#bc he has a boat in modern right?

[unknownati]

xii. never lose me

a/n: (i lost the ask so sorry to that anon, hope u still find this 💀 but the ask was like: can you make a fic based off never lose me by flo milli? with smut)

happy new year my loves!

sorry this took so long im such a slow writer. plus im braindead asf. ik i said i had to proofread this in my last post but i lied i didnt 😬

nooobody ask me where he got all this money cuz baby idk. i hope some of this stuff is correct bc i am not rich 😭

warnings/tags: smut 👻, fem!black!reader, no use of y/n, no desc of reader's physical features BUT reader dresses feminine (think aliyahsinterlude), modern!ekko, boat sex yay, semi-public(?), risky, backshots 🎉, oral (e! recieving), reader getting spoiled, soft dom!ekko, so loosely inspired by the song, not proofread. raw vibe

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ekko goes above and beyond treating you right.

anything you want, all yours. that new purse? check your mailbox. you need your nails done? here's $300, keep the change, don't worry about it. he always makes sure you're pleased, even if you don't ask. he knows everything about you by heart. favorite flowers, favorite foods, plus your usual orders, so it's not uncommon to come home to food on the table with a fresh vase of florals seated next to it.

of course, nothing about this relationship was ever one sided. there is no one who prances around announcing that ekko is your man quite like you do. you make sure ekko knows that if he ever needs you, no matter what, you're there.

in return, you get whatever you want.

"ekko," you sing, putting your phone down in the cup holder. your hand rests over ekko's, which has a gentle grip on your thigh. crickets chirp outside, veiled beneath the dark sky and lack of light. you're speeding down an empty backroad on your way back home from a little shopping spree at a mall an hour and some change away. "i wanna go somewhere."

he hums. "where were you thinking?"

"dunno yet," you lean your weight onto the center console, maybe somewhere in asia."

"yeah?" he asks, squeezing the fat of your thigh. you smile wide. "sure. let me know when you decide."

"i will, thanks baby," you chirp, gently pulling his hand up your thigh and closer to your center. his fingers catch on the hem, pushing your denim skirt up and gently pressing his thumb into your clit. he's rubbing featherlight circles into it, running over the lacy underwear he bought for you a while back. your gasp is barely heard beneath the music.

the engine whirrs, and you see the speedometer shoot up.

so impatient.

.:*☆

it truly didn't take long for ekko to book that flight. you said the place, and about 30 minutes later everything was set in stone.

excitement rushed through your body as you packed, making sure to tuck your matching sets beneath your clothes. he deserved some type of reward, right?

when you finally arrived at your hotel, late into the night, jet-lagged to all hell, you couldn't help but ask ekko if he needed some help. he did everything, all you did was walk around, complain about your feet hurting a bit, and cling to his arm. regardless, he insisted you worried about nothing and just got comfy for the night because he had something big planned tomorrow.

never would you have ever guessed that you'd end up on a cruiser yacht.

he had you blindfolded after you returned to the hotel from eating and shopping, promising that you'd love it and that you just needed to be patient and trust him. you did; no hesitation there.

and once he slipped it off after your minor freak-out wondering what you're stepping onto that has to be so wobbly, it took your breath away.

the sun sinks below the horizon, yellow rays glittering off of the water. your hands met his, perched on your hips, looking back to find his prideful grin.

"ekko..." you pout.

"iii know, i'm a great boyfriend, you love me, i know," he jokes, chuckling as you walk around the cockpit, marveling the fact that you're on one. "it'll leave soon, there's a cooler with drinks, and i can take pictures for you."

you smile wide. "my personal photographer. in fact, take some of me right now before the sun sets," you rush to hand him your phone, quickly posing yourself in front of the scene.

ekko took taking photos for you so seriously, genuinely telling you how to switch your posing and expression, and without missing a beat always hyping you up to the third degree.

so when you heard nothing from ekko, no 'oooh's or 'mhm's, you turned to him.

"ekko?"

"sorry, you're just..." he laughs sheepishly, avoiding your gaze as if he wasn't the key to your heart. "so pretty."

you roll your eyes. "you're so corny."

the tone of your voice completely betrayed your words, honeyed and bashful. he catches it, shaking his head and raising the camera again.

"right—okay, let's try this again."

.:*☆

the pictures came out great. you wanted to wait until you got home to pick your favorites to post, but all of them were so good that you didn't know which one to pick.

you leaned against the railing, staring out into deep night, city lights twinkling in the distance. the cool sea breeze rushes against your skin, the salty scent of the ocean flooding around you. it was too good of an opportunity to not take more.

"ekko, take a few more for me?"

he hums, not a moment of protest, finding your phone and settling into the seat opposite of you.

you take your seat as well, your torso twisted and legs crossed. his mouth opens—'move your leg a little' rests on his tongue, until he inspects your gaze through the phone. you weren't quite looking at the camera, but rather...behind it.

"you okay?"

you nod. "yeah...you look good as fuck over there."

he fumbles over his words for a moment, looking down at his attire. "in my spiderman shirt?"

"mhm, especially in your spiderman shirt," you look him up and down, eyes sliding over his muscles. "come back over here real quick?"

he's surprised he didn't trip from how quickly he scrambled over to you, sitting in the seat beside you. his smile is poorly hidden as you crawl into his lap. his hands find your waist, pulling you closer.

you direct his face up, fingers gently pushing at his chin, leaning down to lock your lips together.

his hands roam your body—clearly too impatient—fingers pushing beneath your shirt, pulling up and revealing your bra. intricate lace, almost in a floral pattern, dyed a dusty pink that was barely visible under the moonlight. the cups had a deep cut, plunging down from your collar bone to the bottom of your sternum with a dainty little decorative bow.

you literally feel him getting hard. he looks up, fingers running along the band. "this for me?"

"sure is." you nod, reaching down to tug your skirt down. the hem of your matching panties peek out. "you like 'em?"

"do i?" he glances above the short barrier at the captain, who isn't paying an ounce of attention. just humming in his own world, only focused on the path they were going on. perfect.

"shit..." his lips reconnect with yours before trailing down, sucking hickies into your skin, tightly squeezing your thighs, brows furrowing.

you can already tell he's going to find a way to seat you right on his face so you stop him—not because you don't want that, but you've been spoiled enough for one day—pushing his shoulders back and getting off of him.

he looked like a kicked puppy when you separated from him and you just roll your eyes, sinking down onto your knees with a wide smile. it all connects for him and he relaxes against the seat, lips parting as you quickly unbutton his pants, your nail hooking at the band of his trunks. you tug, down, down, down, until his dick springs free and lightly taps his naval.

you waste no time, your lips meeting the base, then parting to let your tongue run up a vein that lead you to the sensitive tip.

ekko shivers, eyes shifting from the arch in your back to your lips, leaving glossy stamps all along his length.

you, on the other hand, kept your eyes locked onto his. he kept averting his gaze. for what, you weren't sure. but you tapped his tip against your tongue, capturing his attention. finally, his eyes meet yours. now you feel like you can continue.

you kiss the tip again, smiling up at him as you allow it to breach your lips, sliding into your mouth agonizingly slow.

"fuuuck," he drags, watching you slowly sink down, taking almost all of it yet stopping where your lips met your fingers.

you get acquainted with the feeling, adjusting your tongue to press against the skin. your cheeks hollow, your head slowly falling into a bobbing movement, stroking him alongside your movements.

he struggles to not thrust straight up into your mouth, gripping the edge of the leather cushions. one hand meets the back of your head but doesn't push or pull, just rests there.

his hips twitch, torso relaxing against the back of the seat, growing rigid whenever your tongue ran across just the right spot. his chest rises and falls rapidly, quickly drawing in breaths then moaning them right out.

your jaw already started to ache, but looking up at him as he falls apart from just your mouth is beyond worth it. he shakes his head, eyes leaving yours, squeezing shut, and you can tell he's already close.

his hand leaves your head, forearm laying against his forehead. you tap him, a reminder. look at me. he peeks down, a breathy chuckle pushing through.

"doin' so good for me, yeah? 'm close—" he warns you—you nod in acknowledgment.

you unhinge your jaw, sticking your tongue out so he can watch his cum spill all over it,

he sucks air in through his teeth, and before you know it you're bent over the seat, looking out onto the horizon. you start to speak and he just shushes you, tugging your skirt up and pulling your panties to the side. soaked.

maybe you were just too impatient, because before he could even get comfortable you were reaching back to put it in. his laugh rings behind you, shooing your hand away so he can finish sinking all the way inside you.

his pelvis meets your ass and you almost caught a glimpse of the back of your skull. he started slow, gripping your waist and bringing you back to meet his strokes.

you're squeezing around him so tight, and all he can do is stare in awe at it. his length glistens, coated in your juices. then he couldn't take it, his pace quickening, watching the fat of your ass recoil against his movements.

it feels euphoric, almost unreal. staring out into the night sky, stars twinkling above you, ocean swaying below you, and ekko thrusting into your heat, moaning behind you—it was overwhelming, it had your flesh running hot.

"feels good?" he questions, though your gasps and mewls answer loud and clear.

"fuck, yes."

"mhm, you're mine, right?"

"a-all yours." you nod.

"all mine?" he asks, and it's rhetorical. not like you could reply anyway, because your moans caught in your throat, rendering any chance you had at words useless.

your noises drowned beneath the whirring of the motor paired with the water swaying beneath you, which you're endlessly grateful for. you're lucky that driver pays almost no attention to what's happening behind him.

you were especially loud, and it only got worse as you felt your orgasm building. ekko knew it too, the way your voice shook, the way you tightened around him, the way you begged him not to stop—it was pushing him over the edge too.

"fuck, that's it. just like that. i got you, okay? good."

your cries overlap ekko's softer groans as you came, your form trembling, jolts of pleasure coursing throughout your body as he fucked you through it.

he had to hold back from coming inside you, letting you ride out your high before pulling out to release all over your back.

he gives you no time to recover, immediately diving in for another round, intoxicated with the way you gasps caught in your throat, holding onto the seat for dear life.

he leans down, his lips meeting your shoulder, his brows furrowed. it did not take long for the two of you to get close again, still sensitive from your previous release. within a few minutes, your juices coat his length and another load lands on your back, seeping down and settling into the dip of your spine.

you're both catching your breath, ekko presses a kiss to the shell of your ear, and you have to stop him from kissing you more. "we're almost there," you hiss, and he huffs, lifting off of you to get himself together,

thank god there were paper towels on board. he cleans his release off of your back and skirt, managing to get the both of your appearances together by the time the yacht met the docks.

the moment the captain comes back to thank you for riding with him, ekko's giving him the quickest thank you possible along with his tip and rushing you off of the boat.

"let's get back to the room? i just wanna see that set you have on a little better."

you know that the second that door closes behind you in the hotel, there is not a chance you'll be stopping.

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pssst!: not the most confident in this one.,. i will make up for this one i swear 😔 locking in!

maybe a part 2 with what happens at the hotel cough cough

[thedawningofthehour]

Hi Fai, I know it‘s evil to ask you these questions bc your worldbuilder brain might go brrrrr, but if there WAS an Atlantis, I assume it would have turtle yokai? Do u think the fact that they mostly stay underwater allow some gigantism?

But my actual question; would there ONLY be underwater yokai? I mean, Gale can breathe underwater (probably? It‘s saltwater I mean, I think you mentioned it would fuck up his skin after a while in tfts?) but if they were to visit there, could Draxum use some sort of spell or air bubble to come, like in that one Bojack Horseman underwater episode? Or would he have to keep both hooves on the boat/other side of the portal, while Donnie can keep his eyes open for any billionaire submarines

(Hypothetically, apart from the fact that Draxum obviously wouldn’t ever let Gale go there alone, I mean)

Also, entirely unrelated, if the doth cast was dropped into a beach episode how would that go? Would Gale turn into a horror movie creature? I think that would make him healthy, unbothered, moisturized

(pls don’t feel obligated to give super detailed answers or any at all, I‘m just really curious about your ideas relating that)

Love!!

You're right, you are evil. 💕

That would depend on where Atlantis is in this universe. While, most likely, Plato was using Atlantis completely metaphorically and was not referring to any historical civilization in particular, there's still a number of places proposed that he could have been talking about. The very name Atlantis implies that it was located in the Atlantic, and Plato describes it as being located "in front of the mouth which you Greeks call the pillars of Hercules." (The Strait of Gibraltar-the channel in between Spain and Morocco, if you're bad at geography) Furthermore, Atlantis is also stated to be huge, Plato says it's really more of a continent, "larger than Libya and Asia together." (to my understanding, they used 'Libya' to refer to all of Africa outside of Egypt at the time)

It sounds...weirdly like he's describing the Americas. "a confederation of kings, of great and marvelous power," yeah, there were absolutely ancient American societies that grew very large and could be considered to rival kingdoms.

Except, you know, even though we know now that Africa used to be all snuggled up in between the Americas, that scale of 'used to' is measured in millions of years. Loooooong before anything resembling modern humans existed, and certainly long before we had any form of oral history we could use to pass the knowledge down. People came to the Americas the other way, from what is now Russia to Alaska, or by island-hopping the Pacific. And while Europeans absolutely did cross over to the Americas before Columbus, they mostly did this farther north. Where, you know, there was Iceland to stop at. And Greenland not too far from that. And it was a physically shorter distance from the coast of Iceland to Canada. And, important to note, this was estimated to have happened during the Viking Age, roughly a thousand years ago. Plato wrote this in 360 BCE, and claimed that Atlantis rose and fell 9000 years before his time, (though apparently he might have meant months, which would make it 750 years) I don't know much about ships but I think I can say with some certainty that absolutely no one had the technology to sail from Gibraltar across the Atlantic to hit the shores of West Virginia in, at the very latest, 1000 BCE. And even less likely that Athens would have particular beef with these people.

Of course, there's always the possibility that Plato's understanding of where Atlantis is (if there was even a historical equivalent to Atlantis at all) was misunderstood or mistranslated over the years. It's very possible that the island nation he spoke of was inside the Mediterranean-likely, even, considering the tectonic activity in many areas. We already know that Malta is merely the top part of a much greater island that has since sank below sea levels. And Greece itself is well-known for its volcanic activity-literally, it's a bunch of islands formed from the nonsense of the Aegean Sea Plate, it can't not have tons of volcanic activity. There were absolutely small island nations that exploded and were completely destroyed by Pele stretching her legs in ancient history. Hell, we have a pretty good candidate for what a Greek Atlantis might have been-

This is the island of Thera. You see that bay in the middle, with the bit in the middle not quite breaking the surface?

That's the volcano.

It literally destroyed itself. Civilization on the island was wiped out, some people survived and came back to see what they could retrieve and bury their dead but it remained unoccupied for a few more centuries. It caused earthquakes and tsunamis that destroyed settlements in the surrounding islands and as far away as Crete, causing 'apocalyptic rainstorms' in Egypt.

This happened around 1600 BCE, so while neither dates match, considering the imprecise nature an estimate on that scale would have in Plato's time, it's very possible that he was referring to the destruction of Thera.

If a Yokai Atlantis did exist somewhere around Greece, or somewhere around Italy where there's also a lot of that nonsense, it would likely built upon a now-submerged island. Maybe even get some coral reef activity going on? 'Googles something' Okay no, apparently coral reefs aren't very common in the Mediterranean. I guess it's too cold? You don't really think of Greece or Italy being cold, but compared to the waters around the Philippines and Indonesia I guess it is. Well, the map in Wikipedia shows some coral reefs off the coast of Sicily, plus we're playing with magic here so I'm saying it could happen.

And that would be sick. Like, sooooo many possibilities for aquatic Yokai. How their city is set up, their architecture and culture. How they communicate with each other, with other Yokai.

It would be pretty unlikely for gigantism to occur there though. I know we talked in the doth comments about how the difference in gravity underwater allows animals to grow absolutely huge without putting their bodies under such immense strain, but that's only half the equation. The other half is why they would need to.

Animals don't just evolve for no reason. I mean, sometimes weird mutations do occur spontaneously and end up getting bred into the species because it isn't detrimental enough to impact their survivability, (this is actually what happened with humans and why we can be vitamin C deficient, we lost the gene that handles producing it and it just straight-up wasn't an issue until we moved out of sub-Saharan Africa because we were living in the tropics with so much vitamin C-rich foods available) but if something's not broke they don't fix it. In this scenario, in a coral reef ecosystem or neritic zone, there would be little reason for gigantism because they wouldn't need to conserve calories so much-they have plenty of food available, and they'll have plenty of food tomorrow. They might get bigger, but there would be no reason to become truly giant. Getting big might cause more issues than it's worth if the waters are shallower, (it's my understanding that the Mediterranean isn't particularly deep on average, and this Yokai settlement would be built on a seamount and would be closer to the surface anyway) and would be hard to maneuver. Plus they can upset the food chain by becoming too big and consuming too much, which would cause a collapse and kill them anyway. Just too much of a risky move for evolution to take.

(of course, we're talking about a magical world where humans can be crossed with goats and then can go on to give turtles depression, so it's not out of the question that the mutation itself can give people gigantism but let's stick to science for now)

But as cool as that is, I know that isn't what you're asking for, so let's move to the other locational option.

So. In the Atlantic, but before you hit the Americas. What's there?

Uh...not really a whole lot.

Like, there are some islands and seamounts, but nothing compared to the Pacific. Someone smarter than me can explain how that works with tectonics and why so many islands arose within the Ring of Fire, but if I go down that Wikipedia rabbit hole I'll have written a dissertation on this. Basically, the Atlantic Ocean is pretty deep, and it just kind of...stays deep. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is still on average about a thousand feet below sea level, so even the high points are barely breaking the photic zone.

And the problem is, there at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, is that there's no sunlight. And you kind of need sunlight for a viable ecosystem-like, even if you're a carnivore, what you're preying on is probably an herbivore. Even if it's not, there's an herbivore at some point in the chain-and the plants it eats needs sunlight. So down at the bottom of the sea, where no light penetrates, they have to subsist on what floats down there or go to shallower waters to eat.

A lot of deep-sea creatures live off of marine snow, which is that shit that floats down I mentioned earlier-dead things, phytoplankton, and literal shit. These guys actually tend to get smaller in the deep sea-predation is much rarer down there-to reduce the amount of food they need to sustain their bodies. And a lot of them are hermaphrodites literally just because sexing is hard and they don't have the energy to fuck around finding one of the right sex.

The guys who travel to shallow waters for food, like our friends the colossal and giant squid, they tend to exhibit gigantism because the body becomes more efficient at processing and storing food the bigger it gets.

That's what this girl was doing when she was caught. She'd come to shallow waters and was chowing down on a toothfish she'd pilfered from their line. (she was already very close to death, deep sea creatures like this are adapted for high water pressure and low temperatures and don't fare well if they swim too close to the surface) So they do have to put themselves in danger to feed, and have to eat a lot to fuel their giant body. But they only have to make this trip every couple of years or so. The rest of the time homegirl was just floating and vibing in the deep sea, not doing much of anything to conserve that last meal. Their size also makes them quite able to defend themselves, and threatening enough that most predators won't bother.

(just to note, this beautiful lady was estimated to be about 10 meters long when they pulled her up-33 feet in freedom units. And her beak was significantly smaller than the beaks we've found before, implying that she wasn't even fully grown. These things are massive)

So how would that translate to deep-sea Yokai? Well, I think it would be really hard for intelligent Yokai to exist down there at all. Not to say it can't happen, but our big brains are very resource-intensive. Like, that's the whole reason we eat meat while other apes are mostly herbivores, our big brains needed more energy. (generally herbivores, they eat insects and will eat small game if they can get their hands on it, but that's true for most herbivores) And the combination of needing more fuel for our big brains and having the capacity to be bored would greatly interfere with the 'just vibing' method of survival and force them to be more active-which would require more calories, and thus the problem snowballs. They'd probably be blind, since there's no light down there. They also probably wouldn't be nearly as active as the Yokai we see, since moving their giant bodies and doing things and socializing would take so much energy.

Unless they can get their energy from like, geothermal heat or something? That might work. We're talking about magical creatures after all, it has to make sense but that doesn't mean it has to be realistic.

But generally, for deep-sea giant Yokai to work, they'd need to be migratory and return to shallower waters quite frequently to eat, which begs the question of why they don't just stay in those shallower waters and stop being so giant since they're already there all the time.

Or maybe they just have their own little greenhouses at the top of their city like these dudes:

[nerves-nebula]

Very interested in Hondo rn, bc he started out being abusive @ Quinn (?). What did his character used to be like, and how would u say they’ve changed?

Yea so Hondo, like Quinn, has really on maintained surface level similarities to their original concepts. Same look, same smugness & sass etc. but the original idea of his character that I made up when I was like 13 was a racist sexually abusive slave owner. Quinn was his slave, and Thatcher was his friend who was like “hey I don’t think it’s good to have slaves maybe?”

They were an abysmally dysfunctional and abusive trio who were like kind of friends and kind of not. Quinn could never fully be their peer cuz they were a slave obviously. Thatcher was of lower status than Hondo too, but admittedly not by much. Quinn was raised alongside Thatcher and Hondo but you know. As a “companion” for them. Wasn’t great.

Honestly the character that’s changed the least is Thatcher. Thatcher always had a kind of strong moral compass/emotional reaction to injustice, but was also afraid to rock the boat. Slavery was the norm in their high status households and Thatcher didn’t think it was right but also didn’t see how they alone could change it. Thatcher might’ve been feeding info to anti slavery groups tho cuz they felt it was all they could do, but for the most part they saw themselves as kind of a stagnant coward and covered it up with an upbeat & boisterous attitude.

Anyway Hondo and Quinn fucking hated each other. Ok it was mostly Quinn hating Hondo but it went both ways on occasion. Lots of gratuitous humiliation and abuse cuz I was 13.

Then I was like hm actually I don’t really want to write about slavery I don’t think I’d do a good job handling the topic. and totally uprooted the whole story. Hondo became rich a sexually abusive best friend in the dreaded three person friendship group.

And then stuff kind of just kept drifting over the years between little tweaks and lore adjustments until Clement popped up and ended up taking on the role of “high society serial sexual abuser” and Hondo became something else entirely.

Now Hondo is a normal, somewhat bitter guy in a poly relationship with a high priest and a dancer, who he’s been friends with his entire life. He’s a part of a persecuted minority religious group and is still snarky and sarcastic but like. He’s a fully different man. Modern Hondo would eviscerate his progenitor no questions asked.

He still does some fucked up things tho don’t worry :3 they’re just if a different nature

[taeiris]

What fandoms do you think each of the main 4 boys + el and max would be in if they were in a modern au? (You dont have to come up with a completely different one for each, they can overlap a bit). U r awesome ;)

this is a dangerous question bc im just gonna project now

so mike and lucas are def in the marvel fandom but theyre like two very different fans

lucas would be like me and enjoy the movies but then mike is the type to criticize them a lot esp after endgame bc hes one of THOSE ppl but not in a supee insufferable way dont worry i wont do him that dirty

el and will def like kpop and stan txt and itzy bc i stan txt and itzy and they are me

mike secretly listens to taylor swift

dustin showed will a sleep token song once and he was so in denial abt it but then he went home and now he’s obsessed (bc im literally in my sleep token phase rn AND HE IS ME AGAIN GET USED TO THE PROJECTION)

theyre all in the star wars fandom obviously

el and dustin love disney movies and princesses

i feel like el loves them for the funsies and pretties but also bc she loves women #womenkisser AND dustin likes them bc of the lore like idk he makes it even more dramatic yk? like he knows all the original dark tales and he also is into the conspiracy theories like for example the boat that killed ariels mom was the boat elsa and anna’s parents were in??😭💀

im not in a lot of fandoms so i just. this is all i can do okay

im right

oh they all go to the cinema to watch all marvel movies as they come out bc its like tradition (i do that with my irls when we can)

they eat ice cream and fight over their opinions on them afterwards

el loves wandavision bc i said so

max loves moonknight

OMG MAX would def stan olivia rodrigo and conan gray like if you get it you get it and if you dont i dont wanna hear it honestly

mike has a massive crush on captain america despite being team iron man in civil war

LISTEN. im team stop fighting but i lean into iron mans team idc

dustin and mike fight about it, el joins in and says okay nincompoop (mike wheeler) stfu bc bucky wasnt himself and hes trying to get the other super soldiers!! shes an empath

(if thats not how civil war went i apologize i havent watched it in a while and to be honest it took me like 5 watches to understand what they were fighting abt)

wills fav txt song is cysm and nap of a star

el LOVES the guardians of the galaxy trilogy (she’s just like me)

will has a sudden obsession with antman 2

maxs fav avengers are natasha and vision

this turned into the party and mcu headcanons so im gonna stop now before i keep assigning them everything i like okay goodbye

MAX LOVES ROSALIA

Okay done now

[its-tea-time-darling]

Oh tea. The rarepairs I have thought about. You’ve opened a door and the ocean is at it (the ocean being my unhinged mind) (and I will not flood you though) 💕

First — I’ve been thinking about Aris and Gally a lot and I want to see if you can be on board with me. To my knowledge their interaction is few and far between but I just kind of love the idea of them.

Aris: contained and somewhat shy but even more cunning than Thomas, less outspoken and openly curious but finds out information and pieces together things on his own before showing anyone else and if someone gets the privilege to see what he’s discovered it’s a great one, not exactly an amazing runner but has his own tactics of survival as he is somewhat mischievous in his own right. Kind of the hidden predator you’d never expect but also doesn’t want to be that if he doesn’t have to.

Gally: I’d wax poetic but we both know, we just both KNOW, especially post tdc he’s damaged and lonely and trying his best, can be absolutely brutal but doesn’t want to be seen as such, ruthless when on a mission, is very intelligent and was often underestimated, does let fear control his motivation but he’s trying to overcome that because he wants to be BRAVE (oh look at that I’m waxing poetic again).

Anyways, yeah — tea, do you have thoughts or am I alone on this boat?

why helloooOOOO

first off: crest, you are NEVER alone in a boat 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 but also not in this specific one, worry not.

i've talked about aris and gally with @dunne-ias before and i do love the idea of them!! i believe that was in a modern day au, where aris just fit that tad bit better than thomas because he's that little bit more.. off. which is a bit of what you're getting at, too, i think?

ias correct me if i'm wrong but i think it was aris being into gally and gally not clocking it At All? which in that instant was just much more charming than if it would've been thomas, bc thomas is all head first running into something and aris would be keeping his cards close to his chest, even if he was trying to make it super obvious he had a thing for gally??

and you got me thinking, i don't know that they ever interact in canon at all. aris isn't on the minho rescuing mission, and i just watched the safe haven vince pep talk scene pretty closely to do that thomally week gifset and i don't think gally and aris are shown to acknowledge each other.. but i could be wrong, i wasn't specifically on the lookout!

i do think that in movie canon aris and gally are a very interesting spot, because aris could only ever have heard about gally's arc in the maze second hand. and he never knew chuck. so he might be intuitively more inclined than the gladers to have empathy as his primary reaction to those events. and it could result in scenes of gally trying to explain to aris just why he is such a bad person.

ohhhhh but honestly now i'm thinking about them at safe haven 0.0. quietly working alongside each other (different tasks though, i wouldn't think aris would be especially skilled in building something), and it takes gally much longer to notice aris in the first place than the other way around. bc gally's so caught up in everyone he lost, and the guilt he's carrying with him. i think talking to aris, and forming some sort of tentative friendship could be a really good way for him to get some tether to live that isn't centered around the gladers as a social group.

OR, this just came to me, it could start off as a hook up alsdkjfsalkdjffds. love sex + emotions <3 oh my god. i am having vivid ideas of how a scene like that could go. curse you, crest.

but also thank you - tickling new spots of the brain is always a good time! and tmr rarepairs are just a fantastic way of doing that.

<3

[grunge-mermaid]

grunge rewatches The OC pt 1

I haven't watched this show since it aired. when I was in high school. I'm assuming it hasn't aged well, but who knows

1x01 The Pilot

"modern medicine is advancing to the point where the average human life span will be 100. But I read this article which said Social Security will run out by the year 2025, which means people are gonna have to stay in their jobs until they're 80"

20 years later, Ryan seems like an optimist

this is the show that taught me that there is a world where people have pool houses

ooh smoking so edgy

baby!Dr Link

he grew up good

naming a boat after a girl you've never talked to? that's not a red flag at all

early 2000s teen girl fashion was a travesty

"open collar, it's a good look" Ryan is correct

no one is carding the 15-year-old at the bar? he's only 2/3 the legal drinking age in California come on

is he 15? 16? idk. how many seasons are they in high school for?

I will operate on the assumption that they're 15 until proven otherwise since Luke is the only one who drives (that we know of so far)

gay slur count: 1

ok Summer's dress in the fashion show is kinda cute but that hair & makeup are a travesty

All American Rejects oh man

the music in this show is pretty amazing ngl

"I should really learn to knock in case there's a threesome going on in the bathroom"

gotta have the requisite gaggle of girls on cell phones to show they're rich

how did 14-year-old me not realize I was queer when faced with Summer Roberts in a bikini and low-rise skirt? I'm so sorry, 14yo grunge, you really missed out on fully appreciating

(psst, present day grunge: Rachel Bilson was 22 in season 1. you're good)

ableist slur count: 1

what teenagers actually speak like this have the writers ever spoken to actual teenagers before?

ok a 15yo who cooks breakfast bc his parents are shitty and abusive & he needs to cook or else he doesn't eat & neither will his parents? absolutely believable. also absolutely believable he would do it out of habit + as a thank you for taking him in for the weekend

a 15yo who cooks bacon and pancakes and sets the fucking table for breakfast? who is this child

ok maybe it hasn't aged as badly as I thought. the hair and clothes have, but otherwise it's holding up ok

1x02 The Model Home

ohhh I remember this episode

I think

there's a fire, right?

Luke and Ryan fight and they start a fire in the model home?

wait Marissa drives maybe they are 16?

Ryan and Marissa are prime Siblings Or Dating content

flip

phones

gay slur count: 2

$100,000 seems pretty low-stakes for Jimmy to be so worried about given the presumed scale of the investments he was managing

like, that's a lot of money for sure but if he's

the show that introduced me to Jeff Buckley's version of Hallelujah

girl you met him literally 2 days ago why are you so intense about this?

you're not romeo and juliet calm down

oh there's the fire

Luke "I'm an asshole bully not a murderer" Ward

Julie was pregnant in 1986 so Marissa at least is almost-17?

but if season 3 is their senior year, then in season 1 they're all going into grade 10, so shouldn't they be 15? I'm overthinking this, I'm aware

1x03 The Gamble

Julie Cooper reminds me of Bertha Russell but without any of the charm or warmth or manners or fashion sense

I should take that back. Bertha doesn't deserve to be compared to Julie Cooper, she's too beguiling and clever. Julie is just shallow and manipulative.

"no two black tie events in the same month" I would love to live a life where this is my biggest concern

of course these women watch Dr Phil

god they'd be on the front lines of Moms For Liberty wouldn't they

"we welcome everyone here. I'm from the Bronx and you're from Riverside" what a fascinating definition of diversity (Newport, not Sandy. Sandy knows what's up)

"he called me white trash"

honey, you may be rich but you are pretty trashy

being trash has nothing to do with net worth and everything to do with attitude

"Ryan's gonna stay with us now" 😭

ok that's it for tonight but I was wrong. besides some atrocious fashion and period-typical homophobia, it's holding up pretty well

[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

I just scrolled in ur blog and I srsly love it. All those headcanons! Just great. So here r mine (mostly queer hc)

So dipper is transmasc (ik it's canon) and has PTSD and is neurodivergent

Mabel- I like to imagine that she's aroace but still loves romance books and movies and stuff. Also she uses many different pronouns. My other hc for her is that she's pan or bi and trans. AuDHD

Stan- He can totally play ukulele. bi and genderfluid/transmasc. I imagine him taking t and that he had his top surgery in some side street while beeing homeless. And he loves wearing dresses. When they were young him and ford got their earlobes pierced. Maybe Stan had a punk phase. He secretly loves Gompers and even has a mini pool for him. Afraid of needles. Has ADHD

Ford- he's either aro (ace) or a monsterfucker. He havent had top surgery, he binds. Or he's a cis man in my other hc. He uses many pronouns too bc in all the dimensions he was were some that fitted him. He's got so many tattoos and one is a heart and Tesla written on it. Also he's got a cubics cube for fidds and a boat for stan. Also he totally had smth for bill in their early encounters. He's autistic

Fidds- he's also trans but he doesn't use anything to bind or had surgery. Him and ford tried to get T from the mannitaurusses (is that how u spell that?)

Wendy is the bi queen but rn she isn't rlly interested in romance. Shed rather go out with her friends. She often plays pranks on Ford and introduces him to modern technology and anime. She sends ford memes

Soos- he was (i)legally adopted by Stan after he accidentally called Stan dad

Pacifica is a lesbian

I hope I didn't forget anyone :)

oh, cool! a lot of good headcanons right there

I like the idea of ford having a tesla tattoo, might actually steal that one for my own headcanons

[roobylavender]

Your post earlier made me think about how Bruce is really dedicated to learning and acquiring knowledge and how over the course of his life he has acquired a wide array of skills across multiple fields and it just really makes we want to see a version of Bruce who loses his wealth somehow and has to do a normal job in any field because I honestly think it'd pull him out of the doom and gloom mentality and make him genuinely happy. I'm not that far into my Batman reading but I really think it would be an interesting move to make Bruce a normal dude given all the discourse around billionaire superheroes right now and it's probably the best thing for his mental health/general issues to actually be around people.

I also would like to see how it would affect his relationships with his family, friends and allies because he would be out in a position to genuinely experience their reality. Also would love to see him get a job utilising one of his obscure skills that he genuinely likes. How do you think an arc of Bruce having to live like a normal person would go? I love your comic book insights and would love to hear your take

To clarify the previous ask I know he loses his money in current canon but he still seems to be a billionaire? I think? I don't know I cannot get through most modern comics. Anyways good luck with law school and I hope you have a nice day! 🌻🌻🌻

i'm not reading the current dc or batman run and haven't been for the past few years so i am as clueless as to that situation as you are! (and thank you for the well wishes hehe i am sat in criminal law right now utterly bored out of my mind)

i couldn't agree more though! a slight tangent to this idea but one criticism of the dark knight rises that i have noticed bleeds over into opinions of bruce's future in the comics is this idea that he can only ever be batman and if he does not intend to die as batman then the writer behind that decision has failed to understand his character. it's one i'm very confused by and heavily disagree with. before bruce is batman he's bruce. batman exists bc of bruce. it took at least a decade before the specific idea of batman was even implanted into bruce's head if we're going by classic takes on the batman origin story. he had interests before that! he had a life! we are able to see on several occasions that he still wants to have a life even though it grows increasingly difficult to do so while he takes responsibility for being the city's savior. which is what i think makes the concluding thesis of the dark knight rises (for all of its well-criticized flaws) so, so good bc it allows bruce to acknowledge that he doesn't have to carry the world on his shoulders alone, and that acknowledgment isn't reproachful in and of itself, esp where he has people to carry on the cause

i've talked here before about critics' attention to the nihilism of the nolan movies and their focus on the batman as a singular, crucial savior without whom the city falls to pieces, and i totally agree that criticism of building vigilantism on nihilism's foundations is viable. but i also think it's a criticism conveniently made for that movie bc the scope of bruce's immediate posse is incredibly limited. at most he is only ever closely accompanied by two people in any given movie so it's easier to be skeptical of the idea that gotham is presented to only ever need one savior bc there aren't many others to choose from. i do think the dark knight gets close at challenging that notion with the boats set-up towards the end but nolan fails to really see it through when he carries it forward via john blake, who is not only one person, but also a cop. there's a great idea there in bruce indirectly inspiring someone else to do good and act of his own volition but whether its impact is completely effective is debatable and i think most people would agree using the actual robin would have been a far better alternative. the novelty of batman comics in comparison to the nolan trilogy is that superheroes are everywhere. people who do good are everywhere. we are all heroes inherently if we so choose to be. bruce has an entire support system he can trust to carry forward the same faith and duty that he has been for years if he happens to lose it all or need a break or whatever

and i know you're only specifically talking about him losing his wealth so my sincere apologies for going off on such a wild tangent lol! but i do imagine the loss of wealth or even voluntary removal from it would be attached to a departure from batman as well, whether temporary or permanent. i think there's an interesting thread to follow there with how bruce's wealth not only isolates him from certain realities but also enables his dedication to being batman bc he simply always has material and resources at his disposal by way of that wealth (he kind of has to bc otherwise he's more exposedly human). what does he do when he doesn't have immediate access to those things? how does his awareness of ordinary people's circumstances increase and how does that in turn influence the way he chooses to live going forward? it's a really great way to connect him more deeply to people like selina and leslie whose entire survival is premised on their brutal understanding of normalcy and its tension with survival in a place that is anything but normal. bruce has a good head on his shoulders and an even more sympathetic heart but i want to see him really come face to face with the things that only ever exist in his periphery bc his attachment to resources always demands that he fights the foes to match those resources. get him involved with the community on the ground and lead his inclination towards good will to its natural conclusion of people interaction. bc bruce loves people! he craves companionship. if he could spend the rest of his life working with people and for people i think he would. so on the note of what i think he would do i genuinely feel like bruce would love anything to do with community service. involvement in things like student mentorship programs are great bc they're a huge well of creativity for teachers trying to inspire kids to be passionate about their interests and skills. and bruce definitely has the experience from how he trains his robins (esp how he used to in the olden days when it was all chummy gymnastics and boxing friendlies!)

[powderwell]

All for LUCIEN right now

bet, i'm not a coward like you

🌦 How do they like to spend their rainy days?

Lu is the type to curl up with a big book and a glass of wine and pretend that he doesn't have any work to do when the weather is particularly miserable. He prefers the rain to the sun, but that's just because he likes to be cozy and safe and cold

🔥 Have they ever accidentally set something (or someone!) on fire?

Does the Angel/Demon AU where he burned down Heaven's library count?

🥈How would they feel about winning second place in a contest?

Lu would act like it doesn't get to him, but it does because he is SO competitive and has such a complex about being second best so it would eat away at him to know he failed

🚢 Have they ever been on a boat?

I'm almost certain in fantasy AUs he's had to travel by boat often, and in modern AUs he probably has been on a yacht or two for business ("business" sex he did it for sex)

🪦 Is death a major part of their story?

: ) hello Odin how is your mortal soul feeling? like it needs to be constricted and safeguarded from an inevitable end?

🏳️‍🌈 What is their sexuality?

Gay Gay Homosexual Gay

🏳️‍⚧️ What is their gender?

Man with the tightest pussy and ass you've ever experienced

🧳 Have they ever traveled?

Extensively, Lucien is a "go where the work demands" type of person

🐮 Are they lactose intolerant?

I surely hope not

💍 What are their thoughts on marriage?

He used to be so resistant to the idea bc of his commitment issues but also he married Specter so I guess he just needed the right person to make him work through his trauma

🐭 Are they afraid of mice?

I think if he found a mouse in his apartment he would probably just pick it up and domesticate it bc he's a softy

🦸‍♂️ What superpowers do they have? (And if they don't have any what superpower would they have?)

I guess in the original AUs we had for Specter and Lucien, he usually was able to clone himself (Inhuman AU and GW2 AU) which usually was to his detriment and ended up with his real body malnourished and with muscle atrophy bc he wouldn't leave his bed

🫄🏻What are their thoughts on getting pregnant?

HIS thoughts are horror and repulsion, MY thoughts are I want Specter to regularly fuck a litter into him

🦉 Have they ever had a bad experience with an owl?

No, but a RAVEN, that's another story

🫢 Biggest secret?

Probably that he hates himself and regrets who he forces himself to be even thought he can't let go of it because it's the only thing that feels like freedom, but that's not really secret is it

🤮 When was the last time they threw up?

Probably when stuffed fat and full by aforementioned litter

🐶 Do they have a pet dog?

Does Specter count

🧅 Have they ever eaten an onion?

With how Lupin would cook for Lucien, i certainly HOPE so, otherwise that man needs to go back to culinary school

🩰 Can they dance?

Yes, very well!! He's good at a variety of ballroom dances for functions and such

💈What kind of haircut do they have?

Petyr Baelish's evil twin. His hair has curls in it but he fills it with product to make it smooth because it's all part of a performance

💊 Have they ever gotten a taste of their own medicine?

I think he could stand to be betrayed and hurt and backstabbed more often

[sparkedblaze]

Skittery. My nervous little dude I need all your thoughts

SKITTERY

I LOVE SKITTERY!!!

@emmedoesntdomath has kinda gotten me in a life preserver on the Bumlets and Skittery boat. VERY LOOSELY ON BOARD.

I still think Skittery and Blink would make a wonderful pair

Also, let me be very clear:

Blush is one of my top pairings.

But I also have the idea that once Spralbert becomes a thing, the newsies kinda go wild before they settle into actual relationships.

That being said, let’s get into my thoughts™️

Skittery is really quiet, so if they get loud, people listen. Anything they say is usually taken into account by someone.

Skittery is scared of a lot, but they’re brave as fuck dude. They might be scared of the thug that hangs out near their nightly sellin spot, but that doesn’t stop them marching right past him.

They got addicted to smoking at a young age. Younger than most of the newsies. The older kids usually try and keep the little ones from smoking. At least until they’re teens, but Skittery had snatched a pack from a store down the street when they were six. They haven’t stopped since.

They get put into the Refuge a lot for stealing. They have the stickiest fingers. They have a hoard like a little dragon. I won’t tell you where it is. I choose life, thx

Anyone lucky enough to see said hoard is sworn to secrecy, and will be found and… questioned if anything is missing.

Before becoming a newsie, they were on the streets. Abandoned by their parents at the ripe age of five. They were in and out of jail, going between eating well for days and not eating at all for a week. And then they snuck into the newsboys’ house. (And by snuck in I absolutely mean Kloppman pretended not to see them being snuck in by one of the older newsies).

Started hawkin with said older newsie, and learned how to play to the strengths of the headlines (after they were comfortable just playing the poor orphan card)

Got close with Specs and Mush early on bc they felt protected (even though they totally didn’t need protecting)

Likes taking things as pranks.

Has def moved Specs’ glasses. Not enough to no be found, but enough to be noticed.

They start giving their mostly-smoked cigs to Bumlets (and that’s how he got his name)

Bumlets and Skittery are at the very least best friends.

THEY FIDGET. THEY FIDGET SO MUCH. GODS. CIG IN HAND, HAT ON HEAD, SUSPENDERS (theirs or otherwise) IT DOESN’T MATTER. THEY ARE ALWAYS MOVING.

Modern AU things

Ghost hunting. Abandoned building exploring.

Got their nickname from being the worst about getting scared by the most mundane shit happening. Like a bird flies by and they just like s c r e a m.

Takes Mush and Blink the most because they’re the most fun to explore with, but Albert and Finch are a close second because of their chaos.

I don’t have any more immediately in my brain, BUT I might post more later.

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[thatonesquintern13]

episode seven- somewhere only we know:

• kat in present day in white witch clothes! exciting!

• she’s gonna bring back MODERN MEDICINE!?

• that just. can’t lead to good things

• there’s a lot happening!!

• alice finally tell kat to please stay for dell, kat only focused on jacob, dell getting another mysterious phone call, everyone is leaving alice behind

• a dell racing somewhere on the horse and kat running through the woods parallel

• would be crazy if they were both going to the pond

• OH MY GOD THEYRE BOTH AT THE POND 😰

• ohp mama mad

• more importantly dell what are YOU doing

• omg the mayor called dell to complain about the founders day edition of the herald 😭😭😭

• ELLIOT TRIED HIS BEST OKAY

• alice you know you taking the blame is not better right 😭

• thank god kat is taking some responsibility

• i don’t want kat and dell to fight please 🤧

• saved by the bell - or knock rather

• sam 🙄

• ugh i hate that kat is right about keeping the jacob stuff from dell until they are for sure for sure

• sam no one wants to go to a gallery rn read a room

• “just so we’re clear, one moonlight swim doesn’t mean i want to be one of your girls” yes thank you for thinking clearly rn

• “noted. and just to be even clearer, i was asking as a friend.” no you weren’t 🤨

• back to the fighting ):

• ooh perhaps some insight to the lingermore incident?

• dell always covering for kat to keep up the reputation of the landry name is unfortunately very real.

• “you are hiding something. and i wanna know what it is.” […] “can you just trust that i know what i’m doing?” “given our history? no.” i MEAN she got you there kat

• “well maybe it’s just better for the both of us if i go” why is that always your first option! it didn’t work the first time!

• and dell is too proud to back down.

• elliot at the pond!

• “i have to go back and bring him home, alive.” i’m just not sure that’s gonna work!

• “i know. i just- i want you to be safe” he’s so worried he’s not even trying the ‘that worked so well the last time’ argument.

• elliot doesn’t think the pond will allow the modern medicine and i agree

• oh my god i thought we were gonna get a katelliot i love you. 😮‍💨

• i’ll take a good luck though

• oh look the medicine came back up

• NICK!? in the present day???? hello????

• nick taking interest in the landry’s boat. likely thing for him to do.

• “i guess that makes me sound kinda old, huh?” a little 😪

• “i have to.. get ready for school.” “on saturday?” “work!” alice please get it together

• - 1814 -

• not coyle waiting by the pond.

• he and suzanna were both kinda casual about this. not what i was expecting from 1814

• lol kat walking right past him offering help

• “i’ll take you to jacob” “how is he?” “you’ll see” okay don’t love that answer

• “goodwin has everyone in town looking for the witch who hexed him. you be safer as a man.” suzanna JUST stopped calling her clothes manly 😪

• - present day -

• LOL nick scaring elliot

• was going to say how did he get in, but port haven doesn’t give ‘lock your front door’ type of city

• oh nvm he found the spare key 🤪

• forgot nick was engaged

• nick was a genuine surprise bc they didn’t even give him a section of the previously on before the ep

• boys weekend 😀

• he’s just proud of his boy and wants to make up for missing his founders day speech 🥹

• [DAWG. i had. so much typed and i switched apps to check something and tumblr refreshed and i lost it allllll😭😭😭😭. and it’s too late tonight to go all the way back in the ep so i guess i’ll stop here and watch it all again tomorrow 🙃🙃]

• [okay it’s been a couple of days but i’m back 🤧]

• actually i think watching this section again will be fine bc i’ve probably forgotten most of what happened

• - 1814 -

• we’ve got jacob in the lighthouse

• coyle please ofc katherine knows about the trapdoor. the lighthouse is kinda her thing

• ohp. okay bye.

• oh suzanna’s there (yall. i was spelling her name right the first time, but now i’ve come too far i’m not changing it back sorry)

• i just think coyle could’ve said ‘hey i gotta stay out here but suzanna’s in there with a light dw’ or something before closing that trap door

• katzanna hug!!!

• (TWH twitter posted about kat and suzanna and all the interactions were about katzanna lmaooo)

• jacob is unwell

• yeah idk why katherine is so worried. suzanna is literally magic

• here we go again sending katherine back into the fields 😭

• - present day -

• nick and elliot at the point.

• how does seeing alice at the point not give nick even a sense of deja vu or something. like she literally looks the same !!

• “did she have a 12-year-old put this paper together?” LMAO ELLIOT TRIED OKAY ADOBE IS HARD 😭

• evelyn has been reclused since The Incident 17 years ago.

• (which means whatever happened there, alice was born a year later which is WILD)

• some more vague statements to add to the lore of lingermore.

• lingerlore, if you would.

• they keep blaming “the kids” but i have a feeling some 20somethings we know and love and their time traveling friend may have been there too 👀

• a classic rita and dell porch swing sit 😌

• “do the hinges on my barn look rusty?” is that a euphemism 🫣

• LOL WAIT rita just said the same thing

• sam horse boy CANCELLED his date with rita 😤

• “apparently he’s serious about someone and off the market” get a job!! stay away from her!!!

• he better not get between rita and dell. i need that “shut up byron!” energy back

• (where is he btw…)

• back at the coffee shop.

• ooh! asking monica about The Incident. she’s messy she’ll tell us

• oof even former nemesis monica isn’t ratting on what kat someone did that night

• cool guy!

• “did you know anything about that party? lingermore, 2007?” “well i was one in 2007, so no.” oh!

• don’t encourage breaking and entering, cool guy (although technically no breaking if you have the key…)

• - 1814 -

• (i mostly remember my thoughts during this scene but i’ll be pretending they are new 😁)

• “do you even know what you’re doing?” “i know every inch of these woods.” that’s not what she asked coyle that’s two different things

• water hemlock feels like a surprise tool that’s gonna help us later…

• “you think that i’m actually a witch?” girl yes you jumped into a pond and didn’t come back for two days 😭

• DON’T put you hand over her mouth to shush her 😤 only suzanna is allowed to do that

• the witch hunters are coming

• i don’t love this trope-y ‘we both fell and now our faces are really close’ thing that’s happening here 🤨

• “when we find the witch, we’ll have ourselves a little bonfire” i TOLD YOU they would burn you at the stake, katherine

• you better BACK those lips up actually

• “i’m not a witch. i’m a time traveler” you see how that’s not better right 😭

• coyle is right to laugh that’s a ridiculous thing to say

• “don’t you want to know what happens in the future?” “fine. go on then.” “i probably shouldn’t. just for your sake.” “are you always this confounding or is it something i bring out in you?”* no, believe it or not she’s always like this 😪

• *in any other circumstance, that line would eat but i can’t be on board with this sorry

• “if you’re from the future like you say, there’s only one thing i’d like to know. who wins this blasted war?” if it was me i’d have to be like ‘aha ha funny story…. i actually don’t know. i’ll have to google that 😁’

• i should google it anyways bc what do you mean it ends in a draw 😭

• - present day -

• nick elliot dell !!

• nick interested in buying the boat. likely thing for him to be

• “you’d like to have that old thing?” “she deserves to be restored and brought back to life.” okay symbolism and metaphor

• man elliot can’t fix an engine can’t design a newspaper 😭 he’s got a lot of other great attributes i swear

• hey nick. shouldn’t you be putting your focus, time, and money, into, i don’t know? a wedding? 🤨

• sam’s here. again.

• the double take and look to dell elliot does 😭

• the herald!

• “you really looked at this layout and thought, ‘yep, this is ready to go out into the world’?” CAN THEY LIVE

• alice at the microfiche. likely place for her to be

• listen if they don’t want alice snooping they should just. answer her questions directly instead of being weird about it!

• “if something so bad did happen then how did it not make the news?” she’s right bc they once ran a story about a big cucumber

• “where’s the fire, nancy drew?” is that a saying? 😭😂

• physical archives! ofc!

• the story was pulled (probably bc dell threatened some people 👀)

• ooh photo negatives

• do they even know what those are 😪

• they’re holding them up to the light like they do. so i guess they’re safe for now

• close face trope strikes again

• hey isn’t cool guy already 18 🤨📸

• (i’m so sorry cool guy i really can’t remember your name rn…)

• - 1814 -

• thomas coyle: lighthouse keeping age. 🤧

• “so smuggling doesn’t pay the bills? 😬” humbled real quick

• jacob is stirring

• i’m so worried 1814 jacob isn’t going to remember being 8 years old with a sister in 1999 and kat is going to have to face the fact that he isn’t her jacob anymore ):

• suzanna immediately reassuring katherine (and me) that jacob’s reaction is bc of his fever, not kat 🥺

• “i don’t know what to do!” chyler is so good at making those little lines hit 😮‍💨

• oof all the illegal rum… not the best time to remember why we’re here in the first place

• oh the beach scene…

• CHYLER LEIGH THE ACTRESS THAT YOU ARE!!!!!

• let’s get her an emmy fr fr

• anyways let’s go back to the top of this scene so i can give my thoughts

• okay the first time i watched this i was kinda agreeing with coyle bc yeah it’s a different time blah blah. but this would not be the first time a landry man’s name would be wrongfully sullied. and colton wasn’t a cheater, so maybe jacob isn’t a thief!

• and like do i trust the smuggler saying the smuggling wasn’t his idea??

• “he’s the reason that hidden room even exists” the room is there bc little jacob knew about it bc it was there in ‘99 bc it was built by grown jacob in 1814 who knew about it bc it was there in ‘99 i-

• “the jacob i know, he’s smart and he’s creative and he’s kind” he’s a LANDRY GODAMMIT

• “he can be all of those things and still lie and cheat and steal” men really think that huh

• “he has a responsibility to his family” “I AM HIS FAMILY” TELL EM

• “then why are you judging him so harshly.” and this is why i don’t know if i believe coyle. bc kat was so determined that colton was not cheating, but she never judged him? there’s gotta be something else going on for her not to believe there’s a reasonable explanation for whatever is happening

• idk

• “jacob is dying! and i might never get to know him and he’s not gonna know me after all this time. and i have to know him, do you understand me?” thisssss read!!!!!!! come ooon. 🥺🥺

• (also the first time i watched this ep, my little brother was home for spring break and was leaving the next day… oof it got me.)

• why is he LIFTING HER

• what is it with men thinking the ocean will fix the landry women (lowkey kind right but still)

• i thought he was gonna kiss her so i guess lifting is the better option here

• actually katherine probably really needs this big cry. and being in the arms of a hot guy with an old timey accent doesn’t hurt either.

• [this is where i lost my notes last time!]

• AH sam jumpscare ( - present day - )

• not dinner and a fire dell get UP

• oh sam has daughters

• am i being too bitter about sam? maybe. but it’s fun.

• did i compare him to miguel from this is us or was that byron…. either way.

• bc we’re humanizing him with all this “i met somebody really special, right here, and i don’t want her to think she’s just one of many”

• let’s not forget that he dated rita first. where are your girl code ethics delly

• that’s right let him down easy

• “i’m just enjoying getting to know my neighbor” shut up

• (this is so out of character for me bc i’m number one hags in love advocate but sorry i’m not over the death of colton landry yet! it’s only been 25 years!)

• boys weekend ending the same way sam and dell’s night did we love a platonic firepit chat

• (but really we do. need to be outside by a fire IMMEDIATELY)

• “sore-ry” canadian 🫵🏽

• rip claire and nick we hardly knew ye 😪 (ship name click how could he let that go!)

• elliot’s/evan’s little “no!” was so cute.

• hmm someone who lives on a boat is not ideal husband material????? 🤨 i’ll keep my thoughts to myself but iykyk

• “maybe sometimes love just isn’t enough” woah woah woah lets not get crazy here, guys. they needed this boys weekend for real 🤧

• - 1814 -

• *opens on katherine beach bonfire* ‘oh everybody is at a fi-’ *coyle walks up* ‘everybody is at a platonic fire tonight’

• “what if i never get the chance to really know him” you do know him, katherine. i promise

• “i’ve lost two brothers” okay well it’s not a contest

• “losing jacob would be like losing a third” we’re humanizing him now too!?

• “how could i be so close, yet so far?” “jacob once asked me that very same question” yep yep yep

• “about the stars” oh we are back on track baby!!

• “i told him the distance, whether it’s from stars or from people, is not the thing to worry about. worry when you can’t find them at all. […] don’t lose sight of those stars just yet.” okay he got me. beautiful line 😭

• - present day -

• oh cool guys name is noah! how could i forget

• [also just said, ‘noah? i hardly know ‘er!’ and made myself giggle so. that’s where i am.]

• wow going “old school” with a phone call how 2000s of her

• god alice this voicemail is going from bad to worse quit while you’re barely ahead

• yep ofc you sent the message instead of deleting it. (how does one delete a voicemail not that i’d ever leave one but)

• LOL NICK JUST STANDING THERE ON THE BOAT 🧍🏼

• again how does he not realize his alice is this alice. she’s exactly the same.

• - 1814 -

• suzanna watching over her landrys 🥹

• sleeping on the floor in 1814 is not going to be good for katherine’s back.

• h a n d s

• see coyle was working with suzanna’s father and then tried to BRIBE her after he died to keep the business going! how am i supposed to believe jacob did this on his own

• also suzanna is not safe here! these men just want to use her!

• jacob is coughing? choking? seizing? hard to say but something is happening!

• and not even suzanna knows how to help him 😰

• JACOB TO THE POND!?

• “it doesn’t matter what happens to me.” i mean i think it matters a little bit….

• also what a cop out ‘wHaT iF tHeY cAtCh uS?’o kay be better at sneaking???

• YEAH forgot about your DAUGHTER 🤨

• a lot of touchy feely going on here that i don’t love….

• pete’a there are horses he’a 😧

• i know he’s telling her to go back to the cellar so she’s not seen by goodwin’s men but i still don’t trust him

• “just promise me that you’ll be careful” “now what fun would that be?” i don’t trust him but damn he’s good

• - present day -

• the point!

• oh no. rita. please don’t break my besties up

• please!! leave the newspaper alone i can’t keep defending them 😭

• hey why didn’t they ask kacey to help they literally WORKED at the herald. 🙃

• sam is here

• wait rita is taking this surprisingly well.

• she even got me kicking my feet twirling my hair i love besties!!!!

• and dell is 🤏🏽 this big 🤭

• “well if nothing else, he’s got great taste in women” IKTR

• “i am more than okay with this” well i’m not! almost caught me monologuing 😤

• not the coffee shop hard launch please the herald will be badly printing you two on the front page by tomorrow morning!!!!

• actually yes string this man along and get free labor out of him

• omg the colton fakeout

• yeah girl that’s your GUILT 🤧

• ITS ONLY BEEN 25 YEARS DELLY

• back to present day nick and alice

• “i don’t know what’s wrong with me.” felt

• i don’t know where i thought the engine of a boat would be but i was wrong

• “you’ve got plenty of time to figure it all out” “it’s funny bc time never really seems to be on my side. ever.” okay no one told you to fall for someone in 1999 in fact, they told you specifically not to 😭

• “i always seem to fall for the ones i can’t actually be with.” “trust me, i know how what that feels like, especially at your age” wow they really were the greatest story that could never be told ):

• “if you think someone’s worth it, tell them how you feel. there’s no point in hiding it” AND COOL GUY PULLS UP??? okayyyyy

• the worth it look 🥺🥺🥺

• alice actually happy COMING 🔜

• well. until we figure out the lingermore thing…..

• - 1814 -

• i don’t believe goodwin is smart enough to think about the lighthouse. someone must’ve told him 🤨

• jacob is literally fighting for his life 🤧 this wouldn’t have been a problem if coyle had stopped yappin and helped them take jacob to the pond like katherine wanted

• katzanna crumbs 🤌🏽

• how big is the inside of a light house… there’s a lot of stomping up there. all the stairs probably?

• a GUN SHOT !? 😨

• forgot suzanna had a knife. all katherine has is like 30 bottles of rum

• i mean ofc it’s thomas. i wasn’t worried about that.

• but what was the gun shot about???? that’s kinda suspicious right???

• like let’s make them think we fought and i shot you 🤨

• mmm “cyrus giving the all clear” likely story

• “we’re all safe” well except for jacob. who is dying.

• - present day -

• noah said lemme run to bestbuy right quick and get a scanner

• “the program’s pretty simple” well that’s what we said about adobe and now no one will let them live that down

• wait a BOY in your ROOM, alice!? 😟

• doors open tho ✋🏽

• “music?” “sure! any requests?” “no, just hit play. let’s see what you’re listening to” OKAYYYY that would work on me 🫣

• also so mortifying.

• I WANT IT THAT WAY LMAO

• she’s not like other girls she’s quirky she loves late 90s early 2000s music bc she was there

• can’t lie that’s exactly the kind of song that would come up if i just hit play

• what are the chances cool guy knows all the words bc of that brooklyn 99 cold open

• “my mom’s a superfan” making alice feel like the crypt keeper here

• 🎶now number five🎶

• LMAO WAIT THE “PROGRAM” IS LITERALLY STILL ADOBE

• they’re really gonna have a ‘number five killed my brother. oh god i forgot about that’ moment with these pictures aren’t they

• oh no dell’s home she gonna be mad at alice

• ‘uh grandma we weren’t ALONE my former boyfriend nick was literally outside the whole time???’

• “good news i got the engine running” and there’s the wrap up of that metaphor

• whatever let’s move on

• dell’s not selling the boat !! take THAT

• tell me why is still playing in the background and i can’t decide if it’s funnier if it’s non-diegetic and they just wanted us to have a nice bop for this, or if it’s diegetic and alice is just playing her music that loud

• LOL she’s just playing her music that loud 😭😭😭

• ‘uh grandma we weren’t ALONE my former boyfriend nick was literally outside the whole time and my window was open???’

• “is that alice singing?” oh my god is he gonna recognize her

• i’ve been saying it this whole time but the moment it’s actually a possibility i literally gasped out loud

• “isn’t she something?” “unforgettable” NICK

• omg omg.

• KISSING

• IN THE BED ROOM

• YOU’RE GONNA GIVE YOUR GRANDMOTHER A HEART ATTACK oh okay she didn’t come in

• oh cool guy is sorry…. but he has a reason. a reason we will not know bc the pictures are ready 😁

• “wait is that blood” the lingerlore plot THICKENS

• number five killed my brother fr

• blood! and a mask! a different one from earlier!

• GLASSES!? ELLIOT!?

• what happened to baby elliot 😭 what did kat dooooo

• there goes present day elliot and his time jump journal of LIES again

• “how can i face alice again, if she ever comes back?!?!” baby elliot what did YOU do

• “i broke-” I BROKE WHAT WHAT DID YOU BREAK a promise? a heart? a name? 😨

• - 1814 -

• “jacob, please don’t go. we’re supposed to be a team, remember?” THIS SHOW IS NOT FOR OLDER SISTERS WITH YOUNGER BROTHERS 😭😭

• chyler singing!!!!

• IS SHE SINGING DELL AND COLTONS SONG ARE YOU KIDDING ME

• HE’S REMEMBERING

• HE’S GONNA BE SO UPSET THAT COLTON IS DEAD OH MY GOD

• “kat?” AHHHHHH

• fin.

📺: the way home - season two

season one recap 🩵

episode one - the space between:

• watching the ‘previously on’ like i didn’t just spend the week recapping it

• thought this was jacob and dell but it’s just another little boy and older lady

• “it will always take you where you need to go.” 👀

• picking up where season one left off. kat and dell were literally JUST healing and now where back to murder boarding

• oh we’re just immediately jumping into the FROZEN pond

• it didn’t work!

• kat you know that’s not how it works !! just get out before you freeze!!!

• oh god now alice is in the pond

• and YEAH we’re BENEATH THE ICE

• ALICE

• KAT DONT YOU KNOW CPR

• CHEST COMPRESSIONS

• oh god alice is back okay

• so much just happened oh my god

• a note for kat on elliot’s door ):

• me and elliot squabbin the next time i see him 😤

• (did anyone else’s school use the word squab around like 2015?? 2016??)

• “if i’ve learned anything these last few months it’s the worst thing to waste is time.” i gUESS!

• now how can a dog time travel 😭 the pond is SICK for that

• “the pond is done with us, allie. we have to be done with it.” we’ll see

• they’re making a pact to stay in the present

• time jump! seven months laterrrr

• hello?? DECODE PARAMORE?!?!

• and kat is jogging through the woods like is this twilight???

• passed elliot’s (still empty) house. hayley williams is right, how did we get here 😭

• ofc kat is listening to decode she’s an emo millennial

• if you think about it this kinda is like twilight. she’s gonna jump off a cliff next probably

• dell landry: bee keeping age!!!

• where’d the horse come from? 🤨

• “hey, boy. who are you?” oh so neither of us know okay

• oh! it’s the last day of school!

• not spencer from school pulling up

• and maybe zoe from school? hard to say

• alice is leaving!? oh going to the states with brady

• “that’s the thing about shared custody, eventually you have to share.” rip /:

• ugh r*chel mention

• “i am screening your next guy! these last two, they’ve been so very disappointing.” LAST TWO!?

• oh she meant brady and elliot 😂

• “brady only disappointed in the later years. we don’t.. we don’t talk about elliot.” yeah still too soon formerly nemesis monica

• lol so new guy leaves (suspiciously 🤨) and kat is like “okay fiiine i’ll take over the herald and hire myself back!! if i must!!!”

• and good for her!

• oh someone’s died 😰

• evelyn goodwin??

• oldest member of the most prestigious (and wealthiest) family in port haven. an institution, dell says!

• linger?more?

• oh elliot has the AUDACITY to send post cards 😤

• yeah, alice you’re right to roll your eyes at him!!

• we’re getting so much landry lore!

• but also more evidence for my jacob is his own ancestor theory

• the landrys were a founding family of port haven with the aforementioned goodwins

• dell talking about HAPPY MEMORIES OF COLTON!!!! 🥹

• we’re throwing a summer partyyyy

• landry ladies kitchen dancing 🥹

• ruined! by brady calling 😤

• oh so kat and alice are on the same wavelength as me. no wonder kat knows so much about her great great whoevers

• they stuck to their word, no pond!

• “yeah, well. elliot’s not around anymore to give us those pearls of wisdom.” “when are you gonna let that go?” no, no. hold that grudge, alice.

• “elliot promised that he would always be there to help, and when we needed him the most […], he bails.” just like the avatar 😪

• can’t help but notice the herald is brighter now that new guy is gone.

• now i know brady isn’t trying to blame KAT for the shared custody thing

• are we ever gonna be introduced to rachel bc now it’s getting suspicious

• “alice is no distraction, she’s the glue” she really is huh 😭

• ooooh evelyn goodwin put the herald in her will???

• kat is going to ✨lingermore✨

• (i’m guess that’s the goodwin estate?)

• “no wonder you turned the herald into a weekly, you’re always here” okay dell kinda ate with that one 😭

• “i’m going up the hill” me: kate bush?

•but also: *eerie music change* “i’m going with you.”

• okay now i’m scared of lingermore

• oh something has Happened here…

• sorry, evelyn saved everything to open a museum and her son was just like “eh oh well. gonna sell.” ??? hate men.

• oooh but now the herald gets it all!!

• now kat has the entire history of port haven at her fingertips! finding jacob has literally never been easier.

• oh something Sinister has Happened here… 😰

• alice! step away from that pond! you promised your mother!!

• oh she’s just coming to say goodbye ):

• girl back up that’s literally how you fell in the first time!!

• oh it’s LITERALLY how she fell in the first time? the bracelet hello???

• i do enjoy that when i gasp now it’s actually stuff i am surprised about

• is dell gonna have flashbacks of her own of this place now?

• she’s just sad about evelyn ):

• you know. this was kinda how dell’s future was looking before kat and alice showed up…

• yeah how is kat supposed to get all these boxes back to the herald

• UM

• why’s this portrait look just like kat 😀

• “MY KATHERINE, 1814” HELLO

• what did evelyn know 👀

• aww the jewelry dish

• we are immediately back to kat and alice keeping secrets from each other 🫠

• she’s a runna she’s a track star 🏃🏻‍♀️

• oh! note’s gone from the door! is elliot back???

• omg he’s back

• “well kat landry!” “oh… elliot augustine…” okayyyy

•god, kat might as well have just said “you look hot” that would’ve been less embarrassing 😭

• (and he does, she was right.)

• why is elliot being weird

• wait. just realized this man LEFT in the MIDDLE OF THE SCHOOL YEAR??? elliot there’s a TEACHER SHORT- wait they’re canadian…. is there a canadian teacher shortage??

• um but still. in the middle of the year, dawg??

• okay elliot when have you ever “imposed” on the landrys be so for real

• omg kat get up girl you are not playing it cool rn

• “i will never understand why she took elliot’s travels so hard” bc they’re besties??? (also bc that’s her stepdad but we apparently are keeping that a secret)

• dell didn’t notice that kat and alice were literally time traveling but she DID clock kat and elliot and that is, once again, so southern of her.

• “i haven’t seen you wear the bracelet in forever! i was beginning to think you lost it.” hehe about that…

• no actually WHY is elliot so… off i’m starting to not trust this… like go back to the caribbean if you’re gonna be like this

• “somebody had a glow up.” lmao rita!!

• “looks like elliot had what the kids call a hot boy summer” RITA!!!

• oh so alice didn’t know about katelliot and is really just mad bc elliot is her bestie!!!

• “and besides, there is no us, really. right?” ELLIOT YOU’RE THE BIGGEST DUMB DUMB THERE IS

• fumbled the bag

• he didn’t even say GOODBYE!? god what is with these men

• “great party, dell.” 😭😂

• “you better get out there and get a lobster before rita pilfers them all” lol okay great callback

• “[the farm] will always be here waiting for you.” 🥹

• fireworks for colton 😭😭😭😭

• flashbacks for everyone 🥺

• i miss colton landry

• ugh how long are kat and elliot going to pretend they don’t love each other

• alice is connecting dots

• colton and baby elliot 🥺 the club house is always there for him to have a space 😭

• “don’t waste any time, kid. because it’s never guaranteed.” and elliot thought that was a joke?? i-

• *branch snaps* “did you hear that?” WHO CAME BACK 🫵🏽

• “i saw that look between you and elliot. are you two together?” alice you’re far too late

• alice you didn’t ruin anything, sweetie 😭

• kinda rude that i grew up an hour from the beach and never went to a summer bonfire beach party in high school. (i didn’t go to parties in hs who am i kidding)

• oh! we’re being haunted by our past! cool.

• an elliot mixtape!!! IN THE CLUBHOUSE

• aww elliot’s here.

• with a STRONG candian ‘sorry’

• oh they met alice after the last summer cookout… interesting

• i thought “traveling” was a euphemism. but he actually meant time traveling lol

• “i’m sorry i didn’t say goodbye. i just knew if i saw you, i wouldn’t go.” OKAY AND WOULD THAT HAVE BEEN SO BAD

• just sitting on the bed nothing crazy

• SCREAMING !!!!!

• grey’s anatomy training 😏

•making out with all for you playing in the background. gonna cry actually.

• elliot apologizing right away 😭 okay there’s the awkward guy i missed

• “i’m not your problem anymore” WHY WOULD SHE SAY THATTTTT

• ALEXA, PLAY EXHILE BY TAYLOR SWIFT

• the sad part is, they could just go right back to how they were. like elliot is so willing to be that sounding board for kat.

• but. he blew it. super hard. complete buffoonery.

• “welcome home.” damn she’s cold

• baby nick!!!

• ugh elliot was gonna make his move RIGHT before kat met brady 😭

• so i guess spencer from school and zoe from school are??? no more???

• alice is still hung up on nick 😭 girl he’s old let it gooo

• why are they making her sing rn

• now look you’ve made her get stage fright again. (it’s definitely not the ghosts of her mother’s past coming to haunt her…)

• kat and dell finally getting the mother daughter relationship they deserve??

• is the house called lingmore or lingermore… i need to look this up

• the subtitles are telling me lingermore. dell’s accent is just thick lmao

• oh! see, dell thought evelyn reminded her of herself too.

• “i wanna build back our relationship. i wanna get to know you again.” yup yup yup 🥹

• kat has also noticed that dell is talking about colton and jacob in a positive light now

• “no more regrets, only resets” dell would kill on facebook

• ugh, i know Something is going to happen and it’s gonna ruin everything we accomplished in this scene

• um why are we back at the “did you hear that” scene 😰

• WHO IS THAT!?!?? 🫵🏽

• colton???? new guy?????? JACOB!?!?!?

• oh my god

• the blurry polaroid!!

• alice and kat sharing their secrets! season of healing!

• kat don’t let her manipulate you like this!

• okay or do. whatever.

• wait elliot send that text 😭 you gotta be the one to fix this, dude.

• neighbor!? who is this man???

• they better not be trying to give dell another love interest 😤

• could be elliot’s dad tho? but i doubt it

• suspicious buyer of the neighboring farm????

• the new buyer isn’t going to lease the fields sooo what does that mean 😅

• dell is going to be losing money?

• AND WHOSE HORSE IS THIS

• don’t tell me that horse jumped in the pond 🤧

• mother daughter pond jump 🤪

• “it’ll take us where we need to go” what could go wrong! 😀

• BABY ELLIOT!?

• has present elliot been LYING to present kat this whole time??????

• if i got sent to 1814- hold up who is that

• not the gun

• HELLO

• grey’s anatomy training (dying in a horrific way)

• um. okay 😀

fin.

[wingedfounder]

@trickstercaptain​ said:  ❝ sound like fun? ‘course it does. ❞       /       meme

        “ Humble as ever. ”  Not that Jan had any room to talk;  she’d been known, on more than one occasion, to toot her own horn.  There was nothing wrong with a little healthy self-indulgence, right?  “ Okay, ”  she conceded at length, grinning.  “ Count me in.  But if it starts to drag even a little, I’m bailing.  Got it? ”

[hoeforalbedo]

heyy! saw ur post ab scara and i just. my brain is full of him so here:

Scaramouche who would be hella annoying when he wants attention like he’s a fucking cat, knocking shit over on ur desk and being obnoxious bc he likes to see you frustrated (sfw)

Scaramouche who makes you thigh ride him while he works because he likes to see you whimper (nsfw/suggestive)

idk how helpful these r but yeah!

Scaramouche x afab!reader

Summary: Scara is a terrible boss. You hate him but you love him. Modern AU

warnings:mentions of female genitals, sex, making out, cursing, thigh-riding, Scara being a bitch, idk tell me if I missed anything

SFW

Scaramouche is the worst boss you've ever had. Well it is your first time being a secretary for a very large company and of course you plan to be on your best behavior and be a great role model for everyone.

Someone, however, stirs you from going down that path. How can a CEO be so obnoxious?? First, he makes you do most of his work for him. He would give you stacks of papers and expects you to finish it for him when he's the one who should be doing it. "Just stamp my authorization or something. I don't really care what you do with the ones you don't like. Stamp it or not." He would then go out for some coffee or wine, whatever floats his boat.

This man even has the audacity, when he's bored, to sit on your desk, look through the papers, and throw them at every corner of the room. "You're looking quite frustrated, makes me want to annoy you even more," He would smirk.

"I’ll make sure you don’t have that satisfaction then,” You smirk, trying to talk back. You really can't really push him away because he is your boss and he knows it. He enjoys the power over you and he would continue to tease you.

 "Oh please, I’m always good at my own game.” He slaps down a few more files and reaches over to mess up your hair. “I expect you to get this done asap. It's for the conference tomorrow. Better get working, busy bee." He would smirk while he leaves you, huffing and turning red from frustration. 

Even when you’re very busy, he’ll still give you things to do. “Hey busy bee, my office is getting dirty. Sweep and mop it for me.”

“I’m not the janitor,” You would say with an attitude and roll your eyes. He’s always like this.

“I’m still your boss so you can either make you stay overtime or you clean,” He says and he doesn’t really mean it. You, however, were scared because he can and will do that. Honestly, what he wanted was to have you in his office and just look at you. You however, have been playing his game for too long and you plan to bite back.

NSFW

Now you are sweeping up the floor with the broom he provided for you and you would occasionally bend over to sweep under shelves and desks. Your pencil skirt would go up a bit, exposing more of your thigh. Your skirt also perfectly enunciates your ass and Scara would be lying if he said he didn’t have a boner right now.

As for what you saw, you can’t help but think that Scara belongs behind that desk, wearing the most expensive of clothes. He looks very hot with the way he works, when he does decide to. He looks so serious and domineering when he orders and punishes his employees.

You bite your lip as the only place left to sweep is his area. “Excuse me,” You innocently say, your excuse being that you need to sweep under his desk. Scara moves his chair back and you bend over, right in front of him unintentionally seducing him yet you don’t really mind anyways. It’s time that the hating game ends. 

“If you wanted to fuck you could have just said so,” Scaramouche scoffs. His laid back on his office leather chair, tie loosened and a few of the buttons undone. 

You roll your eyes in annoyance and just when you were about to make a cock comeback, you thought of a much better idea. “Thanks for giving me the permission.” And so, you straddle him, to which he did not expect, and you can feel the bulge in his pants against your heat. “Allow me to indulge myself,” You smile and capture his lips in yours. 

Scara gradually eases himself and takes control, placing both hands on your hips as you cup his face. The kiss is sensual and passionate, letting go of all pent up hate and turning it to lust. Love and hate are very much one of the same things.

He slides your skirt up to your stomach and gropes your ass. You moan into his mouth. You're feeling hot with anticipation. He’s so close to where you want him to touch you. You’re soaked, waiting for him to fuck your hole. Scara loops the waist of your underwear on his finger and pulls it down. You aid him, standing up and allowing them to drop onto the floor.

Just when your panties are discarded, a ring from his work phone is heard. It’s an important phone call that he’s been anticipating. Before he picks up the phone, he says, “Oh we’re not done. Ride my thigh and get yourself off. If you are good, then I’ll give you what you want.”

Being the obeying secretary you are, your legs are between his thigh and your clit is directly on the fabric of his pants. You hiss at the sensation but you can’t help but want more. “You know what to do but keep quiet for me. It’s a very important call.”

And so, you are humping his thigh like a desperate whore, burying your face into his neck to keep quiet. As you do so, he’s talking professionally on call putting up the domineering aura as he gives orders.

It’s so hard to grind yourself down. The fabric of his pants only makes you more sensitive every time it brushes your swollen clit. It’s also not enough for you. Although it stimulates you, nothing compares to when you’re getting filled up with a finger circling your bud. 

You’re shaking but you’re also slowing down. Trying to chase a high that wont come. Scara isn’t helping much either. Now he is chatting up the person on the other side of the phone, purposely taking his time with the call. As he does so, a hand holds onto your hip, aiding you to get yourself off.

If only the call would just end. He is sadistic for enjoying watching you act desperate and grinding on his thigh while you hold back moans. It’s almost as if he doesn’t want to leave the call just so that he could watch you get off on just humping him. Lucky for you, he really does want to fuck you and after a while, he got bored of the call and ended it.

“Since you’ve been very good, I’ll fuck you now.”

[deanmarywinchester]

im still reading this book about the franklin expedition so who wants facts about the terror characters vs their real life inspiration? you? right this way sir

Netsilingmiut tradition is to lay a dead person to rest on the ground wrapped in furs and surrounded by stones, and then to avoid that area for the next year. leaving them uncovered is so their soul can either return to nature or inhabit the body of a namesake, and it also prevents the impossible work of digging a grave in permafrost. i’m interested in this re: terror because silna’s father was covered up with ice, which can’t have helped her or him, and because of how hickey breaks taboo by returning to the site where fitzjames is buried

contrary to book canon, peglar knew how to write long before meeting bridgens, due to some rudimentary charity schooling and a sort of trade/prep school for the navy or merchant mariners. he served many voyages in good standing except once when he was lashed for mutinous behavior and drunkenness, but his reputation seems to have bounced back

the body that the peglar papers was found with was likely actually jopson, who may have befriended him on an earlier voyage they served on together

while im talking about peglar, this isn’t a fact but I am dead certain that dan simmons made him gay bc he had no other explanation for why the peglar papers are written backward than bc he was imitating da vinci (book canon). also book peglar has dysgraphia to explain why he’s highly literate but the peglar papers had terrible spelling

blanky had studied the ice and was an arctic veteran but reid was an experienced whaler who made decisions on gut instinct. fitzjames liked him despite calling him a “so-called” ice master in his diary

hickey’s mutiny, which in the book was his men trying to get back to the ships, was likely inspired by one of the first identified signs of franklin’s men: two skeletons, gnawed likely by wolves, found in a boat on a sledge pointing back toward the icebound ships. the sledge was full of random stuff including five watches and china plates, which the explorer who found it ten years after the ships’ abandonment lamented were considered useless dead weight in this modern age of arctic exploration. you see a bit of hickey’s men collecting useless things in the show (when they’re sitting at a table and chairs using plates and cutlery) but it’s an even more prominent theme in the book

sir john brought along a lot of slates and chalk and intended the men to be taught to read and write during any winters they spent trapped in ice

some Inuit lore says that the northern lights are dangerous, with one specific folk story being that if you whistle, they will come down to cut off your head. this is not a fact about the terror characters but it is a reminder to me to see if the bosun’s whistle sounding in the show foreshadows any decapitations

aglooka means “takes long strides” but it took a Netsilingmiuk historian to make sense of what stories about an Aglooka meant for the fate of the franklin expedition. that’s bc it was a name given to many white explorers, including crozier and james clark ross (i guess bc white people walked differently in the arctic? or were taller?). anyway everyone clap and cheer for Louie Kamookak for figuring this out almost incidentally while he was trying to write a history of the Netsilingmiuk

[tasteofdeathao3]

Actual baby izzy in mod au when he starts crawling it's like, okay time to baby proof the house, Canon au tho??? How do you baby proof a pirate ship, everyone's on constant guard that he's gonna crawl right off the side of the boat

srno bc baby proofing a modern house is easy enough - covers on sockets, rubber locks on cupboards, baby gate here and there etc - but a pirate ship???? literally impossible.

You can't really cover the sides of the ship because you need to be able to fire canons past the railings, and you can't exactly prevent splinters when the boat is literally 100% wood.

He would have to have someone's eye on him at all times, like all times, no being left alone in a playpen or crib because everything has to be difficult with Izzy and he can wriggle out of almost anything.

Stede ruled that there was to be no crawling up on deck, and everyone had been careful to scoop him up if they found him trying to climb up onto the deck unattended.

plus - all weapons either had to be put and locked away or kept on one's person in the most discrete way; no knives without sheaths or spikes glued to shoulders and headbands