#just watched resident alien season 3

[luciolefire]

this is an Alan Tudyk appreciation post that man's acting range is truly insane

[blainesbrains]

watching a show my best friend recommended and i’m almost done with season 3 and i started watching on march 6th lmfao oh my god. this show is truly all i think abt atm im having a blast

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We Know Her Value

Celebrating Ten Years of Agent Carter

In January 2015, Peggy Carter did something no other female Marvel characters have done at the time: headlining her own show. She strutted onto our screens, knocked out some bad guys with a stapler, and told us to call her “agent”.

In the years since, Peggy, her friends, and the fandom have gone through a lot. We’ve seen the show get cancelled, and Peggy returning, Jarvis returning, Daniel Sousa returning. We tried to #SaveAgentCarter, we held fic exchanges, we cosplayed and Disneybounded, and we created zines. Despite the show’s premature end, these characters stayed in our hearts, and we made sure no one could forget them.

Agent Carter will turn 10 in January 2025. To mark this milestone, I am super excited to collaborate with @peggynet to launch We Know Her Value: Celebrating Ten Years of Agent Carter. Starting from 6th January 2025, the anniversary of the show’s premiere, we will be hosting ten themed days to celebrate ten years of our favourite show. You can join by picking a theme, making a post on that theme, and post it on the theme day. Tag me (@ssrarchives) or @peggynet, and add the tag #AgentCarterTurns10. Your works can be as simple or as elaborate as you like!

I can’t wait to celebrate this momentous anniversary with all of you! Under ‘Read More’, you will find the themes for the ten different days. Hope to see you all then! And if you have any questions, just drop me a line in the ask box or the DMs. 

Day 1: Favourite Character

The show has presented us with a whole host of amazing characters, from Peggy to lab rats and background agents. So…who is your favourite?

Day 2: Favourite Episode

Agent Carter packed a lot into 18 episodes: fights, spy shenanigans, musical numbers, engagements, kisses. Which episode is your favourite? 

Day 3: Favourite Ship

We cannot talk about Agent Carter without talking about the ships, especially not when the cast happily fanned our fandom flames. Whether you are headcanoning any two or three to be passionately involved, or you have the one true friendship that does it for you, what is your favourite relationship on the show? 

Day 4: Favourite Scene/Arc

From Peggy threatening a fellow diner with a fork, to Daniel flopping his five-episode relationship, Agent Carter packed many interesting scenes and arcs into the overall spy shenanigans. Do any of these scenes or arcs stand out to you? 

Day 5: Favourite Cast/Crew Moment

Time to look behind the scenes! Once the episodes were over, the cast and crew kept the party going, from the Stark Jar to on-set pranks to the legendary Dubsmash War. Do you have a favourite cast/crew moment? 

Day 6: Into the Multiverse

Even though the show was cancelled in 2016, that was not the last we saw of Peggy and her team. Peggy herself returned over and over again, eventually becoming one of the few mortals privy to the knowledge of Loki and the Sacred Timeline tree. Jarvis returned in Avengers: Endgame, becoming the first Marvel character to debut on TV and move on to a movie appearance. Even Daniel made a return in Agents of SHIELD Season 7. Which of these cameos were your favourite? Who do you want to see in future MCU projects?

Day 7: Containment Breach

There is a life for everyone outside of murder gases and space goop. Since the end of Agent Carter, the cast and crew continue to entertain us with excellent projects. From Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning to Resident Alien to The Merry Gentlemen, we have definitely not seen the last of our favourite agents. Have you watched any of these? Do you have a favourite? Do they inspire any AUs? 

Day 8: Favourite Fanfic

What is Agent Carter without its fandom? From SSR Confidential to Agent Carter Zine, from fandom-defining multi-chapter behemoths to short and sweet ficlets, the fic writers have not been resting at all. This is your chance to shout out your favourite fics!

Day 9: Favourite Fanart

Artists we haven’t forgotten you! The Agent Carter fandom is home to many talented artists who have graced our dashboards with everything from sketches to whole comics. Let’s share our appreciation by naming our favourite fanart/artist! (Please do not repost artwork unless you have consent from the artists. Otherwise, please reblog or link to the original artwork. Let’s make sure that the artists get the notes and credits they deserve.)

Day 10: Free Day

There is way more going on in the Agent Carter show and fandom for us to cover in one week, so like the title says, take this day to highlight whatever you want! The show’s costume and makeup? Meta writers? Peggy cosplays and Disneybounds? As long as it is Agent Carter-related, you can post about it!

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Episode 3 - …Or Just Look Like One

Another great episode. The girl’s injuries and brutality really stick with me after watching

She was beaten with a claw hammer, inseminated with a wooden object all on TOP of a drug overdose. Like, gimmie a break guys it’s episode f’ning 3.

This episode examines the world of Modeling and ‘thin culture’

I really like Jeffries’ profiling, we miss that for a while when she’s gone

A 16 year old all over billboards in Manhattan?

“Jazmin was always old for her age”

Okay, maybe your daughter shouldn’t be at model shoots at 3am dad idk idk idk just saying

*he also changed her name from Theresa to Jazmin

Her agent not knowing how this girl is doing….sis they have called the priest to her room

Okay before he appeared I thought this was vintage Pedro Pascal….he’ll come up on another episode I’m sure

Omg the measuring man

His vic is giving Resident Evil antagonist

Stabler hearing young models are left without parental supervision on shoots:

WHERE ARE THE PARENTS

“This is about that creamy-complexed little sweetie who got atttaaaacked”

“Her k-mart underwear ads were primo monkey-spank fuel”

This men in black alien lying about football LMFAO

SURE JAN

34-25-36

Olivia’s dimensions are lethal tbh

When the Measuring Man touches Olivia’s face:

Kathy in episode THREE telling stabler to come home to these kids ajsfsjskskshsg

SHE WAS ONLY 110 LBS

BRISCO AND GREEN SIGHTING!!!!!!

As a child who had seen so much law and order without actually watching it, such a good little crossover here

Poor girl wanted to stop modeling 😭😭😭

The courts gave a MODELING STAGE DAD custody because the mom worked two jobs????????

Omg the #rapeman trial

Sadly I think there are mangas like this ………

“Well, you know. One of those things where the literati and the glitterati size each other up over cosmopolitans and sashimi.”

Sir you admitted to hanging out with at least one 16 year old

These doctors prescribing teenagers NARCOLEPSY MEDICINE FAGSSHSJKEJEGE

Oh. The actual doctor is in a wheelchair forever so it’s someone else. I miss the twists and turns of the first season or so

“Models are the Greek goddesses of our time”

LMFAO AT STABLER TAKING KATHY OUR FOR DINNER SO MAUREEN WILL WANT TO EAT

THAT’s OKAY, YOU’RE NOT INVITED-

I think this is when they hit the sweet spot of involving Elliot’s family in everything

LMFAO at the agent calling speed “like vitamins” omg

And this photographer taking underage Polaroids like. Really galaxy brain real scholarly shit

Agent is cold-blooded like….you could’ve saved days on this investigation if you told them that girl admitted to taking those Polaroids…

Stabler knowing where a guy would hide explicit pictures ajsysghwjwksisys

I support women’s wrongs but I don’t support these kinds of women’s wrongs

Parisi was too stupid to pull any of this off. Sunglasses woman knew the girls would squeal and ruin half of her business, she violently beat and staged a scene of rape to throw the cops off their scent. Evil!!!

“You know who he was before I met him? CARL PARSLEY”

LMFAO

Don’t let a man named parsley drag you down ladies.

I can’t believe the scar on her eyes made people shun her…not to dismiss but like idk. It wasn’t an acid burn. Quite a huge fall from grace.

“Don’t you get it?! He was all that I had!”

Never get backed into a corner with Carl Parsley yall.

“But you could never turn back the clock, can you.”

I don’t support this woman’s wrongs but the sunglasses back on and no more crying and throwing up, cold. Cold-blooded. An instance where justice doesn’t seem to make anything better. (The sign off is munch saying that Theresa does not make it) Two young lives, exploited and lost. Two people in jail who would do it again if they could.

The connection with OG L&S was prime. Good episode and good use of Stabler’s family life.

4.1/5

[floating-in-the-blue]

Ten people I'd like to know better

thank you for the tag @madroxed <3

Last song: "Breakdown Days" by White Lies

Favourite colour: GREEEEEN (in pretty much all variations), followed by sunshine yellow

Last book: last book I read was "All Changes" by Elizabeth Jane Howard. Currently reading "The Bone Season" by Samantha Shannon and I'm already halfway through after one evening + yesterday

Last movie: "Enid", a biopic about Enid Blyton with Helena Bonham Carter (next one will be the Downton Abbey movies :D)

Last TV show: I'm currently pausing my "Ted Lasso" rewatch before starting Season 3 and am now in the middle of "Resident Alien" Season 2, which just dropped on Netflix in Germany, and also watchig "High Potential" on Thursdays

Sweet/spicy/savoury: sweet. always. unfortunately. but also savoury. In an infinite loop. No spicy for me (sadly I can't handle it at all)

Last thing I searched for online: whether I spelled Helena Bonham Carter's name right XD

Current obsession: hm ... nothing very obsessive happening right now

Looking forward to: watching the Downton Abbey movies, the next "High Potential" episode on Thursday, picking up the second Bone Season book as well as the socks I ordered (I promise that half of them are presents!!), seeing more green on my balcony, having some friends over soon for a boardgame day (and making tiramisu for it) :D

no pressure tagging: @1mnobodywhoareyou, @mac-lilly, @thinkmanythingsofit, @hot-elf, @bbreaddog, @60sec400

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@thealtofvalleyxdoodles's sideblog <3

SHIT ABT ME! (Sorry for the horrible fake scottish accent. I am A Soap girlie thru and thru.)

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Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare one, two and three (Fuck the ending of three omfg) also-LONG LIVE '09 GHOST AND SOAP!

Call of Duty: Ghosts (Keegan <3)

Hazbin Hotel (so random compared to my other fandoms)

Baulder's Gate Three (I dont remember how to spell it-)

Resident Evil

The Witcher (I blame my father for getting me into this)

Dead By Daylight (Is that a fandom? If not-let's make it one)

DC/MARVEL Comics and some of the movies.

Uncharted (i swear-the first game i played i nearly died bc OMG "God Girl" AHHHH! Nathan Drake the man you are, Nathan Drake.)

Gravity Falls (I watched it as a kid-and re-watched as a grown ass adult. Still love it.)

and prolly some more i cant remember rn.

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Office Workers, John Price x reader, Season one

"One night only" Simon Riley x Reader (will be worked on soon)

"Bonnie" John MacTavish x Reader

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PROPAGANDA:

Soup Group:

I love them sm. They go raid a woodland mansion together with stone tools on day 1. They go end-busting with only soup a few days later. They all based practically on top of each other and send messages under the river (or through the ceiling/basement in Gem and Impulse's case). Pearl and Impulse got mad at the king so the three of them started a revolution. Every single meetup involves them drinking suspicious stew that more often than not causes someone to go blind. They share a nether tunnel. Gem got bored and they all had wooden sword fights. They put their faces all over each other's bases. Gem still uses the "Behind You Gem! 2.0" sword that Impulse made her at the beginning of the season. There's so many inside jokes between them. Please, they mean so so so much to me <3

They're neighbours. They're going on soup adventures. They're watching each other die in comedic ways. They're slaying each other with wooden swords. They're teasing each other. They have an elaborate messaging system they never use. Pearl keeps making them blindness soup and then the others complain that she's blinded them again and then they'll do it all again next week. They're silly and goofy and so much fun. I love them.

Honeyphosna:

THE ORIGINALS!!! They're just three stupid guys trying to go to space and make jaffa cakes and they suck at it So bad. Xephos is an alien, Honeydew is a dwarf, and Lalna is their resident human blorbo.

They're the OG ok. And they all sleep in the same bed.

one of the og trios, they deserve to be on here even if they're gonna get bodied

These fucking idiots managed to crash on the moon 3 times. Back to fucking back, 2 of which were rescue missions. There’s tons of animations about the “Hold Space To Slow Down” travesty.

[smiledog15578]

I've been watching resident alien because of you, but I'm just waiting for that other gay alien to show up and have a rivalry with him

Thank you for inspiring me. I loveb them all

The end of season 2 and all of season 3 is when it happens (you're welcome feed into the delusion with me)

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📋 okay, I’ll take the bait. Favorite villains across all media, and why?

anon i have to be honest, i wasnt quite sure what to do with this one. i think i probably couldve added more, but this spread is already ridiculous enough as is. i also limited myself to just a few tf guys. lol.

erm...behold.

and just for the hell of it...i WILL tell you why!

TIER 1:

hal9000 (2001): canonically did nothing wrong. he was confused. technically a villain though i guess.

jason voorhees (friday the 13th. you know who jason is.): idk man hes just. hes cute to me. hes fun. you should read that texas chainsaw crossover where he makes friends with leatherface

rampage (beast wars): i am worlds number 1 crab defender. they expected him to become a monster, why was everyone so surprised when he turned out like one 🙄

TIER 2:

self explanatory if youve followed me for more than 3 seconds idk what more to add.

TIER 3:

deathsaurus (victory): sometimes it takes a man to be a failwife. idk i just really like his look. mister handsome.

TIER 4:

wesker (resident weevil): i love wesker. i have such a soft spot for villains who take their shit deathly seriously. COMPLETE. GLOBAL. SATURATION. i think i couldve put him in the bisexuality tier. lol

garthe (knight rider): david hasselhoff wore a fake moustache and goatee to play his evil twin. they just dont make tv like they used to.

cykill (gobots): megatron hardware running beast wars megatron software. why does he sound like that. also couldve gone in bisexuality tier but if i sat and explained it to you id sound insane

skeletor (he man): Skeletor.

cobra commander (gi joe): bisexuality already saved him in the gi joe animated movie idk. hes like if starscream led the cons and megatron was stuck as his sic. very funny scenario.

TIER 5:

char (gundam): watch chars counterattack if you dont know what im talking about here, i guess

magneto (xmen): hes another one whose villain status is...eeeh. but i like him. he and charles make up and kiss like every issue theyre in together. dont fact check that. just trust me.

dr doom (marvel): he carries a wallet sized picture of reed richards in the bifold he keeps in his idiot metal pants

ichijou (kaiji): well, considering how shit went for him, bisexuality couldnt have made it any worse.

TIER 6:

megatron (beast wars): i fucking love bwtron lol. particularly before the final season, where he has his little power trip. i think hes a lot of fun, and im perfectly happy not sympathizing with him. hes a bad guy n he loves it. so do i, lol.

dukat (star trek ds9): ugh dukat suuuucks. hes so smarmy and SO convinced hes in the right. so i love him hahhah. i think marc alaimo is just a wonderful actor too!

tsurumi (golden kamuy): i gotta admit, i think like...its really easy for "smart" villains to fall flat if the story isnt there to support them. luckly, golden kamuy fuckin rocks. and lt tsurumi is scary as hell lol

ash (alien): 'i cant lie to you about your chances...but you have my sympathies." ....AAAAAHHH!!! so cold. and cool. hes probably the scariest thing anyone can be...a capitalist.

AM (ihnmaims): huge fan of the voice work in the bbc audio drama honestly. such a misanthropic little freak. (big freak?)

TIER 7:

jungle hunter (predator 87): idc okay. he looked COOL. WOOHOO. what a fucking beautiful creature suit, right? and the face animatronics? good god.

Q (star trek tng): i think its funny how he fucks with picard okay. again, probably not a full villain. but its MY list.

honorable mentions:

sunder, straxus: well. i just forgot to add them until i already had the damn thing made okay

i almost added johan from monster and reinhard from lotgh but i reached my limit of blonde men already with char and wesker. ryo devilman was another casualty. edit: I ALSO COULDVE ADDED FUCKING OCELOT MGS

umm...oh, i dont know. hannibal. from hannibal.

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heyhey! pre-happy holidays!

for the christmas gift; os cinco in the farm au (like, in current time with everyone there)? or possibly, pre-farm/just post canon guizo and/or xande going through the horrors?

(if you send me something i'll also make you a present!)

<3

Merry Christmas Caff!!! Please enjoy some sdol farm au, with a good dose of canon divergence!

And to everyone else, a wodnerful holiday season to you all.

Spoilers for all of SDOL, and references to violence though none occurs

ao3 link: [link]

Two days ago, they were given a map. The day before that, a blonde woman had overheard them talking, and asked their names. It is with a little embarrassment that Chico confesses that he has no idea what her name is - names were always Guizo's thing - and she had not been exactly... forthcoming with what the map was about. All she had said is that Os Três needed to go there, and the residents of the farm would explain the situation.

A farm. The bitter irony of the world to send them to a farm.

He still has Dara, and he still has Lírio, and if he thinks about what they lost...

Dara is driving so Chico could cry, except that either he or Lírio has to navigate. Three months ago Lírio could have done that, but then three months became twenty five years, and suddenly the world is no longer designed for a paper map and a road trip. Some of the Order members had tried to teach them about smartphones and how to have a computer think for you; a computer might think faster than a man, but Chico knows computers and is absolutely certain he would never trust one with directions.

Especially not after...

Dara has not smiled since, though if that is the fault of what happened to her or what happened to them he is not sure. She has been vicious with bandages and gun alike, a sort of fury simmering under her carefully bland expression.

Lírio has smiled since, but not with happiness. Maybe it is better to call it a sneer as he beats aliens into the floor, his handful of jokes falling flat and his confusion - at the future, at the world, at losing both Xande and Guizo in five minutes which stretched five times that in years - rules their downtime.

Somehow, he is handling it worse than Voytek. Perhaps the problem this time is that he never had the chance to try.

Chico... Is it wrong for Chico to say that if Os Cinco had to become Os Três, then they lost the members he would choose? It is not a thought experiment he likes, but...

But it only serves to make him feel guiltier, really. He should have stayed, not Xande. He should have stayed and been destroyed and Xande was eighteen he should have been spraypainting fences not dying-

Maybe Chico can pretend he escaped, unlike Guizo who Dara very literally watched sacrifice himself to seal the door in her place. Maybe Chico can pretend, if he thinks hard enough.

Maybe they can all pretend.

The bloodstains and the broken skateboard and the smashed mp3 player and the snapped headphones that haunt his soul very, very much say otherwise.

But that’s why it is pretending, not hoping.

"Left here?" Dara asks, breaking the thoughts.

Chico checks the map, "no, next one."

She grunts a reply, returning to silence.

The borrowed van is silent, too. It feels wrong to even play music anymore, no matter what Lírio says.

This is a new van, their old one long ruined by exposure in the years they were gone. Given to them and filled with things, but not their things, never their things.

Even their clothes are wrong, now, the shops they used to buy their things barely even memories for most of Brazil.

"Left now," Chico says.

Dara throws on the indicators about three seconds before she sharply turns; the roads are empty, anyway.

Another few turns, and they pull up at a farm. It is laid out differently to the last one they visited, but it still makes Chico's stomach lurch. There is an actual barn for the animals - asleep at this time of night - and a shelter where the tractor is parked next to fields upon fields of not-yet ripe corn.

Given the time, they should probably pull up and come back in the morning. Except that there is a light on downstairs, and a figure moving about.

The woman in red had said that this farm's residents are familiar with the Order, and not to bother with a cover story.

Chico...

Lírio pops up at his window, hammer already in hand, "are we going?"

Chico is tired; he looks to Dara.

She turns off the engine, and cranks the window back up.

"Let's just get this over with," she tells them. "I don't want to sleep in the van."

They always used to sleep in the van.

But this van... and as only three...

"Alright," Chico takes a deep breath, and tries not to let the scent of cows do any worse to him than it already has. "Ready?"

It's for Lírio's sake that they make a call of "Os Três" as they leave the van, but even he can tell that Dara and Chico's hearts are not in it. Lírio goes in front - as he always has and will - but every few steps he glances behind.

Reassures himself they are still there - the same reason Chico insists on walking where he can see them all.

Dara takes one of Lírio’s hands.

He cannot take Chico's, carrying his hammer as he is.

At the door Chico steps up. He nudges Lírio to the side, patting his arm as he bulks himself up.

Just a job, they've done this before, he can do this again. Their alien experts are gone, but they are still Os Três - the legacy of Os Cinco! They can do this. They have always done this, and maybe they always will.

He reaches up, and he knocks.

The figure inside stops moving around. 

Just, freezes.

Chico knocks again.

Through the window, he can see them move. A few seconds after they disappear from the window, the door cracks open. Chico is about to introduce himself before it is slammed shut, and there is the sound of running feet against hardwood stairs.

"What was all that about?" Dara asks.

"I'm not sure," Chico thinks. If they have been having paranormal problems, maybe the middle of the night was actually the worst time to knock?

There is not really time to think about that, not when there are feet on the stairs again. This time there are two sets, accompanied also by a muffled "I'm sure it's fine, do you want to- okay, sure, just- no, no, it's alright." all in a single voice.

The one-sided chatter keeps up until the door is pulled open.

"Hi welcome to-" the voice is now clearer, but freezes as the speaker turns to look.

Its owner stares at them.

Chico takes a moment to stare back.

Two men, both somewhere around their mid forties. Both are heavily scarred, though the speaker bothers to cover it less. The man at the back has long, wavy, greying-brown hair and a mask covering his throat and mouth in a way that makes Chico's heart clench.

That the speaker's hair is dyed whilst wearing a lip and a nose ring doesn't really help the sick familiarity much.

"Is this some kind of sick joke?" The man with the dyed hair's voice turns cold. "I warn you, this isn't going to work to your advantage."

The man with the longer hair has picked up a bat from beside the door. He goes to elbow the other man aside, only to be stopped by an arm and a quiet "not yet".

"The Order sent us," Chico leans on that, and hopes it helps. "To help with your problems...?"

"The Order?" The man's face screws up, and his friend's grip on the bat gets tighter. "What do they have to do with anything?"

"One of their intelligence officers gave us a map to this place...?" Chico looks to the others for help.

Dara steps in, reaching out a hand, "hi, I'm Dara, these are Lírio and Chico, and we're Os Três! We're professional alien and paranormal hunters, so if you're needing anything-"

She is cut off by a low growl from the masked man, the other's expression having darkened even further.

"- we can help...?" Dara trails off, and Lírio pushes his way past - puts his bulk between the two of them, and the two of them.

"What?" If the man's voice was frosty before, it is icy now. "Did you sick fucks get fed up with using Voytek, or did you finally realise that's a bit too much if a giveaway?"

Dara's "you know Voytek?" clashes with Lírio's "Voytek?!" and Chico's "wait what?!" into a tangle of words.

The man's expression loosens a little bit, but grows more confused. There's a few moments of quiet, and then he utters a quiet "riiiiiight..."

Really it is a little bit of a staring match.

"Yeah, okay," the man says again, still watching Os Três, though clearly not addressing them. "We can do that."

He lets his arm down. The masked man steps around him, putting his wider shoulders between his friend and Os Três. Both of these men are slimmer than Chico would expect from farmers, though a decent bulk of muscle is obvious enough.

"This won't hurt," the speaker tells them. "Or it might. It's been a while since I did it like this."

"Wait, what-" Chico begins, only to watch the man's eyes glaze over as an elaborate series of ritual tattoos appear across his body. The other one remains between them, clearly protective, a throaty snarl making itself known as they take a step back.

It only makes Chico's heart clench again, a distraction just long enough to miss how Lírio stiffens, right up until he stumbles.

The speaking man does the same, his masked friend abandoning his watch of Os Três to catch him and silently fuss. He accepts the help to balance himself - Lírio, meanwhile, finds his feet, and grips his hammer tighter.

"Get out of my head!" He yells at the pair.

The speaker nods, waves a hand at Lírio as though to dismiss him, far too relaxed and familiar for the situation they find themselves in. His masked friend keeps fussing, right up until he bats at his hands.

"I'm fine, Xande, stop fussing," the words cut through Chico like lead, and he hears Dara hiss too. "We should..." he turns to them, looking the trio over as his face becomes an awkward smile. "Sorry about that. But, like, I’m sure you can forgive us - we’re weren’t really expecting to see you guys again."

"Xande?" Chico can imagine Lírio's furrowed brows at the question. "They said...? Guys?"

And he no longer has to imagine, because Lírio turns back to face them. "Guys?"

And Chico... Chico can see it, but he doesn't- they're- what???

"I think..." the speaker - and if the masked man is Xande, the speaker has to be Guizo, right? It has to be, who else would Xande cling to like that, and the idea of one without the other is- "it might be best if you came inside...?"

---

Chico does not really process being bundled inside and shoved on a sofa. A hot drink is forced into his - all of their - hands, and he cups it close. He, Dara, and Lírio are squished onto one two seat sofa, while Xande takes the armchair and probably-Guizo sits criss-cross on the floor. None of them are really too sure where to start - the photo of Os Cinco beside the tv, perhaps, or the little dolls of the five of them and a few older ladies, or even just follow Lírio's lead and scoop them into hugs. Maybe hugs would be best, but Xande and Guizo are old and scarred and...

And Chico cannot hurt then.

Cannot risk hurting them.

Not after...

Not after-!

"- And then there was a man there," Dara is explaining their escape from the pods. "His name was Dante? He said he was from the Order, and he was following up on old reports."

"Weird," Guizo talks, which is not unusual, but Xande's complete silence is - silence, sure, but a hum or a whisper or anything... "We... Well, I asked them for help. When we first escaped. Gave the report to Calisto and everything. But... when they went back there, it was gone. Just an abandoned radio station, no bullshit floors. I went too. And everything was just... Gone. Very gone. Super gone. It was so fucking weird. Back there, me and Calisto and one of his friends, and just. Shit all. Nothing. Not a trace of any of you, and Xande..."

He trails off, glancing up and back to his friend.

There is a lot of pain in Guizo's voice, a guilt that reflects in Chico's throat. It's with that recognised lump now shared that he tries to find his casual voice and say "must have been a timer or something; but we're here now."

"We are!" Guizo finally grins, and that grin only confirms his identity as he holds out his fist, and four more tap his own. "Os Cinco forever!"

"Come with us?" Lírio asks. "We can hunt together again, yeah."

The grin quickly falls; the man glances to Xande, whose fingers clench.

"We can't," Guizo's voice is genuinely apologetic. "We're old, out of practice. And we've got the farm. Gotta be here every five am to feed the chickens and that. We're not really... we'll help! We still do a bit of magic here and there, so just ring us for advice! And our house is your house, just..."

"Are you sure?" Dara asks. "You're still ours, you know."

Guizo goes to talk, then turns to Xande. Xande nods, and after a few moments though Guizo replies "I don't think I can do that again."

It's not Guizo, though; it's Xande.

Of all people it's Xande who is hesitating.

Seeing the tension he struggles for a new question. With difficulty thinking right now, he is quite proud of "what happened? Are you alright?"

"I'm fine, " Guizo says, and Chico does not miss the emphasis. "What happened... We met some ladies with no kids. They took pity on us, gave us some work, and left us the farm when they passed."

That's not what Chico meant, but he will take it.

He's about to ask a follow up question, something calming and to keep them away from horror at this house.

His plans, however, are scuppered by Lírio.

"How did you escape the building," Lírio says, before Chico's words form. "With the pits and the traps and that."

"I don't remember much," Guizo confesses. "I went through the door and then... I was back. There were corpses everywhere, and Xande was right in the middle. Went to dust him or something, and... he wasn't quite dead." Guizo glances at Xande; Xande shuffles an arm over Guizo's shoulders. "Got out, got Xande out, and then there was no phone. So I hotwired the van, got to a roadside help point, and... And somehow Xande survived. Now we're here."

Guizo reaches up and squeezes Xande's hand. It's a subtle thing from someone who was never subtle in the past, absent minded like a lot of things aren't.

Twenty five years will do that, just like it has thickened the barrier in the room.

"Xande?" Dara's voice is not quite anxious, but it sounds like she has realised something terrible. "When Guizo said he was fine..."

Xande glances down to Guizo, who leans back and up. There is a silence of a few moments - in the better light and with them shifting, Chico can see the rings on their fingers trailing non-tattoos to their ears, the mark of the telepathy spell. Whatever silent words they say, it ends in Xande slowly nodding and Guizo whispering back "you're okay, I'm right here. I won't leave."

Lírio asks something, but it is lost as Xande pulls down his mask - not only from his face, but also his throat.

His upper face was scarred enough, but those across the lower part are more distinct - and there is unevenness where the bones of his nose, cheek, and jaw were broken in ways impossible to cleanly set.

It is nothing, however, compared to when Xande opened his mouth.

As soon as he sees it, Chico knows something is wrong. It takes a while, however, for him to actually comprehend it - mouths are supposed to be holes, so it takes a while to understand that this one is emptier than usual.

"Xande..." it's Dara again, somehow with her feet under her still even as Chico's stomach turns to mush - they lived, they both lived, thank Lírio's God they lived, but the pain, the horrors, it is etched into their bones - "Can I see?"

Xande hesitates more than he ever would have before.

After a few moments, however, he gets up. He comes and perches on the arm of the sofa, allowing her to push and pull his face around. Dara mutters under her breath for a bit, tears slowly gathering until she gives in and pulls Xande into a hug.

Momentum has her tumbling back into Chico, who tries to catch her only to end up in Lírio's lap. Guizo laughs at them, but makes no move to join in.

Xande, too, quickly unpicks himself, pulling up his mask and fleeing behind Guizo once again.

Guizo keeps giggling, patting at Xande's leg before turning back to them.

"I don't suppose any of you picked up Libras since we last spoke?" Guizo's voice is hopeful, but his eyes doubt it.

"Sorry," Chico finds his voice. "We were busy learning about smartphones."

"Horrible inventions, bar the tiny cameras," Guizo reaches for one - on charge beside the tv, then pauses. "Wait, no, later - Xande? You wanna sign, think at me, or just ignore them and leave me to the talking?"

Xande leans down, burrowing his face into the side of Guizo's neck. Whatever answer that is, Guizo smiles, ruffling his hair, and then kisses that hair.

There's no time to think about that before Guizo starts talking again.

"Xande says he's sorry, his memories got messed with by the alien that tried to kill him, so his memories of you guys are kind of piecemeal and tape derived," Guizo shuffles a bit, finding and stealing one of Xande's hands. "I say he's an idiot, of course you don't care, and twenty five years later my memory's faded a lot too. For a long while him remembering anything seemed impossible - he didn't even know his name - but we got there. Actually, tapes! It's late now, but we have tapes for you guys. Got out of the habit over time, but we do you an update every New Year���s. We can show you in the morning?"

There's a hesitation in Guizo's voice that Chico can only detect because this man is still, at his core, Guizo. Things have changed, and he doesn't seem sure what to do with the group in his house beyond keep talking, but that too has always been Guizo's answer to everything.

And making them a video tape... Chico would bet there are more than just once a year, but specifically having a tradition of making a tape for them, and talking like it's a given they will still be there in the morning...

"I- fuck," Chico rubs at his eyes, trying to stem off the tears. "Guys... yeah, yeah, the morning sounds great. We have a van, if-"

"There's a guest room," Guizo cuts over him. "Two of you can share a bed, or one of you can take the couch? And van! Your old van is out back. We have some of your stuff in the basement. Not sure what's still good, but you can sort it. If you've got time...?"

They have the van.

They saved their things.

Vans aren't supposed to last that long, especially not ones as abused as that one. It's not, they aren't-

Stemming the tears isn't happening any more.

"Chico?" Lírio's voice is worried as he slips an arm around his back, and Dara just leans over, resting her head on his shoulder.

It's Guizo, though, who gets up and wraps both arms around Chico. Xande trails behind, not hesitating long before wrapping one arm around Dara, and the other around Guizo.

"You're happy?" Dara asks.

Guizo doesn't answer her and Chico doesn't see it from where he is crushes into Guizo's now much older chest, but he thinks that Xande must have given some indication of an answer.

 Dara shifts, and there's a moment, and then "don't you DARE scare me like that again, Alexandre" she yells, months of despair boiling over. "When they said you stayed behind I- you- And you! Guilherme R. Santos! What was that shit about the door having your life's answers! You had better have believed that, else-"

She cuts herself off, and shifts to grab at both Xande and Guizo, pulling herself to them. Her weight stays reassuringly on Chico's side as she breaks into her own tears and "I'm so glad you're safe..."

"Us?!" Guizo only sounds mildly effective, though he adjusts in an attempt to grab at Lírio and dara herself as well. "We're not the ones who listened to that radio and got ourselves kidnapped!"

"It would have happened anyway!"

"You're all okay right, though?" Guizo speaks a little fast. "The pods didn't do anything? That alien didn't come back? The Order hasn't gotten you vanished or shot or anything like that?"

There's a story there, possibly one which explains the blonde woman's strange behaviour. Chico does not care for it, though; he grabs at his two friends, so much older now, and makes sure he knows exactly where both Lírio and Dara are. He sobs into Guizo's pyjamas for far longer than is reasonable, and if five people end up sleeping in the living room that night, it's only because Os Cinco was never supposed to be apart in the first place.

[cricketchaology]

Just out of curiosity did u ever finish the Ben Hawthorne notes bc i finally caught up w resident alien and hes the main thing im obsessed with about it now

OMG HELLOOOO !!! no i did naught…. i kinda ran out of steam as i was watching season 3 (i dislike. a Lot of the direction that season takes) but tbh i wanna rewatch the first two seasons again sometime soon and reconnect with it!! i like ben so much and j feel like hes so. underutilized (i think there are. a lot of characters underutilized in RA but. beside the point)… i chew on him like a squeaky toy. tell me what u think abt him

[mcrmadness]

For once I find a TV show I actually like ("Resident Alien"), and there are 3 seasons so far, but OF COURSE only 1 season on Netflix in Finland. And I have never ever seen anyone talk about the show on Tumblr. I don't know if there are any posts in the tags, as I haven't looked since I don't want to read any spoilers.

I guess I'll have to look this up from one of those other streaming websites that I use when I don't want to subscribe to anything but Netflix. It's just that the best one stopped working on Firefox, and I don't like using it on Chrome because it will constantly open different pop-up windows and tabs that Chrome cannot block but Firefox can, so it's not very pleasant experience. Hopefully it's on this other similar website I recently used for watching another show, because it's not as good and doesn't have everything, but at least it works on Firefox...

[sunnydaleherald]

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I come with every intention of writing and spoilers: this requires a lot of text but, sorry… it's an interesting read.

I've seen a lot of people complain about SW and their way of doing things; I've seen people complain about The Mandalorian and say; At what point did it become children's content?

Well, as I tell you, since season 1 this content has always turned out to be family content.

Now the people who say this; It is because it is alienated that SW does not vary; when practically the SW material is pure fantasy and there is material for everyone, of all colors and flavors. The Mandalorian cannot be pigeonholed solely into violence; friend, then you have not understood anything about this universe.

See Star Wars and everything Geroge, Filoni and Jon have been working on with a whole creative team, etc, etc. is to enter that world to which they took you "the never ending story", "the labyrinth", "Dragon Heart", "Merlin" and I can continue… magical worlds, where hope resides everywhere, where love It is an important point because despite not being able to see it, it becomes part of this environment and expresses itself in mysterious ways (yes, like strength). That is why pigeonholing SW solely in violence is taking away a vital part of its narrative, it is as if the conflicts in its different aspects were not shown; or wanting to remove something very substantial that although species from other worlds are shown; They have something that unites them with everything. "The feelings, the emotions, the humanity that exists in these aspects"

Friend, believe me, when you only get stuck in violence and don't want to look at something else; The problem is you and maybe SW is not the content you need. And hey; I'm not saying that you have to accept everything, but definitely criticizing just to criticize, hating just to hate is ridiculous and pathetic. Taking SW or the Mandalorian as entertainment after a difficult day is not bad at all. But now you want to take this as a personal vent, project yourself, harass and be an infernal hater, sorry but that's disgusting.

And believe me; That violence that you ask for so much is desensitizing you, it makes you someone who loses the notion of how you can harm others and there are people like me; who lives in violent countries, where your life is at stake every 5 minutes, that the only thing we want is to stop experiencing this violence and live fantasy and hope. So stop messing around, okay.

At the end of the day your requests are like: "You want a good development for Din Djarin, but you don't want him to associate with anyone, you want to pigeonhole him into a life in the countryside with a secondary character, You want him to continue in a dangerous profession that "no It leaves nothing good for him or his green boy, you complain about everything and it doesn't seem like anything to you.” Please; It's very obvious that you didn't watch the series and don't understand Din's development. stop fucking around.

A few days ago I was watching episode 3 and I'm going to say this; Anakin is a great character, he is a villain through and through, but all this grew like a snowball. They lost Anakin and he was already lost, Palpatine knew how to play his pieces. In the entire world of SW it is difficult to pigeonhole the characters because; The decisions are the ones that weigh the most. All SW characters have an Anakin within them, they all carry a complex and a mourning of their being; a good being or a bad being. Doing what is right or wrong is a struggle of ethics and morals.

Anakin was an enslaved child and grew up with this complex, remaining a slave due to his attachments until his death. Their actions do not have to be justified, but they do need to be understood and exposed. At the end of the day in this universe Who has not stained their hands with mud or blood to fight for something? Who hasn't had to ignore innocent people to preserve an idea or a fight? Who hasn't had to give in to the bad orders of others to save their people?

When I see people judging Bo Katan, for example; for being a terrorist in her past or for her wrong actions and them using this as a reason for Din not to be around her; I say to you.. How low and dirty do they have to be to use a person's past, in this case a character, and judge them and not allow them to redeem themselves?

Si Din let Bo Katan redeem himself this season 3 Who do you think you are to not allow it?

It hurts me a lot to see Anakin get lost and to see that here they showed us what love is. but they also show us "it's the right person at the wrong time"

Padme could fight hard but her own worries and Anakin's attitudes were driving them apart.

When Anakin is tempted to turn to the dark side to gain power and knowledge, he gives in to his attachment to Padme, his fear, and gives in to the temptation. And for example in the mandalorian from season 1 We can see how temptation tried to envelop Din Djarin so that he would leave the creed.

Many people believe that this scene with Omera was "romantic" which it was not so; This series was representative of that TEMPTATION that Din could have fallen into. It's a symbolic scene of how Din was able to abandon the creed, stop being a Mandalorian, settle down and live in a remote place. EVEN when he mentions to Omera that his main goal was to honor Mandalorian culture, which saved him from the droids. SHE tries to take off his helmet if he allows it, invasively, as a temptation. THE CLEAR THING was that he NEVER fell into temptation.

Din clearly tells him "I don't belong here."

Because many say “I wanted a quiet life with her.” I say; Since he did not agree to stay and preferred the creed and remain Mandalorian, develop his character, surround himself with other people, adopt Grogu and recover his planet together with Bo Katan, I tell you HE preferred a Mandalorian life and his lifestyle and culture may be anything but "a quiet lifestyle."

Now when they say "Bo katan is a liar, a villain" it's because they didn't understand any point I mentioned. All SW characters have had to make difficult decisions, Bo Katan has been more oriented towards being an Anti-hero. And I don't justify her but it is understood and her points of view are expressed, about why she acted that way.

Since season 2 he could have killed or betrayed Din and taken his saber, in season 3 he had all the time and opportunities to do so. AND IT NEVER HAPPENS…

And it is more than clear that she had a very peculiar interest in him, that she protected him in some way.

Always saving him, even in chapter Plazir 15, she saves him from the separatist droids just when he shows rejection towards politicians. A clear nod to the fact that she does not fall for opulence or power, she simply wants to right her wrongs and bring glory to Mandalore, so that her people have their home.

Saying that Bo Katan "didn't redeem himself because he didn't do anything" Sorry, but living with a tormented conscience, with memory and constant regret. This season 3 Brendan Wayne himself says it in a podcast where he is a guest: "Din wanted to get Bo Katan out of that depression of that cloudy cloud of thoughts and knock her out with his own feelings, it was like he was talking to my wife"

I uploaded that interview and you can find it on my wall, I don't lie like SCREENRANT, they love to lie.

I don't want to go into more detail but I'm going to close this post with this.

Let's assume Din and Bo don't want anything romantic, okay. then at least allow them to be comrades in arms; It doesn't take anything away from them, on the contrary it gives them both a lot. Both Din with his own qualities can support Bo and vice versa. So why separate them if in the end, they are just friends?

And if it turns out that there are feelings and love between the two IT ALSO doesn't take anything away from them and yes, it contributes to them.

Star Wars is a galactic opera and I repeat; Taking away love just because you are a bitter person is taking away one of its main foundations.

The Mandalorians would be another very peculiar, interesting and unique perspective on love, if they let this union flow. Because it wouldn't be the typical cliché

We would see Din and Bo fighting together, sharing moments, weapons, tactics, in the middle of a battle, a show of affection, a hug, something very human, holding hands, fighting together, sharing plans, exchanging ideas and even A Keldabe kiss..

I and many see potential, at least in this shipment there is a lot of material to refute this couple; and I'm completely in the group that wants to keep them together.

This is the way.

[floating-in-the-blue]

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Last song: "Half-Life" by Essenger (Spotify/YouTube)

Favourite colour: greeeeeeeen!!! closely followed by yellow and then blues. So, you know, that whole wedge of the colour wheel ;D

Last book: the last one I finished was "The Mime Order", book 2 of Samantha Shannon's Bone Season Series. I really liked it and immediately ordered the next three books in the series (the bookshop had 12% on foreign language books). In the interim, I'm reading Tana French's "The Hunter". Also a second part in a series. I prefer her Dublin Murder Squad books to this series but her writing style is just so good. Although her books usually are kind of depressing so I'm glad to know I can continue with Bone Season 3 XD

Last movie: The Wild Robot, which I enjoyed a lot. I'll have to rewatch in English at some point since I wateched it with my Mom and therefore in German. But the dub was quite good.

Last show: I'm still on hiatus of my Ted Lasso rewatch, still watching S2 of Resident Alien and High Potential on Thursdays and now I've also started on a slow rewatch of Anne with an E.

Sweet/spicy/savoury: sweet and savoury. My body can't handle spicy, unfortunately. I think my sinuses would like it but they've got a minority vote. I am trying to cut down on the sweets though.

Relationship: Perpetually single and honestly too afraid to try at this point (if there was someone to try with)

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[eliza1911o1]

Resident Alien S3E3 reminding me why I loved this show

Not going to get into the issues, functional or superficial, I have with the show (post-s1, especially); that’s another post. Just wanted to note how 141 Seconds finally utilized some of the best parts of the show that have being going under appreciated

Obviously, one of those is focusing more on Harry himself. Subsequent seasons have really allowed supporting cast to grow, but this has come at the cost of Harry’s depth, at-times. It feels like it’s been a while since we’ve seen him truly wonder what he’s doing on Earth past chalking it up to affection for Asta or flippant interests such as his love for certain foods

The addition of the subplots wasn’t unwelcome, too. Rather than merely putting them through funny scenarios or highlighting some random meditation on humanity, the scenes truly added to the characters. For Dep. Liv, we gain insight to her lacking confidence as her grandmother bullies her for meaningless reasons; Sheriff Mike shows again his tactlessness for relationships, but is there to support Liv; Judy surprisingly gains context and is supported by D’arcy; Asta is guided to focusing on herself rather than keeping busy by others; and most focused on is the position of Ben and Kate, who is haunted by the ghost of a baby she supposedly never had. Though this plot feels more redundant than foreshadowed due to feeling too close to the scenes involving the Alien Tracker and his wife from last season, they are expanded this episode and strike an emotional chord that finally makes it feel worthwhile

It also highlighted that, even though he’s always saying it, Harry is an intelligent being with knowledge far beyond Earth’s limits. Though Harry has been expanding his repertoire of expression, most scenes have him coming off as immature and, at times irritatingly selfish. He’s typically the butt of a joke and substantially simpleminded, not bothering to understand the complexities behind his own emotions. I think the show has been struggling with the “show don’t tell,” so even though it was kind of a weak example, there was satisfaction in seeing Harry finally display his skills

Season 3 hasn’t felt as tight as it should for the shortened episode count (now at eight from twelve), but this episode managed to make the sitcom shift into more the drama it was during season 1. The anxious thought/hallucination Harry has of lava pouring out in the lobby was an especially nice touch, reminiscent of the zombie figures he saw when he was struggling with the guilt of killing his newfound human friends. The introduction of the Blue Avian at the end (who supposedly is Harry’s love interest, whose role I am skeptical about) is also nice as Harry’s trouble with the galactic laws reminds us (and him) he is, in fact, still an alien. No matter how human he is becoming or how much he wants to stay in this small town, that is not his full position. It’ll be interesting to see how this season pares out since the writing/plot has really been a hit or miss. However, if you’re just watching for laughs, there’s nothing to complain about