#iDK HOW INTENTIONALLY THIS WAS FROM THEM but it is hilarious either way to me

[technicalthinker]

something about the new last week tonight thumbnail looking like john oliver himself is talking me off the ledge feels incredibly fitting

[shenanigans-and-imagines]

Thanks so much for clarifying! I very much didn't want to push any boundaries 💜

- My choice of ship is for sure Baldur's Gate 3. (Only request: plz NOT Raphael, Mizora, or Minthara - one is legit a trauma trigger, the other two are... Reasons.)

- Gender: any and all, I'm too bi for choices

- Personality: I'm autistic, and my mood is consistently more changeable than I think it is... dunno if Sag/Leo/Cap means anything to you (it's cool if it doesn't), but it does to me in the sense that I can see what it means in myself. I'm thoroughly Chaotic Good according to every alignment description I've seen (and all my friends lol). Still a dingus who frequently courts red flags for reasons I can only identify as Traumas lmao.) I'm very mentally scattered. Burnt-out gifted kid who immediately chose to gradually swap my waning INT for WIS, inasmuch as I could. A soul who intensely wants to help everyone I care about, but can't for all sorts of reasons, but dammit do I try anyway. Fiery, feisty, but still learning to actually be assertive. Cuddly with anyone and everyone who is interested. I love radically with all my heart, be ye friend or partner, but breaking it means I'm either a sobbing broken mess, planning a murder, or both. Please don't let these taint the results bc they're still options: I honestly believe and have been told by others that I'm a perfect mix between Karlach and Astarion, personality-wise. I'm down bad for just about all the tieflings in the game/in general (I relate to them a lot), and almost always play one, but all races are welcome in my heart. I don't really draw lines between close friend and partner; I believe closeness and intimacy aren't things that should be constricted at all between one or the other (there is literally a group chat saved in my phone called "Platonicule," if that gives you an idea 😂). Generally amiable to, but wary of, strangers. Hobbies: I make homemade skincare and balms for the homies, cooking, and everything about music and linguistics. I'd also love to try my hand at ceramics/pottery someday. (Also I don't know where to put this, but definitely high sex drive, kinky, and switch/vers but usually end up sub/bottom? Which I'm not conflating, just that's usually how it plays out. Sorry that all was... A Lot lmao, I'm also overly specific/dunno when to shut up. 😅)

- I ship you with Aziraphale from Good Omens! He seems like he'd be absolutely elated to help you finish your writings, and even go out of his way to find a good publisher for your book (and maaaaaybe do a teensy little miracle to tip the scales in favor of them accepting it, if the situation called for it). Fastidious, fashionable, would be as sweet to you as you to him, and would be quite happy with letting you have your alone time (he needs it too lbr.) Also if he's not at least on the ace spectrum himself (he totally is tho), he certainly would never make unwanted advances. Plus, I mean, living in a cozy bookshop that your partner keeps clean, organized, and cute as fuck? Idk that sounds like a dream. You could chat for hours and hours about history if you so chose (and his hilariously unique perspective on it since he's seen most/all of it.) Honestly I also now can't stop thinking of a Movie Night with you two and Crowley that goes a little chaotic because Crowley has a very different and probably intentionally contrarian analysis and keeps getting half-jokingly offended when either or both of you have different opinions. There may be thrown popcorn. 😂

I ship you with Gale

Your relationship can bested be summed up in burnt out autistic "gifted" kid solidarity, in the best way possible.

You and Gale are in a constant loop of affirming your love for each other it makes the pair of you nearly impossible to be around. You info dump, you cuddle, you cook, you are just able to be, together.

Gale is also very deceptive in his chaotic good tendencies. While it may look like you're the one doing something crazy, Gale only makes a meager attempt at protest before following after and justifying your actions later. He does, however, bring some of your ideas and scattered thoughts into a sure focus, allowing you to accomplish what you actually set out to do instead of leaving it all in your head. You, meanwhile, help remind him that wisdom is sometimes more important than intelligence.

He's fully supportive of all your areas of study, even putting aside space in the tower for you to practice pottery. Just make sure to save a few pieces for him to admire and he'll be happy.

And as for the sex, let's just say for all Astarion can talk the talk, Gale walks the walk with avid enthusiasm. (He's the horniest mother fucker in the squad, fight me)

I'd honestly be nervous about making Crowley jealous somehow, but if all three of us can be besties, I'm down. Lol

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i never said izzy doesn't take his work seriously, obviously he does! his whole life revolves around his job! what i said is that we never see him working hard. see as in with our eyes happening on-screen, not being described through dialogue as having happened off-screen at some point. and working hard is different from caring about your work!

the way i see it, having applied a little bit more than half a braincell of thought to this, is that izzy has no problem doing his job as long as it's going the way he wants it to. if he's not happy with the direction his boss is taking things, he uses weaponized incompetency to do his job badly while still trying to maintain that he's the most competent person in the world.

your interpretation of the show is your interpretation of the show, and that's fine, but if you're wondering how we managed to watch the same show and come away with such different conclusions, i'm gonna explain why i disagree with what you wrote under the cut:

i dunno my dude, don’t think blackbeard would have an indifferent and lazy first mate. like, is this a real thing we think? that edward teach would choose a slacker to manage the training and safety of his ship & crew? let’s leave out the fact that ed himself notes izzy’s work sounds stressful, or that ed asks izzy to stay because he needs him to help execute his plan against stede, (let's doubly ignore that first mates have climbed the ladder of grunt work to a specific managerial position) the whole comedy aspect of the character is that izzy is working overtime trying to bring pirate-world realities into a bonnet bubble. and it’s hilarious.

indifferent and lazy... a slacker: i don't think he's indifferent, i think he cares a lot about his job. i just think when the things his job requires of him are not self-serving, he drags his feet about doing them. he slacks off or intentionally does a bad job when the things his boss wants him to do don't benefit him. i will be elaborating more on this as we go.

manage the training of ed's crew: we never see or hear any evidence that izzy is in charge of training ed's crew. we see him "help" when ed is training stede's crew (although the only thing he says is "stay away from the fight," ed's the one who actually tells them useful information), but stede's crew is supposed to be made up of amateur pirates who don't know what they're doing. ed's crew is supposed to be more experienced. they might not even need training. either way, we never see izzy training them (we never hear anyone say if that's a thing izzy does or not), so idk that we can list that as evidence of something izzy works hard at.

managing the safety of ed's ship and crew: i'm gonna save the e4 breakdown for later, but what i will say is that when ed is describing what life looks like on his ship, he says that everyone surrenders when they see blackbeard's flag and that ed doesn't need to be on the boat. it sounds like on a day to day basis, there's not a lot of work needed to keep ed's ship safe.

ed notes izzy's work sounds stressful: ok im pretty sure most izzy enjoyers AND izzy dislikers agree that ed is being incredibly sarcastic when he says this. his tone and facial expression are mocking. to me, this reads like ed either 1. does not think izzy's job is actually stressful, or 2. thinks izzy doesn't actually do all the things that izzy is saying he does in that scene (personally, my money's on #2)

ed asks izzy to stay to help with the stede plan: this is not evidence that izzy works hard?? we don't see izzy actually like, do anything for this plan. and the plan never happens, so we don't know what he needed izzy to do. maybe literally the only thing he needed izzy for was just to take over once ed was gone, and once running the crew stopped being ed's problem. and also, even if izzy was going to help with executing the plan, that does not contradict my reading of izzy being willing to apply effort to things that serve in his interests

first mates climb the ladder of grunt work: not only do we not see this happen, but we are not told whether anything like this happened or not. i'm not saying izzy didn't work hard as a grunt work sailor on izzy's ship, i'm saying we don't know for sure that he did. izzy's role on the ship before being promoted could've just been providing muscle in raids, and ed looked at izzy and thought to himself "yeah, now there's a guy who's good with a sword, probably won't betray me, and who is definitely not charismatic enough to lead a mutiny against me." we don't know! so idk that this is solid proof of izzy working hard

the whole comedy aspect of the character is that izzy is working overtime trying to bring pirate-world realities into a bonnet bubble: i mean, you're absolutely right that izzy is trying to make stede's crew do things the way he's used to and that's part of the comedy. but literally my original post said "when have we ever seen izzy work hard at anything aside from trying to tell other people what to do." so yeah, he does work hard at this part of it. but he does it badly, ineffectively, and abusively. which might be a pirate-world reality, but like stede says: "Why? And also, what if it weren't like that?" the whole point of izzy's management style is that it sucks and it doesn't have to be like that. and the comedy is how he fails miserably over and over again, and the only time he gets what he wants (ed being blackbeard again, since being a captain himself didn't work out) is when he gets his damn toe cut off. it's buggs bunny bending elmer fudd's gun backwards and then elmer fudd shooting himself in the face. THAT is the comedy of izzy's character, imo. he's a mean asshole who won't stop picking fights, and he loses every single one

but, uh, yeah peep, the work is there if you use half a brain cell to think it over. i mean, we first meet izzy on land where he’s doing leg work with Ivan & Fang. izzy does some recon, talks with buttons, buys the hostages; pretty much spends the afternoon doing pirate shit only to get owned by a newb lol

we first meet izzy on land where he’s doing leg work with Ivan & Fang: so the first thing is that this does not contradict my stance that izzy is fine with doing his job as long as he likes the way it's going. up until izzy meets stede, everything in izzy's life is going normally. he's doing his job fine. the second thing is that it doesn't really seem like he's working that hard??? he talks to buttons, buys some hostages, and starts to head back to the ship. it looks easy. he's having a nice stroll through the island and he got the hostages without even having to fight anyone. excellent

only to get owned by a newb lol: yeah lol.

next we see em, he’s looking through the spyglass. the boy has tracked the Revenge and then does his job; communicates it to ed. ed’s ‘pause the tape’ moment comes when he recounts stede besting izzy at swordplay, bc izzy is the best swordsman in the caribbean, but that doesn’t take work, right? anyway, when izzy reluctantly extends stede, ed’s invitation to the queen anne, izzy is eagerly welcomed by guillermo, one of the gatekeepers of the pirate world. izzy’s name even stops spanish jackie from removing stede’s body from his nose. because they know who izzy hands works for

tracking the revenge: ok so like, the Revenge was clearly in view when izzy told ivan and fang to follow the ship. not only that, but izzy told ivan and fang to follow the ship. when fang whines a little, izzy says "just do it." to me it doesn't really sound like izzy's going to be participating in "tracking the Revenge" (and also it sounds like it's more "following" than "tracking" but whatever). yeah, we see izzy with the spyglass, but was izzy actually doing anything to help the ship follow stede? or did he just come up on deck, check to make sure he can still see stede's ship, and then go back and tell ed where they were headed? we don't know either way, so idk that we can really say for sure that he did anything to help track down the ship. and again! the point of my post was do we SEE izzy working hard at anything other than telling people what to do??

communicating with ed: yes, this is izzy doing his job. once again, this does not look like he's working too hard at it. he just walked into the room and said "yeah we're still following them" and then tried to talk ed out of following them. where is the hard work (other than trying to get ed to leave stede alone, which, again: the one thing he works hard at is telling people what to do!!)

izzy is the best swordsman in the caribbean: wait is he?? i know ed says izzy "knows his shit" but do they really say he's the best swordsman in the caribbean? (and he still got beat by stede two times...) anyway, yes absolutely becoming a skilled swordsman takes work. once Again: my question was "do we SEE him work hard at anything other than telling people what to do?" and my stance is "izzy will do his job without complaint as long as it benefits him." izzy working hard off-screen to become good at swords does not contradict either of those statements

izzy inviting stede aboard: i don't think you meant this as an example of izzy working hard at doing his job but i am going to use it as an example of how izzy doesn't work hard!! this was that weaponized incompetency i mentioned: izzy "invites stede aboard" like my sister "cleans the table" by just wiping all the crumbs onto the floor. he did a shit job, did not tell stede just who exactly his boss is, and then went back to ed and lied to his face about it ("i explicitly told him, blackbeard desired his company," he says, yknow, like a liar!). and for the writers to write the lines that way, for the editors to paste the clips together so we get a scene of izzy very much not telling stede who his boss is before we get a scene of him saying he specifically told stede that blackbeard wanted to hang out was done for a reason. izzy lied, and the show wants us to know that.

izzy is eagerly welcomed by guillermo: this is unrelated to this izzy discussion but his name is geraldo lol

izzy’s name even stops spanish jackie from removing stede’s body from his nose. because they know who izzy hands works for: so geraldo and jackie both know who izzy's boss is. cool. i don't see how that says anything about izzy's work ethic. literally this just means he's blackbeard's first mate. in no way does spanish jackie knowing "blackbeard wants to talk to this blond weirdo?" say anything about if izzy is a hard worker or not.

the sad little guy tracks the Revenge, again, leads the raid on the Spanish ship, and then accounts for the QA crew

tracks the Revenge: we don't see this happen. and again, they don't sail too far from the republic of pirates. it's not really "tracking" so much as it is "watching where he goes"

leads the raid on the Spanish ship: again, we don't see this happen. just to be clear, i'm operating by Show Don't Tell rules here, where everything the characters say i take with a grain of salt, and i look at what is shown to prove or disprove the character's assertions of themselves, the other characters, things that happen off-screen, etc. and honestly, i can't remember if any of the characters say that izzy lead the raid. izzy just says "i attacked because you told me to." which like, great! that's his job! but we don't see it happen, so this does not provide evidence of izzy working hard at anything.

accounts for the QA crew: ^see above^

all of ep 4 is izzy preparing against the Spanish’s oncoming retribution and overseeing repairs on the revenge so they’re able to sail when the time comes. he’s doing this all the while trying to coax edward into devising a plan so no one else dies. when izzy thinks ed wont step up, he takes command and starts prepping the crew for a fight via orders to Ivan & Fang, staying to interrogate Stede about the logistics of his ship. but if y’all want to act like managing employees isn’t workTM, that’s your privilege, boo. and this is just the first 4 eps. his total screen time is under 60 min so like, gotta do some thinks bro

all of e4 izzy is preparing for the Spanish: if by "preparing" you mean "yelling at the crew to work harder (without ever giving them specific instructions, as far as we see) and asking ed to do something (aka Telling Ed What To Do)," then yes, i agree. we do not see izzy put any effort into preparing for the Spanish outside of just yelling at ed to do something. we can debate until the end of the earth about why izzy didn't try to come up with a plan sooner or if izzy was justified in only focusing his problem-solving efforts on getting ed to come up with a plan, but for the purposes of this post, what matters is that this is not an example of izzy working hard at doing anything other than telling other people what to do

overseeing repairs on the Revenge so they're able to sail when the time comes: i mean, are they unable to sail? genuine question, because in izzy's report to ed all he says is "the ship's sustained some damage in the crossfire" without elaborating about if that damage is just cosmetic or if they're taking on water or what. so like, as far as "overseeing repairs," the thing is that we once again don't even see him overseeing repairs. hell, we don't even see him give anyone specific "you go fix this part" orders! which they probably could've benefited from, because the crew looked pretty lost when they were "doing repairs on the ship." like, what was frenchie even trying to do when he nailed his sleeve to the ship?? and again, this isn't izzy doing any work, this is him just telling people what to do. and he doesn't even work that hard at it! he yells at them for having lunch in the galley, but then he just walks away and doesn't make sure they go back to work!

when izzy thinks ed wont step up, he takes command and starts prepping the crew for a fight via orders to Ivan & Fang, staying to interrogate Stede about the logistics of his ship: izzy's plan to fight to the death would literally have gotten everyone killed. also the order to "execute anyone who won't fight" is dumb bc like, you're outnumbered by the Spanish navy, so you're going to lower your numbers even more? if izzy truly works so hard at maintaining the safety of the crew, he should not have waited until the last minute to come up with his own plan. but also for the sake of this post it doesn't matter bc my point was literally "does he work hard at anything other than bossing ppl around" and in this scene, no! he does not!

if y’all want to act like managing employees isn’t workTM, that’s your privilege, boo: weird tone here, but okay! anyway yeah, i'm sure managing employees is work, but izzy's management style is literally just yelling and sometimes physically assaulting his employees (also threatening to withhold rations, but that's not until later). izzy is a participant in piracy's "culture of abuse," and yeah, he's not the only one. but the question of "Why? And also, what if it weren't like that?" is one the show is asking, too. the show is not on izzy's side when it comes to yelling at people to get them to do what you want, grabbing people by the beard, withholding rations, verbally berating people, and having an "if you can lean you can clean" management style. izzy's no-fun-allowed attitude is not one that this comedy show supports.

i guess the thing about this ‘funny interpretation’ of yours is that it’s supposed to be funny, just not for the reasons you listed anyway, if you don’t believe this then believe con 

"He's not somebody who feels incomplete. His work is everything to him." cool. "caring a lot about your job" is not the same as "working really hard at your job" tho. izzy's life and entire identity revolves around being a gritty edgy pirate. he enjoys having power and wielding it however he pleases (e9 Izzy's Revenge scene). he likes telling people what to do. he might even work hard at telling people what to do. but my post was questioning if we ever SEE him work hard at anything else. and as far as i see, the answer to that is no

anyway u dont have to agree with me obviously this is just a silly pirate show but everything above is why i said that "izzy doesn't work hard at anything other than telling people what to do" and why i personally don't agree with interpretations where izzy is incredibly hardworking and diligent at his job and obeys his captain's orders without question. that's not the gremlin I saw in that show, but that's just how i read the show!

“izzy is dedicated and hardworking and hates when people are lazy slackers” is such a funny interpretation to me bc when have we ever seen izzy work hard at anything aside from trying to tell other people what to do

[youcouldmakealife]

YCMAL Superlatives Write-ins (Rd 2)

Everyone continues to be hilarious.

Best Chirper:

Robbie - he maybe, might have made David smile once

Ulf or Liam, either way there’s innuendo involved

Kiro (if he can get to Oleg, I’m convinced he can get to anyone)

Liam, I am sure he is as annoying in the ice as off it

Kiro and he knows it

Stephen? in a cutting way, Dmitry in a silly way

Julius (but its in Finnish so no one knows)

Julius, if he ever opened his mouth

Devon Crane (feel like everyone is so terrified of him that deadpan chirps would go over *so* well)

Worst Chirper:

Money - I don’t know why, it just feels true

Ben is far too nice a young man for effective chirping

Bergen (“Hey Vinny, still doing that whole virgin shit to turn into a super goalie?”)

Shithead but he thinks hes great at it

Bryce because he is bad at being sarcastic and mean or David just because he is truly terrible at chirping

And...

David (anyone else is objectively wrong)

David. Poor thing.

David (but only when he’s intentionally chirping, he’s very effective at being hurtful when he’s not)

David! He tries the darling

David Chapman (I would die for him but even Max seems to be a better chirper)

david would never even try

Most likely to use a dozen hair and skin products:

I’m so caught between my dumb sons Seb and Bryce

whoever it is, they probably only do so because their [sister] told them to

Bryce - and maybe Jared after he steals all of Bryce’s products or at least his fancy shampoo

Bryce, as part of Recovering from Toxic Masculinity

Bryce the boy is so vain (rightly)

Most likely to use 2 in 1 shampoo and a bar of soap:

ScratchMoney, they are a 2 in 1 couple

Literally everyone but Bryce

Mike Fucking Brouwer. I know you’re not ashamed but I’m ashamed of you.

.... like 2/3s of the league

Mike (except he probably uses a 3 in 1)

Jared because of pettiness alone

Jared Matheson is judging his vain fashion pot husband

i hate to say it but. Andy.

Adam, out of sheer melancholia and frugality

The rest of them???

Benson (derogatory)

Most likely to win an Olympic medal in another sport:

Evan. In the summer olympics. And never tell anyone about it.

Seb for sailing. Based only on him having a boat and how hilarious Jake and David’s reactions would be to him winning medals for multiple sports

Kiro and Gally want to know if pranking is an Olympic sport

Playoff Willy (based on sheer determination alone)

Bryce, works so hard and dedicates himself to what he loves, hockey, Jared, it'd be the same any sport

Is it just me or could Oleg become a curler or something hilarious like that?

idk i feel like julius would do it out of sheer talent and pettiness, but don't ask me which sport

David (hardworking little weirdo)

I dunno why, but Willy. He just has that multiple-gold-medal vibe

Marc Lapointe (the man was born to be a champion)

And:

Marc (diving)

another write in for Marc (in diving)

Can we make the Marc diving joke or is that just for Dan?

And (100 points for making me cackle like a hyena):

.....................Aaron

Most uncoordinated off the ice:

So are ScratchMoney a single unit throughout? Because them.

Evan (he's not used to how big he is after bulking up so his spatial awareness is all off)

I don’t know why the answer is Andy, but it is

I really feel like it's Andy. Maybe Evan. Definitely one of the gentle giants.

evan immediately post growth spurt is like a teenaged dog

Sweet Baby Connie, he's like a newborn giraffe

Cody Gallagher (no clue, just vibes)

Joey if he’s drunk or feeling shy

Julius Halla (look idk if he's uncoordinated off the ice i just think it'd be funny if he were)

Most ‘ums’ in a single media availability:

Mike. Self censoring himself with all the swearing

Julius. This is not his language, he does not want this, someone please help.

ALL OF THEM except Stephen and Gabe

Charisma black hole Jared Matheson, and nobody will care because they’re all too busy staring at his gorgeous face

In my heart I know it’s Bryce

I’d say Julius but that implies that he speaks to them at all

Jared Matheson (with likes)

Liam but it was a bet

Evan Connelly (too anxious)

Most likely to get through an interview without a single filler word:

Marc. Mostly because he's ranting

David in full Hockey Canada robot mode

Dave (LISTEN I know he's not a player, but if he was he wouldn't use filler words)

Oleg has never said ‘um’ in his life

Marc when he gets going about the current dismal state of politics

Marc has his media planned out three weeks in advance

Willy, most charming man alive

Gabe. He has The Singular YCMAL Braincell

if there was any competition Marc would have taken them out already

David Chapman, if he deigns to answer interview questions

Marc and that's not even a question

David Chapman (thinks about everything before he speaks...usually)

Ref’s Favourite:

Any of the small number of people at the centre of the ‘sensible’ ‘competent’ ‘personable’ ‘plays hockey’ Venn diagram. So Gabe or Jordan

the caps as a team except robbie

Oleg Kurmazov (a no bullshit man)

And numerous (fair) iterations of:

Jordan Davies ;)

Refs' worst nightmare:

Dmitry Kurmazov (a yes bullshit man)

Jake Lourdes (every hit *right* on the edge of too hard)

Luke for fighting, Liam for mischief

Jake “i’m the captain it’s my job to argue with you while standing on top of the guy i just slewfooted in plain sight” lourdes

Have you met Seb?????????????

Holden Chase and Shithead when their first line privilege protects them from getting anything more than a 2 minute minor

Holden Chase (I don't know why this one needed the full name)

Liam. He'd 100% brat at them all the time and I love that for him

Willy (probably not but I love the juxtaposition of Willy and Playoff Willy)

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Okay, okay, okay, so -

Put “📓” or some other version of a book emoji into my inbox and I’ll explain the plot of a fanfiction that I haven’t written but daydream about.

The Ancient Olympics AU (which I talked about with @crispyliza )

This AU came into being after I relistened to the "The Ancient Olympics" episode of the history/comedy podcast "You're Dead To Me". It had the interesting information that a lot of Olympic winners actually came from Sicily & South Italy! So naturally I began to wonder what might have happened if my Sicilians ended up in Olympia ...

Dramatis Personae:

- Michele Vento (APH Sicily, my OC) as Trainer of the Bontade Twins - Marco & Lorenzo Bontade (Human OCs of mine) as Athletes from Syracuse - Herakles Karpuzi (APH Greece) as Athlete from Athens - Timothea Simonides (Human OC) as Herakles' Trainer - Omar Simonides (Human OC) as ... Good question? Co-Trainer to Thea ig

The Happenings™:

- Lorenzo and Marco want to compete in the upcoming Olympics as runners. Michele,probably a distant relative to them who lives close, becomes their trainer.

- The Sicilians roll up to Olympia, most likely a few days early because travelling is an adventure in these days and it doesn't hurt to have a few extra days to get accustomed to the terrain.

- Michele also definitely loses the Bontade twins 10 minutes after arriving at the sanctuary bc he wasn't looking for 0.5 seconds. So now he lost his boys at a place that currently contains approximately half of Magna Graecia.

- The reason he wasn't paying attention? Some athletes were preparing themselves nearby, bucknaked of course. Amongst them Herakles. Michele has always been a sucker for strong arms and legs, so that plus Herakles' beautiful face has him swooning from the get go.

- After he recollects his twins, they spend the next few days training, as do the other athletes, which is when Herakles notices Michele's looks.

- Christina (crispyliza) had the galaxy brain idea that Herakles intentionally flirts with Michele to sabotage the Bontades success at the games. It's an idea that he comes up with together with the Simonides - to be completely fair, it was probably Timothea's. Omar: "My, looks like you've got a fanboy." Herakles: "And what a pretty one at that." Timothea: "He seems to be a bit shy about it, though. Or maybe he's actually after those twin brothers?" (They figure out he's the Bontades trainer) Timothea: "Oh, he's a trainer! Pretty sucky at his job though if he's oogling the competition so much." Omar: "All the better for us, though." Timothea: -oil lamp ignites over her head bc light bulbs aren't invented yet-

- While we're at the Simonides: This was before it was mandatory for everyone to be naked, so Timothea managed to sneak into the games by posing as a man. Omar helps her with it, since he's trans and thusly got experience. Christina also had the hilarious idea of them having fake beards, which is just, YES. Timothea definitely cut her hair and they made whatever beard is in fashion in Athens at the time out of them. Their mother Natasa used to be a famed winner of the Heraea, the woman's games also held in Olympia.

- So let the games GreSic flirting begin

- The Problem: Michele doesn't want his boys to think he's betraying them for a rival athlete. He also really wants Herakles to rail him. The Solution: Find ways to be sneaky and secretive about it so the twins don't have to find out. Here is one of the possible scenarios I had for this: "When I first thought about this, I also had this scene in my head. Idk how accurate it works, bc it involves a tent and in the ydtm episode they didn't mention how people were housed during the games. (Like, I am sure there were guest houses, the temples probably offered some places to sleep, both of that but in upscale fancy for all the rich and important people attending yadda yadda.) Do you know that trope(?) when someone has sex but is trying to hide it? That. Just Michele sticking his head out of the tent, clutching at the fabric to keep everything else closed. Tells his twins, who looked for him, he is kind of busy rn. Tries is best to hide the fact of what is actually happening and to make them leave. It works. Kind of. Because as soon as they are gone, Michele sighs with a :| look and tells Hera to stop. "But why?" "Because you would have to nail every corner of this tent down and then they'd still find a way to spy!" Which is exactly what the twins ARE doing. They are trying their best to get an unnoticed peak from one place of the tent. But because it has to be subtle, all they get to see is feet and they either don't hear them or don't recognize Herakles' voice. I don't think he is the person to go out of his way to pick on people or pick fights in general, so they probably haven't had much interaction. So Michele smoothes out his chiton annoyed and leaves the tent, to then just stomp around enough for the twins to notice him and pretend they weren't doing what he knew they were doing."

- One day however, Marco & Lorenzo are missing their trainer and can't find him. They run into Thea & Omar, who are missing their athlete. Hm. Weird. Wonder what's that all about :)

- They end up catching Michele and Herakles in the act, just out there somewhere underneath a tree, which, naturally, makes the Bontades VERY upset. Lorenzo: "What do you think you are doing?!" Omar, in his head: 'Herakles, obviously.' Marco: "He's the COMPETITION, Michele!" Both: "You've left us all alone for THAT?!" Since the Simonides were in on the whole thing, they're not surprised just disappointed that Herakles vanished without a heads up. "Well, that ain't sprinting practice."

- The most hilarious thing is that could not even tell you who wins the race. I didn't even think about that part until yesterday. I'm kind of particular to the thought that it's somewhat of a photo finish with the three of them, but the twins come out on top. Since there can only be one winner, they flippantly let one of them be chosen by the equivalent of a coin toss. So technically, either Marco or Lorenzo has won, but they keep both parading around with the wreath and insist that the inscription to them mentions them both as winners. Now, if they got their way is another story, I didn't read any academic articles on this at. all.

- Second place is as good as last in the Ancient Greek world, but Herakles takes the loss in stride. Timothea is probably the one who's most upset. Marco: "Hah, so all your flexing - " Lorenzo: "and all your fucking for nothing in the end!" Michele: "Hey, I'd like to think I'm a reward in and of myself, not an obstacle."

Sequel Bait:

- Back home in Siracusa, Michele gets asked if he doesn't want to train his cousins, too. The ones from Neapolis. The ones Michele can't stand. However, his mother talks him into it and he agrees. Extra funny because Lovino & Feliciano were also talked into it by THEIR parents. So Michele spends the next four years butting heads with Lovino, knowing fully well their mother will rip his head off if they don't do well. Lovino is of course hiding his giant insecurities about disappointing his loving father & mother behind snark. Michele will arrive at Olympia with four athletes in two this time and looks like he aged 40, not 4 years from all the stress.

- Herakles is no competition this time, though! He wants to try his hand at wrestling this year. However, very quickly after his arrival, he butts heads with a fellow wrestler from one of the Greek colonies in Asia minor. Only thing's more annoying than his big mouth, which he shares with his wrestling buddy, are probably the flirtations coming out of it & Herakles can't wait to show him his place. (Yes, I do know that the Turkish people came into the area that is modern day Turkey far, far later, he should be of another ethnicity [and he gotta be Greek to participate, anyways] but. Is any of you really going to deny me Herakles and Sadık wrestling, bucknaked, covered in oil? I'd hope the fuck not.)

[three--rings]

More notes from Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century:

I made it through the chapter on the medical establishment, which was a little interesting but also distressing in parts, but once again Robb is making the argument that the 20th century was really worse than the 19th.  There a quite a lot of examples of really pretty remarkably sympathetic doctors publishing on the topic in the 19th century, as well as a lot of accounts of homosexuals at large reading the literature (especially the wildly popular Psychopathia Sexualis) and realizing ‘OMG I’m not alone! There’s a bunch of us!’ and actually improving people’s lives and mental health.

Anyway I’m into the chapter on Outings, ie public figures who were famously outed.  There are a lot of interesting examples mentioned, but I won’t get into the circumstances of them.  Just share some interesting general quotes:

The absence of consistently extreme reactions makes it hard to tell a simple take of outrage and persecution.  There is at least as much evidence of a desire to live and let live as there is of rabid homophobia.  Murderous rage was less common than curiosity, curiosity less common than indifference.

The discussion of Boulton and Park’s infamous trial was interesting, first of all for pointing out the arrestable offense was actually using a public ladies room and not sodomy, and also the fact they were acquitted to public celebration and applause in the courtroom.

They [the jury and public gallery] chortled at the testimony of at least twenty men who cruised the West End in drag.  And when the girly-voiced Mr. Thomas Gibbings, who hosted drag balls at Haxwell’s Hotel, said that he saw nothing wrong with ‘going in drag’, he was loudly applauded.

One thing that does stand out to me, and which is probably evidence of this book being nearly 20 years old, is that he has yet to mention trans people as even existing.  (Also bisexuals, but I’m really just getting into the part where he’s talking about the difference between people who commit gay acts and people who would today be seen as homosexual and how that worked in period..)  It’s a little glaring when the conflation of gender identity and sexuality is under discussion but that’s not actually, like MENTIONED.  He’s essentially, either intentionally or unintentionally, following the trends of the period by assuming cross-dressing and being homosexual are the same thing, or symptoms of the same thing, and IDK the ENTIRE LACK of mention of trans people has started bothering me, so I’m just noting it.  I’m just starting to watch for signs of exclusionism, while also realizing I just may not have gotten there in the book yet. 

He also points out another sentiment that seems to be as old as time in addition to “there are more gays than ever before” is “you used to be able to [express affection with someone of the same sex] without it being taken the wrong way, but now everyone has to watch what they do.”   He cites a woman in the 1920s who said women can’t share rooms without being thought lesbians and a schoolteacher in the 1900s complaining about teachers unable to accept innocent affection from pupils.  Same as it ever was.  And earlier in the 19th century in England, men stopped kissing each other on the mouth in greeting for similar reasons, although not in America or of course, Europe. 

Finally, I leave you with one just hilarious line.  When accused of being gay, the dandy novelist Barbey d’Aurevilly (friend and biographer of Beau Brummel) said, “My tastes incline me to it, my principles permit it, but the ugliness of my contemporaries repels me.”    Now THAT’s a good come-back.

[iamnotawomanimagod]

The 100 for the indepth ask thing!

Thank you, my friend!! Always happy to hear from you 🥰

Top 5 favourite characters:

1. Octavia

2. Murphy

3. Emori

4. Echo

5. Jasper

Other characters you like:

I will always have a lot of love in my heart for Monty, Raven, Lincoln, and Lexa. 

Least favourite characters:

Clarke, Bellamy, Kane, and Abby.  

OTPs: 

Linctavia and Memori 

NoTPs: 

Bellarke, Kabby, a handful of others that are more “meh” than outright “no.” 

Favourite friendships:

Jasper and Monty; Raven and Emori; Monty and Bellamy; Octavia, Jasper, and Monty; Indra and Octavia; Clarke and Roan; Raven and Echo. 

Favourite family: 

Spacekru! Forever! Although the Diyoza-Blakes give them a run for their money.

Favourite episodes: 

I’m a sucker for good standalones, even when the rest of the season sucks, or the episodes don’t make much thematic sense in context of the season/show. Fair warning. That being said: 

1x05, 1x08, 2x08, 2x12, 3x04, 4x07, 4x08, 4x10, 4x13*, 5x02, 5x11, and uhhh that’s when the show ended right**??

*For someone who hates s4, I sure do like a lot of individual episodes from it.

**There were storylines and moments I liked in s6 and s7, but no one episode stands out for me in either season.

Favourite season/book/movie:

Probably s2 or s5.

Favourite quotes:

Pretty much all the Trigedasleng lol.

“Yu gonplei ste odon.”

“Gomon gon oson.”

“Jus drein, jus daun.”

What a fun and silly conlang. 

Best musical moment:

I really love this moment, where Raven takes The Chip, and “Thousand Eyes” by Of Mouse and Men plays. Lindsey does such an incredible job portraying Raven’s sorrow, pain, and desperation. It’s so chilling when the music picks up and gets louder, and Raven slowly realizes that her pain is gone, and she looks up and sees ALIE for the first time. We as an audience realize how dangerous Raven will be, on ALIE’s side, but all Raven feels is wonder and relief. I think the song really captures that feeling so well, and the lyrics reflect Raven’s motivation: “I lie awake, and watch it all/it feels like a thousand eyes.” She’s under so much pressure, mostly internal, but also external, to help her friends and make sure people she cares about survives. I love this song and I’ll always associate it with this moment.

Moment that made you fangirl/boy the hardest:

 “You are wonkru, or you are the enemy of wonkru. Choose.”

Roan versus Lexa

Royal Memori Saving Everyone

When it really disappointed you:

Season 6. With the exceptions of Memori and my affection for Josephine, the season was a total flop for me. Season 7 just continued the downward spiral at an even faster rate. A few bright spots, but overall, just garbage. 

Saddest moment:

Woof. There’s several.

1. Lexa’s death, obvi

2. Jasper’s death

3. Lincoln’s death

4. Monty and Harper’s farewell videos

5. Emori’s death (only so low on the list because she came back) 

Most well done character death:

I got a lot of satisfaction out of Cage Wallace’s death. Lincoln deserved that vengeance.

In terms of emotional impact, I do think Jasper and Lexa’s death scenes were very well-done.

I know it’s messed up and I’m probably wrong, but god if I don’t love seeing Pike get run through with that sword.

Favourite guest star:

Alycia Debnam Carey put this show on the fucking map, and no one can truly argue otherwise. Without her, I doubt this show would’ve gone on for as long as it did. The show was carried by appearances and mentions of her right up until the very end. She even got the last word. Tell me of a more iconic guest star?? 

Favourite cast member:

I definitely really like Richard Harmon and Luisa d’Oliveria. I think they have the greatest chances of having truly successful careers out of everyone. 

Character you wish was still alive:

Jasper. :( 

One thing you hope really happens:

Well, it’s over. So nothing is going to happen again. I like the idea of some other pocket of humanity that decided not to transcend stumbling upon the Beachkru several years post-canon. And the aliens conveniently forget to actually make that sterile thing real. Humanity lives in, cultures continue to develop and grow, and there are lots of new generations to come! AKA the thing I wanted all along and really hoped they’d do, but they just kept destroying every society they met!!

Most shocking twist:

Finn’s death was really, truly so shocking to me. For one, Lexa’s death so greatly overshadowed it in fandom (at the time) that I managed to see it completely unspoiled. I also wasn’t into the BTS stuff at the time, so I didn’t know about any drama. It took me fully by surprise - I never expected the show to really kill another lead like that. 

When did you start watching/reading?:

It took me several tries to start this show. Getting through those first four episodes was a tough ask for me. By the time I finished what was available, s3 was over. So I technically joined fandom during the hiatus between s3 and s4.  

Best animal/creature:

God the animals in this show were silly. I liked those weird panther things.

Favourite location:

The dropship, Memori’s palace, Becca’s lab. 

Trope you wish they would stop using:

Listen. I loved the callbacks at first. I fucking ate them up. But at some point, this show became so self-referential that new plotlines ceased to exist. It became almost comical. How many times did these characters need to learn these lessons??

One thing this show/book/film does better than others:

The early camaraderie of The Hundred, and the way they worked sort of against the Establishment/Adults, was a lot of fun. Other shows have done it, but I think The 100 does it very well.

Funniest moments:

Unintentionally or intentionally, lmao?? Idk, there were a lot of quippy moments. Most of what Murphy said was hilarious.

Couple you would like to see:

I always wanted them to give Niytavia a shot, but they were cowards. 

Actor/Actress you want to join the cast:

I’m not super attached to any actors or actresses that would fit on this show. 

Favourite outfit:

Blodreina’s red cape, Emori’s royal Naming Day ‘fit, Murphy’s sleek black formal looks, Clarke’s soda can tab jacket, Raven’s red bomber jacket.

Favourite item:

When Clarke picks up a piece of Lexa’s throne and uses it as a walking stick when she’s alone post Praimfaya 2.0

Do you own anything related to this show/book/film?:

Nah.

What house/team/group/friendship group/family/race etc would you be in?:

I mean, I feel like Spacekru is the most obvious choice.

Most boring plotline:

When they spent several episodes rescuing Clarke from Josephine. Most of s4. The back half of s3. Most of s7.

Most laughably bad moment:

When Bellamy brought Clarke back to life by repeatedly punching her in the chest, and inside of her mind, Clarke threw an axe at Josephine’s face and Josie exploded into a bunch of shards of light.

When Clarke shot Bellamy over Madi’s sketchbook and left the sketchbook behind.

When Clarke and Bellamy took turns tying each other up and putting the people most important to one another in horrible situations and it was treated like a cute little bump in their timeless friendship. 

Best flashback/flashfoward if any:

I really love the Spacewalker reveal.

Most layered character:

Murphy came so far, and had so much development. I think Richard did a great job giving him a lot of depth and dimension. 

Most one dimensional character:

Clarke’s entire personality and arc didn’t change at all after the s2 finale. She was a loose cannon hell-bent on saving the people she loved, no matter what the cost. The most interesting things that happened to her were almost dying and actually dying, and the main reason for that is because it gave other characters and storylines more time to shine.

Scariest moment:

That fucking creepy cage creature on Nakara that attacked Raven’s face. Seeing it through the helmet was so terrifying. Another one is that scene in s2 when Lincoln is a reaper, and Octavia and Bellamy are trying to lure him into a trap in an old parking garage.

Grossest moment:

This show was remarkably gory for its network and time slot. I can think of several. I’d rather not dwell on them. 

Best looking male:

Lincoln is a babe.

Best looking female:

Gotta hand this one to Lexa

Who you’re crushing on (if any):

I mean, most of them. Half of why I watched was pure thirst. Emori, Murphy, Lexa, and Octavia all come to mind. Diyoza, too.

Favourite cast moment:

Idk I’m always partial to blooper reels.

Favourite transportation:

HELIOS. The most beautiful badass horse in the world. 

Most beautiful scene (scenery/shot wise):

I mean, most of the overhead shots are really pretty, but it’s also the same five locations in Vancouver, and that really starts to show at some point.

Unanswered question/continuity issue/plot error that bugs you:

I genuinely think we don’t have time for this. I have way too many to count. 

Best promo:

Nothing really comes to mind.

At what point did you fall in love with this show/book:

I was convinced to stick it out and see it through by 1x05. I truly thought it was something special by 2x08. I’ve gone up and down about it ever since.

Thanks again, Meghan!

Send Me a Fandom and I’ll Answer Some In-Depth Questions!

[moonelf19]

I dont watch CR anymore, mostly cause the pairings that seem to be coming about have little to no chemistry, but I do keep up with the widofjord crumbs you slap down. Thank you. You give me wee bits of hope xD

I mean you don’t gotta explain why you stop watching, you do you boo.

I don’t care what ships become ‘Canon” personally, I enjoy good player interactions and ignore twitch chat and blacklist stuff that I don’t like so it’s all gravy to me haha

Sometimes stuff I didn’t like before I change my mind on later, too. Like I really didn’t enjoy the idea of Jester being in love with Artagan until Matt went on talks to explain that it may be meta to say it but that relationship is intentionally wholesome, and now I’m on board full speed ahead baby. Artagan is a big ol low wis Archfey in love with a leetle blue sapphire what more do I need. Jester deserves a wholly devoted God who has changed as a person because of her Obstinately Goodness.

Beauyasha has certainly been a “stop and start” “hot and cold” kind of ship, but after Yasha’s breaking of her chains and letting go of Zuala she has been way more obvious about her interest in Beau. And part of the rocky start was just the nature of Yasha’s low charisma and Ashley being gone/quiet compared to the rest of the table. I’m willing to be patient to see where it goes because I think it has the capacity to be both super soft and tender but also spicy and hilarious (Yasha looks at the mirror above Beau’s bed “that will be useful” and absolutely renders Beau mute was hilarious)

Beaujester has dwindled a bit. I suspect the players talked about where the characters are at and maybe Marisha decided that she is going after Yasha instead of Jester? Maybe Laura reminded them that Jester canonically has been in love with Artagan this entire time so her other relationships kind of orbit that? I’m not sure. But there’s still a lot of devotion there, whether or not it’s romantic. And like. Who care’s whats canon man, enjoy what you want and screw everyone else!

I’ve never understood the deal with Caleb or Fjord + Jes so I’m not touching that. Not going to yuk peoples yums so you know.

As for Widofjord... It’s not just me that sees it. My 100% hetero, doesn’t-notice-details brother thinks they are super soft for eachother. He doesn’t ship, he doesn’t care about the romantic stuff, he watches CR because he loves DnD and the storytelling. And he will sometimes roll his eyes and look at me and say stuff like “ok, that was pretty mushy, even I know that” like yea dude, Travis and Liam are soft for eachother IRL, Fjord is protective of Caleb, Caleb adores Fjord, what more- what more could I need? Really? Their body language? Seeking each other out? Caleb taking Fjord to the academy with Veth? Telling Fjord his backstory on the boat? Fjord telling Caleb he sees a good man? “We’ll make it work.”?? Fjord going starry eyed anytime Caleb so much as casts a cantrip? Caleb cradling Fjord’s head and soothing him after he dies???? Fjord breaking out of his fake voice to call for help for Caleb??? Buying Caleb a super FREAKING powerful magic item with the last of his gold after buying a ring of fire resistance with the first half of his gold and considering giving it to Caleb????? Fjord jokingly patronizing Caleb saying “Yeah cast Caleb’s pretty lights” and Caleb summons green lights? Fjord cajoling Caleb to get onto a bed so Caleb does? Caleb gave Fjord a hammock and referred to it as a sex swing and Fjord intends to use it? Fjord’s small hopeful voice after Caleb has finished showing them the tower, reminding Caleb that he said there was something about windows he was going to show them, Fjord saying “you said, downstairs, maybe something for me?” and pointing to himself and then trying not to look disappointment when Caleb doesn’t have any more surprises for him- surprises and little secret gestures like the reminder of their blood pact under a stack of books, and the too-thick pane glass portholes because Caleb knows Fjord gets nervous about windows.

IDK MAN. I don’t know what to tell you. They are pretty devoted to each other. It makes more sense than it doesn’t, you know what I mean? Either they are SUPER good friends who adore each other or they are mutually pining. Either way I love it and I love them.

Also Veth/Yeza, the Bernattos, those Three? Super good. A+. Veth trying to figure out how to merge her two lives. Yeza being one part excited about the change and one part hesitant because he knows he isn’t as capable as his wife and is worried about their son. Except Luc is now The Mighty Nein’s son too, they will stop at NOTHING to protect him and make sure he is happy. Luc is probably the safest little 4 year old in Exandria, for all that he is also in the most danger by proxy. Veth adoring her husband, Yeza “heart-eyes-for-my-BA-wife” Bernatto.

Ok anyway that’s how I feel about that thank you for the ask, I answered right after drinking my coffee so it got away from me srry

[halfusek]

BATIM SPOILERS AHEAD

SECRET MESSAGES FROM CHAPTERS 1 - 5

With a sort of analysis/shitposting on my side? Yea.

Chapter 1

There is like two walls with these, that’s a lot. Is he... aware from the beginning now? I mean someone’s crossing this and Henry is implied to be leaving these messages so...?

Choose your fighter.

Ok wow harsh.  Haven’t you seen all these cool AUs in his house?

Also can I just point out how... Joey... literally... drew... the Studio...

Oh, my bad.

He drew STUDIOS. Because the damn thing keeps happening over and over again.

Oh fuck if that’s the case then that is clever. I made puns about him drawing the studio before, wish I did something with it before Chapter 5 dropped, that would be hilarious to look back at fvdfjkvnfkj

That’s just depressing. But like... yeah...

Wow Henry you must be a proud mom now

Hey remember when DAGames played Chapter 4 and was interrupting Alice Angel’s monologue by telling her to stop watch him poop

It spells “There never was a choice.” (never underlined)

Those messages are either hilarious or straight up depressing.

It’s... kinda sweet how Henry from the past (pasts) helps his future self (selfs). And encourages.

I’m pretty sure she’s got many hearts in her stock.

STOP WATCHING ME POOP

Henry what the fuck

The falling human made out of the two Ls, the Y and the splatters above it-

Fuck.

GASPS NO WAY

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. He is not the creator of the cartoons. He is the creator OF THIS WHOLE FUCKING STUDIO AND EVERYONE IN IT. Like it’s maybe a sort of obvious thought but when you let it sink in... damn

Rest of the chapters under the cut because it’s really long

Chapter 2

ARE THOSE IRL BODIES? YES? NO? SYMBOLS OF THEIR SOULS BEING TRAPPED HERE? WHAT???

Do you remember that? Or only slightly? Oh man. “I should have warned him” thoughts and then you get a pissed off boy in Chapter 5.

COME ON NOW

Ok. How. How did you write anything there. When. The only time he’s aware would be right after Sammy hits him with the dustpan. So is he like fainting and writing it? So he wouldn’t be able to write anything else like SAMMY IS GOING TO KNOCK YOU OUT WITH A FUCKING DUST PAN because yeah he’s passing out so it’s just... OUCH! Also to confirm this he is facing the way he’s facing when he’s on the floor. God that’s both shitposty and depressing. Nice.

Henry don’t be a dick

So you do sing 👀

I wonder how Henry figured out walking backwards to not trigger the Demon here and write this specific message. Also is Joey behind those closed doors because there’s the whistling.

Is he cooking

Chapter 3

Oh, hi.

Excuse me what

Henry is a Jacksepticeye fan confirmed

Joey is a man of ideas... and only ideas.

Which is why he created a studio, an OC based on a person he has a one sided crush on (me) from who he stole and claimed their OC as his, also made that stolen OC a thing and then made both of the OCs fight in an infinite loop in the massive studio which is behind his kitchen.

This both has a literal meaning but is also like a deeper general thought Henry do you want Joey to create a therapist OC you seem to have some problems

Why do these coffins hurt so much

Who are you asking Henry because Alice sure won’t fucking read that And why won’t you just write it with regular ink why you gotta do it like this

Why does he keep this thing secret? Did he make it? Probably since he’s the one leaving the messages Hmm

I fucking wheezed.

But also imagine Alice just giving her speech and Henry writing something on the wall with his finger Unless he doesn’t write that in a literal sense but like... spiritually Huh

THEY HAD DRINKS TOGETHER AND JOEY WAS PAYING FOR THEM AWW

He’s so fucking gay I swear to fucking gods.

Let’s hop on the existential crisis train, choo, choo.

How can you be kind to people who try to murder you

But this. This. Is such a good fucking work/life thought like damn. I love this game for those.

But are those just some thoughts Henry wanted to get out of his head or does it have something to do with the game because I’m kinda getting pacifist/neutral/genocide route vibes from this. But it it’s not the case it’s still pretty neat, we do meet them, we just don’t have the choice to treat them in some way most of the times.

It’s on level 14 and damn you game damn you yet again. I guess it can also be applied to that moment when The Projectionist is reaching out for Henry who is hidden in the Miracle Station? Like we don’t know what to expect of him because he had that small moment of realisation of... something. And he is also one of Henry’s “old friends”.

Is Is Ink Demon killing The Projectionist a symbol of Joey’s jealousness like Norman: *reaching out in curiosity, maybe to help* Joey: >:( my fren

Chapter 4

Thanks. Roll credits. So Chapter 4 is intentionally pointless in the terms of Henry trying to save Boris. THAT’S FUCKING SAD STOP IT

NOT. MY. DOG. YOU. BITCH.

So Henry is catching up. Joey does regret all that shit he did. I wonder how exactly does it tie here, with Bertie. Maybe that theory I had about Bendy Land being Hell for Bendy? :0c I don’t really think so but that’s a thought.

I’m losing my shit.

Okay that seems like another woke thought.

Henry can’t change not being able to save Boris.

Joey can’t change all of his mistakes. But Joey is the one making it happen over and over again so it might be slightly pointed at him?

Like, pal. Stop dwelling on your mistakes. Move on. Let me the fuck out.

This game is really heavy with this problem:

Move towards your goal, hope, believe, dream, don’t give up. Well actually do if it’s like super hard.

????? This is such a deep uuhhh analysis of this like one of most basics functions of how we people fucking work and live, what keeps us going. Holy shit I am IN LOVE with that.

But oof yeah Henry was and IS the one good at pushing Joey to do the right thing. Man...

Instead of trying to cheer you up lemme just write this message you can’t read real quick.

THAT WHOLE FUCKING THING WAS POINTLESS AND I’M LOWKEY MAD

;_; holy lord sweet baby jesus

Can Henry like be fine fun concept Meatly please

I suggest giving this a read if you as I weren’t familiar with that expression https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/23/heels/

Of course it’s a pun on “Time heals all wounds” expression. The word “heels” there refers to contemptible people. Earliest citation: 1934 and it got more popular around that time till something around the 50s-60s according to that website at least. Neat.

That is interesting. I guess we can associate the door with Joey as well since Henry warns himself not to go through them? And the Demon drags Projectionist’s corpse through them. Sorta against his will, heeeeeeh.

They look like they could be interactive but I dunno :0c

Oh, yeah. That two-faced motherfucker. That’s my bitch.

HE GAVE THEM FUCKING NAMES

Chapter 5

I feel like it was kinda exaggerated. Henry they like saved your life twice or so, how salty can you be

OKAY LET ME TELL YOU ONE FUCKING THING

AT FIRST WHILE PLAYING I THOUGHT JOEY WROTE THOSE BECAUSE

I mean why the fuck would they drop this star outta nowhere AND HE IS EXTRA LIKE THIS

But then again there’s this “Don’t go through the door”

Unless Joey did contact him through this as well? But I’m assuming it only because of the stars vfnjksd Idk I like when symbols actualy uhhh symbolise something

ALSO YOU KNOW WHAT’S INTERESTING

This is pointing at ANOTHER way. Without the boat. Possibly the Valued Employee (take the long walk) achievement?

I would check it right fucking now but my saves are fucked and I would have to replay everything again and I’m just too tired hhhh

Also Valued Employee does sound like someone who listens to their boss right?

And I’m getting the impression it’s not all Henry’s writing because it seems as if there is a different personality present? Idk

That sounds like sort of both of them. Joey is cheering for Henry, even if he’s planning to make him go through all of this again. Does he... have to make him go through it? That’s a bit odd. Joey nani the fuck.

I like the idea of Joey saying this ok lemme dream vskjvnskjvs

But it could be Henry (past/present/whatever) trying to cheer himself up like he did with the “Don’t be scared” message (if that was also him)

Oh, Henry...

Once people That implies that real people got somehow affected, right?

I love the halo and the bone, also you can see the bone only if you give it to Boris in Chapter 3

Wait It is The whole fucking Ink Machine Is inside Holy

A cooking gay.

Ink Demon/Joey parallel implication. I don’t think he is Bendy in a straight up sense though. He is/was a soulless boss, just how soulless Bendy was/is. I wonder if there is a studio version of him or HHHHHH complicated stuff

Is it like When people create something good but they just don't know when to stop it eventually ends up really bad And the Demon took The End so his cartoon couldn't be finished and it all had to keep going, Joey had to keep going Hm?

So like there is no message on Henry’s second desk

But it does trigger the same dialogue AND IT HURTS

Actually a lot of people missed the arrows so just so you know

But I thought we don’t like doors

Also it’s the last hidden message so I do believe it has a special meaning

CONCLUSION get Henry outta here and give him loads of therapy

Is his fucking last name Stein because he made monsters via the Ink Machine by powering it goddamnit Joey don’t trick people into creating that shit

[mackdaddynate]

fall in deep part 2- nathan mackinnon

A/N: this is pure fluff again, soft nate is all that matters to me ok

WC: 1.5K

You paced around your apartment, trying to figure out what the hell to make for dinner that wasn’t boxed mac and cheese for the third day in a row. You sighed and flopped down on the couch, deciding whether you wanted to order food or just save the cash right as your phone buzzed.

Nate: Wanna get food or something?

Y/N: idk, kinda already have a date with my couch... or something

You sat there grinning, thinking about how great it was that Nate actually liked you. You had always loved teasing him, but now you got to make out with him too, so you pretty much had the perfect setup.

Nate: cmon, we haven’t even been on a real date yet, your hungover ass spending the entire day in my bed doesn’t count :///

Y/N: Fineee, come pick me up in like 15?

And now you were blushing like it was middle school or something, immediately texting Layna about your date.

Layna: omg Y/N, grumpy Nate has such a soft spot for you. Wrap it before you tap it ;)

Y/N: hahah you’re the worst, ok I gotta go get ready!!

After a few minutes of trying to make yourself look a little less tired, there was a knock at your door.

“Hey, you,” Nate flashed you a smile as you leaned in to give him a hug.

“Not to be dramatic, but I kinda missed you.”

“Pshh, you’re always dramatic, but I kinda missed you too,” he said, laughing. “Tacos?”

“You read my mind, MacK.” You were so drawn to him it wasn’t even funny, and you were debating reaching for his hand before he set it on your waist and guided you out of the building.

“Oh, so you do this when I’m not blackout drunk too?” you looked up at him, feeling giggly and warm against the cool spring air.

Nate shrugged, “It’s hard to keep my hands off of you.”

“Then don’t,” you smirked. “Just keep it family-friendly when we’re in public, Nathan.” That earned you an eye-roll, and then you both cracked up.

Dinner was gone as soon as it started. Nate was scarfing down tacos while you told him about the research you’d been helping with and and all of the stupid things you and Layna had done in the past week; you were scarfing down tacos while Nate was being way too humble about the ridiculous season he’d been having.

“I’ll go cheer you on sometime, make you a sign or something. I’m literally going to be such a nervous wreck every time you get hit though.”

“You can wear my jersey, how cute would that be? God damn Y/N, you’re gonna be the best hockey girlfri-” he paused. “Are we doing the girlfriend thing? Like, can I call you that? I know it’s only been one date but...” he trailed off.

“Why not? You’re the only person I can see myself with right now anyways,” you replied.

“Me too.”

Your legs were tangled together with Nate’s under the table because in reality, you couldn’t keep yourself away from him either. You both blushed when your waitress pointed out how you two were just so adorable, but you figured she was kind of right.

Nate picked up the check, even though you protested, telling you that the least he could do for not asking you out sooner was buy you some tacos.

Neither you or Nate were particularly extroverted, but conversation was so easy with him. It felt so much more comfortable than with other guys you’d dated. And you hated that you already felt so clingy towards Nate, but he was acting the same way. Maybe this was what you both got for those three years of suppressed feelings.

“Ugh, so you’re really going to be gone for the entire weekend for hockey? How am I supposed to keep myself entertained?”

He laughed at that, “You’ll probably just drunk snapchat me the whole time. But if you’re up for it tonight, you should come over for a bit. You know, to make up for this weekend.”

“Ok I might end up falling asleep on you, but I can’t turn that offer down.”

“Wouldn’t be the first time,” he countered.

The two of you decided to put on a movie. You intentionally sat down just close enough to Nate to be touching. You were barely through the opening scene when you felt his hand sliding up your thigh.

“Couldn’t even make it five minutes in huh?” you said, while looking up at him.

“Well,” he bit his lip, “maybe if you weren’t sitting there teasing me.”

“Me? Teasing?” you feigned offense.

“Sitting this close to me and trying way too hard to focus on the movie? While looking that good? Definitely teasing, Y/N.”

You raised your eyebrows at him. “Fine,” you said, closing what little gap there was between you and practically sitting in his lap as you leaned in for a kiss. You started the kiss slowly, wrapping your hands around his neck. Nate followed suit, one hand running through your hair and the other squeezing on your upper thigh.

He deepened the kiss, speeding up a bit. You’d kissed Nate before, but that was in the morning when your head was pounding from the mistakes of the night before. But this time felt different, fiery and a bit hungry. And honestly? You’d be perfectly content to just sit there and make out with him for like, hours, which was weird. Your roommate had told you that one of her hookups had “the lips of an angel,” which was hilarious, but now you were beginning to understand it.

Nate squeezed harder on your thigh, causing you to whimper. You looked him up and down, swollen lips and his dark eyes locked on you. He pulled you back in quickly, moving his hands under your sweatshirt and settling at the clasp of your bra. And as you were thinking about how ridiculously turned on you were, Nate pulled away, leaving you looking at him with puppy dog eyes.

“Uh, sorry, I think we should probably go to my room so Tyson doesn’t walk in on us like this.”

Right. Roommates.

You laughed, following him back to his room, “Bold of you to assume that I’m the type to fuck on the first date. I will gladly crash here though, you’ve got a pretty good mattress.”

Nate gave you a look, but couldn’t keep himself from grinning, “God, you’re such a tool.”

“Yeah, but I’m your tool,” you said, grinning back as Nate laid down, gesturing for you to come join him.

You did just that, rolling over to be closer to him as the two of you alternated between making out and talking about life until your eyes started to feel heavy.

_________

You woke up to laughter from the kitchen. Those boys. You sighed, rolling over and wishing for 10 more minutes of sleep. If it wasn’t for recent events with Nate, you’d probably believe it if he told you that he was dating Tyson. They acted like an old married couple, even more so than you and Layna.

You slipped out of Nate’s big t-shirt you’d worn as pajamas, and back into your leggings and one of his hoodies. The hockey team gave him so many, the least you could do was take a few of them off his hands. At least, that’s the excuse you gave Nate.

“Morning babe,” Nate said as you walked into the kitchen. You gave him a half awake smile and a kiss on the cheek.

“Okay, so you guys are disgusting. Y/N, or should I say new roommate, are you going to start paying me for rent or...” said Tyson, in a way that only he could. Nate was making himself coffee as you sat down on the stool next to Tyson.

“At least let me have some food or something before you start attacking me.”

“Nate makes a mean omelette, but the rule is that I get omelette priority over girls.”

“Nate can cook?” you asked, genuinely surprised since your expectations for college boys were quite low.

“Not at all, he’s only figured out omelettes so far,” Tyson said as the two of you shared a laugh.

“I’m so glad the two of you can bond at my expense,” Nate scowled, coming up behind you to rub your back anyways. You looked up at him and had to use all of the willpower you had not to kiss him.

“You guys are like a fucking Hallmark movie,” Tyson huffed.

“Don’t you have to like, pack or something?” Nate chirped back, going over to tend to his coffee.

“Don’t you?”

You broke into a fit of giggles, Tyson and Nate doing the same. And as you were trying to compose yourself, you noticed Nate, focused on you and softly smiling. The sun had just started to peek through the window, making his eyes sparkle a little bit, and you couldn’t help but smile right back at him.

You could definitely get used to this.

[dbphantom]

Canon: Zane Flynt fucks

Me: haha u know what this means ;))))

Me:

Me:

Me: merfolk glamour time

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Alright but for real tho u wanna see how deep I am in this fucking universe? Lego

I don't even know where to begin with this universe (Zer0 is an alien! Hammerlock is a werewolf! Troy is psychic! Tannis is a skag! Wait, no, wrong shitpost...) so imma open the 140 page document and start from the beginning

Annnnd Clay! Junpai-7.

When Zane meets Clay for the first time he mentions they did a smuggling job together on Junpai-7, u know, the water planet, so obviously this is good news (This made me super happy because my discord channel's name had been the junpai-7 moon pool for a while so I was like 'holy shit it's canon now' :') )

Timeline wise this isn't the beginning, but I don't write in chronological order and I don't order anything in chronological order, either, so. Eh.

Speaking of chronological order, I once got a line where Zane was like exclaiming something and used the moon instead of idk a god or powerful figure or smth and I was like 'lmao that's canon now'

So the moon... Elpis fucking got yeeted halfway across the galaxy or smth, and, considering we've seen (more) ocean on Pandora in 3 instead of just, like, Liars Berg (getting to THAT) or Tretchers landing, I feel bad for the tides. But that's good news for everyone else. Unless you were on Elpis, I guess.

Also hoh boy the 'end' of the game where Troy Phaselocks the moon was fun to write (it actually wasn't, I lowkey hate writing Moonstruck phases because... It hurts and I can't do it well.) also can we talk about how in tps the psychos are called Moonstrucks in tvhm because this makes me so happy. I really hope they did that intentionally considering H2O is an Australian show because my two favorite things combined can and will kill me. Wait actually the Troy boss fight is gonna be hilarious to write mostly because of that one attack with the tidal waves lol oh no

Also, also, also, you guys it's only explained in a guide book and never actually in-game as to why Captain's ship is Like That (TM) so I took some liberties and uhhh blame the Crackening. I mean the crackening happened after dahl pulled out of Pandora/Elpis so it works. It sorta works. It mostly works. Fuck. It works okay? shut. That's why Liars Berg is all frozen ocean [shoves 3 page essay about climate change on Pandora into the trash] don't need that anymore.

I was gonna talk about smth else

Oh yeah

Mostly brain freeze and trick of the light. That one meme video I made of Tannis and the Flynt Brothers imposed over that one clip of H2O (so let me get this straight: you freeze things, you explode things, and you boil things) wasn't just for laughs, it was actually a warning.

Each Flynt has a thing and Zane's is ice, Baron's is explosions, and Captain's is fire. (Glorious cleansing fire) Because it fits. It fits so well. I will say right off the bat that Mako Mermaids isn't my canon. I lowkey want to write out Charlotte as well (lol) because I've seen the 2nd season so many times and tbh I much prefer them having 1 really strong power over having 3+ really weak powers. Also Charlotte did nothing wrong in the first half of that season. Cleo was just a bitch to her. And Mako Mermaids is just. Not great on the power side of things. You can TURN INVISIBLE. USE IT. Soooo. (also cam got destroyed in s1 and I'm so glad they ended up making him work in s2 and 3. Because he deserved better and Zac was a terrible friend to him and only got away with it because he's a main character). /rant sorry I have so many feelings about these shows. Grew up with them soooooo.

And if ur wondering why I brought up trick of the light it's cause the 13th year exists and that movie was bopping. U guys remember Jess? Good times... Tuba pool scene is iconic. U know the one. I would also bring up aquamarine but ngl that movie was weaksauce comparatively. They hid that bitch in a water tower and iunno talked to earrings. Meanwhile in the 13th year they bring Jess back from the fucking dead and climb on walls like Spiderman. Clearly one is superior.

"but cruddy Aurelia has ice powers too and she's not a mermaid" no she's a werewolf like her brother we already went over that. Did u think I was kidding? No! I'm never kidding unless I am and I fucking love werewolves so I'd never kid about that. I love werewolves and I love Hammerlock and it's perfect I just love the idea of this gentlemanly hunter being a werewolf because I want to see a giant hulking monster being all proper and shit. They're just really cool. Werewolves > vampires and ngl I'm sad skyrim screwed over werewolves with the dawnguard dlc. Anyway Aurelia's ice powers are nanobots as explained in-game and listen I already lore-scienced this okay? Let me say it's amazing the things science is capable of when it thinks it's trying to beat out a competitor and doesn't realize non-Siren magic exists. Even better now that we know Sirens are not Eridian and actually existed before Eridians. Makes me giddy to think about. The universe is tearing me APART Lisa.

Oh speaking of, can we talk about the witch's brew quest on eden-6 because holy shit I had been writing Hiromi and her fascination with discovering all the secret circles long before the game came out and then learning about the group of witches and The Pact (TM) made me lose my shit because 'oh my god it's actually canon now'. We're on the canon path nowwwww. Soon. I hope we get a water planet dlc. I wants it, GB, I wants it.

Also I was totally gonna write a clip in the main story of the game (because I write a lot of backstory stuff if you can't tell, I only have like 3 scenes that take place during the events of the game and like 4 that are speculatory from before the game came out (including a scene from before I realized Troy was Like That but I edited it so he's more in-line and also has Maya's powers now so that's... Hm. In line with the storyline somewhere, but not an actual scene in the games story. Because its not possible with how the game does things (seperating Vault Hunters) I suppose I could just insert a 5th Vault somewhere and say it's the 4th Vault connected to the Machine (with nekrotefeyo's being the 5th). Fuck it.) and then 9,000 are backstory) where Hiromi comes back after like decades of the two not seeing each other and she's been hired to assassinate Zane by one of the many corporations looking for his corpse for a multitude of reasons (And Emma and Nino are both d e a d a s f, you know, for context). And like Barnabas (ya old bastard) Zane is still joking around and just having a grand old time catching up with his black ops buddy meanwhile she had just tried to blow his brains out (she's a sniper) and got pretty damn close. She's not even amused because of her psychic powers so she's just like 'ok' every time he opens his mouth because she already knows what he's going to say she's mostly just frustrated that she missed because she thought she knew him well enough to go off instead of just listening to her intuition but alas people change after, like, 3 decades of not seeing them.

Oh since we're talking about Hiromi that reminds me why Zane wears the black suit. In my non-h2o universe it's because it looks cool and provides some protection from dots. In the H2Oniverse it is because it's waterproof. Okay wait hang on context so Hiromi doesn't like take off his suit or anything, she's extremely gay and not interested, because I realize now how that sounds me relating Hiromi to the clothes, they just get into an argument about how Sirens don't have to follow any arbitrary rules to hide their magic and how it's easier to hide magic without giant glowing tattoos (and mind you this is before Zane even knows Tannis exists though he does immediately know she's a Siren and that's a whole nother can of worms) and hr's like 'I wear a bodysuit for most of my waking hours, so I am pretty sure they can try wearing long sleeved shirts and makeup for a day. Just a suggestion' but like way more in character (and for the scene) because do I sound like I'm in character right now? I'm not. I'm me. And God what a terrible thing to be.

So context for the context: ~magic is real~. If you've got it then you can usually tell who else has it if you're looking. It's especially clear if they're 'similar' to you (if ur a werewolf and u meet another werewolf then you sorta just know they're a werewolf) or if you're psychic (like Hiromi) then you can make some informed guesses. Like. Same Hat? Same Hat!!! Sirens are basically such powerful magic users that they are in literally a whole nother ball park. They're leagues above everyone else. Kill you just by looking at you sort of deal. So sirens normally don't feel other magic because their own magic is so strong it just 'overwrites' the other signals. You know, to not only explain why Lilith isn't immediately like 'who the fuck are you' to Zane and also how Amara couldn't tell Tannis is a Siren. I had a whole thing with Troy (who is psychic) being able to tell Zane had magic despite being near 4 Sirens at once because Troy grew up with Tyreen always at his side so he's used to it and knows how to look through it. Meanwhile Hiromi is basically incapacitated when she's near a Siren because she gets overwhelmed because her powers make it easier for her to read other people's magic.

Oh, context, the black ops outfit worked with Atlas for a short time (the group being Zane, Hiromi, Emma, and Nino. Emma is the yeehaw captain. She's the leader) and ended up meeting Steele for a little bit. Hiromi was just dead the entire meeting, Zane was totally out of it, and Emma and Nino were too busy eyefucking to really care that there was a Siren in the room so. Just imagine one person lying face down on the floor and crying, another staring at the wall without blinking, two undressing each other with their eyes, and then Cmdt. Steele standing in the middle like 'how the fuck did I get here'.

So that was everyone's first experience with a Siren.

There are more but ehhhh I'm tired and I mostly wrote this because I wanted to talk about it with someone else but they haven't read the whole thing yet so now I can scream into the void about it and not feel like I'm bothering them.

Hooray!

[homosociallyyours]

All the odd numbers please!! 😘

THANK YOU SWEETHEART!!! I hope you enjoy answering all the even ones as much as I’ll enjoy this :) 

1) describe your idea of a perfect dateHonestly right now the perfect date would be someone bringing me food and then sitting with me talking and cuddling and drinking tea, probably watching a movie we’ve seen before and commenting on it together (any HP, LOTR, MCU, etc). There’s a blanket and maybe we fall asleep together. 

3) do you want kids?NOOOOO!!! I do wanna hang out with other people’s kids though. Big time. 

5) describe the cutest date you’ve ever been onI dated an old housemate of mine a while before we lived together (we’re still friends now) and their dates were always the most fun. One time we walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and then along the promenade, and another time we took the F train to Coney island and rode the Cyclone together. Those are cute, right? 

7) are you a morning time gay or night time gay?LATE NIGHT ALL THE WAY, either it’s karaoke til the bar closes down or writing gay fanfic til dawn. 

9)  opinion on brown eyes?Fabulous, brilliant, beautiful, amazing

11) would you ever date someone who owned rodents or reptiles?YESSSS i would happily play with a rattie or a snek or something of that sort!!

13) what is a misconception you had about lgb people before you realized you were one?umm idk, maybe I thought you had to know from the time you were 5? While that’s the case for some folks it’s not true for everyone. 

15) (if attracted to more than one gender) do you have different “types” for different genders?Ummm yes! But I guess several different types? I like hard femmes and nb/genderqueer/trans folks who express femme masculinities. I also enjoy an old school butch (as long as their thoughts on gender aren’t old school) and masculine of center folks who tend to not identify as butch even if they’re often labeled as such. 

17) night club gay or cafe gay?All night cafe gay

19) video game gay, book gay, or movie gay?Movies honestly

21) favourite gay youtuber?I literally can’t name any of them, idek

23) have you ever been in love?Pretty much always

25) how do you determine if you want to be them or be with someone?Shit, have I ever properly determined that?? I think I just know after a while. If I want to be someone I don’t pine for them the same way. But also the lines are very blurry for me at times. 

27) what is a piece of advice you have for young / baby gays: Nothing you decide about your identity has to be a fixed point. As you get older, you’re allowed to change your own labels whenever and however you need. So it’s ok to say you’re bi at 19 and then a lesbian at 21 and pan at 25 and then back to bi again at 30. As long as you aren’t doing any harm to folks (or intentionally erasing the identity of your partner/s), it’s all ok. 

29) what is the most uncomfortable / strange coming out experience you have? When I came out to my mom, it was over the phone at age 25, and I told her by saying I was coming for a visit with the person I was dating, “because she has a car, so we can make the drive down together.” My mother paused for maybe one second and asked, “Did you say she IS a car?”

It was so awkward but also hilarious. Like she wanted to react to the she thing but realized she couldn’t? IDK. I made fun of her at the time (how could I not?) and she called me two days later to say she was worried I wouldn’t want to have children. I did want kids at the time, so I asked her if she wanted me to be pregnant then, at 25, barely making rent and looking for a job that wasn’t just part time. She didn’t ask me about it again, and when I brought it up to her much later (after my sister had 4 kids) she was actually really grateful I hadn’t had kids. **shrug**

[datainthetardis]

TOS Tag Game

Many thanks to @cptdorkery for tagging me; I was hoping someone would do that. I haven’t watched TOS in two months or so as I have been to busy rewatching TNG, so maybe once I watch TOS again I will change my mind about an answer, but these are my answers as of today.

1) What is your favorite horrible prop/costume/set design?

I don’t have favourites, but I’ll list a few that I’m particularly fond of.

-The cardstock rocks

-Gary Mitchel and later Dr. Dehner’s tin foil eyes in “Where No Man Has Gone Before” (that episode was a whole gallery of fantastically terrible special effects)

-Yeoman Rand's hair

-The terrifying plague make up in "Miri"

-The machine in “Dagger of the mind”. I don’t so much like the prop as I do the concept, which reminds me a lot of the Ludovico technique in A Clockwork Orange, but the result is still creepy.

-The true form of the aliens in “Cat’s Paw”

-Balok’s design in “The Corbomite Maneuver”. It was kind of unsettling in my opinion. He was literally a man baby.

-The costumes of those two girls that Bones makes appear at the end of “Shore Leave”. They were so furry and ridiculous. There was this Mexican sitcom called “La Familia Peluche” about this really eccentric family that would dress in furry clothes, and those bikinis the girls in “Shore Leave” were wearing looked like they came straight out of that show. I only watched one episode in my cousin’s house several years ago, but that was enough to make the connection.

-Space Abraham Lincon from “The Savage Curtain”

There are more, but these are the ones that I can come up with from the top of my head.

2) If you could have dinner with any one member of the Enterprise, with the exceptions of Spock, Jim, or Bones, who would it be?

This is though, REALLY though. Dinner with Scotty would be a hilarious blast; I could talk for hours with Sulu about plants and he could give me tips to keep me from unintentionally killing them; I could ask Chapel if people still watch House MD in the 23rd century and if so, I could fangirl with her and talk about how well/terribly House and McCoy would get along; and Uhura and I could have a great time talking about our love of linguistics, and she could teach me some Vulcan or Klingon or some other non-Earthly tongue. However, I think for today at least, I would choose Chekov. It would be interesting talking to him about being so young and already an ensign on the Enterprise, I could listen to his dubious claims about things being invented in Russia, and he could help me on my current quest to learn Russian. I find TOS Chekov’s personality very amusing and he kind of reminds me of a friend I had.

3) What period of Earth’s history would you have liked to see the crew time travel to?

This is even harder than the last question. Let’s see... I’d tell you today, just because I’m curious to see what their reaction would be to this very illogical world we are living in, but our 2018 doesn’t match canon 2018. Star Trek is designed to be a reflection of humanity today and what we could become, so whatever the time and place, it would be interesting to see them in a time of oppression. They already went to see Nazis, so maybe something like the Armenian genocide or Aztec Empire when the conquistadores decided to come in would be interesting, idk; something that doesn’t take place in America or Europe. On the lighter side, I also think it’d be funny to see them accidentally show up backstage at a Beatles concert and see the reaction to Spock’s haircut. Here’s a Doctor Who/Star Trek fanfic idea: somehow the crew comes across the Doctor, and for whatever reason, they have to go the 60′s where they meet the Beatles and have to fight some alien in the streets on Liverpool. People think Spock is a Beatle.

4) Please give an universe-plausible reason (no breaking the fourth wall) for Jim’s shirts being made with the durability of tissue paper.

I have been pondering over this for the longest time. I have no idea. Kirk obviously enjoys having a torn shirt, or just downright being shirtless, so perhaps he does this intentionally. Here is my (very silly) headcanon: Kirk wants an excuse to show off his chest (perhaps to woo Spock?), and since apparently walking around his ship shirtless in unacceptable by Starfleet regulations, he had to get creative. In Discovery we learn that uniforms are replicated, and Kirk knows that those uniforms are pretty sturdy, so he can’t wear those, so he learns how to sew. He makes his shirts out of plain cotton (or hemp or whatever thin fabric they have in the 23rd century), so that he is sure his shirts will rip. Starfleet takes notice that Kirk’s shirts end up ripped no matter what, and Kirk tells them that it’s because the replicators are malfunctioning and he is the only one with ripped shirts because he is the only one who puts himself in that kind of danger. Starfleet believes him and they tell Scotty to please fix the Enterprise’s replicators, which really frustrates him and the rest of engineering because no one can find any flaws in the replicators but yet Kirk always comes back after beaming down with a rip the size of Asia on his shirt.

5) Which episode would you recommend first for a non-Trekkie who is interested in watching the show? Or which episode would you not let them anywhere near?

I always introduce people to TOS with “The Man Trap”. It was the first aired episode and it works beautifully. I think it’s a fantastic episode: it has a moral dilemma, it’s a good introduction to all the major characters (save Chekov who is not in season 1), there’s tension between them, there’s a mystery, there’s a moral, etc. I think this episode holds up quite well. I know of people who try to recruit new fans with “Where No Man Has Gone Before” because it was the first TOS episode filmed with the Kirk crew, but the reason I don’t like doing that (although I love that episode) is that everything is different to all the other episodes. I think it’s not a good introductory episode precisely because it was the first episode filmed with this cast. Shatner looks like he feels out of place, Spock acts strangely throughout, McCoy isn’t even in the episode, and the science in this episode was really BS. I once introduced someone to TOS with “Charlie X”, which also works well, but “The Man Trap” is my top pick.

Out my followers, I believe that @boi-urthebird and @little-alien-duck have not been tagged. If you have, well, anyone else who hasn’t can jump aboard.

Here are the questions:

1.) What is your opinion on the Vulcan ideology? Is logic the way?

2.) Is there an episode you wish you could wipe from your memory? It can be either because it was so bad you wish to forget or because it was so good you wish you could experience it again for the first time.

3.) If you were part of the crew, would you be in command, sciences, engineering, or would you risk it and join security?

4.) Favourite race that appears in TOS?

5.) What character of the crew do you wish the show had explored further?

[fizzingwizard]

ok I’m still dead tired but I gotta do some sort of reaction post before I forget everything that made an impression on me. If i can find it, I’ll watch it again tomorrow, and think about it more carefully. It’ll be more relaxing to watch with subs. I plan to have a Sushi & Kyousei night in :D But I had such a good time at the theater so I gotta put something down before I go to bed.

First of all, I think getting to see it in the theater improved my reaction to it. Kyousei is mostly battle, when you get down to it. The first half is so fun, has that crazy “on the run from the government with aliens!” shtick that is so popular, I kept thinking how Digimon could easily have been X-men or the like and it’s probably to our advantage that Adventure is nothing like that. Makes Kyousei more interesting. But the second almost half is a reeeeally long battle scene. An epic, awesome battle, but in the end all one scene with a lot going on. In the theater, the sound is just so impressive, the emotion in the characters’ voices so loud and powerful... Idk, I have enjoyed all the Tri movies I’ve seen in the theater much better than when I only saw them online. So there’s something to be said for that.

Trying to remember and compile my thoughts but this is a very random stream.

I really enjoyed the opening scenes in the digital world with the landscape constantly changing! It was scary and hilarious at the same time.

I was really happy that we were SHOWN Meiko getting a new pair of glasses! I wear glasses and it always bugs me how cartoon characters whose glasses get smashed, or even just covered in rain, seem to have no trouble getting around without them. I cannot see a blessed thing without mine. If I don’t have an umbrella when it rains, I will walk into a wall. So i just really appreciated that detail xD

Maki is so creepy, she really seems like she’s broken inside, and she probably didn’t intentionally end up in the dark ocean... I’m curious to see what her fate is. I am certain she and Bakumon will be reunited in some fashion, but I’m kind of hoping it’s bittersweet rather than just sweet. And I want to see Daigo meet his partner again.

Speaking of Daigo... he was kind of hot in Kyousei. o.o I haven’t felt that way towards him before even though he’s voiced by Namikawa Daisuke xD

One reason to think Wizardmon is connected to Maki’s Bakumon is they both appear in similar semi-hidden positions on their respective posters. Now that I think of it, that seems very suggestive. But I’m most intrigued by the possibility I mentioned in this post.

In the poster for Bokura no Mirai, Hikari appears to be clinging to Taichi’s arm. Could mean nothing. They are falling after all. But given how Kyousei ended, I think it’s a hint that Hikari’s story is far from done, so those of you who were disappointed about how she was handled, I get it, and I think you should expect to see much more developments with her in movie 6. Think of movie 5 as a red herring. Of course, I can’t guarantee you’ll like her developments...

In addition... was anyone else creeped out by the way Hikari said “I have to be with my brother”? Or however they translated it? Why? Why does she need to do that? I would expect her to express love and need for Taichi, sure... but the way it goes down here is... creepy. Aside from what actually happens to her. Is it possible... this is going out on a limb, but is it possible that all the way back in the very first Digimon movie, Homeostasis imprinted Hikari with something and Taichi either was chosen as or became simply by virtue of being close to her a seal that kept a lid on it? Yet another sort of symbiotic relationship? Total speculation based solely on hikari’s creepiness.

I really did love the battle, to my surprise. It was long but I was so into it. Seraphimon was hella cool in it, as were the others.

Takeru was hysterical in the ghost stories scene. Yamato was too, but Takeru... he was just killin it. Also enjoyed how Yamato didn’t want to take the phone from Takeru... clearly he still has issues with his mom.

The scene where the Digimon watch Taichi talk to Meiko and get all gossipy!! That was so cute and ridiculous. I love how they’ve all become such huge fans of their newfound partners.

The fact that the Digimon have lost their memories had no bearing on this movie. That was weird. It ought to matter. In particular, I had predicted it would matter a lot for Tailmon, but nope. Nothing. Maybe next movie? That and lack of development for Hikari were my complaints for this movie, along with the pace being a little off but unfortunately that’s what is to be expected with an anime movie budget at this point in the storyline.

Raguelmon’s design was meh to me at first, but after a while I got into it. The Evangelion-wannabe that appeared at the end was not at all what I was expecting and majorly cool. I know it leaves us with a lot of questions, but I love that, it drives me up the wall wanting to know, and I am so looking forward to movie 6. I don’t mind at all that in the end Ophanimon didn’t do much :P

Loved every teeny scene with Jou and Mimi! and Takeru and Hikari! Was thirsting for more Koushirou though.

Meiko’s emotional crisis really moved me. I felt like she became a team member at last. Really contrasts with how Takeru worried about her being such a “normal girl” in the previous movie.

Taichi is so good in a crisis. So fricking good.

And the way he comforted Meiko. The questions he struggles with. His realism. His banter with his mom. Right before saying that they should kill Meicoomon as Meiko said, he thought about overhearing her express sadly and brokenly how much she loves Meicoomon. And yet he made that decision. The reason? He knew it was not made lightly, and that Meiko and Meicoomon’s suffering was extremely deep. He tried his best to take her every feeling into account to be sure she could accept this reality.

On that note, though. I really think the reason Meiko ran off like that at the end was because she intended to die with Meicoomon. Yamato being the quick protective type he is immediately rushed after her. Taichi, being more goal-oriented, took a beat to follow. I can easily believe that Yamato would be the one to key in to Meiko’s distress, while Taichi would key into her resolve.

The ending went very fast. I was on the edge of my seat in the theater. As soon as the ground split between Yamato and Taichi, I knew it was time for the foreshadowed “Death” XD I’m sure none of us believe Taichi is really dead, but I’m so psyched to see where he is and what will go down between him and Daigo. And Taichi sending Omegamon to save Yamato and Meiko was so cool. And Yamato deciding his role now is to see Taichi’s goals through and taking his goggles was amazing. It was all too fast and not as nicely animated as I would have liked (though the Taichi running on falling rocks scene reminding me of Legolas in Battle of the Five Armies xP). But it was awesome.

I am incredibly excited for the last movie, though it will be bittersweet because I’ve enjoyed Tri to pieces these past couple years. Digimon is such a gift.

[jimlingss]

FuCkInG jIMLINGSSSS!!!! YOU DID THAT!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHH AYSKTSKGSNFZNGZNFSKTD I'M CURRENTLY ON THE SUBWAY SO I CAN'T OUTWARDLY FREAK OUT AS MUCH AS I WANT TO ABOUT THIS I AM D Y I N G OHMYGOD AS SOON AS I READ THIS I'M GONNA BE ON👏THE👏FLOOR👏 JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!! I'M BOUTTA REREAD THE 1ST 2 CHAPTERS SO I COULD APPRECIATE THIS IN ALL OF IT'S GLORY AHHH NO WARNING EITHER!!!! (which was probably the best way because i am s h o c k e d, i 10000% was not expecting that rn aldjfjsk i love surprises!!)

[Potential Spoilers Below]

You are literally so sweet! I really don’t know what I would do without you and your messages :’) Your encouragement is my gasoline, I swear.

myjeansareonfire said:JIMLINGSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS I WANNA CRY WHY AM I SUCH AN EMOTIONAL BEAN?!?!?!?!?!?!? ESPECIALLY SEEING THAT PICTURE OF THEM AT THE END BEFORE THE EPILOGUE AKDJDHEKSKDBSNAJ I'M D E A D AHHH JIMINGS!!! 😭😭😭😭 Damn, what can i even say? You've rendered me speechless, speechless!!!!!!!!! This.. Has probably got to be my.. Third or fourth favorite thing you've ever written. Definitely in the top 5! Yes you have other writing that's more eloquent & beautiful & well thought out & descriptive but (1/11)

oh wow. one of your top favourites? You know, I would try to be surprised but I’m not cause it was also one of the funnest things I’ve ever written haha. I was laughing and hollering while writing and that never happens. It also wasn’t a struggle to edit and I wrote it in record time. Honestly, who knew the fic would work out considering I did 0 planning and pulled all of it out of my ass. rofl.

ahhh the character's relationships!! Just, the comedy!! The tension!! The originality of the personality created for each member! The heart warming parts! How despite the fact that it is labeled a crack fic, yoongi's always keeping it real!! 😭😭 ahh i literally can't imagine how he went through all he went through & endured all that he endured, he really really /really/ had to be in love with y/n, & that had to have been from the beginning! There's so much he'd put up w/even before y/n (2/11)

knew he was a boy like ahh & HOW IS Y/N SO DENSE?? LIKE??? I JUST WANTED TO SHAKE HER & YELL IN HER FACE AND BE LIKE Y O O N G I F U C K I N G L I K E S Y O U THIS BOY IS IN L O V E WITH YOU!!! Every time jimin came into the picture and she was like HERE'S THE LOVE OF MY LIFE i was like uhmm?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Really, girl?? It's gon be like that?? Gah! So frustrating T_T she's testosterone has been... Such a great fic. Definitely worth the wait!!! I would've waited even longer for this! :D (3/11)

you could've dropped this in 2019 & i still would've been like yES OH BOY HERE WE GOOOOO asdfghjkl. She's testosterone... Is like a Perfect™ fic. It's so funny it makes you wanna piss yourself. The second hand embarrassment is so bad you have to hide your face because you're turning beat red too! (Is that you you spell beat?! Beet???) The fluff parts are so /good/ whenever they happen you're just like yES!!! It's like, you know when you're reading something, and there's these 2 characters (4/11)

Frankly, She’s Testosterone is the best comedy I’ve ever been able to do haha my sense of humour can’t get any better than that in writing. I also realllllly despise reading dense characters cause I want to scream like you ‘ARE YOU BLIND?!’ but it was actually really amusing being on the writing side of it. I’ve never written a dense character before - (hint, hint) in one of my future fics they’ll be another slightly dense OC but that’s to come :3

also I think it’s beet red? hahaha omg I’m always afraid that my fluff is cringey but whelp it’s good for the ‘crackness’ of the fic.

you really like and something is like about to Happen™ and you're like DEAR LORD IT'D BE SO FREAKEN GREAT IF [BLANK] HAPPENS and then BAM!!!! you make it happen!!! It's like you've read the reader's mind and then as you were reading their mind you wrote it! Lmao! You gave us everything we could've wanted 😭😭😭 this fic is like everyone's guilty pleasure there's no holding back, you've indulged us with all our wildest dreams ;-; (5/11)

This fic is everything i ever could've asked for& everything i didn't even think about asking for😭& listen idk if this is a latino thing but i love that approval from the parents!! It really warms my heart!! Gah! &the way yoongi was so ready in his nice white button down & nice pants & waxed hair!! That boy was dressed to impress! & i LOVED HOW Y/N'S PARENTS WERE JUST LIKE HER AKDJSHS YOU COULD SEE EXACTLY WHERE HER PERSONALITY CAME FROM😭😭i'm not gonna lie her dad made me rlly emotional(6/11)

like wow what a nice dad ;~; anD HOSEOK'S CHARACTER I LITERALLY LOVED HIM SO MUCH he was so funny!!!!!!! I could feel his passion! Everytime those tears started falling i was like yes👏ho👏seok👏 let it all out boy! 😭👏🙏🙌 i love passionate people! 😂 even if they're ridiculously passionate ajdhsk passion is good! & jin's character! Loved how he was like this untouchable conceited person but after finding y/n crying we pretty much saw he's as much of a weirdo as everyone else 😂(7/11) 

jimin was too much for me tbh i was like boy wHERE IS YOUR DOWNFALL?! (tho that ending was hella cute he really is too pure for this world) and namJOOOOOOOOOOON my boy!! I love namjoon so much ajdkdjg and his character in this story had me on the flooooor he was like the exact opposite of how people usually write him! And i loved it!!! Okay moving on to jungkook that boooooyyy every time he spoke i just glared at him in my head and face palmed he was so sHy such a smol shy bean stop acting(8/11)

Your message is making my heart so warm. If you also notice through my writing, most of the parents (aside from The Wicked Witch) are really nice, approving parents. I do that because of 2 reasons. #1 - ‘The parents trying to rip the kids apart’ trope really pisses me off hahahaha I get so upset and angry as the reader/audience so I never write it. #2 - My own parents would never be so accepting so at least the parents of my characters can be nicer ahaha.

The image of Yoongi dressing up for her parents that you described is exactly like that. I also intentionally tried to make her parents similar to her, give the family the ‘silly village idiot’ vibe haha. Also, writing Jin’s character was one of the biggest things I struggled with since I didn’t know what to basis it off of and I had to go back to watch the vapp episode, I managed in the end though and I’m glad you liked him :3

Oh Jimin....I have no words for him as the writer lol. AND YES NAMJOON! He is my favourite character in the fic by far. Everyone writes him as smart or philosophical, sometimes a sly ‘daddy’ playboy/fratboy but I never knew it would be so hilarious to write him as a complete idiot. Honestly, I might write a fic like that later in the future hahahahahhaha.

like you don't care everyone can see through your act! & OKAY THIS IS TOTALLY IRRELEVANT(well kind of)but i'm not a big shipper between the members, & consequently i don't read a lot of mxm fics but my friend is like OBSESSED with taekook & recently she's been sending me a lot of domestic taekook fics & i read them & love them all cuz they're just so cute!! 😭😭 domestic things in general really pull at my heart strings ;-; so THAT BIT OF IMPLIED TAEKOOK FEELS AT THE END really hit me!! 😭(9/11)

right in my corazon ;-; also, i /totally/ wholeheartedly shipped tae and y/n for like a solid five minutes and i was like LET THEM END UP TOGETHER OR LET /SOMETHING/ HAPPEN but then yoongi swooped back in and i was fully loyal to my y/n x yoongi feels. IDK IF YOU CAN TELL but i really freaking loved and enjoyed this fic, and i know it's gonna be one of those fics that i go back and reread over and over again. This fic had me cringing, laughing, (10/11)

Ah, personally I’m okay with shipping (pretty neutral towards it) but yeah, I don’t read too many mxm fics either. There’s a reason I threw it in. BECAUSE I WAS EXACTLY LIKE YOU! I was writing Tae and the OC and it was supposed to be a way where Yoongi would get lowkey jealous but as I was writing, I thought....wow the OC and Tae are kind of cute together....they should like end up together and then I was like NOOOOO THAT’S NOT PART OF THE PLAN! It broke my heart to make Tae end up by himself so I was thinking about the other characters and I thought Jungkook was the perfect fit, despite their characters being very odd with each other haha.

slapping knees, burying my face into pillows screaming, squealing, & had me making my family thoroughly question my sanity! I want to say that i'm sad that it's over, but i don't think i am! At least not right now 😂 i'm on a reading high, & that was great! Later i'll probably be wishing i could indulge in their adventures forevermore, but for now, i am very, very happy & content with this perfect piece of writing :') bless you, jimlings! & Thank you so so much for sharing this with us!❤(11/11)

Thank you so much. Your message has made my heart warm. I hope whatever you’re celebrating this holiday season, you’ll have a good time.

Are you... Are you serious?!?! 18??? Same day.... Same year!! We're exactly the same age aksjfhskdlsb i'm dead

:O I guess we’re same aged friends!! COOOL!

[rax-writes]

Title: Doubt Fandom: X-Men Word Count: 1,220 Characters: Kurt Wagner x Reader, Warren Worthington III, Jubilation Lee Reader Gender: Not specified Warnings: Assumptions of infidelity, a bit of self-deprecation Notes: Request from @multipotens for “idk if I already sent you this (if I did oops) but could you maybe write a Kurt X reader where he's jealous of warren cause the reader and him are best friends (both the badass leather jacket people at Xavier's) and when people hear that Kurt is crying in his room the reader comforts him and flufffff? ugh nervous and insecure Kurt is my life! thank you so so much I love ur account!!!!” // Thank you!!

When you know someone extremely well, it’s easy to tell when something is bothering them. They may never intentionally give any indication that something’s wrong, but nevertheless, you can still tell. And that was how you knew that something was up with Kurt.

Every time you were around your friends, he became more affectionate than usual. He had always been the type to stay close to you, maybe linking arms or holding your hand once in a while, but recently, it seemed that his actions were needier than before. Not that you minded, you loved when he was cuddly, but it was peculiar. It contrasted with the way he was becoming more silent during social gatherings, opting to trace patterns on your hand rather than be a part of the conversations. Yet every time you asked him what was wrong, he would kiss your temple and tell you that it was nothing at all.

You had been having a conversation with Warren about it when you became certain that it was, in fact, not ‘nothing.’

“I don’t know what his problem is – and he won’t tell me. He always tells me everything,” you explained, leaning on the pool table as you watched Warren line up a shot, lowering down so that he was eye-level with wooden rim as he adjusted the pool stick. You weren’t entirely sure he had even heard you, he looked so concentrated on the shot.

“Has anyone been fucking with him? Bullying him or something?” Warren inquired, right as the cue ball hit one of the striped ones with a loud clack. He straightened up, adjusting his jacket, then scoffed. “Never mind, I already know the answer to that: no, because if you were aware of it, you’d have kicked their asses already.”

You smiled softly, but didn’t bother attempting to deny his truth.

“Seriously, I don’t know what’s wrong with him, and it’s worrying the hell out of me.”

“Worrying the hell out of you might not be a bad thing – ‘cause, you know, he’s Catholic.”

“Now is not the time for terrible puns, Worthington.”

“Just trying to lighten the mood,” Warren defended, snickering a bit at his own joke. He set his pool stick back in its rack and came to lean next to you, careful to not allow his wings to touch any of the balls and alter the game. Then his demeanor changed to one of sincerity, and he slung an arm over your shoulders and leaned down towards you a bit. “Now, I’m gonna ask you a serious question, and I need a serious answer.”

“Okay.”

“Have you been giving him blue balls?”

For a very brief moment, you were about to tell him that no, lack of sex is not the issue – then you saw the grin threatening to appear on his lips, and realized the humor in his ‘serious question.’ You shoved him as hard as you could, and he immediately burst into a fit of laughter.

“Oh c’mon, that was fucking hilarious!”

The familiar bamf sound of Kurt’s mutation filled your ears, and you turned, only to find Jubilee staring at the vacant spot next to her, then you, with a concerned look on her face. She walked quickly over to you, and you felt knots form in your stomach.

“Was that Kurt?” you asked, and she nodded. “Where’d he go?”

“I don’t know, but he…. We were just having a conversation about the fact that he’s jealous of you spending so much time with Warren, then when we walked in here, he had his arm around you and was leaned down near your face, and Kurt… he just disappeared.”

A groan was the first thing to leave your mouth, and you ran a hand through your hair in exasperation. Warren looked dumbfounded.

“Fucking hell, he does know that neither of us would ever do anything like that, right?” he asked to no one in particular, then gaped at you. “For shit’s sake, doing anything to you would be like fucking my sibling or something. I thought he knew that.”

“I told Kurt that you love him way too much to even consider having feelings for Warren, but he’s convinced himself otherwise,” Jubilee explained, but you barely heard her. You were already heading towards the door.

“I’ve got to go, I’ll see you guys later.”

When you reached Kurt’s room, you were surprised to find that the door was locked. He had told you a few months ago that he’d always leave his door unlocked, so that you could come in whenever you wanted, and it hadn’t been locked since.

“Kurt? Honey, are you in there?” you asked softly, giving the door a few light taps. You waited a few moments, but there was no response. You were about to go look somewhere else, then you heard the faint click of the lock turning.

The room looked as it usually did: a poster from his days in the circus on the wall, a crucifix hanging next to it, a caricature drawing of himself that you got for him from the local fair (he had absolutely adored it), a stuffed toy blueberry laying on the bed, which Peter had gotten him that same day, a bible on his nightstand, and a framed photo of you two sitting beside it. The only differences were that the curtains were shut, compared to their usually open position, and an upset Kurt laid on the bed with his face in the pillow.

You shut and locked the door once more, then went to lay next to him on the bed, rubbing his back soothingly.

“What’s wrong, sweetheart? And don’t you dare tell me ‘nothing’ this time,” you said, although your voice held no true malice. Kurt sniffled loudly, then abruptly moved to bury his face in your neck, wrapping his arms tightly around your waist. He was silent for a few moments, likely choosing his words carefully as he attempted to relax.

“You are vith him all of the time, and it makes me jealous, but I know zhat I shouldn’t be. But no matter how much I try to forget it, I can’t.”

“Why does it make you jealous? You know that I love you more than anything.”

“I know zhat you do, I just… he is far more attractive than me – more normal –”

“Stop right there,” you said sternly, and Kurt fell silent. “Okay, first of all, he has giant wings. He’s not normal – and he’s definitely not more attractive than you, either. You’re absolutely gorgeous – and I know you don’t believe me, but I’m going to remind you every day for the rest of our lives.”

Kurt sniffled and looked up at you hesitantly. You wiped the tears from his eyes with your thumbs, and kissed his forehead.

“I love you, Kurt. Please don’t ever forget that.”

“I von’t, and I love you, too,” Kurt replied, smiling brightly, then nuzzled into your neck again, his arms tightening around your waist once more.

The next day, Kurt found a jar on his nightstand. It held countless, folded up blue slips of paper, and each had one reason why you loved him. The smile it put on his face lasted for weeks, and he never again doubted your love for him.

thank you to @v-writings, my Kurt expert, for helping me a bit with some details for this ♥ // @emmcfrxst @brownvalerie @raypclmer @koricndr @harringtonmaximoff @alexsunmners @skywalkingdixon @xxlil-miss-tricksterxx