#also thank you to everyone who sends me nice messages & questions & meta ideas

[galedekarios]

anon who asked me about my favourite gale quotes, i want you to know that this is me rn

[fortunatelylori]

Love your analyses. (You are to Sanditon what jbuffyangel was to Arrow.) Question about 1x03, When Sidney asks Charlotte for “feedback,” her first question is why didn’t he help Tom more. When Sidney says it wasn’t fair. he’d done all he could, she says, ”Have you?” Did she inadvertently contribute to the demise of her own relationship? Sidney is a loyal brother, but he’s also already in love with Charlotte and, whether he realizes it or not, wants her approval.

Before we get started on the ask, I would like to thank everyone who has sent me messages or asks over the past few days. I really appreciate your guys’ interest in my blog and Sanditon opinions and it’s immensely satisfying to me to play a part in the growth of the very new Sanditon fandom.

I have many Sanditon related projects in the works at the moment, namely a new fanfic one shot that should be uploaded in the next couple of days, a very exciting meta that I think you’ll all love and I need to get started on my Christmas fic if I am to finish by the middle of December as I have announced. All of that in addition to my and Mrs. @kitten1618x ‘s Sanditioncreative blog which will be hosting the first Sanditon Christmas event this year.

All of this is to say that I might not be answering your questions as quickly as I would otherwise. If that happens, please don’t get discouraged! I will answer ALL asks eventually, whenever I find the time to work on them. To that end, I would also kindly ask all of you to please send your asks solely to my ask me anything inbox because if you send it via replies or private message, they will end up getting lost and I will forget to answer them.

Hope this works for everyone! Let’s get to the ask …

Oh, nonnie … I’m pretty sure you had no idea what you were getting yourself into when you sent this ask but strap in … because the time has finally come to talk about …

Tom THE WORST Parker

Leaving aside the torch and pitchfork party we’ve all thrown for Tom, I do think we should take a moment and give Kris Marshall a shout out for an outstanding job playing this character. Look at the desperation in his eyes, the strained smile, the implied pressure he is applying on his target (Sidney as per 90% of the time). He even does that annoying calling people over with your hand as if they were your dog thing that drives me nuts!

Fortunatelylori: Put the hand away, Tom, unless you want me to cut it off! Arghhh!!!

Now, you might rightly ask why we’re going to talk about Tom when your ask is about Charlotte and how she might have ended up sabotaging herself.

The thing to keep in mind is that Charlotte Heywood is our entry point into Sanditon. We are being introduced to this world and these characters through her eyes. So we are inclined to take her opinion on everything that is occurring as gospel. However, we should remember a few things about Charlotte: despite having excellent instincts and insight into people, she is still very much a young, inexperienced girl who has lived a very sheltered life. In addition to that, she is very kind hearted and a true romantic.

All of that makes her prone to having better opinions of people than she should at times. For example, she thinks Otis is “a good man who made one terrible mistake” because she doesn’t truly grasp the seriousness of his gambling addiction and because she feels that if he truly loves Georgiana then he can’t really be bad.

Her opinion of Tom is similar to that. Tom is, if not a nice man (he isn’t but we’ll get to that), he’s at the very least a pleasant one and that outward ease and friendliness makes her empathize with him.

On the other hand, her major issue with Sidney is her inability to figure him out and his desire to keep people at arm’s length:

Charlotte: You are determined to remain an outlier. God forbid you give something of yourself!

Sidney: Please do not presume to know my mind, Miss Heywood!

Charlotte: How can anyone know your mind? You take great pains to remain unknowable.

Again and again, she reproaches him for not being more involved with Georgiana, for not helping Tom, for trying to separate himself from those around him. And while there is truth to what she’s telling him, it also reveals that Charlotte can be easily taken in by people who display affection and/or involvement towards others, even if the cost of that is very steep.

She judges Sidney harshly for not behaving that way, while allowing Otis and Tom to get away with their bad behavior because they do involve themselves in people’s lives and give “proof” of caring and thus make Charlotte think they are inherently good people. However, what she fails to see is the selfish reasons behind those characters��� actions.

I did reblog a gif set of Charlotte telling Sidney to help Tom more and made the joke that she shot herself in the foot. But that was me joking and noting the dramatic irony that the writing employs.

The serious interpretation of Charlotte’s line isn’t that she unknowingly acted towards the demise of her own love story but rather that she completely misunderstood the dynamic of the Tom/Sidney relationship.

In her mind, it was Sidney who held all the power in his relationship with his brother, as the younger, more handsome, more successful sibling to the put upon and fate tested idealist Tom. As such, Sidney’s “refusal” to help him seemed petty and cruel to sweet angel Charlotte who is utterly fascinated by what Tom is doing in Sanditon

And by and large I think the viewers have also bought into that image of Tom and Sidney.

But I would like to propose a different interpretation:

There is no reason to assume that Sidney wasn’t helping Tom prior to Charlotte calling him on it. Why else would he have dragged Crowe and Babbington to the ball in episode 1? Why else was he getting his liver smashed in, boxing for their entertainment or playing at cards in the hotel restaurant? Why else would Tom talk about Sidney “profiting” from the success of Sandition if Sidney had not already invested in his brother’s project?

The problem isn’t that Sidney isn’t helping him. The problem is that Tom has an endless list of things he needs help with:

Sidney: At least this time I leave knowing you are in good heart. A new physician, a new regatta to plan. All is well with Tom Parker.

Tom: So it would seem … Oh, I say … I’m … I just wonder if while you’re in London you could stop by the bank for me  and see if they might consider extending …

 First he needs help attracting fashionable people to Sanditon. Sidney provides them. However, as he points out, there isn’t enough entertainment in Sanditon to make it worth their stay. I would suggest that’s Tom’s fault, not Sidney’s.

On that note, remember what Eliza said during the regatta:

Eliza: At the last regatta I attended, they raced Arab stallions. The one before that featured 18 clippers in full sail. But for sheer exhilaration what could compare to a sand castle competition?

Leaving aside that this is Eliza and we all hate her, what does this tell you about Tom and his understanding of his clientele? Because it seems to me he wants Sanditon to be the Regency’s version of  Monaco while offering the quaint entertainment of whatever seaside resort your granny goes to.

He then reveals that he has financial troubles and needs money and eventually sends Sidney hat in hand to beg the banks for a loan. Sidney doesn’t want to do it at first because he knows there’s no point to it but because Charlotte made him feel guilty, he relents. The result is what he already knew: no more credit for Tom. This is Tom’s reaction:

Tom: No, no! That is not possible! Clearly you forgot to explain about the regatta. We are soon to be the most popular resort on the South Coast. Did you even mention Dr. Fuchs?

Sidney: Tom, I spoke to 3 different banks, at lenght. Not one of them is willing to extend your credit any further. 

Tom: What do you suggest I do now, Sidney? What exactly do I do now? 

Look at that violent, desperate reaction! That’s what emotional blackmail looks like. And that, my friends, is abuse. Because in one fell swoop Tom has not only put the blame on Sidney for something that is out of his control (Sidney can’t force the bank to give Tom money) but also put the eventual consequences Tom will face squarely on Sidney’s shoulders.

Also Tom decides to go buy necklaces for his wife instead of paying his workers. When they argue with him at the cricket match, he walks away in a fit, leaving Sidney, and Charlotte, to clean up the mess. It’s also up to Sidney to resolve the workers’ problems by “loaning” Tom the money to pay them. I’ve put loan between “” because one has to be truly naïve to think Tom would have ever paid that loan back.

I would suggest that Tom is an irresponsible, selfish man and a terrible businessman who doesn’t need help. What he needs is a business partner that will control his terrible decision making and handle all of the business aspects of Sanditon while Tom scribbles away at his architecture plans (plans that I suspect were mostly created by James Stringer and that Tom is taking credit for).

And on some level, I think, Sidney knows that as well, which is why he fights Tom’s desire to involve him in the running of Sanditon at every turn:

Sidney: I’m sorry but I have done everything you’ve asked of me, Tom. I’m not your keeper. I will gladly own my mistakes but I cannot own yours.

Oh, you sweet summer child …

I don’t think it’s Sidney’s dream to manage a seaside resort, not is it his responsibility. His brother is an adult who should be held accountable for his own actions. However, at the rate this story is going, running Sanditon while Tom gets all the credit for its success is exactly what Sidney will end up doing.  

His reluctance to get more sucked into Tom’s schemes in the beginning, I think, has less to do with Sidney being a bad person or an outlier and more to do with knowing that once he relents, there will be no end to Tom’s demands on him and he will end up being his keeper for all eternity.

Episode 8 also reveals something very interesting about the entire Parker family: they are all enablers of Tom’s bullshit. Arthur is the first to offer up his inheritance on a silver platter, Diana refuses to let him blame himself and Mary is ready with a love declaration the moment Tom shades one crocodile tear.

Despite being the hardest one to crack out of all of them, Sidney is ultimately one more enabler to Tom. He hops on the first carriage to London and gives up his life in order to spare Tom prison time.

From where I’m sitting, the dynamic of these 2 brothers is the complete opposite from what Charlotte estimated. It is Tom that holds all the power and he and Sidney are involved in a toxic relationship that has been going on long before Charlotte ever met either one of them. Perhaps it started the moment Tom paid Sidney’s debts before he sailed to Antigua. Perhaps it started long before that.

However, I don’t think Charlotte’s intervention in episode 3 influenced Sidney’s final decision. What ultimately sealed the deal on that was the emotional blackmail Tom has been inflicting on Sidney for years, Tom’s expectation that everyone in his life do everything to service him and his family’s compliance with those wishes and, not least of it, Sidney’s lack of selflove that allowed him to prioritize his brother’s temporary stint in prison (he could have worked to pay off Tom’s debts over time; there’s no law that says Tom had to be in prison forever) over his own permanent misery.

I’m not sure this was the turn you were expecting my answer to take but I hope you found it useful nonetheless.

[tatakaeeren]

Day 6 - Love your fandom day  ❤️

Thank you for keep making amazing gifs, edits , graphics, art, doodles, etc. It takes a lot of time and dedication to make every single one of them, so thank you for keep creating and sharing your talent and creativity with the fandom, we all appreciate it so much, every time we see new content, our days feel brighter. We all love SNK so much that making content and seeing new content feels like we are all connected and share the same passion for this masterpiece. Basically, thank you for blessing us with your amazingness. 

Thank you for keep writting meta, theories, fanfics, headcanons, discussing or answering questions related to the latest chapters, etc. Thank you for conecting the dots and  sharing your thoughts and ideas about what is going on in the recent chapters. Not all of us can think outside of the box and come up with wild but really possible theories, we highly apreaciate them!. Thank you to all the wonderful and creative minds who write the most exciting and captivating stories that have us all wide awake until 3 am reading non stop, because let’s face it, if we find a new fanfic we won’t stop until it ends!. Thank you headcanon writers for adding new ideas to our vision of the the characters, it feels like and expansion of their personalities, and many of them seems totally true or canon!. And thanks to all the amazing blogs who kindly answer all our questions after every chapters, we all want to discuss and understand what is going on, so thanks for taking the time and patience to answer all of them!. 

Thank you!! everyone in the fandom who is always sending nice messages, rebloging content from other blogs and helping the creators, thanks to all the blogs so keep making Events or _____week,etc.  Thank you for being kind and respectful towards other people/blogs  who may or may not have your same taste in ships or characters. A big Thank you to all the event and “X week” organizers!! it takes a lot of time and preparation to make them happen, we really appreciate your hard work! these kind of events bring us together even more and it is also a great way to meet new people and blogs. Thank you to everyone in the fandom! no matter how “small or big” you blog is, it doesn’t matter if you make content or if you only reblog posts, WE ARE ALL HERE BECAUSE WE LOVE SNK AND WE WILL KEEP SHARING OUR PASSION UNTIL WE DIE BECAUSE .... 

        SHINZOU WO SASAGEYOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

On a more personal note: Huge thanks to everyone who follows me and keep rebloging and sending me lovely messages, don’t think that I don’t see you! I keep seeing your names/faces/icons in my notifications and honestly who have no idea how happy it makes me feel! I really appreciate all your support! If you want, we can totally chat and send messages, I would love to get to know you all more. 

Thanks to all my mutuals and friends!! Tumblr can be hell sometimes but I wouldn’t change it for the wolrd, because I had the chance to meet the most incredible and sweet people that I now get to call good friends :’). thank you for sharing my craziness and love for SNK and most of all thank you for your friendship! 💕

[longlivefeedback]

Start with a bang, end with a whimper: the problem with fandom studies

Imagine you start talking about a new fic idea, and it’s a hit! People are excited, they’re weighing in, they’re even signal boosting. This is going to be awesome, you think, and you start writing. A thousand words, five thousand words, ten thousand words - the first chapter is a big one, but it has to be perfect. After all, so many people are interested, and you’re using a lot of ideas they gave you, so you want it to be as good as possible. 

Finally, you’re ready to publish. One last round of editing, then you hit post. Look!, you want to yell. I did the thing you wanted me to do! 

And... tumbleweeds. 

There are a handful of kudos. Those are nice, but what do they really mean? Was it great? Was it adequate? Are they going to stay on for the next chapter? A few comments follow. Some are polite “thank you for writing this” notes - those make you smile. About half of them point out perceived plot holes or typos and nothing else. 

Where are the people who thought it was cool, who sent you ideas, who talked about wanting to see what you’d come up with? Are they there, lurking; or did they just not see the notification; or did they decide it wasn’t interesting enough to bother with? 

Was it worth all those hours you spent writing it? 

As authors, a lot of us have been there. As readers, we can sympathize with authors who have poured time and effort into something, only to receive very little response. 

And thus comes the problem with fandom studies. 

During the data collection phase, everyone is very interested - on the whole, actually getting the information to analyze isn’t difficult, because users are great about signal boosting, answering surveys, and giving their own predictions about the eventual results. 

Then it gets to the cursory overview. Demographics, “this many people said this,” a lot of basic factoids that are cool but not very important or relevant. A lot of time might have gone into taking the raw data and converting it to an easily digestible form, but it’s not what we’re here for. It’s just the foundation. 

This gets some attention. Quite a few people will reblog it and ask questions, and some will mention wanting to see the actual answers to the questions that the study wants to answer. It’s nowhere near the level of engagement reached in the data collection phase, but that’s to be expected - not everyone who was willing to take a few minutes and answer survey questions or signal boost is really interested in the results, but they were being supportive and helping out! 

We finally, finally get to the analysis, the hardcore number crunching, the hours of fighting with excel and desperately reviewing statistics textbooks and sending panicked messages to your old math teachers because wait am I actually doing this right or- 

By this point, most of the engagement has dropped off. There are a fair number of likes and a handful of reblogs, but almost all of the written feedback centers around pointing out perceived errors or problems and nothing else. 

This is, admittedly, to be expected. Truly math- and stats-intensive analyses are much less accessible, less fun to read, and generally harder to understand even if you’re comfortable with the methods being used. However, it also leaves the study authors feeling like they’ve put a lot of work into something that people simply aren’t interested in, despite the fact that it was the stated goal of the project since the very beginning. 

As such, I’d like to make a few suggestions as to how to support fandom studies. 

1. It’s okay to say “thanks!” and leave. 

You don’t have to write an essay or go over every bit of math. If you’re interested, let the author know that you appreciate their work, even if you don’t say anything more than “this is cool” or “oh nice!”

2. The rules of concrit still (mostly) apply. 

When it comes to data, there’s no opting out of concrit. These are facts. If there’s a mistake, it should be pointed out and addressed. However, if this comes in the form of “this should have been considered instead” and nothing else, it’s like getting a comment that only says “your protagonist was OOC.” This is especially frustrating when the author has no good way to respond to the criticism. 

3. If you leave criticism or a correction, make sure the author can talk to you about it. 

First of all, the author may not have enough details to make use of your crit. If you simply say “I’m not sure this was the right statistical test,” but they’re not able to reach out to you for further details, the author will proceed to tear their hair out. Therefore, this isn’t the time for anon asks, which must be answered publicly, or replies, which may not be able to tag you and group blog moderators must respond from their main blog. Furthermore, criticism is best offered in private - frankly, it’s highly embarrassing to have a mistake pointed out in front of everyone, and it’s much more polite and respectful to give them a chance to make any corrections without having to do so in front of an audience.  And finally, the criticism or correction offered may not, in fact, be correct. Everyone occasionally misreads, misunderstands, or gets mixed up. If this is brought up privately, it’s easy to clear up. If it’s public, and the author has no way to respond, and there’s no “thanks for your work,” they will be screaming into the void.

4. Studies are made to be shared. 

The questions a study is trying to address are generally applicable in some wider sense, and the work that goes into this is meant to spread answers as far as possible to people can find them. Therefore, if sharing and signal boosting ends at the data collection stage, the study has failed. 

Reblogging is tricky, especially if it’s not to a fandom blog, but sharing it is still important. Send it to your friends, tag people who might be interested in the replies, link to it if you see related posts that could use some data support (or contradiction), and cite it if you talk about the issue. If you’re a stats-minded person, write a more accessible version of it or use it in some of your own discussions. Post (cited and sourced, tagging the author) excerpts. Use it in your fandom metas. 

Creators thrive on feedback, and this includes those who conduct fandom studies. Please remember that behind every nifty little chart is a person (or several people) who have put a whole lot of effort into their work, and not number crunching machines who happily churn away and assimilate every bit of impersonal criticism. 

Data analysis can be as rewarding as writing a great fic, but when it comes to practicalities, there’s no such thing as information for the sake of information.

Support fandom studies. It’s easy to get discouraged when audience interest goes from overwhelming to tepid to tumbleweeds, especially when the majority of written feedback is neutral or negative. Answering fandom questions isn’t going to help cure cancer - that’s my day job - but it will, hopefully, make fandom better. 

Besides, they’re doing math so you don’t have to, which is always a good thing. 

So to end this post, we want to give a shout out and thanks to @toastystats for their extensive work and analysis of ao3 tags; @ao3commentoftheday for hosting discussions about commenting culture and looking at the meaning of kudos; @dawnfelagund who has written for us and helps keep the tolkien fandom going, including studies like her look at gender in the tolkienfic community; @cfiesler for looking at fan platform use over time.

We are surely missing more, so readers, can you help us out? Link to a cool fandom study you’d like to share and/or tag someone who writes them! 

[softnorwegians]

hi there! i've loved your blog and skam insights for so long, and was really intrigued about what you wrote in your tags about how the use of cherry wine re even's pov was masterful. if you were interested, i'd love to here more about your thoughts in relation to even and cherry wine. no pressure though! sending lots of love, esp after your recent car accident - i've been in one before and they really are so scary and traumatic. i hope you're okay xxx

Aww, thank you, that’s so sweet~ I’m sorry to hear you’ve been through it too but yeah, it shakes you up even when everyone is okay. I think it’s one of those moments that just makes you remember how much is out of your control. I’m honored to have been a go-to blog for so long, it’s hard to believe someone could still be interested in more over a year later! hahaha, I keep thinking I’ve meta-ed all I possibly can… yet somehow, there’s still a little more to scratch? I don’t think I have too much to say except the obvious but I’ll say that for you! 💕 

Okay, so, at that point, we’d already established a lot: song lyrics as a mode of communication from Even, his love of Nas, and more than that, the music in Skam s3 had already been very meta, it’s almost a larger-than-life part of the show. The use of Cherry Wine stands out for me because it came at this heightened moment; there probably wasn’t a time in the season when viewers more wanted an update than after that Friday when everything fell apart. So, we wound up in this interesting place, where we were more ready and anxious to hear from Even than Isak was. The lyrics of Cherry Wine are moving in and of themselves but I think they were even more so because… we immediately get it. That Even doesn’t feel like he can reach out more than indirectly and his meaning with this one is really transparent. It starts here:

The noise in my head, the curse of the talented

Which pings right away as him acknowledging his bipolar, an emotional moment in itself because it’s really the first time we get to see him do that. It’s the first time that Isak and Even and the audience are all on the same page here. In the same text we get:

Strong communicator,vagabondI gallivant around the equator, And that would get me off the radar

Less direct but there’s this sense of owned unreliability (vagabond, gallivant) and also not wanting to be seen (get me off the radar, though I like the other copy of the lyrics that he didn’t use better “if that would get me off the radar”) that really clicks with Even as we’ve seen him; seemingly confident, unpredictable, and in this place of not wanting to tell Isak (before it came out on its own). 

Then there’s a break and next:

It’s so intense, I’m on my Lilo and StitchPour my Pino Grigio with some lime what is this?

Again, it’s an easy read to see him relating this to being bipolar with “It’s so intense, I’m on my Lilo and Stitch”. There’s even a sense of being in a usual state (with on marking it as not always something happening but my marking it something reoccurring and personal) of being pulled in two directions (Lilo and Stitch) there. 

An immaculate version of me and my babyWith all respect ‘cause you the only one that gets me

This keys in perfectly with us just having established ‘baby’ as their petname of choice in the scene the night before. And “an immaculate version” fits really well with that night too, with the white sheets and “uendelig” and the purity of that moment, as well as all the different ‘versions’ of Isak-and-Even being their thing. (This is especially notable as a lyrical pick Even would have had to make himself, because that’s the clean version of the lyrics and not the original ones.) And obviously “With all respect ‘cause you the only one that gets me”… my heart. 😭😭😭 That line really hurts because Even is putting it all out there, how much being with Isak has meant to him, how real it’s been for him and how he’s felt like Isak really gets him… but it’s only coming after Isak is thinking he doesn’t really know him at all. Which Even would be well aware was likely to be happening right now.

Where is he? The man who was just like meI heard he was hiding somewhere I can’t seeWhere is he? The man who was just like meHeard he was hiding somewhere I can’t see

And then obviously this hurtssss too because you know it’s a question Even probably asked in more than one way, he probably did ask where Isak was when he was coming down from the episode and now he’s more figurative asking it. And once again reinforcing the connection and similarity between them, right as he’s aware it might be breaking… ouch.

And I’m alone and I realize that when I get homeI wanna go through my red and my cherryYes, I’m alone and I realize when I get homeI wanna go through my red and my cherry

“And I’m alone and I realize that when I get home” just… it makes me think Julie Andem had this song in mind all along when structuring the end of ep 8. This is why it feels so masterful, it’s speaking for Even without requiring him to actually speak. We couldn’t really get anymore from Even at this point because Isak is our pov character and he isn’t ready to talk to him again but Cherry Wine brings us through exactly what Even must have gone through post 15:15-1:01 himself. On one hand, there’s an underlying unease you get from the resignation of “And I’m alone” moving to “Yes, I’m alone”. It fits into how he feels alone in his brain and also how he was talking the night before about losing what they had, anticipating it before it happened. The melancholy and yearning feeling of this section, the reaching out with “I wanna go through my red and my cherry” is perfect to bring you from Even last night to Even now. It’s especially poignant, how much the lyrics are about searching and calling out. As he’s showing by sending these lyrics in the first place, Even might have been telling himself that losing Isak was inevitable but he doesn’t want to. He’s still reaching out with this, it’s just in a very heartbreaking way.

Yeah, yeah, let’s pour some cherry wineEverything’s good, everything’s fineYeah, yeah, we bring it every timeYeah, pour a little cherry wine

Yeah, hey yo, salaam, yeah, I think they know the timeEverything’s good, everything’s fineYeah, pour a little cherry wine, yeahLife is good, life is good, yeah

Life is good, no matter whatLife is good, life is goodLife if [sic] good, yeah, no matter whatLife is good

And then the lyrics end with this repetition of both “Everything’s good, everything’s fine” and “Life is good” that here reads like an attempt at self-reassurance, an attempt to keep things together when things clearly aren’t fine and Even isn’t able to see that “life is good” at all. The staccato repetition of the end is something that becomes a good split between Even and Isak’s perspectives too: for Even, it feels like he needs to keep repeating this to himself, keep trying to tell himself this and for Isak, it emphasizes how all of this is speeding past as he reads, not really getting through and seeming an incomprehensible stream of words.

That’s the other real point of genius with this, it’s well established to us that Isak isn’t getting all this from the lyrics. The clip opens with this tense, ominous guitar riff and Isak reading about bipolar disorder and the sound of all these texts coming in close together that he’s ignoring. So of course we get it, that he doesn’t get it. That it seems like maybe another inexplicable thing Even is doing because he’s manic, that it reminds Isak too much of the incoherent strings of biblical texts that he gets from his mother and ignores. It also opens with this already in progress (the first thing we hear is a text arriving) and since the lyrics we get are the end of the song, it’s very likely Even has been sending him the whole thing. Which makes it easier for us to do a targeted reading on what Even means by this but harder for Isak. 

And then there’s this really nice other layer that comes with Skam being very grounded in the real world, that you can go read about the song and any meta about it does exist for them too. So this time, it was such a punch in the gut to have someone point out after this clip:

Annnnnnd know that Even would most likely know that as a fan of Nas. You can even go back and pick through the rest of the lyrics we didn’t see him send and do a deep read on them too, like “I want some who like the champagne I like / My a-alike, someone to talk me off the bridge any day or night” and know Even is over there connected to this too. So now we get to go into this week hearing about what Even is feeling from Even himself… and yet we kind of got this message under Isak’s nose. He was there, he read it too but only we fully got the message. This was just such a smart way to make use of his limited perspective.

Cherry Wine is more vital than it might seem because it’s really our one window into Even’s thoughts before we get his text in at the end of ep 9. I think it serves to get us there, to see just how deeply this could have effected him, when we have an idea of how much Even much is trying to say and the response being “Hi Even. I don’t understand shit right now. Stop texting me.” It allows us to be more in Even’s head with the depth of the loss he feels, which is important when he’s about to go to such a low place after this.

[bettername2come]

Be Prepared

Also available here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/12813645

Cisco’s name lit up the screen of Oliver’s phone. Oliver sighed. Just once he wished the younger hero would call him with good news.

“Please don’t tell me the wedding is off again,” Oliver said by way of greeting.

“Bite your tongue! No, no, Barry and Iris are getting their day in the sun, no matter what it takes, and, as best man, it is my job to make that happen.”

“So what are you calling me for?”

“If this wedding is going to go off without a hitch, I need all their heroes to bring their A-game. And their weapons. Lots of weapons. And their suits, and I don’t mean tuxedos.”

“Why? Did you vibe something?”

Cisco scoffed. “I don’t need to vibe something to know that putting a couple dozen superheroes in a room together is bound to make us a target for any number of supervillains out there, especially ones from the future, which means I have another call to make when we’re done here.”

“Cisco, you do realize I’m still suspected of being the Green Arrow?”

“What, and that suspicion is going to go away if the Green Arrow isn’t seen in Central City the weekend you’re here for Barry’s wedding? If it didn’t go away the first two times you were exonerated, it won’t happen now.”

“I can’t just walk into the church with a recurve bow. I know people tend to look the other way when they see weird stuff in Central City, but I think that one’ll get their attention.”

“Way ahead of you, man,” Cisco said.

Before Oliver could ask what he meant, a small blue breach opened up and a green box appeared on the console of the lair.

“What is this?” Oliver asked as he opened the box.

“Collapsible bow. Collapses down to about six inches. Easily concealed in a coat pocket with fletchettes.”

“This is crazy.”

“Yeah, well so are our enemies. So will you bring it?”

Oliver sighed. It wasn’t the craziest idea he’d heard. “All right, fine, I’ll bring it.”

“Thank you! Oh, and practice your magic!”

“What?”

“We need to be prepared from all types of enemies – alien, human, meta, magical. Our magical resources are limited, which means you and Amaya need to be ready to go.”

“I can barely counter dark magic, Cisco.”

“Exactly. Which is why you need to practice, in case a time-traveling Damien Darhk follows the Legends here.”

“You’re not going to let this go, are you?”

“One good day, that’s all I ask.”

Oliver sighed again. “Fine. I will have the bow and magic standing by.”

“Great. And pass the message on to the rest of the team, not that Felicity would go anywhere without her tablet anyway.”

“So you’re not going to try to claim your just as a good a hacker as she is?”

Cisco scoffed. “Please. If anything goes wrong, I’m gonna need these hands free to breach everyone the hell out of there or blast at bad guys.

“So, you’re really gonna fight this time?”

“Yes, I’m really gonna fight this time. Don’t act like you haven’t seen the YouTube videos.”

*

Sara was standing on the bridge of The Waverider trying to determine the team’s next mission when Gideon interrupted her train of thought.

“Captain, we’re receiving a transmission from November 2017 at STAR Labs. Would you like to receive it?”

“Yes, Gideon, patch it through.”

Suddenly, Cisco’s face filled the video monitor. He laughed. “Great, it worked. Do you know how hard it is to make contact with The Waverider?”

“Well, no one said time travel was easy,” Sara replied. “What’s wrong, Cisco?”

“Nothing that I know of,” Cisco said. “I was actually calling to see if you could check up on that for me. I need to make sure there’s no catastrophes scheduled for November 26, 2017.”

Sara rolled her eyes. “That is a complete abuse of Gideon’s power. She’s a highly powered computer system, not a glorified weather predictor. The wedding is going to be just fine.”

“I’m sorry, does the marriage of one of Earth’s mightiest heroes not sound like something evil time travelers would be interested in?”

“Eobard’s dead, Cisco.”

“Sure, now. But that hasn’t stopped him from screwing up our lives before. And he’s not the only supervillain who might set his sights on Iris and Barry’s special day, so do me a favor and just run the date, would you?”

Sara sighed. “Gideon, check the date.”

“According to my records, there are no major disasters in Central City on November 26 and historical records show that Barry Allen and Iris West were married on that day. Is there anything else you’d like to know, Mr. Ramon?”

“Actually – “

“No, Gideon, he won’t need to know anything else,” Sara said, cutting him off.

“Fine, fine. Hoard the knowledge of the future on a computer that Barry created. Will create. Whatever.”

“I will. The timeline must be preserved.” Did she sound like Rip? Oh, God, she sounded like Rip. Next thing you knew, she’d be speaking with an English accent. “I’ll see you in a few days, Cisco.”

“Wait, there’s one more thing.”

“What?”

“Come to the wedding completely prepared for a fight.”

“I’m always prepared for a fight.”

“I know, just, as much as it pains me to say this, make sure Mick brings the heat gun.”

“He always has the heat gun. Ray will have the Atom suit and everybody else will have their powers on standby. If anybody tries to screw up their wedding, they’ll have to go through us.”

“Wow,” Cisco said. “Y’all are really like a psychotic band of Boy Scouts, aren’t you?”

“Says the guy who just made a call through time to make sure his friends’ wedding went off without a hitch.”

“Fair enough. See you at the wedding.”

*

Kara was doing research on a story at home when the blue swirling vortex appeared in her living room. She jumped up, readying herself for a fight before she remembered just who would be opening a blue wormhole in her living room. Sure enough, a moment later Cisco jumped out of the breach.

“Cisco!” she said, reaching out to hug her fellow hero. “It’s so good to see you. Wait, am I late? I thought the wedding wasn’t until this weekend. Is time moving differently between earths because Winn watched The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe again and we’ve been having this debate – “

“No, you’re not late, everything is fine and your interdimensional extrapolator should be working to get you here when you need to, I just had one teeny question – who’s your plus one?”

“What?”

“It’s the happiest day of their lives, so of course, something is going to go horribly wrong because we can’t have nice things! So I was just wondering if you were bringing Mon-El, because honestly, we’re a little lacking in the alien invulnerability power arena and he’d make a good resource.”

“I – we’re not – Mon-El,” she stuttered. Kara took a deep breath. “Mon-El left earth for a while and he just got back got back from the future with his wife, so no, I will not be bringing him to the wedding.”

“Ouch. I’m sorry.”

Kara waved him off. “Not your fault, I get it. I mean, I didn’t tell you guys when Mon-El left, so it’s not like you could know, and you really couldn’t have predicted that time travel would be screwing up my love life.”

“Actually, that’s pretty normal for our team.”

“Oh, good, well maybe you can help me figure out how to deal with it,” Kara said. “Anyway, I’m bringing Alex because she’s starting to think I made you guys up. And she just broke up with her girlfriend and I think the trip could be good for getting her mind off things.”

“You think a wedding would help her get her mind off of her breakup?”

“I shoot lasers from my eyes, Cisco, do you really want to question how I help my sister?”

Cisco backed up a step. “Why is every woman I know scary? Okay, look, I’m just trying to make sure Barry and Iris’s wedding goes off without a hitch, and you know every time our worlds communicate some kind of huge disaster happens–“

“Barry’s first visit wasn’t a huge disaster – “

“ – and I am just trying to make sure we’re prepared for whatever happens and we’ve already invited a scary black ops secret agent woman to the wedding and Barry’s never even met your sister, so maybe it would be better if brought, say, J’onn, to the wedding.”

“Cisco.”

“What? This could be good for him. He can learn more about our earth, compare differences, chat with Lyla about how to prevent potential alien invasions.”

“Cisco, it’s my invitation, it says plus one and I’m bringing my sister, who’s more than capable of kicking alien ass if it’s a requirement. If you would like J’onn to come, you’re going to have to send another invitation.”

Cisco sighed. “I don’t think that’s going to work. The venue’s packed to capacity as is.”

“Well, good, because I’d feel better knowing J’onn’s looking out for my earth while I’m gone. Everything’s going to be fine.”

“Yeah, sure, nothing in our lives is ever fine, but let’s go with that.”

“I will bring the suit and have Alex bring her tactical gear if it makes you feel any better.”

“It does, actually,” Cisco replied. “Okay, I’ll see you Saturday.” And with that, he threw open another breach and crossed back to his world.

*

When the big day came and Iris and Barry’s wedding was literally interrupted by invaders from another world, the first thought to cross Oliver, Sara and Kara’s minds was Crap. He was right.

[autoirishlitdiscourses]

Discourse of Tuesday, 08 September 2020

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