#i fucking love rosie jones

[ficmenrhot]

It’s 1:30 in the morning and I can’t sleep, thinking about how great an actor Sam Claflin is. He’s literally Finnick Odair bought to life, he did such an amazing job in ‘Love, Rosie’ and let’s not even talk about how him as Will Traynor in ‘Me Before You’ made me cry my fucking tears dry. I watched that movie three days in a row and every time I still ended up sobbing my eyes out. That’s how great he did. I can’t wait to watch ‘Daisy Jones and the Six’ either. Literally the king of book adaptions this man.

[gentlebeardsbarngrill]

05/16/2024 Daily OFMD Recap

TLDR; Cast & Crew Sightings: David Jenkins; Rhys Darby; Taika Waititi; Leslie Jones; Con O'Neill; Trends; National Forest Service; Watch Party Reminders; Fan Spotlights; Love Notes; Daily Darby/Tonight's Taika

== David Jenkins ==

As you probably heard, Chaos Dad was really out and about today. He did some polite menacing (regarding Zaslav) Src: Djenkins Twitter

And checked in and sent some love for this artwork of him on Ed's Arm. MerJenks! Great work Lucia! (@ citrussyndicate)

Source: David Jenkin's Twitter

= Rhys Darby =

Rhys and Rosie several days back at the Bag Pipers Ball <3

Source: Heidi Miller's Instagram

== Taika Waititi ==

Taika out and about with some colleagues at Chateau Marmont!

Source: NevakRogers Instagram

Taika and Rita attending Netflix is a Joke Fest

Source: RitaOraHun Instagram

== Leslie Jones ==

Leslie Fucking Jones out on The View!

Source: Leslie Jones Instagram

= Con O'Neill =

Quick sighting of Con!

Source: Nick Hayes Instagram

== National Forest Service ==

Many of you probably remember this post from the National Park Service a while back regarding moonglow, well, our friends at the NPS are back at it again with the Rosie Maple Moth! Which one of you is the sneaky NPS social person, hm? Thank you @ adotzimm!

Source: @ adotzimm's Instagram

== Trends ==

Thank you @ NeverLeftPod for catching these trends!

Source: Never Left Podcast on Twitter

== Watch Party Reminders ==

Series Finale of Wrecked today over on the RDF Server.

Wrecked S3 WP May 13-May 17 - 3:30pm PT / 6:30pm ET / 11:30pm BST! If you need access feel free to dm me here at @gentlebeardsbarngrill or @aspirantabby42 on twitter.

= OFMD Season 1 Watch Party =

Next week May 20-26, RDF will be starting up a rewatch of OFMD season 1 with two episodes a day. Time: 3:30pm PT / 6:30pm ET / 11:30pm BST! If you need access feel free to dm me here at @gentlebeardsbarngrill or @aspirantabby42 on twitter.

== Fan Spotlight ==

= Cast Cards =

Today's cast card is Geoff Dolan, otherwise known as the priest to whom Ed said "I'm the fucking devil". Thanks @melvisik!

Source: @Melvisik's Twitter

= OFMD Colouring Pages =

Thank you @patchworkpiratebear for these new pages! I am going to be sketching.... quite a few things in there.

== MerMay ==

== SpencerDoesArt ==

Our crewmate @ spencerdoesartt on Instagram was kind enough to let me share some of their MerMay Posts-- they've got some pretty cool stuff over there for MerMay, feel free to check the out!

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= Snejpowa =

This one really struck me today @snejpowa, it's really gorgeous.

Source: SnejPowa's Tumblr

== Love Notes ==

I really wish I had words today Crew. I feel a lot of the tension going on as I'm sure you do too. Things are tough right now, but even within close knit groups we run into struggles sometimes, it gives us a chance to grow.

I hope we all can take the time to regroup and do what we need to for ourselves to feel safe again, and maybe one day everyone will feel more comfortable again, or maybe not. Whatever happens, do what you need to do crew, take care of yourself. If you need to chat let me know. Somewhat related today is @ thelatestkate's new picture with the cute baby otter. Hope you have a good start to the weekend Crew. Sending love.

Source: TheLatestKat's Tumblr

== Daily Darby / Tonight's Taika ==

Gifs Courtesy of @agaywithcoffee and @aplaceofgreatersafety

[jayke0]

Moron

Pairing: Blue Jones and Cecil Dennis x fem reader

Summary: kinktober day 15, Free Use

Rating: 18+

Warnings/content: Free use (though probs not as much as expected), drunkeness, alcohol mentions, degrading, blowjob/facefucking, p in v, protected sex (condom), oral (f receiving), squirting, threesome, hair pulling, crying, Blue is his own warning, name calling, Cecil just being an overall dummy and saying funny things, lmk if there's anything else i should add :).

Word count: 1,982

Credit: @automnepoet for proofreading ily.

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As much as Blue hates to admit it, you don't belong to him. You've had enough other men's cocks inside you by now for it to quite frankly be stupid of him to say it; yet he still does, he still tells you every time he's balls deep inside you that you belong to him and him only.

You have someone else that says the same kinda thing, but it's just the other way round. Cecil likes knowing that he's yours, and unlike yourself, he actually sticks to it… not that he could find any other girl that'd take his pathetic ass anyway.

The man comes stumbling into the club as usual, bottle in one hand and red stained cloth wrapped around the other. He asks around for you of course, but when he's directed towards the head of the club's office he's faced with something he didn't want to see in a million years; you, cheek pressed harshly against the desk as Blue Jones pounds you from behind, and the worst part is that you seem to be loving it.

Cecil bursts in, making both of you stop in your tracks.

"Heyy! You can't do that! She said she's for me!" The disheveled man protests.

Oh my god.

"Cecil– ah– get outta here! You dunno what you're getting yourself int—" you're silenced by a hard thrust from Blue, who'd only seemed to stop for a second at the disruption before continuing to slam into you harshly.

The sight makes Cecil wince, and he can already feel the tears welling in his eyes as he wipes his face on his sleeve.

"This your other man huh?" Blue leans over you and sneers in your ear. "The one you like to just give yourself too? Without even a care for the money he doesn't make me?" Blue eyes the other man before gesturing for him to come over to the both of you. "She's told me how pathetic you are, you're just a bumbling moron looking for a quickie, ain't you?"

Cecil shakes his head quickly, but the tears start falling down his face as he sniffles and tries to hide it in his jacket. His cheeks are so rosy and flushed, strands of curls falling in his face as his shoulders shudder. It's a sight that you're quite familiar with, and one that makes you more aroused than it probably should.

You manage to look up at Cecil despite the other man's hand wrapped around the back of your neck and pressing you against the hard wood. "Cecil baby, c'mere." You gesture for him to come closer after smacking Blue's wrist to slow down, which he surprisingly obliges to.

Cecil stumbles towards you and puts the bottle on the desk. Feeling your arms wrap around his waist is somewhat reassuring to the man and he sighs shakily, showing you his bloody hand with a pout. "I tried fucking some other girl, but she got pissed when I swallowed one of her rings by accident when I was sucking on her fingers."

You try not to laugh, but it's incredibly hard when the man just naturally gets himself into moronic situations.

Blue isn't as ashamed to hide his laughter, a raucously snarky chuckle coming from behind you.

You manage to prop yourself up on your elbows and you stroke his wrists, carefully running your fingers over his. "I want you to join, Cecil, will you do that for me?"

You know he's a sucker for pleasing you… and for getting his cock sucked whenever he can.

"Only if he shuts the fuck up." He points at Blue, which warrants a hard thrust from the club owner.

You gasp and nod. "He will baby, he will. C'mere, lemme make you feel better."

Your hands start working on Cecil's trousers, which is hard to do when you're getting your back blown out by your boss, especially one that favours you the most. Eventually you pry his slacks open to paw at his cock. You wrap your hand around the clothed flaccid length while the other holds onto his good hand; you know he loves that too, it makes him feel wanted.

It doesn't take very long for Cecil to get hard, despite being face to face with his 'contender', and soon he's rolling his hips into your hand and begging for your mouth.

"Damn, you get excited quick don't you?" Blue mocks, which makes Cecil whine and buck his hips into your hand.

You feel him rest his bad hand on your head and a little part of you hopes he doesn't get any fucking blood in your hair. Your attention is drawn back to the pathetic man that's now whaling for you to suck his dick.

"Please baby! Please please, I've been good— well apart from earlier but that don't count 'cause I didn't even get to stick it in."

You moan softly, since you love it when he tells you he's been good, before you pull his cock free of his underwear, the tip throbbing and leaking already.

Blue's pace seems to stop for a moment as he watches you take the blunt head in your mouth, wrapping your lips around Cecil's shaft while the man in question whimpers.

The club owner's cock twitches as he observes you taking it deeper and deeper till your nose is pressed against the scruffy man's abdomen, unkempt pubes tickling your skin.

"Shit, honey, you're so good at taking it in the throat aren't you?" Blue's hand runs over your head and you nod dumbly, loving the feeling of being full at both ends.

"Let's see how you fair while I'm fucking your brains out."

You whine and choke as Blue starts thrusting again. The way you get pushed forward only pushes you further down on Cecil's cock, who lets out a strangled moan.

Eventually you get your bearings and you're able to wrap your hand around the other's cock and pull off of him, just to take him all into your mouth once again.

Both the men moan at that and you feel Blue's hips start to stutter as he struggles to hold himself together, curses and moans coming out through clenched teeth.

"God, I love watching you being used, you like it don't you? Like having both your greedy holes filled? Just like the whore you are." Blue tugs your hair, which in turn pulls your mouth off of Cecil with a loud pop and a gurgled moan from you.

"I do, Blue! Fuck I love both your cocks." You whine, scrambling to get your mouth on the other man again.

Cecil tries to rock his hips forward with desperate cries, but the club owner keeps your head firmly pulled back.

"Beg for it, beg to suck his cock again."

"Oh c'mon! I thought you said you were gonna be quiet—" Cecil complains.

You whimper and whine, but Blue's grip is tight on your hair, and if you wait any longer you're going to cum all over the harsher man's cock before you even get your mouth on Cecil.

"Please Blue— please lemme help him— ah— he's so desperate for it I can't help it!"

That seems to work, the man letting go of your head to let you go back to what you were doing.

Cecil feels like he's going explode if he doesn't feel the warmth of your mouth soon, but finally your lips are wrapped around him again and he can hold the back of your head; this time going not so easy on you.

He fucks into your wet heat with staggered thrusts, his head tilted back in pleasure as he uses your throat for his own gain, loud pathetic whimpers coming from his lips.

" 'atta girl, all for us to use—" Blue pants. You can hear in his voice that he's getting close too, which you're relieved about, because you think if he continues fucking you like this your legs are going to give out and he'll have to hold you up.

"I wanna use you like this more— please lemme do this more, it's so nice." Cecil begs, but you're unsure if it's for you or for Blue.

"Wonder how many others I can get to fuck you, maybe one in this tight little hole here—" your boss runs his thumb over your other hole and it makes you choke out a moan.

The constricting of your throat is enough to make Cecil spill suddenly, his cock buried so deep in your throat that it bypasses your taste buds and pumps straight down your esophagus.

Blue is next to fill you up, his growls and moans making you whimper as he grips your hips and fills the condom with his arousal, his head tilting back to enjoy the feeling.

Your legs are shaking by the time the men both pull away, but you're left still strung high on that cliff, hoping to God that one of them will take mercy on your poor throbbing cunt.

Your prayers are answered sooner than you expect.

Blue's arms wrap underneath your knees and pull you up against his chest, your legs crushing against your own chest with your throbbing heat on show for Cecil.

All you can do is scramble a little in Blue's grasp; if you know him well enough, you know what he wants, and it's going to make you scream and claw at his arms from being so sensitive.

"I see you looking at her. Go on, use that stupid mouth for something good."

Cecil is drooling at the sight of your cunt spread for him like that and he drops to his knees, gazing up at you as if you're some kind of deity blessing him with your presence.

Your arms hold onto Blue's, bracing yourself for the way Cecil's tongue is going to make you squirm, but before you can, you feel hardness bumping against your cunt.

How the fuck is he hard again already?

You don't have time to contemplate before your boss is shoving his thick cock inside you once more, fucking you open by bouncing you on himself.

"Shit, I love this cunt, honey."

All you can do is shriek and clench around him, the feeling being enhanced when you feel Cecil's tongue working on your clit… He may not be the best at holding his load or fucking, but he definitely knows how to use his tongue.

You're driven closer and closer to ecstasy each time you're brought down on Blue's cock, Cecil's tongue waiting for you mercilessly every time the other is buried deep inside your cunt.

Your body feels like it's on fire, and it's only a matter of a few more thrusts before you're crying out for both of them, your body squeezing and tensing on Blue so much that you're pretty sure it winds him for a second. You feel pleasure rush through your body and out of your cunt, and it's only once you open your eyes that you realise what happened.

"Oh sh–shit... I'm sorry, Cecil..."

The man looks up at you in pure awe before shaking his head, pushing his dampened curls out of his face as he wipes your dripping arousal from his skin. "I had a girl actually piss on me once, so that was a much better surprise."

You aren't able to hold back a laugh this time, though it's definitely a shaky one... and you even hear Blue let out a quiet chuckle.

You're about to let yourself down, but the harsher man tightens his grip on your thighs, and that's when you realise he didn't cum. "Ah ah, where'd you think you're going, honey? You still owe me another orgasm, and I think I got a lot more friends that would wanna get in on this too, sweetheart."

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Prompts by: @/flightlessangelwings

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[ch3rrywond3rland]

hi! i would love a smut about eddie from daisy jones & the six! maybe something where the two are friends with benefits or hooking up in secret on tour and almost get caught by some of the other band members. i can just imagine eddie’s hand over the readers mouth while they’re still fucking to be quiet. like in his or the readers dressing room before stage call or something. i just know eddie is super dirty and good in bed.

why, hello darlings. i LOVE this. hope u don't mind i mixed two requests, i just needed some plot!! (BTW YES HE IS WTF??? FERAL FOR THIS MAN)

anyways..., enjoyy

Not a sound

Eddie pulls me towards a unidentifiable dark room while the band is on break and they're all distracted with each other.

He is quick to start unbuttoning his and my pants as I undo the knot on my shirt and throw it blindly. When our clothes are out of the equations, he kisses me hungrily. My head hits a wall, but his hand that holds me by the roots of my hair softens the impact.

"Jump." I oblige and he easily holds me with one arm only. His fingers move my panties aside swiftly and I hungrily moan at the mere contact they have with my core.

He doesn't let this pass by and smirks, pressing his thumb against my clit and moving it slow and steady, making sure to tease me in the process.

"Please, Eddie..."

"Easy, darling. I'm gonna give you all you want, but I need you to be quiet for me, yes?" His fingers have gone from teasing me to fucking me leisurely. I only know how to nod relentlessly, too dumbfounded to form words.

He hasn't even fucked me yet.

Quick to satisfy us both, he lines himself and slams into me, ripping a needy moan out of both our throats. He wastes no time, his pace filled with desire and impatience.

My back keeps slamming against what I assume is a metal shelf and his arms keep my thighs apart. The only sound that can be heard is our bodies slapping against each other's and the sloppy kisses we exchange.

"Eddie, I'm-" A loud knock to the door interrupts me and makes us both look at each other.

"I swear to God, Gary, you better not be screwing Shelley again." Teddy's muffled voice says from behind the door.

You'd think Eddie might've stopped by now, but he hasn't. His thrusts are still steady and would make me cum if it weren't for the fact that he slowed down so our bodies wouldn't make a sound.

His cock hits a sweet spot and my mouth threatens to release a loud whimper, but it's stopped by Eddie's palm resting against my mouth.

His head drops to my shoulder and I can feel him laugh against my skin, still fucking me like it was nothing.

"'Know what? If you little piece of shit don't show your ass in the studio in the next 5 minutes you can say goodbye to your job and Shelley" We hear his steps fade in the distance and I finally release a breath I didn't know I was holding.

Eddie and I look at each other and laugh. I can't see him but I know his cheeks are rosy and that there is strand of hair sticking to his forehead with sweat. He cups my cheeks and kisses me.

"Right, where were we..."

"Ah- fuck!"

[luvfae]

47 with eddie roundtree please! maybe a last minute vegas wedding whilst on tour?

WAKING UP IN VEGAS

47: wedding day

fandom: daisy jones & the six

parings: eddie roundtree x f reader

warnings: alcohol use, drug use, swearing

You sipped from the straw that was floating around in your drink, smiling at your fiancé, Eddie, as he spoke to Warren from beside you.

“No man, you don’t understand,” Eddie said, responding to Warren’s question about the attractive women that were constantly around them. “Groupie’s are not a temptation, not when i’ve already found the love of my life,” he wrapped an arm around your shoulders.

“I’m happy for you guys, man,” Warren grinned, stoned out of his mind from all the marijuana he had smoked that day.

“Seriously, I would marry Y/N right now if I could,” Eddie said.

“Who said you can’t?” You piped up. “We’re in Vegas after all,” you smiled.

You hadn’t been engaged to Eddie Roundtree for very long, 3 months at best, but right now, tipsy from one too many margaritas, getting married this instant seemed like the right thing to do.

Hence why now the pair of you, and the rest of the band, were stood in a wedding chapel at 2pm on a Tuesday in Las Vegas. You were wearing a white sundress that you had bought back in Albuquerque, it wasn’t a wedding dress by any means, but it did the trick. Eddie was wearing a white suit he had found in the bottom of his suitcase.

Your hair was a mess, your makeup was mediocre but you didn’t care, not when you were standing hand in hand with Eddie in front of the altar, listening to him spill his heart out to you during his vows.

“You just get me, Y/N,” Eddie grinned from ear to ear, his cheeks rosy. “And that’s how I knew from the day I met you that i’d marry you.”

Warren sniffed, wiping the tears that were pooling below his eyes. “Love is beautiful, man,” he whispered to Graham, who was watching in shock horror as two of his friends impulsively got married.

There was mixed emotions in the chapel. Karen, Daisy and Warren thought it was a great idea, Billy and Graham thought it was ridiculous and Rod was stressed out, praying that the two of you didn’t regret this once you were sober.

“Do you, Y/N, take Eddie to be your husband. To have and to hold until death do you part?” The celebrant asked.

“I do,” you smiled, nodding your head. You had never been more sure of anything in your entire life.

“And do you, Eddie, take Y/N to be your wife. To have and to hold until death do you part?”

“I do,” Eddie said, instantly, his heart full, eyes swimming with adornment as he stared at you.

“I now pronounce you, husband and wife. You may now kiss your bride,” the celebrant said, a sour look on his face, repeating the same speech all day long to impulsive couples who decided to get married in Vegas.

Eddie grabbed your waist, pulling you towards him, pressing his lips firmly against yours. Your palms rested flat against his chest, smiling into the kiss, slowly pulling away as everyone cheered and applauded the pair of you.

“Ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to present for the very first time, Mr and Mrs Roundtree,” the celebrant said, making everyone cheer again, especially Karen, Daisy and Warren who were jumping up and down in joy.

“This could be a fucking disaster by tomorrow morning,” Rod mumbled to Billy, clapping his hands, fake smiling. Praying to the Gods above that he wasn’t fetching divorce papers for the pair of you in less than 24 hours.

You threw the bouquet of flowers you had bought from a nearby florist over your shoulder, Karen was the first to catch them, cheering herself on happily, as if she ever wanted to get married.

“Sorry, but we have a line up of 2 more couples who want to get married so everyone has to clear out!” The celebrant yelled.

You left, hand in hand with Eddie, returning to the tour buses with the rest of the band where you spent the night partying and clinging to Eddie’s side.

When you woke up the next morning you had a pounding headache and you were attempting to go back to sleep, until memories from the day before flooded your mind and you gasped, sitting straight up in bed.

“What are you doing?” Eddie groaned, rubbing his eyes, watching you as you looked down at the dainty wedding band that now adorned your engagement ring. Then it hit him also, the pair of you had drunkenly gotten married yesterday. “No!” He yelled and your eyes snapped onto his as he sat up, running his hands through his messy hair.

“What?” You asked, worried that maybe he thought this was a mistake.

“We were supposed to get married on the beach or something,” Eddie said. “I was supposed to blow a shit ton of money on our wedding, not buy you a cheap ring and take you to a wedding chapel in Vegas.”

You giggled, your hands pressing against his cheeks, pushing your lips against his. “It’s a story for the grandchildren,” you said, resting your forehead against his. “I’m just happy that i’m finally your wife.”

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Y/N ROUNDTREE: yeah, I thought my wedding would be big and glamorous, y’know, considering I was marrying a rockstar with money to burn… but it’s a story to tell and it was perfect.

[panelshowsource]

i did a speedrun through backstage with katherine ryan today (i added it to drive!! i'll try to get better rips soon) — and what an interesting concept! personally i never get tired of the half-scripted reality thang à la meet the richardsons, and one of my favourite things ever is comics just...hanging out... the natural bantz are the best! so her bringing these people all together and seeing/hearing a little of their processes backstage, and them just generally catching up and hyping up each other's work, was super sweet! take a shot every time someone went "you smashed it mate" awww overall cute show!

random thoughts while watching

jimmy and katherine's friendship is really sweet and probably always will be, and it's sweet how much all the other comics seem to really admire him (everyone always being like "jimmy you're so lovely irl and i bet you don't even want people to know!! but i know how lovely you are!! you can fool them but you can't fool me haha!!" even tho no one is being fooled we literally all know how nice jimmy is)

the way they used those insert shots of frankie boyle going down on a croissant... i should not have found that as funny as i did

judi and ivo are fucking hilarious together and remind me a lot of alan and romesh — unhinged + hanging-on-by-a-thread is an amazing combo. she really brings out a sunshiney side of him

katherine refusing to properly roast sara and jo <3

geoff norcott being like "i've been at a gay club with tom allen and he's a top" like no other context whatsoever?? like?? wtf is the story there, right-wing lowkey douche with tom at the club????? i need to hear more about this

michelle de swarte most beautiful woman alive......... i remember watching the duchess wanting katherine to end up with her lol

rosie jones is SUUUCH A MENACE LMAOOO and the fact she uses her free time trying to get her friends cancelled by pretending they pushed her down LMAOOO (as nish said, "[cackle] one of the worst human beings who has ever lived") she is HYSTERICAL

over the past five years i have seen joel dommett lactate more than i have seen my own parents

watching katherine, jimmy, sue perkins, nish, and judi together made me think...like...fuck...this would have been an amazing taskmaster lineup fr. they are all such ridiculous humans

rosie hitting on sue is so valid

JIMMY JUST GETTING HIS FEET OUT?? ("jimmy this is gonna go STRAIGHT on wikifeet!" nish PLEASE) and honestly judi kinda flirting with jimmy "you are so trim" "you are so strong" "you have nice feet" ?? lmfao judi girl ur killing me

[tellthemeerkatsitsfine]

Thoughts on Taskmaster s18e07, written as I watch it:

- Genuine question: do we think Andy brought that outfit from home? Or did he tell Taskmaster that he wants to dress as a Roman soldier, and they let him use Alex’s costume from season 11? I’ve not gone to compare pictures or anything to check, that’s just my first thought when I saw what he’s wearing. Will it relate to his prize task? Or is he wearing it for no reason? Time will tell.

- If I saw Rosie Jones on the street wearing a papier mache head of Greg Davies, the only thing that would surprise me about that would be that I wouldn’t expect to see Rosie Jones in Canada. Otherwise, it would seem entirely natural.

- I was on board with Babatunde’s until he mentioned that he plays music without headphones in public. I always like when contestants try to genuinely answer the prize task’s remit, even if that means sacrificing being funny. And we can all relate to a genuine love of music. But… I know he was joking about playing music out loud in the park, but still. Even as a joke. All sympathy gone, for someone who would even joke about being that guy. Sorry Baba.

- I haven’t seen Emma’s prize yet, just seen her introduce it, but I can’t get over how intense she is when selling her prize tasks. Leaning forward in her seat. Jumping in the explanation like he’s been rehearsing it in her head for the last hour. I want her on every show.

- Actually, if you’re going for practical and accurate answers to the prize task remit, which everyone should be at all times, a hat’s probably the best answer. Wouldn’t require you to keep your hands busy carrying stuff for the entire rest of your life.

- And she took a video of herself adorably showing moisturizer under the hat. Well done Emma. The video with her in it really sells it, I think. The contestants aren’t usually in the pictures or videos of their prizes on the screen.

- I mean, well done to Jack for putting a bit of effort into this prize task, more than he’s put into most of his prizes. But also, that does not fit the task remit at all.

- Took me several moments to work out why Jack’s song sounded familiar. I think it sounds a lot like Stewart Lee’s folk song from Comedy Vehicle, the observational comedy in the style of Bob Dylan. Not sure how similar they are, and again, cannot be bothered to go check.

- We’ve all just been waiting for one thing, right? Greg, Alex, the other contestants, the audience, just going through the motions and pretending anything else is interesting while we wait for the man who’s dressed as Roman soldier to explain himself. So what the fuck, Andrew?

- And I write this next point after having seen his prize: Andy what the fuck? That… I mean it’s the least of my issues with it, but that had nothing to do with Roman soldiers. Who was that guy in the video, dropping cricket balls into it? I 100% believe that Andy Zaltzman owns that thing. If a different comedian, brought that up, I'd assume they just told production staff to find something like that. But I believe Andy owns this. How has he never mentioned it before? Where did he get it? Where did the video come from? Someone please submit some of these questions to the Bugle’s Ask Andy; I’ve already asked him about a BBC questionnaire he filled out in 2004 so I can’t submit any more weird stuff.

- I continue to love Emma’s unjustified intensity. And her pattern, throughout the season, of solidarity with Rosie Jones (an Emma + Rosie team would have been great), and of animosity with Andy. “I have to move boroughs” made me laugh.

- Yeah I agree with that scoring. But I hope we get an outtake where they further question Andy on what the fuck that was.

- I like Emma’s visor under her Clouseau hat. I re-watched the first couple of Pink Panter movies with my dad last week, and fucking hell, I forgot how funny they were. Still made me laugh so much, just like they did when I was a kid. And now that I’ve watched them so recently, I can really appreciate how accurate Emma’s costume is. And how appropriate a character it is to invoke on Taskmaster.

- Andy’s idea to “Call Ian Bell, the cricketer, on my phone” made me laugh out loud. It’s just that it’s such an Andy Zaltzman idea. All the way along he’s been trying to find the most absurd workarounds for tasks, and if any other contestant were doing that I’d think they were a highly competitive meticulous student of the game, who’d studied all previous workarounds and believed that every task is a trap, every trap is an opportunity. But I know that’s just how Andy Zaltzman’s mind works. That’s the root of so much of his comedy, just seeing a different way of interpreting words. I’d made several guesses about how his offbeat comedy style would translate to Taskmaster, but I hadn’t guessed this, the way that side of him would come out in the most absurd ideas for how to re-imagine tasks. Like a debater trying to squired a resolution. Like a man trying to claim that a piece of wood is a locket. Or that a cricket player is a bell.

- I mean… is the obvious guess not to think that the bell isn’t on any of the ropes? They wouldn’t make it purely a game of guessing the correct rope, so if there are no clues as to which rope it is, are they just a red herring? Even if there is a bell attached to one of those ropes, could you just go inside, find a bell, right it, and call the task done? The doorbell is right behind them, could Andy just turn around and ring that?

- Despite everything I just said, and how I’m finding it frustrating that Andy is always looking at tasks creatively but it has not occurred to him to try non-rope options, it is pretty funny to watch Andy Zaltzman keep pulling on ropes and having balls fall on his head. Some solid slapstick humour, in the style of those movies I’ve been watching lately. This is why Emma decided to invoke Clouseau.

- Finished Andy’s task now, that was quite funny. Cannot work out why he didn’t at least try ringing the doorbell. Just kept knocking stuff onto his head. I don’t really think of Andy Zaltzman as a slapstick comedian. Maybe he should try clowning. I liked it when he knocked down Patatas and said “Well that’s the cat, obviously.” And then mentioned that some breeds of cats have bells in the them. Even in the thick of stressfully knocking stuff onto his head, Andy can still pluck lies out of thin air.

- Well, I assumed Andy was isolated because he’d be the only person to ring every bell. Good to see Baba and Jack did it too. So does that mean the two women are the only ones smart enough to work out the trick before pulling on ropes? Or at least, before pulling on every single rope?

- Oh shit, I was joking about ringing the doorbell. I mean, sort of joking. I would genuinely try that if I were them, but I didn’t think someone actually would, or that it would work. It appears that it did, though. And in fact, that going inside and finding a bell wasn’t some clever workaround, it was the entire point. They got there eventually.

- I was thinking Emma was pretty clever for backing up, to try to see the top of the rope area without looking up (though obviously it would make more sense to back up into the driveway, where you can go as far as you want, rather than backing up into the house, where you’ll get blocked by the ceiling). Then she started explaining to Alex that what she’s doing is like when you zoom in a camera, except that in real life you have to do it with your whole body. And suddenly I was less impressed by her intelligence. I feel like that is a good metaphor for Emma’s performance in this entire season.

- Actually, Rosie has a good idea too. That would work if there are any bells there, just shaking the rope.

- Oh, and Emma has figured out that she can back up into places besides the front hallway. She actually looks very Clouseau-like in this task, when she was shuffling sideways in the house, and then standing on a chair and squinting, convinced this trick would work.

- Oh, and Rosie’s got it! The doorbell strikes again. Obviously. It’s right behind them.

- Emma Sidi: I’m just zooming out again.

Alex Horne: Okay. Don’t fall off the chair.

This is basically a Pink Panther sketch.

- There is no more Clouseau-like way to do a task, than to run around standing on chairs and squinting while convinced that if you manage to stand at just the right angle you’ll crack the case, and then, while trying to set up for your next angle in this stupid idea, you accidentally trip over the object you needed, pick it up, ring it, and accidentally succeed. Well done, Emma. Doing your costume proud.

- Emma jumping in to defend Rosie in the studio. “That is a good idea, though, isn’t it?” She’s right, it was a good idea. Emma Sidi/Rosie Jones dream team. Give them a sitcom. Or just a show where they chat to each other.

- And then she calls Andy a thousand years old, under her breath. I don’t fully know why Emma keeps applying her weirdly intense studio manner to solidarity with Rosie and animosity with Andy. But it’s really funny. One of the best things about this season.

- Oh, hot dog! Rosie in the hot dog! Is she going to win by cheating like Babatunde did when he was a hot dog? Let’s find out.

- Solid title drop out of Rosie there. Probably the best title drop of the season.

- Babatunde’s right. Being dressed up (sort of) as an old time-y ship captain does suit Andy Zaltzman. It’s amazing how many costumes suit Andy Zaltzman, as we’re learning.

- Task instructions: You must lie throughout the next task.

Andy Zaltzman: Born to do it.

Fuck yes! Fuck yes, giving Andy Zaltzman a special solo task that just tells him to lie. Alex, don’t you know that’s his specialty? That would be like having Adam Hills on Taskmaster and setting a task called “remove your leg and throw it into a tree.” That’s how big an advantage Andy has over anyone else in the art of lying.

- Ooh I love the way the lying task started when they entered the room. Technically, Jack nodded when Rosie said she was dressed as a hot dog. And she was dressed as a hot dog. That’s telling the truth, knock a point off Jack and Rosie.

- I actually really like the lying idea. I see how it messes with this task in particular, but it’s a good idea on its own. I think it might be funnier if they’d implemented it in some other task, where the whole thing doesn’t depend on them conveying accurate information, they just have to complete something while remembering not to tell the truth.

- Holy shit. Emma figuring out that Andy is lying, standing up, eyes shining with excitement as she expresses it, is up there for most adorable things I’ve seen on Taskmaster. So excited. So unnecessarily intense. Worked it out because of course Andy Zaltzman knows what velvet is. Cut through the animosity, and of course this man knows what velvet is! I take back what I said in the previous point; this was a great task for applying the lying rule, just for that moment.

- I think Andy broke a rule there, by speaking even though Alex hasn’t asked him a question. But surely they have to let that go, for how good a moment it is for Andy to say “The end of the world isn’t coming” in a task where he’s not allowed to tell the truth. Meaning technically, they could have a debate in the studio about whether to dock them points, and they get to keep their points if the end of the world is, in fact, coming.

- Very funny to watch Emma and Babatunde struggle while Andy’s helpless to do anything for them. Mostly Emma, really. It was funny when Emma got “lemons a five-pound note”, Alex said they were “half right”, and Baba jumped in with the excited voice of a man who’s just realized he could finally contribute something, that maybe it’s 2 pounds 50. Which doesn’t even work, because if 5 pounds were half right, that would be ten pounds.

- I can’t believe they actually got one lemon and a 5-pound note within under 40 minutes. I don’t think I could do that, even without the lying. That’s a really hard one. There was a tiny hint from Alex, when Emma kept guessing books, and Alex asked Andy if there were numbers in there, I guess to guide Emma more toward the right answer, possibly because they had to get out of that room eventually. But it wasn’t much of a hint. That was brilliant work by Emma.

- Not a single truth by Andy Zaltzman. Fuck yes, that’s how it’s done. He’s been training for this his whole career.

- Well first of all, the task said to only make silent facial expressions unless answering Alex’s question, and Jack is doing little giggles. Andy broke that rule maybe once, and it was to say something funny enough to justify it. Jack’s breaking it right off the bat.

- Okay, what the fuck? I was joking before, about Rosie Jones winning by cheating while wearing the hot dog, the way Babatunde did. But that was absolutely blatant. Jack Dee made noises all the way through that, when rules specified silent expressions. He also told the truth repeatedly to Rosie. He made a cursory effort to lie when Alex asked him questions, but all of his expressions – and his noises – that he directed at Rosie were truthful. Absolute bullshit. Arguably Jack and Rosie should be down like 50 points, one for every correct facial expression he made. Obviously you can’t do that, but at least that should be no points for this task. I will be genuinely annoyed if they win this, especially did Emma did so brilliantly to work it out by not cheating.

- Oh good, we’ve returned to the studio and Greg has immediately pointed out that Jack was “openly talking” and also not lying. Glad we’re at least discussing this one, unlike Baba running. They’d better not get points for this. Not fair to Rosie since it’s not her fault, but, you know, that’s what you get if you have so much faith in Jack Dee that you wear the hot dog for a team task because you think he’ll get you the double points.

- Emma, for the entire season: Unquestionably supportive of Rosie Jones, always jumping to her defence in the studio and charmed by her jokes.

Emma, as soon as they point out that Rosie's negative three points should maybe get doubled to negative six:

Hilarious. They are being generous as I think Jack told the truth every time Rosie made a guess, but they can't actually dock that many points, so I would accept three points docked, due to truth telling, and no points gained for completing the task, due to cheating.

- And that's what they got. Fair enough. I'd have been genuinely, honestly upset if Jack got away with that just because he's Alex's favourite.

- Technically, they could put the fortune cookies in a Ziploc bag before dropping them into the bowls of hot sauce, salty water, vinegar, whatever else. The fortunate cookies are still in a bowl. And they don't have to eat vinegar.

- Interesting idea, to shoot and edit Rosie and Baba's attempts at this task like it's a Saw-style, torture-based horror film (I've not actually seen the Saw films, but I assume that's exactly what happens in them, right?). This reminds me of the final filmed task of season 9, when Rose opened all the tasks in the correct order and it was easy, and then we see everyone else get the order wrong and it was torture. This one seems to be very much luck of the draw, which ones you open first.

- Ah, Jack's come up with an even more obvious solution than the Ziploc bag. Just don't put them in the bowl at the end.

- I would definitely go with covering one eye with my hand, rather than trying to wink continuously for the rest of the task.

- I enjoyed that Emma looked genuinely annoyed when they got back to the studio, and Greg said he's allow Jack's hot sauce avoidance trick. I think that one's fair enough, the task didn't say they have to obey the cookies in the order in which they opened them.

- Right, I wrote the above point before watching the beginning of Andy's task attempt, in which he says that right away, that he can save some for last.

Alex Horne: I think you have to do them in the order you open them.

Andy Zaltzman: [picks up the task, reread it, calmly put it down] No, you do not.

You tell him, Andy! All the information is on the motherfucking task!

God, I love pedant. I'm such a massive fan of pedants. You're the best, Andy. (I am reminded of an old Andy Zaltzman joke here: "Nobody likes a pedant. Well, actually, I guess it's not true to say that nobody likes a pedant...)

- Holy fuck. I am genuinely glad that my roommate is not home right now, because the volume of my gasp would have caused concern. That might be the loudest I have ever gasped while watching comedy. I've only heard the first couple of seconds of Andy's phone call so I don't know how far they get, but I know that voice. I am not usually great at recognizing voices, but I know that voice incredibly well. In the last few years, I have spent more hundreds of hours listening to that voice, in the last few years, than I have spent listening to my own mother's voice.

Guys. Guys. Guys. It's happened. Against his will - very much against his will - Daniel Kitson is on Taskmaster. And people thought it would never happen! Well it has! Daniel Kitson's on Taskmaster.

Technically this is Chocolate Milk Gang content. I'm going to be a pedant about it, which I am, I would have to cut out this clip and put it in my Chocolate Milk Gang folder. Oh my God guys.

- Having seen the rest of that phone call, I feel compelled to post this audio clip. It's from Daniel Kitson's 2007 stand-up show, It's the Fireworks Talking (brilliant and available on Bandcamp), in which he lists the friends he has at the time, and how he knows they're his friends.

He is, of course, referring to John Oliver, Russell Howard, Gavin Osborn, and Alun Cochrane. Andy didn't make the cut at the time, despite being in the Chocolate Milk Gang. But Kitson did explain, in that clip, that you know someone's your real friend if you can call them up to tell them about your genitals, and you won't need to give them further explanation about it. Does this mean that Andy is now on the "real friends" list, but the criteria has changed, in their older and wiser age/stage of life, to be that you can call someone up to say you're in the bath, and not need to give further explanation?

Food for thought. I'm going to be honest, I am so stuck on how cool it is that Kitson was on Taskmaster, I barely care what else happens in this episode now.

Also, it should be noted for the record that while this is the first appearance of Daniel Kitson on Taskmaster, it is not the first reference to him. That was back in season 1:

- Oh, Andy was doing so well until he got the "start all over" one. So well. Telling Alex off. Phoning the greatest comic mind of his generation. Not keeping his mouth open because he didn't have to.

- Every other person interpreted "shout the word yes for thirty seconds" as "say yes over and over". Not Andy. I think he actually believed he'd be able to sustain saying one word "yes" for thirty entire seconds.

- I'm going to be clipping several things from this episode. I want that phone call for my Chocolate Milk Gang folder. And I want the audio of Andy Zaltzman shouting "yes" for as long as possible to be the alarm that wakes me up in the morning. I'm like 40% kidding about that.

- Overall scores are getting closer. Going into this season, Andy Zaltzman was my favourite, but not my pick to win; I expected him to be langishing in last place by this point. Instead, he's tied for second, only six points behind first place. There's a lot of ground to make up, but he still has the hot dog in his pocket. And so does Emma. Emma actually was my pick to win, going into the season, I'd be very happy with either her or Andy winning. And very annoyed if Jack wins.

- It's been impressive how so far, for the vast majority of the season, they've had tasks that have worked just fine for Rosie Jones, to the point where normally I barely remember that there are major physical things the others can do and she can't. But this task... might have been made without taking the disability into account. It is funny, though. Pretty sure that's how Rosie wants it, just throw her into stuff with everyone else (when it comes to made-up points that don't matter, while giving her accommodation for things that actually do matter, like being able to sit on her chair comfortably).

- And the first few turns of that task bear out my view of it, but luckily, sitting on the elimination bench just gives Rosie more chances to talk shit to Jack Dee. Which has been great fun all episode.

- Yes! Jackie's also out on the first turn, Andy with a shot at five points. This could really narrow the gap in the overall scores. I hadn't gotten all that far into being competitive in this season, I guess because my favourite did not seem likely to win. But now that I see where we are with three episodes (and one live task) to go, and Andy's in with an actual chance - suddenly I am quite invested in the scores.

If Andy wins, we get him on Champion of Champions III. But I think I am almost more excited about the fact that if Andy wins, we get him on the podcast for the final episode. He was so fucking funny in his Taskmaster podcast episode, I want another one of those.

- Andy checks the wind like it's cricket. I've just realized there has been no explanation for the Roman costume, and in fact, it's barely been referenced all episode. He's just Like That.

- Fuck yes! You go, Andy! Both beanbags, perfectly calibrated!

- And Baba's out! Hell yes, Andy, you weird fucking Roman warrior!

- And another episode win for Emma Sidi! She reminds me of her buddy Rose Matafeo, wearing that hat.

- God, was that ever fun. This is a fucking amazing season. Obviously I'm biased because my all-time number one Taskmaster wishlist contestant is on it, but I think this season is amazing even without my bias.

[lunar-years]

All right. The Keeley/KJPR issue. I know I say this every week and probably sound like a broken record at this point, but I don't know what on earth they're trying to do with her this season and it continues to bother me to no end. And the thing is, I don't even hate all of it, there are parts I've really really liked...this week especially! But it's becoming increasingly difficult to reconcile those parts with all the other threads they've introduced with her only to drop them and then introduce more and then drop those...the general arc is so sloppy and I just hate it.

So this week, I thought it was very necessary that we got to see Keeley have her little breakdown moment. Jack pulling funding and not even telling her until after she heard it from Barbara was...truly malicious. I'm glad Keeley was allowed to spiral a bit after that. I also loved her talk with Mae in the pub. Instantly befriending her, asking her for advice on being her own boss, that was classic Keeley fucking Jones and it was perfect. The "lightning at the top of the mountain" part of Mae's speech felt a little too conveniently contrived to double as an ~okay Keeley + audience, let's all think about Roy now! moment~ instead of strictly a job advice moment, but whatever, I can even stretch my disbelief on that point.

I...didn't love the ending. It's not that Rebecca swooping in to save the day with her pocketbook didn't make logical sense. Rebecca's super rich, this is her best friend, of course she's going to do what she can to put this to rights! And I do like that now Keeley will be able to hire her own staff, and that Barbara stuck around (thank god one of Keeley's 3 new women turned out to be alright). Rebecca will certainly be a better funder to partner with moving forward who will allow Keeley to have more control and say over her own business. But it just felt narratively flat to me.

Like okay, this is a very huge thing with massive implications that happens to Keeley, and we finally see her begin to confront her fear of failure and her perception that in this instance she has actually tangibly failed (something very important to her growth this season. The fact that she was so scared or else flat out embarrassed to tell Rebecca the truth of what happened... How that's wrapped up in how she unconsciously compares herself to Rebecca -- in large part because of how much she freaking respects and looks up to Rebecca -- but always finds herself lacking); We see her vouch to find the lightning at the top of the mountain! To be boss of her own life! Anddd...then Roy and Rebecca swoop back in within the span of the same episode and everything is rosy again, I guess. And I'm somehow left feeling like I'm not actually buying into Keeley's internal progression at all, actually.

It was just a very fast & abrupt (& unsatisfying) conclusion to an arc that has quite literally dragged on all season.

(And for my separate but related thoughts on the RoyKeeley side of the equation, see here. )

[fastofthekillones]

11

I'm just going to pin this post and use it to find weird tags that I have inexplicably written on something, mostly for my own gratification, but if any of you wonderful weirdos wanna look, feel free

[thewingedwolf]

i can’t believe people were mad irene/tqt was included in a kidlit competition, as if the animorphs aren’t out here committing war crimes and having the most fucked up endings?? as if darren shan didn’t traumatize all of us in every single book he wrote? as if margaret peterson haddix didn’t kill off what everyone thought would be a main character in her FIRST BOOK and completely change the course of MY LIFE?? louis sachar wrote a scathing criticism of racism where a white teacher watches her school be burned to the ground and her black lover is shot in front of her! HOWL IS OUT HERE GETTING ASS OVER TITS DRUNK AND BEING A FUCKBOY WITH HIS LACROSSE BUDDIES AND WE SHELVE THAT IN THE JUVENILE SECTION!! luke castellan tricks a girl he loves into holding the sky on her back because he’s so traumatized by the uselessness of being turned into a child soldier by a father who will never see him as an individual and then kills himself to save that same girl and i read that at age 13 and lost my ever loving mind over it and we are saying that irene doing some light torture is too teen?? did no one else read coraline at age 11??!

come on, middle schoolers are grown enough to realize that bad things exist in the world, and using magic or sci-fi as a metaphor for real world trauma and hurt to explain big world concepts to younger kids has been a tried and true way of writing a story since the 90s, not every middle schooler wants to only read junie b jones! junie b jones herself would probably prefer a fucked up fantasy story over a rosy colored depiction of real world hurts bc she’s a smart cookie just like many other kids!!

[sobeksewerrat]

HYPERANALYZING/ SCREAMING ABOUT EP.3 COZ IT IS MY FAVOURITE AND I AM REWATCHING IT LET'S GOOOO

Disclaimer: this post is literally just me talking about how much I kin Milly and technically a combined liveblog

Oh look it's one of Taylor's bullies from BWBL!!

Also, what the music freak is this shitty pop song playing in the back ground man I'm-

Why is the school nurse running around like that-

Gotta love how everyone just rushes over to see Milly fight, and that Jake knows exactly who they're talking about (even though they've been friends for like 2 weeks). Really shows how much of a negative-ish reputation Milly has (relatable man)

Fuck Miss Jones man she sucks she can't even break off a fight who hired this bitch.

I really like the fight scene, Luke's animation is kinda wonky but I really miss seeing Kurie's animation!! I really miss the old GL episodes, they were just so much more well-written, and the amount of editing done by Rosy in them is really underrated like they seriously look so good considering how limited GL was.

God, seeing Milly fight for something Zoey stole is really fucking relatable. Like, my bullies always steal my books, my sketchbooks, my pencil case..etc. and I always get in trouble when I try to wrestle them for it. Like, I get yelled at and keep getting told "You're a girl you shouldn't be fighting with anybody!" and all they get for pushing me over the edge is a slap on the wrist, schools are really unfair (and then adults wonder why we don't talk to them about shit).

Dear Rosy Jake is so pathetic he literally gets thrown away by just a punch I'm-

Fuck you Luke

Zoey calling Milly an animal is um, weird, to say the least.

Um, side note, I really forgot how weird Henriam were in the first few episodes- like you could see the basis of their characters as we know them now being established but it's still so weird seeing them like this (also Henry is almost Liam's height in GL which makes me want to die)

Imma just skip over the Miss Jones scene I practically said everything I have to say but before that Drew was too much of a dick in this episode in an unlikeable way like THANK GOD he's barely in this one and seeing Lia flirting with Jake feels very wrong for some reason. Still love her GL outfit though <33

Wow Hailey I am so glad to know you care more about the competition than Milly <444/sarcasm

FUCKING HYPOCRITE- (jk I love GL era Hailey <44)

Seeing the club pressuring Milly to talk speaks to me on a weirdly personal level. Everyone wants me to talk about my feelings, but have you ever considered that I don't want to talk about them? That I am still not comfortable enough to let you in? To let you see that I am vulnerable? To actually confront the fact that I am not okay? I know the music club and the ppl ik irl genuinely mean well, but sometimes people aren't willing to talk, and you should respect that. Sometimes, just being there to keep us company and not judge us is enough, yk?

Side note: can really relate to Milly's reflex of hitting people when they get too close, I literally have to stop myself from punching my own mother whenever she grabs my arm or something I fucking hate being touched and I like the nice detail of Zander smiling when he found out who punched Jake.

Honestly, fuck Zander man. I joked about Hailey not caring about Milly's feelings, about Zander straight up doesn't care.

He is a straight up reminder of my one of my bullies and all the adults in my life. Fuck you Zander.

"Does the band mean nothing to you?"

DO MILLY'S FEELINGS MEAN NOTHING TO YOU ZANDER?!?

[Cries in this is super relatable]

"Great...she's on a rampage again"

Um...so, the girl being on the verge of a breakdown and being understandably angry at her bullies and her friends being extremely inconsiderate is considered being on a rampage? Damn, Sean, why do people even like you man.

So...you WANT to have control over her?? Idk man I am really mad at zander rn

"We can deal with whatever's bothering you, together!"

"Milly, I'm worried about you."

I already elaborated on this point but I just want to talk about how much I love Hailey in the first 4 episodes she was literally an awesome queen what happened to her 😭

God I love Redemption so fucking much it is literally the best song and musical scene in TMF /gen

Love the foreshadowing to Lia's redemption in the scene where they're bullying Milly btw, Rosy is awesome when it comes to subtlety (that is how you spell it right-?)

"🎵But you keep trying to get too close🎵"

Literally on the verge of tears this song (and whole episode tbh) hits way too close to home/gen (i feel like I have to keep clarifying how genuine I bcuz I don't think people realize how emotional this gacha series can make me)

"🎵Saved myself by turning into stone🎵"

[In tears] I swear people really underestimate how fucked up someone's psyche can be when they're all cheery and hyper. Media has made us believe that people who bottle up emotions are all cold and depressed but really the most cheerful people you knew tend to be the most depressed. The only other major examples from my fandoms that fit this category that I can think of are KEL from Omori and Kokichi form Dangan, but I feel like KEL fits this statement more that Ouma tbh

"🎵So save your judgement 'cause you just don't know🎵"

REAL. AND THE CAMERA PANNING TO ZANDER WAS JUST *chef's kiss* I SWEAR ROSY IS REALLY GOOD AT SHOWING EMOTION.

"🎵And they keep coming like moth to flame🎵"

People want a reaction. Adults keep telling you to just ignore the bullies and they'll go away, but they never will because they KNOW they're getting under your skin and they'll continue teasing you till you snap and they'll only stop when it's already too fucking late.

"🎵Redemption never came🎵"

This. This line is perfect and it is the perfect ending to the song. People are so quick to judge and tell you you need to change but they never stop to get to know the real you, they never stop to actually help you change, and you'll always be the villain in the end.

"Milly seems really important to these guys"

YA THINK?!?!

"I'm missing chunks of my hair because of her!"

Zoey please marry me 💖

"They must be talking about Milly..."

Yeah, no shit, Sherlock

"I can't believe she has a crush on that nerd!"

Me neither, Zoey, Milly is wayyyy above his league.

"You...blackmailed your friend for me?"

Also, being bullied for a crush is soo real. Like, I am aroace so I wasn't bullied for HAVING a crush, I was bullied for being a "pick me" because I just so happened to be close friends with a guy and they were all accusing us of dating (this is like a big deal here since dating is very frowned upon, especially for AFABs; so they KNEW they were gonna tank my reputation and ruin my life basically. I can't tell you the amount of teachers who would look at me weird when I talked to my guy friends)- anyways this barely has anything to do with Milly or tmf but this is my blog I do whatever

[EDIT: A WHOLE CHUNK OF THE RANT WAS DELETED?? I AM REWRITING IT NOW]

"Y'know, what? I think I might go see what Drew's up to, I've yet to tell him about how I saw you with your sugar daddy last weekend"

This was the moment I started hating Jake. I didn't like him before, but I started loathing him at that moment.

I have been cheated on before, and if my friends knew and didn't tell me I would have killed them.

"But drew wouldn't have believed him!" Well, he believed him in ep 10, didn't he? And Henriam would have been there to back him up anyways.

Another question I have regarding this is how on earth did he blackmail her?! Liek he didn't have a photo or anything.

AND WHY ISNT HE CONCERNED ABOUT ZOEY GOIGN OUT WITH AN ADULT!??!

"Aw, you two looked very cozy together"

His tone reminds me of my abuser and I don't like. It has nothing to do with the essay, but I wanted to point it out. It really got under my skin.

"Just...please don't tell Drew about what you saw"

Is ti just me or does she seem genuinely sad?? Like her conscience is tormenting her?? Idk man maybe I am just reading into this way too much but- [pulls out ancient tmf theories about Zoey being forced into this by sb and actually being in love with Drew]

"I can't believe those girls, snooping into people's diaries like that"

And you can believe Jake blackmailing Zoey?? I get you're still salty about Lia but cmon Hailey give the man some consequences

[INSERT DEAN SCENE HERE]

MR.BROOOOOOOOOOOM

GOD HER TONE IS JUST- LIKE, SHE'S UNCERTAIN ABOUT JAKE'S METHOD [PROBABLY] BUT SHE CANT BELIEVE SOMEBODY CARES ABOUT HER THAT MUCH OH MY- SOMEBODY GIVE HER A HUG PLEASE SHE NEEDS IT

I SWEAR IF I SEE SOMEBODY ELSE CALL HER CARDBOARD LIEK THE ANON DID I WILL KILL YHEM

"Um...well, when you put it like that-"

Jesus Christ this man doesn't even realize what he did.

That final interaction with Milly and Jake where they reflect on the whole thing is just- beautiful, awesome, fantastic. It's really sweet and I love seeing Milly finally being comfortable enough to talk about her feelings (even if she isn't being too specific or conveying all of her feelings)

Why does Elliot look like that.

Milly why do you like this guy.

Anyways, I love the sound effects Rosy used to add whenever people would blush, I miss it (iirc it isn't in any of the new ep)

GOD I MISSED HE INTRO/OUTRO SONG SO MUCH NOSTALGIA-

Anyways, I love this episode, this is peak TMF and it makes me angry to see how Milly was reduced to comic relief in the end.

I would write a proper conclusion but I am too fucking lazy

Bye freaks

[gentlebeardsbarngrill]

03/26-27/24 Daily OFMD Recap

TLDR; Rhys Darby; Great Big Cow Band; Leslie Jones; Vico Ortiz; Guz Khan; Kristian Nairn/Con O'Neill; Rachel House; David Jenkins; Watch Parties; Kudoboards; Trans Day of Visibility; Fan Spotlight; Cast Cards; Our Flag Means Fanfiction; Never Left - Podcast; We Need to Be a Lighthouse Pixel Art; Articles; Supportive busineses; love notes; Daily Darby / Tonight's Taika;

First of all, tonight I wanted to say thank you, I received so much love yesterday when I cancelled the recap. I still haven't gotten to respond to all the messages, although I promise they are coming! Thank you for giving me so much love, it really meant so much. The last few days have been rough on me personally for various reasons (not because of the recap) so I appreciate all the love, it got me through the day! 😭🫂

PS: This is going to be a Long Post is Long so I'm gonna throw a break in here so I don't kill all your feeds!

== Cast & Crew Sightings ==

= Rhys Darby =

So many Rhys Sightings!!!!

Source: Rhys' Instagram

== Great Big Cow Band ==

For those of you not already aware, Rhys' son Finn's band Great Big Cow debuted in New Zealand yesterday! Rosie posed a picture with commentary on being a proud band mom!

Source: Rosie's Instagram

== Leslie Fucking Jones ==

Are you in New York, NY? Wanna see Leslie Jones in person? She'll be at The Comic Strip at 1568 Second Ave. (between 81st and 82nd st) on March 30, 2024 at 8 pm! For tickets call 212-861-9368!

== Vico Ortiz ==

I can't remember if this has been announced before, but just in case, Vico will be at the Phoenix Fan Fusion May 24-26 2024! Get tickets at Phoenixfanfusion.com! Source: Vico's Instagram

= Guz Khan =

Samba's keeping our friend Guz Khan hyped! If you're in Los Angeles (Apr 24) or New York (Apr 26) you can see Guz Khan in person! For more info visit @guzkhanofficial

== Con O'Neill / Kristian Nairn ==

Con and Kristian together again 😭 Con O'Neill's Instagram

== Rachel House ==

Photo shoot with Rachel House for DenizenMagazine/SundayMag! Just some fun pictures of one of our pirates! Source: Rachel House's Instagram

== David Jenkins ==

I ran out of image slots so took a screenshot, please visit @ofmd-ann's post here.

== Watch Parties! ==

Join SaveOFMD crew for another watch through of These Thems! It's free to watch on youtube!

When: March 28 7:30pm GMT/ 3:30 pm EDT / 12:30 pm PDF Who: Via SaveOFMD Crew On Socials Hashtags:

#CoolPirates

#SaveOFMD

#TheseThems

== Kudoboards Reminder! =

Thank you to @sharpenyersword on Twitter for setting up ALL THE KUDOBOARDS! The rest of the Kudoboard's will close on the 31st. 

Go send the cast and crew some love folks!

David Jenkins

Nathan Foad

Con O'Neill

Ruibo Qian

Leslie F*cking Jones!

Matthew Maher

Vico Ortiz

Samson Kayo

Alex "Ass Tonight" Sherman!

David Fane

Gypsy Taylor

Kristian "Wee John Wondays" Nairn!

Samba "BTS and Baking King" Schutte!

Fellow OFMD Fan Crew!

== Trans Day of Visibility! ==

Save OFMD Crew is celebrating Trans Day of Visibility on the 31st by highlighting trans and nonbinary creators, activists, cast and crew, and allies as well! Wanna celebrate someone? You can use this graphic by @snejpowa and give a well deserved shoutout! Please use #CoolPirates! Trans/Nonbinary creators-- please us the hashtag to promote your platform! Save OFMD Crew will give a you a boost!

== Fan Spotlight ==

= We Need To Be A Lighthouse! Pixel Art! =

Our dear @blueberreads is back to having heart palpitations with Alex Sherman and Samba sharing their latest pixel art vid on Instagram! Congrats <3 Want check out the whole amazing video? Visit any of these places! Tumblr / Twitter / Instagram

= Our Flag Means Fanfiction! =

Are you ready for another episode of Our Flag Means Fanfiction? The podcast is available on Spotify below! This week is The Steddy Hands Episode!

= Never Left! =

Another episode of the Never Left Podcast is up! The third part of Beautiful Princess Disorder is up! Please visit their Linktr.ee to check out their new episode!

Art Source: @AmysBirdHouse Never Left Instagram

= Cast Cards =

More of our extended cast from @melvisik! I'm behind a few days so lots at once, with our beloved, gone too soon, STEAKY! John Bartholomew / Widow Ellen Conroy / Steak Knife

== Articles ==

Not specific to OFMD-- but it's about Rhys' son's band!

== Supportive Businesses! ==

So I ran out of room for images! So I'll to make a separate post for this, but Bank Square Books in CT put together a really cool list of books they'd recommend to various OFMD Characters. Obviously we've got some crew members on their staff! Even cooler, they do book bundles so if people are interested you can get lots of books for reasonable prices! OFMD Character Recommended Book list (note this link doesn't include which characters they're recommended to, you can check out their twitter link for the images / recommendations per character)

Twitter

== Love Notes ==

Hey Lovelies! @blakbonnet was kind enough to explain to me the little lovely letter game going on here on tumblr, and I think it is the coolest and sweetest thing! 😭😭😭 I'm trying to participate too but i'm gonna be a little slow! Sorry for the delays! Today got away with me!

But seriously, how damn awesome are all of you sending love like that!?!?! You're just opening up and sending and receiving love, and I feel like it's 100% what we all need right now (and helping some folks normally nervous to get some love!). It's just incredibly heartwarming, and I wanted to say how happy it made me to see it.

This post is getting insanely long so I'm gonna cut off here tonight, but I wanted to share something lovely our lovely Pirate Queen Ruibo Qian shared on IG. -- I adore all our mutual weirdness and imperfections and there's no other people I'd rather be weird and imperfect with than you all :) Good night and good day lovelies!

Original Post / Ruibo Qian's Instagram

== Daily Darby / Tonight's Taika ==

Tonight's gifs suggestion submitted by @brainfugk ! As you can see, the theme is "Shake Weight"... and "ARMS". Src of twitter post that was sent my way was: @snejpowa (I pulled tumblr gifs cause I wasnt sure how to transfer them from twitter, sorry for any confusion!

Darby Gif courtesy of @fandomsmeantheworldtome

Taika Gif Courtesy of @nero-in-a-petticoat

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series 1 whoniverse dashboard simulator ( PART ONE HERE )

💓 TARD1S-companion

Gwyneth should've been at the club...

🥫 heymickeyyy Follow

Rose YOU should be at the club

#seriously please come home #I miss you

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🛸 doctorwho Follow

I know for a FACT that something is up with the government. They are hiding the man that changes faces. the man that shows up in history over and over again. he ASSASSINATED John F Kennedy and they want to HIDE THAT FROM YOU. he means death!!! all these recent spottings mean something very VERY BAD is about to happen. I pray for us all.

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👩 HarrietJones Follow

sometimes I question if this job is worth it.

#harriet's personal posts #all this alien shit I have to keep cleaning up

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🗺️ historicalhornypoll Follow

🟦 timetraveler 🔁

This poll is in very poor taste.

#I voted charles. He was a nice man. Fantastic conversationalist #Think he was into me too

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🥫 heymickeyyy Follow

Sometimes I wonder why we let members of the parliamentary system use this website as a diary

#harriet jones gets away with too much

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🟦 timetraveler 🔁 💓 TARD1S-companion

🟦 timetraveler

Rather invasive question, Yeah? Buy me a drink first, at least. You humans. Always so Nosy.

💓 TARD1S-companion 🔁

Anon he wants my boytoy so bad!! the tardis team tension is crazy

🟦 timetraveler 🔁

#This you? #Sorry Rosie. Got to defend my honor

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🚀 harknesstest

God I want to annoy him so fucking bad.

#doc tag #tardis liveblogs

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🟦 timetraveler 🔁 💓 TARD1S-companion

🚀 harknesstest

#Happy Leather Daddy Sunday

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🩻 thelasthuman

AITA for wanting to just LIVE? can't a woman THRIVE? God forbid a girlboss build her empire.

#Fuck all you fake bitches #I am the real queen #Rose tyler is a fake fraud

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🐦 jabeofcheem

Beautiful. I love the history of my people. 💚💚

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💓 TARD1S-companion

God knew I'd be too hot if I had a stable life so he made me poor 'n gave me raging daddy issues

#roses petals

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[disneyanddisneyships]

@gyubby99 ....... I'm sorry

Okay this one's q bit different. No lyrics in the story, but the song it's based on will be here.

Hamilton AU

Alastor x OC fic

Warnings: m@sturb@tion, cheating on my OC aponi, alastor being a naive dummy, Rosie being an out of character slut, s3x

Alastor sighed.

The paperwork he had to get done was not his worst issue.

Why did October have to come so soon? He hated the idea of doing things without his girlfriend, but she was staying all the way across hell with a friend and he had no choice but to help himself out.

He shut the door, closed the drapes, and turned off every camera and microphone he could find.

All but one, hidden in the corner of the room that he had forgotten about.

Alastor sighed again before sitting at his desk and unzipping his pants.

His hand got to work and he sighed, a small amount of relief going through him as he helped himself out.

Then the door opened.

"Hey al, brought you some-" Rosie cut herself off at the scene before her.

Alastor, his hand down his pants.

She blushed, alastor looked at her and gulped before straightening himself up.

"Ah-um... may I help you, dear friend?" He asked.

"Uh.... no I just brought you some food. Aponi called, she wanted to know if you-"

Alastor tugged at the collar of his shirt, sweat dripping down his head as he tuned Rosie out, just looking at her body.

Good God was it hot in here.

"Ya know Al," Rosie began as she got dangerously closer to him. "If you wanted me so bad, you could've just asked," she smirked before kissing him.

He unintentionally fell into the kiss as his hard on got worse.

Damn October.

......

Hours later Alastor stood up and got his clothes on in a panic.

He just cheated on the mother of his adopted child.

And yet.....

.........

Rosie stood up, putting her dress back on.

"Too bad we can't continue this. You're a great fuck you know," she stated as she put her hair up.

The month had come to an end and qaponi would be back tomorrow.

"Right...." Alastor muttered.

"Oh don't feel so guilty, deer boy. At least you got a taste of what a real woman fucks like," Rosie stated before kissing Alastor's neck and wlaking out of the radio tower.

Alastor sat there.

He covered his mouth.

He had betrayed the love of his life.....

.......

The next day arrived and alastor stood outside the hotel, waiting for the car.

As it drive up, alastor could feel his stomach drop.

"Hi honey!" Aponi called out as she got out of the vehicle.

Judith ran straight to alastor.

"Dad! Daddy, momma got us prizes!" Judith exclaimed as qlastor picked her up.

"Oh? Wonderful," Alastor replied, unenthusiastically.

"Who spit in YOUR coffee?" Angel asked as he got out of the car.

"Yeah. Don't get too excited," Mallory finished as she wlake dinto the hotel.

Aponi rolled her eyes. "You need uh... any help with anything that's been building up this month?" Aponi asked.

"No... i.... I have a meeting, I'm afraid," Alastor stated before walking away.

Aponi looked on in confusion before sighing sadly and wlaking into the hotel.

.......

Alastor walked into Valentino's dressing room.

"You called for me?" Alastor stated as he stood there.

"Yes. I didn't take you for a cheater," Valentino stated with a smirk from his couch.

"What?" Alastor asked.

Valentino opened his phone and showed the video to alastor. "Someone forgot to turn off a camera," he stated.

"What do you want?" Alastor asked.

"Money, mostly," Valentino replied.

[sodamnradd]

Getting To Know You Tag Game

Thank you @simplifiedemotions and @ambpersand for the tag. I never do these because I always assume nobody will care. But I'll give it a go. Tagging anyone who's interested to share!

Three ships: Dramione, Tomione, Jurdan

First ship: I was never a fanfic reader growing up. In addition to YA books, I read original stories on Facebook's Bathroom Wall and Wattpad. Dramione is my first exploration of fanfic. That said, I loved Chair (Chuck & Blair) and Delena (Damon & Elena) from the TV shows.

Last Song: I've been jamming to a lot of Lorde's "Pure Heroine" lately. 400 Luxe is stuck in my head all the time. Also, “Pink + White” by Frank Ocean.

Last Movie: Barbie. Got my pink-fix over the weekend 🩷

Currently Reading: I just finished "Daisy Jones & The Six" by Taylor Jenkins Reid (fucking fantastic). Currently reading Prince Harry's "Spare". Also, "Fairytale" by Stephen King, "Poet X" by Elizabeth Acevedo, "The Intimacy Experiment" by Rosie Danan.

Currently Watching: The Summer I Turned Pretty s2

Last thing I wrote: next chapter of Ecdysis (publishing soon!)

Currently writing: I write like I read and always have several different things on the go. (Ecdysis, dhr marriage of convenience fic, some original fiction, drabbles, etc.)

Favorite color: Blue & dark green.

Current obsession: The Summer I Turned Pretty -- I loved the books growing up and I'm obsessed with the depictions of the characters in the show. (Team Conrad x Belly all the way).

Sweet, savory, or spicy? Spice, spice baby.

[pagexofxcups]

Daisy Jones and the Six TV show:

Pros: seeing characters I love come to life, hearing their music, etc.

Cons: I can never watch Love, Rosie the same way ever again

(yes that is Suki Waterhouse, no I don't want to think about the possibility of Billy and Karen getting married Jesus fuck)