#mentalist hunk

[sasuhinasno1fan]

Unlocking for you

So it's a bit later than usual, but I had been working on making things for my book arts class which also involved me cutting myself really badly. It's ok though. I'm kinda not looking forward to tomorrows date because I can't write YouTuber aus, even though I wrote a whole birthday series. So if I don't post a fic tomorrow, don't be too worried. Also, this is a Now You See Me au, if the words The Eye and Four Horsemen didn't make a ton of sense. Movie AU

“You are such a fucking control freak! I can’t believe I have to be in a group with you!” Lance screamed from the other room.

Pidge really wished they hadn’t broken their headphones. Granted with the fact they were working under the sponsorship of Daibazaal Industries, it would be totally easy, but nothing was easy to get from Zarkon. That’s why they were building their cred as the Four Horsemen so he’d easily fall into their plan. They needed at least one more show to truly get his full attention so they could start their final plan. Pidge wasn’t sure how alive they’d be for this with the way Lance and Keith kept arguing though.

They knew a bit of the relationship the two had, some parts filled in by Hunk’s mentalism. Lance had been Keith’s assistant back when he was just starting out as a magician. Apparently, there was a falling out and Lance was replaced with another assistant. In Pidge’s opinion, Lance was better. Lance then went on to working his own act of being an escape artist. Keith left comments on his website that at first at first glance seemed kinda nit-picky but Pidge actually noticed they were good criticism to keep Lance safe anytime he dropped into water. Lance could complain all he wanted, but Pidge noticed Lance actually listened to those comments. Hunk had figured out the two used to date but it ended badly, something about Keith not giving a ton of attention to Lance. Point was, there was a lot of tension between them. Of course, with the pressure of doing what The Eye wanted them to do, things were getting worse.

“It’s a shame Keith knows how to tune into my tricks. I could have hypnotized him and had him and Lance solve their issues.” Hunk said, lifting his hat from his face from where he was sleeping on the couch.

“Then Lance would have kicked your ass like he keeps threatening to do.” Pidge reminded.

“Oh yeah. Can’t forget what he did to that handsy stage hand can we?”

“Or what Keith did to him after when Lance wasn’t looking. But I swear this is getting out of control. If this keeps up we could end up messing up and losing Daibazaal and lose our chance at The Eye.”

“I’m sorry that you can’t seem to understand basic instructions. Apparently, all the water you keep drowning in has gone to your head!”

“Basic instructions? Who the hell put you in charge you K-pop star reject!”

Pidge was focused on the lock they were trying to undo when Lance’s screaming broke their concentration and they heard a snap. Their pick broke. The pick they had as part of their kit since their brother gave it them. The same brother they couldn’t talk to by order of The Eye ‘for protection’ they said.

“What happened?” Hunk asked.

“I just broke my lock pick because they’re fighting. You know what, screw hypnosis. I’m taking care of this myself.” Pidge stood up and grabbed their bag from the table, dumping everything out and grabbed a pair of handcuffs. They’d been giving them problems because the tumbler wouldn’t unlatch to unlock the handcuffs. And now, it was their problem. They walked into the room Lance and Keith were arguing in and quickly latched the cuffs around their writs.

“What the hell? Pidge?” Lance asked.

“Uncuff us now.”

“No. thanks to you two, I just broke my lock pick, the one my brother gave me before we got started on this whole crazy plan. So you two can spend all day together, because even I’m having trouble unlocking these.”

“You can’t be serious.” Lance said, tugging his hand, like he could break the cuffs apart.

“Oh I’m very serious.”

“We have practise in an hour.” Keith reminded.

“Then it’ll be just like old times. See you there. Hunk and I are going for lunch. Come on Hunk!”

“What the hell? Pidge!” Lance yelled, trying to go after them but stumbled back when his wrist was tugged.

“Ow! Lance!”

“Have fun you too!” Hunk called from the living room before the front door was closed.

Lance glared at Keith, “this is your fault.”

“How is it my fault? And by the way, aren’t you the escape artist?”

“With a hidden key I can.” Lance reminded.

“Well apparently you can’t do your job properly.”

Glaring at Keith, Lance kicked him hard in the shin, not realising that Keith collapsing would drag him down as well.

“Pidge, what the fuck!”

“That’s a very interesting way to practise.” Zarkon said, raising an eyebrow at Lance and Keith handcuffed together.

“You can thank Pidge for that.” Keith said, shooting a glare at Pidge, who shrugged helplessly. None of them were expecting their sponsor to show up at their practise.

“I’m practising my lockpicking skills and thought I should try on someone other than myself.” Pidge explained.

“Well then, I look forward to the practise.”

“Of course. Excuse us.” Keith said, grabbing Pidge by the arm and dragging them, and essentially Lance, to the side. “Get these off of us. We’re not going to be able to practise with these on and especially not with Zarkon right there.” He hissed.

“See, um, slight problem. Those handcuffs are giving me issues unlocking.”

“High and might ‘nothing is ever locked’ can’t unlock a pair of handcuffs?”

“I was working on them but you two arguing was starting to piss me off and you made me break my lock pick by the way.”

“Then find a paper clip or something because if we’re still stuck together when it’s time for us to get up there for practise, I’ll make you disappear like I do my cards got it?” Keith threatened.

“Alright fine. You two just stay in the green room. Hunk, you first.” Pidge called jumping off stage.

“Alright then.” Hunk said turning to the theatre staff, who all looked a bit nervous. “Who’s first?”

Lance tugged at his hand, making the cards Keith was shuffling fall from his hands. He hadn’t really meant to do that but Keith’s constant moving was hurting his hand. Keith always had a deck of cards on him, shuffling through them with ease. Lance knew Keith always wanted something to do with his hands. He remembered back when he was his assistant. Due to the fact they were late, they climbed into a cab and Keith had his cards in the suitcase in the trunk. Keith had started picking at his hands to the point where he was starting to draw blood so Lance took his hands and started drawing with his fingernail in his skin. He’d calmed down after and even though he never got a thank you, there had been a black rose on Lance’s bag at the end of the show. Lance tried giving Keith one back after they’d been reunited, but it seemed Keith didn’t remember.

They did date back when they were working together. They depended on each other, held each other up but Lance wanted more support than Keith could give. Maybe at that time, they thought they were more than ready for and wen things started not working out, they took it out on each other. Lance wanted to work things out with Keith. Part of him still felt the same but the other part of them still hated Keith.

“Where the hell is Pidge?” Keith groaned.

“Probably got dragged into practise probably, which we still have to get to.”

“This isn’t like back in the old days Lance. we can’t exactly do our old trick up there.”

Lance had a small smile to his face. “It would certainly make things interesting. I remember when you let me try my first escape trick on stage.”

“You lost the key and had to then clip me to the saw.” Keith felt like reminding.

“It worked didn’t it? I got the audience very impressed with me.” Lance bragged.

“Yeah, that’s one word for it.”

“Course, you never let me even try to even do anything else after that. Guess you didn’t want me screwing up anymore.”

Keith didn’t say anything but started to shuffle his cards again and then fan them out. Lance went ahead and took a card without prompting.

“Compared to now, your skills weren’t nearly as good. You still manage to get yourself stuck in bad situations because you can’t get to your key quick enough.”

Lance tried not to bristle at that. Thing was Keith was right. But Lance had wished Keith had told him this back when they were working together instead of making him feel like he was constantly disappointed in him.

Shoving the card back into the deck, Lance snapped, “Sorry I wasn’t good enough.”

“I never said that.”

“It sure felt like that half the time. You know, I was hoping with how we have to work together that maybe we could fix things from how they’d been before but you could apparently care less. I don’t know why I’m so surprised. Where the hell is Pidge?”

Keith handed Lance a card not looking at him. Lance took it, still annoyed at Keith but stopped when he saw what was on the other side. It was an old picture of Lance, locked in his chains. “Unlock your mind to the newest escape artist, Lance McClain? What is this?”

“The flier I would have made you pull before we broke up. The show at that big theatre? I was going to give you the stage. But I guess my usual behaviour had finally pushed you over the edge.”

“Why did you never tell me this?” Lance asked, stunned that Keith had actually been thinking of giving him a show, like a complete show.

“Would it of made a difference? It might have fixed things with us for a little while but we both know we weren’t right for each other then. I can’t give you a show now, but I can at least help you get into the one thing I always said had to be a myth.”

“Guess you have changed.” Lance said. “Well not everything. You’re still a control freak.” Lance said.

“Thank you.”

“Ok,” Pidge said, finally coming into the room. “Sorry, I had to pull Hunk away from hypnotizing Zarkon’s wife and practise a few card tricks. Thankfully, I did grab his wife’s brand new broach, sharp end and all. Hold still. Also can I just say I’m surprised you two didn’t kill each other while I was gone.”

“Yeah, don’t hold your breath. I’m sure I’ll say something that’ll piss Lance off later.” Keith said.

“Yeah, we’ll see if I can hold me tongue.”

[imrandymeeks]

I’ve been on an mid 2000’s tv binge and I forgot how much I enjoyed the early seasons of Castle. Nathan Fillion in his prime himbo. Dunno if prefer this to Bones. Both hunks I enjoy.

I'm firmly on the side of Castle, at least up to the point when he starts actually like sleeping with Beckett. It's not up to himbos, those are kinda on par in both shows, Castle is just kinda disproportionately well-made for such a silly little Moonlighting murder romcom type thing.

Like, there's always a lot of story packed super efficiently into 40-ish minutes, writing and editing are snappy, supporting characters are fun and well thought out, and most importantly the show knows what it's about. Which is to say, pulpy trashy murder mysteries. With like diamonds, beauty queens, smuggled exotic animals, and other slightly ridiculous, over the top stuff. It's a beach or an airport read of a TV show, and I'm extremely here for it.

Also, it kinda belongs in that wave of quirky genius procedurals (House MD, Mentalist, Blacklist, etc), but the quirky genius is neither a genius nor a complete asshole, so that's fun.

[lucidentia-sb]

Drawing breath

Simon Baker on the ocean, identity and making Breath 

In the second instalment of my conversation with The Mentalist star and now feature film director Simon Baker, he discusses with me the casting and rehearsal process with Ben Spence and Samson Coulter for Breath, the details in the costume design by Terri Lamera, Elizabeth Debicki's Eva as Sando's girlfriend, the danger of Klaus Kinski in Loonie, fairy tales about boys in search of fear, Simon's renewed "relationship with the ocean", and his remembrance of "when I outgrew my stepfather."

"Surrender is what frees you up," surfing champion Sando (Simon Baker) teaches teenagers Pikelet (Samson Coulter) and Loonie (Ben Spence), while he himself, as it turns out, can only follow through with his own maxim to a certain extent. When you live your life "like someone who didn't believe in death," a structural switch occurs. The unspoken trade between the boys - although a lot is shared verbally with each other while they ride their bikes - is this: I give you some of my stability, you give me a hunk of freedom. And vice versa.

A detail in Sando's suede jacket becomes visible to us just at the moment his young pals, definitely one of them, discover their idol's imperfection. His surface is cracked. The façade cannot hold. This fragile deal only functioned for a while.

Anne-Katrin Titze: The jacket your character Sando is wearing when you return from your travels - that's the first time we see the hole in the jacket.

Simon Baker: Oh really?

AKT: I thought that was very subtle costume design. It's a denim or corduroy jacket.

SB: Yeah, there was a corduroy jacket. The hole in the jacket is the jacket when Pikelet doesn't get in the car. It's like a suede jacket with shearling on it. That's the first time I wear that.

AKT: Oh, I see. But the fact that there's a hole in the jacket at that point is perfect.

SB: I like that. Here's the thing - is that because of the way the film is structured and there is a lot of detail stuff - what I find interesting is that you kind of educate your audience how to watch a film. You know, in the first 15 or 20 minutes.

And then, hopefully, they're engaged in that process so that you can take bigger leaps. And they will go there with you. And they'd still also be looking for more detail. And you are obviously a very observant audience member because you are looking for things that are very specific.

AKT: Well, in this case, it means the sheen is gone. At that point Sando is no longer what he was. There are holes in Pikelet's way of perceiving him.

SB: Pikelet's perception of him has changed. Pikelet now sees him for what he is.

AKT: Yeah.

SB: And exactly, he is not this guru, this sun god to worship anymore. He's slightly pathetic. And Pikelet sees that he's kind of pathetic. And Loonie kind of gets a little whiff of it in that scene at the same time. And as you realize, as he says goodbye to Pikelet, "You got your own thing, now piss off." As Sando drives away, the first thing he does is look at Loonie to see if he's still … if he's seen the weakness in him.

AKT: It's all there in the glances and the props. The film is a lot about father figures.

SB: It's a lot about that. I mean, it's a big thing for me.

AKT: You have a scene where the other father - I am saying other father, I mean Pikelet's biological father [played by Richard Roxburgh], is seen potting plants and going fishing with his son. And then he goes surfing with the other father figure. Both connecting to water in drastically different ways. It gives a nice structure and makes it possible for us to go beyond the literal meanings. But you were saying the father theme is a big thing for you?

SB: It's a big thing for me in the sense that I remember very clearly when I outgrew my stepfather. And I couldn't communicate with him anymore. You know, I had sort of outgrown him. And in a lot of ways, Pikelet outgrows Sando and no longer has that possibility to communicate with him.

And Sando has the choice to evolve but doesn't. He acknowledges the courage it takes for Pikelet to say "No" and not want to go. But he still doesn't allow Pikelet to help him develop. Sando has an opportunity there to develop and he doesn't do it.

AKT: And he lives in what feels like a tree house.

SB: Yeah. I mean when I talk about that, I'm talking about in the sense that when I was growing up in this world that I've created in the film, there is this masculine sort of stereotype. And this ideal that is created and has solidified in Australian culture. Particularly around that period of time.

And I wanted to create that as authentically as possible but then subvert it. So that the perceived identity or prescribed identity is something that you can fight against. Or stand up against.

AKT: You are losing your voice. Do you want one of these? [I am handing Simon a Ricola Original Swiss Natural Herb Cough Drop I happen to have in my bag].

SB: Thank you. I love these! And Pikelet does that in that moment. And him doing that, fighting against that prescribed identity - he finds who he really is. And the strength in that.

AKT: The woman's name is Eve. Eva?

SB: Eva.

AKT: Elizabeth Debicki is very good in that role. Of course she is representing something else too, but she is also very much just a person. A person who is choking herself.

SB: Metaphorical, yeah. She has a great loss of her own identity that she's struggling with as well. I mean, who she was has been stripped away from her and she's obviously really not sure about who she is anymore. She's not sure how to live as the person who can't do those things. She has this desperate need for risk and danger and feeling afraid. She can't quench that thirst in any other way than what she's doing.

AKT: Because it is that destabilising idea that she needs in her life, that dangerous element. "Surrender is what frees you up," is one of the noteworthy lines. It's something to think about. Is it really? Is that it?

SB: I mean, yeah. Look, it's a big thing for me. In so many ways. To even to be able to take on this film is about surrendering to it, you know?

AKT: There are these classic tales, fairy tales about boys in search of fear. I don't know if you are familiar with them; there are some in the collection by the Brothers Grimm.

SB: Oh yeah, yeah.

AKT: In one we get to know about the family background, a father with two sons. One son is considered the smart one and the other, the one who doesn't know what fear is, is treated as incurably stupid and it is said that he will always be a burden to his father. 

Anyway, he goes out to learn what fear is because he cannot feel fear. I was thinking of him in connection to Loonie. The family background, the search for love and also that search for fear. That makes him almost a classic fairy tale hero, almost.

SB: Yes, he has got equal parts danger and vulnerability about him. He's kind of a by-product. He is such a tragic character.

AKT: He is.

SB: And the writing is kind of on the wall early for that character.

AKT: And you go there, into the dark place, which I really liked. You did not not go there what you proposed from the first scene. In parts he reminded me, maybe also be cause of the blond hair, of Klaus Kinski.

SB: Oh really? Yeah, right, Klaus Kinski had that danger too, right?

AKT: Yes, very much. The boys are great.

SB: Neither of them had ever acted before.

AKT: They jumped out at you right away during casting? 

SB: Yeah. Well, it took a while. It took a year to find them. It was a long process.

AKT: They are so good together.

SB: That was just creating the right environment for them. We had a ten-day workshop, a sort of ten-day rehearsal period, so that they got a lot more time to spend together. And during that ten-day rehearsal period, every morning we'd go surfing together. And then we'd work and play around and then I'd take them to the different locations.

As they were building the Sando house or showing them things, basically getting them on track because they had no real kind of yardstick or measure of understanding what the experience of making a film was going to be like. They were incredibly brave. They threw themselves into it.

AKT: Surrendered?

SB: Yeah.

AKT: Did your relationship to surfing change with making this film or did it remain the same?

SB: No. Same. I mean it's always been the same. If anything, maybe during the process of making the film, leading up to making the film, the development of it, I thought a lot more about my relationship with the ocean.

And really as opposed to just doing it. What water really meant to me, and what it has meant over different periods of my life. And being more mindful of how who I am is affected by my connection to it.

AKT: Thank you so much. I'll let you breathe.

SB: Thank you.

[monsteroftheweekpodcast]

Hey folks! This week we're covering S07E06: The Mentalists. It's an alright episode in which Sam and Dean reunite after their very short breakup (vol. 4) to investigate a series of murders. It's a good old fashioned ghost story, with a bunch of simmering hunk drama on the side. Enjoy! We're on Patreon! Check it out to join our Discord, where we talk about hunks all dang day. #spn #spnfandom #spnfamily #spnpodcast #supernatural #supernaturalpodcast #supernaturalfamily #aupernaturalfandom #samwinchester #deanwinchester #junjiito #monsteroftheweek

[team-vtron]

Rules: Tag some people you want to get to know better

I was tagged by @yourfaceismypaintbrush (sup lol)

Relationship status: single! i’m aro!

Favorite Color: Magenta

Lipstick or Chapstick: chapstick x100

Last Song I listened to:  Pied Piper by BTS

Last Movie I watched: Justice League!

Top 3 TV Shows: 2 Days & 1 Night, The Mentalist, OK KO 

Top 3 Characters: Diana Prince (Aka Wonder Woman), Hunk from Voltron, Pharah from Overwatch

Top 3 Bands/Artist: BTS, Carly Rae Jepsen, Hayley Kiyoko

Books I’m Currently Reading: my immunology textbook

I tag: @klance-and-a-half @barofnothingham @archaicgloom @pocketfoxs @dazaosa

[barofnothingham]

Rules: Tag some people you want to get to know better

I was tagged by @team-vtron! thanks dude ;0

Relationship status: Single and constantly crushing on people 

Favorite Color: Mint and earthy pinks/greens

Lipstick or Chapstick: Chapstick obviously.. my lips get chapped as FUCK during the winter

Last Song I listened to: “The Pants Song” from BMC... Im lame i know 

Last Movie I watched: Thor: Ragnarok!!! it was great

Top 3 TV Shows: Galavant, Wander Over Yonder and Voltron probably? tho the only show I’m 1000% certain about is Galavant... I would die for that show

Top 3 Characters: Hiccup from HTTYD, Keith from Voltron and King Richard from Galavant

Top 3 Bands/Artist: I mean i mostly listen to musical soundtracks and Eurovision songs.. but i also love MIKA, ABBA and Radiohead  

Books I’m Currently Reading: sadly i have no time to read whatsoever but a few weeks ago i read “The Plague” by Albert Camus for literature class so i guess that counts?

I tag: @softestcreep? i hope that’s not weird considering we’ve never talked but uhhh we’re mutuals so have my meek attempt at socializing if you're interested

[velkynkarma]

Never have I ever written a crime show AU

Not in a forensics/crime drama sense, no. I’m pretty particular about my crime shows though. I’m not really a fan of the CSI/NCIS style forensics crime shows. They’re a dime a dozen and most of the characters are two dimensional and difficult to really connect to or have any interest in, at least for me. The shows I enjoy in the ‘solve the crimes’ genre tend to be the more oddball ones: The Mentalist, Psych, Castle, and most recently Leverage. Same goes for case-style books or comics—I prefer things like Batman or the Dresden Files to a standard crime drama.So if I did write a crime show AU, I’d write an off-the-wall one for sure. Team Voltron’s a private detective group that solves murder mysteries, major heists, kidnappings, disappearances, etc, but not in the conventional sense. Everyone has a unique but definitely not by-the-book skill they bring to the table, which may be mundane or may be more on the supernatural end, or maybe it’s just not something you typically apply to solving crimes.

I can see Keith’s canon energy-sense being used to do things like leading them to clues or the places a kidnapping or a murder went down without an actual evidence trail to get them there. Maybe he can feel ghosts or something, I dunno, but there’s plenty to play with there.

Pidge’s canon abilities as a hacker would probably still be invaluable on the technological front for figuring out what the bad guys did and combing out information feds and local police can’t find.

I can see Lance being so good with people he can charm them out of information (or possibly annoy it out of them but hey, whatever works), not to mention he’s still real handy with a rifle for those tough situations. (Still cannot flirt to save his life, though). 

Hunk builds a lot of their equipment and tools and coming up with what they need on the fly, and he’s also surprisingly good at helping himself to things in peoples’ bags and knowing where people might hide stuff.

Hunk and Lance between them are also pretty good at the client-facing part of the business; it’s usually one or both of them speaking with the clients or the victims in the cases they take, as they’re the best at empathy, reassurance, and getting the clients to trust them enough to let them help.

Shiro knows a guy everywhere, like literally everywhere. His prior experience in the military and on the police force gave him a metric fuckton of contacts in virtually everything, above board and underworld, which means between him and Pidge the worlds’ resources are basically at their fingertips. And he knows how procedure works to get around all the red tape of the legal process.

Allura and the house of Altea were once clients (one of the first) and now sponsors for the Voltron crew with their vast wealth, and Allura has also studied a lot of supernatural and mythological lore which makes her an excellent on-call resource.

Coran’s a coroner (I mean like it’s half his name already??? he definitely makes jokes about it all the time, the Coraner) who’s technically not on their team but is definitely on their side and is always willing to supply information about victims in their cases.

They basically take on all manner of cases the regular police or government agencies can’t really tackle, be they cold cases left unsolved, weird cases that just can’t be completed by normal forensic/investigative means, cases someone corrupt on the inside doesn’t want solved, or cases where the victims won’t or can’t go to police—usually on the more supernatural end of things. I guess with the minor urban fantasy elements it’s not entirely 100% crime drama, but like I said, I like the weirder ones anyway :PPlay Fic Never Have I Ever with me!

[bosstoaster]

Dumb questions for tipsy boss? Umm... does hunk have to trick shiro into eating healthy food. Did shiro ever have an unexpected wet dream about Slav. Has pidge used materials in the castle to make super space deodorant. Does Lance have an unhealthy relationship with cop dramas. How often does keith brush his teeth.

1) No, trick is the wrong word.  Shiro will eat whatever everyone else is eating, and Hunk controls that at least half the time.  If someone makes something for him he’ll eat it no matter what.  It’s actually a 50/50 chance on if he’ll finish it, though: if it’s a good day he’ll probably be distracted by the 100 other things he needs to do and forget to finish.  If it’s a bad day he’ll finish every scrap because he remembers how it feels not to have enough to eat.  Hunk doesn’t like to depend on that: it feels weird.  So instead he’ll sit there and talk with Shiro about their days until he finishes it on his own.

2) Shiro would need to have dreams that weren’t nightmares for that.  When he does, it’s usually about flying, not sex.  He hasn’t had a sex dream in he-literally-doesn’t-know-how-long

3) Alteans already had deodorant.  They have underarms and bacteria.

4) Not typical ones, like Law and Order.  He likes stuff like Criminal Minds and The Mentalist.   Gotta have a gimmick.

5) Keith: I... put toothpaste and the brush and rub it on my teeth?  I don’t understand this question???