#for legal purposes this is all just a joke and for funsies.

[alpineshift]

I am very much entrenched in sibling hierarchy traits

Please enlighten me!

OK SO to start I have to fully admit I have eldest daughter bias. bc I'm an eldest daughter. and while it's not my entire personality it does strongly factor into the lens in which I view the hughes bros (and to an extent nico as well lmao).

(granted that is also exactly what a very biased person would say so take that as you will lolol)

so using this "f*ck the sad out of me" text quote scenario as a base for jacknico -

we've seen the extensive eldest daughter quinn content it's out there. not gonna necessarily rehash it. to me, it makes sense that upon being confronted by a message that sends his brain into instant overthinking, jack immediately pivots to quinn going "what do I do help me fix my captain". I like to imagine quinn is torn exactly in half going "well I can't not help" and the other half going "I really do not need to know any of this shit." this is very much jack accidentally lit a firework indoors and yells and hands it to quinn, who takes it without hesitation. the subplot to the whole jacknico texting debacle is just quinn quietly having a crisis in vancouver with a three hour time difference between them.

middle child jack my beloved. my marketing persona for him has always been "this is Jack 'I'm so serious please take me seriously' Hughes". this approach to life lands him into every spot of bebotherment to ever exist bc he wants to be taken seriously. but at the same time, houses an impatient and also a bit of an impulsive streak. which is why instead of peeping the notification preview, carefully leaving Nico's text msg unopened and giving himself plausible deniability so he can use the extra time to sort out his feelings, he immediately opens the text, immediately panics, and immediately makes it everyone else's problem. he just wants to help so badly. he also has no idea what to do. his totally non-platonic feelings for nico has nothing to do with this whatsoever.

and most unfortunately I have the least amount of understanding in the ways of youngest child. I'll never achieve this feat. in my mind, because Luke has outgrown both his older brothers by a solid amount and has no qualms tossing them about he gets the privilege of noping straight out of Jack's panic-coaster and happily does not get involved whatsoever. he's out for a run he's gone to get takeout he's petting a dog in the grocery store parking lot. this is not his biz.

so to conclude - it's not like nico meant to wreak an eight-hour havoc on his core teammates (plus quinn). but it's also a very youngest sibling thing for him to do as well. and that's a story for another day.

[tiny-brass-bot]

Happy Pride Month from me and all of my characters whomst I've given queer identities to!

Crock loves money and food the most but he won't turn down some lovin', no matter who it is.

Punkin doesn't have time or care to pontificate on gender. They were woken up a day ago and have a job to do.

Ursula is juggling a heavy lesbian crush on a coworker on top of all of her other stressful tasks.

And the yet unnamed rat chick really gives me Mae Borowski vibes (though the NITW wiki says she's pan also but whatevs) so she can have a little queer too as a treat.

No matter what they're for, whether it be a TTRPG character, game character, a character in an improv scene, or other OC I always like to choose their gender and sexuality even if it's never relevant. Just for funsies.

Be gay, do crime, kill a transphobic state legislator.

For legal purposes the second and third thing are jokes and not an endorsement.

[theblogtini]

since this was around the time the alleged affair was as tom phrased it "the talk of london." tom says he doesn't believe the affair rumors are true though.

Bower should provide context, if the talk of London was before or after the rumours on social media, a lot of Royal reporters are assh*les but even the bigger assh*les have said that the rumours were bizarre and that they tried to bring proofs and nothing, man even Lacey who hates the Waleses had said it’s false.

The important thing here is who was behind the rumour! And even if true, who wanted to put it in social media (and all the ways have always pointed the Harkles)

The person who STARTED the rumor said they were joking.

Here's the thing about the affair rumors: the royal reports wouldn't have sat on that story if they could find even a SHRED of evidence. One teensy, tiny, iota of evidence that suggested to them that it was true and they would have been off to the races. Even a reliable source saying "Yes, I heard through someone else that it's true" probably would have been enough.

But they didn't. They couldn't. Every royal report has come out and been like "I looked into the rumors, I came up with absolutely nothing."

The person who started it said it was a joke. And it was very clear to the reporters who checked with all of their sources across the UK that there was no meat in the story. It wasn't a "where there's smoke there's fire" story - it was just made up out of thin air for the express purpose of causing a stir.

William threatened to sue over the rumors, which, IMO, is another clear indication that they were false. William isn't litigious like his brother - he's taken legal action very few times, and each time was when it was a gross violation of privacy (Catherine's topless photos, phone hacking, reporters stalking George). He wasn't suing because someone said something about him or Catherine or George, he was suing b/c their right to privacy was grossly invaded.

If the cheating rumors were TRUE and he tried to sue, he wouldn't have a leg to stand on. You can't just sue someone because they say something that's true about you and it hurts your feelings. If the person got the information in a really inappropriate way (phone hacking, climbing in through the window and rummaging through his desk) then yeah - but repeating a fact isn't illegal.

BUUUT if someone *LIES* about you intentionally... then you can sue them. Because people can't just go around damaging your reputation for funsies. That's defamation.

And that's why it's so interesting to see Harry confirming years of tabloid rumors. He and Meghan kept saying "they wouldn't tell the truth to protect us, but they would lie for others" -- but it turns out, all those rumors they wanted the palace to refute are true. And the reporters knew that and have known that, because they're all keenly aware that you can't just run around making shit up about people that has absolutely no basis in reality.

[dilfslayer69]

I don't want to cry myself a river, I want to lie in a river as I let it all out and cry and become an urban legend or eldrich horror claimed by the forest surrounding me.

[vagrantblvrd]

Young criminal Rimy Tim who's only distunguishing feature is his hair hat he dyes a new color when he does crimes. The news calls him Rainbow Hood and the Fakes send Vagabond to look into this new criminal. jermwood?

Oh my God, I’m just. I’m picturing Jeremy who gets caught up with the wrong crowd or something? Has this One Friend who gets into the Crimes back in Boston and gets in over their head, goes to Jeremy for help when they realize they’re fucked and Jeremy tries to help but it escalates out of control and Jeremy’s friend bails.

Jeremy’s friend is a real asshole and tries to pin it all on Jeremy who is legit a Good Kid and is like fuck because there are people trying to kill him and the worst he’s done is get into a (tiny!) bar fight that one time his freshman year i college. He’s a Junior now, not that it matters because he has to fucking get the hell out of the city if he doesn’t want to die - circumstances where he doesn’t want to get his family and friends dragged into things because it would just get them killed, so he runs, right?

Runs and runs and runs, and ends up in Los Santos where he finally has time to think and realizes he’s kind of an idiot? But yeah. No going back now and he tries to get legit jobs, but it’s real hard because he doesn’t have an actual address and so on, and he makes friends with this guy staying in the room next to his at this shady motel.

Guy who points him in the direction of a a guy who knows a guy who an get him work? Under the table kind of stuff, wink wink.

Jeremy’s almost out of money and doesn’t have a lot of options, and maybe thinks it’s just. He doesn’t know, is busy trying to lie to himself about it all and sucks up his pride and all and goes to see this guy.

Starts him out small, just deliveries and the whatnot at first. Stuff Jeremy doesn’t feel too guilty about. (Ignorance is bliss and all.)

After a while he gets more important stuff to do, things he can’t ignore and wriggles out of working for the guy because he doesn’t like where it’s leading? (Others like him who got disappeared for fucking up/asking too many questions and Jeremy knows he’ll be one of them becaue he’s an idiot with a big mouth.)

Finally gets a quasi-legal job washing dishes at some corner diner kind of deal.

Pays not great, but there’s an almost-attic - storage space - above the diner where the owner lets Jeremy stay as long as he keeps his trap shut about it all, you know?

It’s super tiny, maybe four feet at the highest point but enough room for the shitty sleeping bag Jeremy picks up at a surplus store somewhere and the essentials. Jeremy works out a deal with the gym down the street where he teaches neighborhood kids how to box/defend themselves in exhange for a place to shower and all that?

The diner’s owner lets Jeremy have the botched orders - and don’t think Jeremy knows she and the line cook and everyone else fucks a few up on purpose to make sure he eats, but no one says anything about it so he doesn’t either. (They all know life’s hard, no need to make it worse than it needs to be, right? Besides he’s a good kid, would be a crime not to help him out if they can.)

Jeremy doesn’t plan to do more crimes, right? But some developers start looking at the neighborhood, pressure the business there - including the diner and gym - to sell or they’ll be sorry, and after all they’ve done for him and people like him he can’t not do something about it.

The kids or successors of the ladnwowners who lease it out to the business owners. And due to previous contracts can’t just boot them, so they raise the lease and whatnot. Try to drive them out of business so they can sell to someone offering a lot of money for the area for whatever reasons.

Jeremy can’t sit by and do nothing after everything these people have done for him and people like him so he does crimes to get them the money they need?

Anonymous gifts, but everyone knows it’s Jeremy, right?

This Rimmy Tim asshole is short as hell and the cheap dye Jeremy uses never washes out clean and anyway, he’s kind fo shit at lying about it, right?

They don’t say a damn thing because they look out for theirs and this idiot kid is definitely one of theirs.

But the assholes raise the lease higher, and the bruisers start hurting people and while Jeremy’s game to keep on stealin from the rich to give to the poor (the whole Rainbow Hood thing you mentioned?) he can’t beat up all the bruisers on his own. (Forever, anyway?)

He does a good job when it’s one or two on one, but they fight dirty and he gets hurt and it’s just. The business owners beg him to stop for his own good - they can always start up somewhere else, maybe, but he’s gonna get himself killed.

Somewhere in there Jeremy meets this scrawny asshole who likes teh pie at the diner. Claims to be good at computers and kind of “eh”, about things. ~Charms him into getting info on these developers/landowners he can use against them, but!

They’ve heard about this asshole with the revovlving hair color choices and goody-two shoes act and go after him.

Somewhere else in there the Fakes have heard about this Rimmy Tim character who may or may not have robbed one of their allies homes. (Hullum or Burnie with them as mayor and LSDP commisioner respectiely or something along those lines?)

And get curious because there was a lot of damaging information he must have seen/heard but didn’t do anything with? (The Fakes aren’t so much crimes for funsies as crimes for Good Reasons, which is why the mayor and police commisioner is willing to ~consort with them.)

SO.

They send Ryan to look into things while they takcle some other problem - not realizing both are connected.

Ryan decides to check things out as a civvie at first, goes to the diner because pie and sees Jeremy there. Happened to get there on a day the bruisers drop by and gets to see Jeremy toeing the line between smarting off to them/knuckling under so no one gets hurt? (Other customers and so on.)

Comes back later that night as the Vagabond and gets there just as Jeremy’s getting in from Doing Crimes and gets to see JEremy’s reaction at thinking someone sent Ryan to kill him.

The whole oh, shit and what kind of chance do I have against this guy? and finally well at least no one else is here to get pulled into this shitshow as Jeremy realizes he’s fucked.

Watches Jeremy get ready to throw down - resigned to losing but not going quietly and all that, but then!

Ryan’s just like, “You’re not quite what  expected,” because the crew thought he was some punk looking for an angle, but no.

Just an idiot like him and Ryan’s kind of impressed with him. Not a polished criminal or anything, but he’s got potential and obvious morals and ethics and so on.

So he offers to help Jeremy, tells a little white lie about being on a murder break so he’s out of crew shenanigans for the time being, and he’s always liked the pie here. (He does, but it’s been forever since he’s been around thanks to crew shenanigans.)

Jeremy’s dubious about the whole thing, but only an idiot would tell the Vagabond no, right?

The two of them working together to take down the asshole landowners/dvelopers which includes shenanigans of their own.

Stupid jokes and the whatnot, Jeremy realizing Ryan’s a major dork and kind of a disater and Ryan realizing Jeremy’s good for someone who never planned on Doing Crimes for a living?

Sharing meals - and pie - and just being around one another and bonding via montage scene stuff? Ryan being invited to watch Jeremy with his students at the gym - can’t shirk his duties there because it keeps the kids from getting in trouble/helps teach them how to protect themselves and so on? And is charmed at how good he is with the kids, how much they clearly adore Jeremy.

Gets roped into helping out, which means Jeremy flips him over his shoulder and pins him to the mat, face flushed and wide grin and all up in Ryan’s space and the oh no, he’s super hot on both their parts. :O

Eventually they get in over their head and while Jeremy is lowkey panicking about it - how fucked not only they but the business owners are - Ryan admits he kind of sort of lied and calls in the crew.

Everyone comparing notes and realizing their problems are really just One Big Problem so why not pool their efforts together?

They need another hacker to help Gav and whoever else out, so they call up this Myatt guy. And of course, of course Myatt is Matt, that scrawny asshole who’s got a hell of a sweet tooth on him Jeremy befriended.

And then shenanigans as they utterly destroy the asshole landowners/developers, teach them a lesson they won’t forget and make a tidy profit along the way.

Jeremy uses his cut to set the business owners up for life - has Matt help him with that - and is trying to decide what to do with his life now when Ryan shows up in civvie clothes, bashful smile and all.

Just all, hey. So I know I kind fo lied to you a bit? But I like you almost as much as I llike pie, and maybe we could do the dating thing? (It may or may not go almost exactly like that because human disaster, right?)

Meanwhile Jeremy’s staring at this asshole like oh my God, realizing he’s the goddamned Vagabond even though Ryan did nothing to disguise his voice/ridiculousness this whole time. (In fact Ryan thought Jeremy figured it out way before now, but whatever.)

Ryan gets all nervous because Jeremy’s just staring, processing the Ryan is the Vagabond business in his head?

Ryan’s about to laugh it off since Jeremy clearly isn’t interested but Jeremy snaps out of obliviousness and is just YES. Yes he would like to do the Dating Thing? VERY MUCH SO.

They’re totally being watched by the diner’s patrons and owners and fucking Matt who’s just enjoying his pie and totes not laughing at these idiots.

And then, like. Shenanigans. (Also, also, the press being Confused at the disappearance of Rainbow Hood and the sudden appearence of Rimmy Tim with the Fakes after Jeremy starts shaving his head/gets Rimmy Tim outfit together to fuck with the others.)

[starrysamu]

omgnengkekg i watched tatbilb3 the day it came out and when i tell you i SCREAMED MY HEAD OFF when gee by snsd started playing i was literally just shouting the lyrics alongside it as the entire opening sequence was playing 😭😭😭😭 but the entire movie was so cute esp as someone who read the books!! WAY better than tatbilb2 omg we don't talk abt that one,,,the disowned child of the franchise 🖐

also i've been good!! school is . rough 🥲 & i flunked my calc test the other day but um we're Getting Through It i think 🥲🥲🖐 how have you been :o

STOP I WAS WATCHING IT W A FRIEND AND SHE WAS LIKE WHO IS THAT AND I WAS LIKE ....... SNSD .........

but i do not listen to gg anymore ... i only listen to exo i know ugh i am physically incapable of branching out but why should i when they have the best male artist ever (i’m joke for all legal purposes this is a joke)

also omfg i also read the books and they just did SO much better w this one than they did the second one like i’m kinda shocked ??? LIKE WHAT CHANGED .... ugh but i wish they brought that one guy back for funsies . also can u believe i was attracted to noah scented mayo three years ago he is so painfully avg like miss ma’am why were u like this . anyways i just think it was SOOO MF CUTE LIKE SHUT UP!!!! IT WAS PERFECT i literally had no complaints

BOOOO CALC which calc omg :/ i haven’t done calc in a damn while but i know it is so foul tbh it is just so awful. i’m praying ur next exam goes better ): and i’m doing well!! life is busy but things r good!!! which is Nice BUT i’m hoping school lightens up for u that is just so evil of them ):