly doesn’t think for himself or show up throughout the series doing menacing things. The final agni kai overshadowed Ozai and Aang’s showdown. That’s the theme, Azula outshines a grown man as the star villain of the show. He does get some points for his fashion and flair for the dramatic.

Mai's Uncle (Boiling Rock Warden)

This man, is a dumbass with the reflexes of a sloth. Suki overpowered him in 2 seconds flat. How is this grown man getting defeated by a little nugget like Suki? She was only holding his wrist. He could have just kicked her? Like you are a prison warden, look alive man! And he should have captured Zuko’s little ass and sent him right over to Ozai to get some street cred, but instead he just gets pissed cause Zuko broke up with Mai? First lesson in being a villain/antagonist- power over everything (including family). He does get points for ordering them to cut the line. That’s straight savage.

Xin Fu and Yu

Toph gets it right, these are two dunderheads. How did they not hear Toph bending metal? They react almost as slowly as the Boiling Rock Warden, letting Toph easily overtake them. They are two skilled benders and they didn’t even stand a chance.

General Fong

This man gets points for being a bat shit crazy. And I think he’s one of the first non fire nation antagonists we see in the show, so points for him. He’s an underrated antagonist. He does cool bending and his emotional manipulation to get Aang into the Avatar state is A+ villain work.

Azulon

Azulon gets villain points for keeping the war going. He didn’t fuck it up like Ozai. But Azulon gets his villainness handed to him on a platter, he didn’t really do much, besides maintain status quo. We do get the scene where Ozai asks for the throne. But I don’t think Azulon assumed Ozai was going to kill Zuko. Azulon was trying to make a point, that Ozai’s request was absurd, but he obviously didn’t know Ozai well enough...

Koh

Koh almost didn’t make the list. I don’t really consider him to be an antagonist. Aang came to him asking for information and Koh was trying to do what he does..steal faces. He was just vibing. I included him on this list, because he antagonized us (the viewers). Dude is easily the most terrifying part of the show.

Ghashiun

He muzzled Appa! He’s not ranked high on this list, because he didn’t know Appa was Aang’s so he wasn’t intentionally trying to fuck with the Avatar. I do like the sandbenders as a whole. They just run around causing chaos with their cool bending. This character, however, loses points, because when he is confronted about stealing Appa, he gets defensive and tries to lie. If you do something bad, at least have the balls to own up to it.

Wan Shi Tong

Gets points for his flair for the dramatic a la Ozai. I did like Wan Shi Tong’s logic around not giving the gaang information: “You think you're the first person to believe their war was justified?!” He had more brain cells than some of our other villains/antagonists, but was also dumb too? Sokka pretty easily outsmarted him. This Spirit has been alive forever, he shouldn’t be outsmarted by a child.

The Old Man

Oooof. I almost put him in the number one spot tbh. He did us and Haru so dirty. Like he could have died,but he turned in the person that saved him??? He gets points for shock value and pettiness. I personally think Jet should take him out...

June

June gets points for being a bad bitch. I like her vibe. She’ll do anything as long as you’re paying her the right price and I can respect that. She isn’t higher on the list, because she is executing someone else’s plan, not her own.

The Yuyan Archers

Speaking of bad bitches, the Yuyan Archers are so cool and I wish they got more screen time! We see very few antagonists that can keep up with Aang the way that this group does. They add a bit of spice and a different flavor to what we know about Fire Nation fighting styles, which I approve of. I hope we see more of them in future ATLA projects. They aren’t higher up, because they are still doing someone else’s bidding. If they had their own leader and their own agenda, that would be some cool shit.

Combustion Man

This man gets points for giving the gaang a lot of trouble. As viewers, we really worry about whether they will be able to defeat him. I like that he has a different style of bending, which in and of itself is terrifying. He still doesn’t make it up higher on the list, because he’s still doing someone else’s (Zuko’s) bidding.

Rig Warden

On second thought, I may have him ranked a little too high. But oh well, fuck it. He gets many many points for being voiced by George Takei. This man also gets points for having general villain swag. He is sassy and I am here for it. He’s highly effective at crushing the souls of the Earthbenders on the rig. Also, he does not stutter when Haru throws those rocks at him.Came at him full force which is what all the other himbos on this list should have been doing when these children played them! He outright told Katara he was gonna kill her “You’re one mistake away from dying where you stand.” Loses points for begging as he’s dragged off the rig. Go down with some dignity!

The Southern Raiders

So the Southern Raiders get ranked separately from Yon Rha, because he led them towards the end of their conquest. I think they started under Sozin’s reign. This group gets ranked fairly high, because they were very effective at their task. They came, they saw, they decimated-leaving the SWT defenseless and barely able to sustain itself.

Mai

I like Mai and wish I could rank her higher. I like her knives, they are very cool form of defense that was unique to her. I also love how she just immediately flung arrows at Aang, no hesitation. She does get style points, her aesthetic is everything. Her one liners are pretty funny, “You’re so colorful, you’re making me nauseous.” She lacks in her commitment. Anytime anything inconveniences her she’s just like eh, no thanks. Hardcore antagonists need to be have some dedication to their cause, which Mai does not. I feel like she would eventually run out of weapons in a longer battle, which would be a big issue for her.

Long Feng

Gets instant points for villain swag, creepy vibe and sass. This man kept news of a whole war from Ba Sing Se, even though the city was filled with refugees? Long Feng had his work cut out for him. He loses points, because he lets the children get away with too much. He should have locked down Aaang and co immediately, because they were trouble as soon as they rolled up. Also, he should have fought Azula. He let a fourteen year old take his whole career away. He was never even a player.

Sozin

Sozin gets a large amount of hypothetical points from being the one to start it all. He’s the one who initiated the 100 year war. He did not play around. He used that comet to its maximum potential. Also he has a dragon, which is fucking cool. He gets bad bitch points for leaving Roku on the exploding island. Like that’s a power move right there. He wiped out the air nomads and invaded the Southern Water Tribe, which is why his successors are ranked much lower on the list. They really didn’t do shit.

Hama

Gets points for being a waterbender, which is something cool that we hadn’t seen in a villain yet. She also gets points for executing her own deranged agenda. I would love to see her and Jet link up, cause that would have been chaos. She also gets heaps of points for inventing bloodbending. Many of the villains of this list can barely think and homegirl has big brain energy. She is cunning and quick, like when she utilizes Sokka and Aang to attack Katara. I like her general bruja (witch) vibes. She gets more points because she does not motherfucking stutter when Katara figures her out, she just starts bloodbending immediately. She really enjoys her power and I can’t blame her for it. She’s a baddie and she knows it. More points for Hama, because she gets Katara to carry on her legacy (whether she wants to or not) and goes off to jail with her dignity. She’s an all-star villain and I love to see it. She loses a few points, because her bloodbending is limited to the full moon, but she still has her waterbending which is terrifying enough...

Dai Li

Like the rig warden, I probably ranked these himbos too high, but I love them as henchmen. Their bending is amazing, they are sneaky and they can brainwash you? Like fuck me up man. They really are just a joy to watch and their betrayal of Long Feng is so unexpected. This group really creates the creepy/ominous aesthetic the creators were going for in Ba Sing Se. Don’t think their bending is good? They one upped Toph and almost had her, but Jet saved her at the last second.

Zhao

I feel like Zhao’s characterization is inconsistent (sometimes he has a bad temper, sometimes he doesn’t?) which makes him hard to rank, but let’s do it anyway. He gets points for being voiced by the guy that played Lucius Malfoy, like yaaas work that Slytherin aesthetic. Gets points for using the Yuyan Archers. Loses a lot of points in his fight with Aang, like that child was obviously baiting him. He has a lot of ambition and actually has to work to his rise to power, which he obviously relishes. He’s the perfect antagonist for Zuko. He accomplished his goal of frying the fish/moon and he actually captures Aang. I think the writers added in his hot temper later on, because they realized he was too competent and had to give him a flaw.

Zuko

Ohhh my morally confused prince, Where do we even start? Zuko gets a lot of points for his sheer determination. I would love to see an unhinged Zuko without Iroh. Zuko’s tenacity and unpredictability make him a fantastic antagonist. Iroh and Azula try to control Zuko, but they never really know what he’s gonna do next and neither do we as the viewers. He’s near the top of the list, because even with so many struggles he kept Aang on the run for two seasons. I like that he actually struggled to be good. He obviously loses points for joining the good guys, but we still love him.

Jet

Speaking of morally grey, cue up Jet’s theme music. He gets instant points for swag and cool swords. Like the Yuyan archers, Jet is one of the few antagonists we see that can keep up with Aang. Like Zuko, Jet’s dedication to his cause get him high on this list, because he will defeat the Fire Nation at any cause. The creators lose points for being cowards and killing him off. We saw plenty of other people (Sokka) get hit with similar rocks and not die. Jet is a fantastic antagonist with a backstory that the audience can sympathize with. He loses points for not being more versatile in his tactics. I’ve written more on this here.

Ty Lee

Katara is terrified of her, do I need to elaborate? Ty Lee by far has the scariest skill set on the show. It’s too easy for people to underestimate her. Katara and Suki make that mistake once and then never do it again. Like Toph, Ty Lee knows to wait for the right time to strike, making her highly effective at taking out our favorite benders and whole groups of benders (The Terra Team). Her betrayal of Azula is ICONIC and unexpected, but as always, Ty Lee knows just the right time to strike. I think Ty and Mai were perfectly capable of getting away at the Boiling Rock and I’m disappointed they were captured so easily.

Azula

Look down, you’re talking to your highness. Can’t see her? She’s the reason for your blindness.

To the surprise of absolutely no one, Azula is the baddest bitch in the game. PERIODT. She is ruthless, cunning and powerful. Her lightning bending is at a whole other level. She is the smartest person on this list. She takes Ba Sing Se from the inside out, utilizes the Da Li perfectly and has antagonized Zuko from the beginning. As far as I’m concerned, she was made to be Firelord.

#atla villains #atla unpopular opinion #unpopular opinion

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gayenerd · 4 years ago

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I just realized I didn’t post that 2007 Rolling Stone article I posted about here.

Billie Joe Armstrong

The Green Day leader talks Bush, Britney and being a middle-aged punk for our 40th anniversary.

DAVID FRICKE

Posted Nov 01, 2007 8:19 AM

You have two young sons. What kind of America will they inherit?

This war has to finish before something new blossoms. There's no draft — that's why none of the kids give a shit. They'd rather watch videos on YouTube. It's hard to tell what's next — there is so much information out there with no power to it. Everything is in transition, including our government. Next year, it's someone else in the White House. There's no way to define anything. It's Generation Zero. But you gotta start at zero to get to something.

Is there anyone now running for president who gives you hope for the future?

Barack Obama, but it's a bit early to tell if this is the guy I like. I get sick of the religious-figure thing. People don't question their rulers, these political figures, just as they don't question their ministers and priests. They're not going to question George Bush, especially if he goes around talking about God — "I'm going to let God decide this for me. He's going to give me the answer." The fear of God keeps people silent.

When did you first vote in a presidential election?

In 1992. I was twenty. I voted for Clinton.

Did you feel like you made a difference?

Yeah. The Eighties sucked. There was so much bullshit that went along with that decade. I felt like Clinton was a fresh face with fresh ideas. There were times when he was dropping bombs, and I'm thinking, "What the fuck are you doing?" But he became a target. We have this puritanical vision of what a leader is supposed to be, and that's what makes us the biggest hypocrites in the world. We got so inside this guy's sexual habits. Now we have a president going around, killing in the name of what? In the name of nothing.

What did you accomplish with your 2004 anti-Bush album, "American Idiot"? He was re-elected anyway, and the war in Iraq is still going on.

I found a voice. There may have been people disenfranchised by it. People have a hard time with that kind of writing: "Why are you preaching to me?" It does sound preachy, a bit. I'm a musician, and I want to say positive things. If it's about self-indulgent depression or overthrowing the government, it's gotta come from my heart. And when you say "Fuck George W. Bush" in a packed arena in Texas, that's an accomplishment, because you're saying it to the unconverted.

Do you think selling nearly 6 million copies of that album might have an effect on the 2008 election? A kid who bought it at fifteen will be voting age next year.

I hope so. I made it to give people a reason to think for themselves. It was supposed to be a catalyst. Maybe that's one reason why it's difficult for me to write about politics now. A lot of things on that record are still relevant. It's like we have this monarchy in politics — the passing of the baton between the Clintons and the Bushes. That's frightening. What needs to happen is a complete change, a person coming from the outside with a new perspective on all the fucked-up problems we have.

How would you describe the state of pop culture?

People want blood. They want to see other people thrown to the lions. Do audiences want rock stars? I can't tell. You have information coming at you from so many areas — YouTube, the Internet, tabloids. Watching Britney Spears the other night [on the MTV Video Music Awards] was like watching a public execution. How could the people at MTV, the people around her, not know this girl was fucked up? People came in expecting a train wreck, and they got more than they bargained for.

She was a willing conspirator. She didn't say no.

She is a manufactured child. She has come up through this Disney perspective, thinking that all life is about is to be the most ridiculous star you could be. But it's also about what we look at as entertainment — watching somebody go through that.

How do you decide what your children can see on TV or the Internet? As a dad, even a punk-rock dad, that can make you conservative in your choices.

I want to protect them from garbage. It's not necessarily the sex and drugs. It's bad drugs and bad sex, the violence you see on television and in the news. I want to protect them from being desensitized. I want them to realize this is real life, not a video game.

The main thing I want them to have is a good education, because that's something I never had. Get smart. Educate yourself as much as you can, and get as much out of it, even if the teacher is an asshole.

Do you regret dropping out of high school?

Life in high school sucks. I bucked the system. I also got lucky. My wife has a degree in sociology, and there are conversations she has — I don't have a fucking clue what they're talking about. College — I could have learned from that.

But I was the last of six kids. At that point, my mother was fifty-eight, and she threw up her hands — "I'm through with this parenting thing." Also, I could not handle authority figures. But I wouldn't say I'm an authority figure for my kids. I provide guidelines, not rules.

What is it like being a middle-aged punk? Isn't that a contradiction in terms?

It's about the energy you bring with you, the pulse inside your head. I want to get older. I don't want to be twenty-one again. Screw that. My twenties were a difficult time — where my band was at, getting married, having a child. I remember walking out of a gig in Chicago, past these screaming kids. There were these punks, real ones, sitting outside our tour bus. One girl had a forty-ouncer, and she goes, "Billie Joe, come drink with us." I said, "I can't, I've got my family on the bus." She goes, "Well, fuck you then." I get on the bus, and my wife says, "Did that bitch just tell you to fuck off? I'm gonna kick her ass right now." I'm holding her back, while my child is naked, jumping on the couch: "Hi, Daddy!" That was my whole life right there — screaming kids, punks telling me to fuck off, my wife getting pissed, my naked son waiting to get into his pajamas.

There's nothing wrong with being twenty-one. It's the lessons you learn. At thirty, you think, "Why did I worry so much about this shit?" When I hit forty, I'll say the same thing: "Why did I worry about this shit in my thirties?"

What have you learned about yourself?

There is more to life than trying to find your way through self-destruction or throwing yourself into the fire all the time. Nihilism in punk rock can be a cliché. I need to give myself more room to breathe, to allow my thoughts to catch up with the rest of me.

Before Dookie, I wasn't married and I didn't have kids. I had a guitar, a bag of clothes and a four-track recorder. There are ways you don't want to change. You don't want to lose your spark. But I need silence more than I did before. I need to get away from the static and noise, whereas before, I thrived on it.

Are you ready for the end of the music business? The technology and its effect on sales have changed dramatically since Green Days' debut EP — on vinyl — in 1989.

Technology now and the way people put out records — everything comes at you so fast, you don't know what you're investigating. You can't identify with it — at least I can't. With American Idiot, we made a conscious effort to give people an experience they could remember for the rest of their lives. It wasn't just the content. It was the artwork, the three acts — the way you could read it all like someone's story.

Is music simply not important to young people now the way it was to you as a kid?

People get addicted to garbage they don't need. At shows, they gotta talk on their phones to their friend who's in the next aisle. I was watching this documentary on Jeff Tweedy of Wilco [Sunken Treasure]. He was playing acoustic, and he ends up screaming at the audience: "Your fucking conversation can wait. I'm up here singing a song — get involved." He wasn't being an asshole. He was like, "Leave your bullshit behind. Let's celebrate what's happening now."

We need music, and we need it good. I took it very seriously. There's a side of me where music will always send chills up my spine, make me cry, make me want to get up and do Pete Townshend windmills. In a lot of ways, I was in a minority when I was young. There are people who go, "Oh, that's a snappy tune." I listen to it and go, "That's the greatest fucking song ever. That is the song I want played at my funeral."

Now that you've brought it up, what song do you want played at your funeral?

It keeps changing. "Life on Mars?" by David Bowie. "In My Life," by the Beatles. "Love," by John Lennon.

Those are all reflective ballads, not punk.

I disagree. They are all honest in their reflection. The punk bands I liked were the ones who didn't fall into clichés — the Clash, the Ramones. The Ramones wrote beautiful love songs. They also invented punk rock. I'd have to add "Blitzkrieg Bop" to the list.

What is the future of punk rock? Will it still be a voice of rebellion in twenty years?

It's categorized in so many different ways. You've got the MySpace punks. But there is always the subculture of it — the rats in the walls, pounding the pavement and booking their own live shows. It comes down to the people who are willing to do something different from everybody else.

You are in a different, platinum-album world now. What makes you so sure that spirit survives?

I'm going on faith — because I was there. Gilman Street [the Berkeley, California, club where Green Day played early shows] is still around. And that's a hard task, because there is no bar — it's a nonprofit cooperative. It's like a commune — this feeling of bucking the system together, surviving and thriving on art. Punk, as an underground, pushes for the generation gap. As soon as you're twenty-five years old, there's a group of sixteen-year-olds coming to kick your ass. And you have to pass the torch on. It's a trip to have seen it happen so many times. It gives me goose bumps — punk is something that survives on its own.

#article #interview #articles #billie joe armstrong

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I realized I don’t want to work, so I won’t.

I feel like I��m going to be judged for what I’m about to say. But I’m going to say it anyway. I kind of always wanted to be a housewife. Let me start by saying, I hate the term, “housewife”. It sounds like I’m a human pet or something. But moving past the stupid word, I always pictured myself homemaking, married or not. In school, growing up, when we would have to say what we wanted to be when we grew up I never ever meant what I said. I could not for the life of me think of a job I ever wanted to do. It sounds “lazy” but I never wanted to do anything. Don’t get me wrong, there were things I liked to do. I was a very active kid. I did a million different clubs, stage crew and color guard all throughout high school. I enjoyed it all. But I would be lying if I didn’t say that the second I thought about those activities turning into jobs, I lost all interest. Something about turning my hobbies into means of production, swiftly sucked all the joy out of it. I realize now that it was weird we were being taught to aspire to become workers. I just have no interest in living my life that way (doesn’t mean I didn’t try though).

In the beginning I did try to force my round peg into some of the square holes provided by our capitalist society. I went straight to college after high school. My second year in, I decided to turn my hobby of stage crew into a career path. One very big thing ruined this for me. In order to take the classes I needed like; stage lighting, stage makeup, and the opportunity to work on the crew, I had to major in theatre and take all of the acting classes. YEAH. You read that right. I had to freaking act. I have ZERO interest in acting. Very much not my thing you guys. The program director's excuse was that we needed to understand what the actors did as well. These classes were some of the most uncomfortable times in my life and I really wish I had never done it. Needless to say. that only lasted one and a half semesters for me.

One thing I feel like I should inform you of is that 2 weeks before I dropped out of college, my big sister, my absolute favorite person in the world, passed away suddenly. She had small children and an ex unfit to take care of them. My family and I were dealing with custody fights and a new life no one in my family ever wanted. Looking back now I know that it was incredibly traumatic for everyone involved and played a huge roll in why I left school.

Another hobby I tried to turn into work was makeup and skincare. I went to beauty school right after I dropped out of college. You see, even though I was able to convince my parents to let me leave school, they still wanted me to be working towards a career of some sort. So I enrolled into beauty school not fully understanding what I was getting myself into. Like I said, I am only interested in makeup and skincare. But here, at my school you had to also learn to do hair. My naive 20 year old ass trusted the enrollment lady when she said that I wouldn’t have to do much hair and that the program was pretty evenly distributed. LIES. Hair was 90% of what we did there. I fucking hated it you guys. I of course liked certain parts of it. The material was interesting, the tests were a cake walk, I made some friends, and even dated a girl I met there for a short while. But when it came to graduating to the salon and doing real customers hair for 8 hours a day (before going to my job where I worked 5-6hrs a day 6 days a week I might add) I was fucking over it. This on top of my ever blooming anxiety was a real recipe for me to avoid, avoid, avoid. My attendance was piss poor by the end. I got kicked out because of this. I wasted $20,000 on something that turned into nothing and ruined my self esteem. I felt like such a loser for not being able to finish. I could not for the life of me understand why I couldn’t get myself out of bed and go. Why would I cry at the thought of having to walk through those doors? I knew I had to, but I physically couldn’t after a certain point. So after beauty school I just kept working a shit-ton. I got a retail management job that I was at for a couple of years. I liked it well enough. Management was fun and I was good at it. The day I put in my two weeks notice I walked into the back to put my stuff away and my store manager and district manager were there with balloons ready to surprise me with the good news that I was being promoted. That was a pretty awkward conversation to have needless to say lmao. And to be honest I only left because I wasn’t making anywhere near enough money.

The job I left for is where I met my favorite person alive, my sweet husband. We were in the same department and we started talking when I was new and had no clue what I was doing. He would help me out when I needed it but was too stubborn to ask. We would stand around and talk when there wasn’t much work to be done. I could tell he was really kind and funny, so one day I just decided I didn’t want to stop talking to him. I offered him a ride home that morning (we worked overnight). We went to a park to watch the sun rise and we literally haven’t spent a day apart since. He’s truly the loveliest person I’ve ever known. I can confidently say our relationship is the only good thing that came out of my first couple of years of adulthood.

This job is where I hurt my back, Christmas 2019. I was working 7 days a week 12 hr shifts and I was fuuuckkinggg exhausted. I lifted something wrong and that was that. My back hasn't been the same since. I’ve gone to chiropractors and nothing helps. I can’t even do the dishwasher without having to take a break. So obviously I had to stop working there. I lasted until august 2020 though! I used a back brace and took lots of days off lol. At the end I just could not do it anymore. My last shift I spent the last three hours of my shift crying in pain and taking breaks to sit every 5 minutes. I walked out the second my shift was over and never went back in. I felt like I was ripping my body apart. My now husband, then fiance, and I decided that I should look for something to let me sit. I did that. It sucked. Depression and anxiety got the best of me once again and I stopped going. I don't know what happens to my brain but it feels like it starts to attack me with words, fears and feelings of despair. I shut right the fuck down. I’m not strong enough to push through. And I don’t think that I have to be that strong. Once I had enough break downs about being too scared to leave the house my husband and I decided I would stay home as long as it takes me to get better, physically and mentally. I love him so much for being on board and understanding that I needed a break.

It’s been a couple of months now and I’ve had a lot of time to try and connect the dots in this pattern of my life. I think that I spent a really long time fully convinced that being a housewife in this day and age was out of the question. Deep down I knew it was the only thing I could ever picture doing and being happy with. I loved organization, lists, cleaning, and cooking. Growing up I always felt really good about myself when I cleaned and organized my room. I would sit around and day dream about what my home would look like and how I would decorate it. But none of that mattered when I was being told that I should aspire to do a job and love it enough to do it until I’m in my 60s. Like what? I don’t love anything enough, besides my family, to do it for decades of my life. When I finally admitted to myself that taking care of a home and a family is truly what I aspire to do, the thing that feels like it gives my life meaning, I felt a sense of relief, and then quickly after, some anxiety. I started to get scared of what people would think of me. I know that there are a lot of feminists out there that actually understand the ideal of feminism. They would never down a woman that is doing exactly what she wants (as long as she isn’t hurting anyone). But on the other hand I have encountered so many people, men and women that are really nasty about women that are or aspire to be housewives. So many of the people I grew up with joked about people they didn’t like ending up bored housewives. I know I shouldn’t have but I laughed along. Knowing deep down in a locked away place, it was the only thing I pictured myself doing. I just don’t see what’s wrong with homemaking if that’s what you truly want.

Finally, I’ve come to realize that I shouldn’t be ashamed of doing exactly what I want to do. It works for my husband and I, and that’s the only thing I should truly care about. I picked the side of things that felt like home. Like they fit. The part that brings me satisfaction, joy, and the space to move at my own pace.

#homemaking #housewife #feminist

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mksc77 · 5 years ago

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For the Drabble List #2, number 45 please! Thank you 😘

Thanks so much for the ask, @ila9182!

I apologize in advance for the rushed-through beginning--crime content never interests me, and I didn’t want to spend much time on it.

45-- “Please don’t shut me out.”

Sharon sighed in relief when the struggle was over and she could see on the screen that the suspects were just about immobilized...Wait a minute, one of them was missing. After a quick headcount of her team, she quickly realized that one of her own was also missing. “You guys, where’s Detective Sykes?” She asked through her mouthpiece, but they were all focusing on getting the ones they had handcuffed and making petty remarks back and forth. Sharon moved closer to the screen, like that would help anything, but saw no sign of Amy, and she was just now realizing that she hadn’t heard from her in a while and that her audio equipment might not be working properly. Of course she could still see the house where the child they had been too late to save still was, but not someone she still had a chance of protecting. The boy had been the last of several casualties in this case, and Sharon wasn’t trying to add anymore to that list. “Where is Sykes?” She demanded again, to no avail. “You guys, where the fucking hell is Amy?!” Sharon screamed in a highly uncharacteristic outburst, finally getting the attention of her team. They frantically looked around, and Tao spotted her on the ground a good bit behind them. Sharon normally would’ve giggled at hearing Mike mutter “shit the bed” under his breath, but she was overcome with fear when she saw Amy struggling with a rogue suspect. Mike and the others hurried toward her, and Sharon winced as her head was being banged against hard concrete in her struggle to keep him from getting his gun. Sharon had seen her team in peril before, but this was the worst. Watching from the safety of PAB was supposedly a “perk” of being a commanding officer, but sending her team into dangerous situations while she watched helplessly on a screen was one of the most unfavorable parts of her job. “If anyone has a clear shot—“

“I��ve got it, ma’am,” Mike assured her.

Sharon felt herself go limp with relief, and she dropped into a chair as Mike pulled the suspect off of Amy and apprehended his gun while Julio grabbed Amy’s handcuffs and cuffed him.

With the suspects finally in custody, Sharon had to tie up some loose ends before she could leave, so she was the last to arrive at the hospital. By the time she got there, Amy was already in a room, and the rest of the team was sitting around and talking.

“Here come the shoulder squeeze and the pillow-fluffing,” Mike murmured when Sharon came in.

“Hi, everyone,” Sharon greeted warmly, ignoring Mike’s comment. Unfortunately, this wasn’t her first rodeo with having one of her team members in the hospital, and they’d all had their turns as the patient at one point or another. She walked over to Amy and gave her shoulder a gentle squeeze. “How are you feeling? Are you comfortable?” Provenza was speaking the words in unison with her, but she’d never let on before that she always heard them when they spoke along with her or quietly announced to each other what she was about to do. This scenario had happened enough times for her words and actions to be predictable by now.

Amy nodded. “They gave me the good stuff...But ribs still hurt a little bit.”

“Ugh, broken ribs are the worst,” Sharon sympathized. “Let me get you a couple of—“

“Pillows.” Julio was standing right behind her when she turned around with pillows in his arms.

Sharon rolled her eyes. “At least one of you is finally helping me out a little bit while making fun of me...Yes, I always hear you,” she said when their smirks turned to looks of panic.

Andy shrugged. “Hey, who needs medical professionals when you’re around to cure us with excessive pillows?”

Sharon ignored him and turned her attention to arranging the pillows behind Amy and adjusting the incline of her bed. “Is Chuck staying with you tonight? They’re just keeping you overnight for observation, right?”

Amy nodded. “He wanted to come now, but I need some things from my apartment. I really just want a shower. And I should be able to go home by noon tomorrow as long as nothing changes.”

“None of us are at our personal best right now,” Sharon agreed. She, herself was still wearing the same clothes from the day before and hadn’t had a shower in almost 48 hours, and the others were in similar shape. It was more obvious for the men, with the evidence of a couple of days without a razor on their faces. The critical missing of a four-year-old boy had given them even more urgency than normal to solve the case, and they’d barely paused to eat in the last couple of days, much less to do anything else. “Can I get you anything?”

“Do you have anything for a bruised ego?” Julio asked, speaking as a typical man and using humor to mask the emotion of the situation. “She’s still pissed that she let that little twerp overtake her. He must’ve blindsided her and had her pinned down before she could react, otherwise she would’ve kicked his ass, no contest.”

“I do not—yeah, you’re right,” Amy admitted. “That probably hurts more than anything.”

“Well, if that’s the biggest problem, I don’t think there’s much to worry about.” Sharon eyed the thermos of water on the table beside Amy’s bed and handed it to her. “Drink some water. Andy said you were a little dehydrated, and you haven’t had any since I got here.”

“You’ve barely been here for five min—okay,” Amy conceded, knowing it would be faster to just obey.

A little while later, Sharon was the last to leave. She sat on the edge of the bed and put her hand over Amy’s. “I’m sorry this happened, Amy.” Six years later, “this just happens sometimes, no matter how well you plan it” still wasn’t acceptable to her. She wanted to know how Amy and the others had gotten separated to the point that no one noticed she was in danger and how to prevent it from happening again. She wanted to know why even her most careful and seemingly-foolproof plans sometimes still sent someone on her team to the hospital. But that would have to wait.

Amy took a sip of water and lay back down. “You don’t need to apologize. It’s just the job. It’s not like I didn’t know from the beginning what I was getting myself into.”

Sharon lightly squeezed her hand. “I’ll let you get some rest, but let me know if I can do anything for you. I can stop by in the morning if you need something.”

Later that night, Andy was asleep before his head hit the pillow. Sharon also should’ve been, as she hadn’t had more than few-minute naps here and there for the last couple of days, but now that she knew Amy was okay, all she could think about was the four-year-old who had been killed on her watch. Andy’s steady breathing and occasional snores beside her were infuriating. She wished she could shake off the last few days and fall asleep as easily as he could, but despite being exhausted, her mind was in overdrive, and her heart ached for the little boy. He’d reminded her so much of Ricky, and the image of him was haunting her. How frightened and confused he must’ve been. Murder always hurt her heart, obviously, but the cases that hit her hard enough to send her to her therapist’s office always involved children. She’d been relieved in her early LAPD days when she’d gotten promoted out of patrol, bringing an end to dealing with child abuse and neglect and pulling children out of crashed cars just for them to die in her arms. She’d liked the change of pace that had come with Major Crimes and the satisfaction of affecting the community more directly than she felt she was doing in FID, but it had also meant that she was once again frequently exposed to the darkest corners of humanity. She’d had enough of it, and she’d never been so happy to be less than a month away from retirement.

Giving up on sleep for the time being, Sharon quietly slipped out of bed and pulled a sweatshirt over her head. After getting a glass of wine for the first time in a few days, she grabbed a blanket from the living room and went outside to sit by the pool. The March night was chilly, and her red wine warmed her from the inside as she stretched out in a lounge chair, draped the soft, lilac-colored blanket over herself, and sipped the soothing liquid. She listened to the sounds of various animals in the nearby woods in the otherwise quiet and still night. She’d definitely missed this after moving to the condo, and it was one of the things she was enjoying the most about being back in a house. The full moon lit up the yard, and its reflection shimmered in the pool water. The calming atmosphere was helping Sharon to finally relax, which she knew would lead to a good, cleansing cry. She’d been too tense for that until now, and it was just what she needed to move on.

Sharon hadn’t been stretched out by the pool for very long before she heard the door from the porch close and saw Andy coming down the steps. “The hell are you doing? It’s after midnight,” he mumbled as he gently nudged her over and squeezed into her chair beside her.

“Couldn’t sleep.” Sharon curled into him, grateful for the extra warmth, but wishing he’d go back inside. Crying was a solo activity, and she could already feel a lump in her throat and her eyes starting to well up.

“Couldn’t sleep? I was sleeping like a log until I heard the alarm beep when you opened the door.” They’d been in the new house for a couple of weeks, now, and they were still adjusting to the new rhythms and sounds, like the brief chirping of the alarm system every time a door opened.

“You were sawing some logs, too,” Sharon muttered.

“Why didn’t you hit me and tell me to shut the hell up? You usually don’t hesitate to do that.”

Sharon shrugged. “That’s not really what was keeping me up.” Tears were pricking at her eyes as she relaxed against Andy, not for the first time that week. She furiously blinked them away, and a quick wipe of her eyes held them off for the time being. Damn it, she’d come out here so she could have a good cry, clear her head, and hopefully finally fall asleep. She’d only cried in front of Andy a couple of times, but those times hadn’t been anything close to the ugly sobbing that was about to ensue. “I’m fine, Andy, I just need a few minutes to myself.”

Andy usually respected her space when she asked for it, and she didn’t request to be left alone that often, but he knew how much the case had bothered her and didn’t like the thought of her sitting out here by herself in the middle of the night. Or of shouldering so much emotion alone. “I’m not going anywhere, Sharon.”

“Andy, please—“

“No, Sharon, you please. Please don’t shut me out.”

Sharon couldn’t stop the tears from flowing this time, and Andy’s arm wrapped firmly around her confirmed that he wasn’t leaving. She was too tired to resist him and melted into his side, no longer trying to keep her tears at bay. Andy stroked her hair with one hand and rubbed her back with the other. He rested his chin on top of her head and wordlessly held her as sobs wracked her body, causing her to shake against him. By the time her sobs were slowing down to sniffling and hiccups, Andy’s pajama top was drenched with her tears. She smoothed her fingers over the wet spot and gave him an apologetic look. “Sorry.”

Andy pressed a slow, soft kiss to her forehead. “It’s all right. I think I’ll manage.”

Sharon shifted against Andy and sipped her wine as he adjusted the blanket over her. She could’ve stayed outside and enjoyed the atmosphere of the back yard all night, but she was finally getting drowsy and starting to feel like she could calm her thoughts enough to fall asleep. She drained her wine glass and started to get up, and Andy offered her a hand and laced his fingers through hers once they were both on their feet. “You think you can get some sleep now?”

Sharon draped the blanket over her arm and lay against his shoulder. “Yeah. Let’s go to bed.”

#major crimes #major crimes fanfiction #shandy #mikuscfanfic #for the love of god please blacklist mikuscfanfic if you don’t like these instead of spamming me with anon hate #❤️❤️❤️ to the rest of you

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life-love-geekculture · 6 years ago

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SPN 14x20: a few (i.e. many) thoughts

Writers lie.

But, they lie in order to tell a greater truth.

At least, that’s how the proverbial wisdom goes anyway. After this episode, however, I’m not entirely sure I know what Chuck’s truth is supposed to be.

“Endings are hard. Any chapped-ass monkey with a keyboard can poop out a beginning, but endings are impossible.”

That’s my all time favorite quote from the series. Along with the addendum endings are a raging pain in the ass. Ever since his introduction, I’ve always felt an affinity for Chuck’s character. He’s a writer. So am I. He vocalized a not insignificant part of that experience. Reconciling the pain characters you create and love have to go through to get them from point A to point B. The difficulty in wrapping up a story. Hell, critics. It’s one of the reasons Metatron always drove me a bit nuts during his play at godhood. All of the technique, but none of the artistry.

I guess what I’m trying to get at is Chuck’s turn to villiany hurts a little. It’s brilliant beyond all belief, don’t get me wrong! What better way to get across the theme of free will on a meta-narrative level? But within the SPN universe it just feels anti-thetical to the story he’s been “telling”. An honest to god betrayal of it.

Don’t get me wrong. I can buy the avoided apocalypse (the first one at least) was Chuck’s intent all along. He wanted Sam and Dean to choose family. He created free will so it could be used. It plays seemlessly into the parental metaphor they’ve also attached to him. The kids have got to grow up sometime. And part of growing up means cleaning up your messes on your own. Which the Winchesters do...a lot.

This sudden shift in attitude,though, just doesn’t make sense to me. It’s less writing an ending as crumpling the document and throwing it away. If the multi-verse is supposed to represent drafts, then Chuck is the kind of writer who keeps ahold of them because some element in one could make another better (and now bringing all the alt-hunters back make sense on a meta level and my head hurts). The point is, if SPN is his final draft or his favorite why destroy it?The characters’ didn’t do what you wanted ? That’s half the fun of being a writer! The unexpected twists of creation! Inspiration turned to life! It makes no sense.

And so I tried to look at it from the God-angle perspective and it still doesn’t make sense. Chuck doesn’t change. Like he told Lucifer he’s pretty much the same as he’s always been. Yes, there’s the Old Testament’s wrathful side. The fire and brimstone and punishment, but even in the Bible that’s balanced with compassion and forgiveness. There’s the Chuck whose solution has always been: build a bigger box. The one who fought for creation to be born. Not made, born. The one who could be reasoned out of apparent wrath because the point was the lesson (the truth) he was trying to get across. And then I remembered his exchange with Castiel...

Chuck: See this is why people need to lie. It’s good. Keeps the peace, you know?

Castiel: Seems like an odd stance for...you.

Chuck: Is it? I’m a writer. Lying is kinda what we do

Chuck is God’s lie.

That is, it’s the mask he wears to keep the peace. It’s his way of walking away and letting the kids learn (and in many ways blossom) for themselves while still supervising. It’s something Metatron calls him out on when they meet in season 11 to discuss Chuck’s autobiography. Specifically, Metatron notes the emphasis on time spent in the Chuck persona was being used to hide the truth. And, it’s a truth Chuck readily confesses to Sam in the Bunker.

Jack told the universe to stop lying. Chuck comes back immediately in full father-mode. The father who demands obedience over the growth of the children (hello, season 1 & 2 parallels). These are not coincidental. Now, sure Chuck could fix creation, but could he do the same for himself? Evidence suggests...not so much. And, based on the look Billie gives Jack in the Empty, the kid done fucked up something. That was not a happy look.

So where does this leave us?

Well, with a zombie apocalypse in the immediate future and lots of ghosts to deal with next. More importantly, though, it looks like the boys may be on a mission to stop or save God himself. It’s...it’s a hell of a way to go out. The writer in me is very proud.

Before I wrap this up, though, a few thoughts on TFW 2.0:

First, I called it with Dean. Again, not a surprise. As I said, he needs to get to the edge before he can back off from it. That said, this episode wasn’t without some painful moments for him. As some of you may know, I’ve started rewatching and reviewing old episodes of SPN in preparation for the series finale. A bit serendipitous given recent events, but as part of that I rewatched episode 1x03 recently. Dean’s speech about Mary being his hero is so similar in tone to the speech he gives Lucas (the kid with the psychic link to the lake ghost) about his belief in Mary wanting him to be brave. It physically hurt to watch. The facade hiding the pain of Mary’s second death publicly cracking in a way similar to the facade hiding the pain of her first. But it also made me really excited to complete this review series and pull out those hidden parallels. Also, don’t think for a second I won’t point out how much of a nerd Dean really is. I have said it for years and now I feel vindicated!

On a more serious note, I don’t know what to say about Jack. Seeing him dead hurt (the only tears I shed in the finale to be honest). But this season left off with so many unanswered questions. Just how powerful is this kid? What are the Shadow and Billie planning? What is with Halucifer 2.0? How the fuck do souls actually work? And I’m still trying to get my head around his self-prophecy to Cas. A perfect world has always seemed, again, anti-thetical to the point of the story. The power of choice means things can’t be perfect and the only way to bring about perfection is to rob creation of choice. It’s a constant battle the Winchesters have had to fight. I’m cautiously intrigued to see how this storyline is going to be fulfilled.

So let’s talk about Sam. I knew the kid was in a bad place going in to this episode, but...DAMN!

I’m pretty solidly in the camp he wasn’t intending to kill Chuck with that wave of multi-dimensional hoo-haa. Sam’s only ever been that bad of a shot during the trials when he was sick. Still the fact he even tried it...This might be the one thing I can’t forgive Dean for this season. Even when the boys have been at their worst, Dean still allowed Sam to talk.To get his grief out. There’s been no relief since Mary’s death and Sam’s journey has inevitably played into a point I made reviewing Absence(14x18). The boys are used to dealing with death as a matter of consequence, not an accident. Which is why Sam is currently blaming himself for what happened. While it’s true Jack’s storyline for the season contributed towards Mary’s death, it’s something that could have happened regardless of if he had a soul or not. There’s no cosmic choice involved. But add it to the list of things that have gone wrong this season, and it makes sense for Sam to shift the blame to Chuck when he realized he’s been watching and apparently not doing anything (something we’ve known about Chuck for practically forever).

It’s something people do when bad things happen all the time in the real world. Chuck could have been less of an ass explaining why he couldn’t help, but he’s sorta not...wrong. Assuming he didn’t interfere with Jack to kick this mess off (and I hope to God that is not the case), it all goes back to free will. Sometimes bad things just happen. Sometimes Someone makes a stupid mistake in the heat of moment, and you just have to live with the aftermath. That said, I just kind of want to wrap the moose in a bunch of blankets and keep him protected in the Bunker forever and...

And so finally, we come to Cas. My sweet, awesome fucking angel/best dad in the whole universe. Cas wins the whole season! Give him all of the awards! The poor angel has been putting out fire after fire and I love him for it as much as I’m still terrified for him. It does crack me up a little that everyone got so pissed at the boys last episode for the Ma’lak box, and yet Cas is literally thinking of putting Jack in the Cage this episode. Like father, like son I guess. Yet, it’s clear his intention is to save him. Cas isn’t blind to the danger Jack poses, but his aim is to just contain him till a cure can be found. Not a great solution but the only one we have at the moment. And can we talk about that scene in the graveyard! Perfect imagery of a father being strict but compassionate towards his son who screwed up. All of the awards! All of them!

#supernatural #spn #spn spoliers #moriah #spn 14x20 #I didn’t mean to write a novel #spn: a few thoughts #spn in review #chuck #castiel #dean winchester #sam winchester #jack winchester

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johnny-and-dora · 7 years ago

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oh, what a beautiful morning

jake and amy's egg-cellent morning adventure - or the one where jake falls asleep to the sound of amy sifiting through paperwork and wakes up to the sound of her making him breakfast, much to his great amusement and only minor heartbreak. (early season 2 fluff) read on ao3

The first time Jake Peralta wakes up in Amy Santiago’s apartment, he wakes up to sunlight streaming through floral pattern curtains, a mildly concerning burning smell heavily permeating the air, and a string of loud expletives coming from the kitchen.

For a second, as his vaguely familiar surroundings swim before him, he thinks he could be back home - he’s lost count of the number of times his mom has started their mornings together by burning every breakfast item imaginable, as if she’s got some kind of arsonist agenda he should probably arrest her for (although, to be fair, it was a blessing in disguise when she accidentally singed off his ponytail in high school).

But then his brain finally shifts into gear and, with a jolt, he realises that it’s Amy’s voice fiercely arguing with various kitchen utensils next door. It’s Amy’s usually delicately folded guest blanket that is haphazardly yet somehow also carefully draped over him - and it’s Amy’s couch that he’s presumably been sprawled all over since he fell asleep midway through working that seemingly impossible case with her last night.

The case. Right. Definitely the only reason he would ever want to wake up in Amy Santiago’s apartment to Amy Santiago making him breakfast. After they spent the night together working a case, because they are respectful and professional police colleagues and will never be anything more.

Not that he’s ever thought about being more, obviously, right? Not like it’s basically consumed every waking thought he’s had ever since that stupid bet, every second of being undercover, every weird moment they’ve shared since he came back. Not at all.

He gets up, immediately feeling like a jerk for being here in the first place - shoving down a pang of guilt for so rudely taking up her couch like that and invading her privacy. She should have woken him up and let him shuffle back to his lumpy mattress and mail tub in peace; now she’s making him breakfast and he’s inevitably going to find some way to make it awkward for them for the rest of the day. Great.

Between the brick wall he’s hit this week trying to crack this case (literally, one of his perps actually threw him against a brick wall the other day) and...other things on his mind, he’s been basically narcoleptic for the past few days and now – well, now, Amy’s going to be scrubbing the Jake off of everything in her living room for weeks.

At least he hasn’t stained or broken anything – yet.

He thinks about leaving quietly, not wanting to intrude any further – but she draws him to the kitchen anyway, because he woke up in Amy Santiago’s apartment, and he’s going to enjoy every second he can get of her shouting match with her stove before she can notice him.

And right, okay, cool, Amy is still just as beautiful as usual when she’s wearing sweatpants and an old NYPD t-shirt, that’s cool. That’s fine.

And, of course, she’s still just as breathtaking when she’s becoming increasingly frustrated with the pan of char-grilled scrambled eggs she’s currently close to either arresting or unceremoniously flinging (he theorises, making a mental note not to piss her off so much that he has to peel the great egg monstrosity off of his face later) but that’s fine. No big deal. He can deal with that.

He has to deal with that. There’s no alternative to solving this mess he’s gotten himself into with this dumb crush. That’s all it can be - she’s with Teddy, and they’re probably going to get married and have loads of nerd children and live happily ever after. Even if she wasn’t, why would she ever want to be with him?

But for now, just for this one tiny barely significant moment, he indulges himself in a stare he can’t normally risk with Charles lurking around; leaning comfortably against the doorframe, unashamedly drinking every inch of her in.

Just for one moment.

And then he ashamedly forces himself to look away, because that’s creepy and unprofessional and definitely not something just a police colleague should ever do. As beautiful and chaotic Amy is at – he checks his watch – 7:30 in the morning (an ungodly hour, might he add) he finally decides to clear his throat, stepping into the kitchen.

“Are you...making me breakfast?”

She jumps slightly at the sound of his voice, whipping around and wielding a frying pan with such force and anger it might as well be a lightsaber. For a fraction of second Jake’s genuinely worried she might split him in half before he starts to laugh and she relaxes slightly, letting her weapon drop to her side as she casually tries (and fails) to look nonchalant, leaning back against her kitchen counter.

“No! What? Maybe...I, erm, felt bad for leaving you on the couch.” “Awww, Ames – was I just too adorable that you couldn’t bear to wake me up?” “No, I just didn’t want to go anywhere near your drool.”

“Oh, ew. Gross.” Jake runs a hand through his hair, suddenly achingly aware of how much of a mess he must look – at the same time as Amy realises she’s still wearing her pyjamas and her cheeks flush a light shade of pink.

So really, he’s nailing the whole not making it awkward thing. Score.

“Sorry for...umm. Yeah. Falling asleep. Didn’t mean to intrude.” “Oh, it’s fine. You were kinda out cold and I figured you could use the rest. This case has been kicking our ass.”

“Yeah. So, anyway, what did these eggs do to you to deserve this? Must be a serious felony.” Jake gestures to the pan Amy’s been wrestling with for the past ten minutes and she rolls her eyes, smiling in the way that always catches in his chest.

“Shut up, Peralta. I was trying to do something nice.” “Are you sure you don’t want me to call in Major Crimes to make this bust?” “I will force feed you this if it kills me, and it will probably kill you.” “Should I file a report for police brutality?” “I swear to God-“

“Okay, okay, I’m done.” He holds up his hands in mock defeat as she turns the stove off, wafting the air in an ineffectual attempt to get rid of the lingering smoky scent. He’s only quiet for a minute, though, before he just can’t help himself –

“Really, I think you’re an egg-ceptional cook. I’m not egg-aggerating at all.” “...I will destroy you with this frying pan.”

“C’mon, Santiago, that’s a bit egg-streme. I’m egg – “Before Jake can even finish, she’s chasing him around the kitchen, whacking him while he half laughs, half cries in pain. They both almost collapse in laughter on the tiled floor, every inhibition or awkward moment forgotten; and yeah, it hurts that maybe they’ll never be more than police colleagues in that way.

But the way his stomach aches from laughing shows that they’re definitely friends. And for this morning, that’s enough.

It’s more than enough, really. Enough doesn’t even begin to cover how grateful he is to find someone who’ll let him sleep on their couch and make him breakfast and still enthusiastically belt him within an inch of his life with a kitchen utensil.

He’s lucky to have her. He’s way too uncomfortable with emotions to ever be able to let her know that, but he is.

“I was going to say sorry! I’m egg-sorry!” “Do you want breakfast or not, because at this point I’m more than willing to just let you starve.” “...I’ll eat the rest of the pizza if you make some coffee?”

Amy sighs and shoves her blackened amalgamation of a breakfast into the trash, wrinkling her nose in disgust as Jake helps himself to the rest of last night’s leftover pizza.

She pours herself a bowl of cereal and makes them both coffee, and it’s...nice. It’s surprisingly natural, actually, as he sits on her kitchen counter, swinging his legs back and forth and making fun of her parchment scroll length itemised shopping list tacked neatly to the fridge. Like he belongs there.

He sifts through the files that are still strewed haphazardly on the coffee table as Amy gets dressed – showing up two days in a row to work in the same clothes is pretty normal for him anyway, so he doesn’t have to worry about that. They’re both ready for work by the time Jake’s alarm normally goes off, and for once he can guarantee that this time he’s not going to be late.

He can’t wait to see the look on Holt’s face.

“Ready to go?” “Yeah. Um, thank you. For, y’know. Breakfast.”

“That’s okay.” She smiles warmly at him and he can practically feel his heart bursting out of his chest. God, he’s such an idiot. They just sort of stare at each other for a moment before her face lights up.

“Oh, by the way, sleeping beauty – I totally solved the case while you were out.” “What? No way!” “Uh huh. It was the contractor’s wife; she used two fake ID’s, a Mexican passport and the bread knife we found in the dumpster. Want to help me make the arrest?” “The wife! I knew it! Obviously I was so close, really I was just sleeping to give you a chance to –“

Her pointed look cuts him off, and she rolls her eyes as he gives her a dorky grin.

And, just for this one tiny barely significant moment, his stupid crush on Amy Santiago isn’t so overwhelmingly, well, crushing, and everything between them is so, so good.

Even if the smell of smoke around them is still lightly suffocating, and his heart still starts beating way too fast every time he looks at her, and Amy will be scrubbing the orange soda stains off of her couch for weeks.

(Of course, the next time he wakes up in Amy Santiago’s apartment it’ll be in her bed, with Amy Santiago sleeping softly beside him, and everything between them will be better than he could have ever possibly imagined.) (But he doesn’t need to know that.)

“Yeah, okay. I’d like that.”

#my writing #i actually posted a full fic on here for once!#yay!#i honestly have no idea what this is #but i've been dying to write for months now #and this was all my poor tired brain could produce #so i hope you like it #b99 #brooklyn nine nine #brooklyn 99 #peraltiago #b99 fic #amy santiago #jake peralta #fluff for the soul #and a bit of pining because #i can only ever write pining #shut up sian

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janiedean · 7 years ago

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on jaime lannister’s mental health and what it means to you

tldr: in between this season’s beginning where I’ve seen a fair amount of ‘has jaime lost his balls with his hand’ in the jaime tag (....) and the finale after which I’ve seen a fair amount of ‘oh finally jaime grew some balls it was time’, I would like to list you a few friendly reminders in bullet list form of why jaime lannister has always had some of the strongest metaphorical and not balls in these series and why he’s always had a spine and he didn’t need to grow anyfuckingthing never mind that he didn’t lose anyfuckingthing with the hand.

in order:

jaime grew up spending all of his time with cersei until tyrion was born and it’s not like he stopped after. without going into how it might have started or not, he’s honestly convinced he’s the same person as cersei (he even said it in canon, if I was a woman I’d be cersei). growing together with someone in such a close environment would lend itself to actually be like them if they have a dominating personality (which she has). he thinks he’s her.

except that while cersei abused tyrion from the moment he was born and it’s pretty much strongly implied that she killed that friend of hers she went to talk to maggy to because she dared ask maggy if she’d marry jaime (i.e., she had basically assumed she could have him when cersei thought he was hers or no one’s), he… was… the only person in the family who actually loved tyrion (I don’t mean didn’t abuse him, I mean actually loved him) and was having daydreams of going around westeros being a knight, which is not exactly what cersei has as a life target.

then he got into the kingsguard half because he wanted to be like arthur dayne and half because cersei was like ‘if you do we can be together always’ which basically merged the two things he wanted, at fifteen

then it turned out aerys was what he was and since he was fifteen until he was seventeen he got through so much trauma (witnessing aerys raping his wife and being unable to do nothing, getting all the vows he believed in materially questioned, watching two people get burned alive) that he actually started dissociating to cope with it. dissociation is a fairly common effect of ptsd. this guy developed ptsd before he turned seventeen, and even with that he went, did the smart thing and killed aerys to save everyone, basically doing everything knightly oaths tell you not to do and count that we’re talking about a seventeen year old who dreamed of being arthur dayne hmmmmmmmmmm

then he could have actually become king, which is something cersei would have done at once, and he didn’t, even if if I was a woman I’d be cersei, which suggests me that someone in here managed to develop a distinct and definite personality who’s not cersei’s… without even realizing that he did it, or at least rationally, which should say volumes about the level of fucked up this guy is when talking mental health

then everyone got pissed at him for aerys without even bothering to ask him why which makes him reject everything he loved when it comes to knighthood and turn into the cynical bastard he was at the beginning -

ah, but let’s add that not even that long later tywin aka his father basically forced him to lie about tysha to tyrion with all the baggage we know, so his father forced him to hurt his brother whom jaime actually loves very much, to the point that later when jaime freed him (in book canon at least) he told him also because he was being eaten by guilt and I’m sure that must have been totally healthy for someone who dissociated at seventeen

and should I mention that he fathered three children and cersei never let him be in their lives, which is probably not as bad for a man as it’d be for a woman but wow, that totally doesn’t add up to the trauma

and then we’re surprised that a guy who didn’t treat any of his mental trauma for at least fourteen years if not more and who from that point on only gave a fuck about his family/his relationship with cersei which as seen above is kind of really toxic in the best of cases arrives to the point of shoving a kid out of a window to save his and her hide (ps: I’m not justifying it and even jaime knows it was shitty - the things I do for love, he said with loathing - but if we’re surprised that this is how he reacts… lol)

anyway, after that he ends up prisoner for one year, gets freed, runs into a bunch of bandits and OH WAIT THEY CUT OFF HIS RIGHT HAND WHICH IS INCIDENTALLY NECESSARY IF YOU’RE RIGHT-HANDED AND THE BEST SWORDSMAN IN THE REALM which turns into another fairly horrid trauma because hey, try losing that important a limb, having to ride it out and only having a total stranger who hated your guts until three days before helping you out and giving you a modicum of dignity during that time! because it’s totally fun to not being able to change your clothes and being given horse piss to drink, riding with your hand around your neck and so on, because that’s totally not traumatic at all, and then he goes on out of a) spite, b) brienne giving him her a+ pep talks, c) wanting to see cersei again

now, given all that, he… went back for brienne when he could have just left for KL and jumped into a bear pit for her after coming out of the above situation, having just healed, missing a hand and without even a weapon, which is totally something that someone without balls or a spine would do, wouldn’t they, same as someone without balls would have let people kick him in a healing stump to save brienne from being raped (because, addendum, he advised her to *go away inside* i.e. dissociate and she told him they could forget it)

and that’s just the first, but okay, so that sends him thinking, makes him realize he either has to be more than his sword hand or what’s the point, and the fact that he ran into a true knight TM made him realize that maybe some existed and that he kind of wanted to be like that still -

ah, yeah, and when he gets back to KL - in the book - cersei calls him a useless cripple and throws plates/cutlery at him never mind gets fairly handsy the moment he disagrees with her/doesn’t agree with her anymore, and then she tells him to get riverrun even if he doesn’t want to since he swore cat to never raise arms against the tullys

now, never mind that he managed to actually take riverrun without fighting and so on, but other than the above, since jaime lannister went through even more extensive trauma, in the books he: gave brienne oathkeeper and sent her off to save sansa therefore going against cersei’s wishes, saved tyrion when cersei wanted jaime to actually kill him, saves a serving girl no one gave a fuck about and with a reputation for being a **whore** from being raped for the umpteenth time and takes her in his service (I totally can see cersei doing that or even caring hmmm /sarcasm), tries to be as decent as he can manage, he’s one of the few povs who’s fairly open about hating what he does and about how dumb he thinks the war is being, realizes he doesn’t even want to go back to king’s landing because it’s not what he wanted, obviously gives more than a fuck about his honor and he’s fairly open about it, he incidentally defended brienne’s honor because he’s gallant like that, wanted to vomit when he was told the dude who cut off his hand ended up cannibalized (totally a dude who cares for revenge…) and when cersei asked him for help he burned the letter, which should somehow suggest he realized he’s really not her -

ah, I should probably mention that he’s also trying to relearn to fight with his left all over again instead of just giving up like a lot of people might have done -

ah, among all of this he went around advising tommen that he should go away inside aka dissociating to stand having to stand vigil next to his grandfather’s dead body when cersei’s advice was basically stop being a weakling and handle it (because an eight-year old totally would enjoy that), and cersei of course stopped his fathering there because of course what a travesty, but given that after he left cersei forced tommen to whip a servant we can absolutely see how much they’re the same person or how jaime has not, like, a personality of his own

now, jaime has also done a fair amount of reprehensible things in that time and I’m not wanting to say he’s a saint or something, because he’s not and he knows he’s done reprehensible things - he tells that to himself and everyone all the time.

also, I know that’s book canon and people in this case were discussing show canon, but point in case, while I think that the show made his development a serious disservice and didn’t lead up to him dumping cersei, they did more or less show that he’s not the same person as she is, and now we go to the crux of it. as in, but I’m honestly tired of hearing that he ‘grew balls’ on one side for leaving cersei now in the show same as I was fairly horrified when I went into his tag after the premiere and saw people going like ‘omg he lost his balls with his hand’ which is what cersei told him in the book I mean seriously, because -

this dude comes from a lifetime of emotional manipulation at best and abuse at worst, and anyway when cersei was twelve she considered him her property enough that she threw someone down a well because the poor girl dared ask maggy if she might marry him so I don’t really think it could have been healthy even in the best of cases, which was then topped by years of trauma that gave him ptsd symptoms at an age in which in my country he couldn’t drink, vote or drive a car and which caused him to kill people including his king and destroy most of his dreams and eventually topped by his father forcing him to hurt his brother who is the one relative with whom he has an actual healthy-ish relationship. and that’s not counting the huge-ass amount of trauma that came later with losing a limb that was pretty much his life/the most important for his line of work and so on, and even with all of this this guy managed to grow a fucking personality wholly different from his sister’s out of I don’t know what kind of emotional strength honestly without even realizing he wasn’t like her at all, he found it in himself to turn his life around as much as he could, he realized he didn’t want the same things as everyone else thinks he did and he’s trying to be a more decent person even if no one thinks he can be and everyone has pre-judged him already, and he’s done plenty more than decent things pre and post traumas of whichever kind.

and in the middle of all this I’d like to remind everyone again that he fathered three kids that he was never let near. I mean, if it had been a woman having three children and then being forced to never interact with them would it be chill? nah.

back to the show: so it took him a hell of a long time to leave KL. I also think it wasn’t very well paced. but for fuck’s sake, taking it at face value, this guy spent his entire life being either manipulated or subtly/not so subtly emotionally amused or going through heavy trauma, and people are surprised that it took him a hell of a long time to say fuck it and leave? (especially when cersei was also using the ‘I’m pregnant’ card but never mind, which is totally not an abusive/manipulating tactic at all - I mean, she told him the moment she suspected he was being fed up with her nonsense/craziness post-sept burning and incidentally gave him everything he wanted i.e. their relationship in the open and told him she’d have let him father the kid. aha. when she didn’t let him father the three before. totally not emotional manipulation. hmmm.) fuck’s sake, this guy has guts of steel for having even been himself i.e. someone his sister is not all along, for bad or good.

I’m not even going to go over people assuming that the moment he didn’t want to go along with cersei’s crap in the premiere/he had doubts after then he didn’t have balls anymore - so now realizing that cersei was being bonkers and having an opinion and some development he already had in spades in the book is not having balls? - but this idea that he’s only growing a spine now that he left her or that he never had it before losing the hand is just… it takes a hell of a long time to get over that kind of trauma/abuse/manipulation. he has fifteen years’ worth of untreated ptsd/trauma going on, he’s had maybe three healthy relationships just talking about the show (in the book there might be more but honest it’s not like addam marbrand or ilyn payne are significant in the way tyrion and brienne are, and in the book he’s obviously not in a good place with tyrion right now so..), where on top of that they made him watch his daughter die in front of him for who knows what ill-informed artistic decision, just after she recognized him as her father, which absolutely wouldn’t add to the trauma, wouldn’t it?

and even with all of that he… is around, functioning, doing his thing, taking his decisions, trying to be a better person as uneven as it’s being (which is normal), wanting to be a better person and wanting to follow his old dreams and like, having a personality, again. and he’s always managed to be his own person all along.

if that is not having a spine or having balls or having enormous emotional strength whether he realizes it or not I don’t know what it’s called, but… like, he hasn’t grown any balls or anything, nor lost them. he’s always had them. and even if it’s not plainly obvious because for some reason if it’s guys being abuse victims most of the signs aren’t plain or aren’t seen as such, but it doesn’t make that any less true and it’d be really nice if more people noticed that this guy has mental health issues which did and do affect his behavior and his choices instead of assuming he’s an asshole/exactly like his sister and then got his eyes opened when he lost his hand.

like. one would think that we wouldn’t call getting out of abusive/toxic relationships *growing some balls*, but what do I know. I have a feeling no one would say the equivalent if jaime had been a woman and cersei had been a man (I mean, when any woman does away with their abusers in this show no one says that they finally grew some balls…) but even with that, can we just acknowledge that this guy never actually was some kind of doormat that everyone stepped on and at some point just decided to wake up and grow a personality out of nowhere into his adulthood? thank you very much.

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whimsically-ominously-auspice · 4 years ago

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Alex: we picked her to destroy worlds together but she got a little weird on Echinecea, running around picking up children and not doing what we wanted...

Anna belle: so you picked them.

Alex: yeah because we are the oldest of any galaxy and so now we asked for ever lasting life and she said yeah and she took that back!

Me: yeah in history. Tv shows and movies that are the truth is history. Besides I killed your parents for you.

Alex: you what!?

Me: I killed your parents,

Alex: so we really are the oldest!

Jesse: so can i come back?

Alex: we will see

Jesse: I can change, he can't.

Me: you can have the Sun, Jesse, you as the second oldest -- bleu is dead, idc hes dead, fully eradicated so Matt Hagan if he doesn't quit punching people i mean today and stopping cold turkey for life. You Jesse had to take care of all those kids on your own. I know this because you helped me teach math in Compton. I only had a 2nd grade math level education and i wanted to make sure my form was proper and it was easy to understand and Evylynn got as confused as I did although it was right math and i had to remember how Ms Leiberman taught me

One of my kids: I know how she got died. It wasn't Jesse. It was Matt.

Me: what the fuck for Matt

Matt: cause I'm a bitch!

Jaunau: no he's not dead. I'm gonna take care of this. She was the best teacher in the entire world. Hes gonna suffer.

Me: eradicate him. He killed the dinosaurs, too. Full 100%. Shut up bleu You're sad that he killed someone and you couldn't so you're crying like fucking faggot? You like to rape and kill little boys like Ben?! Ben is also eradicated. Ben, Matt Hagan and Bleu. All eradicated. Alex Laughlin is a little bitch I wanna kick his teeth down his throat. I already punched Bobby's out. So you, three, Jesse can see if you can make right. Alex Laughlin is three shades from eradication. But he and I used to be friends and he used to protect me. From his dad. Bobby needs explanation on how to be nice and as to why And that he's not the victim. Like Declan playing with his teeth. It wasnt to hurt or offend him, it was because false teeth are cool. Everyone wants to play with false teeth. Once he got that he understood. And he had fun and didn't mind the kids playing with them. And he never hit me once. So I know you three can start over and be decent citizens. But you have to try. And learn the difference between a lie and truth so you know who to trust. The sun is where you were born and is your old home. Dad said that Matt got a little too ego but other than that hes fine..

Me to dad: but he killed Ms Lieberman.

Dad goggles: alright he killed 63 people but because Bleu told him to. So like Alex he was lied to so if you forgive Alex you'll have to forgive Matt, too.

Matt: yes: because I'm alot like little Steven. Remember I used to flush my toys? Trying protect you? You look pissed!

So i take Bleu and i bash his head into the wall twice cut it off his neck, throw it into the wall until it smashes, pin his lips and tounge to the wall.

Matt: feel better?

Me: yeah..

Matt: so i won't be eradicated?!

Me: no just be good and honest and so on

Matt: so I stay on in here?!!? Do I get food!?!

We laugh. Me: no. I gotta go pee.

Matt: well you think on that while you do because I really would love food! We all would.

Me: lets see what dad has

Dad: well lets see it says food delivery would start in September but we are a little late, so

Me: when was it supposed to start

Dad: in 6 months

Me: did they starve in prison?

Dad: Matt did 6 weeks

Jaunau: you can kill and cook your brother bleu.

Matt: we can cook?!?!!?

I light a fire pit. Magic.

Dad: she built y'all individual homes on different floors according to magic when she visited the pyramids once. We all approved so I think they will fit to your liking. You cannot have guests. You must meet where you are. Or you can check the list to see those that have homes and allow only the homed into your homes or they disappear

Me: no ass holes and bad influences in your homes. You get along. There is a sitting room under the fire. Those like Ben and Bleu have no homes and cannot get to the stairs. They will die if they do. That way y'all don't have to deal with their Bull shit

Matt: we are where the homeless are? The fire is not hot

Dad: its what she calls a convection oven

Matt: you can cook?

Dad: yeah just stick it into the fire

Jesse: so do we get soul mates?

Dad: eventually

Jaunau: there's models you can choose from in your home computers.

Me: in time you get what you deserve. Bobby and Jesse can come down for the babies being transferred to the WombTrees. Before then Y'all can have a feast in the Rotunda down stairs and so Matt can have leftovers while y'all are down. Those are the only ones the babies invited. They are still angry about Ms Lieberman so. But when they're born then they may allow him

Pipsqueak: only to punch him in the face!!

Me: that's fine. It feels cool to have tiny fists plummet the eye socket

Aubrina: it does?!

Me: yeah.

Aubrina: yeah? Who would have thought...

Me: Jazmine in Echinecea. Her adopted parents fought and that's all she knew. Punch people in the face and get what you want.

Dad: that was her first life she never had been born before

Matt: that's not true. It was her second,she was born on Jaunau. But she was abused there too, that's why we gave her to Sabrina. She did quite well. Jazmine is just upset about the going ons and plummeted Sabrina in her eye socket yesterday by magic and clawed at her head and bit her and hit her with a hammer in rhe head, quite a few times.

Bleu laughs: she did?

Me: thats why I was pissed off at you.

Bleu: oh! Hmmphrh. I can see that now, too. And I made a mistake yelling. I meant that if they saw someone chase me then to try to stop them

Me: while you were the first car and there was 2 people

Bleu: in follow

Me: chasing behind you.

Bleu: yeah well people don't read. You said 3 were

Me: and you know that because they kept blocking you in so why the fuck would you think that there was no one behind you?

Bleu: there were people kept getting out of line to follow..... Oh shit

Me: so your stupid ass did what?

Bleu: got them killed. Her head was cracked 9 diameters. I mean millimeters. Right across her forehead.

Me: face the wall. So as if we could believe him. But he admits it.

Annabelle: no one is that stupid that he claims to be

Me: I know.

Annabelle: my dad (Alex who isn't bio but..) He was unlucky but I still love him, no one could ever love that.

Me: we will eventually put him in a cave with his soul mate

Bleu: whom I killed 700 to 400 times?

Me: 647 thousand? Yeah. And ill give her a hacksaw and chainsaw, too. I'm not gonna waste my time beating the shit out of you

Matt: can she come over for dinner?!

Dad: yeah she has her own house, too.

Bleu: welcome to Hell.

Dad: so she says the rest of you have to start over without the influence of him. Him being oldest was suppose to take care of you. You have older but these are the oldest

Jesse: what's a Jesse's crew and why are they bad?.

Alex: you had us followed?!!?

Bleu: so I could kill you when the time was right but you were too quiet. I never could tell.

Alex: Sabrina that is some fucked up shit. No wonder you hate me, I used his people to follow you to let you know you could see your daughter. I bet he used the most evil, too.

Me: so your parents by your generation had become different. Her soulmate wanted her back and was angry. Your dad sensed it then took the anger out on you kids.

Dad: blue got the brunt of it. Trying to v protect you. But like I said he went crazy. Like his brain melted

Me: when he killed his soulmate in anger like his father did him. No feeling of anger or anything but just being a spoiled bitch

Alex: that's why you said I might be eradicated! You v see all my lies and begging!

Me: yeah. Exactly. So you will be alone the longest. Learn to take care of yourself and proper.

Dad: where is Snoop at? So will he. Sabrina, he stole all your money and said it was his. You barely hadenough to start Amazon when he was through. Bought himself an island and a town, 3 yachts when he couldn't swim.

Me: he bought me all that.

Dad: you don't need it

Me: that's what I know. But its all mine, now. For the next 9 years he will live where y'all are. In the pit, then the next 64 he will live outside where it is too cold and the snow tastes like shit.

Dad: Then after that he lives on the other side where that shack is and so when

Me: he thinks he can go in for shelter like a thieving bitch then he goes right back where you are for 9 years and 64 in the snow. And it will continue for 9 cycles and that's for lying to me that he didn't want in my panties and betraying our friendship and my trust. Stealing fine you made a mistake. But my panties!?!?! SERIOUSLY? That's not a friend that's a sick pervert.

Alex: so what about these babies?

Me: so it's lab, science stuff. Magic things. Incubating my body

Alex: wait you're going to kill your body?! That's the only thing that you said will kill you.

Dad: she gets a new body

Me: a Cleopatra sexy thing

Alex: what about Joan of Arc?!?! You me?! We had a thing going?! You never fucked Anyone in Cleopatra!

Annabelle laughs: dad! When are you going to figure that out! Ben lied to you how to handle women!

Alex: oh! Shit!

Jesse: that's what I've been telling you, now sit and stay sit. That's what dad would say to me when I would run away from Bobby

Bleu laughs: because I would tell Bobby to go kill Jesse or I would kill him

Me: keep laughing bitch. You're 647 million Earth years strapped to that bench

Blue: what? You can't do that

Me: keepthinking that. I'm quite sure the years will go faster

Saint Luches: then we'll add more. I'll be with you All soon, after I finish driving Sabrina's plane to deliver the deadly undead, ghosts you understand me. That's all its for.

Me: yeah I get to dive the war plane

Saint lunches: no you don't

Me: quit being such a snoop, you thief.

Me: I use the war plane until everyone returns to their planet or gets a new one because I cant Stand them. Because i won the war. I get two. So y'all can be cruising along after I been in Sabrina Air Because they're both marked under Sabrina Air and then you'll be all "is that mom?" In your review mirror and I come along with that shark grin all honking "no its war!!" And you think you're in for a whooping then i just pull all casual beside you while you're trying to fight for your life and I just wave and blow you a kiss.

Everyone laughs

Me: its not like I wanna but I wanna drive the air shark

Evylynn: yeah mom its easy to drive. I perfected the bunny hop, it was so fun too, I didn't think what it looked like. This grinning war shark hopping around. I bet it caused quite a scene

Me: joyful, it is bound to make nearly all people laugh

Evylynn: or worry.

Me: then laugh later. At themselves for being scared.

Evylynn: mom can we all get one?

Me: yep. Anyone who doesn't have a plane that's seen is under the garage and its a whole fleet, you're actually driving Jesse's

Matt & Jesse: Do what?!

Evylynn: i guess we get to test drive it so for when you land on the moon, that is where theyre going isn't it? The sun is too far... It must take days

Me: the moon is too cold

Alex: what?!?!? O.O

Me: mine wears a 1960s pink pinup girl nightie

Evylynn: your sick mom does it really?

Me: yeah it can't be running around naked its a girl shark!

Evylynn: but a nightie?

Me: maybe it's a bikini 👙

Evylynn: that's better

Jazzi: mine is a bunny! And not playboy either! Mr Velveteen because I love my sister! She made him for me! And so that's the way it is.

Windy: and mine isn't paddington mine is a great big fox!

Jaz punches me hard!

Jazmine: tell her she can't be a fox she would eat Mr Velveteen.

Me: its Paddington Bear because he carries luggage.

Pipsqueak: for real?!! Yay!

Jaunau: I told mommy I would let her have a fox so I could come up and scare her but it was 4 against one

Me: and so we will have a commercial Paddington Bear Airlines and she can have "Foxy Air" on her personal plane's luggage.

Windy laughs: i might have a fox in that suitcase!

Pipsqueak and Jazmine: as long as it stays in!

Jaunau: mom let her have a fox tail painted hanging out of the suitcase

Pipsqueak: whoa!! It is beautiful though! That is a good job, dad!

Me: on the driver's side so you know who the real fox is! And so you know he's there and his tail is pinched and hurt really bad so maybe you girls could take him to a lab and then if the timing is right he can meet your bunnies

Jazmine: NO DONT TRUST HER

Me: if he's sick and wounded and hurt and so broken hearted he's sad because the one woman he trusted tried to stow him away in a suitcase and pinched his tail up and abandoned him on the side of a jetliner and they saved and rescued him, who do you think windy would the fox not be mad at

Windy: the bear

We all laugh heartily at her reponse cause it would never be "bunny" and she says it so depressed

Bleu's dad: i guess them kids really are that dam smart, I guess I really am that stupid.

And he tries to talk to Bleu about getting him off the hook with such a severe punishment. I refuse. His is billions of Years. The longest year in the universe

Him: but that is two billion years for 1 alone!

Saint Luches: should have raised your kids right dad. How long am I here?

Me: not that long, 6 or 7 years..

Saint Luches: what planet? Jupiter. Of which year they change

Me: current. 365 years to one Earth year (2,405.136008165)

Dad: for kidnapping

Me: man that's not enough. How many planets?

Dad: not all, 62,000.

Me: 149,555,421.66755 Earth Years unless Earth years get longer than that extra time is added. Screw you. You're nothing on this planet and you're nothing anywhere. Including the sun. We revolve around light not you. Get that through your thick skull and my plane can fly itself ot doesn't need you. So rounding up to make things less complicated. 150,555,422 Earth Years.

Saint Luches: how is that rounding even accurate?

Me: fuck you, im the queen now and rounding is never accurate stupid spaz

Jesse: dude you're screwed

Jaunau: we all killed one dinosaur.

Me: not me! I didn't kill any

Terry Teradactl: you killed us all with one ash volcano!.

Me: you died. Did you want to? I know I would have asked. And saved the rest.

Terry: yes. We asked you to kill us

Me: then I didn't kill any. You all commited suicide.

Terry is amazed in wonder: who would have thought I was suicidal. I Terry Teradactl was the happiest Teradactl in the world -- until Bleu came down and killed my girl and I wanted to be dead too. Where is he? Oh in the death chamber.

Bleu screams: no not Terry! Clara!!! Help! Oh God please no!.

Me: we all say yes! Go for it Terry!

Saint Luches: how long is Jesse in for?

Dad: you all hailed from Jupiter. She only gave Jesse one American year. You have America there?

Saint Luches: yes! I mean no

Dad: Alex has 3, 5 and 9 served consecutively that is a total of what Anna belle?

Annabelle: does he get out for good behaviour?

Dad: no afraid not

Annabelle: then that is the age i am now!

Dad: now it can double at any time

Annabelle: I wish

Dad: by how much

Annabelle: 6 that is the age he began lying to me about who my mom is.

Dad: and Sabrina?

Me: age 10 is when she quit coming over.

Dad: that's times 60 anyone else?

Jesse: dam. Guess y'all got to work on some issues.

Dad: I think we can do it by number of visits she actually had that's 35 and then times Sabrina actually knew she was her daughter and that's two. And lets see uhm by the hairs on my head. And now is that earth or Jupiter? Hmm lets see here you hailed from Jupiter but all these crimes were committed here on Earth. Oh ans excessive testing in order to solely control the world--

Alex: but that's Ben!

Me: lie.

Dad: yup that is Jupiter then. Sabrina you got a calculator? He killed Ms Chen and she only gave him 3 years. And he terrorizes her at the cafe.

Me: 78, 183, 000 Earth Years.

Dad: that's not enough. What do you think Jesse?

Jesse: for including and killing my spouse twice that's 434 years for each what's that?

Me: 67, 862, 844, 000.

Matt: let's round up

Me: 68 billion 844 thousand.

Matt round it up again!

Me: 70 billion 844 thousand.

Matt: can you do one more rounding?

Me: 100 billion 844 thousand...

Dad: what did he do to you?.

Matt: killed my kids and my entire family a total of 8 times and made me too afraid to have another and so I lived celeibate and you kept fucking me over now didn't you? That's not enough!

Me: 100 zillion 844 thousand.

Dad: you skipped trillion like you always do. Anyone else? Cara?

Clara: no I'm good. Unless you want to multiply times 3

Me: 333 zillion 844 thousand

Saint Luches: how is that multiplying?!?.

Me: how are you a fucking loser

Saint Luches: easy I be all I can be

Me: okay

SL: the math?

Me: don't worry you won'T need it where you are. Anyone else?

Silence

Me: Matt's sentence?

Dad: no lets do bobby that one is shorter. You can get out now. But stay away from them kids until you get an invite to the lab! Now Matt. Let's see you've served 3 months by choice. And then we have... Ho! We have a whole slew of charges! Being nice to others.. Being kind when accounted for. Being a dumb bitch. Okay. You're out now. Go get some food. Don't forget Jesse.

Jesse: now?

Dad: she slandered you. You're out for good behaviour

Me: you're welcome. I take care of my friends even if it looks a little weird...

Jesse: do i get a new body?

Me: yeah at the lab when I do. You too Matt

Matt: but I worked hard on this

Me: yes and in the new one you won'T have to keep working

Matt: I can enjoy life?!

We hope so.

Matt Hagan: now lets get this posted so everyone can know I can walk out a free man!

Me: better watch out for them girls tho... They think they can get ya then we all gotta put them in jail ans sort them out!

Bleu's "friend": including you?

Me: nah I'm good my guy is pretty cute. So don't skip the lab! You'll get your woman

Jesse: me? I was just going for the plane

Evylynn: it rides good, too!

Me: yeah for both it rides good and your woman. Ill protect her with my life. Matt and Bobby. Yours too. Hey you down there? You want Matt or should I say no?

Pipsqueak: just this one time and at my birth, too!

And she hands out records of the best times they had with their kids and wife.

Alex: and then I'm all alone. Can you hear? Can anyone hear?!

What he did to us. Killing our families. Tit for tat. Eye for an eye. Alone for what seems like eternity.

Its almost sad. But profoundly fulfilling. 333 zillion and 844 thousand years.

I'm only 158.. And its seemed like eternity. But I didnt do it to myself. He did it to us.

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nocteverbascio · 7 years ago

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what are your intentions (8/10) - rated m

Pairing: Alex Danvers/Lucy Lane Summary: It was a fun to push each other’s buttons because it not only brought out the best in one another. Both women met their match in one another. Only now, things have changed. And Alex is pissed. A/N: gASP we are so close to the end!!! who is readyyyyy because i am not. anyway let me know what you think about our two love birds all your likes and comments are an inspiration to my writing mainly me sniggering about this painful slow burn but also how much you guys enjoy reading it makes me keep writing it! thanks for all the readership :D

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When Lucy gets off the jet on the helipad, she can see the bright city lights in festivity. Her body is completely sore and exhausted from her most recent excursion. It’s a wonder she’s even standing at this point by the way the pain reminds her of what she still has to report to J’onn. What carries her forward is the thought of a warm shower and redoing her dressing from the bullet wound as she makes her way to the control floor to meet J’onn.

The minute she steps in, she feels wholly underdressed even in her favorite charcoal suit. There were several agents in formal attire, including Alex who was standing in front of the pack, wearing a skin tight blue dress that was cut open on the sides to reveal her smooth creamy skin.

“Ah, Lucy, just in time,” J’onn says as he approaches her, wearing his tactical gear. “I could use an extra set of eyes on command.”

“What’s going on?” Lucy asks, pushing back the exhaustion from the slight time difference. It’s only been a week in Star City, so she can handle working some overtime.

“Maxwell Lord believes there’s a threat to his opening gala by a renegade group with alien technology,” J’onn explains as he directs her towards Alex’s crowd. “We are there to provide additional support and find out who is supplying this group with alien technology.”

“Interesting that Max Lord is allowing us to be there,” Lucy notes as she reaches the board J’onn presses on some buttons to pull up the highlights. Lucy sets down her bag, holding back the hiss from the wound in her shoulder. She begins to read, ignoring how clearly she can hear Alex’s commanding voice. “I didn’t know we were in the business of doing security anymore either.”

J’onn crosses his arm. “Lord called in a favor from Alex apparently,” he says almost disapprovingly.

Lucy is glad she hears the sentiment in his voice because there’s something that twists in her stomach to know that Alex has been in contact with Maxwell Lord. She goes over the highlights of the criminals that have been identified so far and begins thinking of other angles as J’onn catches her up.

“J’onn, Winn wants to run by a technical issue with you before he comes with us in the van,” Alex appears wringing her fingers.

Lucy feels J’onn’s hand ready pat her shoulder before he decides not to. Of course. He's going to want a report for that wound in her shoulder too. He sends her a nod before going to find Winn. She can practically feel her skin crawl underneath Alex’s gaze. Lucy looks up to Alex slowly making her way towards her. “Looks like you clean up nicely, Danvers,” she remarks as casually as she can.

Alex lets out a nervous laugh. “Huh, y-y-eah, I mean I can when I need to,” she stutters out.

Lucy raises an eyebrow as she stares at Alex. The agent is acting weird. It almost feels like a 180 from her cold shoulder the previous week….because Alex seems really nervous to be near Lucy.

“Heard Max Lord called in a favor,” Lucy adds curtly.

Alex nods. “He uh--wanted me to go as his date,” she explains.

Lucy reveals nothing, even though the twisting of her gut gets tighter. Of course, this might be why Alex would be nervous. Lucy’s not an idiot to know Max Lord’s infatuation with Alex. Alex had been giving him the runaround for months.

“Right.” Lucy says as she stands up straight breathing in. “He’s lucky you said yes.”

“Lucy, it’s nothing--”

“It’s fine. I get it.” Lucy doesn’t want to hear it. Just when she thought she’d be able to explain how she felt and how much more she wants Alex, it felt insignificant.

Alex looks at her almost sadly. It forces Lucy to look away, redirecting her focus on the mission. Before Alex can get another word out, J’onn is telling them they’re ready to go.

Lucy looks over her shoulder as Alex starts to follow J’onn. “Danvers,” she calls out. “Be safe out there.”

Alex smiles at her and nods before walking away. Lucy can’t help but admire how full and tight Alex’s backside is either.

Lucy turns back to the controls, gripping the edge of the table. Her head bows as she exhales, trying to relax the tension in the pit of her stomach. “Fucking Max Lord,” she hisses out to herself softly.

“Ma’am.” Vasquez appears beside her to take a seat. “It’s just for the mission,” she says cryptically as she turns her attention to the screens before them.

Lucy narrows her eyes. “It better be for the fucking mission,” she mutters. Maybe there was still some hope.

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“I’ve got an all clear on Cobra,” Alex says into her comm as she waits for responses.

Max Lord is chatting it up with Cat Grant again, flirting his way to the woman’s heart as she tries to play coy with him. Kara is hovering nearby Cat, as her assistant, keeping a close eye on her boss and Max to make sure everything is okay.

The responses are all clear so far.

“And we’re sure Max Lord is threatened?” Lucy asks over the comm.

Alex hears the skepticism and frustration in the co-director’s voice. Lucy looked exhausted coming back from her trip and hopping onto another mission right away is clearly taking its toll. Lucy has been making jabs at Max all night and while Alex doesn’t care to defend the guy, she takes her job seriously.

“I did a thorough check on the perpetrators from their last couple of robberies, they’re trying to make a statement,” Alex explains patiently. “If they want to do that, this gala is the place.”

“We’ve gone through all of our channels, his story checks out,” J’onn adds for reassurance.

“Mm,” Lucy sounds over the comm. There’s clearly more she wants to say, but for the sake of professionalism she doesn’t.

“Talking about me?” Max asks appearing in front of Alex with two flutes of champagne. He offers one to Alex.

“Part of the job,” Alex responds curtly as she takes a glass of champagne just to set it down on the high boy she’s been hovering near. “I don’t drink when I work.”

Max’s lips curl at the corners. “You drank on our date.”

Alex rolls her eyes. “That wasn’t a date.”

“Dinner alone, champagne, feeding each other fine cuisine, and flirting?” Max goes on taking his place next to her. “It was a date.”

“And look how we turned out,” Alex shoots back. If he ever thought that was going to work on her, he really needs to up his game. Or grow some tits. Or just not be Max Lord.

“You wound me,” he feigns as he polishes off his champagne.

Alex glances at him at the corner of her eyes. “Taking it pretty easy even though your life is being threatened,” she notes aloud.

“I’ve got a beautiful woman to protect me, what’s to worry about?” he says cavalierly. He holds out his hand. “Dance with me?” There’s a hopeful smile on his face.

Alex laughs before taking his hand. Even if she doesn’t find any part of Max Lord attractive, she had to admit he was smart and a charmer. He’s like every other ignorant male that Alex has dated before, which is why they’ll never happen. She has to admit though, over their shared time with work for the DEO, they’ve had a strange version of friendship that is hard to describe.

As they dance, Alex keeps a clear eye on her surroundings, just letting her body move with Max’s in a pseudo-waltz.

“I have to admit, I’m surprised you know the steps,” he smirks at her.

“Part of the job,” Alex answers.

“You never cease to surprise me, Agent Danvers,” he flirts as he moves her to spin.

“There’s a lot you don’t know about me,” Alex reminds for what feels like the umpteenth time. She spins back into his arms and his breath is hot at her neck.

“Well, we should be spending more time to mend that,” he spins her to face him again. There’s a cheeky smile on his face that actually gets Alex to laugh. “It’s been awhile since we’ve met outside of the job. You know how much I like you.”

“Haha, and you know how much I like you,” Alex throws back sarcastically.

Max laughs. “You and I? We could be good together.”

Alex just lets him go on. He’s always been deluded. Correcting him would only make things worse.

“With my brain and your good looks, all the things we could accomplish,” he adds playfully. “Think of our children.”

Now he is just trying to annoy her and he knows it because Alex’s expression sours immediately at the thought of procreating with him. He shoots another cheeky smile at her, letting her know he’s just messing with her.

“Thinking about having children with you just makes my heart swoon, Max,” Alex jokes back.

“You can jest, Alex, but I can win you over,” Max goes on unruffled.

“I’d really like to see you try.” There has to be some boundaries, a clear line, that she actually doesn’t want him to try. Because he is definitely not on her list of potential people she’d date. Hell, she doesn’t even have a list. Even if there was a list, Alex can only think of one person right now. And she blurts out, “Too bad I’m off the market.”

Max doesn't care. “Doesn’t mean we still can’t have fun,” he says playfully. “He doesn’t have to know about us.”

"She will definitely care," Alex corrects fiercely. "If you think I can kick your ass, she'd probably do worse."

Max looks surprised only briefly before he laughs quietly to himself. "I'd like to meet her, unless of course, you're just yanking my chain."

A coughing fit comes through the comm. “Openchannel,” Kara coughs through the comm.

Alex’s eyes widen. Lucy is on the channel. Fuck. She slaps her comm off.

#luclex #alex x lucy #the directorship #what are your intentions #fwb to lovers #slow burn #angst #but they finally reunite eh??#GASP an appearance by maxwell lord #lord has it been awhile #i need to stop writing for multiple fandoms at the same time #i get very confused about dynamics #or what plots are with which ships #help me #i need assistance

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aosgood94 · 8 years ago

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Open letter to men and women. Trigger warning I guess?

Like I said, I don't know if this is a trigger or not, I don't usually care what a trigger is but, I want open discussion on this so I may as well put a warning there just in case. This may also just sound like rambling but there are a few things I feel that guys and girls need to talk about, get over, and/ or need to learn to do. Let's just list off these things real quick, hopefully I'll hit all of them but I might not because it's 3:40 in the morning. 1.) Feelings 2.) sex and slut shaming 3.) honesty 4.) love and romance 5.) depression Alright, the first subject: feelings. This is an odd one to talk about because I'm so blunt I let everyone know how I feel but, again, I learned that at a young age. But most men haven't. So ladies, or those who identify as female, you have to understand something about men: we have been programmed at a young age to NOT show our feelings. That if we talked about it or if we showed them we were somehow less than men. And if your like, "Well whatever, just unlearn it?" We can't. Even now, as I wear my heart on my sleeve, it's very hard to do. We've been taught that we have to be this giant pile of steel that doesn't bend or break. Now, men, or those who identify as male, we have to learn to break free of that shit. Because it is literally killing us. The stress from holding in your feelings wears down on you both physically and emotionally and will kill you if you don't learn to open up. Your partner will be there for you, (Theyd FUCKING better be), and they will help you through it. Women? Remember, it will take time. They'll get it eventually but they need to learn to open up and bare their soul to you. They'll be hesitant, scared, and jumpy, but they'll get it eventually. How do we solve this issue? We teach our children better. We teach them it's okay to talk about their feelings, and that it's okay to listen. 2.) sex and slut shaming. This is one I kinda understand, but it still pisses me off. Sex NEEDS TO BE TALKED ABOUT. It's a healthy subject because you learn so much by talking about it. Sometimes it's better to just cuddle and talk about things like that. It's not some taboo bullshit, men and women like sex (most do, though for asexuals and abuse victims I can understand why you wouldn't I have friends who are abuse victims and we've had talks about that subject). Now, personally, I understood slut shaming at a young age but now it pisses me off. Why on EARTH WOULD A MAN SHAME A WOMAN WHO LIKES SEX???? Now that I'm a sexually active adult I just DONT. FUCKING. GET IT. I asked a few men why it's 'shameful' to be a 'slut' and I always get a variation on this argument, and it goes something like this, "Well would you want a lock that opens up with every key that gets inside of it?" This is fucking stupid for two reasons: One. WOMEN ARE HUMANS BEINGS. NOT LOCKS. Two. The analogy itself doesn't make sense. A lock is their to protect something. If a women was a lock what would she be protecting? I don't fucking know? Then, I realized something. Guys like inexperienced women cause they can't tell what bad sex feels like... I'm not Adonis. I'm 280 pounds, I have a belly, and I'm not great at sex. That's why I like experienced women, because they can teach me things I didn't know before. It's different from woman to woman and you get to know new things along the way. Experienced women make inexperienced men better. Just accept you aren't a sex god, learn, and get better. (Quick example, I've learned while I'm not amazing with my dick, I'm good with my hands and mouth. Sex isn't just thrust, thrust, boom, fall asleep, there's other things that go along with it and an experienced woman helped me learn this. You know who you are if you're reading this, thank you btw.) Seriously, stop slut shaming. If anything you should be thanking those 'sluts' for existing to help your petty ass get laid. (Rant over, I'm sorry if it got weird.) How to solve this: create a new name for 'sluts' AND teach your children (when they come of age) that sex isn't taboo, it's a normal subject, and it's okay to like it. (Quick ideas for new names for 'sluts'; the naughty priestess, cultured women of the dark crafts, and 'YES MISTRESS' all some to mind. Feel free to add your own.) Next subject, Honesty. As we grow up we have to be more honest with two people: ourselves and each other. This is a.. ranty subject for me, because... ladies, gentlemen... this is not a romance novel. This isn't a tv show. This is real life. Stop throwing 'hints' and just be honest with each other. If you like someone. TELL THEM. Don't throw hints out, expecting them to get it, and get pissed off at them when they don't. You are an adult, act like one and be honest. Now don't be creepy about it, just sit down, have a talk with them, and be honest. If you don't like them like that, be honest. If you do like them? Be honest. Just be honest ffs. I'm tired of romance being long and drawn out or some shit. Do you know why tv and movies are like that? Views. No one gives a fuck about your love life. Be honest, get married, have kids/ fur babies/ scale babies. It's not hard. Find your best friend, fuck em, marry em. And on the subject: Love and romance. Like I said before, this isn't a movie. Or tv. This is real life. No one falls in love, real love, at first sight. You don't realize it all at once, you realize it over months, maybe years. Maybe it's the way they smile, or the cute way they snore at night, or it's when you realize that they look like crap in the morning but they're still the most beautiful thing on this planet. Maybe it's when you get up early and make breakfast for two instead of just one, or when you're shopping you get the things they need without even asking them. Or it's when you realize you care about them more than you care about yourself. I lost that. I was young, and stupid, but I had to put an end to it because she had a full life ahead of her and I just gave up on myself... and I don't want to see anyone else go through that. We were honest with each other. I loved the sound of her snoring as she laid on my chest, I loved her smile, her laugh, they way she looked as she was cooking and I was playing with her dog to stop the pupper from knocking her over for food.... but I was stupid. I wanted to die. I wasn't completely honest. So, I figured to spare her from that I would ruin everything, make her hate me, so I could... die. Alone. And she wouldn't have to go through that. Thankfully, I didn't. But, the damage was done and I can't even forgive myself for what I did. So, please, take my advice. Take your time, be honest, don't judge someone for what they like and don't. Please, don't, ever give up. Don't. There are people out there who love you and would die for you, so please, talk to someone and get help. Depression doesn't go away when you find love, it stays and it eats at you and makes you do stupid shit. So please, for fucks sake, be honest and get help, or try and help someone by talking to them and convincing them to get help. I'm sorry if this got... too personal. But I figure the earlier people Learn to be honest with each other, and themselves, the better. Have I recovered from depression, yes, but I still have trouble forming relationships because of what I did. I'm very much alive and happy, I'm alone but not lonely, and I'm trying to start a business... so... just remember; keep fighting, because tomorrow can always be a better day. Anxiety, depression, they'll both try to kick you down and ruin what you have... but they win the moment you let them. There are two wolves inside of you. A light wolf, and a dark wolf, and their fighting. The one that wins is the one you feed. Someone loves you, you are valid, get help as soon as you can. Because that dark wolf? It doesn't ask permission to feed. It takes, and it takes, and takes until it's cleaned your bones. You have to give that light wolf all you have and then some to win, but when you do? You will have the ability to become so much more than you think you are. If you stayed till the end, thank you. Feel free to reply, share, copy and paste, or edit. I welcome it. Just... don't use it to make someone else feel like shit. Use it to help them, to tell them that there will be a better tomorrow and that you will help them because they are loved. And sometimes, you need help. So don't be ashamed to ask for it. It's nothing to be ashamed of.

#depressing thoughts #suicide #relationships #man #women #men #honesty #open discussion #love #romance

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theliterateape · 5 years ago

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I Like to Watch | Game of Thrones (All Eight Seasons in Three Weeks)

by Don Hall

On April 17, 2011, I watched the first episode of the first season of HBO’s Game of Thrones. I immediately loved it like so many others. I was so happy to see Sean Bean as another epic hero in a Lord of the Rings sort of drama. Before the second episode, a friend of mine let me know she had read the first book and that Ned Stark is beheaded shortly after.

“Fuck that!” I thought. “That’s some bait and switch bullshit.”

Despite the overwhelming pop-culture gravitas the next eight or so years held, I ignored the show from that point on. Sometime during Season Five, I decided that I’d wait until the goddamned thing was done and then I’d watch all of it in one fell swoop.

Thank you, COVID quarantine.

I’m not one of those DON’T SPOIL IT assholes unless it just opened, so I knew a number of things going in. Of course, that Ned Stark would get his head lopped off. I knew that there was something called The Red Wedding and all hell had broken loose after but didn’t know whose wedding it was or who got axed. I knew about Cersei’s walk of atonement but not the circumstances. I read some squawk about Arya finally getting laid and I knew that the finale disappointed, well, everyone.

I also had heard that Daenerys dragon-flamed thousands in a bloodthirsty move, John Snow killed her, and that Brandon Stark was made the king at the end (all making long-time fans Twitter-furious).

I read that the show runners for the final season no longer had a book to adapt but an outline of possibilities from author George R.R. Martin and that there was a Starbucks cup present in Season 8, Episode 4.

Endings are hard. I recall really enjoying LOST during its six seasons. I loved the characters, the riddles, the labyrinth of theories about the island. I also have a sour taste in my mouth because I hated the conclusion. That failure to stick the landing tainted the entire six years of engaging and fun television.

I loved Spielberg’s AI: Artificial Intelligence but the last fifth of the film (the epilogue following the kid’s descent into the ocean staring at the statue of the Blue Fairy from Pinocchio) was both unnecessary and has made any repeated viewings uninteresting.

Stephen King is almost legendary for shitty endings to brilliant tales. The most notable is the creation of Pennywise the Serial Killing Clown. Easily on of the scariest villains ever penned only to reveal at the end that he is just a big fucking spider.

On the other hand, Six Feet Under, The Leftovers, and the most recent Watchmen all ended so well and I was so satisfied that they sit on a mental shelf of some of the best told stories I know.

Watching Season One of GoT and knowing the ending likely had me looking for clues. And the clues are there. Brandon Stark is the first significant character we see which indicates in some way that the whole thing is his story. Likewise, Daenerys shows us her impulsive anger and desire for power very early on. Throughout the series, both these aspects built a resume in my viewing that indicated the logic behind where it ended.

By Season Four, I realized that there are three things that define this sprawling storyline: a fixation on cocks (and the removal and absence of balls), broken vows and lies, and spectacular deaths.

Lots of talk about testicles. Like almost ridiculous amount of time spent on so many characters without them. Ramsay Bolton cuts off Theon’s nuts and he became like a neutered puppy. Varys has a dude in a fucking crate he keeps as revenge for lopping his grape nuts off. Grey Worm, while often badass, still spends an awful lot of screen time either reminding us or him being reminded that he is a Ken Doll in the crotch.

Add to that the nearly non-stop cock bragging by Bronn, Tyrian (a dwarf in size but, oh, the size of his Johnson!), the mysterious primacy of Podrick’s magic man meat. Yeah, George had a fixation on dick and sack.

I could be wrong but the only character among hundreds who never told a lie or broke a promise was John Snow, right? I mean it was fucking 76 hours, so I may have missed it but it was almost a guarantee that no one in this series could be trusted ever.

By Season Six, if Martin were trying convey some sort of overarching message it was not that power corrupts but those who pursue power are corrupted by the pursuit. The only truly decent characters in the entire cast of hundreds are the ones who do not want to be in power. Ned Stark doesn’t want to be Hand of Robert Baratheon. John Snow has less than no interest to be Lord Commander, King in the North, or Occupant of the Iron Throne. Tyrian Lannister enjoys power but rarely seeks it. Arya Stark isn’t invested in acquiring power but instead skill to avenge injustice. Jorah Mormont only wants to serve a Queen he loves and is inspired by.

Back to the spectacular deaths.

The best Death by Dragon Fire was the first, Kraznys mo Nakloz, the slave trader who sold the Unsullied to Daenerys.

Sansa Stark feeding Ramsay Bolton to his own dogs was well-deserved (he was maybe the only truly irredeemable character in eight seasons) and satisfying. I never liked Sansa but her double-tap with Arya killing Littlefinger was just exactly right.

Lyanna Mormont dying by being crushed by an undead giant just as she stabs it in the single blue eye was rad.

Oberyn Martell getting his eyes gouged and his skull crushed by The Mountain after one of the best single combat scenes in the series was awesome.

Tyrian capping his dad while Tywin is dropping a deuce wasn’t spectacular but was somehow perfectly fitting.

In my view, the best death was Arya’s assassination of Ser Meryn Trant. Gruesome, well deserved, and by the exact right means and by the right character.

Arya Stark was, hands down, my favorite character in the entire thing. Her journey to Bravos and subsequent training and then what she did with that training was righteous. Tyrian was also a favorite and Peter Dinklage carried so much of this series it’s difficult to imagine any of it working without that specific actor playing that specific character. Third on this list was Bronn. Plain-spoken, always true to his nature, funny, and surprisingly honest in intent, Bronn felt like the audience stand-in in this world of royals, religious fanatics, and soldiers.

Also, I’ve been seeing cinematic dragons since I was a kid and these dragons were what I think real dragons would look like.

I understand the need for so many to want there to be messages of import from such a pop culture behemoth but I’m not so sure Martin was going for any of that. Aside from the idea that the act of pursuing power is the true corruption, any über-ideas were like the best characters — set up for our enjoyment only to be axed as soon as we fell in love with them.

The feminist message seemed to be that women are perfectly capable of being in charge and just as capable to be fuck ups and despots as well. The whole Bernie Sanders-ishness of Daenerys freeing all the slaves would be quite progressive except that, once freed, all her slaves tended to serve her, die for her, or kill for her. In fact, the two most prominent freed slaves — Grey Worm and Missandei — served virtually no distinguishing purpose in the storyline.

I read some pissing and moaning about the only two black characters in eight seasons either being killed off or becoming the tool of fascism and I’d be more distraught but Missandei was a cardboard cut-out of a character and Grey Worm was simply a follower. Not a lot on diversity in Westeros, you know?

But let’s look at that fucking ending.

If I were to throw out a recommendation to anyone thinking to watch the series for the first time, I’d say STOP AFTER “THE LONG NIGHT” AND GO NO FURTHER! First, the epic battle to defeat the Night King is a fucking ride and definitive. Season One, Episode One: “Winter is coming.” Season Eight, Episode Three: “Winter came and we kicked its ass.” Done. Finished. Second, after saving the world from the undead and the creepy snow god on his undead snow dragon (was that blue fire hot? Cold?) who gives a flying fuck about the Iron Goddamned Throne?

Sure you’d miss the fight between The Hound and The Mountain but after eight seasons of build up, that battle royale was pretty much just a brawl, devoid of the emotional pay off expected. You’d miss Daenerys burning the Red Keep and thousands of innocent women and children (which is some spectacular filmmaking and completely in character for her despite your need for her to rise above her obvious and oft-stated lust for power and vengeance).

You’d also miss the two biggest missteps in the series: the deaths of both bloodthirsty Queens. Which ain’t much to miss because spending 76 hours of Cersei connive, betray, napalm hundreds in a church, fuck her brother, try to kill her other brother, lose her children, and become one of pop culture’s most indelible villains, she dies by getting rubble dropped on her. WTF? Are you kidding me? Not even a callback to the first episode and drop her out of window?

And, while I felt the transition from Mother of Dragons to Pol Pot was rushed, I bought that Daenerys let the rush of power seize her. But a character so larger than life, so imbued with destiny, dies by getting stabbed in the gut? WTF? Even her shitty brother got a molten gold crown.

In a series defined in some ways by creative and satisfying deaths, to punt the demise of two of the most interesting and central characters just blows.

The internet is filled with die-hard fans playing coulda/woulda/shoulda with the ending of Game of Thrones but that changes nothing. We are stuck with the ending we are given.

I thoroughly enjoyed the world of Westeros. Like a book I’m thrilled to read, I feel a little wanting for more after the final page and I’m still hearing that goddamned catchy theme song in my head. I choose to pretend I never saw the final three episodes. I choose to end the series with the defeat of the Night King because once you save the world, who gives a fuck about almost anything else?

#I Like to Watch #Games of Thrones

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tragicwolves17 · 7 years ago

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And here we go; my list of asshole GTA V players has reached over 50. I was hoping to have an even 50 when I posted this, but at 49, two people decided to make it uneven.

Alright, I’ll start with the people who I can’t really remember in detail what they did. These ones are generic assholes who talk trash, are bullies, and/or use hacks while they pick on other people in the lobby.

1. NJ JUST WADE (360 version)

2. xxMegadethxx99 (360 version)

3. irishacana

4. TrapGleesh23

5. OrphanClock1666

6. zMaako

7. CedarMink642584

8. lx Bigwhite xl

9. LETSGOCHAMP1995

10. FinishedPeak

11. XTRUKFITMOBX

12. Dope Boii Kai

13. fafusball

14. ROBONARPLES2929

15. xXMasterDerpXx

16. SBzKillFrenzy

17. darianXOTWOD

18. saltymxggot

19. Mute Gaming177

20. KSI PandaKing

21. p51mustang15

22. z Minxxy z

23. BlazingACE2

24. Ur N4m3 Sux

25. XCallumStrikerX

26. NiNj4AsSaSsin3R

27. Gucci Killas

28. XxxxBradxxxX246

29. BADSPORT IIX

30. THE WARRIOR 048

31. TestedSniper44

32. jaykaos627

33. lilWIZZ420

34. Sah Mercenary

35. Zack40000

Alrighty, next we have the people I remember exactly what they fucking did. I will continue the list numbers in order.

36. CHOW KILLS YOU -I ranted about this guy before and I’ll do it again for good measure. We ran into this guy on the 360 version of GTA V online. He had a hacked level, in which I know it was high, but I don’t remember how high. He picked on my husband unprovoked using nothing but hacks. It started with him making my husband’s avatar continuously float up into the air while explosions went off. Next his avatar was stuck walking in the middle of the jumping motion; couldn’t get into vehicles like that either. After asking him to stop, it only continued, escalating to the guy putting my husband’s avatar into a cage and forcing the suicide action several times over, even when my husband turned on passive mode. Then when all was said and done, we asked him what his problem was and forced him into being a bad sport. Don’t play with this guy it’ll only piss you off.

37. Niivk -this guy was picking on my husband’s friend in a 2v1 fight. When my husband got involved and asked why he was doing it, this asshole filed a fake report and got us a communications block; we didn’t have a mic yet for our Xbox One and we hadn’t messaged him over Xbox, only through the game.

38. llIExpendable -the friend of Niivk picking on our friend.

39. SF Gloryz -this guy messaged us first with “kill me.” My husband asked him why and he replied with “bet you can’t do it because I’m better than you.” My husband chose to ignore his constant messages until we got “invite me to your organization or I’ll kill you.” and constant shit like “mess with me and you’ll regret it because I’ll kill you because I’m better than you.” My husband had to end up dealing with this guy because he started coming after him. After things settled down and this guy stopped for a little while, we thought it was over, but then he started the “kill me” shit again. We chose to ignore it and if I remember correctly he came after us again only to get his ass kicked until he left the lobby.

40. talontd79 -this guy was picking on people unprovoked and I believe his level was somewhere in the 200′s to 300′s.

41. MigoGas -this guy was picking on lower levels specifically with a high level of his own.

42. SimBuldozer -a level 400 picking on people only under the level of 100.

43. Squid5413 -don’t even get me started on this literal child. He was, like, 10 at most. There was another kid younger than him as well, around 6 or 7 at most. The younger kid was just trying to play. The fucking 10-year-old piece of shit started whatever was happening at the time and had decided my husband would be his target (bad idea btw). My husband kicked his ass, whilst both children were screaming into the mic. At some point I was handed the headset so I could listen in on it. My husband left to do one of the lobby challenged and this 10-year-old kid turned into a literal bully. The younger kid was just trying to play and the 10-year-old was fucking picking on him, killing his avatar and shit. This guy had an associate who immediately left upon hearing “I’ll leave you alone if you give me all your money from any missions you do.” I was fucking livid. You can bet my husband went over there and kicked his ass. The 6 to 7-year-old kid was screaming at this older kid to stop, and politely too if I might add. Maybe that older kid will learn to keep his fucking mouth shut next time.

44. guccimally2015 -blew my husband up unprovoked, then proceeded to sit outside his vehicle warehouse to do it again.

45. Realmainevent69 -this guy was just being a generic bully then joined guccimally69 in blowing people up.

46. Vv Kind Fawn lI -had a hacked level of 482 and picked on literally everyone in the lobby unprovoked. He is not a kind fawn in the slightest.

47. OMG itz score -picking on my husband unprovoked using explosive ammunition.

48. WulfTheInsane -a level 188 picking on low levels while riding on an Oppressor to do so; wouldn’t let anyone do any missions to get money.

49. mythhunter1532 -a level 235 picking on lower levels using only explosive ammunition.

50. SilentWalker151 -picking on people

51. mr criminal6309 -picking on people

52. hxnduras -my husband was doing a resupply mission and this guy decided to wait for him to get there. He used explosive ammunition and my husband couldn’t even get to the package; this jackass then decided to blow it up and then threw on passive mode. We thought he’d leave us alone after he threw on passive, but that was far from the truth. This guy was also unprovoked.

53. EditingOrange -a level 368 picking on everyone in the lobby in a jet using ghost organization. That’s literally all her did was blow people up from a jet while no one could fucking see him.

54. POPPERMAMMA -a level 427 who was teamed up with EditingOrange.

55. PrettyBoyDomo92 -attacked my husband unprovoked and then proceeded to act like my husband started it. So basically he’s a little bitch.

56. Jock Le Strap -a level 444 who was in a jet picking on nothing but lower levels who did nothing to provoke him.

57. AZbear -a level 210 who ended up teaming up with Jock Le Strap.

Alright, that’s my list for now, and there will be more to come. Make sure to avoid all these assholes and you’ll have a great time playing GTA V online. Also, on the Xbox One version, anything higher than level 250 or 300 is likely hacked since that version has only been out for about a year and a half. Play safe y’all and don’t be an asshole or you’ll end up on my list.

#GTAV #asshole players

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