#angus really stole the scene

[bellaheartly]

come to mako island with me. it's the most wonderful place. ↳ h2o: just add water ✧ s01e07, “moon spell.”

[maespri]

maebea posting on main

man mae and bea nitw make me soooo. like i can barely put it into words man. and the game unveils it in such a wonderful way, especially if you do all of bea's hangouts. i think what gets me is just how much they conflict but also how easy it is to see both mae's side and bea's side.

like mae comes stumbling back into town some random october with no warning after being at college for two years. college, which was bea's dream- a dream she never got to have and never will get to have. and bea is bitter. and not only that, but she shows it to mae. she lets her know just how much it pisses her off. in the diner on her first day back, in the car after the party in the woods. she is literally dripping with jealousy and it's only made more prominent when juxtaposed against gregg and angus clearly not having any strong feelings about it/welcoming mae back with open arms. it kind of immediately makes you look at bea and wonder what her problem is—

but then the party in the woods happens. and mae's mental health literally became so twisted and unbearable that she forgot bea's mom is dead, and bea tells mae she would literally kick her out of her moving car if it meant she got to go to college, and she angrily asks a very drunk mae, what the hell happened to you?- "you used to be smart, you used to be worth talking to, what's wrong with you?!" and mae bursts into tears, and bea tells her to get the hell out of her car when they reach her house, but when mae can't, bea still helps her get into her own bed. she still calls her the nickname mae called her when they were children and wishes her goodnight.

you can tell bea is exhausted throughout the game. she's overworked and she misses her mom and her dad maybe isn't father of the year and overall her whole situation in life kind of just sucks. but what makes me love her so much is that she never lets that stop her from trying to understand, even if it's usually after the fact. like mae got drunk and forgot bea's mom was dead and had to literally be carried into her house and bea is the one who sends her a message the next morning saying she's sorry for what she said. in the dinner hangout, mae barges into bea's house and demands to know why she doesn't just quit her job when she's being mistreated. like mae doesn't understand her situation at all and still thinks she has a right to give her advice- but bea still responds to mae's admittedly rather half-assed apology over messenger that night. bea sends mae messages every day telling her to come talk to her at work. she talks about a show she's watching that she knows mae likes. she tries so so hard to understand and connect with mae, even when mae screws it up.

and i think it's easy for people to dislike mae in this game, but i think you also come to recognize her perspective so much more. she doesn't like seeing her friends being treated the wrong way, so even when she has no idea what it's like for bea, she tries to help. it backfires, but she tries.

what i think mae does for bea is really just. give her so many cluster headaches but also bring out a side of her that was totally buried.

mae, who stole from some hot topic knockoff and jacked up a fountain in a mall with bea just to make her laugh. who watched fireflies with her on the porch of a house at night. who put on the play for her at harfest, who dragged her along to go grave digging, who chased her across a city in proximity. i think mae brought her back some sense of the youth bea had stolen from her by all her troubles.

and i think if you do go down bea's route it makes the couch scene even more fulfilling, because bea finally gets to realize that mae didn't just drop out because college wasn't fun enough or because she got bored. she gets to find out what mae actually went through there. and she gets to tell mae that she'll be okay and that she's sorry for what she went through. bea gets to understand, and i think that full circle from "i would've killed to go to college, i can't believe you dropped out" to the entire couch scene just. makes it so much more beautiful. (which isn't to say gregg's route isn't beautiful- i could talk about gregg for ages, but that's a post for another time.)

anyway. i could go on and on but what i'm really trying to say is bea's route is so worth it man... many thoughts

[artsyriv]

TAZ NC Day 4- Bakery AU

Hello! For day four of @taznovembercelebration I got Bakery AU. BUT, most of my knowledge of bakeries comes from Kiki's Delivery Service! So what was supposed to be a very brief little ficlet turned into 2k word Angus' Delivery Service.... Enjoy!

"Now, are you sure about this?" Kravitz wrung his hands nervously, checking to make sure that Angus' bowtie was straight and his clothes without wrinkles. "We can always wait until next month."

"It's ok, Dad." Angus gave an award-winning smile, which made Kravitz' heart melt. "I'm ready. Plus I have Junior with me!" Angus' jellyfish companion floated over and stole the wizard hat from atop his head. "Hey!" Junior plopped the hat atop its cap and Angus smiled. "See, I can handle this."

"But you're such a young wizard, Angus." Kravitz smoothed down Angus' curls. "Are you really ready? Like, I trust you to make that decision for yourself, but-"

The train whistle blew and Angus picked up his luggage. "Bye Dad!" He rushed on to the train. "Come on, Junior!"

"All aboard!" The conductor called out, but Angus was already aboard by then. Kravitz smiled and shook his head. Angus was a tenacious boy, he would be ok out there on his own. He hoped, at least. 

Angus pulled down the train window and waved to his Dad. "I'll see you in a year!"

Kravitz sank back against a brick wall as he watched the train pull away. A year was a long time without his boy, but he trusted him to write, so he let out a deep breath, hoping that whatever adventures would find the boy would be kind. 

Angus was so excited, he couldn't stop alternating between looking out the window and reading his book. This was all so new and exciting to him. His hat, a glimmering blueish purple with gold constellations, went from being on his head to being down next to him to being on Junior's cap. 

Despite his excitement, after about an hour, he found himself slowly nodding off to the countryside passing by. Junior curled his tendrils around Angus' shoulder, as if a scarf, and the two rested for a while. 

Angus only woke to "Next stop, Raven's Roost." being blasted over the intercom. He stretched and gathered his things, including his hat, which earned him a few strange glances from the people around him. He noticed now that this was almost entirely a different crowd than the one he had seen when he had first boarded the train. How long had he been asleep?

He followed a few people off of the train once it stopped and he found himself overwhelmed by sights and smells immediately. 

The train station was at the base of a hill and the other people began the trek up so Angus followed, not wanting to seem that out of place, even though holding a floating jellyfish and wearing a large floppy wizard hat wasn't doing him any favors. 

When he reached the top though, he took a moment to take in the scene. Before him were rock pillars with suspension bridges between each one with a crystal blue lake far below. Angus leaned forward slightly to see some people swimming far below, but he stepped back almost immediately, the height giving him some vertigo. 

He walked across the first bridge and found himself in a busy commerce district. People were shouting and offering different goods, but Angus didn't have need for new clothes or fancy dishes. Some people stopped and stared at him so he offered an awkward wave and Junior copied the motion. For some reason this was even more disconcerting to people who stared even more. Angus' cheeks burned and he ducked into the first shop he could find that was a little bit out of the way. 

"Oh no!" A woman rushed past him. Angus noted that she smelled like fresh baked bread. Curious, Angus followed her to where she was standing by the entrance to the shop. "Of course this would happen at the busiest time of day."

"What's the problem, ma'am?" Angus asked after a moment. She turned to look at him and Angus could feel his confidence disappearing. He was just a little boy, wearing a wizard hat that was too big for him, and he was trying to be useful. 

She smiled gently. "There was a woman who just came through here, she has red hair and was wearing green coveralls. She bought a donut as well as some other things but accidentally left her donut here. Can you try and deliver it to her?"

Angus nodded. "Yes, ma'am!" He grabbed the donut and handed it to Junior. "Come on Junior!" With a wave of his wand, he took off faster than normal, running and dodging through the crowd. It took him a couple minutes but he eventually found the woman, who was looking through her bag with confusion. "Excuse me!"

She looked up and smiled as Angus delivered the donut. "Thank you so much! Please give this to Julia for me."

Angus took the note, nodded his thanks and ran back. 

Julia was waiting for him just inside the door. "Glad to see you made it! Oh, by the way, I'm Julia!"

"Angus." Angus stuck out his hand and Julia gave him a nice firm handshake. "Oh, the lady told me to give you this note!" He reached into his vest pocket and retrieved the note. 

"Thank you for helping me not forget my lunch! That delivery boy you hired really is something else." She read out loud. She looked up and beamed at the boy. "If you want a job that is, you are welcome to become the delivery boy for here."

Junior twirled and made some musical notes and Angus laughed. "I don't know where I'll stay yet, but I am inclined to take you up on the offer."

"Oh, we have a spare room out back. As long as you help out from time to time, you're welcome to it. I'm sure Maggie won't mind. Right, Mags?"

"What was that, Jules?" A big burly man with auburn hair came out from the back with two fresh trays of bread. He set them in the cases and then looked up. Angus gulped. This man had a long scar across his face, and he looked intimidating but he smiled gently. "Who's this?"

"This is Angus. I just said we had a room out back and offered him a job as a delivery boy."

"Hi Angus, I'm Magnus!" Magnus came out from around the counter, dusting off his hands on his apron. He took the boy's hand in both of his and shook it firmly. Angus could feel it throughout his whole body. "Welcome to our bakery. I like your hat!"

Angus smiled and ran his fingers over the constellation pattern on his wizard hat. "Thank you, sir."

He knew he was going to like it here. 

There was a wizard who worked next door, making potions and spells and transmuting things. Angus on his days off would just go and stare wide eyed as he worked. This wizard had an incredibly long braid that almost reached the floor and smaller braids with trinkets were woven into it. Angus had so many questions but he didn't have the nerve to go and ask. He worked hard each and every day, but was finding it harder to get out of bed and do things, much less do magic. Magnus had watched him with a furrowed brow and said something to Julia about "burnout", Julia had turned around and given him some time off. And then one day, Angus woke up and he couldn't find Junior. 

He had gone to every other shop in the Craftsman Corridor and could feel the tears of loss and fear forming in the corners of his eyes when he heard a lofty voice say, "Angus!"

Angus looked up and hastily wiped away his tears when he noticed the wizard was talking to him. "M-me?"

The wizard made a big show of looking around him, his hat jingling as he turned this way and that. "Yes, I'm talking to you. Do you see any other Anguses around? Come on inside." He swept his robe around and went back into his shop. 

Angus sniffled and followed the wizard inside. The inside beyond the counter was even more magical than he could have imagined. Lights hung from the sky that twinkled like stars, and potions and tomes lined every wall. And there in the back of the room was a giant Junior. 

Ok, so it wasn't Junior, but it was clearly the same species. Angus heard harmonizing and realized that Junior was floating right by the bigger jellyfish and the lights inside of both of their bells were rotating gently. 

"Cool, isn't it?" Angus jumped before realizing the wizard was standing beside him. "I'm Taako by the way, always nice to meet a fan!"

Angus nodded, going back to watching the two jellyfish. Taako laughed. 

"That's Fisher, he's a voidfish. Although I see that you are already familiar with voidfish." He gestured to Junior. "The question is how?" He looked down at the boy, casual, cool, no hint of malice. 

"My dad gave him to me as my familiar, sir!" Angus answered honestly. Taako's eyebrows rose to where they were hidden by his hat. 

"Your dad?" Taako started to pace slightly. "Didn't realize he had a kid."

"Wait, you know my dad?" Angus held up a hand. 

"Used to. Summer flings, ya know?" Taako waved dismissively. 

"MY DAD HAD A SUMMER FLING?" Angus squeaked out. 

"Let's not talk about this anymore." Taako climbed up the shelves and grabbed a book. "Here. Take this and your fish and go."

Angus looked at the title. "But sir, why give me a book on magic?"

"I'm going to teach you more magic, duhhhhhhhh." Taako pushed the brim of Angus' hat down around his eyes. 

"But sir, I can't do magic right now." Angus held the book to his chest. "I will try very hard, b-but my magic isn't working."

"It isn't, huh?" Taako looked at him carefully. "Oh I see it now." Angus' clothes were disheveled, his hair uncombed, his eyes tired. Taako softened slightly. "Maybe we should focus on something else first." He ran his fingers along the spines of books until reaching the perfect one. "How do you feel about detective novels?"

Angus found that he had quite the knack for figuring out mysteries, and began to solve them around the bakery. Who was stealing all the muffins? Magnus. Who ate a spoonful of frosting by itself? Magnus. Ok, so it was mostly Magnus who was the culprit, but it was fun. 

The biggest mystery came around his six months of living in Ravens Roost. Magnus and Julia were whispering to each other constantly and sometimes Taako would join them, but they stopped as soon as Angus walked in. It was frustrating, and there seemed to be more envelopes arriving at the bakery than normal, but Julia insisted on taking care of the mail now for some reason. Angus' brow remained furrowed and he came no closer to solving the mystery even though he gave it all his effort. 

"Knock knock." A deep, kind voice said at the door to his room. 

"Five more minutes, dad." Angus rolled over and then his eyes opened wide. "Dad?"

Kravitz stood in the doorway and opened his arms for a hug. Angus nearly barreled him over with his enthusiasm. "Hello, Angus. I missed you dearly."

"You talk like an old person." But Angus' face was buried in Kravitz's shirt, soaking the material. Kravitz laughed. 

"Taking more than magic lessons from Taako, I see." Kravitz looked down the steps where Taako was giving him a thumbs up. 

"Taako's really cool, Dad. Did I tell you about the time that we-" Angus babbled on and on, oblivious to the silent looks and flirting happening over his head between the two adults present. 

"Breakfast is ready! Come on you hooligans!" Julia called into the courtyard. Taako offered his hand to Kravitz to help him up from his kneeling position. This time even Angus noticed how the touch lingered between the two, and he smiled. Yeah, life in Raven's Roost was pretty awesome.

[somelazyassartist]

I'm. Not going to go into a huge ramble right now because I've done it before and I'll probably do it again later but I am running off of zero sleep and a sonic the hedgehog g fuel so if I talk a lot now it WILL end up incomprehensible but. Just a tiny post since I am thinking about it.

[Edit: it became a huge incomprehensible ramble anyways. It's under the cut if you want to see opinions on the TAZ graphic novel (and sorta the fanon) versions of Taako. But please dear Istus do not think I'm talking about the entire fandom it is just one specific brand of fanon-interpretation I'm talking about, NOT the fandom as a whole please I know enough about Tumblr's reading comprehension to know I should probably put a warning here now that I am talking about a specific trend and not an entire group of people who all have different opinions and also that this is ALSO just my own opinion myself. Oh and also this isn't meant to be like an attack on anyone it's just a personal peeve so if I sound frustrated that's just a Me Thing not me being like mad at anyone in particular Thank you very much genuinely for reading this and understanding]

But like,,,, does it bother anyone else or is it just me that the fandom's perception of Taako has become like. WAY more of a stuck-up ass than he ever really was in the podcast ever since the graphic novels came out? Like don't get me wrong he is a dick but he's never been, like, cruel for the most part.

But like, putting on HtbG (podcast) and then putting him next to the gn version of him is like.... Almost not the same character to me? It's like most people forget podcast Taako started out as the "dumb but sweet joke character" who was constantly slow to pick up on social cues and who the other characters repeatedly would take pity on and make fun of for being "the idiot of the group". And again he is a dick but he's not, like, Seriously a Mean Person!!

Also a decent chunk of the "antagonistic" stuff later on is still a continuation of him not getting social cues like in the beginning (for example, his bit where he threatens Angus for potentially becoming a better wizard than he is, realizing afterwards that his tone didn't come across the way he intended and that Angus interpreted that as being serious, and backtracked to try to clear up that he didn't mean to come off as serious and only meant it as a joke. And also says very explicitly in the same episode that he intends for most of his "mean" behavior throughout the series to come off as joking between equals and he doesn't mean for other people to take it seriously. He just says that.).

And he has, like, unspoken morality about what "harmful" things he does too, especially when it comes to like stealing stuff. If you listen to the podcast he (with very VERY VERY few exceptions) only ever steals from people who are dead- who will no longer be using those items and would be letting them go to waste unmoved- and people who have directly wronged him or his loved ones from his point of view. He actively tries to stop the other two from stealing from innocent people!! There's a whole scene where he establishes he isn't comfortable taking from people who don't deserve it and who need that money!! And then you go into the exact same scene in the graphic novel and.... He's exclaiming that he's going to steal a bunch of shit. Not just any shit, the exact shit he was trying to STOP the others from stealing in the podcast.

Which just doesn't feel like Taako at all!! In fact when he stole and sold Angus' grandfather's silverware and realized Angus really didn't deserve that, he felt guilty about it and tried giving some of it back for him and making up for the rest with quality time and magic lessons! but now when I look at fandom stuff (at least what I've come across) it seems a lot more people lean towards the more kleptomania-fueled dickhead Taako than the much tamer original version, and I have to say I prefer the original more!! He has so much more dimension to me in the podcast- not even because there's more time to flesh him out there than in the gn- but because while he is rude and foul-mouthed at times he has pretty explicit limits and will get upset if people try to force him to cross it! (Also seen with his elevator-related PTSD and him having a very reasonable breakdown when his emotional limits were repeatedly crossed with fair warning from him he'd freak out if forced into going in there..... which got cut from the graphic novels as well because of course it did).

And going forward, with gn Taako being so much more selfish and inhospitable than the original version, I feel like they might cut out his "I'm not a piece of meat" scene in TSG, because if they DO keep it in there's no way to me personally that it'll feel earned in any regard- tell me when in the graphic novels has he pretty much ever shown the genuine humility that the original version carries under his standoffish persona. I don't see it, and I don't think whatever happens between Crystal Kingdom's gn and The Suffering Game's gn will be enough to make that scene feel genuine to me. I really, honestly believe that.

Of course there's some things I do like about the graphic novels and I'm more than willing to give the next ones a fair shot (Crystal Kingdom was a lot better than I expected it to be!) but I really, really, REALLY don't like how the graphic novels (and to a small extent, the fandom) really over-emphasize how mean he is to people when if you listen back to the original in a lot of cases he's much more mellow and kind or is just not picking up on other people's tones/social cues and is being misinterpreted (both by other characters in-fiction and/or certain listeners) because it's established in the text he's bad at picking up that sort of thing

[langernameohnebedeutung]

like, we get so many stories about what Blaine's childhood was like but also, I think the stories about him as a child are so interesting because.

That's A Child That Wants Literally Any A t t e n t i o n. That's A Child Who Learnt To Think Of Himself As Bad And Internalised It. That's A Child Who Has Given Up On Positive Attention And Just Wants To Be Noticed By His Own Parents For Ten Minutes.

[nerdgenie]

What do you mean Vermish had no development? Part 1 (s01e10-s02e09)

Vera = grand magus, Hamish = pack leader. I mean their resumes say it all

Vera and Hamish in the den's basement together. "How long is that going to protect us?" "Long enough for us to deal with them." "No killing." "No promises." "I SAID NO KILLING." growl. Old married couple

Dishevelled Vera looking like she got all the sex. Hamish looking like the smug sexy werewolf who gave her all the sex while tying his robe. (I know they were fighting The Order but come on. Foreshadowing 1-oh-1

Vera made the potion but Hamish was the one who handed it to Jack

Cue couple montage randall-lilith, jack-alyssa, hamish looking intently at vera then shaking his head.

The acolyte (Selena?? I forget her name) who's monitoring Hamish was about to approach him at the bar but it was Vera who got there. Was she pretending to date Hamish while he was memory wiped like Gabrielle with Jack? Coz symbolism -fake love replaced with the real one.

"If you are going to stand there, you might as well make yourself useful." These two have no concept of personal space.

Mom and dad casually leaning towards each other.

"I've seen Vera wearing thr same one." "Hmm, Vera." "I've burned all my good will with Alyssa." "We'll just have to go to the source." Ok, first: Jack seeing the amulet on Alyssa juxtaposed with Hamish seeing it on Vera (established main couple juxtaposed with Vermish). Second: out of the 4 werewolves, Hamish was the one close enough to "go to the source"

Vera righting herself when she saw Hamish come in

Vera wears a lot of high neck outfits, but she's in a low cut cleavage revealing werewolf turn on dress when Hamish needs to stare at the amulet positioned right at her cleavage. He needs to look at all the details of the amulet. Sure, show.

Let's not even talk about the blatant flirting

Lilith settling things with Nicole, Jack talking to Alyssa (two explicitly depicted couples) before magic heist, and the we have Hamish saying goodbye to the bar. Vera walks in. Come on, show, can you be more obvious?

Do we need to talk about the tall glass, flustered Hamish and his missing vest?

And do we really need to talk about how they made such a big deal of his vest being with the stolen Reliquery things? And Lilith making a big deal of waving his vest around? Then Hamish grabbing it from her in a what-the-Grand-Magus-took-off-and-I-forgot-to-put-back-on-is-none-of-your-business way. Also, was it really important that the vest was so obviously left behind when Zecchia stole all the stuff from them?

"Dude, are you hot for teacher?" "I admire good leadership." We all do, sweetie.

Pointing to Randall "you over there" pointing to Hamish "you with me"

Hamish literally catching Vera when she fell

Hamish taking care of Vera

Vera having a soft shy look and an almost smile when she came to and saw Hamish before catching herself

"You are so hot for teacher" "It's an end of the world thing, buddy. You wouldn't understand." I mean, we can just stop here, really.

"Reconnaissance only. Text me if you find anything. Be careful." "God, you sound like Vera..."

Randall to Hamish: "Get Foley to Vera"

"I think you are protecting your girlfriend" Resounding denial from Vermish.

Ok, controversial topic but I never thought Hamish was out of character. He was being logical and reasonable, and always did what he thought was right for his pack. He believed they needed the order to save Lilith. Then well, saving the world kinda is first priority type stuff no matter how important Lilith is. I mean dead world means dead everybody including Lilith if they somehow manage to get her back. Hamish didn't suddenly become Vera's lapdog. He was doing what he thought was right, like he always did.

"I could use a drink" is their code for "i want to fuck" and I love it.

That montage of Hamish leaving the party and Vera leaving the temple TO MEET EACH OTHER AND FUCK and simultaneously getting their asses kicked is 101% Vermish vibes i cant. I even forgot for a sec that this was also the Jack Alyssa sleeping together scene and that says a lot. Juxtaposition, again.

"Have you seen or heard from Hamish this morning?" "Why would you ask me that?"

"Everyone okay?" While only looking at Hamish.

"She doesn't want to, but her opinion may not matter for much longer." "Is Vera okay?"

These two try so hard to not care but look at them.

Hamish looking at the ball thingie.

Hamish, Randall and Jack were all present when Randall fingured out the blood parasite but it was only Hamish who went to Vera. Pretty convenient timing for him to be alone with her while Angus charges at Vera. Perfect opportunity for protective werewolf Hamish. That was hot, honestly.

I love Vera. She is a complicated woman, but everything she does stems from good (Hamish sees that). I would like to write an entire character study of her but that is not this post.

"I do not have time for Hamish Vera shipping theories." "I'm calling them Vermish."

Another conversation at the bar. In episode one, all they had between them was physical attraction. This time around, Hamish is talking to Vera about problems with his pack and Vera is telling Hamish she needs him. Yay for development. Also, they really have no concept of personal space.

To be continued.

[period-dramallama]

Spanish Princess episode 6: my tired chronological thoughts

Say it with me now: “previously, on the Spanish Princess!”

-Is it just me or is tsp!koa sympathetic in this episode? 

-charlotte was actually acting really well in the first scenes. I really felt for her. Probably because she wasn’t spouting any stupid dialogue. 

-SO WE’RE JUST GOING TO FORGET ABOUT BABY STEALING HUH

-i wish i could forget

-”Cardinal Wolsey has been speaking with your daughter” if More and Maggie are now Mary’s adopted co-parents, can Wolsey please be the cool uncle?

-Please can we have wolsey speaking to mary in the fawning tone he uses with Henry and Mary’s just like...unimpressed.

-I will say this for tsp!koa, she does give good Hugs

-Yet again, Thomas More is babysitting the girls. While it’s good that Mary has adopted parents, it’s only sadder given her biological dad will execute both of them.

-it is actually historically accurate to have maggie p looking after Mary, she was Mary’s governess IRL, IIRC.

-also you wouldn’t leave the princess with just one person. She’d surely be supervised by at least 2 people, in case like one person had a heart attack or smth.

-PLEASE go back to calling her Lady Pole. AND GIVE THOMAS MORE TO DO

-”it will all come to nothing” sounds like something that WON’T come to nothing

-and now Henry and Wolsey have had a lover’s quarrel, they are such boyfriends they even quarrel like boyfriends.

-’summit’ sounds too modern

-Are Angus beefburgers named thus because of hard Meg roasted him this episode?

-”I wasn’t expecting to see you” yeah bc wasn’t the Field just F and H? 

-The cinematography was great last episode, and now we have weird close ups on the riot ringleader’s face. Why. I can practically see his saliva. Yum.

-Someone else got to the “Wolsey whispers like David Attenborough” joke first.

-What is that weird af flooring? It looks like they stole it from the set of Rivendell in LOTR.

-No dancing? No revels? No tongue in cheek allusions to Glastonbury or Woodstock? This Field feels more like parent’s evening at school.

-I’m now certain Flodden swallowed the budget whole and it was not worth it.

-”we are being threatened” “they drew a gallows in pig’s blood” This is so frustrating. You didn’t need Lina to spell it out for the audience. It would have been so much more suspenseful if you just saw the drawing, and then Lina’s terrified face, and we cut to the next scene. But you think the audience is so dumb we won’t realise a gallows drawn in blood is a threat? GTFO. And stop making Lina state the obvious!

-How good is Rosa’s hubby at his navigator job if they’re wearing brocade at a royal summit?

-To be fair to the show, “she’s only six years old,” is said by Rosa, not Catherine, and Rosa has been living outside England, so easy mistake.

-I like the compass gift, that was cute.

-Maggie watching the shadow play reminds me of the shadow puppets her mother and aunt played with in twq :’)

-THE WINE FOUNTAIN YES I CAN SEE THE WINE FOUNTAIN i was worried we wouldn’t see it

-I misheard Rosa and thought she called Buckingham Aardvark instead of Edward. I will now call him Aardvark. Yes I am very mature.

-I get that Wolsey is meant to be the Bad Guy, but he was literally just standing there with his wine, doing nothing. Stop shouting at him, Aardvark, YOU walked into HIM.

-”raise the price of ale” do you have any idea how much ale people were drinking in this period, Henry? That’s like the government putting up the price of water. You raise the price of ale and you’ll make the unrest worse. 

-People have been discussing Bessie’s behaviour, I think the issue is classism rather than xenophobia, cause she's worried for Lina and Oviedo and their kids but they’re servants of the crown, like she is, so they’re not ‘riff raff’, and she’s also dismissive of the rioters and wants “order restored” she said “heads on spikes” but I assume the heads are the rioters’ heads. Idk, either way the dialogue is clunky and stupid and this whole plotline is badly handled anyway and i do not care enough to rewatch that scene. 

-given how rude Francois was to Mary, IN PUBLIC, I kinda love the idea of her taking the mickey out of him. and look at that, Reggie Pole’s silence finally has a plot purpose! Given that Reggie was Mary Tudor’s archbishop and right hand man, it’s kind of touching that they’re connected in this way.

-Twenty minutes left of episode and the Field is over. Le disappointment. 

-”he’s gone!” Oviedo, I get that you’re probably in shock but... are you honestly trying to do CPR on a man who’s been skewered with a sword. I love you, Oviedo, but you were holding the show’s single braincell and now you’ve dropped it. I’ll give you a pass if you genuinely panicked.

-wtf henry pole your mother will hear about this

-The climax was very emotional...but ruined by the fact it’s total nonsense. Everyone in this show continues to be a total idiot. FINALLY we can be finished with the “not loving Mary” BS that should have lasted no more than 1 ep, if you had to do it at all.

-To be fair to the show, Mary comes across to me at least as traumatised, not as a gleeful baby tyrant. She’s not happy about men getting executed

-”My father cuts their heads off” it would have been such black comedy if koa was like “No darling, he won’t cut their heads off. Beheading’s for rich people”.

-please tell me you’re not hanging them by trapdoor method. The trapdoor method was invented in the nineteenth century.

-”grant them mercy” dude you said “they can die without me watching” so they’re probably all dead by now. 

-”first time he’s agreed” I will give the show a tiny tiny benefit of doubt and say maybe they mean this particular pope?? Actually scrap that they probably mean all popes.

-This should have been Thomas More’s time to shine, IRL he was involved in the govt response to Evil May Day, (I think he even addressed the mob to get them to surrender to the king) which I assume this riot is based off of. But because he was also at the Field, and the showrunners forced these two events to happen simultaneously, the showrunners decided to keep him at the Field...doing nothing. 0/10. 

-some lovely choral singing this episode. 

[dayasbun]

Fame - Angus Cloud (2)

Summary- a luckily timed audition leads to you falling for your new and unexpected co-star.

Warnings- okay HI welcome to my first multi chapter series woah?! this is actually so exciting for me like wow especially since angus doesn't have any fics yet im just really really excited- so warnings! smut for sure, bad words, lotsa fluff, angst- everything in one basically. here comes a ride and I hope you enjoy :)

Part 1

Part 2 {reading now}

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You didn't do happy dances often, because usually there weren't many things that made you happy enough to dance for. But when you woke up after having the most splendid dream to an email that read:

'Hello Ms. Y/F/N Y/L/N, and thank you for applying for the role as Jess. We have reviewed your audition tape and were quite pleased with what we saw. For the next step in the hiring process, we ask that you come to the same site yet again today at 3 PM for a go through with your possible costar, without the script. If that time isn't good for you, please return this email in its entirety so that we can reschedule, and if the time sounds good we can't wait to see you today. Thank you.'

...a happy dance seemed to be necessary, right?

Your excitement bubbled as you put on a light pink crop and a pair of simple blue jean shorts. The look was overall simple- too simple for you, so you decided to top it off with a few hair-clips, a coat of lip gloss on your lips, and lastly some sweet-smelling lotion on your bare arms and legs.

It seemed as though 3 came quickly, but you made sure you were there by 2:50. 'Better to be early than late', you always told yourself. You always stuck by that.

Walking into the building with your pink jelly wedges clicking against the marble floor you signed in. To your surprise, they called you in at 2:55, earlier than you were expecting.

"Y/N! Punctual and looking gorgeous as usual," said one of the co-producers, Mary, and to your surprise she greeted you with a hug. She was the woman that showed the most hospitality to you through out the time you had been auditioning, a sweet, short little woman that smelled like this mornings coffee.

"Aw thank you, you're so sweet," you smiled letting off of the hug and readjusting the crop.

"So Angus is running a bit late, it happens a lot so feel free to sit over there with the other girls and we'll just see where this takes you guys sound good?"

You wondered how he was running late when it was only 2:57, but you just agreed with a smile and walked over to sit with a small group of girls. All of them glared at you as you sat down, so you decided to weigh out the competition.

You weren't one to judge- or you tried not to be- but god these girls were bland. No hair-clips, no lip gloss- not even a smile. Almost all of them wore the same, a white button up blouse with black slacks, black ballet flats, and kept their hair tied back with a colorful scrunchie. Blonde, with perfectly painted nails and you would bet money they had pedicures to match. There was nothing wrong with them, but they seemed to not know how to have fun from the energy they were giving off, and how boring it must be to have no fun. You honestly almost couldn't help but to feel worried though, was there a dress code in the email that you missed?

More girls began to filter in as the next 10 minutes passed, at least some of them seemed to actually have a personality.

"Okay well imma call you back, I got some business to do- oh you know it you feel me!? Nah wit' the show, like auditioning with all these girls or sum. Yeah okay bet imma call you later anyway, bye."

3:13.

"Angus, you're late." Mary spoke up with a sigh, "I don't want any excuses from you, lets kick this into high gear shall we?"

"Who was giving excuses though like... I just be cancelling my alarm, nobody got time for waking up before 2:45 anyway."

That made you laugh a bit, and apparently louder than you expected, because the whole room, Angus included turned their heads to look at you. Mary shook her head and just looked at the list she held, and you lowered your eyes to look down at the carpeting. "Alright let's start. Girls exit the room, the auditions are one on one with just us, you, and Angus to avoid pressure and judgment."

You all stood up, heading towards the door to pile out.

"Y/N, stay."

Why'd you feel like you were about to get in trouble for laughing or some shit?

You turned around and walked to the center of the room by Angus, but you didn't look up at him. You could feel him watching you and considering you had no idea what he was thinking, you hated it.

"Well you two know what to do, start when you feel comfortable. Y/N has the first line."

You turned your body towards him and looked up, he was a lot taller than you...you felt like a little person.

Before you got too flustered, you let out a shaky breath and started. "But baby, come on you can do so much more, you can- we can travel the world or some corny shit like that, that's what you always wanted to do when we were kids. You don’t have to sell, and we can bring Ash with u-"

"Yeah well we ain't kids no more. Traveling takes money, I put all I got into stuff that's actually useful. I shoulda never gotten attached to you and shit again, damn you always do this."

"Fez..." your voice softened as you remembered this part of the script: 'Jess stood on her tiptoes and wrapped her arms around Fez's neck, pulling him down to her. Fez places his hands on her waist and...'

You did as the script said and he did as well. Feeling his hands on your bare waist you looked into his eyes- they were quite gorgeous- and continued on. "You say you want me but you don't act upon it. How am I supposed to be here if you don't open up to me-"

He let go of you and rolled his eyes, "Girl I got shit to do. So you can leave if you finna do allat."

"For fucks SAKE you're- God you're just frustrating! What do you have to do? Go sell? Go talk to Mouse and risk your goddamn life again because there's a drop of blood on money that you stole?! Its so hard to love you and you don't get that!"

"Its hard to love me? Me? Come on. How hard do you think it is to love a bitch with daddy issues that wants to watch Sailor Moon every night- I hate that shit! But I watch it for you- and you just complain about your dad not loving you and how he never coming back? Well maybe you should realize that shits true and move on from it all you do is-"

Your eyes begin to fill with tears and you immediately turned to walk away but were quickly pulled back into Angus- excuse me, Fez’s chest, your back against him.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean that shit."

You elbowed him in the chest- softly- causing him to groan and let go "You know you meant it. That's it Fez, I'm done." You walked away slowly ruffling your hair-

"Scene! Holyyyyyy wow that was amazing! The passion- are you guys sure you've never acted together before?"

You turned around jokingly bowing as you wiped your tears from the corners of your eyes. Angus laughed and came over to you shaking your hand. "You're good. I like yo' energy too, I hope to see you around set or sum."

You swallowed thickly, if you got this role you could not be this nervous around him everyday.

"It's not hard when I'm acting with someone so talented." You said softly, letting go of his hand after he shook it. He smiled with a chuckle "Thank you, thank you."

There was a strange tension between you two- why? You didn't know exactly, but you knew it wasn't only on your end. You thanked everyone for their time and they said they'd keep in touch. With one last glance at Angus- who had never stopped looking at you- you gave him a gentle smile and then walked out.

You rushed to the bathroom and into a stall, letting out a breath you didn't even know you had been holding in. You thought everything over, the tension, the feeling of his hands on your waist, the look of approval Mary had on her face when you two finished. You'd surprisingly never felt more confident about a role you'd tried out for, and due to that you couldn't seem to stop smiling.

[lirusstories]

Stories: Please Read

Edit because I’m a fuckin moron that forgot the Soul-Mate Aus for Little Fortune. Sorry about that.

Alright so sorry about this, I swear I’m halfway through the first Chapter for both Run Boy Run and New Beginnings. But anyway here we are, these are the 14 stories I’m working on, and yes I am well aware that it’s not a good Idea but fuck it, I’m havin’ fun so Anyway. These are the title’s and they will have Descriptions of who is in it and what the Au is and also, yes all of them have soul-mate Au's (y'all couldn’t even rip this from my cold dead hands) many of them are different ones from each other. (Also each of them are embodiment's of something for each other which will be explain at the bottom) Also some of these are inspired by or have parts that are inspired by @oh-itskitkat and I’ll put Links to the ones that Inspired what and if they inspired the story are something that will happen in the story. Also please go check out her shit, it’s amazing. Everything will be under a read more because This post is long as fuck.

1. The Kings and Their Queen which you can find here @thekingsandtheirqueen

2. No Place Like Home 

I legit Cannot explain this you just gotta read it. But I can tell you that it’s a non-traditional A/B/O au and a Hero X Villain Au

Characters: Liru, Anti, JJ, Illinois, Yancy, Emile, Remy, Virgil, Jack, Jackie, Marvin, Henrik, Chase, Dark, Wilford, Jamie, Sammi, Oliva, Roman, Remus, Patton, Thomas, Logan, Janus, Robbie, Yan, Ethan, Tyler, Mark, Kira, and the rest will be added later on.

Soul-Mate Aus: 

1. Soul-Mark Au 

2. Every so often you will get flashes of what your soulmate is seeing at the time, but your soulmate doesn’t know when it happens.

Inspired by: https://oh-itskitkat.tumblr.com/post/613250836029734912/so-youre-just-gonna-up-and-leave-without-a

3. Once Upon A Dream

This one can’t be explained without spoilers so your just gonna have to read it.

Characters: Liru, Henrik, Jackie, Marvin, Chase, Jack, Yan, Robbie, Anti

Soul-Mate Au: Soul-Marks

Inspiration for scenes:

1. https://oh-itskitkat.tumblr.com/post/617661429060911104/those-arent-birds-please-do-not-stealrepost

2. https://oh-itskitkat.tumblr.com/post/616741587195658240/ill-wait-here-then-please-do-not

3. https://oh-itskitkat.tumblr.com/post/614495447412834304/just-a-little-while-longer-please-do-not

4. https://oh-itskitkat.tumblr.com/post/613412510108909568/a-much-needed-break-please-do-not-stealrepost

5. https://oh-itskitkat.tumblr.com/post/190358452918/purring-is-simply-soothing-or-self-soothing

6. https://oh-itskitkat.tumblr.com/post/617016760676335616/catching-up-please-do-not-stealrepost

7. https://oh-itskitkat.tumblr.com/post/190596652918/tending-the-garden-please-do-not

4. Run Boy Run

This one can’t be explained without spoilers so your just gonna have to read it.

Characters: Liru, Anti, Jackie, JJ, Marvin, Chase, Jack, Henrik, Robbie, Yan, Remy, Virgil, Remus, Wilford, Roman, Remy, Emile, Jacques, Angus, Sam, Shawn, Patton, Logan, Magnum, Janus, Wilford, Dark, Mark, Thomas. (Maybe some more Iplier ego’s not sure yet but we’ll get there when we get there)

Soul-Mate Au’s: 

1. Soul-Mark appearing through Touch

2. Remembering Past Life through touch.

5. New Beginnings

Multiverse type thing. JJ, Dark and Wilford are from the same universe, Jack and Marvin are from the same one, Logan, Patton, Janus and Virgil are from the same one, Roman and Remus are the same one. Something bad happens in each of their universes resulting in them winding up in the main.

Universe’s

Main: Liru, Anti, Yancy, Jack, Chase, Thomas, Mark, Henrik, Emile, Remy, Robbie

1920 ish(don’t hate me because I doubt anything will be accurate): JJ, Dark, Wilford

Hero Vs. “Villain”: Jackie and Marvin

Medieval Fantasy: Roman and Remus

Pathos, Ethos, Logos and their dark strange son: Patton, Janus, Logan, Virgil

Characters: Liru, Anti, Jackie, Henrik, Chase, Jack, Marvin, JJ, Yancy, Emile, Remy, Yan, Robbie, Roman, Remus, Janus, Patton, Logan, Virgil

Soul-Mate Au’s:

1. Telepathic Soul-Mates

2. Soul-Mark appearing through Touch

Inspirations:

Story: https://oh-itskitkat.tumblr.com/post/612154125154664448/how-did-i-get-here-please-do-not-stealrepost

Universe’s

Hero vs “Villain”

A. https://oh-itskitkat.tumblr.com/post/190615542808/head-in-the-clouds-please-do-not-stealrepost

B. https://oh-itskitkat.tumblr.com/post/183388705923/its-magic-bro-please-do-not-stealrepost

Medieval Fantasy :

 https://oh-itskitkat.tumblr.com/post/614616863892209664/speak-softly-for-words-carry-please-do-not

Pathos, Ethos, Logos and their dark strange son: 

  https://oh-itskitkat.tumblr.com/post/190331869898/in-the-athenaeum-please-do-not-stealrepost

6. Family Against All

Scp au type thing (I’m using what information my brain can retain but I know alot of it is inaccurate, please don’t hate me).

Liru is a lot shyer and quieter in this one. She is avoiding the SCP Foundation heavily because they are looking for her after an incident where she lost temporary control of her abilities which had caused a temporary rift in the fabric of reality. Mark and Jack are still YouTubers in this and Chase is too.

Liru will find the more innocent or even objects of SCP's and take them home. She also has some that the SCP foundation hasn't discovered.

Henrik doesn't tell his brothers where he works. He tells them he's a doctor though and leaves it at that.

His first chapter will him discovering Anti and just straight up Freezing in his tracks because that's his little brother. And he doesn't know why he knows or knows how he knows he just does. and repeat for Jameson, and Marvin and Jackie(but they're older siblings except JJ of course) And when he discovers Robbie he nearly loses his shit but manages to keep it together because Holy Shit Thats A Child.

He's never met them before. And now he has to figure out why he knows them before anyone else can figure out that they aren't doppelgangers or something and has to figure out why there is a 6 year old child that never talks but when he does he's screaming for his mom.

Characters:  Liru, Anti, Jackie, Henrik, Chase, Jack, Marvin, JJ, Robbie, Yan, Dark, The Googles, Bing, The Host, Bim, Wilford, Mark(Maybe the kids)

Soul-Mate Au: Telepathic Connection through knowing soul-mates Preferred Full Name, has to go both ways before connecting.

7. A Burning Soul

It's a Hero x Villains Au, Jackie is the "Hero"(unknowingly works for the bad guy) and Liru, Celine and Yancy are the "Villains" who are in a polyamorous relationship and are trying to get Jackie to switch to there side so he can be protected. A bit more insight is that Jackie was threatened with the safety of someone close to him to be a "Hero" and the other "Hero's" He works with are there to keep him on a leash. While Celine, Liru and Yancy(mostly Liru because she's the one he interacts with the most) Try their best to convince him to join them so they can help him. 

Characters: Liru, Celine, Jackie, Yancy, Robbie, Yan, Virgil, Remy, Emile

Soul-Mate Au: Where you have a splotch of color of your soul-mates soul where your soul-mate touches you skin to skin for the first time. It burns when touched for the first time so there's no missing it. It will only stop burning when you accept your Soul-Mate.

8. A Chase Down the Rabbit Hole

This started because of the one-shot I made for Chases birthday and now it’s gonna be a story. I can’t really tell much without spoiling a lot of it so here are the characters in it and the soul-mate au.

Characters: Liru, Chase, Henrik, Jackie, Jack, Anti, JJ, Marvin, Angus, Jacques, Shawn, Sam, Jaym, Katie, Gabriel, Roman, Remus, Kiara, Uma (Possibly the other sides but eh we’ll see)

Soul-Mate Au: Gains Mark Through First Touch

9. Death and Her Soulmates

Alright so the first one is Gonna be Called Death and then whatever soulmate is in it. It's all connected to one story though but they come in one-shots. For instance Liru and Remus would be "Death and Green Sword" or if it's Liru and Roman It's "Death and the Red Shield". Anti and her would be "Death and the Angel" or her and JJ would be "Death and the Master of Time". Robbie and her would be "Death and the Lavender Boy" (every time I see the words Lavender boy my mind sings it to the tune of "Calendar girl") Thomas and her would be "Death and the Rainbow Heart" and the ones that don’t Involve her Would be “The Lightning bug and The Angel”(Jack and Anti) The entire character List is in the story.

Soul-Mate Au’s:

1. Markings gained through touch.

2. The ability to send gifts to your soul-mate/s once a year (You choose something and it appears to them but nothing “living”)

10. Sacred Motives

Inspired by  https://oh-itskitkat.tumblr.com/post/616607308121849856/you-got-your-ass-handed-to-you-by-a-man-in-a

Alright so for what led up to “You got your ass handed to you by” “a man in a cat mask, yes!”. Marvin was getting an Artifact back that belongs to JJ that humans have taken. It's not the only artifact as well. Humans had raided a sacred place, where a bunch of important artifacts were and they stole, which now they are trying to get back. And they’re gonna get more than they expected.

Characters that are in it: 

The "What do you have?" “Humans: Your artifacts!” “NO!” is:

Liru, Marvin, Chase, Anti, JJ ,Robbie, Sammi, Jamie, Yan, Yancy, Emile, Remy, Virgil

The "don't know that the sacred artifacts belong to the other side" is: 

Jackie, Henrik, Jack, Oliva, Wilford, Dark (unwillingly dealing with the other bullshit because Wilford and Jack are somehow friends)

and the “why did you encourage her to get entangled in mortal affairs, Remus”: 

Roman, Remus, Labadon, Logan, Patton, Thomas

Soul-Mate Aus: 

1. You can see numbers over your soul-mate’s/soulmates’ heads indicating how dangerous they are 1-100 anything higher than 100 is “Most-likely” Inhuman. The number is in their favorite color and their hand writing.

2. The first thing you soul-mate says to you becomes written on your body.

Inspiration for scene:

https://oh-itskitkat.tumblr.com/post/181356373658/h-he-got-me-good-huh-doc-mein-gott

11. Little Fortune

So the best way I can explain it is that It started with Anti meeting Liru at a Park and because he had nothing better to do he just kinda sat and talked with her and after that they just kept meeting up Until Anti actually takes her on a Date one night. She gets into a fight with her Acquaintance on the phone(she's visiting Brighton for work) So Anti invites her over so she doesn't have to go back to the hotel room(I should mention that they are ego's in this) So the go back to the Septic house and she stays the night(nothing dirty happens don’t worry) And the others wake up before Anti and Liru and notice that there are heels by the front door so of course they rush up to Anti's room only to see them both Dead asleep on his bed just cuddling(Anti's the little spoon). They freeze at the sight and due to both the door slamming open and the light bleeding in they both wake up. After an explanation and a near attempted murder on Anti's part they let her stay for the time being and despite the fact that they were supposed to erase the memories of anyone who finds out about them they don't because they see the way she reins in Anti before he can even start. And over the months she keeps visiting and they all begin to notice something is a bit strange about her. And on top of that they have to juggle trying not to let Jack find out about her and trying to ignore the feelings that they gain for her(can't wait to write those parts:) ). And the thing is Liru doesn't even notice something is off about her but Anti does and just assumes she knows and thinks that she'll tell him when she's ready. And more often than not she is seen at their house even when she goes back to Oregon, Anti just keeps bringing her over via teleportation.

Characters: Liru, Anti, Jackie, Henrik, Chase, Jack, Marvin, JJ, and some will be added later on.

Soul-Mate Au’s:

1. Songs sung by your Soulmate are stuck in your head.

2. Music that’s stuck in your Soulmate’s/Soumates’ head/s is stuck in yours as well.

3. You have accessories/an accessory that represent your Soulmates/Soulmate

Inspirations for scenes:

1. https://oh-itskitkat.tumblr.com/post/190358452918/purring-is-simply-soothing-or-self-soothing

2. https://oh-itskitkat.tumblr.com/post/616293064973189120/not-all-angels-have-wings-please-do-not

3. https://oh-itskitkat.tumblr.com/post/190866033653/never-too-old-please-do-not-stealrepost

4. https://oh-itskitkat.tumblr.com/post/615127312520871936/on-the-11th-of-april-a-drop-of-sunshine-fell-to

12. Songs of the Lost Souls

It's kinda a Hero and Villain x "Civilian" type things and it's Jackie and Anti but the others are also into her(Liru) The Characters in this are Jackie, Angus( the survival Hunter) Marvin, Jacques(the french "ego" from passepartout), Henrik, Chase, Jack, Anti, Shawn Flynn, JJ and S34N(he's an android "underdevelopment"(he was considered to be to human) who Anti accidentally saved). 

This takes place in some random metropolis that Liru Moved to to get away from a rather bad past. She's friends with Jacques, Shawn and Sam(S34N) and they Helped her get a rather expensive apartment that she doesn’t need to pay because Jacques already has(“To help a fellow painter out.” “Jacques I Will throw you off this balcony. WHY?!”) Jacques, Shawn and Sam are all types of Artists, Jacques is a rather Famous Painter, Shawn is a hand drawn animation artist. Sam is a sculptor. 

Liru’s Older brothers are Roman and Remus and they live in Florida with Roman’s husbands and their three adopted children but they came from Oregon. The reason why Jacques paid for her apartment is because he wanted to help her out of her bad situation despite the fact he knew virtually nothing about it. So the story starts a few days after she moves into the apartment. Also I should mention that Marvin helps out Jackie in his fights against Anti when Anti is particularly aggressive.

Characters: Liru, Jackie, Angus, Marvin, Jacques, Henrik, Chase, Jack, Anti, Shawn, JJ and S34N(Sam), Roman, Remus, Patton, Janus, Thomas, Emile, Remy, Virgil, Sammi, Jamie

Soul-Mate Au’s: 

1. When you and your soul-mate touch for the first time, what your song together is will be written on your body with your’s and your soul-mates handwriting and favorite color. And it doesn’t matter how small it is or if it’s in a different language you can always understand it. 

2. When your soul-mate is singing you can’t get the song they’re singing out of your head. 

3. When the two soul-mates finally sing their song together that their souls essentially connect to each-other finally and it allows them to gain certain abilities they have. Like in a human sense if one could speak Spanish and the other couldn't and when they sing their song together for the first time the person who couldn't speak Spanish now can but not as well as the original. And say the one that couldn’t speak Spanish was really flexible but the Spanish speaker wasn't so when they sing together for the first time the Spanish speaking one becomes somewhat flexible.

Inspirations for Scenes:

1. https://oh-itskitkat.tumblr.com/post/611367312035119104/under-my-umbrella-please-do-not-stealrepost

2. https://oh-itskitkat.tumblr.com/post/610901204242972672/somewhere-in-time-inspired-by

3. https://oh-itskitkat.tumblr.com/post/616210494266671104/10-million-fireflies-please-do-not-stealrepost

13. Soul Pack 

(Harry Potter au sorta it doesn’t take place in his time) I do not have a description for this so when It comes out I hope you’ll enjoy it.

Characters: Everyone, every single one of them will wind up in it.

Soul-Mate Au’s:

1. Telepathic Connection since birth but gets stronger the more you know your Soul-Mate.

2. Whatever you write on your skin appears on your Soulmate’s/Soulmates’.

14. For The Divine

It's Kinda different from the others. This one is where Liru, Roman and Remus start out as humans and the others are Gods or Divine beings whatever you wanna call them. And the others are looking for the last pieces of themselves(aka soulmates). And eventually they one by one begin to stumble upon Either, Roman, Remus or Liru.

With Roman, Remus and Liru. Roman and Remus are Liru's Legal Guardians (although she is 21 in this, they're 34 though they don't look it, just like Thomas doesn't look like he's thirty in real life.) Roman, Remus and Liru inherited everything that they're family owned after they all mysteriously died off,(Remus killed them but Roman doesn't know but he suspects but he never said anything because that is A. his brother and B. He thought they deserved it as well(they did) Liru knows because she remembers him telling her that they ever laid a hand on her he's kill them all(He did) and she never said anything because she knew that they deserved it as well. and this was when Roman and Remus were 19. 

They both quickly adopted Liru before they could put her in the system and when Liru was in school one day and a teacher made a horrible remark about her brothers taking her in, she mentioned it "Offhandedly" to Roman where Remus would hear. And the next day when Roman and Remus(for the sake of appearances) went to go talk to the teacher about it, the teacher had already been murdered the night before by some of Remus' "Friends". Roman is both a Fashion Designer and Model, Remus is a Painter, Liru is a Fashion Designer(Both Roman and Remus model for her when she needs help figuring out what to do with it) and Painter, she also makes jewelry and Masks to go with her and Romans designs. They all base their outfits/paintings/statues around the animals that represent there Soulmates.

Characters: All of them Minus Jaym and Katie.

Soul-Mate Au’s:

1. You have an animal(or in their cases, animals) that represent your soulmate/s

2. Gained Telepathic Link through getting to know your Soulmate. The more you know and trust them, the stronger the Link and the more control you have over it.

Inspiration for Scenes

1. https://oh-itskitkat.tumblr.com/post/190596652918/tending-the-garden-please-do-not

Alright now for the embodiment thing.

So I was Originally Only gonna do it for the Sanders but It just bleed over into the others. But anyway so it's essentially that they are an embodiment of certain things for there soul-mates For example, Logan Is Logic (so when any of them actually stop and think instead of diving right in Logan can tell) or Anti is Curiosity (for instance if on of the were to notice something they are unfamiliar with and they can't help but investigate Anti can tell) Or Robbie is Child-Like Wonder like the feeling you get when your a kid and you see presents under the tree on Christmas morning or Like that one Here Be Dragons from that SCP Unity episode Mark did. Robbie can feel when they feel that but at the same time it doesn't necessarily mean that they have to be a feeling or something you use. For instance Damien is the Embodiment of the Day and he can get a sense of where is soulmates are and whether or not they are in danger.

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[madefate-a]

okay, now that i’ve finally finished the rockport limited graphic novel, i have THOUGHTS 

carey’s character designs & art & lines are now officially my favorite thing in the world -- graham & jess looked starkly different than how i’d pictured them & i’m HERE for it, & i have a giant lesbian crush on jess now thx for coming to my ted talk 

the little details they added ( particularly w/ lucretia & barry ) are ALMOST enough to make up for the lack of angus’ frankly iconic lines i did detective through your bullshit and the memory of my grandfather’s name was lost long before i was born and griffin’s flub in trying to figure out angus’ age on the spot ( 10? 10 seems right ) 

ANGUS MCDONALD, WORLD’S GREATEST DETECTIVE !!! 

the little details were NOT enough to make up for the lack of jenkins’ iconic line a witch cursed me to serve anyone who knows the magical word, and that word is my fucking name, jenkins, and also the fact that there was only one tom bodett : / 

i’m kidding i teared up at the entire scene with lucretia i’m SO COMPROMISED. i’m in love with the fact that because they’re telling the story in retrospect, they can now pepper in those little clues and make everything a little more cohesive in terms continuity. ( no shade ever on the podcast, obviously they didn’t have the endgame in mind in the first two arcs. ) that moment when taako was yelling at lucretia and the way the panel was framed that killian was getting his attention but it ALMOST looked like he was having a revelation about something, and then the umbrella -- you can feel lucretia’s pain and i’m emotional again bye. 

i straight up forgot how deeply unlikable they played the THB in this arc especially and i’m HERE for it, because those moments of growth!! the little i trust yous, the building of that friendship that will keep deepening over the course of the story. 

true to taz form, every member of the THB gets their chance to be my favorite character and taako really stole the show here, with those little moments when we got to see past the veneer 

barRY barRY barRY 

PETALS TO THE METAL IS NEXT AND I GET TO SEE MY GIRLS IN ALL THEIR GLORY, I’M GOING TO BE INSUFFERABLE 

[welcometoteamz]

I’ve ranted about what I didn’t like in iZombie S4 and what I would do differently, but tbh, I would go back and apply a lil bit in S3 tbh as well.Most of it involves my trash boi Blaine.

I had multiple verses set during the year long hiatus between S2 and S3 where I wrote Blaine’s amnesia as being legitimate. That said, I’ve made my peace with the fact it became a lie. It honestly makes more sense for him to try to turn his life around, but get caught in a lie and fuck it up for himself due to his own insecurities and fear of rejection. I’ll stand firm on that.

Which is why the reveal of having him be the one steal the cure irritates me.It’d honestly would have more tragic if he still tried to behave himself even after his lie was exposed, and it was the hit from Angus that dragged him back into his old life after he got his retribution.The fact he was with Peyton while lying is no doubt problematic and I’m mad at them for getting me on board with that and then pulling the rug out from under me... but in my mind?He was still going to try and start anew even if she chose Ravi. If Ravi hadn’t slept with Katty Kupps, and Pavi sailed in S3, and Blaine continued to be a lounge singer while working at Shady Plots…I think he would have been content.

Which goes into ways he could have gotten out of his lie, which someone as cunning as Blaine should have thought about.Like. Why not get out of the lie, with another lie? Say that Ravi’s memory serum works? That way Major is injected with both at the same time, and no one suspects anything is afoot when his memories came back? Then they do the same thing to all the other zombies when it is possible to mass produce the cure.Blaine gets his fresh start, a new job, and to be happy with Peyton.

Sure, he loses the brain business, but I think he’d give all that up for being actually truly content and happy. Let’s not forget, that was the same episode Angus took his inheritance back. Had that not happened, would that be something Blaine would have done? Knowing that even if he didn’t have the business, he had those millions to fall back on? I think so.Going back to his stealing the cure, though… and why that doesn’t entirely work for me…

Let’s be honest. There was a lot of inconsistency. At the end of episode six Blaine apparently is cooking up blue brain juice, and you may think ok, he is still thinking about the brain business. It may be possible he stole the cures after all.

The very next episode, though. He was in a depressed funk. He had caring about the business when he was in his depressed funk. Candy had to get on him about the orders. When Don E. and Dino show up at Shady Plots to tell him they’re taking his brain supply and customers, he’s visibly angry, but also looks defeated before Dino shoots him. Like he’s just so broken down at that point that he’s just accepted it. Would that guy even have bothered to steal the cures, if he didn’t care about the business?

Hell, if you hadn’t seen the prior episode, would you have thought that Blaine bothered to cook up blue brain juice before going to drunkenly sing at his lounge gig?It’s not until his sense of self preservation kicks in when he’s shot, that he has a sense of what to do with himself. First things first, that’s revenge.

Then he discovers Angus’ plan to team up with Fillmore-Graves (WHICH DOESN’T EVEN COME INTO PLAY AT ALL IN S4 WHEN FUCKFACE RETURNS. NO ONE CALLS HIM OUT ON HATING FILLMORE-GRAVES, REMINDING HIM OF HIS PLAN. HOW AWESOME WOULD IT HAVE BEEN IF THIS WAS EXPOSED TO HIS CHURCH AND THEY TORE HIM APART LIKE THE HYENAS DID SCAR IN THE LION KING) and that’s what reinvigorates him.

Now there are two tangents I could go into here. So I will.

The first is how Blaine’s storyline in the back half of S3 may have suffered due to Andrea Savage leaving the show for her own series, I’m Sorry. It’s possible we would have seen her and Blaine face off if she learned he presumably killed her husband Harrison.Which. Is an issue I have with S4 as well. Chase is Harrison’s brother. He works with Blaine.

Upon meeting him, he would be smart enough and would easily be able to figure out that Blaine was the OG brain supplier and would have been the one to kill his brother.Once he no longer needed Blaine, i.e. was done with his blackmail? He would have put him in the guillotine. I expected this, honestly. I expected Blaine to pull the same card he pulled on Liv in S1. That without him, they have a zombie apocalypse on their hands. There was a brain shortage prior to the outbreak when Blaine approached him in the S3 finale. In S4 it’s even worse than it was then. There’s even a plot about Major tracking down watered down brain tube dealers.

Chase is a proud man, he wouldn’t have gone back to Blaine automatically… but after the US Government cuts off the brain supply in the finale, Major enlists Blaine to increase his operations.You don’t think that in the middle of the brain shortage crisis, Chase would have bitten the bullet and remembered Blaine’s proposal? Ok, at this point, you’re probably asking yourself. “Mmhm, okay, so maybe that’s a better plot for Blaine… but then who did steal the cures?”

Osborn Oates.

Don’t remember him? Yeah, neither do any of the characters, apparently.He was the guy who was Natalie’s captor. Who apparently had the the influence to bribe Max Rager guards under Vaughn Du Clark’s nose. He was described by Ravi as being like a Bond villain.Natalie warns Major that wherever he goes, he’ll find her, but then… he doesn’t. She travels the world. He doesn’t track her down. Even when she herself would have been vulnerable and amnesiac.He doesn’t even try to track down Major and find out what he knows, or if he was responsible for her escape. We know he is aware of Major. Major and Ravi followed he and his body guard.His body guard even checked Ravi’s morgue ID, and would have known where the cures were kept had he known about the cures.

Which… I think, Natalie might have told him about, in an effort to barter her freedom.Remember when we first met her? She said that since she was paid in brains by Blaine, who had become her pimp after turning her, that she ran through her savings and was broke.Yet… when she returns in S3, she tells Major that she traveled the world and had a place in Italy that she got thanks to her savings earned as sex worker.So… what is the truth?

I don’t want to speculate about a villainous lying Natalie. I actually liked her character, and she was certainly victimized and I don’t want to take away from that at all. Given her desperate situation though, might she have made some choices out of self preservation? Her own best interest?I think there was more to the Natalie situation than we got. I think it suffered because they went from 19 episodes in season 2 back to a 13 episode order. I don’t know if her exit had more to do with propelling Major’s character’s decisions, or if because Natalie’s actress Brooke Lyons had gotten work as a series regular on the show Life Sentence. Maybe a bit of both?

Maybe they did plan to kill her at the end of the arc, but the arc happened sooner than anticipated due to the shortened season? Knowing that they’d be losing her, they couldn’t carry that thread over to S4? So instead they just dropped Osborn Oates, and over the summer Rob Thomas decided to change it to Blaine in S4 because no one would question it?

Sorry Rob, I question it. You said in post S3 interviews that you planned to reveal who stole the cures in the finale, but there was no time so you’d get to it in S4.Really? That’s why? No time? If you had the time, how would it have come into play? The way it did come into play was Blaine seeking out Mama Leone, because Chase was blackmailing him. Are you telling me Chase would have done so in the S3 finale? That you would have seeded Renegade as a plotline even then?

I’m calling bullshit.I think it’s far more likely that your plans fell through, and you needed the time over the hiatus to do a rewrite.Even if Natalie had nothing to do with the cures being stolen, if it was planned to be Blaine all along…

You kill her off, and she doesn’t even get to confront Blaine? They never have a scene together? He’s responsible for her being a zombie, which led to her being kidnapped, and then held hostage.Yet he helped Major find her when he could have pleaded ignorance. He gave him Oates’ address and let him know when he was back in town.

He didn’t have to do that. He could have said that it’s not the address on record, said “I guess Oates is thorough and has someone else handle his pickups” and Major wouldn’t have questioned him.

He could have elected not to tip Major off that he was back in town. To stay out of it. Had he done so? Major wouldn’t have been able to find Natalie and give her the cure when he did.I’m not saying this excuses Blaine of what he did to her at all, or that the two would have been “even” or made peace. Not at all. There is no retribution for what he did to her.It does however, go back to my belief he was legit trying to change.

As for why Chase never mentions or figures out Blaine killed his brother? Why wasn’t that a thing? Why didn’t we get more time to know Chase and see his conflict, rather than having it rushed to him buckling under the pressure of the job?

In hindsight, knowing what we do about the actor who played Blaine’s father… I kind of wish Chase had gotten that series regular promotion instead. What did the Angus stuff really add to the season, at the end of the day? Blaine would have taken Major’s deal regardless, whether or not he was in debt. He would have done it just if it meant he wouldn’t be put in prison, and because he’d get a kick out of having Major at his mercy.

Which… he shouldn’t be in debt right now either... because now Angus is dead for real and he should have those millions. Or did he spend those millions, when he came back, to feed his flock? I imagine someone else took over his business, but he still had all his personal accounts.

At the end of the day, all the Brother Love stuff was just a bunch of filler. You know what would have been interesting? If Brother Love used Enzo to reach out to those remaining dissenting Fillmore-Graves employees that Carey Gold told us existed but we never saw in S4. We saw corruption in S4 with Russ Roche, but the only real zombie supremacist within the organization was Enzo himself.

Speaking of which, what happened to Enzo? Did he die along with Angus’ flock? It seemed like they were building to a big finale that was going to be Angus’ church throwing a revolution against Fillmore-Graves, with Liv and her Renegade folks stuck in the middle.By the filming of the last episode, did they just decide they didn’t want to give Angus’ actor any more screentime than it would take to organically write him out? Cause his exit was anticlimactic. I mean, the actor didn’t deserve any more screentime. I wouldn’t want to see him on my screen, but...

It happened in a news report.Thing is though, I don’t know if that was why. I mean, they made Angus a regular, and he only interacted with each series regular save Blaine once. He interacted with Peyton in 3x03, before he was even a regular. His only conscious interaction with Major was when he and his squad checked out the church. He interacted with Liv when she and Levon went there seeing if he could help them get more brains. Another thing which is never touched upon after that episode.His only interaction with Ravi and Clive took place at the same time in the interrogation room

.Yet we had that whole subplot of that kid Tucker who was a zombie hater who became a Brother Love devotee after being kicked out of the Romero’s basement by Blaine? Okay, what happened to that kid? Did he die with the flock as well? We never saw him. We spent all that time with him, and why? Just so he could kill someone and Enzo could let him go, and pass word on to Angus?

…Enzo couldn’t have just approached Angus himself, after attending his sermon? Or did he feel like he needed to prove himself, considering Angus’ distrust of Fillmore-Graves? Ok, but then...

Again, Angus himself wanted to partner up with them in S3. Inconsistent. Yes, you could say he changed his mind after seeing their regime and how Chase led them. That he lost his mind in the well, which he did.…but in hindsight… given what they did with him, and the fact he was played by a man accused of multiple accounts of sexual assault?

I wish we hadn’t seen him come back at all. He should have been left in the well to turn into a Romero. Blaine should have just not fed him. All that extra screentime, we could have gotten Blaine vs Chase (in the wake of Vivian) with Liv caught in the middle and just trying to help people. Instead we got… a mess…

In my personal opinion.

[an-aspiring-jester]

My take on Uncle Scrooge and his relationship with his family based on „Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck”

Okay, so this is going to be really long and unnecessary rant about things that were probably said thousand times before, but I just needed to organize my thoughts so might as well do it here :)

First of all, I agree that Don Rosa’s Scrooge is… not a good uncle. Far from it. He is mean to his nephews, exploits them mercilessly, is selfish, petty, stubborn and occasionally manipulative, but… he has a reason to be. His behavior is not justified, but it’s understandable. He just needs a little more time, patience and support from his family (which he gets now) to overcome this attitude and change.

Let’s start at the beginning: His Number 1 Dime. We all know that Fergus did this with his best intentions in mind, so Scroogie learns to rely on himself, values hard work etc., etc.… BUT: remember he is still just a 10 years old boy! And, I get that they were poor, he had to help support his parents and DIDN’T MIND DOING IT, loved it, in fact, but… when he became a little obsessed with making money, working non-stop, NOONE really stopped him to tell that maybe it’s not entirely healthy and it’s okay to take a break once in a while. They benefited from the situation… Additionally, he didn’t know about his father’s little “scheme” (maybe for the better) so his most prized possession remains a reminder of the time he was cheated for his labor as a kid. Not really helping with a positive view on the world. And don’t even mention the pressure of being the Last of the Clan McDuck and all the expectations to make a name for himself and save the ancestral castle… No wonder he became a workaholic at such a young age! XD Again: Fergus loved his son with all his heart and wanted what’s best for him, he just… didn’t think of all the side-effects.

Then we have his Uncle Angus. A guy who exploited his nephew, tricked him, put him in danger multiple times, valued his potential treasure more than their LIFES, and not only didn’t really acknowledged Scrooge saving  the day, but downright stole the glory for himself and portrayed him as a useless dummy in his novels. And STILL counted on him to clean up after his mistakes. (The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff) Sounds familiar? Why would Scrooge treat his nephews differently if HE turned out okay? (I even dare to say he treats them slightly better than Pothole did) What’s more – when Scrooge was on the receiving side of this dynamic – HE NEVER EVEN COMPLAINED! Just treated it as something normal, admirable even! He really DOESN’T see why Donald or the boys would have a problem with that.

Scrooge spent most of his life alone. During that time he learned the hard way that people are going to judge him based on what he owns, people he considered friends are bound to turn his enemies once he gets richer than them, some of them won’t hesitate to kill him for profit *cough*Glomgold*cough*. The first time his family managed to contact him was when they needed cash for castle taxes. He drops everything and rushes to the rescue – yet the only reason his ancestors decide he’s worthy enough to continue living is that he’s going to become “the cheapest tightwad on Earth” (to Scrooge’s shock). You can see how optimistic and open-hearted Scrooge gets progressively colder and harsher (the way he acts after rescuing Glomgold versus Jaburi Kapirigi? Entirely different.). And at that point he STILL worries about his family and their well-being, even though his situation is probably much worse than theirs. He never got a letter from home. He’s been captured and ridiculed mercilessly - on account of his mother’s DEATH for crying out loud! Maybe that’s why he’s so unwilling to show any kind of care or affection? Because if you do - someone might as well use that sentiment to hurt you. The love of his life only wanted to rob and cheat him (his perspective) - no wonder he’s got trust issues. The only way to survive in this cruel world is to be just as ruthless as it is.

And when he comes back home? (Again - Scrooge doesn’t abandon his family once he gets rich. He still wants to go back home, to be with them and run his business from Scotland. When he realizes he doesn’t belong there anymore – he asks them ALL to move out with him. And when Fergus disagrees, he WANTS to reconsider this, it’s Fergus who cuts him off and order him to take his sisters away, without giving a chance to argue.) He got rotten tomatoes thrown at him JUST BECAUSE he’s rich now (at least that’s how Rosa portrayed that scene). And his father is disappointed when he (albeit harshly) defends himself! How unfair is that?

His sisters focus on how grand he LOOKS (our brother – billionaire), one of the first things they ask him about is what he BROUGHT them, when they realize he carries cash around (for him – his most important keepsakes!) they just call him loon, without considering his point of view. They’re tired of his stinginess and complain when he makes them do the hard work - but it’s not like he’s slacking off at the time! It’s more of a “Welcome to my world” sort of thing. And again – I ADORE Hortense and Matilda, they clearly love their brother and are just excited to see him back – but fail to understand how he changed. And do very little to help him adapt. Teasing him about his paranoia does not. If anything, it just makes him feel like they don’t treat him seriously and don’t appreciate his accomplishments. Maybe that’s why he tries so hard to impress them. He starts taking shortcuts, challenges his principals. Yeah, he’s frustrated with world and how it treats him. He wants to take an easy road for once. He ignores his sisters begging, refuses to listen to reason. That’s his fatal mistake and his lowest point. But what he says while watching the destruction of Foola Zoola’s village? “Nobody humiliates a McDuck in front of his kin!”. He cares about what they think of him, but his priorities are messed up. When he comes back to the tent he starts with: “That’s more wealth for you two to INHERIT someday, so you can stop pretending to be outraged.” He honestly BELIVES that. If almost everyone he crossed paths with was only interested in his money – why should his FAMILY be any different?! (Later he thought that Donald agreed to meet him at Christmas dinner only to “see how rich he’ll be when Scrooge’s gone”. And I THINK that part of the reason that in Rosa’s comics (unlike Barks’) we only ever see them hanging out in the Bin or on an adventure is that Scrooge may STILL think that they only agree to spend time with him when he pays them. What other reason they would have to put up with him? That’s just depressing, when you think about it.) That’s the twisted way he sees the world nowadays. And even then he managed to realize that burning the village WAS a mistake and attempts to fix it! Sure, he delays their reconciliation more and more – still convincing himself that “my sisters will forgive my delay when they see this.” It’s sad how delusional he got.

And on to the big fight – at that point, Scrooge is a changed man. And Hortense’s yelling doesn’t do any good. (Again – they have every right to BE outraged, it’s just… not the best way to actually SOLVE anything.) They say he won’t ever see them again – and honestly, WHAT KIND OF A THREAT IS THAT TO HIM?!! He ALREADY spend 50 years of his life WITHOUT THEM! Without anyone! For HIM – it doesn’t make any difference! From his perspective – his family really IS “nothing but trouble.” Ungrateful freeloaders, holding him back. (Side note: in Letter from Home it was A LITTLE unfair for Matilda to accuse him of not “being around” with them at the castle – when at the time he was earning money so they could KEEP the castle. A bit of hypocrisy, in my opinion. And Scrooge didn’t even defend himself, thinking he deserves it.)

Scrooge spent his entire adulthood with no one to rely on, besides himself. Almost every time he trusted someone he ended up backstabbed one way or another. He doesn’t NEED anyone, he survived on his own this long, he can continue to do so. Yet when his sisters abandoned him for good – “no joy remained.” He CARED about them, even if he wouldn’t admit it. He still wanted to have them around. He got so depressed, he retired and was ready to spend the rest of his days in a lonely mansion, basically waiting for death. Until he finally decides to reach out for his only nephew…

Basically what I’m trying to say here is: Scrooge McDuck loves his family wholeheartedly. He ALWAYS did. They always had been his priority. He just has NO IDEA what SHOWING love is supposed to look like! And you can’t really blame him. Let’s just hope that Donald and the rest of the gang can teach him that eventually.

[themosleyreview]

The Mosley Review: The Kid Who Would Be King

Lets be honest. We all love the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. It never gets old. Over the years there have been nearly countless adaptations and the majority of them take the story in a more serious route and stick to the time period. There have been some good films and recently there's been some terrible attempts to re-imagine the legend. Now a couple of my favorite adaptations are First Knight, Antione Fuqua's R-rated version of King Arthur and of course Monty Python and the Holy Grail. What they all have in common is that their all unique takes and they all have fun with it. That's what I loved about this film. It's a unique take on the legend that is modern, relatable and just a delight to watch. From beginning to end I had a smile on my face as the story developed its own witty and quirky humor amongst the impressive action scenes. The liberties taken with the original lore was not too drastic and was inventive in its execution. All of this in a well crafted and acted kids film which is rare these days in live action.

Louis Ashbourne Serkis as Alexander was fantastic and I loved his natural bravery. He naturally commanded the screen and I enjoyed having him lead us through this adventure. I liked Dean Chaumoo as Bedders and even though he got on my nerves at times as the comic relief, I loved the chemistry between him and Alex. Tom Taylor was perfectly mean as the bully Lance, but eventually you ended up liking him since he is "Lancelot" to Alex's "Arthur" and his real heart comes out. Rhianna Doris was also great as Lance's partner in bullying Kaye and I liked her small snarky moments. All of them together made for an eclectic band of heroes and I really ended up loving their chemistry. Now one actor who stole the film with his outstanding comedic timing and perfect weirdness was Angus Imrie as Merlin. I loved every moment and especially his first scene in the film where you are introduced fully to his unique and fun take on the character. When he would switch to his real form, Sir Patrick Stewart takes over and he was just as perfect. The two were perfect counterparts for the same character and it was a blast watching them. Rebecca Fergusen was awesome as always and as the main villain Morgana and she was creepy at times. I loved the confrontation between her and Merlin.

The score by Electric Wave Bureau was epic and fun. There are some truly impressive action moments in this film and I loved the visual effects on the Morgana's army. Writer and Director Joe Cornish has made one of my all time favorite sci-fi films Attack the Block and he has now made another one of my favorite King Arthur films. This was truly a delightful film that is an excellent adventure for all ages and I highly recommend this for a day at the theater with the family.  

[believingbrook]

taakitz hanahaki, 1

“Idiots, the lot of them,” Taako snorts. Even though he and Kravitz are seated next to each other in front of a booth, both nursing margaritas (at Merle’s behest, and for his kind offer to pay for them), his legs are kicked up over Kravitz’s lap as he surveys the scene. A hearty slap from Magnus’s friend Carey rouses him, if only for just long enough to whine about how proud he is and how his little boy is all grown up now before passing out on his wife’s shoulder.

“They’re proud.” Kravitz takes a sip of his drink, a small smile creeping over his face as he pointedly does not look at Taako. “So are you, I think.”

Taako splutters. “I am not! I’m not — no, fuck that, I don’t give a shit about the kiddo.”

“That’s why you give him free lessons, then.”

Taako gives a haughty sniff, leaning back against the cushioned seat. “Money ain’t even a thing. Our old man’s fuckin’ rich or something, and ever since he so generously stole us off the streets we haven’t worried about — about, uh, funds and all that.”

“Yet you ask me to haggle down the price every single time we go shopping.”

“No, that’s different,” Taako says, kicking his legs higher on Kravitz’s lap. “That’s ‘cause the bullshit we find is all, uh, that’s fuckin’ marked up like hell and that’s just — it’s an injustice, you know? A slight against our Lady Liberty with her, fuckin’, torch and everything. You shouldn’t have to kick out a hundred dollars for a pair of boots, right? Unless they’ve touched, I dunno, the gross and smelly feet of Billy Armstrong or something.”

“But if money isn’t a concern for you, you could haggle it down yourself. What are the repercussions of another fifty dollars? It’s a good learning experience!”

“‘Cause I don’t wanna ask the old geezer for fifty extra bucks,” Taako sniffs, then brandishes his drink at Kravitz. “‘Sides, when am I ever gonna go shopping not with you? Lup and Barry go to the, fuckin’, Gap to get their clothes, and Magnus and Jules wouldn’t know a department store if it hit ‘em over their head and let’s be honest here, where is Merle gonna find his floral shirts in the middle of a Macy’s? He isn’t, that’s where.”

“You’re taking advantage of my silver tongue,” Kravitz grins.

“I — okay, yes.” Taako takes a long swig of his drink. “Maybe a little.”

“Maybe next time I should let you go on your own,” Kravitz teases. “See how you like trying to stack up against a Nordstrom’s representative in their ugly uniforms.”

“Absolutely not, I refuse to be seen in public shopping at Nordstroms without someone in at least a suit. Besides, their employees need to shape up and work somewhere else, because bright orange? Really? I wanna know what chump thought a bright orange uniform was a good idea and punch them in the face. Directly in the nose.”

“You know, you could wear the suit. I think you’d look good in one.”

“Fuck off.”

“No, really!”

Taako glares at him. “Perish the thought, bone boy, the day you catch Taako in something as boring as a suit is the day Lup’s finally snapped and burned my Maxi collection, which is to say the day both of us just beef it.”

“Oh, so you think my fashion taste is boring?” Kravitz gripes, faux-wounded, hand over his heart and everything. “Gosh, how could I ever recover from such a grievous insult?”

“Gosh,” Taako snorts. “I can’t believe you say shit like — like gosh and goodness.”

Kravitz shrugs, dropping the wounded front in favor of a grin. “It’s better than my accents, at least.”

Taako chokes on his drink, waving his hand in the air. “Do not even speak of those,” he says, laughing. “Those were awful, you were, what, twelve? Thinkin’ you could do an Australian accent!”

“Hey, my accents weren’t too bad! My Cockney was pretty good.”

“Your Cockney was the absolute worst of the lot,” Taako groans, as Kravitz knew he would. “We were in — fuckin’, middle school, and you were walkin’ around in a tiny tailored suit like pip pip cheerio in the most abominable accent. You’re — you know, you’re real lucky I decided to hang out with you, Kravitz. Got you back on the straight and narrow.”

Kravitz hums. “I think you butchered that first part, my man,” he says, dipping back into his fake accent.

Taako cuffs his ear. “One, that was an awful joke and you should be ashamed. Two, I refuse to be seen with you in public doing accents, I refuse. You do that again and I’m leaving, Taako is out.”

“Oh, are you really?” Kravitz drawls. “Now I think it’d be rather rude for you to just dip on me like that, dearest. Who do you expect to cover your drink?”

“Dearest,” Taako mimics, rolling his eyes behind his glass. “You’re disgusting.”

“And yet here you are,” Kravitz says, “ten years later.”

“It’s for the bargains. I wouldn’t get those discounts if I didn’t drag you with me.”

“I’m being used for my financial prowess,” Kravitz says mournfully. “You wound me, Taako Taaco. And here I was, thinking we were friends.”

“Don’t get used to it.” Taako slumps down farther in his seat, heels kicking against Kravitz’s thighs. “I thought we were too, and then you got on stage for, fuckin’ — who were you, Grant-someone-or-other, way back in middle school, and you did that awful accent, who was that?”

“Graintaire,” Kravitz supplies. He’d done an awful French accent. So bad that Taako threatened to Sharpie a mustache on his face and Lup had actually done it. “Les Miserables, Taako. We’ve only seen that movie about a hundred times.”

“It’s just jabber-jabber-revolution-thrust-die,” Taako says. “And that one guy spitting up petals, like, come on. The last time we watched I counted the number — the number of times they, uh, compared his little rose petals to the color of blood, and you know what I got?”

Thirty-seven, Kravitz thinks, right before Taako reports the same number. “Which is to say just, too many.”

“It was a sad scene, Taako.”

“Oh, sure, if you’re a hopeless romantic,” Taako snorts.

“You cried the first time we watched it.”

“I was fourteen!”

“And bawling like a child half your age,” Kravitz grins.

Taako takes a sip. “That was back when I thought something like he had could ever happen to me.”

Though Kravitz is used to his seemingly-random bursts of crippling honesty, this one still takes him off-guard. He knows better than to dig deeper, he knows better than to appear pitying, or react at all, really; but he can’t help himself from asking, “You don’t think you’ll find love eventually?”

“Yeah, perish the thought, I know,” Taako says, averting his gaze. He elbows Kravitz in the shoulder. “‘Specially for you, you, like — bleed romance novels and whatever. Trashy dime-a-dozen novels, I can’t believe you.”

“They were a dime back in the nineteenth century, Taako, they’re hardly so cheap now.”

“Which just means they’re an actual — an actual investment, which also means you should be ashamed. But um, Lup — she found Barry, and Mags has Jules, and once Merle wrapped up the whole thing with Dav’s dandelions they, uh...they put a ring on that and everything, and I figure there’s only so much love in the universe, y’know?” Taako takes a steady sip of his drink. His hands don’t even shake. Kravitz envies him, for a moment; that his hands don’t tremble, and don’t give him away.

Kravitz folds his own carefully beneath the table. “And even if that means ol’ Taako doesn’t get his slice of the apple pie, or cherry, or whatever flavor that pie is, then that’s fine by me. There are people who, uh, deserve it more, so.” Another sip. “I’m glad the universe is investing, fuckin’, flour and yeast and apple preserves or whatever in them.”

“I think you deserve it,” Kravitz says. He wants to reach for Taako’s hand, wants to fold those slim, cooking-calloused fingers in his own. He does not. “I don’t think there’s a finite amount of love, Taako. I think everyone loves and is loved in turn, and the lucky ones — well, for the lucky ones, it goes both ways.”

Taako watches him for a long, long time. Panic mounts in his throat — did he give himself away? Did he say too much? He’s at the point of spilling red wine all over his pants and that would be inconvenient, he just pressed these slacks yesterday, until Taako looks away. “Figures,” he snorts derisively. “You want a happy ending for everyone.”

“To the birthday boy!” Julia roars, so loudly that the whole bar turns and looks at her.

“It’s not my birthday, ma’am,” Angus says politely from his seat between her and her husband. At some point, when Kravitz wasn’t watching, he’d wedged himself between his adoptive parents. “I’m graduating tomorrow.”

“To the graduating birthday boy!”Julia says, equally as enthusiastic, and Angus rolls his eyes at the same time Kravitz does, because she knows it’s not Angus’s birthday but, at the point before weepy-drunkenness, this is her sense of humor. To both of their chagrin.

“To Angus,” Kravitz grins.

“To my magic boy,” Taako says, the picture of disgruntled complacency, and clicks his glass to Kravitz’s.

“So I am your magic boy!” a voice pipes from beneath their table. Or at least, Kravitz thinks it’s beneath their table until he looks over and catches two eyes peeping up at them. “You’re a dirty liar, sir!”

“I didn’t say that.”

“You certainly did!”

“Nothing you can prove in court, bubbeleh,” Taako says, and ruffles Angus’s hair. “You trip on the stage and I’m disowning you.”

“You’re not my legal guardian, sir. There’s nothing for you to disown.”

Taako places a hand on his chest. “As your uncle I am deeply wounded.”

“You’re full of horseshit, sir. Hello, Mr. Kravitz.”

“Hello, Angus,” Kravitz says. “Enjoying the celebration?”

“Very much so! Except I know it’s not a celebration because this is a bar and bars are for people over 21 years old, which I am not. Also I found the receipt for my cake in the trash can because Magnus forgot to take it out so I know there’s a real party for little boys tomorrow. Probably at your house.” Angus hops up on the seat next to him and peers at his drink. “Merle’s paying for those, isn’t he?”

“You’re an awful little boy, Agnes.”

“I learned from the best, sir.”

“Do at least act surprised,” Kravitz asks. “Magnus and Julia are very excited. They tell us you’ve never had a surprise birthday party before.”

“I think here is where I should say that that’s only because I’m too smart for people to pull surprises on me, but we both know that’s not true.” Kravitz’s heart twinges sympathetically — Angus’s grandfather could kindly be called distant, and the orphanage was understaffed at the best of times. “Anyway, I’m really looking forward to it! I think Julia is getting me a recording device that I can wear in my ear for whenever I need to be a sneaky little boy, and I’m pretty sure Magnus is getting me a duck.”

“Who knows, bubbeleh, this could be the year he gets you something else.”

“Oh no, it’s fine, I love them. I’ll add it to my collection. He gave my last one a little spyglass to look like me.” Angus pats Kravitz’s shoulder and hops down from the bench. “I’ll see you both tomorrow, I think. Enjoy the rest of your evening, Mr. Kravitz!”

“What about me?” Taako calls after Angus’s retreating back, then slumps back on the bench, looking distinctly miffed. Kravitz doesn’t bother muffling his chuckles in his sleeve.

“You’ve been thoroughly outwitted by a twelve year old boy.”

“You mean we have,” Taako snarks. “Joint planning effort, my dude.”

“You just sniped at Magnus and Jules until they let you cater.”

“I will not have my magic boy eating third-rate catering for his graduation party,” Taako sniffs. “That’s a disgrace to the Taako name.”

“They’re professionals, Taako. You’re not out of culinary school yet.”

“Yet I could cook any one of their asses under the table.”

Kravitz laughs, then clears his throat as it begins to itch. “I’m still waiting to see you cook off with Gordon Ramsay, you know.”

“Oh?” Taako cocks an eyebrow at him. “Who would your money be on, then?”

“If I didn’t care about winning? You.”

Taako yelps indignantly at him, sending him into further fits of laughter that break into coughs. The coughs don’t stop, and don’t stop, and his throat begins to prickle, tracing a line of embers up his throat.

He stumbles out from the table, waving off Taako’s worried inquiries, and hurries to the bathroom, one hand stuffed over his mouth. Gods, these fits always pick the least convenient times — thankfully he’s not often with Taako for one of these, but when he is, he always has to think on his feet to explain why he’s taking off in such a hurry. He’d never appreciated improv classes more than that moment in junior year when he’d sprinted out of a chemistry test to retch petals into his palm.

He locks himself in a stall and doubles over, stomach cramping. His frame shakes with coughs, as he struggles to tear a path through the bristling flowers rooted in his windpipe.

A lull, a thin opening and he slumps against the wall of the stall, spent. He tries to swallow and convulses, retching.

“Kravitz?”

Kravitz tries to warn him away and and regrets it immediately, on his knees as petals spill from his mouth, tickling along the top of his mouth and cutting at his lips. He clamps both hands over his mouth, trying to muffle the sound of his own choking and failing. He’s shaking already, and distantly fear grips him; it’s never been this bad before, he can count the petals in the dozens when in the beginning there was only one, a single fluttering petal he could catch in his hand before anyone saw, but this —

Footsteps approach his stall. “Krav, you okay?”

Panic lurches sharp in his stomach. “Fine — ” he gasps, fighting for air. “‘m fine — pneumonia — ”

“Again?” Taako asks, a touch of sympathy in his voice. Ten years ago Kravitz wouldn’t have recognized it but he does now, the sympathetic pain in his voice. He’d thought Taako unfeeling, back in junior high. “Jeez, Krav, your immune system’s really fucking you over, it’s been, what, three years now?”

“Just about,” he says, words catching painfully in his throat.

“Need anything?”

“Water,” he rasps, because he will, soon.

“Okay. Be right back.”

The door opens, and shuts, and Kravitz inhales carefully. When the petals stay stagnant, no tickling itch in his windpipe, he sits back against the stall, eyes fluttering closed. He needs to gather this up, all the petals, in the pocket he sewed just for this, but first he just — he needs a moment. His head is spinning and his heartbeat is pounding in his ears, but he narrows his focus to the slow drag of breath in his throat — in and out, in and out, a tempo of his own making, unravelled by his own heart.

He scrubs his mouth with the back of one shaking hand, sighs when it comes away streaked thinly with blood. He’s too drained for proper swearing.

Kravitz gathers the petals as best he can, careful not to miss any — doubtless the bar wouldn’t appreciate stumbling upon an explosion of petals — and tucks them in the inside pocket of his jacket just as the bathroom door opens again.

“Still in here?”

“Yeah,” Kravitz says and, patting his pocket to ensure the petals are securely out of sight, steps from the stall.

“You look like hell,” Taako says, and hands him a cup of water. “Shouldn’t you be, I dunno, takin’ meds for that or something?”

“Already am.” Kravitz knocks it all back in one go, eyes slipping shut at the relief in his throat. “Thanks.”

Taako takes the cup back, looking not quite at Kravitz’s eyes but down, at his lips. Kravitz has dreamed about this, granted, but under much different circumstances. “You’re shaking,” he says.

“Vomiting blood isn’t easy, you know,” Kravitz grins wryly. He tries to take a step forward and sways, head spinning. He braces himself on the sink. “Sorry, just give me a second — ”

“Here.” Taako slips an arm beneath his shoulder and tugs Kravitz close to him. “And don’t apologize for that, you idiot.”

The two of them slide back into their seats, their margaritas untouched where they were sitting. Kravitz sinks back into the cushions gratefully, letting his head fall back against the seat.

For a few moments there’s blissful silence. When Kravitz opens his eyes again he sees Taako watching him, a near-invisible note of concern in his gaze.

“Taako, I’m fine.”

Taako snorts, and the tension between them snaps. “Like hell you are.” He slides Kravitz’s drink closer to him. “You wanna go home?”

“No,” Kravitz says truthfully. “I can manage at least another hour, I think.”

Taako studies him for a beat, then shakes his head. “Lightweight. You always did knock out early.”

“Did not!”

“You absolutely did too, my man, do not give me that horseshit. You went to bed every night at eleven in freshman year.”

Kravitz pouts. “I was a freshman.”

“Yeah, but you were still you,” Taako says, and prods his chest. “Nerd.”

Maybe in a different world he’d take Taako’s hand, kiss the back of it. It’d make Taako laugh and splutter and turn him red all the way up to the tips of his ears.

Instead, here, in this world, Kravitz lets Taako’s finger fall from his chest — right above his heartbeat — without a word. And instead of a hundred other things, a would you like to get dinner with me tomorrow? or what time will you be home? or simply, I love you, Kravitz smiles and says, “Guilty as charged.”

They pass the next hour easily. It’s so easy to talk to Taako, and always has been, for Kravitz. The right questions and sympathy are rewarded with startlingly honest answers. Small things, like how his aunt’s roast turkey takes five hours to prepare and he’d made it for Lup, the day before her wedding, and complained to Kravitz the whole time because there was nothing for him to but sit and turn the roast; but big things too, like how neither Taako nor Lup can sleep in the dark, how they always curl back-to-back while napping, like how his gap teeth shine when he smiles and despite appearances he would do anything for the small family he’s crafted right in the heart of the city.

A few minutes before one he calls an Uber, and Taako walks him out into the brisk autumn evening. Taako’s face is the last he sees as he pulls away from the bar.

[cheydoesfandom]

first scene

so, here’s the first scene of my fic! it is in no way perfect or even as good as I’d like it to be, but since about half a dozen people were interested, I’ll post it.

this scene is Angus arriving at Taakitz’s home, from Angus’s POV, and Kravitz isn’t actually in it. I, uh, am unsure exactly how I want to write Krav, bc he’s not nearly as developed in canon as Taako and Angus.

anyway, read more under the cut!

The gravel crunched under their shoes as Angus and Ms. Sloane approached the front door of the house.  It was much smaller than his grandfather’s home in Neverwinter, which had been huge and sprawling, with more rooms than Angus ever knew what to do with.  And it was much nicer looking than the group home he had been placed in after his death, and then again, each time another family member decided they couldn’t keep him, where the yard was unkempt and the paint was peeling.  Angus was nervous, but he did his best to hide that.  He wasn’t a child, he was about to turn twelve, and he couldn’t let Ms. Sloane think he was frightened.

She didn’t try to hold his hand like she had when he was younger, which he appreciated.  He didn’t need to have his hand held, he was perfectly capable of following on his own.  He had a rucksack on his back and that bag held all of his worldly possessions: three sets of day-clothes, two pairs of pajamas, a week’s worth of underwear, two volumes of his favorite book series, Caleb Cleveland, Kid Cop, a couple of notebooks, a magnifying glass, and the last piece of his Grandfather’s silverware set.

Ms. Sloane had told him he was going to stay with a distant cousin.  Hopefully, this would be a good place for him.  Ms. Sloane certainly seemed to think so, but Angus couldn’t help worrying that something would go wrong, something always went wrong, but this was the last family she could find, which meant it was probably his last option before being sent somewhere more permanent, like an orphanage.

He had spent a long time at the home since his great-aunt had sent him away, nearly six months, which was the longest he’d stayed anywhere since his grandfather died two years ago.  Half a dozen other people that were supposed to be his family had turned him away already, which left him with little hope that his cousin Kravitz would keep him around very long.

Angus shifted his weight as Ms. Sloane knocked, standing up straight and putting a smile on his face.  People liked it when he looked happy to see them, even if it was their first time meeting.

A tall, plump elf answered the door, and Angus beamed brightly.  “Hello, sir!” he greeted cheerfully, despite the twisting of his stomach and the fact that this was clearly not his cousin.  For one, he was an elf and Angus was human.  For another, this elf was fair-skinned and blond, while Angus’s complexion was dark and he had a messy mop of black hair.  “I’m Angus McDonald.”  He offered one hand to shake the stranger’s.

The elf glanced down at him and lifted one perfectly-shaped eyebrow, the corner of his mouth turning up ever so slightly.  “Mm, yes, I suppose you are,” he said, extending his own hand and shaking Angus’s.  “I’m Taako.”  Then he let Angus’s hand go and turned his attention to Ms. Sloane, which was hardly a surprise.  Adults always paid attention to each other rather than him.  “Please, come in, come in, I just put the kettle on,” he said, smiling broadly and stepping back to let them in.

Angus followed Ms. Sloane inside and, while Mr. Taako led them through the foyer, glanced around.  The house was clean, but not neat, making it looked cared for but lived in.  Most of the places he had stayed only looked like one or the other, but this house was different.  There were magazines and books laying out, jackets hung over the backs of chairs, and knick knacks of all sorts on almost every flat surface Angus could see.  But the carpet was swept, the windows clean and curtains open, letting in the warm mid-day sunshine.

Mr. Taako showed them to a cozy kitchen, where a kettle was on the stove and a plate piled with fresh teacakes on a small table.  Angus hesitated until Ms. Sloane sat to pull out a chair and set his bag down at his feet.  He didn’t dare reach for a cake, however.

“I know he should be here, but I’m afraid Krav was called away by an emergency at work this morning,” Mr. Taako said as he gathered teacups from the cupboard.  “But he’ll be home as soon as he can.”

“I hope everything is alright?” Ms. Sloane replied.  The anxious bubble in Angus’s chest grew, realizing his cousin couldn’t even be bothered to be home to meet him.

“Oh, I really couldn’t say one way or the other,” Mr. Taako sighed, setting the cups on the table.  “It’s all very hush hush, you know?”  And then, without even a beat,  “What kind of tea do you prefer?”

Ms. Sloane asked for “Anything caffeinated, it was a long drive this morning, and I still have quite the trek home.”  Mr. Taako hummed, nodding, and turned back to the cupboard, pulling out a tin.

“How about you, Agnes?” he asked, opening the tin to put some loose leaves into a cup for Ms. Sloane. “I have some peppermint, or if you prefer hot chocolate, I could whip some up.”

Angus was a little surprised to be asked, Mr. Taako hadn’t so much as looked at him since they came inside.  Being called the wrong name was less surprising.  “O-oh, um, I-I’m alright, sir,” he stuttered, hands folding over one another in his lap.

Mr. Taako looked over his shoulder at Angus, eyebrow once more quirked as he considered him.  “Are you sure?” he asked, closing the tin again.  “It’s no trouble, little dude.”

“Uh, a glass of water is fine, sir,” Angus insisted.

Taako blinked and then turned back to the cupboard, putting the tin away and pulling out a glass.  “Alright, then, suit yourself,” he said airily, shrugging as he put back one of the teacups.  He filled Angus’s glass at the sink and brought it to him just as the kettle started to whistle.

Another moment of silence passed, Angus sipping at his water while Mr. Taako poured the boiling water for Ms. Sloane and his tea.  Mr. Taako sat at the table with them and nudged the plate in Angus’s direction.  “Feel free to have a cake, you must be famished after your trip into town.”

“Oh, th-thank you, sir,” Angus said, watching him closely as he reached for the plate and took one of the teacakes.  Mr. Taako gave a small smile, and Angus, as a very observant investigator, thought it looked rather pressed, which put a heavy weight in his stomach.

This man already didn’t like him.

Angus didn’t know what the elf’s relationship was to cousin Kravitz, but he was certain Mr. Taako would be trying to convince him to send Angus away within the week.

Angus nibbled at his cake, humming appreciatively at the taste.  It was delicious, and Angus took a larger bite, chewing enthusiastically for a moment, before realizing Mr. Taako was still watching him.  Angus stopped chewing and swallowed, looking up to meet his eyes.  “It’s very good, sir, thank you,” he said, giving the best smile he could manage.

Mr. Taako’s smile widened and relaxed somewhat.  “Well, naturally, they were made by yours truly,” he said.  Then Ms. Sloane bit into her own and started asking about the recipe, and the adults were distracted, their attention on each other again.

Angus continued to eat his cake slowly, making it last as long as he could, since Mr. Taako had only offered him one, while the adults talked.  Normally, Angus took advantage of these sort of moments to gather information; adults were always talking as if he weren’t sitting right beside him, and it was an easy way to find clues.  But between the nervous twisting of his stomach and the fact that they were discussing baking, Angus didn’t bother.  There was not much of importance to be learned from a few traded recipes and he was too anxious and hungry to focus on much beyond his snack.

His mind must have wandered while he ate, because he was startled at the touch to his shoulder.  He looked up sharply, eyes wide and surprised, to find Mr. Taako looking at him, frowning slightly, one hand on Angus’s shoulder.  “Hey, Ango,” he chuckled, forcing another small smile.  He had gotten his name wrong, again, but differently this time.  Maybe it was on purpose?  Angus still didn’t correct him.  “You enjoying that cake?”

Angus swallowed, nodding.  “Yes, sir.”

“You sure?  You don’t have to eat it if you don’t want to, I’ve got plenty of other stuff around here.”

“Oh, no sir, I, I like it very much!” Angus insisted, not wanting to offend the man who was feeding him.  To prove his point, Angus put the rest of it in his mouth all at once.  It was only a little big for a single bite, as he’d nearly finished it, but if he’d continued to ration it, he could have made it last quite a bit longer.

Mr. Taako watched him for another moment, and Angus could sense Ms. Sloane watching as well, though this wasn’t such unusual behavior, Angus always tried to do what he could to please whomever he’d come to stay with.  He gave a tense smile, hoping they wouldn’t press him further, though what they could possibly press him on, Angus didn’t know.

And then Mr. Taako removed his hand from Angus’s shoulder, clapping his hands together and smiling.  Angus was proud of himself for not flinching at the loud sound of his hands coming together, but he had a clear view of his movement, he’d seen it coming.  “Alright, then.  Why don’t we show you to your room, hmm?”

Angus swallowed his cake and nodded.  “Certainly, sir,” he said, wondering briefly if there were any other children living here that he might have to share sleeping quarters with.  It wouldn’t be the first time, but Angus prefered having his own space when he could.  He’d lost several possessions to roommates who were careless or ruthless and damaged or stole his belongings.

He and Ms. Sloane stood when Mr. Taako did, following him down the hall.  Angus clutched his bag in one hand, looking around at the photos on the walls.  There was a lot to take in, but Angus did his best to quickly catalogue what he could.

Most of the photos had some of the same dozen or so people in them.  There was an elf whom Angus assumed was a sibling of Mr. Taako’s, and two human men, one taller and broad shouldered, the other more heavy set and almost always wearing a pair of bluejeans.  There was a dwarf, Angus wasn’t sure if they were male or female, sometimes depicted with a pair of dwarven children a little younger looking than Angus.  A human woman and a gnomish man were also in many of the photographs, as well was an orc and a dragonborn.

Angus saw several wedding-party pictures of them all, at what appeared to three different weddings.  The first seemed to be the orc and dragonborn’s wedding, the two of them in the center of the party, both wearing extravagant gowns and holding hands.  Another photo showed Mr. Taako’s sibling, also in a gown, this one shorter to show off more of their legs, with the man that wore jeans in any casual photo beside her, now dressed in a very nice tuxedo.  There was also one of Mr. Taako and the only man in any of these photos that looked like he was related to Angus.

Cousin Kravitz was very tall, his skin darker even than Angus’s own, and his long, black hair was in gorgeous dreadlocks.  Mr. Taako was beaming beside him, surrounded by the people who must be their friends and family.  Cousin Kravitz was wearing a navy tuxedo with black accents while Mr. Taako was in a three-piece-suit, also navy with black accents, and they both had several silver piercings.

It shouldn’t have been such a surprise, but he hadn’t considered that Mr. Taako was his cousin’s husband.  The weight in his stomach felt heavier, realizing just how much influence Mr. Taako had over his cousin.  He’d have to impress them if he wanted to stick around.  And he did, he really did.  Angus was so tired of being shuffled from place to place.

[wreckitrhino]

Tagged by @skittering-roach​

Rules: choose any three fandoms (in random order) and answer the questions, then tag 10 people you want to know better

Three fandoms:

Red vs Blue

The Adventure Zone (Balance)

Monster High

The first character you loved: Red vs Blue Oh god. It’s been like 8+ years since I did my first watch through.  I believe the first character I loved was probably Caboose based on the old fan art I had to clear out. I love this big bundle of dumb. He’s essentially the spirit of Red and Blue Team.  The Adventure Zone Taako Taaco. He was such a fun character that stole the show right off the bat for me. Taako helped keep my attention on the series for the first arc because it does take a bit to get into the series before The Black Spider’s appearance (when the ball really gets rolling). Monster High Lagoona Blue. I really adored her design when I first saw her in the cartoons. She’s an advocate, active, brave, and extremely thoughtful. Her accent is super cute. The movies never could do her look justice like it did in the original cartoon.

The character you never expected to love so much: Red vs Blue Oh god. Hmmm. Probably Locus? He had this mysterious and spooky vibe when he was first introduced and then was completely overshadowed by the force that is Felix. But he (Chorus Trilogy and s15 spoilers) broke out of his shadow, became his own person, and became friends with Grif. I really want to know what his future will hold. Also Red Team calls dibs.  The Adventure Zone Definitely Merle Highchurch. He’s a very underrated character in the fandom, I feel like. I absolutely adore this mess of a man. He won me over during the Stolen Century (though he was already gradually moving up in the favorite ranks) when Clint seamlessly transitioned into a completely different Merle to better suit that arc and then back to his original Merle when starting Story and Song. I was impressed. And the Parely scene? Absolutely magnificent, powerful, moving, has the best villain interacting with a character whose perspective is so different from his own. Monster High  This one is difficult to answer. To be honest I feel like it’d be a tie between Jackson Jekyll/Holt Hyde  and Hoodude Voodoo. The reason I say that was because none of them were in my radar as best character material. The more I saw them the more I loved them. There was an especially hidden complexity with Jackson/Holt’s character, that I started to explore in fanfiction and his journal. Hoodude’s introduction didn’t show much for his personality, but when they added him in Scaris as well as the Casta Fierce webisode of MH, he sold me over.

The character you relate to the most: Red vs Blue Simmons. I infodump like it’s nobodies business. I get anxiety when things aren’t neat in certain areas, especially when I’m dealing with other sources of stress. I like showing off how organized I can get. Sometimes I get obsessive about it (usually collections). I can’t talk to people to save my life. I hate feeling vulnerable. I also make weird mouth noises (you know the one’s Simmons makes). The Adventure Zone  Honestly I can’t really see myself relating to a character more than any other one. I see my joy of life in Merle, my cynical nature in Taako and John, Magnus’s love of his friends and family, Angus’s love of learning, Lucretia’s strong headedness, Lup’s chaotic nature with a strong sense of morality, etc.  Monster High Twyla Boogeyman. Besides looking very similar to me in monster form and sounding a tad like me, she is an introvert that dislikes large crowds. She likes to observe others more than interfere. She’s very down to earth and likes looking at things in a more logical perspective. Personality > Beauty. She doesn’t understand how boy crazy her ghoulfriends get.

The character you’d slap: Red vs Blue Basically all of the big bads no one likes in the series (eg. The Director). Also Felix because that boy needs some sense slapped into him. As of recently, Doc.   The Adventure Zone Lucas Miller.  Monster High It got to the point that I wanted Toralei to get slapped because she kept crossing the line over and over again.

Three favorite characters (in order of preference): Red vs Blue - Simmons, Grif, Dr. Emily Grey The Adventure Zone  - Merle Highchurch, John Hunger, (torn between Kravitz and Taako for the last one) Monster High - Abbey Bominable, Heath Burns, Jackson Jekyll/Holt Hyde

A character you liked at first but don’t anymore: Red vs Blue Bad question. There is no character I have fallen out of love. Even everyone at their most frustrating (outside of the big bads mentioned prior) is still a loveable asshole.  The Adventure Zone Uhhhh. Is there a character not to like in TAZ? I don’t think I’ve fallen out of love for any of the charas. In fact I probably fell in love with most of them even more than before. Monster High Toralei Stripe, maybe a little bit of Moanica D’kay. Mostly because I need breathing room between antagonist-like characters and MH struggled to do that. Toralei I end up liking and disliking and liking repeatedly.

Three OTPs: Red vs Blue - Grif x Simmons (the ultimate OTP), Sarge x Emily Grey, Church x Tex (cuz I’m a basic bitch and am flexible for my other pairings) The Adventure Zone - Taako x Kravitz, Barry Bluejeans x Lup,  John x Merle (ngl I really like this pairing. Blame the fic Zone of Trulips) Monster High - Heath Burns x Abbey Bominable, Twyla Boogeyman x Howleen Wolf, Deuce Gorgon x Cleo de Nile

Tagging: @validboi69, @party-penguin27, @ashenlight, @celticteddy, @morphing-reality, @kat-ampora, @the-space-avenger, @bestslothparty, @manicpixiedreamgoblin, @snarkylittlespeedster and anyone else who wants to do the thing.