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I recently discovered your time warp au
and I wonder how Arthur waking up went
did he just wake up lost in the woods?
Nope! Bessie and the gang well and truly had timewarp mapped out by the time it was ready for Arthur's timewarp.
They were so afraid of Arthur waking up alone that they camped out near the ridge where he was buried (public land, nature preserve) for a few nights before he was due to timewarp.
It was really familiar for them all. It hadn't been long enough to be nostalgic, in a really weird sense sleeping in tents or just on mats around a campfire felt like going home. Sean was so used to sleeping exposed he dragged his mattress out of his tent the first night.
The first thing Arthur saw was Hosea, assuring him he was alright. Arthur very much needed to catch his breath. It felt like he'd been drowning. He'd felt his last breath, and had the world fade to black as he realised he didn't have the strength to take another. Only to suddenly jolt awake feeling physically fine but still desperately short of breath.
There was Hosea, assuring him, almost unchanged. And Bessie, who he hadn't seen he was a boy, but loved like a mother, looking older but still unmistakably her. And he just needed a moment to be held by both of them, told he was okay, to take slow breaths and everything was alright (while he desperately tried not to cry).
It was very difficult for the rest of the 1899 gang to wait patiently at the bottom of the mountainside where Arthur was buried. Despite being told to act calm, Sean immediately bolted to Arthur and pulled him into a bear hug. Arthur was still processing the fact they were all there, and pretending he'd taken timewarping with a poise and grace that didn't suit him at all he laughed and hugged them all.
Lenny was almost crushed as Arthur hugged him, and shocked because that was definitely not a thing he thought was on the table. A heart slap on the back maybe, but pulled into a hug as Arthur said softly he was glad to see him? Lenny's only human he hugged Arthur back and was on the verge of bawling like a baby. Last time he saw Arthur, Arthur was comforting him as he bled out. Of course seeing Arthur again was emotion.
Kieran originally hung back because why would anyone want to see him only for Arthur to disregard everyone's warnings and pull Kieran into a hug too (he just died he's emotional and a little ooc he just wants to hug everyone). Instead of flinching violently Kieran just melted into it with a stupid big smile because Arthur is his friend!! (side note: to this day excitedly saying Arthur's name whenever he sees him is one of the guaranteed times Kieran will be verbal)
They spent another night camping before putting Arthur through the ordeal of modern era and it felt like that was exactly where they were meant to be.
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Team Emperor Headcanons
Disclaimer: some of these headcanons may either slightly or heavily contradict with the canon (and your headcanons), that’s why it’s important to highlight that these are just headcanons and do not affect canon whatsoever. These headcanons are also likely to change as the story progresses or if I suddenly decide one day that I don’t like one of these headcanons and decide to change it. This post is likely due to change in general because I often come up with more random headcanons all the time so be aware
(Just so you know, there has been edits to this post. And there likely will be plenty more to come! So if you see some differences since you last read this post, now you know why)
Emperor
His real name is King. His full name is King Enperry.
Pan and polyamorous. Also a trans masc non-binary, only going by he/him pronouns. Many people don’t even notice he’s nonbinary until he tells you himself.
Wasian—his mother is Japanese ethnic and his father is American ethnic. He gets his eyes from his mum and his english accent from his father.
He and Prince are Pearl’s cousins. They were the first people she told about her relationship with Marina. They both still keep in touch with the musical pair to this day.
He and Prince were well known for being fashion models for the most popular clothing lines, most often Enperry. Emperor would randomly sign himself and Prince—sometimes even Pacer and Jr—up for modeling roles and they would get chosen more often than not. Now, Emperor only signs up for modeling sparingly, while Prince still partakes in it often.
Owns a pretty nice Road King motorcycle that he got for his 20th birthday. Broom broom.
His hands are as cold as the Himalayas. Although, they got warmer when he started working at the Crust Bucket.
He’s actually a pretty good singer and can play the piano well. Pearl sometimes jokes about him hitching along with her and Marina as another vocalist and piano player—or he plays it off as a joke while Pearl is actually serious about the suggestion.
He only plays the piano when he desperately wants to express emotion, which is probably why his playing always sounds so poetic and full of feeling.
He only sings when he’s alone to himself, but if he finds out that he is in fact not alone then he’s gonna shut his mouth soooo fast. If he’s full of alcohol, then he’s probably gonna be the first one to get up on the karaoke stage and bust it out Brendon Urie style.
I like to think he’s a real flirt. He likes to smile and wink, give some warm bedroom eyes, or just casually compliment random people’s appearance sometimes, mostly if he’s already met them before. He kinda just finds it fun to do because he knows he’s got that charm. But Emperor ESPECIALLY loves to do it to N-Pacer or Eging jr because it always makes them so blushy and he loves them. (Prince is sick of it every time his brother does it)
One time Emperor tried playfully flirting with Specs, and the poor guy got so confused as to why he was doing it, but it also blossomed into a short lasting crush lmao
After a while of when he started working with Crusty Sean, he discovered a newfound passion in cooking and culinary. His cooking skills in general also began to improve significantly, impressing his friends and family. Emperor began dreaming of someday opening up a lavish restaurant of his own in Inkopolis.
He’s keeping watch over the Crust Bucket in the square while Crusty Sean is on his trip, with Goggles sometimes coming over to help him out. He’s tried to experiment with some of the foods before, but not without having taste testers like his brother, N Pacer and Eging Jr give him input first before putting it on the menu.
His favorite type of food would have to be spicy food; bonus if it’s sweet n spicy. He really enjoys Army’s curry. Yum yum.👌🏻
He has a large crown made of real gold hiding somewhere in his closet, passed down to him by his mother.
When he's sleeping, he's gonna grab for something. Whether it be a pillow, a plushie, or whatever misfortunate soul snoozing next to him. He will grab onto them and wrap around them like a snake and just cuddle with them until he wakes up. His hold is strong, too, so good luck getting to the restroom without waking him up.
He moved out of his parents’ mansion when he was 21 and decided to move into a cozy cottage with N Pacer and Squidkid Jr on the edge of Inkopolis in a rural estate. Ever since he moved, he kept reminding Prince that his doors were always open if he wanted to come join him. While his little brother was grateful, he declined the offer every time.
Born in a very rich family who owned half of the Enperry corporation alongside Pearl’s parents. His mother was incredibly strict and always expected the best out of him. She put him on such a high pedestal since the day he hatched and was determined to make sure he lived his legacy up to her standards in terms of turf war and inheriting the Enperry company, since Pearl was focusing on her career in music with Marina. Emperor was typically able to meet her expectations, and her constant praise only strengthened his own ego, making him spoiled, arrogant and cocky.
His father was a lot more laid back in raising him and Prinz. While Emperor was still arrogant, his father still tried to teach him the importance of generosity and doing good for others, even though it often fell on deaf ears—save for Prince. He believed that Emperor deserved to follow his own passion and decide his own future himself, and was very proud when he found out Emperor got a job at the Crust Bucket, in contrast to his mother, who was disgusted. His father was very upset with how Emperor’s mother, Elaine, decided to raise him and Prinz, but she often made it seem like his decision never mattered.
Emperor’s parents’ marriage was arranged. They were never truly in love. They don’t hate each other, but they disagree on multiple things and more often than not have they so heavily desired in divorcing each other. They tried to make it work at first, but they just weren’t meant to be. The father, Agate (I’m changing his name because Topaz was someone else’s headcanon for his name), was arranged to marry Elaine because they were both in rich families, and those families wanted to keep within the bounds of a high social status and inherit large companies for more money.
His parents did eventually get divorced. When Emperor had begun to see through his mother’s bullshit and moved out, his parents both finally decided to divorce and move on with their lives. While his father and Prince kept in touch with him, his mother stopped talking to him altogether, seemingly cutting all ties with him after he admitted he didn’t want to be head of Enperry and wanted to pursue his own career choice in culinary.
Despite his mother’s neglect toward Prince, Emperor often looked out for his little brother somewhat as they up grew together, as requested by his father. Even if he sarcastically complimented and dismissed Prince typically, he really did care for him. After after his defeat against Team Blue, he started to make it more abundantly clear how much he cared for Prince, and they grew significantly closer with each other and started acting more like brothers.
He’s in a poly relationship with Squidkid Jr and N Pacer. He knew Jr the longest, as they’re childhood friends and met through their fathers being close friends. They met N-Pacer during high school years (despite not even going to public school. They just hung out around the local campus to look cool and ogle at the ladies) and they both fell in love. It wasn’t long until they began mentoring her in turf war and then used her to replace their old, snarky teammate who was assigned to the team by Emperor’s mother.
His mother DEFINETELY did not like N-Pacer when they first met, especially when it seemed obvious that Emperor had the hots for her. She thought N-Pacer was anything but worthy of ever having her son's hand in marriage, being the “impoverished pest “ she considered her. It was because of that, she tried to hook Emperor up specifically with a bunch of other rich girls, less boys because she really wanted grandkids. Agate thought she was a nice girl and felt so sympathetic when he heard about her struggling home life.
His mother and father were quite shocked when Emperor admitted he and Eging Jr were also a thing, while Papa Eging was quite happy for them. He said something to Eging Jr like "I'm actually glad you chose him of all people, because that assures me that you'll have someone to look out for ya!" He was also very sweet towards N-Pacer when he met her too. Eging Jr’s mom honestly didn’t care honestly, just as long as her boy was happy.
He always makes sure to keep in touch with Blue Team or asks about them whenever he talks with Prince. He and Prince used to invite Specs to family dinners whenever they could, but their mother didn’t allow him to come until she found out how popular and skill his team was and let him come just because he seemed worthy enough of the Enperrys’ presence.
Prince
His real name is Prinz (like in the official English translation)
On the aroace spectrum, but tends to show signs of the gay. 🏳️🌈 🫵🏻
FUCK IT HE TRANSMASC 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️ When he came out to his brother he was like “Oh, ok, I guess I have a brother then.” Mans ain’t transphobic ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻
(Except Emperor kinda took it as he could lightly bully his brother a little more cuz he’s a dude now…. Uh, oddest way to be an ally?)
Wasian, just like Emperor. He looks just like his father while his voice sounds eerily similar to his mother.
He was somewhat reluctant when Laceless asked him out, as he was worried it would negatively affect their relationship as mentor and apprentice on the battlefield. (Also because he wasn’t really enthusiastic about getting into a relationship.) When he asked his cousin and brother for advice, they told him to just try it and see where it goes, and it’s gone pretty good ever since. His father knows but his mother doesn’t, as he’s worried how she’ll react to him being in a relationship with a “commoner”. Even after all this time, he’s still never told her.
When Emperor moved out with N Pacer and Jr, Prince was determined to build his own team himself. He invited Splat Jr (splattershot jr) onto the team and began to teach him everything he knew. He also invited a friend of his, Lilith, to join his team for a little while, and she displayed such spectacular skills so they wanted to keep her around, but she eventually left to start her own group, winding up somewhere in Splatsville—so the fourth role is open for tryouts! Mitsuami eventually joined the team upon becoming more popular within both Splatsville and Inkopolis after the Splatsville Turf cup. He calls his new team “Team Prince” and aims to increase their skills and discover techniques in both turf war and ranked battles. He is very proud of his team. :)
Since Emperor decided to decline the opportunity in inheriting the Enperry corporation, Prinz took the offer instead. Since then, Elaine began to show him more attention and give him more of her approval, but he only found her behavior insulting because he knew she was only acting like that to him because Emperor didn’t want to own the company like their mother previously expected, so she was trying to butter him up and get on his good side in hopes of getting some of that dough.
His mother, Elaine, was mostly neglectful during his upbringing. He often grew jealous of Emperor for the constant attention and praise he got while nothing Prince did ever seemed to make her to bat an eye to him. Plus, Emperor often didn't take him as seriously as he did later on, and to this day it still bothers him a little bit. There’s also the inner-family controversy about her being upset that he “decided to transition” because she wanted a daughter apparently… Not that she treated Prince with anymore respect before he came out 😑. Agate (his father) and Pearl supported him all they could, along with his aunt, uncle, and even his dad’s friend, the original Squidkid and his wife who all tried spoil him with nice gifts. They all mean a lot to him.
When he and his dad moved out of the mansion and away from his mother, Prince began to discover his newfound mischievous nature and began to find ways to (harmlessly) prank his friends and his dad. They all get a good laugh out of each other at the end.
He looks up to Squidkid Jr and N-Pacer as older siblings. He likes to take them along with him when he signs up for modeling. They kill it every time. Prinz also sees the original Squidkid and his wife as second uncle and aunt figures, since they spent a lot of time around each other’s families since Prince was little.
He also likes to bring Aloha and his roommate, Lilith, for modeling gigs. Aloha adores the clothes and the attention, but while Lilith also adores trying on a lot of the clothes, she gets all shy when people recognize her in public. 👉🏻👈🏻
Ngl I think he would be a theater kid, or have a fascination for musicals at least. He likes to dance to their genre of music because he finds them ethereally unique. He can act a little bit—he tries his best—but he could never be able to tell a lie to someone’s face (he’s tried)
I think he’d also have a fascination for true crime and mystery in general—mostly murder mystery or just mature mystery kind of stuff. Not because of the horror at the death and all the suspense, but he finds the detective’s process of looking for clues and solving the cases to be quite intriguing. At one point he was even thinking about becoming a detective himself, but then he decided to take over the his family company instead, so his detective dream had to be shelved…. For another day, perhaps.
After the King Cup turf war, he became close friends and hangs out with all of the S4. Aloha takes him out for milkshakes and shopping, Prince gives Army samples from Emperor’s food experiments, Mask takes him to the arcade, and Prince and his team like to train with Skull and his team.
He’s more closed off towards strangers and new people, but once he gets to know them, he likes to give and get hugs. He, Bobble and Goggles are hugger extraordinaires.
Became close friends with Blue Team after the king cup arc, especially with Specs after some time. Sometimes both teams will come to share battle strategy meetings and offer very informative suggestions and advice. They also train together a lot.
He also tried to help hype up Specs in asking out Headphones when word got out that they both had a crush on each other.
He may have got a growth spurt, but he was a late bloomer when it came to his voice. Laceless ended up getting the deeper voice treatment before he did, and Prince spent a good while sounding younger than him.
Ever since he became team leader, many people began complimenting him for his leadership skills, especially Emperor, which at the time was surprising. It made him feel so happy and seen, and it chewed away any he self-consciousness he had about himself.
He doesn't snore, but he drools in his sleep because he sleeps with his mouth open. He also sometimes mutters in his sleep. It can range from silly, adorable, to tear jerking
Squidkid/Eging Jr
Real name is Alonzo Jr (his father’s name is Alonzo)
Bi man, polyamorous too
Bit of a spoiled rich kid, due to growing up in a rather privileged, lavish household. Now he’s mostly just a sporty snob who enjoys barbecues.
Pretty good on the skateboard and roller blades. They see me rolliiiiin’, they hatiiiin’
You’d never hear anyone else scream at a live sports game on tv or in person as loud as he does. Coming from a father who’s very well known in sports, he takes that kind of stuff a little too seriously. He’s gotta put a $20 bill in the swear jar after every game time
He’s smarter than many people think. Even if it weren’t for his great skills in sports, he’d still get accepted into a good college based on his straight A grades, ESPECIALLY in his gym classes. Just like his daddy, he was the best basketball player in his entire school. He tutored Emperor and Prince a lot when they struggled with homework or had to study for tests. Eventually he started having N-Pacer over for study sessions, but to this day she knows that it was just an excuse for him just to have her at his house and spend time with her
He’d also be a good gym teacher. A little hardcore, but he loves teaching and coaching others and strives to see his students do their best. He volunteered as a substitute teacher at an elementary school a few times, and let's just say, those kids did not get a day off from the track. Though, they did think he was a whole lot of fun, especially when they were playing basketball with him during recess.
When he and N Pacer first met, he put her through some grueling training, but it only escalated slowly as it went on. He may have had a big ol’ crush on her, but he wasn’t gonna allow that to make him let up on her. Both because their team was striving to be the best and they needed N-Pacer to learn skills and get stronger as soon as she could, and also because they wanted that asshole in their group that was appointed by Emperor’s mom OUT as soon as possible. He was so proud when Pacer finally “graduated” from his training.
Took up learning some martial arts like Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, judo, and kickboxing as a hobby. He likes to spar with Army and Goggles every so often, and teach Emperor, N-Pacer and Prince some moves. He even spared with Lilith once, and BOY did she floor him. It actually made him very excited to spar with her again while she was like '👁️👁️'.
Does not know how to cook or bake. He wasn’t as bad as Emperor during his first time learning how to cook, but his skills are… Just not that good. The best he can do is microwave foods or just putting stuff straight in the oven. Even then, he nearly burnt both his parents' house and the cottage down because he forgot to turn the oven off TWO TIMES. He's banned from the kitchen, banished! Bro cannot cook for shit. Even after Pacer and Emperor tried teaching him, he's hopeless. Never let him near Gordon Ramsay lest you want him to get eviscerated and called a soggy donkey
When he, Emperor and Pacer moved into the cottage, he installed his own a little basket court in the backyard to play basketball. Sometimes he plays by himself, or he’ll invite some buddies like the S4, Lime green team, X Bloods, Prince’s team or team Blue to come over and play.
He likes to hang around the S4, Rider and Prince, and he loves to have them over for when they have barbecues—all cooked by Emperor.
He and Aloha are party planner extraordinaires. They're also great friends.
Animals don't like him for some reason. Pigeons and other birds harass him, sea slug pets growl and try to nip at him, and Judd and Lil Judd give him the stink eye whenever he's around. It makes him very sad (HE JUST WANTS TO BE FRIENDS MAN).
He snores so loud it's annoying. CLOSE YOUR DAMN MOUTH, BOY.
N-Pacer
Her real name is Nahla.
Omni with a preference leaning towards women, yet she scored two fellas.
Been the second shortest in the group for a long time, until Prinz suddenly got a growth spurt out of nowhere, then she became the smallest. Do not let that make you underestimate her; she will jump on you like a spider monkey if so desired.
Got a bit of chub, also mixed with some muscle due to training. Sometimes she likes to pick up Eging Jr and Emperor when they least expect it.
Girl boss on the battlefield—repressed girl failure in the public.
Loves gossiping with Headphones during their tea parties...
Pacer: “I’m not so much into drama, honestly- “
Headphones: “did you hear what Forge said to Asymmetry the other day?”
Pacer: “NOW POUR THE TEA”
She also had a part in helping Headphones hook up with Specs. (She wants to be the maid of honor at the wedding--sorry girl, it's gonna be Bobble)
When she gets mad or upset, she becomes non-verbal and refuses to speak until she feels better about. Until then, she's gonna just glare at you know to back off because she's not in the mood.
She used to wear glasses (full moon glasses to be exact; they used to be her father’s) until she started training with Emperor and Jr. She was worried her glasses would distract her so they bought her some contacts.
Her original hair color used to be light pink. There’s still a little bit of bright pink in the tips of her hair.
Clamumbian (Columbian) nationality. She can speak fluent Splatish (Spanish), but she mostly does so around her family. One time she heard Skull speaking Splatish and they ended up having an entire conversation.
She became part of the charger group, consisting of Headphones, Half-Rim, and Skull.
N Pacer grew up in an impoverished family household. Her mother couldn’t work due to a disability and her father’s job did just enough to pay the bills.
She has a little brother and a baby sister whom she has to babysit sometimes due to her father being at work and her mother busy with tedious, out of the house chores. Thankfully, her brother is well behaved enough, at least in the house.
Her father is a gentle man, more so a doormat really. Meanwhile, her mother is TERRIFYING and also very protective of Pacer. She slips that chancla off her foot like she’s unsheathing a sword. However, her mother can be a cool woman once you get to know her.
Her mother did not like the idea of her daughter hanging around a pair of over popular, stuck-up snobs from rich families, much less dating them. She was worried that they would take advantage of her poor little daughter and manipulate her into abandoning her family—which is her greatest fear.
Her mother and Emperor's mother absolutely fist fought each other before, while Squidkid Jr's mom watched, cheering "Fight! Fight! Fight!"
N-Pacer's mom won. Couple days later that's when Emperor moved out and his parents got divorced. 😂
Shes actually knows a lot about science. When she spent free time watching tv, it would usually be on a science documentary/informational channel because they didn’t have a wide range of options at the time. She’ll get into an entire rant about plate tectonics and organism evolution and end up baffling everyone at the tea party (while they’re still listening intently with some interest 😶☕️)
She used to be really unconfident with the charger, because when she first started using it, she wasn't that good at it. But then she was introduced to the splatterscope and then she ruled the stage like the queen she is.
She loves decorating for Halloween and Christmas. She's a total holiday fanatic. She also loves dressing in warm, comfy clothes and drinking her favorite tea or coffee during Fall and Winter, her two favorite seasons.
She became Emperor's cooking buddy when he started getting interested in culinary. She showed him how to make all of her well known family dishes and some of her personal favorites dishes. He likes to surprise her with her favorite foods sometimes cuz he's a nasty heterosexuaaaaaaal /j (He's pan remember?).
She also likes to paint. She wasn't as invested in it at first, but when they all moved into the cottage together, she started painting more during her free time. She originally intended to sell them for money to help support her parents, but Emperor and Eging Jr get too attached to her artwork and choose to hang up plenty of what she makes in the house or just give her canvases to her parents to admire. She’s very bashful about it.
She's always LOVED jewelry, even when her parents could never afford any due to their economic situation. But when she met Emperor, he and his cousin, Pearl, poured so many jewelry gifts onto her like a waterfall, gold rings, bracelets, diamond necklaces with matching earrings, even little tiaras and everything. It made her so happy like she was kicking her feet and giggling girly giggles. She is so adorable I love her.
She likes dream catchers. She used to ask her parents for one every Christmas or on her birthday, and they always did what they could to get her one that didn't fall apart in a matter of days. When she got older and moved out, one Christmas she bought a giant, expensive dream catcher for her parents and some for her little siblings and they all put it right over their beds. (Me out here writing Christmas family fluff on a Friday afternoon)
N-Pacer has the most ridiculous, loudest laugh you'll ever hear. It's a deep belly laugh, and it sounds so funny. You'll only hear it when she's either drunk or in genuine hysterics because it's considered her true laugh, she tries to hide it otherwise because she's embarrassed of it.
She used to not have any friends except for one snooty narcissist before she became part of team Emperor. When she did, she was expecting to gain a lot more friends due to her popularity, but as it turns out she went from "not being in anyone's league" to "no one being in her league." She gained too much social power and it made her a little sad. At least she still had her team, and she made more friends later on, so that's a win.
Can you tell I love N-Pacer so much?
By the way, here’s my post for my head canons voice claims for team Emperor!
#splatoon#coroika#splatoon manga#splatoon 3#Emperor coroika#N Pacer Coroika#Eging Jr coroika#Eging Jr#Squidkid Jr#Prinz#Coroika Prince#Splatoon headcanons#Coroika headcanons#Empacerjr#Emperor x Npacer x Squidkid jr#Emperor x Eging Jr x N pacer#Emperor x Eging Jr x Npacer
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Welcome to the Graham Coxon RP Account!
Scenario: During a live show one of his fans randomly yelled "DO YOU HAVE TUMBLR" which peaked his interest in the app and now he's made one for fun!
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Bands
Blur
Blur are an English rock band formed in London in 1988. The band consists of singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bass guitarist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree.
Their debut album, Leisure (1991), incorporated the sounds of Madchester and shoegaze. Following a stylistic change influenced by English guitar pop groups such as the Kinks, the Beatles and XTC, Blur released the albums Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993), Parklife (1994) and The Great Escape (1995).
As a result, the band helped to popularise the Britpop genre and achieved mass popularity in the UK, aided by a widely publicised chart battle with rival band Oasis in 1995 dubbed "The Battle of Britpop
The Jaded Hearts Club
The Jaded Hearts Club is an English rock supergroup and covers band consisting of Miles Kane (of the Rascals and Last Shadow Puppets), Nic Cester (of Jet), Matt Bellamy (of Muse), Graham Coxon (of Blur), Jamie Davis (of Coxon's former label Transcopic) and Sean Payne (of the Zutons)
The Waeve
The Waeve (stylised as The WAEVE) are an English band formed in London, in 2021 by singer-songwriters and musicians Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall.
They describe their music as "a liquid meeting of musical minds and talents. A powerful elixir of cinematic British folk-rock, post-punk, organic songwriting and freefall jamming." They released their debut album, The Waeve, in 2023.
BLOODWITCH
In February 2020, Coxon released an album for the fictional band Bloodwitch, to be a part of the soundtrack of the Netflix series I Am Not Okay with This, featuring singer Tatyana Richaud.
Information on Graham Coxon
Early life
Coxon was born on 12 March 1969 in Rinteln, West Germany, where his father, Bob Coxon, was stationed as a clarinet player and band leader in the British Army.
As a child, he moved first to Spondon, Derby, England, a period during which he became a fan of Derby County.
He then moved to Colchester, Essex, England, where he grew up and met fellow Blur member Damon Albarn at The Stanway School, then known as Stanway Comprehensive, at the age of 11.
At the beginning of their relationship, Coxon would play the saxophone on Albarn's original songs before playing the guitar in several small Colchester bands. He appeared on the popular BBC children's show Blue Peter twice.
Blur
Coxon studied Fine Arts at Goldsmiths College, London, for two years, where early on he met bassist Alex James.
In his time there he mixed with upcoming talents such as Damien Hirst, Michael Landy, Sam Taylor-Wood, and Abigail Lane, some of the future leading lights of the Britart movement. His musical interests were heavily influenced by Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett, whose work he had discovered by 1986.
He quit college due to the increasing success of his band at the time, Seymour, which later changed its name to Blur because the recording company, Food Records, thought Seymour was too 'student-ish'.
They presented a list to the band of preferred names which included "The Shining Path" and "Blur". As well as providing all guitars, backing vocals, and occasional drums, Coxon's lo-fi and alternative musical style and tastes influenced the band's less commercial music in the late 1990s.
He sang lead vocals on songs including "Red Necks", "You're So Great" from the album Blur, and "Coffee & TV", as well as a section of the chorus of "Tender", the bridge of "Lonesome Street" and a section of "Thought I Was a Spaceman" on The Magic Whip.
During the 1995 period of the media-dubbed 'Battle of Britpop', Coxon became increasingly weary and suspicious of the music industry.
His behaviour was occasionally awkward, such as refusing to appear in the video for Blur song "Country House" unless he could dress as a milkman and take no part in any action with which he felt uncomfortable.
In November 2001, Coxon was admitted to the Priory Hospital for 28 days to be treated for alcoholism. During this time, Blur began the recording sessions that would produce the material for their next album, Think Tank.
In February 2002, Coxon rejoined the band in the studio for the rest of the recording of Think Tank but after five days was asked by then manager Chris Morrison not to go back into the studio as the other members of the band had reported that the session was not going too well with him present.
Coxon took this as a sign and left the band. As he stated in an interview in 2006, "I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking.
My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album, so I took it as a sign to leave".
His last contribution to Blur was a song called "Battery in Your Leg", the closing song on Blur's 2003 album Think Tank, before leaving the line-up. Damon Albarn later revealed that the song "Sweet Song" was written after he had been looking at a photograph of Coxon.
After Damon Albarn's revealing that he and Coxon had rebuilt their relationship, on 9 December 2008, Blur announced that the whole band would reunite for a show at Hyde Park on 3 July 2009.
More dates were announced and the band played festival dates at Glastonbury, T in the Park and Oxegen 2009 as well as headlining shows in Manchester, Newcastle, Wolverhampton, Goldsmiths College and the East Anglian Railway Museum in Colchester. Blur also played one show in Lyon, France.
On 17 April 2010, the band released their first single since 2003, "Fool's Day", for the Record Store Day event as a 7" limited to 1000 copies.
The band released the single as a free download on their official website the next day.
More recently Blur announced via the NME website that they would reunite every so often and record more singles, preferably on 7 inch. However, Damon also stated that an album was not on its way as they were all too busy with their own individual projects.
On 19 February 2015, Coxon and the band announced on social media that they would be releasing their eighth studio album on 27 April, titled The Magic Whip, Blur's first album in 12 years and first in 16 years in their original lineup.
Solo work
Coxon had already released three solo albums while a member of Blur before his 2002 departure.
His first, The Sky Is Too High was released on his own Transcopic label in 1998.
This was followed by The Golden D in 2000 and Crow Sit on Blood Tree in 2001.
After going solo full-time, he released The Kiss of Morning in 2002. The album was promoted with the single "Escape Song". In 2004, Coxon released his fifth solo album Happiness in Magazines, produced by ex-Blur and The Smiths producer Stephen Street.
This proved to be his most successful album to date, and he received the NME Award for Best Solo Artist in 2005.
In March 2006 he released his sixth solo album, called Love Travels at Illegal Speeds, again produced by Stephen Street. It marked Coxon's first album away from his now-defunct indie label 'Transcopic'.
The LP was preceded by the singles "Standing on My Own Again" on 27 February and "You & I". Coxon embarked on a tour of the UK, starting at Newcastle University.
He was also involved in a single supporting the England national football team at the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
The song was a re-working of the Sham 69 hit "Hurry Up Harry", and was released as "Sham 69 and The Special Assembly" (as well as Coxon and Sham 69, Virgin Radio DJ Christian O'Connell, who had run a competition on his show to find a band to record a song in support of the team, was involved in the recording of the song). "Hurry Up England" entered the UK Singles Chart at No. 10.
In October 2006, Coxon released a double live album Burnt to Bitz: At the Astoria immediately after his sold-out London Astoria show. The album features 27 songs, with at least one song from each of his albums. In July 2007 Coxon released a single with Paul Weller, called "This Old Town". The single peaked at No. 39 in the UK Singles Chart.
Coxon's seventh 15-track studio album titled The Spinning Top, produced again by Stephen Street, was released on 11 May 2009.
Coxon stated that the LP, which is primarily acoustic, followed a narrative – the story of a man from birth to death.
"The album is mainly an acoustic journey although there is, of course, some explosive electric guitar action," he explained. "There are some guests too! Robyn Hitchcock supplies some counter-attack guitar, Jas Singh plays dilruba and jori with his friends Gurjit Sembhi on taus and Jaskase Singh on esraj.
Danny Thompson plays the legendary Victoria, Graham Fox gives plenty of swing on the drums and sizzle cymbals and Louis Vause tinkles the ivories."
Pre-release response had been positive, with Monday Field of Frank Booth Review dubbing the album "a staggering artistic achievement, and Coxon's best solo release to date."
His eighth solo album A+E was released in April 2012.
Coxon wrote and recorded the score for the 2017 Channel 4 / Netflix television series The End of the F***ing World; it was his first original score.
The soundtrack was released in January 2018.
In September of the same year, Coxon embarked on a solo tour in North America that featured some of the songs from his score.
In February 2020, Coxon released an album for the fictional band Bloodwitch, to be a part of the soundtrack of the Netflix series I Am Not Okay with This, featuring singer Tatyana Richaud.
In 2021, Coxon published Superstate, a graphic novel accompanied by a studio album of the same name, bringing the concept of a dystopian futuristic universe. The cover art, much like most of his solo works, was illustrated by himself.
Following in 2023, the folk rock band The Waeve, consisting of Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall as members, released their debut self-titled album, with an England-wide tour.
Transcopic and other contributions
Coxon's independent label, Transcopic, was co-managed with his friend, and then business partner, Jamie Davis. Davis now runs Independent label Ark Recordings.
Coxon illustrated and designed all of his own album art, and collaborated with his friend Nick Craske creating abstract digital work for the release of The Spinning Top; they also filmed two music videos, "Sorrow's Army" and "'In The Morning".
Coxon also continued painting a series of personal work, most of which remained unseen until 2004, when he exhibited at the ICA in London.
Coxon has also been involved in remixing other peoples tracks, including Idlewild and Lowgold both of which were released as b-sides and the latter remix was later re-released on the bands anthology release Keep Music Miserable.
In September 2006, Coxon revealed a musical soundscape, "english shoes squeek", created especially for "Verheaven" an exhibition at London's Riflemaker Gallery of the work of artist Julie Verhoeven.
Coxon appeared on John McCusker's Under One Sky, providing the song "All Has Gone".
In 2009, Coxon was involved in the creation of the Pete Doherty solo album Grace/Wastelands.
Doherty had entered a period of sobriety, during which he holed up with Coxon to work on his debut solo album, Grace/Wasteland, (released 24 March 2009) a diverse collection of 12 songs that bounce between reggae and Doherty's standard post-punk. Coxon played on all but one track on the album.
Solo studio albums
The Sky Is Too High (1998)
The Golden D (2000)
Crow Sit on Blood Tree (2001)
The Kiss of Morning (2002)
Happiness in Magazines (2004)
Love Travels at Illegal Speeds (2006)
The Spinning Top (2009)
A+E (2012)
The End of the F***ing World (Original Songs And Score) (2018)
The End of the F***ing World 2 (Original Songs And Score) (2019)
I Am Not Okay with This (as Bloodwitch) (Original Songs And Score) (2020)
Superstate (2021, in association with Z2 Comics)
BLUR Studio albums
Leisure (1991)
Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993)
Parklife (1994)
The Great Escape (1995)
Blur (1997)
13 (1999)
Think Tank (2003)
The Magic Whip (2015)
The Ballad of Darren (2023)
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A quick round up of updates on the blog including new characters added to the ASK LIST and a list of fics that went out last week:
New Fics:
Chicago Med:
Emergency Contact - You realise you don't have anyone to put down as an emergency contact. (Sean Archer x Reader)
Don't Look Back - After running into you at the hospital Sam tries to convince himself not to look back.
Couples Counselling - Sam and you start to date again after couple's counselling.
Right Here, Right Now - Crockett doesn't need anymore than you can give.
Emergency Contact - You help Mitch out in a tricky situation.
Cobra Kai:
Self Defence - You wake up in the middle of the night with John Kreese's hands locked around your throat.
Failure - Terry makes a decision regarding your home in the aftermath of what happened with Kreese.
I Do - Terry gives you his mother's ring in a chapel in Tuscany.
Paper Airplanes - Terry begins to consider starting a family.
Summer School - Daniel's excited to meet Anthony's new art teacher.
Criminal Minds:
Empty Drawer - Will will do anything to get you to stay.
Lily Blossom - Will makes a realisation during your first night together.
FBI:
Yours - Omar realises that you still belong to each other after all this time.
FBI Most Wanted:
The Worst Type of Asshole - Remy apologises for his behaviour.
Haven:
Sedated - Your Trouble causes issues when the doctors try to help with your injuries. (Dwight Hendrickson x Reader)
Stars (NSFW) - You and Duke spend a night under the stars.
Law & Order:
All I Want Is You - Mike reveals his feelings after he makes a mistake.
Mayans:
Silver (NSFW) - You discover Neron has a piercing.
The Musketeers:
In Sickness & in Health - Athos tries to look after you when the sickness moves through Paris.
The Most Dangerous Woman in France - Even on your wedding day you are still the most dangerous woman in Paris. (Treville x Reader)
NCIS:
Not Yet - Jimmy doesn't want you to come just yet.
Rainy Mornings - Nick wishes he could stay in bed with you on a rainy Washington morning.
NCIS - LA:
Name Your Prize - AJ asks you to name your prize during a race.
NCIS New Orleans:
The Cutest Damn Thing - LaSalle realises he's in love.
Second Fiddle (feat: Douglas Hamilton) - You finally end things with Douglas.
The Rookie:
One Woman - There's only been one woman that Tim's been thinking about these past few years.
Culpability - John tries to reach out after he finds out about Robert Ortiz.
Late Night Wine - Wade wakes up the morning after on the floor in your living room.
The Rookie Feds:
Time (NSFW) - You and Matt don't want to waste any more time
Supernatural:
Sweet Dreams - Dean thinks about how this all started.
Deals With the Devil (feat: Michael)- You wake up with an angel in your bed.
Top Gun Maverick:
Something About You - There's just something about you that makes Jake want to settle down.
#jake seresin#dean winchester#matthew garza#tim bradford#john nolan#wade grey#chris lasalle#dwayne pride#douglas hamilton#aj chegwidden#nick torres#jimmy palmer#athos#jean treville#captain treville#creeper vargas#neron vargas#mike cutter#dwight hendrickson#duke crocker#remy scott#oa zidan#will lamontagne#terry silver#daniel larusso#sean archer#sam abrams#mitch ripley#crockett marcel
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The Underground Agent of Freakblr
Blog Name: The Underground Agent of Freakblr
Username: @freakblr-underground-agent
Type of Blog: Gimmick blog
Date created: Unknown
Reason Created: Unknown
Last Active: Four Months Ago
Identity: Unknown
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The Underground Agent of Freakblr is one of the many gimmick blogs created over the course of Freakblr's existence.
Throughout it's existence, The Underground Agent's lore has grown. They have various allies, and a few enemies.
One Allie of note would be Freakblr Original user, @bluexjayy also known by their alias, @the-fr3akblr-poet. The two seem to be almost friendly. Fellow agents, coworkers.
On the other hand, The Underground Agent seems to have adversarial relationship with another gimmick blog, @freakblr-detective. The Detective seems motivated to unlock the identity of The Underground Agent, causing tensions between the two.
There was also an interesting back and forth with who was presumed to be @freakblr-time-traveller. The Underground Agent responding in hostile to an ask requesting allies. It was later discovered that the anon making that ask was not the Freakblr Time Traveller. But an imposter.
The Underground Agent also got into it with @the-rightful-ruler-of-freakblr who appeared to have kidnapped Jay. As quoted by @sugarhighanxiety, "girl help the roleplay blogs are fighting." The Underground Agent replied, "..."
The Underground Agent is widely considered one of the most, if not the most memorable gimmick blog. The mystery of their identity seems to draw in an audience, people wanting to discover who they are.
At the height of their activity they had several back-and-forth's with users and anons alike, continuing the 'hype' surrounding their blog. Many attempted to rattle them, to uncover who they are.
A few suspects about their identity have been raised. As noted by freakblr original user, @sobeksewerrat, "If you even care, @freakblr-underground-agent and @rextile have the same tumblr theme."
Another Freakblr Original user, @jagged-dust-jacket, stated "@strawberry-pretzels makes the same type of spelling mistakes as @freakblr-underground-agent and they both use the three dots (…) the same."
Dust Jacket had also thrown suspicions on Sobek once commenting on a post how they thought Sobek was the Agent and was using a Sean profile (a character Sobek is known the dislike) to throw people off.
Despite all of these suspects, The Underground Agent's identity remains a mystery.
As Freakblr activities died down over the course of the last few months, so did the Agent's. Eventually they went completely radio silent, their last post made in February of 2024.
When asking around about the Freakblr Underground Agent, I received a couple quotes documenting the very mixed opinions of Freakblr residents:
“The Agent is a menace, they are annoying and disrespectful- they wear my patience thin. Had they not gone quiet, I would've probably smited them” - @sobeksewerrat
“they were here to watch, to see what happens here in freakblr. They were here for research." - @bluexjayy
Despite this, The Underground Agent will live on in the minds of Freakblr users everywhere. The good, the bad, and yes, even the ugly.
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I love Poe Party too much to feel like any words will do it justice, but I keep trying.
Script below the break.
Hello and welcome back to the Rewatch Rewind! My name is Jane, and this is the podcast where I count down my top 40 most frequently rewatched movies of the last 20 years. And today I will be discussing number 13 on my list: Shipwrecked Comedy and American Black Market’s 2016 mystery comedy Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party, directed by William J Stribling, written by Sean Persaud and Sinéad Persaud, starring Sean Persaud, Sinéad Persaud, Mary Kate Wiles, Sarah Grace Hart, Joey Richter, Lauren Lopez, Ashley Clements, Tom de Trinis, Blake Silver, and a whole bunch of other incredibly talented and underrated actors.
Edgar Allan Poe (Sean Persaud) wishes to impress the beautiful Annabel Lee (Mary Kate Wiles), so he enlists the help of his ghost roommate Lenore (Sinéad Persaud) to throw a murder mystery party for Annabel and a group of famous authors. But then guests start actually being murdered.
So, first of all, I realize that this isn’t technically a movie; it’s an 11-episode webseries available to watch for free on YouTube, which you should absolutely pause this podcast to do if you haven’t seen it yet (link in the show notes). But there is a feature cut that’s about an hour and 45 minutes long, and that’s what I counted as a movie. If I’d kept track of the number of times I watched each episode, I’m sure that even my least-watched episode would easily beat number one on this list. But as for the feature cut, I watched it 12 times in 2017, three times in 2018, four times in 2019, twice in 2020, and three times in 2021. To a certain extent, every movie on the Rewatch Rewind has changed my life in some way, but this one has changed my life to a degree that I would never have believed possible. Every single day of the last seven plus years of my life would have looked different if not for Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party. All of the guests I have had on this podcast who are not my siblings, I met either directly or indirectly because of this show. So fasten your seatbelts: this episode is going to be a ride.
My journey to Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party, or Poe Party for short, or Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Invite-Only Casual Dinner Party/Gala for Friends Potluck for long, began years before the project itself was even written. In the late 2000s-early 2010s, my sister was relatively plugged into the YouTube scene, at least compared to me, and she first introduced me to a group called Team Starkid around 2009-2010-ish. At the time, they were a bunch of college theater kids who had put together a Harry Potter parody musical and on a whim posted it to YouTube, where it went viral, so they started making and posting other musicals – which they are still doing. I feel like I might still have discovered Poe Party if I hadn’t been a Starkid fan, but that definitely helped. A more crucial step on my road to Poe Party started on April 9, 2012, when my sister posted a link to a new YouTube video on my Facebook wall, with the message, “Fictional vlogs by Lizzie Bennet. (actually Hank Green.) There’s only one so far, but I’m kind of crazily excited for this!” Hank Green, of course, along with his brother John, is basically one of the fathers of YouTube. I don’t think I’d seen a ton of their videos at that point, but I was familiar with and liked them. And of course, I knew Lizzie Bennet was the main character in Pride and Prejudice, a story that I loved very much – more on that in a future episode. So I was also very excited for this new show, called The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, but I could not have imagined the intense emotional journey it would take me on, through two short episodes a week (plus spinoffs) for almost a year. There had never been a TV show that I was more invested in than LBD. I was double majoring in college and working part time, but the main thing I cared about was these modern Pride and Prejudice characters. The show was clearly very low-budget, but I was blown away by the writing and acting. I was particularly impressed by the person playing Lizzie, Ashley Clements, and the person playing Lydia, Mary Kate Wiles. And, like, it wasn’t just me – LBD had a huge following for what it was. Not, like, millions of fans, but hundreds of thousands by the end. As the finale approached, the producers launched a Kickstarter to release the show on DVD and – ostensibly – pay significantly more to the cast and crew who had been incredibly underpaid. If you’re at all interested in hearing more about that, I highly recommend checking out The Look Back Diaries on Ashley Clements’s YouTube channel; she just did a whole deep dive into the show and its aftermath in honor of its 10th anniversary that I found fascinating. But anyway, coincidentally, right around that same time, Starkid also launched their first Kickstarter, since most of them had graduated from college and no longer had access to the same resources but wanted to keep making more musicals. So they were raising money for Twisted, a Wicked-style villain redemption retelling of Aladdin, which sounded interesting. I had never pledged to a Kickstarter before, but I backed both the LBD DVDs and Twisted on the same day: March 25, 2013, according to my emails.
After that, I kept following Starkid and some of the cast members of LBD, but not particularly closely. In early 2014, Mary Kate Wiles was in a webseries called Kissing in the Rain that I think I watched part of at the time, and I thought it was fine, but I wasn’t particularly into it (imagine, me, an aromantic, not particularly into a show about kissing!) and there was a lot of other stuff going on in my life so I honestly can’t remember if I saw all of it when it was first coming out. I definitely couldn’t have told you that it was on a channel called Shipwrecked, or even the name of the actor she was kissing. But in May of 2014, a new Kickstarter launched for a series called Muzzled the Musical, which was going to feature several cast members from LBD as well as Joey Richter from Team Starkid (Lauren Lopez also ended up being in it but I don’t think that was known during the Kickstarter). And I thought, whoa, cool, worlds colliding, and backed it. And promptly all but forgot about it.
A lot of strange, confusing, and rather upsetting things happened in 2015 that I don’t really want to get too deep into here, but I will say that in hindsight most of them had to do with a combination of amatonormativity and heteronormativity, and I started feeling pretty bad about myself. Before then I had managed to convince myself that I was too young to seriously fall in love anyway, but suddenly I was 25 years old and had never had any interest in dating anyone, and I felt like there was definitely something wrong with me. I didn’t exactly want to change, since I liked not dating, but I had always thought that that would just automatically change when I got older, and facing the fact that it wasn’t changing meant facing the fact that I didn’t know what the point of my life was. I liked my job but I didn’t want it to be my sole purpose. I loved movies, but that didn’t feel like it mattered. All my life I had taken in the message that finding a spouse and creating a family was what made the struggle of life worth it, and I felt lazy for not even trying to pursue that. I remember hearing at some point in my late teens that if you didn’t find your significant other in college, you needed to look online, but I didn’t even know what I would be looking for. And I truly don’t know where this line of thinking would have ended up if it had gone on much longer uninterrupted – I may have discovered my identity a bit sooner, or I may have ended up hurting someone by trying to pursue a relationship I ultimately didn’t want, or I may have just continued to spiral – but what actually happened was I got an email in late October that that random fantasy musical series I had backed on Kickstarter a year and a half earlier was being released on YouTube.
So I watched Muzzled, and it was very fun and silly, but the main thing I got out of it was, man I miss the Lizzie Bennet Diaries. So I finally opened that DVD set I’d gotten from the Kickstarter, and I binge-watched the whole show (I didn’t count it as a movie because there’s no feature cut, and also it is very long). And then I re-watched the whole thing with the DVD-exclusive commentary. And then I thought, I wonder what this cast has been up to lately, so I started searching for them on YouTube. And that’s when I learned that Mary Kate Wiles had been posting two videos per week on her channel for years, and I had been missing it. As I got caught up on her videos, I learned that I had just missed a Kickstarter for a musical she was going to be in called Spies are Forever, made by the Tin Can Brothers, which were a group of people who were also involved with Starkid, and that she seemed to be getting ready for a new Kickstarter with a group called Shipwrecked Comedy, the same people who had made that kissing show. They had also made a show called A Tell Tale Vlog about Edgar Allan Poe and the valley girl ghost Lenore who was haunting him, in which Poe had been played by Sean Persaud (the guy from Kissing in the Rain, who was apparently dating Mary Kate in real life) and his sister Sinéad (who was in the second half of Kissing in the Rain, which I definitely hadn’t watched before). Mary Kate had made a brief appearance in A Tell Tale Vlog as Annabel Lee, and this new show was going to be related to that, but bigger. I was so intrigued by this new project that I started supporting Mary Kate on Patreon to ensure that I didn’t miss any updates about it.
The Poe Party Kickstarter launched on February 2, 2016. By then, I had watched and enjoyed everything on Shipwrecked’s YouTube channel, but that Kickstarter video was my favorite thing they had made. I initially pledged the same amount that I had given to the Lizzie Bennet DVDs, thinking that would be my final pledge, but I ended up giving almost six times that much by the end of the campaign. Every $5,000 they raised, they revealed a new character and cast member with a poster, and each reveal made me more excited. Joey Richter was playing Ernest Hemingway?! Ashley Clements was playing Charlotte Brontë?! Lauren Lopez, who frequently played male characters, was playing George Eliot, a woman with a male pen name?! They got Jim O’Heir from Parks & Rec?! And then, as if the reveals weren’t enough, they had weekly 4-hour livestreams that I found incredibly entertaining. It had become clear that Shipwrecked Comedy now consisted of four people: Sean, Sinéad, Mary Kate, and Sarah Grace Hart, who had played Emily Dickinson in a stand-alone video and would be reprising that role in Poe Party. Various other cast members showed up in the streams with the Core Four, and I distinctly remember thinking, if these people are this entertaining to watch when they’re just hanging out, this show is going to be so amazing! In the second livestream of the campaign, they started writing people’s names on papers to stick on the wall if they pledged or raised their pledge during the streams, which was an excellent incentive, but I would have kept raising mine anyway, because I was desperate for this show to get made. Apart from a few weird troll messages, the stream chat was full of lovely conversations between people who seemed like my kindred spirits. I had never felt more at home in a community. And I had never been more excited than when the Kickstarter exceeded its goal.
And I’m telling you all of this because I need you to understand how astronomically high my hopes and expectations for Poe Party were. Some of the movies I’ve talked about so far ended up in my top 40 partly because I had fairly low expectations going into them and was pleasantly surprised, but that was absolutely not the case here. I had seen excellent work from several of the people involved before, and they seemed particularly dedicated to this project, and I knew they were going to make something incredible. I also desperately needed something in my life to go really well, and this seemed like it might be it, although I knew it wasn’t fair to put that kind of pressure on these independent filmmakers. I tried to temper my expectations, reminding myself that they had only raised a little over $72,000, and Kickstarter was going to take a chunk of that, and some of it had to go to perk fulfillment, so they weren’t going to have nearly enough to make anything super fancy. They released some prologue videos that were very fun but also very small, and I tried to tell myself that the actual show was also going to be small. And I kept reminding myself how long Muzzled had taken to come out, and that I was probably going to have to wait a while for Poe Party too, so I needed to chill. But then in late July – only four and a half months after the Kickstarter had ended – Shipwrecked released a trailer for Poe Party, which said it was starting in less than a month, and there was no tempering my expectations after that. The trailer looked fabulous. It was witty and clever and dramatic and intriguing, the music was perfection, and, shockingly, it looked like an actual studio movie. Not like a super high-budget one, but like they had at least a million dollars. Certainly way more than $60k. My already-ridiculously-high expectations soared to new heights. Part of me was sure I was setting myself up for disappointment, but I couldn’t help it.
And then it was August 22 and the first episode (Chapter 1: The Bells) dropped and it was so much better than I was hoping for. First of all, the look set the tone perfectly. The lighting was exquisite, and the location – incidentally the same house where Muzzled was filmed – was perfect. And then there was the writing. One thing the Persauds had mentioned during the Kickstarter was that they were inspired by the movie Clue, which will be featured in a future episode of this podcast, so I was expecting similar vibes to that, but I was not expecting there to be so many direct references to Clue. All of them made me extremely happy. It felt like the show was made specifically for me. It was like Clue, but even better. I already loved every single character and knew I would be sad to see some of them get murdered. It was also very clear from even just that first episode that this was going to fall into the “everybody was having way too much fun” category of film that I love. But while most movies like that tend to have pretty weak stories and just overall mediocre scripts, and the cast having fun makes up for that, Poe Party was different. The writing was fantastic, AND the acting was perfect, AND it looked gorgeous, AND everybody was having fun. Again, I tried not to have unrealistic expectations, I tried to tell myself that not every episode could be quite the banger that the first one was, but I was still incredibly excited for the rest of the show. And I was not at all disappointed. Somehow it just kept getting better. The running joke about everyone forgetting Emily Dickinson was there or who she was just kept getting funnier. Ditto the joke about George Eliot thinking she needed to convince everyone she was a man when everyone was clearly fine with her being a woman. I remember at one point, when around three or four chapters were out, Mary Kate tweeted that they were working on editing her favorite part of the show, and I thought, surely it doesn’t get better than what I’ve seen already. But it turned out she was talking about chapter 8, and yes, it absolutely was better. The constables, Jim and Jimmy – played by Jim O’Heir and Jimmy Wong – and everyone else trying to fool them, are so delightful to watch. Even though chapter 8 features probably the second saddest death in the series, it’s overall the funniest episode. This show touches an incredibly wide range of emotions and moods, especially considering it takes place in one house over one night.
I want to make it clear that I would still love Poe Party even if I’d stumbled upon it years after it came out, and even if I didn’t recognize any of the actors. The show is excellent enough to stand on its own. But being part of it from the Kickstarter, being familiar with some of the actors, and being online as it was coming out, certainly enhanced my enjoyment of it. Shipwrecked had a weekly “competition” of sorts where they would give a vague prompt and people would make fan art or write fan fiction and post it on social media (#PoePartyFTW), and each of the four members of Shipwrecked would pick their favorite to re-post. I wrote a fic after each of the episodes, and several of them got chosen by Shipwrecked, and I hadn’t felt that good about myself in years. I loved the show so much that I couldn’t confine it just into weekly fics; I was shouting about it on every social media platform. I also started weekly speculation Tumblr posts, using Clue references as my guide, many of which led me astray – I was convinced there must be a secret passage between the kitchen and the study that didn’t turn out to exist – but I did figure out part of the solution relatively early on. While the mystery aspect of Clue is ultimately nonsense if you think about it too hard, Poe Party actually tracks. And if you’ve listened this far and you still haven’t seen Poe Party, please go watch it now, because I’m going to start getting into story specifics and spoilers, and I think everybody should get to see it once without knowing what’s coming. (I’m also going to spoil some of Clue, so you could go watch that too if you want, although I don’t feel like Clue spoilers matter that much.)
In her episode of A Tell Tale Vlog, Annabel mentioned that she had started seeing a banker named Eddie, and then in the Poe Party Kickstarter video, she asked Edgar if she could bring Eddie as her plus one to his party. So Eddie (played by Ryan W. Garcia) shows up late to the party with Annabel, and then becomes the first murder victim. EXCEPT, spoiler alert: he’s actually NOT DEAD, and is, in fact, one of the murderers. And from the very first episode, I recognized Eddie’s similarities to Mr. Boddy in Clue, who is also not dead when you first think he is, and I was therefore suspicious of him from the get-go. But I was still very much open to any possibility (or so I thought) because the Persauds had done an excellent job of making everyone at least somewhat fishy. But there was one thing I was not prepared for, and that was the end of chapter 9. Because it absolutely never occurred to me that Poe’s beautiful Annabel Lee would die, and I’m honestly still kind of devastated about it, even understanding why it had to happen, and at the time I was almost inconsolable. Mary Kate Wiles had led me to this brilliant show, in which she played the kindest, most likable character, only to be brutally murdered? Some fans at the time had thought Annabel might be the killer, which I never did, and honestly I would have been kind of angry if she had been because we need to have more genuinely nice characters in things. I was upset that she died, but I would have been more so if she’d turned evil. (Not that I have anything against MK playing villains – I’m all for it, under the right circumstances. And thankfully the Persauds know when the right circumstances are.) And like, okay, I know I complain about too much romance in stories, but Annabel’s “It was always you” as she died in Edgar’s arms – that got me. Annabel had been planning to marry Eddie because he was more respectable than the unhinged poet she actually loved, and I think that that whole trying to fake the life you think you’re supposed to have thing spoke to me. I had been so tempted to try that, and this was almost as clear of a message as the constables’ “Don’t Do Murder”: Don’t Fake Romance.
At that point, I was pretty much convinced that Eddie must have had something to do with this; why would anyone else kill Annabel? Also, chapter 9 reveals that Annabel wrote the invite list, and I thought it made sense that Eddie, her boyfriend, could have told her whom to include, especially since it had already been established that most of the guests had some connection to Eddie. The prompt for that week’s Poe Party FTW competition was “Confession,” so I decided to try something different from the short stories I’d been submitting, and I re-wrote the poem “Annabel Lee” from Eddie’s perspective as if he was the murderer. And I know this episode is already longer than most of my solo episodes and I have a lot more to say, but I’m still proud of this poem (even though it’s not completely accurate, since it turned out that Eddie didn’t kill everybody), so I need to share it with you:
It was many and many a month ago,
In her cottage by the sea,
That I first read the words that Edgar wrote
For my girlfriend Annabel Lee;
And he said that she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by he.
“He’s just my friend and I’m just his friend,”
She quickly explained to me;
But we loved with a love which was worse than love –
I and my Annabel Lee –
With a love that was founded on secrets and lies,
Fueled by jealousy.
And this was the reason that, later on,
Faced with opportunity,
I took advantage of an offer made
To innocent Annabel Lee;
For when Lenore asked whom to invite
To that cad’s dinner party,
Annabel deferred to my input
Which I gave most willingly.
All authors, not half so worthy as bankers,
Who had e’er quarreled with me –
Yes! – they were the ones (no one would know;
I’d met them all secretly)
That Edgar would invite to his house that night,
At the behest of “his” Annabel Lee.
For our love it was weaker by far than the love
Of vengeance I carried in me –
Of justice toward those who’d wronged me –
And neither the psychics who bring back the dead,
Nor the cops fresh from Academy,
Can hinder my murderous plan; no one can!
No, not even my Annabel Lee.
As I watch them point fingers I find my gaze lingers
On the beautiful Annabel Lee;
When they mention invites, she suspects, knows she’s right,
Out the door runs my Annabel Lee;
Can’t let her get away: who knows what she might say?
So I kill her – I kill her – my eleventh kill today.
Instead of revealing me,
Her last breath says it was always he.
So yeah. I was deep into this. But then nobody in Shipwrecked chose it that week, and I thought, okay, maybe it wasn’t that good, or, maybe my theory is laughably far off the mark. Maybe Eddie’s too obvious. Maybe he really is dead. Then in chapter 10, Charlotte Brontë confessed, and revealed that her sister Anne had been there the whole time helping, and at that point I was pretty sure Eddie was also involved again. We clearly saw that Annabel’s killer was wearing pants, unlike either Brontë sister. And then it was Halloween and the finale finally arrived, and I was right about Eddie, but I was still completely unprepared for how awesome that final chapter would be. I think there was still a small part of me that didn’t believe it was possible for the end to live up to the buildup of the first ten incredible chapters. But it absolutely did. The finale was everything – everything, I say – that I wanted it to be and much more. The evil slow clap. The revolving villain trio of creepy neck touching. The flashbacks. The fights. The pet rock’s revenge. The literary references. And of course, the surprise reveal of Jane Austen, played by Laura Spencer, who had also played Jane Bennet in the Lizzie Bennet Diaries. The episodes were posted at 9 am on Mondays, when I was at work, so I couldn’t watch them right when they dropped, but after the first one I couldn’t wait until I got home either. My work’s wifi blocked YouTube, and I had an extremely limited data plan at the time, so on my lunch break I would walk to the McDonald’s down the street and watch the new episode using their wifi. And when the camera panned to Jane Austen, it was all I could do not to yell “OH MY GOSH IT’S LAURA SPENCER!” in that McDonald’s. I definitely audibly gasped, but I don’t think anyone noticed. The thing is, I would have still been blown away by the finale without that extra surprise. But that’s what Shipwrecked does. They make things that can appeal to a wide audience, and then they sprinkle in some extra treats for people who have been following them for a while. Of course, LBD was not a Shipwrecked project, but finding Shipwrecked through LBD is a fairly common path. And I’m still so impressed with how well they kept Laura as Jane Austen a secret. As a Kickstarter perk, I’d had a video chat with the Core Four that summer, and I’d mentioned that Jane Austen was my favorite author, and I was disappointed that she wasn’t going to be in Poe Party, and they were just like, “Yeah, we thought about including her, but we figured she would be too similar to Charlotte Brontë,” and betrayed not a SINGLE HINT that she was, in fact, in the show. Which is another thing Shipwrecked does: make a very specific, deliberate plan about what to reveal when, and stick to it.
As another example of that, the Poe Party Kickstarter had reached a stretch goal to produce an epilogue. I had completely forgotten about that, but other backers remembered and started asking about it after the finale. Shipwrecked was pretty cagey with their answers, but then directed us to a mysterious Twitter account that was dropping strange clues. I watched as the Shipwrecked fan Facebook group decoded them and ultimately unlocked the epilogue a day before it was released publicly. The epilogue is not included in the feature cut, and now I don’t really think of it as part of the show. Chapter 11 ends so perfectly – Poe stares at the floor as the heartbeat grows louder, a floorboard creaks, fade to black: chef’s kiss. But at the time I was feeling so many overwhelming feels about this show that I desperately needed that epilogue. I was so utterly relieved to see Annabel and HG thriving as ghosts. And I was so thrilled to be surrounded by such a great fandom, who all worked together and helped each other to solve the puzzles – it was a beautiful weekend. And it was also the last weekend before Donald Trump was elected president of the United States and I had to face the fact that the country was more broken and divided than I’d wanted to believe, which definitely adds to my nostalgia for that epilogue adventure.
The show may have ended, and the world may have been falling apart faster than usual, but I could not have gotten Poe Party out of my head even if I’d wanted to, which I didn’t. For over a decade I’d been searching for something that felt like a classic movie, but with some modern sensibilities, and these independent filmmakers had made exactly what I was looking for, zillions of times better than I’d imagined it. That clever, witty dialogue, perfectly delivered by quirky characters, almost felt like it came from a 1930s screwball comedy. But it also felt fresh and new and different from anything I’d seen before. It had so many similarities to Clue – in fact, I taught myself how to make gifs, or [other pronunciation] gifs, in order to highlight specific parallels between Poe Party and Clue – and yet remained unique. Where Clue was mostly just comedy, Poe Party was comedy, tragedy, romance, and intrigue, and absolutely nailed all of those. (Sadly no ravens, though, they didn’t have the budget for that.) Anyway, the series held up shockingly well upon rewatch, and I could not get enough of it. And despite the socially anxious part of my brain that remains convinced that everyone always is annoyed with me, that I have nothing worthwhile to say, that I should just shut up and stop bothering others with my existence – people seemed to like what I was posting about Poe Party. Other fans would engage me in conversation, and I started making internet friends for the first time. And, shockingly, the members of Shipwrecked seemed to genuinely appreciate what I was saying as well. After the finale had aired, Mary Kate reblogged my Annabel Lee poem on Tumblr and said, “I legitimately thought this was brilliant, and only didn’t choose it that week because of spoilers. Every single fic Jane wrote for this ftw has been wonderful, and I have so enjoyed them all, but this was above and beyond.” And maybe it sounds like I’m just boasting at this point, but the reason I’m sharing this is because a year earlier I had felt like a failure of a human who had no place in the world, and now this incredible actress/producer I greatly admired, who had just made my new favorite show, was saying that I had enhanced her experience of releasing it. People were liking and appreciating me, just for being myself and enthusiastically enjoying a movie. And I no longer felt like I was supposed to change who I was.
In early 2017, I got the rest of my Kickstarter perks, including behind-the-scenes goodies that featured not one but two fabulous commentaries. I love them both, but the second one is particularly chaotic in the best way. Ashley Clements and Ryan W Garcia, true to the villainous characters they played in the show, keep derailing the conversation and it’s incredibly amusing. The commentaries are over the feature cut, so many if not most of the views that I counted were with one of the commentaries. And I also bought the feature cut without commentary so I could show it to other people and still count it on my list. Now I tend to watch it episodically because I want the Shipwrecked YouTube channel to get more views for the algorithm, although I’m not sure that actually helps. But anyway, the feature cut and commentaries and other bonus features are still available to rent or buy on shipwrecked.vhx.tv, which I will also link in the show notes, if you’re interested.
Also in 2017, the first episode of Poe Party was shown at a festival near me, so I got to meet the Core Four members of Shipwrecked and some fans in person. That was very exciting, but I was also extremely nervous, although I didn’t need to be. The Shipwrecked people were so lovely and actually wanted to talk to me and the other fans who were there. And then I got to see Poe Party win some awards, which was awesome. And then a few months later, Shipwrecked launched another Kickstarter, and I pledged even more to it than I had to Poe Party even though the goal was lower, and then they kept making more stuff and I kept supporting it, and also continued to love everything they made (yes, even the Fart Feud with the Tin Can Brothers). I continued to support Mary Kate on Patreon, and I also started supporting other cast members on Patreon, like Whitney Avalon who had played Mary Shelley and does a lot of her own stuff on YouTube, and of course Ashley Clements, as I’ve mentioned previously, and as soon as Shipwrecked finally got their own Patreon, I was all in at the top tier. And, like, I don’t want to go on about this too much, because I do truly believe that I would love their work even if I’d never interacted with them, but I don’t know that I’d be quite the die-hard, take-all-my-money-to-make-more-things Shipwrecked fan that I am, if I hadn’t had so many wonderful interactions with the members of Shipwrecked over the years. I didn’t set out to become friends with them, but I kind of have – although I still feel a little weird and presumptuous to claim that. I feel like this will sound to some people like an out-of-control parasocial relationship, but like, it’s not that, because they do know me. Other people in my life have referred to Shipwrecked as “the people you pay to be your friends,” but it’s not that either: I give them money so they can keep making things, and we also happened to hit it off as friends – which again feels like a presumptuous label, but I can’t come up with a more accurate word. They make what they love and I love what they make, so it’s not that surprising that we’d get along. And for similar reasons, it’s not surprising that I’ve made so many very close friendships with other Shipwrecked fans. Our love for these projects brought us together, and then turned out to be far from the only thing we have in common.
I feel like I’m talking way too much about my own personal experiences, I’m so sorry if this is boring. Back to Poe Party itself. I’ve hinted at it already, but I need to emphasize again both how incredible the script is, and how amazingly the cast brought it to life. The story was so well thought out: every scene, every character, every moment was there for a reason. Like, I thought George Eliot disguising herself as a man was just a nod to female authors having to use male pen names, but then that turned into an important clue that led to the Brontës. Yes, you can poke plenty of holes in Poe Party if you want to – not all of the characters based on real people were actually alive at the same time, some of the technology is anachronistic, etc – but none of that stuff really matters. It’s clearly meant to be silly and fun, so you don’t really need to know what year it is. But the fact that they managed to write something silly and fun that didn’t completely devolve into absolute nonsense is so incredibly impressive. Sean and Sinéad wrote an absolutely brilliant script, and then they assembled the perfect cast for it. Every actor is on the exact same page about what this project is, and they each know exactly how their character fits in. Even when they’re in the background, everyone is giving 100%. I want to especially shout out Joey Richter, since Ernest Hemingway is drinking all night, and Joey did a tremendous job of tracking how drunk he was supposed to be. By the finale he’s having to slap himself to stay awake in the background, and it’s hilarious. Everyone else is also a delight to watch, and I feel like I’m still noticing little background moments I hadn’t clocked before. There aren’t very many close-ups, which I think was mainly because they didn’t have the budget for the time it would take to shoot them, but it works perfectly because a lot of the funny moments become even funnier when you can see multiple characters’ reactions at once. If you’re watching the background acting closely enough, you may notice a few instances of people almost breaking, but personally I just choose to interpret that as the characters finding it difficult to keep it together when other characters around them are being silly, and who can blame them? I appreciate that the writers and director trusted the cast enough to let them play around and improvise, because some great ad-libbed lines ended up in the final cut, and many more went into the best blooper reel ever, which is 24 minutes long and I love every second of it. There are some moments from the bloopers that I find myself saying sometimes when I’m watching the actual show – Ashley’s “Don’t be mean to me!” is probably the one I quote the most.
There is definitely romance in Poe Party – the whole reason for the party is because Edgar is in love with Annabel. Lenore and HG Wells develop feelings for each other over the course of the evening…until he dies. And several other characters flirt with each other. But none of the romances end well, and throughout the story, there is a lot of emphasis on friendship, and acquaintanceship, and other types of relationship. And that’s a running theme in most of Shipwrecked’s projects. There hasn’t been a kiss in any of them since Kissing in the Rain. Of course, much of the Poe Party fandom was, and is, into shipping characters with each other – for any listeners who may not be terminally online, shipping characters means that you want them to be in a romantic relationship with each other. I joined in somewhat, mostly because I felt like I was supposed to, but I couldn’t have articulated that at the time. And, as I mentioned earlier, I was particularly fascinated by the Eddie/Annabel dynamic, but I was only able to fully comprehend how much I needed the “don’t fake romance” message in hindsight. This show and its fandom made me feel less alone and adrift, but I still didn’t figure out I was aroace for a few more years. Although it was friends I made in the Shipwrecked fan community who first really helped me understand and accept that part of my identity, so I can still say that Poe Party was an important step on that journey.
I want to say so much more about this utterly brilliant show – I don’t feel like I’ve even come close to doing it justice here – but there truly are no words to adequately express my love for it. It still holds up nearly 7 years later, but Shipwrecked has come a long way since then. When their most recent webseries, Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story, was about to come out, they said it made Poe Party look like it had been done by a bunch of kindergarteners, and I was upset at the Poe Party slander, but once I watched that series, I understood what they meant. Headless is so far above and beyond, but unfortunately it came out too recently to make it into my top 40. Currently they’re releasing an audio narrative called The Case of the Greater Gatsby, which should be on the same platform you’re listening to this on. That is a sequel to their short film The Case of the Gilded Lily, which I will be discussing in a future episode. I really hope that someday Shipwrecked gets the level of recognition they deserve – their fandom is still relatively small, although we are mighty and devoted. At the very least, I hope that the current strikes will help enable them to make a living from writing and acting.
Thank you for listening to me discuss another of my most frequently rewatched movies, or at least attempt to. Following this will be a two-way tie of movies I watched 25 times, both of which feature Cary Grant, my favorite leading man apart from Sean Persaud. As always, I will leave you with a quote from the next movie: “Hi! Mellow greetings, ukie-dukie!”
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Pilot!Boromir headcanons
Boromir x reader. NSFW!!
Friends with benefits to lovers; obviously modern AU.
This was inspired by this post, and me remembering about Sean Bean's role in Flightplan. Eru, this man looks so good in a pilot uniform...
*****
✈️ His father is an important politician and/or entrepreneur, and Boromir was supposed to follow in his footsteps, but he has always wanted to be a pilot, fly and spend his life in the sky; as a consequence, as soon as he was of age he enlisted in Gondor's Air Force to pursue a military carreer as a pilot. This caused an unexpected, unprecedented rift between father and son, but since Boromir swore that if his father tried to stop him, he would leave and never return home, Denethor had to grudgingly accept his son's decision, hoping in his heart Boromir would one day change his mind and take the place his father had prepared for him.
✈️ He serves in the army for many years, becoming one of the most capable pilots in the Air Force, both in peace and in war. After a few years he is injuried during the Amon Hen Battle, where he risks his life protecting a pair of civilians in reaching his plane and then flies them to safety while a bombing is taking place around them.
✈️ After that, he decides he has had enough of the army, and his father's hopes are definitely dashed when he decides to accept his friend Aragorn's offer to work for his company, Elessar Airlines.
✈️ And this is when he meets you, a capable stewardess working for the same airline and mainly flying on long-haul routes - just like him. The first time you meet in the company's offices, for you it is not love, but lust at first sight, and how could it not? Tall and athletic, a face that is a textbook example of masculine grace (strong jaw, expressive brown eyes, the sort of nose you would normally look for on a marble statue) Boromir must be one of the most handsome men you have ever met, and when you shake hands, and you hear his deep, musical voice repeating in a murmur the name you have just given him (as if he wants to make sure he understood it correctly, or likes it so much he wants to taste it on his tongue) you immediately know your interest is fully reciprocated. "Welcome to Elessar Airlines, mr. Hurin; I'm sure you'll enjoy working with us." "Thank you. I look forward to working with you, miss (last name)."
✈️ You work together on three flights in the following six weeks, which gives you the opportunity to break the ice and get to know each other. You are impressed with his past as a military pilot, which he shares with the sort of quiet, down-to-earth pride of a man happy to have done his duty and who because of this doesn't look for praises or compliments, and with the clear affection in his voice when he speaks of his younger brother, Faramir (who is pursuing a carreer as a diplomat) since your relationship with your own siblings is much less close and affectionate. On his part, Boromir listens with interest when you tell him about your job or your interests, discovering he can't take his eyes off you while you talk.
✈️ You are sharing a drink at the airport bar one evening, waiting for boarding time, when his leg brushes against yours under the counter; you smile, immediately sure he did it on purpose, and Boromir smiles back, aware you are both thinking about the same thing. "We have about thirty minutes before we need to get on board." he murmurs, his face suddenly so close to yours you can feel his breath on your face, and you feel yourself shivering "How about we... find somewhere a little more private?"
✈️ You immediately, and happily, accept, and a minute later Boromir is closing the door of the (fortunately empty) pilot lounge behind you, your bodies already flushed against each other, your mouth pressed against his in a breath-taking, hungry kiss. "Eru." Boromir murmurs; his hands are moving frantically on your body, caressing, stimulating, and making you wish your neatly pressed uniform were not in the way "You are driving me crazy, I have wanted you since the very moment I saw you..." "You can have me." you answer in a moan, already drunk with desire; your back pressed against the wall, you lift your leg around Boromir's hips, pressing your pelvis against him and feeling him already hard from you "Please... please, I need you inside me..."
✈️ Unfortunately, Boromir's phone and yours ring almost at the same time, calling you both on board sooner than expected for a consultation with the rest of the crew you'll be flying with; by then, you are sitting in Boromir's lap, your panties on the floor and your mouth on his naked chest, and stopping and composing yourselves requires a tremendous effort. "Listen, I'm sorry as well." you murmur as you kiss him once more while Boromir puts his jacket on, feeling as unsatisfied as he looks "But we'll have time. I'll have a room by myself at the hotel when we land; you could come visit me."
✈️ That brings a smile on Boromir's lips. You leave the room and meet with the rest of the crew, the co-pilot and the two male stewards who have no idea you are still wet and he has a semi as you take care of pre-boarding, and you share a secret smile before Boromir leaves to reach the cock-pit and you wait for the passengers. You are both too professional, and aware of the risks, to slip away during the flight, even though all the planes have a tiny room reserved for the crew where pilots and stewards can retire to rest; you force yourself to focus on your duties, making sure all the passengers are comfortable, checking their tickets, serving lunch and making sure they fasten their seatbelts when requested, but you can't stop thinking about him, the tall and handsome man responsible for the safety of everyone on board, and who soon, you know, will fuck you until you can't even remember your name.
✈️ After a tranquil flight, you reach the hotel where the crew will spend the night before your next shift. You have barely time to leave your luggage on the floor, take off your shoes and visit the toilet, before you hear knocking on the door. You are already trembling with desire as you open it; Boromir is there, still in his uniform except for his jacket and tie, and the desire burning in his eyes is enough to make your heart skip a beat or three. He enters and "Come to me, woman." he says opening his arms to you, and normally you are not used to passively obeying men's orders, at least when you are not working, but you feel you can make an exception for him: you jump in Boromir's arms, and you are already kissing him passionately while he carries you to the bed.
✈️ From there, things develop naturally. After that first, magical night, you ask him to meet at your place; Boromir eagerly accepts, and you spend the whole night having sex; there is an adoring light in his eyes as he holds you by the waist, his free hand playing with your nipples, his long legs entwined to yours. "My place next time?" he proposes, and you start kissing his torso, confident it will be clear enough for an answer. It seems almost too good to be true: you have found a passionate, inventive, generous lover, as hungry for you as you are for him, and no matter how many times you sleep together, you are never tired, never bored, and every time you part with a kiss, neither can wait for your next date.
✈️ You are not exactly hiding your relationship, since nothing forbids the two of you from being together, but at the same time you tacitly decide to keep it to yourselves, and you both find excitement, and fulfilment, in having sex where you could be caught, disregarding the fact that you both live alone and could therefore meet at your place or his. One day, shortly before take-off on a return flight you are working on with another pilot, Boromir sends you a text with a long, detailed description of the things he wants to do to you. You read it three times, and then you have to excuse yourself to the toilet, where you touch yourself towards a quick, powerful orgasm that nonetheless leaves you unsatisfied before going back to work on shaky legs. Five agonizing hours later Boromir is waiting for you at the gate, and you let his hand guide you to the airport's parking lot, where his car is waiting for you, and your lover makes good on all his promises, holding you by the hips while you bounce above him on the driver's seat.
✈️ Then there are the lounges. The airport toilettes. The hotels in foreign cities you never get to visit, and where one of your separate bedrooms is invariably left unused. One day, after a long separation (six excruciating days in which your shifts never matched, and you had to make do exchanging pictures, texts, and making each other climax with phone sex) you have him come at your place directly from the airport where he landed; Boromir is exhausted, but immediately forgets it when he finds you lying on the bed, wearing only a pair of high heels and a thong, a flute in your hand. Would you like some champagne, sir?, you ask in your professional voice, and that is the night you discover it is physically possible for a man to come four times in nine hours.
✈️ In the end, you join the Mile High club together. When you confess him that having sex on a plane has always been a secret desire of yours, Boromir surprises you making your dream come true... just, not when you're flying, since it would be unprofessional for a pilot to leave the cockpit after take-off, no matter how urgent the impulse he has to take care of is, and both of you'd get undoubtedly fired if discovered. A couple of guys working for the company's security service owe him a favour, and one night you and your lover slip on board of a plane grounded for security reasons. You kiss desperately as you walk along the carpet-covered corridor towards the first class area, and make love on the pilot's chair, him sitting and you riding him like you both like, and then against the instrument panel, your thighs around his waist and your mouth finding his in a sloppy but passionate kiss. You whisper his name, you moan it, you cry it; no one hears, fortunately, since you're the only two people on the whole runway, but he does, and that is what really matters.
✈️ He is not into toys, and being tied up is too frustrating for a man used to always retain control on things around him. On the other hand, he is happy to indulge your preferences, be it exchanging hot photos when you're in public, or sucking on your breasts until they hurt.
✈️ If you want to make him hard, you call him mr. Hurin, in a sultry tone you quickly learn to use when you are together. If you want to make him come within two minutes, you call him sir. If you want to make him forget his own name, you call him captain, and prepare yourself to walk funny on the next day.
✈️ You like both giving and receiving oral sex, Boromir enjoys being sucked, but obliged when you ask him to return the favour, and discovers he is naturally talented. He likes anal sex, but at the same time wants to look at you in the eyes while he takes you, and thus you prefer to do it standing, leaning against a chest of drawers in your bedroom, in front of a large oval mirror; his lips leave a trail of fire on your skin, and no matter how exhausted he is, he always takes you in his arms to carry you to the bed. "Are you all right?" he gently asks, chastely kissing your forehead before lying next to you; he always asks, no matter how enthusiastically you took part in your lovemaking, and you always nod, and then happily snuggle against his side.
✈️ He asks you once, out of curiosity, if you'd like to open your relationship to a third partner, provided you find someone you both like and can trust. "Absolutely not." you decisively ask as you caress his chest; you don't even have to ask whether the third partner would be a male or a female, because it would change nothing "I only want you, and I want you to have eyes only for me when we are together. Please, let's not talk about it anymore." Boromir obeys; he doesn't express his own opinion on the matter, but he seems satisfied of your answer.
✈️ He likes seeing you in your stewardess uniform, so much that sometimes you surprise him wearing it when he visits you, after you have taken off your bra and panties underneath. Lingerie excites him, and since you refuse to accept money from him, even if as a simple gift, he buys you things he'd like to see on you; when you meet at work, he imagines you wearing his gifts under your uniform, and can't wait to take it off you. Once, you leave a pair of lacy panties under his pillow, as a surprise for when he'll wake up; he carries it with him in his pocket for the whole day, before cornering you in the company's parking lot. I think you left this at my place last night, he says after a long, trembling kiss, your body pressed between his and the door of your car, do you want it back? Or shall I teach you to take good care of the things you are gifted?
✈️ One day after a particularly memorable night, you realize you have scratched his back with your nails; Boromir doesn't mind, so lost in the world of pleasure you had created together he hadn't even felt the pain, and after a moment of guilt you feel quite proud of it, and happy at the thought he is carrying a sign of your passion on his skin, evident enough anyone who sees him would realize. Emboldened, you start biting his neck as you kiss, not so hard that it hurts but enough to leave a bruise, and two days later, when you join your colleagues at the airport for a new flight, you hear an older steward ask Boromir if he is sick, since he's wearing an heavy scarf over his shirt. Just a cold, your lover answers, impassible, and when your gazes meet he tries to scowl at you, but he ends up smiling as he sees you laughing behind your hand.
✈️ Everything is going great between the two of you. You sleep together at least three times a week, either at his or at your house, and while most of your dates begin in the bedroom, you soon discover you sincerely enjoy each other's company; you like falling asleep in your lovers' arms, his body keeping you warm better than the heaviest blanket, while Boromir enjoys resting his cheek on your chest and feeling you play with his hair. You enjoy long talkes, freely discussing personal matters as well as work issues; Boromir appreciates you are not wont to gossip, while you like he actually cares about your point of view as a stewardess, unlike other pilots who consider the other company employees beneath them. Yes, everything is going great, and six months after that first, magical night in the hotel room, you are still completely crazy about each other, fully satisfied of that (initially) purely sexual, no strings attached, relationship... and at the same time, finding yourselves wanting more.
✈️ Boromir is jealous. Naturally protective, and often possessive, of the people he cares for, Boromir finds himself hating every man who approaches you or that he suspects is interested in you, even if he has no reason to fear for your safety. He knows he has no right to feel that way, since you are not dating or anything and never even talked about making your sexual relationship exclusive, but he can't help it, and the simple thought of someone else touching you like he does, or worse, making you feel pleasure like he is so proud he has done for months, makes him see red. He has to bit his tongue to stop himself from asking about it any time he hears a masculine voice coming from your phone, he tries to discover who among the male colleagues you are friends with is single and could as a consequence pose a threat, and that time a wealthy passenger buys a costly perfume from the onboard shopping catalog and then gifts it to you together with his number on a piece of paper, he feels the irresistible urge to throw that cretin off the plane, even as he sees you politely refusing both offers, since the company guidelines forbid you from accepting gifts from passengers. Is this the only reason you declined?, he can't stop wondering, and would you have accepted otherwise? Is there already someone else in your life, someone you see when you're not with him, someone you like more than him and who could one day take you away from him...?
✈️ Your fears are different, albeit equally deep and distressing, and mainly concern the possibility your lover grows tired of you. After all you have slept together for months already, and no matter how intense the connection between you is, how passionate your lovemaking and how often he whispers in your ear you are so beautiful, so good for me, so tight and hot, and how amazing you feel when he's inside you and that no one has ever made him come so hard, sooner or later inevitably enthusiasm dwindles and boredom sets in; Boromir is an attractive man, you have seen passengers (of all ages, and all genders) giggling and looking at him with admirations on every single flight you have worked on together, and many of your fellow stewardesses likewise make no secret of their attraction. What if eventually someone catches his attention? Someone more beautiful, and younger than you, or pursuing whom provides a more exciting past-time than your by now established relationship? You are not tired of him (you have come to suspect you never will be) and there is nothing you wouldn't do to keep him by your side, but you can't stop fearing one day you will lose him...
✈️ Soon, you both realize you have developed feelings for each other, a discovery that does not surprise you (good, and even exceptional, sex does not necessarily translate in love, but what has been born between the two of you was too intense, too special and intimate and deep not to affect your heart) but that puts you both in a predicament. Could each of you confess your feelings to the other person, potentially finding out they did not reciprocate? You had never spoken much about your relationship, to give it a name or establish rules for something that made you both happy and satisfied, and while you had not explicitly decided to keep what there is behind you strictly physical, neither of you had ever said or done anything that could led the other to suspect a desire, or even just a willingness, to transform your acquaintance in a romantic relationship - a committed, serious romantic relationship, because this is what both of you had come to desire. If it came out you wanted different things from your rapport, could you ignore it and go back to being simply friends with benefits? It would be good (it would be great) even though you couldn't help wishing for more, and in the secret of your hearts you both think anything would be preferable to lose each other. But what if you simply couldn't go on like you had, and disappointment and bitterness ended up separating you? What if the one who did not reciprocate their lover's feelings ended up falling for someone else?
✈️ Neither of you could be described as a timorous person. As a pilot, and a former military pilot at that, Boromir had been prepared to make potentially vital decisions in the span of a minute, and you had likewise never allowed fear and uncertainty to guide you. Still, as you keep meeting for the best sex of your lives, sharing intimacy and secrets and laughs and pleasure, you both decide what you share is too important, too precious and special, to risk it... even if it could mean the beginning of something even more marvellous.
✈️ In the end, the solution of your quandary is found not by you, nor by your handsome lover. You had not spoken about your relationship with Boromir to anyone else, more because it was simply a matter that only concerned the two of you than because you had to keep it secret, and your dearest friends simply know there is someone in your life who makes you very happy. He, on the other hand, is an even more private person, disinclined to discuss his personal matters… except with the person he trusts the most in the world, and with whom he has no secrets. "I have been seeing a woman." he confesses one night he and his brother have met for drinks in their favourite pub and remained there for hours just talking as usual, indifferent to everything and everyone around them. The pub is a nice place, he reflects, mainly frequented by men, but one day, it would be nice to bring you there, and have you taste his favourite drink… "I have met her on the job, she's a stewardess, and… she's amazing, Faramir. I have desired her since the moment we shook hands, and for… nine months now we have been having sex, the best of my life, I never even thought I could feel like this… she's everything I have ever wanted in a woman, in a partner, and then some." "Then why the long face?" Faramir, who has started dating his future wife Éowyn three weeks ago, asks, and he listens intently as his brother confesses his fears (something Boromir has never been good at doing) that the woman he has grown to care for so much does not reciprocate his feelings, would break up with him if she knew they want different things from their relationship, and could one day, worst of all, fall for someone else.
✈️ "Do you love her?" "I don't know; I have never been in love before, but I have never felt anything like what I feel for her, so yes, it might be love." Boromir says, shrugging; he doesn't care about names and labels, but he knows he wants more, he wants all of her and wants her to have all of him. He wants to share more than her bed and the warmth of her body; he wants to stop fearing he could lose her any day, if only someone else catches her gaze "I think… in time, I will grow to love her very much. But I don't know if she feels the same, she's very affectionate and I know I can... I mean, that she's satisfied with what we have now; and that's the problem. Maybe she's happy like this, and she could never see me as anything but a sexual partner..."
✈️ Faramir knows his brother doesn't want to be consoled or advised on how to tackle his problem (which he would be unable to do in any case, since he doesn't know the woman his brother has developed feelings for and has no idea whether she reciprocates either); what he needs is to be listened to, and Faramir is happy to lend him his ear, intimately saddened to see his older brother so uncertain, and at risk of having his heart broken. "I'm sure you'll know what to do when the time is right." he says, and while Boromir seems actually comforted by his words, he feels he can, and as a consequence has to, do more for him...
✈️ ... which is why on the next day he visits Aragorn at the company's office, under the pretext of inviting him for dinner but in reality with a very different intent. "I know there is a stewardess here named (name); will you tell me how to find her? She is not in trouble or anything, but I can't tell you why." he asks; Aragorn decides to trust him, and luckily you are at the office right then, having had to come for a meeting with your supervisor and other stewardesses. The moment the two of you are face to face it takes you a moment to recognize him, because Boromir has a framed photo of the two of them on his bedside table, and because the man in front of you is a slightly younger, vaguely gentler version of the one you have slept with for nine months. You know he doesn't work for the company and you have no idea why he has come to see you; for a terrible moment, you fear something has happened to Boromir, but Faramir hurries to reassure you. "My brother has told me about you; believe me, I would never intrude in his personal affairs, but he cares greatly about you, much more than he has ever told you, and obviously you don't have to lie to him about your feelings to spare him the disappointment, but... but sometimes the only thing stopping two people from finding happiness is themselves, and fear. Boromir has never been afraid, never since I know him, and this is why I beg of you, take care of him, and of his feelings. I'm sure you'll know what to do when the time is right."
✈️You remain where you are, dumbstruck, while Faramir thanks you for your time and leaves; after a while, you finally move, reach your car in the parking lot and drive home, where you spend an hour walking in circle and staring at the wall, your mind possessed by a single, simple and at the same time terrifying question. Now what?
✈️ "(name)?" Boromir says, appearing in the living room in front of you, and for an absurd moment you could almost believe you were thinking about him with such intensity, you had him appear by magic. "Are you all right? The front door was open." he says as he reaches you; you had completely forgotten you had decided to meet at your place tonight, and you were so engrossed in your thoughts you hadn't realized you hadn't locked the door as usual. "Yes, I'm fine; sorry, I was... thinking." you explain as you greet him with a kiss as usual, that he gladly reciprocates. You look at him, feeling the gentle but possessive way he's already cradling your hips in his hands, the pleasant scent of his aftershave making you shiver; oh, to Mandos with it, you think, I don't want to be afraid either. "I saw your brother this afternoon." you confess as your lover has already started kissing your neck, gently biting a point on your throat he knows makes you see stars "He... hmmm... he came at the office to talk to me... about you. About what you told him last night."
✈️ Boromir reacts as if he had seen the gates of Mordor open in front of him. "I can't believe Faramir would do something like this." he murmurs, and suddenly he can't even meet your gaze "(name), I... I am sorry, it doesn't have to matter..."
"But it does; it does matter, and please, don't be angry with your brother, he was only trying to help." you explain, taking his hands in yours "And I am happy he did it; very very happy, in fact." You hesitate for a minute, searching the right words and at the same time simply enjoying the closeness of his solid, warm body; as long as you are together, you think, you'll never be afraid. "There is a party I have been invited on Sunday. It's nothing special, just a friend celebrating her birthday, but it should be nice... and I'd like you to meet my friends; and one day, if you want, I could meet yours. What... what do you think?"
More than seeing it (you can't, since you're staring at your feet) you feel him smile softly. "I'd like that." he murmurs before kissing your hair; his mouth has touched every single inch of your body, and still, no kiss has ever been sweeter than that "I'd like that very much."
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Not Me Episode 3 Music
the (not very well kept) secret come out. i am indeed the not me rewatch event organizer. i hope you all are having fun!! anyway, i got like 1/3 through this episode without recognizing any music (other than generic background music gmmtv has used before) and thought this was going to be a small post but they really jammed a lot in the last 2/3
The episode starts back up on Stronger which we already talked about yesterday so we're gonna skip that.
Keep Asking Me - Francis Wells
We first hear this song when Yok is talking to his mother about her most recent job and subsequent loss of that job. I don't really think there's any deeper meaning to be found here, other than maybe the fact that it's implied that Yok keeps insisting he can provide for them; making some kind of connection to the title but I think it's a tad bit of a stretch.
Worlds Apart - Rannar Sillard
Finally some good fucking food! This song begins when the unnamed diplomat hopeful discovers White is a nepotism baby. The name could not be more fitting as we now know from his backstory that he and White truly are worlds apart in their social standings.
(I couldn't find the music for the scene but the scene where Yok punches Gumpa is foreplay, don't @ me.)
We see another appearance from Trade a Moment in the fight with Sean and White - where they are indeed sharing another moment (and blows.)
Waste of Time (Instrumental) - CLNGR
This is the song playing right after Yok takes pictures of a knocked out White. This is another one that I don't really think has any deeper meaning unless you want to read into the fight being a waste of time, or maybe Sean thinking tending to 'Black' is a waste of time - but again, it's a bit of a stretch.
In the Haze - At The End Of Times, Nothing
We hear this during my favorite scene in the entire show. This is just before Gumpa LITERALLY INTRODUCES HIMSELF TO WHITE. He says "My name is Gumpa. I'm the owner of this garage." because he KNOWS this isn't Black, his suspicions are finally confirmed, and he wants to set whomever this is at peace. (Still accepting @porschesbabydaddy my beloved's headcanon that Gumpa did a background check on Black and knew he had a twin. This entire scene is just a love letter to my raging competency kink.)
ANYWAY. I think this song is more for White than Gumpa - White is quite literally in a haze, he's still figuring things out, piecing together who is who, figuring out he doesn't quite have the skillset to keep up (and maybe he's still a little bit dizzy from that punch.)
(iirc this is also a song used quite a lot in other gmmtv shows)
Mountain Top - Marc Torch
This plays immediately when Yok and Dan lock eyes through the chain link fence. If we want to get really flowery (which I always do) we could interpret this as there being a mountain of space between them still, or perhaps Dan is Yok's mountain he's determined to reach the peak of (lmao). Yok has only just begun to understand the scale of Dan and his work, he's just at the very base of the mountain, but someday he hopes to reach the summit. (Also yay more Marc Torch, though interestingly enough this one is NOT royalty free.)
Kids in Love - Tellow, Lill Persson
UGH THE SONG CHOICE. This comes in midway through White cleaning off Sean's bed so he has a place to sleep. The fores sure are shadowing with this song title and it makes my dumb little heart giddy.
Go Season - MILANO
Ahh, the towel tug of war scene. I don't really have any deep comments about this one other than it's another upbeat, jaunty song that pops in during another playful moment between Sean and White.
As Sean says "I don't have a judge for a mother like you." World's Apart surfaces again to punch us straight in the gut.
Feel - Ian Post
I sure am feeling a lot of things. Feel begins just as Sean grabs White's wrist and says they'll sleep like that so White can't slip away. Sean is physically touching White, feeling the skin to skin contact, and perhaps if we want to stretch again (we're going to be so limber today) White is feeling some complex emotions towards someone who was supposed to be perceived as an enemy.
WHEW. that's it for today's episode! that was a lot and i sincerely hope you guys are still enjoying these (they do take me a few hours to make lajkgla i never realized bc i get so hyperfocused and do genuinely enjoy making them)
#not me#not me the series#music#soundtrack#nmrewatch23#sorry if i fumble some shit my hands are really hurting today
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Grunge Days pt.6 - Back in the Saddle
Warnings: Smoking, Drug Usage, Profanity, SMUT!
Y/ns outfit
Book one/ earlier parts
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New Year’s Eve, 1990/1991, Los Angeles
Alice In Chains had gotten home from touring a few days ago, feeling like completely new people.
The tour had gone great for the band, gaining more exposure to the world and gaining new fans.
Alice in Chains were now international.
And yes, Y/n did call Duff the most she could, telling him what was going on while she was on the road.
And when she got home, Susan had told her to ‘get all the stuff she got’ out of the garage, Y/n was confused at that cause she had zero money. So how the hell could she buy shit.
But when she walked into the garage, there was some amps, and guitars sitting in there. With a note from Eddie that just had his name signed on it.
“I couldn’t fucken believe it Duff” Y/n said as she told Duff about what she discovered in that garage.
“That’s- That’s fucken sick Y/n” Duff hiccups through the phone, “Jesus now i can’t remember why i called you in the first place”.
“You said something about something happening at your place” Y/n said, holding the phone.
“Oh right! Yea i’m throwing a Party tonight, you and the guys should come- scratch that you guys have to come” Duff said
“Cool, yea i’ll be there” Y/n said, “I’ll call the guys and tell them- what time is it?”
“One a’clock” Duff said
“No dumbass the time of the party” Y/n laughed
“Oh right!” Duff laughed “Late. Just get here before 12”
“Alright cool, see you later Duff” Y/n said
“BYEEEE!” Duff said through the phone, hanging up.
Y/n smiled as she shook her head to herself, calling Sean, then Layne to tell them about the party. Jerry was with her throughout the phone call so she didn’t have to tell him.
“You think Slash is gonna be there?” Y/n asked Jerry
“Of course he is dude! But just avoid him- there’s gonna be plenty of more people to talk to” Jerry said, cigarette in his mouth.
“Yea your r-” Y/n said as the phone rang again.
“Hello?” Y/n spoke through the phone
“Hey! It’s Fru” John said.
“Oh shit- Hey” Y/n smiled at hearing the boys voice.
That time in San Diego was the only time something had happened between the two, well lie, they hooked up as soon as they came back from SD, but! that was the last, last time. They did hung out though, and it was nice. Finally someone to get high with, judgement free.
“How’s recording going?” Y/n asked, holing the phone between her shoulder and ear (hopefully yk what i’m talking about).
“It’s pretty cool, apparently the house were in is like haunted or some shit” John said, a small laugh slipping out.
“Haunted? That’s fucken weird” Y/n said, lightly smacking Jerry’s head, the man had been making kissing noises since she picked up the phone.
“Super, haven’t seen any paranormal shit though” He said, and she could hear him blowing out smoke from his mouth.
“Yea well, the next time i see you, you better not be on some demonic shit” Y/n joked
John sarcastically scoffed, “Wow, and here i thought you were gonna perform my exorcism!”
Y/n let out a laugh “Never in a million years Fru”
“Offended, but understandable. Well i gotta go now, just wanted to call you and see if you were back in LA”
“Alright cool- goodluck on the album, see you soon” Y/n said, hanging up the phone.
“So you guys a thing now?” Jerry asked her, smirk on his face.
Y/n shook her head, “God no, I can’t imagine myself dating right now”
“What about Slash?” Jerry asked, watching her as she got up and went to the kitchen
“Slash” Y/n mumbled “What do you mean what about Slash?”
“It’s so obvious he’s not over you Y/n” Jerry said, putting his feet up on the table that was in front of the couch. “Coming from a man, aka me, no dude is gonna get upset over the shit that happened with you and John”. “Unless they have some kinda feelings towards you”
Y/n turned back to look at him, thinking mad hard about what Jerry had just said. “I don’t fucken know Jerry, it’s him that’s the issue, not me”
“Well have you tried talking to him?”
Y/n scoffed and rolled her eyes, “Talk to him- he’s a fucken man child!”
Jerry laughed “Okay well- let’s just put this out now, how do you feel about him?”
Y/n furrowed her eyebrows, “Well i don’t know- i mean i thought this stupid shit was gonna be done, like it’s been years since i last saw him” Y/n sighed “And it’s just so annoying that now everything is just repeating itself”
“That didn’t answer my question Y/n” Jerry said, lazily turning his head back to the television.
Y/n groaned “I don’t know Jerry! I don’t fucken know anything!” She whined, going over to sit next to him.
“There there Y/n, don’t be stupid” Jerry rubbed her back.
“Fuck you” Y/n said, her voice being muffled by her hands.
“Love you too Mckagan” Jerry laughed
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“There they are!” Duff yelled out through the music.
“Hey man” Jerry smiled at him, cigarette in his mouth as he let out a little “humph”when Duff suddenly hugged him.
He did that to the rest of the boys, all of them being very shocked with how strong Duff is.
“Heyy little rockstar” Duff smiled at her
“Hey Duff” Y/n said, hugging her brother tightly.
“Sister I’ve missed you” Duff spoke as he hugged her back.
Y/n grabbed him by the shoulders and looked at him “I have too” she laughed, looking around “There’s so many people here”
“I know right! Isn’t that fun”
“Definitely, i see you’ve invited many ladies” She said, looking back at her brother.
“Hell yea I did!” Duff laughed “Go have fun Y/n! Cause i definitely am” He said as he looked over to a girl walking past them.
“Ew Duff, don’t size up a girl when you’re talking to me” Y/n furrowed her eyebrows at him, “Go to her Duff, I’m gonna go get drunk”
“Not too Drunk!” He laughed
“Oh yea, I don’t think I could ever be on your level” Y/n smiled at him, rolling her eyes.
Y/n found herself mainly hanging out with Layne, the two of them taking shots, and doing a few lines of coke.
But Layne ended up leaving after a bit, saying something about his girlfriend not wanting him to be out so late, so he left.
And now Y/n was alone. She found her self walking over to Duffs kitchen and pouring herself another drink.
“You know you could just talk to me instead of staring” Y/n spoke to the person behind her, obviously it being Slash (well not so obvious, she only knew it was him cause she saw his reflection on the bottle next to her). “Or are you still playing the ignore Y/n game”
“I wasn’t ignoring you” Slash said
Y/n turned around, “You were-” she said, moving back as someone passed between them “And i know exactly why”
Slash looked into her eyes, “I don’t think this is a conversation we should be having here”
Y/n shrugged, “Alright then, let’s just not have this conversation” she said, walking away from him, purposely hitting her shoulder on his.
“You gotta fucken relax” Slash said, grabbing her harshly from her wrist.
Their faces, close as fuck, “No, I don’t think I do” She said, looking him straight into his soul. “I know you’re mad cause i fucked Fru” She laughed at him.
She saw Slash’s face turn angry, harshly dragging her into a room.
“You better watch your fucken mouth Y/n” Slash heaved.
Y/n walked up to him “Or what? What are you gonna do Slash?”
Slash grabbed her face, their faces once again inches apart.
Y/n cockily smiled at him “I know the fact you haven’t fucked me is killing you Slash” “You and I both know you want me so badly”
“You don’t know shit” Slash said
“I know more than you do” She said, licking his lips “I know you don’t have the balls to fuck me” she said, her eyes locking with his.
Slash slammed his lips to hers, Y/n smiling into the kiss.
She never realized how much she missed his lips.
They moved back until the back of Y/n’s knees hit the edge of the bed.
Y/n didn’t even realize there was a bed in here.
Slash pulled himself away from her, taking off her shirt and undoing her bra, he then turned her around and pushed her head down to the bed.
Y/n used her elbows to prop herself up, her back arching as her ass pressed against Slash’s dick, which was still coved up by his jeans.
She felt Slash move himself away, hearing him remove his jeans she got onto the bed, still in the same position as before.
With no warning, she felt Slash’s fingers rub through her pussy.
She let out a small groan as she felt his thumb play with her clit.
Slash looked his body over hers, speaking into her ear he said, “And i’m the one who wants it”.
Y/n turned back to look at him, “Shut the fuck up and fuck me”
She felt the bed move as Slash got on the bed, more specifically he was on his knees.
He rubbed her ass, “After this you’re not gonna wanna fuck anyone else”
“We’ll see ab-” Y/n said, choking on her own words as Slash slowly eased himself into her.
“Fuck” Y/n moaned out as she put her head down.
Slash quickly began to move faster, letting out a groan, “Fucken- shit Y/n”
Slash grabbed Y/n by her hair, pulling her up, he grabbed her by her waist. “I hate- I hate the fact you know me so fucken well” He panted as he thrusted deeper and deeper into Y/n.
“Slash” Y/n whined out letting her head fall into his shoulders.
Slash licked her neck, leaving a trail of kisses as he moved one of his hands to her breast, pinching her nipple. Making Y/n moan out louder, moving her hand into his hair as she pushed his head towards her lips.
He was right, Y/n couldn’t even fathom the fact she would want anyone else to fuck her but Slash.
They continued to kiss each other as they let out moans and groans into each others mouths.
Slash moved his hand down to her clit, pressing it down as he began to rub it.
“Please Slash” Y/n cried out
“What? what the fuck do you want” Slash heaved out
“I’m gonna cum” Y/n breathlessly moaned.
Slash gave her more kisses on her neck, and the side of her face as he whispered into her ear “Go ahead baby”
Y/n let out a mantra of his name as she reached her peak, her eyes closed shut.
“God you’re so fucken beautiful” Slash said, now reaching his peace as now Y/n was the one to leave a trail of kisses on the side of his face.
They now laid on the bed silently, Slash’s arm wrapped around her body.
Slash took a minute to look at Y/ns face staring up at the ceiling, she turned to face him, giving him a small smile.
Slash thought about that night in San Diego, he thought about how much Y/n hurt him when she didn’t wanna stay in LA with him back in 86’. Upset, he decided he already got the chance to fuck her, so now it’s time to move the fuck on.
He pushed away Y/ns hand from his arm, then removed his arm from her body. He scooted away from her as he felt her sit up and look at him.
Y/n felt her heart drop, she got up and began looking for her clothes, the room eerily silently as she put them back on.
Slash screwed his eyes shut as he heard Y/n let out a small sniffle as she put her shirt back on, “You don’t have to leave”
“I fucken want to” Y/n snapped at him, anger filling her eyes.
“Y/nn-” Slash sighed out, now also getting up
“Don’t fucken worry Slash, i get the memo” Y/n felt her lip quiver, her head shooting at the window infront of her as she heard everyone chanting “3…2…1! Happy New Years!”. Then the glow of all the fire works they were being set off.
Slash looked at the way the light from the fireworks illuminated on her face, her hair messy, her face full of hurt.
Her eyes snapped back to him, Y/n felt her lip quiver, “Bet you don’t even treat the fucken groupies this way” She said, walking towards the door, roughly slamming it shut.
Slash rubbed his face as he got up, quickly putting his clothes back on in hopes he could catch up to her.
Y/n was right, he didn’t treat the groupies this way, he silently cursed to himself, immediately regretting the way he treated her.
Someone should just hand him the dumbass of the year award.
He practically ran out the room, his eyes looking everywhere for her, but now the house was just empty, everyone else was outside, and Y/n wasn’t here.
He once again, practically ran outside, his head moving towards every direction. And she was nowhere to be seen.
He didn’t know which way to go, so he went back inside and poured himself a drink.
He always had to fuck everything up.
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FINALLYYYYY THEY SMASHED OMG!!! I hope the smut wasn’t bad omg i’m still not used to writing it 😭😭 but i hope you guys enjoyed this chapter LAUV U ALL!!!!
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Also, some of the people who’ve asked me to tag them on this fic, i’m super sorry i haven’t, it’s just that when i enter some of ur users nothing comes out!! I’m really sorry and i’m not sure how to fix this issue.
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I'm going to explain why 'Brain Scramblies' is my favorite episode of wwdits and a genius TV episode :
Simply because this episode is funny as hell and there are a lot of subtle references, I decided to list the ones I noticed from the most explicit to the most implicit :
Charmaine's name origin ¦
So her name is obviously taken from the movie Ocean's Eleven.
It's the name of a prostitute who helped the protagonists of the movie to get a badge from a technician who works in the casino.
She stole it from one of the technicians 'Edward' by using her charms (him being drunk and crazy in love with her)
In the same way that Sean fell madly in love with Charmaine in the show.
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'Inferno' by Dan Brown ¦
In one of the rooms that Nadja ruins to find the Jade necklace that belonged to her mother, we see on a bedside table a book "Inferno" by Dan Brown.
This is the beginning of the Wikipedia summary : "Robert Langdon wakes up in the middle of the night in the hospital, almost amnesiac and having suffered a concussion. Nevertheless, all his other intellectual and psychic functions remain intact. Disoriented, with a head injury, he has no memory of the last 36 hours. He does not know why he is in Florence and where the object that the doctors discovered in his belongings came from. A dream torments his mind, that of an old veiled woman wearing an amulet around her neck..."
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'The Golden Lily' by Richelle Mead ¦
After Sean has his brain in a pudding state and falls back in love with Charmaine again, this is one of the sentences he says to her :
"You are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen."
It is the exact beginning of a quote from the book "The Golden Lily" written by Richelle Mead, which talks about vampires.
"You are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen walking this earth. You have no clue of how beautiful you are or how brightly you shine"
Brief summary of the book :
"Sydney Sage is an Alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. They protect vampire secrets-and human lives."
This may have been the only way Sean could explain to his wife, in a fucked-up state, that the neighbors are vampires.
(The idea that Sean reads teenage romance vampire fiction is killing me 😭🤣)
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'The Vampire Diaries' ¦
Sean's declaration of love is full of references, here is a new one :
He pronounced this while offering the Jade necklace : "It's a token of my undying love", an almost similar phrase was uttered in episode 2 of season 8 of the Vampires Diaries.
"[...]will you do me the honor of wearing this engagement ring, as a token of my love"
It's a proposal from Stephan, a vampire, and then the couple kiss in the same way that Charmaine and Sean kissed after he offered the necklace.
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One of my favorite references, probably the most speculative :
'Mama Lucha' ¦
When he 'first' sees Charmaine, he exclaims this :
I found no meaning for this word, we could say that it's a compliment he invented thanks to his fried brain.
However, I think he exclaimed "Mama Lucha !", because after some research, it wouldn't surprise me if Sean, a hugefan of heist movies, is actually referring to this woman : "Luz María Endara Altamirano" better known by the alias 'Mama Lucha'
There is little information about this woman but in short she was "an Ecuadorian extortionist, who was prosecuted for the crimes of tax evasion and treason."
After her death it is said that : "In the San Roque market, where one of her houses is located and where she used to live, there is an atmosphere of amnesia. Most of the shopkeepers say they do not know her, they do not know who she is."
Might be a reference that in this episode Sean became amnesiac.
Even funnier, it is just possible that Sean just noticed that his wife shares a slight resemblance with the emblem of the supermarket Bodega Aurrerá also called "Mama Lucha" :
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Btw a lot of the lines Sean says are similar to phrases from the 1999 series ' The Sopranos' like "get the fuck out of here" or "who's that piece of ass"
Synopsis : "Tony Soprano, a gangster living in New Jersey, suffers from panic attacks and must secretly see a psychologist, Dr. Jennifer Melfi. Tony has problems with his family: he is in conflict with his wife Carmela, his two children, Meadow and Anthony Junior, his mother Livia and his uncle "Junior"
Well I know nothing about the show and I'm going into bullshit, but from the synopsis, Carmela could be Charmaine, Livia could be Joan (Sean's mother) and once Sean mentioned his uncle "Fulvio"
Tony & Carmela :
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Finally ! the post is over, all this to conclude that the writers of wwdits are geniuses 🙌
Please feel free to reblog this post, to make discover to the greatest number the fucking pure genius of wwdits 😌
#wwdits#what we do in the shadows#wwdits meta#wwdits theory#sean rinaldi#charmaine rinaldi#wwdits sean#wwdits charmaine#laszlo cravensworth#wwdits laszlo#wwdits nadja#nadja antipaxos#nandermo
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Hi, I was just wondering— what’s the origin of your name? I can’t figure out what meerkats are fine.
Oh, thank you for asking this and giving me an excuse to post the answer again! I post the video that my name is based on once or twice a year, but it's been a while since I have, so I appreciate the encouragement to do it again.
Okay, so in March 2020, I watched every episode of Taskmaster and it was the best thing I'd ever seen, I looked up ways I could see more of all those people, made a list of long-running panel shows that featured them, and worked through the list. Watched every episode of WILTY, then 8 Out of 10 Cats and Catsdown at the same time, then was annoying my friends so much by talking to them about these newly discovered British comedy shows that they don't care about, and I needed somewhere else to put my thoughts or I'd come out of the pandemic with no friends left. So I made a Tumblr blog.
Right after that, I did Mock the Week/Big Fat Quizzes at the same time, then QI and Buzzcocks, then branched out into "not actually a panel show but similar ballpark" with The Last Leg and every fucking episode of Russell Howard's own TV shows, before going through the old Howard/Richardson radio shows and then Bugle and being more into audio stuff from there, and then mostly into stand-up, as I have been for the last couple of years. At the same time as all this, I was re-watching a lot of the old British sitcoms I was into as a kid, and watching a lot of British sitcoms that were new to me, and a lot of shorter-running panel shows, Radio 4 shows, some books, lots of stuff.
Okay that's as short as I can possibly make the summary of my last few years, and most it wasn't strictly relevant but I just always feel the need to add context to things. The thing that's actually relevant is I made this blog right after I'd finished watching 8 Out of 10 Cats and Catsdown at the same time. And Tumblr asked me what I wanted my name to be, for my blog that was about British comedy. I decided to not overthink it, just go with the first thing that came to mind when I thought of what panel show moments came into my head first as things I liked, and went with:
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There is, like, a slightly deeper meaning to why this joke got to me so much. When I first watched that episode and heard that joke, I happened to have just come back from a very stressful event where I'd had a panic attack and had to leave early, and Sean Lock describing little things running around frantically and pointlessly, and needing someone to just come tell them "guys there's nothing coming to get you, it's not a big deal just fucking relax" made me laugh as a metaphor for how anxiety feels like chemicals chasing each other around your brain in an utterly unnecessary frenzy. And I liked of some outside observer just looking at it and saying "knock it off" (and, you know, it's extra funny if that outside observer happens to be Sean Lock). I would sometimes tell myself, when spiralling into particularly irrational anxiety, "Hey! Fucking relax. Tell the meerkats it's fine."
So there was that, a bit of a more significant thing. But honestly, I mainly just liked that because I thought it was a funny observation. I've been to zoos, I've seen meerkats, and he's right, they do do that! They do run around as though they expect their cage to be under siege at any moment, even though there is no threat to them. Good point, Sean! It's a funny image. I mainly picked the reference because it's a funny image.
Part of why I put the context here is I've posted this video a couple of times since Sean Lock's death, and had someone assume I made the name as a tribute to him. So I like clarifying that I made this blog in August 2020, a year before he died, and I've never changed its name. Sean Lock didn't need to die for me to recognize how funny he was.
So to answer your actual question, it is those meerkats that are (not) fine. The one at the zoo where Sean Lock went. In case anyone's wondering, when I first made my Tumblr account in August 2020, right after I'd watched all of Cats and Catsdown, Tumblr asked me for my URL and I went with "Tell the meerkats it's fine" due to the Sean Lock joke, and then Tumblr asked me what I wanted for my blog title, and I immediately knew I wanted to reference my favourite episode of Catsdown:
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Happy Birthday, Scottish radio deejay and broadcaster Ken Bruce, born February 2nd 1951 in Glasgow.
He was educated at, or at least attended, Hutchesons’ Boys’ Grammar School in Glasgow, where his achievements included being named “Laziest Boy in the School”. He did however, become Captain of Curling and took his team to the final of the Scottish schools Championships, such were the sports in Grammar schools!!
On leaving school, he studied accountancy for two years before discovering that he was not cut out to be a financial genius, or indeed any other kind, and became involved in a car hire company, rising from washing the cars to minor management.
In his spare time, he enjoyed hospital radio, and eventually talked his way into the BBC in Scotland, where he became an announcer. He read the news, introduced concerts and laughed, smoked and drank a great deal. He has, of course, improved his behaviour since then by giving up smoking.
His own daily show in Scotland followed, and he would have played out his days there had Radio 2 not come calling. The Saturday Late Show in 1984 was his first regular gig, and this led to the offer of the Breakfast Show the next year, when Terry Wogan departed for television. The year after that, he moved to the 9:30 slot, where he has remained, with just two intervening years in other slots, ever since. In 2019 it was announced that his show had had become the most popular radio programme in the UK, with 8.49m daily listeners.
In 1988, he became the radio commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest and has being doing that ever since too, although he is never quite sure why.
Ken loves proper live music though, being a failed drummer, and has a special soft spot for orchestral concerts, which is why he is delighted to have been involved with Friday Night Is Music Night for over ten years.
He has avoided the telly over the years, finding it all a bit frenetic, and also with a feeling that the viewing public are not quite ready for him; but he is happy to go on Countdown every so often because it is more like radio - no-one rushes around pretending it’s important.
He has been married three times and has six children, so is an obvious descendant of Robert The Bruce, whose experiences with the spider led him to “try, try, try again.”
When I posted about Ken in 2022 he had recently commented that he was content to remain at Radio 2 until the call comes to restore him to his rightful place on the Throne Of Scotland, well he hasn't retaken the crown, he did however quit the BBC in April last year, since then he has been on the commefcial station Greatest Hits Radio. Just yesterday there were stories that he is going from strength to strenght there, and has seen his audience grow to 3.8m, as his old station continues to lose listeners. Greatest Hits Radio, in large part thanks to Bruce’s success, has seen a large jump in its average audience over the last 12 months, up 70% from 4 million to 6.8 million
Someone once mentioned Ken looked a bit like the late Sean Connery, although Ken says it was because he impersonated him once, anyway, he briefly got to meet “Big Tam”, Ken says
“He sauntered up to me with a faint smile on his face and said: ‘I hear you think you look like me.’ I muttered awkwardly: 'Oh well, sometimes on one of my good days … ’ To which Sean responded: 'And one of my bad ones.’ He walked away, seemingly amused, but nowhere near as amused as my colleagues.”
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HOLY SHIT I ALMOST FORGOT
it is the first day of november and so, today, someone will die.
even under the brightest sun, the frigid autumn sea is all the colors of the night: dark blue and black and brown. i watch the ever-changing patterns in the sand as its pummeled by countless hooves.
they run the horses on the beach, a pale road between the black water and the chalk cliffs. it is never safe, but it is never so dangerous as today, race day.
this time of year, i live and breathe the beach. my cheeks feel raw with the wind throwing sand against them, my thighs sting from the friction of the saddle, and my arms ache from holding up two thousand pounds of horse. i have forgotten what it is like to be warm and what a full night’s sleep feels like and what my name sounds like spoken instead of shouted across yards of sand.
i am so, so alive.
as i head down the cliffs with my father, a race official stops us. he says, “sean kendrick, you are ten years old. you haven’t discovered it yet, but there are more interesting ways to die than on this beach.”
my father takes the official’s upper arm as if the man were a restless horse. they have a brief exchange about age restrictions during the race. my father wins.
on the way down to the water, we are jostled and pushed by men and by horses. a gray uisce stallion rears up, its rider jerked at the end of a lead. i slide beneath it and find myself facing the sea, surrounded on all sides by the capaill uisce—the water horses.
they are every color of the pebbles on the beach—blue, black, red, gold, gray, brown. riders hang bridles with ribbons and flowers to lessen the danger of the dark november sea, but i wouldn’t trust a handful of petals to save my life. last year, a horse trailing red tassels and daises tore a man’s arm half from his body.
they are beautiful and deadly, loving us and hating us.
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i don’t often think of my father strung out amongst the frothing surf. instead, i think of him as he was before the race: afraid.
i won’t make the same mistake.
#bird noises#scorpio races#when i was in my junior year of high school i decided randomly to memorize as much of the book as i could#at one point i had the first two and a half pages#this is about the first one and two thirds and i think instarted to fuck up at the end#plus the last lines of the prologue bc theyre Cool#can i prove that i did this from memory. no. does it serve any purpose except showing off my One Weird Trick#also no#actually it does READ SCORPIO RACES ITS COOL AS FUCK#AND NOVEMBER IS LITERALLY THE BEST MONTH TO DO IT#except october maybe but that ship has sailed#maybe i’ll try to re-memorize the prologue. for funsies
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Pokeblogging Archive: Area Zero Survey Corps
figured it would be worthwhile to compile the story
relevant tags (other than usual pokeblogging tags): #area zero survey corps, #the mystery of area zero, #paldea road trip!
I'll do my best to include everything and have it all in a proper timeline. They/Them pronouns will be used unless I'm absolutely sure what they use.
Also keep in mind that some of the links start the same. That is because they are different threads that spawned from the same post.
The Start
Grace (@trainergraceneedstherapy) put the group together in this post
Siren (@moonrazemalestorm) (who is stationed in another region) got a drone in this post. They fly the drone into Area Zero. They see a Flutter Mane. But Something destroyed the drone. They plan to go to Area Zero their self with Lunala
Grace is surprised at how many of the group are from Unova
Professor Amo (@fucktherulesletsseetheruins) joins the AZ research corps. She is friends with Grace and is also one of her mentors.
Paldea Road Trip Arc
Lori (@legendofzacian) wants to crash on Grace's couch for awhile. They take the train to Paldea. Grace picks them up from the train station. A Zorua gives them some trouble.
Lori and Grace hang out, they plan to visit the crater, they talk about inviting Amo to their excursion. They also share their worry about Team Nightmare as well as Amo asking too many questions about Hisui.
Devi (@professor-devious) joins the mission. Devi, Lori and Grace joke around about going to the crater.
Will (@challengedbywiley) joins the crew
Silverleaf (me) joins the party
Silverleaf arrives at Grace's house. Devi arrives at Paldea and Miku (@champion-class-hatsune-miku) asks about what everybody is up too. Lori appreciates Paldea's love of the occult.
Siren arrives at Paldea, also planning to search the crater with the rest of the team.
Post about the history of Area Zero and what is known about it and the Paradox Mons along with theories regarding it. Lori also adds her own comments. As well as another person's theories and writing about the crater and paradox mons.
A post about "ballin in the crater"
Siren has set up base in Research Station 3, they have run into a Flutter Mane, and are getting along. Flutter mane Info Siren wrote.
[name unkown] (@blueflare7) jumps into the crater (or at least I think this is them).
Vanilla (@humming-pokemon-helpers) asks Grace about the AZ Survey Corps plans. Someone is concerned about the legality of the team's mission.
blueflare7 is in trouble, they are getting chased by a Paradox Pokemon.
Siren visits the crater and discovers a new Paradox mon.
"The dreamer of truth and ideals" (aka N) (aka @bittersweetformula) is concerned about the Area Zero trip.
Something goes wrong, connection with blueflare is lost, they need help. Amo calls for the group to get together for a rescue mission! N tells everybody to be careful. N decided to head in himself.
Siren wonders if keeping Paradox Mons is illegal. Siren finds the knocked down drone and checks the last thing it recorded. Siren wonders about the Ultra Wormholes opening up in Paldea.
Blueflare Rescue Mission!
Grace, Lori, Devi, and Amo head into the crater. They land.
Quill (@quillpokebiology) has been wanting to join the mission and has ventured in Area Zero before. Sean (@trainer-sean) tries to dissuade them from sneaking in again but they still have plans to get in.
N talks to Team Nightmare about what Grace and her friends are doing. N asks them to send their grunts to scare the team off from the creator.
Devi's Zorua fights an Iron Jugulis, it gets defeated and captured by Devi. But then Sean shows up with a group of Professors and League Officials to stop the group. Everyone gets scattered running away.
Blueflare has contacted Amo again. Blueflare is surprised that so many people are trying to rescue them. Blueflare gets into more trouble and Amo runs off to help them. Blueflare gets injured. Amo finds blueflare and protects them. Blueflare's Charizard helps.
Lori laments that their camera isn't working so they are drawing the Paradox mons they see instead. Amo makes a comment about one of them. Will catches wind of what's going on and heads over to join the crew. Amo and blueflare talk about they are going to do now.
Meanwhile... Devi decides to hang in front of a cave to wait for the others. Lori joins her. But about that time they find out from a message from Amo that Grace is acting weird. Sean tries to help snap Grace out of it but it doesn't work.
Blueflare indicates they have an idea but dismisses it, Amo wants to know what it was. Turns out blueflare has minimal teleporting powers. But they can't put it to much use with the storm. If they can find blueflare's Flygon though... it could help.
Some other people catch wind of the chaos going on. Including Siren who was sleeping in.
From Sean's reasoning, they and Amo figure out that Grace is the Hero of Hisui. Sean decides to try to call Rayquaza for help. Sean warns to be on the lookout for Rayquaza to Will.
Grace is hallucinating, she sees Volo. Her ghost friend that haunts her phone takes over her phone. There's talk about Grace losing a friend the last time she was in the crater. Vinnie (the phone ghost) finds out about Sean's Rayquaza. Rayquaza then appears and is pissed. Luckily Sean has a masterball.
Lori and N talk, N heads over to get Lori and Devi from where they are.
Devi has caught an Iron Bundle with plans to give it to a friend. Devi potentially asks Quill if they had any Iron Bundle info (but I don't know if it's them who asked this or not)
Zekrom flies right past Amo and blueflare. Amo thinks they should chase after it. Blueflare agrees.
N arrives to pick up Lori and Devi and Sean as well. They all take off to try to find Grace. Blueflare and Amo catch up on the Zekrom situation. Lori and Sean feel awkward, Devi is doing barrel rolls. Lori is questioning why N didn't do anything sooner.
Vinnie is worried about Grace.
#the mystery of area zero#area zero survey corps#long post#paldea road trip!#pkmn irl#high stakes pokeblogging#pokeblogging#pokemon roleplay#rotomblr
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The increasing number of wildfires is linked to the effects of climate change. The increasing presence of a carcinogen is a result of those fires.
It's widely known that wildfire smoke is bad for your health, but a group of researchers recently found a known carcinogen in California wildfire ash, raising concerns about just how harmful it could be to breathe the air near a blaze. According to a study released in Nature Communications last week, researchers discovered dangerous levels of hexavalent chromium in samples of ash left behind by the Kincade and Hennessey fires in 2019 and 2020. Workers in the manufacturing industry who've been exposed to elevated levels of hexavalent chromium,or chromium 6, have higher rates of lung cancer, according to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Scott Fendorf, a professor at the Doerr School of Sustainability at Stanford University who worked on the study, said he was shocked by the results. "Up until that point, if we had a wildfire, I was pretty cavalier about it, to be truthful. We get the alerts and I would still go outside and exercise, thinking exercise was the better factor for my health," Fendorf said. "Now it completely changes my calculation. When we start to get wildfire warnings or smoke warnings, I'm going to be wearing an N95 mask." In some affected areas, the study found that the concentration of chromium 6 was up to seven times that of unburned land. [ ... ] Metals such as chromium naturally exist in the environment, such as in rocks like serpentinite. In this case, Fendorf said, the wildfires' intense heat appears to have transformed chromium into its hexavalent state. "The fire changes a benign metal into a very toxic form of that metal," he said. Hexavalent chromium is also known as the "Erin Brockovich chemical," named for the consumer advocate whose legal battle to help a small California town affected by the compound was immortalized in a now famous film starring Julia Roberts. The Stanford team only tested ash from several areas in California, but Fendorf said the test sites contained various types of geology and vegetation, leading researchers to believe the results would be applicable to many regions across the globe. The study's findings also open the door to further investigation of possible wildfire exposure risks for other toxic metals.
The simplistic view of climate change is that Earth's thermostat is just being turned up. But as CO2 and other greenhouse gases increase, a complex series of chain reactions is taking place. The spread of hexavalent chromium is another product of those reactions.
Only one of the two major parties in the US is willing to take action on climate change. In Sean Hannity's famous dictator interview with Donald Trump, the indicted ex-president promised: "I want to drill, drill, drill".
#climate change#wildfires#serpentinite#hexavalent chromium#chromium 6#carcinogens#scott fendorf#election 2024
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