#it’s a bit from an uncle dane video

[honkshoo-zzz]

practicing my sniper art w/ my new steam icon, lmao

[hood-ex]

Yo you're watching jjk? That time fushiguro got asked about his type, the correct translation is he said a person with unwavering humanity. A certain someone's name has a kanji meaning the same 👀

Highly highly recommend that you watch the jjk 0 movie right after finishing season 1 so you know, what's up, who's down bad, who's coming etc.

The one anon is right about the content being dark, it is technically a tragedy horror action true, bit there's no sexual violence unless you deep it and think about what really goes on.

Oh you're also so wrong about Kurama 😂 Akutami's writing this as a tribute to shounen (mother's basement on youtube has good videos on jjk) but his main inspo are bleach and hunterxhunter, along with older stuff like ngo, yu yu hakuso etc. Naruto influences every shounen but it's not Akutami's fave. He worships bleach mangaka 😂

I don't know many good translator or meta writers on tumblr but if you have twitter check out lightningclare!

Welcome to hell tho, you're in for a lot of heartbreaks. (Beware the popular found family doesn't exist in canon, dismissed by Akutami many times, and the canonical found family is of an old villain's so they're kinda hated, like a Lot lol rip)

That's the translation I got in the sub during that scene, I believe. Lol can I just assume it's Yuji? Last time I tried to figure out the meaning of a name, I was totally wrong, and my student's mother was like uh no that's not what his name means at all, actually. So I don't trust my general Google searches for non-English names 😭.

Oh did not know there was a movie so that's veryyy good to know, thank yooou!

Yeah, I mean it's dark but not in an off-putting way. At least not to me alskdja. Idk it doesn't bother me at all. A lot of the dark stuff really pushes Yuji to be better and stronger, so I like it for that effect.

I can draw parallels between Naruto/Kurama and Yuji/Sukuna from my own perspective, but him having inspo from those older animes makes sense. I've actually never seen Bleach, and I think waaaay back in the day, I might have tried to watch the first episode of it but didn't finish it. I was way more invested in Prince of Tennis back then lmao. "Mada mada dane."

No yeah the series isn't really giving the found family vibes I would've hoped for so far (Yuji and Todo though... LOL). Yuji has been separated from the others too much, and we haven't really seen more than surface level connections between the other students so far. Although, they are watching each other's backs pretty well, so I am getting caring vibes between them.

*spoiler mentioned below*

Waaaait what do you mean the canonical found family is an old villain's? I spoiled myself on TikTok today and saw that Sukuna is apparently Yuji's uncle... or something? Something something with Sukuna's twin. Is that what you're referring to?

[sterlingarcher23]

Stranger Things/ElMax and a Valerian & Laureline parallel

I noticed something when I just watched Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (which is why I give this post priority) and while it was at first just how Laureline (Cara Delevingne) looked at Valerian's lips (Dane DeHaan) totally says "Yeah, looking at someone's lips communicates a romantic interest" which means that El & Max looking at each other's lips screams 'romance incoming', the whole scene had some weirdly similar vibes.

From the "Wait a moment, our moment is interrupted", therefore no kiss, to the ridiculous charge of Valerian & Laureline and Max on the other side.

Before this all happens Laureline's brain was meant to be a dish for an alien emperor guy (typical Luc Besson humor)

Like I said: vibes...

It should be noted that Star Wars which has a huge influence in pop culture including Stranger Things, would have looked very different and probably less interesting if the makers and Uncle George weren't plundering franco-belgian comics and artists including "Valerian & Laureline" by Pierre Christin & Jean-Claude Mézières or the works of Jean "Moebius" Giraud and others.

Just a few examples:

A video showcasing certain images and although not comparing everything, once you see it, you know that you've seen it.

Something that at least should be acknowledge - Pierre Christin interviewed years ago by a German journal wasn't against inspiration, that's how art works and lives on, he was just sad that their works weren't even mentioned and that it is a thing with Americans that they take what's needed and don't even say "Thank you" which, according to Christin is the very least you should do.

The interview but it's just in German.

Btw Mézières & Christin worked with Besson on his Fifth Element that's why it looks also very similar to some Valerian illustrations bit those came before.

Anyway: Did the Duffers copy Valerian too to have El & Max like Valerian & Laureline? Not sure. It just has similar vibes and although not in the movie but it was meant to happen in a sequel and IS a big thing in the comics, both Valerian and Laureline are time agents,usually only visiting the past (Laureline is originally even a girl from the middle ages) and the constant hints to time travel/space travel (Back to the Future, A wrinkle in time) and dimensions outside the space time feels like this could be an influence and aspects inspiring Stranger Things and more specifically El & Max (because these two most definitely go on a time travel/jump).

The visuals how Laureline communicates with Valerian in "Metro Chatelet" over space and time (she's in the future, he's in the 80s) could be an inspo for Stranger Things, communication/time travel.

Speaking of similarities (Valerian shows that he's the guardian of the soul of a princess):

So, it could just be a coincidence (although nerds like the Duffers may know about some ofthe origins of Star Wars) but at least it would be cool... and honor what influenced a world wide cultural phenomenon like Star Wars that inspired Stranger Things too.

Just the artwork for this book reminds me of the reflection, mirror and upside down/inverse from the show, splitting it in space, time and dimension too - and yeah, in German Laureline was renamed to Veronique.

So, a Valerian & Laureline / El & Max couple parallel that's undeniable for the nerds that know more than just DC & Marcel and I'm happy.

"There's beggary in love that can be reckon'd"

It cannot be reckoned, it's infinite, bottomless, is infinitely deep. It's timeless. It's neverending.

"And there here upon a rainbow is the answer to a Neverending Story."

[tkdrawsstuff]

the kids from this pic >>   a few years older with a bit more solid designs (might change in the future, just depends) more under the cut

alright so lets get to me describing them starting with...  They are ALL chaos gremlins, different types of chaos gremlins, but still chaos gremlins. (like danny) -oldest to youngest- Damian- oldest 16 yr. genderfluid he/she pronouns (depends on the days vibes), he's responsible+sarcastic and loves jewelry+ pranking people (usually members of danny's royal court that she doesn't like) favorite relative is uncle flynn (dannys cousin, see this post>>)

   she is a clone made by vlad while he was trying to recreate how danny stabilized ellie(dani) so he could make the perfect clone son. (damian was only kept around cause of his red hair) later on danny found out about what vlad was doing and finally did his job as ghost king and threw vlad in jail. (where he belongs) Danny took 1 look at the only stable clone(damian) and went "oh, i have a kid now. ok. i need to ask Jazz if i can borrow her parenting books" Daphne- older twin 13 yr. extrovert+ troublemaker (like her dad), loves fasion (constaly trying to get Dane to do the matching clothes thing) and really good at sporty things, does track and field + plays soccer. Dane- younger twin (by 4mins, yes its important {to him}) introvert +also a troublemaker, loves book (he doesn't have a bedroom he has a library with a bed in it) and is super loyal to his friends (doesn't have a lot but the few he has r super close)    -for both twins- they're the embodiment of the siblings that r best friends 1 moment and bitter enemies the next. Dane will only go along with Daphne's matching clothes ideas when A- theres some official royal ghost event that the kids have to go to(he just doesn't want to bother with fancy clothes) or B- he's not currently in a prank war with her (so not often). their favorite relive is aunt ellie (dani) and they fight over who gets to hang out with her their other parent was a human(not someone from amity), and the relationship fell apart after they found out about ghosts. Dana- 12 yr. agender they/them, they're pretty laid back + quiet (enjoys walking up behind people and just standing there silently till the person turns around and gets the sh*t scared out of them). they go along with their siblings plans for chaos (is usually the only reason the plan succeeds) when they're not instigating or egging on their siblings fights they like to play video games (they do both at once alot) favorite relitive is aunt Jazz    -second verse same as the first. danny was dating a human that didn't know about ghosts and after finding out the relationship ended. so danny decided to just date ghosts from then on. (or humans that already know about ghost before hand) David- 10 yr. ftm he/him, very shy around strangers and super curious (like a little kitten, and he causes just as much chaos as 1) he's the kid that askes a million why questions. likes watching movies (fights with dana over who gets to use the tv) and has like a million stuffed animals    his other parent is a fae like ghost (not disney or tolken fae, i mean the terrifying folklore ones) that was like "danny i love u, but i cant take the pressure of being married to a king" and danny was like "i understand, can we still be friends", and they did stay friends. hes the kids honorary uncle.   Dawn- 6 1/2 yr. she is literally chaos incarnate, constantly bouncing off the walls and once she gets an idea in her head theres no getting rid of it. shes super stubborn. likes music +dancing. she's always following danny around and imitates him cause she wants to be a hero like her dad.      she's another clone of danny, but idk who made her/why she was made. probably said this before but, my danny is always trans and bi (unless otherwise stated)

(also thanks to @floralflowerpower​ for talking to me about these guys and making me actually think about their characters a bit and not just their designs)

[akimmito]

Heroes are made by the path they choose

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Chapter 7

Marinette returns to battle having merged Longg and Plagg. She confronts the Akuma, whose name is unknown, and invokes the power of the Lightning Dragon, the AT field is activated again, but manages to crack enough so that she, using the sword, pierces the shield (perhaps she used a bit magic to enhance the impact force). Chloe jumps behind her and the two fall on the Akuma, just then the chirp sounds again and more mist appears, this time surrounding them all.

They hear voices, they can't see anything and, although for some it's almost heartbreaking to hear, they can't be distracted. Paris depends on them, they may not all be useful at the time, but they never know what could happen.

"Cataclysm!"Marinette wastes no time and, accustomed to Talia's voice, does not stop from her main mission.

Soon, the bark cracks and begins to light up as it seems to expand... there is no butterfly anywhere.

By the time he realizes it, the crust has exploded, staining everything twenty kilometers away from a liquid that looks like blood.

And where the golden diamond was, now there is a kind of worm floating above the Luxembourg Palace.

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Just Robert @PoorButterflies

What the fuck?

#WTFParis

Ladybug come back @ LadybugHero_89

PEOPLE! THE ANGEL EXPLODED! It was quite a scene from NGE, will the heroes be okay?

Little Little Sun @ ErasmusLS_564

My sister sent me a video of the exact moment the Akuma exploded, how shocking.

[Attached Video]

#AngelInParis #WTFParis

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Felix feels numb, the scarlet liquid completely covering them. The big problem is that due to the strong smell of metal, he knows it's blood, but that is only part of the matter, what makes him annoying is that it was hot and it's making him sick, not in the sense of feeling disgusted, it's as if the blood was poisonous.

"Guys?"He barely recognizes Luka's voice before falling to his knee as he tries to make his limbs listen to him.

It's a moment of stupor, but the next thing he registers is that a whiplash sends him and Red Fox flying from the building where he was (destroying the construction on the way). It crashes into one of the statues at the University of Paris, La Sorbonne, and then falls to the ground. Nathaniel suffers the same fate, but ends up knocking down the spire of the dome and falling to the other end, within the grounds of the university.

He feels stupid, if he had anticipated it, he could have put the shell on at least the two of them and not seem like a pathetic hero attempt. It feels like an amateur, it's a shame. How could anyone think it would explode?

"If it wasn't so terrible, I'd be excited to fight an angel. Luka, the second chance. "

Return.

Felix watches Marinette and Chloe jump over the Akuma when the AT field falls. At those times, communications sound.

"Kagami, go to Felix's side, now. Felix, put on a shell! The Akuma is going to explode. "Kagami obeys immediately trusting Luka's words, he must have used the second chance. As soon as the girl is by her side, he activate the shell, just in time.

"Cataclysm!"

And the Akuma, in effect, explodes bathing everything in a blood red liquid, inside the shell it's seen how it seems to boil and evaporate, but Felix notes that it considerably weakened the protection of his shield. If they had been hit directly by the liquid, it would have caused a lot of damage.

He look in the direction of the Akuma, there is no longer the rhombus, there are no signs of Chloe or Marinette either, but he doubts that they have exploded, perhaps they were only thrown away. Take note of the Akuma's new look and the interesting metal plate on what he imagines is the head. Not that he finds much shape in what looks like a giant silver-colored noodle, although he understands that it may be a worm.

"He will attack in your direction, separate."

Felix deactivates the shield and the three jump in different directions, just in time to avoid a whiplash from the Akuma's tail.

"Rakkīgāru, we will cover you. "Nathaniel speaks the moment he activates his power. "Mirage. "

Kagami pulls away a little, allowing the two boys to fight. Between the three of them they should be able to take down Akuma, correct?

"Lucky Charm!"  When activating her power, a tight suit with a very curious design falls into her hands, she has no idea how a suit would help them defeat the Akuma. What would Marinette do? She turns to battle, ready to cope. They must reach the alleged akumatized object.

"A suit? "Felix questions, looking at him curiously. Is it really a suit will give them victory?"

"It's a Plug suit... what? I didn't watch the series, but I do know about the suits because I wore them for inspiration. "Red Fox jumps as the illusion fades and the Akuma's tail slams in his direction. "Well, the illusions don't seem to work much. "

"Anything to mention about the suit?" Felix leaps at the worm and hurls the shield directly at the metal plate, only to find another AT field. "Really? "He growls annoyed when he sees his shield bounce off and it's lost in the sea of fog.

"Those suits have instruments for monitoring the health condition, and it also allows for increased synchronization with the Eva... which we don't have. "

"Well, let's be creative."What else can that suit do?"

"I think it can inflate, I saw that it looked round in an image of a red-haired girl."

Felix only listens to them without really understanding. The whole situation is simply disastrous.

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Héctor de Troya @EpicAdveturerHector

Hello? Can someone explain what is happening at the Luxembourg Palace? There is a giant worm!

Adrien A. @AdrienAgreste

We were arriving home from the airport when the police owed us to an Akuma shelter just as it explodes. Since when is the butterfly active?

Shinji @AllOrNothing_

@AdrienAgreste The new Hawkmoth seems to hate fashion, he almost didn't send his first Akuma at the opening of fashion week.

Just me @LonelyA_loveless

Apocalyptic scene, blood littered the entrance to the Akuma refuge in Saint-Sulpice. Let's hope the heroes finish quickly.

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Miraculously, as they talk about the properties of the suit while avoiding attacks and watch the Akuma destroy the Luxembourg Garden, they come up with a plan to traverse the new AT field. That includes distracting him with the blissful ball-shaped suit (they figured out how to turn it into that) while Ateliade uses her powers to drive the Akuma's powers insane, hopefully, being something so harmless, he doesn't consider it a threat, especially since monkey powers are not such a common knowledge.

Ateliade falls onto one of the shattered ceilings with her already summoned power, her evil smile only telling her that she's excited to join saving all of their butts. Normally the strategies are made by Marinette, but the Akuma had very specific abilities from a very specific program that only Pegase had seen.

However, this has given them a much clearer idea that this new butterfly user is much more committed to destroying them. In addition to their victims not shouting that they want the prodigies, they seem willing to tear them apart and then take the jewelry. If Felix is honest with himself, he only talks a lot about how his uncle like villain was so nefarious

If this works out, Felix will pay everyone's drinks and give Damian a Great Dane, all because he has no faith in the blissful plan, but it's the only thing they could think of where they could wear the suit.

Five minutes later, the suit by itself would have been a fiasco, but Nathaniel decides to use his power again (thus activating the timer) to simulate that the suit was one of them, that generated the perfect distraction for Ateliade to launch what it seems a plush bunny that, without being a real surprise, collides with the AT field, but, by the nature of the monkey's powers, it makes the shield go crazy.

Now, they have to really figure out how to get through that without being cut in half by the crazy AT field.

Atelaide is crazy enough to do it, using her stick to propel herself using the craziness of the shield. She manages to fall on the worm's head and, while he twists to get rid of she, she summons her power again (the previous one fell into the mist), this time it looks like a plush ball and only drops it.

This time the Akuma writhes, the butterfly mask appears as the worm crashes into the Luxembourg Palace. After several more movements and leaving the building reduced to heaps of rubble, a purple butterfly flutters out.

Felix takes that as a sign that as soon as everything is fixed he will order the best liqueurs and distribute them to everyone on the team. Now where can he get a Great Dane?

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Shinji @AllOrNothing_

He threw a stuffed animal at him and the AT field went crazy! What the hell with her powers? It's great!

#EpicVictory

Rayn @TheGreatestWorld

Oh lord, bless the Lord. The cure was launched.

Ladybug come back @ LadybugHero_89

Everything is fine, the heroes are leaving. I don't blame them, they managed to defeat the Akuma who was a fucking Angel from Evangelion. Have you seen the series? Not? Whatever, fucking Akuma.

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Luka is not feeling well, not until Marinette is on the MT and the first thing he does is hug her. He also hugs Chloe, although the blonde is more reluctant to accept the show of affection. Knowing they were left in the bloody blast twice, leaves him messed up.

"We are fine, thanks to you." Marinette smiles at her best friend, Luka became her support and, when she decided to form the MT, she already knew that she wanted him back in the team with Kagami. They were the first ones he sought out and began to explain the plan.

"Mother." Damian approaches her, is not wearing the mask and has removed his gloves. He's confused, he woke up a few moments ago, but until he heard voices he didn't move.

"Damian!" He's not prepared for the strong hug in which his mother catches him, but he accepts it stunned. All the others leave the room immediately, especially when they see that the child seems about to break.

Damian leans against her after overcoming his initial surprise, letting her hug him as much as she wants. He closes his eyes and just lets himself feel strange when he perceives his face getting wet. She releases him, but keeps him by the shoulders; she also sheds a few tears.

Marinette was aware that the cure would heal him, but seeing him barely alive was shocking, worse still when she heard Talia's voice again.

"I'm happy that you're fine." She smiles and wipes the tears that are running down her son's cheeks. This time, he embraces her again and leans against her to take him in her arms, h'es no longer of age, but he doesn't want to get away to her.

"Let's go home, mother."

"We will, I just have to talk to Felix." She adjusts him in her arms, adjusting him to look for Felix.

She doesn't have to walk much, Félix is returning to the room. They both had the same idea, he smirks.

"It seems that we resume activities tomorrow, may I suggest you take one of the computers of here? That way you don't have to come every day, you can focus on your work. "

"Marc to stay in charge of communications while the others divide the work. I trust you… And thank you, Felix. ”She places a hand on his shoulder and then goes looking for Max to return them home.

Felix only sees her disappear down the hall making a little eye contact with the boy, noting the disturbance in his eyes.

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Chloe B. @BourgeoisQueen

Two Akuma in one week, do you want a medal, butterfly gross?

Marc @MarcAC_twt

Can Hideaki Anno please sue our villain?

Alix @TheLostHeroBunnix

@MarcAC_twt He must take responsibility for art theft!

Marie @MarieLenoir

I hope everyone caught up in the fog will be encouraged to receive mental health care, anyone who comes to @AgapeClinicParis will have a free consultation and if you decide to follow regular sessions I will pay for the first three months.

Polaris Vermilion @Elgato_Solaris

Did you see Paris will soon be @MarieLenoir. Trembles @BruceWayneOfficial, you have competition!

Dick Grayson @TheFlyingGrayson

Who is @MarieLenoir and why is she mentioned so much with B?

Tim Drake @TimDrakeW_

@TheFlyingGrayson You damn heathen, how can you not know when I mention she three times a day?

Dick Grayson @TheFlyingGrayson

@TimDrakeW_ Isn't what you mention Lady Black?

Roy @RoyHarperQ

@TheFlyingGrayson @TimDrakeW_ She's the owner. Marie Lenoir, Oliver has two of his exclusive outfits. He says they mention them a lot together because last year she adopted a nine-year-old boy and racks up philanthropic projects at the same rate as Bruce.

Tim Drake @TimDrakeW_

@TheFlyingGrayson @RoyHarperQ And she has black hair and blue eyes, I wouldn't be surprised if the kid had any of those characteristics.

Roy @RoyHarperQ

@TheFlyingGrayson @TimDrakeW_ Rumors say that his eyes are green.

Jason @IAmYisus_XD

@TheFlyingGrayson @TimDrakeW_ @RoyHarperQ Gossipers.

[des-dabbles]

Adi paused outside Dane’s bedroom door. He took a deep breath before placing  a smile on his face. Slowly opening the door, he peeked in. “What’s up, buddy? You should be sleeping.”

Dane rolled his eyes. “I know Uncle Adi. I just...”

“Couldn’t sleep?” the blonde asked, coming to sit down next to the boy. “Do you want to talk about it?”

The boy shrugged and mumbled a few unintelligible words. Dane eventually looked to the side, not saying another word.

The older man waited a few more second before leaning over and bumping his shoulder into the boy. “You know you can tell me anything, right? I know things have been different these last couple of months, but I’ll always here for you.”

“I know,” the boy whispered, nodding his head. He bit his lip before speaking again. This time he was more clear with his words. “Why were you fighting with Uncle Tutu?”

Adi sighed. He shouldn’t be surprised that Dane had heard them. “We weren’t fighting. Just having a discussion.”

“It sounded like fighting.” Dane grew silent. “Mom said you and Uncle Tutu use to be friends. What happened?”

“What makes you think we’re not friends?” 

Dane shrugged again. “You never really talk. Only when Mom was around.” 

Adi bowed his head. He didn’t know why he was so surprised. Dane had always been pretty observant. He scrambled for an answer, but wasn’t sure what to say.

The boy kept him from answering by speaking again. “Do you think Uncle Tutu will stop coming over now that Mom is gone?”

Wasting no time, the blonde gathered the boy into his arms. “Oh Dane. There are so many things in the world that I am uncertain about, but the one thing I know for sure is that he came here for more than seeing your mom. In fact, if I am remembering correctly, he spends more time playing video games with you. Remember that time, the two of you stayed up all night.”

Dane giggled. “Mom was so mad at us.”

“You bet she was. She came to wake you up for your first day of school and you fought her every bit of the way. And boy did she let your Uncle Tutu have it for letting you stay up so late. He didn’t run away then, now did he?”

Dane shook his head. 

“So don’t you worry about him not coming around. Okay?”

“Alright,” the boy agreed, letting out a yawn. “I love you, Uncle Adi.”

“I love you too. Now off to bed. You still have school tomorrow.”

[princeoftennis-imagines]

Can I request a scenario (My friend did before as anon but she requested too much oof) of like their daughter wearing their clothes and imtating them (like saying their catchphrases) abd while that occurs s/o just laughing and hugging them on how similar both father and daughter are i wanna request just Ryoma, Fuji S., Atobe, Shiraishi, Mizuki and Yukimura

i saw your additional comment too, don’t worry! your old request said that they secretly see her and surprise her, so i will add that to some of them and make the others different . (^u^)

not really proud of this, but i hope you enjoy!

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Ryoma:

Ryoma was tired from his match, and wanted to come home to his family he had been thinking about the whole day. He expected to cuddle up with his daughter and wife and sleep the night away, but what he didn’t expect was to find his daughter in his Seigaku uniform, imitating him. You laughed silently at your daughter while Ryoma just smirked in entertainment. “Mada mada dane.” She said, pointing the racket at the mirror and trying her best to keep a straight face. She jumped up when you two came in, blushing furiously.

“Someone’s obviously a daddys girl.” Ryoma only let out a low chuckle, taking his cap from his nightstand, “I never said you could touch my clothes.” She only shyly fidgeted and looked elsewhere. “Sorry daddy...” He walked up to her and kneeled down, putting the cap on her head, ruffling her hair. “I didn’t say you needed to apologize. You look cute in it anyway.” She smiled and hugged Ryoma tight. Laughing, you looked at Ryoma and your daughter. “You look exactly like daddy, except maybe drink more milk since you’re as short as him.” Ryoma only rolled his eyes, and murmured into his daughters hair. “Whatever..”

Fuji S.:

Fuji was entertained by the sight in front of him. He called his other half over to watch his daughter who was standing on the bed, talking loudly to herself as she wore his shirt from middle school. It was way too big for her, but it looked absolutely adorable. “Saa.. I never lose to the same opponent twice!” She waved her racket in the air like a mad man, and jumped on the bed harshly. Fuji had a huge smile on his face as he watched the whole thing go down. “You’re so cute, (D/N).” She whirled around, and let out a small shriek of surprise.

“Hey, go away!” He let out a small laugh and watched how his other half engulfed their daughter in their arms. “Saa, why would I go away if you look so cute?” You kissed your daughters cheek. “You really are picking up your dads attitude, and you look like him too in that uniform.” Her eyes lit up in happiness as she looked at Fuji. “Really, daddy?!” He let out a melodic laugh as he put a strand of hair behind her ear. “Of course. You look even better than I do.” She cheered as she punched the air in excitement. You only whispered to Fuji as she distracted herself. “Now let’s hope she’s not as sadistic as you are.” He only let out a suspicious smile.

Atobe:

Atobe let out a wide smirk as he peeked through the crack of the door, observing the scene right in front him. His heart swelled up in pride as he watched his daughter imitate him in his old tennis clothes. “Ahn~, you cannot beat the king.” He watched as his daughter raised her hand and snapped just like he use to do. You hugged your daughter and laughed as she tried her best to copy Atobe. “You’re gonna be exactly like your dad one day, I swear. You already have the attitude and everything.”

She jumped up and huffed proudly. “Of course! No one is as cool as daddy is! Not even the coolest person on earth!” You agreed with her, ruffling her hair lightly. “Show me more, (D/N).” Atobe pulled out his phone and recorded the whole sight, his heart swelling with pride and joy. “Be awed at the sight of my prow...ess?” She said confusingly, trying to figure out the last word. You clapped your hands and laughed at your daughters little show. “I’m sure your daddy would be awed by it. Now let’s get you to bed before it gets too late.” Atobe stopped recording and reminded himself to tease his daughter later, but also give her a big hug and kiss. He also reminded himself to order a smaller version of his old uniform for her to wear. It was just too cute.

Shiraishi:

Shiraishi was beyond bored at work, silently hoping that the time would go by faster so he could see his daughter and other half waiting at home. He only had a two more hours left, but he wasn’t patient enough to wait anymore. After a while of thinking, he felt his phone vibrate in his pocket violently. He turned on his phone and saw that it was a video from you, opening it almost immediately. He watched as his daughter began imitating him in his old uniform, and it made his heart burst in delight.

“Look at me!” She had tilted her head back, almost falling over. “Ahhhh.. ecstasy.” He had to hold back a laugh, covering his mouth too quickly. His daughter was so adorable in his tennis clothes, he was even thinking of making her keep it as pajamas. He saw how she was also wearing bandages on her arm, adoring the fact that she paid so much attention to him. You walked up to her, leaving the camera on the dressser and hugged her, saying how similar she was to him. “I can’t even tell the difference between you two sometimes.” Your daughter only laughed cutely, and Shiraishi was reminded on how thankful he was that he was blessed with this life.

Mizuki:

Mizuki was going to go out to have a cup of tea in his own patio, but caught a glimpse of his other half and daughter playing outside in his old tennis uniform. He secretly watched them from afar, and twirled his hair unconsciously, smiling at the scene before him. You were playing tennis with your daughter, going easy on her considering she was a beginner. She pointed at you when she scored a point. “I can see all your weak spots!” Mizuki’s ears perked up in hearing his daughter say something familiar to him. You laughed and put the racket down, hugging her tightly. “Just like your dad, huh?” You heard her hum in agreement and looked at her with a big smile.

“Let me guess.. are you gonna start collecting data too?” She gave you a thumbs up, a boyish grin on her face. “Yes! I already researched online how to do it!” He felt so happy that his daughter decided to follow his footsteps, but felt a little dejected that she didn’t ask him. He took it lightly since she was probably embarrassed to do so. Walking over to both of you, he continued to twirl his hair. “Why don’t you ask me instead? It might be better to get tips from your own father.” She lightly squeaked and accidentally threw the racket to the side. “Daddy! I-I-!” Mizuki smiled and patted her head, speaking in a gentle voice. “I can’t get mad at you when you look so cute. Now let’s get started on learning.”

Yukimura:

Yukimura was sick in bed all day due to a fever he caught from the rain. He wasn’t able to work, nor spend the day with his family, much to his disappointment. Even if he wanted to, his s/o scolded him that he needed to rest whether he liked it or not and he had no choice but to oblige. Yukimura woke up to the sound of voices in his room and opened one eye to see his daughter and s/o rummaging through the boxes in the closet only to pull out his old tennis clothes. His daughter slipped on his shirt and put both her hands on her hips proudly. “Now I’m the child of god!”

He wanted to chuckle and tease her endlessly, but kept pretending to sleep, not wanting to ruin the moment. She crossed her arms seriously, her blue, wavy hair bouncing. God, she was so much like him and he loved it. You enveloped your daughter in a hug, and pulled back to fix the uniform she wore so it wasn’t as loose. “Yes, yes you are. Bet you’re even as scary as daddy is.” She let out a small, “mhm” and began twirling in his shirt. “Daddy’s so cool when he plays tennis. I want to learn from him! Even uncle Sanada said I should!” He smiled at that little bit and made a mental note to do so the minute he gets better. Yukimura only smiled and continued to sleep, wanting to get well as soon as possible.

[holidaywishes]

it’s time to go to denmark

part two: it’s time to go to denmark...

  Summary: After telling Freddie about your pregnancy, he’s very excited to tell everyone and tries to convince you to go to Denmark to do so.

  Author’s Note: Thank you to everyone who read and enjoyed the first chapter of this series, so here’s the fluffiest part after the smuttiest thing I think I’ve ever written so I hope you enjoy all the cuddles and the love in this chapter

  Warning: fluff and fluff and more fluff

  masterlist

  Freddie wrapped his strong arm around you as the two of you snuggled into one another, his hands drifting to your stomach occasionally, rubbing it softly, bringing a smile to your face.

  “What do you want to name him?” Freddie whispered in your ear and kissed the back of your neck

  “Him? You want a boy?” you laughed, a little tinge of shock to your tone, “I thought you would’ve wanted a girl to protect against all the boys out there…”

  “No, that’s exactly why I don’t want a girl,” he challenged, “I know how terrible boys can be and how terrified I’d be that my baby girl would get hurt. No, I want to have a boy so I can teach him how to treat a woman, how to be a gentleman…” His hands were still on your stomach, laying there softly as he spoke and you smiled at his words, turning around to wrap your arms around his shoulders.

  “Well aren’t you sweet” you teased and he smiled back at you, kissing your nose sweetly

  “You want a girl?” he asked and you shook your head

  “I’d be happy either way. It’ll be a little piece of you either way” you pulled him in for a kiss, moving slowly against his lips while his tongue asked for permission against yours; you parted them willingly and pulled yourself closer to his body, surprised when he pushed you onto your back. He pecked your lips quickly once more before jokingly kissing all over your face and you giggled

  “Freddie.. Freddie..” you laughed as he pecked down your neck only to stop at your stomach and lay his head down

  “Hey there little one… I know you’re not very big yet and you probably can’t understand me but I’m your daddy,” you smiled, combing your fingers through his hair as he talked to the tiny bean in your stomach, “I may not be around all the time. Because of work. But I want you to know that I love you and your mommy loves you and you have family all over the world. Daddy’s family is in Denmark, mommy’s family is here and in Vienna. You’ll get to see the entire world. Plus, there’s a lot of us, you’ll never be lonely. Aunts and uncles everywhere. Cousins all over the place. You’re gonna have so much love, little one, you won’t even miss me when I’m gone.”

  He finally finished and looked up at you, making you adjust your gaze at him, smiling simply. Freddie situated his hands on either side of you and crept his lips back to yours but when he pulled away, his eyes seemed to light up with a devilish thought.

  “Fred…” you said hesitantly

  “It’s time to go to Denmark, we should go to Denmark to tell everyone…”

  “What?”

  “We could pop over to Vienna too, tell your Oma and Opa in person”

  “Okay, Fred. Slow down. We can’t just take off to Europe right now. There’s only a little bit of the regular season left. You need to focus on that.. We’ll tell the guys okay? I’ll be plenty pregnant when the season’s done and then we can go to Denmark and Vienna…”

  “I think we should go now…”

  “I get that but we can’t”

  “Well we could”

  “No, Freddie, we can’t” you laughed, trying to get your boyfriend to understand

  “Fine but you have to promise that we’ll go as soon as the season is over.”

  “I promise.”

  “We tell the guys tomorrow?”

  “Okay”

  “Who do you want to tell first? I vote Mo”

  “You’re like a child right now. Yes, we can tell Mo first if you want.”

  “I’m excited!”

  “I know! It’s exciting,” you giggled, “but I’m also kind of tired babe.” Freddie kissed your forehead and told you to get some rest but that he was too awake to sleep, so he headed out to the living room to watch T.V. or play some video games. When he still hadn’t come back to bed after a few hours, you wandered out to see what he was doing; finding him nodding off to sleep while playing Fortnite and you rolled your eyes as you walked over to him.

  “Baby, come back to bed…” you swept your hands over his chest, kissing his neck to wake him up

  “No, no, I’m not finished the game..” he tried and you laughed

  “But I miss you. I need your arms around me to fall asleep…” you whispered in his ear, wrapping your arms tighter around him and he got up almost immediately, meeting you around the back of the couch and carrying you back to the bed

  “Let’s go then…” you squealed as he threw you easily over his shoulder, practically throwing you on the bed once you were back in the bedroom, you let your fingers trace his jawline as his tall frame towered over you, “I love you, smuk.”

  “Me too, meine liebe.”

  You woke up the next morning and heard Freddie rummaging through the bathroom

  “What are you doing?” you called out

  “I’m trying to make sure I have everything. I have to go to practice,” he popped his head to find you still laying under the covers, “and you’re coming with me…”

  “Wait,” you jumped up, “who said I was coming with you?”

  “We’re telling the guys remember?”

  “You said you wanted to tell Mo first…”

  “Yeah and then I thought about it… It’s probably easier to tell everyone together…” You bared your teeth, unsure of how comfortable you were with not having the conversation one on one, “what’s wrong?”

  “What if they… aren’t happy about it?”

  “Why wouldn’t they be?”

  “I don’t know. People are weird…” He curled his arms around your waist and leaned down to rest his forehead on yours, telling you there was nothing to worry about. Sure enough, when you got to the rink and Freddie gathered the guys up before putting his gear on, the news came out easily and the guys were ecstatic.

  “Congrats guys!” Auston was the first to say something, followed shortly by Mitch and Patrick. You were surprised that Mo hadn’t come forward right away to give you a hug, you had been closest with him when you and Freddie started dating.

  “(Y/N),” Mo finally said, pulling you aside, “are you happy about this?”

  “What? Of course I am Mo…” you chuckled, “why are you being weird?”

  “I’m not. I just want to make sure the big guy isn’t pressuring you.” You gave him a quick scowl before laughing again

  “Freddie wouldn’t know how to pressure me if he tried…”

  “Alright. Well then I guess congratulations are in order!”

  “Thank you, Mo” you said, pushing him playfully and Freddie came behind you, snaking his arms around your waist

  “What’s going on here? Mo giving you a hard time?” Freddie pressed sarcastically

  “Nothing I can’t handle” you leaned back into Freddie, pushing yourself up to kiss his lips, earning a disgusted look from the boys in the locker room

  “Get a room…” Zach shouted

  “Well, we kind of need our goalie right now, so… don’t get a room” Mitch joked, making you roll your eyes and Freddie pretend to take you and leave.

  “Okay okay, relax, I’ll go find the girls and tell them the good news” you pulled away from Freddie but kissed him quickly on the cheek as you darted out of the room.

  “How far along are you?!” Christina asked, excitement coating every word

  “Uhm, a couple weeks I guess? I haven’t had an ultrasound yet, just took the test last night…”

  “Oh that’s so exciting! Is Freddie excited?!” Steph asked

  “The most excited I’ve ever seen him” you giggled

  “Have you told your parents?” Lucy asked

  “Not yet, we will soon. Freddie kind of wants to tell them in person but, with his family in Denmark, I’d be pretty far along by the time we got to see them.. So, we’ll have to tell my parents first I guess”

  “At least you have some support here right?” Steph questioned

  “Absolutely! Yeah, we’ll be fine. I’m just not so sure my dad is going to love the whole ‘baby out of wedlock,’ thing. He’s very pro-kids-after-marriage. You know very conservative -- It’s an Austrian thing…” You joked and the girls laughed. You hadn’t realized how nervous you were about telling your dad, you knew your mom was going to be fine with it, she’d been asking for grand-kids from the second you met Freddie, but your dad was as conservative as they came. Everything had to have an order. Date for at least a year before living together, live together before getting married, be married for at least two years before you have kids and then the rest would figure itself out. He loved you and he adored Freddie, the two of them would talk about Hockey and Football (European not American) for hours while grilling steak -- you and your mom always laughed because you said it seemed like they were trying to out dude each other. The more you started to think about it, the more you thought maybe your dad would change his mind about Freddie; he’d suddenly become the irresponsible Dane who got his baby girl pregnant.

  “(Y/N)..?” Christina called to you as you suddenly jumped up and out of your seat

  “Morning sickness?” you heard Lucy question as you got to the bottom of the steps. You rushed into the bathroom and curled over the toilet. Well, this is a lot more violent than a hangover, you thought to yourself, shaking your head.

  “(Y/N)..? You okay love?” Christina said quietly as she stepped into the bathroom, you opened up the stall door and waved your hand

  “I’m in here..”

  “It gets.. better, well, easier to deal with anyway… the sickness..”

  “It’s not just in the morning? The movies have been lying to me?” you laughed faintly and she nodded her head sympathetically, handing you a can of ginger ale she must have grabbed from a vending machine.

  “You’re pregnant! Yay!...” she said in a hushed tone, laughing as she raised her arms up halfway

  “I have to ask you a question and I need you to be 100% honest with me okay?” you focused your stare on her and she took a gulp but agreed by nodding her head, “do you think I’ll be a good mom?” Christina’s eyes softened on you, as if she was expecting something much worse and was planning her escape from it

  “Oh, sweetie! Of course you will” she cooed

  “How do you know?” you challenged, still hugging the toilet

  “Because,” she said, wiping the hair from your forehead, “you’re worried you’re not going to be.” You gave her a quizzical stare but you knew what she meant. You wouldn’t ask if you weren’t worried about screwing up your kid and you wouldn’t be a good mom if you didn’t think you’d screw up your kid. It was a weird dynamic but your sister had gone through the same thing when she was pregnant, so you knew the conversation well.

  “Thank you, Chris..” you stared up at her, thankful it was her who came to rescue you.

  “Anytime, little one” she laughed, helping you up and guiding you out to the sink. As the two of you walked out of the bathroom and back to the girls, Christina couldn’t help but ask one last question.

  “Do you think you’ll get married before the baby comes?” she nudged you slightly and you rolled your eyes

  “I don’t know. I don’t think so…” you weren’t going to lie, you thought about it. For like a second. Right after you saw the positive on the first pregnancy test. But you didn’t want the proposal to feel like some kind of arrangement or the wedding to feel like a shotgun wedding. You loved Freddie and you’d say yes in a heartbeat if he asked you to marry him but you didn’t see him proposing to you before your baby was born.

  “Well, maybe he’ll surprise you…”

  “Maybe..” you smiled and looked over at Freddie who was looking for you where the other girls sat. When you waved at him, he lifted his helmet to smile at you and your cheeks went pink and you could only think one thing to yourself

  God, I love that boy.

[lord-rosenth0rne]

More SFM practice. This time practicing with item particles and a bit with lighting. For some reason, I had a hard time trying to get Soundsmith’s beard to show up Mann Co. Orange. I might go back and put in more items later. I was going to try to put in a dispenser and maybe a sentry in the background but I’m having a bit of an issue with them atm. I also seem to need to work on fixing clipping...

I used these three when I found this from @mugges. Soundsmith, Lazypurple, and Uncle Dane were the first youtubers I came across when wanting to learn more about playing TF2 after having my ass handed to me over and over again. Not to mention, Lazy’s ‘How It Feels’ videos are just too damn funny.

If I had to guess, they're probably testing how much an Engie can lift. Those tool boxes have to weigh quite a bit.

[antagonist-chan]

So, I watched this TF2 video, and the creator actually encouraged discussion, so I ended up commenting this:

Ooooh, an invitation for TF2 discourse. And for once, I actually feel like I could contribute something. Not sure why I feel like I can contribute more now than usual. My two main qualifiers- I am *not* a very consistent player (I've been playing since 2012, but I only have under 500 hours), though I've been trying to fix that by playing more consistently, and I *am* interested in game design, and am actually interested in making custom content for TF2. I absolutely agree on the Crossbow and Ubersaw. I'm not usually one of those "avoid the meta out of principle" people, but I *am* with Medic because of how overused I feel the Crossbow and Ubersaw are. Especially the Crossbow. Thing is, I can *not* think of a way to fix the crossbow without either filling it to the brim with downsides (which would push it into the "trash" category) or removing the healing thing or letting the other primaries heal (which would make its entire existence redundant). I agree with most of this video, really, but this is something I've thought for a while and haven't really heard anyone talk about before. I hear people talk all the time about how bad it is that the Ubersaw outclasses the other melees, but while people acknowledge that the Crossbow outclasses the other primaries, nobody really says it like it's a bad thing, at least not that I've noticed. Other weapons that need buffs: the Back Scatter and Soda Popper. The Back Scatter's concept is really neat, but it's basically useless, and the Soda Popper... I don't get why it was nerfed in Meet Your Match. It's not like I've ever heard anyone complain about it or anything. Also, I feel like its model should be changed. Back when its stats were still based around mini-crits, it made sense for it to have a Crit-A-Cola on it. The Soda Popper was basically what you'd expect it to be like if you attached a Crit-A-Cola to a gun. But ever since the December 2013 patch, it's been a *mobility tool*, like Scout's *other* soda: The Bonk! Atomic Punch. As someone who does 3D graphics stuff, I'm pretty sure that replacing the Crit-A-Cola with a Bonk would only take about five seconds of work. Back to the Back Scatter, I think the bullet spread being removed could help? The reduced clip size seems like enough of a downside. As for the Sharpened Volcano Fragment... now this is a bit of an out-there idea, but perhaps its popularity in Medieval mode could be expanded on? People use it in Medieval mode because the Pyro has no other means to set people on fire. Similarly, a lot of people use the Manmelter because it can extinguish teammates, which makes it pair well with the Phlog's lack of airblast. So... maybe, indirectly buff it by introducing a Pyro primary that doesn't actually set fires? It'd be really weird, and it might not even work, and the Pyro just *got* a ton of new weapons, but... it's a thought, at least. Alternatively, you could replace its downside with something slightly less debilitating, like swing speed. Hell, is the Fragment even that bad compared to stock? It's clearly terrible compared to Pyro's other melees, but nobody really uses stock, either. Maybe the answer is giving it some of the abilities of other melees, like maybe letting it join the Homewrecker and Neon Annihilator in destroying Sappers. The Warrior's Spirit is a tough one. I'm just now realizing that I've never actually used it, and the stats actually sound really good on paper, so I don't even really know what's wrong with it. I should try using it so I can figure it out... The Pomson just needs a rework from the ground up. It's not nearly as unfair as it used to be, but its main upsides of fucking with Medics and Spies are still just plain *mean* and not even useful. The main thing that works about it is its similarities to the Cow Mangler and the Bison- that it doesn't need ammo. I'd say, get rid of everything else and start from the ground up. The disguise kit rework would be *awesome*. It's also a good idea because disguises are supposed to be integral to Spy, but they're not that great these days. I actually had an idea for a Spy primary at one point that was a disguise tool- it did significantly less damage (maybe even no damage at all), but firing it would not only not take down your disguise, it'd make your disguise fire *their* weapon. In addition to a Demo Market Gardener, there should be a Market Pardner, to borrow a term from Sketchek and Uncle Dane- a Market Gardener for Engie.

[fashiontrendin-blog]

Kieran Culkin's Shirt Is Off

https://fashion-trendin.com/kieran-culkins-shirt-is-off/

Kieran Culkin's Shirt Is Off

When Kieran Culkin first started reading the script for “Succession,” he wondered whether it had been sent to the wrong person. The HBO powers that be originally thought he’d be a good fit for the character of Greg, a bumbling nitwit who gets high in his first scene and spends the rest of the first season failing to sidle his way up the ladder of a massive media and entertainment conglomerate owned by his great-uncle, Logan Roy.

Almost from Greg’s first line, Culkin knew he was wrong for the part. “He’s already a lot younger than I am, and just the voice ― I was, like, this is not me. I am not right for this.”

When I met Culkin at a small restaurant in the Noho neighborhood of Manhattan last Monday, it was just as clear to me as it was to him that he’s too old to play a character like Greg. But something in the Roy family’s dark saga held Culkin’s attention anyway. He said he kept reading the script, which follows the foibles of the billionaire Roy clan as its individual members vie for power within. A few pages later, Logan’s overconfident third son, Roman, appears, led into a meeting by a man hired explicitly to burn sage.

“Hey, hey, motherfuckers!” Roman proclaims to a room full of his father’s business associates.

“And I was, like, ‘Oh, who’s this fucking guy?’” Culkin said.

Culkin eventually got the part of Roman, an incompetent and lazy man-child who believes he wholly deserves the title of chief operating officer, even though he has little interest in doing any of the work that comes with it. Among the many nefarious faces that make up Logan’s Waystar Royco empire, Roman stands out as perhaps its most cynical ― a ratings-obsessed media executive motivated solely by profit. At one point, in his interpretation of corporate disruption, he takes off his shirt in a meeting, flexing and joyfully screaming “Blood!” at the thought of layoffs. During another, he gleefully tells his sister about a new viral video that is “evidence of precisely the kind of disgusting, liberal, metro butt-love that makes our viewership angry enough to buy pharmaceuticals.” To Roman, nothing could be better.

Culkin can’t say exactly what drew him to the morally depraved heir, described by his father as a “moron” and his brother as a “walking fucking lawsuit.” But it’s not hard to imagine some small part of Culkin was intrigued by the idea of playing such a sneering member of a media empire.

After all, Culkin’s distaste for the tabloid industry is beyond well-established. (“No matter what’s written there, it’s a total lie, even the person’s name, lie, lie, lie, lie, everything’s a lie,” he once told New York Magazine.)

But let’s not lump Culkin into that hyperpartisan Level 10 “FAKE NEWS” category of 2018 American paranoia. Mostly because when he told me “Now it’s a thing, ‘fake news,’” and I said, jokingly, “Fake news. You’re a believer,” he got nervous and pushed out a quick “no,” immediately realizing the millions of different ways such a quote could be aggregated, recirculated, quoted out of context and otherwise misinterpreted. You can almost see it now, can’t you? “Kieran Culkin Joins the Chorus: Media Is ‘Fake News.’”

Culkin’s distrust is of a more justifiable form, born out of a lifetime of his surname showing up in headline-grabbing tabloid fodder. From the moment his parents, Kit “The father from hell” Culkin and Patricia Brentrup, entered into an ugly, obsessively covered custody battle to when the National Enquirer proclaimed his eternally famous brother, Macaulay, had “6 Months to Live” in 2012 (he’s still alive), Culkin’s last name has served as a way to move and make paper ― the most intimate moments of his life repackaged as factually questionable entertainment content to sell ads against. 

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Macaulay and Kieran Culkin at the fifth annual American Comedy Awards back in 1991, just months after the release of the blockbuster hit “Home Alone.”

“There are things that are out there in the world as fact because it was written in print that are just completely false. My brother did not divorce his parents. They did not fight over his money,” he said. “But that’s out in the world as fact.

“I learned at a very young age to be, like, ‘Oh, I get it: It’s bullshit,’ shit that’s written in print.”

In person, Culkin ticks most of the boxes of adulthood: In his 30s. Takes his coffee black. Enjoys talking about his favorite East Village dives. Married five years. Nice watch. Clothes that fit. Hair slicked around his head just so. Like Roman, Culkin drops a “fuck” or “shit” every ninth word or so, as when he said to me, “Hold on, I’m going to eat the fuck out of these pickles. You say something for a minute, ’cause I’ve got a mouth full of shit.”

But no matter how many fucks he lets out ― and by my count, he let out around 25 over 40 minutes ― Culkin remains stuck with a membership to the official Former Child Actors club. Macaulay, or Mac, if you’re in the know, was always the main draw ― history’s most famous kid actor without a drink named after him. But Kieran was there too, in “Home Alone” and “Home Alone 2.” He found himself on the stage of “Saturday Night Live” before the age of 10, and schmoozed with Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show” before his voice dropped.  

Which is probably why ― and here I’m guessing ― Culkin might have been a bit annoyed when HBO suggested he audition for Greg.

But after 10 episodes of watching Culkin-as-Roman take part in his family’s imperious game of human chess, it’s hard to imagine the actor playing anyone else. If Jeremy Strong ― who plays Kendall, Logan’s cocaine-addicted second son ― is the show’s tragic star, Culkin is its nervous energy. There’s something in the way he pushes out a phrase like “What a pathetic beta cuck,” or belittles doctors and waiters alike.

What sealed Culkin’s interest in his character came in the first episode during a family softball game, when Roman points to a kid on the sidelines, the son of the site’s groundskeeper. Everyone grows quiet as Roman whips out his checkbook and starts writing a check for $1 million. Hit a home run in their game, Roman tells the boy, and the money is his. For the child and his family, it’s a potentially life-changing moment. For Roman, the child is nothing but a momentary subhuman toy to mess with and cast aside. After the child is tagged out at home, Roman can’t control his laughter. “I’m sorry, I can’t give it to you,” he says as he tears up the check. It is a degrading, truly awful moment of television.

“Oh, I get it,” Culkin remembered thinking, “he’s a fuck face.”

When Culkin filmed the scene, he embodied evil, letting out a cackle so cruel it sets the show’s moral compass for the remaining season. Culkin himself is not sure where his ability to play somebody like that came from.

“Being able to connect to some degree, not in a positive way, with these characters is odd to me because I don’t know the multimillionaires, I don’t know the super-rich, yet I know assholes like that,” he said. “I can’t even quite specifically pick out who I know that is exactly like that, but it’s weird that you can still, for me, relate.”

“Succession” suffered from a slow start, only truly hitting its stride around Episode 6, when Kendall leads the board in a tense vote of no confidence against Logan, who’s recently suffered a stroke, unleashing a sequence of events within the Roy family that are both comical and horrifying.

Culkin owns up to that. “The first three episodes to me, it’s not like they’re unwatchable,” he said, “but it’s not quite the show yet.”

Which, according to him, is fine. Some shows don’t grab you on first watch, and one in particular in his opinion: “I probably shouldn’t even say this on record. The example I have is actually [the British comedy] ‘Peep Show,’” which was coincidentally also developed by “Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong.

But the first season of “Succession” gained enough momentum before concluding Sunday evening for HBO to pick it up for another season ― making this the first time Culkin has ever been part of a television show that made it to Season 2, according to his IMDB page, a small victory in his more than two decades on-screen.

Culkin’s most acclaimed role came in 2002, when he earned a Golden Globe nomination for his role in “Igby Goes Down.” But that time the victory led to a full-blown existential crisis.

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Claire Danes and Kieran Culkin talk at a coffee shop for a scene from “Igby Goes Down.” Culkin entered an existential crisis after the film and took a breaking from acting. 

“[I] found myself at the age of 20 with a career I never chose, [and I] freaked out,” Culkin said. “I think everybody around that age has some sort of crisis. Usually, it’s like a straight-up ‘Oh, I don’t know what I want to do.’ Mine is, ‘I don’t know what I want to do with my life, yet here I am doing it.’”

Culkin took a break before eventually returning to acting, mostly because he wasn’t sure what else to do. “I was just sort of doing it in the meantime,” he says now. He took parts in movies like “Lymelife” and “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.” Did two episodes of “Fargo.” Performed multiple versions of a stage play he loved, Kenneth Lonergan’s “This Is Our Youth.” In 2014, he was still apprehensive. “I often think about getting out of this job, but I’m terrified that there’s nothing else,” he told The Daily Beast.

Since then, Culkin said, something clicked. He remembered coming home from work one day and thinking, “Oh, I think I’m actually enjoying this.”

“I think I know what I want to do now,” he said to himself. “I think I should do this.”

Now deep into his 30s, Culkin has established himself as a stronger and more serious actor than the “essentially retired” Macaulay ever did. And in Roman, Culkin has stumbled upon something as special as it is sinister. TV Guide described Roman as “the very definition of the hate-f―k,” but he’s probably more accurately categorized as sexual overcompensation personified. He tells his brother that his “face is drowning in pussy,” despite the fact that his various partners claim he rarely wants to have sex. He masturbates to his office view of New York City while a string of emails piles up behind him. (“It’s to gain some sort of control,” Culkin surmised.)

More interesting than his sex life, though, is Roman’s complex relationship with his manipulative and emotionally abusive father. While most people want to prove their competence to the people around them, “Roman, for the most part, doesn’t give a fuck about that,” Culkin said, adding, “If his girlfriend says, ‘No, but you did a great job,’ it’s like: ‘Fuck you. Don’t patronize me.’” What he wants, Culkin said, is his dad’s approval: “That’s the only person that can get him, the only person that can look at him and make him nervous.”

Logan does exactly that when Roman prepares to stand against the tycoon in the vote of no confidence. With his father staring down at him, Roman can only muster a meek “maybe” before he slouches into his chair like an admonished child and votes with his father. Thanks to Roman, Logan lives to fight another day atop his dynasty, while Kendall is forced, temporarily, to surrender.

Earlier, in Episode 2, Roman finds himself watching as the world repackages his family’s tragedy into viral content. He and his family are huddled together in a New York hospital, awaiting information about their famous father’s deteriorating health post-stroke, like characters in a Gothic novel, when Roman starts scrolling through Twitter. His sister, Shiv, asks what people are saying.

“Eh, rumors, you know,” Roman replies matter-of-factly. “Some of Twitter says he’s dead ― and also a good deal of rejoicing at our father’s potential demise.” He notices a short video of the “South Park” kids yelling, “Oh my God, we’ve killed Logan! We’re bastards!” and asks an employee to “find out who these fuckers are and report them or screen grab their shit.”

When Culkin’s own father was hospitalized after suffering a stroke in 2014, TMZ, The Daily Mail, Perez Hilton all repackaged the tragedy as well. The National Enquirer pounced, too, running a headline that read, “Macaulay Culkin Rejects Dying Dad: ‘Rot in Hell!’” But unlike Roman, Culkin wouldn’t have been sifting through Twitter. “That would never be something that I would do willingly,” he says of social media more generally. “Because already at a young age, there was a public perception of me.” 

Francis Apesteguy via Getty Images

Kit Culkin, Macaulay Culkin, Kieran Culkin and Patricia Bretnup pose for a photo one month after the release of “Home Alone.” The father is now estranged from his children. 

Like Roman, however, Culkin and his siblings have a less than ideal relationship with his father. By all accounts, they have been mostly if not entirely estranged from Kit ever since their mother won custody of the children in the 1990s. Patricia, the mother, claimed during the custody battle that Kit had been abusive, and Culkin’s brother Macaulay has continued to do so throughout his life.

“He was a bad man,” Macaulay Culkin told comedian Marc Maron earlier this year.

When I asked Kieran Culkin if he has spoken with his father recently, he answered with two no’s so quickly that I couldn’t bring myself to ask a follow-up question, only saying, for reasons still unbeknownst to me, “Fuck ’em.”

“Fuck ’em,” Culkin agreed. “I’ll go on record: Yeah, fuck ’em.”

After a lifetime of his last name being splattered across the front pages of tabloids, Culkin seemed ready to move on from the controversies that have dogged him since he was a child actor with moppy hair and oversized clothes. That’s not him anymore.

What we’re looking at instead is Kieran Culkin, age 35 ― no longer a Greg and fully embracing life as Roman.

[supercultshow]

Hello Supercult West! This is Supercult South Bad Movie Professor Cameron Coker (BS in “Reeves and Hatem” with a minor in “The Busey Always Gets Paid”) and I’m reaching out to you from across the country to help hype tonight’s screening of Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, aka “I’m tired of the mother f#*$-ing chefs on my mother f$)@-ing train!”

There’s no question in our mind that the best Steven Seagal film is Under Siege. Maybe it’s the fact that it was only his 5th film and he still, perhaps, cared about the craft? Maybe it’s because the film was made in a time before Seagal was writing his own material, decided he was a deity, and before he…uh…developed #realcurves? Maybe it was the innovative technology that was used to make the film look good without breaking the bank? Maybe it was the ridiculous, manic fun oozing out of the villains, Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey that prompted director Andrew Davis to make a film starring Seagal that only had about 41 minutes of Seagal in it? Maybe it was just all the knife throwing, pie burning, eye-gouging, face touching, bay-watch babe ogling, and dramatic side lighting? I mean what else could explain Under Siege’s 79% on rotten tomatoes and it’s ranking as Seagal’s best film both critically and financially? Ahh! I got it, it’s because in Under Siege, Steven Seagal plays a former navy seal turned ship cook and has navy regulation hair length and no ponytail! See, I knew that ponytail was holding him back in all his recent films!

No wait, that can’t be right, because he doesn’t have a ponytail in Under Siege 2, and Under Siege 2 blows.

PEW PEW PEW!

I’d feel a bit more tension in the film if Seagal could muster more than 2 facial expressions.

“And that is how you whip it. Whip it good.”

Dang, the 1990s apparently had top knotch video conferencing as long as you were on a moving train communicating with a big government mission control room.

Something in this image is out of place. See if you can spot it!

Gary Oldman, Laurence Fishburne, Julian Sands and Jeff Goldblum were among those who refused the role of Travis Dane.

How would we know the stakes of the film if we didn’t have a room full of government men wringing their hands??

“You know I’ve never been afraid of anybody. But that uncle of yours scares me… and I like it.” “…Perv.”

Released in 1995, three years after the original film, Under Siege 2 stars and is produced by Steven Seagal, but thankfully written by someone else. Then student filmmaker Matt Reeves collaborated on the idea with his friend Richard Hatem in college to help finance his student film. The film featured a hijacked train, codes to a secret military satellite particle weapon, and an outgunned, outnumbered vigilante caught up in the commotion forced to evade and outwit the hijackers and prevent a massive terrorist attack! The script had a working titles of either “End of the Line” or “In Dark Territory”, Dark Territory being a railroading term referring to a section of railroad track that has no train signals and difficult or nonexistent communications.

The script was eventually optioned by Warner Brothers who decided to turn the film into a sequel to Under Siege. Reeves said that the film was originally “meant to be very much like a Die Hard movie, which I guess Under Siege really was too, except the difference was that in the Under Siege movies that tension is how soon before Segal will rip out someone’s larynx. And what I love about Die Hard was this idea of the underdog…That was what that movie was supposed to be, but it didn’t end up being that.” Don’t feel too bad for Reeves or Hatem though. Hatem became a producer and writer for TV and Reeves eventually became a successful writer and director for films like Cloverfield, Let Me In, War For the Planet of the Apes, and the upcoming Batman film.

Meanwhile on set, Seagal was throwing his producer weight around and rewriting every scene he had a part in. Director Geoff Murphy called making the film “a very dreary process” and noted the number of arguments on set. It’s amazing the film came together into anything even resembling a thriller in the edit. Seagal had numerous good reasons to be so frustrated during filming. For one thing he started wearing a girdle to contain his stomach during filming. This was meant to be a temporary fix as he intended to lose the excess weight while on set, but, well, that didn’t happen.

But the real kicker was that at some point during casting Seagal returned from a vacation to discover that Gary Busey had been hired to play the villain in spite of the fact that Busey’s character had died in the previous film! What made matters worse was that Busey, sly fox that he is, had managed to get a “pay-or-play” deal which meant that he got his $750,000 fee whether he was in the film or not. Allegedly the money came out of Seagal’s pocket as producer, but Busey didn’t work a day on the picture.

Perhaps the only good thing that happened on the film was that the filmmakers pioneered a technique that allowed them to shoot the majority of the film on a sound stage rather than in an actual train. By using tennis balls glued to the set as reference points, they used motion tracking to insert footage of Colorado scenery into the background even when the camera moved around. Pretty slick.

So, recap: Unlike the original Under Siege Seagal was writing his own material and needed a girdle to hold in his ‘godly’ form. Not only are the villains not as good as the old ones, but the old ones were somehow being paid to NOT work on the film. Oh yeah, and unlike the original Under Siege 2 has a 35% on Rotten Tomatoes and was not nearly as successful at the box office as its predecessor.

Good news though? Under Siege has just as many knife fights, three times as many modes of transportation, and about 1000% more people being run over by trains as the original. That’s pretty good, right? Perhaps even good enough for Seagal to announce in 2014 that he was developing an Under Siege 3??

Last time he rocked the boat. This time the sky’s the limit!

Supercult West is proud to present Under Siege 2!

  Under Siege 2: Dark Territory Hello Supercult West! This is Supercult South Bad Movie Professor Cameron Coker (BS in “Reeves and Hatem” with a minor in “The Busey Always Gets Paid”) and I’m reaching out to you from across the country to help hype tonight’s screening of Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, aka “I’m tired of the mother f#*$-ing chefs on my mother f$)@-ing train!"

[nycto-draggo]

So, Valve's finally asking community opinions on the TF2 update they're working on, thought I'd give some reactions:

Panic Attack- Uncle Dane's gonna lose his shit, that's almost exactly what he was asking for- AGAIN.

Ambassador- Okay, so Sir Stanger and the like are defending the current ambassador, but like.... What do you do against a perfectly accurate revolver headshot from someone that can aim??? That's literally why some people main Demoman, engineer, pyro or heavy- is 'cause aiming is NOT our strong suit, so we use positioning and other tactics to our advantage. In a 1v1 fight, if the other guy can aim well and is using an aim weapon, you're most likely dead if you can't dodge like a Geometry Dash youtuber or our president being asked questions; personally, I say we NEED the nerf Valve is proposing.

Dead Ringer- I don't even need to explain here, you know this thing needs to be nerfed into the ground, even if you've never played TF2.

Y.E.R.- I like the proposal of sacrificing your cloak meter to disguise manually- and especially the faster cloak drain. Means you'll have to be smarter with managing your use of the invisiwatch or cloak-n-dagger. Yes. You will only have 3.5 seconds of invisibility with the DR with the YER if this update goes through. No longer worth it.

Sandman- Personally, I feel this update comes from really inexperienced people complaining about getting hit by the sandman. I almost never use it myself, but I also rarely ever get hit by it either. A god with the sandman still can't really do much to you once you're hit if they're far enough away for it to be a long time. Still, I feel the change is fair. It IS a very Scout annoying weapon.

Bonk! Atomic Punch- I dunno, the bonk is underused enough as is without dropping Scout's key attribute after he's used it. This'd pretty unnecessarily kill the poor thing, especially since nobody uses it for what Valve cites as its intended purpose.

Pretty Boy's Pocket Pistol- Okay, I like this change, mostly. Would've loved to see the return of 140-HP bonk boy, but hey, they removed that stat in the first place for a reason. Now where's the fix for the Baby Face's Blaster [spoiler alert: there isn't one].

Crit-a-cola- Hey holy shit, now the scout needs the BFB to run faster than normal. Thank god, because this 'weapon' was cancer with that effect.

Atomizer- Okay, I was a bit scared at first, but hey, now this could actually be fun to fuck around with. If seven of the classes in the game weren't constantly low to the ground. What exactly are you trying to do here, Valve???

Flying Guillotine- Forget what I said about the Sandman above, I'll be dancing on that god-awful combo's grave if and when this goes through.

Base Jumper- I'm a bit sad about this one if it does go through- I used to really like going on sprees with the air strike but never really got much out of it because of people that can actually AIM pecking me out of the sky regardless of the complaints Valve's apparently gotten. Whatever though, that would be good to see, having trolldiers get indirectly bitten in the ass.

Mantreads- Nevermind what I said about trolldiers getting bitten in the ass.

Darwin's Danger Shield- Why. Really, why. Pyro's already about the weakest class in the game, and a lot of people use the danger shield to HAVE A CHANCE against better snipers. Let the fuckers complain about the thing, DON'T shoot the class you're making a whole damn update for in the foot.

Razorback-  Sounds fun. Moving on.

Vita-saw- Eugh, didn't need that textual gore. Why not just make it ADAM and stick with the Bioshock reference? Anyways, the stats? Good. Throw off all the stuck-up pricks in competitive bent on uber tracking.

Crusader's Crossbow- Okay..... But it's still the only medic primary that carries over his main trait and HEALS TEAMMATES. Take a paragraph from Zenomite's videos, damnit.

Heavy's miniguns- wait what the fuck, there was an accuracy penalty?! a DAMAGE PENALTY when you start firing???? Valve what the fuck, remove that entirely! Half the times I rev up my minigun is because someone's jumped on me [USUALLY AS SCOUT, PYRO OR SPY]!

GRU- Well, it's a good thing I've already been using the Fists of Steel. Please don't pull that change through.

Eviction Notice- Jesus Christ guys, he's the heavy weapons guy, not a masochist. Don't do that.

Fists of Steel- None of the previous stats removed? So like, reduced healing AND keeping the melee vulnerability? //sigh// Alright.... I GUESS that's fair.

Rescue Ranger- Welp, now Uncle Dane's gonna be losing his shit in the other way. RIP him if that change goes through [and me, tbh].

Think I'll just casually tag @fortyeahteamfortress2- would be nice to have different people's opinions floating around on a more well-known-in-this-community blog, eh?

[driftingfuturefish]

The song of our people

Ok Guy’s I have come to the conclusion that Uncle Dane’s them is the song of the TF2 fandom. Why you ask? Well the original amazing.

Not only that but it’s catchy tune have proven to great to be left alone.

People all over the Interweb have been creating covers of it. They range from 8-bit and chiptune,

To people playing it on instruments irl

(cover is at 6:38 in the last video)

This guy even made a lyrical adaption 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x2Dza7ZSF4&ab_channel=Flittzy

(tumblr only allows 5 videos per post)

So this my argument for it and I will leave you with a link to the best of the covers  Soundsmiths  Orchestral Arrangement version  https://soundcloud.com/soundsmith323/dapper-dog-frontier-justice-orchestral-arrangement

[krysnel-nicavis-blog]

HP: The Tape

Title: The Tape

Fandom: Harry Potter

Characters/Pairings:  Percy Weasley/OFC, Oliver Wood/OFC, Marcus Flint/OMC Molly/Arthur Weasley, Weasley family, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger

Wordcount: 1,862

Notes: Holiday fic/Christmas fic, family - Inspired by Michael Buble’s version of “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” -

SUMMARY: The Weasleys receive an interesting gift for Christmas. 

[wesleyek]

task 001 ;; wesley christopher ek

BASIC

NAME: Wesley Christopher Ek

REASON BEHIND NAME: His mother named him after her father, he was a very important figure in her life. Wes also turned out to look very much like his maternal grandfather, so it is very fitting.

NICKNAME(S): Wes, Weasel, Christopher (by his mom when she is angry), and Bear

REASON BEHIND NICKNAME(S): Weasel was a nickname from his friends in elementary school and it just stuck between them, he isn’t really in contact with any of them anymore though. Bear is a nickname from his whole family, his middle name being Christopher and his love of Winnie the Pooh when he was younger, it just kind of fit with him. 

AGE: 22

BIRTHDAY: December 27, 1994

GENDER: Male

PRONOUNS: He/him but he will also accept they/them.

FAMILY

MOTHER: Felicia Marie Ek née Dahlgreen, she is quite a bit younger than Wes’s dad, but they love each other just the same. Wes is very close with his mom, calling her at least once a week. Felicia is a very strong woman and takes zero shit from anyone. She’s a nurse and one of the reasons that Wes got into forensics and things of that nature.

FATHER: Samuel William Ek, is a war vet and basically a badass. Samuel was married right out of high school and went right into the Air Force. The marriage lasted a few years before they had a not-so-pleasant divorce. It was a few years before he met Felicia and then had Wes. Wes isn’t as close with his dad as he is with his mom, but they still have a good relationship.

PARENTS: They are pretty happily in love after 20 some years of marriage. Also the fact that they now have a whole house to themselves can’t hurt ;-)

FAMILY: Wes only knows his maternal grandparents and they are very close. Wes is named after his grandfather as well. He doesn’t have a whole lot of extended family that he knows except a few cousins. Most of his aunts and uncles didn’t really have kids so he is pretty close with the few family he has.

SIBLINGS: During Wes’s father’s first marriage they conceived a daughter; MacKenzie. She is 8 years older than Wes and they aren’t very close at all. Her mother took full custody of her, so the only times they saw each other was when she stayed with them a few times a month. Though, considering their age gap, they never really clicked. So Wes generally considers himself an only child.

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES

FACE CLAIM: Dane Dehaan

RACE/ETHNICITY: White; Swedish, German, Italian/Sicilian, Dutch.. basically lots of white

NATIONALITY: American

HEIGHT: 5′8′’ / 173 cm

WEIGHT: 165 lbs / 75 kg

BUILD: Average, on the slender side

HAIR: Has slight waves to it, pretty thin

FACIAL HAIR: Little if any

HAIR COLOR: Blond

EYE COLOR: Blue

SKIN COLOR: Not overly pale

DOMINANT HAND: Left

ANOMALIES: Has fading self harm scars from when he was in middle school and high school on various places on his body. Most are covered by one or a couple of tattoos

SCENT: Some brand of deodorant

ACCENT: Run of the mill American

PHYSICAL DISABILITIES: None

LEARNING DISABILITIES: None

ALLERGIES: Penicillin

DISORDERS: Depression, but is on medication for it

FASHION: He isn’t too worried about his clothes, he’s not frumpy, he keeps up with minor trends, but he doesn’t spend time on his clothes

NERVOUS TICS: Constantly bouncing his leg, he bites on his pens and pencils, and scratches on the edges of his nails

QUIRKS: He snorts when he laughs sometimes

LIFESTYLE

RESIDES: Los Angeles, California

BORN: Donora, Pennsylvania

RAISED: San Jose, California

VEHICLE: 1980 VW Passat

PHONE: iPhone 6

LAPTOP/COMPUTER: Asus laptop

PETS: Black chihuahua mutt named Anakin, and a ball python named Daisy

HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION: Graduated from Gunderson High in San Jose, CA

COLLEGE EDUCATION: Crawford University

MAJOR: Forensics

EMPLOYER: Panera Bread

YEARLY SALARY: $18,516

POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Unaffiliated

RELIGION: Agnostic

BELIEFS: He’s not religious, but he’s spiritual in a way. But he’s unsure of everything

MISDEMEANORS: None

FELONIES: None

TICKETS AND/OR VIOLATIONS: Got a citation for speeding when he was 18

DRUGS: Smokes weed on the odd occasion

SMOKES: Smokes cigarettes

ALCOHOL: When he’s with friends

DIET: He isn’t UNhealthy....

SEXUAL/ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: Bi/Pansexual, whatever, but he’s more partial to guys

MARTIAL STATUS: Unwed

CHILDREN: None

AVAILABILITY: He is single af

LOOKING FOR: Anyone who will love him

LANGUAGES: English

PHOBIAS: The deep sea and deep space

HOBBIES: Because he’s a damn nerd he loves playing video games and reading comics. He likes jogging sometimes, but he would prefer a gym if he were to ever work out lmao

TRAITS: sentimental, trustworthy, hard-working,  guarded, nihilistic, doubtful, also he fucking loves puns

SOCIAL MEDIA: He’s pretty active on all social media, I also made him a social media page bc why tf not?? (click)

FAVOURITE

LOCATION: His favorite spot in Malibu is Heavens, because while he isn’t a fan of the beach really, he loves the walk. But honestly, his favorite spot is his room lmao

SPORTS TEAM: HAHAHAHAHA

GAME: He loves pretty much all videogames by TellTale, but he fucking loved Undertale

MUSIC: He likes a lot of different kinds, mostly rock of any kind. He loves the Gorillaz.

SHOWS: Parks and Rec, Bob’s Burgers, Steven Universe, The Flash, and Batman the Animated Series, Star Wars the Clone Wars

MOVIES: Anything from the MCU and Star Wars

RADIO STATION: He doesn’t really listen to the radio. He listens to his music library and Pandora.

FOOD: Just a fuck ton of carbs, but also fruits and veg

BEVERAGE: Diet Dr. Pepper or water

COLOR: Black and grey

CHARACTER

MORAL ALIGNMENT: True Neutral

MBTI: INFJ-T / The Advocate

ENNEAGRAM: Type 3 / The Achiever

TEMPERAMENT: Melancholic

WESTERN ZODIAC: Capricorn

CHINESE ZODIAC: Dog

PRIMAL SIGN: Boxer

HOGWARTS HOUSE: Ravenclaw (i saw that coming lmao)

ILVERYMORNY HOUSE: Horned Serpent

TAROT CARD: The Moon

SONG: I Wanna Be Free - Panic! At the Disco