#between us episode 2

[eisenblancart]

i wanted to draw spicy scenes but i am awkward and it was hard to see anything lolol i tried tho

also i suck at drawing ponytail hair styles lol

[thequeenofsastiel]

Finally watching ep 2 of Between Us, and, I've gotta say, taking a day to deal with the emotions of your first time being a one night stand is perfectly valid imo.

[hughungrybear]

Okay, I can see Win's interest in Team but not vice-versa. So, it seems surprising to me how Team allowed Win to have his way with him simply because he was feeling a bit horny from watching unsolicited porn 😅

On with episode 2, then.

[thoughtsthatarehardtoexpress]

Real life got busy and I finally got time to watch between us ep2 and I have soooo many thoughts. We start the scene where we see team entering his room its probably directly coming home after camp. He is searching up stuff I mean googling can be a good thing or a bad thing. Oh he feels guilty about what happened but why? Is he regretting what happened between him and win? Oh then we see win all glowy and smily about what happened. The opposite reactions damn. The subs where a bit weird win wasn't really calling team a child its like what a boy kind of thing. Team not wanting to go to class probably coz he doesn't want to face Win again which is kind of hilarious coz he will literally always be there in his club no matter what. Miss manow easily agreeing to go tell the news to the club members of team's absent what is going on. Hahaha thats hilarious manow fumbling when Win is all strict and worried "team is sickk" Boy really is damn worried. It is so much better we are getting miss manow and preuk story coz she deserves it. Win brought food for team awwww. Not team slaming to door on his face tho thats hilarious and ofc Win enters anyways. The communication in the series though hats off for that. Even with team having doubts about what happened between them he doesn't feel bad about that and win making sure of that its awesome. He is taking care of team and its brilliant. Look at him reassuring team that he liked what happened between them and he enjoyed and liked everything thats awesome yayy. Not win just wanting to spend every free time with team and getting him to give ride to him to uni and back nice. My dear traffic light trio i love them. Pharm telling all about his and Dean's stuff. While team not saying anything but worried and caring about him. Manow and team taking care of pharm their friendship is precious to me. I am wheezing for 5 mins straight with manow spilling all her beans with preuk. They had dinner together and all that she is sooo damnnn cuteee. Look at jealous win that pharm made him a sandwich which lmao he took see him dragging team for breakfast. Damn yes again with communication i love this. Whats this dudes name again i can't remember but he is paired with win brother wan comes and literally says team is special coz win never has a soft spot for anyone else before. Also I noticed yesterday's lunch was all spicy while today team mentions that win bowl has no spice. It leads me to believe win brought lunch which would team enjoy but he himself prefers food with less spice. Thats damn thoughtful and shows how caring this man really is. Team realizes that as well nicee.look at team returning gesture by carrying off Win's bowl as well cuteeee. The little win encouragement for team that whole scene was awesome and with the product placement as well brilliantly done ttbh. The whole of wans parents been disappointed by him not really parents but his father ig so him and this boy bond over gaming cool. Team is waiting for win coz they came together is cutee. ABC are clueless donuts. Haha hurry win or your ass is staying at school lmaoo. Ohhhhhh this took a turnn. "Kiss meee" Gahhh they are kissing literally near the pool. Lmao not the cameras. Again with Win giving a option for team to either follow or leave this is brilliant i love it. And of course team follows like the last time. Fuccckkk the literal shoving him in the lockers glad that he had bag on his back coz otherwise that would have hurt damn badly. Againnnn with the communications yessss. Win confessing he hasn't brought anyone there is awesome tbh. The whole team's set of dialogue seems like team is worried that Win will get bored and then he would have to face consequences but win made it clear that its a mutual thing and no one is going to get hurt in return. These two are horny fuckers doing it in swim clubs locker room.

I loveddd this episode looks like next episode would be getting into more serious stuff and i am here for it. Literally can't wait for sunday.

[shorthaltsjester]

watching the sdcc panel and i am just very :) about how sweet their answers to “what are some of the micro moments from the game that have stuck with you the most over the years?” are. taliesin saying what the fuck is up with that which was the first like The Party Gets To Know Each Other moments of c3. travis saying asking his wife if he could kiss her in campaign. marisha going way back to the cannonball competition in campaign one. ashley choosing the beauyasha date but also just the silly goat noise matt made. liam adding onto that to compliment matt roleplaying grass so well and then saying his favourite moment was writing a story for laura and reading it to her as caleb for jester. and then matt saying that was his answer, and that his favourite moments of the game are when they find ways to give gifts to each other whether tangible or not. and sam saying his favourite moments have less to do with the story and is more so when he can just. see his friends across the table from him. when marisha perches and when laura and ashley are (badly) drawing dicks and liam saying he loves when sam sneezes and ashley tells him to stop it and just. yeah. they Are an extremely popular online powerhouse, but i’m so happy that they’re also friends building a world together out of gifts to and love for one another.

like i Am so enamoured with the characters and the world of exandria but the moments when you can feel the love that those people have for each other reach out from behind the stained glass of their performances (to steal a metaphor from brennan lee mulligan) are so extremely special and i am endlessly grateful that they decided to share their silly little home game with the world.

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

Your stunt double was murdered right in the middle of your kitchen.

Not just any stunt double, either. The one that spent 40 years, an entire lifetime, taking hits and rolling under cars and throwing herself into open fire as you. The one that's not you, but at the same time is maybe a better version of you, the you you would be if you had been just a pinch braver, just a pinch more likable; the one that's not you, but at the same time was the same character as you, and maybe she actually is you, in some ways (after all, you two are so similar that she was killed in your place, wasn't she?).

She was your stunt double, yes. But she was also the one who took your falls, who propped you up, who made sure you didn't spend your lunch break alone. You shared a role, you shared an apartment, you shared a girlfriend.

She took care of you in every way you can take care of a person.

And now she's gone.

It was possible to believe otherwise when she was just an absence on the other side of a phone (even though you knew, right from the start, that something was so, so wrong). It might even have been possible to believe it was all a colossal joke as you were cradling the iron trophies she was so proud to host in her bones. But luminol is unforgiving: you turn off the light and there it all is, her blood, her life slipping away from her right there on the tiles of your kitchen, and the message she left for you, the one thing she knew you'd understand right away, and there's no denying it anymore.

You are Charles-Haden Savage, and your stunt double was murdered in your place right in the middle of your kitchen.

Your hands still tingle with her ashes.

[kacievvbbbb]

Was thinking about this lovely comment that @manofbeskar left me "(+ blackbeard thing, me and my dad were saying if bb hurts/kills shanks, there's a chance mihawk will go after him)"

And not to put on my theory glasses

but it unknowingly triggered my biggest fear that I didn't even know I had. What if blackbeard killing Shanks and Mihawk hearing about it is what triggers the flashback into his backstory. What if that happens and it actually kills me? What then?

What fresh devil's deal is this?

Because like I got what I wanted Mihawk deep dive yay! But at what cost? Aren't some prices simply too high?

And I think we can all tell that we are gearing up for a Red Hair pirated Blackbeard Pirates confrontation (also isn't it neat that all three men involved in this whitebeard, blackboard, red hair, are all memorialized by their haircolor? Pretty fucking neat) But we also know that Shanks isn't going to beat blackboard Luffy, the protagonist has to do that! So it's reasonable to think that either the red hair pirates are shattered like what happened with Law and Shanks is gravely injured or Shanks dies and the red hair pirates have to regroup and probably partner up with the strawhats or something. but yeah if Shanks' death triggers Mihawk's backstory I think I'd be legally obligated to fly to Japan and attempt to fistfight Oda.

[alfairy]

[icewindandboringhorror]

Some (late) holiday photos of the boye~!

[our-flag-means-love]

are my fellow dom!stede/sub!ed truthers feeling vindicated after episode 5?

[thequeenofsastiel]

"I'll try to lie better next time"

I fucking lost it

[hughungrybear]

I still don't understand A, B, and C's purpose to the story 😅😅😅

[ironworked]

For reference, these are the appearances of important recurring 911 characters:

Karen

Josh

Taylor

Lucy

Tommy

[lunar-years]

One day on the Bridgerton side of twitter has been so unbelievably rank and vile I almost miss Ted Lasso twitter

[murasaki-cha]

Ruby: Go fuck yourself.

James, smugly: Sure, but only if you watch

[whensomethingelsecries]

tbh i think a big part of what makes the girlboss/malewife-ification of batobeato so annoying is that like. i feel like a lot of it comes from beatrice's behavior in episode 2 where she assumes a sexually dominant and aggressive role to humiliate anyone who opposes her. but like. much of episode 2 is sayo venting a lot of anger and sexual frustration through fantasies of forcing her alter ego to lick her shoes and chaining and humiliating battler as the first object of her desire and perceived source of a lot of that frustration (after all, it's easier when there's a human you can beat up...)

the whole conflation of sexuality and violence in episode 2 in particular points to a lot of different elements of the story - sayo attempting to process what she's learned about the circumstances of her birth, the fact that she perceives herself as a literal object bc of her inability to have children or even have sex, the horror of learning suddenly that even her genuine attempts at courtship with the few people her age who showed her kindness had been unacceptable because of something she had no idea about. sex is an incredibly fraught topic for sayo for about a million different reasons and it's extremely tied up in the anger she holds towards herself and the rest of the family, so the sexualization of, say, kanon's stab wound follows pretty logically

and like. beatrice doesn't want that dynamic, really? but it's what she knows battler expects of her (see episode 3 beatrice's pained hesitation before putting the cruel bravado back on) and it's how she serves as a conduit for much of sayo's sexual frustration in episode 2. beatrice likes being an indecent woman, sure, but there's just as much in the text showing her wanting to be caressed and cared for and tenderly desired.

like i comprehend why the femdom schtick in the question arcs is appealing to fandom but like. it's a front? it's not who she actually is or what she actually desires? it can be entertaining to joke about at times but i feel like the answer arcs kind of go out of their way to clarify that even beatrice herself is being performative about all that to protect her much more vulnerable desire To Be Loved