#brandon severs

[bixb]

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[robin-munson]

he looks so heartbroken

[caleohateclub]

RIP Bobby Cañero-Reed and Liam Carter, you would've loved this new tennis craze after the Challengers came out

[johnsspacesuittight]

anyway lol so since we have Charlie Bushnell as Luke in the new PJO series and I would just like to then pitch Brandon Severs as Charlie Beckendorf please and thank you

[featherwriter]

i've been trying to figure out how to articulate my thoughts on a really difficult subject for me and i apologize for the strong language, but i really thought it was necessary hope you all can understand

[barkovsasha]

cubs @ cardinals - 7.13.24

[pacific-coast-hockey]

yk i have not been watching the rookie tournament due to the horrors but getting all my information secondhand thru @whoredeleau, it does strike me very much as similar to the '22 rookie tournament, where i walked out of it convinced this would be the cuda's year. and it absolutely was NOT, but i did proceed to have the most fun i've ever had as a barracuda fan in the 22-23 season. fingers crossed the vibes are changing

[etapereine]

oh, what a thing to do

@wtfanworkclassification stage 3: prompt -> yellow (231 words)

also on ao3.

it's both a surprise and not, when the unfortunate commissaire comes to find remco after the race. 

stand on enough podiums, and you learn to recognize the signs - even from a relatively inexperienced winner: eyes on him during the ceremony, a hand lingering a beat too long on his shoulder after photos. he'd just assumed that in this case "childhood friend" might have trumped "cocky stranger." remco's not disappointed to be wrong.

they'd been almost back to the bus, him and mattia and klaas, when the commissaire caught up with them, so it's a long walk back. he's always wondered, in a morbid sort of way, how a person gets chosen for that role. do the commissaires draw straws before the race? is it in a job description somewhere? measure sock heights. watch for sprint deviations. tell a guy the race winner wants to fuck him.

it helps, he's found, to have something to focus on besides the obvious - not because he's nervous, exactly. remco evenepoel doesn't really get nervous, and certainly not about the prospect of getting off with a hot guy. it's not always mutual, he knows, but instinct says in this case it might be. it's a flattering thought.

the commissaire leaves him outside the trailer, and remco's not shy about knocking.

matteo jorgenson is still wearing the yellow jersey from the podium, when he opens the door.

[hi-land]

gonna be posting random test shots just for funsies

[highdefinitions]

trying 75 hard if anyone wants to join me

[soyouwinagain]

"thanks for the orange" | a new recipe for the dousing™️ | 9 june 2023

[robin-munson]

AAAAAH

[juergenklopp]

BRANDON MARSH, BRYSON STOTT, and TREA TURNER vs New York Mets (June 25, 2023)

[charmixpower]

Bloom: Tecna. You and Timmy are always texting, chatting, and emailing. You never spend any time face to face

Stella: You're having an all virtual relationship, which is like virtually impossible

I'm going to strangle them

Please refer me to exactly where Tecna invited the both of you into her relationship, I'd love to see it

Look at how upset she is!!! Crimes!!! Crimes!!!!

[alectology-archive]

and look it’s not that sanderson did anything wrong by introducing new character conflicts in the last three books because that *is* how you keep readers interested but 1. I don’t care about these conflicts 2. they overwrite and ignore character conflicts that rj *did* introduce 3. you can’t just introduce any sort of character conflict you want and walk away pretending it makes sense. I can see bullshit coming from very far away and I can recognise very generic struggles being framed as an important character point even when it isn’t 4. they hurt character development and are clearly skewed in favour of making the male characters look better etc.

case in point:

rand didn’t have an arc about learning to love and accepting his role as a hero (rather rj sympathised with him being put in the position) so the dragonmount epiphany rings hollow because it’s not the culmination of rand’s struggles in 11 books finding a resolution, it’s rand’s struggle from 1 book, a new struggle introduce by sanderson (TGS), finding a resolution (and in a very unsatisfying way that doesn’t actually tackle his mental health or the traumatic position of a hero).

rand is framed as a conquering ruler who should be worshipped because he’s a forcing bringing safety and the literal narrative warps around him post-dragonmount to present him as a figure who should have all of his whims met. the very natural world starts bowing to his will. definitely not a weird thing to introduce in a series discussing imperialism + big L especially for a series where rj eviscerates seanchan, cults and the children of the light for their saviorist attitudes.

egwene didn’t have to be beaten down and I-told-you-so-d by gawyn into learning to share responsibilities. gawyn had no place interfering in aes sedai matters, I’m sorry. it continues the trend of various men/asha’man offering elaborate critiques of aes sedai having exactly accomplished zero things themselves - including perrin, androl, rand, mat.

he walked back on character development introduced in *his own* instalments to end the series on a weirdly hostile note for elayne and galad. he also wrote out morgase and made more space for his blorbos and gave them narrative space that even some of the protagonists were never afforded.

making cadsuane amyrlin was his choice. he didn’t get the basic theme of the white tower needing reform! egwene is a survivor above all else. she would not fucking commit suicide, it’s not in-character for her to pick suicide over being burned out. also ‘healing’ the pattern enters ‘breaking worldbuilding rules’ territory and I hate the flame of tar valon weave. it has weird implications attached to it being capable of healing any sort of damage when the white tower is clearly discussed to be just as susceptible to corruption as any other institution.

perrin breaking basic TAR rules to fight in book 14 after training to be good at it in book 13 is definitely like. good writing, sure.

nynaeve and moiraine are very noticeably characterised to be mother figures/caring figures. it’s very uncomfortable! moiraine also saying that she would give up channeling for thom is very infuriating and not in character for her.

not to be weird about a romance I hate in the first place but even in the rj books moiraine/thom was about daes dae’maring, not thom acting as a warder. amol!thom is annoying. his monologue about how to describe a battle is one of the worst, most horrific pieces of writing I’ve ever read. besides mat’s boot monologue.

[allovesthings]

We went down to the crypts. Father was here, we talked, he was sad.

The Starks are linked to death in a lot of way, Bran actually talked to Ned in a dream after his death. The more I reread, the less convinced I’m that my theory about Arya actually hearing the dead several times is crack, if Bran could have a conversation about Jon after Ned’s death, then I don’t see why Arya can’t talk to the dead.