#brb going to have to draw this... for science.

[outlanderalien]

If it does turn out that Adam comes back as a sinner and he gets a new form, don't you think he'd suit a ram/satyr look?

That tuft of hair on his chin, the ram-styled horns of his mask, and his heavy metal themes make me think he'd be a great classical ram demon with hoofs, horns, etc. etc.

[greensagephase]

More Mafia Miguel Art I wanted to show you 🫶🥺

I hope you’re doing well, pooks!🌷💕

Hiii, pooks! 🥰

This ask has been in my inbox for about 2 weeks (I'm sorry 🥲), but the way the first drawing has been on my mind since I received it! I've been unable to stop thinking about it, fr. Like... My heart is unwell with Miguel’s line, "You'll be ok. You'll be ok... Y-You'll be ok."

The way Miguel's voice breaks at the end, the worry and shock on his face, and the way he cradles Kira's head and holds her body in his arms, against him -- my freaking heart, Lara!! You can see how much he cares for Kira! 🥺 The vulnerability in this single drawing is killing me. 😭 I want to ask, what is the reason Kira gets hurt? It looks like Kira is wearing her suit here, so is this from her activities as Lady Spider? Asking for a friend… 😌

Ok, but let's talk about the other drawing in the first pic. I am SCREAMING over how Miguel is grabbing her face and the way Kira is also gripping Miguel’s top, giving him that look of defiance (it's actually reminding me of FBOW now🤭).

His line in this drawing, though.🥺 "I'm not the villain in your story, Kira." I'm gonna go cry rn brb. 🥲🤚🏼 I suddenly can't help but think about Miguel's feelings regarding this topic. If he's saying that, he's aware that Kira doesn't have a good impression of him, thinking of him as the villain in her life. To some degree he must believe Kira, the woman he loves, hates him.

And to think about how he eventually discovers the existence of another Miguel (Spider-Man Miguel), which probably causes him not only jealously as you've shared with me through your writing request, but possibly a deep sadness, too, when he sees how different Kira treats him compared to the other Miguel. That leads me to imagine Miguel laying awake at night and thinking about this, his heart aching because he genuinely believes that Kira despises him (and maybe she truly does since you've mentioned she thinks he's responsible for some of her pain and loss) when he feels so differently for her, and also because he notes how she seems to be so smitten with another man who isn't just any guy, but a variant of himself, which makes it worse for mafia Miguel (😭😭). I'm gonna stop here for my sake and continue on.

I love the second pic because I feel like we get to see their personalities, like Miguel's smirk and the more serious expression on Kira. Also, we learn more about their backgrounds. I didn't know Kira studied mathematics and computer science, so that was really fun to find out! And of course, we find out that Miguel discovered rapture, which we've already talked about along with his background before becoming a mafia don (I'm still sad about that btw).

The last drawing, AAAAAAAA!! I LOVE HOW THEY'RE HUGGING 🥹🥹 Look at how their arms are tightly wrapped around each other (Kira is doing her best to hug Miguel, hehe 🥹)! Kira smiling? I LOVE SEEING HER HAPPY! And Miguel - omg. The furrowed eyebrows! That's a man that doesn't want to let go of his person, you can't change my mind! 💕🥺 Augh, thinking of them being all happy and in love right now!! 🥹🥹 Is this Miguel a romantic? I need to know! 😌

But Lara, thank you for sharing your amazing art with us!! I hope you have a great start to your week!!💖💕🫶🏼

Alondra❤️

[clementineesotsm]

THE KING: ETERNAL MONARCH EP 10, My Appreciation and How It Made Me Feel

Back to Korea where KSJ try to investigate the car and person that always tailed him in a while and while at the police office he asked JTE how is it like there in Corea? I might say this scene was well done. I love how JTE describe Corea, i love the editing, the music and KSJ reaction is priceless when JTE said she doesn’t found him there, he replied, because im here. Brb crying

Then they went to the cemetery in front of Gon’s doppelgänger grave. He tells JTE that he knows Gon because he hears him wailing. KKN and KGE acting here deserve appreciation, such a heartbreaking scene. I feel pain when JTE said “so you were here this whole time” and KSJ says “but am I supposed to be here?” Then the hugs 😭

Comes to the most most heartbreaking scene along this series. LR coming to Prince Buyeong place just when he is about to leave 🥺 HE. KILLED. PRINCE. BUYEONG 😭 i remember grasping the whole scene because this cant be, omg! I want him alive until the end, he is like a father figure to Gon. Shit! Everything about this scene was well made. From the camera movements, script, acting, music, everything was great yet really nerve wrecking. Kudos to the team and the writer. This will added burden to Gon and that is needed but the fact that we lose Prince Buyeong still makes me sad 😔

I realize in this scene LR also saying to Prince Buyeong that, he wants the whole flute tonhis possession. He dont know yet the extent of what he will able to do with it but he needs to be the one to have the whole of it. At this point i see his weakness. His greed and his anger seems to always get the best of him then make his judgment seems weak and lead him to his downfall. He seems to underestimating his enemy all the time

Next scene with yoyo boy is the best thing that happens this whole episode. I love that it is subtle and pretty poetic. And this mysterious yoyo boy keeps making us curious, who the hell is he? While holding king arthur herecomes one of the best conversation ever

LR “why weren’t you surprised?”

YB “because im a curious person. I hate blood. Did you fight?”

LR “im in the middle of a fight. I still have a long way to go. What are you reading?”

YB “King Arthur. Its a story about a man with noble blood drawing a sword and becoming king”

LR “only those with noble blood can become king? Thats a terroble story. Forget novle blood. The sword must be drawn by those who know how to use it”

YB “what is a villain draws the sword? Someone who is not just”

LR “justoce doesn’t make the sword. The sword decides what justice is”

YB “it seems that the thing in your world keep changing. 조심히 가세요 (goodbye). I want to know how this story ends”

I prefer to use 조심히 가세요 in korean because the meaning is more than just goodbye. Its actually kind of saying please be carefull on your way. Gives me some confusion, on what side this boy is and who is he anyway. Why he keeps on getting involved. Cool.

This episode also starting to shows us JY concerns of this relationship between Gon and JTE. Later we will realize that JY will becoming a bit of an annoying person because of his overprotective nature to Gon. But here he got a point, Gon need a queen. Does JTE will be able to leave everything and stay there? I kind of feel bitter, why always the woman need to choose to leave? Cant the boy did that? Leave his world and be with her? No? 😅 but if the woman is agree with it its fine though

Meanwhile in Corea, Gon was having a really long bad day, its kind of sad to see him sit down in a dark room alone, thinking about JTE then suddenly got news that his uncle was. Murdered. The scene in his room and move to him going down the plane, Lady Nohs fainted, gons silent and people cries for Gon were all heartbreaking. I swear episode 10 is when i cried a lot at here and there. This makes me think that this shows will end in sad ending

We comes to the end. Takes place in Korea where JTE is still have faith to grow the seed then suddenly she saw Gon in front of her house. But he seems different. He seems sad. He is coming still with his signature words

Gon “have you been well?”

JTE nods and says that it took him long time to come. Gon said he is coming from far away and realize that he never gave her flower and tells her he loves her like it is for the last time 🥺 parallel to JTE hugging while holding Gons hand in forest earlier, here she do it again while Gon is kissing her, but this time he. Disappeared. And when she opens her eyes, he is. Gone. Nowhere to be found. 🥺🥺 Both LMH and KGE are doing a great job here. The script was so heartbreaking here. Gon’s voice over make me stuffed, like, omg is he die? 😭😭

How it made me feel:

Wahh. Episode 10 is full of sad mood. Things are starting to go ugly. Everything was beautiful and well made. Love the cinematography, the music, superb acting, love the editing, love the plot progress so far. Mystery part was good, walking in line also with the romance. It keeps me wondering how it will ends and build up my curiosity more and more. I did not see prince buyeong death coming actually. Then i rewatch eps 9, their converstaion while seeing sunrise means a lot more and i cried harder.

Up until eps 10, im getting more hooked with the series. It gives me harry potter vibes to it and i love it. The series was more than just romance but also shows us about responsibilities and makes things right. About fate and destiny. Also i forgot to mention that i love the theme of science fiction meets urband legends and magic like this. Because it works and its magical. I think im bewitched 💯

This series seriously need more appreciation from people. Because its far from bad and im quite sad many people are actually hating on it extremely. I wish all the tkem cast and crew knew that this series was so good. And many people appreciate it so much. You guys are the winner for me.

[shirtlesssammy]

15x09: The Trap

The Road So Far:

PURGAYTORY

Now:

Sam and Eileen are trussed up at Chuck’s casino. (Sam, if you tried hard enough, you could slip those zip ties.) Chuck admits to Sam and Eileen that he’s been manipulating her this whole time to get close to Sam again. He couldn’t watch his favorite show and it was killing him (LOL, CATCH ME IN JUNE.) 

Sam and Chuck are connected and it needs to stop. Chuck pulls out a scalpel. And then utters the eight scariest words of a Supernatural fan: “All good things must come to an end.”

Meanwhile, in the bunker, the bickering exes continue on their line of bullshit. Cas is expertly making Borax bullets while Dean tries to reach Sam, with no luck. Dean’s worried that there’s something wrong.

Chuck wants to cut out whatever festers in Sam that won’t allow their wounds to heal. Eileen surreptitiously calls Dean. Chucks senses it and ends the call before it really gets going. Dean knows that they’re in trouble though and wants to save them. Cas calls Dean “stupid” (will the bickering ever end?!) and tells him they have to find the blossom in purgatory to trap Chuck.

Sam notices Chuck’s hesitancy to torture him and mocks him a bit. Um, maybe now’s not the best time to bring out Sam Fucking Winchester, okay buddy? Eileen joins in the mockery (#soulmates) and in retaliation, Chuck gets Eileen to do the scalpel digging for him. He likes to watch. The scalpel digging is very squishy. A+ work sound effects. 

Dean and Cas are in purgatory and there’s still very much a rift in their relationship. 

Dean wants to split up but Cas makes it clear that that also is a stupid idea. Dean brings up possibly running into Benny while there in Purgatory….and I just want to sit a little and think about that was practically Dean’s first thought. He thinks of Benny, and the friendship they had. I am sad. 

With a simple “C’mon”, Cas wins the argument and they start walking together. Something tracks them from the shadows. 

Eileen continues to be forced into digging into Sam’s wound. Through the pain, he tells her he knows it isn’t her that’s doing it. He’s bleeding out though and things aren’t looking good. Chuck sits back and plays on his guitar. What a nice douchey touch that is. 

Sam talks reason to Chuck, and while that pisses him off, he also heals Sam’s wound as much as he can. Chuck can’t understand how Sam can continue to be so defiant. He realizes that Sam still has hope --hope that Cas and Dean will save them, hope that they can still defeat God. 

*Coordinated Domestic Dispute to Draw Out the Monster Alert*

Dean notices a corpse that he swears he’s seen before. Cas tell him he’s wrong. He has an excellent sense of direction. Dean gets down to look closer at the body and the leviathan makes his move. Cas hand waves him away. They interrogate the leviathan. He tells them that there’s a blossom that grows from them after they die. Dean wants to end the monster right there but he tells them it takes months for the blossoms to appear. He knows a place. 

Before they get walking, Dean asks the Leviathan about Benny. BRB STILL CRYING. Benny’s famous --and he’s dead. (Cas’s concerned look to Dean as he hears the news will haunt me forever.) 

Chuck decides to take Sam on a Christmas Carol adventure into the future, and shows him what life will be like if they win. 

April 17, 2020

Sam and Eileen are looking up cases in the bunker. Dean’s “resting his eyes” in the corner chair. Cas shows up with beers for all. Things look pretty great. They all decide on movie night and popcorn. HUZZAH! 

Well, until Sam gets a call from Jody. Claire’s dead, from a hunt gone sideways. HURMPH. 

Back at the casino, Chuck tells Sam that’s just the beginning. He pulls out the time clock of doom.

In purgatory, Cas, Dean, and the other dude, are walking. Cas expresses his condolences about Benny. Their hostilities come roiling to the surface. Cas calls Dean out on not accepting his apology about Jack. Dean is pissy that Cas just walked away. The other dude, presumably, just wants one of them to shoot him with Borax.

January 6, 2021

In the burned out wasteland of the future, Sam and Dean drive. Things are going downhill fast. They’re not saving people. Cas is gone. (CaS Is GoNe) The monsters are winning. 

Once at the leviathan blossom site, Cas quickly realizes it’s a trap. The leviathan tells him that Eve wants a piece of Cas for killing the alphas and taking the leviathan. Others attack Dean.

He comes to later. The place is scorched and Cas is gone.

November 3, 2021

Sam’s prepping for another hunt. Dean’s giving up. Sam wants to know what’s up. “Ever since..,” he starts. Dean jumps into why he’s giving up. They’ve lost everyone. HE had to bury Cas in a ma’lak box. Bobby and Jody (and Sam) all have death wishes. Sam wants to go out swinging, like Butch and Sundance. “We lost, brother, we lost.” 

Our Sam can’t believe what he’s watching. 

Chuck swans into the scene. He claims he’s “just the messenger” benevolently sharing his knowledge of the future. Sam can’t believe that Dean would ever give up, but Chuck swears he’ll tell no lie, stick a needle in his eye. 

Dean stalks through the quiet woods, calling for Cas. He’s got just under a half hour left to reach the portal. In desperation, he pauses and centers himself. “Cas,” he begins to pray. “I hope you can hear me.” Dean calls Cas his best friend and apologizes for letting him go.

And then this show gently murders me because Dean looks around warily and, seeing that the coast is clear, kneels to finish his prayer. On one knee now, he cries as he unpacks the terrible anger which he’d turned against Cas. “When things go bad, it comes out and I can’t stop it. No matter how bad I want to.” (I’m with many other viewers when I point to childhood trauma and parental neglect and abuse as one source for that deep anger.)

For I am DEAD Science:

Further pushing me deep into the grave, Dean continues, “And I forgive you. OF COURSE I forgive you.” He apologizes and sends out a desperate wish that Cas will be able to hear his prayer - wherever he is. Dean wipes his eyes, sniffs, and pushes himself up with a quiet “Okay.” It’s time to move again.

Back to the future, Dean stews morosely at a table in the bunker when Sam enters with a bag slung over his shoulder. Sam’s going to take out the vamp nest - alone, if he has to. Dean shakes his head sadly, then drags himself off to go with Sam. “I guess I don’t have a choice, do I?” They head out, two broken down, hopelessly alone men. 

“It can’t end like this,” Sam insists. So Chuck has him flash forward in time again using the magic watch. 

It stops on December 9, 2022. End of the line! 

In Purgatory, Dean has just over two minutes left before the portal closes and there’s still no sign of--- WAIT WHAT’S BEHIND THAT TREE? 

“You made it,” Cas sighs in relief as he stands to greet Dean. Dean hauls Cas in for the T I G H T E S T hug. Very good content! I approve! They check in with each other. Cas reveals that he was being marched to go see Eve when he spotted a leviathan bloom. Cas dropped the monsters guarding him, and snagged the bloom which he adorably describes as “a little smooshed.” Dean validates Cas’s achievements! It is very soft! I am emotionally compromised! (I have watched this scene at least 10 times.)

Cas reveals that he heard Dean’s prayer. They exchange soulful, meaningful looks, and then head straight outta Purgatory. I look forward to your post-episode canoodling codas, everybody.

In the future, Sam and Dean barricade the door in a ratty old hotel. They’re being hunted by……….JODY AND AU BOBBY! (Jobby? Body? Ugh, both of those are terrible.) Current Sam watches in horror as his future counterpart (and brother) fang out. They’re both vampires now! Oooo. Awkward. 

There’s a fierce fight. Dean chews Jody’s throat clean outta her body, hissing like an angry cat the whole time. It would be awful if there weren’t so many funny memes of hissy Jensen floating around right now.

Sam wakes from Chuck’s vision which was A LOT. Chuck apologizes for the terrible ending. (All these ending narratives in this season are the result of 15 years of exhausted writers room shit talking, right?) Chuck reveals a couple of things. 1) He “powered down” Eileen in a closet while he’s talking to Sam which is just….GROSS. And 2) The heroic and free ending which Sam aspires towards is actually awful. Is dying as monsters really worth locking up Chuck? 

Safely back in the bunker, Cas and Dean prepare the spell with the leviathan bloom. Dean pauses, questioning Cas’s choice to take on the Mark trapping Chuck. Cas insists that Dean can’t take on the Mark again, and that the only choice is for Cas to take on that burden. Dean agrees, remarkably not insisting on damaging himself this time, and the spell is completed. It all gets sucked up into a sphere. Since Cas will contain the Mark, Dean or Sam will have to destroy it (thus sealing Cas’s fate along with Chuck’s).

In the casino, Sam shouts at Chuck. “We will beat you. I will make it better!” Chuck sneers at Sam, and accuses him of playing fast and loose with the laws of nature and magic. There’s a whole lot the Winchesters can’t know about the universe, Chuck insists. Only he - God - can grasp it all. As one, the Supernatural audience collectively fake-coughs, “Billie!”

Chuck prompts Sam to reflect further on the visions. Was the worst thing truly the way the Winchesters died, and all their friends were decimated? Or was there something even WORSE which befell the world after Chuck got trapped? In horror, Sam realizes that monsters were taking over the world. Chuck affirms this conclusion. Without him in it, the world descends into evil. (Somewhere, on a wholesome farm, Garth is asking, “Hey, who are you calling evil?”)

While we’re all trying to unpack this latest revelation, Dean and Cas break into the casino. They free Sam from his chair. Eileen, still puppeted by Chuck, comes in swinging but Cas tackles her away. 

Dean punches Chuck. Chuck punches Dean. While they’re exchanging blows, Cas rolls the bespelled ball over to Sam to smash and trap Chuck when….

Sam falls to his knees. He can’t do it. He can’t trap Chuck knowing what he knows about the future. The ball rolls out of his fingers. 

Suddenly, light flashes in Chuck’s shoulder. The Equalizer wound in both of them is healed at last! All it took is for Sam to...lose hope. FROWNY FACE! Chuck crushes the sphere and destroys the spell. That’s two anti-God weapons down and how many to go in the next ten episodes? 

Dean confronts Chuck and he is 800% bluster at this point, cosmos bless him. He insists that Chuck won’t kill their motley band. Chuck wants his ending too much for that. After all, the “drafts” Sam saw in his visions--

Chuck interrupts that thought. All the “visions” Sam had were Chuck’s memories of other, actual worlds where Sam and Dean made those awful choices and destroyed each other. That move, in Chuck’s mind, is inevitable. “Just like you, they didn’t think they’d do it, either.”

Dean growls. “No. Not THIS Sam and not THIS Dean. So you go back to Earth II and play with your other toys. Because you will never get what you want.”

“We’ll see,” Chuck says, rather ominously, and poofs out.

Back at the bunker, Sam and Eileen bid farewell. Eileen’s been puppeted back to life and romance...and she’s not sure what’s real. (Where have I heard THAT before?) She needs to head off on her own for a bit.

Sam kisses her so sweetly. “Now that was real.” She caresses his face lovingly before walking out. (I firmly believe we’ll see her again - next time on her own terms!) 

A shaken Sam makes his way to the kitchen where Dean and Cas are decompressing.

Sam brings up the botched Chuck trap, and tells them he believes Chuck showed him the true future. Dean accepts Sam’s choice, and his calm acceptance is a balm to my fucking soul. What’s next? “We find another way,” Dean says.

Cut to Jack in the Empty. He’s taking in the non-sights when Billie appears. “It’s time,” she says, and Boris and I throw a giant party!!!

I Don’t Know Why I Get So Quotey:

I hate missing my favorite show!

Come on, Eileen

Stop being so stupid!

Chuck, you dick

“Okay let’s split up.” “WHAT?!”

You still think you’re the hero of this story. You still think you can win

The Dean who raised me, he’d never give up no matter how bad things got

I should’ve stopped you. You’re my best friend but I just let you go, ‘cause it was easier than admitting I was wrong

Sorry, kid. It’s a crappy ending. You and your brother deserve better. 

We know about your galaxy brain idea. How you think this story is gonna go

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[sailor-cresselia]

HEISEI GENERATIONS FOREVER

I’M GOING TO CRY

OKAY?

I’M GOING TO FUCKING CRY.

Spoilers for Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever below the cut.

also this got really long. Like. 3.8k words long. I am SO SORRY, Mobile Users, I know read mores don’t always work. Just. SCROLL.

20 MINUTES IN AND MY HEART HAS ALREADY BEEN BROKEN MULTIPLE TIMES.

Memories coming and going for everyone - just - just!

Sougo as a smart, smug, asshole.

Tsukuyomi as a ditz.

Then! Then!

Sento and Ryuuga saving a kid from Another Double – who’s design I LOVE, btw.

But Grease and Rogue leap out over the crowd. They remember, when they shouldn’t. When no one should remember them.

When Kazumi Sawatari and Gentoku Himuro shouldn’t remember each other. Shouldn’t be able to become Riders at all, because here they never were exposed to the Nebula Gas that the Rider System requires.

Gentoku forgetting, returning to the stiff, formal, son-of and assistant-to the Prime Minister.

Misora remembering – the cafe’s a bar, and then she forgets. Again.

YA SURE KNOW HOW TO KILL MY HEART, TOEI.

The kid – Shingo – being found by Sento… who doesn’t get the chance to transform. Who looks… he looks like he’s been brainwashed.

A boy who ‘draws Riders to him’. Him and Sougo go to Fuumen – FUUMEN!

TOEI YOU ARE ACTIVELY HURTING ME. Because Another Double shows up… and it turns out. It turns out Shotaro gave the owner of the Fuumen ramen cart the Double Ridewatch to hold onto for him.

And now we’ve lost Geiz, too.

Nobody remembers Sougo – and smartphones don’t exist. Not enough that a small child would know about them.

The first episode of Kuuga airs tomorrow.

Just- hng. Some part of the brainwashed Sento holds out enough to send the Machien Builder to find Ryuuga. To find his partner.

But when he and Sougo get to where he and Tid are.

Tank and Tank.

Just one word.

“Transform.”

And he attacks.

AHAHAHA YESSSS! Ataru points out the “Same Actor Issue” with regards to Kouhei Takeda having played both Otoya and Kazumin THANK YOU I was hoping that would happen. I didn’t think it would but THANK YOU.

IMAJIN NO. No ominous comments about how ‘it might not end well’!

...Shingo. Shingo… Tid brought you here from the past, didn’t he? From the day before Kuuga aired. That’s why you don’t know what a smartphone is. He brought you forward from your little brothers birthday. And you met him here – where he’s 18, and contracted with an Imajin, in order to meet Riders.

I don’t even know these two and my heart’s breaking for them.

...was. Was that Ataru in Another Den-O?!

Okay, yeah, Sento was faking being brainwashed. No surprise there.

BIG surprise that Ataru contracted in order to meet Riders… because he wanted to escape from reality. He’s not worried, because it’s all just a delusion.

Because his older brother disappeared the day he was born. His brother Shingo.

Whoops.

Ataru latched onto Den-O SO HARD that he summoned an Imajin into his world – his world, where Riders are fiction. And that Imajin is trying, but he’s reached his limit. And Tid cares not for what world he’s in, as long as it’s correct.

...it makes sense that sento isn’t torn up about being fictional like sougo is. he’s already been there – twice, even. sento kiryuu was made up in his own world, and no one from the new one remembers he exists. this is nothing new to him.

…

OKAY FOR THE RECORD. I wrote that BEFORE the scene in the rain.

But…

It doesn’t matter if it’s reality or fantasy. They’re Kamen Riders. They do what must be done.

Don’t worry, Sougo. You’ll understand.

Riders always do, in the end.

Also, the bugster virus grunts stand out so badly against all the other mooks. Waste Yummies, Dustards, Ghouls, Inves, numberless Roidmudes, Ganma, Bugsters… It’s. Actually really nice seeing all of these old suits in action. I can’t even say why, but. I really enjoy that.

… Kazumin’s out.

… … Ataru’s had enough of a world with Riders. He’s done. There’s no such thing, after all.

The contract is complete.

The Riders are gone now. But the mooks might not be.

Be careful what you wish for.

Hey there, Woz! Been a while!

Hey there, Sento. Glad you found your kouhai… and that you didn’t blank out when you two left Ataru’s house.

Because I was right. Shingo’s been pulled out of time.

That’s what Imajin are all about, aren’t they? Changing time. (I have not watched past the first two episodes of den-o but that’s the impression I’ve gotten from hearing about it. Shush.)

And Ataru can’t have a brother that went missing if the brother never went missing in the first place. Which is where Tid, the Imajin, and Another Den-O come into play.

Sure, The World of Ataru is ‘reality’ from one perspective, but The World of Riders is reality from it’s own perspective, just like The World of Build. Sento, you’ve done this, don’t dismiss the world you live in now as fiction quite so easily.

(Tsukasa will be disappointed in you. … if everyone else doesn’t beat him up first, for some of the stunts he’s pulled.)

So… since the Double watch came from Ataru’s world, it can act as a link to there from the Rider’s world.

Actually, I really like how much of W they’re working into here. I know it means we most likely don’t get a W arc, but still. Fuumen, and the watch being handed over by proxy – namedropping ‘Sho’. Another W has three faces – Cyclone, Joker, and CycloneJoker. Cyclone’s eyes light up when he uses the tornado attacks, which is a great nod to both how he’s using one side, and to how Philip’s half lights up when he speaks. I mean, the green tornados alone are neat!

(I didn’t think I’d missed the lens-eyes, because they’re creepy, but come to find out, I had! Huh!)

THING IS. I’m a LITTLE pissed about THIS. I get you haven’t been given much to do today, Woz. And I ADORE all of the W references. But the Library is PHILIPS domain. It’s his to explore – his, and Wakana’s, and those who he allows in. Sokichi Narumi, when he was just a tool for Museum, when he got a chance at freedom. When he got to be Philip. And Shotaro. His Partner. Who saved him from himself in there – When the library was BURNING because he was losing himself to Fang, when he was terrified and lost and this is where he is supposed to be.

… Sorry, I have a LOT of W feels, and this movie is hitting a LOT of them right now.

… Basically, Woz, I tolerate you now, but this is December 2018 you, who I tolerate a lot less. Get out of there.

OH, THIS IS INTERESTING THOUGH.

The book is labeled Masked Rider Den-O. Not Kamen Rider. The series has been writing it as ‘Kamen’ when using the roman alphabet since W.

Before that, it was translated into English whenever it was written like that. So it would be accurate to have Masked Rider Den-O, but not, say, Masked Rider Fourze.

Huh. Nice touch.

~Archival footage from Den-o!~

... Woz how did you get that rail pass out from the library?

(Philip would LOVE to know, that seems like it would be a REALLY handy trick, if he could bring even just. Like. Segments of a book, or pictures, or some such. It’d be SO MUCH EASIER to show Shotaro stuff that way, instead of having to copy it out onto a whiteboard.)

… A lot of the time, Another Double sounds like two people speaking in unison.

… can two people be one Another Rider? Could Tid have. Like. Fused some dudes? This is. A valid question right now.

I mean, we never did find out Who Another Double is.

! !! !!!

LUNA!

THIS IS FINE.

(It’s not fine, but only because I hate the Luna memory)

!!! !! !

AH. So. That’s. ONE way to have things happen out of order. Have a watch shoved into your chest after seeing yourself as that Another Rider.

Ataru latched onto Den-O SO DAMNED HARD that he summoned an Imajin, warped time, and became Another Den-O.

Kid… That’s brutal.

Purple Imajin’s lost hope… but Sougo says that they’re not alone.

Tid shows up at the site where the Arcle was found. At the tomb of the first Kuuga. That… if this is the world of Ataru, that shouldn’t exist here.

But he uses the Arcle – still worn by the first Kuuga – to make the Another Kuuga watch.

That’s terrifying, but makes sense. The watches only need the power of the rider, after all. Doesn’t matter which version of the Rider, as we’ll see in Hibiki months down the road and two weeks ago.

TID OW WOAH DUDE

I MEAN

You’re a bad guy but! I’m sorry for you right now! That looks OBSCENELY PAINFUL.

And VERY Time Mazine sized.

Enough to knock Sougo’s Time Mazine into the Another Denliner… which crashes upon arrival in December 2018, scaring ‘Everyday Schoolboy Sougo’ spitless, while carrying Tid as we have known him to this point. Also of note: Another Den-O is posing like Momotaros. That’s a nice touch.

Oh! Hey! I just realized! I like the Purple Imajin’s speech and all, and the exposition’s great, VERY in line with Den-O, but I just realized.

Sougo’s at a point in time where he hasn’t been born yet.

I doubt this’ll do jack all to history, but still. It’s kind of funny.

(Also, hey, Toei, you couldn’t have remembered that Rider used to start in January back during the Fourze and Faiz arc? You had Faiz disappear during an episode that took place in February, thanks to an event in, like, November. I’m still salty about that.)

Cut to 2018.

Sento and Ryuuga step into Tid’s vault.

(brb, snorting with laughter at the bugster stuck in an idle animation on the floor)

Sento’s already altered the world once, and nobody should have remembered him. But one idiot was stubborn enough to remember him. So… who’s to say that can’t happen again? The world has never made sense. Science and physics, chronology and sequence, reality and fiction… all of that went out the window ages ago, as far as he’s concerned. So why not mess around a little more?

Rabbit and Rabbit!

Cross-Z Magma!

““TRANSFORM!””

(cue Build fight music)

I love my boys.

I also love the two busted time mazines basically piggybacking off of each other.

A train whistle sounds.

Oh, Tid. Of course they keep coming back.

You’ve got someone who knows them pretty well right by your side.

AHAHA YESSSSS

YOU’RE FACING THE WRONG WAY BUT YESSSS

‘Sup, Momotaros?

Oh, hold on-

‘Sup, Team Den-O?

Like beats Like. It takes a Rider’s power to defeat an Another Rider.

And the base of ‘imajin’ is imagine. To think up, to dream.

Or, in some cases.

To remember.

Urataros, if you and Ryotaro are going to use the line “Ai to Seigi to” I expect SOMEONE to do a Sailor Moon pose! SOMEONE NEEDS TO!

She is the senpai for EVERYONE HERE. She’s from 1992, after all, Mr. 2007.

Okay, sorry, Moon Fan comments aside.

Sougo gets it now. It doesn’t matter anymore if they’re real or not.

Because here? In this moment? They’re real enough.

I’m willing to bet that under that mask, Sento’s grinning, because he can tell that his junior’s caught on.

Misora – kind, sweet, Misora – guiding civilians to safety, even though she’s a civilian herself… wondering where Sento and Ryuuga are.

They’re a bit busy elsewhere… but Kazumin and Gentoku? They’re available.

Welcome back, Kamen Rider Grease and Kamen Rider Rogue.

Cries for help from two young boys – the right age bracket for right now.

Level Up!

Kaigan!

Welcome back, Kamen Rider Ex-aid and Kamen Rider Ghost.

Two men in their late teens, early twenties.

Cyclone! Joker!

Welcome back, Kamen Rider Double.

A man in his mid-to-late twenties… possibly with his sons, who are wearing the two latest belts. His inner child calls out.

The startup sound of the Arcle

Welcome back, Kamen Rider Kuuga.

A crowd.

Hanamichi! On STAGE!

Welcome back, Kamen Rider Gaim and Kamen Rider Kiva.

A crowd – larger, with more varied ages.

Hii, hii, hihihiii~

Welcome back, Kamen Rider Agito, Kamen Rider Ryuki, and Kamen Rider Wizard.

Three adults.

Turn Up.

Welcome back, Kamen Rider Blade, Kamen Rider Faiz, and Kamen Rider Hibiki.

Change Beetle

Welcome back, Kamen Rider Kabuto, Kamen Rider Decade, and Kamen Rider Fourze.

UCHUU KITA indeed.

Ta To Ba! Ta-to-ba TaToBa!

Welcome back, Kamen Rider OOO and Kamen Rider Drive.

“Ankh…”

Toei don’t break my heart like this. He caresses the hawk medal. Don’t do this to us.

“Let’s go, Mr. Belt.”

“Okay! Start your engine!”

Hi, Krim. Nice to see you again, too. Ah, man, Shinnosuke’s voice is so subdued.

They didn’t have the same type of partnership, but both Eiji and Shinnosuke lost their partners. This is. Right. This is right, for now. It’s something.

Now. Time to fight.

Momotaros doing his own theme song.

Emu bouncing into the air.

Takeru floating – they’re letting him have powers, letting him have the forcefields that he’s going to prove he has when he shows up in the episode that aired the day before this takes place. To the point of TAKERU CAN MAKE TELEKINETIC TORNADOES THAT IS SO FUCKING COOL! (Further vindication! Takeru gets to be spooky!)

One on one my rear end, Gentaro. Rocket on.

Drumsticks and kicks laced with fire from Hibiki and Haruto, before they and Shinji all set a crowd of mooks alight in a wave of fire.

Shinnosuke getting to use the tires on Type Speed’s boots for once… before… Start up. Clock up! The three speed demons – him, Takumi, and Souji – knock the crowd of mooks aside.

Swords and claws slice through one group, thanks to Kouta, Eiji, and Kenzaki – wait, hang on, his given name is Kazuma? I thought that was his surname?! UGH it’s the Banjou and Ryuuga thing all over again, but before it happened, you know what WHATEVER.

Shouichi and Wataru blasting apart mooks with inherited powers.

Tsukasa on his own… because of course he is.

Likewise for Yusuke.

Sento and Ryuuga struggling against Another Double… but Sougo got that watch earlier today. >:)

Like beats Like.

Er, Woz, this is not the time to IWAE. We’re. We’re in a movie. This. Isn’t in the show, save it for- oh, wait, you weren’t there the first time he used Double in show, were you? Haaaa… fine. I’ll allow it.

...I’d really missed Sougo flubbing the catchphrases. “Tell me about your crimes.” It’s. Close. You’re. You’re almost there. You got the pose better than you did the phrase, anyway.  

Another Double is a bit closer, though, since he thinks you’re half-boiled. And did Shotaro’s stressed out forehead pinch – even though Sho’s usually in civilian form for that, and wearing his hat, it still scans. (HNG MY W FANGIRL HEART.)

Maximum Time Break!

Hahaha! Another Double explodes three times. Once to separate in two, once each for a cloud of green and black smoke for each respective half, and then two massive fireballs. That’s glorious.

Tid, I get that you’re a movie villain, but why are you this dead set on getting rid of the Heisei Riders?

“Where’s Tsukuyomi?!”

“Still fixing the Time Mazines!”

And she’s so FRUSTRATED about it!

Good thing Sento built all of his equipment. Oh man, he’s going to have a field day with this thing. Be careful, you might not get both of them back.

CASE IN POINT. SENTO’S JACKED A TIME MAZINE TO FIGHT ANOTHER KUUGA.

And looks like Geiz didn’t just go to fight Tid when he was in 2000. He made the Kuuga watch from the first Kuuga’s body, same as Tid.

Clever. Like I said. Doesn’t matter which version of the Rider. As long as it’s the same power.

Armor Time!

Kuuga!

It didn’t take long to take Another Kuuga down with that much brute power behind the attacks.

Sorry, Ryuuga, but Geiz just isn’t that excitable. No high fives for you. (I’ll give you one!)

Sento must be absolutely beaming under there.

And Sougo does the thumbs up.

HEY REMEMBER HOW I WONDERED IF TID FUSED TWO DUDES TO MAKE ANOTHER DOUBLE?!

THIS IS WORSE.

THIS IS MUCH WORSE.

Step. Away. From. The. Child.

Let him go.

TID HAS ISSUES.

But! Getting everyone out in to one of The Quarries means.

BIIIIIKE FIIIIIGHT!!!!!

Kudos for the Bakusou Bike jingle, and Faiz’s bike pretty much being a drill. Press F to pay respects for Kabuto’s tires. Wonder how many of those he goes through in a month.

Shotaro, Philip, not breaking out the Revolgarry this time? You did back in Taisen Grand Prix!

...Where are Drive and Hibiki?

Oh, wait, nope, there they are, along with Ryuki.

YESSSSS Ryuuga and Geiz in Geiz’s Time Mazine!

AND LIGHTING IT UP WITH BLUE FLAMES TO KNOCK “ANOTHER KUUGA TWO; CREEPER BOOGALOO” DOWN TO EARTH. Literally.

Twenty Rider Kicks. Straight to the face.

(Okay, technically it’s 22 kicks, since Double is, by necessity, both Shotaro and Philip, and Den-O is presumably Momotaros and Ryotaro.)

And the final three to hit? Zi-O, Build, and Kuuga.

Yesssss.

(Also Gentaro looked so awkward standing with the Drill Module still active. Because DRILL. On the LEG.)

We get a montage of two brothers, growing up together, as fans of Kamen Rider. Mirroring a montage of one boy growing up alone at the opening.

And the speech between Senior and Junior – Sento and Sougo.

Yeah. They were Riders. They always were Riders. The laws of time travel aren’t nearly as rigid as you think, Sougo.

As long as someone remembers. They’re still there.

Why should anything have to change that?

Final notes. Whoever made this movie must love W SO MUCH. Because in the end credits, there’s a montage of shots from every season since Kuuga. It shows the riders themselves, as civilians, their base forms, and their final forms.

The slide for W has two variants. The first has CycloneJokerExtreme at the top, CycloneJoker at the bottom, and Shotaro and Philip preparing to transform in the center. The second – the center photo moves to a different expression from the same exact scene – the same SHOT – Shotaro and Philip looking at each other and smiling. It’s from episode 49. When they were reunited.

There’s some nice care for all of the slides, actually, but most noticeable to me…

The Fourze slide has four pictures –  Fourze base mode, Gentaro in front of an explosion, Fourze Cosmic States, and Gentaro and Ryusei. The last three? Are all from the same episode. The one where Gentaro GETS Cosmic States.

Drive has two ‘variants’ as well – in a similar manner to W, actually. The first time, there’s Chase, Shinnosuke, and Gou together, Shinnosuke and Kiriko – from the last episode, no less, as they’re saying goodbye to Krim, and Drive (Type Speed) leaning against the Tridoron. Really puts that “Let’s go, Mr. Belt” line RIGHT BACK IN THE FEELS ZONE, there doesn’t it? Well, the shot of the three riders morphs to the same scene, but all three of them in their armor. THAT is where they show Type Tridoron. I believe that was the first time we heard Spinning Wheel, actually.

Ghost manages to have all three of it’s Riders on a cliff – in civilian form, but still.

Ex-Aid has Emu’s first transformation – both before he activates it, and in his Level One form right after. There’s the first transformation into Hyper Muteki. But his Base Mode shot, for Level Two? Chronos about to get a Gashacon Breaker to the face.

Gaim features both Kouta AND Kaito in all but one shot, which is the one with Gaim on a horse. The others are Kouta and Kaito in Beat Rider attire, Gaim and Baron while the Woman of the Beginning looks on in the background and… Gaim Kiwami Arms versus Overlord Baron… in the final moment of their last fight.

As for OOO? Well, we’re clearly not getting an answer from Toei as to what his official final form is any time soon. Not with Shirtless Episode One Eiji, and TaToBa OOO on a RideVendor as two of the shots. The other two? One is PuToTyra. And the other is TaJaDor… with Ankh right beside him, Greeed arm on display. (Eiji’s final form is Ankh’s Boyfriend and you can’t stop me from believing that.)

I don’t know enough about the other seasons to know how heartbreaking a lot of them are, but. Well.

Over in Kuuga, that’s a transformation in the snow.

Ryuki has a wide shot with thirteen suits.

Blade as a shot with four riders, and one with Blade and Chalice in the water.

I’m not really happy with their choices for Build. Build RabbitTank deciding that he’s going to take Ryuuga with him, Sento and Ryuuga on the bike – at the end of episode one, so they both look awful, Sento in the opening, of all things, and what is quite frankly a terrible shot of Build Genius. They had a lot more to go off of here.

Especially since at least Zi-O has an excuse for poor selection. A close up of Zi-O’s face, a shot of him on his bike on a bridge from the opening, a slightly battered Sougo transforming – not even his FIRST one, mind you, it’s from the wrong angle for that… and OMA ZI-O. I know we weren’t even fifteen episodes in, he didn’t have Decade yet in the timeframe it takes place, but still. STILL.

But I might do a compilation post of all the ending cards, because there was clearly care put into… well, all but the last two, really.

So! In Conclusion!

Not as bad a movie as I was worried about!

There were a lot of nice touches, and I’m pretty sure that at this point, they were working towards un-doing the whole ‘riders were never riders’ situation. Especially given the time placement of this film.

The present day sections take place on December 3, 2018 – literally one day after the first episode of the Ghost arc aired. It was released on December 22, so… about when Sougo was shot into the future by Decade, and the day before he Did The Thing with his belt.

Ghost was allowed to transform. “Oh, right… I’m a Kamen Rider…” And, of course, Decade was there. As Decade.

The next Legend Rider to appear wasn’t until February – with Ryuki, who would never have been a Rider in the first place, regardless of Time Travel interference. He’d already had his adventures undone at the end of his season. After then, every Legend Rider is still a Rider.

As long as someone remembers.

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thanks to my beloved bby @sofiafabulousphan for tagging me!! im finally doing this after procrastinating HAAHA ILY

Rules: if you do it, tag a few blogs that you adore.

What’s your favoUrite song to sing/hum? UlgO ShIpJi aNhAAAA

What is your favorite flower/tree/plant? 

i’ve nvr paid much attention to plants cause as a kid i was quite good at science except the plants part.But there was one point when i actually searched up different flowers and the meaning of it cause i was interested in making clay necklaces based off the flowers as a gift to my friends lmao. call me mainstream but i think i like roses the best?Like all the different coloured ones symbolises different things and i personally find myself very interesting in a way that if my personality was written as a book it would be those huge ass dictionaries in libraries. I like trees a lot mainly because its really hot in mlysia therefore trees are there to be my shade. also!! trees that bear fruits (mango,rambutan’,papaya) except for durian trees HAHA

Favorite colour?black,light pink and red!

What do you always doodle (if you ever do doodle anything)? 

eyes? i have a lot of artistic friends and they draw really well so they taught me how to draw an eye, i mostly write hangul tho for practice rather than doodle

How do you make your coffee/tea? (if you don’t like those: What is your favorite hot drink?)

i lovEee tea. Iced tea, hot tea,herbal tea, i really love it all :DD but my fav iced tea would be iced peach tea and as for hot tea i’ve been drinking this rose with french vanilla tea (fAnCY HAHA) cause my previous fav which was peppermint and honey finished *cries*. the way i make it is pretty universal, just dump the teabag in the cup then pour hot water over it lmao im lazy. I like coffee like lattes!! ice lattes are nice and i really like instant packet coffee (am i the only one HAHA)

Favorite candle scent? Vanilla tbh ikea used to sell the cookie scented ones which were my fav but they stopped selling it so oh well 

Sunrise or sunset? sunset! im not a morning person lolol

What perfume do you wear (if you do)? 

meagan got for me the same perfume that cheol used apparently and its called peach blossom from w.dressroom!! i really really like it not cause of cheol but the fact that i really love the smell of peaches though i’ve never smelled them before artificial scents are good enough to convince me HAHA 

What’s your go to dance move when you’re alone?

 i usually headbang most of the time HAHA 

 Favorite quote? live in the moment but don’t regret your actions in the future

Favorite self care thing(s) or routine(s)?

mmm i think i take care of myself by cooking whatever i want to eat. im not the type of person who can starve for the whole day unless im sick. i like feeding myself well so i cook a lot of good food for myself but sadly now my kitchen has been undergoing reno for the past month so i havent gotten a chance to cook lately. also by spoiling myself with whatever i would like to buy AHAHA and if i ever feel sad i would tell myself that i can cry about it but only for a short while cause yknow i gotta move on in life. im a pretty optimistic person and try to look on the bright side or try to make it up lmao i cant stand seeing myself being so sad after whatever shits i’ve been through though its nothing serious 

12. Fuzzy socks or house slippers? bare feet HAHA

13. What colour are your eyes? brb gonna check.ok im back. its a realllly dark brown

14. What’s your favorite eye colour on others? whatever colour that suits them i guess. i dont really care lmao

15. Favorite season? Why?in a tropical country like malaysia we only have three seasons, one where its hot af and doesnt rain for like 6 days, two, where it rains every damn day and floods we could be part of the indian ocean, three, where its fucking hot in the morning and rains like no tmrrw in the evening istg if you’re visiting mlysia pls bring an umbrella with you at all times you never know when it’ll rain. i’ve only experienced winter and summer so far but i believe i’ll like spring a lot! its during my birth month and apparently its cold but quite warm as well? also spring clothing is so cute n i wanna try those special spring food!

16. Cheek, neck or nose kisses?

all i guess lmao i love physical affection

17. What does your happy place look like? a room which serves as a kitchen as well as my bedroom

18. Favorite breed of dog? GOLDEN RETRIEVERS,my neighbour has one and shes the sweetest little bub

19. Do you ever want to be married? If so what colours would you pick for your wedding theme?yep i would like to get married~~ ermm probs some warm yet light colours? rose gold would be nice!

20. Silk or lace? im fine with both 

21. Favorite weather? rainy with no thunder and warm cloudy days~

Tagging; im not sure if yall did this yet but oh well @djstarzx @vermemesol @lynnalai yall are all i have ;-; ily

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70 horrible questions !

i was tagged by: @sehhunie​ ( thank you ! )

01: do you have a good relationship with your parents? i do with my mum ! 

02: who did you last say “i love you” to? my dog about 10 seconds ago when she looked at me.

03: do you regret anything? a lot of things ! specifically not fighting to do science in school.

04: are you insecure? immensely :)

05: what is your relationship status? single and scared of commitment and effort !

06: how do you want to die? in my sleep, that sounds nice.

07: what did you last eat? salted chilli chicken and chips 

08: played any sports? i used to do loads of sports ! i did judo, tennis, swimming, football and dance but all the clubs eventually closed down because i’m that unlucky.

09: do you bite your nails? nope. i used to be jealous of people who bit their nails tbh because they would always have really short nails and mine would be so long.

10: when was your last physical fight? never.

11: do you like someone? i’m getting over a big crush right now ! also my pizza delivery boy

12: have you ever stayed up 48 hours? 36 hours is my limit 

13: do you hate anyone at the moment? nah.

14: do you miss someone? nope ! i’m seeing my whole fam tomorrow and i seen a ton of friends today it’s all good for now.

15: have any pets? i have a dog ! her name is pip and she’s 1 year and 5 weeks old cavachon.

16: how exactly are you feeling at the moment? full, kinda ill, ate dinner to fast.

17: ever made out in the bathroom? never, i’d freak because the toilet is right there

18: are you scared of spiders? yes. i don’t breathe in case i breathe it in that’s how scared i am

19: would you go back in time if you were given the chance? oh my god no, i’d laugh at my weeb self even though i still love anime.

20: where was the last place you snogged someone? ew, i hate the word snogged okay, let’s just say kissed and it was at a club outside in the smoking area smh.

21: what are your plans for this weekend? it’s my grandad’s 80th tomorrow ! and i have an exam on monday so aside from the party i’ll be studying.

22: do you want to have kids? how many? i do ! and probably a couple like 3 or 4 !

23: do you have piercings? how many? just my ears but i’ve been thinking about my nose.

24: what is/are/were your best subject(s)? ah french, religion and history were always my top !

25: do you miss anyone from your past? honestly, no but for some reason i keep thinking of this guy i used to go out with recently, but i don’t miss him he’s just on my mind.

26: what are you craving right now? apple juice omg.

27: have you ever broken someone’s heart? yeah apparently :/

28: have you ever been cheated on? well, the guy i was kind of dating was talking to other girls at the start but honestly i didn’t really count us going out.

29: have you made a boyfriend/girlfriend cry? yep ! 

30: what’s irritating you right now? there’s nothing on tv.

31: does somebody love you? brb i’m gonna’ ask my mum to make sure.

32: what is your favourite color? yellow !

33: do you have trust issues? more like i need some trust issues because i over share like heck.

34: who/what was your last dream about? myself in my english exam, and i was writing out a poem i learned off by heart and it took me the whole two hours of the exam and i got 0 because i didn’t write anything about the poem.

35: who was the last person you cried in front of? i don’t even remember the last time i cried honestly.

36: do you give out second chances too easily? i never give second chances.

37: is it easier to forgive or forget? i remember everything but i find forgiving really hard too so- neither.

38: is this year the best year of your life? unless the black eye’d peas are back on the radio and beyoncé and lady gaga are collabing again no year will ever beat 2010 / 2011

39: how old were you when you had your first kiss? ok so there’s a photo of me kissing my next door neighbour when we were both like 2 years old so i don’t think that counts. i’m going to say 12 ? in spin the bottle.

40: have you ever walked outside completely naked? never. maybe some day though !

51: favourite food? i have too many, i’m going to say bread.

52: do you believe everything happens for a reason? nah, not really.

53: what is the last thing you did before you went to bed last night? i read 20 years worth of irish history for my exam this morning and hurt my throat from reading all my notes outloud.

54: is cheating ever okay? never, like ??? what the fuck is going on in your head and your heart if you could completely demolish someones trust and your own relationships like that ?

55: are you mean? i’m not, honestly when you get to know me i am so soft and only wish the best for people and hope they’re happy. but if there’s no effort to get to know me i probably don’t care at all. 

56: how many people have you fist fought? a grand total of 0

57: do you believe in true love? i’d like to think it’s a thing ! i know a lot of couples who i could never imagine being with anyone different, that’s for sure.

58: favourite weather? sunshine and a tiny breeze is so nice. like a summer car ride weather.

59: do you like the snow? i love snow ! so pure, so cold, so bright. makes everything look ten times cleaner.

60: do you wanna get married? depends, if i know i could spend and wanted to spend my life with them then i don’t see why not.

61: is it cute when a boy/girl calls you baby? depends if they are genuine or a sleaze. i’ve met both kinds of boys.

62: what makes you happy? my dog, pictures of me and friends, sleeping, kpop comebacks, people achieving their dreams, drawing, walking, car rides, restaurants, dancing, etc.

63: would you change your name? yeah, my dad picked my name and my mum liked other names more, and since my mum is actually here y’know i think it’s unfair she didn’t get to call me what she wanted.

64: would it be hard to kiss the last person you kissed? yes because it was dark, don’t really remember what he looks like and don’t know his last name smh.

65: your best friend of the opposite sex likes you, what do you do? noooo, my best friend who a boy did / does like me and basically we talked it out and we agreed we were best friends but anything else could just wreck it.

66: do you have a friend of the opposite sex who you can act your complete self around? yeah! the one mentioned above and another friend. honestly, i don’t care what they think really if i’m gross or rude because they’re pretty much the same and it just worked out that we have the same humor and our all slobs.

67: who was the last person of the opposite sex you talked to? my brother at dinner lmao.

68: who’s the last person you had a deep conversation with? my eyebrow lady told me something really personal and sad today while she was waxing my brows and my heart broke honestly. 

69: do you believe in soulmates? until i find mine i believe in nothing.

70: is there anyone you would die for? my immediate fam, my dog and there’s a pending spot.

i’m tagging: @kookno / @milktu / @kiimgyu / anyone !

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Pass the happy along! When you get this, reply with 5 things that make you happy and then send this to the last 10 people in your activity feed ❤

5 things that make me happy... Not going in any particular order but:1. Kingdom HeartsThe Games in their entirety. I love the story, the setting, the character development. So utterly convoluted and heartbreaking and yet it touches on the meanings and implications of the heart so well. It's one of the main reasons I've come to understand, put a meaning to, and come to grips with my own emotions.2. My FriendsI consider anyone I've interacted with, whether directly or indirectly, as my friends. They're all such wonderful people and I'm glad to have met them. I want to see their dreams and aspirations succeed, and seeing even a tiny accomplishment from them makes my day :)3. Art (In all its forms)I'd like to think that I can appreciate all forms of art. Of course, my drawings and writing works aren't where I want them to be, and I idolise a whole bunch of people, but the act of doing it as well as seeing other's hearts put to paper brings me a ton of joy.4. ScienceParticularly medicine. I'm a medical professional in training who has a passion for research. Scientific progress in the face of ignorance has always been a struggle, but by bringing better education to others and using medical information to correctly inform others on how to be safe, I hope that I can make a difference. Even if it's only one person's life.5. Martial artsNow this might be a bit out of place with the rest of these things, but I find that I can better express my emotions in channeling it through kata movements. I'm physically weak but I make sure my technique is very precise.(Now to message 10 people... brb X3)

[bluestonewings]

42, 51, 21, 28, 11, 5?

I’ll try to do mostly tf2 stuff here! but I need the time to go searching for good fanfiction again so I might deviate a bit into kingdom hearts territory

(another cut, smh. This one took ages. the links are 90% broken)

Which fandoms have your written fanfiction for? Okay so the only proper thing I’ve ever written is Chromaesthesia which I am sure everyone who follows me for kh has seen me promo over and over again, but in terms of wips/ideas i really want to do but lack the talent to do: kh, tf2, portal, undertale (that ones a crossover get your hands off it) There’s a oneshot based off of Bad Medicine that I’m not totally disappointed by though.

OH MAN I FORGOT ABOUT MINECRAFT BRB DELETING EVERYTHING

Who is your current OTP? I will ship the Support Squad upsidedown sideways and backwards, so I guess that’s knife party, bush medicine, etc. Also all three together. freedom fries

What was the first fanfic you ever wrote? *buries face in hands* (why) (does an artemis fowl backstory for opal/half a self insert count or no) Otherwise surprisingly dark stuff for a couple of MC YTers (you can guess who they are)

If someone were to draw a piece of fanart for your story, which story would it be and what would the picture be of? I’ve only written one thing in the past year (see above) and I will probably die if someone even COMMENTS on it. I have very low expectations and those were “get over 10 views and one kudo that isn’t from Ko” so I’m doing pretty well.(in all honesty. Draw stuff from fics that I LIKE that don’t get enough attention. makes me happy enough)

List and link to 5 six fanfictions authors who which are amazing:

*rubs hands together* okay these are going to be off the top of my head and also by what’s on my phone but: (i’m. too scared to tag anyone but there are links to their fics u should totally check out)

(TF2) Do Coffeeshop AUs sound too tame for you? well boy howdy read littlemissfemscout/pixiestix’s fic because I promise you it’s the most 3D Coffeeshop AU I have ever seen- I cried. a bit. 

(TF2) Bluebunny333 has a talent for this psychological stuff that I’VE BEEN MEANING TO DECIPHER (and catch up on). But he’s got a lovely spy and sniper. Read this. I had to stop and take a break while reading this- I need to read it again.

(TF2)(Obligatory mention of ChaosandMayhem goes here- I fell in love with the first fic and i’m dead bc I need to read the most recent one- what did you do to the blake)(yall can search up a link yourselves)

(TF2) I have a large love of everybody is mentioned and is varying degrees of friends fics and if I didn’t mention this one by Tantarted it’d be a damn shame so here. I really like how everybody was characterized, and I enjoyed how everything tied together.

(KH) So we all know that my faves consist of old crazy science men with dubious morals and this fic is the perfect example. Props to Perosha/skypillar for writing the shitty science dad- eh, vexen. I also cried for this one.

(TF2) SANCTUS CECIDIT SANCTUS CECIDIT (fang you know this) I have been screaming about his stuff for AGES. DEATH. DRAMA. RESPAWN. ROMANCE(ish). ACTION. CLIFFHANGERS. DEATH AGAIN. GOOD STUFF. (ACTION AGAIN)

I apparently have a thing for dark, slightly creepy fics. whoops. I blame other fanfictions… I also can’t count

(I ALWAYS ALWAYS HAVE RECOMMENDATIONS… WINK WINK)

Rant or Gush about one thing you love or hate in the world of fanfiction! Go! COMMENT ON THINGS. LEAVE REACTIONS. But!! I love how if you find the right people you will get an infinite amount of support from them about all sorts of things! Like crossovers! and AUs! and shipping! If you talk about it enough you will find people who like the EXACT SAME THING and I think that’s wonderful.

Thank you for sitting through another pile of me spewing random opinions ;D This was enjoyable to think about!

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Brb

I suddenly just lost all muse

I was doodling since I finished house work, only to find that all of my black ink pens that I have left are pretty much just dead or leaking too much ink to make drawing worth the trouble and frustration. Gah, I need to go to Walmart and find a good pack of 0.5 pens instead if finding cheap 1.0's and 0.7's at a dollar store. I'm extremely finicky with my pen preferences. Having leaky pens when I'd trying to detail something is a huge no-no.

In other words though, my pen broke halfway through sketching a surprise gift and I'm mad as heck and wanna drown my sorrows in metal music and science talk.

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10x21: Dark Dynasty

Welcome to Hell! I feel dirty recapping this episode, but we’re completests here at Shirtless Sammy. Enjoy hating with us!

Omaha, Nebraska

A young woman arrives for a completely legit, totally true eyesight research study interview. Styne Brother #? looks over her credentials and then examines her eyes. Well, he swoops her hair behind her shoulder and grabs her face and it’s THE WORST. But then he pulls a fancy knife and slits her throat, so there’s also that. As she dies, he gets a melon baller and scalpel and scoops out those perfect blue orbs #bucklemingfanficwedonotwant. 

A maintenance guy hears the commotion and knocks on the door. Styne Brother #? puts the eyes on ice and jumps from the third story just as the janitor busts into the room. 

Sam and Rowena have started their dance of enemies to...something more. Rowena is chained and tasked with cracking the codex for the Book of the Damned. Sam wants results but tells her she can’t use witchcraft. 

For Holy Hell Science:

Shreveport, Louisiana

Styne brother #? gets a dressing down by Father Styne. He was sloppy with the eyeball harvest. 

…

…

Whoa, they talked and talked and I kind of zoned out. Words were said.

Um, Styne brother #? has to track down the Winchesters and kill them. Styne cousin #?!@! Is tasked with finding Charlie. 

Sam arrives back at the bunker. Dean asks if Sam’s been sneaking around with a woman he hasn’t mentioned. <EYEBALL EMOJI> (Listen, I LOATH this episode with all the fiber in my being and NEVER rewatch it. Gotta find fun where I can with this recap.) 

Sam gets tired of Dean’s interrogation and asks about what Dean’s been researching. He’s been learning more about the Styne family. That’s funny, because I want to know as little about them as possible. 

Dean wants to check out the Omaha case. Dean heads to bed. Sam heads to pick up Charlie. He fills her in on his plan to break the codex to read the Book of the Damned to help Dean. He tells her that he saved the book before burning a fake. Charlie wants to know how Dean feels about all this.

Charlie is a little upset with Sam’s actions. He then tells her she’ll be working with “one of the most dangerous witches in the world.” LOLZ. 

Charlie sets to work on her SURFACE PRO. 

Rowena and Charlie banter back and forth a bit. 

Rowena gifts us with a reaction that should be used for everything that’s wrong and unholy about this episode. 

Sam is pleasantly humored by Rowena’s attitude.

Cas arrives. (God, I know I said there was nothing redeeming about this episode but Rowena, Sam, Charlie, and Cas all in one scene???!?? OKAY THEN.)

Sam’s apparently brought Cas in to babysit. Rowena sees right through Cas to his weak spot and reveals that Sam hasn’t told Dean about this plan. Cas is livid. Sam gives a rousing speech and they all agree. “For Dean.” Well, not Rowena. “I barely know the man.” (AND NOW I HAVE StUPID SEASON 15 FEELS ABOUT ROWENA. This show is THE WORST.) 

Crowley gets word that his mother is missing. He’s mad. 

Sam and Dean head to Omaha to check out the crime scene. They watch a security video of Styne brother #? jump to the ground and start running. Sam notes the tattoo of the Styne family and then gets a call from Cas. He tells Dean it was a telemarketer. The brothers head out but the guy they were talking to gets cornered by Styne brother #? and gets knifed in the stomach. 

Charlie gets to work breaking the codex but taking pictures with her iPhone and running code on her Surface Pro. Hrmph. I find this VERY ANNOYING product placement the second most offensive thing about this entire episode. 

Cas brings snacks. Rowena is not impressed.

Rowena talks a bit about Agnes, the rogue hermit nun who wrote the codex. She understood the need for balance between good and evil. Also, the church burned her at the stake. And now let’s wallow in this pain:

Charlie: Poor Agnes. Ahead of her time.

Rowena: Much like you and I.

And now they’re both dead, killed by the church show hierarchy. 

Rowena continues to press her point about their similarities. I LOL at her drawing the line at blind devotion to the Winchesters. ROWENA, YOU’RE KILLING ME. “You’ve made them the family you don’t have. Foolish.” 

Back in the Impala, Dean and Sam discuss the Stynes as well as the Mark. Dean glosses over a list of maladies he’s been enduring including dark thoughts and creepy visions. But that’s water off a Winchester’s back, right? While they drive, Eldon Styne trails them. 

Later, at the bunker, Dean picks up Sam’s phone while it rings. It’s Cas! 

Cas is I N C R E D I B L Y awkward and hustles off the phone in record time. This sets Dean’s spidey sense to tingling. When Sam swears that he hasn’t talked to Cas in ages, Dean knows something’s up. 

Crowley interrogates Olivette, who is still a mouse. They talk about cheese pairings…I mean, they chat about Rowena including, presumably, her weaknesses. I kind of love that demon powers include talking to magical mice.

Dean picks up pizza and gets jumped by the Stynes. He kills one of them and captures Eldon.

Cas and Charlie talk at the weird cathedral warehouse in which they’re holed up. Charlie can’t concentrate under Rowena’s constant interruptions and begs to be set free for a couple of hours so she can think. I do 100% get that. Why is it easier to plan on my couch than at a desk? And people making noise around me? So aggravating. 

Dean locks up Eldon for a little Q&A. Eldon tells them that the Styne family is huge and powerful. They’re war and disaster profiteers who’ve amassed tons of wealth over the centuries. They want the book to help enhance their power.

Cas interrupts the interrogation by calling Sam, who steps out to talk. While Dean’s alone with Eldon, the Styne bro tells Dean that they surgically enhance their bodies by stealing parts from other people. Eldon reveals the Styne secret: they’re the FrankenStyne family. Excuse me while I roll my eyes eight THOUSAND times.

Sam tells Cas to get control of the volatile Charlie and Rowena situation, and to under no circumstances let Charlie go off alone. Eldon reveals to Dean that the book can’t be destroyed. When Dean realizes that Sam lied to him, he storms after Sam. The Most Awkward Winchester looks like a bug under a magnifying glass, but he’s saved by a bang from the dungeon. Eldon ripped his arm off and escaped the bunker. Shoulda tied his feet, friendos. 

Cas locks up Rowena in another room.

Rowena reveals that Crowley is her son. “That explains a lot. I'm sure that was quite a challenge,” Cas muses. Parenting, amirite? It's a good moment of levity! Let’s quit this recap right here.

Oof.

Fine. Whatever. 

Eldon and some other dumb Styne talk about Charlie’s whereabouts. She’s at the cutest, most adorably named motel and I wish it hadn’t been used for this. 

For PLEASE for the love of god design my house, Wanek Science:

At the bunker, Dean and Sam talk about the Styne family. Dean brings up the book, and Sam starts to crack like a raw egg. Cas calls him and reveals that Charlie’s missing. 

At the motel, Charlie cracks the code juuuuust in time for the Stynes to pound on her door. She calls Sam in a panic. 

Sam tells her to give them the book, or anything she has in order to survive. She refuses, sending a packet of information to Sam. Eldon bursts in and she smashes her computer. 

The next time we see her, it’s when Sam and Dean find her…dead in a bathtub. BRB, off to burn this episode in a trash can under the grim light of the waning moon. Pretty sure that’s how you rewrite cursed endings. 

Natasha: This episode will forever be in my EXTRA HATE BANK because it killed Charlie. Confusedly, it also has a very cute Cas and Rowena! I have actually rewatched this before and just stopped it before Charlie dies la la la it didn’t happen fingers in my ears.

None of These Quotes are Real and We Have All Just Had a Bad Dream:

I'm not a witch. I'm a nerd. And I know all the great centers of nerddom

Just for once, I wish you trolls would bring me some good news. "Sire, Missouri has boils." Something cheerful

This call is pointless

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1x03: Dead in the Water

Then:

A Season One Aesthetic

Now:

Lake Manitoc, Wisconsin

We open to a quaint family tableau: father, daughter, and son. The daughter is a bit of a health nut and heads to the lake for a morning swim. If this brand new baby of a show hadn’t been named “Supernatural”, the under the water shots of her swimming would tip us off that something creepy is about to go down. The woman hears voices and is suddenly sucked under the water. We then are shown 2.5 hours of bubbling water. SUSPENSE.

Dean Winchester is on the case though! (Natasha: Look at these precious babies, still using printed newspapers to research cases!) Bby is a bit thirsty for a buxom server to really care about Sam’s slight bitchiness that their dad is still missing (I’ll always remember my resounding, insistent questioning about where their father was when I watched this the first time. Lol, John Winchester is coming back for episode 300, and I no longer am chomping at the bit for this. Ok, so like, yeah, I think it’ll be good --it better be cathartic for the brothers, especially Dean, who’s changed and grown so much since his father has died. Instead of writing this recap, let me write a 1000 word essay on the return of John Winchester.) Dean makes it very clear that he wants to find their dad, but until then, they’re going to hunt everything they can. 

Wildlife Agents Ford and Hamill are on the case. They interview the brother, who tells them his sister was an expert swimmer and nothing was amiss about the lake that day. Sam wants to interview the father but “he’s kind of been through a lot.”

They head to the sheriff’s office. Ha, the sheriff insists that there’s nothing in the lake big enough to pull a human under, “unless it was the Loch Ness Monster.” (We won’t learn for several seasons that the Loch Ness Monster is actually real. I wonder if the brothers know that at this point.) In the process of explaining the unexplainable, the sheriff spills that the dam is falling apart. In 6 months, there won’t be a lake --or a town for that matter.

The sheriff’s daughter and grandson pop in. Dean turns the creep factor up a bit at the daughter, Andrea, but turns on the soft father-type he really is when he sees the grandson, Lucas. Lucas doesn’t respond to Dean, and his grandfather admits he’s “been through a lot.”

Andrea walks Dean and Sam over to their motel. Dean tries engaging her in conversation, but she sees right through his weak style. “Must be hard with your sense of direction, never being able to find yourself to a decent pick up line.” BURN.

Although, Sam calling Dean out on not loving kids is rich. WE KNOW HE DOES --but Sam doesn’t at this point. (Sidenote: Dean counting with his hands and scratching the back of his head. That’s it. That’s the sidenote.)

Sam’s research reveals that whatever is haunting the lake, it’s picking up its pace. There have been disappearances over the years, but it’s becoming much worse. They discover that Lucas is the only witness to what’s happening in the lake. He was out with his father a couple months before when his father drowned. Yeah, I guess this kid has been “through a lot.” Dean’s empathy with Lucas breaks me.  

The brothers track Andrea and Lucas down at a park. Dean heads to talk with Lucas while Sam stays with Andrea. Dean’s beyond the flirting stage, and wants to get to the bottom of this case. He also has a major soft spot for a kid in pain. BRB, crying.

Dean tries engaging a mute Lucas with reminiscing about green plastic army men. BRB, crying. (GOD! There are really some things that can hit you A LOT harder on a rewatch.) Dean asks to sit and draw with Lucas. He has an artist’s eye (WHERE’S THE DEAN IS AN ARTIST FANFIC, YOU HEATHENS.)  Dean then proceeds to start drawing and, lit by nothing but soft, reflective music, talk to Lucas about his own childhood trauma. He tells Lucas that he’ll listen if Lucas wants to talk (or draw).

Dean reconnects with Sam as Andrea tells how traumatized Lucas is. Lucas walks up and hands Dean a picture of a house.

That night, the father of the victim sits morosely in the dark, his son insisting he eat something (Sidenote: I love how the budget was so tight in early seasons of Supernatural that they couldn’t afford lighting.) While the son preps dinner, the sink water turns black and starts bubbling up from the drain.

Ok, Asshole, we’ve all seen It. Do you want to float too? Ugh. Apparently so, because bro sticks his hand in and gets sucked under. The water eventually drains away to reveal his dead face.

Upon learning about the latest lake victim, Sam and Dean quickly put it together that whatever is haunting the lake is in a race against time. It can reach out beyond the lake, and it will take what it can, while it can. The brothers go to visit the victim’s father, Bill Carlton. He’s in a deep state of grief, and in no place to talk. Dean thinks he’s also hiding something. He also notices that the drawing of a house Lucas gave him matches the Carlton home.

They go to talk with Lucas. Dean asks Lucas about his drawing, and feels that Lucas is scared. (Dean admitting he leads his life the way he feels others want him to. BRB, crying.) Lucas gives Dean another picture of a boy and a bike.

For Pained Boy Noir Science:

In the car, Sam spins out theories that Lucas is experiencing trauma-induced psychic visions. (I wonder if they'd planned Sam's psychic arc at this point?) (Later edit: They DID! Excellent!) Sam also tries to address Dean's revelation about seeing their mom die, which Dean shrugs off with his signature macho deflection. Damn it, Dean.

They find the church and the yellow house that match up to the drawing Lucas gave Dean and head in to investigate. An elderly woman lives there who tells them about the disappearance of her son 35 years ago. “Losing him – it's worse than dying.” Dean finds an old photo of the missing boy and Bill – the father from the cold open.

Cut to Bill sitting on the end of the dock addressing the water, saying that he finally understands what it wants. Losing his children is “worse than dying.” When Dean and Sam arrive, he's already piloting a boat out into the water. His boat gets thrown into the air and...game over.

Back at the Sheriff's, Lucas is freaking out. He grabs Dean, distressed, but can still say nothing. Dean looks after him as he leaves, equally distressed.

For OH NO, DEAN BEAN Science:

Later, the Sheriff interrogates Dean and Sam, telling them that he knows they're not Fish and Wildlife Service. Uh, yeah, no kidding! They start to leave town but Dean changes his mind and heads back. Sam's surprised.

Dean: I just don't want to leave this town until I know the kid's okay.

Sam: Who are you? And what have you done with my brother?

Dean: Shut up.

Natasha: What Dean said.

Meanwhile, Andrea is preparing an extremely full bath. She relaxes into it as brackish water begins pouring in through the tap. Suddenly something grabs her and tries to pull her down into the bathtub. Dean and Sam arrive during the attack and Lucas opens the door for them and leads them to the bathroom.

Dean kicks down the door (Mmmmhmmmm) while Sam drags Andrea from the bath, fighting the spirit’s fierce hold. They save her! Yay! But that nice wood floor is ruined, man.

(Sidenote: I love how this episode was filmed. There are so many interesting shots through windows and mirrors, as though these are reflections or looking through the surface of water. Well done, show!)

The next morning Sam gently interrogates Andrea while Dean researches through old family albums. He finds a picture of the Sheriff – Jake - as a young boy, in a Boy Scout troop photo with Bill and the missing boy, Peter. A clue! 

Lucas interrupts them by staring intently outside, and he leads them to a patch of moss. Sam and Dean dig, only to find Peter’s red bicycle buried in the ground.

Jack interrupts the Winchesters and pulls a gun on them, asking them how they knew the bicycle was there. Ooof. How did YOU know it was there, buddy? “You can't bury the truth,” Sam tells him. Dean tells Jack that the kid they killed is haunting the lake and plans to kill Andrea and Lucas AND Jack. They need to burn and salt the remains. Andrea runs out to talk to her dad and asks him for the truth. She reminds him that her husband died and tells him she was recently attacked. Jack begins to break down. He tells her that he and Bill bullied Peter. They held his head underwater too long and he drowned. The body sank into the lake.

They're making plans to leave the lake when they notice Lucas leaning over the end of the dock.

They race to pull him away, but it's too late. A gray arm reaches out of the water and drags Lucas in. 

While Sam and Dean dive into the water to search for him, Jack wades into the lake pleading with Peter's ghost to take him instead. Andrea watches it all from the dock and HELLO, TRAUMA.

Jack gets pulled down into the suddenly crazy deep lake. Meanwhile Sam emerges from the water and shakes his head sadly. NOOOOO.

Suddenly Dean bursts up out of the water with Lucas in his arms! Lucas is limp :( :( :(

The next day, Sam and Dean get ready to leave town. “We're not gonna save everybody,” Sam tells a sad Dean. NOOOOOOO. Just then, Andrea calls to them and she and Lucas approach! Oh, show, good job tricking me. They've brought them lunch! Lucas is speaking again! Andrea is super cute!

Andrea and Sam wrap up the case. Andrea’s seeking some closure and peace with the loss of her father. Dean and Lucas share a different farewell. Dean teaches Lucas to say, “Zepp rules!” Oh, Dean. I’d say never change, but I enjoy the journey.

Dean gets a kiss from Andrea. Dean's adorable about it and SOFT. Then Dean Bean ushers Sam back to the car. Time to hit the road! On Netflix, we get played out with some random pop song but on the originally released show Bad Company's "Movin' On" starts to play and they head out to the next hunt.

Natasha: This episode holds a special place in my heart because it's the moment when my eyes were open to Dean Winchester in all his traumatized, dutiful, and soft glory. I loved the little glimpses we get into the loss of Mary and the effect that had on Dean. This episode reads like a thesis statement on macho Dean and his underlying softer layers – from his empathy with Lucas to his use of Ford and Hamill surnames for their cover. (Boris: HARD AGREE)’

Still Searching for the Quote-Ness Monster:

We will find Dad, but until then, we're gonna kill everything bad between here and there. Okay?

I’m Agent Ford, this is Agent Hamill. We’re with the U.S. Wildlife Service.

Kids are the best, huh?

Must be hard, with your sense of direction, never being able to find your way to a decent pickup line.

Watching one of your parents die isn’t something you just get over.

Kids are strong. You'd be surprised what they can deal with.

My mom—I know she wanted me to be brave. I think about that every day. And I do my best to be brave.

Zeppelin rules!

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On the Head of a Pin: 4x16 Recap

Then:

Dean has angels watching over him.

Now:

Bamf!Cas is out in full force using his powers to stop one of the most annoying sounds in the world: the car alarm. At the scene of a car crash, he finds a fellow angel dead, stabbed through her throat.

For Science:

As the cops arrive, Cas wings his way out of there. The cops look down at the victim and ask, “what the hell?” as the camera pans up to reveal (large, beautiful, oh how we miss them!) wings, charred into the ground. (Man, remember how stoked we all were to see the return of angel wings in season 12? I was enjoying the return to old school continuity, but in reality they were just foreshadowing the fact that we were going to see some wings that SHOULD NEVER BE SEEN.)

Cut to Sam careening down the Lost Highway (yeah, Boris has been watching Twin Peaks this hellatus --can’t not see Lynch’s influence in anything these days) in Baby. Dean wakes from slumber and Sam fills him in on the latest with Ruby. Dean is grumpy, indifferent, but mostly tired. Sam is angry and thinks Dean should follow suit.

They arrive at their motel and find the turn-down service is two dick angels (ok, one dick angel and one slightly rebellious angel). Uriel informs Dean that he’s needed. Dean tells Uriel to back off. Cas tries to reason with him, but Uriel cuts him off, and it’s clear that there’s some tension between the two angels.

Uriel informs the brothers that seven angels from their garrison have been killed by demons. Heaven has Alastair, but they need his student to extract the information from him. “You can’t ask me to do this, Cas. Not this.” Brb, just grabbing ALL THE TISSUES IN THE WORLD for the rest of this episode. Uriel grabs Dean and they’re gone before Sam has time to react.

Once at the angel safehouse, the angels show Dean where Alastair is being held. Dean is adamant that they can’t make him torture Alastair. Cas agrees that it’s too much to ask but, “We have to ask it.” Stare, Stare, Stare, Stare. God, they’re both struggling with this so much. Dean asks Uriel if he can talk to Cas alone, and Uriel leaves to seek revelation. Dean makes a joke. Cas squints and admits that Uriel is the funniest angel in the garrison (ok, Boris 100% slow, but Cas was being dry and sarcastic here, right? He is really the funniest angel, right?) (Natasha: I always took it at face value and angels just have a different sense of humor. And by “angels” I mean Cas.)

*Classic Dialog Alert*

DEAN: What's going on, Cas? Since when does Uriel put a leash on you?

CASTIEL: My superiors have begun to question my sympathies.

DEAN: Your sympathies?

CASTIEL: I was getting too close to the humans in my charge. You. They feel I've begun to express emotions. The doorways to doubt. This can impair my judgment.

Cas tells Dean that he doesn’t want this to happen, but they need it. Dean hears this, and his lip quivers. God Damn It, Jensen. My heart can’t take this. “You ask me to open that door and walk through it, you will not like what walks back out.” Cas simply responds, “For what it's worth, I would give anything not to have you do this.” In all rational honesty, this scene does not get any easier the more one watches it.

Cut to Dean, torture cart in hand, rolling into Alastair’s lock-up. Alastair has a great sense of humor and is singing “Cheek to Cheek” as Dean walks in. He starts laughing, but Dean tells him he has one chance to spill who’s killing the angels. Alastair decides to taunt Dean instead, eventually poking at the festering pain of John Winchester.

Sam, meanwhile, summons his good buddy Ruby to help him locate Dean. Dean’s not strong enough to get the info from Alastair, but Sam is (or will be…) Eck.

Torture break, For Science:

Alastair taunts Dean with the knowledge that John lasted 100 years on the rack, but Dean only lasted 30. I’m really glad I wasn’t in this room because, angel killer be damned, that motherfucker would have gotten a angel/Ruby/Colt blade through the throat/torso/balls so fast. Grr. Dean’s ready to torture though, and admits to dreaming in hell of this very moment. He draws a syringe full of holy water, and Alastair actually looks apprehensive. Framed with hooks and chains, Cas stands by, an audial witness to the pain.

I’m sorry guys, but I think we all need another Science break.

Meanwhile, Ruby does the old fire and map trick to locate Dean. Sam needs a little something-something. Demon blood, guys! (It really is too bad Ruby was a lying, horrible demon. Sam had some serious chemistry with her. Amelia: take notes.)

Dean continues his ministrations, while a water pipe starts to leak, breaking the demon trap. 

Anna arrives in her old vessel. La, la, la, walking right past this possible story/continuity error. Anna questions Cas on why he’s allowing Dean to torture Alastair. Anna implores him to stop this. Cas still holds strong not to question the will of God (my heart). Anna casts doubt in Cas’s heart by questioning if it’s God’s will at all. Dean continues his work. Anna continues to make it clear to Cas that this work that Dean is doing isn’t something that God would want, and what Cas is feeling “is called doubt.” She almost breaks through to Cas, but he tells her to go. As she flaps away, he looks down, with obvious regret in his face. 

Alastair complains that Dean’s not trying hard enough to torture him and casually mentions that Dean has “no idea what he did for Hell.” Dean’s rejoinder is to pour salt deep into his mouth and Alastair hacks on salt and blood. “It was supposed to be your father,” Alastair chuckles. “In the end, it was you. The first time you picked up my razor. That was the first seal.” Dean snarls that he’s lying but Alastair switches to intonation mode and says, “And it is written that the first seal shall be broken when a righteous man sheds blood in Hell. As he breaks so shall it break.”

Dean’s...affected. He turns away in horror, trying to box his emotions in as Alastair tells him Hell’s impending victory is all down to Dean’s own actions in Hell.

Alastair checks on the progress of his leaking pipe and sees that the dripping has worn away one of the lines in Cas’s demon trap. As Dean vows to kill Alastair despite his grim revelations, he turns to find that Alastair is loose. Alastair takes him down with a swift punch.

We cut to some time later with Dean beaten and bloody. Alastair is on the brink of killing him when Castiel busts in with the demon blade. Cas stabs him, twists the knife with his freaky angel mind magic, and he and Alastair have a fun drag-down fight. Alastair gets the upper hand, pins and impales Cas to a post, and begins to mutter a Latin invocation to part Cas from his vessel and send him back to Heaven.

Sam busts in then, having eaten his “spinach” and chucks Alastair against the opposite wall with HIS freaky mojo. “I can kill you with my brain,” Sam might as well have said. While Cas looks on in horror and shock, Sam immolates Alastair.

We cut to Dean in the hospital, breathing tube in and life support machines hissing. Cas peeks in on the hospital room briefly and then takes off again immediately. Sam rushes out into the hallway and angrily demands that Cas heal Dean. When Cas tells him that he’s not allowed to do so, Sam drops the news that Alastair wasn’t the one killing angels.

Cas flaps to join Uriel who is sitting meditatively in a park.

Uriel mutters about the angel attacks. Cas speculates that their garrison is being punished for failing to stop the apocalypse. He worries that the wrath of Heaven is descending on them. Cas heads to Anna and tells her that he’s “considering disobedience.” Cas looks haunted at the prospect. “I don’t know what to do. Please tell me what to do.”

Anna half laughs at his plea. He can’t expect her to lead him in lieu of Heaven. He’s got to think for himself. Cas lowers his head sorrowfully and flaps back to the trap he built in the warehouse. CSI Cas finds the leaky pipe and the broken line, then uses his mojo to turn off the water.

Uriel pops in. “Will you join me?” He’s ready to take our darling, broody Cas under his wing and teach him the ways of his new war - and his departure from Heaven’s orders. Cas questions him on the integrity of the trap and then, without waiting for an answer, he uses their incredibly long relationship as soldiers in arms to beg for the truth.

“The only thing that can kill an angel is another angel,” Uriel says, a blade sliding from his sleeve. (Oh, cocky, naive Uriel...how wrong you are.) Cas demands answers about the murders and Uriel scoffs at the word. He’s been converting angels to his cause. The dead ones are just collateral damage. Uriel complains about humanity’s whining dependency and the angels’ mission to protect them. His new goal is to raise Lucifer from Hell. Lucifer was strong and beautiful and he didn’t bow to humanity. He was on the angels’ side.

Cas demands Uriel’s plans about converting the garrison and Uriel insists that he’ll only kill other garrison members if they don’t convert to his cause to “bring on the apocalypse.” Cas raises soulful eyes. He’s not afraid of his own choices anymore. He smashes his fist into Uriel and sends him flying through a brick wall.

Uriel and Cas exchange blows and tear down the warehouse as they do it until Uriel gets the upper hand. “I still serve God,” Cas protests, kneeling bloodied before Uriel.

“There is no will. No wrath. No God.” Uriel growls (dropping actual truth bombs) as he prepares to kill Castiel.

Anna stabs him in the throat from behind.  “Maybe. Maybe not. But there’s still me.” Yeah, Anna!

Later in the hospital room Cas asks a slightly more recovered Dean, “Are you alright?” It’s definitely a question that applies to both of them. The unspoken answer is nope. Not in the tiniest bit.

Cas drops the bomb that Uriel is dead and that he was working against Heaven and the other angels. Dean asks if it’s true that he started the apocalypse by breaking the first seal. “When we discovered Lilith’s plan for you we laid siege to Hell.” So...yep, it’s true.

“Why didn’t you just leave me there then?” Dean asks, self-loathing dripping off the screen like black goo.

“It’s not blame, it’s fate,” Cas tells him, finally laying Heaven’s cards on the table (at least as far as he knows). “The righteous man that begins it is the only man that can finish it.” He tells Dean that he has to stop the apocalypse. No pressure, man.

Dean is understandably a little overwhelmed and presses Cas for more details about what the hell that’s supposed to mean. While Cas looks on sorrowfully he says, “I can’t do it, Cas. It’s too big. Alastair was right. I’m not all here. I’m not strong enough. I guess I’m not the man either of our Dads wanted me to be.” Heart. Breaks.

Quotes: You guys don’t walk enough; you’re gonna get flabby.

Uriel is the funniest angel in the garrison.

I’m considering disobedience.

Strange how a leaky pipe can undo the work of angels when we ourselves are supposed to be the agents of fate.