#maybe my stupidest commitment ever

[jewishcissiekj]

7 days left scheduled for wlw cassie twt acc... the stress is unreal and the list is running out

[favouritedave]

me skipping 50+ songs to get to the Right One to respond to a single message 🧍‍♂️

[suzukiblu]

Thank-you sentences for lee behind the cut, who asked for dealer’s choice Timberkon and is getting “weird amnesia Timberkon”.  (( chrono || non-chrono ))

“Okay, so like . . . stupidest question ever time,” Bernard says, because priorities and all. “But are you okay, man? Like, in the sense of ‘do you have money and a roof over your head and maybe, like, I dunno, a job or something. I mean admittedly I don’t know exactly how long you’ve been home or whatever, just apparently it’s at least been a month so–” 

Superboy’s face crumples. Bernard runs back what he just said in his head, and given the timing of said crumpling figures it was probably him saying “home” like that.

“I mean, I’m pretty sure you’re home,” he says, trying not to wince about it. “I definitely remember you being here previously, and I remember not having noticed you being around for a while too, which would presumably cover however long you were out of the reality. Just, like, I have no idea what happened that made the reality forget you during said ‘a while’. Especially not what happened to make the reality forget you and leave me as apparently the only dude you’ve found so far who actually, like, remembers you. Unless you’ve found someone else and not mentioned them yet, but I’m assuming that’s not a thing given, you know, the  whole . . . uh, level of your reaction to realizing that I did.” 

“Sorry,” Superboy says, rubbing the heel of his hand into one of his eyes. The saddest puppy in the multiverse looks like his favorite bone just got stolen, but like in the dirty kinky the-director-of-this-porno-is-a-furry-on-the-downlow/please-give-me-your-bone-master kind of way. Or like . . . whatever. “Sorry, I–I’m being a freak here. Didn’t mean to–like, do that.” 

“I literally just wandered off in my head to make up a porno involving emotionally-fraught puppy play while still actively trying to figure out the timeline on how long you’ve been back and also when to expect my totally-a-normal-civilian boyfriend back from his totally-a-normal-civilian bathroom visit,” Bernard replies frankly. “That is being a freak. You getting, like, understandably upset over getting kicked out of reality and then getting back home just to find out said home remembers literally nothing about you seems pretty logical and standard and, you know, expected? Actually if I were you I’d probably have gotten committed like five minutes in, so if anything you’re doing better than I’d expect.” 

“Sorry,” Superboy croaks again, then starts crying again too. “Fuck. Fuck. I’m sorry, I just–I’m sorry.” 

“How long were you gone?” Bernard asks. “Like, ballpark, at least. I don’t know if alternate realities have easily-translatable calendars or whatever, I’m assuming probably not, that’s–” 

“Eight months,” Superboy says in a very, very quiet voice, just staring at the table as he tries to blink back the tears, the heel of his hand half-covering one of his eyes and sunglasses knocked a little bit askew in his hair. “I thought–I thought Rob and Wonder Girl and Impulse would come get me. Thought they’d–thought they’d notice I was gone, at least.” 

There was not a single person with “Super” attached to their name anywhere on that very short list, Bernard notices.

[storywriter007]

Hello! I just found your page and I really like your work!! Would you mind doing a Percy Jackson x reader where Percy and the reader are on the Argo II and he has to teach her how to fight and whenever he gets too close she tends to slip up because he is distracting (because she likes him!) And he notices. No worries if not but I would love to see your take on it!! Thank youuuuu

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You Didn't Know? - Percy Jackson x Fem!Reader

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"i can't do this." y/n whined, sitting on the floor.

"yes, you can." percy encouraged, wiping sweat off of his forehead.

the argo ll training room felt like her own personal hell. first off, she had to learn self-defense, which was the stupidest thing ever. she could use a dagger, a sword, a bow and arrow, and probably an axe. but, it was heavily encouraged for her to learn hand-to-hand combat. that landed her here. secondly, she was stuck in this room for hours a day. the wall lined with mirrors and the wall parallel to it lined with windows quickly became a jail. thirdly, she sucked at hand-to-hand combat. she was slower, less responsive, and weaker than she'd ever be with a weapon. especially, against percy.

and to make everything even more tortuous, she had a hopeless crush on the guy training her. but who wouldn't? a loyal, brave, thoughtful, and humorous guy who just so happened to be tall, lean, dark-haired, bright-eyed, and unnecessarily hot.

and unnecessarily committed. that's what made all of this so hopeless. percy had a girlfriend. so y/n's crushing would stay crushing, this wouldn't go anywhere.

call her evil, but maybe she had thought about an affair. she knew it was wrong. she knew it was wrong to have a crush on somebody else's boyfriend. she desperately tried to think of other things, but she couldn't. she had to accept the fact that she liked him, and that he had a girlfriend.

she stayed on the floor, unwilling to move.

"you were doing great." he praised. "you were fast, you knew what to hit, but then you just lost your concentration. it's like you just get distracted."

that was the biggest issue she had fighting with him. she always screwed up the minute she was close to him. the minute she felt his arm around her and his breath on her neck (even though he was very clearly trying to overpower her) and his grip on her body. he was the distraction.

"i know." she said, burying her face in her hands. "can we just call it a day? we've been in here for hours."

"not until you can push me off." he said, reaching his hand out.

she got up, feeling tired and sore. they'd been doing this for too long. they began fighting. it started with him quickly grabbing her from behind. she jabbed him with her elbow and he loosened his grip. then, she kicked him away with her foot, and turned around. he charged at her grabbing her arm, and forcing it behind her. she used her head to hit his neck and he went backwards. she quickly pushed him down to the floor.

his shirt flew up a little as he hit the floor and she saw his defined v-line. she could feel her face heating up. she quickly moved her eyes to his, and they were so beautiful. the perfect shade of green. they looked like the waters in italy. so enchanting,

suddenly, she felt herself get pulled down. she fell on her side, and before she knew it, her arms were pinned by her head as percy hovered over her. she wished this moment could have been under different circumstances, because dear gods, he was gorgeous.

"you did an awesome job." he said, backing off. "but, for some reason, you just get lost in the middle. you've gotten so close to beating me, but every time, something just messes with your head."

"maybe it's the fact i'm tired?" she asked, sitting up.

"it's like this when we start all the way 'til the end." he commented. "y'know, if something's on your mind, you can tell me. maybe i can help you, and you won't get distracted anymore."

"it's fine." she shrugged. "it's nothing. i'm just exhausted."

he looked at her for a moment. she was praying he believed her so she could lock herself in her room, pray to aphrodite for love, and than go to bed.

"yeah, but i've seen you fight with leo, frank, and jason."

"so what?"

"you beat all of them. frank and jason are taller and stronger than i am." he continued. "so how the hell are you winning against those guys, and only slipping up when you're around me?"

gods damn it, he was onto her.

"i just have more confidence with them." she reasoned, hoping he couldn't sense her internal panic. "it's nothing."

"wait, do i make you insecure?" he asked, concern filling his voice. "i'm sorry, i've never really been that good of a teacher, i don't really know what to say most of the time."

"you don't make me insecure." she laughed. "i told you, it's nothing-"

"then what is it?" he asked. "it's gotta be something. you don't just go win against guys like frank and jason and then lose to me."

from behind him, y/n could see annabeth pacing around outside. she was probably waiting for him. it was a bitter reminder this wasn't going anywhere.

he noticed the disappointment on her face and turned around to see his girlfriend pacing back and forth. she excitedly waved to him and he flashed a mischievous smiled back.

"fine, percy, since you really want to know what distracts me, it's you." she confessed. "i like you. i've liked you for years. and you don't care. it's fine."

he looked at her empathetically.

"y/n, i never knew-"

"shut the fuck up, you knew." she said, feeling an unrecognized feeling of hostility in her. "i know you're not stupid."

she was so angry. she was angry at him for growing closer to her. she was angry at the fact she liked him (and that made her a terrible person). she was angry that he had never noticed, or was at least claiming to. she was angry at the fact he had a girlfriend, one she could never compete with.

"i didn't know." he defended.

"you didn't know?" she chuckled. "so when i would give you freshly-baked cookies for every holiday for four years, you didn't know? when i visited you every day in the infirmary when you were sick, you didn't know? when i longingly stared at you from across the campfire, you didn't know? when i asked you if you wanted to watch the fireworks together, you didn't know?"

his eyes twisted into another emotion. the one of guilt.

"and instead of having the balls to tell me, 'y/n, we're good friends, but i don't like you that way,' you decided to lead me on for years?" she asked, appalled at the fact one of her dear friends would lead her on like this.

"i never knew you did all of that because you liked me, i thought you did all of that because we're friends." he defended. "when you put it all together-"

"it becomes really fucking obvious. i know, percy, i know."

"i'm sorry." he said quietly. "i should've said something."

"it's fine. i see how it is now." she confirmed. "we're not friends. we never have been. i've just been some girl, hopelessly following around a guy, waiting for him to give me a chance."

"that's not true." he frowned. "you know that's not true."

"all i know is that we're not friends. we never have been. and to be honest," she paused, looking for the words. "i don't think we will be."

she got up and began walking out the training room. he followed her.

"y/n." he called out to an empty spirit.

he called out for her, waiting for her to stop and turn around. waiting for her to come back and talk things out with him, the way she always did.

she kept walking. she'd followed him around for years.

he could return the favor.

[elsa-fogen]

More tumblr in winx

around season 1 time

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🟦the-trix-official Follow sep 2, 2004

This evening gonna be so fun 😈

🌟stella-magix-beauty Follow sep 2, 2004

oh no. they're up to something again.

#maximum attention #this is serious #the trix are planning something #reblog this asap!! #the trix

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🟦the-trix-official Follow sep 3, 2004

@.cold-b-witch got a duck and it's calling her MOM

this is the stupidest creature i've ever seen

❄️cold-b-witch Follow sep 3, 2004

STORMY DELETE THIS

🟦the-trix-official Follow sep 3, 2004

no

🌸flover-fairy1988 Follow sep 3, 2004

This is so cutee 🥰🥰 Maybe it'll help unfreeze your heart a little bit? Did you name them?

❄️cold-b-witch Follow sep 3, 2004

Um, fuck you, i'm gonna kill it

❤️‍🔥this-girl-is-on-fire Follow sep 3, 2004

ICY NOOO wy would you want to kill them, theyre so cute

❄️cold-b-witch Follow sep 3, 2004

calling a fucking duck "they" ur fairies are cringe

🌟stella-magix-beauty Follow sep 3, 2004

cancel her, now. delete your account, change your name, leave the planet, the internet hates you now and it knows where ur living. i'm calling magiX upon u.

🎶lost-in-music Follow sep 3, 2004

BUT DID YOU NAME THE DUCK????

❄️cold-b-witch Follow sep 3, 2004

I'M NOT GOING TO NAME IT, I DIDN'T EVEN WANT IT. YOU CAN TAKE IT IF YOU LIKE IT SO MUCH, AND I HATE IT

❤️‍🔥this-girl-is-on-fire Follow sep 3, 2004

winx it's up to us to name this creature!

🌩️stormy-in-the-room Follow sep 3, 2004

UM, NO. Why are you making it about urself? It's not ur duck, ur not the one who gets to name it

❄️cold-b-witch Follow sep 3, 2004

stormy i literaly don't care.

❤️‍🔥this-girl-is-on-fire Follow sep 5, 2004

we shall call it Pepe!

❄️cold-b-witch Follow sep 5, 2004

my fucking dragon. you really-- ughhhhhhhhh

whatever

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🌟stella-magix-beauty Follow sep 9, 2004

Going on a date with prince Sky 💛💛💛 what shoud i wear HELP!!!!

❤️‍🔥this-girl-is-on-fire Follow sep 9, 2004

Girl you can wear a potato bag and look like a queen!!! You don't need to worry about stuff like that

🌟stella-magix-beauty Follow sep 9, 2004

Oh youuuuu stooop 🥹🥹🥹

❄️cold-b-witch Follow sep 9, 2004

girl's walking around looking like that 👇

and ur telling her she looks like a queen. i thought faries don't lie. cringe.

❤️‍🔥this-girl-is-on-fire Follow sep 9, 2004

Icy that's not your damn business, why are you even here?

❄️cold-b-witch Follow sep 9, 2004

for the entertainment.

#i'm here because i love seeing wasteful souls trying to accomplish something meaningful #and failing spectacularly #like you are doing now! #good job!

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❄️cold-b-witch Follow sep 10, 2004

did you ever wanted to kill someone because their voice is just THAT annoying?

#im literally about to commit a murder #great dragon give me some patience

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🌟stella-magix-beauty Follow sep 13, 2004

@.the-trix-official stole the ring of Solaria. i give you 3 days or you'll face the consequences.

🟦the-trix-official Follow sep 14, 2004

your stupid ring is fucking useless

🌟stella-magix-beauty Follow sep 14, 2004

to you. then give it back????

🟦the-trix-official Follow sep 14, 2004

come and take it??? we have other stuff to do

🟦the-trix-official Follow sep 15, 2004

could've at least make a post that you took it back

🌟stella-magix-beauty Follow sep 15, 2004

Oh, i'm Sooo Sorry I didn't notify you about this!

🖕

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[lethaldefect]

Say what you want, but... If Aaravos dies at the end of the series, it will be the stupidest and most illogical thing that could have happened.

Let's be clear - there is not a single character who would be able to kill/defeat him.

Except maybe Claudia. But if the tables turn and Claudia will betray him - that would be wasted potential. Even if it could make sense (a very far-fetched one), they can't do it well in 9 episodes.

The theory that Callum will lock him in a coin? If that happens, they took the easy way out. 6 seasons of waiting for Aaravos to get out of prison, only to have him locked up again at the end? Are you kidding me. Three NOs. That's probably the worst possible ending choice.

If the creators use the "villain defeated by the power of friendship and the unification of all nations" technique, I will take back every good word I have ever said about this series.

Worst of all, in these 9 episodes, they will not be able to play even the "Aaravos redemption arc" option well.

I am afraid of this season, because as a writer, I do not see any solution here that has the right to work and be reasonable at the same time.

For me, the only right solution would be for Aaravos to commit suicide. Giving up and taking his own life to be with his daughter? A masterpiece. A brilliant ending to the series. Regardless of whether he is whitewashed for his "crimes" or not.

Although my dream ending would still be a situation in which it turns out that everything others said about Aaravos was a lie. That he did nothing wrong and was imprisoned for nothing. Callum learning the whole truth? Callum being Aaravos's student? Brilliant. And being just a dream, because all the potential for it has already been wasted.

[kaladinstormblessed09]

I finished RoW and now I don’t know what to do with myself. Please no spoilers for any of the secret projects and TLM. I haven’t read them yet. Also there’ll be bands of mourning spoilers in the review along with RoW

I loved all of Kaladin’s arc. I suffer from depression as well, so it was so relatable to see a main character in a fantasy series struggling too. And he struggles. This book Kaladin hits the lowest point. Starting from chapter 10 when he gets discharged, I cried on his behalf. I knew it was necessary. He kept freezing in the middle of the battle, but Kal was feeling betrayed by Dalinar even when he knew it was the right decision, and I felt the same. Even though I knew this was the right decision. He needed to be away from the fighting, from the battle. Kaladin’s scenes with Wit during the middle of his nightmare was one of my favorite moments in all stormlight. Wit tells kaladin that he'll be warm again, and I’ll hold Brandon to this. You cannot kill Kal off after you promised him that he'll be okay. Brandon, I’ll come for you. Don’t you dare hurt kal. And then Moash kills Teft. Sigh. This was spoiled for me, so all through the book I kept waiting for this. It was not a good experience. I thought he was going to die when the tower got taken, but then he didn’t. And I just wanted to get it over with, because it gave me so much anxiety knowing what happens but not when. I was almost relieved when Moash (I’m not calling him Vyre, that pretentious asshole) shows up. I knew it was about to happen now. I was mentally ready, but it still hurt so much. I cried the most in Row. Kaladin being catatonic holding Teft’s dead body is an image that will haunt me, and I’ll never forgive Moash. I don’t want a redemption arc for him. And before all Moash apologists come for me, it’s not because he killed Elhokar. I get that. It’s because he tried to manipulate Kaladin into killing himself. He used the things Kaladin told him in confidence and used them to get him to commit suicide. He was going to kill Lirin to use his death to further manipulate Kal, and he killed Teft. I don’t fucking care what deep reasoning you use to explain why he did what he did I don’t forgive him. And death is too easy for him. I want him to live with the pain. I want odium to stop taking away his pain. Even if Kaladin someday forgives him, which I don’t think he should. He killed Teft, I will never forgive him.

Lirin really annoyed me all throughout the book. He told kaladin at one point that he should’ve been a good slave, then maybe all these wouldn’t have happened to him. And just for that fuck Lirin. He’s a pacifist to the point where he maintains the status quo, and these types of people annoy me. If you want to live under the oppression good for you, but don’t begrudge the resistance. In the end he pulls through though. Now be a better father to Kal. Don’t call him a monster, or I’ll come for you Lirin. I’ll learn how to isekai into books and give Kal all the love that he deserves.

We barely got any Dalinar povs, and I’m mostly fine with it. I didn’t want to see the campaign at Emul, it’s just another battle. But I wanted more Jasnah. Jasnah/Wit relationship caught me off guard, because I always head cannoned Jasnah as a lesbian, but now I think she’s asexual? Someone please correct me if I’m wrong. It’s just really weird to see Wit/Hoid in a relationship. In the epilogue, did someone really got one over Hoid? Or was Hoid pretending? I can never tell with him. Also, the leader of the ghostsblood was Kelsier all along! And he named himself Lord of Scars. That’s the stupidest name ever. I love him so much! I have missed him.

I really liked all the fused stuff. Leshwi was one of my faves. I liked her and Kaladin’s on/off enmity. It was a fascinating dynamic. Actually, Brandon did such a good job with the characterization of the fused. Raboniel being my favorite. She was such a good character. She reminded me a bit of a mix of Semirhage/Ishamael from WoT. Her just trying to end this war that just goes on and on for eternity. Her motivations were so understandable. When she killed her daughter to save her from infinite torture I cried so much. The dynamic between her and Navani made me forget about Dalinar. I wanted them to get together and do science.

Navani was such a standout character. I love her, even though a lot of the science stuff went over my head. Her dealing with her imposter syndrome while inventing new fabrials and creating anti-voidlight. Aaaah the whole process was so freaking amazing. It makes me so mad to think about the prologue where Gavilar was such a shit to her. I’m glad he died, and that we get to see him die over and over again. I called it from the moment sibling was introduced that Navani would bond her and it felt so good when that happened!

I’m probably forgetting so much, but I had a blast. I inhaled this book in less than a week, and I kind of want to reread from TWoK again now. Waiting till December is going to be brutal. I’m so excited for Wind and Truth. I think it’ll be Szeth’s book. He’s such an underrated character and now him and Kal are teaming up to go to Shinovar. I can’t wait!

[jq37]

I'm really glad you've seen Starstruck, because it means you have the context for this. Every disastrous decision made this episode, were THOSE the stupidest things these people have ever done? I thought 'my farts smell awesome' was the lowest they could go, but look at that, they collectively found another layer beneath that. This has to be the biggest L the Intrepid Heroes ever took. Outside of a TPK, losing a Mcguffin is as rough as it gets. The RNG giveth and the RNG taketh away.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

OK, now that I have that out of the way, holy hell that last episode took a full year off my lifespan I think. Murph saying that it was like Fabian's Bad Day on a loop was right. I've never watched an episode of a ttrpg and thought, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" so consistently. Even after watching the Adventuring Party I'm not 100% confident I understand what some of those moves were about. I am going to try and break down by thoughts on each interaction, roughly in order from least to most baffling to me.

*Red and the Beast*

If this was as crazy as things went, it would have been a pretty normal episode. I fully understand why Ylfa would want to talk to the Beast being a monstruous princess and all. And Emily's side-motivation of wanting to maybe get some potions that would help them travel without freezing to death made sense as well. Sure it was a little awkward, but in the way that all pre-teens are sort of awkward around people who they think are cool. She didn't spill any serious beans or burn any serious bridges. This one gets a pass from me. 

*Ger and Elody*

It probably feels like I'm ranking this pretty low. And I am if we're talking in pure terms of cause and effect. Because loudly and weirdly spilling the beans the way that he did was a TERRIBLE move tactically and DEF alerted the princesses to their plan. BUT I wasn't CONFUSED about why it happened. Ger had a thing to do that made sense--find out if his wife was in on the erase everything plan and fill her in if not/try to convince her to switch sides if so. He had a reason to get frustrated and do something stupid. This was, in my eyes, a good plan that went poorly because of bad dice rolls and Murph's commitment to character. So while it was VERY unfortunate, I'm not actually confused about why the desperate frog man who is known for being awkward was weird and awkward to his wife in a dire situation so it didn't really frustrate me in the same way that some of the other scenes did. We also got one of one only pieces of new information in this episode--that it doesn't seem like Elody is in on the plan (though with his trash Insight rolls, who even knows). I wish he'd taken Roz with him to back up his story right away (and give him advantage of dice rolls). I also wish he'd brought Roz with him so she wasn't able to do her own solo mission. Speaking of...

*Roz and Snow*

This is not a conversation that needed to happen tactically. I was like, why is this going on? Just because everyone is having a little chat doesn't mean you have to have a little chat too. I will admit that by the time I got here, I was feeling so much second hand cringe that I missed a bit of the conversation. But I do know that Roz told Snow that she told the entire group about their chat and that they were fine with it. WHY TELL HER THAT??? The plan was clearly told to Roz with the understanding that it was for her ears only. Why immediately be like, "So I talked it over with the squad..." You're showing your hand! You're telling Snow you're not really aligned with the Daughter's of the Crown. If you were going to talk to Snow, why not try to figure out what the actual plans are wrt the erase the world endgame? They really don't know anything about the specifics of the plan. Just some nebulous talk about spilling ink. Why is no one asking questions about this? How are they supposed to stop a plan they don't understand?  Anyway, I think this conversation didn't need to happen and while it wasn't as disastrous in effect as Ger's convo, his had a good reason for happening while I don't think this one did which is why it frustrated me more. 

*Pinnochio and Cindy*

OK so this one frustrated me a TON because it had so much potential for getting information and moving the story forward but that's not what happened at all! As a sidenote, I was surprised but excited when they showed up at the castle and the Snow Queen fight was already over offscreen because I was like, "Man! We're going to get so much good information next episode!" Haha, nope! This conversation started off really strong with Pinnochio saying that they're kinda step-sibs which I thought was a great opener and something I hadn't really considered. I thought he was going to maybe bring up how the stepmother's goal seems to be fucking with stories (in a similar way to what they want) and seeing how she reacts. Or maybe following the thread about how she ALSO feels like she doesn't have agency in her story because she's a puppet of a narrative without even a name. And I don't want to assume but seems like Brennan was giving him the opening to go there like when Cindy was talking about "her own story" and Pinnochio was like, "She doesn't have one" Cindy seemed willing to talk down that thread but it was dropped really quickly. And this whole conversation had such a dissonant vibe where it was like Cindy was in Crown of Candy and Pinnochio was in Fantasy High or even Starstruck in terms of seriousness. Which, from a comedy standpoint, was extremely funny but from a narrative standpoint was like, Pinnochio...I'm begging you...please...ask her one direct question. Lou said he was playing up Pinnochio's childishness because he's a child in a weird situation which, sure I guess. But man. It was a very funny scene but not very narratively fulfilling.

*Pib and Cindy and a Window*

Pib readying the horses? The most competent move of the session! Pib unilaterally deciding to try to push her into her book? Why???? Like, OK. I wouldn't have told her about the book if I was Pinnochio--at least not without consulting the group. BUT once the proverbial cat was out of the book, why not let her have it? It might give her some perspective she doesn't already have and you might be able to sway her into being an ally. I feel like Cindy and Snow while true believers in the plan, aren't beyond reason. They don't strike me as gung ho about the entire situation. They give me the energy of people who are exhausted and on their last resort. I honestly feel like there is a world where this is all salvageable if they'd let her have her book without going full hostile. Maybe it's not the most LIKELY option. But I think there was a chance. But nope. Initiative. Even if they'd gotten her in, what's the next move? You're in a palace full of her allies and none of you have rolled more than a ten all session! Were you going to hold her hostage and run? Like, bruh. If they wanted to leave, they should have just left! Why did they make a whole production about it? I swear, they stayed in the castle the exact worse length of time. Not long enough to get any info, but too long to leave gracefully. Anyway, I thought this was a wild decision to just make. 

*Princess Interlude*

This isn't a part of the breakdown. This is just something I wanted to talk about. We really don't know how much the princesses know about The Situation and that's a big piece of the puzzle for us to know how BAD of a plan this is with the info they have. Because one of the few things we learned this episode is that Cinderella is surprised that the Stepmother doesn't have her own book. If they think that each person has their own book and they can write themselves out of existence without it affecting anyone else then this is actually a suicide pact and not a murder-suicide pact which still isn't GREAT but it's not WORLD ENDING which is decidedly less selfish. I still think it's an insane thing to try without having a full understanding of their world but if you're only playing with your OWN lives, then that's your right. 

And wrt to the PCs, since they were spilling the beans left and right, why not be like, cool. Ink spilling. Great plan. Now what about the Auroratory?  Because their stories don't just exist in ink. They're oral tradition, baby. I'm sorry you don't like your lives but ink spilling isn't going to solve everything. 

Finally, I need to go back to past episodes where the princesses are lamenting to be sure, but I'm honestly not 100% sure what it is they're so distressed about. There is an element of fighting for free will but I'm not sure what it is they think they don't have control over. Because surely if they had no free will, they wouldn't be able to fight their stories at all, right? And if it's just that they're stuck with all their memories from all their lives, Witches do that all the time, right? Can they just not handle the Everything, Everywhere, All At Once lifestyle because they're not inherently magical and they're cracking under the pressure? From what I remember from the previous episode, it sounded like Cindy and Snow were distressed over the *existence* of dark versions of their story which is why they wanted to destroy everything completely. But also, isn't darkness just a thing you have to accept if you're going to have free will? And also, I don't know that it makes sense to destroy the entire world just because there are timelines where bad things happen (especially when the worst things don't even happen to them). Who awakened these princesses in the first place? Based on the introductions, we're led to believe it's Cindy and Snow who were the first ones, but now that we've met Rapunzel, I have my doubts. And speaking of her, back to the list.

*Tim and Raps*

Tim what were you THINKING?????????

God, where to begin. Ally said they weren't sure if Raps was in on it or not two APs in a row which is baffling to me because I thought Brennan telegraphed it pretty hard that Raps was both very clever and very fake. We first hear about her trying to deceive the Baba Yaga (one of the SCARIEST NPCs who even DEATH doesn't fuck with) and getting away with her tongue intact. Then, on a really high insight check, the party learns nothing about her, except that she's so shiny you can't really read her. Suspicious as hell. THEN, we learn that she has hair that's everywhere that can potentially be used to spy on people. And when she describes murdering the Snow Queen, she says it in the most politician-y, obfuscate-y, side-stepping culpability way possible. YEAH. I THINK SHE'S IN ON IT. I am floored that it wasn't obvious that she was full team nuke everything. The twist to me would be if she was secretly GOOD. I was wondering if the was the actual mastermind, I didn't even realize we were discussing whether she was IN ON IT.

But like, OK. That aside. Whether you are going in thinking she's good and misled or fully in on it, THIS WAS AN INSANE WAY TO HANDLE IT.

DIRT IN THE SHORTBREAD???? TIM!!!!!!

If she's GOOD and just awkward from how she was socialized you're being weird and aggro to her. 

If she'd BAD and being manipulative you're being super clumsy and antagonizing her. 

AND THEN SHE STOLE THE BOOOK!!!!!!!

My heart SUNK when Brennan revealed that. Like, GOD I didn't think that could have gotten worse and then it did. 

And it's made worse because this is 100% a conversation that didn't need to happen. If I walked in and Raps was there, at most I would ask her about how her hair worked so we maybe knew for tactical reasons. That's not a crazy question to ask a person with magic hair that's everywhere so she wouldn't necessarily have a reason to be suspicious. And then guess what? I'm GONE. Just, based on second hand embarrassment and mechanical effect (LOSING THE BOOK), this is by far the worst conversation all episode and that's saying something.

(Also, RIP Mira who's going to wake up to a VERY different situation than when she went to sleep.)

The last thing I want to say about this episode is I kind wish that either Roz or Ger or both had died in their rescue plan. Not as a punishment mind you. While it was a tactically bad move, I think it's totally in character that Ger would have tried to go back for his wife and that one of his friends would have joined him. But we haven't had that many deaths this season and I feel like some more death exposition might give us more about what's going on. Because I feel like we only have a small piece of the puzzle, and there's not that many eps left to go. You know how in Stranger Things, the plot always ends up split between three groups and none of them actually know what's going on until they all communicate in the penultimate episode? That's how I feel right now except it's the PCs, The Princesses, The Faries, and the Librarians.

It's also potentially illuminating for Elody if the princesses are willing to kill Roz and Ger (I assume they'd bring back at least Roz). And if they were split up from the main party, that's an interesting place for them to be story-wise.  (Also, if they brought back Ger but were like Elody he's in the dungeon, don't talk to him he'll fill your head with lies. But she visits him anyway, just like when he was a frog at the pond...but I'm just writing mental fanfic now.) My point is there was potential there for us to get interesting info (and story beats) there which is why I was kind of rooting for it. This whole episode was a big bust with regard to moving towards any sort of goal and they really just made their situation severely worse to no real end. And now the princesses who want to end the world have the most powerful device in all of story. 

Yay. 

(Coda: Where is Scher with her "We're real enough" energy to talk the princesses out of their spiral? For the love of story, I am losing my mind here.)

[skeleton-in-a-hoodie]

I have started playing a game with DDMG called "What will Tang Shen think when she hears about this?" Like when her and Miwa pop back up, Shen does ask questions about what her husband has been up to since she last saw him, like how he met his sons, why he's left handed now, etc. Part of it is wanting to get to know him again, and another part is her just being curious.

So far it's:

Terrified three kids for bullying a random child he did not know (Mikey), potentially giving all three night terrors - not what she expected to her, but she gets it.

everything to do with falco - shen goes from "The Piper sounds like an asshole" -> Where is Falco now, I want to have a word with (murder) him -> oh good, he's already dead dead -> is still angry enough to want to punch something (maybe Splinter invites her to spar in the dojo to help get the anger out?)

training the boys - considering everything she's been through and knows about, doesn't have a problem with this. does think it's a very yoshi thing to hear his kid is being bullied and be like "you should kick the other kids' ass". like, he'll preach patience and non-violent methods as being a first resort, because you can't attack everyone who annoys you, but also if someone is committed to hurting you maybe try doing a backflip into their jaw

there's other stuff i can't think of off the top of my head where she's like "yoshi, why did you think that was a good idea?" whilst laughing, and others where it's "oh yoshi" said in the gentlest voice because both of them have been through a lot.

admittedly there's also other stuff where she's puts a hand over her eyes and sighs, because yeah, he's still her husband, and sometimes hamato yoshi made the stupidest decisions she'd ever heard of, and only realised he's made bad choices in the aftermath. she loves him so much but he is the stupidest smart person she knows.

[illprotectyou-hearteyes]

Much Ado About Nothing: No Good Very Bad Version

Hi hello I'm having my semi-yearly Much Ado fixation. I was going to handle this with an overly long comparative post about productions I've seen, then quickly realized it would be too expansive for even a 'read more' to cover its sins. So instead I'll be spamming the dash with individual rants on productions. Because this is all I can currently talk about.

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First up: the worst Shakespeare adaptation I have ever seen.

Much Ado About Nothing (2012), dir. Joss Whedon:

There are no pictures for this one because I simply will not be revisiting this film to find them. Sorry.

It's so rotten ya'll. Yeah it's on me for putting on Joss Whedon's Much Ado, but it's short and my parent's copy of it was right there one day so I put it in. And then kept it in out of morbid fascination.

Full disclosure I watched it maybe a decade ago. But to my memory it's so bad it almost circles round to being an instructive case of How Not To Do Shakespeare.

My understanding is that Whedon basically invited a bunch of friends over for the weekend on a whim to film this, which I knew going in. So I wasn't expecting a polished masterpiece or anything, but one would like to imagine you'd get some fun, playful improv energy from a bunch of friends coming together to create something on a tight timeline like that. You don't

I'm not going to judge the actors' abilities on their performances in this on account of how hastily it was was tossed together. But not since high school have I heard Shakespeare read in a way that made it seem more dead-in-the-water. The lines read as if the actors are reciting from cue cards without having been given 5 minutes to figure the rhythm of the verse or what the fuck their characters are on about. For all I know they might have been.

Actually, my apologies to my high school classmates. We were a small group of theatre and/or literature nerds, and in retrospect we were probably insufferable, but we had an interest in the topic and two weeks to read each text and a great teacher who gave us notes to help us understand and emote the text when we read in class. We sounded better than this.

Okay okay. So by now I can't remember many specific choices this production made, But I sure do recall that instead of leaving Beatrice and Benedick's past to the ambiguous history implied between them by a few key lines of dialogue and the general built-up tension between them, Whedon chose to explain away this history with a flashback. In which the whole complexity of their past is that they slept together one time and Benedick left without saying anything. It's one of the stupidest adaptation choices I've ever seen, because. because. Okay look:

1. The (from what I can recall) two whole lines of vague dialogue about Benedick and Beatrice's history manages to imply so many more interesting potentials than—that. I'll save you the close reading in this already too-long post, but they gesture towards what may well have been the beginnings of a romance between them at one time; a potential fear of commitment on Benedick's part; some action that Beatrice felt as betrayal, and perhaps deception. These suggestions segue into what you see of them in the present: e.g. Benedick's insecurities—his misogynistic obsession with the idea of women's unfaithfulness, which at times topples towards the admission of fear that he's specifically afraid no one would be faithful to him. Further, in the course of the play choosing Beatrice means rejecting the boy's club that has given Benedick companionship, yes, but also protected and cheered on the worst of his behaviours—might he (in presumably less dire circumstances) in the past have been less willing to stand by brash Beatrice in the face of their teasing, and perhaps scorn? Or perhaps it was simply that their inability to 'woo peaceably' made a ruin of matters at a time before they built up sufficient trust in their mutual affection to take the poison out of it. At the end of it, there's no knowing the specifics, but the relationship in the present is tangled and interesting enough to stretch into a complex of potential pasts. Whedon's pat summary of that past in a silent insertion does not contradict those potentials, and could tie in well enough with some, but he put in no work into so tying. Instead he seeks to swallow the might-have-beens into a single, pat event, waving away the feeling of calcified layers of affection and resentment in to explain away their history without deepening it. 2. If he had to try explaining their present dynamic through a single past event, it would have been cool if he'd put at least a gesture at a thought towards selecting an event that would be thematically resonant. Again, it could even have been the exact same event if it tied in with anything at all. If I'm being really very generous despite the nothing he has done to earn my goodwill, I'll admit that owning up to the vulnerability of using words honestly to express their emotions is one of the things the characters need to learn to do, and it's a failure on this point that causes the rift in Whedon's version. But 'communication is good' is such a skin-deep layer-one read of all the play has to say about words, about their pitiful insufficiency and frightening strength, the reality they can lay bare and the terrible viciousness they can disguise. 3. The choice also hobbles the dramatic tension of the accusation of Hero. For as much as the accusation concerns Hero's supposed cheating on Claudio, there is an inescapable emphasis on female 'purity' and chastity. The weight even the most sympathetic characters place on the mindset is quite unbalancing enough to many modern viewers, especially when the production is set in a place such as present-day America, as this one is. Having Benedick and Beatrice sleep together in a sequence that implies all the issue lies with the lack of communication and in no way suggests danger to Beatrice's reputation and future from the act itself results in the 3rd act turn coming even further left of field, and makes the characters' ethical perspectives borderline incoherent. 4. Okay yeah it's starting to feel weird that I've spent that many words ranting about a quick insert of Benedick and Beatrice having sex. You have to understand I have so much pent up rage about this production and this is one of the only concrete details I can recall to direct all that at. To clarify I'd love for them to have all the sex they want and be as conflicted about it as they fancy as long as it is thematically coherent with the narrative. Yeah I'm also not sure that sentence made this any better. Can you tell I'm asexual

Anyhoo that's it for the ranting. This production does have precisely 2 things to recommend it:

Nathan Fillion is good at Shakespeare apparently. I have no particular feelings about him as an actor outside of this, but he is The person in this film who says the lines like he has any clue what words are coming out of his mouth. Also, he plays Dogberry. And I'll be honest—I usually find the Dogberry scenes a bit of a drag. I looked forward to them so hard in this production. They were the only times I laughed. Dogberry suddenly seemed vibrant, alive, the soul of the play. I understood him for the first time. If I was in a dark parallel universe where this was the only Shakespeare I'd watched, I'd remember Dogberry as his greatest creation.

It's made by Joss Whedon, which means I get to be mean about it without feeling bad :) However I offer my sincere condolences to any decent artists who got roped into his vanity trashfire. Except Nathan Fillion, who somehow came off looking better for it. Any warm feelings I have towards the man are for making some minutes of this atrocity bearable.

Fin.

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[kairos-polaris]

For the alphabet fandom ask game -

G,U,N,P,O,W,D,E,R,,, T,I,M. you agree?

I love you, btw <3

Hi hi hi I love you

G - Have you ever had an OTP? If so, do you remember your first one? Who was in it?

I can't remember my first one because bad memory but one of the oldest is definitely the Doctor and Rose Tyler. I just love them so much and I think about the Bad Wolf so often

U - Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.

Jonathan Archivist Sims (the Magnus Archives) - my beloved asshole <3 He is so creature and I love his moral conflict. And while I think he should get worse and more evil, I love how clinging to his humanity is a central part of his story line

Itadori Yuuji (Jujutsu Kaisen) - he is my precious sunshine whom I love so so much. My boy deserves a happy life. I love how human he is, despite the hellish circumstances. The way he disregards his own life for the sake of others is just so tragic. I am very proud of him and his insane progresss

Jonny d'Ville (The Mechanisms) - bastard (affectionate). Everyone's favorite First Mate. I look at him like this 👁️👁️ while he commits acts of unspeakable violence, I take notes

N - Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice).

I can't really think of anything? Maybe more queer platonic relationships and focus on friendships without calling them siblings or parent/child

P - Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas).

TMA AU where Jon is kidnapped by Nikola and becomes the avatar of the Stranger (you already know this one but I couldn't really think of anything else)

O - Choose a song at random. Which ship or character does it remind you of?

The very first song I thought of was The Old Witch Sleep and The Good Man Grace and starting from 5:30 and to the end of the song it fits sukuita so perfectly

W - A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.

I generally don't hate tropes specifically and will read anything if well executed, but I do dislike "it was all a dream"

Also, I tend to avoid college/school/no powers au because they are pretty boring to me but I don't hate them

D - A pairing you wish you liked but just can’t.

Oh, there are so many. Stsg, jmart are the first ones that came to mind. They just don't have anything that makes me want to think about them :/

E - Have you added anything cracky/hilarious to your fandom? If so, what?

Nope

R - Which friendship/platonic relationship is your favorite in fandom?

In TMA it's Jon and Sasha (they could have been best friends!!!) and also Jon and Daisy, especially post coffin. For jjk, it's probably Yuuji and Nobara, their friendship was incredibly precious to me and I need Nobara to be alive and well so bad

T - Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending? 

Can't think of any right now, I don't think so

I - Has Tumblr caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why?

Nope, I don't let social media influence my enjoyment of something. If I stop liking something, it's because I lost interest organically and not because people were annoying about it

M - Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.

Yuuji!! He is a great friend and I am sure we would be besties :D I would say Jarachivist but we would argue about the stupidest thing 5 times a day because our autism would clash in the worst ways

[fresiants]

your last post. y'know i've always found it insane people call sev's love for lily obsessive and his entire narrative regarding her as something foul or sick. like personally? i always hated it's put such emphasis on his feelings being romantic and how if his feelings weren't ""romantic"", he wouldn't have done All he did for harry and the order in the end. i find it really narrow-minded from r*wling to basically declare feelings can only be of romantic nature to motivate grand changes or life commitment and devotion. i didn't entirely hate love for a departed friend to change the course of his life - i'm familiar with feeling devout to someone you don't have contact with anymore, despite the years, despite everything - but the way people have managed to twist his motives and turned them into pettiness, jealousy, obsession, childishness even? like maybe Maybe his childhood friend's husband harassed him and humiliated him daily for seven years?????? maybe it doesn't have to do with him getting with lily but how sev only dealt with asshole james and not sweet uwu Good boyfriend james uwu!!1 so if he could never stop hating james, i really understand it, he didn't have to forgive the man lol. now to lily again, how, How could he be obsessive if obsessive behavior is akin to harassment, stalking, and he never ever bothered her again after they ended their friendship. How was he obsessive???? he left her be and Then begged for her protection, to both his lord and dumbledore. so really, what in his behavior is obsessive??? in what form???? wouldn't everything he did for her be what we all would do for a friend? and that friend's child???

It's wild now that i think about it because when I first read the book, I never once considered that Severus' love for Lily was romantic.

I have read many arguments made by Snaters, and here are the things they always list out to prove Severus' obsession :

1 - He stalked Lily when he was... nine

This is probably one of the stupidest 'proof' these people could ever provided. When I first joined the snapedom, I genuinely thought these haters were talking about teenage!Severus and was so confused cuz I don't remember such a thing. But then they started pulling passages from Snape and Lily's childhood memory when they first became friends. The fact that they called a 9 YEARS OLD creepy says a lot about them.

2 - He wanted to control who's Lily's friends with

I honestly couldn't understand this argument. It makes me wonder if these people have ever had a close friend before. I've been bullied when I was in high school, and I would never let my best friends disrespect me by getting close to those who hurt me. It's called friends code.

3 - If Harry was a girl, he would've done some creepy stuff to him

??? This is the most absurd one cuz it's not even a proof, it's a wild assumption. A creepy one at that. I was shocked to see many people agree with this, like bffr now... If you want to hate on my man, at least do it correctly. Not by spreading some creepy headcanons to make him looks worse.

4 - His Patronus is the exact copy of Lily's

Probably the same people who accused Nymphadora of rap!ng Remus. To them, complimenting someone's patronus = soulmate and mirroring someone's patronus = obsession. Does that means Harry was obsessed with his father since they both have a stag as their Patronus 🤯

5 - He only wanted to save Lily so that he could pursue a romantic relationship with her.

Yet another weird assumption made by them. As far as I remember, Severus respected Lily's wish and left her alone after their fifth year. I'm not sure how they got the idea that Severus would try to pursue Lily if he were to succeed in saving her from Voldemort. He probably would have continued to keep his distance from her as usual and protect her from afar.

It's crazy how these people are trying so hard bring Severus' down that they're willing to expose their distorted thinking to the public. They're risking everything just to hate on a fictional character.

[happyk44]

ShinBaku have been dating in private for a while. The nature of Shinsou's job means the less coverage he gets, the better so no public photos, no confirmed status, no PDA. Which is fine by Bakugou, who lives life privately anyway.

But unfortunately it doesn't last. About 3 months in, some obsessive fan posts photos of Bakugou with some purple-haired guy at the grocery store. Bakugou is wearing a mask, a fucking Red Riot hat and Shinsou's stupid cat sweater.

Not his typical look but apparently some fans are Deku levels of obsessed.

It wouldn't be so bad, but they're holding hands quite openly. It's only a small series of photos but the amount of excitement it generates puts Shinsou on a temporary leave while his agency and Bakugou's agency try to figure out how to tamp down the wild speculations that Bakugou is dating someone.

Already the gossip rags are wondering if Shinsou's a hero. If he was a fellow classmate. They're scrawling through everything. Shinsou's existence as a public person has been pretty wiped clean. He stopped competing in sports festivals. On paper he was still a general studies student. His agency doesn't technically "exist" and all paperwork says it's a subset of Bakugou's agency. An administrative wing.

It's hard to find any official info on who he is, but in the meantime his picture is out there with the assumption he's dating a Pro. If anyone he'll ever interact with undercover sees it, his underground career is over.

Sure he could probably still work as a Hero, maybe more on the rescue side of things. Helping coax scared kids from burning buildings and whatever.

But he likes underground work. It's comfortable and he's worked hard to become top ten in his agency within the last three years. His Quirk is valuable to them.

It would suck if he had to transfer out.

He's bitching about this to Aizawa. Drunk off his ass and missing Bakugou who he has seen or spoken to for two weeks. On the advice of both their agencies. It's still shit.

Bakugou's his boyfriend.

If he wants to drag him to his apartment and rail his ass into next Sunday, he should be allowed. Aizawa just nods vaguely and tries to trick him into drinking water instead of pure vodka.

It doesn't work. Shinsou downs four more shots, whines some more then crashes on his bed.

So when he wakes up the next day at 3pm to the news wildly freaking out about Bakugou's new boyfriend, he is so confused.

The press conference was 9am. Aizawa is standing next to Bakugou. They're holding hands. Bakugou's is saying stuff but none of it is processing.

Was he just dumped on national television?

For his fucking Sensei? What the hell?

There's a series of texts. Some from his friends, just as confused as he is, one from Aizawa that he childly ignores, and a few from Bakugou.

Firecracker Booty: Yo, wake the fuck up. Firecracker Booty: This is why you shouldn't drink. You have the stupidest ideas. Firecracker Booty: My fucking PR agent heard him talking about it with me and is rolling with it. Firecracker Booty: Fucking answer your goddamn phone.

There's a bunch of missed calls from Bakugou and his agency. A voicemail from his agency's Head of Privacy saying if he doesn't answer they're gonna go with it. The idea he presented while drunk off his ass bitching to his former mentor.

An idea he didn't even remember.

Aizawa will come forward as Bakugou's actual boyfriend. Firmly putting a stop to all the speculation and changing the subject away from Shinsou.

It's something they considered at the beginning but Bakugou was pretty heavily against it. He wasn't going to fake committing to a friend who would want a real relationship of their own otherwise. And he wasn't going to fake commit to someone he didn't fucking know.

Aizawa was someone he knew. Someone who hadn't been in a relationship since he was 20.

It was a good idea. Shinsou's idea apparently.

He hates it anyway. The rest of the voicemail dives into how they'd wait to hear back from him but there's a mission he's needed on and they feel it best to get all the gossip stubbed out now.

Wonderful.

Naturally, there are still someone people who don't believe it so Aizawa and Bakugou get photographed on "secret" dates. Holding hands. Laughing together. Aizawa feeds Bakugou a coffee cake. Bakugou is photographed bringing him a bento box. A little kiss on the cheek.

Eri even makes a statement on her Instagram about how much she likes having Bakugou in her life. That's not a lie. He is her favourite person. More so than Shinsou. Probably more than Aizawa.

But the picture she posts curls Shinsou's stomach.

Aizawa is pressed into Bakugou's back while he cooks something. Smiling into the crook of his neck like Shinsou does.

He can already imagine what Bakugou would do next. Smack Aizawa with his spoon. Aizawa would tease him. Then clothes come off and they're rutting on the kitchen floor just like how Shinsou and Bakugou sometimes end up.

Bakugou briefs him about everything he does with Aizawa beforehand. Just to make sure he's okay with it. He is.

It's just different seeing it in front of his face. With their friends cooing in the comments and fans going rabid over every post and article.

He spends too much time searching for the complaints. People angry because Aizawa was his teacher, isn't that creepy? How Bakugou could do better than some old man.

He might post a couple comments here and there from a burner account. Just to soothe his own insecurities.

Bakugou always comes back to him. Kisses him. Fucks him. Falls asleep in his bed. With his bruises.

It's fine.

It is.

It's for the safety of both their careers.

He hates it anyway. Jealousy is mean in his chest. He ignores Aizawa's attempts to reach other and covers every moment he has with Bakugou, leaving him more marked up that usual.

Even if people go nuts over "Aizawa's" marks and speculate where on his covered body Bakugou's fingerprints have been bruised and burned into, Shinsou knows who made them.

Knows he has Bakugou's handprint pressed into his hip. Knows that the bites on Bakugou's throat are his. Bakugou is his. But the marks he leaves are not statements to the world.

They're statements to one very specific person. And the bastard better get a fucking clue or Shinsou's gonna get worse.

[talkingpointsusa]

Satanism, old photos, a defamatory clairvoyant, and Emmanuel Macron's pink tie: A look into Candace Owens' insanely stupid "transvestigation" into Brigitte Macron

Just when I thought the Daily Wire couldn't get stupider (source: Candace Owens on Daily Wire)

Candace Owens is descending into pure wingnuttery before our very eyes. Last week she declared that there is a secret "Jewish Gang" in Hollywood committing horrifying acts on people and now she's really really descending into Alex Jones territory by declaring that Brigitte Macron is secretly a trans woman, no I'm not kidding.

I'm not familiar enough with Candace Owens to know if this kind of brilliant insight is the norm for her, however I'd just like to state for the record that if Candace Owens is always this insane you'll be seeing a lot more of her on the blog. Lets get into it, strap in folks because this is truly one of the most insane things that I have ever covered on this blog.

03:00, Candace Owens: "So let me tell you about how I happened upon this story. There was just an article that was published in the Daily Mail, here is the headline. 'The proof France's first lady wasn't born a man'."

Here's the full headline that Candace displayed on her show. It seems like she suffers from selective eyesight and could only make out the words "France's first lady" and "born a man".

Yeah, you really shouldn't display an article debunking a conspiracy theory up on the screen before promoting that exact same conspiracy theory as a 100% factually accurate bombshell. This is just pure laziness.

03:15, Candace Owens: "So I of course instantly read it because what a bizarre thing that you need to provide proof that Brigitte Macron was not born a man. And embedded within the article they showed two photos and I'm going to show you right now. This is the first photo, this is allegedly Brigitte Macron when she was a little girl sitting on her moms lap but when I saw this photo the first thing I noticed was that the person on the far left, the boy, that actually looks like Brigitte Macron."

Ok, so Candaces brilliant evidence for her theory that's supposed to prove to me that Brigitte Macron is trans is....that Brigitte has a familial resemblance to her brother.

I'm not sure if Candace realizes this but there's this thing called "genetics" that also explains why Brigitte's brother looks similar to her. Does Candace just assume that every woman who has a brother is secretly trans because that woman's brother brother looks kind of similar to her? I am honestly floored that a grown woman is floating this junk as a serious possibility.

If you're reading this and you take the Daily Wire seriously, consider this your wakeup call because this might take the crown for the stupidest video I have seen in my lifetime. Also, here's the photo in case you're curious.

03:42, Candace Owens: "I'm taking you guys through my thought process."

Candace Owens: A Portrait of Insanity.

03:48, Candace Owens: "Maybe she's a dead ringer for her brother but I don't see any resemblance there with the little girl."

Maybe because that photo was taken when Brigitte was extremely young and had yet to develop any particularly defined facial features? What kind of dumbass argument is that?

"Oh, Brigitte's older brother who had more defined features than her in an old black and white photo has a familial resemblance to Brigitte. Must be because they're secretly the same person!"

And if Brigitte's older brother is in fact trans, who's the girl sitting on Brigitte's mothers lap? A secret relative? Is Brigitte's older brother a trans male? How deep does this go?! New theory, every person on the planet is trans!

03:51, Candace Owens: "Let me show the second photo, debunking --- another young photo allegedly of Brigitte Macron. What I thought when I looked at this photo is that this looks way too new to be a photo of a 70 year old when they were a child."

No it doesn't. In what world does this look like a newer photograph?

Think about it this way, if Brigitte Macron was a trans male that would have left a paper trail. If Macron met her as a female, which by all means he did, then Brigitte would have transitioned before she became a teacher. Surely this would be documented somewhere. She presumably went through some training to become a teacher, maybe there would be records of her attending college there pre-transition.

Also, if Brigitte is indeed trans like Candace is speculating here, the amount of effort it would take to cover this up would be insane. It's totally unrealistic. Too bad the cover-up got exposed by Candace Owens noticing that Brigitte looks kind of similar to her brother!

04:34, Candace Owens: "So the quote-on-quote 'conspiracy theory' is actually a three year thorough investigation that was conducted by journalists that were working with genealogists. It was published in six issues in Faits Et Documents, I'm sorry my French is not that good but yes, they published six issues unpacking what they had discovered after a three year investigation."

Faits Et Documents (Facts And Documents in English) is absolutely not a credible source of information. It's essentially an Infowars-esque far-right magazine that regularly goes on antisemitic tirades about how Jewish people and freemasons control the world. It claims that it's the only French publication to deal with "masonic meetings".

The person who founded it is named Emmanuel Rattier and he is, in the kindest terms, an antisemitic raving lunatic. For a while Rattier worked as the "occult editorial advisor" at Kontre Kulture. Kontre Kulture is a publishing house that has unapologetically republished things like The International Jew, an antisemitic propaganda piece published by Henry Ford in the 1920's that Adolf Hitler himself praised.

Rattier's own publication has also published antisemitic screeds and generally engaged in crazed behavior. Rattier apparently would send his underlings to infiltrate freemason meetings, presumably in the hope that they would discover an occult conspiracy.

The article that Candace links is essentially a blog summarizing Fait Et Documents "findings". It was written by a guy named Lionel Labosse. Here's how he describes himself.

"My interest for this investigation comes from converging coincidences. On the one hand, I am an anti-communist from the beginning. I started the series of now 11 articles chronicling national-covidism at the beginning of March 2020; secondly, I subscribe to Faits & Documents, so I didn't waste time wondering if it was a serious journal; thirdly, I am altersexual (a word of my own invention), so this investigation was particularly relevant to me, and I was relatively expert in this field, and able to distinguish between what falls under transphobia and homophobia, and what falls under the public interest."

So this guy, who is a self-described "anti-communist" subscriber of Fait Et Documents and has written numerous articles concerning something that he calls "national-covidism" is the writer of this post. Don't worry though guys, he's altersexual, which by the way is absolutely not a term that he coined, so he's able to parse through what's transphobic and what's of public interest. I don't see how you can read that and not see the writings of a raving lunatic. Candace Owens however seems to find this all very compelling.

The "genealogist" isn't even a licensed genealogist. His name is Alain Beyrand and he's a self-proclaimed "amateur genealogist".

What he did to merit the description of "genealogist" remains a mystery to me and everyone else in the reality-based community.

The two "journalists" who were involved in this investigation are Xavier Poussard and Natacha Rey. Now, there isn't much information about these two on the internet so I'm only going by what I could scrape together in what amounts to a Google investigation of a bunch of documents written in French conducted in the hallowed hall of journalism that is my tiny apartment. From the looks of it, Xavier is the publishing director for Faits Et Documents and he's also an occult obsessed weirdo, as is Natalie. In the document that Candace Owens cites, he delivers some truly crazed analysis of Brigitte and Emmanuel's wedding.

Of course, how could I not have realized that because Emmanuel Macron wore a pink tie to his wedding and their wedding cake had candles on it, him and his wife are secretly satanists....and his wife is trans. This is all very sane and non-transphobic by the way. God, these people are so profoundly stupid and bigoted.

So, Candace's source of information is a completely insane blog sourced from a completely insane magazine that's obsessed with wingnut satanic conspiracy theories. If I was Ben Shapiro, Candace would be fired so fast that her head would spin.

05:03, Candace Owens: "This is what they have published."

They've also published that Emmanuel Macron wearing a pink tie is somehow proof that he's a satanist. As I said prior, the people writing this are clearly completely insane.

05:04, Candace Owens: "Their theory is that the first lady, Brigitte Macron, was actually born Jean-Michelle. So Brigitte is actually Jean-Michelle. Jean-Michelle lived as a man for thirty years, fathered five children, OK? And then transitioned at the age of thirty to become Brigitte."

Ok genius, who was the mother? It's not like Brigitte just planted child seeds in the front yard and the next day a kid sprouted out of the ground, someone had to have carried those children. Who was that person?! The timeline doesn't make sense, the missing child on the lap doesn't make sense, none of this makes sense!

05:26, Candace Owens: "Now, I'm just gonna show you this before and after photo, just right here. They actually used as a part of their investigation, Chinese software. Uh, and this is a side by side. It is such a dead wringer, it's crazy to me that you would not say that these two individuals look alike."

Here's the picture Candace shows. Lets unpack this:

Alright, so we've got a part in the hair that looks kind of similar and a facial structure that can basically be explained by the fact that Brigitte is related to her brother. The hair part in particular makes absolutely zero sense. It doesn't even look that similar and guess what, hair styles aren't inherently coded into our biology. Hair can be styled and parted in different ways and there are probably hundreds if not thousands of people out there with similar hair to me. Plus, your hair looks way after you've aged over 50 years.

Hinging your entire conspiracy theory on "Well, this person looks vaguely similar to her brother" is so stupid. Also, if you look really closely you'll notice that the eye colors are different. I guess she just found a way to magically change her eye color for....cosmetic reasons?

05:52, Candace Owens: "Now, I will tell you why this has legs and why I'm going to encourage you to read the very long document that I read which we will include in the link in bio."

I am absolutely horrified that Candace Owens basically ensured that a legion of people will believe that Brigitte Macron is a transgender satanist because she has a familial resemblance to her brother and Emmanuel Macron wore a pink tie to his wedding (which Candace strangely enough doesn't mention, TieGate remains uninvestigated and must be exposed to the world at large!).

06:00, Candace Owens: "The first obvious thing, first obvious reason, that I am very much believing what they have published is that the first lady is simply unable to produce any photos of herself throughout the first thirty years of her life."

Well, she did. Unfortunately in Candace's opinion those are faked so I guess Brigitte technically hasn't produced any photos of herself in the Candace-verse. The thing is that no matter how many photos Brigitte produces, these guys are always going to find some hair tuft that looks kind of similar to her brothers and declare that photo as more proof for their insane theory.

06:46, Candace Owens: "Instead, the only photos they have produced that are circling in the media are the photos that I just showed you and as I said, the first photo, she looks more like the Jean-Michelle who she claims is actually her brother, who she won't just present to the public."

The notion that Brigitte Macron has the obligation to "produce" her brother because of Candace Owens and some insane blog is completely ridiculous.

And even if she did, Candace would probably just say that he's a paid actor and keep pushing this theory. All of Candace's evidence is "Oh, well there's no evidence that she isn't trans". By that logic I could say that a lizard person has possessed Candace Owens and when she protests go "Oh, yeah? Well show me the proof that you're aren't possessed by a lizard person".

07:20, Candace Owens: "So, Jean-Michelle existed for thirty years, according to the genealogist, ok? And then Jean-Michelle stops existing and Brigitte exists, but Brigitte doesn't exist for the first thirty years, ok?"

If Candace or Alain the amateur genealogist can provide any proof of these people vanishing and appearing from and into existence, I'd be happy to review it. Until then there's absolutely no proof of any of this outside of "I said so!"

07:29, Candace Owens: "The second photo, the one that I said to you looked a little too recent for an alleged 70 year old, well yeah they were able to debunk that. That's actually a photo of her daughter. Her daughter Tiphaine, you can see now side by side. Of course that is her daughter, it's a dead wringer for her daughter. So why would you colorize a photo and make it black and white and try to pass it as yourself when it is in fact your daughter?"

Woah, a daughter looks like her mother, that's never happened before. Must be a conspiracy! Also, I guess Brigitte (who is secretly Jean-Michelle) is the first transgender woman to have given birth because that's the only way to explain how she has a daughter in the first place.

God, this is so monumentally stupid.

08:06, Candace Owens: "Here's the second reason that I would say, major red flags. Rather than just producing what should be ample evidence of your existence for the first thirty years of your life, they're suing. Yes, the first lady actually sued two of the journalists who were involved in producing the story."

The people that Brigitte Macron sued were Natacha Rey (told you we'd come back to her!) and Amandine Roy. They got sued for producing a four hour video alleging that Brigitte is secretly trans.

This story gets even stranger when you look into Amandine Roy because apparently she's a self-described clairvoyant and Amandine Roy isn't actually her name, not even joking. Her real name is actually Delphine Jegousse and this isn't the first time she's gotten in trouble with the French government.

In early 2023, the office of the President of the Republic filed a complaint against Roy for posting drawings depicting Macron wearing a Nazi uniform on Twitter. It seems like this woman can't stop getting dragged to court for defamation. She was hit with a fine for the stuff about Brigette being trans but I couldn't find anything about the Hitler drawing. Regardless, these two people are clearly as nuts as some of the other characters who are central figures in this conspiracy theory.

Also, a lawsuit is actually really unhelpful to the conspiracy narrative because a lawsuit would force Brigitte to prove that she isn't trans. If there is indeed this massive lack of evidence of Brigitte being born a woman and she wants to cover that up for.....whatever reason, her taking this to court is probably one of the worst decisions that she could make.

08:32, Candace Owens: "Something to note is what exactly Brigitte is suing for. She's suing them for 'violation of privacy and fundamental personal rights' plus 'illicit use of her image'. But what does that mean? That doesn't mean anything."

I don't really know much about French law and neither does Candace Owens. However, they definitely did use her image illicitly judging from the information I could find about privacy laws in France. In France, people have the exclusive right to their own image. What this means in simple terms is that you are in full control of the redistribution and use of pictures that are taken of you and if somebody uses a picture of you without your consent you can sue because in France that's considered a violation of your privacy.

I figured this out in the roughly five seconds it took me to Google "right of image, France" and the two minutes it took me to read an article on a public service website. If I can do that on my budget of zero dollars, Candace Owens can do that with the massive budget that the Daily Wire provides for her.

09:06, Candace Owens: "Now, the two journalists being sued by the way are Amandine Roy and Natacha Rey and they were eventually punished with symbolic fines for, I guess, invading the privacy of the first lady. It's gonna get even crazier though because journalists that worked on this case were also threatened. They sent the police to threaten them while they were conducting research. Natacha Rey, the woman that was punished with a symbolic fine, as she was conducting research she reached out to somebody to ask questions about the first ladies upbringing, the first 30 years of the first ladies life. And then what happened as she was examining these inconsistencies in the story was the police burst into her home on July 13th, 2021. They then took her into custody, without being summoned, on the pretext of a complaint that was filed by one of the individuals that she had reached out to."

There are two places where I have heard this claim being made.

1): The Candace Owens Show

2): The blog that Candace links that also claims that Macron wearing a pink tie is a sign that he's a satanist. The blog also doesn't provide any evidence that this arrest actually took place. How do I know that Candace got this from the blog? Because she basically read what the blog said verbatim.

Unless there's hard evidence that any of this took place, I'm throwing this in the bullshit pile.

10:40, Candace Owens: "They similarly arrested a man named Éric Verhaeghe, another journalist working on the story. Similarly had no charges, they just wanted to question him."

Candace left the a couple parts out of this. Such as the part where Eric Verhaeghe is a writer for the Russian state funded propaganda outlet RT and unapologetically repeated a Russian state TV outlets claims that Donald Trump's "secret file" contained dirt of Brigette Macron. If this guy doesn't have Russian asset written all over him I don't know who does.

If this alleged arrest did actually occur, it was most likely because this guy works for Russian state media and was spreading disinformation about a prominent politician. Plus, even in his story it's not like anything really came of it. He was arrested and then let out, allowed to carry on his investigation as if nothing happened. If the French government really wanted to suppress this story, surely they wouldn't have let him out.

11:21, Candace Owens: "What keeps happening throughout the years of her being the first lady, so since 2017, every time the first lady tells a story about herself in her childhood the math doesn't quite math, right? For example, she recalled living alone in the United States during Neil Armstrongs moon landing in 1969. The only problem is that she would've been just sixteen years old."

What a shock, a 70 year old woman doesn't have a perfect memory of every detail in her life. My grandmother fully believes that she was able to drive stick, the only problem is that my three uncles and my father all have told me that she never touched a manual transmission in her life. Your memory starts to go when you're older.

Conclusion:

Somehow, that was even dumber than I expected. One thing it was thought was an absolutely wild ride. I expected things like the photos, what I didn't expect was a conspiracy theory declaring that candles and pink ties are satanic that was written by a raging antisemite being used as a primary source and one of their other primary sources being a guy who works for RT.

Also, I've never seen pictures of Candace Owens as a kid. Clearly this means that she's transgender. It's even though because she's never seen pictures of me as a kid meaning that I'm a transwoman. All this theory proves is that the right is rehashing conspiracy theories that weren't even that good to begin with, is Michelle Obama still a man? I guess so. Everyone that Candace Owens doesn't like is trans, which naturally makes all those people that much cooler in my eyes.

Cheers and I'll see you in the next one!

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Original Episode:

Candace Owens. “Ep. 299 - INSANE. This Is the BIGGEST Political Scandal in Human History.” The Daily Wire.

Brigitte Macron Transgender Conspiracy Debunk

Roberts, Rachel. “How Emmanuel Macron’s Parents Discovered Their 16-Year-Old Son Was Dating His 40-Year-Old Teacher.” The Independent, 23 Apr. 2018.

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Saxena, Astha. “Emmanuel Macron Breaks Silence after Wife Sues over Claims She Is Transgender.” Express.co.uk, 9 Mar. 2024.

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Even though exactly nobody follows me for my opinions about Gridman, this is still a fan blog, and I've technically been a Gridman fan since I was a little kid, even if only through Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad basically being my Power Rangers, because I wasn't allowed to watch Power Rangers (growing up in a conservative Christian household in the 90's was fucking weird, man). Still have the toys, in fact.

So anyway, given my nostalgic fondness for Gridman, of course I was all about the anime reboot. I loved SSSS Gridman, thought it was great. And while Dynazenon wasn't quite as good (felt the climax fell a little flat), it was still really good, and I enjoyed the hell out of it.

And now I finally got around to watching the crossover movie that serves as the franchise's grand finale, and...huh.

Well, let me put it this way. My reactions went about as such.

Man, it's been a while since I've watched this. Gotta recall everyone's names and what happened at the end.

Okay, this multiverse shit is admittedly kind of lame, and there's a lot of really out there coincidences, but it's still fun to see the two casts of characters hanging out and interacting. Feel sorry for both team's b-tier members, though. They get like maybe one or two lines apiece. Also, dafuq is up with Gauma's princess just showing up the hell out of nowhere! You'd think that'd be a bigger deal!

This play script is totally a meta-commentary on the writers' own frustrations in making this movie, isn't it?

Kaiju fights are still hype, though!

Wait, hold on. They're not actually...

They boomed me! They actually boomed me! They pulled a Rebellion Story and got me! Oh, this is good! Hell yeah, turn up the weird, I wanna see how this-

Well. This may be the stupidest climax that I've ever seen.

Eh, things ended on a nice note, I guess.

So, basically this movie's biggest problem is its villain. Like, we find out the reason for the different digital worlds colliding is because Gridman himself became corrupted and all the worlds that he created are merging. Okay, that's cool! I like that!

Except we find out that Gridman was actually corrupted by an outside force, who turns out to be this super-kaiju...whom we literally never heard anything about until the final fight starts and he just shows up and starts ranting in cliched super-villain monologues! Like, serious! Who even was this guy? Why is this franchise's final, final battle where all the characters team up and we have like a gazillion different new combinations and super-weapons against this fucking Dragonzord-looking motherfucker that we've never even heard of until the punching started and we get no exposition about until literally the climax of the movie? Why would we even care about this guy?

Seriously, if you needed a final boss, Alexis is literally right there! Just have this be part of his master plan! Or, hell, if you wanted to go meta with it, make it be Khan Digifer, the OG villain from the original show! Or commit and make it Gridman himself! Make the final fight be a "I know you're in there!" fight to redeem a hero corrupted by his own guilt and self-loathing!

And while it was fun seeing Akane again, the way they brought her back was pretty sloppy. I know it's Trigger and Trigger is ridiculous, but it usually feels like there's a method to the madness.

I mean, I still enjoyed a lot of it. The two teams interacting was fun, even if Yomogi did get relegated to sidekick. Sorry buddy, protagonist no longer. And poor Yume and Koyomi were...there, I guess? I mean, even Chise felt like she had more to do. Same with the NG high-schoolers. I guess they had lines. And it did feel like they were running down a checklist of everything they needed to cram in, like Yomogi and Gauma's reunion, the two protags having a heart to heart, etc. But I still liked it.

So, not upset that I watched it, but the final act left a lot to be desired.