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[thisnoise]

Hold me like you held on to life, when all fears came alive and entombed me.

[stratossphere]

Fic where ville meets the lead singer of another band who’s performing at the same festival of him and he like has the biggest crush on her but whenever he tries to flirt with her it goes horribly wrong and he says the weirdest shit and she just kinda 🧍‍♀️ and he just embarrasses himself the whole time until she finally gets what he’s trying to do and goes out w him

from the band | v.v

ville has it bad for the lead singer of one of the other bands at a festival HIM is playing in, and he has a horrible way of showing it.

warnings: nervous ville, miscommunication at its finest, a tiny hint of mentioned suggestive content

word count: 4.1k

a/n: got a couple of asks kind of like this and combined them into one! also you guys are literal geniuses the plots you send are so good

tags: @asskickedbygirl @lieutenant-cinnamon-roll @kissofdawn666 @brandons-wife @valos-venus-doom @ghoulishguns @4377666 @althaiascure

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Ville usually didn't give a flying shit about who else was playing at any of the festivals HIM was booked for. He was just there to enjoy his gigs, get ridiculously plastered, and maybe cause a little ruckus with the band while they weren't on stage. He didn't really want to be there anyway, as he was getting more homesick for Helsinki by the day and the hot sun was making him feel a little crazy, so it's not like he was actively participating in anything besides the drinking.

Until the last act that had gone on after them came down from the stage and into the artists' area where they were all getting progressively drunker by the minute due to the fact that they'd already played their show and had nothing left to do except drown their livers for the next 16 hours or so.

And where he said he usually didn't give a flying shit about who else was playing, this band did not apply. Because he'd seen this band before, and had seen the lead singer, who was drop dead gorgeous. Ville had never seen another woman like her, and for some reason felt his heart rate picking up like he was a fucking schoolgirl every time they happened to cross paths. And they were definitely crossing paths now, because she was getting a beer from the same cooler that they'd all been drinking out of after they'd come down.

However, he stayed completely silent, only watching her and admiring the smooth way she moved until she was gone. Burton, who had been talking to him specifically while they all sat around together in a circle on empty beer buckets, snorted.

"You're going to scare her off if you keep looking at her like that." He said, pointing very obviously over to Ville's not-so-secret crush as he talked through a swig of his beer. Mige laughed right along with him, nudging Ville's arm.

"Not if she smells him first." He teased, only making Ville scowl harder than he already had been before as he relented under his friends' teasing. They were clearly not on his side here, and the hot sun was making him feel a lot more irritated than usual, so all he did was kick Burton's bucket and elbow Mige right back a lot harder.

"Go fuck yourselves. Are we not allowed to look at other people anymore?" He spoke in a hostile tone as he threw a hand in the air, finishing off the last of his beer after he spoke and then crushing the can in his hand with enough force to displace some of his irritation. Gas shrugged.

"...do you look at us like you want to shove your hand down our pants?" That triggered a completely new wave of laughing and guffawing at Ville's expense. Even Linde, who usually couldn't be bothered to do more than roll his eyes, was snickering. They were being so loud that it had drawn her attention over in their direction, and then before he knew it, she was staring right at Ville. Which was horrible timing, because at that moment all he was doing was glaring. She clearly seemed taken aback by the sight of him when their eyes connected, and Ville mentally slapped himself when she quickly looked away.

"Now look what you fucking idiots did." He grumbled, standing up from where he'd been sitting in pursuit of another beer. His nerves were swimming with irritation despite the pile of beer cans he'd ingested by this time of day, and he needed more. "All you pricks know how to do is scare women away."

"Yeah, well you're not doing much better. Bet you 15 that she wouldn't give you the time of day if your face was already in her tits." Mige guffawed crudely, and loudly, as Ville picked at the tab of his beer can and tried not to commit a homicide. He about lost his reserve when he looked up to see that she was looking at them. And she had clearly heard what was being said, because there was a disgusted pout on her face that Ville couldn't help but find deeply attractive.

He felt hopelessness sinking in due to his friends' horrible timing and the lack of interest this painfully gorgeous rockstar was giving him, and before long there was another cigarette stuck between his lips as he went in search of a beer cooler that was still cold. He had been aiming to talk to this girl at least enough to get a good dose of the addicting sound of her voice, but at this point he'd mostly given up in favor of scowling at the grass he was kicking as he walked.

Usually this wasn't hard for him, but he had always had a soft spot for musicians. And it didn't help that she had almost completely ignored him in every interaction the two of them had ever shared, which honestly only made him want her more. He'd never actually heard her speak, only sing, but today he was aiming to change that.

However, fate and its impeccable timing seemed to have other plans for him, because just as he was crouching down to grab one of the last German beers that was actually in a bottle instead of a can, his attention was drawn by a voice behind him.

"Are you the lead singer of the headliner band?" It was a woman's voice, and Ville internally slouched. Great. Security was obviously shit, because now on top of his asshole company, groupies were worming their way into the artists' grounds. His jaw clenched.

"I don't fuck groupies." Sure, he was being a little short to a person who probably didn't deserve it, but he was too sober to find it funny, and he was in a bad mood anyway. There was a disbelieving scoff in response to his curt answer, and he immediately paled and stood back up when he realized who he'd just spoken to.

It was her. Of course it was fucking her.

"I was gonna ask if you could get the staff to send out more beer." She revealed sourly, her eyes raking over his in a way that in no way matched the way his eyes had been raking over her when she hadn't been looking. She then spat in the grass, and despite the embarrassment burning down his neck, Ville somehow found it in him to feel himself getting even hotter at the sight. However, she was too busy continuing her hostile retort to notice the flame in his eyes. "Not every woman who talks to you wants to fuck you. Dick."

And boom. Now he felt even worse. She turned on the tattered heel of her sneaker and marched right off before his lips could even part to allow him to explain himself, and all he could do in that moment was let out a heavy, irritated sigh as he watched her go. Might as well get her fucking beer and drown in his sorrows bottle-style considering he had nothing else going on for another two hours.

As he walked back towards where he knew the staff would be gathered waiting for whatever prima-donna rockstar came banging on their tent with some ridiculous request, Ville hummed softly to himself, scowl on his face no doubt one to reckon with as he passed other rockstars of various bands getting trashed beyond belief in order to cope with the fact that they'd be playing with several big names as the night progressed. He was trying to ignore his own bandmates ogling at the girl he so obviously had a thing for for the sake of his own temper, but he found his eyes drawn to the scene regardless, and then his jaw was clenched even tighter before he lost sight of the infuriating scene as he continued his search for her requested beer.

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You were not a pushover. Flourishing in a scene so deeply dominated by men who more-often-than-not would've rathered to grab your tits in a crowd surf than to ever play on the same stage as you was more than exhausting, but you'd earned your place. However, that didn't mean you'd ever stop coming in contact with the ones who had a problem with you.

And, apparently, Ville Valo really had a problem with you. It was evident in even the slightest of his movements and the way his eyes moved over you, and you were more than sick of it. You'd already heard the words 'face in her tits' thrown around whilst him and the rest of his band had been blatantly staring in your direction, and him assuming that you were a groupie begging to fuck him had solidified your distaste towards him.

But god, there was just something about him. You'd felt it only from the several times you'd found yourself making eye contact with him from however far apart the two of you were, and to be honest, before you'd picked up on his extremely hostile demeanor, you'd almost considered that he might've been checking you out. But now, as you watched him stomp his way across the grounds with his heavy Doc Martens scuffing the grass that he was glowering at, you just found him annoying. You should've known, considering you had never met a metal frontman that wasn't a raging bitch.

However, despite your sourness in the singer’s direction, you couldn’t help but feel the loss considering he was incredibly good looking. Perfect eyes, sharp features, and a voice deep enough to make any sensible person weak in the knees were not a mix of factors that were making this easy on you. You were only simply an overly-horny young adult, after all.

“I heard that he’s like, one of those prodigies where it makes your brain want to explode talking to him.” Your band mate, the guitarist, clearly noticed that you were watching Ville (who had since disappeared), and leaned in closer to you as she motioned in Ville’s previous general direction. “He was totally checking you out.”

“The only thing he said to me was that he doesn’t fuck groupies, so yeah. Brain definitely exploded.” You replied uninterestedly, choosing to brush past your bandmate’s bewildered look at your response in favor of just falling back in the grass where you were sitting. “I’m not trying it. I can’t take any more pretentious music prodigies.”

“But he’s so hot. Have you seen him preforming?” As she delved into a detailed description of Ville’s set that she’d trekked up the hill to watch, you focused your attention mostly on staring miserably towards the staff tent, where you’d watched Ville disappear a few minutes before. You weren’t totally sure as to what was causing you to focus on him for such a long period of time, but somehow your eyes just seemed to keep finding their way back.

And low and behold, when you spotted him again, he was coming out of the side of the staff tent with a six pack in each hand. Score.

“Oh my god, is he actually bringing you the beer?” The guitarist had overheard you ask Ville if he could use his main talent privileges to hook the rest of you up with some beer, and you saw her turn to watch Ville alongside you with her jaw dropped as he paused to slam one of the six packs into one of his bandmates’ lap. You rolled your eyes.

“I guess.” Okay. So maybe you were biting back a slight grin through your scowl, but she wasn’t looking at you anyway. Ville, however, was looking at you, and you felt your heart jump a little bit despite your best intentions when his startling green irises connected with yours. So he had brought you beer. Huh. You quickly looked to your bandmate. “Don’t say anything.”

“Hope English beer entices you.” Those words were uttered past Ville’s lips and through a thick cloud of smoke as he came up to where your band was sitting together, holding out the six pack with a mostly uninterested look on his face the entire time.

“Thank you.” As your hand almost brushed his, you noticed a scar on his wedding ring finger that looked shockingly similar to if someone were to use their finger as an ashtray, but you looked away as you picked out a bottle once the pack was in your lap and then held it up. “Do you have a bottle opener, by chance?”

“Fuck. There uh, there might be one in Mige’s bag over there.” Ville mentally slapped himself for having forgotten a way to open her bottle, knowing that she probably wouldn’t have appreciated his foolproof method of just smashing the neck of the bottle on the nearest solid surface. He mentally slapped himself once more when he saw her cast a wary look in the direction of his friends, quickly shooting to give her another option. “I’ll get it for you.”

However, just as he turned to walk away from where he could clearly see the rest of her band watching him with knowing, amused looks on their stupid faces, he heard shoes scuffing the grass, and he glanced back to see her right next to him. Shit.

“Are you guys going to talk about my tits while I’m right there, too?” She asked conversationally as she fell in step next to him, casting a critical look in his direction as she called him out clear as day. Ville resisted the urge to wince viscerally.

“Um, you heard that wrong. That’s not—we weren’t talking about you.” He saved himself lamely, not missing her skeptical look as she continued to side-eye him. He didn’t know why the hell he was stuttering like a fucking idiot, but it wasn’t going away no matter how many times he cleared his throat. He had a feeling that if her fingers even brushed his arm at this point, his head was going to explode.

“You don’t fuck groupies, and you were the only one not talking about my tits? You deserve a medal.” Her tone was more than sour, and Ville sighed miserably at the realization that he had probably fucked this whole thing up. Here was his dream girl, who had a metal attitude fiery enough to make him weak in the knees and the looks to go with it, and she obviously didn’t like him. His level of game was astounding.

“Yeah. Guess I do.” Okay, so maybe that wasn’t totally helping his case, but his snarky attitude was a hard habit to break. And, to give himself some credit, Ville realized what a douchey thing that was to say as soon as it was out of his mouth. Y/n’s nose wrinkled, and she stopped right then and there in the middle of the grounds between Ville’s band and her own. He stopped with her, thankful for the fact that his long hair covered where his ears were burning with embarrassment. Never once in his life had he done so badly in the flirting department. “Uh, I mean—“

“You realize you’re kind of a dick, right? Why’d you get me the beer if you’re just going to be an asshole the whole time?” Y/n was transparent in her annoyance with the way Ville was currently acting, and he had to bite on the very inside of his cheek to avoid falling right at her feet as she snapped on him. “I can open the beer without an opener. Fuck off.”

“I—what?” Despite his knowing that Y/n wasn’t at all receptive to any idea he had tried to give that he was clearly into her, it took him aback when she verbally dismissed him away from her right to his face. He stood there looking like an idiot, and she only stared right back as she lifted up her foot, held the heel of her shoe in one hand, and then slammed the edge of her bottle cap on the hard rubber so that it popped right off and into the grass. And all Ville could think about was how beautiful she was the entire time.

“I never needed an opener. I already know how to open a fucking beer.” Her tone was still scalding as she repeated herself, and as she stood there with an open beer and a disgusted look on her face, it suddenly clicked in Ville’s brain. She had just wanted to talk to him.

Jesus Christ.

He skated a hand over his messy, sweaty hair, trying to collect himself enough to be a well-spoken human being before he finally just let out a large sigh and took a long swig of his beer.

“I’m sorry. I came off like shit.” He started, letting his hand fall back to rub awkwardly at the back of his neck as he glanced to the side to see his shitty friends watching him talk to Y/n like wolves watching their prey. He knew he’d get more than enough teasing for this whole thing later, and he was trying to hold his irritation at the fact off of his features for her sake. “I’m not usually like this. I swear. I’m just fucking…overheated.”

By overheated, he meant mostly his brain and a certain…other part of his body, but she didn’t need to know that. It didn’t look like she really believed him, anyway.

“Shit excuse.” She spoke simply, and her expression had softened a little bit, but there was still a hint of heat to her voice as she did so. He stuttered out a laugh, taking a drag off of his almost-cashed cigarette in an attempt to soothe his rapidly beating heart. Fuck, he felt like a goddamn teenager right now.

“Well it’s not about you, if you’re that worried.” Not only was that a shitty thing to say, but it was also a lie. In a rush to cover himself, he instead fucked it up again, and he immediately watched her recoil slightly at his words. Why was he so fucking bad at this today?

“What does that even mean?” God, at this point Ville wished she would’ve been one of those girls that just threw a drink in his face and slapped him instead of sitting there grilling him. Obviously, he usually fell in love with the ones that grilled him only that much quicker, but that wasn’t the point. And she didn’t give him time to make a point, anyway. “Listen, I don’t know if anyone has ever told you, but you’re not all fucking that. Not every girl that talks to you does it so that she can fuck your brains out.”

In a twisted, Ville-only part of his brain, he was falling in love with her for yelling at him like she was. In the middle of both her friends and his friends, as fate would have it. If heart eyes had been a real thing, Ville never would’ve been able to look at her in the first place without revealing how bad he had it for her.

“That’s not what I—I didn’t mean to—“ God. He could just not get the words to come out like he wanted them to. He snapped his mouth shut in frustration, because he didn’t know how to say ‘I’m being a fucking dick because I want you to kiss me’, then watched with panic as she started to walk away. “Wait! Please…just hold on for a second.”

“You really like the sound of your own voice.” She grumbled, sounding more than sick of him but thankfully pausing and crossing her arms anyway. Once he was sure he had her attention, Ville caved to the swarm of thoughts in his brain. Might as well throw out a last-ditch attempt considering how bad he’d screwed all this up for himself.

“I…” His heart was pounding so hard in his chest it felt as if he couldn’t speak around it, but he knew that he had no other choice. He swallowed. “Let me take you out to dinner. Please. I’m being like this because beautiful women make me a fucking idiot.”

Once the words had all fallen out of his mouth in a shaky, unintelligent swarm, he stood there waiting. He felt as if he may throw up, and the last half-drag off of his cigarette before he dropped it into the grass under his boot only made his heart seem to beat faster against his rib cage.

And then she began to smile.

“You look a little sick.” As if she was in his head and knew that it was only going to make his condition worse, she reached out and held his wrist in her perfect hand before she pressed her fingers gently into his wrist.

She was checking his pulse. Busted.

“I feel a little sick.” He admitted loosely, a sheepish smile passing on his features as he tried to continue to see straight with her touching his hand. She laughed at that, not yet letting his hand go.

“This is cute. You really had me going.” She said lightly, her eyes moving from his pulse to his with a look that told him she was amused by his racing heartbeat. His face went crimson at her calling him cute, because who the hell saw his dark, chronically-unamused expression and call it cute, before he found himself grinning beyond his control.

“Well? Did it work?” He asked, his stomach about dropping right out of his body when she suddenly laced their fingers together and held his hand in hers. Although he was praying to gods he didn’t believe in that she would say yes, he was simultaneously wondering how the hell he was going to get through an uninterrupted dinner alone with her when he felt like his life was ending at the mercy of just the slightest of her touches. She bit her lip.

“Hmm…yeah. It worked.” You were beaming, both at the fact that you’d just earned yourself a date with one of the hottest men you’d ever seen and at the fact that the hottest man you’d ever seen was shaky and nervous like a little kid in your mere presence. You felt more than bad about snapping on him now that you knew he just had a case of being a man and trying to express his feelings aloud. “You gonna take me somewhere fancy?”

“I’ll take you wherever you want to go, love.” He seemed to ease slightly once he had your agreement to go out to dinner with him, and his voice found confidence as he shamelessly studied your features right in front of you. “I’d even cook something on the tour bus hot plate if it meant I’d get to see you.”

That made you laugh, and you thanked the fact for the time it allowed you to let your jumping heart settle. Something should’ve been said for the fact that Ville was offering dinner instead of a beer and a shitty fuck like every other rockstar you’d ever met doing the job you did, and you were trying your very hardest not to surround his name in hearts in your mind as he looked at you.

“Date’s on, Valo.” As you agreed, he made a whole dramatic show of sticking his hand out and forcing you to shake it, but you were laughing the whole time. You were mentally picturing yourself jumping his tall frame right then and there, but you instead let your hand linger in his for a suspicious amount of time before you pulled out of the handshake. “Until then, I’m going to keep checking you out across the yard, deal?”

“Deal.” Ville was relaxed and smiling now as the both of you talked, so as you made your exit, you felt no qualms about leaning up and pressing a kiss right to his warm cheek.

“See you tonight.” Your lips brushed against his cheek as you spoke quietly in his ear, as you bit back a grin as you heard him gasp just slightly. When you broke away from him, his eyes were already dragging over your figure as you turned away.

“See you tonight.” And suddenly Ville really needed some alone time in a room with a door that locked.

[ursagittariusgirlfriend]

One of my favorites.

[punkowa-i-postrzelona]

love wins <3

[pitofneverendingsarcasm]

I am not immune to propaganda.

Yes I did, in fact, stop halfway through a video essay to start watching a silly crime show I had never heard of before because I heard the vibes were wholesome, nerdy, and bi.

[izunias-meme-hole]

Love this new Brainiac, even mores than this show's iterations of Lex and Parasite, because holy shit I wasn't expecting STAS!Brainiac mixed with The Core, TFA!Megatron, and Alexis Kerib.

Between keeping the Kryptonian Empire on life support despite Krypton no longer existing, preserving the consciousness of those who rebelled against the empire, grooming Kara Zor El into being his "daughter" and weapon, and just overall being the most monstrous figure in the entire show on both a grand scale and on a personal level.

Also Michael Emerson is no Corey Burton, but wow he did a great job as this old AI.

[thevindicativevordan]

My Adventures With Superman: S2 Review

Another season down and it's time to take stock. SPOILERS BELOW!

My feelings fresh off the finale has me just as high on the show as I was last season. MAWS continues to be the best adaption of Superman since the Donner films. Furthermore I've realized that MAWS is extremely close to what the original Ultimate Marvel was. Everything in the 1610 universe ultimately came back to the Super Soldier Serum. Here everything connects to Krypton: all the villains in some way tie into it, Superman and Supergirl obviously are it's Last Children, Krypton reshaped the entire galaxy - potentially having wiped out the GLC and fought Apokolips! It's an entire universe built around exploring the impact of an imperialist Krypton and that's what sells me on the concept. Strikes me as funny in the wake of "Absolute DC" trying to offer an Ultimate DCU around the same time. Now moving on to the three major areas of concern:

The Trio

Clark - Our boy did not have an easy time of it this season. Constantly being faced with xenophobia, struggling to find a place for himself, relationship issues with Lois, his cousin turning out to be a brainwashed warrior, and then the evil AI that ran the Kryptonian Empire trying to turn him into a weapon. His character arc from S1, learning to embrace the weirder sides of himself instead of suppressing them, continues this season. Literally so in the case of unlocking his remaining powers like arctic breath, but also mentally. Brainiac attacks his self-image in order to undermine his sense of self-worth. Telling that even a Kal raised in a fake simulation of Krypton doesn't fit in with Kryptonian society any better than he does on Earth. I love that Lois gets him to believe in himself again by inverting the famous Lois & Clark line. Here, Superman is not what Clark can do - Superman is who Clark is. By believing in himself and following his heart, this Superman comes to realize that home isn't a place but the people you're with. Home is Ma, Pa, Lois, Jimmy, and at the end of the season Kara too.

Lois - Last season only began to unpack her daddy issues, and that was the focus of her arc this season. She loves Clark and she loves her dad but she can't overcome her massive inferiority complex caused by her dad's treatment of her growing up. She could never count on him to be there for her and she ends up projecting that on to Clark. Also she has a bad habit of emulating her dad's paranoia, she's willing to go right for the kryptonite to take out Kara, and doesn't trust other Kryptonians off the bat. Her arc culminates when she affirms her love for Clark in the Black Mercy and when she urges Kara to overcome the Eradicator programming, instead of doubting Kara's inner goodness.

Jimmy - Finally gets his own romance storyline with Kara and it was as cute as Clois! Glad Jimmy stopped being a third wheel to the Clois drama and got his own relationship difficulties to cope with. Also glad that we got that episode where Clark and Jimmy bro'd it up at the Science Expo and Clark told Jimmy how much he valued their friendship. Was asking for that in S1, and we finally got that moment here. As expected. Jimmy lost his billions but I think getting a Kryptonian girlfriend and saving Superman from Brainiac were worthy trade offs.

The Villains

Brainiac - Completely won over on this Brainiac. Emerson might have supplanted Burton as my favorite Brainiac voice. Eschewing the typical cold and emotionless Brainiacs, this take is joyfully malevolent. He takes pleasure in Superman's shock and outrage over the enslavement of the Kryptonian Empire's Foes for use as training fodder, he spitefully targets Earth first after stealing Superman's body, he gaslights and mocks Kara for daring to stand up to him, he's overseen the genocide of multiple planets (including Krypton) - he's pure evil. Even monologues at one point about how he's been "infected" by compassion on account of raising Kara and he needs to purge himself of that weakness. Brainiac alone justifies MAWS going with an imperialist Krypton instead of the usual isolationist take, we wouldn't have gotten this fantastic performance otherwise.

Amanda Waller - Never been more hateable than she is here. She tries to kill her old friend and colleague Sam with zero hesitation or remorse, experiments on civilians and is willing to kill them to cover it up, treats her underlings like crap, no surprise she and Lex hit it off. At least by the end of the season she's been deposed and is on the run, finally gets some measure of comeuppance for her actions.

Lex Luthor - To no one's great surprise, "Alex" did indeed turn out to be Lex Luthor. Amazing how MAWS pulled off exactly what DCEU Lex was trying to be, an evil techbro in the Zuckerburg mold, and in doing so reinforced how absolutely terrible the DCEU take was. Lex here is recognizably Lex: he's ego-driven, weaponizes xenophobia against Superman, reveals he was the one who actually created the Parasite suit, synthesizes kryptonite cores for the Metallos, acquires his business competition AmerTek, and is generally a condescending dickwad. Love that whenever he's being particularly evil, we get the iconic anime villain shot where the glasses become opaque. After this season he finally has the Lexcorp building Only thing left to do (besides give Lex a shave) is really develop the feud between Lex and Superman. Right now Supes doesn't even know Lex, and Lex has merely been using Superman as a sacrificial lamb for his own advancement. I do not want a sympathetic Lex, I want this to be the guy that Supes actually dislikes intensely.

Deathstroke - Fully settled into his role as the designated jobber at this point. Admittedly it's fun to see him be smug only to repeatedly get his ass spanked by Superman and others, but I'm not happy that they're keeping him around for S3 as Lex's underling. He's no threat to Superman at this point!

Damage - Weird choice, bad design. Don't really care if he shows up again or not.

Atomic Skull - Sounds cool, looks cool, only complaint is that he barely got any use! Showrunners I am begging you to bench Deathstroke, or outright eject him from the show, and start focusing more on the actual Superman villains. Since Waller's Task Force X seems to have been disbanded, could we possibly see him get a job as a cop like in the comics? I would support Atomic Skull being the anti-Superman element in the Metropolis Police Department while Maggie Sawyer finally debuts to contrast with him.

Livewire & Heatwave - After the heist and finale episodes I'm fine with them exiting from the show. Livewire in particular felt completely jarring and disconnected from how she was characterized in the AmerTak episode, she went from being willing to hurt kids to giving Lois a pep talk on the power of Love and saving Metropolis. Mitigating circumstances to be sure with Brainiac trying to destroy the Planet, but the S2 finale definitely felt like the show redeeming the S1 villains and shooing them out.

The Supporting Cast

Kara Zor-El/Supergirl - Now I can't say she's my favorite Kara yet, but I can share that like most of the MAWS cast, she easily could attain that status if she keeps getting used in S3. Poor thing, she exchanged the trauma of being old enough to feel Krypton's loss acutely for the trauma of having been brainwashed into being a worldkiller. Benefit of that is the show wrote them more like siblings because they were the same age, and I adored that. Episode 7 was one of my top 3 favorite episodes of the series thus far, watching them tease each other was heartwarming.

When Superman realized she had a crush on Jimmy and started to tease her, that was one of my favorite Superman/Supergirl moment ever! Both her and Kal are looking for the place they belong and they find it in each other by the end of the season. Excited to see what becomes of their relationship, and Jimmy's romance with Kara, next season.

Perry White - Remains the GOAT Perry. His evil laughter when Jimmy complained to him about the new interns not listening had me laughing right alongside him. Oh and changing the nickname Jimmy gives him to "Per-Per" instead of "Chief" goes a long way to justify why Perry finds Jimmy annoying and hates his nickname. Showing up to take Waller to task for arresting Jimmy and Lois in the penultimate episode, distracting her while Steve jailbreaks them? Most badass thing any version of Perry has ever done.

General Sam Lane - Complex is the only word I can use to describe him. Clearly he loves Lois and we get an entire episode dedicated to showing that, but he's still a bad dad who is responsible for her attachment issues. By the end of this season he's come around to Superman's side, and I have to admit I'm not a fan of that. Wish he was staying as an antagonist, but as long as we don't have Superman working with/for the government in S3 then I'll cope.

Cat and Steve - Ronnie was a non-entity again this season, I don't think she even appeared, but wow did Cat level up to be my favorite take on her alongside MAWS Steve being the GOAT Steve Lombard. Cat's speech to Lois about how as reporters they cover the story but they don't become the story shows that underneath her gossip exterior lies a woman of principles. Steve meanwhile cemented himself as the best bro you could ask for, and I loved his pep talk to Kara

Vicki Vale - Her shonen style rivalry with Lois over the AmerTek story gave me life. Conceding gracefully to Lois after being outscooped and offering Lois a job in Gotham, plus appearing in the penultimate episode to support Perry confronting Waller made me actually respect her. Still don't like her for smearing Superman in S1, but you can see that she is what Lois is on the road to becoming - albeit with more principles.

John Henry Irons - My guy in the flesh!!! Needs a proper war suit and to get that shield filled in but he's here and a pretty straightforward adaption to boot! Worked at AmerTek, built weapons for them, realized they were corrupt and has to atone by taking them down. Seeing him show up again in the finale was thrilling, I hope that he continues to appear in S3 as an ally of Kal and Kara. We've got a proper Superfamily being built up, now all we need is Kon.

General Thoughts

Blatant Darkseid tease or misdirection? Sure looks like an Omega Beam, but Brainiac makes it clear he's the one who "destroyed" Krypton. Jor-El was trying to negotiate a peace treaty with "their enemies" which does leave open the possibility that said enemies were Darkseid and Apokolips, and Brainiac has the Parademon mind scan.

Brainiac says he used "Krypton's greatest weapon" against Krypton, and that did not seem to be Kryptonite. Could he have sent the entire planet to the Phantom Zone instead? Would certainly align with the line about "casting Krypton into hell".

S2 ends with Superman being pretty much as happy as can be. He and Lois are back, he saved and redeemed Kara, Waller is deposed, he doesn’t appear to have any emotional problems left. I’m thinking S3 is going to have Lex and Zod as the Big Bads, and instead of being a conquerer, Zod is going to break out of the PZ and be utterly ruthless about bringing all of Krypton with him.

I bet the show does a take on the New Krypton storyline, with S3 having Zod succeed and then Kal and Kara have to choose between their adopted and birth worlds (maybe even their adopted and birth parents in the Kents vs. Els for maximum drama). Do they want to go live on New Krypton with the Els or stay on Earth? Plus Zod will probably be revealed as Nemesis Omega, and they'll set up a war coming between Earth and NK with Sam Lane and Zod leading the two armies. Then S4 will be Darkseid, with Apokolips having learned that their old foes are still alive

Metallo needs to get a proper adaption next season. I know these weebs have watched Cyberpunk Edgerunners, give me Metallo in the vein of Adam Smasher!

PLEASE BRING IN BLOODSPORT, he's in the bloody comics for God's sake! No excuse not to have him next season.

They better have plans for a proper Jack Nimball Toyman because that Winslow Schott take was lame

Bring Parasite back next season, not having him at all this season made me realize how great he was as a villain. Oh and bring Mxy back too!

Kryptonian armor enhancing Kryptonian abilities like heat vision sold me on the concept. Funny how right as the live action take reverts to the trunks, MAWS gives Superman a new suit without them. I like the new suit myself.

Lana ended up being the one person on the leaked voice actor list to not show up is odd. Was her part cut perhaps, or was that the one fake name on the list?

Wyatt has said that when MAWS Superman becomes the confident self-assured "Superdad", that's when the show is over for him. Keeping that in mind I feel like S3 needs to kill some characters, specifically the Kents. Right now Clark has his safe space in Smallville, a loving relationship with Lois, a brother relationship with Jimmy, and a good reputation in Metropolis, and now Kara too. Logically he should be confident and self-assured, meaning they need to undermine that if they want the show to continue. Clark suffering the death of his adopted parents, right around the time his birth parents return and offer him a place on New Krypton? Certainly would be how *I* would blow up his new happy status quo.

If Superman is no longer going to be fighting the government, you know who would be a great villain to bring in? Red Cloud. Having a villain work at the Daily Planet in undercover mode like Superman would be a perfect way to keep the focus on the Planet cast.

[kombuchadestroyer69]

Michael Emerson as a Tim Burton character would complete me I think

[ultraericthered]

Favorite Takes - DC

Where I cite my personal favorite non-source material (so film, TV, and video games only) adaptations of some comic book characters.

Clark Kent/Superman

Superman The Movie & Sequels (Christopher Reeve)

All Star Superman (James Denton)

DC Animated Universe (Tim Daly, George Newbern)

My Adventures With Superman (Jack Quaid)

CW DC Universe (Tyler Hoechlin, Brandon Routh)

NOTE: I was never the biggest fan of Dean Cain from Lois & Clark so he couldn't get on here, Tom Welling from Smallville might've been a contender had his character and story not got so bastardized, and the less said of poor Henry Cavill from the DCEU, the better.

Lois Lane

DC Animated Universe (Dana Delany)

All Star Superman (Christina Hendricks)

Superman The Movie & Sequels (Margot Kidder)

TV Versions (Terri Hatcher, Erica Durance, and Elizabeth Tulloch)

My Adventures With Superman (Alice Lee)

Lex Luthor

DC Animated Universe (Clancy Brown)

All Star Superman (Anthony LePaglia)

Smallville (Michael Rosenbaum)

CW DC Universe (Jon Cryer, Michael Cudlitz)

DC DTV Universe(s) (James Marsters, Jason Isaacs)

JLA (James Woods) & Young Justice (Mark Rolston)

NOTE: The last two get a split spot since one of them's got the voice of an evil political fascist while the other got his character mangled in later seasons to be a bad parallel to an evil political fascist. I also like the Gene Hackman, Kevin Spacey, Stan Jones, Travis Willingham, Fred Tatasciore, Steve Blum, Ranin Wilson, Giancarlo Esposito, Zachary Quinto, Darin De Paul, Lance Reddick, Marc Maron, and Max Mittelman versions of Lex, and await to see Nicholas Hoult's.

Jimmy Olsen

Batman: The Brave & The Bold (Alexander Polinsky)

DC Animated Universe (David Kaufman)

My Adventures With Superman (Ishmael Sahid)

Superman Returns (Sam Huntington)

All Star Superman (Matthew Gray Gubler)

Supergirl

DC Animated Universe (Nicolle Tom)

DC Superhero Girls (Anais Fairweather)

My Adventures With Superman (Kiana Madeira)

CW DC Universe (Melissa Benoist)

Supergirl '84 Film (Helen Slater)

Brainiac

DC Animated Universe (Corey Burton)

My Adventures With Superman (Michael Emerson)

Injustice Series (Jeffrey Combs)

Superman Unbound (John Noble)

TV Versions (James Marsters and Blake Ritson)

Bruce Wayne/Batman

DC Animated Universe (Kevin Conroy)

Under The Red Hood & Young Justice (Bruce Greenwood)

The Batman Trilogy (Robert Pattinson)

The Dark Knight Trilogy (Christian Bale)

Batman: The Brave & The Bold (Diedrich Bader)

Batman '66 (Adam West)

NOTE: I really wanted David Mazouz from Gotham on here, but he had to compete with these other Bruces who were actually full time Batmen, so consider him an honorable mention. I also like Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, and Ben Affleck as Batman, but there were some problems with their particular iterations. Other runner ups include the other Kevin Conroy Batmen (particularly Arkham and Injustice), Rino Romano, Jeremy Sisto, Daran Norris, Anthony Ruivivar, Ben McKenzie, Jason O'Mara, Troy Baker, Peter Weller, Jensen Anckles, Keanu Reeves, Ethan Hawke, and of course the LEGO Batman(s).

Alfred Pennyworth

Burton-Shumacher Films (Michael Gough)

The Dark Knight Trilogy (Michael Caine)

DC Animated Universe (Clive Revill, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.)

The Batman (Alastair Duncan)

Arkham Series (Martin Jarvis)

Gotham (Sean Pertwee) and The Batman Trilogy (Andy Serkis)

NOTE: Other great Alfreds include James Garrett, Brian George, JB Blanc, David McCallum, Enn Reitel, Anthony Head, Ralph Fiennes, Nolan North, Tom Hollander, Jason Watkins, and Jeremy Irons.

James Gordon

DC Animated Universe (Bob Hastings)

Batman Year One (Bryan Cranston)

The Dark Knight Trilogy (Gary Oldman)

The Batman Trilogy (Jeffrey Wright)

Beware The Batman (Kurtwood Smith)

Batman '66 (Neil Hamilton, Jim Ward)

Barbara Gordon

DC Animated Universe (Melissa Gilbert, Mary Kay Bergman, Tara Strong)

Arkham Series & Injustice Series (Kimberly Brooks)

The Batman (Danielle Judovits)

Young Justice (Alyson Stoner)

Batman: The Brave & The Bold (Mae Whitman)

Batman: Caped Crusader (Krystal Joy Brown)

Dick Grayson/Robin

Teen Titans (Scott Menville)

Young Justice (Jesse McCartney)

Batman '66 (Burt Ward)

The Batman (Evan Sabara)

Batman: The Brave & The Bold (Crawford Wilson, Jeremy Shada)

Arkham Series (Josh Keaton)

Dick Grayson/Nightwing

Teen Titans (Scott Menville)

Young Justice (Jesse McCartney)

DC Animated Universe (Loren Lester)

Under The Red Hood (Neil Patrick Harris)

Arkham Series and Injustice Series (Troy Baker)

DC DTV Universe (Sean Maher)

The Joker

DC Animated Universe (Mark Hamill)

The Dark Knight Trilogy (Heath Ledger)

Burton-Shumacher Films (Jack Nicholson)

Joker 2019 (Joaquin Phoenix)

Under The Red Hood (John DiMaggio)

Gotham (Cameron Monaghan)

NOTE: Other great Jokers include Mark Hamill and Troy Baker as Arkham series Joker, Mark Hamill in JLA, Troy Baker in Batman Unlimited and some of the newer DTVs, Caesar Romero in Batman '66, Michael Emerson in The Dark Knight Returns, Kevin Michael Richardson in The Batman, Jeff Bennett in Batman: The Brave & The Bold, Richard Epcar in Mortal Kombat and Injustice, John Kassir in Superfriends 2010, Alan Tudyk in Harley Quinn, Tony Hale in Batman Ninja, Barry Keogan in The Batman Trilogy, and the LEGO Joker(s).

The Penguin

Batman '66 (Burgess Meredith, William Salyers)

Gotham (Robin Lord Taylor)

The Batman Trilogy (Colin Farrell)

Arkham Series (Nolan North, Ian Redford)

DC Animated Universe (Paul Williams, David Odgen Stiers)

The Batman (Tom Kenny)

NOTE: I like the Stephen Root, David Jennison, Dana Snyder, and Wayne Knight Penguins as well, but they're not quite good enough to crack this. Mad respect to Danny DeVito too, but his Penguin sucks.

The Riddler

Batman '66 (Frank Gorshin*, Wally Wingert)

Gotham (Cory Michael Smith)

The Batman Trilogy (Paul Dano)

The Batman (Robert Englund)

DC Animated Universe (John Glover)

Arkham Series (Wally Wingert, Matthew Gray Gubler)

NOTE: Sorry Jim Carrey, you couldn't quite make the cut! Also in the running: Shannon McCormick, John Michael Higgins, Rob Paulsen, Weird Al Yankovic, Jim Rash, Brent Spiner, and Geoffrey Arrend.

*I refuse to credit John Astin's one appearance. That didn't happen!

Selina Kyle/Catwoman

Arkham Series (Grey Griffin, Chantelle Barry)

The Dark Knight Trilogy (Anne Hathaway)

Burton-Shumacher Films (Michele Pteifer)

Gotham (Camren Bicondova)

Batman: The Brave & The Bold (Nika Futterman)

The Batman (Gina Gershon)

NOTE: Wish DCAU Selina could've made it since Adrienne Barbeau has easily the best voice for the character, but the writing and artwork let her down too often. Other good Catwomen include Julie Newmar, Ertha Kitt, Patty Matson, Jaynse Jaud, Eliza Dushku, Stephanie Sheh, Laura Bailey, Cree Summer, Jennifer Morrison, Naya Rivera, Liz Gilles, Gina Rodriguez, Christina Ricci, and Zoe Kravitz.

Two-Face

DC Animated Universe (Richard Moll)

Arkham Series (Troy Baker)

The Dark Knight Trilogy (Aaron Eckhard)

Batman '66 (William Shatner)

Batman: Caped Crusader (Diedrich Bader)

Batman: The Brave & The Bold (James Remar)

NOTE: Apologies to Billy Dee Williams, who would've done great, and Tommy Lee Jones, who could've done great (but definitely didn't). Also in the running but their coins landed on tails: Travis Willingham, Matthew Mercer, Robert Picardo, Petter Jessop, Dave Boat, Keith Ferguson, Gary Cole, Andrew Daly, and Josh Duhamel.

Mr. Freeze

DC Animated Universe (Michael Ansara)

Arkham Series (Maurice LeMarche)

Young Justice (Keith Szarabajka)

Batman '66 (George Sanders, Otto Preminger, Eli Wallach)

Gotham (Nathan Darrow)

Burton-Shumacher Films (Arnold Schwarzenegger)

NOTE: Other noteworthy Freezes who got frozen out of making it include Clancy Brown, Eric Bauza, Robert Kraft, Oded Fehr, Peter Stromare, Jim Pirri, and Matthew Mercer.

Poison Ivy

Arkham Series (Taisa Valenza, Amy J. Carle, Darcy Rose Byrnes)

DC Animated Universe (Dianne Pershing)

The Batman (Pierra Coppola)

Harley Quinn (Lake Bell)

Batman: The Brave & The Bold (Vanessa Marshall)

Gotham (Peyton List, Clare Foley, Maggie Geha)

NOTE: Uma Thurman, Laure Bailey, Fryda Wolff, Natasha Leggero, Paget Brewster, Peyton List II, Cristina Milizia, and Katee Sackhoff are all fun Poison Ivys as well.

Harley Quinn

DC Animated Universe (Arleen Sorkin)

Harley Quinn (Kaley Cuoco)

The Batman (Hynden Walch)

DCEU (Margot Robbie) and Suicide Squad ISEKAI (Karlii Hoch)

Arkham Series (Arleen Sorkin, Tara Strong)

Batman: Caped Crusader (Jamie Chung)

NOTE: Meghan Strange in Batman: The Brave & The Bold, Jenny Slate in The LEGO Batman Movie, Laura Post in the Telltale games, and Melissa Rauch in Batman and Harley Quinn are also great, and I've no doubt Lady Gaga could've really rocked it too but....yeah.

Ra's Al Ghul

DC Animated Universe (David Warner)

Gotham (Alexander Sidigg)

The Dark Knight Trilogy (Liam Neeson)

Batman: The Brave & The Bold (Peter Woodward)

Young Justice (Oded Fehr)

Arkham Series (Dee Bradley Baker)

NOTE: Also among the great Ra's Al Ghuls are Jason Isaacs, Lance Reddick, Giancarlo Esposito & TC Carson, JB Blanc, and Cas Anvar.

Bane

The Dark Knight Trilogy (Tom Hardy)

Arkham Series (JB Blanc, Fred Tatasciore)

Young Justice (Danny Trejo, Eric Lopez)

DC Animated Universe (Henry Silva, Hector Elizondo)

The Batman (Joaquim de Almelda, Ron Perlman)

Harley Quinn (James Adomian)

Scarecrow

Arkham Series (Dino Andrade, John Noble)

DC Animated Universe (Henry Polic II, Jeffrey Combs)

The Dark Knight Trilogy (Cillian Murphy)

Injustice Series (Robert Englund)

Batman: The Brave & The Bold (Dee Bradley Baker)

Batman Unlimited (Brian T. Delaney)

Killer Croc

Arkham Series (Steve Blum, Khary Payton)

The Batman (Ron Perlman)

Beware The Batman (Wade Williams)

DC Animated Universe (Aaron Kincaid, Brooks Gardner)

Batman: The Brave & The Bold (Stephin Root)

Batman Unlimited (John DiMaggio)

Clayface

The Batman (Steve Harris, Wallace Langham)

Arkham Series (Rick D. Wasserman)

Batman: Caped Crusader (Dan Donohue)

DC Animated Universe (Ron Perlman)

Harley Quinn (Alan Tudyck)

Batman Unlimited (Dave B. Mitchell)

Professor Hugo Strange

Arkham Series (Corey Burton)

Gotham (BD Wong)

The Batman (Frank Gorshin, Richard Green)

Strange Days Short (Brian George)

Batman '66 (Jim Ward)

DC Animated Universe (Ray Buktenica)

NOTE: William Salyers in Gotham By Gaslight is fine as well but his part is too secondary. Young Justice Strange is the only one I dislike.

Diana Prince/Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman DTV (Keri Russell)

Wonder Woman '76 (Lynda Carter)

DCEU (Gal Gadot)

Young Justice (Maggie Q)

Batman: The Brave & The Bold (Vicki Lewis)

DTV Universe (Grey Griffin, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson)

JLA (Rachel Kimsey)

NOTE: Really wish a Susan Eisenberg Wonder Woman could've landed here, but both of her most major iterations had some issues.

Slade Wilson/Deathstroke

Teen Titans (Ron Perlman)

CW DC Universe (Manu Bennett, Michael Chiklis, Esai Morales)

DTV Universe (Thomas Gibson, Miguel Ferrer)

Injustice Series (JG Hertzler)

Arkham Series (Mark Rolston)

Tara "Terra" Markov

Teen Titans (Ashley Johnson)

Teen Titans GO! (Ashley Johnson)

DTV Universe (Cristina Ricci)

LEGO DC (Laura Bailey)

Young Justice (Tara Strong)

Darkseid

DC Animated Universe (Michael Ironside, Kevin Michael Richardson)

Justice League Heroes (David Sobolov)

Batman: The Brave & The Bold (Michael Leon Wooley)

Injustice Series (Michael Leon Wooley)

DTV Universe(s) (Andre Baugher, Bruce Thomas, Tony Todd)

JLA (Johnathan Adams)

NOTE: I discount Steve Blum from the DTV Universe(s) 'cause what the fuck was that, and Ray Porter in the DCEU was tragically ill-fated.

[ironworked]

Let's look at that list from Geeks for Harris:

Starring (in alphabetical order):

Andy 'Brak' Merrill, Anthony Rapp, Bill Nye, Bill Prady, Chace Crawford, Corey Booker, Curtis Armstrong, Danneel Ackles, Dave Foley, Dave Hill, Dru Levasseur, Elie Mystal, Eric Kripke, Erin Moriary, Felicia Day, Frank Conniff, Gail Simone, Garrett Reisman, George Takei, Gloria Steinem, Hal Sparks, Jack Quaid, Jacqueline Emerson, Jamia Wilson, Jennifer Taub, Jensen Ackles, Jeri Ryan, Jessica Carter Altman, Jim Beaver, Jody Hamilton, John Fugelsang, John Grunsfeld, Jon Cryer, Jonathan Frakes, Kaela Joseph, Karen Fukuhara, Kevin Woo, Kim Rhodes, Laz Alonso, LeVar Burton, Lindy Li, Lynda Carter, Mae Jemison, Mark Hamill, Mark Sheppard, Mary Trump, Matthew Modine, Megan Smith, Misha Collins, Mona Sinha, Nancy Altman, Nia Bentall, Patty Jenkins, Paul Booth, Rachel Miner, Rep. Robert Garcia, Rep. Andy Kim, Rep. Wiley Nickel, Richard Speight, Rob Benedict, Robert Picardo, Ruth Connell, Sean Astin, Sian Proctor, Stacey Abrams, Tammy Duckworth, Tanya Cook, Tim Russ, Valorie Curry, Wajahat Ali, Waseem Daher Wheatus, Wil Wheaton, Yvette Nicole Brown, Zakiya Thomas.

[thisnoise]

I'll be what I am, a solitary man.

[stratossphere]

wrong side of the bed | v.v

ville’s in a horrible mood, and you’re the one that’s been abandoned to deal with it.

warnings: gn!reader, ville is a huge douche for most of this fic, drinking, smoking weed, arguing, fluff at the end

word count: 5k

a/n: fic is based very loosely off of this interview. grimey-as-hell ville has a soft spot in my heart

tags: @asskickedbygirl @lieutenant-cinnamon-roll @kissofdawn666 @brandons-wife @valos-venus-doom @ghoulishguns @h3artk1ller @4377666

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Today had been so shitty it was almost comical. First, and what had caused the day to go the way it had, was the fact that you and Ville had been fighting since you'd gotten up that morning.

"Brush your fucking teeth. You're going to be on live TV today." You said for the millionth time as Ville sat dead-faced in one of the bus seats staring at the wall whilst not moving. He was still in his clothes from the night before, and there was a huge stain on the sleeve of his shirt from where you'd accidentally knocked a bottle of wine on him the night before. He hadn't moved an inch since crawling out of bed at the asscrack of dawn to sulk in a real seat, and he only had 15 more minutes before he had to be at the studio you were taking him to for his interview with Charlotte Roche.

"Will you shut the fuck up and quit nagging me? I don't give a shit what I look like on their piece of shit show." He snapped back, shooting you a venomous look where you were already dressed and ready to go. Everyone else had gone out to breakfast seeing as they'd quickly opted out of being any part of this whole deal, which left you stuck alone with the devil himself.

"Oh my god. Whatever. Go in smelling like garbage and looking like you're homeless. See if I give a shit." Some days you got really sick of arguing with Ville over having some basic hygiene. You put up with his hatred of showers and changing his clothes well enough, but in a tiny bus, you could only stand it for so long.

"Well, I only have three outfits, and you doused one of them in red goddamn wine, so I don't know what you expect." Ville spat just as you got up from where you were sitting across the aisle from him, his gaze following you as you walked right past him.

"I would feel bad if you knew how to pack for yourself. Not my fault you like to permeate in the same disgusting clothes for a month at a time." You muttered, moving to the other side of the bus and grabbing your cigarettes from where you'd left them in the windowsill the night before. He turned completely in his seat so that he could continue to glare at you from across the bus.

"What do you fucking want? What will make your pissy ass happy?" He pressed, looking like he couldn't have had a clue in the world. You just stared at him for a second, then began naming off a list.

"Brush your teeth, change your goddamn clothes, put some deodorant on, and put on a fucking hat to cover your hair." You weren’t dying from his lack of bathing, as he'd probably be easily convinced to jump in the shower in the dressing room after his show tonight, but every time he went into an interview looking greasy as all hell, you had someone shoving it down my throat once you were back at home. You weren't a fan of Ville giving himself a reputation to be a pissy, grimy piece of shit amongst your friends and family through the media.

"My god. You're like a mother." He said degradingly, shoving himself out of his seat and now completely avoiding looking anywhere near you as he angrily dragged his tiny travel bag out from under the bench seat of the bus before slamming it down on the table. You just shook your head at him in awe.

"What the hell is up your ass today?" Sure, sometimes he woke up on the wrong side of the bed and could be a little grouchy (which usually just meant he didn't respond when you talked to him), but today he was being outwardly aggressive. Something told you it had something to do with who specifically was interviewing him, but you knew pointing that out would just make it worse, so you kept that little observation to yourself.

"I'm doing what you want. Are you going to nag the shit out of me the whole time I do it, too?" He asked, his tone so full of snark that you were thankful you were so far away for fear of throwing something at him had you been close enough. He was really lucky that his good traits outweighed his bad ones.

So yeah. Good start to the morning. Ville made the both of you about ten minutes late, which you had seen coming from a mile away, and by the time you got to the studio where Charlotte and her team were filming, Ville was in an absolutely horrific mood. He wasn't talking, he wasn't even smoking, and he wasn't looking at you at all. He just glared straight ahead the entire ride, and continued to do so as you entered the back of the studio so that you could head to the green room and he could go straight to the stage considering he was so late.

"Don't bitch at her out there just because you're mad at me." You warned as you paused in the hallway where he would continue to the stage and where you would go into the green room behind you to watch his interview on the monitor that was inside. You had a hand on his arm because you knew he would just ignore you and walk away if you didn't, and he just stared ahead like he wasn't listening. You sighed. "There's no one else out here except for you, which would usually mean that's who I'm talking to."

"Yes. Whatever. I'll see you in an hour." And, with that, he promptly started to walk right away from you without another word. You could not have physically rolled your eyes harder.

"No kiss, dickhead?" Usually you had a stupid little 'good-luck-kiss' ritual before either of you had to do interviews or go on stages, and there was no way his bitchy attitude was going to break your streak. He let out a huff, spinning back around on his heel before coming back to you.

"Fine, fuckass." He gave you my kiss, which was a lot nicer than what you had anticipated considering his mood, before he wrapped a single arm around your waist and hugged you. Who would've ever thought. "I love you."

"...I love you too. Please be nice." Your chances weren't good on that request, but you were asking anyway. He gave you another kiss with a look on his face that told you there was a good chance he was going to do about the opposite of that, before you really did have to watch him disappear down the hallway.

God, this was not going to go well.

As you got comfortable in the green room (thankfully there was no one else but you inside), you watched with one hand resting against your face as Ville and Charlotte started the interview.

It was pretty well known amongst everyone that knew Ville that he didn't like Charlotte Roche. She clearly had a huge, burning crush on him, and made it extremely obvious with her annoying habit of twirling her hair and laughing at everything he did despite the fact that he was often more standoffish than conversational with her throughout the multiple interviews they'd done together. So, sending him into her interview in the mood he was in was like sending a wolf to help a chicken stuck in a trap.

They started an awkward talk about the album that had been out for almost a month now, during which Ville put about zero effort into looking like he wanted to be there (enough for Charlotte to point it out), before they moved on to arguing about what was an acceptable time to get up in the morning after Ville mentioned usually getting up at two in the afternoon.

To give him credit, you would've hated talking about any of this stuff too, and he was incredibly hungover from staying up into the good hours of the morning, but Ville was clearly being a brat just to be a brat. You would've felt bad for Charlotte, had she not been continuously invading your boyfriend's space on live television.

"I can say whatever the fuck I want on my fucking shit show." Charlotte was saying after Ville had made a half-assed joke about telling her not to swear, leaning in ridiculously close to his face as she spoke and making him tiredly lean away. They were making you cringe, and you weren't even there.

"You just ruined some children's lives." That was his helpful retort to her badly-landed joke, which made it even worse, and then he continued even further. "There could be two four-year-olds listening in, and now that you’ve said fuck, they're going to want to say fuck."

Jesus, he really knew how to make situations painful when he was in a bad mood. It had taken you a while to get used to Ville's devotion to trying to make every conversation he had dry and awkward on purpose when he was sober (which he'd eventually gotten over once he'd realized he was attracted to you), but Charlotte didn't really know him. Albeit, you didn't necessarily like her, but this was just hard to watch.

And then he made it even worse, because he had clearly stopped being able to ignore her horribly aggressive hair twirling habit (that you knew was because he had a crush on him) that she acted on in all their interviews.

"What are you doing with your hair? You're acting like a fucking psychopath." He then proceeded to do an impression of her fast-paced talking while doing an even more dramatized version of twirling his own hair, and you couldn't help but literally laugh out loud at how horrible they were. There was a reason they gave actors pep talks on at least pretending they had chemistry when they had to do interviews.

You quickly realized that Charlotte was clearly staying off of the topic of you on purpose, and you found amusement in the fact. It was especially obvious when she tried to joke about Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights being about a secret affair, only for Ville to immediately shut that down and correct her with the reiteration that the album was 'a dedication to the hardships the love of his life suffers through for his companionship'. You would've been lying if you'd said you weren't pleased with the way she struggled on her feet after his quick snap back.

Most of the interview was painfully horrible to watch, so eventually you stopped paying attention and just busied yourself with one of many bottles of champagne left in a gift basket for Ville. You didn't mind waiting, but forcing yourself to cringe for long periods of time was torture, so you were avoiding watching the monitor in front of you at all. The only moments you paid attention was when you heard your name.

"Y/n, actually, is very helpful with all of that. They take care of most of it." Ville was talking more than dismissively now, and you hadn't been listening to what Charlotte had asked him, but you had a feeling it had been either about music videos or the pictures on the inside of the album, because that's mostly what you’d been allowed to help out with.

"Y/n is...your partner, yes?" Yeah, she had to be doing that on purpose. There was no way she'd met him (and you!) this many times without remembering. Ville clearly thought the same thing, because even you could see the look he shot her.

"Yes. They’re here, actually." He muttered, leaning back a little further where he was sitting and glancing uninterestedly ahead. They then divulged into a (mostly one-sided) conversation about what it was like to travel with a spouse (thankfully Ville left all of your fighting out of his answer), and then you were tuning out again. You’d hear his own rendition of the painstaking conversation once he came back and dragged you right out of the studio so that he could go off just like every time he and Charlotte ended up in the same country.

Eventually you got bored enough to where you started to doze off, the interview in front of you completely forgotten in lieu of catching up on a shitty night's sleep due to sharing a twin sized bed with someone who was all long arms and legs.

So, when you suddenly heard the door slam open, you jumped about ten feet in the air as you opened your eyes to the view of Ville storming into the room. Thankfully, he was still by himself, but he left the door open as he grabbed the gift basket off the table before standing in front of you where you were lying horizontally on the couch with a champagne bottle in your lap.

"Get up. We're going." He prompted, glancing behind him like he was checking to see if anyone was coming after him. You stared at him for a second, trying to wake yourself up before he just offered out a hand with impatience.

"What did you say?" You asked tiredly as you accepted his hand before he was pulling you to your feet, setting the decently-dented champagne bottle back in the basket. There was no way he was leaving this quickly if it had been a nice send off between the two of them. He made a face.

"I didn't say anything. I'm fucking tired and pissed off and I want to get the fuck out of here." He muttered, guiding you right out the door and back down the hallway that you'd come from. Something told you he was leaving so quickly because he was probably supposed to be talking to someone else before he left, but it wasn't like you were going to argue. You wanted to be out of there just as bad as he did.

"Was it really bad?" You already basically knew the answer to that question based off the little amount of the interview you'd stayed awake for, but you could tell he was just waiting to burst and go off, so you gave him the rip in the seams to do so. He took a deep breath and shook his head for a second before he even replied.

"I'd like to say I deeply appreciate and admire all of the female species, but she is a raging goddamn cunt." He spat, slipping a loose arm around your waist once you made it out of the backstage door. "How much of it did you see?"

"I stopped paying attention after you did an impression of the hair twirling." You muttered, shielding your hungover eyes from the sun as you walked back to your rented car. That actually pulled a chuckle out of him.

"Well, what do you expect? She acts like a wild animal in every interview, and she's got the eye makeup for it, too." He defended himself as you both separated to get in either side of the car, slamming his door a lot harder than he needed to once he was inside. You laughed as you got into the driver's side.

"Ville, that was like, ridiculously bad. I couldn't even watch it." You said truthfully, giving him a good reason for the fact that you'd been asleep on the couch facing away from the TV when he'd came and got you. "I get that you don't like her, but..."

"—but nothing. I don't care if it was bad." He huffed, slouching down in his seat and then letting his eyes close. "Did you hear the bullshit she said about the album being about a secret affair?"

"Oh yeah. That was kind of funny, actually." The idea that Ville was so bold about cheating on you that he would create an entire music album about the fact was so horrendous that it was comical. "Do you think she does coke before she does interviews?"

"I don't fucking know what her deal was. I don't want to think about it." He was grumbling, which about told you how sociable he was going to be for the time being. "You seem pretty calm for how close she was getting."

"You were pissing me off, so might as well enjoy watching you suffer." If you were ever to be intimidated by another person 'threatening' your relationship, that other person sure as hell wasn't going to be Charlotte Roche. Hard to be intimidated by someone your boyfriend spent his free time murdering in his head.

"You're an ass." He muttered, leaning away from you when you tried to reach out and touch him with your hand that wasn't on the steering wheel. You rolled your eyes, dropping your arm loosely on the armrest and shaking your head.

"Takes one to know one." Okay. You were being a little childish, but it's not like he had been the pinnacle of maturity today. Hell, he'd compared you to a mother, which was incredibly offensive to you, personally.

He didn't respond to that (thankfully), and you drove back to where the bus was parked outside of the venue in tense silence. You weren't in the mood to play peacekeeper considering how early it was and how much of the animosity was coming from his side as opposed to yours, so you made no attempt to try and break the tension. He would get over himself eventually, and hopefully you'd feel a little less hungover by that point.

So, the remainder of the morning was spent doing pre-concert rituals on the bus (which meant everyone had begun the long day of drinking themselves to shit) whilst you and Ville talked little to almost not-at-all. He was still pissed off (which everyone else was completely ignoring), so he was actually avoiding conversation with everyone as well as you.

Fine by the rest of you.

—

When it finally came time for you to head backstage to get ready for everyone to head out and start their set, Ville still hadn't eaten anything, had gone through an entire bottle of wine and half a bottle of champagne, and had changed back into the wine-stained shirt. He looked like shit, and he was acting like shit, too.

"You need to give him some downers to even him out. He's going to perform like shit." Linde begged you after watching Ville angrily stumble into the bathroom and slam the door, earning a chorus of irritated agreements from everyone else in the room. You winced, opening your bag to see what you had on hand.

"Everything I’ve got is out." You’d gone a little overboard the night before, so you were basically cleaned out for most of what you'd picked up since joining the tour several days before. Suddenly, Burton stepped around the couch, and then held out a small sandwich bag with a couple nuggets of weed.

"If this will make him stop being such a raging cunt, then you can have it for free." He said tightly, dropping the bag right into your lap. You laughed at that, because it was amazing what Ville's horrible temper could bring out in people.

"Hey. We can share. He's gonna get all weird and bitchy if it's just him smoking." He'd know that you were purposely trying to get him to fix his behavior if not everyone else was passing. Gas cast an irritated look towards the closed bathroom door.

"My god. How long is he going to be weird and bitchy? It's getting old." He huffed, running a hand over his face.

"Until he's drunk." Linde and Mige spoke at the same time, and you snorted at that because that was about as true as it could get. He was only getting more agitated and angry at the moment, and it would take a lot more than what he'd ingested to get his mood to lighten. In fact, it might've never lightened at all, as red wine just made him aggressively horny. Hooray for you.

As you waited for Ville to make his grand entrance back into the room, you and Burton rolled two joints out of a copy of the setlist on the coffee table in a team effort to set Ville up for success. Sure, he performed a little weird on weed (he usually liked to drag out long notes and shove the microphone in his mouth an unsettling amount of times), but that was everyone else's but your problem, so you didn't care.

Finally, when Ville came back out with a champagne bottle still in hand, he was met with the sight of Mige with a joint in his mouth and Gas with one between his fingers.

"Jesus. Don't fucking wait for me or anything." Clearly his bitchy attitude had eliminated any need to convince him on anything, and Ville plucked the joint right from Mige's mouth as he shot everyone in the room a collective dirty look.

"Well, if you hadn't been drinking in the toilet like a fucking bitch..." Linde clearly wasn't in much better of a mood, and you and Mige shared a look as Ville's eyes shifted from yours over to Linde with an red-hot glare on his face.

"Hey. Come sit down and chill the hell out." You interrupted before Ville could find it in him to snap back a reply, motioning to the couch next to you and scooting closer to Burton so that he had room. However, Ville instead decided to step over your legs and drop down between you and Burton, forcing you both to both shove in opposite directions as he wormed his way into space that hadn't been there in the first place.

You were sure everyone in the room shared a look at that, but Ville was too busy ashing his joint on the floor to notice. Figures.

—

You spent most of the concert in a drug-induced haze laying on the couch, during which, as your horrible luck would have it, Bam Margera called trying to convince you to let him join the tour.

You failed to get around his complaining for half an hour before the band finally re-entered the room, giving you the scapegoat you needed to get out of a conversation that clearly should’ve been for Ville.

“Ville’s back. I have to go." As you said that, Bam immediately protested not getting to actually talk to Ville, but you were quicker. You blurted out your goodbyes before you promptly hung up, looking expectantly at everyone else besides Ville to gauge whether or not he'd shaped up his attitude. Thankfully, Linde quickly waved it off before promptly being hit in the face with Ville's shirt.

"That better not have been Bam Bam you were trying to put me off to." Ville's tone was loud and rushed, but he moved to stand by your feet at the arm of the couch before he rubbed an absentminded hand up your leg while he fished for his cigarettes in his back pocket. You shrugged.

"You’re lucky I didn’t." You muttered, running both hands over your face before forcing yourself to sit up. "Are you done being an asshole?"

"Indefinitely." He promised, crossing his finger over his bare chest before he leaned down and gave you a kiss. "I was made aware that you purposely drugged me so that I'd stop being a cunt."

"Barely. And it worked, so who cares." You said dryly, standing up and immediately being enveloped by a sweaty arm around your neck. You could barely get your words out as Ville pressed more kisses to your lips and cheek, and pretty soon Mige was spitting out a scoff.

"Oh. Now all of a sudden he's nice." He said sourly, shaking his head as he grabbed his bag from off the floor behind the couch. You groaned, trying and failing to get out from Ville's grasp.

"Yeah. And he's gross, too." You huffed as Ville ruffled your hair before letting you go, smacking his ass as he headed towards the small bathroom in the corner where there was a shower. Score! "Are we drinking tonight, or hitting the road right away?"

"Road. Glasgow next." Gas said as he finished off the last of the beer he'd left on the table, his voice coming out muffled as he drank and talked at the same time. You sighed, because that meant a night of shitty sleep with drunken shenanigans in painfully-tight quarters, before dropping down on the couch because you knew it was going to be a while.

But, it was for the sake of a clean and showered Ville, so you were more than fine with waiting.

—

Thankfully, the gentle shaking of the bus as it drove seemed to chill everyone out considerably, and by the time you'd been back on the road for 15 minutes, everyone was yawning and shutting the shades. You were all for drunken behavior and partying all hours of the night, but you'd already slept like shit before, and you were essentially running on empty as everything you’d drank and smoked started to pull you closer and closer to exhaustion.

"I don't know how uncharismatic you can get, but he was working on it." You were tiredly relaying Ville's interview with Charlotte back to Mige, who was the only one besides Ville still out of bed, and he just chuckled.

"Yeah, she fucking sucks. She must have to be taking some sort of amphetamine." He agreed with your earlier prediction, finishing off the last of his beer before he messily shot the bottle for the trashcan (and missed). "Bet she got the brunt of that shit-ass mood, though."

"Oh yeah she did. It got so much worse once you guys went out to breakfast." You muttered, speaking lowly to keep Ville (who was looking for snacks inside the beat-up cabinets of the bus) from overhearing you. "I don't know what his fucking problem was today, but I'm glad he's over it."

"Are you the type of relationship where amphetamine-riddled fangirls who want their hands down his pants make you jealous?" It was a funny way of wording it, but Mige looked completely genuine as he asked that question. You waved it off with a scoff.

"No. He's such a bitch to everyone that I don't even have to worry about it." Never once in your life had you seen Ville treat someone who was clearly drooling over him with anything other than blatant irritation. He wasn't super great at hiding his lack of interest in certain things.

"I can hear you." You didn't whisper that part, because you were completely fine with helping Ville be self aware, and he shot you a look from the cabinets as he called you out. You grinned, sliding out of the chair that you were sitting in and trying to stifle a huge yawn.

"What? You are!" You defended yourself, slipping an arm around his hips and leaning up to press a kiss to his cheek. "At least today you were."

"You, my friend, found yourself a good one. It brings a tear to my eye that they know you're a cunt." Mige snickered as Ville groaned in your arms, getting out of his seat as well and passing the both of you towards the bunks. "Think hard on that while you're snuggled up tonight."

"Yeah, fuck you too." Ville scoffed, leaning into your kisses despite his hostile tone with his arm slipping around your shoulders. "God forbid I be in a bad mood once in a while."

"You're allowed, but if you ever compare me to a mother again, I'll call your mom and tell her everything you’ve been saying." You threatened, knowing that the one person who could whip Ville into shape better than you could was Anita Valo. He chuckled at that, resting his chin on top of your head.

"Don't call my mama." He begged softly as he broke away from your embrace to give you a kiss. When you gave him a skeptical look, he gave you his most convincing smile before kissing you again as he turned off the kitchen light. "I'll be a good boy. Swear."

"You better. I'll kick your ass if you're grouchy again tomorrow." You muttered, trying to sound intimidating but still laughing when you felt his lips on your neck in the dark.

"I love you. Let's snuggle." He crooned, hands on your hips as he guided you in the direction of the bunks whilst trying to avoid bumping into anything while you walked. You sighed but obliged, blindly feeling around until you both reached your bunk and then shushing him when he swore loudly as he bumped his arm into the wall. "God fucking damn it. This fucking bus!"

He completely ignored your shushing him as he kicked the wall, huffing to himself and pulling a couple of groans out of the bunks around you before you just forcibly guided him into your bed so that he would shut up.

"Honey. Just be quiet." You groaned, climbing in halfway after him and then being yanked inside the rest of the way by his hand wrapped around your hip. He just let out a huff and pulled the covers over the both of you, his arm wrapping tightly around you as he shoved his face in your neck.

"You be quiet." He grumbled, and you could feel him smile against your neck when you yanked on his hair slightly for his attitude. You rolled slightly so that you could get comfortable in the limited space combined with Ville's space hoarding problem, ending up slightly turned away from him with his face in the crook of your neck and your arm backwards over his waist.

Well, a better end to a day that had started like fucking shit. You weren't completely comfortable, but you couldn't complain when you were snuggling with Ville, so you were happy. Especially because you fell asleep first, which meant you didn't have to hear any snoring from the man leeched up behind you.

[snspice]

⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚ PIPER JEON

　　　　ೃ⁀➷ PIPER is a member of south-korean fictional girl group SUGAR N' SPICE. she made her debut on april 6th, 2019 with the group's debut song ICE CREAM CAKE under ANGELICO ENTERTAINMENT. she was given the position of leader at the group's debut and has been praised for years for her vocal abilities and overall stage presence. outside of her group,  she is known for her solo music and presence within the fashion world.

・❥・⠀ exploring the story of blaming oneself for everyone else's misdeeds, a broken home life, found family, misplaced trust and love, feelings of inadequacy, the pressure of leading other's fame, fighting the thoughts inside one's head, and just wanting to be loved for the right reasons.

　　　　˚ ༘♡ BASICS

ღ BIRTH NAME : 　 piper yejin jeon ⠀ ღ KOREAN NAME : 　 jeon yejin⠀ [ 전예진 ]  ღ STAGE NAME : 　 piper⠀ [ 피플 ] 

ღ DATE OF BIRTH : 　 august 29th, 1998 ღ ZODIAC SIGN : 　 virgo  ღ CHINESE ZODIAC SIGN : 　 tiger

ღ ETHNICITY : 　 korean  ღ NATIONALITY : 　 australian ღ LANGUAGES : 　  english & korean [ fluent / mother tongue ] .  japanese & thai  [ conversational ] .  mandarin  [ basics ] 

ღ HEIGHT : 　 173 cm  |  5’7   ღ BLOOD TYPE : 　 A- ღ MBTI : 　 ENFJ-T 

ღ FACE CLAIM : 　 park sooyoung  [ red velvet ] 

　　　　˚ ༘♡ PERSONAL LIFE

ღ BIRTHPLACE : 　 melbourne, australia  ღ HOMETOWN : 　 melbourne, australia

ღ BIRTH FAMILY : 　 casey jeon [ father / 73' ] . ruby lee [ mother / 75' ] . nathan jeon [ older brother / 96' ] . lily jeon [ younger sister / 99' ] .

ღ STEP FAMILY : 　 zachary burton [ step father / 71' ] . elosie fowler [ step mother / 77' ] . blake burton [ older step brother / 93' ] . evelyn fowler [ older step sister / 97' ]

ღ HALF FAMILY : 　 emmett jeon [ younger half brother / 02' ] . emerson jeon [ younger half brother / 05' ] . maisy burton [ younger half sister / 06' ] . estella jeon [ younger half sister / 07' ]

　　　　˚ ༘♡ CAREER

ღ PROFESSION : 　 idol.  model.  actress.  ღ COMPANY : 　 mydol entertainment  [ 2024 - present ] . angelico entertainment  [ 2013 – 2024 ] ღ TRAINING PERIOD : 　 three years & nine months  [ 2013 , 2016 – 2019 ]

ღ GROUP : 　 sugar n' spice  [ 2019 – present ] . emphasis [ 2014 - 2016 ] ღ POSITION : 　 leader . main vocalist .  lead dancer .  visual 

ღ REPRESENTATIVE DESSERT : 　 strawberry shortcake  ღ REPRESENTATIVE COLOR : 　 strawberry [ #F73E5D ] ღ REPRESENTATIVE EMOJI : 　 🍰 / ❤️

　　　　˚ ༘♡ SOCIAL MEDIA

ღ PUBLIC INSTAGRAM : 　 @ piper.y.jeon

ღ PRIVATE INSTAGRAM : 　 @ pippip.jinjin

[vlolets]

How many books did you read this year?

What were your least favorite books of the year?

Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

32! I actually kept track this year but just in my notes app bc I hate goodreads

Least favourite: we need to talk about kevin was such a horrible book (i literally read it because i ended up watching the film on tv one night and my library app had it). erotic vagrancy (the liz taylor + richard burton biography i read) was infuriating because it was so interesting but the writer was a massive twat and sexist as all hell. the list by yomi adegoke was mid. so was beautiful world, where are you? by sally rooney

surprised me: absolutely the god of the woods by liz moore. i'm not a big reader of thrillers but it had actually compelling characters, a satisfying ending and the writer can turn a phrase. also unmask alice by rick emerson which i'm currently reading because it's such an insane story (the background to go ask alice). i'm actually surprised by how much i've enjoyed reading nonfiction this year.

[hitchell-mope]

Hypothetical titles for season 29 of 88.

Amazing Graceland. Season premiere. Part one. Skipper, Oswald and Theo head to Graceland for a late summer vacation. Meanwhile. The team investigate a cannibalistic interstate serial killer.

Heartbreak hostel. Season premiere. Part two. The team’s investigation eventually leads to a cat and mouse chase through a youth hostel down the street from Skipper’s hotel.

Dissolution. Van Buren University is about to be dissolved as an educational institution and absorbed as an extension of the Mulligan Institute. And Arlene is NOT happy.

Please sign. Findlay is driven to exhaustion when Arlene throws herself into saving the university when she knows it’s a lost cause.

Stooges. Thornton considers taking up the Commissioner position, throwing Sidney’s name in the ring to replace him as precinct captain. Meanwhile Sidney gets to know his fellow competitors. First appearances of Samuel Barnett as Sargent Penrose Amherst, Elijah Wood as Sargent Blake Schwartz and Jurnee Smollett as Sargent Charlie Vale.

Fireworks night. Remember, remember. Remember, remember! The fifth of November, The Gunpowder treason and plot, I know of no reason, Why the Gunpowder treason, Should ever be forgot! Guest starring Dev Patel as King Reuben Burton.

Deadliest form of flattery. The team investigate a visiting siren who’s been suspected of charming people into killing for her.

Parenting. Arlene and Zack have been invited to live with the Wilmington’s. And Arlene immediately gets on Findlay’s case about her parenting skills.

Vanity project. Arlene gets thrown out of the Wilmington Mansion after insulting The Mulligan Institute and has to move into the Sullivan Mansion.

The politics game. The Benevolent Conspiracy hits a snag when Bethany DuPont dies in a car accident, forcing her daughter Hancock to take up third place in her stead. Guest starring Annasophia Robb as Hancock DuPont and Sutton Foster as Surgeon General Fiona Sparrow. Final appearance of Amy Acker as Bethany DuPont.

Throwing my hat in. With news of DuPont’s death now nationwide news, Drummond and the rest of the Benevolent Conspiracy have to deal with a new face in the senate. First appearance of Jennifer Anniston as Senator Heidi Kaufman.

Tinsel on the coffin. Midseason finale. Part one. There’s a pall over Drummond’s last Christmas in the White House due to DuPonts state funeral being scheduled for Christmas Eve and Senator Kaufman investigating whether she believes is prejudice against the Republican Party.

Marshmallow peeps. Midseason premiere. Part two. It’s New Year’s Eve and outgoing President Sullivan is searching for the hiding incoming President before the ball drops. Guest starring Jeremy Shada as incoming President Robbie Guilroy.

A mother’s touch. Robbie is still panicking two days before his inauguration. So Sidney invites his long estranged mother to the White House in an effort to calm him down. Guest starring Nicolette Sheridan and Jemima Guilroy.

Oh sir Walter really. Jonah and Barnaby try to get tickets to a live taping of The Mages And The Mundane so they can catch a glimpse of a shared celebrity crush. Guest starring Chris Pratt as Emerson Davenport and Jonah Hauer King as Sir Walter Walshingham.

In over his head. President Robbie Guilroy prepares to address the nation for the first time, begging Jones to help him. Meanwhile his wife Carter, returning guest star Ciara Bravo, enjoys her new life as the First Lady.

Catwalk. With Senator Kaufman still trying to stir up trouble for President Guilroy’s new administration, her niece approaches the Five Families with an offer of help. Guest starring Brittney Spears as Sally Kaufman.

Old as dust. College freshman all over the state have been dropping dead with their youth siphoned from them. And Lucia had a hunch about who’s responsible. Guest starring Ncuti Gatwa as Methuselah.

Mistaken for Death. The race for new Captain of the precinct runs into trouble when Sargent Schwartz scares people off during his speech because they think he’s the grim reaper. Guest starring Daniel Radcliffe as Derek Christensen.

Family values. Senator Kaufman doubles down on her witch hunt against the five families, forcing her niece to seek out their protection.

Mother on the loose. ACS’s biggest funder, Aida’s mother Christiane, drops by sending the entire firm on edge. Guest starring Patti LuPone, Jennifer Coolidge and William Shatner.

Burn out. The team tries to help a high school student with overbearing parents.

Demotion. Season finale. Part one. The stress over Van Buren’s handover lands Arlene in hospital with stomach pains where she gets some very bad, and very unexpected, news. Guest starring Audra McDonald as Doctor Corinna Corsica.

Promotion. Season finale. Part two. The time has come where Commissioner Jones Moriarty Wilmington decides who will take over New York State’s 88th precinct and become the states newest commissioner. Final appearances of Samuel Barnett as Sargent Penrose Amherst, Elijah Wood as Sargent Blake Schwartz and Jurnee Smollett as Sargent Charlie Vale. Also guest starring Patti LuPone as Christiane Cambridge.

[burlveneer-music]

My WVUD playlist, 3/29/2023

(filling in on Java Time)

Alison Eales - Ever Forward ANONA - The Boy and the Lion Pulse - Love Is Like the Sea Tiptons Sax Quartet & Drums - Untrapt Avalon Emerson - Sandrail Silhouette Ursa Major Moving Group - Welcome to the Noosphere The Beatles - ComeTogether Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God) The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule the World Coldplay - Viva La Vida World Party - Ship of Fools Claire Hamill - I Got My Mojo Back Sunny War - No Reason Supreme Beings of Leisure - Body Corduroy - Saturday Club Pixy Jones - There's Something Wrong Segarini - Danger Guy Melbourne Ska Orchestra - Perfect Storm Peter Gabriel - Playing For Time Lonnie Holley - None Of Us Have But a Little While M83 - Earth To Sea Dutch Uncles - Slave to the Atypical Rhythm Ese & The Vooduu People - How to Spot a Sociopath (feat. Jay Phelps) Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil Simrit - Clandestine (Live) Gary Burton Quintet wiht Eberhard Weber - Unfinished Sympathy