#first countdown post is always the worst one

[bronzebluemind]

It’s been 0 weeks since the World Cup finale, 17 weeks to go until sgp and 34 weeks to go until next season.

[ceaselesswatchersspecialboy]

For your au how do you think Bill deals with adjusting to Fords body and just human things in general? Sickness, aging, etc. Does Stan look after him and help? Do they do any holidays or traditions together? Like Stan and Fords birthday, or is it a one-sided/forgotten thing? You mentioned that Bills memory on things becomes more faded the longer he spends in a human body. Does this or never being able to get out/back to his original form or dieing with it scare him in a way?

Sorry if this is alot at once, but this au been on my mind since I saw that first post of it. It's so intense to me and I absolutely love it!

He’s absolutely terrible at dealing with even the most basic cold, and tends to get rather dramatic about it, because to him, all illness is equal, and he doesn’t really process the fact there’s different severities. Stan still looks after him despite this. Well, the first few years together, he tends to do the bare minimum, but after a while, he starts taking a more active role in sickness care.

He realises that, as dramatic as Bill’s being, he really can’t process the difference between a flu and a common cold well, or, possibly, something much worse, so it’s safer to keep an eye on him during sick periods.

Aging is a different beast though. Bill is generally amused by Ford’s face ‘melting’, but it is also a reminder of the passage of time, and his trapped state. It’s part of why he dyes his hair brown. He’s trying to pretend time isn’t passing, that he hasn’t been trapped in this body that long, and brush aside the growing fears he may not figure a way out. He does take great joy in making fun of Stan though. Out of the two of them, he likes to think that Ford — and therefore he — aged better.

An extra plus side is all the new bodily pains! The downside is that it makes being as hyper and active as he usually is more difficult. Agony is a double-edged sword for him. He is simultaneously fascinated, entertained and terrified!

Birthday-wise, Bill does actually play along with Stan, just a little. Mainly because the first birthday Stan celebrated on his own, he offered Bill a cake, which, Bill pointed out he isn’t actually Stanford, so the gesture is pointless… and then he protested when Stan went to take the cake away. Birthday cake became a yearly thing after that. Bill likes it. Stan gets a day of pretending things are sort of normal, even if it’s not. He won’t ever properly celebrate his birthday with Bill though. It feels like replacing Ford, or giving up on him, and Stan doesn’t plan on doing that. His birthday wish is always to Ford to come back.

Bill doesn’t mind any of that, as long as he gets that cake. He’s a trillion years old. Birthdays always feel pointless to him? Maybe even a little funny. It’s like a countdown to death!

The first birthday they really celebrate all out and commit to is when Dipper and Mabel stay, and they have to fully lean into and play the part of twin brothers.

The only other traditions they have is that Bill tags along on Stan’s yearly vandalism of other tourist traps, something they both get a kick out of it, and Bill looks forward to every year. As well as this, they have a particular tradition that stemmed from a drunken game of truth or dare, where Bill dared Stan to spend New Year’s Eve out in the woods, and Stan dared him to join in. Now they… kind of just go camping most New Years. As you do!

Alright. Now that I’m thinking about it, they probably also make Summerween and Halloween into a who can scare the most kids competition.

Finally: Bill’s memory. Yes, it scares him. He’s used to being this untouchable and powerful force to be reckoned with, being stripped of that gradually is one of the worst experiences of this whole thing to him. The one thing he had for a while was that at least he hasn’t forgotten anything. Then, he starts to forget. His new, human mind unable to keep track of a trillion years of existence. The first time he realises he’s forgetting leads to an outburst that Stan has to calm him down from before he hurts himself.

He prefers not to talk about it.

He is adamant he won’t die in this body. He just won’t. He knows Ford’ll die at ninety-two, so he has around thirty years left, and he’s going to get out within that time. He’s sure of it. He has to. He’s Bill Cipher for Axolotl’s sake — whoever trapped him here can’t keep it that way forever.

(He’s coping)

(Also it’s not a lot at all!! I love answering these sorts of asks a lot!! Ty!!)

[respectthepetty]

We started episode nine of Wandee Goodday with the blinding yellow orb of light surrounded by pink/purple flowers. I'm gonna ignore the Ter part because between this and OMG! Vampire (and Thai BLs in general), I got questions about the lack of severity regarding male sexual assault and harassment, but that's a different post.

The props department has given me a yellow and purple labeled beer with the production name on it - AllThat Beer. Bless you, props department.

Yellow on Yak's side, purple on Dee's side, and they kiss in the blue with the purple countdown, and because I hate this blue, hopefully this is also a countdown to the fake part of their relationship ending soon.

@overrgrownn, already pointed out how they swap colors when they step outside and Yak turns pink, but the mermaid tails are in their colors too in yellow/red and purple/pink. Great had a picture on the set of him in a red wig and the boys have been spotted in other wigs, so maybe we wrote this mermaid plot off to quickly.

GET OUT OF HERE BLUE!

Much better! Much much better!

I knew the building's exterior lights were purple, but I hadn't realized it had yellow accents.

This is the worst montage of my life! I can deal with Yak in black because it's one of his colors, but seeing that brown and blue the entire time Yak is trying to woo Dee is disgusting!

Because even when there is yellow, it is covered up!

Both of them are very aware of their feelings! The colors are right there! SO WHY CAN'T I GET THEM?!

It's because they are faking it even when they don't need too!

And I've done been saying that Yak has tried to copy Ter because that's who Dee liked for eight years, so TAKE THE BROWN OFF YOUR BODY!

Y'all don't want to be to fake blue and brown like Ter trying to figure out his life.

And as cute as the boxing couple are, neither Yak nor Dee are an odd little boxing man or his girlfriend!

SO QUIT THE BIULLSHIT, DEE! I don't know why you feel you must lie about your feelings or your color anymore. I'm pretty sure that shirt is pink, so you're just going to sit there in a pink shirt AND LIE with the blue backing you up?! LIAR!!!!!!

I have a theory about the eleventh episode, and I think this man foreshadows it since Ter took too long to sort out his feelings and lost out, but before I write about it, I appreciate AllThat Entertainment for using the same actors in its shows because I deserve to see this man not surrounded by a harem of boys and being batshit crazy.

But back to Dee because even Kao knows what his true color is with his purple confidential folder.

So get it the fuck together, Dee! You know what your color and feelings are, so quit playing with this blue and these lies.

Because I think the eleventh episode will be Yak giving up. Yak lost his first boxing match because he ran out of energy to continue the fight, and Dee has continued this fight for no good reason. Therefore, I've been thinking that Yak was going to give up and Dee would have to finally step up and prove he loves Yak. Now, I NEED THIS TO HAPPEN!

Because as much as Dee is there for Yak, he is still hiding behind this illusion of a fake relationship.

Yak needs to win that final match, but he is dealing with some mental blockage. (This picture was absolutely necessary because he is wearing blue here)

The yellow comes from his mom.

And probably the pants too which is why they are so important. (Thanks, Dee, for showing up in your color)

So Dee gives Yak peace of mind and fills the voids that were left behind when Yak's mother died. We see the same dynamic between Cher and Yei.

But what will happen if Dee doesn't bring peace when Yak needs it the most? Dee's Nineties shirt had the always important message to "Make Love, Not War," but is he taking that advice?

He is absorbing Yak's color and combining it with his.

Yak is telling him that he loves Dee in every single way possible.

And they continue to switch colors as they kiss on the lips.

But Dee continues to deny his feelings and push Yak away when he feels too much. Next week, Yak is fighting for his family and home in episode ten, so I'm hoping everything else gets resolved, and all we are left with is the championship match and love for the last two episodes. My fingers are crossed that Yak will lose in this battle of love with Dee since Dee must always win (and he will win that scholarship).

Please, GMMTV, force Dee to make a choice because even if he wins everything, he'll still lose something.

Please.

[augustghosts]

Plastic Trees

Tommy Miller x Fem!reader

Ok, I’m sooo nervous to post this lmao. I’ve convinced myself that it sucks. This isn’t everyone's cup of tea so make sure you read the warnings! I did the classic me thing by wanting to get right into the story, so there isn’t much of a backstory here but I have future chapters planned (and may have already started writing them) if anyone is interested. So let me know if you enjoy and want more <3 Thank you for reading!

Word Count: 3.4k

Warning: 18+! This isn’t proof read so lmk if u spot any dire mistakes. Kidnapping duh, kind of dark!tommy i guess? Or maybe just very ooc. guns and swearing and all that typical tlou stuff. Reader is an adult, obviously. Handjob, slight voyeurism, face fucking.

This is the worst part. Night time, or at least she thought it was night time. The countdown to morning, wondering if they will even come back down. Wondering if this was the night they pack up and leave, leaving her to die alone down here. The basement was always dark, day or night. But these next few hours were the worst, it would get quiet. No footsteps or shouting. Only a few steps every now and then of whoever was up to keep watch while everyone else slept.

She knew who was on watch tonight, it must be Tommy. She knows this now, she's been down here long enough to know their patterns. She knows it’s Tommy because every hour or so the footsteps sound above her and a shadow appears at the basement door. It lingers for a while and then retreats. She wonders what he thinks, is he toying with her? Is he just trying to listen? See what she’s doing? Or, does his hand linger over the door knob, does he ever think about coming down? Does he ever think about letting her out?

She’s convinced that he does. Or maybe she’s convinced herself that to make herself feel better, either way - Tommy is different. He has softer eyes than his brother. He asks her if she’s okay, despite her answer always being something along the lines of go fuck yourself. Tommy is the only one who actually told her his name. His brother Joel, she only knows after hearing Tommy say it. All of this - Tommy looking at her sweetly and sneaking her extra food is what led to this. She's crouched at the bottom of the stairs. Tommy’s silhouette is lingering by the door. A few seconds and he retreats. His footsteps echo above her, getting quieter as he reaches the other side of the house. Her heart is hammering in her chest, her blood rushing as she steps up onto the first stair. The wood creaks under her, the same way it does when one of them walks down them. She cringes - she listens. When she hears nothing above her, she takes a chance and steps up onto the next one.

She knows the door isn’t locked. The world was years into an apocalypse, this house is run down. The closest thing they had to a lock was making her believe there was someone on the other side 24/7. And usually, there was. Until night, she guesses they think she's asleep - so they would wander around the house. They go stand by the front door instead, keeping watch.

As she ascends the steps, Tommy is above her. Leaning against the dirty kitchen counter. His gun on the old marble in front of him. Easy job, my ass, he thinks. The day he stops listening to Joel is the day he will know peace. Kidnapping someone, locking them in a basement and waiting to hand her off to a group of fuckers who are planning to do god knows what. This is not an easy job. As if to illustrate his point, a gust of wind blows over the house and it creaks. The shitty windows sound awful as the rain pounds against it. Fuck this. He wants to go home. He straightens up and swings his gun back in over his shoulder, planning to do another lap of the house as boredom takes over him.

He freezes as he hears a familiar squeak. It’s not the house this time, it’s those damn noisy basement stairs. He walks slowly, quietly - and peeks around the corner down the hallway. The door is closed. He peeks round into what used to be the living room of this house, Joel and the rest of their group are asleep on the floor and on various old couches. He’s still frozen in place, listening. Another creak echoes from the hallway. He creeps closer, obviously more stealthy than the person on the stairs. Another creak as they reach the top stair, he knows the sound is more hollow than the rest of the stairs. He dips into another room as the basement door handle begins to turn slowly. Her hesitation is obvious, the door is opened slowly - she’s slow, not wanting it to make too much of a noise.

She looks out into the hallway, holy shit - it’s empty. She can see the front door from where she’s standing. She knows the lounge is on the left, and she knows they’re all in there. She can hear the rain and wind up here too. Shit, she’s wearing a shitty pair of jeans and a t-shirt. The same thing she had been wearing since they snatched her up. She opens the door wider and takes a step out, the house is silent. Where the fuck did Tommy go? She takes a few more quiet steps, excitement building inside of her. Excitement to feel the rain and wind on her skin. Excitement to go home.

Her pathetic excitement turns to pure fear and adrenaline as she hears the familiar click of a shotgun beside her. As she passes a dark room on the right of her, a cold metal barrel is pressed to the side of her head. Her hands instinctively rise up, surrender.

“Turn around.” Tommy’s familiar voice - he’s quiet, trying not to wake the others. Her hand flexes at her side, contemplating grabbing the gun. What would she do with it? She has no fucking clue. But she’s so close to the front door.

“Don’t.” He says. “Just turn around.”

“Please, Tommy.” She tries. Her voice was shaking. He almost felt bad. She turned to look at him, face to face with the gun aimed at her head.

“Please what?” He’s still whispering. His voice was deeper than usual when he did.

“Let me go.”

“Yeah, right. Turn around.” He scoffs. Stepping out into the hallway and blocking her way. He’s much taller than her, his height is intimidating as he towers over her, crowding her back down into the basement. She takes a few steps back as he takes a few forward.

“The door is right there. You- you could let me go.” She tries to bargain as he continues to walk forwards, forcing her to walk back into the doorway.

“Oh yeah? And then what? I’m supposed to be on watch, so you escaping is my fault. Then you die out there and we don’t get paid.”

“Please i-“ She starts again, resorting back to pleading with him. She’s so worked up she forgets about the steps. Tommy stops her before she can fall backwards, his large hands reaching around her waist. He’s in charge now, he’s standing in the doorway holding her above the stairs. Blocking her exit, and if he lets go of her - she falls. She’s looking up at him, her eyes big and tearful. Fear evident on her face. Her hands are tightly gripping the front of his jacket, trying to steady herself.

“What now princess?” He says, his voice rumbles.

“Hm?” He prompts as she doesn’t reply. She’s honestly at a loss for words. She’s not sure if it’s because this is not what she planned, or wether is being so close to him like this.

“Are you gonna be good?” He asks. She hates the way her stomach stirs. She wants nothing more than to push him away. “Are you gonna go back down? You don’t have many options.”

She continues to stare at him, weighing her options. She looks at the door behind him and he smirks, an idea popping into his head. He pretends to let her go, one of his arms dropping away from her and slapping over her mouth when she almost screams - thinking he’s about to let her fall down the stairs.

He hauls her up and presses her against the wall, his hand still covering her mouth- the other one gripping her hip tightly. Her hands are still twisted into his jacket, her knuckles turning white. She’s crying now, sobbing behind his hand. Fuck, he was enjoying this.

“I’m going to ask you again.” He whispers. “Are you gonna be a good girl and go back downstairs?”

Her eyes are wide, tears hitting his hand as they fall. She nods slowly, trying to ignore the heat growing between her legs. God, she wishes she had met him in a different situation. He was so beautiful. His dark eyes bore into hers before they flickered downwards. He watches her chest heaving, he feels her eyes on his face and he knows she can feel him. His body is pressed against hers, trapping her against the wall, so he knows she can feel his cock hardening against her.

He lets go of her mouth, bringing his hand down to her throat instead. He leans in, his lips inches from hers. She can feel his breath on her lips but she doesn’t dare move. Fuck, she can’t deny that she wants him to kiss her. Would he let her go if she fucked him? She decides to take her chances. She slowly unwraps her hands from the collar of his jackets. She presses her palms against his chest, for a second he thinks she’s going to try to push him away and he prepares himself to grab her wrists. But his breathing hitches as her hands travel down his stomach and pause at the hem of his shirt.

She looks up at him with the most innocent look she can muster, she searches his eyes for any anger or resistance. He’s doing the same to her, his eyes urging her to carry on. She feels his stomach flex as she slowly lets her hands travel underneath the fabric. How long has it been since someone has touched him? It’s been a while since someone has touched her - just his hand around her neck right now is setting her on fucking fire.

His hand tightens around her throat as she unbuckles his belts and dips her hand into his jeans. Feeling him over his underwear first. Stroking him with a feather light touch. He leans in to press his mouth to her jaw, a quiet moan leaves her lips and she swears she can feel his cock twitch.

“Get on with it.” He mumbles against her skin. Trying to resist biting down into her flesh, not wanting the other guys to see any marks. The other guys - who are only around the corner. If any of them were to wake up and look over here they would see them. Fuck, that turned her on. She hates it.

She reaches into his underwear and grips him tightly. “You're not gonna be gentle with me baby?” He hisses beside her ear, she can hear the smirk in his voice, she feels his lips brushing the shell of her ear.

“What do you want me to do?” She whispers, her hand begins to move, jerking him off slowly. He smells like leather and sweat, she whimpers as her clothed tits press against his chest. His nipples are hard and aching.

“Fuck.” He moans into her ear. His hand flexes on her throat before he shocks her by letting go and straightening up. “Get on your knees.”

“Okay.” She mumbles, slowly kneeling down on the dirty floor. The floorboard creaks underneath her and they both freeze for a second. His hands stop in the middle of pushing his jeans down. They both look down the hallway and listen for a second. When they hear nothing- the house is still silent, he continues. Pulling his jeans down just enough to pull his cock out.

Tommy almost feels guilty as she kneels down in front of him. Almost. His cock is so fucking hard and aching that he can’t help himself. He reaches for the back of her head, guiding her mouth towards his length. He can’t help but think about how fucking jealous Joel would be. He’d expressed his attraction to her when they had picked her up, joking about keeping her the group they were waiting for never came.

He almost explodes as she takes his tip into her mouth, swirling her tongue around his slit. Fuck, it really had been a while. But honestly, they didn’t have time for this. Anyone could wake up at any second and all he wanted was to come down her throat. He grasps her hair at the back of her head and pushes her head down until he feels her gag around him. And she lets him. Fuck, she was perfect.

“That’s it, baby. Fuck.” He mumbles through gritted teeth. As she works up a rhythm, sucking him off as best as she can when his hand is still on the back of her head. Applying pressure to stop her from pulling completely away. Tommy is biting his fist to keep himself quiet, his other hand has a painful grip on her hair. He keeps glancing down the hallway, eventually deciding she isn’t being quick enough.

“You’re mouth is amazing, sweetheart.” He whispers as he grasps both sides of her face. He lets her pull away for a second - she knows what he’s about to do. “But, we gotta hurry up.”

He’s already close. His dick hasn’t had anything but his own hand for a long time and the sight of her allowing him to fuck her face has his balls clenching. She has her palms on his thighs, letting him hold her head and thrust in and out of her mouth at his own pace. And his own pace is a rough one. She’s still crying, but now it’s the feeling of his tip hitting the back of her throat that’s producing the tears. Him using her mouth to get off, she swears she’s never been this turned on in her life.

It’s so fucking wrong. This is one of the men who has had her locked in a basement purely for his own gain for the past couple of weeks. But as she looks up at him, his face flushed, his teeth biting down on his lip as he roughly fucks her face in a disgusting basement - she can’t help but hope he keeps her for himself. She thinks about running away with him. She thinks about him taking her away from all this, ditching his brother and their money and taking her out into the world. She thinks about how he looks pointing his gun at her, how he would look pointing it at someone else to protect her.

She moans around him at the thought, her hand coming down and pressing between her own legs - her jeans stopping her from getting herself off. Her hand eventually goes to her breast instead. Between the sight of her desperately trying to touch herself and the way she moaned around his cock, Tommy is done for. He pauses, forcing her as far down his cock as she can go as he comes down her throat. She feels every drop as it hits the back of her mouth. He pulls his cock out of her mouth but is quick to bring his fingers to her chin, forcing her mouth shut.

“Swallow it.” He says. She does as she’s told. He lets go of her chin when he feels her swallow. She practically collapses backwards, sitting in front of him and breathing heavily. He tucks himself back into his jeans before he crouches down in front of her.

“Shhh. You did good, baby.” He whispers. He caresses her cheek. She looks beautiful like this. She swears she can see the change in his face, his eyes soften and he stands up and holds out his hands. She looks from his palms to his face a few times before it clicks, oh. She takes his hands and lets him help her up. The feeling of him holding her hands making her knees feel like buckling again.

“This doesn’t mean I’m gonna let you go.” He says, his grip tightening on her hands.

“I figured.” She nods,her voice slightly hoarse. But suddenly, she feels like she doesn’t want to go. She pulls her hands from his and turns to walk down the stairs. He stops her before he can descend them with a hand on her shoulder. He backs her up against the wall again and she gasps as he slips his hand into her jeans.

“Shit, did sucking me off get you this wet?” He asks, he’s only tracing her pussy through her panties but he can feel the wet spot she’d created. He can feel the heat radiating off of her and he swears he could get hard again.

“I asked you a question.” He says when she whimpers in response.

“Y-yes.” She moans lightly as he traces her clit through the fabric.

“You want me to touch you?”

She bites back a snarky comment of you already are and just nods instead.

“Please, Tommy. Please touch me.” She asks him sweetly.

“Since you were so good for me, i guess you deserve it.” He says. He leans in closer to her face, god - he wants to kiss her. He knows it’s a bad idea but when she leans up to meet him halfway he can’t help himself. Their lips are practically touching, softly brushing against each other - a moan leaving her mouth as he presses harder on her clit, beginning to move his finger in slow, tight circles.

As he’s about to commit and push his tongue into her mouth, some fucker moves in the other room. The sound of shuffling and someone standing to their feet has him ripping his hand out from between her legs. She’s frozen in place for a second, disappointed and shocked. Tommy is picking his gun back up and whispering Go to her and it jumps her into action. She scurries down the stairs as fast as she can, not missing the way he sucks the finger that had been touching her into his mouth.

“You good, Tommy?” A male voice calls down the hall.

“Yeah. Everything is fine.” The other man looks at him standing in the basement doorway and then looks into the darkness of the basement behind him.

“Everything okay with her?” The man asks.

“Yeah.” Tommy answers. “I thought I heard her moving around. But everythings fine. She’s asleep.”

The man nods and asks: “You wanna switch?”

Tommy nods and hands his gun over. He needs a fucking nap after that. He needed to think. He watches as the man approaches the basement door. A weird protectiveness washing over him. Shit, this isn’t good. He can’t afford to have a soft spot for her. He snaps out of it and takes the man's place on the couch. The couch is dusty and creaks underneath him and he sighs. He thinks about how the people who had hired them to collect here were supposed to be arriving tomorrow.

Below him in the basement, she’s thinking about it too. As she lays down to sleep, she hopes that Tommy will save her - hopes that he won’t let it happen. That he will sweep her off of her feet and carry her away. Hours later, she’s still hoping. A few minutes ago she had been awoken by yelling and gunshots. She’d been curled up in the corner ever since. Waiting, listening. The basement door swings open and she squeezes her eyes shut as loud footsteps tumble down towards her. Honestly, maybe this was a better end than whatever the people who had hired her to be captured had in mind.

“Hey! It’s me.” Her eyes shoot open, Tommy is standing above her looking even more disheveled than he did last night. He’s breathing heavily - his words rushed.

“What’s happening?” She asks. Tommy looks back up the stairs before extending his gloved hand to her.

“Get up. We need to go. Right fucking now.”

[gorogues]

Each of the Rogues being taken individually, what's the most common way that they're written badly (in terms of personality)? E.g., when they're written out of character, what does that most frequently look like?

James: I'm torn on James because his two main OOC screw-ups thankfully didn't happen often and they're diametrically opposed to each other. But when writers have messed him up, they did so big time: the dimwitted homophobic jerk in Countdown, and the cruel Machiavellian mastermind in "The Greatest Trick Of All". The latter wasn't a mistake, it was a specific creative choice, but IMO it was a poor one which damaged his character.

Lisa: I think Lisa's problem was again a deliberate creative one, but I'm not fond of the post-Crisis decision to make her ker-AZY! for the sake of comedy. Yes she'd always been somewhat unstable and violent, but it got dialed up for laughs and not really dealt with by those who knew her. It would have been less frustrating if the people close to her had noted and been concerned about a decline in her mental health, because that's actually story development. Instead she became violent comic relief and ultimately kind of Flanderized.

Len: In the modern era (circa 2000 and beyond), I think the worst characterization done to him is when the writer makes him stupid or thoughtless, because he most assuredly is not. We all have our dopey moments, but stuff like him marching down the street in costume complaining about the heroes being fascists is just weird and very unlike him, as is the entirety of his appearances in Flash: The Fastest Man Alive and Countdown. At least Johns salvaged the latter stories by making it part of his development (he realized he'd made a foolish mistake that cost the Rogues dearly, and reacted accordingly), but it never should have happened in the first place.

Digger: This one's tough, because he did a complete 180 in terms of personality after Crisis, and considering that I don't know if you can say he's really been out of character. I know there are some people out there who are unhappy about that change, and it's a valid complaint I'm sympathetic to, but IMO he became a much more interesting and more dynamic character once Ostrander revamped him and I can't really be mad about it. However, there's no denying that he really did become a different person…whether that's good or bad is likely personal preference. I will say that I really disliked DC ridiculing him and making him seem pathetic around the time of Identity Crisis so he could be killed and replaced, and wish they hadn't done that.

Mick: A full-on violent lunatic who revels in killing and hurting others. We saw it occasionally before the New 52, but the reboot turned it up to 11.

Roscoe: There are a few stories which make me a bit cranky, but IMO the only one that's done poorly is the presidential story. I like the general plot idea, but Waid had a poor understanding of Roscoe's character/personality and it sets my teeth on edge because it didn't seem the writer liked or cared about him much and it showed. From "the least of the Rogues" to the weirdness about him being from Brooklyn(??), to him being self-deprecating(??) about his intelligence and education(??) and his tops(??). The story would have been very good if Waid had characterized him properly, but botched it.

Hartley: For the most part, I believe he's stayed mostly in-character. He's appeared in some bad stories for sure, but I'd say the times he was truly poorly written were when the writer forgot or didn't know/care that he's suppposed to be reformed and heroic -- Flash: The Fastest Man Alive and Flash #775 come to mind. At least both were salvaged afterwards.

Axel: That Helmet of Fate: Detective Chimp one-shot. That's the only time I've ever felt he was written out of character, though his personality has evolved over the years as he matures. Axel can be a vicious jerk on occasion, but casually murdering a bunch of college kids just for their stuff is IMO beyond him at his worst.

Sam: He's a weird one because he died before most characters started getting properly developed, so he never had any truly standout OOC stories (he did come across as a whiny dork when visiting Gotham with Digger, though). Then he was brought back in the New 52 and became something of a cipher, and I personally didn't start finding him interesting again until he left the Flash book and started appearing elsewhere. I don't think I could choose something for him aside from maybe that Gotham story, and that was pretty minor.

Mark/Marco: The times I can think of him being notably out of character were in that same rough era that plagued a bunch of Rogues: Flash The Fastest Man Alive, Countdown, and Salvation Run. It was just a bad period for all of them, and he came off like a thoughtless idiot in those stories. That isn't necessarily out of character for him because he was sometimes portrayed as kinda thick before Johns, but it's clear that Johns intended for him to be relatively intelligent and cultured so it does seem jarring in that era.

Evan: When he loses the moral compass he had since the beginning, and doesn't care who he hurts or kills. He was quite firmly against killing women and children….but that hasn't been the case for the past ~25 years.

Albert: The whole modern Hannibal Lecter routine, in which we saw a decent man who struggled with his darker impulses become a sociopathic bookworm without real development or explanation. It made him a lot scarier, but at the expense of his existing personality.

Owen: Leaving aside the weird revamp he got post-Flashpoint, I found he was most often mischaracterized by making him really stupid and incompetent. A fair number of his appearances in the Outsiders series were like this (which is why I don't love the series), and of course Blackest Night: Flash #3.

Roy: This is cheating, because the only time I've truly felt he was written out of character was just a cameo; he appeared and died within a page. It was his death scene in Flash v2 #183, but in that issue he seemed like a common thug with no resemblance to him aside from the joke about art and colour blindness. It was poorly done.

[scarletslippers]

Nace Countdown to Christmas - Day 24

(From this post of relationship milestone prompts)

On AO3

going through tough times together

Nancy’s heart pounds the way it always does when she enters the main doors of the hospital. This place is tied to too many memories, most of them not so nice. 

Muscle memory weaves her through the hallway to the ER waiting room, searching for a familiar head of ruffled sandy hair. She sees Thom first, looking numb, then the slump of Ace’s shoulders next to him, tension in his frame. Thom bumps his elbow into Ace’s at the sight of her, and Ace’s head shoots up, rising to his feet to pull her into an embrace. 

Nancy can feel him trembling against her, his fingers fisting into the back of her coat, and she snakes her own shaking hand against the back of his neck, holding him there. 

“Are you okay?” she whispers. 

“Not great,” Ace answers honestly. “The kids?” 

“Ryan’s watching them.” She palms Ace’s cheek when he pulls away, tracing her thumb lightly against the shadow under his eyes. “Any news? Are you hungry? Did you eat?” 

“No news. And I’m not hungry.” 

“Well you need something, at least. I’ll be right back.” She squeezes his fingers and turns on her heel, in search of the vending machine. Privately, she blinks back her own tears of fear and worry over Rebecca. This is the role she would be filling—fetching drinks and snacks and fluttering like a mother hen. 

Nancy can’t lose another mom. She just can’t. 

Water bottles and terrible instant coffee acquired, Nancy makes her way back, pressing the warm cups into Ace’s and Thom’s hands. She hands Ace her own cup as well to hold and digs through her bag in search of the granola bars and trail mix packets Ace is always stowing away in there, certain she wouldn’t eat without one. The corner of Ace’s mouth turns up a tiny bit when she pulls one out in triumph, and she counts it as a personal victory. 

The waiting is the worst, she remembers, with nothing to do but let your worst fears run rampant in your mind. She settles in tightly next to Ace, arm to arm, and lays a comforting hand on his thigh. It isn’t long before his hand covers hers. 

Finally relief comes, the call of “Family of Rebecca Hardy?” sending them all to their feet. 

“She’s going to be just fine,” the nurse says with a smile. “We’re going to keep her overnight for observation and run some more tests tomorrow. I’ll let you know when we have her in a room.” 

Ace clumsily translates for his father, then turns to Nancy, tears threatening to spill down his cheeks. She pulls him in for another hug, letting him hide his face in her hair. “It’s okay. She’s okay.”

[im-just-a-br0adway-baby]

((I wanted to post something for the "Encanto April Fool's Day" theme day that @hectic-hector was putting on, since I never participated in one of these before, so I hope you enjoy!))

It was a quiet Saturday morning in the Encanto. The Madrigal triplets were sound asleep, planning on sleeping in, or so Julieta and Pepa thought all three triplets were asleep. Bruno barged into Pepa’s room, startling her and causing her to thunder.

“PEPA! Don’t you know what time it is!?” Bruno asked.

“No; I don’t. I was asleep and was planning on staying asleep,” Pepa replied.

“It’s seven-thirty! The bus is going to be here in fifteen minutes!”

“The bus!?”

“We’re going to be late for school!”

Pepa looked at her clock to notice it said seven thirty. She sprang up from her bed to get dressed, brush her hair and teeth, and ran downstairs for breakfast, only to realize Julieta was not there. Pepa looked around the kitchen, confused, seeing that breakfast was not ready either. That was weird; Julieta was always the first one up every day to make breakfast for everyone.

“Bruno? Where’s Julieta? Why isn’t she here with breakfast?” Bruno made an attempt to hold in a laugh. “What’s going on Bruno? Why are you smiling?”

“Don’t you remember what day it is?”

“What?”

Bruno began to burst with laughter. “It’s Saturday! I just made you get ready for nothing!” 

Pepa began to thunder harder as Bruno continued to laugh at his sister’s misfortune. Pepa surged forward to grab Bruno, but before she could begin to beat the shit out of him, Bruno grabbed onto Pepa’s wrists until she stopped thundering.

“Wait! You know Julieta’s still asleep, right?”

“Yeah, and…”

“And so we can pull the same thing with Julieta! We’re both dressed for school, so let’s make Julieta think we’re going to be late!”

Pepa slightly smirked as her cloud disappeared. “Bruno, you’re the worst person I’ve ever come across, but you’re also the best.”

The sibling pair ran upstairs to Julieta’s door, only to hear that she was still sound asleep. While her snoring was not nearly as loud as Pepa’s, it could still be heard from outside her room. The sibling duo tiptoed their way into her room to see Julieta sleeping like a rock on her bed.

“She’s going to be super pissed when she realizes this is all a prank,” Pepa whispered as she and Bruno moved closer to Julieta’s bed.

“I know, but that will make this funnier,” Bruno whispered back.

Pepa giggled again as she and Bruno walked closer to Julieta. Bruno gave Pepa the countdown to wake her up.

“JULIETA! Wake up! We’re going to be late for school!” Bruno yelled.

Julieta startled from her slumber to see her siblings standing by her bed “Huh? What? What time is it?”

“It’s seven forty-five! We just missed the bus and we’re going to be late!” Pepa lied.

Julieta checked her clock to see it said it was seven forty-five. She jumped out of her bed and began to wash up and get dressed for school as quickly as she could. Pepa and Bruno just watched and laughed as she rushed around Casita just to get dressed. They made their way downstairs by the front door as Julieta ran to the door with three breakfast bars and handed one to each of her siblings. 

“I obviously didn’t have time to make anything, but this should hold us over until lunchtime and if we run we should get to school by eight.”

Pepa and Bruno burst into laughter to see their sister rushing around like it was an actual school day. Julieta stopped as she was about to open the door to see her siblings laughing, giving them her confused look.

“Can either of you tell me what’s going on?”

“Don’t you remember what day it is!?” Bruno laughed.

“It’s Saturday! I can’t believe you fell for that!” Pepa added.

Julieta’s confused look slowly turned angry as Pepa and Bruno continued laughing and she ran to the kitchen to get the rolling pin. The pair made their way to the kitchen to see their sister about to grab the rolling pin from the drawer, only to stop her once she raised the pin at the pair.

“WAIT! I understand you’re angry, hermana, but you can get your revenge whenever you want to,” Bruno explained.

“And you don’t have to tell us when it’s coming,” Pepa added.

Julieta slowly put the rolling pin down and back in the drawer. “Actually, I have a better idea. Can you guys come with me to my booth today?”

“Sure; but for what?” Bruno asked.

“I’ll tell you on the way when we get a little bit more rest. You both can sleep in my room until mama wakes us up,” Julieta answered as she, Pepa, and Bruno made their way back upstairs.

The triplets set up Julieta’s booth after lunch and Pepa and Bruno made their way to a nearby tree. Julieta did her thing as normal after she put the basket of arepas on her table and a line started to form at her booth. Pepa and Bruno climbed on the tree to see the villagers that would make their way to Julieta’s booth. It was only a matter of time until they would see Agustin making his way to the line with Felix right next to him.

Bruno put his arm on Pepa’s shoulder to see when Agustin and Felix would get closer to Julieta. Pepa swatted Bruno’s hand away from her shoulder so she did not get distracted by Bruno’s hand on her.

“I just want to see when Agustin and Felix are next in line!” Bruno said as he swatted Pepa in the arm.

“Well you’re not the star of this prank, now are you!?” Pepa replied as she swatted back at her brother.

“Estas loca! You really have to make this about you like always!”

“How am I trying to make this about myself!? I’m the one that’s going to fall first!”

“I’m just as much part of this as you are!”

The siblings continued to bicker and swat at each other until the branch of the tree broke and they both fell and hit their knees on the ground. Julieta heard a thud when Felix and Agustin made it to the front of the line. Felix was the first to run to the tree to see if Pepa was okay. Julieta was close behind and Agustin behind her. Felix sat next to Pepa as Julieta noticed Bruno and Pepa both scraped their knees. That was not part of the plan at all.

“Are you okay!? What just happened? Were you watching us in that tree?” Felix asked as Julieta handed her siblings each one arepa.

“We’re okay; gracias, Felix. We were trying to pull a prank and it kind of… backfired,” Pepa replied as she and Bruno took a bite into their arepas.

“We were supposed to make you think we fell from the tree and got hurt from it, but it looks like we actually did get hurt,” Bruno added.

“Maybe we should have thought this out better before lunch. I didn’t want anyone to get hurt in this process,” Julieta said.

Agustin walked to the triplets and Felix to show them the arepa he was given shortly before Pepa and Felix fell. “Hey, Julieta, why is this arepa filled with sour cream?” he asked as he gagged consistently.

Julieta snorted lightly. “Okay, I did plan another prank while I was making the arepas that I didn’t tell you about.”

Pepa, Bruno, and Felix followed with laughter as Agustin spit out the remains of the sour cream arepa and let out a giggle. “You got me there, Juli.”

The five continued laughing under the tree until Julieta realized she had a whole line of villagers waiting for her to heal them and she made her way back to her booth. The five spent the rest of the day talking with each other as Julieta continued healing the village. They could not help but talk about new harmless pranks to pull on other friends from school next week.

[miniimapp]

Random Tae Young Headcanons

Gen ;; Fluff - Headcanons

Warnings ;; None that I can think of

Proofread + Edited ;; Yes and yes, for once lmao

Auth. Note ;; WELCOME TO DAY 3 OF THE 4*TOWN CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN !!

if i thought i was having a rough day yesterday.. it doesn't even hold a candle to today but i think pushing myself to write on days like these is what challenges like this are all about !!

Enjoy !! <3

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Tae is the type of guy to take pictures of everything

He gets mugs of everyone

Posts the worst ones of each member on their birthday on his public story on all platforms

Like,, it gets to the point that some of the members refuse look at his story on their birthday because they don't want to look at themselves

Of course it's all in good fun and Tae always checks if they're good with him posting

Still doesn't prepare the others though

Jesse constantly claims to still be traumatised by the pictures Tae posted of him when the band was first gaining traction

Boy did that ruin his swoony image lmao

Only for a little while though

But Tae also takes food pics

You know those people that always take pictures of their food ??

Usually they look like pinterest pics, all aesthetic but not Tae's

Poor baby just wants to take aesthetic food pics but they all come back looking like pics of an inedible mess

And half of them are Jesse's cooking so it's definitely not inedible

And Jesse plates his food like a gourmet chef so Tae really can't blame anyone or anything but his terrible photography skills

But they do come in handy for mugs of his friends so it evens itself out

Tae also loves insects (almost as much as animals) but he is terrified of worms

Don't ask him why he will go on for at least half an hour about why worms shouldn't exist despite their many benefits for the eco-system

Just create a new creature that has those benefits and let Tae live his life

#wormsareoverparty was indeed trending after this info became public

Tae was delighted by the revolution he'd started

Surely if animal lover and friend to all creatures big and small Tae Young doesn't like worms then no one else should either ??

Listen,, y'all thought some kpop stans and one directioners were scary ?? you haven't met a 4*townie trying to get worms cancelled on twitter yet..

Tae only relented on the worm hate when it was pointed out to him that worms are are a main source of food for many birds..

He knew this already, obviously, but it slipped his mind due to worm hatred

Remembering this only made him love birds more

When Tae was younger he got music lessons from a sweet older lady who lived next door to him

He's classically trained in violin, he tried playing piano for a little bit but couldn't find the motivation to keep it up so he dropped the instrument entirely

He could probably play you a piece if you gave him some sheet music and like,, 20 minutes ?? maybe ??

If you ever hear any violin in 4town songs (and you definitely will if Tae releases and solo work) it's Tae playing it

Sometimes he plays a little solo on stage

It's like a little treat for the audience

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Hope you enjoyed !! <3

[clay-cuttlefish]

Okay I've had a bit to recover from the 52 Emotions. Moving through Final Crisis, 70 appearances left to go til Flashpoint.

Justice League of America 2006 #1

Not actually an appearance, but someone impersonates Vic in a flirty note to Vixen and it's very funny to me that a) he's a known pain in the ass among Leaguers and b) she's down for it.

Countdown #40-38

Renee's here! It's not great, she's only here for a couple pages, but she and Kate are kicking ass together, she's funny, she looks good, and Kate calls her Question for the first time.

Crime Bible: Five Lessons of Blood #1

After all this time, Renee gets a solo of her own, and it's SO good.

She's so cool! Relentless, inquisitive, always in motion... it's not that she wasn't great in 52, she was, but she really flourishes when she's in her own space.

#2

😳

I have thoughts about how much Renee's grown but um. Women.

#3

Renee finally gets to reflect on her time at the GCPD, which is interesting. She still has some respect for Maggie and Gordon, but Bullock is dead to her.

Divorce! This is a really good divorce moment. Back in 52, she pushed Kate away for the exact same reasons - old habits die hard.

#4

Tot continues to be my fave despite not doing much. He's perpetually hanging out and begrudgingly helping.

"We're not friends." Two pages later handing her a hat he made in case she gets cold.

Myra...

The newscast says Myra was "elected for a third consecutive term last fall", which I think means she's been mayor for nine years unless some American mayoral terms last different lengths? I'd have guessed it had been longer, but it's not an unreasonably short timeline.

I'm so glad Renee goes back to Hub City. The Question isn't a mantle that carries a lot of recognition, but it does have a history beyond what it meant to Vic and Tot, and I'm glad there's this closure.

Izzy's more Gordon-y than the last time we saw him, but hey it's been almost a decade and it's good for the parallels.

#5

It's important to me that she's funny. She's learned how to go with the flow and take things in stride, and that means saying dumb shit even when she's actively in danger.

This fight is drawn so well. The dialogue wouldn't land nearly as well if it wasn't for the pacing.

This all works so well to flesh out who Renee was, who she is now, and where she might be going.

The Montoya Journal

Not a comic, but some supplementary pieces, because the secret code in the scriptures was too subtle and the way to get people to notice it was to send out secret journals with props. Pictures of the contents are included with commentary in the back of the trade.

Here's a link to some archived posts about the contents, if you don't have a copy, including a link to the song.

The fake band has a MySpace page and an actual song you can listen to. There are designs for in-universe newspapers and messaging apps. The physical journals came with bullet casings. The commitment here is ridiculous.

Only sixteen journals were ever made and I want one so badly.

Final Crisis #1

More events. I'm getting sick of events.

Something something Darkseid. I don't know what's going on with most of these characters and I don't really care.

#3

Getting arrested by... I think these guys are like Checkmate?

Final Crisis: Revelations #1

This is the part of Final Crisis that's relevant to Renee.

Crispus has been having the worst time since we last saw him.

#2

What if your dead best friend turned into the personification of God's wrath and tried to murder you about it after you'd spent years dealing with your Catholic guilt over being a lesbian. Would that be fucked up or what.

#3

The DC universe has some truly wild theological problems.

Is this blasphemous? Should I like. Put some kind of content warning on this?

I don't know if this is that good but it's very dramatic.

#4

Renee kicks Cain in the face.

The Radiant talks theology and the problem of free will and prophecy.

It's a Lot.

#5

Renee hits the combined might of Darkseid and Vandal Savage with a "I know you are but what am I?" and it works so well it allows her to restore Crispus' faith in God. I love comics.

Final Crisis #3-7

I've decided I don't actually care enough to do these individually. Renee gets recruited by Checkmate because she's so good at both cop stuff and superhero stuff that she should lead the charge into another universe. Cool? Good for her?

Captain Marvel tells her not to swear and she says no.

Wow that sure was a Crisis. Anyways.

[amazinggrace00]

'Cause you can't lead me down that road, And you don't know what you don't know

Part 3 of Speak Now (will become part 6 later on)

Rating: T

Relationships: Julie Molina/Luke Patterson

Tags:

I curse whats new, Song: Mean (Taylor Swift)catty mean girls, idk people are mean hence the song title, Album: Speak Now (Taylor Swift), Alternate Universe, no ghosts

Originally Posted: December 31st, 2022

Summary:

People are mean sometimes.

Julie tries to deal with it.

Key word is tries.

Track 6: Mean

Read on AO3

Keep Reading for an Excerpt

Most people would say that freshman year is the worst year of High School but Julie disagreed with that sentiment.

Until she didn’t.

See, for the most part, freshman year of high school was pretty great. She was accepted into the music program, where she got to spend a good portion of her day playing the piano and singing, which made school more bearable. Even though she was a straight-A student, Julie was very bored in most of her classes that weren’t music related.

She also had a best friend, Carrie, who along with their other four more distant friends, completed a whole lunch table in the cafeteria, where many couldn’t say the same. Most people liked her and she always had someone to talk to in her general classes, and a ton of people she would socialize with within her music classes. She even had a great lab partner, Flynn, who she might even start considering to be her friend as well.

Julie was enjoying the high school experience for the most part. Don’t get her wrong, she already had that graduation countdown on her phone, but she wasn’t miserable.

She couldn’t pinpoint the exact time that everything started to change. She knew it was late winter, almost spring (which in southern California didn’t really make a difference), but she couldn’t list a date or anything.

The first time she really noticed it though was towards the end of February.

“I think we should totally change our go-to-place to there. They had so many more toppings,” Kayla, one of Julie and Carrie’s friends, told the group that was all gathered around Carrie’s locker. Julie was walking towards the group, the last to arrive, but she could still hear them all a few steps away.

“Plus the cashier was super cute,” Chanel, another one of their friends, added.

“What are we talking about?” Julie asked, finally joining the group. She had her hands wrapped around the straps of her backpack, taking some of the load off of her shoulders. She bounced forward on the front of her toes.

“Oh, just the frozen yogurt place we went to last night. It was so much better than the usual place,” Kayla explained.

“Yeah, it was a blast,” Chanel told her. “You really missed out.”

Julie was confused. She had never gotten an invite. Maybe she missed it? She must have because Chanel told her that she missed out so they must have thought that she wasn’t able to go, right? They always all hung out.

Before she racked her brain for more ideas of what the hell was going on, the bell rang, signaling that it was time for their next class.

Kayla, Chanel, and their two other friends headed toward their different classes, leaving just Julie and Carrie.

Julie opened her mouth to ask Carrie about the frozen yogurt thing, just to figure out what was going on, but before she could get a word out, Carrie smiled at her and closed her locker.

“Well, I have to get to geometry. Talk to you later.” And with that, took off down the hallway towards the science and math wing of the school.

Julie was even more confused. She walked in a fog to her next class, biology, with her head in her phone, searching to see if she had missed the invitation. She checked every way that her friends could have contacted her; texts, calls, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, hell she even checked her email.

There wasn’t anything.

[sigh-the-kraken]

I had the below wrote up for that post about EA adding advertisements to their AAA videogames, but I feel like it fits better here on this thread, so:

In the 90s, you could chain-play Solitaire for free on almost any Microsoft computer with or without internet, without a login, and non-stop with no interruptions and no ads.

In 2024, without Premium, advertisements always show up before the first game you play then every handful of games (3-5) after that. If you're lucky, you get ads like with Youtube where you have to watch a certain amount of seconds and then you can skip it. More often, you get 15/30/45/60 second unskippable ads. 15 second ads are usually things like Eckrich Farm Sausages or Adobe. 30 to 60 second ads are for Microsoft Store games, usually either those spammy "CAN YOU DO BETTER?!" games (I get Jewels of Rome and Clockmaker*) or for digital slot machines.

All of the ads can be muted, but the button is in wildly different locations on each ad; the 15 second ones require that you click on them to start them while the 30-60 second ads autoplay (and they have explosions and children crying/screaming, and they're super loud). If you click anywhere on the screen with the exception of the mute icon or the "play ad free" banner for the Microsoft game ads, it pauses the ad and launches the game store page for that game. If you click away from the window (say to browse tumblr on desktop), it pauses the ad and the ad's countdown until you click back to the window; you can hover over your browser and watch youtube videos that are already playing without the ad pausing, but you can't go to Youtube to interact with it.

It is $1.99/month or $14.99/year for their ad-free subscription to play Solitaire; these subscriptions are automatically renewed. I don't know how hard it is to have the subscription turned off either for yourself or for a deceased relative or as part of a fraud situation.

* Clockmaker ads are the worst because it released a stream of unskippable ads going “we’re not going to waste your time like some of these other games ;)” in reference to the "CAN YOU DO BETTER?!" games while also having several unskippable advertisements that are "CAN YOU DO BETTER?!" ads. The hypocrisy is infuriating.

[sylvarantii]

I feel bad making this post several days after watching it, but it's been so hectic lately, so I think I just wanted to wait until things settled down and I wasn't so hyperfocused on other things.

It would've been nice to have reviewed this while it's still fresh in my mind, but I think I can remember at least the more important parts.

So, Detective Conan Movie 7: Crossroad in the Ancient Capital

I felt like this was more of a Heiji movie due to Conan/Shinichi taking more of a backseat in this one, but mind you, that is not a bad thing at all.

I usually kind of don't know how to feel about Heiji episodes in the series, truthfully. It's sort of a 50/50. I usually end up liking them, but sometimes I don't really care. That said, I do like not only how Heiji and Conan/Shinichi play off of one another, but Ran and Kazuha's friendship really makes me feel all warm inside.

In this movie's case, I really liked the role Heiji played. I think one of the advantages with having Heiji is that he has his motorcycle, so you get the chase scenes like you get in this movie (Albeit, it's a little disappointing that some parts are notably 3D animated and are a bit obvious about it, but it's far from the worst I've seen).

Also the last part of the movie was just amazing. I really appreciate it when the movies go in a sort of actiony type direction because it feels bigger scaled compared to a normal episode of the series.

This is also the first appearance of Inspector Ayanokoji or as some may know him better as the detective that always has a chipmunk on him when he arrives on cases. (The chipmunk's name is Maro, by the way and he is so freaking adorable! I love him!)

I don't really have much to say about Ayanokoji, but he at least seems more competent than some inspectors so that's nice.

Overall, the movie kept a pretty good pace and I don't think I have many complaints about it other than it was really disappointing that Ran's part was so small. But you know, considering Kazuha is Heiji's main support character, it makes sense she wouldn't be in it much since him and Ran don't interact much on a one on one sort of basis.

So with all of that said, I do think this one will end up ranking pretty well. It was an enjoyable watch and it was something that kept my attention through out most of the movie.

1.) The Fourteenth Target (2nd Movie)

2.) The Time Bombed Skyscraper (1st Movie)

3.) Captured in Her Eyes (4th Movie)

4.) Crossroad in the Ancient Capital (7th Movie)

5.) The Phantom of Baker Street (6th Movie)

6.) Countdown to Heaven (5th Movie)

7.) The Wizard of the Last Century (3rd Movie)

Still thought Captured in Her Eyes was better, but Crossroad's did better than the previous two, at least. Still waiting to see if anything can beat The Fourteenth Target in first place or the Wizard of the Last Century in last place.

[gris-nv]

Thanksgiving 2023

I don’t really celebrate thanksgiving but as I’ve said in previous years, I like the idea of making some kind of summary about the things we’re thankful for during the year, so here it goes:

In the first months of this year I started to look for a new job, since I left my previous one in favor of my mental health (see previous post), so one day surfing through Facebook, believe it or not, I found the vacancy of my current job and I applied, after one interview and a very long security check I got it! So I’m thankful for my new job that feels kind of being a secret agent because I cannot say where I work lol, so if you know you know, and I’m also thankful because, unlike my previous job, the least stressing part of my life right now is my job.

Also I’m thankful for all the people I asked to be my references, they didn’t even asked, they just did it, they vouched for me so this job is something we all got peeps! Thank you!

About the same time I was starting my new job, my mom was going through some serious health issues, there were some moments in which I feared the worst you peeps, so much so that I remember I prayed to the universe and I said “I’m not ready yet to be without my mom so please give us more time”, not that I think we’re ever ready, but you get the point. Also I realized that I had taken by myself and for myself the whole responsibility of taking care of my mom, the house, the animals, managing my dads and my own stress, my new job, etc., I didn’t want to worry my siblings since both have their own families and one of them was out of the country for work, so I took upon myself all the burden, no one asked me to, I just did. Well, I was on the brink of breaking down when I called my sister and she told me “this is not just your responsibility you know? We’re a family” since then I learned to ask for help and rely on my family, so I’m thankful for being so fortunate that my family works like a Wolfpack, we all are always for each other.

Just as my mom was getting better, I had a work trip coming up, my first time in Florida ya’ll (sorry my English accent, even when writing, is a weird combination between Mexico obviously, California, Kansas (ugh) and New England). Luckily I could go with all the confidence that my mom was doing much better and my sister was here taking care of everything along with my dad and some neighbors that were always willing to help. So I’m thankful for the support network and thankful for the opportunity of a work trip for training when I don’t even have a year working there yet.

Of course I countdown pass the opportunity, since I was already in the east coast, to visit my second family, just a quick flight up north and I was able to relax and spend some time with amazing friends, the universe knows I needed it, so everything aligned to make it possible, I’m thankful for having an extension of my family, people that love me and accept me for who I am and people that trust me to respond in an emergency, even if it means driving and unfamiliar car, in unfamiliar roads by night. Let me confess that even though I kept a poker face I was freaking out internally because all of what I mentioned but most importantly because my soul sister was in pain and I couldn’t do anything about it. I’m also thankful for the trust of watching the cub in a stressful situation for all. I’m a firm believer that our responsibility as adults is to shield the kids from our own stress and uncertainty, of course being honest all the time but hell I was going to watch that kid and protect him from everything and making sure to manage his stress as best as I could. All good in the end, thank Thor. Also I’m thankful for the opportunity to get to know new places and getting to know my friends better every time.

Last but certainly not least, I’m thankful because my mom is recovering, she’s almost the same person she has always been, she’s completely different compared to some months ago, finally we can all relax and enjoy the last months of the year.

I’m thankful of having two families that always ask for each other and we all know we’re here for each other no matter the distance and the language barrier, we’re all just one big pack covering a hell of a lot of territory.

Happy thanksgiving to all, and do try to make the exercise of thinking what are you thankful for.

[sarah-dipitous]

Hellsite Nostalgia Tour 2023 Day 67

Metamorphosis/Daleks In Manhattan

“Metamorphosis”

Would I Survive the First Five Minutes??: I would legitimately never be in this situation, so sure

ooooooo now we get to find out all the things Sam’s been up to…and so does Dean…

This is only slightly more awkward and strained than the McElroys’ “don’t do a hit” PSA. Maybe both of these are signs to separate business and family

This show’s so fucking weird. They spent the first three seasons either ignoring the existence of a god or just flat out not believing in one, but now…NOW god does not want Sam to be doing what he’s doing

Whatever is happening to this man is really difficult to take while I’m eating lunch and having the sound pumped directly into my ears. It’s like bones cracking or even breaking. Eugh

I forgot Dean didn’t know Sam knew about the demon blood……it’s getting FAR more awkward than “don’t do a hit.”

Ew. Dude, is that RAW MEAT??? I hate watching this on my lunch. It’s always the WORST episodes…

They really use the most thinly veiled metaphors to parallel whatever conflict is going on between Sam and Dean, like, one sheet of saran wrap thin

I miss the days when they’d pull off to the side of the road to have nice little heart to hearts not yelling “I’VE GOT DEMON BLOOD IN ME, DEAN!!”

How long after hearing the phrase “long pig” did Dean start to come up with alternatives like “manburger helper”?

It’s not funny to have two men in their mid to late twenties carrying makeshift flame throwers break down your door, but hearing “we’re here to save you…I guess” and “we should leave” “yeah” almost immediately after kinda is. It’s only funny because the audience knows Sam and Dean

Aw, fuck. The other hunter’s gotten involved now…noooo, is this guy’s wife pregnant??? Fuck. Fuck. Fuck…

It’s the gross, wet sounds of this dude LITERALLY feasting on this hunter for me…can’t blame the wife for running away screaming after watching that

The boys showing up 15 minutes late with Starbucks…ooooo, a floor fit for a children’s hospital (how many times will this show give me the opportunity to use that joke??)

Well, that COULD have been a nice moment for Dean to reassure Sam if Jack hadn't attacked.

I’ll have to find it (maybe) but I once read a post about how Sam’s storyline in these first seasons especially tells a very queer coded story, and this episode really really hits you in the face with it. Like, yes, bi Dean and whatever…but there IS something to the heartache that Sam feels being othered to his own family by this thing he had no control over. This wasn’t his choice. It’s really resonant when Sam makes the decision to stop using his psychic powers because they made Dean uncomfy...Dean who has used "god doesn't want you doing this" but also only very recently started MAYBE believing there's a god? Sam think Dean believes he's a freak and less than human or at least other than human, sometimes saying that he's getting closer and closer to the things they hunt instead. I just...I see it.

“Been On My Mind…”: I think I’m gonna do a countdown…if in 10 episodes’ time I haven’t had a yes? I’m discontinuing this segment

"Daleks In Manhattan"

Lazlo should watch Supernatural. Then he wouldn't have gone investigating that weird noise and not gotten turned into a strange pig hybrid

I have a terrible feeling this is one of those two part episodes based solely on the fact that I'm struggling to say anything about this one. The Doctor and Martha are in 1930 NYC, and we're getting a lot of character introductions: the people and specifically the leader of Hooverville, the workers at the Empire State Building, the theater workers (performers and backstage), but nothing's really HAPPENING yet. Though, we're about to get our first glimpse of the Daleks, so that's something at least

There are so many times I'm glad I accidentally fucked up the scheduling and missed an episode of spn because having to hear the term "long pig" all during my lunch and now having these human/pig hybrids has mad that incredibly worth it, and there have been so many other small things that have lined up

Awww baby Andrew Garfield. He's precious, lookin' out for Martha

Somehow I think this foreman trying to get the Empire State Building built for the Daleks is gonna get either killed or turned into something at least close to a Dalek...either way, it's not what he thinks he's gonna get

Nooo, poor baby Andrew Garfield.

oh. that's equal parts terrifying and terrible...the guy who was getting "rewarded" by the Daleks just got...absorbed?? by one? And the CGI!!! Simply atrocious (affectionate)!!!

The showgirl did NOT sign up for all this...well, she's signing up for it NOW, I guess

I can't take this seriously...this is one of the weirdest story lines they've done and......the costuming...again, atrocious (affectionate) The guy who got combined with a Dalek? it looks so bad...

[sluttery-withoutshame]

Get to Know Me and My Obsession with KISS 🎸

1. Who is your favorite member?

Eric Singer.

2. Who is your least favorite member?

Mark St John, don’t really know a whole lot about him, but he seemed a bit dodgy.

3. Best album?

I have an old compilation album that was only released in Australia and it’s trashed as hell, but I recently found out it’s a rarity and feel so lucky to have it now! It runs from the first album to the Unmasked singles, so a lotta good stuff on there!

BUT if I have to choose a studio album, Unmasked just edges out Dynasty. They were my formative Kiss years.

4. Worst album?

Why you do this to me? I’ll go with Lick It Up. It was the point I jumped off the bandwagon. The title song seemed way below their capabilities. (Sorry @elrohare!)

5. Favorite song?

How do you even begin to answer this? I can’t split them other than act like two eras needed their own favourite.

Older era: I Was Made For Loving You.

More recent: Psycho Circus.

6. Say one nice thing about each member.

Gene- From what I’ve heard, very generous and caring to his fans.

Paul- Flamboyance personified!

Peter- Sang some super cool songs.

Ace- Ugh, someone put a leash on me. Sex personified. Best laugh in the history of mankind. I’m in love with his lead vocals. Best solo album of the four 1978 set. Hilarious.

Eric C- Awesome drummer, cute fox, seemed super sweet.

Eric S- Weird little mystery, HA HA. I’m just staring at the screen wondering where to start. If you’re reading this, you obviously see my posts. My entire blog is my answer. A very different pussy.

Bruce- Seems super lovely. Loves his fans.

Tommy- Sweet. Holds himself respectfully in the face of straight up hostility. Loyal.

Mark St. John- Fleeting member. Was a bridge between two longer standing guitarist, enabling the band to keep playing.

Vinnie- I was a big fan of the Ankh Warrior makeup and I’m sorry he didn’t get to wear it for longer.

7. What do you dislike about each member?

Gene- Egotistical, disrespectful to his wife and other women, and he drools on stage which makes me feel ill to the point I have to turn away.

Paul- Egotistical, money hungry, unforgiving.

Peter- Spiteful. Disrespectful to fans for disallowing Beth to be played in the final concert replay.

Ace- He was a difficult addict.

Eric C- The only thing I can say to this is that he died. Not his fault, but I greatly dislike that cancer robbed him from his life and ours. I can’t say a bad thing actually about him.

Eric S- This is a trick question right? Maybe I dislike that he turned my life upside down. But is that a bad thing? I dislike that our paths have never crossed. I dislike that I never got a candle (and fire safety instructions) from him.

Bruce- I’m jealous that he gets to hang out with Eric and I don’t.

Tommy- He never really developed his own personality on stage. I always felt like he hung back, leaving people to just wish Ace was still there. Almost impossible platform boots to fill, but it’s like it was too hard so he didn’t even try. Eric made the cat persona his own, separate from Peter, but Tommy never accomplished that.

Mark St. John- Seemed a bit dodgy. Bit of a sad end, but he also put himself into the situation that ended his life.

Vinnie- I honestly don’t know that much about him, so I’ll say he currently looks weirdly like Yoko Ono in the 80s.

8. How did you get into KISS?

I’m old, so it was just before the Kissteria Unmasked 1980 tour hit. A truly amazing time. The catalyst was seeing them play I Was Made For Loving You on my favourite music show, Countdown. Then almost straight after that, Unmasked was released It was all like a Kiss collision of stars forming a supernova. My cousins in the big city (I grew up on a farm where no record stores existed) had Dynasty and Unmasked and when we visited we’d play them on repeat.

10. Have you been to a concert?

Believe it or not, only one! I kinda regret that, but I grew up on a farm where concerts where as accessible as if they were playing on the moon, then I was very broke for a very long time, and then when I did get money, I was busy chasing other bands around the world. But had I taken more notice of the existence of Eric Singer, I probably would’ve taken a detour or two to add him to my concert schedule. But I did see them, and at least I had that experience. (In case you’re wondering, I had Star Child makeup. Again, had I known what a little ball of craziness that pussy was, I would have chosen cat makeup.)

11. Do you have any merch?

Yes! Just tshirts, but I have on order one of those Golden Tickets and I hope it actually comes! My sister way back in the day had a Peter Criss doll. All my cousins were hanging it on her because Peter was out of the band by then, Eric C had just joined. probably why he was the only doll they had left on the shelf! She didn't care, she just wanted a husband for her Barbies. Of course he got thoroughly wrecked and most likely ended up in the tip, but I've always wondered what that would be worth now.

12. Unique thing you have related to KISS?

When they played the prematch at the AFL grand final, they did a bunch of staged photos, one of which had them holding up the premiership cup. Later that afternoon my team miraculously won the game. Then the football club did a tour with the cup, and I got to touch it and have photos with it. So Kiss and I have touched the same trophy!

13. Who is/are your favorite lineup(s)?

It’s probably blasphemy to not say the original four, but damn I’d love to have seen Paul/Gene/Ace/Eric S. But if I did, I’d probably be dead.

14. What's your favorite era?

It will come as no surprise that it's Dynasty/Unmasked. It was an exciting time here in Australia. Shandi was no.1 here when they landed and from then on they would play Shandi at their concerts just for us. They didn’t play that anywhere else on a regular basis. Right up to the final concert!

15. What are your opinions on Tommy and Eric?

Fineapple and Snack Cake! I feel like Tommy cops more shit for not being Ace than Eric does for not being Peter. As for my opinion on Eric…have we met? Are you new to my blog? If so, you’re in for a ride!

16. A question you would ask the band if you could?

I’d ask Eric if he would please never wear a hat again and why his Animal tattoo never looked like Animal. I’d love to ask him how it is that he fell through the cracks and seemingly has never had a long term relationship. Because that blows my mind. But I’d never have the guts to do that!

17. What other bands/artists are you into?

Good lord, I hardly know where to start. There’d be a bunch of Australian bands you’ve probably never heard of, like Midnight Oil and Radio Birdman. I followed the Oils all around Australia more than once! I was BIG into Cheap Trick, traveled the world and Australia to see them play before gate keeping fans destroyed my life and lead to a suicide attempt. I still see them when they come here, but it does give me some PTSD. They’re coming to Australia next month and I’m taking my daughter to her first concert. The Stones, mostly 1970 onwards. Huge Cyndi Lauper fan, Adam Ant, Ramones, Queen, Sixx:AM, Stooges, MC5, the entire NY punk scene of the 70s. There’d be a bunch I’m forgetting. I’m into TONS of bands and singers.

18. Do you have a KISSona?

I’m too flexible.

19. Who are some of your favorite blogs?

@bunchofrandomfandomsandbands (thanks for the tag!), @elrohare, @speckster, @2000-man1, @ladyshandioftheendless, @notpaulsguitar, @namelessbutters-doodles, @ladyrosesblog, @angelbambisworld, @starry-eyed-never-satisfied, @sinsiriuslyemo.

I hate questions like this because I know I’m probably forgetting some, but it’s never because I don’t appreciate you, it’s because my memory is Swiss cheese.

20. If you could spend a day with one member who would it be?

Eric Singer! Please make this happen!!

21. How would you explain the band to someone who isn't familiar with KISS?

Classic rock band, iconic for their character makeup and pyrotechnics, hugely influential, entertaining as fuck, genre hopping, and has great fans on tumblr!

(This took me a ridiculous amount of time to complete.)

Get to Know Me and My Obsession with KISS 🎸

1. Who is your favorite member?

Eric Singer

2. Who is your least favorite member?

Vinnie Vincent

3. Best album?

Destroyer

4. Worst album?

Animalize

5. Favorite song?

There are too many good ones

6. Say one nice thing about each member.

Gene- Super charming

Paul- Super charming

Peter- Super Sweet

Ace- Super Sweet

Eric C- Super funny

Eric S- Super nice

Bruce- Super funny

Tommy- Hot

Mark St. John- Super nice

Vinnie- Super nice

7. What do you dislike about each member?

Gene- Egotistical

Paul- Egotistical

Peter- Hateful

Ace- Spiteful

Eric C- Negative

Eric S- Negative

Bruce- Truthful

Tommy- Awkward

Mark St. John- Dumb

Vinnie- Idiot

8. How did you get into KISS?

Scooby-Doo And Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery

9. Have you been to a concert?

I have been to nine. Fort Wayne on August 12, 2016, London on July 11, 2019, Tampa on October 9, 2021, KISS Kruise IX & X Sail Away, the indoor concerts, Indiana on November 25, 2023, and the KISS 2020 Goodbye show.

10. Do you have any merch?

Not nearly enough

11. Unique thing you have related to KISS?

I have a really long tongue like Gene Simmons. I was onstage with him in Anderson Indiana, but Gene kicked me off the stage for upstaging him

12. Who is/are your favorite lineup(s)?

Gene, Paul, Eric C, & Bruce

Gene, Paul, Eric, & Bruce

Gene, Paul, Eric, & Tommy

13. What's your favorite era?

Revenge Era

14. What are your opinions on Tommy and Eric?

Love them. They are a lot better than Peter and Ace (in my opinion)

15. A question you would ask the band if you could?

What was the idea behind the song “Take It Off”

16. What other bands/artists are you into?

Alice Cooper, Ghost, The Beatles, Elvis, Black n Blue, Union, ESP, Mötley Crüe, Liliac,

17. Do you have a KISSona?

The Catman

18. Who are some of your favorite blogs?

@2000-man1, @comets-nix, @tanookikiss, @sluttery-withoutshame, @catmansdrumsticks, @daddycatcriss, @eric-carr-the-fox, @ericsinger

19. If you could spend a day with one member who would it be?

Eric Singer

20. How would you explain the band to someone who isn't familiar with KISS?

KISS is an iconic rock band known for their elaborate stage makeup, flashy costumes, and energetic performances. Formed in the 1970s, they're recognized for hits like "Rock and Roll All Nite." Their unique personas, like Gene Simmons' Demon and Paul Stanley's Starchild, contribute to their larger-than-life image, making them a significant influence on the glam metal genre.

[deartouya]

— CURRENT WIPS

this is a list of i'm currently working on. i have,, more ideas,, but these are the one being written or outlined currently. i write when i have the chance and can only promise one fic a month, even if i post more throughout any given month. any fic on this list can be changed, edited, or scraped altogether. these will be,, very spaced out and not posted in the order listed so please be patient. please ask me about any that interest you !! i love talking about them :3

ANNOUNCEMENT

i am on a temporary writing hiatus to focus on my event and settle back into school, so i will be slow on posting and completing wips.

updated: november 8, 2022

LONG FICS (over 3k)

permanence; bakugou katsuki x reader (exes to lovers)

projected word count: 7-9k current status: nearly fully outlined and in the process of being written summary: after earning a year-long mission abroad, you and katsuki break up. there's no animosity, it's for the best and it's easy to ignore him while he's gone. it's only after he gets back that the affection bubbles up. and it's only after a massive villain attack that they break through.

crawl home to her; dabi x reader (corpse bride au)

projected word count: 3-5k current status: nearly fully outlined and partially written summary: following the untimely death of your fiance, your parents arrange for you to marry the next in line. except he's not... dead. even if he's also not quite. right.

with the tides; todoroki shouto x reader (selkie au)

projected word count: 8-10k current status: outlining summary: there's been something... different about the sea, some innate feeling, something tugging at you. it's only after a routine rescue, cutting a seal caught by a reckless fisherman's net, that that strangeness materializes. you just hadn't expected that something to materialize into a... someone.

untitled; hawks x reader (soulmate au)

projected word count: 7-9k current status: outlining summary: after your coffee shop is ruined by a villain attack nearby, you come face to face with the number one hero: winged hero hawks; who, frankly, thinks you're incredibly interesting. after your first meeting, he returns throughout the weeks under the guise of coffee and croissants. he's always loved the idea of soulmates, of someone destined to love him and he hopes you're it for him. he finds his answer after your shop suffers another attack.

eyes so green; midoriya izuku x reader (soulmate au)

projected word count: 6-8k current status: outlining summary: izuku has always loved the idea of soulmates, keeping track of the countdown on his wrist. but as he gets older and the weight of heroism presses closer, he forgets. so when he finally meets you, it's like everything has clicked into place. if only you shared his enthusiasm.

i like you a latte; kaminari denki x reader (coffee shop au)

projected word count: 3-5k current status: outlining summary: denki’s determined to make you fall in love with him, cheesy one-liners and all, even if he goes into debt from all the overpriced lattes and pastries in the process. little does he know he’s already one you over, you just like watching him fumble.

untitled; dabi x reader (grievances to lovers)

projected word count: 8-10k current status: not started, trying to outline summary: you've never gotten along with touya, he makes sure of it. but he always seems to be around, always there to prod his way under your skin. when you're paired with the (now rehabilitated) villain on a mission, you learn that he's not.. the worst person in the world. even if you'd rather die that tell him that.

untitled; hawks x reader (tangled au)

projected word count: 12-14k current status: not started, consuming my every thought summary: ever the opportunist, you take your unfortunate run in with the infamous hawks and twist it to your advantage. despite everything, he's your best shot at finding what you're looking for. even if it means you spend half your time hiding from the kings guard.

the horror and the wild; dabi x reader (mermaid au)

projected word count: 3k current status: almost fully outlined and partially written summary: dabi continues getting himself captured by your crew and you’re running out of excuses for why he’s suddenly escaped. he does, begrudgingly, come in handy.

what the water gave me; bakugou katsuki x reader (mermaid au)

projected word count: 6-7k current status: not started, partially outlined summary: you’re a surfer and finds an injured mermaid, taking it upon yourself to nurture them back to health.

out of the rolling ocean; todoroki shouto x reader (little mermaid au)

projected word count: 12-14k current status: not started summary: after you’re ship sinks returning home, you’re saved by a mysterious person. one you’re determined to find and marry them. the problem is figuring out who they are.

circumstance demands it; todoroki shouto x reader (royalty au)

projected word count: 6-7k current status: not started summary: facing his fathers and countries demands for wed, shouto finds a solution in you- a nobleman’s daughter and friend who can help him fend off the social season.

SHORT FICS (under 3k)

mighty paw; midoriya izuku x reader (zookeeper au)

summary: a little meetcute between you, a primary teacher, and izuku, the zookeeper you interact with on your classes field trip. your students notice how much izuku seems to like you and makes it their mission for the day to get you together.

lost & found; bakugou katsuki x reader (zookeeper au)

during your tour, guided by an incredibly annoyed zookeeper, you both stumble across a lost child which forces you to work together to find their parents. and maybe bakugou gets a little a lot less annoyed with you.

wine & dine; dabi x reader (zookeeper au)

as the field trip comes to an end and you’re preparing to leave, it begins to rain, forcing you and the keeper in charge of the reptile house to huddle together under a small roof until it passes.

out of the rain; hawks x reader (bath fic)

hawks hates the rain, it’s uncomfortable and annoying, but he still always takes care of you. he still uses his wing as a makeshift umbrella when you’re out,despite the way it matts his down and fluffs his feathers. it’s only fair to return the care, the tenderness.

(planned) hit and run; kuroo tetsurou x reader (college au)

a meet cute; you see a cute guy exiting the campus cafe and decide the best way to start a conversation is to run into him.

love in the clouds; hawks x reader (date drabble)

fluffy flight date with your pro-hero boyfriend

cold cold man; dabi x reader (song fic)

clingy villain boyfriend is clingy. refuses to accept work as a valid excuse and shows up on your fire escape so you can hold him.

susie save your love (for someone like me); momo x reader (song fic)

for kai’s the only truth is music collab; song fic based on susie save your love by allie x

love me as i am; bakugou katsuki x reader (bath fic)

the world has always been cruel to katsuki, rough and expecting. it weighs heavy on his shoulders–makes him hard to love, but you’ve never seem to care. you take him for what he is. when work has him ragged, you’re always there to take care of him–soft and tender and loving.

tenderness; bakugou katsuki x reader (sick fic)

you get sick before date night and katsuki spends the night looking after you.