#ending on a cliffhanger should be illegal

[azumasoroshi]

some of yall gotta lock tf in cuz i was reading a fic today where the author marked their fic as completed when it wasn’t and so the first chapter ended on a hella cliffhanger

and one of the comments was like “omg this is so good is there gonna be a part 2??? cuz that is an illegal cliffhanger” and the author was like “omg yes thank you there’ll be a part 2!! i only marked it as completed because people avoid unfinished fics”

like. should you not mark unfinished fics as completed? yeah no dont do that. should yall motherfuckers ALSO be reading unfinished fics so that this isn’t a problem? YEAHHHHH MAYBE

i fucking LOVE reading unfinished fics cuz that means i get to write comments about how much i loved the latest chapter without irrationally worrying that something i say will be disproven in the next already existing chapter LMFAO like it’s fun!!! all you gotta do is:

write a short summary of what happened in your bookmarks and note down what chapter it’s on out of how many, eg. gojo gets hit with suguru coffee blast meet cute 1/?

if it’s really short atm eg. <2k words 1 chapter, just put like some random word eg. explosion 1/? and you can just relive the experience blindly again when you come back to enjoy it. have fun with this one by the way, ive done some really obscure ass words/memes where i dont know what the hell they have to do with the story when i come back to it and then i read it again and im like OHHH I GET IT NOW. and sometimes i never understand what past me had in mind when writing it which is really funny it’s like a time capsule

^pro tip you can also do this for fics that are finished. literally anything. have FUN with your BOOKMARKS they’re so easily customizable and if you get self conscious you can always just make them private lol

subscribe OR just periodically scroll through your bookmarks OR mark it for later OR use original tags to mark it as unfinished or like. literally anything idfk

if you feel like being a real chad and leaving a comment it’s super easy too you can just be like omg love x scene that happened in this chapter it was so angsty/cute/crazy/unexpected/insert adjective and i loved it/im rolling on the floor/im dying/im in the ambulance, cant wait for next chapter xoxo heart emoji like it’s THAAAT easy. said by someone with dogshit social anxiety and a tendency to overthink every action ive ever made, IT’S THAT EASY!!

and like. boom. that’s it. you get new content from fics you love delivered straight to your door!! hello??? even if they never update again are you really gonna mourn the loss of like 10 seconds of your time. cmon you’re already on ao3 for hours at a time like. lock INNNNNNN

me personally i get so much fuckin shit in my emails that i can’t turn off notifs for. so when i get a notification that some fic i dont even remember updated i get hyped as SHIT because finally some good fucking FOOD!! even if i dont remember it right now i must’ve liked it enough to subscribe to it and i know my taste better than anyone else so it must be good shit lmfao…and if it’s a fic i REMEMBER then it’s like YEAHHHHH BABY. do you even comprehend how many times ive checked my phone at the bus stop and gotten a notif from either a fic or author i’ve subscribed to and just. instantly start grinning like a maniac because YESSSSSSS

can personally attest that this has happened multiple times from ao3 user hollow_lime_green (Hanatamago) and many other authors. do ittt. brighten up your day. pspspspsp do itttttttttt

[dreamsofalife]

"Hell yeah, man, rock on!"

[verosvault]

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[luniviravosshipper]

Both Cartoon Universe and Reel James hinted at a big cliffhanger at the end of season 6 in their “spoiler free” reviews.

But Cartoon Universe explained how the very beginning scene of Aaravos crying ends up coming full circle by having the audience at the very end find out why exactly he was crying.

“Somehow they managed to take some of the best content they ever wrote and show it up in the finale with something so twisted I feel like it should be illegal to do in children’s television.”

I don’t think I’m prepared for whatever is to come.

[battleangel]

The End of Weird Anime

What happens to 80s & 90s anime that arent streaming right now when VHS & DVD completely go away?

The obsession with micro everything, everythings a sound bite, everything is 5 to 7 seconds, even songs, the chorus IS the song now, noone else ever hears anything else.

Only sports, reality TV and competition games can be watched week to week in real time.

All TV series now have to be immediately binged and consumed.

Its essentially bulimia.

Binge Loki in a weekend. Binge Ahsoka in a weekend. Its already done.

Whats next.

What else can I feed the machine with.

No waiting week to week. No such thing as a cliffhanger. No anticipation. No guessing whats next. No watching together as an audience.

Everything segmented, everything bifurcated, nothing in real time, nothing communal.

No season finale, no season premiere.

Same with anime.

Its not VHS or DVD anymore.

Youre not waiting for a release.

Its crunchyroll and Netflix and Funimation and Hulu and streaming.

Its the entire season of Psycho Pass all at once whenever I want to binge and gorge myself.

No asking to be taken to the mall.

No driving to Suncoast Video.

No deciding which $30 VHS or DVD to ask to be bought.

Martian Successor Nadesico or Ayashi no Ceres?

Everything is accessible.

Its less for 3 months of streaming anime than 1 anime used to cost on VHS or DVD.

No downside, if it sucks, move on.

Its not even the old school illegal Crunchyroll which was essentially Limewire for anime where you could illegally download different series.

I didnt waste time downloading for hours on my brothers computer for a shitty anime.

I didnt risk getting a virus on my brothers computer.

I dont have to clear up space.

I dont have to waste time.

I dont have to spend money.

I dont have to risk anything.

I dont have to exert any effort.

Its just, on to the next.

What does the algorithm say a Demon Slayer fan should watch next?

What should I watch now that Attack on Titan is over per the almighty algorithm?

No Viz anime catalogue to pore through.

No RightStuf catalog to highlight and fold the corners of the pages of.

No Animerica to read through every month once it arrives in the mail.

No going through AOL message boards and anime ezboards and geocities and angelfire websites to try to determine what to watch next.

No asking to be taken to your local Blockbuster to check the newest anime rentals in the "Independent/Foreign" section.

Just scroll, select, click and move on.

No need to even download and delete.

Its all streamable, instantly consumed, immediately binged then thats it.

On to the next algorithmic recommendation.

The algorithm never ends.

It always has another suggestion for you.

No meticulously going through myanimelist.com, putting up the hundreds of anime youve watched so far then scouring everyone elses lists to get ideas for new anime to watch.

Whats next after Vision of Escaflowne?

What should I watch after Yuu Yuu Hakusho?

If I can get a ride to the flea market on 18, I wonder what else they'll have similar to Dangaioh & Orguss 02?

To Macross Plus?

I wonder if Sci-Fi Channels Anime Week Festival will show something similr to Iria Zeiram or Armitage III this year.

Ninja Scroll was amazing, I wish I could see Wicked City since its by the same director, Yoshiaki Kawajiri. But I know I wont be allowed to. I had to sneak watch Ninja Scroll at my friends house and her older brother had bought it and thats the only way I even got to see Ninja Scroll at 13.

Everyone talks about Sailor Moon but noone talks about Bubblegum Crisis 2032.

Why not? The Knight Sabers are cooler than the Sailor Scouts and Ill take a cool motorcyle riding ass kicking punk rock singer like Priscilla Asagiri over a whiny, annoying, immature Serena any day. I dont care that shes 14 like me. Shes freaking annoying and a crybaby.

I wonder what other anime are like 8 Man After. It was so hard-boiled and dystopian and futuristic.

What happens to 80s & 90s anime that arent streaming right now when VHS & DVD completely go away?

When laptops and videogame systems are discless?

Then what?

What happens when Crunchyroll, Netflix and Hulu dont want to pay to license some amazing anime that are hidden gems?

In 25 years, when very few VCRS and DVD players and video game systems and laptops that can play VHS tapes and discs are still in circulation and functioning, then what happens?

What their plan has been this whole time: we will only have access to watch what the streaming companies CHOOSE to pay the license for to stream.

We will lose everything else.

We'll lose Cybernetics Guardian, Genocyber, Twilight of the Dark Master, Robot Carnival, Vision of Escaflowne, Iria Zeiram, Armitage III, Saber Marionette J, Martian Successor Nadesico, 8 Man After, Lensman, Demon City Shinjuku, Fancy Lala, Tekknoman, Full Metal Panic...

Only the biggest hits, the most iconic series, the most controversial OVAs and movies will survive in the brand new streaming world devoid of any physical VHSs and DVDs.

Only the Akiras, Neon Genesis Evangelions, Urotsuki Dojis, Berserks, Gantzs, Sailor Moons, Dragon Ball Zs, Pokemons, Gundams, Bleaches, Narutos and Spirited Aways will survive to be streamed.

What about the Serial Experiments Lain?

What about the Nausicaa of the Valley Winds?

What about the Angel Sanctuarys?

What about the Please Save My Earths?

What about the Here is Greenwoods?

Will they be lost forever?

[swiftsaltsweet]

Updates

Don't be angry TT0TT I know it's been awhile since I've done an update orz

I'm almost done with The Hunt For Kyoshi's Ch 12. It's not very long (word count wise). I know I know. TT0TT All these months and.... it's not long orz Tbf it's just the initial draft! As I write the next few chapters, I tend to go back to old ones and re-read them like 1000 times. And I'll add and change stuff around. So it might get longer.

Which means I'm not dropping it any time soon. I want to get through..... say.... chapter 15 before I take another break (planned this time!). Which should be the end of the first arc. (debating on how ch 14/15 go. Either 15 will merge with 14, or 15 will be a very short chapter).

This is partially cause....I personally think the cliffhanger for 12 would be very mean/"illegal" if I drop it and then.....god forbid I don't post for another few months. TT0TT Same could be said for Arc 1's final but still jfksdalfja TT0TT

Right now I'm outlining Arc 2 right now so I can jump right into it when the time comes. (also the beginning of Arc 3 too cause I wasn't sure when to cut Arc 2 off, and I found a good stopping point)

Still trucking along with A Thief in the Avatar's Estate. A good portion of CH 11 is almost done. This one is twice the length of Hunt's tbf. I have decently good idea how Arc 2 needs to go down, but I should really outline it out. I need to think about Arc 3 more (I have an idea but I need to figure out how to handle the direction more).

Two Knives.....jaskldfjklajf hahahahaha *sobs* I know I should release Rangi's 3rd interlude. I was going to once I finished typing the final/4th one....but my god....so many damn words and I'm not still not done. TT0TT Once I can get a handle on this one, and possibly split it up, then I can resume with starting with Arc 2. TT0TT (if y'all need a scapegoat, blame Two Knives for side tracking me with...... stuff.... let's call it stuff. TT0TT)

I have the main beats planned for Arc 2. Arc 3 is....still in idea phase. TT0TT

Fire Sage Fiasco/Kyoshi's PR Manager/The Tragedy of Kyoshi: I'll get to you again one day baby. ;w;

ToK is on hiatus while I get the other's sorted (PR Manager gets top priority because fuck RR and what he did in RoR TT0TT). PR and ToK are for the most part planned out in my head. Fire Sage is.....it's for fun! We're having fun. We'll see where it goes. I still have a few chapters planned but it's up in the air.

These three I'm not thinking of them in terms of "Arcs." (not that I set out for Hunt and Thief to be like that originally, but it made it easier to aim for a goal/take a break at). That's subjected to change as I write but....we'll see jdkslajfkl TT0TT

[floral-moon-light]

Ok, I like the QSMP, and I've been watching it from Phil and recently Tubbo's point of view, and what I can say about the current goings on of the events today is that it feels... Sad and sour.

Let me explain, it is sad because the eggs are gone in such a way that there is no clue if they will return. It is sad because we can see all the people on the server, new and old, deeply love the eggs and were desperately looking for answers. It is sad because there are no clues of what is currently happening.

I say this is also sour because there are completely no leads at the end of all streams today and Cucarucho, and by extension the Federation, tried to push the people (or at the least Tubbo) to go back about their daily lives like the eggs don't matter.

That is what is sour. The federation is treating the eggs like they are nothing. Like they don't matter, and people should be happy and go about their daily lives without these sweet characters that the people know so well. This is sour because there are no clues on what happened; we are ambiguous on whether the Eggs are alive, and we have no clues on what happened to them. Their beds are still there and have each egg that was still "alive"'s identifier item on them. It makes us ask questions and worry. But a good cliffhanger shouldn't leave the watchers or characters with 0 clues of what is going on or what will happen next. Even in real-life stories with cases like this, there are at least clues on what might have happened, something to start an investigation, even if it goes cold. In this case, there is none of that. All we and the SMP members have is the knowledge that something happened to the eggs between Thursday and today and that something happened to further crack the eggs between Wednesday and Thursday. We don't even know if any of this was the Federation's doing or not; the last time the Federation messed with the eggs, they made it clear something was going to happen; this time, there was no warning, and they blatantly refused to answer questions or deal with anything "illegal" that was going on directly. They were blatantly ignoring the player's request for any information at all, even when Tubbo held Cucarucho at none answer point. That all feels sour and makes my ambivalence for the federation turn entirely to "I will anarchist against the federation and fully support Phil Lamanberging the island."

And I sincerely hope that answers will come before the federation realizes they have angered the people they kidnapped enough that the "world eater" Tubbo tried to build, was small talk in comparison to the Lamanhole or 2B2T's spawn chunks.

Unless they want to turn the whole server to adventure mode, they better give some answers, because I will fully support the call for blood the crows and other chats will call for.

[covenofagatha]

Ugh, I am loving this serial killer AU. It's just so yum 🤌

Also, cliffhangers should be illegal 😤

I have had so much fun writing it and I absolutely love how much y’all are enjoying it so thank you!!

If cliffhangers were illegal I don’t think I would be able to write 😭 I LIVE for them I spend the entire chapter thinking of how I can end it on one (only when I’m the one writing them though cause I also hate reading them)

[episodeoftv]

Prelims, Vote 2 of 8

The top 4 finales will move on to be included in the main bracket

Propaganda is under the cut, may include spoilers

Akuma no Riddle - 1.12 Therefore, the World is Full of ___

the last five minutes just ruined the entire show... it's one thing to give a happy ending and another to resurrect all the characters last minute when it males no sense. it made the whole series feel pointless. and it didnt even have the guys to be explicitly gay

Crash Landing on You - 1.16 Episode 16

I just think it makes no fucking sense that the MC have to/would be able to meet in fucking Switzerland once a year or whatever it is. Idk if the series was trying to do social commentary with that but if so I don't understand what the moral lesson is

Mr. Robot - 4.13 Hello, Elliot

The writers had a poor understanding of DID and ended up saying a lot of things that were wrong and reiterating information and mindsets that are harmful to those who struggle with DID.

People of Earth - 2.10 Game Night

Season 1 had a PERFECT ending. It set it up really well for a second season but also wrapped things up enough that if it got cancelled it would still be satisfying. THEN the season 2 finale (aka the series finale) left it on total cliffhangers. Literally every storyline was left on a cliffhanger. Horrible. The fact that it was cancelled should be illegal.

Pretty Little Liars - 7.20 Till Death Do Us Part

No propaganda submitted

Secret Invasion - 1.06 Home

No propaganda submitted

Skins - 4.08 Everyone

A character getting randomly brutally killed in the previous episode is the real crime, but the fact that the finale barely acknowledged it and had no emotionally satisfying conclusion or follow-up for that is a capper on it

[i-am-bitterly-jittery]

Say the Word (I’m Already Here)

I have no interest in continuing Say The Word (And I’m There), but I figured I’d at least write the scene where they all meet

Word Count: 1774

Rating: Gen

Pairings: LAMP, Royalogicality

Warnings: a cliffhanger I currently have no intentions of resolving, allusions to crime(?)

~~~START~~~

Nothing about Remy’s cryptic message, nor the rather impressive house — mansion, Roman had insisted on correcting him, this is a freaking mansion, specs — he had asked them to meet him at had done anything to assuage Logan’s worries that his friend was involved in some sort of sketchy business.

After college, Remy had told Logan that one of their platonic soulmates had offered them a job, and that it would involve a lot of travel. Logan had been happy for his friend and naturally inquired as to what the job was. Remy told him it was a secret.

For nearly a year, Remy had traveled around the U.S., sending Logan a postcard from every city he went to, and FaceTiming him once a week. He never gave Logan any details of what the job entailed, nor whether or not he had any travel companions. They denied any insinuation that they were doing anything illegal with a laugh, and assured Logan every time that what they were doing — whatever it was — was not in any way sketchy, illegal, or at all immoral, but with no details provided to the contrary, Logan maintained his doubts.

The postcards had stopped several months ago, and Remy had been in the same location — what looked like a home office, decorated to Remy’s own style — for every subsequent FaceTime. A week ago, he’d sent Logan a text inviting him and his two soulmates to a ‘launch party’ at his boss’s house (mansion) along with the time and location. He had not answered any questions about exactly what was being launched other than that he thought Logan, Roman, and Patton would enjoy it.

“Are we just going to stare at the door?” Roman asked and Logan made no move to ring the doorbell. Remy had not left instructions for what they should do when they got to the house, though it seemed fairly obvious that they should ring the doorbell.

“I have become even less sure that Remy is not somehow mixed up in something dangerous,” Logan admitted quietly.

“Aww Logan,” Patton wrapped his arms around Logan’s middle comfortingly. “I don’t think they would have invited us to anything they thought might be dangerous!”

“Besides,” Roman continued. “Launch parties don’t usually have insidious purposes. They’re probably working for some tech giant or something — maybe we’re here to witness the launch of the next big social media platform!”

“…yes,” Logan finally replied. “That does sound like something Remy would do; and you are right, Patton, that Remy would not invite us if he thought it would be dangerous.” And with that, Logan rang the doorbell.

The chime from the doorbell lasted at least thirty seconds and followed a tune that seemed familiar to Logan, though he could not quite place it — likely a pop song but played on bells. Soon after the chime finally ended, an older woman with her hair in a tight bun opened the door.

“Can I help you?” She asked doubtfully.

“We are looking for Remington Sonno,” Logan said. “They sent us an invi–”

“LOGAN!” A familiar voice yelled from slightly further in the house.

“Please come in.” The woman nodded and walked away, leaving the door wide open behind her. Logan stepped inside, followed by Patton and Roman, and barely made it three steps before Remy was sliding down the polished hardwood hallway directly into him.

“Oof!” Logan stumbled slightly but managed to maintain his footing as Remy wrapped their arms tightly around him.

“Gurl, it has been too long!” Remy lamented.

“That is hardly my fault, Remy,” Logan stated, wrapping his arms around Remy in return.

“Fair,” Remy laughed. “I’ve been busy, but that’s why tonight is so exciting!”

“Tonight?” Logan asked.

“The party,” Remy clarified. “It’s good. I’m so proud–” Remy cut themself off with a shake of their head, a fond smile gracing their lips. “But that’s for later, I wanted you all to come early so I can spend time with you.”

“And yet he doesn’t deign to greet us,” Roman sniped playfully.

“My deepest apologies, your highness,” Remy pulled back from Logan so that he could bow deeply. “Roman Prince, it is an honor to be graced with your presence once more.”

“Thank you,” Roman bowed his head benignly.

“And Patton!” Remy smiled, opening his arms for a hug that Patton happily accepted. “Lemme give you guys a tour of the place!”

The mansion was expansive. Remy led them through a kitchen which was bustling with catering staff, then through the ballroom where workers were busy decorating for the party that would occur later in the evening, then up a grand staircase, and down a hall. They stopped every now and then to point out interesting pieces of art on the walls or if a door led to a specialized room. Eventually he led them back down a different staircase and out a pair of French doors onto a breezeway.

“So that was the main house — or most of it anyway, there’s more, but it’s Joan’s personal space so no tour of it,” Remy explained, gesturing back to the house they’d just left as they walked. “These are the gardens — we can explore them later if you want — but back here,” they gestured down the breezeway to a second, smaller — though still rather sizable — house, “is the guesthouse. That’s where I’ve been staying.”

“Your employer is very…” Logan trailed off, unable to think of an adjective that both properly expressed what he was feeling while also not potentially hurting Remy’s feelings of insulting their soulmate.

“They’re not as bad as they seem,” Remy shrugged nonchalantly. “I know this is all a little much, but they’re not as out of touch as this makes them seem.”

The four of them had just reached the door to the guesthouse when Remy’s phone went off, they checked it quickly before grimacing.

“Sorry, babes, my boss needs me for a bit, but feel free to make yourselves at home,” he opened the guesthouse door and gestured for them to go in. “You can explore if you want, or if you want to wait for me there’s a media room up the stairs, down the hall to the right, take a left, then third door on your left — I shouldn’t be too long, but we’ve got a bunch of video games or movies, whatever you want.”

“If you’re sure…” Logan trailed off uncertainly.

“Of course!” Remy laughed. “¡Mi casa es su casa!”

“Bye Remy!” Patton called as Remy rushed back down the breezeway to the main house.

The three soulmates entered the guesthouse and were immediately faced with a small problem: the stairs weren’t visible from the door.

“Well…” Patton frowned. “They can’t be that hard to find if Remy didn’t tell us where they were. I’m sure the answer is stairing us in the face!”

“And Remy did say we were free to explore,” Roman pointed out, opening the nearest door — it led to a coat closet.

There were three options for the three soulmates to choose from: straight, left, or right. None of the directions showed any obvious signs of house hidden staircases but figuring Remy had given them the directions slightly out of order, they chose the right hallway.

The hallway contained a few doors — all of which Roman opened, and all of which turned out to be a closet, a utility room, and a bathroom — before opening up into a kitchen. Tucked in the corner of the kitchen was a staircase, so they followed it up and went to the left.

The third door on the left was not a media room, but rather the office that Remy had been FaceTiming Logan from. The second and digest doors weren’t media rooms either; neither were the fourth or fifth door.

Having exhausted the doors to the left, they tried the right, then the right hall. The right hall led into more halls, so they continued that way, opening doors as they went, none led to media rooms. Eventually, having followed the confusing halls of the house as well as they could, they somehow ended up back at the top of the stairs to the kitchen.

“It’s been a while since a house has given me the runaround,” Roman shook his head in disbelief.

Logan was about to suggest waiting for Remy in the kitchen, when piano music began to drift up the stairs.

“Someone else appears to be here,” Logan commented.

“Maybe we can ask them for directions!” Patton suggested.

“Maybe they’re in the media room,” Roman added.

They followed the noise down the stairs and through a different doorway than the one they had entered the kitchen through. The doorway took them to a formal dining room, then into a moderately sized ballroom. As they walked through the ballroom the piano music solidified into Chopin.

Across the ballroom was a smaller room with shelves filled to the brim with folders and books. On one wall, there was a variety of musical instruments hanging from displays.

In the center of the room, there was a person with dyed purple hair and a patchwork hoodie playing a grand piano. The person’s back was to the door, and all three soulmates were too entranced by the music to make their presence known.

As the song came to a close, Roman saw his opportunity.

“Hey, excuse me?” He called, a little too loudly after the trance that all four of them had just been in.

The pianist startled, their hands slamming down a discordant cacophony of keys as they jumped a little too much. They ended up falling backwards out of their stool and sprawling out on the floor at the trio’s feet. Mismatched green and purple eyes blink up at the soulmates.

“Sorry, kiddo!” Patton yelps, concerned for the other person’s wellbeing. “We didn’t mean to startle you.”

“Shit!” The pianist gasped, scrambling up to their feet. “I mean fuck– um, no. Shit–” Logan’s eyebrows shot up in surprise, and he was certain Roman and Patton must be feeling it too. “Sorry, I just– uh, I wasn’t expecting anyone to be here this early. Sorry.” Their soulmate finished, somewhat lamely.

“Ah, it would appear that you are our final soulmate,” Logan said, his mouth working even as his brain tried to catch up — because not only was this their final soulmate, but it was also Virgil Knight! “My name is Logan.”

“I’m Patton!”

“And I am–”

“Remus?”

Reality came crashing down on Roman. His soulmate was famous musician Virgil Knight, former bandmate of convicted murderer Remus Duke… Roman’s identical twin.

“No, I–I’m his brother, Roman.”

~~~END~~~

I know it’s rude to end on a cliffhanger that I don’t intend to resolve, but I just wanted to write them meeting, I didn’t really want to get into the feelingsy part of it. I just wanted to finish smth to break out of my mini slump

Also the party Remy invited them to was the launch party for Virgil’s first solo album. Joan hired Remy to be Virgil’s friend/bodyguard/driver when Virgil decided he wanted to explore the country and be a normal teen for a while

General taglist:

@royalty-of-all-things-snuggly @pixelated-pineapple @arsonic-knight @misunderstood-shadowling

[honeyhotteoks]

it started with this night together. i don't even usually read a/b/o fics but for some reason i felt compelled to give TNT a chance (probably because the pairing of mingi + yunho is just so top tier that i couldn't resist). and now, having read all seven chapters available on ao3 + having consumed some of your other fics (the husband series!!!!! with love for you!!!!!!) all i can say is that you're so talented! time and time again your fics pull me in. the world-building is phenomenal and i appreciate the build-up to the smut instead of just being thrust straight into it (though sometimes that's fun as well!). i adore how you write the boys in your fic. they feel so human to me and i always understand the motivation behind all of the characters!!! i'm gonna stop gushing now because tbh i could talk on and on about how much i love your writing and how lucky i feel to have found your work by accident last week but i'm gonna shut up before this ends up being an essay in your inbox. just know i'm grateful for all of your masterpieces!!!! the fact you give us these works for free honestly feels a little illegal? like i feel like i should be paying for content this good and yet you come on here and share it with us out of the goodness of your heart so thank you!!!!!!!!! you've just earned yourself a new loyal follower and fan! i also can not WAIT for the next chapter of this night together because the cliffhanger you left off on has me on the edge of my seat! i love that wooyoung told y/n to rest first and worry yunho and mingi later. even though i'm sure they are probably losing their mind rn not knowing where she is and how her heat is going bUT THEN AGAIN THEY PROMISED TO BE FRIENDS AND THEN IMMEDIATELY STARTED BEING WEIRD/IGNORING HER AFTER SO MAYBE THIS IS WHAT THEY GET! also i love the friendship that's developed between y/n, woo, san, and hwa. also sidenote but am i insane for feeling like mingi only "made up" with y/n after overhearing hwa asking her to dinner in the hallway? cause the timing seemed a little too convenient and like he wanted to make sure she'd miss the dinner! ALSO ALSO I SWEAR I WILL STOP RAMBLING SOON BUT IT MADE ME GIGGLE THAT IN THE HUSBANDS YUNHO WAS JEALOUS SEEING WOOYOUNG FLIRT WITH Y/N AT THE BOOK READING AND IN TNT YUNHO IS CURRENTLY TEXTING Y/N FREAKING OUT MEANWHILE SHE'S AT WOOYOUNG'S PLACE SNUGGLED IN HIS ARMS!!! wooyoung is always at the scene of the crime i see and i love him for it. and you for it!!!!! once again thank you for sharing your creativity with us!!!!

THIS WHOLE MESSAGE WAS SO NICE ARE YOU KIDDING 😭

but also......................... new chapter of TNT is coming today so you really don't have to wait much longer...................

also to answer your one question about mingi.................that would be correct. that boy got jealous even though he can't get his shit together and just SAY HOW HE FEELS. the timing was def intentional.

also lol woo at the scene of the crime because he just reads that way to me always. like is he going to get someone to cheat? no. is he going to shoot his shot once? yeah buddy. and i always read yunho as pretty possessive, just not toxically so, and that always is the most fun to write.

thank you again for everything you said i appreciate you so much!!

[m00nc4kes]

ACROSS THE SPIDERVERSE SPOILERS!!!!

Everything (almost) I loved/noticed in the movie!!!

Under the Cut!

First things first, beginning the movie with Gwen's inner dialogue and the world she lives in. The use of colors and shapes to represent her emotions is freaking amazing. (I also peeped that Protect Trans Kids poster/flag in her room). She is so alt... I love her. Like, wow, I love her style.

Now, Imma make a list:

Spot's buildup. I saw it coming, but that's what I love about movies. Watching Spot slowly become more powerful made him into something to be feared. I started the movie thinking he was funny mini "bad guy" character, but now... now I'm afraid *nervous chuckle* OH AND THE VENOM REFERENCE??? YES YES YES

The small swear words "Maybe you should get off the kid's ass" "Parenting, a big ass mystery." I. LOVED. IT. It just adds that small bit of realism that I (as an almost adult) cherish. Reminds me of the Rise of the TMNT movie where Future Leo said badass. I EAT THAT UP EVERY TIME

HOBIE HOBIE HOBIE I can write an essay about how much I adore his character. To see a black guy wearing SPIKES and PIERCINGS and BEING AN ANARCHIST touches my soul. As a black person, I love the representation (even though he existed before this movie lololol). HIS ANIMATION TOO??? LIKE SO COOL???? Straight out of a comic book!!! The way he changed colors/styles fit him so well. OH OH OH AND HOBIE HELPING OUT MILES!! I'm so glad they didn't go with the whole "fighting over Gwen/jealousy" subplot. Hobie was a real one for helping Miles escape by telling him to use his palms.

Miguel O'hara is so hot????

*ahem* PETER B CONSTANTLY KISSING THE TOP OF MAYDAY'S HEAD AND GUSHING OVER HER THIS THIS THIS!!! I don't know if you've ever held a baby that you adored but the urge to kiss the top of their head while you hold them is EXTREMELY STRONG. So it's accurate. He loves Mayday so much and I just love that <3 Miles being the reason Peter wanted to have kids makes my heart ACHE in the greatest way possible

The Lobby and Miles' Great Escape Where do I even begin? First of all, the amount of spidermans and the references??? Oh my goodness. DONALD GLOVER AS THE PROWLER?! I saw a theory about Miles being in Tom Holland's spiderman (srry that's what I'm calling it) with Donald Glover as Uncle Aaron and uh???? HE WAS THERE!!! WILD!!! Ah! I can't forget about Miles realizing what was going to happen to his dad. Now, I love Miguel, but I was COMPLETELY ON MILES' SIDE. Gosh, the tension in that scene was SO thick! The animation in Miles' escape was fucking GORGEOUS! Along with the fighting sequences!! The facial expressions. EVERYTHING!!

Miles' Great Escape pt. 2 Miles swinging through "his" New York and practically reliving everything that was said and done to him... man. I could feel his overwhelming need to get home. He just needed to get home. When he got through his window, I could finally relax. HELL, I could've cried in relief. Just knowing that you were safe cuz you were home. Man, the surprise Miles and I were about to receive.

Miles and his Counterpart Now, at this point in the movie, I was so deep into the story that I didn't realize that the movie was almost over. I sat at the edge of my seat as I watched Miles beg himself to let him go so he could save their dad. "Now why would I do that?" Oh the betrayal. Watching Miles and Prowler! Miles stare into each other's eyes made me feel something I couldn't describe. When Miles summoned up his venom strike (I can't recall if that's the name), his face looked so resigned. He was prepared for a fight. A fight that we won't be able to see until the next movie.

CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT???? tHAT CLIFFHANGER SHOULD'VE BEEN ILLEGAL!!! I literally sat up in my seat and said "You have to be kidding" BECAUSE THAT COULDN'T BE THE END UNTIL THE NEXT MOVIE!!!

Would you believe me if I said that this movie was better than the first? At least in my opinion. Not to say that the first movie was bad, but as sequels go, THIS ONE SURPASSED THE FIRST ONE'S GREATNESS SOMEHOW??? This trilogy is going to be fucking legendary.

If you made it this far, thanks for reading! I appreciate it!!

[shituationist]

Ending a season on a cliffhanger should be illegal unless it's done for purely artistic purposes

[reddoll123]

The cliffhanger at the end of Spiderverse should be illegal....

In all seriousness tho, the movie was fucking amaaaaazing. The 1st is one of my top animated movies and this one managed to top it imo, I can't wait for the 3rd 😭. Highly recced - 100000/10!

[emith-exe]

It should be illegal for movies to end on cliffhangers.

[ncisfranchise-source]

NCIS 21×01 “Algún Día” is about what you’ll do for the people you love, and it’s also about what you should trust the people who love you to do for you. In that respect, it’s a great lesson for everyone on the team, not just for Nick Torres – though there’s no denying he needs it more than everyone else. But the episode hits all the normal beats, with everyone sort of filling the roles they usually fill, and that fits them very well …but also doing more, being more.

In a way, that’s the thing NCIS does well. Sure, Torres is often hard-headed even when he doesn’t need to be, McGee is the “smart one,” Knight is more the “heart on the sleeve” kinda character, and Parker will be the one rallying the team around, while Kassie gets important info and Jimmy Palmer will inevitably figure something out that might end up cracking the case, but these things I mentioned are not all these characters are. It never has been.

That’s why, even when it seemed like Torres had done it, there was no way these characters were believing it, and there was no way we could, either. Even if perhaps, we could have forgiven him for it. Because that’s just not who Nick Torres is, deep down. That’s not what someday means for him.

So let us talk about that, about Torres, his sister, that elusive idea of justice, that “one day at a time from Parker,” and let us also go into that cute moment of role play from our favorite ship as we discuss NCIS 21×02 “Algún Día”:

ONE DAY AT A TIME

If NCIS 21×02 “Algún Día” does one thing well is to set up Nick Torres to move forward, even though we spent the entire episode stuck in the past in a way that almost makes it feel like he can’t, like he never will. And it is kinda frustrating to be here with Torres because the issue with him has been for a while he should know better, at least at this point. But when Parker tells him at the end of the episode to take it one day at a time, it finally feels like it has clicked. Perhaps Torres is ready to move forward and do just that.

This wound that he carried, that his sister carried, wasn’t something easy to heal. And it’s also not something that truly heals from one day to the next because the man that hurt you, that hut your family, is now gone. But the truth is that knowing he was out there, perhaps doing it to someone else, and that he never paid for all the pain he caused his family, was something that was weighing Torres down. Now he can let go of that and start to heal.

But healing is an active process, and he has to put the work in. And for that healing to be truly something that takes, he has to let the people who love him help. That includes his sister, the one he was willing to go to jail for, and his team. Being willing to take a bullet for someone, or take the fall for them when you think they’ve done something wrong is a big sign of love, yes, but being willing to let them see your pain, takes a different kind of strength. That’s where Torres struggles, and that’s what’s needed of him now.

OUR FIRST CRIME AS A COUPLE

Jessica and Jimmy still feel like relationship babies in so many ways, so it’s so cute to hear Jimmy joke about their “first crime as a couple,” especially because of their role-playing (again, the banter is on-point, can anyone blame the show for just going for it with this ship?) adventure actually led to the information that got Torres out of jail. But outside of the many firsts and seconds, we hope to see from these two in the new season – and may most of them not be illegal, please and thank you – there’s one thing that stands out: how easy it all is.

I don’t like comparing ships, at least not negatively. I have loved many ships, in this same show, in other NCIS shows, and in plenty of other procedurals. But there’s something special about this ship, something that makes it easy to invest in them. Even in an episode that’s not dedicated to them, a few moments of banter from the two of them in a couple of separate scenes is enough to make me go: I want more. I wish they had more moments together. And that’s never, ever a bad thing.

Things I think I think:

NCIS: Cyber sounds like another spinoff.

I love it when the team is like we’re just going to get to work and they like, coordinate with their eyes.

“Process in any way that you see fit.”

I live off the little bits of backstory on Nick that we get.

Ah, if only someone could pronounce the words “algún día.”

“We should roleplay more often.”

IF YOU’D USED WORDS, NICK.

The way Jimmy just figures it out is hilarious.

“It requires you to trust the people in this building with your life.”

And …that’s the Ducky news at the end, right?