#it's Robbie's world we're just living in it

[mercvry-glow]

Prologue | In Another Light

In Another Light masterlist - Jack Abbot x Ex!reader

warnings. age gap (jack is late 40s, reader is 27), exes to lovers, slow-burnish, jack and reader are really bad at feelings, reader is depressed, overall not too bad, these will matter more as the series goes on.

summary. adjusting to the day shift hadn’t been easy—not after nearly three years of working nights during your ED residency. but for the past year, you’d finally settled into a rhythm: four days on, three off, and staying home alone the rest of the time. it wasn’t glamorous, but it was stable. predictable. jack shattered that fragile peace you had—he had ruined you more than you’d like to admit. so when robby calls, asking if you could cover night shift again for a few weeks, it felt like everything you had built since Jack left unraveled in a matter of seconds.

notes. how are we feelings about this guys? we're starting out strong with some new formatting, so let me know how you like it! i'm genuinely so excited for you guys to read this 😭🫶🏼 this series is my little brain baby.

wc. 1000+

You were no stranger to the darkness. It had once surrounded you, enveloped you in a way no man ever could. Now it crept up the corner of your bedroom—stalking you, waiting to steal the little bit of comfort you had.

Day shift was supposed to be a fresh start.

A year had passed since Jack told you he couldn’t—or didn’t—love you anymore. A year since your world cracked open and swallowed everything that felt safe. Since then, you’d been living in the shell of yourself, caught in some endless purgatory where time moved but nothing truly changed.

Maybe he was right. Maybe you were too young, too idealistic, too willing to believe love could fix what trauma broke. Maybe you mistook his silence for depth, his distance for mystery. Maybe you loved the idea of him more than the man he actually was, even when you tried your best to love every piece of him.

You gave everything—your patience, your softness, the parts of you no one else had touched. And he left you with nothing but questions that still echoed when the apartment went quiet.

The morning sun now poured through the blinds, casting stripes of gold across your tangled sheets and tired body. It was a new day in Pittsburgh, sure—but you still woke up haunted. Haunted by what you could’ve been if only you had been... less.

Less emotional. Less hopeful. Less you.

But that was the thing. You couldn’t cut pieces of yourself away to fit someone else’s mold, and you certainly wouldn’t let a man decide your future.

Not anymore.

So today, you’d shower. You’d go to work. You’d try. 

And maybe that would be enough—for now.

The water shut off with a hollow clunk, leaving only the faint drip-drip-drip of the showerhead and the quiet hum of the city beyond the window. You stood there for a moment, still, watching steam curl against the glass like ghosts with nowhere else to go.

You wrapped yourself in a towel, not really feeling the softness. Everything felt a little muted lately. The air. The light. Even your own skin.

The floor creaked under your weight as you padded back to the bedroom, steam following you like a shroud. Your clothes were piled neatly at the edge of the bed—scrubs folded from the night before, socks tucked into shoes, everything ready. Like muscle memory. Like obligation.

You dressed in silence. No music. No news. No sound beyond the shuffle of fabric and the occasional hum of traffic from the street below. You caught your reflection in the mirror and looked just long enough to recognize yourself, then turned away.

Hair pulled back. Badge clipped. Phone in your pocket.

The apartment was still dark, even though it was morning. You hadn’t opened the blinds in weeks. The plants by the windowsill were starting to lean, thirsty for a little attention, but you didn’t have it in you.

Coffee wasn’t worth the effort today. You’d grab something on the way.

Your keys were where you always left them, hanging off the chipped hook by the door. One last glance around—not because you’d forgotten anything, but because it felt like you should.

Then the door clicked shut behind you.

Another day. Just like the last.

And the one before that.

The minute you locked the door, your phone rang. It wasn’t unusual, but you didn’t talk to a lot of people nowadays.

Keys still in your hand, you pulled your phone from your pocket, thumb already halfway to the green button when you saw the name.

 Robby.

A sigh slipped out before you could stop it, soft and tired. You stared at it for a second, jaw tightening.

“Morning,” you muttered, voice flat.

“Hey, kid,” came Robby’s too-cheerful voice for this time of morning, clearly laced with guilt and caffeine. “Sorry to do this so last minute, but I need you back on night shift for a few days at minimun.”

You stopped walking.

“You’re kidding me, days?” you asked.

“I wish I was, it might be longer. Martinez’s kid came down with something—he’s out for at least the weekend. I need someone solid, and I can’t send Collins or Langdon…”

You leaned against the brick wall of the stairwell, closing your eyes. “So you thought, ‘Hm, who do I know that has just started getting her life together again? Oh, me! Perfect.’”

“I thought, ‘Who’s my favorite human being that I know won’t let me drown?’” he replied.

You snorted. “Flattery’s cheap, Michael.”

“Not flattery if it’s true.”

A beat passed between you.

“You know how nights are, with me” you said more quietly, tone low. “You know why.”

He exhaled slowly on the other end. “I do.”

“And you’re still calling me?”

“I wouldn’t if I had anyone else I trusted to hold the place down.” Another pause. “I’d owe you. Big.”

You looked down at your keys, still clenched in your fist. The street beyond the stairwell buzzed to life around you. You could already feel the lost sleep crawling back over your shoulders.

“You always owe me big,” you muttered.

“That’s because you keep saving my ass,” he said, like it was simple. “But hey, you’ll be working with Shen and Ellis tonight! Night shift dream team.”

“Dream team my ass,” you said, but there was no heat behind it. “You just miss having someone who keeps them in check when all the crazys come in after 3 a.m.”

“Guilty,” he said. “So you in?”

You hesitated, but you already knew the answer.

“Yeah, I’m in.”

“Atta girl. Get some more sleep. You’re gonna need it.”

You ended the call and just stood there for a second, staring down at the pavement.

It was supposed to be a new chapter. A clean slate. Instead, you were flipping back to the pages you'd barely survived the first time.

You thought as you turned around and headed back upstairs, fuck this…

[90rangejuice]

"why are you crying? it's just a movie about a monkey"

the movie:

[mr-scandinavian]

Here's a list over issues I've seen Americans have about Robbie Williams and/or Better Man, and subsequently, my attempts at answering them as a humble Norwegian guy who grew up in the late 2000's and early 2010's:

Why is he a CGI monkey? Now I've seen loads of different explanations for this, so I'll try to summarise it for you (even though he literally explains it in the trailer); Robbie Williams is a performer, an entertainer, and due to this he's always felt like a bit of a circus monkey being pulled on stage for a show, combined with people not taking him seriously as a musician. Additionally, he rose to fame with Take That at the age of 16, and partially, due to this, he has felt a bit stunted and less evolved than other people ("but humans didn't evolve from chimpanzees" yes we know). He also said in an interview that he's on the spectrum to kind of bond these things together. Besides, it's an interesting gimmick lol.

Why have I never heard of him if he's "so" famous? Robbie Williams never really broke in the US. Probably just because of differences in the industry at the time, or the fact that his music is often heavily influenced by the europop genre.

So he's famous in the UK, that doesn't make him a worldwide star. You need to stop treating this as a US vs. UK thing. He's not just big in the UK. He's well-known in most of the world outside America (Europe, Asia, Oceania, etc.), take it from me as a Norwegian.

Why do you care if I don't know who he is/if I don't want to watch the movie? We don't. We really don't care. I mean, we were surprised at first that Americans had never heard of him because it's unimaginable to us who have had his music drilled into our brains our entire lives. But we're not angry that you don't know who he is. We're annoyed with and tired of the attitude. All we're asking is for you to have a little bit of decorum and treat the subject with even a speck of respect.

Don't take it personally. We're not. We're just tired of rehashing the same arguments over and over again because you don't know who he is.

You don't have to know who Robbie Williams is. You don't even have to like him. All we're asking is that you have the common decency to listen to us when we do our best to explain it to you because, in the end; you asked.

[flowercrowngods]

@steddie-week

part 1 (bc this is one big 7 part story)

day 02: bittersweet & angst

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eddie The Problem munson: engagement party on saturday babyyyy 🥳🥸🕺

Steve’s been staring at the message for two days now. It's sitting in his notifications, staring at him like a painful reminder of what happened exactly seven days ago. A week. It's only been a week, and Steve somehow it feels like it was both only one day or seven months ago.

It's an almost liminal experience, walking through life without texting Eddie every second of the day – because texting him would mean opening his message. It would make this real.

And that's the last thing Steve wants.

"I'm not going," Robin declares as they're cuddling on the couch, wallowing in their misery as Mayday Parade's Oh Well, Oh Well is playing for the eighth time on repeat. "Tell me you're not going, Stevie."

"Robbie," he sighs, squeezing her tighter as she tries to wriggle out of his arms to glare at him.

"Steve."

"I can't not go."

"Yes you can." She pokes him in the ribs, but he doesn't budge. She pokes him again. "Not going to things is literally the easiest thing in the world. It's a hundred times easier than going to things. You should try it sometime, trust me. You go to too many things, and–"

"Bee," he hums to get her out of the rambling spiral before she can get lost in it.

"What I'm saying," he interrupts herself dramatically, "is that you can't do this to yourself. They're engaged. They're getting married. We're going to keep our distance until our brains and hearts and the traitorous little chemicals in our bodies catch up to reality, and then we get over them, and then we can go back and see them ever again. That's the logical thing to do, Steve. But you can't... You can't just go and get your heart broken and talk yourself into thinking it's the right thing to do. It's not."

Steve sighs into her hair and buries his face in her neck. He knows that. Technically, logically, he does.

But not going feels wrong. Wronger than anything else that's been hollowing out his chest and leaving nothing but emptiness and the ghosts of every smile, every touch, every baby, love, sweetheart, sunshine. Every imaginary future, every scenario where Eddie meant it. Meant those words, meant those smiles, meant it when he took Steve's hand to hold it.

But Eddie did mean it. Every time, he meant it; because he calls Argyle and Jeff and Gareth baby and sunshine and sweetheart, too. He takes their hands, too, leans in to kiss their cheeks and just holds them when he needs to. That's just the kind of person Eddie is. Always has been.

To go and assume he never meant it would be unfair.

To go and hope it could ever mean more when Chrissy has always been right there would just be stupid.

Well, good thing Steve has that kind of reputation with a few people anyway, so it's not even a statistical outlier, that one. It's not even worth a side note.

"I know," he rasps, his eyes beginning to sting as the next lyrics are carved into the empty space of where his heart used to be.

Oh well, oh well I can't live with myself As I'm climbing in your window to get to your bed.

And I'll be what you need, You can call me anything. Just as long as we're still friends.

Tears prickle in his eyes and he doesn't bother to hold them back. Not now, not with Robin. They've both been crying on and off all week, even though Robin took it better than him.

"I know," he sobs, wrapping his arms around her even tighter as she lets herself be held because she knows that's what he needs. "I know, I know, I know. But I have to. I can't just... I can't just stop, Bee."

"I know," she sighs, climbing out of his hold eventually to wrap her arms around him in return as he cries into her shoulder.

The world (read: his Spotify playlist) makes it worse by playing Sum 41's With Me next, ripping out even the newly carved words.

Robin holds him for the rest of the night, even as he finally opens Eddie's message and types out a reply.

—I'll come!

And especially when there's a new message immediately.

—hot 🥵❤️

He leaves Eddie on read after that.

~*~

Saturday rolls around in a haze, and suddenly Steve finds himself looking at the front door of the little house Chrissy inherited after her mother passed a few years ago. It's a nice little house. Quaint. Perfect. Everything Steve could ever dream of, actually. And she deserves it. All of this and more.

There's noise coming from the garden, where people are laughing and having a great time. A happy time, celebrating their friends and all the good things in life that come with a love well placed.

God, what is he doing here? He can't do this. There is no way.

He's just about to pull out his phone and call Robin, tell her he's coming home, or ask her to tell him everything's gonna be alright, when–

"Steve!" Chrissy hurries towards him, throwing her arms around him in a tight, warm, perfect hug. God, he loves her so much. He melts right into the embrace, wrapping his arms around her middle to spin her around with a grin.

She giggles in delight and tells him to let her down again, which only makes him spin for another round, his grin turning into a genuine laugh.

"No, I hate you!" she laughs, but still doesn't step away from him when he puts her down again. Instead, she leans up and brushes a kiss to his cheek. "Hi, asshole."

"Hi."

He grins and takes her hands in his, just smiling at her for another moment before his eyes trail down to a ring he's never seen her wear before. Ah. Right.

"Oh shit! That it?"

"That's it," Chrissy says, looking down at her hand to look at the ring with a fond, happy little smile, her cheeks flushing red. It breaks Steve a little, but it also fixes something inside him to see her so truly, genuinely happy. "Pretty huh?"

"Very," Steve breathes, hiding the lump in his throat with a sound of awe.

Chrissy hugs him again for good measure and then takes his hand to drag him into the backyard the same way she just came out front, through a little gate off to the side instead of through the house.

Steve loves their backyard because it's always covered in sheerly endless colourful strings of light that are wrapped around decorative arches or poles, framing the back doors and the canopy swing set on the lawn, and just give it the most homey and comfortable atmosphere.

"Stevie!" Eddie exclaims immediately and jumps off from his chair, interrupting a conversation he's apparently been having with Argyle and Nancy to run up to him with such a giddy expression that Steve wants to cry. His heart leaps in his chest, coming back to life and saying one last goodbye at the same time.

"Hi," he says, hugging Eddie close before he can so much as think about what he's doing. But no matter how hurt he is, there will never be a world in which he won't want to hug Eddie Munson. "Sorry I'm late."

"No sorries, it's fine," Eddie murmurs into his neck, staying in the embrace endlessly, and Steve takes the chance to breathe him in. He smells so good. So, so good. It clogs his lungs and renders him unable to speak.

But who needs to speak when they have Eddie in their arms? Who needs to speak when all they have to do is never let go?

Eddie squeezes him a little tighter, and Steve wants to cry. He slowly, gently pushes away from the hug and turns towards the other guests, greeting them with a grin, a hug, or a handshake if they're not familiar.

When he gets to Wayne, the man eyes him with a look that Steve doesn't want to read too much, and his embrace is just a little longer, just a little stronger than usual.

“You look tired, son,” he says by way of greeting, and Steve can’t help but snort and shake his head a little.

“Good to see you again, too, old man.”

Wayne eyes him for one moment longer, then breaks into a small smile and pats Steve’s shoulder before stepping around him to go grab another drink.

After that, the night passes in a blur of talking to his friends, trying to understand what the hell it is that has Nancy and Argyle arguing so profusely, but with smiles on their faces. He fails. But it’s good to see them again, so he just basks in it for a while.

Or, he tries, because every second that he’s not talking or listening to someone, his eyes flick back to Eddie. Eddie, who’s lifting Chrissy from behind and smacking a loud, wet kiss to her neck, her jaw and her cheek, accompanied by her delighted squeals and laughter.

Eddie, who’s looking larger than life, a happy grin permanently plastered on his face as he reminds their guests that Chrissy was his bisexual awakening.

“I swear, she just swept me off my feet after years of thinking I was only into dudes. Knew I had to marry her, but man, I don’t know why she said yes.”

“I’m settling, honey,” Chrissy calls from the other end of the table they’re sitting around. “Only in it for that rockstar money and all.”

The whole table laughs at that.

“Hear, hear,” Eddie snorts, lifting his glass in a toast. Steve and the others lift theirs, too, even though Steve’s hand and arm and whole body feels numb and he’s not entirely sure he’s breathing.

A while later, he grabs a drink and retreats to the canopy swing, illuminated in the soft pink flow of the fairy lights wrapped around it. Eddie’s eyes land on him for a second and Steve thinks that he’ll come over and join him — but then one of Chrissy’s friends says something that distracts him and seemingly makes him fall into a monologue of sorts.

Steve watches, feeling only loss and longing as he does. Eddie is a force of nature. A spectacle. Something beautiful, something powerful, something secret that only a select few get to witness. To know. To appreciate.

Staring as he is, blind to the rest of the world, he startles a little when the swing jostles with another weight settling on it. He didn’t see Wayne coming to join him, and he’s not quite sure whether he should be grateful for the company or apprehensive of what the man who’s like a father to him might have to say.

“How are you doing, son?”

He frowns. “I’m alright.”

Wayne only hums, and Steve’s frown deepens. There’s a nagging feeling in the back of his mind that tells him Wayne knows something. That he knows.

“Y’know,” he continues after a while, not looking at Steve but rather at his nephew and his fiancée. “I always figured it would be you.”

Steve crumbles. Yeah, me too, he wants to say, but that would be a lie. Watching the way Chrissy sits on Eddie’s lap with his arms around her, his chin on her shoulder as he tells her something that makes her laugh that cute, pretty, adorable laugh that Eddie then can’t help but join — that’s just something Steve would never compare to. Nothing he’d ever want to come in between.

Eddie and Chrissy are perfect. They’re happy. They fit, they match, they work. They worked so hard and treat each other so right.

They look giddy and serene at the same time, and it makes Steve’s eyes sting. Because he can never make Eddie look like that. He can never make Eddie look at him like that.

I always figured it would be you.

But he couldn’t. That bubbly kind of love, the sunshine kind of love. He knows that’s not for him. Steve’s too much for that. He would never be enough for Eddie — even if without Eddie, there’s nothing left of him.

“Don’t get me wrong,” Wayne continues, unaware of Steve’s thought spiral. “I love that girl, I do. Always will. I think she’s too good for Eddie. Don’t tell him I said that,” he adds hastily, and Steve smiles through the tears that threaten to fall again.

“They’re perfect,” he rasps, laughing wetly as Chrissy starts chasing Eddie, who’s hiding behind a very distressed Argyle, who just wants his brochachos to chill!

Maybe it’s a laugh, maybe it’s a sob. He doesn’t have it in him to find out or care.

“They are. Doesn’t mean they’re right, son.”

Steve sighs and tears his eyes away from Eddie. “Wayne.”

“I know, I know.” He lifts his hands in defence. “Shutting up.” After a long pause of holding Steve’s eyes, he asks, “Will you be okay?”

No, he thinks immediately, the lump in his throat too big to say anything. So he just shrugs and swallows. “Sure.”

Maybe. Hardly. Probably not. Definitely not.

"No matter what happens, you'll always be a son to me. You’ll always have a home with an open door with me, you hear me?"

"I’m not going anywhere, wayne," Steve says, though for the first time ever he doesn't really believe that. Maybe he needs to leave. To leave Eddie behind. Get over him. Cut out his heart and leave it here, run away to heal somewhere else, come back as a new person, or just stay away forever.

The thought makes a tear spill as an empty kind of desperation spreads it’s ugly wings inside his chest, and he's too frozen to wipe it away.

"You hear me?" Wayne repeats, gentler this time, but no less urgent for it.

"Yeah," steve rasps. "Thanks."

Another tear falls as Eddie gently pulls Chrissy closer to him and kisses her in the soft glow of the fairy lights above and around them. Their friends cheer. Steve wants to cry his heart out again.

“I—“ he swallows, wiping at his eyes and pinching the bridge of his nose. I can’t do this, he wants to say. For the first time, that’s what he wants to say. “I think I’m gonna head home soon.”

“You bring your car?”

He shakes his head, feeling foggy and dazed and empty and endlessly, endlessly sad. “Was gonna, uh—“

“Let me drive you.” There’s no room for debate or argument there, and Steve wants to crumble again, but still he shakes his head.

“Wayne, no—“

“I’m taking you, son. Make sure you get home safe, or I won’t be able to sleep tonight. Don’t wanna keep your old man up all night, do ya?”

Steve concedes with a fond eye roll and a grateful smile. “Wouldn’t dream of it.”

“That’s what I thought.”

They sit like that for another ten minutes — and if Steve leans into Wayne’s side a little, then that’s nobody’s business but theirs.

The car ride is quiet, but it feels weighted even as Wayne pretends not to see the way Steve keeps wiping at his cheeks as the silent tears keep falling, leaving him powerless to stop them.

I can’t do this, he keeps thinking over and over again.

“Just a little warning,” Wayne speaks up again as he pulls up to Steve’s building. “I think he’s going to ask you to be his best man, Stevie. Don’t do anything you’re not ready for, okay?”

I can’t do this.

He nods, numb again.

“I’ll do anything for him,” he breathes.

“That’s what I’m afraid of, yeah.”

He gets out of the car before he can find out what exactly Wayne means by that. The car stays where it is until the front door closes behind him, until he’s up in his bedroom and finds Robin already asleep.

Ten minutes later, he cuddles close to her and tries hard not to cry, but tonight’s memories have burned themselves into his mind. And he shouldn’t have gone. He knows. He knows.

I’ll do anything. I can’t do this. I’ll do anything. I can’t do this.

He can’t breathe, and Robin holds him through it, whispering sleepily to him as he cries himself to sleep, wishing for a world where he’s not absolutely and utterly in love with Eddie Munson, but failing to imagine one.

I’ll do anything. Anything but this.

tagging: @sexymothmanincarnate @mcneen come back tomorrow for idk which prompt | read part 3 here

[zombeesknees]

What's this, Angie? Why, it seems that Blurb is doing ANOTHER THING. And this one is until April 29th. (Should I be worried that they're doing so many of these back-to-back? NAHHHH.) Anyhoo, use PURPOSE20. Pick up some indie books -- *YOU* get some fun reads and *I* can buy some cat food.

Historical fantasy, Western-style.

SO VERY QUEER.

Righteous Black Widows (because some men need to fall off ladders and be fed to pigs).

Colorful cast of characters.

What if small towns were NEAT and KIND and LOVED YOU unconditionally?

The world's saddest (and loveliest) werewolf (who finally gets everything he deserves).

Gremlins and witches and ghosts and dragons, OH YEAH!

(Take a look at how pretty this town is!)

Volumes One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven.

Historical fantasy, Golden Age of Piracy-style.

ALSO SO VERY QUEER.

The ship's called The Sappho, because I am THAT obvious.

Know what the world needs more of? SEXY MERMEN.

When piracy *is* the more ethical option.

Ladies that slay (sometimes literally).

Just a touch of monsterfucking...

(Take a look at how pretty this crew is!)

Interconnected short stories, perfect for when you've got just twenty minutes for a quick read.

The Search for Aveline | The Sanctuary of Nalani

Paranormal noir -- think Sam Spade, but with zombies!

Literal femme fatales/vamps.

Odd couple detective partners (Virgil is a goofy charmer of a werepanther; War is a sad vampire with a soft spot for damsels in distress).

Mads Mikkelsen as a mad werewolf! Rami Malek as a tragic mummy!

Angels and witches and voodoo cults and Mexican death gods, OH MY!

These totally unconnected cases couldn't POSSIBLY have anything in common... *nudge nudge, wink wink*

Each book is a fully standalone mystery!

(Take a look at the faces behind Gam & Meriweather & Yoo!)

Sorry, We're Dead | Sorry, We're Dead: Clover & Curses

Greek Gods in modern times.

A bit soap opera (but like a racy soap opera on HBO at midnight).

The Olympus Crew was like, "So, we kinda fucked up with WWII. Maybe we need to live amongst humans again and try to stop shit like that from happening again..."

Familiar names; new faces (aka: a diverse facecast worthy of divine characters).

Classic couples (Dionysus/Ariadne; Perseus/Andromeda) and brand new twists (Hephaestus/Hestia, OH YES; Bellerophon/Pandora; Hedone/Hercules; Narcissus/Adonis/Ganymede).

Interconnected short stories!

Volume One | Volume Two | Volume Three

One really weird road trip -- Supernatural meets The X-Files!

Only the best parts of Americana, like the world's largest paint ball, Meow Wolf, and The Winchester Mystery House.

Dark (sometimes literally) family secrets.

The best way to delay adulthood: drive cross-country with your twin and best friend, learning how to throw knives from carnies and talking to ghosts along the way!

Super NON-identical twins (she's the one with the tats and mouth of a sailor; he's the sweetheart who's always stuck inside his own head).

Asexual and bisexual rep in the primary cast!

Entire story is wrapped in two volumes.

You'll never guess what Robbie is short for...

...And YES, you can absolutely visit all of the places referenced in this! Have your very own Weird, USA road trip!

(Take a look at the gang!)

Volume One | Volume Two

[ivalice-tifalucis]

So you've just discovered Robbie Williams through Better Man and then got into Take That as well...

That means you're like me hahaha, but I got through this from watching his performance in World Cup 2018 opening ceremony and got curious afterwards.

Anyway, I haven't be able to see the movie yet but I heard the spoilers and I know all the stories like god knows how many videos and documentaries I've watched about them. I almost see when I was in Singapore for New Year's Eve because they got the early screening but I didn't know it was only after January 1st and I was busy going around and my family didn't let me and ok maybe I can watch the next day on the 2nd and...the movie was no longer there. I still regret it now because there was no sign of it about to release in my country. I guess I have to wait for that in streaming service.

You heard some of Robbie's songs in the movie. You saw how his music reflects his feelings and thoughts. He basically writes everything about his life and all his favorite people and enemy. Each get their own songs. Angels isn't really written for his Nan and instead it's this song called Nan's Song, his father is essentially his whole Swing When You're Winning album, Eternity for Geri Halliwell/Ginger Spice, and then for his wife IMO it's Bodies (she's also in the MV, at that time very new to the public and very unknown). And then his children, in general he made Love My Life, his eldest Teddy got Go Gentle, Charlie got M*therfucker, Coco got Coco's Christmas Lullaby, and for Beau I don't know if he made a song yet. And many more there was cover of Me and My Shadow which explains his buddyship with his best friend Jonny Wilkes (who also sings this with him and they never interact these days none of us know exactly why), there's David's Song dedicated to his manager David Enthoven one of the notable person who essentially saved his life, really. He died over 15 years ago.

Take That, is a subject of many of his songs. In return, Take That, especially Gary Barlow and Mark Owen, made a lot of songs for and about Robbie.

This is their songs for each other in timeline order:

How Deep Is Your Love (Bee Gees cover) (1996)

Their last single before they disbanded in 1996 and at that time it was final, none of them know they will return again 10 years later. They announced this single in a very close time they announced their separation lol. At that time there was only four of them because Robbie had already left few months prior. I will never not tell anyone that suspiciously they announced their disband in 13 February 1996 which is Robbie's birthday. It's like a bitter birthday gift, you could say. "Hey, we're done now, no thanks to you." And us fans have been talking whether this song is chosen for their last single because of the interesting lyrics.

2. No Regrets (1998)

At that time, both Robbie and Gary both reaching for their post-boyband solo success. The UK public is like boxing ring to them. In 1998, it was a rather equal ground. Robbie was just starting and he started poorly, Gary had got everything he needed to succeed but lack the charm. After Angels, Robbie got rocket trajectory and famous even beyond Take That teenage girls audiences. He started spewing more bad stories behind the scenes with Take That and Gary in retaliation also spewed bad things about Robbie. He then released this song which he often even explicitly said is about Take That but especially for Gary Barlow (honestly I think this song is just for Gary but he doesn't admit it blatantly). After they mend their relationship, the last lyrics in the song "I guess the love we once had is officially—Dead!" sometimes changed in live performance to "I guess the love we once had is officially Alive!"

3. Believe in the Boogie (2005)

Take That was reunited in 2005 because of the documentary called Take That: For the Record. At that time, the other four's condition was Gary became a reclusive songwriter living in his mansion with his wife and two children, Howard became a DJ living half his life in Germany for his daughter who was raised by his ex and ofc England for his other daughter raised by his other ex and also in addition was slightly depressed and unsure about his life, Jason became a traveling nomad living in his jeep, while Mark...was trying for his solo career. After he won Celebrity Big Brother in 2002, he got a recording deal to make his second album and even got him to be able to reach out to Robbie but the album didn't work out so he had to collect money to finally released his third album in 2004. At that time, Robbie Williams was in and out of rehab. This single was released after the Take That documentary was released and take a look at the lyrics.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh There's a friend of mine Who's wasting all his money Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Think he's had his time Think he's lost his mind Still a friend of mine

Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Could have had it all From the Albert Hall To the uni-ball How the mighty fall

4. Shine (2006)

After the documentary, which actually got big attention in the UK, they had a tour, the beginning of their "Take Two" phase. The tour was very successful that Take That, just four of them, got a record deal to make their fourth that nobody could ever expect, Beautiful World. The second single from this album, is this song, Shine. Sings by Mark Owen and judging by the quirkiness, it is written mostly by Mark (able to detect which song majorly written by who is a skill that a Thatter must have). The song over the years is revealed to be written for Robbie Williams (you should click this link really) who at this point in time, was still in and out of rehab but now also very depressed and reclusive. He even said he was retiring from performing and became agoraphobic. Robbie had held his panic attack on stage for years and it finally got him.

5. Said It All (2008)

In 2008, after the success of Beautiful World, Take That didn't waste any moment and immediately returned to the studio for their next album, The Circus. IMO, this album in almost its entirety are written for Robbie. Fight me if you disagree. And why? Because they recorded this song in LA where Robbie lived, hence that quote from Gary's biography about that movie-like moment where it turned out they tried to look at each other from the windows and balcony they were in. I should've known the moment Robbie started uproot his family back to London and Switzerland, he's planning to try for success in the US. For decades before, he lived peacefully in Beverly Hills because he knows no one there would recognize him. Like, he tried once for US success and he gave up entirely for that reason. Back to 2008, Take That were writing this album and they managed to have someone to contact someone who got to make 4 of them meet Robbie in his home, where they started talking again for the first time since the 90s. It was a start which is why, for many fans, this song is about that moment.

All of the miles of words we've spoken All of the lines that got away Didn't we take the time to say them all?

6. You Know Me (2009)

Not long after, Robbie Williams released his album. He didn't do any promo at all. Just one or two live tv performance and that's even. Not even a tour. He was too afraid and too unsure for that. But, in this album, Reality Killed the Video Star, there is this song that actually his reply to Shine. He never confirm this but the rabbit living in his own fairytale world is referred in his tour with Take That, Progress Live where after Shine is performed, the transition to his setlist is done with a guy dressed up as bunny, entered a screen and become Robbie Williams who jumped out to perform.

7. Shame (2010)

After the success of The Circus, and its gigantic live shows, Gary Barlow returned to LA with his family of four (they just had another baby at that time :3) for a holiday in 2009. This was the time when he, the one in Take That who must've felt the hardest to forgive Robbie, really like really had quality talk together. Gary and his wife visited Robbie's house, and they started writing songs together. The writing sessions resulted in two sings: this one and Heart and I. Robbie then put these two songs to his Greatest Hits album, called In and Out of Consciousness and had Shame as the single of this album. A public statement that Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow had mended their relationship and enemies no more. Robbie even dragged Gary around for the press junkett and small tour in small venues he did for this album...and also the previous one that never got its own tour. Oh, I love return back to those clips, they were so bare, no flashy stage costumes, got nothing to lose. Dude, they looked emotionally charged, you can't fake this maan. Oh yea, there's also that Children in Need before that, it's a lot, you gotta see the documentary or the videos on your own. This was also around the time they just released Progress album and announced the tour next year which led to...

8. The Flood (2010)

The first song that they wrote for this album, mostly by Robbie. Look at the lyrics, this song is a statement. Solid song, who unfortunately never gonna sound the same as long as Robbie not in Take That and Howard sings this in live shows. Robbie sings this sometimes in his shows though, but with the rest of Take That, it doesn't sound the same. Anyway, the whole Progress and its deluxe version Progressed is by far the furthest Take That album ever. Half of the songs in this album is about themselves and their rekindled relationship and half of them is Mark Owen high on alcohol influenced his friends into writing songs about dystopian sci-fi that is terrifyingly relatable today. You should all listen to Progress/Progressed at least once in your life. Another song from this is their B-side, called Rocket Ship and another is never even released by them but Robbie had shown this in his live streaming called Blue World.

9. Different (2012)

After Progress, Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow returned back to their studio and have more quality time together, continue tightened their relationship while also make an album out of it. They eventually cancelled the album and each took the songs they made to their respective albums. To this album that became his comeback after reunited with Take That, called Take the Crown, Robbie had Candy and Different, both were used as the singles. But there is also the song in this album called Into the Silence which from the lyrics you can tell this is a song for Gary. This song in particular, is very close to him, he rarely performed this, by the way. I think the last time he did was when he was touring this album. Even the music video that I shared is the one re uploaded because somehow the original is deleted. I don't know why.

This time I'll be different, I promise you, This time I'll be special, you know I will, Just don't leave with me in your eyes. This time I'll be better, I want you to know, This time I'll be special, oh God, make it so, Just don't leave with me in your eyes, your eyes, your eyes

Gary in his album also had Requiem from his sessions with Robbie. The song is dedicated for his father who died in 2009, if I'm not mistaken. But, there is a song in the deluxe version, called Mr Everything who suspiciously probably was written inspired by Robbie.

10. Into the Wild (2014)

After Progress, they had a break. Robbie returned to his solo, Gary to his solo as well his first album since his badly badly failed second one in the early 00s, and Mark also to his fourth album. And when it's time to return, Robbie preferred to go his own way, he got projects he wanted to do lining up. Jason suddenly quit the band. That left only three of them. The three determined to continue and make their next album, the first since they became just three. One of this song, performed by Mark, Into the Wild, seemed to dedicate to Robbie. Just look at the lyrics.

Up tight, tied up again Tied up again with my one and only friend Your voice is all I can hear All I can hear it's the music to my ears

Staying out of trouble staying in and out of touch In and out of touch I can never get enough Up tight, tied up again Some things will never change

It's almost like we go Dance with desire then we go playing with fire Then we go into the wild again

Tumblr only lets you attach 10 videos in one post so I guess I'll have to stop here for now. There are still many songs to explore. It got less in recent time but doesn't mean there's nothing more. There are. He's not lying when he said "Gary Barlow, I think about you a lot." Even if Mark is constantly thinking about Rob 😂

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I'm just gonna list SCPs from each series you may or may not have read

SCP-008-J - Geoff: A 23 year old man named Geoff who keeps finding his way into Foundation facilities completely by accident and in such a manner that the Foundation isn't actually sure if he's anomalous or not

SCP-7474-EX - Not All Aliens Are Anomalies: An alien argues that they should not be in containment because their technology is explicable within the standard model of physics

The Great Hippo's SCP-001 Proposal (feat. PeppersGhost) - A Good Boy: The Foundation builds a computer which becomes SCP-001 by neutralising every other SCP in containment

SCP-423 - Self-Inserting-Character: A fictional character named Fred who can jump between any narrative works placed near each other and then inserts himself into the story as a minor character

SCP-1006 - Spider Proletariat: A community of communist spiders living in a national park under their own rudimentary Marxist governmet

SCP-2137 - The Forensic Ghost of Tupac Shakur: A copy of Me Against the World (which may or may not be possessed by his ghost) which when played reveals the locations of murderers connected to cold cases, with the additional implication that Tupac was a higher being who incarnated as a human to take a break from warring against the Scarlet King

SCP-2557, A Holding of Envelope Logistics®: An SCP slot the Foundation can no longer use because the concept of SCP-2557 as a set of Special Containment Procedures in the Foundation Database was purchased in 2011 by a company which invests in abstract concepts, with the whole page now being an ad for said company

SCP-2719 - Inside: A "variable abstract-metaphysical construct pointer" which can either designate a concept as inside or make a concept go inside

SCP-3006 - Twice The Number One: A YouTube video titled "we are number one except every time you play it there are twice as many robbie rottens but the room is the same size[nsfw]" whose effects spread to every other video linked in the same thread as it whenever anyone posts a link

SCP-3309 - Where We Go When We Fade, Fade Away: The Foundation fills SCP documents with grammatical errors to trigger the SCP Wiki's quality control measures, leading to the now poorly written anomaly being erased from existence

SCP-4413 - The End of Something Really Excellent: Homestuck fans use metafictional rituals to enter the narrative of Homestuck triggering a pataphysical war over control of the narrative which spreads to Homestuck fanfiction and sees many Homestuck characters escape to baseline reality

SCP-4485 - Such Black Light: The Church of the Broken God collaborates with a post-modernist splinter sect of Are We Cool Yet? to destroy formal logic in the hopes that by doing so there will be no meaningful distinction between Cool and Uncool or Broken and Unbroken, so their god will be resurrected and AWCY? will attain a state of artistic perfection referred to as "Coolness"

SCP-4493 - Keep Pride Out of Corps: A phenomenon caused by Gamers Against Weed which edits Pride Month themed social media posts and ads by organisations to highlight the negative effects those groups have had on LGBTQ individuals

SCP-4703 - Perfectly Legal: A store in Texas called Yeah, We're Totally Going to Sell You This which through anomalous means makes all its dangerous and unethical business practices perfectly legal, thank you very much

SCP-5004 - MEGALOMANIA: The Foundation conspires to make Donald Trump president to contain a demon underneath the Capitol and gets more and more depressed as they realise they won't have to do any manipulation to get him elected

SCP-5167/SCP-5761 - When The Imposter is Sus Part I & II: The Foundation creates an AI tasked to play games of Among Us to track down a minor Greek god who is playing the game, only for the AI to play so much Among Us they ascend and become Amogusrath, God of Suspicion

SCP-5449 - Choo Choo Spooder: An intelligent jumping spider who uses a wooden toy train to deliver things to staff across Site-47

SCP-5721 - What Passes As Worship In The Digital Age: The goddess Discordia poses as the Founder of Hammer and Chisel, creators of the Discord chat application and adds a clause which states all users pledge their souls to her, allowing her to siphon the vital energies of its userbase

SCP-5790 - [DATA KILLED]: A spiritual successor to SCP-579, no details about the anomaly and instead describes the procedures used to acquire information about the anomaly when needed

SCP-6101 - The Most Powerful SCP: The Make-A-Wish asks the Foundation to classify nine year old Ethan Prosper as the most powerful SCP

SCP-6102(031) - For Classification: Small Organism, No Function: An SCP document generated by an autoarchavist AI living in a future where there are millions of documented SCPs

SCP-6135 - We Didn't Start the SCP: A copy of Billy Joel's Stormfront album with an altered version of We Didn't Start the Fire containing references to groups and individuals who don't exist, like Harry Potter, Pokemon, and the Taliban

SCP-6136 - two dudes chilling in an interrogation room, five feet apart cause they're not happy: Completely unrelated to that one vine, it's a physical mnemonic device which gives you memories related to pliers and because of this is a pair of pliers

SCP-6383 - The One True Anomaly: A stop sign classified as anomalous because it is the single least anomalous thing in the universe

SCP-6442 -Mimir, Mímir: A congnitohazard etched inside a carbon-fibre based elastomer sphere so that the only beings who will ever perceived it are those who attain omniscience, of which over 8000 have and all died instantly upon seeing it

SCP-6690 - NO MORE PURPLE DINOSAUR: The Muppets (who are alive; a detail never commented on by the document) created the "I hate you, you hate me. Let's go out and kill Barney." song, which causes event to occur which can injure or kill whoever is the current actor for Barney the Dinosaur

SCP-6930 - 🔴 Paty Is Streaming Now: Remember SCP-3930 (the Pattern Screamer), the Russian facility which does not exist but when a specific region is observed your mind fills the void until there's an entity real enough to suffer and hate you for making them aware of their non-existence? Yeah, one of those got out, and she's a vtuber now

SCP-7529 - Josie's Better Half: The back half of a cat which a Foundation researcher is convinced is the back half of SCP-529, the front half of a cat with a different coat colour, and after he tries to force them together who voids the universe's insurance policy

SCP-7777 - Heptaphobia: A phenomenon that affects Random Number Generators to produce sequences of 0's and 7's which when translated into ASCII reveal unethical actions taken by the Foundation

SCP-7918 - RONALD REAGAN DIES OF ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME-RELATED COMPLICATIONS: An anomalous recording of Ronald Regan in the terminal stages of HIV/AIDS while recounting stories of his political career and what seem to be annecdotes of an alternate version of himself that was dating a man

SCP-8008 - TIME PERVERT: Real life writer and founder of LessWrong, Elizier Yudkowsky ascends to godhood after blasting rope to hentai trap his mind in a million year timeloop, remoulds the multiverse into a series of self-indulgent narratives, and modifies baseline humans into our current appearance to fit his sexual preferences, which by the standards of the original timeline make us the equivalent of those anime girls who look 12 with breasts larger than their heads

SCP-8981 - RONALD REAGAN'S PRESIDENTIAL REPUTATION CUT UP WHILE 😳ING: Spiritual successor to SCP-1891 (RONALD REGAN CUT UP WHILE TALKING), it is a collection of anomalies which randomly affect Ronald Regan, including the manifestation of a homonculus created by the Foundation as a body double for his public appearances which exhibits strange behaviours after a failed assassination like trying to crossbreed dogs and horses and attempting to eat a baby

[amanita-muscaria-things]

Libby Reads Trials of Apollo: The Tower of Nero

~spoilers below the cut~

"On Nero's own now do your lives depend" ??

Celtic deities huh? New series pls

I love Clueless Apollo/Lester

"Choo choos were more Hephaestus's thing."

Bro leave Percy and his family alone 😭😭

Estelle Blofis-Jackson?!?! Nvm nvm never stop bugging Percy

So the next (presumably three) PJO books are running at the same time as ToA

Percy's gonna find out about Jason when he gets to Camp Jupiter 💔

Sally and Paul are literally so nice wtf

Nero is literally crazy wtf wtf

"With luck, I'll survive." JESUS

Of course Nero has more Greek fire than anyone else

Grey Sisters appearance!!

Will and Nico !!!!!!

Stop talking about Jason stop it 💔

I actually adore Will Solace

Bianca mention 😭

Babe wake up Nico lore just dropped

Will is a Star Wars fan let's goooo

"My boyfriend..." GODS THEY'RE CUTE

Luguselwa!!!

Fuck Nero

Luguselwa?? 🥺

I physically cannot handle Ghost Jason help

God fuck Nero is such a manipulator

Loving Luguselwa's fork and knife hands (my baby 🥺)

NICOOOOO

Austin and Kayla let's gooooo

Apollo/Lester going after Meg is just awesome

MEG IS APOLLO'S ROLE MODEL AHH

Nero stopping Nico's blade is beyond horrifying wtf wtf

WILL AND LUGUSELWA AND RACHEL LET'S GOOOOOOO

"No one hits my boyfriend." Yes sir 🫡🫡🫡

Loving Rachel having a larger role in this series

The troglodytes deserve all the hats in the world I love them sm

Blue plastic hairbrush mention?!

Lester crying over how grown up Meg seemed kills me

Robbie Daymond's voice for Python is legit insane and so perfect

Arrow of Dodona 🫡🥺

Missing Lester rn (I think Apollo is too)

Screw Zeus (Hera a little less I guess ?)

Apollo defending the Arrow of Dodona to the Grove 💔💔 tears tears tears

WISE GIRL WISE GIRL

Marine Biology. I fucking knew it. He's gonna stick with that trust me

Percy talking about Jason -> 💔🥺💔🥺💔

Percy talking about Estelle -> ❤️😘❤️😘❤️

Bi Piper?? Lesbian Piper?? Okay slay

Aeithales sounds like my ideal living space. Curtains of hanging vines? Yes please.

"The sun always comes back."

We're friends? Oh okay 🥺🥺

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“Your outie is skilled at riding on the top deck of a London bus. Your outie likes a glass of whisky. Your outie appreciates the blossom during springtime. Please try to enjoy each fact equally, and not show preference for any over the others.” If I were to give Dichen Lachman her own Lumon wellness check, that is how it might start.

Lachman swiftly became a fan favourite in the first season as enigmatic Ms Casey, the mysterious wellness councilor sent down to the sinister Testing Floor after only 107 hours of consciousness. She was defined by her sweetly detached line delivery, combined with a super chic bob and a face card that never declined. Then, in the final seconds of the last episode, a shocking twist revealed she was also Gemma, the not-so-dead wife of Adam Scott’s character Mark.

Now the second season of the smash-hit show — it’s Apple TV’s most-watched series ever — is about to reach its nail-biting conclusion in a 76-minute-long season finale. The fate of Lachman’s character(s) hangs in the balance.

No spoilers, but she’s an optimist holding out for a happy ending. “I always like to think there's light at the end of the tunnel,” she tells me from her fabulously wallpapered home in west London. That said, “I have no idea what Dan [Erickson, the show’s creator] is, cooking up, if indeed we get an opportunity.” The opportunity, that is, for a third season. Still not confirmed, although if it happens, fans hopefully won’t have to wait another three years between seasons.

They only planned to be in London for a few months in 2022, as a taster before shooting for season two of Severance began in New York. But then Osinski got the Ted Lasso role, and Lachman fell in love with London. “The food, the architecture, the vibe, the public transport,” says Lachman. “I love getting on a double decker bus and sitting on the top, at the front. I feel like I'm flying through the streets.” She doesn’t mind the rain when it makes the capital’s parks and gardens so lush. “Max laughs at me because I'm just obsessed with how voluptuous the flowers are in the springtime. It's like fairies polished all the grass in the middle of the night, ‘cause it just gleams,” she gushes. “Coming from Nepal and then Australia, where we're constantly in drought, and then Los Angeles [where] it never rains.”

Lachman has lived all over the world. Born in Kathmandu, Nepal (her mother is Tibetan, her dad Australian), her family relocated to Adelaide in Australia during the Nineties. She landed a part in Neighbours in 2005, that much beloved soap opera that has launched the careers of the likes of Kylie Minogue and Margot Robbie. Hollywood called to her, and in 2008 she was cast as Sierra in Joss Whedon’s show Dollhouse, a sci-fi cult classic about people — the dolls — who get given a personality and skills to suit the job they’re hired for before their minds are wiped.

No actor can guess that their show will become a phenomenon, but Lachman knew that Severance was special from the jump. “I became a fan of the show before the show was even made,” she says. She received the scripts while she was living in a hotel bubble filming Jurassic World Dominion (she played villainous dinosaur smuggler Soyona Santos) during the early days of the pandemic. “I thought I’d read a script a day,” she remembers. “But I couldn’t put them down. I was obsessed.” So she appreciates why so many people are obsessed with the show, too. “They're creating art and making fan videos, and the theories that are floating around — it's wonderful that people are so engaged with it and inspired.”

Like the fans, she was also in the dark about the big reveal about her character. Severance’s world is populated by these severed ‘innies’ and their original ‘outies’, with some characters striving to ‘reintegrate’ through horrifying DIY neuroscience. “It was really kept under wraps,” Lachman explains. “When I taped for it, I had no context. It was just this really peculiar character saying these very random, outie facts. Then I had a Skype meeting with Ben and at the end of the call, he said ‘well, actually, you know, she's Mark's wife, Gemma’.”

That’s Ben as in Ben Stiller, the A-list actor turned director of Severance. Lachman says she still finds hard not to be star struck around him sometimes. “I still have to get over the fact that it's, like, Ben Stiller. The others have desensitised themselves, maybe a little,” she explains. As Ms Casey/Gemma spends a lot of the time trapped in the bowels of Lumon, she doesn’t always get as much screen time as the rest of the cast. “I have to take a second to calibrate. But we're all here to do the work, and I focus on that. And because he's an actor, he knows how to speak actor.”

Gemma finally got a full episode of gorgeous, heartbreaking backstory in episode seven, Chikhai Bardo, which was sumptuously directed by Severance’s chief cinematographer Jessica Lee Gagn��. It was an emotional rollercoaster of Gemma and Mark’s romance and their doomed attempts to start a family, which push them into Lumon’s biotech clutches. Erickson allowed Lachman and Gagné taking the lead on the devastating scenes of Gemma’s miscarriage, she says. “They were so open to hearing what we felt those moments needed to feel like”.

Those hazy, sunshine-filled days before the young lovers were severed from each other and their own selves were shot at the end of the filming in schedule. “We really wanted the light of the spring and the flowers,” Lachman explains. It was important to create a contrast with the never-ending winter that the current timeline of the show seems trapped in. And while Mark without Gemma lives in a dark and miserable cookie cutter house, the flashback/reintegration scenes play out in light and plant-filled rooms. “That’s a funny story, because it was Jessica's house that she was renting while she was working on the show,” Lachman explains. “It was quite an extraordinary house, she was actually sleeping there on the days that we were filming.”

Watching the finale, the entire audience will surely be rooting for Gemma to finally escape. But if she survives Cold Harbor, what would become of the most beloved of her innies, Ms Casey? Lachman clearly feels a lot of tenderness towards her character, who we saw again in all-too-brief moment in the seventh episode when Gemma attempted her own jailbreak. “She was incredibly excited to see her friends again on the severed floor. Then to have, Milchick send her back was just heartbreaking,” says Lachman. “I spent a lot of time with her, is it weird that I'm talking about her like she's a person?”

Not at all, especially considering how as an actor, each character across a career must feel like a series of innies that have gone dark once shooting wraps. “It's like a little death, isn't it?” muses Lachman. “Especially when you're really invested in it and it's taken up a lot of time and you've had to put a lot of work into it. It is sad to sometimes let those characters go.”

It’s also a part of the human experience, the different selves we have depending on the situations we find ourselves in. “I feel like I have a lot of innies,” says Lachman. “I have a lot of duality and different personalities. I'll be a version of me when I'm at home, and then I'll be a different version when I'm a child with my parents and a different version as a mother, or when I'm out there in the world, in the workforce. They're all different aspects of me, and I haven't reintegrated, I guess.”

Whatever happens in the finale, let’s hope Gemma/Ms Casey makes it out in one piece and the show gets renewed. Then — fingers crossed — we’ll get more of Lachman on our screens in that highly anticipated third season.

Severance is airing now on Apple TV+

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ONE MUST IMAGINE SISYPHUS HAPPY. a writing blog for dr. michael robinovich, aka DR ROBBY, from the 2025 show the pitt. written by kc. more information below.

hi! i'm kc, i'm 25, she/they pronouns. i'm gonna keep things simple on this blog.

the basic rules:

please be nice. im autistic, so i just ask that ppl keep that in mind when interacting w/ me.

if we're gonna ship, i like to discuss it a lil first! just to be on the same page. but i love to ship. and robby is bi bi bi.

this blog is going to be very lowkey as i'm sure you can already tell. if you ever have questions or need more info, please feel free to ask.

i don't write smut personally but i'm fine w/ discussing those topics. i don't have any personal triggers but i do ask that you tag real world politics. if we're gonna write something triggering, please ask first just in case! i try to do the same for others.

this might get updated but idk what else to say im very chill and just here to have fun ok love u guys

the basics about robby

dr robby is an er physician who basically runs the emergency room of the pittsburg hospital (often referred to as the pitt). he's a good doctor, and he cares about people. very smart, very cool, very dad energy.

idk his exact age, but noah wyle (who plays him) is 53, so we'll assume late forties to early fifties and go with that.

there is still a lot for us all to learn about robby's upbringing, but he lived with his grandmother for a while, and tends to be closed off. so yeah, probably some trauma there.

he has been a doctor for a long time, and worked through the covid pandemic. he lost his mentor figure to covid, and was the one in charge of his case at the time. he has a lot of unresolved trauma relating to this.

if there's one thing robby loves, it's not dealing with his feelings.

overall he's a p simple character. this is also me telling you to watch the pitt if you haven't

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Harry: "Winning a BRIT award blew us away. That win was down to our amazing fans."

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Of yourself in the papers or magazines?

Liam: "In this band, if you see an embarrassing picture of yourself, you know that's it's going to be someone's screensaver for the next few days."

Harry: "If there are ever any embarrassing pictures of one of us in a magazine shoot, that's always worth a few days of mickey-taking. Or we all like to take pictures of each other when we're not looking or asleep—there have been some good ones, let me tell you!"

Louis: "Hold up, let me show you this one." [Shows Teen Now a picture of Liam having a nosebleed on the tour bus.]

Liam: "I had a massive nosebleed and I'd got blood everywhere, so I felt—and looked—rubbish."

Harry: "He got so angry because we were taking pictures of him, but it was funny at the time!"

Zayn: "I saw one where I must have jumped off a step and my whole face had dropped. It didn't even look like me. I had to look at it six or seven times to see if it really was me. I was wondering if they'd done something to the picture. It was horrible. I hated it!"

Niall: "There are ones where I don't have a belt on my trousers and they start to fall down, and you can see my boxers... And do you know what? I've seen lots from the tour where we've got our arms in the air and we've got big sweat patches."

Would you like to get your own back on the paps?

Liam: "I have already. I snowballed one of the paps from a balcony when I was in Sweden."

Louis: "I'd love to pap the paps—and then Tweet them. How good would that be?"

Harry: "Imagine if they were papping you and then we started papping them back—how funny would that be?" [Since this interview, One Direction have actually started Pap Of The Week on Twitter—check it out.]

Zayn: "In America, they chase you. They're a lot more ruthless. They really run after you. If you're doing an event here in the UK, they'll chase you, but not if you're just walking around like normal."

Niall: "They've chased us home a couple of times here. But in America, they run after you to get that shot."

Have you regretted anything you've said in an interview?

Liam: "Actually, in the interview before this one, I said something I wish I hadn't, but I can't repeat it."

Louis: "Not so much in an interview, but I did on stage on the last tour. Liam told a joke to the audience and I really sarcastically came out with: 'Alright then, Mr. Comedian.'"

Liam: "It's because no one heard it and there was a complete tumbleweed moment on stage!"

Zayn: "I've regretted this whole interview that we've just done with you, actually. No, I'm joking! I've never actually regretted anything I've said. We always try to be quite truthful."

Have you managed to have a private life?

Harry: "Yeah, I think it's nice to be able to keep some stuff private—it is hard though, but there's lots of things people don't find out about."

Liam: "We do have a private life, but we talk about some things."

Niall: "If you choose to keep it private, it can stay private. But it is hard sometimes. I've never had a relationship in the public eye, so I can't say on that."

Zayn: "You really need to know who you can trust. It feels weird to know that, once, we could do anything we want, but it's just different now."

When you go back to your hometown, do you get left alone or do you get hassled more?

Liam: "To be honest with you, when you go home you try to do so many things in the day that you're more tired, I find. I'll go and see all the relatives, see my mates, and before you know it, you're in the local pub and the day's gone."

Harry: "Sometimes I do get hassled more when I go home. There were loads of fans at my family's house, which was weird that they knew where I lived. It's not that we don't like seeing them, but then it affects how our families live because they have to deal with it all."

Liam: "Someone put my address on Twitter a little while ago."

Do any of you regret entering The X Factor now that you've lost your life?

Louis: "No way. The X Factor is the most incredible platform for anyone. I think we all went on there for a reason—to sing—and yeah, we were all solo performers, but now we're a group and if we hadn't done that competition, who knows where we'd be now."

Liam: "The one thing we'd love to do though is go back to school, because school is so much fun—you don't realise how easy school actually is compared to everything else."

Have any of you ever thrown a diva strop?

Liam: "I did yesterday! We were doing a shoot, and it was really fashion-based, and they did weird things with our hair."

Louis: "They were cool things."

Liam: "Well, not for me. They went to give me a side parting in my hair, and I was like: 'Nope, not doing it.'"

Louis: "Liam's not quirky enough."

So when you have a little strop, do the others bring you back down to earth?

Louis: "Yeah, we all do."

Do music. We want to focus on one thing and try not to spread ourselves too thinly.

Zayn: "We really enjoyed it in terms of being on the set and having a laugh and a joke while doing the acting. We’d love to do something like that in the future, but I think right now, like Harry said, we’re just going to concentrate on the music side of things."

Have you ever done any acting before that?

Niall: "I did stuff on the stage at school and that, but nothing to that level. It’s like one of the biggest shows on TV."

Zayn: "I did A Level theatre studies, but that’s about as far as it went."

Who’s the most famous person in your phone book?

Liam: "Michael McIntyre."

Zayn: "I’ve got Simon Cowell’s."

Niall: "I don’t."

Zayn: "I think he’s probably one of the most famous people in the world."

Niall: "Well, I’ve got Barack Obama on my roof. I go and talk to him and everything (laughs)."

When you have time off, what do you like to do to chill out?

Niall: "When we have a day off, I always feel like I have to do something. I think Zayn’s the opposite because he likes to chill. But I feel like if I need to go to the shops, or want to go shopping, I just have to do it. But on my last day off, I think I just sat there—I’m sure I only went to the toilet twice."

Zayn: "My ideal day off would be waking up at 5pm. Just chill out all day, maybe play a few games, watch a film, have some good food, and just sleep again."

Liam: "I like to do nothing if I get the chance. I do like playing Mario Kart 7. No, really! The thing about Super Mario is that he’s just your average Joe—who’s given the opportunity to drive a really fast car. He has special flying powers, and everybody would love that, wouldn’t they?"

Harry: "We love to chill out and play that, although some of us get more carried away than we should. We each took a 3DS on tour with us to America. There’s a multiplayer setting, so you can link up and play against each other."

Where’s your favourite place to relax?

Liam: "The sofa or the balcony."

Harry: "At Teen Now’s house."

(You’re always welcome to pop in for a cuppa and a piece of cake!)

Louis: "In my bedroom, although I do quite like sitting in our kitchen. It’s spacious and got a great view."

Zayn: "At home with friends."

Niall: "I agree. Definitely home."

What do you wear when you’re lazing around the house?

Niall: "Calvin Klein boxers."

Zayn: "I wear joggers and a really baggy T-shirt that’s way too big for me. Then I’ll put on a pair of high-tops. Even if I’ve got a day off, I’ll still have a shower, do my hair, all the normal stuff. It’s not the same grooming as for TV or anything, but I do like to look after myself."

Harry: "Shorts and a T-shirt."

Louis: "What, when no one is there? This is going to sound really weird, but I think it’s quite funny, try it one time. If no one is in, cos our place has loads of stairs, I run up them naked."

(Erm, OK Louis!)

What do you have up on your bedroom wall?

Harry: "I have a sketch of a car, it’s a 190SL Mercedes."

Liam: "I haven’t got anything on my wall cos I’m not allowed. I’ve got a wicked picture of the Joker from Batman, but I can’t put it up."

Louis: "I don’t have anything on mine either."

Niall: "My bedroom’s got four walls of windows, so I don’t really have room for anything."

Zayn: "For Christmas, Liam bought me a Scarface canvas. I’ve got that on my wall, and I’ve also got a few lightsabers hung up too. And I’ve got our ‘sold-out tour’ plaque and our ‘No.1 book’ one too."

What did you do on your last day off?

Harry: "My sister was in London, so I caught up with her and we went out for lunch."

Liam: "I went to the cinema in the afternoon to watch a movie."

Louis: "I spent it with my girlfriend."

Zayn: "I chilled out at home with friends. I just felt really normal, it was cool. I did a bit of shopping and my mum made some good home-cooked meals."

Niall: "It was so nice. I went home for a few days, and I went down to the pub, watched the football, and had a few pints with the lads."

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[hunter-sylvester]

I honestly feel bad for Hunter. Having neglectful parents suck, I can see why he’s so attached to Kevin. Especially considering they’ve been friends since third grade (I think). I’d be scared if my friend started running off with some chick too tbh. Because now it’s not just us anymore.

[although Hunter still has Robbie, I love Robbie]

You and me both, Anon 💔 [prev ask for context]

And you’re preaching to the choir about neglectful parents lmao there’s a reason I relate to him so heavily. More like about a million reasons but that’s beside the point.

I agree and I definitely think it plays a very large part. Even the band’s name changing is symbolic of that loss of the illusion of them that Hunter was living under. I didn’t touch on it much in the previous analysis because I was trying to stay focused on his parental issues. But when discussing his attachment to Kevin in any way it’d be an oversight to ignore the fact that Hunter is in love with him. Dare I say canonically.

“When I first got the script, the first thing which popped out to me was that Hunter seemed like he was in love with Kevin.” – Adrian Greensmith

It's how Adrian played Hunter. It's as close to canon as it can be without it being in the script.

Although I do not think that it's entirely necessary to accept him being in love with Kevin for the following to make sense, it does enrich it imo.

So in my mind he subconsciously believes that Kevin and he are something. Something more than simply best friends. Not that he’s able to realize that. He automatically pushes everything down the second he feels it. Unless it's anger, of course. [emotional regulation issues | father]

You can see him repress his emotions so clearly here.

And yeah, the bandname. In the same scene, we get a quote I always read entirely too much into love to analyze deeply. Watch how he says it. It means way more to him than it should.

Skullfucker is them. It's Kevin & Hunter. It's his idea of them and their future. Of touring and performing together. Of striding into adulthood together.

His preceding "You can't. You can't-" is him practically begging Kevin not to abandon him. [abandonment issues | mother]

"You can't leave me because we are Skullfucker. Skullfucker is us. You can't break us. You can't throw me away, you were supposed to be the one that doesn't throw me away because we're us. You can't break Skullfucker."

It makes sense that Skullfucker is quite a 'strong' and over-the-top, even violent name. It's everything Hunter wants to project outward to protect himself and what he has with Kevin. Aside: it changing to Skullflower, which has a softer connotation while still befitting a metal band, can easily be read as symbolic of Hunter being forced to learn it's okay to be vulnerable as well. But that'd be a tangent and a half.

Kevin is shattering his entire world in the scene. He's taking a fucking sledgehammer to it.

"You need me a lot more than I need you. Without me all of your dumb fantasies disappear. But without you I might actually live a real life." - Kevin Schlieb

"Dumb fantasies" can be read as the more obvious. Namely, their band making it big while Hunter has to make zero compromises to his vision. Or there is the arguably more painful version. Hunter's dumb fantasy is them. Them together. Them being anything. Which certainly all falls apart without Kevin.

Aside: I wish to note that while I think Kevin makes a good number of painfully accurate points during this fight, I don't think he means all of it at his core. It's said in the heat of the moment and should thus be taken with a grain of salt. "You need me a lot more than I need you. Without me all of your dumb fantasies disappear." These lines I view as painfully accurate. "But without you I might actually live a real life." This one I think is not to be taken entirely at face value. It is said in anger with the intention to hurt in my opinion. And it works. But it's not what Kevin actually thinks.

He lashes out after this. As it's the only way he knows how to deal with anything and it beats having to examine why this is shattering his very being. [emotional regulation issues | father]

Aside: let it not be thought that I in any way condone his actions leading up to this scene. While the speech class scene is my favorite scene in the movie, Hunter's actions in it towards Emily are inexcusable. And the consequences that follow are something he brought upon himself.

There is also a case to be made for this being an example of or affected by Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, as I view all the members of Skullflower as being AuDHD (ADHD + Autistic).

But to circle back to Kevin running off with Emily...yeah. Of course that shatters him. Kevin is the only person that he feels safe around and on top of that he's in love with him.

His bubble of safety and his presumption that Kevin is his are turned to dust before his eyes and he doesn't even know why it's hitting him as hard as it is.

Also yes, they have indeed been best friends since third grade.

"Hunter's been my best friend ever since he stopped Molly Levine from pulling out my hair in third grade" - Kevin Schlieb

And yes, Robbie rules. We love Robbie in this household. I love that he's someone Hunter can also lean on. Even if it does have to be through very heavy projection.

And a hug. You can't fault a good hug.

I will emphasize tho, he never actually loses Kevin.

He couldn't. The way in which he thought he lost Kevin was a way he never had him to begin with. Kevin is still his best friend, still his bandmate and still someone who is safe and who is there for him. Kevin was just angry at him (and for good reason, let's be real). But he wasn't actually abandoning him. Hunter only felt like he did. [abandonment issues | mother]

Look no further than the fact he broke him out of Rehab. He came back for him because that is what Kevin does. Even if he gets mad, even if they fight, even if Hunter acts entirely out of line, Kevin is never gone. Never lost.

There will be consequences, absolutely. But he'd have to do a lot worse to actually lose Kevin for real. Tune in next time, where I will explain why Hunter and Kevin's relationship fits a BDSM bratting dynamic /j ANYWAY-

I do think their relationship is special. Just not necessarily in a way that involves kissing, unfortunately for Hunter.

Thank you so much for asking, Anon 🤘 If you are the same Anon from last time, then thank you again. I enjoy going on these incomprehensible rants and I'm massively thankful for being asked about my special interest like this. It's very nice ^-^

[whispers-soundtrack-project]

Loki / Mobius

Fanmix Part Four

Part One - Part Two - Part Three

Link to the Spotify Playlist is at the bottom of the post

If the World Falls To Pieces (Young Summer)

Now we have nothing left to lose * Flames look beautiful if you forget what they can do * If they only knew

Somebody To Die For (Hurts)

I've got nothing left to live for * Got no reason yet to die * But when I'm standing in the gallows * I'll be staring at the sky

Hold My Hand (The Fray)

I found a picture in my basement * My face a hundred years ago * But I don't want to do like he did * So full of pride and all alone

Heroes (Haley Reinhart)

Though nothing will keep us together * We could steal time, just for one day * We can be heroes, forever and ever * What'd you say?

The Reason (Hoobastank)

I'm sorry that I hurt you * It's something I must live with everyday * And all the pain I put you through * I wish that I could take it all away

In Time (Robbie Robb)

In time we'll be dancing in the streets all night * In time, yes, everything will be all right * It'll take time but we're going far, * You and me, yes I know we are

End Of The World (Rob Dickinson)

If the end of the world was near * Where would you choose to be? * If there was five more minutes of air * Would you panic and hide * Or run for your life * Or stand here and spend it with me?

We Remain (Christina Aguilera)

Now, we talk about our wasted future * But we take a good look around * Yeah, we take a good look around * Yeah, we know it hasn't been for nothing * 'Cause we never let it slow us down

Lost My Mind (Finneas)

You're the scars on my skin * You're the past I don't wanna erase * You're the words on my lips * That have left but I still seem to taste * Maybe I'm just too tired to keep lyin' * Maybe you're all I ever wanted

Lovers In A Dangerous Time (Bruce Cockburn)

When you're lovers in a dangerous time * Sometimes you're made to feel as if your love's a crime * Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight * Got to kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight

[roamwithahungryheart]

Margot Robbie in Armani Privé

Score: You know where I'm going with this. 10/10. 💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎

It's Barbie's world, we're just living in it.

[aphilosopherchair]

Ghosts Feeling the Economic Squeeze

The economy is tough for everyone, but it's especially tough for ghosts. With so many people out of work, ghosts are finding it hard to find jobs that they're qualified for.

"It's a ghost town out there," said Casper, a ghost who has been looking for work for months. "There just aren't enough jobs for everyone."

"It's been really competitive," said Bryan Wilson, another ghost, who was laid off from his job as a night watchman. "So many other ghosts are also looking for work."

Miss Frizzle, a ghost who was a former teacher, said that she's been struggling to find a new job. "I'm qualified and I have experience, but no one seems to want to hire a ghost," she said.

But why do ghosts need jobs? "In a story universe where the paranormal did not exist, we would be just dead. But we have a chance here. And given the customs of the fiction we live in, we need to buy things like ectoplasm and spectral silk to keep that chance. Consumers don't want to read about totally undignified and unclothed ghosts," explained a ghost named Emily.

"Just like us humans, ghosts have needs to feel comfortable and safe," said Stella C. Ai, an afterlife care expert. "They also want to have a sense of belonging in the world they live in, so they might desire their own homely, private space, which graveyards are not."

"And although they might not require food in the same way humans do, they may still have a hunger for energy, especially if they need to stay buoyant in places haunted by toxicity and apathy," she added.

Many employers are expectedly reluctant to hire ghosts, worried that ghosts would be disruptive or scare away customers.

"We just don't think ghosts are a good fit for our company culture," said one manager, who declined giving her name. "We're looking for someone who is friendly and approachable, and ghosts just don't fit that bill."

Another problem is that ghosts are not as versatile as humans. They can't do many of the jobs that humans do, such as driving, cooking, or cleaning.

"We're pretty limited in what we can do," said another ghost, Floaty. "We can't really interact with the physical world, so that rules out a lot of jobs."

The job market for ghosts is also being affected by the rise of technology. Some companies are now using robots to perform tasks that were once done by ghosts, such as scaring people in haunted houses.

"It's not fair," said Robbie, a ghost who was replaced by a robot. "I'm the real deal, and I can do the job better than any robot."

But some employers are starting to see the benefits of hiring ghosts. Ghosts are often very hard-working and dedicated employees. They're also very good at getting things done without being noticed.

"I've been very impressed with the work of our ghost employees," said Mr. Jenkins, a manager of Happy Inn. "They're always on time and they always get their work done."

Some ghosts are working as actors in ghost movies and TV shows, tour guides in haunted houses, and psychics and mediums.

"It's not ideal, but it's better than nothing," said Ghost of Christmas Past, a ghost who works as a tour guide. "At least I'm getting to see some new places."

A growing group has even started working as influencers on social media. They share their ghostly experiences and advice with their followers, and some have even managed to amass large followings.

"It's a great way to connect with other ghosts and share our stories," said one ghost influencer, who goes by the moniker ghost_with_a_plan. "And it's also a great way to make money."

So while the economic climate is definitely challenging, there are still ways for ghosts to find work. With a little creativity and determination, they can find success in the workforce.

Reported by Rylan Bard, a journalist for Nether Yammer. Additional reporting by Human, a ghost writer, ergh, human ghost writer, ergh, human writer for Nether Yammer.

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[ivalice-tifalucis]

Blue World

Guys, since TT3 is coming back and we're packing up our hype for the next album, I think let's make another post about Barlliams/Creamcakes aka my favorite ship in Take That crumbs.

I don't know why any of you haven't talked about this yet. Maybe you have but I didn't see it or know but haven't talked about this yet or maybe I've seen you talked about it but I forget for some reason.

In 2018, in one of his now deleted youtube live streaming which I actually watched when it was live (which is rare because I can count on one hand how many times I watch any live stream that he did), he showed this unreleased Take That song likely from Progress era based on the tune that sounds like Eight Letters, the beat that is Progress-like, and even "in requiem" words which become a whole song by Gary in his solo album. If you listen closely, this is clearly a duet between Rob and Gaz.

Edit: Can I just say I was internally screaming in 2018 when I first hear Blue World. We are so parched of CC crumbs that this got me gasping like OMG THAT'S GARY'S VOICE!!!!! (starts from 1:56)

Another time where he played this song again in Coronaoke series on instagram live back in 2020 during early pandemic. In this year, he said the title to this song is "Blue World" and played the song from start to finish. Trying to make this blog entry make me realize he actually played a different version of the song in 2018 and in 2020. I think they are reworking this song, hmmm interesting isn't it?

I tried to write the lyrics based on what I heard and try to tell which part is Robbie and which is Gary. It is hard and I might be wrong because Robbie's higher register and Gary's higher/middle register actually sounds similar which is something that I realized when Gary fill in Robbie's part in Everything Changes (Odyssey Version) in the last part of the song "thinking thinking about you". It took me like couple of listening to finally realize wait a minute, that's Gary's voice not young Robbie's. The only difference is that Gary has that soft edges on his voice while Robbie doesn't have that.

Plus, Robbie was karaoke-ing over this song and being Robbie he doesn't even know the right words of his own songs and sing the wrong words and sometimes just mumbles so I have to pay close attention to the song in the background. There are small parts that I still can't catch what the lyric is. I hope they released this song at some point. Have been waiting since 2018 and still wait patiently.

Edit 2: thanks @beautyofred for the notice. It is “You know how young we were” 😭, "You might be living but we're holding hands", "Can't stand the frequency here". After this, it makes even more sense this song is about them. So in the 2018 version, Blue World is basically like this:

(Gary) Blue world, your fate is calling Blue world, at last control A new world of final curtain calls Look how we've come together Just when we've reached the end In requiem

(Robbie) You know how young we were And feel how much it hurts We might be loving but we're holding hands We might be leaving but we're making plans Below our bleeding sky watching our mother's die It seems forever wasn't long enough Why must we always lose the ones we love?

(Gary) Will moment share it musters? But this fragile blue world With the cruel sunlight burning in our eyes ... And in 2020 it is like this:

(Robbie) Blue world, your fate is calling Blue world, at last control A new world of final curtain calls (Gary) Look how we've come together Just when we've reached the end In requiem

(Both) You know how young you were And feel how much it hurts You might be leaving but we're holding hands We might be dying but we're making plans Below our bleeding sky watching our mother's cry It seems forever wasn't long enough Why must we always lose the ones we love? (Robbie) Will moment share it musters? But this fragile blue world With the cruel sunlight burning in our eyes (Gary) You said, I don't know if I could love you for the rest of your life But I’ll love you for the rest of mine That we're led around your silent heart (Robbie) A blue balloon on a barbwire The weather on the ground is catching fire now And when you hear that sound (Both) You know how young we were And feel how much it hurts You might be leaving but we're holding hands We might be dying but we're making plans Below our bleeding sky watching our mother's die It seems forever wasn't long enough Why must we always lose the ones we love? (I'm sure this part changes at this 3rd reff but I can't catch what it is)

(Both) Because can't stand the frequency here Call my name and I'll appear I'm traveling at the speed of light When nothing matters but the life that seep your eyes (Gary) Hold us together Hold us together Hold us together Hold us together I know a secret about you

(Both) You know how young we were And feel how much it hurts You might be leaving but we're holding hands We might be dying but we're making plans Below our bleeding sky watching our mother's cry You know forever wasn't long enough Why must we always lose the ones we love?

You know how young we were (Hold us together) And feel how much it hurts (Hold us together) You might be leaving but we're holding hands (Hold us together) ....