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mcmusing · 3 years ago

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Why does Erik look so apprehensive? Worst case, just move the soldier dudes out of the way like bowling pins. Come on, metal man, you're not supposed to wussify until the end of dofp.

For all the members of fandom living their personal truth that they are these liberated, open-minded, progressive figures of inclusivity and conquerors of oppression just like the cinematic version of Erik Lehnsherr- they don't make a shovel big enough to scoop up that ludicrous load of bs. No, there is nothing revolutionary about your worldview and even less so about Erik's. You're more than likely obsessive cherik fans scraping lower than the bottom of the barrel to give any justification to a pairing, deep down, you know is sick and wrong. That and/or you feel/have felt marginalized in life, so if the narrative tells you to project onto a suavely handsome, blue-eyed, six-foot lip-service Jew as your avatar to 'rise up against the man' then by dingy, you're gonna do it. If that same narrative tells you that the short, slightly pudgy but wealthy whitey who has so many untreated mental and emotional issues to the point that his only loved one is a creepy blue burglar, then by jelly-belly, you're gonna single him out as 'the man'.

No, I didn't get a sudden yearn to mock cherik fans. I could do a full comedy club act- or twelve- worth of material on them, but no, that's not my intent. I bring all of this up because after First Class premiered, the crew along with fandom tried to push the notion that the events in Cuba were absolutely necessary. Charles Xavier simply 'had to' be paralyzed and abandoned bleeding by his sister and Shaw's surrogate son. Without these catastrophic tragedies heaped upon him, Charles never would have learned a thing about misery, respecting other people's experiences and ideas, and generally, how cruel the world can be. So, I respect freedom of expression. Now, respect mine as I declare that I would love nothing more than to beat anyone riding this incomprehensibly stupid train of thought with a great big bag of bricks.

People, seriously, stop confusing 'intent' with 'coherent story structure'. The production team behind the X-movies are overflowing with the former but execute too little of the latter to compute. Yes, they had the intent to make Charles come off as a well-meaning but very naive young man with a privileged lifestyle that prevents him from being able to relate to anyone below his class station as well as people who are able to catch a tan without being burned alive. One problem. Their story structure was not only underdeveloped, it did the direct opposite of what they wanted to portray. It blows my mind how many lightyears they missed the mark on this.

No, this isn't me being a diehard Charles fan. With Patrick Stewart and the animated versions, I cared about him as the team mentor. With James McAvoy, I cared about him as Charles Xavier. No, I don't have some obsessive crush on James, either. Never even heard of the guy- or any of these people- until FC. Believe it or not, it is possible to admire a man's talents without starring him in your own erotic headcanon.

I have no idea how he did it. I don't know how his production team, totally accidentally, did it but wow! James McAvoy took the normally stale, preachy 'do-gooder' of the group and made him not only the deepest character in the series but one of the best protagonists featured in 21st century cinema. And he did it while sharing the screen with standard strapping Hollywood hunks like Michael Fassbender, Hugh Jackman, and Nicholas Hoult.

It's odd how anyone could view Charles as some vapid spoiled kid when, as soon as we're introduced to him, we see that he's self-sufficent. He doesn't call a parent or butler to investigate a potential burglar but goes to defend his home by himself. When he sees the weird intruder's natural blue form, he's mesmerized and vows to take care of her on the spot. In doing so, he most certainly had to place a load of telepathic strain on himself to, essentially, rewrite all of Xavier family history to explain the presence of a sister without raising suspicions.

It's a reasonable theory that meeting Raven solidified Charles' desire to become a professor. By the time we see them as young adults, both are more advanced in their powers than mutants they would later meet. Even though Raven pretends she can't help slipping sometimes- as a means to explain away her impish antics- it's shown that she can maintain a normal guise even during a crisis. Charles is able to control his telepathy after consuming large amounts of alcohol.

Charles' integrity and aspirations for the future speak volumes. While he could very easily kick back and do the playboy bit, he not only wants to work but wishes to teach. Instead of making use of his fortune or mentally manipulating his way into a PhD, Charles undergoes as much exam stress as the next Oxford lad. This makes him come off as more human and relatable without shining a spotlight on himself about it.

Compare this to how Raven spends her time. For whatever reason, instead of pursuing college herself, she becomes a waitress and makes that known very matter-of-factly. Ironically, adopted child Raven fits the part of a privileged youth trying to appear in touch with the common folk. As if she wants a medal for taking a job away from a starving scholarship student while she goes home to the cushy apartment she shares with her provider of a brother. It's strange because for all of Raven's later allegations of Charles being overbearing and controlling, she's free to date and work a menial position she doesn't need just to have her own money.

Despite this freedom, Raven is constantly seeking out beauty validation from Charles, who makes it clear he sees her as his sister and is keeping his promise to care for her. Quite frankly, Charles seems to maintain total honesty with Raven. However, she allows resentment to build up instead of articulating to her brother her lack of personal fulfillment or fear that she'll never have a committed romantic relationship with a man like the pretty girls on campus do. She lets her self-esteem issues dominate her thinking to the point that Charles warning her about the need to keep their mutations- especially her highly visible one- anonymous as confirmation of him hating her natural form. The same natural form with which he's had cuddle sessions for years.

This really illustrates why Charles sees their relationship as him raising her. She has petty gripes while he has logical concerns. Yes, they visit bars and have plenty of fun together, but Charles never completely puts his guard down. Also, if their many secrets are discovered, it falls entirely on Charles to rectify the disaster. To put it plainly, he treats Raven like a child because she forces him to be the adult. Even with that in mind, Charles keeps Raven as part of the process with the CIA and on their mutant team.

When the events with Shaw take place, Charles is so able to hang up his college party boy days that anyone who walked in halfway through FC would NOT recognize Oxford Charles upon rewatch. He's significantly younger than the Patrick Stewart sage yet James McAvoy is the one who radiates the most natural mutant instructor and father figure. This little pretty-faced dude commands respect, swells the heart, and uplifts the spirit all within a few scenes. How the freak did he do that???!!

While we see Erik pull off a number of bravado/vengeance fueled stunts, it's Charles who teaches us what real courage is. In the middle of the freezing cold ocean, when his cries for someone to save Erik go unheard, Charles dives in to save the taller, stronger, angrier man. One of many times to show not only Charles' self-sacrificing nature but that he grasps that which the film creators never do- respect for life. Raven wasn't some dirty abomination but a cherished life. Erik wasn't a deranged killer but a cherished life. The other mutants weren't coloreds, whores, prison trash, or anything but cherished lives. Even those who betrayed and tried to kill them were worthy of mercy in Charles' eyes. The most grueling psychological/physical torture could not sway him from that.

During the holocaust, Erik saw men, women, and children stripped of their humanity, branded as things, and senselessly executed. Despite the values and faith from his parents and the redemption, love, cooperation, respect, purpose, and new family Charles tried to give him, a sadistic nazi was Erik's greatest influence. He never comprehended a tenth of what Charles did well before he earned the title of Professor. And this may shock you, people, but no amount of money can breed virtues. Those are learned and maintained only by practicing them day by day.

It's a common belief among fandom that Raven is the perfect middle ground between the male mutant elders' different philosophies. Fandom, seriously, get off that cherik crack- it kills dreams. No, Raven is not their shared, well-rounded disciple or even close. Raven is an inconsistent, wishy-washy, indecisive, needlessly petty, emotionally stunted, unreliable, self-absorbed brat, who for all of her mary sue feats, never ever grew out of expecting her big brother to be the adult and take all the blame that she refuses to accept. Not to mention emulating cold, distant Sharon Xavier when she wasn't even her biological mother! Raven straight ditched Kurt and Rogue- no, I'm NOT letting that go! Even before Jennifer Lawrence took over the role, the studio was obsessed with featuring Mystique's family members. Those are her daggon kids!

And 'no matter how bad the world gets, you don't want to be against it, do you'? What evidence does she have of how bad the world is getting? Seeing her fellow mutants viciously murder defenseless humans? Also, yeah, fandom, I don't know how to tell you this- except with much glee- but guess what? Raven is white also. No, it doesn't matter a pound of piss that she's blue and used to be homeless. Her ENTIRE life story got a monumental do-over thanks to Charles. By the time they're at Oxford, she's no semblance of a street vagrant but a poor little rich girl demanding attention. Her most dominant form is blonde Raven Xavier, even when she's halfway across the world. Charles is so grateful as things improve for mutants bit by bit, but Raven hates the world and wants everything nowwwwww 😭

Erik has no daggon philosophy. That fool is Katie Kaboom from the 90s Animaniacs. 'His family knows that any time soon, the big megalomaniac goes kaboom!' All he does throughout the series is kill for kicks, make disingenuous speeches about brotherhood, bag baby mamas, create bad press for his 'kind' with public destruction, hide out at his brother's house til the heat dies down, repeat until audience can recite the formula in their sleep. If that's your idea of an inspirational role model for 'real people', congratulations! All of you are easy prey for big city gang recruitment and trauma survivors are doomed to be evil, yay!

Yeah, of the three, Charles rises above his shameful siblings- aww, middle children got their representation. He is the one able to be upbeat and merry then pull a complete 180 when stuff gets real. He's the one who would rather let himself die inside than use his powers to take his pain and fury out on the world. He's the one who goes into dangerous situations for urgent reasons over reckless impulses. He's the one who is able to calmly get things back on track when a plan takes an unexpected turn. He's the one educated on mutation and most in control of his powers without getting a god complex from it. He's the one who suffers insomnia so everyone else can sleep peacefully. He's the recent college grad better capable of leading a major field mission than the older, worldly guy. He's the one always willing to listen and compromise. He's the dude in the wheelchair who offers a greater air of safety and security than that able-bodied punk who fled to Poland!

For those of you ready with that lame argument that he's only able to be empathetic is because of his telepathy. The ONLY proof you have of this is at the end of FC when Erik had the helmet on. Charles couldn't think of the perfect thing to say because he was shaken from feeling Shaw's death combined with every terrified mind around him in addition to his own. This is also the first time Charles has to publicly and boldly object to the actions of the older brother figure, who just mentally violated him, he still loved for some reason. As for Charles' communication problems in dofp, again he's in a state or wretched mental health. He has been living as a self-medicating angoraphobic then all at once he's tasked with saving a world he barely wants to live in anymore and confront the two people who crippled him physically and emotionally. The depression is messing with him, not the lack of telepathy. Erik and Raven had powers and there was no talking sense into either of them. Still, through all of this, Charles is able to have a short but sweet moment with Peter. It has a long-term impact on the otherwise unfocused boy and proves that the real Charles is still in there somewhere.

Back to the point, there was no good reason for putting Charles in that wheelchair and striking him with alopecia. He already cared, shared, loved, valued, took risks when necessary, put himself last, kept his promises, and sought to heal scars in others he did not inflict. The implication that someone is only capable of real empathy and altruism if they go through horrific torment or have melanin in their skin is a more shallow, ignorant, and naive view of the world than Charles' haters claims he has. The producers execution of these themes and messages are as backwards as they are insulting. Did Erik need the holocaust to better himself? If so, that was a cataclysmic fail. His experience with suffering and in an oppressed group made him worse than his own tormentors.

Charles valued life before the chair and after the chair, so what was the point? Don't try to tell me that Professor X's wheelchair and bald head are too symbolic not to be included. Ha! The source material argument doesn't fly with these movies, especially FC. Mystique is Charles' sister- his *little* sister. Charles is British. Hank becomes a Hulk-Beast with no backbone. The Summers brothers are twenty years apart in age. Wolverine is played by Huuuugh Jackman. Erik never develops the mutated white hair that his son somehow rocks. Charles and Erik never form a pen-pal pack, let alone an iconic friendship respectfully allegorical to two famous civil rights leaders.

No, Charles' tragedies are portrayed as some sort of depraved and extremely bigoted attempt to stick it to any straight white male fortunate enough to inherit money. Too bad for the pitifully inept production team that they only succeeded in shooting themselves in the foot. Not only is Charles the best character regardless of hater protests, it's insinuated that peace and goodness can only be desired by the wealthy and white. Color people, trauma survivors, and women will always fight perceived oppression with violent force and a preferred backup plan of genocide.

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ehehehelokidbyhiddles · 3 years ago

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Episode 3 Thoughts

Just finished watching episode 3. Warning for spoilers.

I really enjoyed this episode for the most part. I’m still not convinced that Sylvie is a Loki though. I just don’t get the Loki vibe from her. I actually have a few theories about her though.

First one is that she only thinks she is a Loki. If you’re a Doctor Who fan, you might remember The Next Doctor episode where Jackson Lake thinks he is The Doctor but it turns out his memory was messed with. It’s a longshot but I think it could be possible.

Another theory is that Sylvie is the little kid from the start of the season that Mobius gets the Kablooie candy off of. Another long shot and probably instantly debugged as I heard Cailey Flemming from The Walking Dead is supposed to play the young version of Sylvie but it would be a nice twist.

A more obvious theory is that she is actually The Enchantress and has been fooling everyone all along. I think this is too obvious a storyline but you never know. I think at this point I’m just trying to think of reasons why she’s not Lady Loki because I don’t want her to be.

I enjoyed the ‘team up’ between Loki and Sylvie for the most part. Tom and Sophia have great chemisty on screen and play off each other well. I do dislike the power imbalance where they are making Sylvie seem more powerful than Loki when all she does is her ‘enchantment’ trick. Until we see otherwise, I’m assuming that’s all she can do magic wise.

In terms of the fighting, I’m disappointed that we have a continued trend of Loki not fighting like he usually does. If you look back at the other movies, Loki fights very swiftly and fluidly but in the fight scenes in the show, he seems overly clumsy (and yes, you can use the excuse that he was drunk in this episode but that doesn’t explain the 2nd episode). I did appreciate him using his powers during the fight though (something I would have expected him to do in Ep 2 when he had gotten his powers back from the TVA). It annoyed me a little that Sylvie was fighting a lot more Loki-like than Loki was though. When they were fighting together, they should have been more equally matched.

I saw some theories that Loki has the time stone. From what I can tell (I haven’t watched the theory videos yet) they say that because he reversed the buidling that was falling. This theory doesn’t work because he would have reversed the whole scene if he had the time stone, not just the buidling.

The singing! Oh my god, the singing! It’s so funny, the other day I was listening to I’m so Lonesome I could Cry from the I Saw The Light Soundtrack and I was thinking, ‘I really wish Tom would sing with his real voice sometime’ (Yes, I know he sang in the Pirate Fairy movie but it was very brief). My prayers were answered apparently.

His voice was so beautiful on the Norwegian song. I never expected that he could sing that way but I’m pleasantly surprised. I don’t doubt the big nerd tried his best to get that pronunciation down pat too. I saw something that said Tom would be recording the song properly and I hope that isn’t just misinformation. I would love a full version to listen to because his voice (when he was singing seriously) was like velvet to my ears. When I was watching the scene, I have to admit it reminded me of the times when Michael Fassbender has sung in different languages. They have a similar vocal sound.

Now, I left this until last because I’m still not sure how I feel about it. Loki and Sylvie. It’s a weird concept, isn’t it? I can already tell people are going to start shipping them, but they’re the same person essentially, aren’t they? Well, it’s all depending on the truth of her identity, I guess, and then, if she actually is a Loki, could that even work? Can you date yourself?

I’m not boarding the ship just yet but even I could see the tension at times that could hint to something in this episode. I mean, that moment where she just crowds up on him, supposedly trying to use her powers on him, that was such a loaded moment. It was almost uncomfortable because of how intimate it was.

I don’t know guys. What do you think of Loki and Sylvie? Do you think there could be any kind of romance there? Is it too weird? In my opinion, I think that if she is Loki, it would be too weird (also far too chaotic to have Loki dating Loki). If it turns out she is not Loki then I think a romance could work. I can’t deny that a big part of me wants to see Loki in an actual relationship, purely out of curiosity for the most part. How would Loki be in a relationship?

Anyway, there was, unfortunately, a lot of the silly stuff (totally agreed with Sylvie when she called him a clown, because this Loki that they’re trying to shove down my throat is a clown--most of the time, at least). I really liked that Loki seemed genuinely concerned and outraged that the people were going to be left to die.

I can’t wait to watch the next episode to see how they get away from this apocalypse and what happens next. I wish we had more than 6 episodes to look forward to. Can we have some mischief and there be a surprise that it’s acutally 10 episodes? Ah, wishful thinking...

#loki #loki laufeyson #tom hiddleston #hiddles #loki show #loki tv show #loki tv series #loki odinson

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shiramoonshadow · 4 years ago

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This is the last part of the vip panel with Jason, Luc and Adrian.

What’s your favorite character you didn’t voice?

Adrian: Oh, I don’t know, everybody. Seriously, everybody’s so amazing. You know, I’m exciting to eventually be...I’m not there yet, just in the countenance of my voice and the age of my voice quite yet, but one day I aspire to voice a Viren like character, now I’m a dad I just find that fascinating, the very complex relationships he has with his children and his own ambitions. Yeah, I’m not jealous, I love what Jason does but I can’t wait to play a Viren character.

Luc: First, let me just say that once again I love everyone on the show and I don’t just say that to make everyone feel good, like I watch every episode and I’m blown away and sometimes even the small characters I have to pause and be like “who was that? who did that?” That was fantastic. Um...it’s Amaya, she’s got me right from the beginning. I think I’ve always had a thing for female like warriors for some reason? Like she is just the ultimate badass warrior. She’s caring, she’s protective and she’s strong and all the fight sequences are just so dope. She gets the one up on Harrow, even on Harrow she’s like “this dude”, you know? I just love her. I think she’s fantastic.

Jason: That’s the same for me. Episode six on s1 where they’re at the statue and they’re sharing a lovely moment, Viren and Amaya but she still says “listen let’s cut the bs, I don’t trust you”. She’s just written so well.

Jason, what movie or tv show would your characters love?

Jason: This is interesting. I’ve done this sort of thing I just wrote down, you know, music shows...Loves...Um...loves classical music and heavy metal. I think a really good comedy like a belly laugh sort of comedy, just a sitcom that’s good, so like 30 Rock or The office.

Luc: I think he likes looks to other great leaders and people of history stuff, right? So he’s like watching James Earl Jones do some Shakespeare, like play Othello or something like that, you know, he’s downloaded illegally or something, like the 1996 production of the globe theatre or something like “ah, this is it” or like The West Wing or something like that.

Adrian: I would say The Golden Girls.

Is there a favorite theory that you have for what happened to Harrow?

Luc: So right in the middle of s1, right after we finished recording those first three episodes. My personal theory is that Viren actually sacrificed himself and used the soulfang to switch their bodies and that Harrow is now inside of Viren’s body and we just didn’t know. Now, since watching more episodes I realized that is obviously not. Like right after we recorded those I was like “oh yeah, it’s going to be this great actual sacrifice and we’ll find out at the end of the first season that Viren has actually sacrificed himself and Harrow lives inside of…” No, that’s not the case. Honestly? After I realized that I was wrong I stopped trying to guess and I know all the fan theories but when I work on a show and something like this happens I try not to create these theories for myself until I see the scripts because it’s just either going to be disappointment or...I don’t know, it’s like I like to wait till the writers actually-

Tell you what happened?

Luc: Yeah. Otherwise I just like to believe that what they say is the truth and he was assassinated. Until we know differently, you know?

One of my favorite things that Jack revealed was that he always shipped Rayla with Callum and so he performed as if that was the end, even with the whole Claudia thing, he said he always... in his head his goal was to get with Rayla. I was like “I think he made it happen” like he literally changed like how confident he was because he is like this person showed up to kill his brother, so like he had to be very strong and in charge and have it together and so there was like such a great version of Callum with Rayla that eventually they just wrote it that way. I'm just trowing that out there in case you want to guide this reveal. You're more than welcome to pick your favorite fan theory and just make it happen.

Jason: I have favorite theories but I'm not going to say what I actually think. Only because I like to...I will certainly share my opinions if it’s really against something strong that I disbelieve, but because I know... the three of us, we look at our scripts and we prepare characters and we prepare...we know stuff that we’ve been told by writer, director, creators. We know stuff that we’ve talked about and I don’t like to let any of that stuff go because I’d like to keep it for myself. I love to throw lines out there, to throw people off and mess around but… One that I heard was that Harrow is out wandering somewhere and that’s my favorite theory, he’s just sort of gone and he’ll be back someday.

Luc: How do you explain the bracelet falling off?

Jason: Exactly, but I like the idea of Viren and Harrow looking at each other saying “brother, I will see you again one day” and Harrow puts his backpack on and walks out into the...he’s on a boat somewhere.

We’re gonna ask you again I’m gonna have you back on when we...to see how close where you are at personally turns into. You know, what I’m saying like, because you’re gonna keep that close to the chest and I think it’s part of what’s again, I really think Jack shaped what happened and it’s clear that the writers are that “this is a participatory story that’s being told and you guys are really…” So what do you think Adrian?

Adrian: Somebody blew my mind and said that Harrow became the bird? Like switched souls at the bird. I thought that was pretty crazy. That kind of blew my mind, yeah.

Luc: That’s the biggest fan theory.

Adrian: Is that the biggest one? Okay. I had never heard it, someone brought that up and then I was like “okay, that’s actually kind of cool”.

Jason: Justin and Aaron have debunked that. They’ve said that’s not the case.

Adrian: But what do they know?

Jason, do you think Viren still has an avenue to redemption?

Jason: Do I think he has an avenue to redemption? Yes. Do I want the very last thing people to see is Viren holding dead body over the planes and Eric’s voice over saying “and they lived in harmony, forever”.

Luc: And then he pulls off his mask and he’s actually just Jason.

Jason: Or Harrow.

If you were picking your live-action actor who played your character?

Jason: Michael Fassbender.

Adrian: I think Tom Holland would actually be a great choice. He’s just got a ton of heart and I think he could convincingly play that naivete and wholesomeness.

Luc: The looks wise I would say like Makhi Phifer? I want him to play but I don’t know if Makhi fighter has the gravitas to handle like a live-action Harrow? So I think like Chiwetel Ejiofor.

Adrian: I would do Idris Elba as Aaravos.

Luc: There you go.

Jason: Michael K. Williams as Harrow.

Luc: Michael can play anyone.

If someday we get a flashback with Callum meeting Harrow. What do you think? Because we haven’t seen that, right?

Luc: No, we get a couple flashbacks to when their relationship is first kind of building and Harrow gives him his sketchbook and you know, he sees him as a child but I wonder about that. I wonder how old Callum was? If he knew him before him and Sarai got together? Like if he knew them as a family unit or if he had to be introduced to him after him and Sarai had already been seeing each other? I kind of see it like he falls in love with Sarai and she kind of keeps that relationship separate, like a mother who doesn't know if this new thing is really going to take off and that eventually introduces him and I imagine it's pretty awkward at first, like Harrow's trying to drop his best dad jokes and they're like “no” and Harrow tries so hard and he realizes “oh this isn't going very well” and kind of backs off and takes some space. Harrow talks about how he wishes that he would have reached out a little more. He didn't want to disrespect the memory of his dad, so I think there was definitely some separation at first and some awkwardness and then it took some time for them to really be able to build their relationship and get to this point where they're basically like blood father and son.

What other character that you played would love to see interact with your character from tdp?

Jason: Rengar from the league of legends. Can you imagine him just sidling up to Viren? I've never thought of that ever! But now I’m excited about it.

Luc: Live action… I was recently in Apple TV See and my character Arca is this warrior with these long dreadlocks and I imagine that they would just get on like that, like Arca would become Harrow’s crownguard immediately.

Adrian: I think it’d be cool to see the chemistry between Gren and Adam from The Hollow. Adam’s got a temper and I could see like Gren getting sucked into the hollow, if you don’t know it’s like a game world that they’re all in and they’re trying to escape and yeah, I could see those guys linking up.

Jason, Viren’ ex-wife. What is she like?

Jason: 6 '4. Opinionated. Okay, 6 '2. Psychically strong, doesn’t take any crap off anyone but also tender and...Is that where you want me to go with that?

#the dragon prince #viren #king harrow #gren #callum #rayllum #amaya #cast and crew #just one more to go

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kajaono · 5 years ago

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Hey if you have the time, what are some of your current fav ships and what are your fav things about them (their dynamic or a scene in canon or whatever) and some headcanons? I know this is might take some time to answer and I'm not sure you want to, but if you do thanks a lot. Im just curious. And yeah, just have a great day (:

Thank you for asking. I am allways happy to make extra long posts ;)

I had a hard time deciding how to start that post but decided to go with:

Cherik - X men

There are multiple reasons why this ship means the world to me and will be allways close to my heart.

First, at all I grew up with the xmen movies. Cuddled up with my best friend, in her bed, watching the old x men movies (xm1 to 3) until 2 o’clock in the night. It is a feeling like coming home. And the underlying queer theme allways attracted me.

Second: I am a sucker for the enemies to lover trope. It is this amazing thing that no matter how much they “hate” each other, or how long they have not seen eachother, or how deeply they hurted eachother if one one of them is in danger the other one will allways run and save the other one. This is love imo

Also they are as canon as they could be in Hollywood. My headcanon for young!Cherik is similar to the one Michael Fassbender has for them. They are married, doing a fishing trip around the whole world, to come back at the end to Genosha raising, teaching and carrying for a new generation of mutant kids.

For old Cherik: They are happily living together in the school, due to the utopia Wolverine created in Days of future past. Magneto is probably teaching the kids mechanics

And there are allready rumors that Marvel wants to recast them. If they will touch our happy Cherik ending with their rotten hands i will riot!

Stormpilot - Star Wars

Yeah i still use that name. Because i am on this boat since the beginning. It is a little bit damaged but still sailing so this is my happy ship.

I was never a big Star Wars fan but these two dudes made me fall in love with Star Wats because even before i realized i was queer i knew this ship was special and make history, in one way or another. And we did, didn’t we? We are now taken seriously. Shipping is not a “ugly” fangirl thing anymore but people start to realize taht it is also a scream for representation. But we still have to go a long way

I love that this kind of a “love at the first sight” thing (at least for Poe). And that they have an instead chemistry with eachother. I was sitting in TROS and smiling like an idiot everytime they were on screen and cried buckets when they were both single and together in the end. They treat eschother well and have a deep respect for eachother. There is no macho behavior just pure friendship with a lot of gay tension. Every scene with them in TROS was a blast. And i am sure Finn is now slowly realizing he is love with Poe as well. Poe gives Finn his ring. Finn finds out he is a long lost prince and learns jedi tricks. And then they marry. And adopt a lot of droids children!

They are my hope. And they will be my first tattoo.

Phrack (Phryne x Jack) - MFMM

One of the few straight ships i actively ship. They are so damn well written. There is nothing toxic about their relationship. And the slow burn tension is killing you slowly. How they care for eachother without Jack being Phrynes savior. And how Phyrne allways gets calm perfect Jack irritated is so cute.

Also the moments where Phyrne is teasing Jack or Jack calls Phryne “Phryne” instead of “Miss Fisher” like he normally does. And that Jack is ready to learn how to accept gay people and working independent women through Phryne is beautiful.

No headcanons here. I just want to watch the upcoming movie “Miss Fisher and the crypt of tears” that explains what happenes directly after the season 3 finale.

Give! Me! That! Movie! Now!

Keyla x Joann - Star Trek Discovery

There is not too much to say about them. I just hope they will be canon. They didn’t had much screentime yet but everytime they are together it feels like they are dating since years. And Keyla is confirmed bisexual. I hope we will see them together in season 3. If not i will just keep on pretending that they got married at the end, adopted a lot of space kitten and live their best lives as speca wIw.

Also the are holding hands in that scene above, fight me!

Michael x Tilly - Star Trek Discovery

Nothing better then space wIw pairings.

I like how they deeply care for eachother and Tilly was ready to accept Michael even though she was an outcast. And Michael was ready to accept Tilly even though she normally can not deal with talkactive people.

Tilly helped Michael a lot to express her feelings while Michael helped Tilly to fight for her dream as a Captain.

Also they canonly hold hands multiple times. They are so soft around eachother. I am so ready for season 3.

Sherlock x Joan x Marcus - Elementary

I actually ship them in every variation (because above all Johnlock) but here i make an expactation. The deep care they have for eachother. They had a few problems at the start but if someone feels bad now, both are ready to help that person. Joan is constantly checking on Marcus personal live, and lives with Sherlock anyway, while Sherlock constantly looks out for Joan and Marcus and looks that they find happines. And Marcus has thought multiple times about moving in with Sherlock and Joan.

While Sherlock doesn’t really liked to be touched both Joan and Marcus have iconic hug scenes with Sherlock. And after Joan and Sherlock find out that Marcus will move to a new job they both do everything they can so Marcus will be successful, The epsiode ends with Sherlock looking at Marcus for a really long time, smiling like a love sick dork, while he lefts with “ It’s alright, it’s alright, it’s alright now, I’m fine with how it all went down “ playing the background.

I haven’t watched season 7 yet but with Marcus risking his career for both Joan and Sherlock i hope he will finally moves in with them.

Honorable mentions to my fav ships forever:

Nomanita - Sense8

The lesbian crime fighting duo every show deserve. They only know pure love and support for eachother.

And i send a flip flop to netflix to see them getting married. Yeah i am that extra sometimes

Johnlock - EVERY univserse

Just because!

And the “i just discovered it”-ship:

Geralt x Jaskier - The witcher

They are so dumb. It is amazing. I hope Jaskier finds a nice boyfriend in the next seasons. Or gets to kiss Geralt. Because he definitly wants to

I hope this list satisfied you. I am allways happy to make more.

Have a great day as well

#cherik #finnpoe #phrack #jack x phryne #geralt x jaskier #johnlock #nomanita #keyla x joann #michael x tilly #sherlock x joan x marcus #sense8 #x men #star wars #the witcher #elementary #star trek discovery #mfmm #anon

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skamits4 · 4 years ago

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The cast reacts to season 4 (English translation) Beatrice: Hi guys, we are the cast of Skam Italia and this is the fourth season, seen by us. Nicholas: Can I say that I feel particularly beautiful in this scene? Federico: You are super beautiful, this is the point. Beatrice: Nicholas, you are super beautiful. Ludovica: Some fans died after this scene Francesco: why didn’t you throw him? Federico: I wanted to throw him here, at on of the ciaks I thought about it. Francesco: And why didn’t you do it? Nicholas: He actually is good, because with one hand he was pushing me but with the other he was holding me back. Beatrice: I got scared here because I thought he would have seriously done it Federico: I loved you. Beatrice: Ludo, Ludo, do you remember here? Ludovico T: Yes, of course. Beatrice: Like Grand Prix. Federico: It’s true, it looks like Formula 1. Greta: Oh god, look at my face. Ludovico T: Greta, how do you clap your hands? Francesco: Be careful with the drawer. Greta: Eh, exactly what was in the drawer? Ludovico T: Ehhh, what’s in there… what do you think there is? Rocco: The magic drawer of the nasty stuff. Federico: Martino is lost. Shocked. F4 shocked. (He’s quoting “Boris,” an italian TV show.) Ibrahim: Eh guys here I was… Beatrice: Ibra here was feeling sick. Federico: You were boiled here. Ibrahim: Kisses to everyone, kisses to everyone. Besse: What were you trying to do here? Licking his neck? Greta: Kissing him. Medhi: He’s jealous, he’s jealous. Nicholas: Genius, the first person you think about is Filippo. Federico: Filippo was amazing here by the way. Greta: Pietro I love you. Ludovica: Anyway, Filippo is me every day during winter, with the robe and the tea. Pietro: It was such fun. Greta: Tremendous. Federico: Filippo is one of my favorite characters. Ibrahim: He’s great. Greta, Rocco and Pietro: You as well. Rocco: I love the way he puts his hand. Pietro: And he was dying here. Besse: Can we reveal that Centorame doesn’t know how to play the bass, we tried to teach him but in the end I said “we’ll put a fake one in the background.” Francesco: Exactly, it’s all fake. Federico: I told you to let me play it, you didn’t listen to me. Think about it, all four of us on stage, how cool would that have been. Besse: The guitar is real, and the voice is real too, but the bass is fake. Ludovica: This song is amazing, by the way. Medhi: By the way, I’m waiting for the band: Tersigni, Centorame and Beatrice. Federico: Can we say that this song is great? Beatrice: This song is really beautiful, is too cool. Federico: I’d release it everywhere, out everywhere. (Beatrice and Federico sing) Ludovica: Little stares. Pietro: Careful. Ludovica: Nooo, Canepallo. Pietro: Canepallo. Nicholas: Canetarlo. Federico: There’s Panecallo. Ludovico T: Above all, Canepallo arrives during Giovanni’s solo, I mean. Martina: Giovanni is nervous. Pietro: What are you doing here? Beatrice: Ahh, the mythical movie. Federico: The scene with the Molisan actor. Rocco: This scene is too beautiful. Beatrice: I’d like to personally say sorry to the Molisan actor, I don’t think he’s a bad actor. Federico: I always wanted to see this movie. Rocco: He even looks like Michael Fassbender a little bit. Pietro: Oh god. Beatrice: Here, Federico… Oscar immediately. Federico: Yeah sure. Beatrice: Yes Fede, really. Federico: Is Rocco crying? Rocco: Fede you were amazing. Federico: thanks Rocco, I love you. Beatrice: By the way, I remember that during this scene I always had watery eyes, doing it made me cry every time. Federico: It really was a beautiful scene. Beatrice: Holy fuck. Pietro: By the way, to film the scene where Niccolò goes upstairs, we hid in a room, we sat on the bed and it collapsed. Martina: And we broke the bed. Greta: We broke it Ludovica: With all of us on it. And we pretended that nothing happened Beatrice: Who’s Niccolò going to find in the room? Is he maybe going to find a feral Martino? Martina: Hidden under the bed. Greta: This scene is too beautiful. Ibrahim: Guys by the way, Rocco and Martino, Rocco and Martino are the best couple of Skam. All: Unblock him Sana, come on. Beatrice: Ahh well, the baths. Medhi: Well. Besse: Every pool had a different temperature, Medhi’s one was like 40 degrees, Beatrice’s was 65 degrees. Beatrice: Mine was like 65, guys I swear. Ludovico, you did the right thing. Besse: I asked you, I said, “tell me if you are boiling.” Beatrice: And I said… I was like all red, purple, and I said, “no, no I’ll continue.” Ludovica: Because Bea is a pro. Greta: Professional Bea. Greta: Oh god, so cute. Besse: It’s not the water that’s steaming anymore, but his body. Federico: He’s a Super Sayan. Francesco: He’s ready to be eaten. Federico: But you had like, fire extinguishers to cool them down. Greta: So sweet. Francesco: What a scene. Ibrahim: Beautiful. Ludovica: This is the line of a lifetime, like the best line of all the four seasons, my favourite. Francesco: Get in lineee. Ludovica: Get in line is something that you say, why don’t I have a boyfriend like that. Beatrice: Right, true, why don’t I have a boyfriend like this? Ludovico T: You could, Lu, you could. Ludovica: Eva and Gio, anyway… little hearts. Ludovica: Oh god. Ludovico T: Ah well. Ludovica: So cute. Ludovico T: There is is. Ludovica: An amazing endgame. Pietro: By the way, Eva and Giovanni have the best sex scenes. Beatrice: Yes. Ludovica: Yes, I agree. Federico: Thank you, eh. Pietro: Well, oh. Ludovica: Good luck to all the people who are doing the maturità this year. Beatrice: Right, good luck. Ibrahim: Good luck guys. Ludovica: MALIK! I’m crazy about Malik. Greta: we’re all crazy about Malik. Besse: Pietro, can you redo the scream? Ludovica: Good, do it. Ludovico T: This is too funny, Pietro’s face here is too funny. Beatrice: Here, Pietro screamed in a way. Pietro: Help me. Federico: Damn you Ludo, here you were hitting someone different every time with that ball. Ludovico T: Grosso. Besse: Every time we did this scene again he was asking were the ball was, because he really wanted to throw the ball. Ludovica: Little jumpers. Federico: The least coordinated jump in history. All: Byeee. Pietro: Oh god, I didn’t understand, sorry.

#skam italia

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spaceorphan18 · 4 years ago

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Marvel Movie Nights: X-Men First Class

And... back to X-Men! At the time (my god has it been ten years?!) this film was such a breath of fresh air, and the 2010s were such a revamp of this genre. The MCU was, of course, leading the way, (along with the Dark Knight trilogy for DC) but it made way for films of other franchises to be taken more seriously within the craft. I genuinely liked this movie a lot more than the previous couple of times I’ve watched it (I swear -- seeing these in order makes me appreciate functional movie/story telling). However, that doesn’t mean that I don’t have some serious issues with it.

So, let’s start with what I did like about it...

Xavier and Magneto. The original trilogy perfectly cast Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. And these films perfectly cast James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender. Their paralleling stories, their dueling philosophies, everything about how they laid out these arcs in this film really works -- not just as a good origin film, but as a good character study, too. I kind of wish the movie was just about the two of them, but apparently, this is still a superhero film I suppose.

I also want to add intentionally or not, there’s a fair bit of queer undertones to this relationship. It’s definitely there in the comics. And I can’t help but notice it throughout the film. Idk - just stood out to me more this time.

The first class grew on me, too. Look, I’m a comic nerd, it feels weird that we didn’t have a reboot and get the actual first class. But most of this works for me (with a few exceptions I’ll state later), especially since these kids are going to be mostly background players in a film that’s truly about Xavier and Magneto.

Also, shout out to Nicholas Hoult as Beast. It’s a fantastic interpretation, and a nice nod to his origins from the comics.

So... before I get to my did not like list, I want to point out that the majority of the above takes up most of the film. When the film focuses on Xavier and Magneto, it really shines, and it’s really what kept my attention this time around.

Anyway, some indifferences first!

The 60s backdrop. It’s kinda fun when they actually stick to it. Sometimes it feels in a nondescript time. It works since the X-Men premiered in the 60s, and I did enjoy the subtle nods to the comics in the little things like that. But there were times when the literal usage of 60s footage felt maybe a bit much.

The fact that it was darker! The first twenty minutes of this film are super dark, and throughout there are times when it pushes just a little bit farther than regular superhero genre grittiness. At times, it made the tone of the film feel uneven -- especially when the third act is less philosophy and more about punchy-punchy comic book stuff. It would have been interesting if they had kept that tone throughout.

Also, speaking of things from the comics -- I appreciate the that the whole driving conflict was a nod to X-Men issue 1 when Magneto threatens the world using missiles. Nice touch.

And... Moira MacTaggart. I liked the actress. I eye-rolled that she had to get into her underwear at one point. And eesh the fact that Xavier takes her memories. I don’t think this film does women all that well.

Alright, things and for the bad...

So, ironically (?) one of X-Men’s main themes has always revolved around a group of marginalized people being oppressed and persecuted by the majority. Hmmm. And yet, for a film that wants us to take these themes seriously, does a great disservice to POCs. There are only two in the film (that I can remember). One is blown up maybe ten minutes after he’s introduced having no purpose other than to be a casualty, and the other is whisked away to be a villain because she doesn’t have much purpose being in the film. The film spends so much time debating whether or not blue skin is acceptable, but does nearly nothing to promote that brown and black skin is, too.

Meanwhile, the villains... Kevin Bacon is fine as Sebastian Shaw (though I have a hard time believing him as the scientist from the beginning of the film). And I get why The Hellfire Club would be a good fit for the 60s, I can’t help but feel that it’s just conceived of poorly in this film. There are a lot of cool things you can doo with the Hellfire Club -- and instead they use it to, really, booster the idea of missiles and government stuff so that they could pay homage to X-Men #1. And as usual in these films, the surrounding villains are kind of lame. Riptide is boring. Azazel is perplexing (this dude is canonically Nightcrawler’s dad -- guess who his mom is...)

But most egregious is January Jones’s dull Emma Frost. This character is incredibly complex and vastly interesting in the comics, and she’s just a piece of diamond cardboard in this film. I won’t completely fault Jones’s terrible acting -- I think the writing and directing of the character completely misses the mark, and it’s a shame they wasted her and the Hellfire Club here when they could have saved it to have a really good Dark Phoenix Saga.

And then there’s Mystique. This is, perhaps, the best of the Jennifer Lawrence outing as the character (or maybe the next one - it’s been a long time), and still I often find myself wanting to throw things at her. Mystique is another character, who, when done well, is incredibly compelling. But I think the Jennifer Lawrence pouting about things seems to overshadow actual nuance with the character.

Lastly, there’s the problem that seems to plague a majority of these superhero films. The drawn out and somewhat predictable and dull third act. The thing that gets me about these X-Men films, though, is that they hardly do what the comics are best known for -- giving action sequences where they get to play all their powers off each other. This film just doesn’t do it, and while I did like the final Magneto/Xavier showdown, a lot of the action up until that point felt standard issue, thus dragging an otherwise smarter film down.

Final Verdict: Is this movie better than X2? It might be!

Next Up: Captain America!!! Whoo!

#marvel movie nights

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dismas-dumbass · 4 years ago

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henlo, welcome to the ad where i pretty much just throw stuff at a wall and see what sticks. i’m still figuring out my guys so some details are gunna be sparse but??? i definitely don’t mind brainstorming more/plotting stuff out if any y’all are interested in what i have to offer!

Character 1: Name Pending Arthur something, idk last name yet LOL i am prepared for this. anyway his FC is gunna be Michael Fassbender and he’s a fisherman/native to Alderhelm. he’s a pretty good guy, upstanding citizen, and absolutely loves the sea. he can also be a little too??? trusting so there is that and if it weren’t for his twin brother he’d probably be dead or worse by now woopsie. some backstory is that his parents died in a boating accident maybe in high school? but they had left behind enough inheritance for at least Arthur to go to college? he was a good student -went for marine biology or something similar idk- and while he did graduate with good grades he honestly wasn’t about the academic life so much? so he became a fisherman lol and that’s where he’s been ever since. he’s a damn good worker and loves being out on boats. the only eventful thing to happen to him was a bad thunderstorm taking out the boat he was on [this probably occurred in his thirties? it’s a sort of but not really recent event?]. idk if i wanna make it a gigantic thing where people died & he managed to survive but either way he doesn’t eeexxactly like working out in storms anymore and whenever there’s a bad thunderstorm about he can’t sleep. besides that? life’s pretty uneventful. whether that changes will depend on how plots go! Ad #1- you may have guessed it, this is an ad for the aforementioned twin brother! since i’ve lost control of my life and am a sucker for identical twin plots i will say that the FC for the twin is Michael Fassbender~ unlike my character, the twin is a kind of grumpy worrywart who would rather shut a party down than possibly see it turn into a chaotic mess. he means well -he really does, but... uh, yeah, he’s a buzzkill. tbf he was kind of set up to be the protective brother of Arthur since his parents drilled the fact that he was the older twin into his head from an early age [he’s older by a few minutes, Arthur will always keep pointing this out in typical younger twin fashion]. he’s especially protective after the death of their parents -an idea i had was that his parents sat him down and asked him to make sure to look after Arthur if something happens to them [which is definitely not suspicious af nor is it prophetic, right?]. he’s ESPECIALLY protective of Arthur after the boat accident during the thunderstorm that Arthur survived. seriously, he’s terrified something will happen to Arthur and will use all of his power to make sure that his younger twin is protected in bubble wrap for the rest of his days. overall he’s an okay guy, may lean towards the bad side of things from time to time, and underneath all the thorns and seriousness is a person just trying to look out for his last remaining family. will he succeed? find out in the next volume of drowning songs! Ad #2- mmuucchh more vague but calling all fisherman! i imagine Arthur works for a company and boat but obv. there’s gotta be more people! he’s a rather friendly fellow so he’s probably gunna have at least a few friends [tho he can be snarky so enemies? too?] and with Alderhelm being a seaside town, well, there’s probably a need for quite a few fishermen! & fisherwomen, obv. no judging in the great big seas here! i do have a funny idea for the captain of his ship pretty much being the stereotypical grizzled-looking sea captain you’d find from the stories of old: big bushy graying beard, large coat, maybe even has a pipe for fun. he’s actually not as scary as his appearance so Arthur gets along great with him. whheeethhheerr the captain is actually a good guy is, of course, something that can be developed tho Arthur probably won’t know either way lmao. anyway, fishermen/fisherwomen unite! Ad? #3- this isn’t so much of an ad as it is an idea i’m tossing out cause it might??? not be good but maybe??? there’s someone obsessed interested in him? i’m torn between it being an alumni of the Sons of the Sea [i know, kind of specific & there’s limited spots so idk maybe just someone who went to college with him] or someone going to college rn. anyway they’re not exactly a nice(tm) person so Arthur would never go for them even if he was aware [he might be a bit dense, idk] and so there might be some uncomfortable??? awkward??? tense encounters??? that could lead to even worse possibilities??? it’ll give his twin a heart attack for sure lmao. as i said not reallllyy a fleshed out idea but? if anyone is interested? i am all ears *eyes* Character 2: doooonn’t have a name yet for this lad uh oh. his FC is gunna be Tarjei Sandvik Moe and he’s currently attending Alderhelm College. he’s also~ one of the pledges for the Sons of the Sea plot so there is that! idk if he’s gunna be one of those rare undergrads who happen to get chosen or a more academically typical case [smart in something??? idk what i am not the smart one here lol] also his family is rich so that helps ttoooooo. idk what his personality is gunna be just yet but he’s probably gunna be somewhat naive? maybe can hold his own but also? is a cinnamon roll? so he’s probably gunna get wrecked or twisted or something idk fun fun fun times! Ad: nothing too specific but he’s obviously from a rich family so??? rich fam time??? no theme tbh -in fact this can be sort of a reverse wanted ad if a rich fam has a need for a possibly naive college age son- though an idea is that, since his FC is Norwegian, his family is new money and comes from Europe so there could be some tension??? from the other rich families??? idk idk idk alright crappy wanted ad oovvverrr if any y’all are interested in any of my rambling you can come on over to my discord which is dismas#9766! if you don’t have a discord you can always DM me on Tumblr and i’ll try to make sure to be vigilant and check it out often! <3 <3 <3 happy plottin y’all also pls gib me drama i thrive on it

#drowningrp #eyoooo here's a crappy wanted ad post!#dev challenge~#prettier aesthetic stuff may??? come later???#also put this in 1 ad cause reasons lmao #also also jamming out to the DS spotify list as i type this up #dismas types up 10 billion words

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chicagocityofclans · 4 years ago

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Garrett Howard Cleirigh → Michael Fassbender → Warlock

→ Basic Information

Age: 892

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Sapiosexual

Powers: Disintegration

Birthday: November 28th

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Religion: Buddhist

Mark: Cleirigh

Generation: 1st

→ His Personality Garrett is constantly setting bad examples for warlocks worldwide. He doesn’t care much about anything but himself and does whatever he wants, whenever he wants, with no repercussions. That is unless Nathan whines to Ronan or Roman about it, then he’s in trouble. Garrett is known for being reckless and irresponsible when using his powers. He often uses them in inappropriate situations that could lead to them being exposed. He is naughty by nature, always eager to prove himself. All in all, he is heartless and stubborn, ready to destroy everything in his path for his goals. Despite this, he is capable of seriousness if he feels the situation requires it. He is the typical younger sibling and suffers from youngest child syndrome. He is the last Cleirigh with their pure mark, which is rounding out nearly 900 years. However, Garrett doesn’t see himself as spoiled, less intelligent or reckless. He sets goals, impossible or not, and goes for them. He thinks outside of the box and does everything in his means to get what he wants.

→ His Personal Facts

Occupation: Part-Time Package Handler at Shutter Magic Imports & Exports, Part-Time Cashier at Wondering Worlds of Magic, Part-Time Orderly at University Medical Center, Part-Time Front Desk/Secretary at Cleirigh Psychiatry Center & Part-Time Bartender at Anonymous.

Scars: One on his upper lip which he keeps covered by his mustache

Tattoos: None

Two Likes: When Mars Attack (The Movie) and Festivities

Two Dislikes: Make-Up and Persistent People

Two Fears: Roman Cleirigh and Human Shifters taking his appearance to do good things

Two Hobbies: Pyromania and Bushcraft

Three Positive Traits: Brave, Naughty, Carefree

Three Negative Traits: Manipulative, Unsympathetic, Intense

→ His Connections

Parent Names:

Caden Cole (Mother): His mother was a hateful woman. Garrett made sure her body was disgraced and humiliated when she died.

Patrick Cole (Step-Father): Garrett was sure Patrick knew he wasn’t his son. He’s also sure Patrick tried to kill him more than once as a baby/toddler. As a teenager, Garrett killed him during a hunting trip together.

Sibling Names:

Ronan Cleirigh (Brother): Ronan is considered his best friend. Garrett takes pride in being one of the only ones that can make his older brother laugh.

Kaylor Cleirigh (Sister): Kaylor was a gift from the heavens. She didn’t fall into any stereotype and is always ready to drop everything in order to stand by him.

Roman Cleirigh (Brother): Roman and Garrett never got along. Roman went as far as separating him while he trained in Self-Disintegration. It took 3 weeks for Ronan and Kaylor to find all of him. If something is amidst, in his life, Roman is most likely behind it. Right now he does his best to ignore him.

Children Names:

None

Romantic Connections:

Jia Hu Cleirigh (Love): They have an off again/on again relationship. Garrett is sure Jia is the one he wishes to spend the rest of his life with but that’s a long time. He isn’t afraid of much but labels and commitments might be the only thing holding them back from greatness together.

Platonic Connections:

Brighton ‘Bee’ Genesis (Brother-In-Law): Garrett was sad when he found out that Kaylor was married. He gave Bee a lot of shit but the son of a bitch won him over.

Ishtar Cleirigh (Sister-In-Law): Garrett was skeptical of Ishtar at first and he tried more than once to get Ronan to reconsider marriage. Once Garrett gave her a chance their relationship flourished.

Nathan Cleirigh (Nephew): Garrett likes Nathan’s mannerisms. He takes pride in teaching his nephew ways to avoid answering questions due to his inability to lie. He also respects that Nathan has never tried to shrink him.

Ethan Cleirigh (Nephew): Ethan either has great bravery, or the need to die, that Garrett doesn’t see in anyone else. While they don’t have much in common, Garrett enjoys their random lunch or dinner dates.

Judson Cleirigh (Nephew): Judson is pure entertainment to Garrett. Besides his brothers, he has never met anyone with such a keen for magic and the supernatural world around them.

Akasha Genesis (Niece): Askasha is like her mother and sometimes gives Garrett a run for his money. More than often she’s always getting him into trouble.

Gennifer Genesis (Niece): Gennifer was one of the reasons Garrett hates kids; and still does. She’s not bad as an adult, but Gennifer as a toddler is forever ingrained in Garrett’s mind. She keeps him up to date on the happenings around the world.

Owen Genesis (Nephew): Who names their kid Owen? Nobody.

Ryan Cleirigh (Great-Nephew): When Judson came home with a little bundle, Garrett was happy to have another Cleirigh baby in the family after hundreds of years. He genuinely likes the kid. Usually he hates kids.

Teyla ‘Tikka’ Cleirigh (Niece): He told Ishtar a thousand times that Teyla didn’t seem like a Teyla. He created her nickname Tikka and was glad it stuck. Thanks to his experience with Ryan, Garrett was more hands on with Teyla and he barely dropped her as a baby.

Altair Cleirigh (Nephew): Garrett has never loved anyone the way he loves Altair. He is perfect and can do no wrong in Garrett eyes. The child has opened his heart completely and it shows. He has already called dibs on being his forever mentor.

Duke Thornton (Distant Cousin): Garrett and Duke had a lot of fun while he was still a warlock. Their fun has slowed down but they continue to support each other… Mostly at a distance or with a ton of alcohol.

Averill Sookram (Friend): They used to be friends and Garrett is unsure why they are arguing this decade but he is sure they will be back to their old ways soon.

Lyra Cleirigh (Friend): Lyra mentored under his siblings. Garrett took her out on a ‘mentorship’ to test out what she learned for a few years as a mentor too.

Chiara Ricci (Friend): They have an unlikely friendship. Garrett finds her amusing and full of life, unlike most vampires.

Cassandra Askeris (Friend): Cassandra is one of Jia’s friends who has become one of his own. It took a while to get her over to his side but Garrett eventually did.

Kady Gaines (Friend): Kady introduced Garrett to social media, starbucks, Apple products and more. She is the modern witch of their time and Garrett enjoys her.

Peter Knox (Future Friend): Peter is dating his cousin Duke. Garrett has a lot of questions about their relationship and Peter doesn’t kick him out of Anon when he asks. Garrett is sure they're on the road to a fun loving friendship.

Minsky Edison (Old Friend): It's been centuries since Garrett and Minsky met. Minsky is often called in when Roman separates him while he’s disintegrated.

Jason Weyden (Acquaintance): Garret doesn’t mind Jason. He laughs at all of his jokes and is not easily offended by the things he says. Garret wouldn’t mind buying him a drink or opening a tab for him at Anon.

Kudzai Rinker (Acquaintance): They do business together and Garrett knows most of her children. Garrett wouldn’t call her a friend. He doesn’t agree with her treatment of those who share her mark or her black widow past.

Sid Velanica (Friendly): Sid is training under Jia. It's a rule that he cannot be unnecessarily rude to the mentees unless he wants his shit fucked up.

Hostile Connections:

Eric Lasiter (Strained): Eric is trying to be like him. Garrett is 23% sure of it.

Arthur Milligan (Hate): Arthur needs a life away from Roman and his family.

Tristan Lawton (Dislike): Tristan is a screw up and the entire supernatural world knows! He and Ronan are often called to fix Tristans’ mistakes.

Pets:

God (Owl): God is Garrett familiar. God has been a little secret of Garrett’s only his close family knows. He’s had him since he was 20. Garrett often turns to God and has been for 872 years.

→ History Garrett had a tough life before he was found by Ronan. His mother and step-father hated him and made his life miserable. At first he tried to be everything they wanted him to be and expected from him. Under their daily pressure his strength slowly died down, leaving him numb, and unafraid of what they or others thought of him. This drove him into acting reckless, being uncompromising and using intimidation against those who thought they could walk all over him. He was 11 years old when he killed one of the neighborhood dogs by mistake. Seeing the blood rush out of its body triggered something in Garrett. He continued down that route, killing and experimenting with any small animals he could find, until the day his step-father took him hunting. He was Garrett’s first human kill. It continued to the annoying baby next door, random strangers in the streets, boys at school and finally his mother.

He was running from his town's people when Ronan found him. He had apparently temporarily deactivated all of the local wards for a few seconds without knowing. But it was enough to alert Ronan, Kaylor and Roman that there was another warlock or witch close by. They had been close by because they were tracking rumors of someone that shared their marks and possibilities of them being a necromancer due to the increasing amount of death within the town limits. Garrett was skeptical at first but the man teleported him away from the angry mob of people closing in on them. He caught a glimpse of Ronan’s world and power, and Garrett wanted in.

Kaylor and her husband, Bee, suggested that Garrett get a familiar as he struggled with his magic. Garrett wasn’t quick at picking up magic like Ronan, Kaylor and Roman were. It took awhile but Ronan was sure he wasn’t an elemental, mental, or a necromancer, evocator or therinologist after trying to test his power. They were also lost at why he was immune to physically created magic. While some magical powers were recorded, they were still working on figuring most powers and why some powers manifested later on in life. Garrett fell in this category for decades. He focused more on long distance teleportation, conjuring, enchantments and scrying. It wasn't until Garrett disintegrated an object did they finally figure what he was and focused on him catching up.

Garrett’s need to kill died down drastically after meeting his brothers and sister. While his magic did make it easier to kill, his interest winged away from it and more towards sex and magic. He was forever young, accumulating money and had godlike powers. He laid with men and women alike. Waltzing into city after city breaking hearts. Jia Hu saw right past all of that when they met. He was a mentee under Ronan and was constantly in Garrett’s space. He didn’t mind sharing his space with Jia, Garrett pursued him and they dated for nearly a year before Garrett found himself afraid of where their relationship was heading. Jia was his first serious fling and Garrett couldn’t fight the feeling of love growing over him. Garrett left for Italy, to mentor briefly under someone else besides Ronan and Kaylor. When he returned, he and Jia picked right back up where they left off. This started the pattern that varied from Garrett or Jia leaving for a few months with the longest separation being 10 years.

→ The Present Garrett has been working on his relationship with Jia. Things have been going well and Garrett is unsure if it is the calm before the storm or if they’ve both grown past their fears. While working on keeping their bond strong, Garrett has taken up learning more about charms and started showing more of an interest behind the craft. While he usually focuses more on spells since he is immune to physically created magic, Garrett has been tinkering with charms. He figured he had a hack for placing curses on charms that are not easily detected and are untraceable. He has been doing this in his free time and has yet to share the news with Jia, his local charm master lover.

Garrett has been thinking of taking on a mentee, however, with his power of magical disintegration, it's been hard to find a mentee that shares his powers or is solely interested in ways to break down bonds, potions, charms, shields, wards, etc. Ronan and Loland's new addition, Altair has not helped his thoughts either. Everyone knows when left to his thoughts it can be dangerous. Garrett's thoughts are leading towards wanting to steal, or possibly adopt, a witch or warlock child to train in all his glory. Those thoughts are still at the forefront of his mind but he plans on playing caution around his family and Jia; not knowing what their reaction would be.

#Garrett Cleirigh #Taken

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fanficshiddles · 6 years ago

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Seeking control, Chapter 16

Ellie woke up in the afternoon, slightly disorientated and confused. She remembered what happened the night before and she panicked slightly because Tom wasn’t there anymore. But she had only been awake for a minute when a nurse came along to take her to Michael’s office.

She was so nervous on the way there, wondering if she was in trouble for what happened. But it wasn’t her fault, she didn’t want the nurse to do that to her. The thought made her feel really sick, she thought she was going to throw up.

But she was SO relieved when she saw Tom in the office too, her anxiety instantly lessening. She rushed over to her doctor and hugged him tightly, happy when he circled his arms around her and kissed the top of her head.

‘We have some good news, sweetheart.’ Tom started with, leaning back to look at her, making Ellie’s hopes start to rise.

She looked between him and Michael, waiting for one of them to expand.

‘You are getting discharged tomorrow.’ Tom said.

Ellie’s eyes widened, she felt an instant surge of relief flood through her and she let out a sob of happiness. ‘Oh my god. Seriously?’

‘Yes, seriously.’ Tom nodded and hugged her again.

‘Thank you! Thank you!’

Tom took her back to her room. She was so happy, elated to be getting out. But when they got back to her room, she remembered about what happened the night before and she suddenly ran to the bathroom to throw up. Tom followed her and held her hair back, he rubbed her back and spoke soothingly to her.

‘He won’t hurt you again, I promise. I’ll take care of you.’ He said softly, wiping her mouth for her once she had finished spewing.

‘Can’t I go home today instead? I don’t know if I want to spend another night here.’ She said quietly, wrapping her arms around herself.

‘Oh sweetheart. I’m afraid not. And there’s something I need to tell you, too. Come sit down.’ He put his hand on her lower back and guided her to the bed. There was something about his tone of voice and what he said that was making her worry. Was this not going to be as straight forward as she thought it was going to be?

He took her on his lap, making her blush. She tried to stop the swirling feeling of nerves in her stomach.

‘You are being discharged tomorrow, so you will be getting out of here.’ Tom confirmed, to her relief. ‘However, it is only because I managed to talk Mr Fassbender into allowing it. We believe that your treatment and road to recovery will be better elsewhere.’

Her eyes widened and the anxiety returned. ‘No! Please not another hospital, please.’ She started sobbing.

‘Shhh, shhh. Let me finish, Ellie.’ Tom said firmly, cupping her face in both hands. ‘You are coming home with me, to my home. Where I can treat you one on one properly. Round the clock care and I can keep a close eye on you. But there is going to be strict rules in place, Ellie. To keep you safe until I deem you cured. But my home is going to be your home for as long as it takes. Do you understand?’

Ellie was shocked, she certainly never in a million years expected to hear that. She was going to be living in Tom’s home? How would that work? Would she be able to go to work? Get her own things from her flat?

‘I know you have many questions, darling. But we have plenty of time for them later… Are you feeling ok after last night’s trauma? I’m so sorry that happened to you. He has been severely dealt with.’ Tom tried to keep his cool while he spoke about it, but he was still furious that someone else touched his girl in that way.

Ellie swallowed before answering. ‘I just want to get out of here.’ She said quietly.

‘And you will, sweet girl. Tomorrow. Just one more sleep to go.’ He assured her, kissing the top of her head and pulling her in for another cuddle.

Tom stayed with her for the duration of the day until it was bed time, but she was really reluctant for him to leave.

‘Please, don’t go. Please... I’m scared.’ She begged, holding onto his arm.

Tom felt pity for the poor girl. But on the inside, he was screaming in delight at how much she wanted to be with him, how much she felt safe and secure when he was there.

‘Alright. I will stay the night. Then first thing tomorrow, I am taking you home.’ He smiled and moved back onto the bed with her.

Ellie was over the moon that he was staying the night with her. She knew she would be safe as she curled up in his arms on the small bed. His strong arms around her allowed her to get the best sleep she’d had since arriving there, and there was no one disturbing her through the night with hourly checks because she already had her protector there with her.

Even though she thought she got a good sleep, she did wake Tom in the middle of the night from a nightmare. She was crying and begging for someone to leave her alone, then she cried out for Tom’s help. He knew that she was having a nightmare about what Nick did to her.

Without making her panic, he simply tightened his arms around her and soothed her by whispering sweet nothings into her ear. When she had woken from the nightmare, she relaxed almost instantly from his attentions and fell back to sleep peacefully.

In the morning, she was so relieved that she was getting out of the place. Tom held her hand tightly and led her through the hospital for the last time. She had to sign a form at the doors, Tom signed it too, and then she was out.

She was free.

There was a car waiting for them, a private taxi. Tom and Ellie got in the back, the driver was given the address by Tom and then the partition was closed so they had their privacy.

‘How are you feeling, sweet girl?’ Tom put his hand onto her thigh and rubbed gently.

‘I… don’t know. Relieved, happy… but still a bit scared about what’s to come next.’

‘It’s natural to be scared about the future. But we will just take one day at a time, ok?’ He gave her a squeeze to reassure her.

‘You… You will help me every step, right?’ She asked, her voice sounding so timid and vulnerable.

‘Of course I will, I promise. That’s why I’m taking you to mine. So I can continue to help you. After what happened the other night in the hospital, I definitely think it was best to get you out of there. Besides, you are starting to get better. I don’t doubt that in a few months’ time you will be back to normal.’

‘I sure hope so.’ She turned her attention to look out the window while they drove back to the flat. She was so happy just to see something else than a tall wall for a change.

‘You’ll have to give me a list of things you want from your place, I can gather them up and bring them through when we get you settled.’ Tom said, getting her attention back on him as he moved his hand from her thigh to the back of her neck, stroking her skin softly under her hair.

‘Oh… Can’t I come with you to get what I need?’

‘You could... But I haven’t had a chance to tidy your flat up since that night I found you. I wouldn’t want you to get any bad memories, darling. But it is your decision.’ He said quickly.

Ellie frowned. ‘Is it bad?’

‘Well… From where you cut yourself, there is a lot of blood, yes.’

She gulped and looked down, thinking about whether she wanted to see it or not.

‘Maybe I’ll just give you a list. If you’re sure you don’t mind. You’re already doing so much for me.’ She looked concerned, and Tom found that adorable.

‘Of course I don’t mind. I wouldn’t offer if I did. Stop worrying, darling. Just let me take care of you.’ He cupped her cheek in one of his hands, smiling when she closed her eyes and leaned into his touch.

‘Ok. Thank you.’

When they pulled up on front of the building, Ellie felt a sense of peace and familiarity wash over her. She started crying again, just out of pure relief at finally getting out of the damn hospital.

Tom took her hand and they went inside and up in the lift to their floor. Ellie felt her stomach churn with nerves when she looked at her door, she was suddenly really glad that she was staying with Tom and not staying in her own place.

He noticed her body language, so slipped his arm around her waist and quickly ushered her into his flat.

But once he got her in, he had to contain himself from getting too aroused. The realisation hit when he shut the door behind them, that he finally had her exactly where he wanted her...

All alone with him. In his flat.

Completely reliant on him.

#Tom Hiddleston #seeking control #fan fiction #pervy doctor #doctor Hiddleston

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mcmusing · 3 years ago

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X-Men Days of Failed Prequels

After so many mentions along with anti tags, the time has come for me to detail the depths of my disdain for the cinematic version of x-men days of future past. The sequel of stupid fandom loves. This is going to earn me so many cool points. Though considering I’m the one chick who finds Ian McKellen’s Magneto laughably one-dimensional, popularity obviously isn’t at the top of my priorities list. I’m also not trying to trash anyone who genuinely enjoys the film, however baffling I find that reaction. This is simply modern life in terms of media. If you can’t enjoy it on its own merit, take satisfaction in sending it through the shredder.

Those who think I take these films too seriously, first, I have a connection with FC whether I like it or not. Second, you’re protesting too much. If you really just see these as basic popcorn flicks and vehicles for slash-tacular fantasties, you wouldn’t make an effort to get me to shut up. I know because I’ve read critiques of fandoms I really enjoy and never responded. Unless someone’s trashing the Lion King then it’s on.

After the breath of fresh air ushered in by FC, the tone of this movie is bogged down with despair and misery only the stupid phoenix movie could surpass. This is also from where the bulk of the alleged sexism outcries stem. Sexism. In the X-Men. A group of outsiders from all walks of life made family, linked together by their mutual goal of defending a world that fears and hates them. A well-oiled machine of powerful men AND women who work and play off each so effectively. Yes, a positive of X-Men is the tackling of relatable real-world issues. Sexism can be a valid topic if handled objectively. However, the mindset has no place within the X-Men team itself. Seriously, these writers want us to believe that in a time of tremendous civic upheaval- presidents and movement leaders being assassinated, mass rioting and protests, churches being burned down, these vigorously trained warriors are wasting time on boys vs. girls contests.

To paraphrase James McAvoy, why did they bring the grandparents in?! The FC cast had infinitely better characterization from their initial scenes alone than the original cast had across an entire trilogy. It’s no question why this was done, though. After recovering from the major surgery of having his ego enlarged monumentally, Singer darkened the doorway of this series yet again. He couldn’t act fast enough to unceremoniously dispose of most of the FC players. No, he has to roll out the red carpet for his cast to return.

Let’s see, who’s here. Shawn Ashmore- or is it Aaron?- eh, I don’t care. Halle Barry- lady, if only your acting ability improved at the same rate you cut your hair. Ellen Page- sit down, kid, Hugh Jackman’s agent is on Stan Lee’s bowling team. King Patrick Stewart and- oh, no, no, no, no, no! Why did you have to bring your expired ham courtier? Sir Ian McKellen is back and wrinklier than ever. Even confined to a wheelchair and without telepathy, I always bet on Professor Patrick being able to take down this remarkably unintimidating dude. Took long enough for this war he kept preaching about. When we first meet them in the 2000 movie, Magneto is old and raggedy and mutant extinction has yet to occur. Even when they had valid reasons for wiping the mutants out, all the government did was weaponize the cure to subdue their powers. The US wants to be all stingy about helping their law-abiding citizens, but these suckers built an elaborate plastic prison for this Jewish refugee turned terrorist. It would have saved so many tax dollars to simply put Magneto to death. So, what is this senile sack of geriatrics always wailing about? Don’t be putting him in the same movie as Michael Fassbender. Even if they don’t share a single scene together, you don’t juxtapose a wet match next to an active volcano. Sure, both Magnetos were completely useless in the movie, but only Michael deserved better.

So, Mystique, who was totally Charles’ kid sister the entire time, is the reason the world goes to crap. Apparently, Prof X’s protectiveness and efforts to instill values in that scaley orphan ‘drove’ her away, eh? Then, Magneto put her on a dark path. Essentially, Mystique is a misunderstood victim turned into the doomsday device all because of the duel between two penises. I guess free will is medically impossible for creepy scale people. In trying to showcase some sort of empowerment, Singer and company wound up degrading Mystique and everyone around her in the process.

While Mystique was an important part of the original dofp, the film version goes way overboard in elevating her to dead center. I’ll admit that I was a Jennifer Lawrence fan during this time also, thanks to FC and the Hunger Games. I used to only feel indifference towards Mystique, but Jenni Law bringing so much humanity to the role really made me want to see more Raven… why can’t I have nice things?

Since Singer loathes character development (seriously, check out the deleted scenes from the earlier X-movies. Fleshing out characters always winds up on the cutting room floor), we’re reunited with the FC cast ten years after the tragedy that was Cuba. Ooookay, that was supremely unsatisfying but maybe we’ll see what happened during the interim. Maybe we’ll see how solidified Erik and Charles’ individual teams are by now. Yeah, dream on. Charles spiraled into a devastating depression from, once again, losing everything he ever cared about after trying to rebuild himself post-paralysis. As for Erik, the worldly, self-taught nazi hunter and holocaust survivor who gained a sizable power increase under Charles’ instruction, couldn’t stop a single bullet from taking out the president. That’s not even the worst of it. Someway, somehow he was not only caught in a suspicious position, this dude got locked up by plain Jane homo sapiens for ten years. So, he’s been in a plastic prison twice? The US is dead set against killing this moron yet *Charles* is the one leading a life of privilege?! At least what happened to Charles is mostly believable. What happened to Erik required so much effort to show the least amount of effort.

So, who is out there being a mutant freedom fighter? Freakin Raven. My suspension of disbelief still suffers strokes from this. They seriously want people to buy that this sheltered rich girl with a fixation on her appearance, trained with Erik for six months and just like that, she’s a one-girl revolution. While Erik himself got captured like a pathetic punk. So, Raven has been going around the globe to rescue mutants from being experimented on, but she couldn’t raise a single pinky finger to free Erik before he suffered the same fate? This isn’t me siding with Erik but with logic. Even worse, the blue brat is on an idiotic quest to avenge her genocidal friends that were, appropriately, killed. But she refuses to even disguise herself once in a while to secretly check in on her own brother. Is the audience seriously supposed to be sympathetic here? Why don’t we throw a memorial for the Pearl Harbor and 9/11 bombers while we’re at it?

I’m not comic purist. In fact, something I really like about FC is that it’s similar to my own writing style. With so many different universes of superhero lore, I take whatever characters and aspects I like from different mediums to create something new. That really is the same thing FC did. However, the changes they made to Erik and Charles are mind-blowingly insulting. Dofp painted this iconic duo of different views but similar drive and ambition for mutantkind as pitiful failures. They suffered character assassination solely so that Raven could usurp their legacies and be made a false idol to worship. They filled the whole mary sue checklist for this girl. She’s considered the most important player for the future world, she’s the only one actively involved in the mutant plight, all the men are either in love with her or desperate for her to be in their lives again, the audience is expected to side with her without question, she is NEVER once held accountable for her actions (like her abandonment of her critically injured brother) but she receives all the credit and praise once the crisis is averted. None of that is female empowerment, you creatively bankrupt SOBs!

Hey, feminists, unsure adolescent girls out there searching for a relatable character to look up to, stop. Stop falling for this. Singer and Kinberg care about you as much as Disney cares about gays. Just a spoonful of pandering will make the bitter medicine that is these movies go down. I swear, x-misogyny and x-misandry abounds. Raven is an infantilized caricature so common in female characters now. They work for nothing, are handed everything, never go through genuine growth, and they crush so many men under their boots in the process. Kitty was played up as the time traveler for dofp, but she became a sentient machine for Logan to travel through instead. Rogue used to fill the slot that Raven is in now, but her daggon crap mom did her dirtier than Joan Crawford did Christine and stole it. Rogue was still supposed to have a significant part. She was meant to take over for Kitty as Logan’s sentiment time machine… girl power!

Men, with the exception of Peter, don’t fare any better. Charles’ mental health issues, pain, and nurturing desire for a family are treated as if he’s being weak, selfish, and the victimizer even though he’s the one going through the most struggle and abuse. Erik became a cruel, cold-hearted, shameless, nonsensical megalomanic before his descension into straight-up cowardice. Every time he wasn’t on screen, I forgot he was even in this movie. Charles doesn’t care about him in the slightest- and he shouldn’t- compared to his desire to heal his relationship with Raven. Erik cares about literally nothing but forcing his own agenda, killing his so-called ‘brethren’ if they dare hinder that goal. Hank is perpetually emotionally stunted and wimpy. His entire characterization amounts to nerdy science guy. There is not a single trace of Kelsey Grammer’s intellectual, well-read, majestically spoken, courageous, politically ambitious, mutant defending Hank McCoy. James Marsden makes his first re-appearance in the franchise in years and all he’s there for is to be the oblivious, mistreated boyfriend while Logan and Jean make bedroom eyes at each other.

Yeah, about that end scene with all the original cast members back together all happy like. With the exceptions of Rogue and Prof X, I don’t give a flying fart! Those played out MFs invaded the FC cast’s film and for what? Yeah, maybe they averted the apocalypse but they don’t know that! This is a completely alternate timeline. The former X-Men are very, very dead and none the wiser. Oh, Singer, thank you, thank you so much. Erik and Charles’ non-existent friendship, the unbelievably unnecessary estrangement between Raven and Charles, the waste of Michael Fassbender’s talents to the extent that he himself cringes at his own performance were such worthwhile sacrifices so that your outdated cast could have their precious sendoff.

Here’s another bit of controversy. You know that famous scene of baby James Charles meeting and conversing with King Patrick Prof X? How well it’s staged, how emotionally driven, how superbly well-acted it is? I still stand in awe of how these two could take totally different approaches in their performances of Charles Xavier and both walk away as the definitive live action version of the brilliant mutant mentor. That being said, the “It’s the greatest gift we have. To bear their pain without breaking. And it comes from the most human part of us” part- geez, I could barely type that out without tearing up. As poignant as that moment is, it’s honestly a very unhealthy message.

Yes, real men maintain a steadfast shield of stoic strength in order to protect those they love, never prioritizing their own needs above the ones for which they care. It’s a beautiful sentiment but in this situation, it is such an enormous burden placed on a young Charles’ shoulders. Even real men need help from time to time. Yes, Hank stayed with Charles- basically as his physician and home manager. But Charles lost his deepest, most intimate connections. The love and support of his sweet sister and the safety and camaraderie all too short-lived from his older brother figure. Surrounded by so many students in the future, when it comes down to it, Charles is completely alone. He’s forced into the role of emotionless, all-knowing saintly sage under the harsh mandate of absolute perfection. The tiniest slip or flaw, regardless of his intentions or attempts to rectify, takes everything from him and replaces it with scorn and contempt. He is a beacon for what he himself is never given; forgiveness and empathy.

This really cuts me at the quick because I think the Erik and Raven apologists are so rampant because most of fandom have no idea of what it’s like to be the group’s designated Charles Xavier. Everyone else is allowed to give into their emotions, fly off the handle, make all the demands, break all the rules, and receive the simplest redemption for it. Charles has to be the moral core because no one else in his life can begin to grasp that level of selflessness and reliability. Shouting, destroying, physical assault, reckless behavior- easy peasy. To be the one on the receiving end of unrelenting misery and coming out of it with unwavering refusal to continue the vicious cycle- that’s true strength.

Wow, writing is a good calorie killer. I haven’t had more than a handful of chips since last night. Meh, I guess I’ll go rectify that.

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kimnamjooonz · 6 years ago

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Blank Space - Episode 6

Bad Blood

Songs That inspired this chapter:

High Hopes - Panic! At the Disco

Bad Blood - Taylor Swift

Cause, baby, now we've got bad blood, you know it used to be mad love, so, take a look what you've done, cause, baby, now we've got bad blood.

Sebastian was pacing around his apartment, still overwhelmed by the events of the day. He had just got a text from his girlfriend asking him if she could drop by and he had said yes. Maybe this way he could calm his mind a little. Damn Morgan Llewellyn and the effect she had on him. Probably she had that suffocating effect on everyone not just on him. The irony was that he had been in the company of that woman for a little more than an hour and apart from shouting at him she had not shown any other kind of emotional reaction towards him. Apart from mild anger. He heard soft knocks on the door and he immediately went to open. There was his girlfriend, Florence, with her usually kind face. He had met her through his friend Will, who thought she was a good change to Sebastian, who was used to date actresses. And Will had been right. Florence was very different from all of her past girlfriends and the polar opposite of Morgan Llewellyn. Florence was beautiful in her own way even though she didn't have Morgan's bombshell figure and that tall frame. Florence had sweet sky blue eyes while Morgan's could cut your soul in half with that electrifying purple-blue ones. To sum up, Florence was like a soft breeze while Morgan was a category 5 hurricane that caused havoc wherever she went. ''How are you?'' she looked at him with concern in her eyes. ''You look really bad. Is it about that thing you had for that new movie you were cast in last week? Did it go wrong?'' He threw himself on the large couch and Florence sat beside him. ''It's my co-star. She's not exactly a pleasure to work with. I got a little late and she rose hell.'' he didn't say that he hadn't got a 'little' late but a lot late. Florence felt bad for him. Not getting along with a cast mate was probably the nightmare of every actor. ''Is she a diva?'' That surprised Sebastian. Of all the faults Morgan had, she definitely wasn't a diva. At least that wasn't his first impression of her. ''No. She's just explosive and overreacts a lot. I don't like her.'' Florence totally believe that. Unlike Chace, she didn't know him that well to notice when he was lying to himself. ''Wait a second... isn't your co-star that purple-eyed woman? I swear I saw something on the Internet about her.'' ''Yeah, it's her. And Morgan doesn't have purple eyes. That's just a myth the media is spreading to hype her up.'' ''I read that she is the new the new face of Cartier and Chanel. Is that true?'' Florence found incredible that a woman who had spent so little time as a well known celebrity was getting so many important deals. ''Believe me, I didn't ask her. I was too busy being shouted at.'' Florence felt a bit of pity for Sebastian. That Morgan woman sounded awful. But she couldn't judge her when she didn't know a thing about her. Maybe she was anxious or she had a tight agenda and couldn't waste the minutes Sebastian had made her waste. Maybe he had really ruined her day. ''Sebastian, love, are you sure she didn't have any plans that you may have ruined by turning up late?'' Sebastian remembered what Michael had told him after the read through. ''Michael Fassbender said that thanks to me she had got late to an audition.'' Florence looked at him with alarm in her eyes. ''But I don't believe him. People like her don't have to go to auditions. She gets the roles offered. Do you think she knocked on Chanel's door and begged them to be the face of the brand? No, Chanel begged her to be.'' Florence looked at him with all the seriousness in the world. ''You don't know that. Remember she's in the beginning of her career. You were once in her place and you know how it feels.'' Florence had made Sebastian feel quite guilty. ''Why don't you call her and ask how did her audition go. And apologise to her.'' Sebastian laughed. ''Do you think Morgan gave me her number? Do you think I was brave enough to ask for it?'' Florence rolled her eyes. She didn't know if Morgan was really intimidating or Sebastian was overreacting. ''I'm sure someone else in the cast has her number.'' Sebastian knew that showing a little bit of interest for his co-star's career was the right thing to do. But he didn't want to. ''Okay'' he finally gave up. ''I'll call Michael.''

Morgan was laughing at something Joe Alwyn had said while drinking from her glass of champagne. She and Joe weren't the only ones there, of course. In that table of a trendy Tribeca restaurant were Emily, Michael and his wife, the wonderful Alicia Vikander. ''I really wanted to meet Sebastian'' said Alicia, after Joe had finished with his story. ''You'll do it soon, but today he's being punished by us.'' Michael was joking with that. As weird as it may seem, excluding Sebastian from a cast dinner hadn't been Morgan's idea at all (it hadn't even crossed her mind). It had been Michael's. But it was just for that night, until everyone forgot that incident of him getting an hour and forty five minutes late. They were not going to be mad at him forever, more or less on the contrary, they were all ready to forgive him. But on the next day. ''What did he do?'' she asked. ''Got late for almost two hours because he was in a date and ruined everyone's day, including Damien.'' Emily informed her. ''Well, that was rude.'' admitted Alicia. ''And Morgan was the only one who was brave enough to call him out'' added Joe. ''It was fantastic.'' Morgan, who had lost track of the conversation with the Sebastian Stan topic, was examining her reflection on the champagne glass, making sure that her intentionally untidy updo was in its place. She snapped out of it when Joe said her name. ''Did you do that?'' asked Alicia with her eyes wide open. ''Yeah, but I kind of regret it now'' those were her fangirl feelings coming back to her. ''I think I overreacted'' ''No way'' Alicia defended her. ''What he did was wrong and he deserved to be called out.'' ''And he was on a date. He knew he had to be professional with his cast mates and director but he blew it.'' said Michael, who apparently was still mad. ''I have the feeling that he lied to us.'' Morgan had thought about and reached that conclusion. ''Who knows...'' Michael was talking when his phone rant. ''Look, this is quite a coincidence... hello Sebastian...''' Everyone was in silence. The least thing they wanted was Sebastian to know that all of them were out in a cast dinner without him. That was cruel and Morgan felt really bad about it. Suddenly Michael covered the speaker of his phone. ''Long story short...'' he whispered to Morgan. ''...I told him you were late to an audition and that's why you were so mad at him. He's asking... if I knew what happened to that and if he really ruined your life.'' Morgan was surprised. Who knew he had that on him. ''You lying....'' Alicia reprimanded him. ''Tell him...'' her ego was telling her to take advantage of the situation and make him feel bad for a while, even though she knew he'd find out the truth sooner than later. It had been his fault after that. ''...it was too late'' No one noticed the little smile on her face. She knew she was going to feel guilty about it later but at that moment she didn't care. Everyone felt silent again, listening to Michael give Sebastian some explanation about Morgan missing her audition. ''That was absolutely evil'' Alicia looked at his husband with disappointment. Morgan was already feeling guilty. Her usual self would just laugh at it but at that moment she was confused. She was starting to feel drained after all the strong emotions of the day. Everything had happened so fast that she hadn't had a lot of time to process. She had met the man she had been 'in love' with for years, who was now her co-star. And she had shouted at him like a crazy woman. And she had went from being a nobody stuck in Caernarfon to dine with Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Emily Blunt and Joe Alwyn in a span of two weeks. It was no surprise that her mental system was collapsing. And that was just the beginning. She still had to share many romantic scenes with Sebastian and thanks to all the gods that Damien hadn't thought of including a sex scene in there. ''Morgan? Are you okay?'' Alicia asked her with concern in her eyes. ''Yes. I was thinking that we should forgive him.'' ''Who?'' Joe asked. ''Sebastian. Yes, he got late but... he didn't killed anyone for that. And... we win nothing if there's bad blood among us. If we want everything to work out fine, we should be a team. And, for all I know he's a good guy that maybe he's going through a rough week.'' Morgan wanted to believe in that. In five years Sebastian seemed like the best guy ever, super sweet, dedicated and pure gold. It could be that his real life version was the opposite of what she believed him to be. Maybe his new girlfriend was a bad influence on him. Oh goodness, why she hadn't though of that yet. After all, she didn't know who the chick was. She could be a hot mess. Suddenly Morgan felt a rush of anger she hadn't felt in a long time. Thankfully Sebastian was going to spend more time with her on the next three months than with his girlfriend and Morgan swore that she was getting him back to normal, even if that was the last thing she did. ''What if that new girlfriend of his changed him?'' Morgan words were received with a wave of approval. ''Yeah, that's totally possible'' Emily said. ''I know people that were complete sweethearts and became assholes after getting a new partner.'' ''It happen to the best of people.'' Alicia nodded. ''Well, he's spending three months with us and after this he'd be the one he was before.'' Michael said and Morgan wanted to get up and hug him. ''I all for it'' Morgan hadn't been more sure of anything in her life. Well, maybe she had but that was not the point. ''Let's do this for him'' Joe laughed out loud. ''Oh my God! RIP to that unknown woman. She has a storm coming by the name of Morgan Llewellyn.'' everyone seemed to agree with him. ''And all of us, that have some common sense. This is teamwork after all, isn't it.'' Everyone nodded. ''And I wouldn't be surprised if he falls madly in love with Morgan in the process.'' said Alicia with a playful smile on her face. ''We can all see that you two make hell of a couple. You'd kick the Beckhams completely out of the picture.'' Morgan let a humble smile to be drawn on her face. She would have danced throughout Manhattan like a madwoman after Alicia's words. But she controlled herself to perfection and no one remotely suspected her real feelings. ''No, no, I don't want him as a husband.'' she also had a humble look in her eyes. ''As a colleague, I think he's really talented but those attitudes just gets him a bad rep. And he doesn't deserve that, let alone if it's someone else's bad influence on him.'' ''That's why we should help him. I hate to see good talent wasted.'' Morgan kept herself from smiling. ''Let's take a picture!'' said Michael holing his phone. Morgan straightened the front of her silky black ankle-length Chanel dress and placed herself in the middle of Emily and Alicia, smiling.

Sebastian had a spent a really boring night watching some unremarkable movie with Florence. It was better this way because he wasn't in the mood of talking. Suddenly his phone beeped. He knew exactly what it was because he may or may not have turned on the notifications of Morgan's Instagram post. He hurriedly opened it. There she was smiling, like she was having the time of her life, with the rest of his cast-mates. She didn't look like someone who had missed an important audition. Be damned Michael Fassbender's lying ass. He took a better look at Morgan, who was in the middle of Emily and Alicia Vikander (who wasn't even en their movie, to begin with). There seemed to be nothing but love and good vibes among them. He didn't know if he felt sad at being left out or angry about it. To hell, he was not going to apologize to Morgan, let her ego suffer a little bit more. ''Are you okay?'' Florence asked. The movie had ended and he hadn't even noticed. He was with his wide eyes fixed on the phone. ''Yes.'' he lied. He tucked his phone in his pocket and then turned the TV off. ''I think, I should go.'' a part of her wanted him to ask her to stay and spend the night with him. But that moment never came. ''Yeah, I think you should'' he said instead. ''I mean, don't take it wrong, my head is about to explode and knowing that tomorrow I have to see her again doesn't make things easier.'' Florence knew who 'her' was and she felt a soft pang of jealousy. Yes, she had been all for Sebastian apologising to Morgan but, what then? What if she forgave him and they became perfect friends? They'll have to act as lovers for three months and they wouldn't be the first actors to confuse the on screen feelings. Her relationship with Sebastian was still on its early stages and it wouldn't be too hard for someone like Morgan Llewellyn to shatter it to pieces with one glance of her impressive blue eyes. And she wasn't sure about Sebastian feelings for her. Yes, he liked her but that was probably everything. But if it was about love she was sure that Sebastian wasn't there yet. He wasn't in love with her and he won't be for a long time, let alone with someone like Morgan in the middle. Or maybe she was starting to get paranoid. But no matter what, Morgan had become a shadow lingering on her mind. And she hadn't even met her yet.

The next day Morgan and her assistant Lucas were in her Porsche happily singing while he recorded it and posted it to Morgan's Instagram stories. ''I HAD TO HAVE HIGH, HIGH HOPES FOR A LIVING, SHOOTING FOR THE STARS WHEN I COULDN'T MAKE A KILLING, DIDN'T HAVE A DIME BUT I ALWAYS HAD A VISION, ALWAYS HAD HIGH, HIGH HOPES'' Of course that Morgan had updated Lucas with everything that had been side in last night's dinner with the cast. She had to get that out of her chest and she knew that Taylor was not going to approve. Lucas, not only agreed with Morgan but also couldn't wait for the show to start. He was sure that Morgan and Sebastian were going to make their own movie outside from the movie their were supposed to do. ''Let's sing this part'' Lucas was turning on the camera. ''MAMA SAID DON'T GIVE UP, IT'S A LITTLE COMPLICATED, ALL TIED UP NO MORE LOVE AND I'D HATE TO SEE YOU WAITING, THEY SAY IT'S ALL BEEN DONE BUT THEY HAVEN'T SEEN THE BEST ON ME, SO I GOT ONE MORE RUN AND IT'S GONNA BE A SIGHT TO SEE'' Lucas posted the videos knowing that all her followers were going to enjoy seeing her singing Panic! At The Disco out loud. ''So, what do you have to do today?'' asked Lucas, with his iPad on his hands ready to take notes and plan the day. ''Rehearse some scenes with Sebastian that we'll film tomorrow. I'm not looking forward to it, believe me''. ''Weren't you going to forgive him?'' ''Yeah but it depends on whether he came back to his normal sweet self and not yesterday's idiot.'' Lucas didn't need much information to know why was that Morgan so on edge when it came to Sebastian Stan. ''Admit it, girl. You have a crush on him.'' Morgan eyes were wide open. ''Lucas!'' she tried to look outraged but it didn't work on Lucas. ''Well, maybe. I mean, not anymore but I used to be in love with him for five years. He was my celebrity crush.'' ''Oh my Gosh, Morgan! Did you have a Tumblr dedicated to him?'' ''Yes but...'' Morgan's cheeks were a little pink. ''...if you tell a living soul about this I'm turning you into jelly. It's really embarrassing.'' ''It is.'' Lucas admitted. ''Did you read dirty fiction about him?'' ''You're making me want to die.'' Morgan was really embarrassed of that. If was all fun and games when she was in Caernarfon, in the middle of nowhere and he was somewhere being his famous shiny self. Now, not only they had met but also, they weren't in the best terms. She just wanted to forget of those times she had wasted by reading dirty fanfiction about him. ''You can make those a reality, you know'' he was with his eyebrows raised and a mocking expression. ''Lucas Williams!'' Amanda shouted. ''That is just... outrageous''. Lucas just laughed making sure of not shocking Morgan again if they didn't want to end up crashing the Porsche to a fence. When they got to the studio Morgan was still red because of what Lucas had said. But all this was over, wasn't it? Maybe she would have liked to have the sweet version of Sebastian Stan, the one she believed she knew, but as real life love interest, no thanks. Taylor had been right when she had said that earning the reputation of a homewrecker so early in her career was a potential disaster. Even if Sebastian and her girlfriend had been together for little more than a month, it was not Morgan's place to break this. It could totally ruin her career and not even Sebastian Stan was worthy of that. But then... if they broke up with zero involvement from Morgan... well that was another story. She just wanted to rid him of her bad influence, not steal him for herself. And it was a real unlucky coincidence that the first person she saw when she was parking her car was none other that Sebastian Stan himself. She mentally cursed. But she knew that sooner or later she was going to see him so let's get over this as soon as possible, apologise for screaming at him and make things right once and for all. Lucas started giggling. ''Control your emotions, Williams. This is not a circus... yet.'' ''Taylor told me to tell you...'' begged Lucas. ''...that please don't make things worse.'' ''I won't'' she was pretty confident about this. Sebastian seemed to be taking his time locking his car and Morgan just wanted to hurry up and get inside before he did. Yes, she was chickening out and she had no problem admitting it. It was better to avoid trouble and maybe it'll just fade. But when he saw Morgan almost running to get to the door Sebastian hurried up to catch her. Morgan was opening the door when he was just behind her. Lucas scurried away where he wasn't seen but he could hear everything. ''Llewellyn'' ''Stan'' By the way they spoke each other's names it was clear that none of them wanted to take the first step towards peace. Sebastian was still hurt about the cast dinner he hadn't been invited and the invented failed audition. Morgan's mood had turned when she saw his sour face. ''I heard about your audition. Luckily you didn't took it to hard, I saw you were pretty happy last night. But don't you worry, you'll get more chances. After all, everyone probably want to offer roles to the latest overnight success.'' Wait a second, what had he just called her? Overnight success? What was wrong with this guy? Apparently he was still mad for some reason but if he wanted war, he'd get war. Inside the studio, the rest of the cast and Lucas were listening to every single word, with stunned faces, waiting for Morgan to clap back. An that she did. ''Yeah, it's awesome to get my first lead role in a movie directed by an Oscar winner at just 25. It's a pity we can't say the same about everyone. What were you doing at that age? The Covenant?'' Back inside, the rest of them were looking at each other with astounded expressions. ''She killed him with that'' mumbled Lucas. ''Straight to the wound'' said Joe. ''Can't say he didn't deserve it. He called her 'overnight success'''. ''I thought we were rooting for peace?'' asked Emily. No one answered. It was obvious that between Morgan and Sebastian was not going to be peace any time soon. Sebastian was cursing inwardly. Damn Morgan, she was a tough contender. And she also knew about The Covenant, for god's sake. It was hard to recover from that burn. ''Yeah, you start with whatever you can get, as maybe you know or maybe not, who knows. What I know is that soon after The Covenant I was working for Marvel.'' for sure that Morgan couldn't compete with that. She may have got the lead role in a film but at least she was not getting the chance to play a superhero any time soon, and for god's sake, let's keep it that way. ''Probably you've heard about Marvel before even if you're not a part of it.'' Morgan knew where he was going and she had the comeback ready. ''Rubbing Marvel on her face'' mumbled Joe, who looked like he was watching a football match instead of his cast mates fighting. ''Weak. Morgan is going to get him again, just wait and see.'' ''C'mon,'' Morgan rolled her eyes. ''Even I in the monologue of Macbeth had more lines than you in The Winter Soldier movie. But...'' she batted her eyelashes in an exaggerated way. ''...everyone to their talents I suppose.'' With utmost elegance she turned around got away from him. ''I told you, I told you!'' Joe's face was a mixture of intimidation and admiration. ''She destroyed him.'' ''Where you listening?'' Morgan had opened the door and found all of them behind. ''This is so embarrassing, I'm so sorry. But I wanted peace, I swear. But apparently that's not what he wants. He hates me and I'm not going to stand there peacefully, I'm going to fight back'' She stopped talking when Sebastian got inside, looking grim as hell. No one really knew how the rest of the day went on without incidents. Let alone how Morgan and Sebastian managed to rehearse a whole scene to such extent of perfection that almost left Damien in tears. Maybe they were both proud and stubborn but they weren't unprofessional. They knew what was expected of them and that was what they delivered. ''I love them'' commented Christine, the casting director, to Damien. ''You knew what you were doing when you cast Sebastian instead of Tom or Timothee. He matches Morgan so well, they are fire.'' ''Yeah. It's a pity that they don't get along very well off screen'' well, that was an understatement. ''I thought they were similar but it seems they clash in everything.'' Christine looked at him with a 'Seriously?' expression. ''They are not just similar. They are the same person. Humble origins, dedicated, beautiful, hard working, professional, proud as hell, stubborn, passionate, sarcastic, classy, nice to everyone except to each other and there's probably more to discover.'' ''They make such a beautiful couple, with all that beauty.'' Damien looked at Morgan and Sebastian, who were rehearsing. ''Not only an on screen couple but off screen too. Imagine that.'' ''You just have to wait.'' Christine was pretty confident. ''One day they are going to put their pride down and realize what a team they make. They'd be unstoppable.'' ''I can't wait for that to happen'' confessed Damien, still looking at Morgan and Sebastian. They looked like lovers. ''Do you want to see the magic, Christine? Wait until I tell them to stop and see what happens'' Christine motioned to go ahead. ''You two can stop! You were awesome!'' The reaction was almost funny. They immediately jumped back into reality and stood as far apart as they could, not before shooting a glance of dislike to each other. ''Okay, tomorrow is the last day you'll have to rehearse one of the most intense scenes'' both of them looked alarmed. ''Don't worry! I won't make you kiss, yet. I know you two are not on the best terms, which about that, I highly recommend you get over it for your own sakes.'' Morgan mumbled a not so subtle 'thank god' that Sebastian didn't miss. Finally, Damien let them go, which they did without even glancing at each other.

''He's a... TROLL!'' yelled Morgan, once she was back at her apartment. Taylor was sitting on the couch, eating marshmellows, watching Morgan pace up and down and yelling. ''Overnight success? If someone here is an overnight success that's HIM. He's only relevant because some teenagers on the Internet lust over him.'' Morgan had forgotten to mention that she had been one of those people that had helped to boost Sebastian Stan's career on the Internet. And had also lusted over him. ''Morgan, c'mon. You called him untalented and we both know that he's not. And he knows you're not an overnight success.'' ''He's a idiot'' Morgan was a hundred times convinces that what she was saying was true. ''You didn't think he was an idiot last month when you were captioning pictures of him with the words 'Please choke me daddy'''. Morgan looked mortified to the extreme. ''I just want to throw myself out of the goddamned window.'' instead she threw herself on the couch, face down. She knew that what Taylor had just said was true and there was no excuses. ''Don't do it'' Taylor recommended her. ''We're just on the third floor. You won't die, you probably just break a leg.'' Morgan just groaned something that Taylor couldn't understand ''You know what's the worst part?'' she suddenly asked. ''That we were awesome together.'' that wasn't what Taylor imagined that Morgan was going to say. ''I've never felt this good working with someone before. He's really good. And he managed to bring the best of me... and the worst at the same time.'' Taylor didn't know what to say so she decided to change the topic. She stood up from the couch and grabbed a box that it was sent to Morgan that evening. ''They sent you this from Chanel and I've never been so jealous of something in my life before.'' Morgan took from the heavily decorated box five lipsticks, all of them decorated with an elegant M in gold. ''These are a exclusive shade of red made specially for you. No one else in the world has it. They called it the Morgan, so imagine.'' Morgan had loved them so much that it made her forget the mess with Sebastian. ''Don't tell me the fragance is exclusive.'' she pulled a luxurious bottle with the same elegant M. ''Because if it is, they read my mind. I love it.'' ''Yeah, it is made just for you'' Taylor was already resigned to the idea that all these brands were feeding Morgan's ego. ''I love my life.''

''She's a snake.'' Sebastian was pacing up and down his apartment. It was his friend Will the chosen one to listen to his whining. ''She's the living embodiment of a cobra. I don't know what I'm going to do to survive for three months around that venomous woman.'' Will wanted to say that she couldn't be that bad but he didn't know Morgan Llewellyn and she could perfectly be as bad as Sebastian said she was. ''I've heard a lot about her but never even saw a picture of her.'' Sebastian wanted to tell Will how lucky he was. Life without Morgan was a peaceful life. In two days she had irrupted into his life and messed it up. ''She's on Instagram. Just look her up. In three weeks she has more followers than me.'' Will typed something on his phone and immediately his expression changed to one of amazement. ''Is that her?'' for a second he believed that he was on someone else's Instagram page. But Sebastian nodded. ''Oh my god. She looks more like a Victoria's Secret Angel than an actress. She has legs for days.'' Sebastian didn't like at all that Will had found Morgan pretty. ''She's more beautiful in person, even when she was calling me untalented. She's as tall as me without heels.'' he realised that he was complimented Morgan instead of bashing her. But facts were facts. ''It's weird because I've never had a co-star that's so insufferable. Not Chris, not Margot, not Nicole, not Denise, well, no one before. Morgan is at the bottom of the list. Ironically, she's probably the most talented of them all.'' ''What?'' the least thing that Will could imagine was that Sebastian was going to call Morgan talented. And let alone, more talented than Nicole freaking Kidman. But Sebastian was nodding. ''I don't know where she was all this time and why she hadn't had a big role before because she's really good. Future Oscar winner kind of good. Personality wise, she's my least favourite co-star I've ever had and she earned that title in two days which is a record. But talent wise... she's the best person I've ever worked with, without any doubt. She blew me away. And that was with just the rehearsal of an scene.'' ''This is insane.'' mumbled Will. ''Maybe.'' Sebastian was sure that Morgan will drive him insane. He heard his phone beep. It was a notification from Morgan's Instagram. ''Why does she get free stuff from Chanel and I still have to pay for everything?''

On the last day of rehearsing things between Morgan and Sebastian got even worse, if that was possible. They weren't on speaking terms and they carried on for the whole day without saying a word that wasn't on the script. But suddenly they snapped for something stupid and five seconds later they were shouting at each other with Damien and the rest of the cast as the audience. The only one who looked surprised by the situation was Joe. The rest were sort of enjoying the show. ''EVERYTHING ALWAYS HAS TO BE THE WAY YOU WANT IT. WHY? BECAUSE YOU'RE BLOODY SEBASTIAN STAN, WHO WAS IN BLOODY MARVEL? NO ONE CARES!'' she shouted at him. ''SNAP OUT OF IT PRINCESS! IF SOMEONE HERE WANTS TO GET EVERYTHING THEIR WAY, THAT'S YOU, LLEWELLYN!'' The weird thing was that no one really knew why they were fighting this time. ''IT'S NOT THE WAY I WANT IT, GET IT INTO YOUR HARD HEAD, STAN! IT'S THE WAY THE SCRIPT IS WRITTEN! BUT I GUESS YOU KNOW BETTER THAN DAMIEN NOW!'' ''Aren't we going to stop them?'' asked a nervous Joe. ''Let them vent out'' Damien was resigned to it. ''This was going to happen sooner or later, we all saw it coming.'' ''MAYBE NO BETTER THAN DAMIEN BUT I KNOW BETTER THAN YOU! I HAVE FORTY ACTING CREDITS LLEWELLYN!'' Morgan laughed. ''AND IN HALF OF THEM YOU WERE LITTLE MORE THAN AN EXTRA, YOU DON'T HAVE MUCH TO BRAG! DON'T THROW YOUR 'CREDITS' AT MY FACE BECAUSE IT'S NOT GOING TO WORK!'' ''YOU DON'T HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THIS BUSSINESS!'' ''BUT I GOT THE LEAD ROLE, DOLL! AND I WAS CAST FIRST SO IF SOMEONE'S OPINION COUNTS HERE, THAT IS MINE! IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, YOU CAN LEAVE AND WE'D GET YOUR REPLACEMENT IN FIVE MINUTES!'' then she turned around dramatically. ''Someone can please get me Timothee Chalamet!'' Then she left the set being an absolute fury. ''GUESS WHAT, PRINCESS!'' he shouted before Morgan left. ''I'M NOT LEAVING. I'M STAYING. SO YOU BETTER DEAL WITH IT!'' ''TROLL!'' she shouted from the outside. ''SNAKE!'' he shouted back. A bit embarrassed, he glanced at his director and cast mates. All of them looked only sightly amused, except Joe. ''Sorry for that. But life would be much better with Saorise Ronan as the lead. '' ''Saorise is extremely talented but my lead is Morgan.'' Sebastian knew beforehand that Damien was always going to defend Morgan. ''Just go and relax for a bit. We start filming tomorrow so you'd better get your head clear.'' Sebastian left thinking that Damien was asking for a miracle. There was no way to keep his head clear. He was so on edge that at this moment he'd have preferred to film The Covenant all over again. Yes, that movie sucked and The American Dream will probably get several Oscars but in The Covenant he had Toby and Chase while here he was stuck with Morgan Llewellyn. Back in the set, Joe was still quite shocked. ''Kid, someday is going to be you the one screaming to someone else. It happens to everybody at some point.'' Michael told him. ''Did it happen to you?'' Joe couldn't imagine Michael screaming to anyone. ''Yes. In the set of The Light Between Oceans there was a woman who shouted at me the same way Morgan shouted Sebastian. She's now my wife. So, it may be a happy ending to the pitiful beginning of Morgan's and Sebastian's story.'' ''So'' apparently Damien was changing the topic very quickly. ''Who wants to see the Knicks against the Nets tomorrow at Madison Square Garden? Because I got tickets to the cast. It may be a nice treat after the first day of filming.'' Everyone agreed. Going to Madison Square Garden was always a nice experience. ''And what about Morgan and Sebastian?'' asked Emily. Everyone knew why she was asking that. No one was very excited with the idea of both of them shooting each other killer glances through the whole match. For sure, they'll kill the mood. ''Don't worry about them. They'll be okay, sooner or later, you'll see. Maybe they'll never be friends but they'll have to learn to be civil around each other. Okay, you're done for today, see you tomorrow.'' The three of them left, talking about Sebastian and Morgan. ''Yes, the fight was fun for a day but it has to stop'' Damien was thinking out loud. ''I'm sorry for this. I truly am. Pete...'' he called his assistant. ''Call their agents.''

P.D Okay, hell broke loose. Imagine whoever the hell you want as Florence because I don’t have anyone in my mind to fit that role.

Morgan throughout the episode:

Sebastian and Morgan during the episode:

(They are Slytherin and Gryffindor of course)

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im-tops-bottom · 6 years ago

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Just a casual convo between me and a friend

My friend: why do they make all the villains ugly?

Me: uhm excuse me bitch but have you seen Viggo in TCM3? I know you've seen the movie

My friend: true *after fangirling about him* okay name 9 more then!

Me: seriously bitch?

My friend: yeah bitch

Me: bitch Stuart Townsend!

My friend: okay Dorian was good looking

Me: Michael fassbender in x men and Prometheus.....I could keep going

My friend: okay I think you made your point

Me: oh I'm just getting started. Benedryl camperbatch in star trek

My friend: uh huh

Me: f&f6 Owen

My friend: say no more

Me: can I say Jerry from fright night

My friend: wait

Me: shut it. Uhhhh what's his face from red eye

My friend: cillian something

Me: no one lives

My friend: you just love Luke Evans movies

Me: shhhhh

My friend: wait we were talking about my batch of cookie dough mix that we were going to eat while watching Sabrina. How the fuck did we get here?

Me: I have no idea buddy. No idea

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imagitory · 6 years ago

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Hi, how are you? Have you watched the new fantastics beasts?What did you think about the movie?

*exhales slowly* Just got back from seeing it with my mumand friend (who are also big Potterheads), and…well, we came out of the theaterkind of disappointed. For those of you who wish to avoid spoilers, I’ll just say thatI was not happy with some of the choices J.K. made in regards tocharacterization for the central cast and with the film’s odd focus on Eastereggs to the original books or (possibly) the future sequels at the expense ofmaking sure the twists and characters introduced fit in with the establishedHarry Potter universe and even were necessary to begin with. The visuals andmusic were as always impressive, and Newt and his creatures were just aswonderful as in the first Fantastic Beasts movie, but like The Nutcrackerand the Four Realms I’m afraid the script is where most of this film’sproblems lie.

For those who don’t fear spoilers…read on!

The Good!

+Newt. He is honestly such a ray of sunshine and I so enjoyhim as our main character. Most of the laughs I got from this movie werebecause of him, and he was just as lovable and charming as ever. Eddie Redmayne embodies the character in every single shot he’s in: if everyone else is giving 100%, he’s giving 120%.

+The Fantastic Beasts, both old and new! The creatures wereunique and creative and I enjoyed every scene where Newt interacted with them.He even got to use them in cool, new ways, like using them to help himtrack down Tina, bust him, Leda, and Tina out of the French Ministry, and evenpickpocket Gellert Grindelwald at the end! It showcased Newt and his love of“simple things” as a truly formidable threat to evil, without sacrificing hisgentle, nurturing nature.

+The visuals, both costume-wise and scenery-wise, wereawesome. Costumer Colleen Atwood as always is on point, and the scene whereGrindelwald “calls” his followers with those wispy curtain things coming out ofnowhere to blanket Paris was very eerie.

+Leda Lestrange was a very interesting character! I’llhave to talk about her again in the less positive section, but honestly, shewas my favorite character in this movie. She’s a Slytherin with a dark past, amessed-up family, and a troubled soul, and yet she’s thoroughly a good guy:even when Grindelwald tries to corrupt her, she doesn’t bend and insteadfights him. Plus she was best friends with Hufflepuff Newt Scamander!Huff/Slyth friendship forever, people.

+I like Theseus and Newt’s relationship! I think Theseusbeing a very orderly, law-abiding Ravenclaw type makes for a great contrastwith Newt’s softer, rougher Hufflepuff nature.

+The cameo for Nicholas Flamel wasn’t necessary at all, but Ilike the concept for the character. Would love to see him kick some more ass inone of the sequels!

+Jude Law as Dumbledore. Honestly, I don’t think theycould’ve cast anyone better. He had all of the class, all of the gravitas, andall of the dodgy-ness appropriate to the character. Seriously, when he wasmessing around with Newt at the beginning I turned to my mum and friendand said, “Cheeky bastard.”

+As much as I still wouldn’t have cast Johnny Depp to playGrindelwald (I’m sorry, I would really have preferred aBulgarian/German/whatever else actor: the guy went to Durmstrang,for crying out loud), he really did pretty damn well. My personal fancast forGrindelwald will probably always be Michael Fassbender, and I may have writtenthe character a little differently myself, but the whole rally scene was excellentlystaged and Grindelwald’s manipulation of the Aurors felt very appropriate tothe character set up in the books.

+Really, all of the actors were good choices and theyperformed the material well. The material itself, that’s another matter, buteveryone gave it their all.

The Not-So-Good…

+*breathes in and out…in…and out…in…*

WHAT THE EVER-LOVING FUCK DID YOU DO TO QUEENIE?!

No, I’m sorry, I will get to other bullet points, but thisreally, really made me angry. Queenie was hands-down my favoritecharacter in the first Fantastic Beasts movie – she was a Leglimens,something we’d only ever seen from Dark wizards previously, and she had aflirtatious streak, but she was indisputably a good person with a gentle heart,a romantic spirit, and a sharp brain. She may have looked like a ditz (andpeople mistook her for that, to their detriment), but she was anything but:this is someone who was able to use her wiles to cheat her way into the MACUSAto bust her sister, Newt, and love interest Jacob out of Auror captivity. Shewas never an easily led person, and she was never the sort who would tryto manipulate someone she cared about with A LOVE SPELL and get swayed intojoining a man who advocates the superiority of wizard kind OVER THE OBJECTIONSOF THE MAN SHE LOVES, WHO HAPPENS TO NOT BE A WIZARD. Queenie is a strong, yetfeminine character who, despite her fragile appearance, showed nothing butstrength, smarts, and devotion to the ones she loved. To turn her into a pawnof Grindelwald is nothing short of character assassination in my eyes.

+Way too many things happened in “post-hawk”explanation while having far-reaching consequences in this film. Queenie and Jacobgot back together and Queenie became so desperate to marry him that she forsome reason decided to enchant him. Queenie and Tina are now not on speakingterms because Tina got mad that Queenie started dating Jacob, even though hebecame Tina’s friend too in the first movie. Tina suddenly is mad at Newtbecause of a misunderstanding, so their relationship is back to square one andthey’re not working well with each other like the first movie. Newt’s old loveinterest Leda Lestrange is marrying Newt’s brother Theseus even though sheclearly still has feelings for Newt. Because we are told all of thisinformation rather than seeing it seamlessly integrated into the storyline, wethe audience have less of an idea how to feel about it and, if the actions seemout of character, we don’t understand how the characters got to the point wherethey’d behave that way. There’s a reason a lot of tacked-on sequels are writtenlike this – the filmmakers didn’t expect to have to write more of the plotline,so it’s often a symptom of them trying to insert more artificial conflict intoa previously “happy ending” storyline. But we know that can’t be the case here, as these sequels were planned! And seriously, there are ways to add new conflictswhile keeping your characterizations from the previous installment intact –just look at the original Harry Potter books. We never had a book wheresuddenly Hermione was drugging Ron with love potion or Harry was suddenlydating Parvati so that he wouldn’t think about Ginny. Even introducing theseconflicts after the status quo was established would have made them easier toswallow.

+Credence should have died. I’m sorry, but the charactershould have died at the end of Fantastic Beasts. Not only was his deathsuch a fitting ending for that story and reversing it (again, post-hawk with noexplanation about how he survived) takes both that emotional gut-punch and thedanger that irreversible character death can provide away, but I also justdidn’t care for the whole “chosen one” prophecy thing they tried to tack ontoCredence. I mean, how many chosen ones does the Wizarding Worldhave? The entire plotline with Credence just got way convoluted, and the twistat the end – really? A Dumbledore? I mean, I’d guessed hemight not really be a Lestrange, but…if Albus was really his brother,why the hell was Credence on that boat? We know that Albus, Aberforth, andAriana were basically stuck in Godric’s Hollow with their parents for most oftheir lives, particularly after those Muggle boys hurt Ariana. But according tothis movie, Credence was a magical child being sent away from Europe by hisfamily who just happened to be swapped with yet another magical childwho was also being sent away from Europe by his family on the samefriggin’ boat. What are the odds? Even if the filmmakers wanted to play it asGrindelwald tricking Credence, lying to him about his ancestry so Credencewould want revenge against Dumbledore and try to kill him, that would’ve beenbetter, but they put bloody Fawkes in there. Just…what?

+On that note, what was the point of putting in somany worthless references to the original books? Fawkes as the pet ofGrindelwald’s new protégé? Professor McGonagall at Hogwarts even though there’sno way she could’ve been teaching at that time? Nagini, who honestly was themost ineffectual, throwaway character I think I’ve ever seen in any HarryPotter movie? She did basically nothing in this entire movie. We get verylittle focus on her and Credence’s friendship (romance? I dunno, there wasn’texactly time for any chemistry), so we don’t feel much of anything for it, and all shereally does is follow him around most of the time. She doesn’t protect himor give him advice to speak of, except at the end where she tries to convincehim not to join Grindelwald, which because it’s the only point we’ve seenher interacting with him on an emotional level doesn’t have any impact. Therewere also minor references in the Ministry characters, with one being namedTravers (whose family would later contain a Death Eater), but really, they allkind of blurred together for me, with none really leaving any impact except forTheseus. Any of them could have been cut without losing anything.

+There was so much going on at all times that there waslittle focus on the most important relationships: Newt and Theseus, Newt andLeda, Theseus and Leda, Newt and Tina (which frankly got so insufferable atpoints, it felt like a bad rom-com), Queenie and Jacob, Jacob and Newt, Tinaand Queenie, and Grindelwald and Dumbledore. Nagini and Credence’s relationship was almost anafterthought, given that they have almost no scenes showing any kind of bond, that it and they may as well have been cut altogether. Therewere moments that did work with most of the main relationships, but theycould’ve been so much stronger if the filmmakers hadn’t added in all these extra charactersand plot lines that weren’t needed, like Leda’s older half-brother bent onrevenge with that weird parasite in his eye. (What did that add??)

+I said Leda was my favorite character in this movie, andthat was true. What makes me mad, though, is that after building up such awonderful, interesting character that has such potential for growth anddevelopment, J.K. killed her off after we only just started getting to know her.Now all we’ll ever see of her relationships with Newt and Theseus (which, as Ipointed out earlier, have only really been shown post-hawk or in flashbacks)are the short scenes inter-spliced between everything else going on in thismovie. We barely even see any of Theseus and Leda’s romantic relationship, eventhough they’re getting married, and half the time we spend with Leda we’re seeing howmuch she still truly cares for Newt, which is messed up when she’s marrying hisbrother, as it almost feels like a substitute AND we’re given no reason for whyLeda and Newt broke up. This all could’ve been explored in future movies ifLeda stuck around, maybe showing Newt and Leda developing more of a friendship-likerapport and Leda and Tina becoming friends and Theseus and Leda having thechance to be adorable, but with Leda’s heroic sacrifice, all of that potentialis gone. Plus I’m a bit irritated that we get such great representation forSlytherin house (and a female POC, to boot!) that then of course has to getkilled off. Thanks a lot.

+There were some really weird mistakes regarding existing canon. I already mentioned McGonagall, who couldn’t have been teaching in the 1920′s without being an old granny in Harry’s years, but the film also makes the mistake of making Dumbledore the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher (rather than Transfiguration), showing a Lestrange family tree ending with Leda and her dead brother even though we know there are future Lestranges (Rabastian and Rodulphus),and forgetting the Leglimency is something you study, not an inbred ability that has the potential to incapacitate a person.

I think this is the first time I’ve ever been so frustratedwith a Harry Potter film in my life. I was angry about Prisoner of Azkaban dueto its haphazard explanation of important plot points and its lack of regardfor continuity, and I was disappointed by Half-Blood Prince’s boring,romance-focused adaptation, but this movie really got me hot under the collar,because there was so much here that was so good, and yet all of the problemscame from Harry Potter’s very creator, J.K. Rowling, and the script shedeveloped. Just about everything outside the script was a home run. And the scriptitself wasn’t without some great ideas and scenes, too – it was just thenot-so-good ideas and scenes that really ran the finished product into the ground for me. I’ll enjoy what I can out of this, but considering that it ignored book canonso thoroughly, put more focus on cameos and plot twists than on organic,engaging relationships, and killed two of my favorite characters in the entirestoryline – one figuratively and the other literally – I’m going to have to goin with much, much lower expectations for any sequel that might be released.

Overall Grade: C-

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