#lol christina bYE

[cassecorrea]

I’ve seen a lot of people do these and I wanted to get in on the action even though it’s super late

Thoughts on The Little Mermaid (2023)

Likes:

- I will forever preach about how my favorite scene is the one after KTG when they sneak back in!!! Soaking wet!! Giggling!! Quiet!! Late at night!!! I love it!!

- after reading about this I’m actually VERY glad they went with short dresses for Ariel — good costume design choice!! A big ballgown would hide the very fact that she’s human now!

- the Caribbean 👏🏼 calypso music 👏🏼 need I say more?

- how Eric finds out her name ☺️ written in the stars ☺️

- the opening quote! The fact that she doesn’t shed a tear until the end!

- the fact that the ending focuses on their new adventures together in the future

- part of your world reprise 2!! It should’ve been longer!!

- the jade mermaid figurine 🥹 (btw I want one please someone make a replica… that I can afford LOL)

- back to costumes, I love her blue dress!! (Tho Lashana(?) had her animated dress’ color palette so like… it was right there XD) but I also loved her pink dress!! And the ponytail!! She needed more hairstyles 😭

- I LOVE the fact that the mermaids are covered in scale patterns, that they don’t have skin at all but shimmering scales all over

- the fact that king Triton just SPAWNS???? From fish???? With the fish cape???? Now what was that about — also, how old are all the sisters if he’s been ruling for centuries??? Questions questions

- I love how Ariel and Eric meet on the beach in the OG but as a variant I did also like that a fisherman finds her (also I love how we see her struggling to swim to shore) this movie also made me realize how impossible that hair flip scene is since she’s standing on nothing and her hair would be behind her but it’s pretty so who cares

- Awkwafina my girl was the perfect scuttle

- scuttlebutt was so unnecessary but it’s low-key a bop so I’m not complaining (though Ariel and Eric SHOULDVE HAD A DUET ok bye) wait why isn’t there a single pop version of a song from the soundtrack like with every other film? Demi lovato singing let it go, Christina Aguilera reflection, zayn a whole new world, John legend and Ariana beauty and the beast, like BRO we needed one for under the sea!! Or part of your world!! Or kiss the girl! Ugh missed opportunity

- her hair on land TwT is so pretty TwT the shades of gold and red and orange ahhhh (maybe could’ve done with a few more red strands but it was still gorgeous) plus the shells in her hair!! She needed more!!

- I’m all over the place but the library scene !!! Ariel’s curiosity!! Ariel always disappearing LMAO someone needs to nail that girls fins to the floor is right

- love that they took out the writing plothole

- Jodi!! With the fork!!

- Grimsby being the ultimate shipper

- yo Vanessa’s actress?? For having so little screen time she BODIED that role

- Halle’s voice duh

- for the first time was such a needed song, love the cinematography especially in her room (her eating the soap!!! Lmao)

- go back home to daddy, and nEVER. LEAVE. AGAIN.

- Ursula looking all zombie and kaiju-esque?? Definitely to hide weird cgi but it looked so creepy and cool

- Eric struggling back to shore at the end and immediately calling to search for Ariel as he stumbles from exhaustion

- Ariel diving for the trident instead of Eric!!

- scuttle and Sebastian were a hilarious duo lmao

- Ariel’s mermaid design (but the early screen test footage version looked so pretty too… more thoughts in the dislike section about this)

- Ariel saving Max!!

- the whole market sequence tbh

- Ariel’s bones cracking when she transformed back into a mermaid!! But I’m so mad we never once got to see a full transformation scene lmao more about that later

- Ariel just putting everything in her mouth 🌷

- the grander orchestral soundtracks in each song

- Ariel’s grotto is bigger

- ariel killing Ursula (it’s her villain!!!) and having to drag herself across the deck (eric saved her with the harpoons so stop complaining)

- Ariel finding the telescope

- the shot of ariel swimming to the surface with her reflection on top with the fireworks!!!

- Ariel forgetting about the kiss

- Ariel singing along to under the sea!!! To show that she doesn’t absolutely hate her home!!! She just wants more!!! And the way she sings music is to me specifically !!! And the fact that she sings more period! I always thought she should’ve sang a lot more than twice in the original version for being known for her voice

- Ariel saving/healing Eric quicker with her siren song???

- the fact that one of my fave Disney ships is now getting all the love they always deserved ☺️

Dislikes:

- her sisters do more than the og but they still need to be shown more… and have lines lol. I read the companion novels for this version and they’re so prominent and have cool abilities and cultures and kingdoms but !! They don’t show any of that in the movie !! Like why add lore if you’re not going to show it… also I like the fact that in the companion novels they rule over fictional seas and their world map is different from ours, but then in the film they just mention real world locations like… pick one

- okay I gotta talk about it 😔 Ariel’s ocean transformation dress. Not to mention that whole scene. It’s one of my favorites in the original and they just… scrapped it. I was looking forward to them actually showing Ariel’s transformation back into a human at the end because I thought the original should’ve included it too (hello I love a good Barbie transformation scene) but they still didn’t show it… AND they didn’t even show the gold magic going to her tail OR her reaction!!! Like BRO WHAT???? And the fact that they took out her magical dress???? And just put her back in RAGS like they put my poor girl in a torn up smelly dress and for what 😭 not to mention the fact that they imply she had to swim naked, find the rags dress, and climb up all those stairs AHEM YEAH THEY ALSO TOOK OUT THE RISING FROM THE WATER SCENE LIKE BRO also if they didn’t want to include the ocean dress (mistake but ok, they could’ve had her scales transform into a dress but ok) they could’ve at least fixed up her blue dress… added some shimmer or shells and coral idk man

- yeah she needed at least one more day outfit… my girl wore the same dress for three days in a row… and one of those days it fell in a lake…

- the fact that every transformation scene was either dark and hidden or not shown at all (come on budget??)

- the screen test version where Ariel had more upper body and arm scales… was better. She just looked so empty compared to her sisters it was a weird choice they made to make her top look more like an actual bandeau bra with a harsh cut off and everything

- yes Ariel and Eric needed a duet

- where was the ensemble?? The choir??? Both in under the sea and kiss the girl??? Under the sea should’ve had a lot more people singing as the song went on especially since he’s talking about instruments and animals (that don’t even get shown???) but instead it sounds so empty since he’s singing by himself until Halle joins and a tiny quiet ensemble — and in kiss the girl it was such a BAD choice to have it just be scuttle Sebastian and flounder I’m sorry but it ruined the sultry smooth jazz calypso vibe of that beautiful song 😭 flounder’s vocals threw me so far out of it lmao they could’ve started the song singing it but the ensemble should’ve come in!!! Where were the harmonies!!! Anyway the broadway version is my fave listen to that instead

- the lyric changes were so unnecessary… Ursula’s a villain, duh she’s gonna spout some shady misogynistic advice… plus that was my fave part of the song 😭 also the whole “use your words boy” line was unnecessary… because when he leans into kiss her multiple times he doesn’t even ask………… like they missed the point there (also why was he already so willing to kiss her, he should’ve been super reluctant 😭)

- they took out les poissons which, fine, I guess but we’re not even gonna have a kitchen scene in any way?? Also Ariel got over the whole food for slaughter thing real quick but I’m glad they brought it up at all

- they could’ve had Sebastian rap at the ending bridge of under the sea (as an alternative to scuttlebutt)

- where was the finale song !!! With all the merpeople and humans singing together!!! At least have Ariel sing the deleted clip of it !!! Now we can walk now we can run… ugh we needed it

- loved the ending… but that final shot was a bit wonky?

- where was the cruise ship????? If we’re not gonna see the wedding on the ship (missing triton’s water spout and rainbow) fine but not even the engagement cruise?? Hello budget??? We didn’t even get to see Ariel swimming her butt off to get to Vanessa?? But we got her tackling her instead 😭😭 odd choice

- I’m sorry but the visuals were not giving on wild uncharted waters, at least in the first half… like show something!! Show him on the beach at least!! At Ariel’s rock??? Show flashbacks?? Idk something??

- the fact that Sebastian is no longer the court composer 😔 and he’s not dignified anymore he’s just an abused wannabe advisor who is harassed like whaaaaat he’s supposed to be one of her father figuresssss,,, also the fact that he’s so miffed and takes things into his own hands during KTG is because he’s a composer, it’s why he mentions bands and instruments in under the sea!!

- I was afraid of this when the casting announcement was first made but I was looking for some more expressive… expressions from Halle :( mainly in the poor unfortunate souls scene and when she has no voice, like she does a great job but I do think she needed to be more expressive in some parts

- why does Ariel call him father?? And not daddy?? Small nitpick but it seemed a lot colder/distant when she called him father lol like it threw me out of it in the goodbye scene

- the whole concert scene was gone lmao not to mention that we barely even see other merpeople or their culture, we literally just see the sisters in an otherwise empty sea until the ending

- no lyrics to Vanessa’s song :( but it was sung beautifully. Oh also it made no sense that Vanessa’s melody started singing before she even put the necklace on?? Like wha?? Why would Ariel’s melody change on its own? Also why did Vanessa not talk in Ariel’s voice? That girl had three voices come out of her XD I guess they wanted the actress to be able to talk??

- also I wish Vanessa were black too since she was supposed to look so similar to Ariel and be mistaken for her (Halle could’ve played her, or even Chloe!) but the actress did a great job so it’s fine

- I’m sorry but Eric should’ve been Hispanic imo… :( they made sure it takes place in the Caribbean but still had a white Eric? Who was adopted? Idk man I wanted a Latino prince :/ also wasn’t a fan of the way they styled his hair or stubble because he looks much better in other things he’s been in

- Eric had only one outfit, even for his wedding XD, and what was up with that weird blue vest

- the shot of Ariel in the sun was too blurry and dark :( didn’t give off the same vibes as the og

- the sky in the part of your world reprise is so pale, they could’ve upped the saturation behind her :( the shot didn’t give the same oomph

- Ariel creeping up the rock… why

- the weird shot in part of your world where her hand is through the hole but it cuts to her being on the rock at the bottom? Made no sense lol also they could’ve upped the saturation of her hair underwater the way it looks in the sunlight since it’s all cgi

- they couldn’t even give my girl an actual high quality mermaid tail to base the cgi off of?? H2O had a much smaller budget but had actual detailed tails 😭

- for the first time was great but melody wise it didn’t seem to fit the rest of the soundtrack? It was much more broadway-ie

- why didn��t the eels talk? Why did Ursula not even talk to them? Ariel killing them literally is what gets her mad and go kraken on her but… they barely had a relationship in this one

- ^ like why did Ursula say the word pathetic out loud? To no one? How was that not an immediate turn off for Ariel? Plus the skulls??

- where was Eric’s flute? Playing Ariel’s melody? And Vanessa walking across the beach all majestic like?

- I’m sorry but the queen was so unnecessary… I get what they were going for with the Triton parallels but they could’ve done that with Grimsby in the beginning or his court or whatever, why give a mom who’s barely in the film then immediately changes her mind in the very end without us seeing it?

- Carlotta 😭 poor girl was written out!!! Lashana was obviously supposed to be her so why change her name?

- I do kinda wish they made the three days longer (give her a week?) but I get why they didn’t, that’s just a personal thing

- some of the underwater scenes were shot at an angle that were unflattering to Halle which pissed me off because she looks stunning in every other part of the movie

- why did Eric’s castle look like a gray European fortress 😭 where were the red tiled roofs and the canals

- Atlantica went from a glowing golden magical city-palace to an underground rocky coral cave… couldn’t we have done a mix?

- flounder was so unnecessary he was barely in the movie in favor for the scuttle/Sebastian dynamic

- max was barely in the movie :(

All in all I HOPE they make a sequel (but please don’t base it off of the terrible animated one lmao please no kids) and give Ariel and Eric a duet, give Eric a tail!!! Make him explore her world too!!! And actually address the fact that Ursula killed the queen like the companion novels state… also please include a full transformation scene lol also why does no one make a version where she can switch between worlds freely, it’s okay I’ll write that into my own version

[cantheywinthehungergames]

I see you lamenting a lack of submissions. Hopefully for expediency it's okay to submit multiple at once. List of characters I submit for consideration:

• Yamcha (Dragon Ball, 16)

• Paris Geller (Gilmore Girls, 16 [she's on the show forever so she does age beyond 18 iirc lol])

• Thorfinn (Vinland Saga [Prologue], 16)

• Haruhi Suzumiya (The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (2010) [this version of her has no powers] 15/16)

• Damien Thorn (Damien - Omen II (1978), 12)

• Christina "Chris" Parker (Adventures in Babysitting (1987), 17)

• Kim MacAfee (Bye Bye Birdie (1963), 16)

• Susan Pevensie (The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe [at the END of the book, after the children return from Narnia and are children again, but with their memories of their reign intact], 12)

• Jennifer Smith (The Man in the High Castle, age not spelled out iirc but definitely around 15-16)

• Carrie White (Carrie, 16)

I’ll get these queued up when I got the time (aside from Thorfinn who I believe has been submitted before), but do remember in the future that there is a Google Form link to submit characters now. Thank you very much!

[beetlebugdash]

Miraculous awakening thoughts and live reaction! (Major spoilers!)

- holy crap we made it to a movie

- I'm so excited

- Remember back in season 2 (I think) that a live action movie was coming

- Good times

- Anyways this

- Netflix presents tears

- No magic

- JUMPS SCARE

- we've been known thanks for explaining

- Dark butterflies and angry? Wanna see the counterpart

- LADYBUG AND CAT NOIR

- stronger than death?

- THE CLASSIC MOVIE MUSIC

- PARIS!!??!)

- classic movie intro is classic

- PHOTOGRAPHER AND NEWSPERSON

- CROSSWINDS

- the road????

- Marionette wears a watch?

- I love her dad

- UNICORNBCAKES

- 10/10 diversity

- Daddy??? Ok Chloe

- Listen to my chest???? Idk what u mean

- YOU JUST GOTTA BELIEVE!!!!

- Christina that isn't your singing voice

- CHRISTINA HAS A GOOD VOICE

- love the painter's design

- It dosent sound like her

- DOG

- THE TEA SCENE FORM THE PV

- Lotta unique background character designs

- WHERE DID U GET THE BIKE

- iconic locations beauty

- THE SKETCHBOOK!

- ALSO ANIMATION IS GORGEOUS

- other friends???

- I wanna know

- Gabriel designs, you'll soon hate him

- Polka dot dress before ladybug

- Ooo sparkles

- ITS A FLOATING SKETCHBOOK

- fireworks ooooooo

- "Here's some perfume”

- YOU SPIN ME ROUND

- NATALIE And Gabriel

- TODD VOICE YAY

- Love that persons hair

- I thought Gabriel is never in public?¿

- Chloe's voice sounds odd?

- BWAHAHAHHAHA

- oh it's Gabriel agreste sweater

- A+ to alya

- "EAT BREAD WITH BUTTER"

- FINALLY GLASSES FLARE

- MEANT TO BE?

- recorder

- GYMNASTICS AU COME TRUE

- TRANSITION TO EMILIE

- ugh she looks so pretty

- Odd

- LUKA AND JULEKA

- Rude ugh

- Oh i hate Chloe

- AHAHAHA

- At least we know school layout kinda

- Little bit of luck? Yea here allergies

- Alegies or dust WE NEED TO KNOW

- IT THE SEASON 1 FINALE ALL OVER AGAIN

- CAT BOOK

- theyre trying to make everyone fall for Adrien

- ukulele music?

- NINO YEAAAA

- oooo amusement park

- Depressing Adrien

- Natalie I love

- I HATE GABRIEL

- i smell a sad song

- LONG HAIRED GABRIEL IS REAL????

- long entry hallways

- Wow Gabriel has very pretty nails

- HE HAS A WATCH TOO?

- EMILIE LORE?

- oh she was a performer omg

- HAPPY BIRTHDAY?????

- ooooooooooo

- nooroo????

- WOAH

- master fu knows whazzup

- This movie is going really fast an lots of jumps

- Oh plagg and tikki fight????

- Marinella????

- HIT BY A CAR?

- SCREAMING EXCHANGE

- GASP

- 10/10 BREAKS

- uh crazy man bye

- MASTER FU WHAT THE

- creepy hall? Sure!

- Poor Chloe

- Sabrina is a wingman OOO

- random window opening? Sure!

- CAT

- MIRACULOUS

- failed proposal?

- oh no first akuma attack

- WOA CREEPY

- well evil spirits

- Oooo a ladybug

- ooooooo

- “Who saves a life saves the world”

- IT'S LIKE THE ORIGINAL ANIMATION

- TIKKI!

- “GIRLS CAN WEAR PANTS” YES

- can you say kwami

- Tiny genie sure

- “I WET THE BED”

- REDEMPTION FOR THE CHRISTMAS EPISODE CAUSE TIKKI ONLY HAD 1 LINE

- THE THEME SONG? ¿

- "I'll hide in a tree"

- RAPPING TIKKI?

- BWAHAHAHA

- CONTINUITY!

- Aw marinette has doubts

- "Im out of patience"

- that poor security guard

- WHERE IS QUASIMODO WHEN U NEED HIM

- "first a song now a yoyo what's next a tea set???"

- CRASH

- oh hi cat noir

- bonjour

- "Do I know u?"

- A WATERMELON

- CAT NOURS SIDEKICK LOL

- omg cat noir will always me my fav

- CAT PUNS!!?!

- oh no cat noir

- RUUUUUUNNNNNNN

- "Not on the first date!"

- Omg I love him

- "Is that a watermelon"

- CANONBALL!

- SHERO

- wet haired cat noir

- 👍

- BON APPETITEEEEEE

- little Adrien lol

- cat noir outta breath lol

- 2-0 gargoyle

- GO FETCH PUPPY

- KITTY

- MIRACULOUS POWER

- "Thank goodness marinette is at home" lol

- oH NO NOT THE TAIL

- WO

- zag news LOL

- DON'T BE BEMUSED IT'S JUST THE NEWS

- THE MUSIC AHAHGAHAHAHHA

- oh no loose akuma

- master FU

- Miraculous: tales of watermelon and insane

- coooooooool

- Hawkwho?

- THE WINK

- TOGETHER!

- failure is not your enemy, fears are

- New cat singing voice

- I like this voice (no offence Bryce)

- oh I love this song

- Bounce from the clouds

- HEARTS CLOUD

- and moon cloud

- Oh it's a swan cloud

- Transitions are horrid

- rosemary?

- SHOSHOCHEF

- stinks

- PLAGG

- ewwwww

- THE BURN

- Natalie hears PLAGG LOL

- And cat puns!

- Hey he has picture in his room!

- PTFAFS

- "she knows her stuff" *proceeds to screem*

- PUSS IN BOOTS

- mic drop marinette out

- can't get rid of it lol

- haHaHA

- poop

- ugh fear

- NATALIE HAS A HOME OTHER THAN THE AGEESTE MANSION

- nooroo ily

- “I have nothing to loose” ADRIEN??

- HAWKMOTH SONG

- BEST SONG

- BEAUTY ANIMATION

- Shakespeare hawkmoth

- SO EVIL

- IS THIS KEITH?????

- THEY HAVE KEITH SINGING BUT NOT CHRISTINE UGH

- THE MIME

- HAWKMOTH HAWKMOTH HAWKMOTH

- THE TOPHAT

- HIGH NOTE WOOO

- Butt kicking girl superhero WOO

- how did u get some of those

- stealing money????????

- BOOM

- Dr love nino

- Roses means desperate

- I LOVE HIS APRON

- oh I love marinettes dad

- Dr love more like Dr not

- why did u look at her sketches

- man duck Gabriel

- THE WHILHEM SCREEM

- oh no poor nino

- POOR SABRINA

- 0.0

- oooo chaos

- Ironically I just saw a magician today

- I think?

- LEMME RIDE THE HORSES

- anxiety ridden Marinette

- ITS THE SONG!

- eh it’s ok I guess?

- Animation still looks cool

- Tikki scare is scary

- TIKKI SPOTS ON

- TRANSFORMATION IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PUBLIC

- creepy baby balloon

- what is with ladybug and cats voices

- STRONGER TOGETHER

- boo you Chloe

- LONG YIME NO SPEAK

- THE GARBAGE

- POOR NINO

- nino confession goes out the window

- POOR CAT

- At least their adding sounds to the bell like come on it is annoying

- WHY ISNT THAT FAMILY RUNNING?

- POP

- HAWKMOTH FACE

- BYE BYE LITTLE BUTTERFLIES

- PARTNERS

- OH THE SONG

- CROSSOINT MAN

- BUBBLER!

- MIRACULOUS!

- GYMNASTICS!

- THE CARS

- ICE CREAM PATROL!!!!!

- ITS THE LOVE SONG

- whoops

- I LOVE LADYNOIR

- this is the ladynoir I’ve been missing from the show

- THE OFFICIAL ART!

- ADULTS ARE HAVING A CONVERSATION!

- glow=danger?

- broken heart

- UGH YOU FOOL

- love song love song love song love song

- “I wouldn’t get close to anyone after my mom died” “I got close to you” AAAAAAAAH

- WHERE DID THESE TEARS COME FROM?¿

- oh i love them

- NO DONT GO

- OW

- JUST AN EMPTY HEART

- PLAGG

- ADRIEN STANDING UP TO HIS DAD!

- Follow your heart AND THEIR THE SAME PERSON!

- ow

- SCREW YOU CHLOE

- aw

- She wears a tank top?

- “I dreamed of calling Paris home” uh you live in Paris?????

- Where did they get the ladybug and cat noir shots?

- IM NOT CRYING YOU ARE!

- ITS A CHILDRENS MOVIE WHY AM I CRYING

- YO HAWKMOTH

- creepy eepy

- JEREMY ZAG!

- yOOooOooo

- wow this got dark quick

- CAT NOOOOOOOO

- dude look outside

- selfie it truly is gen z

- GO PLAGG

- LADYBUG NO

- FINALLY

- no don’t do this now

- stronger together????

- oh no

- Another fall for the Eiffel Tower yet this feels different

- CAT

- LADYBUG GO SAVE HIM

- oh no oh no oh no

- OH NO

- THE MIRACULOUS

- OH NO

- YEAAAAAA CAT

- ow

- flashback

- OH NO HIS MASK

- MARICHAT FOR DA WIN

- FINALLY

- O MY GOD

- MY LITTLE BOY

- FLASHBACK

- LITTLE ADRIEN

- THE MIRACULOUS BOOK

- love over death

- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

- Marinette watching like 🧍‍♀️

- oooooo pretty music

- master fu where did u come from

- ITS THE CREEPY GUY!

- LADYBUG LADYBUG (and cat noir maybe)

- ok that’s different

- ITS LIKE THE FANTASMIC SCENE

- aaaawwww it’s nearly over

- THE BALL

- VOLKSWAGEN

- Sabrina’s just like “meh”

- REVEAL?

- SNOW HEART IN TREE

- YEAAAA

- IS HE CRYING

- HES SO HAPPY

- MUSIC KNOWS HOW BIG IT IS

- KISS KISS

- THEY DID THAT FOR THE FANS

- post credit sequal?

- SEQUAL??????

- AND THE PRE MOVIE SCENES

- Overall: harsh transitions, hate ladybugs voice, and a bit rushed, and I despised the ending was anticlimactic with ladybug, but overall for a miraculous movie was alright it has amazing animation

- They somehow made it cater for both the old and longtime fans and young and newbie fans good job (for the most part)

- I don’t have a rating since it’s a stand alone movie so I’m just gonna go cry in the corner until season 6 or more ladynoir

[missguomeiyun]

lunch @ JinYa Ramen

Hey guys!

Not me being almost 2 months late........ Sorry! I forgot about this meal until I was cleaning up my phone to prepare space for my trip :P

Back in Oct., Susan had her bday lunch here at Jinya Ramen. As a note to my future self/readers, there is currently just the one location in Edm & it is located just off-Jasper Ave. It occupies the former Hoang Long Vietnamese Cuisine Restaurant.

So Jinya is a franchise & I believe this is the 2nd one in Alberta (one in Calgary). They open at 1130 but when we arrived shortly before then, there was already a short line-up despite them being around for several months now.

The view when you 1st enter: the bar area.

Turning to the left, you'll get this view. The restaurant is very narrow; I remember writing the same thing when I wrote about Hoang Long lol it's a very loooooong space.

We got seated in the corner. There aren't many large tables. We got the half-bench & half chair joint-table arrangement as we were a group of 7.

My view.

Menu reading time.

Their drinks & some appetizers.

Okay so. .. lol several of my companions wanted to order drinks. They did not have alcohol at the time so that takes out the entire cocktail section. Out of their 4 mocktails, 1 wasn't available, & 2 contains watermelon. However, they did not have watermelon at the time bcos their staff was busy haha! Thus, only 1 drink from their ENTIRE drink page was order-able. Hilarious.... no?

Their 2nd page. I was a little surprised bcos knowing they were a ramen franchise, I thought their menu would mainly be ramen, or predominantly ramen. They had so much other stuff!

The back-side of menu.

Several of us ordered duplicate items so I'll just share what I ate, followed by unique items my friends ordered.

Left: the pressed salmon & right: the pressed shrimp sushi.

Christina each got one but then we swapped so we tried both versions. I liked the salmon one more bcos of the texture. The shrimp & rice sort of had similar texture. Flavour was lacking; really needed the soy sauce. What I disliked most was the fact that the salmon/shrimp on rice wasn't actually 'together'. The top & bottom were basically 2 separate pieces & the salmon/shrimp seemed like it was just slapped on top. If not good with chopsticks & you held the piece at an angle, they would fall apart & you'd likely get the salmon/shrimp piece on your plate or table. Or on the floor.

The original 2010 with fried onion & corn on the side.

Okay, pls don't tell me it's just me. .. but I find it ridiculous that a 19.50 ramen doesn't contain any corn O_o

Anyway, here is my assembled ramen. Shared the corn with others.

My fav part was the egg! The pork was okay. .. the broth of okayyyy... but very rich. As for the noodles, those were good. Chewy & al dente *thumbs up*

I normally finish noodle soups- everything including the broth but I was unable to for this one. I don't know. It's too much not in terms of amount but the creaminess/thickness of the broth. .. it's not my kind of thing. I don't particularly enjoy this kind of broth. I really don't like ramen that much TBH. I've never had spectacular ramen, nor bad ramen. They're all just alright; I feel indifferent. Like bubbletea, I don't recommend/suggest going but if others wanna go, I'll go haha you know what I mean?

Overall, I think the meal was okay; way over-priced for the amount of satisfaction I got out of it. PS: groups of 6 or more = auto-18% tip.

Here are the other items ordered by my friends:

Crispy rice with spicy tuna. & salad + deep-fried brussel sprouts. The salad & brussel sprouts were part of a combo.

Salmon poke. As per Diana, "you NEEEEED the gyoza dipping sauce." She also said there was an imbalance of salmon to rice ratio (too much rice).

Tonkotsu Black with chicken cha siu. Oooohh.. . so that's what chicken cha siu is O_O *no comment*

Talk to you in the next post~ Bye.

[ugly-anastasia]

Friday, November 3 -- Everyone’s a Critic: Write ten reviews that your character would leave for books on Goodreads, movies on Letterboxd, or something similar! Include their star rating. 

ANASTASIA TREMAINE'S DIARY, 2002

This book is now going to be for movie reviews!!! I have decided that I am going to be a journalist and to be a journalist you have to have bye-lines. I am going to be a critic which means you are the one who tells people which movies are good and which are not. So we are starting off with the best movie ever, Anastasia.

ANASTASIA (Five Stars)

This movie is the best movie. It's about a girl named Anya and she has the prettiest hair and she thinks she's an orphan in France but really she is a princess and her name is actually Anastasia!!! And her family died in the war but she survived and now she has to learn how to be a princess. And this boy Demitri falls in love with her (he's SOOO cute) and there's this scary wizard guy but she defeats him in the end. I would highly recommend this movie to anyone.

THE SWYNLAKE PRIMARY WEEKLY NEWS, 2003

Film Review: What A Girl Wants (Reviewed by Anastasia Tremaine)

THREE STARS

This film was very unrealistic. Amanda Bynes and Colin Firth both had an excellent performance, and the song by Christina Aguilera was very good as well. However, it really doesn't make sense that Henry Dashwood did not know he had a daughter all this time and then as soon as she shows up he just stops caring about his actual stepdaughter-to-be so that he can spoil this girl he's never met before. I think Daphne was actually the villain of this movie. But it still gets three stars for the sountrack. Also the costume department did an excellent job.

THE SWYNLAKE SECONDARY SUN, 2004

Film Review: The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (Reviewed by Anastasia Tremaine)

TWO STARS

This film had many good qualities. It showed how many important duties Princess Mia had to learn in order to run a country. It also had some very good performances by Anne Hathaway, Chris Pine, and of course Julie Andrews. However, the end of the movie was a huge mistake. Andrew was a perfectly good option for Mia to marry and she put on this whole big fancy royal wedding only to humiliate him at the altar. I get that she was in love with Lord Nicholas, but she should have let Andrew down more nicely. Or maybe just married him. He was a perfectly nice person. For that, I have to give it a score of two stars.

THE SWYNLAKE SECONDARY SUN, 2009

Film Review: 500 Days of Summer (Reviewed by Anastasia Tremaine)

ONE STAR

This movie was so awkward. I'm sorry, but it's so unattractive to pine after the same girl all summer when she obviously isn't into you, and she's not even that pretty. Get a life, Joseph Gordon Levitt! Ugh. Embarrassing. If you like this movie, you're probably a loser too.

THE SWYNLAKE SECONDARY SUN, 2013

Film Review: The Great Gatsby (Reviewed by Anastasia Tremaine)

FIVE STARS

An absolutely gorgeous film. Leonardo DiCaprio is a genius, as is Tobey Maguire. The visuals were stunning and I adored Lana Del Rey's contributions to the soundtrack. One must wonder: where are the modern men who will rise to this level of romance and grand gestures? Perhaps we can all learn something from this masterpiece of a film.

IMDB, FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (2015)

by user annieratesfilms

FIVE STARS

I don't know what all the feminist uproar about this movie is lol. If Christian Grey wanted to give Ana all these things and fly her around the world, he should be allowed to. It's called being romantic. No wonder people say chivalry is dead, it's because every time a man tries to be romantic people rip him apart. Personally, I found this movie hot. Just saying. Call me a sexist if you want but I'm literally a woman.

IMDB, HEREDITARY (2018)

by user annieratesfilms

ONE STAR

This movie was just disgusting disturbing and made absolutely no sense. Completely unnecessary nudity and way too many weird scenes with the miniature houses. I thought this was just going to be a normal scary movie about ghosts but it turned out to mostly be about the mom having a mental breakdown. So disappointing.

IMDB, THE MENU (2022)

ONE STAR

by user annieratesfilms

Extremely disturbing, zero redeeming qualities. The characters got punished for being rich (by being murdered) but the chef was clearly also very rich and famous so it was totally hypocritical!!! I especially felt bad for the girl who said she went to Brown and got murdered for that. There were no positive characters in this movie and I don't even know why I watched it.

SOUTH SWYNLAKE HOMEOWNERS IN IT TOGETHER NEWSLETTER, JUNE 2023

Movie Corner!

Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse: Three Stars

As some of you may have heard, there is a new animated Spider-Man movie out! However, I would like to warn everyone that just because it is animated does not mean it is appropriate for children. While it has many inspiring messages, it also has some poor role models for children. Gwen Stacey has a truly awful haircut and is very disrespectful to her father. Also, there is a Spider-"Punk" character who has a very negative attitude. Enjoy the movie on your own, but maybe don't bring the kiddos!!!

SOUTH SWYNLAKE HOMEOWNERS IN IT TOGETHER NEWSLETTER, JULY 2023

Movie Corner!

Barbie: Three Stars

This movie was so pretty! The costumes were gorgeous, the sets were amazing— it was like stepping into Barbie Land for real!! Margot Robbie did an AMAZING job. However, I will say that it is a little more anti-men than I was expecting. Just takes things a bit too far at times! Not a good message for children! And there are quite a few scenes that your little girls will probably be bored watching. So overall it was a bit of a letdown. However, it is still a pretty good movie, I just think it could have been better. It should have been more positive and cheerful, as a movie about Barbie! Just my opinion :)

[thelovelybitten]

vera's first watch of south park -- season 4 (part 1)

bc i know this is about to be so very long

EPISODE 1: SEGA DREAMCAST Y'ALL KNOW WHAT IS UP no I FORBID Y'ALL USUING KENNY'S TEEF TIMMEHHHH aww he's so cute NO NOT KENNY'S TEETH DFDSBKGBKSD :'(((( y'all rly stripped my son nakey... SHAME ON U i chuckled at cartman being the tooth fairy kyle is MAD MAD i was mad when i found out santa wasn't real stan kinda slayed w his plan omg MAFIA TOOTH FAIRY THIS IS SO GOOD WHAT "tits" cartman REALLY DEBATING NKDGKNJGFDJKN main four mafia gang WENDY IN FRAME I LOVE HER no bc if stan showed up in a spiffy suit working for the tooth fairy brigade at 8 years old, i don't know why wendy WOULDN'T BE WHIPPED KENNY'S HAT kyle is in his delusional arc, cartman, leave him be wtf... kyle y'all rly left kenny in the river ihy EPISODE 2:

AWWW A LITTLE SLED RACE ON THE TINY HILL

Tolkien slayed get him

please Wendy be in the select four

hc little Stan and little wendy are extremely competitive at sled racing and make it their whole personalities when the gangs hang out for the annual sled racing every year. they still got their little crush on each other but when they break up the first time OH THEY OUT FOR BLOOD.

Tolkien still ate and Cartman is a piece of shit

HATE CRIME ???? Ngl get ur Justice king

this is actually. so good I love when cartman gets what he deserves

Bebe and Kyle in the same frame it must be so

KENNY TAKE ME TO MEXICO

Kenny did not deserve that slap BYE

SJKDNSLCJXK THIS CHASE HAHA

Kyle: what the fuck is happening

the girls gaslighting, girlbossing and gatekeeping AS THEY SHOULD

juvenile hall is. Sumth.

OH THIS BOY ABT TO FUCK ERIC UPPPP

butters: I think Clyde is the next fattest kid SIR THE DISRESPECT ON MY SONS NAME FROM MY OTHER SON ITS PAINFUL. So hard to have multiple children out here

Girls are SLAYIN idc

AYO YALL GET OFF CLYDE I HAVE BEEF WITH CLYDE HATE

Clyde is literally a perfect size wtf y’all on ABT

“Oh my god we killed Kenny”

“We killed Kenny?”

“We killed Kenny, we’re bastards”

STYLE SO TRUE

Y’all hyping up cartmans ass LMAO

Bebe slayed

YALL CANT BREAK HIM OUTTA JAIL THATS ILLEGAL

THE PIG LATIN LMAOOOOOOO THEY DEVOURED

CARTMAN GROSS

KYLE THATS FUNNY LMAO

EW

this is so gross I hate it here

Not HIM FLUSHING THE CIGS

Tolkien rich as fuck

aAND THEY GET HISTORY LESSON LETS GO

WHAT THE FUCK CARTMAN

cartman in his gaslight era AGAIN

Jesus he’s so manipulative but it’s kinda iconic

THE THREE BOYS EPIC

OH THIS PRESENTATION IS WELL DONE MY BOYS WELL DONE

Lmao cartman is so heartless HAHA

CLYDE GET THEM

Bebe on the gals team let’s goooo

Clyde is CRYING LMAOOO

CARTMAN HAHAHAHAHAHA

YO NOT YALL HURTING THE GWORLS JAIL TIME

WHAT IS HAPPENING

okay. That was. An episode. Haha.

EPISODE 3

Kyle being up until 2:00 am UGH

WENDY AND KYLE MY SMART KIDS <3

MR GARRISON THUMBS DOWN DONT PICK ON TIMMY >:(

Timmy doesn’t have ADD but oh my lord I’d die if I had to listen to an audio book of the great gatsby

mackey and victoria asleep REAL OF THEM

STENDYLE ON THE COUCH TOGETHER AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

specifically stendy as their heads lean on one another 🥹🥹🥹

KENNY DONT BONK UR HEAD U DESERVE BETTER

TIMMY SINGER ERAAAAAAA <3 u get em

everyone hyping up Timmy as they should !!! Wendy, Clyde and Tolkien my babies

POGS TIMMY IS A SLAY

Kenny and Cartman WHACKED OUT ON STIMULANTS

DAMN THEY ARE SO BORINGGGG LMAOOO ITS SO FUNNY

the kids: 😐😐😐

I hate this portrayal of Timmy’s disorder 😩

NOT THE PAN TO THE FACE POOR KENNY

NO DONT BEAT UR KIDS PARENTS

“AHHH ITS CHRISTINA AGULIERA” HAHA

Stan ate that speech

INTERESTING EP LOL

EPISODE 4

EVERYONE LOOKS SO CUTE DRESSED UP AWWWWW

KENNY *slams fists* THATS MY BOIIIIII

stan so unbothered by this clown

CARTMAN IS DEADASS ASLEEP ME TOO

contorting girlies got GAME

omg not them trying to do the same show LMAO

KENNY DKCMFHDHDJKCHD THIS COSTUME

not the boys naked PLEASE

Kenny reading on how to sing JSJFBDJSKD WHOLESOME

he's so cute u guys that's my fucking son

the oldies getting frisky EWWWWWWWWWWWW

wait she's dead????

NOOONOT THE GIRLS :(((((((

Kenny side quest I love it

HEMADE IT YAAAAAA

lil Romania girlies getting a slice of America

Stans HOUSE HOLY SHIT

not the girliessss

KENNY POPPING AWFFFFF

Kenny bffr come home

THEY SLAYED ATE THE BOYS UP

THE ENDING NOOOOO

note: Kenny can SING

EPISODE 5

domestic core 4 board game time

not AIDS Cartman bffr

OH KENNY’S GETTING A SIBLING?

CARTMAN NO

GET UR ASS OFF THE COMPUTER RIGHT THIS INSTANT

oh my god I'm actually scared for cartman for once

HE DOESNT DESERVE THIS FATE

STOP TOUCHING HIMMMMM

Kenny being worried abt this baby

Play catch! Cute

OH SHIT KENNY WHAT A FAST BALL

trying to stop him from having sex GENIUS

STAN AND KYLE ON THE WINDOWS JDHSHCJDKXKX THEY’RE MY BESTEST BOYS

Jesus cartman I'm so sorry don't know yet

HUH. NAMBLA IS FUCKED UP

GARRISON COMING OUT KING

MEPHESTO NOOOOOO

THE THREE OF THEM AT THE WINDOW AGAIN I LOVE THEM SO

OH SHES PREGGO SORRY KENNY

KENNY IS RLY TRYING TO KILL THIS KID ITS SO SAD

OH SHIT NOT THE DAD DRINKING IT DHDHCJSJBXHDBDDJDN

NASTY BRO

cartman nooooo

Kenny’s dad is going thru it

KENNYS DREAM OH MY LORD

Kyle NO TAKE IT BACK TAKE IT BACK

these men need jail time JAIL TIME

Don't LAY A GOD DAMN FINGER ON BUTTERS U FREAK OF NATURE

NOT TIMMY ANYONE BUT TIMMY

THIS IS SO FUCKED UP

NO I CANT NOT MY KIDS

RUN KIDS RUN

CARTMAN. YOU CANT BE SERIOUS

NO NOT BUTTERS

The actual trauma NO

I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS CARTMAN I HATE YOU

NO BUTTERS NO NO NO

thank god he's okay

But kennys dad i’m so sorry

Oh KENNYS NEW SIBLING

wait it's kenny PLEASE

[sabrinaacarpenters]

You seem to have read a lot of books :) can you recommend me something for enemies to lovers? Loved The Hating Game, didn’t finish ACOTAR if that is any help. Also, if you haven’t seen it yet then I can highly recommend the show The Great! Love your blog, bye byeee

hi! i've seen a few episodes of the great, but then my brother cancelled our hbo subscription when i was like 4 episodes in and i just never continued since then lol but i should and definitely plan to because i liked it!

now for the recommendations, i think you would probably like the unhoneymooners by christina lauren! it's admittedly not as explicit as the hating game, but it has the same first singular pov and the characters have great banter. a few others that are worth checking out in my opinion is marriage for one by ella maise (marriage of convience, the guy's super grumpy but there's a big section of the book where he's looking after the heroine when she's sick and it's just *chef's kiss*) and a not so meet cute by meghan quinn (fake dating, once again very grumpy male lead, the main characters clash a lot, but there's also a lot of funny & lighthearted situations as well. it's one of my all-time favorite romances, so i def recommend checking it out) tentatively putting the spanish love deception by elena armas here, because while i personally wasn't a big fan of it, it's loved by a lot of people and it's very similar to the hating game. i think if you download a sample from amazon and don't have an issue with the writing style, you would probably like it.

I know you said you didn't like acotar, but I think enemies to lovers works best in fantasy, so I tried to find books where the plot itself is just as great as the romance. the first three books in the hidden legacy series by ilona andrews follow the same main character and her love interest, who she's forced to team up with for some magical detective work. if you like urban fantasy, it's definitely worth checking out. my go-to favorite ETL fantasy story is probably the bridge kingdom by danielle l jensen - it's true enemies-to-lovers, the main characters are from different kingdoms who are forced into a marriage to form an alliance, but the heroine has been secretly training all her life to kill the hero. i think a lot of times it's promoted as for fans of acotar, fbaa and similar stories but in my opinion that doesn't give the story justice because this duology is way better in terms of word building & plot.

i hope one of these works out for you! i didn't include historicals & new adult because i didn't know if they would be your thing.

[sleepysheepytea]

Ty for the tag eeee

❤️ Newest Obsessions: basically just my ocs lol, though I’m considering rewatching Ninjago or Naruto or maybe even picking up a new anime or show. ALSO there have been a flood of amazing lee bakugou fics recently for some reason and i am absolutely eating them up so idk that might be something that I’m gonna get back into idk.

🎥 Last 3 movies I watched and what I thought of them:

- Mrs. Doubtfire (absolutely loved it, adorable movie)

- Wreck-It-Ralph (a rewatch, I’ve seen it a gazillion times and I still love it sm)

- How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (pretty dang cute for sure)

🎶 3 songs I discovered recently and love:

- III by Houshou Marine and Kobo Kanaeru (literally been on replay for almost a solid month i cannot express how much i love this song omg)

- Candyman by Christina Aguilera

- Derealization by Bambi Baker

📺 Currently Watching: a honk ton of YouTube, my little sisters and I are rewatching some old Disney channel shows like Jessie and Liv and Maddie

📖 Currrently reading: Moby Dick by Herman Melville (a reread lol i just like it)

😍 Currently looking forward to: my beach trip next week and my webtoon teehee

✅ Recently finished: some redesigns/design updates for the characters I’m using for my webtoon

💌 something to share: sorry I’ve been kinda quiet recently!! I’m working long hours recently so I’ve been pretty busy. But i am planning on a few new drawings and ofc i have a comic series coming soon that i am extremely excited about aaaagagagaa

Ummmm anyone who wants to can join in teehee okie bye

Catching up (Tag Game)

Ive been a bit on and off and felt like making a tag game so here's one to catch up on each other's interests and hyperfixations! Answer the 10 questions and tag 5 people. No pressure ofc!

@fluffandgiggles @ppystkposts @crazy-as-a-jaybird @blobbirobbi @kusuguricafe + everyone who wants to join! **edit + everyone who received a notification from when I tried to tag 10+ people and the tumblr post broke 😂

❤️ Newest obsessions: Dungeon Meshi, probably has been clear.. and capybaras. Taylor Swift not very new but refueled obsession since seeing the eras tour concert!

🎥 Last 3 movies I watched and what I thought of them:

Inside Out 2 - CRYING SOBBING LOVING IT SO MUCH

The Parent Trap 1998 rewatch - Still golden fav, one of my guiltiest pleasures

Sous la Seine / Under Paris - Love a good shark movie but thought this was mediocre smh. the ending was cool tho hahaha

🎶 3 songs I discovered recently and love:

Peggy - FEMININE RAGE

Spencer Sutherland - Alive

HOYO-MIX - Interstellar Journey

💘 Newest fav ships: Falin x Marcille , Chilchuck x Senshi, and Laios x Kabru all from Dungeon Meshi!!!

📺 Currently watching: The Apothecary Diaries, Wind Breaker, House of the Dragon, Pokemon Johto Journeys (rewatch), FMA Brotherhood (rewatch), Mushoku Tensei S2 (might drop it)

📖 Currently reading: Dungeon Meshi manga, Define the Relationship manhwa, XXX Buddy manhwa (both manhwas on hold but I'll continue reading soon!)

🎮 Currently Playing: Fortnite, Minecraft, Genshin Impact (haven't played since Cyno story quest tho), Zelda Tears of the Kingdom (on hold), Yakuza 0, Zelda Skyward Sword, Hogwarts Legacy, note: I kinda dropped all mobile games but I'm really considering starting love & deepspace again hmmm.

😍 Currently looking forward to: New Fortnite update, Genshin Natlan update (even though I have to catch up on the previous ones lol), the new Deadpool movie, Blue Lock movie (seeing it this week!)

✅ Recently finished: Kaiju No. 8 (anime), other than that no books, manga, games or shows. All still in progress lol.

💌 Something to Share: I'm glad to see people are enjoying the x reader drabbles and I'm motivated to work on them faster when I can! Thanks everyone for your patience.. T-T

[pies-writes-and-more]

Hey Christina !! I saw your requests were open and I think you write the hq boys sooooo well and I was wondering if you could write something based on the tiktok trend of fem!reader lip syncing to happier by olivia rodrigo and like mutilating a sausage or like an eggplant. You can include any boys you’d like I just think it’d be really funny! Tysm bestieee

pairings: ushijima wakatoshi, asahi azumane, kageyama tobio, daichi sawamura, bokuto kōtarō, & tendō satori, all with a fem!reader

warnings: mentions of cutting up a cucumber/eggplant lol, i think i said the word ‘dick’ in there somewhere, pure chaos that is not proofread at all im so sorry haha

a/n: when i tell you i cackled at the idea of this omg i hope you liked this anon!!!!! im sorry if i didn’t make it the way you wanted but omg i died LOL made this a headcanon/SMAU fic because it fit the vibe hahaha enjoy!!!

haikyuu masterlist

Ushijima

literally has no clue what this video is

has never even heard of Sour or Olivia Rodrigo even though you played the album over and over again when he was over last

he is very confused as to why you would send him this

Tendō is trying very hard not to cackle at how confused his bestie is but he was the one who gave you the idea in the first place

still thinks you’re secretly upset with him and tries to make sure you’re okay throughout the night

Asahi

mouth very dry

trying to think of literally everything he did in the past week

were you angry at him???? did he do something wrong????

he got to the part of the video where you sliced a cucumber dead in half and the man almost fainted

noya is in tears laughing because asahi’s never looked so pale in his life

highkey this was suga’s idea and he’s filming asahi’s reaction for you

Kageyama

also very confused??? because why do you seem to be cutting the cucumber so aggressively?

starts to wonder if you’re trying to go on one of those diets he’s heard of

but why would you send him this video????

did... you want him to bring you some more vegetables?

still side eyes you throughout the night and fidgets the whole time until you ask him what’s wrong

and then he just keeps blurting out “YOU’RE NOT MAD RIGHT? YOU PROMISE? I DIDN’T FUCK UP????”

pls console him he is concerned

Daichi

just 🙂 face the whole time

kinda curls inward a little as he watched the video, gulping as he tries not to cringe too much

Suga dies of later because Daichi tries to explain to him that he thinks you're mad at him

"It's a prank, Daichi, it's supposed to be funny."

"oh"

"unless you really did make her mad, then you might be in big trouble"

“🙂”

Bokuto

has never run so fast in his life

you had to be upset with him

and he didn't like knowing he made you upset

also he would like his whole body to stay contact pls so no cut anywhere pls and thank you

so he straight up said BYE to volleyball real quick and ran all the way to your place

even though akaashi tried to explain to him that he didn’t have to leave

“MY GIRL IS UPSET WITH ME AKAASHI! I CAN’T LOSE HER! OR MY BODY PARTS! I HAVE TO MAKE SURE EVERYTHING IS OKAY! AND BEG FOR FORGIVENESS!”

akaashi called to give you a heads up, even cracked a smile and a laugh because bokuto reacted 10x more dramatically than he expected

Tendō

just cackling his head off cause he loved these tiktok react videos where girls would do this in front of their partners

enjoys pranks thoroughly so you thought you’d get him back with this one

except tendō is always ahead of the game ugh 

you warned him later that if he ever was��unfaithful though

you’d slide through him like butter

he believes you 110%, nodding as he clutches his groin in protection lol

haikyuu masterlist (let me know if you’d like to join!)

@sgue0s @aurumk @neko-chii1 @thisnoodlewritesao3 @satan-ruler-of-hells @trashy-simp @jeppiet @tobi-momo @darkvadeeer @haikyuutothetop @livy384 @babyshoyo @jesssobs @b-bakana @just4readingfics @moonlightaangel @crystal-lilac @random-734

[badass-at-fandoming]

Just Little Ventrue Things ~

I finished a Camarilla Ventrue run of VTMB. Mostly, the only thing Ventrue these days know how to do is Dominate, run screaming, eat hot chip, and lie, and [high falsetto voice] here’s a list of other nonsense I discovered:

PC’s name is Christina; she’s a Dominatrix because I’m bi. Her sire was one of her clients, and she’s actually very, very angry about his death. She doesn’t mind being a vampire. She’s Wiccan and part of a coven

In this Camarilla run, I decided I would only do quests given by Camarilla members. My justification was that, while Christina is intelligent and curious about lore, she focuses on tasks that immediately relate to her and her goals. She’s not curious about others; won’t go out of her way to talk to them. She’s not a bleeding heart, like my other PCs, and she believes in the Camarilla’s laws. She just hates LaCroix for killing her sire. Her plan during the game is to curry as much favor within the Cam as possible and cozy up to LaCroix so she can stab him.

Enough backstory

Nonsense time

Smiling Jack laughs at you if you don’t eat a rat in the tutorial. LOL. The Ventrue dialog is like “I could barely choke down the homeless man: please don’t make me eat a rat!”

The blood in the Santa Monica haven’s fridge is now blue blood. Does regular blood make Ventrue sick? I was too scared to experiment.

[spots Mercurio] I am going to steal that ghoul

Rosa: The people you’re looking for are up there. Christina, assuming Rosa is a Cam agent: Okay, thanks, bye

Never spoke to the Thin-Bloods again (sorry Lily baby ;-;)

Everyone except Julius still leaves when the PC reaches Hollywood

If you try to feed on Julius, he WILL kick you in the head and you WILL glitch into the fire, be on fire; run away screaming in Prada

You can skip the whole basement of the Ocean House Hotel if you manage to jump over the hole in the staircase???? Like?? You mean the spookiest fucking level has been optional this whole time I”M

[ghost appears] [Christina smacks it with an axe] None of that.

Club girls speak to Christina and I’m on the FLOOR

Therese “kills” Jeanette, even though I had enough oompa to make that not happen.

Therese joins the Camarilla and says she’s in good position to be the next Prince??? Hello??? Where is our Prince Voerman ending????

Went straight to LaCroix, called him “sir,” and he name-dropped Napoleon.

LaCroix tells Christina to go visit the Anarchs. She blows the Anarchs off (Nines made a growly face, Damsel dialog yowl-exited out after I asked if she wanted to join the Cam; Skelter threatened to murder me twice). When LaCroix told Christina that, while he admired her Cam loyalty, she must listen to her enemies to understand what they wanted, it felt like he was actually being a good sire and mentor.

That’s weird.

When Christina asked for his history, he very carefully explained his lineage, like the important part of Ventrue culture it is.

Overall, I found LaCroix-being-nice-to-me extremely unsettling.

Sir. Stop smiling at me, sir. Stop being impressed I don’t ask for money. STOP MAKING ME UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE LIKE YOU, SIR.

In contrast, LaCroix sounded genuinely betrayed at the end

Also made it more obvious when he started to lose track of his marbles

Ventrue PC seems juuuuuuust tall enough for her forehead to glitch into the ceiling of literally any confined space

The dirty Elizabeth Dane policeman didn’t psspspspsp at Christina so the whole ship was 15 white-knuckled minutes of making police dance and scuttling about

There is!!! A lot less!!! Talking in this game!!! Than I remember!!! She is only good at talking and ordering people around i am bEGGING

All EXP goes to Dominate and making Christina extremely charismatic and buff.

Ventrue himbo????

Beckett un-himbo-ifies her

She insults Beckett on their first meeting, spitting out “What do you want, wolfie?!” I thought this was appropriate because she died like, 4 times on that warehouse mission and was Extremely Stressed And Under Duress

Beckett’s response of “Oh, you’re too young to have mouthed off to the truly old ones yet.” makes his later snide remark of “the young ones are so temperamental” 900% funnier. Yeah, LaCroix! Beckett thinks I’ve grown and am now more mature than you! XD

Missions involving sex workers hit different when you’re a sex worker.

Christina was incandescent with rage at the Brotherhood

Grout’s mansion mission was a lot of “I have no interest in this nonsense.”

For the first time ever, I didn’t kill anyone during the Museum quest! This is because Christina ran very fast and Dominated every guard as quickly as possible. Every single fucking guard knew she was there, but could do nothing about it, because they were dancing. The door to the sarcophagus locked (it will do this if too many guards are agro), but locked doors are no match for noclip hack.

Entertaining image of a tall woman absolutely blasting into this museum room and Beckett tackling her to the floor like wait! I must snark at you! You are legally obligated to speak with me!

Isaac is still somehow a pretty chill guy to work with if you’re Camarilla.

Christina didn’t visit VV or Ash. Interestingly, Ash didn’t show up at the hunter monastery later. Did he just die in his club? Is he still there, waiting, deciding?

Christina @ Andrei: what the fuck is this shit

“I don’t care. It’s ugly. Clean it up.”

SEWERS.

Not as bad as I was expecting

Did take shortcut, run away from fights, ducked out in the middle for a snack, and bring 7 blue blood packs tho

Gary threatened to shred her face with a cheese grater, which I thought was Toreador only dialog?? It must be connected to the Appearance Stat. Which Christina has maxed out.

When Heather became Christina’s ghoul, I was delighted because I thought this meant Christina would always have fresh blood.

No

If you ask to feed on her too soon after the last time, Heather says she feels light headed and wants to lie down. The dialog exits out

I love you, Heather bb

Perfected the art of nudging NPCs into corners

Mitnick’s quests now feature Enforced Nap Time for all guards

Seriously, Dominate is ridiculously powerful, hooooly shit. I get why people like it. I also like it when people do things I ask them to do.

Christina can’t sneak, but she CAN strongly encourage everyone to choke on their own tongues.

Very high contrast in the beginning of the game: 2 punches would knock her over, but anyone she spoke to would obey immediately and without question

Chinatown goes by ridiculously fast if you can’t sneak and don’t do any sidequests besides Mitnick’s.

For the first time ever, Zhao survived! This is because Christina made him take a nap.

He just told her to leave

You’re welcome, my good dude

IDK if it’s a game glitch, but Christina would vocalize? In battle, she grunts with effort and pain.

Got to the point where I kept expecting Dominate dialog in every interaction and would get disappointed if it didn’t show up. What do you mean I have to actually convince people? That’s lame.

Christina was polite and charming to Ming Xiao, who also conveyed a deeper betrayal than normal at the end. ;-;

I promise to give you a Ventrue boy toy soon, Xiao

Finale arc quests went by VERY FAST because Christina can’t sneak for shit. Just run in, Dominate blazing

You can skip the outside bit of the Hallowbrook Hotel if you find the open door on the top level what the fuuuuuuuuuCK

[“A Little Party Never Killed Nobody” plays while Christina wipes out the Sabbat in 10 minutes]

Andrei disappeared mid-fight and didn’t come back until I complained that only I was allowed to run away from boss fights

I’m categorizing “triggering the interaction to save Heather” as something quite difficult to do. The timing has to be just right. I’ve missed it twice now. BUT hacking into the game to save her is easy.

I love you, Heather bb

Final Beckett talk had the vibe of “You’re a very different person than me, but you’re also High Humanity and trying to do good. You don’t deserve to die.”

Damsel threatens to kick the shit out of Christina and is extremely reluctant to tell her where Nines is

“Out of all people, they send you? All right, let’s just talk terms.” - Nines because Christina was short with him one (1) time

WEREWOLF HARD

You can just?? Walk out of your haven?? Without speaking to Jack at all???

I didn’t do that

But I could have

[”Dust in the Wind” plays while Christina kills entire Camarilla hit squad in 3 minutes]

You can visit Mercurio and Trip on your way out of Santa Monica??

Mercurio makes no comment on the blood hunt. Business as usual with him. This is fine.

Christina: I’m SO going to adopt that ghoul. And perhaps Isaac can be convinced to part with Romero...

(For the first time ever, my PC boinked Romero. Twice, to receive the break up email)

This is definitely a glitch, but Christina brushed up against Caine, and a worried voice said, “Are you all right?” It sounded like the same voice actor, but a higher pitch?

Always nice to think about Caine demonstrating care

Christina asked Caine who he is, and Caine replied that he “gets people where they’re going. [He’s] a driver,”  which is a nice nod (lol) to both his literal job as a driver and as a shepherd/creator/god to Kindred. Caine creates and makes fate.

Caine triple checks with Christina that she’s sure Strauss won’t betray her. Thanks, Vampire Dad. :’D

For some reason, only other Ventrue guarded LaCroix’s tower. I wonder if this is intentional. Like all the other Camarilla Clans backed Strauss and left? So only LaCroix’s Ventrue lackeys remain? Anyway, it created some weird moments where Christina fought her double.

KILL YOUR DOUBLE

Sheriff laughed in haughty joy that he was to kill Christina. I don’t remember him laughing in other playthroughs.

Christina ruining Caine and Jack’s prank oh noes

[larsafdracas]

seeing as I'm currently reading the heirs of the night books (I'm at book four), I think it's time to do some comparing and ranting hehe.

(Warning: spoilers for the books if you haven't read them yet and plan on doing that.)

things that are different from the show:

– a lot, tbh. Which doesn't mean it's bad! The show is amazing imo, but it's pretty different from the books which is a fact that can't be denied.

– Dracula for example has a lot less appearances, especially in the first three books. Then, he starts to have a bigger and more important role as (main) antagonist.

– a lot of characters from the books aren't in the show, which is very sad. A few others are still there but much younger, for example Luciano who originally was the same age as Alisa, Ivy and Lars.

– speaking of Lars: his name in the books is Franz Leopold de Dracas, nicknamed Leo (fortunately), and he's from Vienna, Austria, like the rest of the Dracas clan. He's an arrogant jerk in the beginning (especially in book one) but gets better. Slightly better. He also used to have a crush on Ivy (they even kissed once), but it didn't last long as soon as he found out she wasn't born as a vampire. He still ends up with Alisa tho. He has dark hair and brown eyes (as far as I remember), so he and Alisa basically swapped appearances (in the books she's blonde with blue eyes).

– and before I forget it; the vampire academy doesn't take place on board of a ship over the span of a few weeks or months (tbh I've kind of forgotten the time line of the show). Instead, every school year is spent in another country with the respective clan. The first year is in Rome with the Nosferas, the second in Ireland with the Lycana, the third in Paris with the Pyras, the fourth is in Vienna with the Dracas, and the fifth is probably in London with the Vyrad. (I'm still at book four, so I'm not completely sure, but seeing as book five is called Vyrad, the chances are pretty good.)

– Nicu and Calvina aren't characters from the books, but they're basically genderbent versions of two other characters I'll mention again later. Seeing as I don't like Nicu that much anyways, it's not that bad of a thing.

– Ivy has silver hair! And Seymour actually is her twin brother. They're the children of a druid, Tara, and Seymour is a werewolf. They got turned into a vampire (Ivy)/werewolf (Seymour) to ensure peace between the vampires and werewolves of Ireland. It's a long story. They're both over a hundred years old btw.

– the Noaidi isn't a book character either.

– oh right and the clans don't need any rubies to possess their powers, they just developed them over time and can easily teach it to other vampires.

Things from the books I wish they'd kept in the show:

– Latona!! I love her so much, and she and Alisa could have bonded over being annoyed by misogyny. (For everyone who hasn't read the books: Latona is basically female Nicu but much more awesome. She's the niece of the vampire hunter Carmelo and falls in love with Malcolm. She also basically has a found family type of relationship with Bram fucking Stoker, yk, the guy who wrote Dracula (and who has a lot of guest appearances in the books).

– the fact that the Dracas are from Vienna. As an Austrian, this deeply offends me.

– the fact that Lars/Leo has drunk human blood before he did that ritual thing that officially made him an adult. (Like, way before. The ritual happens when they're like 17, and the academy started when he was 13, and he'd already drunk it by then.)

– the whole thing with a vampire's body automatically falling asleep at sunrise. unlike in the show, they can't stay awake during the day. It doesn't matter where they are, they just fall over like they just died lol. It isn't called rigor mortis for nothing I guess.

– and, of course, the fact that Leo can fight with a sword and is really good at it. His cousins/relatives, Anna Christina, Karl Philipp and Marie Luise can fight with a sword, too, but Anna Christina is the only one of the three who's as good as Leo.

This ended up being longer than I thought lol. Thank you if you've read all of this! I might reblog this with additions some time later, depending on how much stuff I forgot to say. Until then, bye! Have a nice day!

(And don't forget to drink enough water and eat something. We humans sadly have to do a lot more than vampires to stay healthy.)

[deans-baby-momma]

Forbidden

Chapter 17

Set in season 14 and follows Y/N, a young girl from the Apocalypse world as she tries to navigate this new place that she was thrust in after being rescued and the feelings she begins to have for someone she really shouldn’t be having them for.

Warnings: There’s a bit of angst, smut and fluff in each chapter. I will tag the smut chapters appropriately but if you’re following me and reading any of my stories, you know it’s gonna be there.  LOL

WC: 1131

I woke up to my phone ringing and answered without checking the name on my screen.

“Hello?”

“Get on Noah’s Instagram tags!”

“Why? Wait, are you stalking my boyfriend?” I asked, realizing it was Christina.

“No, it came up on my page. Just do it. I gotta go,” Christina said and hung up. I sighed and tapped on my Instagram app. I went to the search and typed: noahturner_34. I hit his profile and went to his tagged photos. There was a new photo with Noah and three girls. Two blondes and a redhead. I pulled up the photo and read the username; kayatucla. In the location line it read: Cardinal Sports. Noah was just smiling at the camera and I shrugged. Okay… he’s allowed to have female friends. I swiped to the second photo and frowned. He held this girl to him, and their heads touched as they both held up the rock’ n’ roll hand sign. Noah’s tongue was out, and she was mimicking him.

Okay… whatever…

Then I read the caption.

kayatucla: “A win and a fun night with this stud. Go Bruins!”

Um…

I stared at my phone until the screen dimmed and I tapped it again, now moving to the comments. Of course, she had nearly thirty since last night.

You two are adorable!

Date already!

You look SO GOOD together!

I frowned and looked at her 1,578 likes and Noah liked it as well.

I locked my phone and got ready for the day. Once I was out of the shower, I had a text from Christina and Noah.

Noah: Good morning. I’ll call you in a bit.

Christina: Mall?

I replied to Christina and let her know I’d be ready in a few minutes, then pulled up Noah’s message. It was eleven o’clock for him and he just woke up. He must be hungover.

I got dressed and my phone began vibrating violently. I picked it up and accepted Noah’s FaceTime request.

“Morning,” I answered.

“Morning, sorry I woke up late. We celebrated last night,” he responded, and I decided to play dumb.

“Oh, really? Did you have fun?”

“Yeah, hung out with the guys and played pool. How was your party?” he asked as he walked into the bathroom and turned on the sink.

“Eh, it was a lot of people, but I never really found parties all that exciting.”

“Aw, that’s a shame,” Noah remarked and sat his phone down as he began to clean his face.

“What’re your plans today?” I asked. He’s really not going to say anything?

“I have some math homework and a load of reading to get done. That’ll probably be it. Maybe see if anyone wants to go out for lunch. I wish you were here,” he sighed and blotted his face with a towel.

“Yeah, me too.”

“Well, what are your plans for today?”

“I’m not sure. I was going to work on a few college admittance essays.”

“That’s a great idea. Maybe Christina could look them over for you?”

“Probably, I might just check with Mrs. Milton. I’ll ask her to do my referral as well.”

“Smart.”

“Thanks,” I noticed Noah was now back in his room and he looked to be reading something.

“Could you do me a favor?” Noah asked.

“Of course.”

“I just realized what day it is. Dad’s birthday is Wednesday. Would you be able to take him out for dinner? I’m usually home with him…” Noah said.

“I can do that. Where does he like to go?”

“Anywhere with a good steak. I can pay you back—”

“Don’t worry about it, I’ll talk to Mom.”

“Thank you. Let me know how he is. We talked a bit, but it is not the same.”

“I’ll let you know.”

“Okay. I’m gonna go. I’ll talk to you soon?”

“Soon,” I confirmed.

“Bye, love you.”

“Love you too,” I hung up and saw Christina texted saying she was out front. I ran downstairs and my mom turned around.

Dean pulls into a Gas N’ Sip so I fold the page down to keep my place and close the book, laying it in the back window of the Impala. When I open the door to get out I almost hit Dean as he heads to the back of the vehicle to pump gas. He covers his crotch with his overlapping hands.

“Hey! Watch it darling. Precious cargo you almost took out,” he warns with a grin and a wink. 

I mumble out an apology and then join Sam to walk across the parking lot and into the store. 

“Where are we even at?” I ask while looking around at the bereft space. Business, at one time, was probably booming with being so close to the highway but I’m sure now that there is a freeway not even five miles from here that bypasses this little town, the business doesn’t get much patronage; just locals or ones who want to take the ‘scenic routes’. 

“Rock River, Wyoming,” Sam tells me as he holds the door open for me to enter. “About 12 and a half hours to go. But with the way my brother drives, 10.”

I laugh before waving him off as I go to find a bathroom. There ain’t no way I can go another 10 hours without peeing!

When I get back to the Impala, Dean has finished pumping gas and is standing at the side of the car with something in his hand. As I get closer, I realize he is looking at the book I bought on the trip.

“That’s mine,” I tell him, joking.

“I know. I just...she’s hot.” he says with a shrug as he hands it to me. “I saw her picture through the window and had to get a closer look.”

“Who? The author?” 

“Yea. That’s her picture on the backside right?”

“I guess?” I say. “You think she’s hot?” 

“Sure,” he answers before leaning closer to me and whispering. “But not as hot as you.” He pecks my lips and I can’t help but smile. I take a look at the picture and am bewildered. She is very pretty! I could see Dean being into someone like her. I look down at myself and then back to the book. We are different but he is attracted to both of us. There is no doubt, Dean’s taste in women varies.

Once Sam joins us at the car we load up and hit the road. Ten hours from rescuing Maggie.

A/N: The book Y/N is reading, Intimate,  is an actual, real, PUBLISHED book by my good friend and author, Lara Jade. You can find it and all her other works on Amazon here (<--Link it). Check her out guys! She is AWESOME! 

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[spideyspeaches]

Hey! so I’ve been going through a major writer’s block, so I was thinking, to get me back to the rail, I’d conduct an impromptu writing event to boost me into writing. I got this idea from @uglypastels​! go check out her wrap fics!

Rules -

Give me a song from my spotify wrap playlist (under the cut) and-

1. I will be writing for : (all reader inserts. Irondad is VERY welcome!)

Peter Parker 

Tom Holland

Arvin Russell

2. I will take some time lol I forgot how to write T_T

3. Pwease do not spam me T_T

Here is my playlist-

Positions by Ariana Grande 

Super Psycho Love by Simon Curtis 

Flesh by Simon Curtis 

False God by Taylor Swift

Better Man by 5SOS

Angel of Small Death and the codeine scene by Hozier

There’s nothing holding me back by Shawn Mendes 

Style by Taylor Swift

Mad at Disney by Salem Isele

Without Me by Halsey

I’m a mess by Bebe Rexha

Delicate by Taylor Swift

Senorita by Shawn Mendes ft. Camila Cabello

Replay by Zendaya

Queen of broken hearts by Blackbear

I did something bad by Taylor Swift

Imagination by Shawn Mendes 

Teeth by 5SOS

Sour Candy by Blackpink ft. Lady Gaga

Getaway Car by Taylor Swift

Nightmare by Halsey

Mutual by Shawn Mendes 

Sedated by Hozier

I think he knows by Taylor Swift

Animals by Maroon 5 

Treat you better by Shawn Mendes 

Youngblood by 5SOS

Cruel Summer by Taylor Swift 

Kiss and Makeup by Blackpink and Dua Lipa

Bad Reputation by Shawn Mendes 

Crush by David Archuletta 

Gorgeous by Taylor Swift

When I was older by Billie Eilish

In my blood by Shawn Mendes 

Gasoline by Halsey

This is why we can’t have nice things by Taylor Swift 

Quit playing games with my heart by Backstreet boys

Watermelon Sugar by Harry Styles

Finally // Beautiful Stranger by Halsey 

Miss Americana and the heartbreak Prince by Taylor Swift 

Dressin’ up by Katy Perry

Stitches by Shawn Mendes

Take me to Church by Hozier

It’s nice to have a friend by Taylor Swift

Easier by 5SOS and Charlie Puth

Chandelier by Sia

Lights on by Shawn Mendes

End Game by Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Future

Back to you by Selena Gomez

Control by Halsey 

Where were you in the morning by Shawn Mendes 

Bad Blood by Taylor Swift

Attention by Charlie Puth

Lovely by Billie Eilish ft. Khalid

FRIENDS by Marshmallow and Anne Marie

Paper Rings by Taylor Swift

Lost in Japan by Shawn Mendes

Demons by Imagine Dragons

...Baby one more time by Britney Spears

The Archer by Taylor Swift

If I can’t have you by Shawn Mendes

Bellyache by Billie Eilish

Human by Christina Perri

...Ready for it? By Taylor Swift

Bring me to life by Evanescence

I love you by Billie Eilish

Fallin’ all in you by Shawn Mendes

Dress by Taylor Swift

Controlla Anthem by DJ Flex, Kyle Edwards

Diamonds by Rihanna 

Disconnected by 5SOS

Don’t blame me y Taylor Swift

A thousand years by Christina Perri 

Mercy by Shawn Mendes

Hot Mess by Alex Kinsey

 King of my heart by Taylor Swift

Don’t let me down by The Chainsmokers and Daya

Never be alone by Shawn Mendes

Heart Attack by Demi Lovato

So it goes… by Taylor Swift

Mi Gente J Balvin, Willy Wiliam, Beyonce 

Nervous by Shawn Mendes

Fight Song by Rachel Platten 

The Man by Taylor Swift

Party Favour by Billie Eilish

Left Hand free by Alt- J

Disturbia by Rihanna

Look what you made me do by Taylor Swift

When the party’s over by Billie Eilish

Wonder by Shawn Mendes

Bye bye bye by NSYNC

Wildest dreams by Taylor Swift

Gorilla by Bruno Mars

I know what you did last summer by Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello

Fight for your right by Beastie boys

Blank Space by Taylor Swift

Bad guy by Billie Eilish

Kill this love by Blackpink

Heathens by 21 Pilots

Out of the woods by Taylor Swift

[unstoppableforcce]

dark side

CHAPTER EIGHT: a slip

pairing: Javier Peña x reader

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a/n: okay i had this queued to go up during my vacation but then it didn’t post (no surprise there lol) but it’s okay! bc i didn’t like it much anyways and this version is so much better now honestly (so tumblr saved me lol)

its still short bc I cut it in half so i can post this and simultaneously work on the next part !! maybe next part tomorrow night? I don’t want to get hopes up but maybe !! thanks for being so patient w me guys !!

It was a slip right?

The words repeated over and over again in his head and for minutes he just stood there with the phone in his hand, long after you had already ended the call, letting them repeat. They bounced around like an echo between his ears, hitting every inch of his head. It was the only thing he could focus on. 

But it was a slip, wasn’t it? A simple slip of the tongue. 

At least, that was what he tried to tell himself to steal even the tiniest bit of focus back. He had work to focus on, finding Christina to focus on... he had to hang up the phone and get on a plane. He had to focus on something other than you, and to do that, he had to tell himself that it was a slip and that it was meaningless. 

It was meaningless, like telling your waiter at a restaurant that they should enjoy their meal as well. Just a slip.

Meaningless.

And for the first few hours, that worked. It got him back on the plane, it got him thinking about getting Christina back and getting Jurado’s testimony. It got him back focusing on his work, prioritizing it over you like he was supposed to do. Work was supposed to come first, that was the whole basis for your relationship. 

This was just the first time it felt wrong... No, it was the first time he admitted it did. 

There were plenty of times that came before where his heart weighed heavy having to put you at arm’s distance to protect his work. That morning in the shower, as your hands cascaded with the hot water down his skin, your eyes just pleaded to help him, to alleviate the heavy stress... but he put work first. That night, after the Ambassador’s drink party, when he started asking you about work, putting his job before your’s and your loyalty, he put work first. The day he caught one of the god father’s and you paid the price, suffering in the shouting match delivered by Stechner while he kept his mouth shut about your arrangement, he put his work first. 

And it had felt wrong every time, but it was only very recently that he figured out why. 

It was because even though you ended whatever things were between the two of you before he left for Curaçao, he loved you. It was because now, even after fighting through the new pain of heartbreak inflicted by another, he loved you. 

It was because for the first time in his entire life, he loved someone and they said it back. For the first time, he wanted them to say it back. For the first time, there was no obligation, no sense of doing it because it was the right thing to do or because that was what was expected of you. For the first time, someone told them they loved him because they meant it, because you meant it. 

Even if it was just a meaningless slip. 

But who was he kidding? Putting work before his feelings for you, trying to pretend that it was just some meaningless slip... it just wouldn’t work. 

The problem was that he knew better. He knew you better.

Part of it was the creeping memories of his psychology degree from what felt like a whole lifetime ago, part of it was just the fact that he knew you too well. 

Slips weren’t meaningless and you were too careful for anything you did to be meaningless.

Slips came out when they were practiced phrases. Telling your waiter to enjoy their meal as well was a practiced phrase, maybe not meant for your waiter, but practiced on your tongue nonetheless. That’s why they came out, they were practiced.

And he heard almost all your phone calls.

You were practically living with him for a few weeks, he heard your phone calls even if he didn’t listen to them, and you never told anyone you loved them over the phone. So it couldn’t have been practiced in that way. The only way it could have been practiced was if you were thinking it, over and over again, the same way he was.

It didn’t matter that you were exhausted, that whatever was happening at work was weighing you down so far that you snapped and broke up with him... none of that mattered. Because a slip doesn’t put words in your mouth that you wouldn’t say naturally. 

It wasn’t meaningless. It couldn’t be, not with you. If it slipped from your lips, it was because you meant it. 

And he couldn’t get it out of his head, no matter how hard he tried or pretended he had. Work had to come first and all he could think about was you, the quick words playing over and over again in his head.

“Bye, love you”, “Bye, love you”, “Bye, love you”, “Bye, love you--

Fuck. He loved you and goddamn, maybe you loved him too.

And maybe none of it mattered because work had to come first. He had to find Christina, he had to focus.

As his plane slowed to a stop on the runway adjacent to the embassy, he quickly jumped up, grabbing his bag and moving to the door, ready to burst out the second they let him. He had his focus back for a minute and he needed to ride it as far as he could take it.

He just didn’t know that it would only take him a few steps onto the runway, finding you dressed in your street clothes, crossing over from the opposite direction with a file in your hand.

He froze on the spot, letting the gusts of wind that fought by dishevel his hair without second thought. You were all that he could see. 

He never saw you in your street clothes, or at least, he hadn’t since the first night he met you. It was just pant suits and sometimes nothing at all. But now, you were just wearing jeans and a tee shirt, your hair blowing in the same blustering wind that threatened to push him over as he stood caught, like a deer in the headlights.  

Immediately, his brain started up again, accelerated, like the beating of his heart. 

He loved you. You loved him. He loved you. You loved him—

He couldn’t do this right now. He had to focus. 

Shaking his head in a way that surely looked like he was trying to save his hair from the wind, he tried to shake the thoughts from his head. And by the looks of it, you were fighting a similar onslaught of thoughts. 

But by the time you crossed the runway to meet his frozen form, you had picked the line of focus you were going in on and it wasn’t the slip you had made over the phone. With your stern face and file in hand, it was clearly work that you had chosen as well.

“I found her.” You shouted slightly to counteract the loud wind that whipped around the two of you. 

It wasn’t as easy a fight for him to overcome now that you were in front of him though. As you passed the file to him, he couldn’t help but spend an extra half-second mesmerized by you and your ability to do your job. He had called you what? a few hours ago and you had already found her? Even if being a blonde white girl in Colombia was like wearing a tracker, it was still impressive work that you had done for him. 

Work you had done because he asked... No. He stopped himself quickly. This was about finding Christina, not the fact that you had done it for him. 

He flipped open the file, not hesitating on the fact that it was a CIA file but fighting the wind to keep the papers from flying away. “Where is she?”

“FARC has her in a jungle stronghold.” You explained, stepping up closer to him to point at the picture paper-clipped to the bottom of the file.

It was definitely her, filthy and restrained, newspaper in her hand and the barrel of a gun pressed up under her chin. This was his fault. All of it. Getting her involved and now you... he couldn’t shake this feeling that something was going to go terribly wrong. 

But he also couldn’t linger on just a feeling. This was his job, he had to get her back. 

“You’ve got coordinates?” He asked, glancing up from the file’s top edge to find your stare directed down to your feet. Immediately, his heart dropped a similar distance. “What’s wrong?”

“It’s... look, it’s complicated.” You huffed, settling your hands up onto your hips as you brought your eyes back up to meet his. “You’ll need an army to get her back, the Ambassador won’t give it to you and I can’t either...”

He flipped a page in the file almost subconsciously, glancing down from your hesitant frame to find an all too familiar name scribbled at the top in red pen and your handwriting.

The Castaño Brothers.

“They’re CIA sponsored communist killers, two of Stechner’s contacts but I can’t get you a meeting because—”

“Fuck.” He huffed, shutting the file as it all caught up to him.

The interruption caught you off guard though, your face twisting slightly as you asked back to him, “what?”

This was what he hated about being in Colombia nowadays. It was his history, it was the blood that coated his hands, ten layers deep. 

He couldn’t stop himself from wondering if you knew or not. He got your file the first day he was truly introduced to you, but did you get his? You had to, right? Your whole job was to spy on him, how were you supposed to do that if Stechner didn’t fill you in on exactly what he was? 

He wasn’t the hero the embassy hailed him to be. He was just a man who wasn’t afraid to get his hands dirty to bring down Escobar. 

Did you know? Did it matter if you did? 

The more he thought about it, the more he realized those two questions had very different answers. 

You had to have known. If it wasn’t in his file, you had to have heard from everyone else around the Embassy. Hell, Stechner probably went out of his way to fill you in on his dirty past the day he assigned you to him. 

And that first night? You had to have seen it in him when you agreed to take him home with you. 

The guilt in his eyes... the pain that he wore just beneath the surface... the weight that sat so heavily on his shoulders...It was everything he saw in you, everything that drew him to you in the first place. The familiarity of everything about you.

Did it matter if you did know?

Looking at you now, as the woman he loved, he wanted to say yes because he wanted to be a good man in your eyes, he wanted to be a man worthy of your love but if he was being honest with himself... it didn’t matter at all. 

He had seen the scars on your body. He had hear rumors around the embassy as to why your file was as redacted as it was. 

There was talk about explosions and spying and foreign governments and... and maybe none of it was true but he saw the same guilt in your eyes that he saw in his own when he looked in the mirror. He saw you trying to do good with every girl being trafficked that you tried to hunt down the same way he tried to do good by bringing down the godfather’s of Cali. He saw a familiar weight resting on your shoulders as he massaged the sore kinks from your muscles laying in bed at night. 

It didn’t matter what either of you had done, you were both in the same boat and he knew that from the first second he laid eyes on you. 

You had a dark side just like he did, and he didn’t care about yours so why would his matter to you?

“I know them.” He admitted carefully, looking up to meet your stare and gauge your reaction. And when you held it back with equally as careful, he felt just enough ease to continue. “I can get their help.”

When your head gave a quick but approving nod, he felt the smallest release of tension in his shoulders. He had your trust, he could relax in that respect. The rest of the tension held though, because now he had to walk head first into the dark past he swore to himself that he left behind as he came back to Colombia. 

And he had to bring you with him. 

“Where do we find them?”

—

“What do pretty girls like you eat? Hmm? The picada here is the shit, I can get you a plate.”

“Oh, I’m on a strict diet of lots of coffee and not taking shit from people.”

Any fear he had about bringing you along to meet with Don Berna had flown out the open windows of the restaurant the instant you sat down next to him at the table, taking up a space equal to him as you spread your legs and you leaned back.

Your quick wit, your smart mouth... he had to stop and wonder for a second why he had even been afraid in the first place. 

Narcos may not have been your game, but you weren’t new to the world of terrible yet powerful men. If anything, you had been dealing with them for longer than you had even been with the CIA. And you were good at it. 

Your smart mouth was enough to bring a hefty chuckle to Berna’s chest as he ate, enough to shake the table slightly and even more when he let his fist fall to the wood to grab the bottle in front of him. 

“I like her, Peña.” He minded as he washed down his food with a swig from the bottle, shifting his disgusting stare off of you and back to the suited DEA hero sitting next to you. “You should bring her every time.”

Every time? Like this was some weekly regular meeting? God, Javi forgot just how much he hated this. 

“Can you help us or not?” He quickly moved to refocus the conversation, leaning forward just enough to level his strict stare with the large man and settle his elbows on the table.

“Can I help you find your barbie doll? Easily.” Berna spoke with an nonchalant shrug as he reached for his drink again and downed a solid swig to wash out the barely chewed food that his mouth was stuffed with. But once the shrug fell and the food was swallowed, his head tilted much more playfully than either you or Javi could take comfort in. “Can you afford my price... maybe not so easy.”

You glanced to Javi in the same second he glanced to you, but the words fell from your lips first. “What’s the price?”

“A promise.”

The two of you didn’t need to verbally urge him to continue, your furrowed brows took care of that for you. Berna took another few bites, then another drink, then sat back with his napkin in hand and continued.

“One day, my name will pop up on the DEA’s to-do list, and all you have to promise me you’ll do, is give me a phone call.”

You scoffed at that, just loud enough to get the few guards who waited a few feet away to turn and look at the obvious show of disrespect. Thankfully, Berna just seemed amused by it, laughing into his meal. But Javi didn’t have the guts you had to back your brazenness, not as he began considering what that really meant. 

“A get out of jail free card?” He repeated back carefully in English as he drew his arms back to cross over his chest, leaving you leaned forward on the table. 

But again, Berna just shrugged, “Exactly.”

You glanced back to Javi, maybe in a look of commiseration or maybe to try and warn him against what you had to be sure he was going to do. Whatever look it was, he didn’t hold your stare long enough to decipher it. He didn’t have the luxury to let you get into his head right now. 

Because maybe you’d try to change his mind and he couldn’t afford that. 

He needed to get Christina back and you had made it clear on the runway that this was your only chance to get to FARC in the jungle and get her out safely. He knew you were too good at your job to not have found an easier way if one existed so that left this as his only option. Whatever Don Berna wanted, he was going to get and he knew it. 

That was why he looked so damn smug as he pestered with and easy, “Agent Peña?”

It was a promise to break the law, but what was his defense? Tell him ‘no, I know I did that for you in the past but not anymore’? It just wouldn’t work. Berna knew he was desperate because he was desperate. 

He liked to think that you’d do the same if you were in his shoes, he liked to think that you wouldn’t judge him for it. 

And as he looked back to meet the stare you passed him that he had carefully avoided, he found you already looking to the table in front of you, like you knew his answer before he had even come close to admitting it aloud. 

Either because you knew him that well or because that was what you would do and you couldn’t blame him for doing the same. 

“Fine. You have a deal.”

“Then lets go kill some communists.” Berna bellowed out loudly, earning a few chuckles from his men who stood around.

And you couldn’t help but laugh at that too. Not because killing communists was something you relished in, quite the opposite actually. 

You were surely laughing because of that day you spent in the jungle with him. The day you told him you didn’t come to Colombia for drugs or communism. 

Yet here you were. 

If he had the heart to laugh, maybe he would have mustered on as well at the irony of it all. Instead, he stood up with you and everything quickly got started. 

Before the two of you knew it, you were both dressed in green fatigues, loaded into the helicopter and headed off towards the jungle as you continued to fight off Berna’s comments.

“So, if you’re not DEA, what part of the gringo government can handle you?” He mocked playfully, practically licking his lips as he watched you lean forward to fix your feet in your boots.

“What makes you think anyone can handle me?” You easily retorted, growing a smirk on Javi’s face that he struggled to hide.

Berna was equally as amused, chuckling with each and every smart remark you mustered.

And it just kept going.

“Did he find you in a brothel? You know how he likes his brothels and hell, I know plenty of men who would pay for someone like you.”

Javi sent him a warning glare but you weren’t deterred.

“There isn’t enough money in the Narco world.”

“You’d be surprised, sweetheart.”

Eventually, you just rolled your eyes and switched off your headset and about a half hour later, the three of you ended up deep in the jungle, unloading night vision goggles for the Castano’s with ease.

You looked oddly comfortable in the green fatigues, strapping on a bullet proof vest, and loading your weapon.

He knew it was because underneath the sullen spy exterior you put on for work, and the sexy smirk you wore as you straddled him in his bedroom, you were a soldier. That’s what you had been before all of this.

And for the briefest of seconds, he couldn’t help but wonder what it would have been like to meet you in that phase of your life.

Without Colombia weighing down on his shoulders, when he was still just a simple DEA agent back in the states, would he have stumbled into you in a bar while you were on leave? Would it have been the sense of a dark familiarity in your bones that drew him to you on one of his darkest nights, haunted by the phantom bloodied hand as he sipped his whiskey, or would it have been your buoyant smile and the sway of your hips?

Would you love him all the same? Would your unscarred bodies feel as right as they did now, slotted against each other as your lips danced over his?

Was he glad that he met you now, because it gave him the chance to know you at all, or did he want you without all of Colombia, without the war and the work and Stechner and your job and his...

Did he want you as a respite from the darkness that haunted him at night or did he want you for you?

The longer he stared at you across the table while you prepared for the incursion, the more he realized that it had started out as a simple reprieve from work and the stress that came with it but that wasn’t what it was anymore. Whether you broke up with him or not. He loved you. Not for your work, though your competency certainly was a turn on, but just for you.

And it was getting easier and easier to think about in his head, becoming more and more practiced. He loved you for you.

For your smile when you woke up and rolled over to kiss his forehead first thing before you got up every morning.

For the sanity he felt when he was wrapped in your arms, no matter what was going on outside.

For everything he was when he was with you that he wasn’t when he was without you. Soft, human, unburdened... a good man...

Colombia had nothing to do with it. It was just you and him. 

“Thank you.” He said pretty silently, trying to keep it just between the two of you as the sun began to set around you, casting shadows over your face while you assembled the M4 in front of you with ease.

His words stopped you though, your hands freezing as your stare switched back up to him. “For this?”

He nodded, “you don’t have to be out here for this, you don’t have to be putting your life on the line for me—“

“Javi, don’t...”

“I’m serious.” He fought as he positioned his gun in the back of his pants. “Thank you.”

“You don’t have to thank me.”

“You’re doing this for me—“

“Yeah, and if I thought for a second you wouldn’t do the same for me, maybe I’d hesitate but...” you sighed, shaking your head as your attention dropped back to your work, your hands still moving with practiced ease. “Just... you don’t have to thank me.”

Someone shouted something from across the small camp, signalling that everyone was ready to go and you quickly snapped the rest of the gun together and strapped it over your vested chest. But before you moved to head out into the jungle clearing and towards the helicopter, he caught your arm and pulled you towards him, as much as he could with the two of you wearing your bulky bullet proof vests. 

He lowered his voice as he brought his head closer to yours in spite of your protest, “thank you.”

And that was when you reached your hand back around his head and caught him completely off guard, bringing your lips to his for a brief kiss. A brief kiss that burned the same way your words had in his mind as the phone call from hours ago ended. With the simple touch of your lips to his, you were confirming everything you had when you ended the phone call, everything that had been occupying his thoughts the whole day.

“You don’t have to thank me.” You sighed one last time before turning away and following the soldiers and Castano brothers to the helicopter. And he heard the unspoken words that follow it. 

You didn’t want him to thank you because you loved him and you knew he loved you, you knew he’d do the same for you. 

He didn’t need to guess if it was a slip or not anymore, that didn’t matter.

He knew you loved him. And fuck, he really loved you.

Now, he had a war zone to head into and a woman to rescue. And with you by his side, things didn’t feel so dark anymore. 

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[samcrobae]

Separation

I honestly don’t know what’s wrong with me, I keep starting new stories when I have so many things I’m working on lol but @starrynite7114 and @ifoundmyhappythought have had my muse going strong this last week. Anyways, it’s a lil long winded, I tend to write how I talk, but let me know if you like it! ❤️ part 2 coming soon.

TW: none?

“Noah, get your backpack papi, come on.” You reach into your SUV and unbuckle your daughter, Emilia from her car seat. It was Tuesday which meant you worked night shift at the hospital which meant you dropped the kids off with Angel for the next 3 days. You and Angel had been separated for 6 months now. You had decided to walk away from him, the club, all of it when he got so invested in the cartel business and spend little to no time at home. He kept you in total darkness and distanced himself from you and the kids which is what killed you. Your son, Noah, needed his dad. He’s 5. And Emilia being 1, still too small to realize what was happening.

You put your phone in your back pocket and Emilia on your hip and walked towards the clubhouse, seeing Coco and EZ on the porch. “Tio EZ!” Noah ran to EZ and wrapped his tiny arms around his middle.

“Hey bud! What’s up?! Hi Emilia, Y/N what are you doing to my niece?! She’s huge!” He smiled a soft smile and then added “hes inside.”

“Noah, mommy’s going to go put your backpack inside with daddy okay? I’ll be right back.” You head inside and spot Angel sitting at the table, his head picking up when he heard your footsteps.

“Hey. Look Emi! Say hi dada!” He stood up and walked towards you and reached his hand out to touch you but before he could You handed Emilia to Angel.

“Here’s Noah’s bag. Please remember to make sure he brushes his teeth before he goes to bed. I’ll be by to pick them up Friday afternoon”.

“Yes, Y/N I know.. you look incredible querida.”

“Alright I gotta go. Bye Emi, I love you bebe, be good for dada.”

Before you could turn around you felt Angel’s hand on yours, “Come on Y/N.. can we talk about this? can we just stop playing this game? Just tell me You want me to come home...just say it and I’ll be there waiting for you at home with our kids.”

“Angel I gotta go, I’m meeting someone for lunch before my shfit. I’ll call tonight to say goodnight to the kids.”

His heart sank as he watched you walked out the door.

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“Oh I can’t, Angel, I’m meeting someone for lunch before my shift, Angel. What the fuck is that supposed to mean?” Angel mockingly repeated your sentence.

“Idk mano sounds to me like she’s meeting someone for lunch..” coco answered, lighting a cigarette.

“Yeah but is she meeting him for lunch or is she meeting him for lunch?”

“I don’t get it, you’re not together, she left Angel. She’s free to do as she pleases.” EZ contradicted.

“Fuck off Boy Scout, I put a ring on it. That she still wears. You know what that means? Fuckin engaged. Basically married. I haven’t gotten my dick wet in 6 months and she just sits around scheduling lunch dates with people?! Come on!”

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Friday came quick. You pulled into the scrapyard and before you could get out of your car, Angel approached you and opened your passenger side door, taking a seat next to you.

You eyed him suspiciously as he made himself comfortable. “Sure sit down Angel. Come in. How were the kids?” You sarcastically say as You unbuckled your seat belt and turned to face him. “What’s going on?”

“So, how was your lunch date? You know it’s so funny to me, and by funny, I mean not funny, that we haven’t broken up, you still wear my ring, and I haven’t had any other pussy except yours and you’re out here going on dates-"

“Angel I’m not doing this right now. I just want to pick up my kids and go home.” To be totally honest, you didn’t go on a date with anyone, you met your coworker, Christina, for lunch, but what Angel didn’t know wouldn’t hurt. You loved him, still did, and wouldn’t do that to him. You wanted things to work, co-parenting was fine, but the two of you haven’t had a conversation about your relationship. Maybe hearing--believing-you went on a date would make him get his shit together.

“Okay so then you tell me when are we gonna do this mama? You love me. I love you. We have a family. We can make this shit work.” He grabs your hands and brings them to his lips. You quickly pull away from him, earning a sad stare from him.

“Yeah and see that’s the thing Angel,” you said his name in Spanish, “it’s not just shit. It’s our family. Your son and daughter. Our kids. You still don’t see that. You lied to me. You kept secrets from me. You cheated on me. For fuck sakes Angel, Miguel Galindo came to our home looking for you and EZ. He was waiting for you in our living room when I walked in with our kids. OUR HOME ANGEL. You don’t see why I needed to walk away? Now, get out of my car Ignacio. Por favor.” You opened the door and went into the clubhouse where Noah and Emilia were running around playing with Riz.

You placed Emilia in her car seat and strapped her in as Angel helped Noah get strapped in to his seat. You shut the door and made your way around to the drivers side door when Angel shut Noah’s door and placed his hands on your waist. “Call Pop. Have him watch the kids tonight, come back later. We’ll talk.”

You leaned back against the car and placed your hands on his arms. “Angel, no, I don’t want to bother him and I really don’t want to party. I haven’t been to one of these in 6 months.” Every Friday night, the club house hosted a party, sometimes it was just them and the usual hang arounds, sometimes other charters, but it was always a good time.

“Come on, for a little. Besides Pop has been asking to see them for a while.” He swishes you’re hips with his hands, “Come on.. let loose, relax, you been working too hard. I can see it.”

You let out a small laugh, “fine, okay! Alright. I will call Felipe. But I’m not staying long Angel, I mean it. Now move.”

Angel made his way back to the clubhouse and sat on the porch steps with EZ. “You can’t hang onto her forever Angel. You need to let her move on if that’s what she wants to do. You should too.”

“Man shut up EZ! Nah, she’ll be back. I just gotta figure out a way to make her understand we were meant to be together.” EZ delivered a pat to Angel’s shoulder before heading inside.

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You dropped the kids off at Felipe’s and thanked him repeatedly for watching them. “Mija, you don’t have to thank me for watching my own grandkids. Go, get out of here. Enjoy yourself.”

You said goodbye to Noah and Emilia and made your way to the yard. Chucky rolled the gate open for you as you pulled in and you waved your thanks. You parked in your usual spot. Even though you and Angel weren’t technically together, no one ever parked in your spot. You spot Angel outside on the bench, cigarette between his lips, talking with Gilly when Gilly tapped his shoulder and motioned towards you. Getting up off the bench, Angel slowly strides over to you, eyeing you and up down letting out a whistle.

“Wassup baby, you come here often?” He gives you a wink and pulls you into him for a hug. “Come on, lets go say hi to everyone.” You let out a laugh and you follow him back to where everyone is seated. A couple hours had passed and you had found yourself in Angel’s lap, his hand comfortably wrapped around your waist, occasionally running his hand over your thigh. “Querida, get me a beer, please?” You nod and offer to grab extras for the others and they obliged.

As the night wound down, Angel was noticeably too tipsy to drive his bike home so you offered to drive home and stupidly decided to let him stay at your place for the night. He got in the passenger seat and as you drove his hand had found its way to your thigh, gripping it tightly all the way home. When you got out of the car and approached your front door Angels hands had found their way to your hips and pressed himself against you as you unlocked the doors. “When we get inside, you gonna let me sleep in our bed right mama? Let me feel up on that ass all night right?” You turned your key in the lock and opened the door, Angel closely behind. Once you were inside, his hands found your waist and he pulled you into him so your back was against his chest.

“Tell me you don’t miss this mi dulce, tell me you don’t love how my hands feel on your skin, the way my lips feel..” he placed slow and soft kisses to your neck and for a moment you let your head fall back against him and your eyes flutter closed. Your breathing hitched and a small gasp escaped your lips as his hands slowly ran under your shirt and up your tummy.

Your voice was barely a whisper as you felt lost in his touch but knew you needed to stop this before it went any further. But damn. The way his hands felt and his voice in your ear, lit your entire body on fire.

“Angel....”

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[missmaxime]

GG tag game

Tagged by @roxy206 and @mego42 TY! I’m so late to this haha. 

When did you start watching Good Girls?  I think around March 2019?

Why did you start watching Good Girls?  I had just binged all seasons of Mad Men, so Netflix must’ve thought ‘ooh you like that show with Christina Hendricks? How about this one?’ I don’t usually get hooked on a show within one episode, but when Rio and Beth met I was already like ‘oh no. I’m going to ship this, aren’t I?’ by 1x03 I was sold - not just on the ship, but on the whole show. 

Who is your favorite character? Beth

What's your favorite ship? Beth x Rio

Who is your favorite secondary character? Turner (*cries*). But the casting for this show is amazing, I could list a lot more that I love (looking at you, pinkcatwool-lady). 

If you could give Beth one background detail what would it be?  Ever since I caught on Beth telling Judith that Dean only told her things about John at Emma’s birthday, I now headcanon that Beth and Dean might have met when Dean’s father just passed away or was terminally ill and they might have bonded over absent/dead/sick parents. That may sound a bit gloomy, but I feel like Dean might have provided Beth a funny teen lightness she didn’t allow herself because she was sister-momming Annie in her spare time. (If you can’t tell, I’m really excited about the upcoming flashbacks this season). 

If you could give Annie one background detail what would it be?  Tried out for cheer leading, got rejected, and immediately did a full 180 into becoming that skater kid that smokes joint under the bleachers. 

If you could give Ruby one background detail what would it be?  She and her brothers inherited the house she lives in now from their mother, and while it was probably more beneficial to sell, her brothers let her and her family have it. 

What's your favorite crime related moment or storyline?  So many, but for now probably Lucy’s death. I really needed the show to escalate its violence - and have the girls witness it. For many reasons I feel like the shootings of Dean, Rio and Turner never really found purchase with either the girls (and/or us as viewers) in terms of realizing what this crime world really means when it comes to repercussions.   But I have a feeling Season 4 is going to bring me a new fav crime moment!

What's your favorite personal moment or storyline?  Beth smashing the cookies does very emotional things to me. Christina’s acting is off the charts here, but even aside from that I really enjoy moments where Beth unleashes her emotions. Here it’s obviously very physical, but I also love the moment with Max in the car where she lets him on what shooting Rio did to her.  For the FMK #1: Greg, Stan, Dean.  First of all: too many dicks. But I’ll fuck Stan (I’m sorry Ruby, please have him back when I’m done), I’ll marry Greg (did you see his house?) and kill Dean bye.  FMK #2: Man Bun Rio, Quiff Rio, Manny Montana.  Lol kill Manny, how is this even a question. Fuck Man Bun Rio, I’m not living with that guy - he probably lives in a white apartment the size of a stamp with a vintage bike on the wall and sixteen Pilea plants - not thank you. I suppose I’ll marry Quiff Rio, I’m sure we’ll be very happy in our open marriage. 

Bonus: Add 3 characters in the hashtags for your tagged friends to play fuck, marry, kill! (or snog, marry, avoid!)

I'm tagging @nottonyharrison @nakedmonkey @lunafeather @elise-jupiterstyle and @lanafannabanana