#legacies 2x13

[landonkirbyappreciation]

Landon + elements

[goodwhump-temp]

Optimus Prime Whump | Transformers: Prime

1x02 Darkness Rising Pt.2 - Heartbroken 1x04 Darkness Rising Pt.4 - Attacked, pinned 1x05 Darkness Rising Pt.5 - Solo fight (Punched x3, uppercutted, thrown) 1x06 Masters & Students - Dissapointed/grief, punched, body slammed, shot, hit with missile 1x07 Scrapheap - Slowly freezing to death, weak/stumbling 1x09 Convoy - Decked with a tree, large fall, unconscious 1x10 Deus Ex Machina - Electrocuted unconscious/incapacitated 1x13 Sick Mind - Infected, (literally dying), very weak, Megatron bromance 1x14 Out of His Head - Hit with fire beam, caught in explosion, pain 1x15 Shadowzone - Caught in explosion 1x19 Rock Bottom - Paralyzed 1x23 One Shall Fall - Worried, solo boss fight, punched multiple times, stabbed, beaten 1x24 One Shall Rise Pt.1 - Weak, exposed to dark energon, limping guilted, electrocuted, weak, knocked down, punched x4, restrained 1x25 One Shall Rise Pt.2 - Buried 1x26 One Shall Rise Pt.3 - Pain, sacrifice, weak, amnesia/innocent

2x01 Orion Pax Pt.1 - Amnesia, heartbroken (news of Cybertron) 2x02 Orion Pax Pt.2 - Amnesia 2x03 Orion Pax Pt.3 - Amnesia, threatened x2, knocked down x2, beaten, gutpunched 2x04 Operation Bumblebee Pt.1 - Guilt 2x05 Operation Bumblebee Pt.2 - Shocked back (shield), cornered 2x08 Nemesis Prime - Framed, knocked back, beaten, gruesomely stabbed 2x11 Flying Mind - Paralyzed mid-air 2x13 Triangulation - Punched, pushed down cliff, knocked down x2, thrown, backhanded 2x18 New Recruit - Thrown 2x20 Legacy - Shot mid-air, hanging 2x21 Alpha / Omega - Exhausted, fight, beaten, heartbroken, knocked down 2x23 Inside Job - Angry 2x26 Darkest Hour - Angry, caught in explosion, buried alive

3x01 Darkmount, NV - Badly injured, passes out 3x02 Scattered - Badly injured/barely alive 3x03 Prey - Barely alive, sacrifice 3x04 Rebellion - Dying, hallucinating 3x05 Project Predacon - Electrocuted mid-air, weak 3x10 Minus One - Loud noise, body slammed, clawed at, tail whipped, unconscious, falls 3x11 Persuasion - Unconscious (waking), uppercut-kicked unconscious 3x13 Deadlock - Jetpack damaged mid-air, shot, body slammed, boss battle, punched multiple times, angry, slashed w/ sword, hanging

[cabeswaterdrowned]

my October media recs (based on a combination of genre/aesthetic/vibes based on my own brain’s association. so while most of these are horror adjacent or paranormal I have favs in these categories I don’t think of as October-y and some things in other genres that I do think of that way, only based on vibes according to my brain or I may have just read/watched the thing originally that time of year and now the association sticks)

books

• The Diviners series by Libba Bray

• Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

•Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

•Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno Garcia

• The Fever by Megan Abbott

•The Lynburn Legacy by Sarah Rees Brennan

•The Demon’s Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan

•Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

•The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

•The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

•Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire (book 2 of the Wayward Children novellas)

•Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie Mclemore

•We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

•Monsters of Verity duology by Victoria Schwab

TV shows

•Buffy the Vampire Slayer

•MTV’s Scream

•Lovecraft Country

•Interview with the Vampire

•The Vampire Diaries

•Jessica Jones s1

Halloween episodes of TV

•Pretty Little Liars 2x13 and 3x13

•Buffy 2x06 and 4x04

•all Community halloween eps but especially 2x06 and 3x05

•The Vampire Diaries 1x07

•Crazy Ex Girlfriend 4x02

films (boring list because I watch movies as recommended to me by tumblr)

• Lisa Frankenstein

•Jennifer’s Body

•Ginger Snaps

•Black Swan

•Us

•Ready or Not

•His House

[thunderbirds-showdown]

Round 3 came and went and took with it some fan favourites. We're halfway through the tournament now, and there are only a handful of episodes left! It's time to get your bets in as to which one you think will win!

The episodes that have been eliminated this round are:

1x02: Ring of Fire - Part 2

1x09: Slingshot

1x21: Comet Chasers

1x23: Chain of Command

2x02: Ghost Ship

2x06: Up from the Depths - Part 1

2x23: Long Haul

2x25: Hyperspeed

3x24: Firebreak

3x26: The Long Reach - Part 2

Previous eliminated episodes:

1x03: Space Race

1x04: Crosscut

1x05: Fireflash

1x06: Unplugged

1x07: Runaway

1x10: Tunnels of Time

1x11: Skyhook

1x12: Under Pressure

1x13: Heavy Metal

1x14: Falling Skies

1x15: Relic

1x17: Heist Society

1x19: Extraction

1x20: The Hexpert

1x22: Designated Driver

1x24: Touch and Go

1x25: Undercover

1x26: Legacy

2x01: Earthbreaker

2x03: Deep Search

2x04: City Under the Sea

2x07: Up from the Depths - Part 2

2x08: Lost Kingdom

2x09: Impact

2x10: High Strung

2x11: Weather or Not

2x12: Fight or Flight

2x13: Escape Proof

2x14: Volcano!

2x15: Power Play

2x16: Bolt from the Blue

2x17: Attack of the Reptiles

2x18: Grandma Tourismo

2x19: Clean Sweep

2x21: Inferno

2x24: Rigged for Disaster

2x26: Brains vs. Brawn

3x01: Chaos - Part 1

3x02: Chaos - Part 2

3x03: Path of Destruction

3x04: Night and Day

3x05: Growing Pains

3x06: Life Signs

3x07: Rally Raid

3x08: Crash Course

3x09: Flame Out

3x10: Deep Water

3x11: Endgame

3x12: SOS - Part 1

3x14: Signals - Part 1

3x15: Signals - Part 2

3x16: Chain Reaction

3x17: Getaway

3x18: Avalanche

3x19: Upside Down

3x21: Break Out

3x22: Buried Treasure

3x23: Venom

3x25: The Long Reach - Part 1

[what-the-whump]

Febuwhump 2024 Masterlist

All through January I had been going back and watching a lot of the shows that I was obsessed with when I was younger. Power Rangers was something pretty high on that list, had a bit of a record of where my favourite characters had some whump so when I went through the Febuwhump prompts I thought it was be fun to try and do all of them with Power Rangers whump, including as many different series as I could.

All my posts are linked below and the colours of the prompt are referring to which ranger (or rangers) are getting whumped

Happy Febuwhump Everybody!

DAY 1: helpless - Power Rangers Jungle Fury, 1x27, Tigers Fall Lions Rise.

DAY 2: solitary confinement - Power Rangers S.P.D, 1x30, Missing.

DAY 3: ALT "I love you" - Power Rangers Time Force, 1x22, Lovestruck Rangers

DAY 4: obedience - Power Rangers Samurai, 1x09, I've Got a Spell on Blue

DAY 5: rope burns - Power Rangers Ninja Steel, 1x16, Monkey Business

DAY 6: “you lied to me” - Power Rangers Dino Charge, 1x08, Double Ranger Double Danger

DAY 7: suffering in silence - Power Rangers Mystic Force, 1x05, Whispering Voices

DAY 8: “why won’t it stop?” - Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, 1x35, The Green Candle Part II & 1x50, Return of an Old Friend Part II & 2x07, The Green Dream & 2x08, The Power Stealer & 2x09, The Beetle Invasion

DAY 9: bees - Power Rangers Megaforce, 1x05, United We Stand

DAY 10: killing in self defence - Power Rangers Super Samurai, 2x18, Evil Reborn.

DAY 11: ALT last man standing - Power Rangers Mystic Force, 1x11, The Hunter.

DAY 12: semi-conscious - Power Rangers Turbo, 1x18, Passing the Torch Part I.

DAY 13: “you weren’t supposed to get hurt” - Power Rangers Dino Thunder, 1x21, Copy That.

DAY 14: ALT human weapon - Power Rangers R.P.M, 1x13, Brothers Keeper.

DAY 15: “who did this to you?” - Power Rangers S.P.D, 1x33, Badge.

DAY 16: came back wrong - Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, 1x31, The Last Ranger.

DAY 17: hostage situation - Power Rangers Jungle Fury, 1x13 and 1x14, Ghost of a Chance Part I & II.

DAY 18: too weak to move - Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, 1x14, Shark Attack.

DAY 19: “please don’t” - Power Rangers Wild Force, 1x08, Soul Searching

DAY 20: ALT human shield - Power Rangers In Space, 1x05, Never Stop Searching.

DAY 21: unresponsive - Power Rangers Ninja Storm, 1x12, Return of Thunder Part III.

DAY 22: “you weren’t meant to be there” - Power Rangers Super Megaforce, 2x20, Legendary Battle.

DAY 23: presumed dead - Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, 1x14, Curse of the Cobra.

DAY 24: “i’m doing this because i care about you” - Power Rangers Dino Fury, 2x13, Love Hate.

DAY 25: ALT Found Footage - Power Rangers Dino Thunder, 1x04, Legacy of Power

DAY 26: “help them” - Power Rangers Time Force, 1x12, Worlds Apart.

DAY 27: left for dead - Power Rangers Beast Morphers, 2x10, Intruder Alert

DAY 28: “no… not like this” - Power Rangers Cosmic Fury, 1x01, Lightning Strikes.

DAY 29: not allowed to die - Power Rangers Operation Overdrive, 1x32, Crown and Punishment.

[bloodfestgf]

Abigail Hobbs + Hannibal's legacy

1x13: Savoureux / 1x09: Trou Normand / 2x13: Mizumono

[uncleasad]

For the fanfic director's cut ask game: ⭐

So…it’s taken me forever to get to this 😢 So sorry, and thanks so much for your patience, unsiredtribrid! 🙏

Without further ado, some Director’s Cut fun facts about Have at Least One Totally Epic Love!

(If you are someone who hasn’t read that fic yet and thinks you might want to…BEWARE, MAJOR SPOILERS below! Also TW for discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic.)

. . . . .

With that out of the way…

To quote Hope, “I’ll just start at the beginning.”

I wasn’t a huge The Vampire Diaries fan. I did see part of Season 4, most or all of Season 5, and all of Season 6, and then I stopped watching (though I came back for the finale). I was really intrigued by the family dynamics of the Mikaelsons, though, so I watched most of Season 1 and all of Season 2 of The Originals before growing weary of the constant infighting and betrayal. I never saw Season 3, but for some reason I started watching Season 4…and that’s the reason I’m here today, Summer Fontana as young Hope…she just blew me away. I came back for Season 5 despite Summer having been replaced by Danielle after the time jump, and she portrayed the travails of teen life and being supernatural and a Mikaelson so deftly. When I heard there was a spin-off featuring Hope, I was there for it.

By the end of the first hour, I had found a new reason to stay in Kaylee’s Josie, who was so complex, so very much more than met the eye. By Hope and Josie’s second interaction, ‘The Poking in the Park’ as I like to call it, their chemistry, their connection, their caring…all screamed at me, and I was a Hosie (although I did not know that was ‘a thing’ until I read an article at TV Line or one of those sites about the show after the end of the season, and it mentioned this popular ship fans had dubbed ‘Hosie’). And then the wish AU, and the crush confession, and…Hope and Josie were screaming to the whole world. Well.

I had found Landon Kirby, the townie server who had memorized the attractive girl’s milkshake order (and, honestly, we all would have done the same, right?), sweet. He seemed compassionate and provided a normalcy Hope needed in her life as The Hollow sought to overtake her once again. When Hope met up with him again in the beginning of Legacies, I thought, ‘Oh, it’s that nice boy again.’ Somewhere in that first hour, though, everything changed. He seemed shifty, he started lying to Hope, and then he stole the knife and got a bus full of innocents killed (ultimately neither were his fault, but…). And then Hope and Josie became kindred spirits, and it was all over for Mister Kirby. (The writers’ writing constantly insufferable behavior and repeating the same things over and over again effectively completely sabotaged his character, which, uh, didn’t help.)

Where was I? Ah, yes, so I’d realized I was not alone in liking Hope and Josie together. I’d been reading fanfic off and on for years, initially on random sites, later on FFN, and about that time AO3 won the Hugo, so I learned it existed 😂 Sometime in the fall of 2019/beginning of Season 2 I started reading Hosie fics on AO3. They were awesome, there were a bunch of incredible authors and super-nice folks (👋 @avengerskye), and despite the awkward turns of S2, we were all excited.

My first-ever thing you’d call a fanfic was an extremely awkward follow-up to War and Remembrance I wrote in middle school. I had sixth and seventh grade teachers who encouraged writing, and I wrote a ton…that fanfic, new installments of my long-running (since third grade) sci-fi series, lots of other stuff I can no longer remember. High school really beat the love of reading and writing out of me, and college and grad school drove it further into the ground and piled rubble on its grave. But it was slowly coming back, and Hosie, well, Hosie had me excited again.

In early 2020 😳 during the month-long break between 2x13 and 2x14, I came up with an idea for quick one-shot (famous last words, I would later learn) idea that would honor Hope and Landon’s connection from The Originals and then move on to Hope’s true epic love, Josie, that the series was shoving in our faces yet doggedly refusing to actually pursue. Hope had just chosen saving the twins over saving Landon! I remembered Hayley’s letter to Hope from S5 and went to look that up. And I started writing. Nearly a thousand words later, I’d written…a prologue 😂 But I published it, and people seemed to like it and left lovely comments, even though it was the first fiction I’d written in ages.

So I wrote the second chapter, which clocked in at 2200 words, still covering well-trodden ground, but introducing some Hosie elements into their pasts, including during 1x07 while Hope was trapped in The Necromancer’s mind and the twins were in Europe. And now my one-shot was going to be 3 or 4 chapters. Another 1600 words, officially picking up after the events of 2x13, and I had written the first 1½ scenes of what I was then envisioning as Chapter 3.

Chapter 4 clocked in at almost 4400 words, longer than the entire fic so far…and there was still one more scene from “Chapter 3” to come. Chapter 5, almost 2K words again. From my end note on the chapter:

Incidentally, this concludes where I envisioned the original chapter 2 (in the original 3-chapter conception of this story) ending. That also means this is the end of “past events” and everything going forward will be happening in the present, at least in theory.

😂

Incidentally, that was also the last chapter written and published before the country finally shut down 😢 We had seen one more episode of the show by then, 2x14, the first therapy box/noir-world 😍, where Hope had chosen the twins over Landon again. (And yet! 🤬)

Chapter 6 came next, on March 24, two days before what would become the season finale aired. (We’d seen the Sadistic Seventeen/The Merge episode the prior week.) There’s a line in the chapter’s beginning notes:

I heard on the radio Saturday evening that local-ish band REM’s “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” was back on the charts again 30-some years after it was originally released, and it felt like kismet while writing this chapter.

That moment is seared in my memory, oddly enough. I was down near the river, harvesting sand that had been deposited by the spring (late winter) floods. I had two 5-gallon contractor buckets full, and I wasn’t going to carry them both all the way back up the hill. So I brought the van down the path, and as I was loading the (quite heavy) buckets in the back, that bit of news came over the radio, followed by, I’m fairly certain, the song itself.

This section from the end notes for Chapter 6 pretty much says it all:

It’s become increasingly difficult for me to write the latter part of this story as things out there worsen; I think these rambling, no-action chapters are my subconscious way of trying to put off the impending battle (and the angst and hurt that will surround it) while the real world is hurting. But I don’t think I can interpolate any more chapters, so either the pain will come or this story will end up on hiatus.

While I had all of the rest of the story in mind at this point (except the epilogue, or parts of it), I think it will surprise no on that the fic did, in fact, go on hiatus. It’s hard to write a potential armageddon in the midst of a viral apocalypse.

In April, to try to get writing again, I started After Ten Long Years; by May, I was 15K words into it and trying to wrangle plot threads, but I had a short fluffy idea that became the first of my seasonal Tales from the Salvatore Kitchen series. By June I was stuck again, and I began writing another new fic, my Old West Hosie WIP.

In August, inspired by AdeleDazeem’s summery treat summer lovin' had me a blast (wait, no, that's just the leaf-blower) (add it to your reading list if you haven’t!), I’d written another Tales from the Salvatore Kitchen installment. By September, I’d gotten stuck on Old West Hosie and begun yet another fic, the Hosie Alternate Realities WIP. In November, another bit of fun in the kitchen—that little series of fluffy one-shots was cooking! 😩 [Bad puns also being a trademark of the Tales from the Salvatore Kitchen…]

At the beginning of February 2021, 10 months since I left off, I was back with the final lead-up to the climactic battle, aka Chapter 7. And then 10 days later, the final chapter! From Chapter 8’s notes:

A year ago(!) when I started writing this story, “Mad World” was showing up all over the place, even before the pandemic had hit the US; as I was plotting the end of the story, that seemed like a fitting lyric for this chapter. (If somehow you missed the quarantine acoustic version from the singer and his teenage daughter last April…go listen!) And, hey…I’ve managed to finish my story involving Malivore’s resurrection before canon got him resurrected…barely! Go, me! (Thanks, pandemic…but not really.)

(It really was wild how “Mad World” had shown up on several shows just before the pandemic exploded; the one I still remember is Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist.)

I’d had the idea to resurrect/reembody Malivore back in 2020, well before the show aired episodes hinting at that direction, so it was wild to see that we’d both had similar ideas!

This chapter was also my first experience with AO3’s lovely habit of not prompting you to update the publication date of a draft chapter before publishing, so it was published in the middle of page two or three of the Hosie tag, and I didn’t notice for two days! So, other than the subscribers, no one knew Chapter 8 existed 😂

But all was not lost! I had one sentence in my notes that I’d wanted to include in Chapter 8 but couldn’t make it fit, so it’s epilogue time! (It’s somewhere in that final paragraph, but I’d have to both find and attempt to decipher, after all these years, my notes to say for sure.) Josie and Hope as a folk duo! The Siphon & The Tribrid, later Persephone & Eurydice! With a song about Landon inspired by a classic Gordon Lightfoot tune! And some very special moments on the Seine to wrap it all up, two days shy of a year after the fic began.

(So, to recap: work title from a Hayley Marshall quote, plus chapter titles from an REM song/lyric, a Tears for Fears lyric, a Winston Churchill book title, a play on a Gabriel García Márquez book title, and another Hayley Marshall quote. And a fake song title that’s a play on a Gordon Lightfoot song title.)

Also to recap: a one-shot became a two-shot became…8 chapters and an epilogue! (Like The Cape, only better 😂) It has never failed that any fic I begin to publish serially before completing the writing always spawns at least one more chapter than I’d planned on writing 😂

If you’ve made it to this point, congratulations! You have far more patience than me, or a morbid curiosity about how my mind works 😂

A few more notes before wrapping up: this is also the only fic that’s first-person POV. I don’t know why it felt right when I began. (I think some of my early writing was first-person, but I think the bulk of it has always been third-person. And all of my subsequent fics are.)

If I everWhen I finally finish those first three WIPs I began during the writing hiatus on Have at Least One Totally Epic Love, it’ll be very odd, because my opinions of both Landon and Alaric have soured considerably since then, Landon as the frustratingly bone-headed writing of his character and his and Hope’s “relationship” persisted, despite all the potential for Hosie they also wrote into the series, and Alaric because, well…

This is the work that has the most hits, most subscriptions, and most bookmarks, and I doubt I’ll ever approach those levels again. (It also held most comment threads until this summer’s The One with Hope’s Wedding and most words until 2022’s And I Will Always Love You; most kudos has belonged since 2021 to You Couldn’t Even Bother To Check On Me?, which is second in just about every other stat.) It’s weird to seem like you peaked with your very first fic 😂 but such are the vagaries of fandom!

I’ve kinda wanted to tell the story of this fic for a while now, before the parts that aren’t documented in the chapter notes get lost to time, and it is so entwined with my becoming a Hosie and finding AO3, and this seemed like the perfect opportunity, so you got a very long, rambling Director’s Cut!

Thanks so much for the ask, my friend, and for your patience until I could find time and space for this to all gel in my head and then write it down 🙏 (I actually got to it faster than I did to Rika’s 😳😂 a little over a month 😂)

[bittersweetremains]

Danielle Rose Russell as Hope Mikaelson on Legacies season 2 episode 13

[kaiparkerdiesmoved]

[hibiscxs]

honestly hate how Hope’s 2x13 dilemma has become framed by the fandom as Hope choosing who she loves more or who she thinks is more important and turning it into proof for ships or wtv when the real important thing is that, no matter which choice, Hope had to choose to let someone she loved die again

[catsadams]

*anon requested*

hope mikaelson — 2.13 you can’t save them all

if you like please like/reblog

[landonkirbyappreciation]

I'm taking back the life you stole

[handonshipper]

Landon Kirby and Hope Mikaelson 2x13

[thunderbirds-showdown]

Round 2 is over and some big contenders are already gone! It's starting to get real now! I hope you're ready for even more difficult decisions coming up because it will just get harder and harder

Once again, thank you to everyone who took part this round and shared their opinions! It's interesting to see the different ways people lean and what everyone takes away from each episode.

The episodes that have been eliminated this round are:

1x05: Fireflash

1x06: Unplugged

1x07: Runaway

1x10: Tunnels of Time

1x11: Skyhook

1x13: Heavy Metal

1x14: Falling Skies

1x15: Relic

1x17: Heist Society

1x26: Legacy

2x17: Attack of the Reptiles

2x19: Clean Sweep

3x06: Life Signs

3x08: Crash Course

3x09: Flame Out

3x10: Deep Water

3x12: SOS - Part 1

3x14: Signals - Part 1

3x18: Avalanche

3x23: Venom

Previous eliminated episodes:

1x03: Space Race

1x04: Crosscut

1x12: Under Pressure

1x19: Extraction

1x20: The Hexpert

1x22: Designated Driver

1x24: Touch and Go

1x25: Undercover

2x01: Earthbreaker

2x03: Deep Search

2x04: City Under the Sea

2x07: Up from the Depths - Part 2

2x08: Lost Kingdom

2x09: Impact

2x10: High Strung

2x11: Weather or Not

2x12: Fight or Flight

2x13: Escape Proof

2x14: Volcano!

2x15: Power Play

2x16: Bolt from the Blue

2x18: Grandma Tourismo

2x21: Inferno

2x24: Rigged for Disaster

2x26: Brains vs. Brawn

3x01: Chaos - Part 1

3x02: Chaos - Part 2

3x03: Path of Destruction

3x04: Night and Day

3x05: Growing Pains

3x07: Rally Raid

3x11: Endgame

3x15: Signals - Part 2

3x16: Chain Reaction

3x17: Getaway

3x19: Upside Down

3x21: Break Out

3x22: Buried Treasure

3x25: The Long Reach - Part 1

[shadcwhcart]

[quietcryo]

Turns out a lot of black magic can really grow out, dye, and fix hair all up