#episode 502

[theafictionados]

Every Afictionados Best Line Award (Casey)

LOST Episode 502: The Lie by the Afictionados Podcast Network

[ttinyedits]

∞ Nina Chase in FBI: Most Wanted s05e02 Footsteps

[thisghosts-obsessions-again]

I instantly thought of how Rain handled the break discourse so bad they f-d up everything with essentially someone who might have been their soul mate, then didn't bother to actually be direct so now you had MC, in my case from Europe, flying to NY thinking of surprising her partner only to end up homeless in a foreign country. Damn you Rainn!!!

[apt502-if]

Demo Update (July, 10, 2024): Episode 1

EPISODE 1 UPDATE: +100,433 WORDS

Hi Hello. Yes, I know. :< I went dark again! This time it was because I ended up changing more last minute and didn't want to moan on about the excuses so I hunched away to work on it in silence. :> I think I've made it clear through my actions that I am not a social media person so I tend to neglect the 502 Tumblr when I write. Sorry :< A lot happened in my life since posting the pilot but I did say I would never abandon 502 and I meant it. I struggled with my work/life balance since starting an IF (it's a lot of work) but I'm glad I'm here to I can update the demo now!

What to expect:

⛟ Another day in apartment 502

⛟ Spend some time with one of the roommates.

⛟ Have your orientation at your job and meet a familiar face!

Some things to take note of:

The news anchor route is not available. I didn't like the direction I was taking it and haven't figured out what I want to do with it. It's not gone permanently but this update it'll be blocked off :<

Stats are still not updating. I ended up changing them multiple times and realized I wanted to wait another update to figure out what stats I want to focus on. The story gives me many directions to go on when it comes to stats and I want to make sure I hone in on the stats that will apply the most of MC's story. The stats are there so you won't get any errors but they won't move or anything and they'll most likely change.

There may be some inconsistencies, typos, errors or things that don't match. The product of writing half the chapter over nine months ago and going through many changes. :< Please let me know if you find errors. You 100% will in a 100k chapter.

The demo is 150,299 words. Play Apt. 502 here.

[risequotes]

Daily Rise Quotes: DAY 502

Mikey: Remind you of anyone?

Donnie: Nope! ...Wha-? [Gasp]

(Season 2, Episode 4A - Breaking Purple)

[polutrope]

"Wherefore dost thou of the uncouth race of Men endure to upbraid a king of the Eldalië? Lo! in Palisor my life began years uncounted before the first of Men awoke. Get thee gone, O Úrin..."

'Turambar and the Foalóke' in The Book of Lost Tales Part II. Written c. 1919.

"How do ye of uncouth race dare to demand aught of me, Elu Thingol, Lord of Beleriand, whose life began by the waters of Cuiviénen years uncounted ere the fathers of the stunted people awoke?"

'Of the Ruin of Doriath', The Silmarillion, ed. Christopher Tolkien. Published 1977.

So I think something that gets left out of the Thingol discourse (note: no Thingol bashing on this post please), is the textual history of the chapter 'Of the Ruin of Doriath'. Most of the published Silmarillion very closely follows drafts written by Tolkien. Not so this chapter, which Tolkien only ever got to in his first draft of the Silmarillion in the historical summary tradition as we know and love it, i.e., the 1930 Qenta Noldorinwa, where he wrote:

Thingol ... scanted his promised reward for their labour; and bitter words grew between them, and there was battle in Thingol's halls.

(Consider that the Thingol of the Narn i hin Hurin, often cited as a gentler and more complex character, was written in the 1950s.)

The only other time he touched it in more expansive prose format was in the late 1910s, when Doriath was Artanor and Thingol was Tinwelint and the Silmarils barely mattered. He again mentions these events in brief annalistic form in the Tales of Years, most lately revised in the 1950s.

502 The Nauglamir is wrought of the treasure of Glaurung, and the Silmaril is hung thereon. Thingol quarrels with the Dwarves who had wrought for him the necklace.

That's it. That's all Christopher Tolkien and Guy Gavriel Kay (hired to help write this gap in the narrative) had to work with. So they took Tolkien's words where they could get them, and here you can see they took a speech Tinwelint (later Thingol, but not the same character as he developed) spoke to Úrin (later Húrin, but also not the same character) and adapted it to another context, i.e., Thingol's conflict with the Dwarves over the Nauglamir.

In The War of the Jewels (HoMe 11), Christopher writes a revealing commentary on how he put together this chapter, and expresses regrets on how it was done. He admits, "How [my father] would have treated Thingol's behaviour towards the Dwarves is impossible to say."

Now, I really dislike the 'Christopher did him dirty' line of thinking. Working through HoMe, it's obvious Christopher did the best, most faithful-to-JRRT job anyone could have done putting his father's drafts into a cohesive narrative. But, in this case, Christopher (and Guy Kay) did tinker with Thingol's character in a way that, I think, he regretted, or at least questioned. And, unfortunately, the way Thingol speaks to the Dwarves here -- a speech Tolkien did not write -- has become a huge sticking point in fandom conversations.

Yes, it's canon that Naugrim means "stunted folk" in Sindarin. There's definitely tension and mutual disdain between Elves and Dwarves, no question about it. Does Thingol call the Dwarves an "uncouth race" and claim superiority as a lord of Elves in the published Silmarillion? Yes, he does. And so yes, it's canon and it's part of Thingol's character. But it's not the only part of Thingol's character, which is the point I always see the (shall we say) appreciators of nuance returning to.

But I've wanted to make this post about the textual history of what I would consider Thingol's worst moment for a while, since I've not seen it included in the conversation before.

"Canon" in Tolkien's legendarium is hard to define, as we know. (Personally, that's precisely what makes it so creatively inspiring to me.) But I think there are some places where it's harder to define than others, and this episode with Thingol and the Dwarves is one of them.

Take it as you will.

[holdthgirl]

❲ ⠀ミ 🤎  𝒖𝒑𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒆⠀ !   ❳   + 368  gifs have been added to the damian hardung  gif pack in the 2nd and 3rd episodes of maxton hall , uping the total to 502  gifs !  click here to be redirected to the original and reblogable post .

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #850

Kermit once fired Miss Piggy from The Muppet Show and replaced her with Loretta Swit.

Source:

The Muppet Show. Episode 502: Loretta Swit. October 12, 1980.

[mjbarrosart]

My Dragon Prince Boards season 5 part 1

So, now that season 5 is out I can share with you some of the work I did in the show as Storyboard Artist. This boards were done between the last months of 2021 and the first ones of 2022.

If you have questions about the process of boarding for the show please ask, just remember not to ask about seasons 6 and 7 :)

This is going to be more than one post, so It's divided by episode.

Episode 502

My first sequences was with Callum and Rayla in the forest in their way to Xadia.

Jack de Senna acting was so animated that was hard to not make Callum's acting super extra too. Callum/Rayla's dynamic is pretty fun.

My next sequence was with Claudia's team. A much dark mood than the previous one. Racquel Belmonte is my favorite voice actor in the show, so any chance to work with Claudia was a privilege. Also, Terry is a sweetheart.

The next one was when Viren meets Kpp'ar on his fever dream. This one was hard, is an slow moment that needs to feel tense but still interesting. I really love what the lighting and compositing team did with the lights here.

I also did the sequence when Callum and Rayla are leaving the comfy Inn, their interactions are so fun in that sequence, hahaha.

My last sequence on this episode (and my favorite of it) is the one where Callum and Rayla are crossing "The Scar".

I remember clearly reading on the script the line where Rayla is talking about how is a wound that is healing, and in one of the meetings I asked Aaron "Is Rayla talking about the scar or about their relationship?" ... well I leave the answer he gave me to your imagination ;) but after that meeting I added this shots :3

I really like the little symbolism at the end of the sequence with new life growing in a place like this. The world can heal.

Those were my contributions to episode 502, next post will be 505. Thanks for checking my art!

[babyrdie]

This is a vase attributed to the Painter of the Underworld, estimated to date from around 340 BC. The subject is the Trojan War, more specifically the Trojan part of the war. Of particular interest is the explanation that was attached to this image on the website.

The central motif of the upper frieze is Cassandra leaning in despair against her mother Hecuba who is taking care of her. The young woman is depicted with a laurel wreath and a knotted and tasseled fillet around her head, holding a laurel branch, attribute shared with her twin brother Helenos painted in the right corner of the scene. The laurel branch points towards Hector’s helmet, held by a charioteer, in the lower register. Next to the woman, a filleted tripod standing on the top of an Ionic column confirms her prophetic and Apollonian characterization. The eagle flying on the top right side with a snake in its claws is another sign of her ability to see into the future. But Apollo, after giving her this gift, punished her refusal of his love: nobody would have believed her prophecies. So it is not surprising that neither her mother nor her father Priam on their left share her concern for Hector. Only another Trojan, her twin brother Helenos, who also had the same gift, can recognize the sign of her prophecy concerning the fate of Hector. The soldier between Cassandra and his brother is a trumpeter, probably ,signifying the imminence of battle. In the center of the lower frame there is a quadriga. The charioteer holds the helmet of the warrior portrayed on foot near the chariot. His Phrygian cap points out the Eastern origins of the characters involved. To left a farewell scene between a man and a child hold in the arms of a woman. Both the man and the woman look dejected as if they knew their fate. A second woman partly lost is represented standing in the far left corner. It is just as clear that the lower scene is the farewell of Hektor, who is taking his leave of Andromache and his baby son, Astyanax, the moving episode immortalized in Iliad book 6 (vv 390-502). Yet, as soon as the great epic scene is recognized, a viewer who knows the poem will see a contraindication signaling that this is not precisely the Homeric narrative. Hektor's charioteer is holding the famous helmet, which is positioned, shining brightly, right in the center of the composition. In Homer, Hektor is at first wearing it, but then, when he holds out his arms to his son and the child cries, he takes it off and lays it on the ground. At the end of the meeting, Hektor picks up his helmet himself and sets off on foot. Given that this picture is not following Homer exactly, it is more likely that the woman holding the baby is Andromache herself, rather than the nurse (who holds the baby in the Iliad). The figure of a woman standing behind her is unfortunately incomplete; it might have decisively signaled that she was either Andromache or, more probably, the nurse (with white hair). Here the artist combines two narrative episodes concerning the departure of Hektor to battle and the dire prophecies by Cassandra into a single composition. Some scholars suggest that the vase painter was inspired by the plot of a lost tragedy called “Hektor” by the fourth-century playwright Astydamas.

From Iliad – XIV: Hector by the Underworld Painter by Egisto Sani. See here.

[theafictionados]

Every Afictionados Best Line Award (Robyn)

LOST Episode 502: The Lie by the Afictionados Podcast Network

[ttinyedits]

→ Nina & Scola in FBI 5.02 - Love is Blind (2/2) It sure started out fun, though.

[propertyofwhitney67]

Oopsie dropped my prompts, didn't I?

Whitney and lazy day & smut (& antiques roadshow) please. (As if you're just out there, churning out wonderful fics on the daily. I salute you)

Watch and Learn

M!Whitney x AFAB!Reader

Prompt Event: Lazy day

Words: 502

Tw: smut, unprotected sex, creampie

Note: YAY!! I don't know how you found my antiques roadshow post, I almost forgot it myself, but I love this so much. Thank you!! <3

“No, I have the remote.” Whitney refused, sounding like a child. He wanted to watch Antiques Roadshow and there was no denying him. I’ve created a menace.

I groaned and flopped down on his bed, giving up, knowing I wouldn’t be able to change his mind. “Fine, it better be a good episode…”

After seeing one too many creepy old dolls and no art, I grew bored. “Another one?”

He hushed me, “Quiet, slut.” I only rolled my eyes in response.

I suddenly got an idea, the only way to distract Whitney is with sex. Deciding to try something different from what I usually do I quickly straddled Whitney, pinning his arms down with all my weight. I started to bite and suck on his neck, leaving marks. “The fuck are you doing, slut?” He sounded annoyed that I interrupted his show but didn’t try to push me off.

“Shut up and let me have fun.” I grumbled into his neck before trailing my hands down his chest and to his clothed cock.

He laughed and grabbed my hips, “You’re shit at this.”

I huffed and pulled my hands away, “You’re such an ass.” He smirked before I laid down on his chest and wrapped my arms around him, “Can’t have any fun…” I was slightly embarrassed and wanted to hide.

Whitney laughed again and groped my ass before easily changing our positions, he was now hovering over me with a tight grip on my waist. “Let me show you how it’s done.” He smirked and quickly took control, stripping me of my clothes.

I gasped and moaned as he drew slow circles on my clit, taking his time teasing me. Sucking and lightly biting my nipples, pulling more moans from me. “Whitney…”

“Keep moaning like that, slut.” He smirked and thrusted two fingers in my cunt, scissoring me open and preparing me for his thick cock.

“Ah! Fuck!” I moaned and arched my back into his touch, “Please…” 

He ignored my pleading and made sure to pull an orgasm from me before pulling out his thick cock, rubbing it against my entrance. “Nice and ready for me.” He smirked and slowly thrusted into me, bottoming out. 

I whined and thrusted my hips, trying to get any kind of friction. “Please, Whitney.”

“Since you asked so nicely.” He didn’t hesitate in setting a brutal pace with fast and deep thrusts.

I moaned and wrapped my legs around his waist, raking my nails down his back and leaving red marks. “Fuck!” He easily pulled multiple orgasms from me, making me see stars each time. 

With one last thrust, he filled me with his cum for the umpteenth time and collapsed onto my chest without bothering to pull out. “I chose the perfect slut.” He mumbled as if I wasn’t there and wrapped his arms around my waist before getting more comfortable.

I scoffed but wrapped my arms around him too, leaning down and kissing the top of his head, “Love you too asshole.”

𝘔𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵

𝘒𝘰-𝘍𝘪

[lonelylonelyghost]

Re-watch of The Spirealm. Episode 18

This poor soul ahaha

An unfortunate third wheel who's forced to suffer while the other two are living their best romcom lives completed with a "there was only one bed" trope

"Everyone has an unknown side, half-hidden in the sunlight, and half-exposed in the darkness."

Zaozao speaks some incredible stuff this Door.

I love that though she is not the main brains of the operation, she still has depth to her, is full of empathy and sense of justice.

The art on the walls!!! 🔥🔥🔥

Enter

I noticed long ago that when women in the story are not forcibly dragged into romance plotlines, they are often actually allowed to develop personalities and have meaningful friendships with other people.

(I am not bashing on the romance genre btw, I am just saying that people suck at writing it well)

Speaking of romance...

💓___💓----> <----🧡___🧡

The sharp lines of his black jacket in the contrast with the muted colors of the surroundings

I'll never shut up about it

Cozy

I'm curious if any of the viewers actually live in an apartment 502. That must have been freaky for them to watch a least a little bit

The WOMEN in this show!

Gosh, they are so awesome...

Murder? Murder.

This doll is creepy af, but I think it's still better than carrying an actual infant corpse with you everywhere...

I wasn't fazed much by the novel, but that detail was disturbing on a purely spiritual level

Some body-snatching as a treat

I actually had to check my 78-episode files again because I literally had no memories of this scene... I thought they just cut to black after that wall projection, but added the rest when they changed the format of the episodes...

Smart cookies are smart-cooking

You can get used to horrors but humans always manage to find a way to surprise you

Nobody got any sleep... Which reminded me of -

The occasional deadpan humor was honestly the best part of the novel

Yey! Kill him!

Always compliment both boyfriends

The light....

[apt502-if]

what are some of your favorite sitcom tropes + what are some we should expect in the story? 👀 sorry, i just love sitcoms!

trying to focus on more "big picture" tropes instead of the small ones (like when someone stalks to the bathroom only to scream when they see someone they don’t know showering :P) here HMMMMM

the episode where each character has their side of the story and the episode tells each perspective in flashbacks (my favorite)

drunken confessions,

GETTING STUCK IN AN ELEVATOR,

going to another location to stay (like going to a log cabin in winter or going hiking),

game night episodes,

chaotic weddings,

public grand gestures/confessions at said weddings :P

main character has two dates on the same night and jumps between the two,

attractive neighbor has no water and goes to apartment to shower and chaos ensues

landlord pays a visit

visiting a hometown for a serious or unexpected reason

sibling from out of town drops in unexpectedly and stays for a while

the gang getting trapped somewhere (like in a basement) and one of them is freaking out

Halloween party with costume misunderstandings

Christmas party episodes^ the grand gesture at the airport

^going on vacation at a resort and more chaos ensues

when two “friends” accidentally kiss in the most ridiculous way

when the other roommates trap the two bickering roommates in a room and refuses to let them out until they resolve their issues

there's a lot :P you can be sure to see tropes like these in 502 :P

[noddytheornithopod]

PnF Season 5 Title Speculation

Okay first thing's first, found out through this (click on "relationships"), which I found out through the PnF Wiki twitter.

As for the episode titles themselves, I will list what's been confirmed here.

501: Summer Block Buster/Cloudy with a Chance of Mom

502: Appetite for Adventure/License to Bust

503: Dry Another Day/Deconstructing Doof

504: Tropey McTropeface/Biblio-Blast!

505: A Chip to the Vet/More Than an Intern

506: The Aurora Perry-Alis/Lord of the Firesides

507: Agent T (for Teen)/The Haberdasher

508: [Title TBD]/Out of Character

Alright, now that's out of the way, time to get crazy and speculate nonsense based on titles alone

Summer Block Buster: I don't really have much to say besides the fact the title is very fitting. Yeah Summer Block Busters are a thing, but I won't be surprised if this episode is just one big grand re-entrance for everyone. I expect it to be very meta about it too, some of the dialogue Dan recorded for Doof even suggests this.

License to Bust: IDK what to say here but the whole pun on "licence to kill" (which is also the title of a Bond movie). I don't think puns are emblematic of much, but it's most explicit confirmation Candace is still trying to bust her brothers, which people understandable debated after Candace Against the Universe. Wonder if the licence thing is going to be relevant.

Dry Another Day: Second Bond title pun, lol.

Deconstructing Doof: Not sure what's being gotten at here, but it's an intriguing title to say the least. Very uh interesting. I could make a joke about how it's about how they don't know what to do with him post Summer but I'm not here for snarky commentary.

Tropey McTropeface: Uh... very interesting. Named after Boaty McBoatface, apparently. IDK what tropey nonsense they're getting up to though.

Biblio-Blast: I feel like SOMETHING is being said here but I don't know what. Was pointed out to me it could be something about weaponised books but IDK what that even looks like.

A Chip to the Vet: Okay this is very interesting. Firstly, it's probably Perry going to the vet. Secondly... one thing done for pets at vets is to get chipped. Whether it's just something the vet does or it's a deliberate request so they can get an idea of where Perry wanders off to... it's gonna be a big problem for Perry. Hopefully OWCA has a way to get around that lol.

More than an Intern: Carl episode. Nuff said. More trying to prove himself to Monogram probably even as Monogram treats him like shit, lmao.

The Aurora Perry-Alis: Aurora Borealis? At this time of year, at this time of- yeah we all know Steamed Hams probably. No idea what this will add up to honestly, maybe some kind of astronomical phenomenon that looks like a platypus, or the gang make one? If there's anything I have to say though, there's a chance it might run parallel to the next episode in a Bubble Boys or Bee Day type fashion, because...

Lord of the Firesides: Yeah you know I'm gonna be talking about what is obviously a Fireside Girls episode as that guy with the Isabella brainrot. So if it works like Temple of Sap or Bee Story, it COULD run parallel to the last episode, but that's not guaranteed. Either way... some friction between the Fireside Girls is going to come up. The title obviously references Lord of the Flies, aka the story where kids turn brutal and try to dominate each other or whatever. Maybe there's a split Isabella is caught in the middle of. Or perhaps... Isabella is removed as troop leader. She could make some serious blunder (could even be unrelated to Phineas even if that bias does affect her activities a lot), but maybe the other girls just end up being sick of Isabella's Phineas nonsense after something went too far. :P If Isabella is kicked out, I feel like she'd really struggle with that, because being a Fireside Girl is really important to her. Also, IDK who would replace Isabella as leader (honestly this ep would be good to just flesh out the other girls more in general), but I did see a hilarious suggestion that maybe it could be Candace. Would be similar to We Call it Maize (a very underrated episode IMO) but with more serious consequences. Not something I'm riding on, but it's a fun idea, especially if she proves she's more egotistical or just outright doesn't know what she's doing. Also saw a hilarious yet touching idea that somehow PHINEAS helps Isabella regain her leadership, he'd reassure her of why she's a good Fireside Girl and all that (cuz he believes in her to the ends of the Universe guys, shit my Phinabella is showing), or just somehow help her prove herself again. Also, the solution coming from what the girls thought was the problem would just be ironic and funny in a very PnF way. Either way... amazing at what a mere title can make me wonder.

Agent T (for Teen): Perry the teenage girl??? Okay so I've already seen this catch on from many people, but if there's one thing everyone in the Phineas and Ferb fandom wants, it's more Stacy and Perry interaction. Sure, maybe it could be someone else (Monty's a teenager, where's he been? maybe something leading to or following up Vanessa's internship based on when the revival takes place, or even some weird Candace shenanigans)... but come on. Even if it isn't, we all are gonna see this and hope it's Stacy related as she gets roped back into Perry's world again.

The Haberdasher: So something to do with selling men's clothing? Definitely a scheme PnF could enact. Also there's the meaning of stuff for things like sewing but that's supposedly British and the men's clothing thing is American soooo we know what's more likely. I wonder who's gonna get the glow up though? Baljeet? Jeremy? Maybe the guys just wanna slay? Shit, Phinabella brainrot is back, what happens when she sees whatever Phineas puts on? :v Of course, this could somehow tie to the B-plot too, maybe Doof needs to dress nicely for something.

TBD: Truly a profound title. So much is said with mere letters... okay yeah I can't do this lol

Out of Character: So much is said with so little. The first thing that came to mind was once someone asked Dan and Swampy at I believe SDCC if they'd ever do a personality swap episode, and their response was to look at each other and be like "maybe we will now" (it was likely too late before the show ended then but yeah). Point is... maybe we're finally seeing this idea. It can be very easy to have characters act out of character through whatever means ie an inator or invention, but if you're going to name an episode that, I think you're going to have something that really commits to that premise. There is ENDLESS potential of weird dynamic shifts you could do with this, it could be truly hilarious. Maybe it's also body swap shenanigans, but well I think I made my case for personality swap. Just imagine Perry trying to take over the Tri-State Area, or Baljeet bullying Buford, or Ferb talking while Phineas is silent, or *could go on for hours*.

Soooo yeah that's way more speculation than I expected, let's see if any of this leads to anything lol