#episode 495

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Ace saying he never killed someone... well now indirectly....

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Episodes 1-500 Mouri Ran's Wardrobe!

+ Films 1-11 & OVAs 1-8

(better quality images under the cut)

Wow what an update! This took a while because uh she does not rewear her outfits very often in this segment of the show, still it was fascinating to see how the style of clothes changes over this time period. Also new to this update I went through and added the smol Ran's that have appeared that I skipped over before :)

This project has been a lot of fun and I intend to continue so they'll be more to come in the future too. In the meantime I want to know people's favourites! (Or least favourites are fun too) let me know in the comments/tags!

As a final P.S I've learnt that some of her merch/promo looks are unique and I was wondering if anyone knows if there's any archive or something of references of those cause some of those are really cute and I'd like to include them.

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holy shit this episode makes me feel i n s a n e

what the fuck r they doing pls ndjsbd

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495 days until jimin is back ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ bts monuments: beyond the star episode 7

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( #495 gifs ) of ELLE FANNING in season 3, episodes 6-7, of the tv show THE GREAT (2020-2023) /  elle is white and was born in 1998. you can access them by clicking on the source link. all of the gifs were made by me from scratch, so do not redistribute them or claim as your own. if you enjoyed them, a like or reblog would be very appreciated. if you consider buying me a coffee, i'd be very happy as well!

cw: crying, kissing, guns, partial nudity.

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EPISODE 9 ✦ PRES? ARE YOU OKAY?

LOVE, MAYBE — A CHILDE SMAU

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cw: mentions of parents arguing (nothing too descriptive), reader cries (sorry its for the plot that reader goes through it in this smau erm)

the cold wind kissed your cheeks as you slowly walked in the streets. with nothing but the street lights and a few stray cats accompanying you on your spontaneous night walk, it still felt quite lonely.

you were used to it—the fighting, the raised voices, the hushed cries your mother makes because of the argument that occurred. it was nothing new to you; it was simply something that you had to get used to. it wasn’t like the other cheated; it was more like they just… fell out of love as their marriage went on. they noticed each other’s flaws more in their marriage lives, and they eventually couldn’t find the love that started blooming before. it wilted before it could even reach it’s full bloom.

sometimes you wonder if they would’ve been happy if they didn’t have children. not because you hated your existence—but because having children is a huge responsibility. and it would cost quite a lot too. if neither of you nor nicolette were born, would they be happier? would they still be in love? you probably won’t know the answer to that.

a stray cat approaches you and stops right before your feet. it started nuzzling its head by your feet, the cold feeling of its fur rubbing against your skin. kneeling down to pet it, you sighed. “you probably have it hard too, huh? i wonder how life could be cruel to a cute little guy like you,” you said as you petted it. the cat just meows in response.

sure, you were what they called “a hopeless romantic," but honestly? there are times when you doubt if love is even real. you do accept that love is a wonderful and beautiful thing, because it is! however, maybe it’s not for you. because seeing what could’ve been a precious and everlasting love break with your own two eyes as a child is already enough reason for you to doubt the whole concept of love in itself.

the cat soon leaves you and you continue on with your walk. you didn’t wanna go back just yet. because if you did, you might as well feel suffocated by the bad tension between your parents for the rest of the night.

maybe it’s just the fact that everything feels overwhelming for you at the moment but you didn’t know when you started to cry. you didn’t realize that there were already a few tears rolling down your cheeks as you continued to walk. and the cold weather of the night isn’t helping because it just makes your nose clog up even more.

as you wipe your tears away, you didn’t expect to hear a question you really needed.

“pres? are you okay?”

you stopped in your tracks and looked up. it was none other than tartaglia once again. and you cursed yourself for letting him see you in such a vulnerable state at some hour in the night.

“what are you doing here?”

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C3E114 Fight for the Bloody Bridge

Happy Thursday, Critters! What a time for Vox Machina, huh? We have a new superlative for Campaign 3 combat lengths. We’ve also dusted off some Vox Machina superlatives based on CritRoleStats' data (with an assist from the CR Wiki!) from Campaign 1 itself.

Meanwhile, let’s dive into some stats from C3E114. While Vex predictably took the most damage, she also came very close to being the episode’s #1 damage-dealer, coming in with 438 points dealt—only 16 points below Grog’s 454.

105 of those points were radiant damage dealt by the Blessing of the Dawnfather during Ozo Cruth’s Frenzied Wrath barrage, during which he attacked Vex 11 times.

In total, Ozo Cruth had over hit 500 points. He took 495 confirmed damage, plus an unknown additional amount from two Scythe Claw attacks by Scrag, one of which was a nat 20.

Judging by the other Scythe Claw attacks we saw, which each dealt between 11 and 28 points of damage, the total damage Scrag dealt to Ozo Cruth was most likely between 33 and 84 hit points, making Cruth’s approximate total HP somewhere between 528 and 579.

This is at least 93 more hit points than Otohan Thull, whose total was between 400 and 435—although Cruth didn’t have a potion that could heal 66 points in a single round! This episode saw eight player nat 20s as well as seven DM nat 20s—a number we know to be mercifully low thanks to the disadvantage inflicted by Lieve'tel's Holy Aura and blindness from Pike’s Sunburst.

C3E114 also saw eight definitive kills (two by Vex, two by Grog, and one each by Pike, Scanlan, Cerkonos, and Vax), three of which got the coveted “how do you want to do this?”

And, lastly, for some closeups on Matt’s gorgeous battle map, check out https://omenarchive.com/c3/e114/#heading-battlemaps—we’ve captured several dozen.

Check out the rest of our stats for the episode, and see you on Ruidus!

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— A GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER, SEASON ONE.

Episode One, 342 Screencaps.

Episode Two, 374 Screencaps.

Episode Three, 400 Screencaps.

Episode Four, 424 Screencaps.

Episode Five, 465 Screencaps.

Episode Six, 495 Screencaps.

Opening Title, 23 Screencaps.

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s3 episode 23 thoughts

the previous episode was SO good. but, it is true, i was distracted by the dog. it was SUCH!! a perfect episode. EXCEPT for that one thing. so i hope that today, i can face this episode with a clear head, free of judgement based on the fate of little dogs.

well, boy, i did face this episode with a clear mind, and wow. wowza. another AMAZING ep... and i will keep the angst from this episode in my heart forever and bottle it and take a nice long swig when i need my msr feels, which is basically always. wow. an exclamation point doesn't even feel APPROPRIATE, it just needs to hang in the air for a bit. (wiping tears away) wow....

let us go back to yesterday's notes, which shall commence below:

reading the episode description... so this one features murders linked to a device that alters television signals… huh. man, too many people i know don’t even have cable anymore. this simply would not work in the modern era. imagine if hulu or tubi or something made you kill people though lmao that would be silly to imagine.

we open with a guy digging a hole in the woods. always a promising start. seems he’s in an orchard of some sort? and the music is very very creepy. 

okay, so just as you suspect, this dude is burying a dead guy. sometimes your gut instinct is correct and tropes are not meant to be subverted. but the dude who is burying him says “your killing days are OVER” so is this actually a justice arc??? hmm. it is not clear. man, it would be hard to dig a hole like that.

shovel murder man is at home washing the blood off. but then someone else approaches him and he kills THAT GUY TOO WITH THE SHOVEL?? huh? what is going on. 

police at da guy’s house. everyone has the same face as the dude he just killed??? so they tase him. and then the faces go back to their REAL faces. now what is going on here!!!!!!!!!!

as the real faces return, the man realizes he killed someone named sarah!!! and he seems sooo upset by the fact that he killed sarah!!!! poor sarah :(

so does the tv make you see other people’s faces on the bodies of random people….? omg that’s insidious...

we now shift to a different scene, one where mulder is sitting in his car at 2 am. doing what???? waiting for some guy!!! he was waiting TWO HOURS for this guy!!! who is this guy...? it's giving blind date/drug deal.

the man who enters his car gives him a newspaper clipping about the murders we just saw. and mulder came here after getting AN ANONYMOUS EMAIL in the middle of the night??? this is crazy because literally so many people want him dead and this would have been a very easy way to accomplish that goal. wow. seriously, no self-preservation instincts on this guy.

mystery man says he has no obligation to explain what is going on, but if mulder walks away from it, more people will die. so no pressure!! xx

cutscene to a hospital, where mulder is watching our murderer through glass, while scully comes in saying that she is sorry she is late, but “the beltway was a parking lot”. beltway refers to interstate 495! thank you wikipedia i love your services!

murderer is named joseph. and he claims to have been killing the same guy over and over again, and that he wouldn’t die. which seems pretty awful.

OH! and the week before, in the same town, a babysitter attacked the kids she was watching because she thought they were WOLVES??? omg that is horrific??

they’re talking to the physician, dr. stroman, who says perhaps this was provoked by amphetamine abuse. then joseph starts SCREAMING. he sees a guy on the TV- miriskovic- sorry y’all idk my post-soviet history 💔 (update: i googled it, i don't even think that guy was real because all the results are links to wikis on this specific episode... reveals how little i truly know)

anyway, seeing that guy's face on the TV seems to have triggered the screaming situation. does he have trauma from the country he used to live in and seeing references to it makes these things happen…? that would be a wild episode. put me in the writer's room and let me cook.

scully quickly picks up on the fact that this case is Weird, and mulder admits it came from some random guy, which makes her suspicious. but they go to the crime scene, and, like always, he lifts the crime scene tape up over her head, and it’s very charming despite the lack of sensibility in going down this whole rabbit hole.

the minute they get in, they hear screaming and a gunshot! but it’s just some kids watching TV??? eating popcorn in a crime scene??? LMAO WHAT?

mulder kicks them out and scruffs one of the boy’s heads... ohhhh he needs to be a father so bad huh... like i have been saying this since s1 he just has a Need to tease and spoil children. well, we can unpack that another time. there's crime afoot.

so he watches the tv and it starts to go all static-y because a guy outside is fixing the wires. scully finds a TON of tapes and they’re just shelves and shelves of cable TV shows!!!

“there must be hundreds of videos here”, she says, to which he asks “anything good?” <- idk why this made me giggle. it sounded like he was gonna put one in and chill for a bit lmao

scully starts to wonder if seeing the cable news, like joseph had recorded, was what triggered his episode back at the hospital. ooooh! a theory!!! 

cut to mulder watching a tape in the bed of his motel, making an absolute pile of sunflower seeds- this dude is gonna attract mice or something someday omfg- and also he has a cola which is peak american culture. LMAOOOO he has a HUGE pile of tapes on the floor i’m crying... my type A self could NOT deal with him!

he says he watched 36 hours of bernard shaw and bobbi batista and is now also ready to kill someone as scully welcomes him into her room, which also has cola but is much more nicely organized! she found something weird on the tapes from late april, each a night when he committed a murder 

AND WHY DID MULDER GET ALL COZIED UP ON HER COUCH?????? hooooooly fuck i have never seen such a baby girl of a man

OMFG??? all the reports from the murder nights feature that miriskovic guy!!!

so did seeing violence make him violent? mulder says no, and that theory assumes that “americans are just empty vessels, ready to be filled with any idea or image that’s fed to them like a bunch of pavlov dogs, and go out and act on it” oh if only this man could see the news lately……… insert ben affleck smoking a cigarette image here to describe the things we see in our current age. mulder you would not believe.

he’s really bashing her theory, but she’s saying maybe he was high and seeing these things sent him on a spiral- makes sense to me

he is leaving to go get some sleep (after admitting he can’t explain what is going on!!! which always endears me) but scully says she is going to watch the rest of the tapes… a herculean task for our girl

middle of the night and it’s still tape time for scully, but she hears the phone ringing. she hears mulder having a conversation. and he says “no, she doesn’t” which is weird… that is suspicious… what doesn't she...

scully chews her ice which is so funny because me too sometimes. she has chewed all of her ice and must fetch more. and get a cola ofc!!! nothing more american than a cold soda iktr!

but she sees mulder in his car??? lighting up with cig man???? HUH??? and handing over a tape? omfg this is crazy. i assume she is hallucinating though, because no way….

cutscene to a lady named helene watching “the price is nice” (lmaooo) and washing some dishes. but the soap in the dishes starts to look funny- and everything is glitching around her!!! she sees a man outside in a hammock… kissing a woman!!! and oh, she is furious!! she gets her SHOTGUN?? this has escalated very fast. and we hear some shooting!!!

scully is still very visibly disturbed. mulder is reporting the murder, but she seems like a shell of herself. she checks the ash tray in the car, and there is no ash… she notices the car has been moved and he says he got a paper…. why do you ask…. “nothing. it’s nothing” OHHH THIS IS JUICY

so the crime scene has a very bloody hammock. and a dead man, who the wife claims he saw in the hammock with a blonde. but the only other creature at the scene was a dog!!!

OH!!! the hammock man wasn’t even helene's HUSBAND??? this really is LAYERED!! she killed the NEIGHBOR thinking it was her husband, who wasn’t even in town!!!!!! how do you mess this up so badly?

despite the fact that scully is clearly suspicious of mulder, she is sharing the umbrella with him in their usual fashion, and the sense of tension this produces is delicious 

they go to investigate the crime scene and mulder finds some sort of bike and immediately climbs upon it while proclaiming that television does NOT cause violence (LMAOOO HE IS SO WEIRD i need him.) 

they find a bunch more tapes and AGAIN the same guy is messing with the cables outside while they're investigating!!!! mulder is in chase mode!!!! but he cannot chase this dude in the van!!! no man, even a track star such as him, can outrun a van carrying secrets!

scully is trying to fast forward the TV and she looks out to see mulder climbing the pole…. average day for a man like him. he finds a weird cable scrambler in there. she wants to send it to the crime lab, but he says he’ll do the analysis, and she should go interview helene the murderer. OH... she is so suspicious, she just wants to go home…. scully :((( mulder is deeply confused as to why she is being so weird 

so he takes the thingy to the lone gunmen, who say it looks like it’s used for blocking premium cable channels, which i didn’t even know was a thing, you learn so much with this show. but it doesn’t block anything!!! HOWEVER, if you compare a tv with the machine and one without it, the one with the machine is slightly different. hmm...

“you know how television works?” “yeah, you click it on, you have a picture” <- the man who said that line went to oxford btw

it seems that this cable blocker thingy is adding some sort of frequency, but they can’t tell what… hmm.

mulder on the road. scully calls and only asks “where are you” in this very flat and creepy tone and OH i’m scared!!!!

he tries to explain that there is some sort of signal being introduced to the tv- he even says she might be right about the tv inducing violence theory! but she isn’t answering… she hears a clicking, like they're being listened to, and she says he never went to the detective…. let’s wait and talk on a landline, he says.

despite being in his car many miles away, he can tell that there is something very wrong with scully. he says don’t go anywhere, he’ll be right there, and redials after she hangs up. it's very much echoing when she said something similar to him in his crazed gargoyle quest.

but she is so scared, she rips the phone out of the wall and takes it apart!!!! and then the lamp too, and the table. she is checking everything for any sort of bugs!

holy hell, we have never seen her like this before... but i’m actually gagged because she is usually relatively stoic and seeing her paranoid is so different, but it also feels very natural??? she is acting her ass off here as she rips up everything in this motel room. big shoutout to GA, i love your work.

and the static that set in helene's vision earlier is setting in hers now!!! she hears a car pull up and drops to the floor…. she hears a man say “she’s in here” and a pounding on the door. 

OMFG someone tries to open the door and she FIRES 4 SHOTS RIGHT AWAY??? but it’s mulder!!!!

(author's note: i was thinking after i finished the episode, and we know that she is a good shot- remember how she hit just the right angle to knock mulder out but not kill him at the end of s2? so she is either SO out of it that she cannot even aim straight, or there is a tiny tiny tiny part of her that still thinks that mulder isn't worth killing. please mull over which option brings you greater angst)

he’s coming in with his gun and his hair is blowing in the wind and he can’t FIND HER!!!!! it was really very dramatic. hair blowing in the wind has this effect.

cutscene to scully’s mom’s house, and we see a picture of young scully on the table... AWW stop she’s so cuuuute and one of missy as well 😭😭😭

OH! it’s mulder on the phone calling mrs. scully in the middle of the night!!! NOOOO he has to tell her that he doesn’t know where she is :( NOOOO poor mrs. scully has gone through too much. he feels SO bad breaking this news, that he even apologizes for hanging up right away, something he never ever does. he must be in deeeep distress to do such a thing.

and why does he hang up?? because SKINNER IS HERE!!! he’s leading a manhunt for scully, and mulder is saying she shouldn’t be hunted like a convict… but skinner says dude SHE FIRED FOUR ROUNDS AT YOU AND SOME RANDOM GUY last night!!!!

despite this, mulder insists that he can get her to listen to him if they just keep her safe; she’s suffering from some sort of paranoid psychosis. skinner is being quite patient as he tries to explain that the video tapes made her do it. skinner says well... you better find her before these guys do.

GASP!!! he’s putting up the x on his window! and doing that thing where he bounces his basketball because he cannot relax!!! stop i'm emotional!!!!!

the lone gunmen call to say they found something on the tape…. and it induces electrical activity…. MIND CONTROL???

but why wasn’t he effected?

! MULDER LORE REVEAL ! HE’S RED-GREEN COLORBLIND???? THIS IS AN INSANE LORE DROP TO GIVE NEARLY 4 SEASONS IN??????

wait, is this just for plot purposes, or is DD actually colorblind and they decided to roll with it? because now i’m gonna be looking at all the red-ish things we see on screen (like his tie he is grabbing to emphasize his point) and wonder, can he see that? how does this impact his tie selection process....

okay that really threw me off guard. man, i was getting to think we'd never get another lore reveal, which is a shame because i quite like formatting those facts in that way. good to know we could get more at anytime!

he gets a phone call from maryland state police. the lone gunmen ask if she’s okay and he says no, he has to go and ID the body. WHAT!!!! WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!! he is trying to keep composed. holy fuck………..

(heavy breathing as i grab your shoulder and squeeze) hey man. hey. he was trying so hard to be strong.

so he pulls up to the morgue and stops before he gets out of the car, and holds his head above the wheel STOP I’LL CRY???? i’ll cry… what are they putting him through??? losing her again……..

(i mean i have SEEN gifs of scully in seasons past this one, so i know she's gonna pull through, but HE doesn't know that, and must be reliving the worst days of his life AGAIN, and aughhhhh!)

but the mystery guy from the start of the episode that give him the info on the muders pulls up and says get in right now!!!!!! mulder is furious, he says he’s busy. in a shocking display of insensitivity, mystery man says he does not give a fuck. mulder is yelling that this is all his fault. mystery man says “they” are destroying the evidence, and they’ll finish it by tomorrow if he keeps searching for her, but he kicks the door shut and ignores him.

(omg…. he loves her enough to break him out of his bloodhound mode… the dogged ahab-like quest for answers and revenge… i’m getting flashbacks to his conversation with missy in one breath…….. realizing he needs to put the ones he loves before his need for revenge sometimes..... wow)

so he walks into the morgue, and the dude in there says they found a body nude and shot in the forehead.

he closes his eyes to try and brace himself before taking a peek, to prepare to see her lifeless, probably reliving those many hours by her bedside when she was in the hospital, trying to imagine her shot in the forehead, the scully he knows and loves with her dry humor and her teasing smile and caffeine dependency, the her that is so full of life, lifeless…

but it isn’t her. PHEW!

despite this being good news that he has to share- she's not dead! her mother isn’t answering her phone…. so he goes to her house. and i'm thinking, oh my gosh, did she do something rash in her grief?

but mrs. scully answers the door and claims dana isn’t here. he bursts in and says he needs to see her right now. omg, he saw right through her lies.

(also, it always feels weird to refer to her as dana, but moving on)

NO!!!! she has him at gunpoint and says he’s here to kill him!!! poor guy looks so flabbergasted… and her mom is trying to get her to please put down the gun, and he’s trying to explain what is going on!!! he is so singularly locked into her…. 

“he’s lied to me from the beginning. he’s never trusted me” “scully, you are the only one i trust” AUGHHHHH (rips my clothes off of my body in biblical levels of grief) 

“you’re one of the people who abducted me” AUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH (rips off not only my clothing but also my hair as i experience emotions that rival what job from the bible went through)

she’s CRYING, and saying he killed her sister while her mom gets between him and the gun… and she’s saying she knows she’s safe here, that’s why she came here, and to put the gun down. and she falls into her mother’s arms sobbing. 

WHAAAAAAAAT. and he had to watch all that… oh my scully oh my goodness my poor scully…

timeskip a little bit. he shows up to the hospital where scully is with her mother, and mockingly puts his hands up in surrender, because he is so STUPID and he always has to make a joke, and i love him so terribly, so so so terribly, because he loves HER.

she's laying in the bed, and he shuts off the tv and asks how she’s feeling. she says she is ASHAMED- as if being a victim of mind control was a personal failing. scully, i want to yell, you have NO REASON to be ashamed, let me take all the shame from you and carry it elsewhere. she says it was like the world was turned upside down.

and he makes ANOTHER stupid joke about the world being out to get him, and now she knows how he feels-

before leaning in and explaining how joseph, the first murderer on this case, became convinced he was killing the bosnian war criminal who people called “the modern hitler”, which was especially important to him because both of his parents survived the holocaust. hence his line about the killing days being over!!!

and helene was scared her husband would cheat on her. so somehow the TV signal turned their worst fears into a living nightmare. 

OHHHH HER WORST NIGHTMARE IS HIM BETRAYING HER. HIM BEING RESPONSIBLE FOR HER GOING MISSING AND LOSING HER AUTONOMY AND MEMORIES... wails into my shirt. 

(this reminds me of that episode in s2- irresistible- when we learn her biggest fear is that humans are capable of terrible horrific things and grasping to trust despite that knowledge. we’re seeing that again right here. how uncertainty seeps in)

THEY CALL HIM THE CANCER MAN!!! wow very official canon recognition of the name (yeah it’s happened before but it happened again so that is cool) anyway she says she saw him giving cancer man the tapes and reporting.

he says that maybe cancer man was behind this, but then he whispers “why don’t you try and get some rest?” and there is something in me that melts so entirely as he leaves her to sleep.

(perhaps it is the fact that hurt/comfort and whump are my favorite tropes. because is there anything more intimate than letting someone see you at your most vulnerable, and them choosing to love you at it? is there any feeling more cutting than seeing your loved one suffer and knowing you’d stop the world for an instant of their relief? the terrible desperation of both parties, the wordless connection upon recovery, someone being the last thing you see before everything fades to black and then the first person you see when you return... yeah. it’s cathartic. but also it makes me want to yell and cry. pls give me all the hurt/comfort content)

so the doctor found high serotonin levels in her that maybe can be associated with mania, but now they’re back to normal. he asks if someone in her situation would be diagnosed with amphetamine abuse, and she says no. then he quickly calls the hospital where joseph is staying… what is he cooking in there…

he wants to talk to joseph's doctor, dr. stroman, who left behind only a number from the motel…. and he had JUST checked out…. so he’s going through his stuff. and asking about his calls. and he DOES find a cigarette in his room but a lot of people smoke so… try not to jump to conclusions juni… but the cigarettes mean one thing in this show!!! was this innocent-looking doctor behind such a cruel experiment?!

he calls and has the last number the doctor called get checked from the folks at the lab… so he goes to visit the place of residence and creepy music is playing. the dude from the cable company we saw before rolls up!!! he walks right inside the house, so mulder peeks inside. it seems the people in the house set up a trap of some sort, as they are talking about “him” showing up at 7.

he bursts in after hearing gunshots and both of the men in there are dead!!! shot in the head!!!!

who is there... but X???? X says he HAD to kill those men- he just hoped mulder would get them first. and oh, mulder is YELLING AT X!!! he is letting him HAVE IT!!! he says he is a coward, he was too scared to unveil the situation with the mind control TV murders himself….. he says X NEVER risks his own life, but he sure does make him risk mulder and scully’s.

OH! he is holding X at gunpoint. all X is saying is that he failed, and that mulder needs him. so he walks out, confident he won't pull the trigger. and he doesn't. 

WHAT! i need to kind of just let that sit for a second. i need to figure out this X fellow, but i get the sense i never will…. he failed… because he chose to try and save scully…….

cutscene to skinner’s office, where mulder is giving him a report. and scully walks in and says that dr. stroman DIED IN 1978!!! when skinner asks about the killer, mulder jumps in and says he remains unknown… oh, skinner is def gonna pick up on that….

so now we see X in a random back alley. getting into a car…. WITH CANCER MAN?????? X REPORTS TO CANCER MAN??? he asks if he has completed his work, and X reports that he has cleaned out all the personnel, everything is removed, but mulder still has a device. and mulder’s source has been eliminated. but the source’s source remains unknown. oh, he’s def lying through his teeth.

OOOOOOH this episode was SO good.

oh man, my brain is racing in a bunch of different directions. scully breaking down and sobbing into her mother’s arms…. scully convinced that mulder is a traitor, that he did those terrible things to her…. mulder so scared that she was gone, bouncing his basketball, getting a call from the police department that he had to go identify her… choosing her, even in what he thought was death, over following the Truth… the sick and twisted relationship he has with X, and X with Cancer Man, and Cancer Man with the world… it’s making me think of how mulder broke into his house that one time, was going to kill him over what he did to scully, and cancer man had the nerve to say he liked mulder… OOOH my brain is just racing racing racing. 

poor scully… how scared she was, how horrified afterward… 

other things that are on my mind, in no particular order: the bond between scully and her mother; mulder being all babygirl on that couch; mulder hopping on that bicycle and picking up some random doll from the murder victim's house; how haunting scully's voice was when she asked him over the phone where he was; their cola drinking; mrs. scully trusting mulder no matter what; how he tried to cover the grief in his voice when he told the lone gunmen he had to go identify her body; how he kicked the door shut of the mystery man, damning the investigation to pay his respects; how his head hovered above the wheel of the car before he got out to do that; how X uses and uses him to no clear end, and what is HE doing reporting to cig man, and what was that random doctor doing conducted fucked up experiments on random people; and scully's miraculously bad aim; mulder's conviction he could talk sense into her (spoiler: he could not); her shame at being convinced he had been the one who abducted her; how terrifying that must have been; and his stupid jokes when he walked into her hospital room, with the sincerity he tries so hard to outrun and outfox breaking through in his whispered why don't you get some rest?

so needless to say, i see why this one is a fan-favorite. this is certainly one i will be revisiting in the future when i need something strong. i have a million things to think over that will stick with me Forever, and i am in no rush to move on from this. in fact, i took these notes yesterday, but in the process of editing them tonight, i have decided i am not ready for the season finale and will have to save it for tomorrow because i'm still feeling So Many Things. so stay tuned to see how that goes, because whew!

[your-local-p4r4s1t3]

Im on episode 495 of One Piece, Ace is the silliest character imo

[gladumfdoodles]

wrote a quick warmup based off of Grian and Scar's secret life episode 6 :]

word count: 495

characters: Scar, Grian, Pearl, and Etho

It's chasing him. It's chasing him and it's screaming at him and he is barely dodging its attacks.

Scar leapt over a crater in the ground, not daring to slow down as he ran his third circuit around the secret keeper, heart pounding, breath coming in short bursts. He couldn't stop. He couldn't stop, because it would catch him and he would die.

The wither let out another ear piercing shriek, launching another volley of missiles around him. He ducked around three of them, then skidded around a fence post, heading back around the mounders base.

“Help!!” He shouted, running past Mumbo and Pearl's tower. “It won't stop chasing me!!”

“You’re on your own, Scar!” Pearl hollered back, dragging one of her wolves by the collar into her home.

Scar hurled himself over the small pond, just missing the bank, landing with a splash. He hauled himself out as quickly as he could, racing for the gate and throwing it open.

He sprinted back towards the secret keeper statue, stumbling over the divots in the landscape, nearly falling over one of them as he did so.

“Etho! I'm back, got any ideas?” He yelped as he saw the other man come into view. He had something to do with this, right? He could help.

“The warden is down there, if you can lead it to him!” Etho called back, running in front of him.

As he did so, Scar's communicator exploded with messages, and he managed to pull it out long enough to see that it was Grian, repeating the same thing over and over again.

[Grian]: scar ill log you out

“What does that mean?” He panted, dropping his communicator back in his pocket. “Grian?”

“Follow me, follow me, right here.” Etho pulled him over to Joel's MLG tower, up against the wall. “We'll log out here!”

“What is–” Scar started, but he was unable to finish as the world disappeared from around him. The breath in his lungs was sucked out, leaving him gaping for air that didn't exist. He felt like he had fallen into the void, except that even the void had some detail, some amount of life. This was nothing. He was nothing. It was tearing at his arms, his legs, his face, threatening to consume him, and then–

Purple threads wrapped around his wrists and ankles, pulling taut and dragging him up through the nothingness. The world rushed back in a burst of color and light, and he looked up to see Grian standing in front of him, glowing purple strings twisted around his fingers. Eyes floated around his head, seemingly made of the same material. As he watched, the eyes closed and the threads vanished, leaving them both breathing heavily, the sound of a wither screaming in the background.

“What was that?” Scar whispered, eyes wide.

“Logging out.” Grian patted him on the shoulder, and Scar could feel his hand shaking. “Come on, let's go kill this wither.”

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listen this is pretty canon divergent but I thought it would be super cool if logging out isn't a normal thing that people do, they just live on the server until the game ends, but grian has the power to boot someone off the server for a short time and bring them back

[hauntingblue]

Episode 495 confirms my luffy doesn't want to be alone and ace accepts him because someone doesn't want him dead theory

I keep thinking about luffy and ace being raised separated for a while until garp thinks ace is kinda fucked up and puts them together like they do with a puppy and a baby cheetah

[subtlesolitude-tailoredtaste]

Why People with Trauma Struggle in Relationships

Theo Von Clips

Excerpt from This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #495 | Tim Fletcher

Full Episode: • Trauma Expert Tim Flet...

@DavidBee101

3 months ago

That whole line about being fine until something triggers you and then fucking things up beyond repair hit hard. When it's too late it's too late, and you will hate yourself once you come to that realisation.

ago

@ahem8013 I've never heard the phrase, but I love it. Something similar I say is "the truth will set you free, but it's going to piss you off first."

People who believe that their life is perfect and can't fail are always in for a worse reaction than a person who is realistic. I know exactly how close I am to failure, because it would take one bad accident, some legal trouble, or even a random freak accident with no explanation and I could be homeless by the end of the year.

A LOT of people don't understand that.

@jakx1115

2 months ago

@ye3472 same here bro. Dealing trauma has set me back.

Hearing Theo say “when I saw a functioning family I would be like ‘what the f*** is this’” killed me

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@MsMak03

2 months ago

😂 now I’m staying to see this moment

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@zackwebb8697

2 months ago

Shits real too. Just seeing a family eating dinner together used to break me

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@MsMak03

2 months ago

@zackwebb8697 sorry mate

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@zackwebb8697

2 months ago

@MsMak03 no worries, I eat dinner with my wife and kid now

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@Shotzno

2 months ago

It was even better when he said,”that’s the dumbest sht I’ve ever seen.” xD

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@BenLWolf

1 month ago

@zackwebb8697 ... Oh god that was probably not a good idea. You didn't have proper training to raise children to begin with. Most likely you're just going to transfer your pain down on them and keep the cycle of abuse going no matter what you do.

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@zackwebb8697

1 month ago

@BenLWolf Thats the duty of any parent, to deal with their own baggage and stop the generational trauma from being passed down. I'm not perfect but I feel like I've done my work. I will say, epigenetics are a scary idea to me

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📌🧿📿 @musicallyfedmonkey3 months ago “The highway of life is filled with flat squirrels that couldn't make a decision.”🧠🔫🧿

❗️

@jenniferbaker1561 1 month ago It's hard to be broken as a child and to have to spend your life trying to fix what someone else did. it isn't right, it just isn't right. I pray for all of us.

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[rikeijo]

Today's translation #495

Go Yuri Go!!!, Yuri!!! on ICE official fanbook, Ito Noriko interview, Prop Design

Part 3.

-- What kind of conversations did you have with Yamamoto Director and other staff members?

I: The Director's corrections were often about "figure skater's ample butts and thighs", "facial expressions during performances" and "Victor's eyelashes and silky hair", so I kept that in my mind that these are the points I need to be careful about while working. Hiramatsu-san showed us the art direction for this anime very clearly in the first episode, so my job was just to stick to that. But Hiramatsu-san's art style evolves as he works, so it was quite hard to follow... (laugh). I haven't got many opportunities to speak with Kubo-san about my work, but her storyboards were the most important hint for me, to be able to grasp the characters.

-- Please tell us about your plans for the future.

I: It was also because in case of the TV series, I joined the team quite late, but we started working on the episodes before all setting materials were ready. Next time, I want to prepare the setting materials better. I'm looking forward to have another opportunity to play with designs. I want to draw more of Yuri!!! characters, so I'm personally very happy that the continuation was green-lit. Next time, I'd like to draw key animation frames for the skating scenes... or maybe that is a reckless thing to think? (laugh)

[goranvisnjicdaily]

"Never Here" Update Gallery

Hello there! Almost time to go to bed, but before, I just want to add up a lil update on the Gallery! I finally got my hand on a HD copy of "Never Here" so I redid the screencaps... We have 495 HD screencaps (Instead of 123 Screencaps) of Goran as "S" from "Never Here" The Movie is available on Tubi if you wish to check it out! Quite a weird movie, but I'm fascinated by it! ;)

As always the screencaps are available 👉 HERE

AND, what I didn't tell you, is that I got this morning my "Timeless" Blu-rays!! I'm quite thrilled to screencap Goran as Flynn... OMG! ahha! I shall start tomorrow, so stay tuned! 😁

I couldn't wait, had to do 1 special screencap Goran from The Atomic City Episode. I don't know why, I'm fascinated with his expression on that shot!

[whimsicallyenchantedrose]

Season 2 Rewatch Drabbles--2x17 Welcome to Storybrooke

Summary:  A series of 100-500 word drabbles to accompany my    rewatch of season 2 of Once Upon a Time as an attempt to finally jump    start the muse again.  There will be a drabble–either a deleted scene, a    “fix it” fic or a character musing for each episode of the season.     Focus will be on Emma, Henry, the Charmings and Killian–with an    emphasis on the very beginnings of Captain Swan’s epic love story, as    soon as a certain dashing pirate makes his appearance.  

Word Count: 495​

Other Chapters: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17.5) (18) (19) (20) (21-22) (22)

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Regina opened her eyes as she slowly awakened.  Looking to the side, she saw Graham peacefully sleeping beside her, his face blank, as though he had no thoughts, no dreams, as though there was nothing there but an animated husk.

She frowned.  She’d long since lost count of the number of days since her curse began, but she knew one thing.  This wasn’t the happy ending she’d bargained for.

Oh at first she’d believed it was.  She thought back to that first morning of the curse, how she’d awoken happy, triumphant.  Her curse was cast, her revenge complete, her perfect kingdom, made in her own image, there for the enjoying.  Her subjects deferred to her, respected her, jumped at her every command.

And Snow, well that was the most delicious of all.  Snow had become a timid, mousy shadow of herself.  Regina had taken great delight in leading her nemesis to the hospital to see the man who’d never again wake up.  At first Regina had been disappointed that her soldiers had failed to kill Charming.  After all, that would have been poetic justice–because of Snow Regina’s love had been killed, because of Regina, Snow’s had–but the more she thought about it, the more she realized Charming alive, but in a coma–there, but not really there–was even better.  It twisted the knife that much deeper.

It was the first time Regina led Snow to Charming’s bedside, though, that she began to feel the first kernel of dissatisfaction.  What good was it for Mary Margaret to see David suffering if she didn’t even know who he was?

As the days passed, that kernel of dissatisfaction had grown.  Yes, she ruled the town.  Yes, the townsfolk deferred to her.  Yes, they even treated her with polite respect, but none of it was real.  No one obeyed her because they wanted to.  No one treated her kindly because they truly liked her.  She’d taken their free will away, and in doing so and made their compliance, their affection meaningless.

For the briefest of moments she thought she had found a solution.  

When Kurt and Owen (especially Owen) came to town and seemed to genuinely enjoy her company, she thought she’d finally found something–someone–to plug the hole in her heart.  

But that had gone wrong too. Despite her hospitality, they’d chosen to leave her.  Oh she’d tried to stop them, but the more she tried to manipulate the situation, the farther she’d driven little Owen away, until finally he ran from her, crossed the town line and sprinted away.

She’d have given him anything, everything, if he’d only stayed and given her the affection she craved.  Why couldn’t he see that?

And so she’d let him go, unable to give chase, and she’d gone back to her “perfect” life.  One day she’d find a way to fill that hole in her heart, but until then, she’d have to settle for the paradise she’d created. 

Even if it wasn’t real.

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