#boland motors

[pynkhues]

For the top 5 ask game I was wondering your favourite Brio moments and favourite of the girls’ moments? Xx

Nice! Thank you!

Okay, for the Brio moments, I'd say In no particular order:

All of 2.04. Yes, of course the bathroom break, but honestly all their scenes in this episode are so great. From the opening scene at the bar which just brims with her exhaustion and his excitement, to the last scene in Boland Motors where Rio both listens to her (doesn't tell Dean what they did) and doesn't (destroys the corvette), it's just hot and emotionally complex and good. Genuinely one of my fave eps of tv ever.

The bench scene in 3.06 where Beth and Rio finally confront reality. This scene just aches in all the best ways. I know a lot of people found their lack of communication frustrating, but I loved the way it made scenes like this one really pay off. They both feel like they're nearing breaking points, and the wound between them is still bleeding, and nothing they've put on it is making it stop, and you just feel that. I love it a lot.

"If you need something, all you gotta do is ask" in 4.15. It still makes me insane.

All of 3.04. I know, it's kind of another cheat, but the early scene in the bar where they're both so emotionally wasted juxtaposes so perfectly with the tension and promise of the money making scene at the end. The fact that it plays into all those things that make their dynamic so interesting - the way they can't stay away from each other, the fact tht he sees her, the fact that she always steps up for him - - it just gets me in all the best ways.

The Dubby in 2.07. I've done enough unhinged posting about this ep to last a lifetime, haha, so I'll just leave that there.

And for the girls - - I'd be here forever if I was talking about all my favourite scenes with iterations of them, so I'll try and keep it to trio moments:

Annie and Beth give Ruby the full cut at the hospital after Sara's seizure in 1.05. Honestly one of the scenes that encapsulates the show for me. Funny and tragic and always empathetic, it just shows off Christina, Retta and Mae's friendship chemistry like nothing else.

Ruby shooting Big Mike in the foot and Beth and Annie's reactions in 1.03. I SCREAM.

The bachelorette party scene in 4.08. Absolute cinema magic, they're on fire, I love them.

All of 2.08 - the flashbacks, Annie setting Beth and Ruby up, the crack in Beth's voice when she says she'd always choose Ruby. 10/10 ep actually, I love it very, very dearly.

All of 3.08. This one's maybe a surprise, but the episode where they retrieve Boomer is such a good one, especially for the push-pull between their motivations and the way we get to really see their growth from the start of the series. I love that it's Ruby who's actually the most accepting of the situation, and that Annie's the one who can't really cope. All three of them act the hell out of the episode, and play off each other so well, and I think especially given it felt like we got less of the girls together in s3, it really means a lot to me as an episode over all.

Ask me for my Top Fives

[juuuuunaaaaaooooo]

This is why I could never believe that Rio didn't know about the hitman or Beth working with the SS…How could he knows Turner and all his team gonna go to Boland Motors???? He knows everything happen in this town!!!

[1apiwe]

4 sports events to look forward to in 2023

Women’s T20 World Cup

South Africa will be hosting the 2023 edition of the Women’s T20 World Cup. The tournament kicks off on February 20 until February 26 2023. South Africa’s national team will be joined by the seven highest ranked teams in the International Cricket Council Women’s T20I Rankings. The remaining two teams were Ireland and Bangladesh, the finalists of the qualifying tournament. Australia, India, England, Pakistan, the West Indies, Sri Lanka and New Zealand make up the other teams. The matches will be played at three stadiums: Newlands Cricket Ground, St George’s Park Cricket Ground and Boland Park. The final will be played in Cape Town at Newlands. 

Tickets are available through Ticketpro. 

Betway SA T20 

The Betway SA T20 is a new South African T20 cricket league that launched in January 2023. It’s a month-long league featuring six teams with over 100 local and global star players. The league is formatted in such a way that 33 matches will be played in some of the greatest locations South Africa has to offer that the six teams will all play each other twice before the semi-finals and finals. The six teams are Durban’s Super Giants, Joburg Super Kings, MI Cape Town, Paarl Royals, Pretoria Capitals and Sunrisers Eastern Cape. The league started on January 10 and the final will be played on February 11. The matches are taking place in Durban, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Paarl, Pretoria and Gqeberha.  

Tickets are available to purchase through TicketPros. 

Formula E in Cape Town 

Motor car fans were eagerly anticipating the announcement of the return of Formula One to South Africa in 2023. But it was not to be. Logistical and bureaucratic red tape meant fans would have to wait a little while longer. But there will be some racing fun for fans. The Formula E series will be racing in Cape Town in February. Formula E, officially the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, is a single-seater motorsport championship for electric cars. The series had been slowly gaining in popularity and in 2023, the racers will be using the third Generation race car. The Cape Town street track is predicted to be one of the fastest in the series. The race will be taking place on February 25 around the streets of Cape Town. 

Tickets are available to purchase through TicketMaster. 

FIFA Women’s World Cup

It’s World Cup time again and this year it is being jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand. The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup is scheduled to be the ninth edition of the FIFA Women’s World Cup competition. It is scheduled to take place from July 20 to August 20 2023. It is the first Women’s World Cup that will have more than one host nation. It’s also the first ever senior World Cup with two host nations from two different confederations. The tournament will feature 32 teams with the opening match between New Zealand and Norway in Auckland. The final will be held in Australia. The United States are the defending champions, having won the previous two tournaments. Banyana Banyana will be participating in the tournament. 

[jedivoodoochile]

04 de enero de 1970 la tragedia golpeó a la banda The Who cuando una pandilla de adolescentes atacó la limusina Bentley de Keith Moon. Su chofer, Neil Boland, salió para tratar de proteger el automóvil, pero lo dejó en marcha y comenzó a moverse. Moon, que no tenía licencia de conducir, saltó al volante. Desafortunadamente, el chofer, que estaba siendo golpeado, se había caído debajo del auto y cuando Keith aceleró el motor, Neil fue atropellado y asesinado. Aunque la investigación absolvió a Moon de la culpa, la familia de Neil no lo hizo y tampoco Moon mismo, ya que el incidente lo persiguió por el resto de su vida.

[missmaxime]

HOW DOES THE LAUNDERING SCHEME WORK?

In 4x14 Dave and Phoebe explained to the girls how Nick and Rio’s system works. Which left the girls looking like:

And maybe some of you too.

Dave already gives the TL;DR explanation. What starts with street crime like drug dealings, petty theft and carjacking, moves up to counterfeiting and extortion. From there it goes to washing, laundering and contracts. Those contracts come from shell companies Nick owns, that get distributed to the legit companies to realize projects he gets approved by the city council. Easy enough right? 1. Stripper Heel: Street crime: Petty theft, drug deals, carjacking. 2. Cutlet: Counterfeit and washing through Sweet P’s. 3. Bills: Counterfeit Canadian money goes to Canada, and comes back clean (Dave uses a physical bill, but that doesn’t have to be the case.) 4. Nipple pasties: Laundering through companies like construction, electrics, materials. So the IRS wont drop by and ask any questions. 5. The Banker: Additional money comes in through those companies paying a monthly fee for protection. - This is where Rio’s work stops and Nick’s begins - 6. Body glitter and thongs: Laundering from point 4 happens because those companies get contracts from shell companies which are owned by Nick (or likely a patsy). 7. These shell companies are hired by the city for projects Nick gets approved. With these projects Nick can make money by undervaluing the construction, or he can bribe someone (say, a politician – likely if he intends to move up his political career) by overvaluing the project. Let’s break that down: 1. Street crimes, drug deals, carjacking, etc. We know Rio deals pills aside from the counterfeit business. Does he still do that? Ehh, lets just assume he does. Maybe he has some other shady businesses running too, we don’t know. Point is, this is the stage where money and goods come in that are needed for the girls to create the counterfeit. For the American money this is the source for the one dollar bills the girls mushed up to create the bigger bills. For the Canadian money this cash is likely used to pay legit suppliers under the table that legally place larger orders than they need for bleach, nail polish, and whatever else they need to make those bills.

2. Counterfeiting and washing through Sweet P’s. These are two different things that happen in the same physical place. We know that the girls use the back room to create counterfeit, I don’t think any of us need any explanation for that. Supplies are delivered by Rio and his boys, the girls create the counterfeit, and they exchange these and their cuts on set times during their drops. And, finally, finally, bless us all, the girls own a service-based business. Unlike Boland Motors and Boland Bubbles, that work with buying in goods and selling those directly to customers – Sweet P’s delivers a service to a customer. The big difference is that in both BM and BB there is a physical trail for law enforcement to follow (cars and hot tubs), while in Sweet P’s one cannot suddenly uncover a fake lap dance, because those are obviously intangible. There’s a reason a lot of real life washing goes through massage salons, barbers, phone repair stores, tanning salons, car repair shops – service-based with lots of cash payments. Those stores should be legit, because they act like a front. Sweet P’s is a legit business; it has employees, taxes are paid, all the works. But because it delivers a service there’s a few loop holes, I’ll get back to that in a sec. Because, what is the money that they are washing and how do they do it? First of all, it’s not the counterfeit Canadian money. But The Banker receives a lot of unexplainable money every month from extortion, money that one can’t deposit on a bank account, because what will the IRS think of that? In comes a business like Sweet P’s. One that can easily say that on a night they had 10 private rooms booked, even if in reality it was only five. It’s all paid in cash, so there’s no trace. So now the dirty crime money sits all white and clean on Sweet P’s bank account. That’s of no use to Nick as it is, because he can’t hire Sweet P’s to get back his money, that’s the opposite cashflow that he wants. In this case Sweet P’s will need to get a contract from one of Nick’s shell companies from point 6, so they pay him the money. Judging by Dave’s examples these shell companies are likely building constructors, so in theory the girls would “hire” one of those to “remodel” the bathroom. But the construction never happens, only they still pay the bill. Washing can obviously not go through Sweet P’s alone, I can imagine Nick and Rio manage a lot of different businesses that work through a similar construction. 3. Counterfeit Canadian money goes to Canada, and comes back clean. Okay, so we’ve seen one way this goes down: The girls drive the money over the border themselves, delivering (or, well, intending to) it to some kinds of middle-man over there. For the sake of that episode it looks like a lot of trouble, but I can imagine if you have customs officer in your pocket it will go a whole lot easier. Lets not pretend there’s no one working there that could use a bit of extra cash to let them pass without a search. We know how Rio had the American cash washed from how it went at Fine & Frugal. His boys delivered Boomer with a bag of fake cash (and a fee for Boomer himself for his troubles), and he switched out the real cash that came in for fake cash. The fake cash goes to the bank, the real cash goes back to Rio. It’s a swap, easy as that. Whoever receives the counterfeit from the girls must run a similar scheme in Canada, so the fake cash becomes real cash. Now we made real Canadian money, but it’s still across the border, so how does it come back? There’s three ways the money can come back: cash, digital or exchanged for materials. If it’s cash the legit Canadian money must be exchanged for legit American money. Which, honestly, sounds like a lot of labor. I doubt this is how it comes back because it takes a lot of time, people, various exchange points, and is the most liable from all the options. If it’s digital Nick must have shell companies and/or legit companies based in Canada to hire his American shell companies so they can digitally transfer the money. The cash will get washed like the example I gave for Sweet P’s, wiring that cash ‘legally’ to the Canadian companies account. So they can safely pay the contract they have with the American shell company. If it’s goods I can imagine Nick uses his shell companies, or more likely legit companies. For example, if Nick owns a tile-store in America, and washes trough a Kitchen & Bathroom store in Canada – he can have the latter overpay the former (The worth of the tiles he sends is below the worth on the contract) so the cash flows back to him. But! There’s also another option. If he buys property in Canada with cash, and resells that for digital money, it can flow back to the shell company too. And if he doesn’t need the money right away he could buy property in cash, rent it out, and wash the money like that – this even creates a steady cash flow. !! 5. The Banker: Additional money comes in through those companies paying a monthly fee for protection. I’ll tackle this point first before I start 4, 6 and 7. So, from the episode The Banker we can get a good impression what kind of businesses pay for protection. Many if not all are warehouses, looking like they are companies like in point 4 (see below). Or, like the one Penny’s mom owns, an electrical company. All kinds of companies Nick’s shell companies might use for various projects (point 6). Another thing that might be going on is that these companies are involved with other parts of the crime system. Like Boland Motors wasn’t just a way to launder money, but they also received the cars with the drugs. Paying the protection secures the warehouse from retaliating from law enforcement or other gangs that might try to steal this (both Nick and Rio can put their network on that). And secures them contracts for doing work tied to the City. 4. Laundering through companies like construction, electrics, materials. So the IRS won’t drop by and ask any questions. 6. Body glitter and thongs: Laundering from point 4 happens because those companies get contracts from shell companies* which are owned by Nick (or likely a patsy). 7. These shell companies are hired by the city for projects Nick gets approved. With these projects Nick can make money by undervaluing the construction, or he can bribe someone (say, a politician – likely if he intends to move up his political career) by overvaluing the project. Point 4, 6 and 7 are very closely connected, so I will try to explain this for the outcome of Nick earning money himself. For example, say Nick proposes a new project to the council: Building a new school. (He needs at least four votes in favor, including his own. Having Beth on the council obviously increases his chances of getting a project through, because he assumes she’ll sway towards his choices.) If the project gets a go the City of Detroit will need to hire a company to do the building plans and construction – Nick will make it happen that this goes through his shell company. And the shell company will hand out contracts to the companies listed under point 4. From what we know from Dave’s examples these companies are all ties to construction: electrics, plumbing, materials, and so on. As long as Nick is on the council getting his projects, these businesses have a work guarantee – it’s another reason they pay The Banker. How does Nick make money from that? His shell company will have to present the City with a quotation for the work (before the vote). Lets say this school would cost 30 million to built if it was legit. But that’s not what the shell company will say, they will say it costs 35 million. While 30 million from the city will flow back to all the contracted legit businesses, 5 million will stay with the shell company. Although, it won’t exactly stay there. Nick will have ways to move the money around, invest it, bounce between money mules etc. until it will get lost or find its way back to another shell company. What matters is that he’s using this whole system to rob the city to fund his own career (which, if he has the ambition to maybe become senator or more, which I think is a dead given, he will need a lot of money for in terms of campaigning and whatnot).

Any questions?  

[lunafeather]

I'm rewatching 2.05 because it's one of my absolute most favorite episodes and I need to see some more current Brio to get back my writing groove, and god is it still just amazing.

Also Dean is a literal piece of shit, in case anyone forgot

[nbcgoodgirlsdaily]

rio + touching beth’s shoulder & back

[caption: 8 gifs from good girls, of rio touching beth. 6 gifs are of rio touching beth’s shoulder, at the café in 1x08, the bar in 3x07, the swimming pool bleachers in 2x02, the bar in 4x05, boland motors in 2x06 and the bar in 2x09. 2 gifs are of rio touching beth’s back, in the bathroom in 2x04 and his family’s barbecue in 4x06.]

[bathroombreaks]

GOOD GIRLS + RAINBOW

[caption: 9 stacked large square gifs, each one composed by 9 different gifs from good girls seasons 1, 2 and 3 (4 small square gifs, 4 medium rectangular gifs and 1 big square gif). each of the 9 large square gifs has a colour theme, with all the 9 smaller gifs having backgrounds in that colour.

the first gif has a black theme. the big square gif is of beth smiling in 1x06, after rio ups their drop. the 4 small square gifs are of: beth at paper porcupine, smiling at turner in 3x01; rio leaning against his car in 2x02; stan taking a lie detector test in 2x08; ruby in her pjs, sitting on her sofa in 3x07. the 4 medium rectangular gifs are of: ruby inside beth’s car, crying, in 2x03; annie and greg hugging in 1x10; beth looking at the money rio is offering them in 1x04; annie sitting in beth’s car after finding out marion died in 3x08.

the second gif has a red theme. the big square gif is of the girls celebrating at a bar 1x06. the 4 small square gifs are of: ruby standing in the street, explaining to beth why she chose stan in 2x08; amber sitting behind her desk, looking confused in 2x05; diane talking and shrugging in 3x07; annie getting into her new car in 1x01. the 4 medium rectangular gifs are of: ruby and stan laying in bed together in 3x08; dean standing at the door of his hotel room in 1x01; beth standing in front of the storage room full of fake money in 2x03; annie taking a deep breath and smiling after finishing taking her ged test, in 3x10.

the third gif has an orange theme. the big square gif is of beth and rio having sex in the bar bathroom in 2x04. the 4 small square gifs are of: gayle sitting in an empty spa with dean and asking him out to dinner in 3x03; ruby looking affronted after annie suggests she mix colours in 3x09; annie looking worried after beth tells her about the shutdown in 1x08; ruby making a jibe at annie after she says that the canada pickup has to be rescheduled in 1x03. the 4 medium rectangular gifs are of: ben sitting on the sofa in 3x02; annie, with tears in her eyes, asking ben when he’ll be her kid again in 2x07; rio walking towards beth to tell her to go home in 1x09; beth pointing the golden gun at rio and crying in 2x01.

the fourth gif has a yellow theme. the big square gif is of ruby braiding sara’s hair while ranting about boys in 2x06. the 4 small square gifs are of: annie taking off her sunglasses in 3x04; beth asking dean how his day was and giving the kids a clearly fake smile in 3x02; annie smiling and talking to the border patrol agent in 2x10; beth standing by the sink, looking like she’s about to cry, as dean describes gayle’s body in 3x11. the 4 medium rectangular gifs are of: baby tyler reading a men’s health magazine and then looking up in 1x08; boomer lying to mary pat about annie flirting with him in 1x10; mary pat deciding to blackmail the girls in 1x07; noah standing in annie’s living room wearing her robe in 2x09.

the fifth gif has a green theme. the big square gif is of ruby crying after stan confronts her in 1x10. the 4 small square gifs are of: beth cuddling with kenny in his bed in 2x03; jt talking to ruby in 2x04; beth looking sad as she watches marcus in 3x01; ruby looking angry after she finds out sara was stealing fidget spinners in 1x08. the 4 medium rectangular gifs are of: ruby and stan in their bedroom, hugging and singing together in 1x08; nancy giving a toast in honour of ben in 3x02; sara looking angry and confused after ruby tells her the reason she committed crimes was for her in 3x09; annie shoving money down her t-shirt in 2x04.

the sixth gif has a blue theme. the big square gif is of beth at the bar, smiling at rio, in 2x09. the 4 small square gifs are of: annie hugging nancy to her while nancy is in labour in 2x08; marion talking to annie at fine and frugal in 1x06; rio looking up at beth at the ob-gyn’s office after the doctor confirms she’s pregnant in 3x03; ruby talking and smiling awkwardly in 3x10. the 4 medium rectangular gifs are of: ruby smiling at stan as he cheers during sara’s game in 1x02; the girls laying in beth’s bed in 2x11; beth holding a glass of wine and laughing with rhea in 3x01; turner opening eddie’s file in 1x07.

the seventh gif has a purple theme. the big square gif is of annie, beth and ruby at cloud 9 shopping for kenny’s birthday party in 1x04. the 4 small square gifs are of: annie sitting on the couch and taking a deep breath, a sad smile on her face, in 2x13; ruby and sara sitting down on a sofa in a clinic waiting room in 1x01; rhea sitting down at beth’s kitchen island and talking in 3x01; beth talking to amber in 1x01. the 4 medium rectangular gifs are of: annie and ben in annie’s car, goofing off, in 2x01; cohen talking and smiling during one of his sessions with annie in 3x03; dean trying to convince beth that all the boland motors cars being taken isn’t a big deal in 2x04; mick sitting in his car and talking to beth in 3x04.

the eighth gif has a pink theme. the big square gif is of annie looking sad as nancy announces to ben that they’re having a sleepover in 2x03. the 4 small square gifs are of: beth telling the girls she had fun trying to outsmart turner in 2x10; ruby sitting in beth’s car, telling annie and beth that she loves them, in 1x07; judith telling beth about her own husband’s affairs in 2x09; phoebe at the nail salon where ruby works in 3x11. the 4 medium rectangular gifs are of: ruby smiling down at sara in her hospital bed in 1x05; beth and ruby painting the walls of jane and emma’s bedroom while annie sits on the bed in 3x01; annie smiling at marion after she returns the figurine she stole in 1x06; beth laying down on the stretcher at the ob-gyn’s office in 3x03.

the ninth gif has a white theme. the big square gif is of annie speaking on the phone with beth in 2x08. the 4 small square gifs are of: rio considering whether or not to have his boys kill the girls in 1x02; turner walking into the empty warehouse in 3x01; beth and ruby sitting on ruby’s front porch steps together in 2x13; au jus chirping in his birdcage in 3x05. the 4 medium rectangular gifs are of: ruby yelling with delight after she found out sara is going to get a kidney in 1x09; annie talking to cohen in 3x06; beth getting a wax in 1x01; annie, greg and nancy talking in the kitchen about nancy’s gender reveal party in 2x02.]

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Additional Tags: Baseball, Professional athlete, Detroit Tigers, alternative universe, Drama, Romance, Smut, Fluff, Angst, Infidelity, Divorce, Family, Flirting, celebrity, Playoffs, Private Investigators, Center fielder, Depression, Postpartum Depression

Summary:

There came a point in every professional athlete's career when his or her body started to let them down. It might not be an injury necessarily, but age is the ultimate equalizer. No matter how talented, how skilled, how disciplined, Father Time catches up to everyone. Rio Salazar might not be there quite yet, but he feels retirement nipping at his heels. So, he has his agent/lawyer start setting up local advertisement gigs for him, and he continues to invest in new business opportunities. Rio's expectation is that he's readying himself for the next phase of his life; what he doesn't expect is to completely turn his life upside down and inside out, but that's exactly what happens when he agrees to star in a commercial for Boland Motors. Stepping onto that lot, not only does the asshole owner's wife catch his eye, but she also catches his interest. And she doesn't let go.

AO3

[pynkhues]

In season three we see a real shift in Rio in the last episode, specifically the last scene at Boland's Bubbles. What do you think led to this sudden change? He seemed to be more season two Rio (flirty and suggestive). It really is an interesting shift and it almost makes me wonder if it was an editing thing since they didn't finish filming. Are we seeing him proud of her again and turned on by her success?

Yeah! It is a really distinct shift for him, isn't it? It makes for a really weighted moment overall, and while I think it was partially created due to external circumstances and creative decision making (the s3 COVID shutdown, and the fact that they didn't have the s4 renewal yet), I think it's a logical progression for Rio's character too.

In season 3, we're really seeing the impact not just of the traumatic events of 2.13 on both Beth and Rio, but we're seeing, I think, Rio struggling to regain control of and move forward with his business. It's very much an arc we're only seeing glimpses of as the show limits Rio's POV to maintain the pressure on the girls, but we see it in the bar scene in 3.08, in the carwash in 3.10 and we see it through Rio co-opting Beth's cash and her operation in 3.04.

We start to see his behaviour shift really by 3.09 though, and while it times with Beth's starting to doll herself up to see him, haha, I think it's actually more about the fact that circumstances have started to stabilise for Rio. He's punished her via Lucy, and they've overcome that hurdle (at least temporarily), he finally strongarmed her into doing what she wouldn't in not just letting him handle Boomer, but delivering him to him, and business seems to be functional again.

While there are certainly backslides in those last couple of episodes (3.10 being a big one as I mentioned above), I think the ground is firmer beneath both of their feet than it has been really since Turner's raid on Boland Motors in 2.10. Their professional relationship still has its issues, but it's more solid at that point than it perhaps ever has been, even with Beth still trying to kill him and Rio framing her for Lucy's murder. They've simultaneously got a knife at each other's throat while they're grasping at each other's hands.

It's what makes the Boland Bubbles collapse sort of incidental overall – it presented as a fun opportunity for both of them, but it wasn't the foundation of their professional relationship in the way that Boland Motors was in s2. In s2, Boland Motors is all Beth has, in s3, Beth has the printing press, she has her manufacturing operation, and it's that that Rio needs more than any shop front. She has more power in that relationship, and it's a power that means Boland Bubbles offers possibility for growth to both of them, instead of being where her power starts and stops, and something he is solely exploiting.

I think Rio's entering that really feeling that, and not only feeling that there's a future where he can breathe again professionally, but one where he and Beth get to stay in each other's lives and keep doing what they're doing. It's a new reality for them, one where the ground is solid and they feel in-step, and that's something s4 really underlined as something Rio wants. 3.11 ended with the promise of possibility, and that possibility didn't end when Boland Bubbles did, because Beth and Rio's partnership and relationship had finally transcended any one operation, a new reality that it had been building to all sesaon. They were all in, and he knew it.

[juuuuunaaaaaooooo]

Ok…I don't understand why Rio take back his money…did he didn't trust her in the end or, did he thinks that because they had sex, it's mean she is his wife now and the money is them???^^ Or…he knew that she use it for Boland motors and be jealous???? (this man is so weird^^)

[goodgirlsfanficawards]

Best Author: flashindie / @pynkhues

What the Sea Wants, the Sea Will Have

It thunders in the night, lapping at the docks, making the wood of the ships atop its surface wheeze and creak. But no, that’s imagined, she thinks. She couldn’t hear the ships from here, couldn’t know the men aboard them, but in her minds eye perhaps she sees them. Not huddled in cabins or in flimsy beds among the steerage. They’ll be in town tonight, re-firming their feet on dry land before they slip their sea legs back on in the morrow.

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Hey, look, it's a brio pirate au!

To Face Unafraid

“The plan isn’t changing,” she promises, raising her voice a little to be heard over the roaring opening chords of Last Christmas. “We’re still hosting everyone, and the kids are staying with us, it’s just - - something’s just come up which is - - I mean. It’s really not anything you need to worry about. I’ll tell you when I get home.”

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Beth and Rio host their first Christmas together, only for an unexpected guest to stir up old, unresolved tensions.

Part 5 of The Center and Circumference

Navigate a Broken Path

Look, all Mick’s getting at is that - - y’know. It’s not personal for him. He doesn’t count them, keep them, box them up or display them. Mick’s a professional, and killing people – it’s a part of this line of work. He knew it from the moment Pistol brought him on-side, and he knew it when he watched Rio kill Pistol and take over, and he knew it when he helped Rio take care of the body, and he knew it when Rio looked up at him after, his jaw bruised and his eyes too hard on his too young face and said you know what this makes us?

Yeah.

Mick knew what it made them.

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Set after 3.08, Rio sends Mick to take out Mary Pat. Then things get complicated.

Playing House

“Well, you did get me this bed too,” Beth says, a little blissfully, letting her eyes slip shut as she falls down into her pillows, making Rio snort, and she feels more than sees the mattress dip beneath his weight, the heat radiating off his body as he crawls up over her. She blinks her eyes back open, looking up at him, and her heart almost stops at the way he’s looking down at her, his face soft and open, his eyes dark, and she exhales, her hand coming up to trace the newly shaved line of his beard.

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Drabbles and ficlets set in The Center and Circumference universe (mostly based on tumblr prompts).

Part 3 of The Center and Circumference

Nest 

Drabbles and fics set in The Center and Circumference universe.

High school and beyond!

Part 4 of The Center and Circumference

Need a Little Time 

“That’s the thing with havin’ kids,” she’d hummed, smoothing her touch at his clean-shaven cheek. “You wait too long to see them, they’ve done a whole lot of growin’ without you. Not always the good type either.”

And he’d rolled his eyes then, because he was young enough to think that shit was about him, a jab about not swinging round enough, not going to church with her for anything but the holidays, about the fact that Rhea was nursing Marcus out on the back steps without a ring on her finger, or about the cut on his chin nobody had been able to stop eyeballing since he’d gotten out of his car.

But the thing is, he looks at Marcus now and he thinks:

An inch, maybe two.

That’s how much taller he is.

-

A missing scene from 3.02. Rio reconnects with his son and his ex, but Beth is never far from mind.

Blue Moon 

“Oh, you’re planning a beach wedding now?” Ruby asks with a grin, the thing only faltering when the doors open again but - - no. Just a nurse, brandishing her clipboard. Still no Dean. Typical.

Beth hums, like she hadn’t even noticed, looking back at Ruby, her blue eyes bright, and there’s something that feels like Beth in it again, something warm, impish, as she wrinkles her nose, considering, and Ruby can’t help it, the way it feels like a key that unlocks her.

- 10 times Ruby dances fic.

Cross Your Fingers��

Because the storage unit was empty again, and none of them had been able to make ends meet – not for Sara’s meds or Sadie’s hormone therapy, and not to salvage the husk of Boland Motors nor stop Beth and Dean from slipping further into debt, and so maybe Beth had thought about the fake cash, then maybe she’d done enough research into making it, then maybe - - maybe she’d done it, taking it out of her oven the first time she’d pulled it off with a wide and honest grin.

Because right then it had felt good. To have done it. To remember it. To remember she was good at this, that what he’d seen in her had been right and true, even if he was only ever playing with her, even if the rest of it had all been a lie.

*

A post-season two finale monster baby

Two Shoes

“You’re the one who wanted the second set of eyes for this,” she tells him curtly, louder, and Rio’s languid look quickly morphs into a disbelieving glare. He rocks his jaw, grip tightening on her hip.

“You wanna keep it quiet?”

“You wanna ever talk to me about a job before I’m apparently halfway through it?”

-

Beth and Rio do a job - - badly.

A post-s3 mess.

Congratulations @pynkhues​!

[medievalraven]

re: the scars

i think a lot of people have already sufficiently covered a lot of the issues with the lack of scars on rio in 4x09 - but i wanted to throw in my two cents too :)

so personally while i find this exceptionally disappointing and probably one of the biggest missed opportunities of the series - it really is just the perfect example of what i think is the fatal flaw of this show in general: an inability to effectively and/or properly end storylines in a satisfying way after a major inciting incident.

the show loves these big dramatic moments - these ‘gotcha’ opportunities - and they do a good job setting them up, but time and time again they’ve demonstrated that it’s easier to just ignore storylines or brush them under a rug in order to move onto new things - new things that only exist because of that specific action.

i mean look at this short list of storylines that help spur the plot forward but have had very little, if any, proper ending or acknowledgement:

annie’s arrest in 1x06 (brought up in 4x09 but then immediately brushed aside without confirmation of what actually happened)

dean’s cancer lie in season one

dean’s financial choices crippling the family (brought in vaguely in 4x02 but again just immediately brushed aside)

dean’s shooting in 2x01 (now this one i’ll admit we do see ripples of in early season two with some episodes showing us that the shooting did put a new financial burden on the family, but it’s moved past pretty quickly - and the only person who does address it really is then dean who does so typically in a show of jealousy over rio and beth’s “romantic” relationship)

boland motors (and boland bubbles) seizure by law enforcement (presumably the bolands just had to sell them, but this is never really acknowledged)

the hills paying their attorney with counterfeit cash in 2x11

rio’s shooting in 2x13 (unrelated, but semi-related is rio’s amazing one month recovery from said shooting with no lasting effects seemingly)

beth’s “grief” arc (yes there was an arc, but i find the show’s decision to do a time jump immediately after 2x13 lazy and robs the viewers again of the nuanced fallout of such a traumatic event for rio, beth, ruby/annie/dean especially when we immediately jump to a time where everyone is fine and people are casually making jokes about dead rio)

turner’s death in 3x01 (which i’m willing to let slide a little, but i do think it’s a missed opportunity that this [and whatever else turner had on beth/rio/the girls] was never brought up with the whole secret service storyline)

dean’s lack of scars in 3x03 and throughout season four in the hot tub (barf)

rio killing fitzpatrick in 4x04

rio’s arrest in 4x08 (essentially glossed over in 4x09)

anyway - i guess just what i’m saying is while i think the lack of scars is horrible and frankly negligible of the show, it’s ultimately just part of a series of narrative choices that i believe just demonstrates that while the show wants to take on big storylines, they either lack the ability or choose to not then give said storylines the weight and nuance they deserve.

but out of all these choices?  yeah the lack of scars is probably one of the worst

[alicedopey]

Let’s Label It

gif credits to @yemme​

Fandom: Good Girls

Pairing: Beth x Rio

Genre: Smut

Warnings: well it’s smut. Possessive Rio.

Words number: 1466 (I really need to learn how to write a drabble)

Summary: Rio visits Beth one night at Boland Motors.

A/N: Set somewhere between 2.05 and 2.09.

Sleeping was not one of Beth’s usual activities. In fact, it had become an exceptional event during those last two years. She had tried so much…but every time her eyes closed, her mind was swirling with dark thoughts. Being a mother was stressful but dealing with some illegal business induced insomnia. Then, there was Boland Motors now…which explained why she was still taking care of the accounting instead of baking muffins or cupcakes like she used to at two in the morning.

She looked through squinted eyes at all the numbers in front of her and wondered how Dean had not managed to ruin them earlier. He was not really known to be a hard worker and there was also the fact that his long nights at the office had turned into fucking sessions with his younger assistant.

She let out a heavy sigh and rubbed her sore eyes. Her slight had become slightly blurred and all the numbers were blending all together. It was useless to keep working this way.

“Still there, Mama?”

Beth startled on her chair and let out an undignified squeak. Rio was standing at the entrance of her office, hands digging his dark jeans pockets, his usual smirk in place. How she had not heard him come in, she did not know. He was always so sneaky.

“What are you doing here?”

He shrugged nonchalantly. “Saw some light on. Figured I’d better check on my investment.”

Beth prevented herself from rolling her eyes and answered as calmly as she could.

“Everything is perfect as you can see.” Leave now, please.

“Right, right…” Rio did not leave. He even stepped into her office, pretending to pay attention to the papers on her desk until he was near her.

Feeling suddenly small, Beth rose from her chair. They stared at each other for a while…maybe seconds, minutes, hours, Beth could not tell. It was always the same battle between the two of them as soon as their eyes met.

Rio took another step towards her and tentatively tucked a lock of hair behind her ear. Her breath stopped.

“Rio…what are you doing here?”

He ignored his question. His hand went down her neck, shoulder, arm until it landed on her waist.

“Remember what I said about you on top of that desk?”

Of course, she did. You look good behind that desk. But you’d look so much better on top of it. She remembered his tone, his face, his clothes but she could not possibly admit it to him. At least, not that easily.

“Vaguely”.

Rio chuckled, perfectly aware that she was lying. He knew how to read her like a book. “Wanna see how it looks like?”

The hand on her waist moved on the small of her back and he softly pulled her against his hard body. “Yes or no?”

Beth could feel all of him against her curves, from his taut muscles to his hard on against her pelvis. It was really difficult to process any thought in that case.

“Elizabeth, yes or no?” He asked again, this time in a whisper.

She nodded without even realizing it and tilted her head upwards so that their lips could touch but before they did, Rio put a finger on her lips.

“Nah…you have to say it, Mama.”

He was taunting her, wishing for her to submit. Beth knew she should not but her body was craving his touch so much. He was like a drug running through her veins, addictive and so dangerous. She could not resist.

“Yes.”

Everything happened so fast after that. Their lips crashed, he helped her getting rid of her pants and knickers, bent his knees, grabbed her thighs to lift her and let her lie down on the desk. Papers and folders scattered down the floor as she did.

He took off his hoodie and Beth licked her lips unconsciously when her eyes fell on the muscles of his arms.

As seducing as she could be, she unbuttoned her blouse to reveal her white lacy bra. Rio groaned before attacking her collarbone with nip, bites and kisses. Slowly, ever so slowly, his lips traveled down and he took a clothed nipple between his teeth, tugging at it. Bet gasped. One of her hands pushed against his head so that he would not stop his delicious torture. Rio did not seem to mind, only ceasing his ministrations to yank her bra down and attack the other nipple with no further barrier. Beth moaned this time, arching her back to push her flesh even closer as if her hand still on the back of his skull was not enough. He knew her body dangerously too well, one more power over her he could enjoy. Bet would not complain about this one. It was too pleasurable on her side as well.

She felt her lower belly clench, sending some electricity down her body. Then it was the turn of her sex to clench…around nothing. Desperate, needy, her body started to undulate and slither against his, searching for some kind of friction.

Rio got the message. He straightened up, unzipped his pants and pulled his boxers down. Beth rose her upper body, leaning on her elbows and watched with envy his engorged member, licking her lips against her own will once again. Rio’s eyes met hers and he took his dick in his own hands. Then, he slid it inside her in one smooth thrust. Beth fell back down on the desk the moment he entered her. He pulled back and came back in even more forcefully. Beth’s back arched once more. She whined loudly and enclosed his hips between her legs so that he would not escape this time – not that he wanted to.

Rio grabbed her hips and started a wild rhythm. It was not slow or romantic but passionate and raw. She loved it. Their eyes met again. It was Rio’s turn to lick his lips as he watched her ample breasts bouncing with every move.

“Tell me, Elizabeth…” He rasped. “What would you say or do if car man barged in right this instant and saw me hitting it?”

Beth’s walls tightened around him. Looks like the idea of Dean walking on them fucking wildly on her desk was turning her on.

Rio chuckled huskily. “You would love that!” He gave a sharp thrust. “Guess I would love that too. Your husband watching me making you writhe and cum under me.”

Beth could feel him getting bigger inside of her as the words flew from his mouth one after the other. He was close but definitely determined to make her reach her peak before he did since his hand sneaked a way to her clit and began rubbing it in small circles.

“He would watch you cum like you never did before because he’s too much of an ass to make you cum properly. Only I can. Only. Me.”

Beth came like she never did before indeed. Her whole body spasmed, an animalistic cry left her mouth, tears even rolled down her cheeks. Above her, Rio groaned and finally and spilled himself inside of her. Then he fell on her.

They remained like this a moment before Rio pulled out, cleaned himself with some of the papers on her desk and got dressed. Beth fixed her clothing under his smug smile. Once again, he got her where he wanted to.

“Don’t you think we can label it now?”

“What?” Beth asked, frowning.

He gestured between the two of them. “That…thing between you and I.”

“We’re partners.” Beth answered sharply. “End of the story.”

“We are way more than that and you know it.”

Beth rolled her eyes. “Friends, then?”

He laughed. She realized how ridiculous and inappropriate that term was to qualify what was going on between the two of them. They were definitely not friends.

“Sweetheart, we’ve never been friends. Friends don’t do what we just did.”

True. Beth sighed, too tired and annoyed to keep playing with him. She did not know he wanted to talk about this topic again all of sudden but it was clear he was not willing to let go before he got a satisfying answer.

“What about…partners with benefits?”

Rio chuckled but nodded. “Now, that’s better.” He made his way towards the door. “Can’t wait to enjoy more of those benefits with you, partner.”

Beth did not even bother replying. He would not believe her, anyways.

He gave her one last glance. “By the way, I was right. You do look much better on top of that desk.”

[moonlit-void-to-the-far-unknown]

“You’d look so much better on top of me” (a gang girlfriend drabble)

His eyes move over you, sat behind the desk between you both, he tucks his bottom lip into his mouth, nodding as you talk about something to do with the new process of washing through boland motors. He forgets how sexy you sound talking business, your eyes trained on the paperwork in front of you, simple written notes you have on Elizabeth and her dumbass husband.

He shakes his head when you clear your throat, eyebrows raised at him, you asked him something? But he couldn’t give a damn what. His tongue teases his bottom lip.

“Sorry mama, I wasn’t listening” your face falls into a frown, one eyebrow raising in frustration

“Nah I was too busy thinking how good you look behind that desk. But how good you would look riding me on top of it” your eyebrows go up, your mouth falling open slightly

“Oh...” a simple breathy sound.

He stands, moving closer to the desk, laying his hand right on top of the desk. Caging yours in. His head leaning down to your ear.

“Oh mama, you don’t know how bad I want to make you cum all over this desk, make sure soccer mom and the husband knows that we own all of this.” He can feel your breathing pick up, his lips go to your neck kissing right under your ear. The tip of his tongue sliding along the soft skin.

“So why don’t we do that then....daddy”

That’s all he needs, your on the desk before you can breath fully, your skirt pushed up around your hips, legs hooked over his waist. He’s buried in you in one smooth thrust, chuckling at your gasped moan.

He fucks you fast and hard, his hands holding your hips, his mouth on your neck, your fingers dig into the back of his neck, mouth open in gasped moans.

It doesn’t take long, oh know he knows your sweet spots, he knows your body better then he knows his own it seems. Before long your falling over the edge, him following. His gasping grunts in your ear knowing how it makes you shiver and whimper against him.

You both don’t clean up the desk top as you readjust your clothing. His hand takes yours. And you walk out to his car. Him opening your door.

He turns towards the back parking area and sees the van, waving his fingers at Elizabeth slightly. Before hopping in to drive you home.

“I hope she enjoyed the show” he laughs at your voice, tired and slow.

“Oh I know she did. Just wait tomorrow I’ll be getting phone calls....worth it mama, oh it was worth it”

You nod, he takes your hand in his kissing the back of your hand. His queen. His only queen.

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[missmaxime]

Pool Scene Analysis

Ah, yes. The already famous pool scene! I’ve rewatched it too, and I can only say that I still love it as much as I did on first watch – but I understand how people can have mixed feelings about it. Overall this episode is a lot about parallels, as we could see with flashbacks and the now of Beth and Dean. And the pool scene is part of a sets of parallels when I look at it: Two parallels: - Pool Scene vs past Beth/Rio scenes. [Most notably the bathroom Break in 2x04 – yes with pictures included, I’m not a monster] - Beth/Rio vs Beth/Fitzpatrick vs Beth/Dean (I was going to break it into those two parallels, but I decided to go chronologically, it makes more sense) Dean + Beth So, what happens just before? Dean just figuratively threw the door in Beth’s face, because he learned that he isn’t just in jail because of Beth. He now knows that Rio was a part of this scheme since the very beginning. From the past seasons we know that Dean doesn’t have that much of a problem with the whole crime aspect, he bribes the doctor himself when he fakes the cancer, hires the baby hitmen to off Rio, and handles the books at Boland Motors (Beth asks Dean where the books are, when Turner is about to raid them). Dean’s problem is not with crime, it’s with Rio. Beth + Rio / Pool Scene Beth drops by Rio at his (empty) bar, and tells him she needs a loan. Now, she’s never been shy to ask for money or time or jobs with Rio, but in a way most of those times were directly of indirectly beneficial to Rio in the end. There’s obviously times he refused, like when she wanted him to participate in the Botox scheme in 1x08 – because that was an instance where it once benefited her. And, like now, law enforcement is on them. And we know Rio ain’t doing any time because some bitches need their pocket money.

It’s the episode Ruby and Annie called Beth out for not NOT wanting to do crime – hell, how she’s crawling out of her skin living ‘the normal life’. In the same episode Rio tells her she’s not going to be any kind of boss until she gets her house in order, while both her business and her actual house in 4x03 are in shambles again. In 1x08 Ruby also learns that Eddie is talking to the feds, putting the girls up for an important decision: Who’s going to be the fall guy, Eddie or them? It’s not going to be them. Back to pool. Beth tells him it’s for bail, but Rio immediately nah’s her. She needs a fall guy if she ever wants to make money again. Which is what Rio did to Beth before 4x04, he left all the fake money in her name. Presumably so he could go and make a fresh start for himself. But when she prove her worth again he took it all away. Beth tells Rio that at ‘it’s not his fault’. But Rio reminds her that he told her to be smart:

Which is what he told her when he send her to watch Lucy, someone else who got spiraled into crime due to Beth’s scheme. Another innocent who took a fall for her, albeit it not directly her doing. Dean’s arrest, by also not letting him in on the crime, but who she set up form the beginning by putting both the store and accounts on his name – is her doing. As much as she might not want to see that.

“Look they’ll cut a deal. Three years, club Fed.” Beth jumps on how it’ll affect her kids and her, but ignores the thing I’m latching on to: That Rio assumes Dean will cut a deal with the Secret Service. But that would mean Dean can offer them something in exchange for him to cut years of his sentence. And we already know that Dean knows nothing about how the business works – Phoebe knows by now that Dean knows nothing about how the business works, because she found Beth’s handwritten instructions herself – so the only substantial thing Dean has to offer is Beth. I’m not entirely sure Beth’s talking crime implications, or personal when she asks ‘What about me?’ but Rio is very keen to focus entirely on the marriage part. Telling her that ‘her boy’ will come out in better shape than when he went in. ‘Maybe she’ll even wanna hit that again’. Beth’s briefly looking at him with a look of ‘I can’t believe you brought that up’, but barrels forward with a ‘There’s gotta be a way to get him out’.

This moment parallels with the first non-flashback scene we see, of Beth and Dean, that I talked about before. Dean’s issues with Beth’s crime life are with Rio. And Rio’s throwing it out there that can’t grasp why she has such an issue with Dean talking the fall. He might not know everything about their marriage, but he knows it’s broken enough for her to have sex with him, for her to get into crime and choosing to stay, and to even set him up and keep him in the dark for Boland Bubbles. Hell, the first time they fucked her husband was sitting three feet away waiting for the bill, and the second time was in her marital bed. But I’ll get back to that.

Rio throws back that if you ‘Do the crime, you do the time.’ To which this piece of convo follows:

In 2x13 (and please lets not get into discourse how poorly this was built up) Rio made sure everything was on Beth, even oopsing the dead body buried under her lawn to Turner as a cherry on top of all the funny money and the dealership. Rio knows he needs a fall guy – and in 2x13 it was Beth – she could make it all go away if she murdered Turner.

Rio talks about how he got luck on his side. Surviving the shooting could be considered lucky, and the opportunity it gave him to wipe the streets from his competition gave him more space and opportunity to built something up after he organized the drive by on Turner. But he also say ‘Maybe you do to.’ Which could indicate their immediate game, but I’m thinking it might be more. I think this might be a reference to Rio’s mystery boss we have yet to meet. When you think about it, Turner took a lot of people down probably in the span of like two months, and Rio was AWOL for all that time – he’d be the first one people look at to be a snitch. Yet he remains unscathed for the whole of season three up ‘til now, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he had some wort of protection. And perhaps he’s offering Beth to be in on that too. Speaking of 2x04’s bathroom break, hello bail deal! We all know there some more ambiguity surrounding this scene, but all choreography of this scene seems so deliberately close to 2x04 I cannot unsee. Look:

Beth seals the deal back in the bar, and Rio allows her to take it from his cut she still owes him. That is, obviously, not what she was looking for. But who’s surprised, really? In 1x08 he was shut down, not taking on new business and not continuing the running ones. He even stole all Beth’s money – she could have known that everybody still feels the pain.

Once again Beth will have to solve things herself, but Rio can’t help but look at her as she storms out. Beth + Fitzpatrick I already touched on the 2x13 parallel from when Beth says that nothing ever sticks on Rio, but there’s more callback in this scene as well. Beth now has been turned down by Dean from even talking to her, and by Rio from help with money for bail. She’s kind of fed up at this point, and at the end of her rope. And now this infatuated dick who refuses to do the job she hired him fore is lounging in her kitchen like her owes the place – owes her.

Beth has a tendency to copy Rio when she really needs something, but also doesn’t really know how to get it – like when she and the girls went into the crack house to retrieve the Dubby. I can’t say I’m surprised she explodes her, changing her tactic to ‘giving him what he wants’. Like the crack house this could have ended horribly, but fortunately it works (well, for now, we don’t know yet how this is going to play out). But Beth’s visibly weighted by the choice she just made to handle this – even if it worked. So that’s folks! What do you guys think? Did you notice a parallel I missed?