#magpie rewatch

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The Moment Team Realized He Was A Sugar Baby

Momentary gasp and shock before the sass is back.

Between Us (2022-2023) Ep 10

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And here we see the love-starved soft top in the wild, stalking his sassy insecure bottom.

BETWEEN US THE SERIES 

Episode 2 | Episode 3 | Episode 8

[banditblvd]

Bad boys..... Ssave me bad boys..... Oh God oh no.......,,..

uhh

[rubylarkspur22]

That feel when you rediscover a movie you absolutely loved(and may have been a component in the realization you were, in fact, not straight), and decided to merge with the current special interest.

[notsogoodangel]

Then he gets kidnapped by the Federation

Obligatory ramble about Watchers/Federation underneath.

So, in the Life Series Martyn can hear the Watchers constantly, which could be because of the Watchers' influence or maybe the Listeners (if CC Martyn has answered this, I am not aware, you are welcome to correct me). In the end, it doesn't matter because he still can listen to them and The Purgatory Watcher as well. I imagine he can listen to anything or anyone under his influence even if they are not Watchers themselves.

But that train of thought led me somewhere interesting: The Watcher is just a (theorized) corrupted overseer of Egg Island, just like Cucurucho is on Quesadilla, and the workers are the same. So that means Martyn could listen to the Federation and the workers and be a good spy.

Like, he probably already would have done that because his favorite pastime is to sneak around and listen to private conversations, but now he could do it, without even entering the Federation building, he could do it passively in a relatively safe place.

So his ass is 100% getting kidnapped because this man wasn't grown or raised in the Federation's grasp, they just took him to Quesadilla to fight the Watcher since he has experience with it BUT they don't really know what Martyn can do.

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Honorable Mention

Win (Episode 6) : When I saw you drowning, I also felt like I was gonna die.

Win: You have to pay me in kisses. Win: Because it's YOU. Win: Let me compare our relationship to the fated story of our friends. Win: I think we need to be tied together by more than just a thread. Win: Let me take you home to meet my family. Win: I will take care of you as long as you want me to. Team: But I just don't know how he feels about me.

[many-gay-magpies]

torn between writing some more of the random dbda edwin character study piece i randomly churned out the first 500 words of at 4 am last night or buckling down to rewatch the case of devlin house and get emotionally damaged

[loverboyfae]

maybe i'm wrong but do y'all think it's insane to call get out a horror/comedy? i haven't seen it in a long time but i remember very little about it that could be described as funny but maybe i'm wrong

[wrens-garden]

So bound lore, huh?

Very emotional. I'm having a time, Vast is better than me, I wouldn't have buried Vi, Vast does have meat eating magpies after all.

Gaverin :( Although it is very sweet of her to take care of Sylph and hopefully this will super speed their relationship into friendship at least.

I'm hoping Vast can give Sylph their magic back, both for Sylph (Obviously) but also cause Vast will never forgive herself for not 'doing more' if she can't (Even tho logically she really couldn't change what happened, it was likely this or Vi would've killed Sylph)

Little dude, you snitch, I love you! I was worried about Vast every time she flew, was kinda hoping she'd stay at Armors for the night, purely cause I feared that she'd fall into the void despite the warnings not fitting that.

Is this the traumatic event that leads to rusty stars? Iconic if so. I get why Rune would- I'm just not gonna finish that sentence. Get you a partner who'd tear someone's throat out with their teeth for you.

Also rewatched Armors POV of different beasts (The name- I've just realised the name) cause I didn't watch from the start. The first memory is so cute, they were so cute. Fuck you Aloy (I don't care if that's how it's spelt, I'm tired).

[lavendermerry-go-round]

One thing that I'm still not over about OPLA (you know, after the 5th rewatch) is just how godsdam pretty everyone is.

Every. Single. Person.

Like, Zoro is a resident pretty boy™. Every single shot, without fail, he's effortlessly beautiful. Not that it's a surprise. It's Mackenyu.

Sanji is way too charming (in a good way) and Taz's eyes just shine so brightly and with such emotion it makes my inner magpie tingle.

Jacob is such a warm and welcoming presence on- (and I'm about 99.9% sure, off-)screen. And that just makes Usopp's showed but not told anxious moments really pop, imo. Plus I have no clue how they will manage to pull off his time skip glow-up like this. The guy is glowing like the sun already.

Iñaki is the weirdest because I'm no Bartolomeo or Hancock so I find the idea of handsome Luffy hilarious. Most of the time I was thinking the same way but he gave me these "holy shit he's so handsome" moments that I am not sure I can handle yet.

And of course. Of course there's Emily, who is just so incredibly beautiful, I struggle to find the words. Like, her smile? That lights up the room for sure. Her tears? Well those broke my heart but it didn't make her any less gorgeous.

And the non-strawhats too. Literally every person is pretty. All of them.

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Between Us Continues to have no Chill.

End of Episode 7

After sweet little declarations of support and coming outs, we see most of the group together chatting at this very clearly NOT a Gay club?

Where are Dean and Pharm (UWMA)? Probably traumatizing some poor person in another library by staring longingly at each other.

And Pruek continues to defend his title as the #1 Support Boyfriend. (Between Us & UWMA)

The A & C are teasing B about his situationship with Prince.

Bee, who is ready to join the ranks with Pruek as a supporting boyfriend, perpetually understanding and deflecting because he is, in fact, dating/with/will be? a private person who is already in the industry.

And then the advice about not beating around the bush begins.

Hit dogs holler, huh boys?

Of course, Team, who runs away from his feelings, and Win, who silently broods and represses his, are not appreciating it.

Which leads us to ✨The Bathroom Scene™ ✨

They still aren't ready to talk about it, and even though the concern and feelings are filling the air so much its as thick as chowder. As usual, the boys decide to fuck about it instead of talk about it.

But, for real, even though this bathroom looks cleaner than any I have seen in a bar, club, or even a cafe, you have to be that horny, that in love, and that desperate for a connection to do this.

It's wild, a little gross, but painfully telling.

[ultravioletbrit]

10 people I want to get to know better!

thank you all for tagging me!! i <3 all of you so much!! 💜💜 @shoopsthereitis, @arviyya, @snarky-magpie, @messymoony, @ecstarry, @my-castles-crumbling

last song: après moi by regina spektor

favorite color: black and purple

last movie: shawshank redemption - it's my comfort movie (probably a weird comfort movie 😂)

last tv show: fringe - oldie but one that i love to rewatch/binge   

sweet/spicy/savory: unfair question!! all of them mixed together is probably my favorite. but if i had to choose one, probably savory.

relationship status: single - forever and always <3

last google search(es): ‘30 pieces of silver’ - it was said in a show and i didn’t know the reference. (if you don’t know either, it’s how much judas was paid to betray jesus… is that common knowledge? oops 😬)

current obsession(s): finding a job :( …. not sure if that counts as an obsession, but it’s all i've been doing lately and it’s absolutely zero fun :(

looking forward to: this might sound like a cop out, but i miss this. being on here with all of you and chatting and writing and i really miss my microfics… so i'm looking forward to having the time to be able to do more of this and to write and be more active on here again. (sappy, i know, but i miss you guys!! <3)

10 np tags (i'm a little late to the game, i tried to make sure i didn't double tag, but i'm sorry if you’ve already done this/been tagged) @under-pink-skys, @bluedahlia912, @wolfpadx, @thebibutterflyao3, @weasleytriplets, @wordsofwilderness, @static-radio-ao3, @badhairred, @onehundredflamingos, @maladaptivewriting, @just--vi and anyone else who wants to play!

[isfjmel-phleg]

"10 people I'd like to know better" tag game

Tagged by @healerqueen. Thank you!

Last song 🎧: "Break My Stride" by Matthew Wilder, because I had the exercise playlist of mostly agressively 70s/80s/90s stuff on for motivation.

Favorite Color 🎨: Maroon/burgundy.

Last Book 📕: I recently finished a gigantic JSA 1999 omnibus and am in the middle of a Space Boy reread and a collection of Gaskell short stories.

Last Movie 🍿: The Polar Express, since I didn't get to see it over Christmas break.

Last TV show 📺: Stargirl. This is a rewatch, and honestly, even though they kind of throw the JSA lore into the blender and that's more obvious to me now that I've read more, it's really a lot of fun as this sort of show goes. I'm enjoying it and would love to see a live action YJ show in a similar vein, but please don't consider this a general recommendation to everyone. (It does strike me as something Magpie might watch though.)

Sweet/Spicy/Savory 🍔: Sweet or savory, depending on the occasion.

Current obsession 🌀: I've been really annoying about Damage lately. Sorry. It will continue. :P

Last thing I searched 🔎: I can never remember how to look this up. It was probably the song mentioned above so I could find the link.

Looking forward to 👀: Going to a candlelight concert with my neighbor/friend and some other ladies from our Bible study group next week. Going to [major city in the northeast US] to present my Secret Garden paper at the English honor society convention (it's officially decided! this is a new city and state for me, so it's especially exciting. I don't think it's near enough to any of you, but if you want to DM me about the details to check, you can).

[horsemage]

tagged by @rickclaredanko :D

rules: answer and tag nine (or however many) people you want to get to know better or catch up with

fave color: pink!!!!!

last song: Eastworld by Big Country

currently reading: not reading anything but I'm re-listening to The Subtle Knife on audiobook because I finally got a library card :3c

currently watching: I'm on a rewatch of hannibal while I work. and also the stanley cup final 😐

currently craving: would kill a man for a good acai bowl I'm sorry

coffee or tea: tea!!!! but I will drink coffee sometimes if I want a fun drink but can't have (good) tea

tagging: @cannibalcanid @saint-magpie @galaxseacreature @bastardcircus @lethal-liability @radioactivelight & all my other mutuals who want to :]

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Rewind the tape —Episode 5 highlights

One of our favorite outfits is...

...the one Claudia wears at the university!

Claudia proves herself to be a blossoming master of disguise. She overhauls her wardrobe in the fourth episode, once she makes the decision to start acting her age, putting on what she feels is a more age appropriate outfit —a vibrant red dress and lush fur-trimmed coat snagged from “a girl between speakeasies,” perhaps the beginnings of the burgeoning souvenir collection that is revealed in this episode. 

According to IWTV costume designer, Carol Cutshall, her concept for Claudia's “away at college” looks was "that her kills were guided by FASHION! Like a magpie she was drawn to shiny things and she was always SHOPPING”.

Here we see her style evolution take on a more subdued tone, to allow her to remain as inconspicuous as possible. Her costume, complete with an oversized sweater vest, book bag and a more fall semester appropriate fur-trimmed coat, should be more than enough to help her blend right in with the rest of the co-eds as she carries out her late night archival excavations. 

The look is appropriate and functional, a far cry from the luxury of her first foray into fashion, but it simply isn’t enough to deflect the attention of a wanna-be campus cop in a Letterman jacket, one she quickly repurposes later on in the episode.

What's a favorite look of yours? Claudia's overalls, or Louis' disheveled robes-and-pajama looks, maybe? His grey suit from the beginning of the episode, or his cozy sweater? Claudia's stripped dress from the opening? Rashid's all-black fit with the slightly transparent robe?

Reblog with your highlights, or make a new post with the tag #vampterview to join the conversation! And, if you're just getting caught up, learn all about our group rewatch here ►

[vampiricmechanic]

My review of “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”

rating: hard to say but somewhere between ★★★ and ★★★★ (while both at the same time)

text below — includes spoilers!!

Such a hard movie for me to rate. This is going to be long but I’ll fang it as much as I can – fasten your belts.

When I watched this movie at the cinema, I walked out of the room a little overwhelmed, little disappointed, a little happy regardless but mostly trying to sort my thoughts and weigh them in a way that pointed a direction towards like or dislike for it. I’m not sure if I made any progress, but I was able to crank out some coherent sentences that, at least, verbalize the mess inside my head.

I said to my friend – “I feel like I gotta watch this movie three times to be able to opine.” Today I rewatched it with no pretensions, but – if anything – I feel like I rusted the chrome finish of it all by doing so. It’s not bad, yet it’s not good. It is, in all of its pomposity, furiously okay.

I knew it wasn’t going to be Fury Road – by Valhalla, I didn’t want it to be – but I wanted it to look like Fury Road. A little seedling, yet to turn into a ripe peach when set behind its predecessor. The visuals are duller, and while I’m not sure what was attainable filming in a different country, you’ll take the toll of not catching the public’s eye. Humans, we’re like magpies (or crows), there’s no way around it. The hot-blue sky and even hotter orange sand are almost like missing characters.

The way Furiosa loses her arm — I was (in all of my know-it-allness) so sure that, the reason it happened was because she had tried to run away a couple times too many, making someone take away her map. Still, the canon alternative leans so much more into the very nature of Mad Max narratives — bad things will happen no matter how hard we try to avoid them, how far we run from them. The act of not only having to do it herself to live, but also knowing she'd have to trust her memory from now on, is such a clever and heartbreaking choice.

Plot holes can be extrapolated to be worn-out patches or vice-versa, potential for fan additions, creative liberty or overall diversity in interpretations, but I can’t help but yearn for more story – clarification – in some bits. Did no one notice how Furiosa went missing? And no one recognized this little, so thought war-boy, popping up from chains and car gears? When she came back as road warrior Furiosa, I connected the dots that Jack convinced Joe to let her stay as a road warrior, “she’s too good at what she does to be lowered into breeding stock.” Or something of this nature. Charlize’s headcanon of a proven barren Furiosa, bitterly recycled as Praetorian sounded more realistic, but that’s at least one less trauma on her back.

But fear not, not everything is mediocre!

Anya is magnificent, but she feels like a different font of the character – and fair enough! Tom is captivating, Jack is so easy to crush on, every interaction between him and Furi feels like a warm hand clasp. Organic Mechanic, The People Eater, Kalashnikov – even if briefly – maintain their brilliance. Joe feels like Joe but younger, like he’s growing out his evil glare, blunt-blow personality and whatever-it-takes mindset; all that’ll unwillingly soften as he’s past his peak, aged and tired. Scrotus is nowhere as cruel and distressingly unstable as I expected, which is as unfortunate as it isn’t – he’s a fun little guy. Rictus has a surprising twist, and more intellect than I assumed. I’ll take it as his mental capacity being wavering and hard to measure.

Dementus is his own thing. He’s a confident failure, a powerful mess, a character playing a character. He’s so immersed in his idea of greatness he began believing it, no matter how pathetic life proves him to be – and he’ll only come to his senses too late, but regretting none of it. That’s a character I’d read a second chapter of comics about.

Cars, cars, cars. They don’t feel as grand, no longer a key object – and again, fair enough! The War Rig was so many things beyond a truck, but there’s no need for such thing again. For the CGI, I silently winced less than I thought I would, but a couple times too many. Dealbreaker? No.

The blurt out between Furiosa and Dementus in the end, oh, grandiose. Quite literal while maintaining some poeticism, time-old lesson about revenge.

There were many more things I planned on writing down, many of which I talked about so much after watching that my brain made sure to wear away and discard so I could shut up – or alternatively, attain some ability to be briefer. The rest of it I considered irrelevant while my brain revved and fingers burned rubber on the keyboard.

Every time I try to ponder this movie fully, I start out excited, get upset midway through and finish it contently and glad George is still so in love with his own creation, as he should be. In the end, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga isn’t as shine as Fury Road, and as much as I don’t use one as a standard to the other, comparison is unavoidable – just don’t let it be thing that ruins the experience for you. It is an unpolished V8, a movie I wanted, thought we didn’t need, and wouldn’t trade back.

Witnessed! Risen from the ashes of this world into the gates of my Mad Max hyperfixation.

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NOTE: PLEASE take into consideration this is my opinion and i'm NOT seeking beef. you have every right to disagree, just keep things civil.