#my boy pod better not die

[shona22]

Happy WIP Mondays! We are at 7k words for the first chapter so far and I'm trying not to put beyond 9. Hopefully. Positively. Un-betaed at the moment

“Okay, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.” Stiles groaned out from the arched entryway, just in front of the kitchen. He's rocking on the heels of his washed canvas shoes, hands clasped behind. There's an exaggerated frown on his face. He appears genuinely apologetic, just, not as much as he's voicing it out to be. “I know, you were busy and — yeah, you've been trying too, listening to us, and let me just say I thought you were replaced by some pod person because what the hell, Derek, when did you start taking my advice instead of taking–”

“Stiles.” Derek sighed with all his might. After the pack had dispersed, Stiles had lingered. He found his calling near the wall shelf, not quite looking at the books Derek had unearthed from the vault, just…letting his unfocused gaze linger on the cracked spines of the hardbound. The sensation of Stiles’s silence felt like prickling needles, like dehydration at a parched desert. Derek's been a bit miffed, mostly cautious, and waited patiently for the boy to leave him the fuck alone. But when has Derek's life gone according to the plan?

“Right.” Stiles sighed, pressing his palms into his eye sockets. “I'm apologizing.You should accept it.”

Derek almost snorts out the warm beer he had been nursing. He takes a moment, letting his eyes linger, going top to bottom and again the top of the boy’s head. Stiles, in all his pale-skinned, jittery glory, is simply infuriating. “You're demanding I accept your apology?”

“I'm making a suggestion.” He pops the words out with a petulant curling of his full lips, an insistent sinful pout of pink that's awfully tempting. But the expression stays there only for a moment before Stiles lets himself slump forward, reaching the kitchen counter that separates them. “Can I have that?” He say, pointing towards the beer can with a newfound audacity sparkling behind his brown eyes.

“No.” Derek said firmly, pulling himself and the can deliberately out of Stiles’s reach.

He had absolutely refused to supply alcoholic beverages to the pack – not because he's a law abiding citizen that's afraid of the Sheriff – but because he simply didn't carry enough wolfsbane infused alcohols to supply them so freely. Maybe, one day, he will teach IsaacIssac how to brew his own.

And giving Stiles a beer potent enough to affect a werewolf? Fat chance.

“You're underage.” Derek added bluntly.

Stiles pulled such an ugly expression that all Derek wants to do is reach between the space and slap it away. It's not new, the aggression he had felt towards the human boy— and worse, is that he's acted on it before. Stiles is infuriating, a poster child of adhd that could power a small town, and only could be enjoyed in small doses. And enjoyed is an overstatement — although his wolf heaves like a sickly Victorian child whenever he gets hit with the telltale scent of his mate. So the aggression? It's nothing new. It's a safer way to touch, better way to warn.

“I'm probably going to get killed anytime next week,” Stiles bemoaned with faux graveness. “And the only thing you'll remember is that you refused to give me a beer as our last conversation.”

“You're not going to die next week.” Derek rolled his eyes, turning his back to Stiles. The autumn sun was setting at a leisurely pace, still peaking over the horizon and painting the loft a dastardly shade of orange. He wants to pull the curtains in the main hall, but then again, he doesn't want to switch on the fluorescent lights indoors just yet. He needs to cook dinner. The sink is filled with dishes. There's laundry he needs to take by Mrs. Witherspoon’s laundromat down the streets. There's—

“Uh, did you not hear anything I said?” Stiles yelled, incredulous, and it cuts through Derek's train of thought. “The thing is going off killing virgins now, and guess what I'm? I'll give you two chances.”

Jesus fucking Christ.

“Stiles.”

“Yes, I'm, indeed Stiles. How did you even guess, Derek? Now, for your second chance. What am I?”

“A general pain in the ass.”

“Hah.” Stiles deadpans, curling his fingers to rest his face on his palm as he leaned forward, back arched. “A virgin. I'm going to die a virgin.”

“You're not going to die a virgin, Stiles.” Derek exhaled loudly, feeling the veins on his forehead throb.

He switches the faucet then, letting the water cascade over the dirty dishes and the lull in the conversation. The yellow scrubbers Ericas got him were a tight fit, he wonders if she got it from the kid's section because no wash gloves should have a size limit. It's not as if Derek's awfully big, he's bigger than most— a definite sore thumb in the clandestine town of Beacon Hills. Back in New York, he was dwarfed by men the size of wall pillars, but back then he was younger and also a beta. Although, if memories serve right, then Hales were always a peculiar bunch. People had always given them a wide berth, a fleetingly curious glance. Even the women were taller and broader. If anything, he remembered the then Sheriff being thoroughly loomed over by Talia Hale.

This all to say that when Stiles slides up bedside him, all meek like a church mouse and smelling divinely of lust and want, Derek could only concentrate on the fact that he looked all soft and small, easy to engulf if Derek were to hold him close. He's flushed, red cheeked and bitten lips. The pretty nose, the moles. His rigid, swimmer shoulders that tapered into a tiny waist. He's too skinny, but there's a give to his belly where the graphic shirt sticks tauntly. Almost like the baby fat had refused to melt down. “What do you mean by that?”

What? Derek blinks, then repeats it out loud. “What?”

“You said…” Stiles’s voice is unsteady, he plays with a lock of hair around the nape of his long neck. “I don't have to die a virgin.”

“...I did.”

“So, you're– are you–” He takes in a large gulp of breath, then looks straight up, right into Derek, right at his soul, where it's dark and sick. “You're offering? To take my virginity?”

The sound of water hitting the melamine plates was deafening.

[klanceflavoredgatorade]

Klangst fic

fair warning I have very little writing experience

this is based off of “Rose’s Turn”

Hope you enjoy!

All that work and what did it get me?

Lance could feel the heat, the anger, rising in his chest.

Why did I do it?

He gave everything to this team. To this coalition. And what had they done in return?

Scrapbooks full of me in the background

They had let the one thing he had die. Keith was gone, and none of them had even tried to save him.

Give them love and what does it get you? What does it get you?

He loved his team. He really, truly, thought he did. But they had made their minds up the moment they turned around, leaving Keith trapped in the Galran ship they had doomed to explode.

One quick look as each of them leaves you.

Lance walked with more purposefully than he ever had. He knew what he had to do. His rage was rising, coming to a boiling point that no one could stop before it spilled over.

All your life and what does it get you? What does it get you?

Keith had lost his youth to them. To these aliens who didn’t even appreciate his efforts. Now he had lost his life, and they still couldn’t give some semblance of remorse?

“Thanks a lot” and out with the garbage

Well, that just wouldn’t do.

They take bows, and you’re battin’ zero

They would feel remorse. But it was already much too late.

The rest of the team was so high and mighty, weren’t they? Always so much better, so much more mature than he or Keith could be. How tragic, Lance thought, that those things couldn’t save them now. Nothing would.

I had a dream

Lance had wanted this once. He wanted to come to space, to be a pilot.

I dreamed it for you, Shiro

And who had inspired him, but his dear leader. He still remembered seeing Shiro’s face on TV for the first time when he was younger.

It wasn’t for me, Shiro

Would Lance be here, if it wasn’t for that television broadcast? Was all of this a misguided pipe-dream?

And if it wasn’t for me, then where would you be-Team Voltron?

Without him, without Keith, there would be no Voltron. The others were ungrateful. Unappreciative on the sacrifices they made, focusing only on themselves.

Well, someone tell me when is it my turn?

It ended today. They didn’t matter now. They never had, not next to Keith. Lance would get what he wanted this time. And he wanted them gone.

Don’t I get a dream for myself?

He didn’t need to be a paladin anymore. He didn’t need to worry about them. All he had to do was be patient, get their quintessence, and bring back what really mattered.

Starting now it’s gonna be my turn.

As he reached the ship’s core, he almost could’ve laughed. They really were getting a taste of their own medicine! They could die on a burning ship, just as Keith had!

Gangway world, get off of my runway!

As dumb as he acted, Lance was smart. He knew that once the others were gone, their quintessence would end up in the lions. From there, he would take it and use it to restore Keith. He would be remade- brought back just as he had been.

Starting now I bat a thousand

The bomb wasn’t hard to plant. Not enough to entirely destroy the ship -Lance still might need some of the supplies- but enough that the other paladins would come running.

This time, boys, I’m taking the bows- and

Their clambering about the room would set off the other bombs, and that would be the end of it. Lance would get what he wanted.

Everything’s coming up Lance

He set the final wires into place and worked the timer.

Everything’s coming up McClain

He hoped Keith would understand. Of course he would, right? 

Everything’s coming up Lance, this time for me

As the timer ticked down, Lance smiled. Yes, Keith would understand. This was just the beginning of their story. He made his way to his escape pod, laughing harder than he ever thought he could.

For me

5

For me!

4

For me!

3

For me!

2

For me!

1

FOR ME!

Boom.

[imperfectskeleton]

Animorphs #4 The Message 9-12

It’s a little chilling that the dream gets fainter. Though I love the description: more like a memory than the dream itself. But Ax doesn’t have much longer to wait, and they don’t even know for sure he’s real, nevermind who he is. Save our boy, guys!

Cassie frets so much about the dolphins, right until she is one.

Also, Cassie doing a morph first to check it out. Everybody do a shot.

And the dolphins are a fun reminder that getting lost in the animal mind isn’t always blind panic. Sometimes it’s playing. Poor Tobias trying to herd the pod of toddlers.

Partly because I’m reading the pdf with more words per page, the battle with the sharks is so quick. And so so horrible for Marco. Like he hasn’t started his streak of being disemboweled yet but bitten in half isn’t exactly better. And he doesn’t want to drown like his mother. He doesn’t want to die, but it’d be worse if there was no body. If his father was left with nothing. It’s possible that Peter is so far in his grief he wouldn’t notice for a little while, but Marco knows it would kill him, and kill him quickly. Though I also have to wonder if (spoilers) Peter pulls himself together because Marco is spending less time in the house and he remembers he’s meant to be the adult.

Anyway, on a less depressing note, sci-fi loves whales. Hitchhikers’ Guide To The Galaxy, Treasure Planet, Doctors Who, and I feel like there are definitely more just these are the ones that live in my brain. Some video games I’ve seen video essays on but haven’t played. Yeah, sci-fi loves whales (as opposed to fantasy, which loves Wales) and this particular whale makes a big impression with the whole psychic casual protector of earth thing. I know there are other social animals that will attack the Yeerks from time to time - we’ll get to them when we get to them - but this guy communicates directly with Cassie in a way that kind of encapsulates why fantasy loves whales. They’re vast and peaceful and mysterious. Yeah, we can buy that whales mind-meld. And it talks to Cassie, because she’s the one who is open to understanding.

And then it’s a sweet tonal shift, for Marco, who’s life the whale just saved, to not make fun of Cassie talking to the whale but just go “the whale’s showing off for the ladies? I respect that”

This is a fun book

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

fight the future part 1

AHHHHH, i’m so EXCITEDDDD!!!

it usually takes me an hour and a half to write up my initial thoughts on a 45 minute episode, PLUS more time to edit them before posting, so this 2 hour movie is probably going to take all night LMAOOOO

but after having some brief troubles with my laptop’s DVD player, here we are!!!! i cannot wait!!! i’m so excited!! everyone has really hyped this up. but i read the back of the DVD and it didn’t mention gibson at all? so are we just pushing that to the side for now?

okay. yeah. i’ll have to not worry about that little boy. 

oh, and yeah, i'm watching it on a DVD! the quality is... not great. which i suppose adds to the immersion.

post-movie thoughts: i can see shrimp colors and feel their secret emotions.

let’s GOOOOO!

theme music playing……………….. over some oily looking stuff…. YEAH BABY!!!!!

we are in a blizzard. two figures run. wait, it’s texas? oh, it’s ancient texas. a very different time from now.

let us enter a cave together, where we can start a fire and rest. and look around with torches. deeper and deeper into this labyrinth journey the cavemen. it looks like skyrim. i half expect a skeever to jump out

wah! who is this in the ice?

ALIEN ATTACK??? what is going on? alien vs cavemen! place your bets!!! one caveman down!!! the alien escaped?? other caveman wants to know where tf it went!

i get the sense a jumpscare is coming. WHAT IS THAT THING??? it looks like a flounder??????? surviving caveman stabs it and it bleeds. OHHH.... IS THAT THE BLACK OIL STUFF???? YEAH, it is!!! and it crawls all over the caveman!!!! 

wahhhh!!! abrupt jump cut to a boy named stevie falling into a cave. stevie, there may be monsters afoot, please be careful. stevie wants this skull for himself. please alert any local archaeologists of this find instead of stealing it or its historical context will forever be lost to time. NO STEVIE! the goop!!!!! it is upon him!!!

maybe this is what he gets for trying to steal archaeological remains. take notes, children. a lesson was learned today.

it crawls up his legs like evil slugs!!!! and into his eyeballs!! the other kids run!!!

they abandoned stevie in his hour of need… personally, i would not forgive them for this

some yellow firetrucks are here to save the day (and who has ever seen a yellow firetruck?). go, fetch stevie. the fireman up top can’t hear the ones down in the cave through the radio!!!

now, what is this helicopter doing at the scene? they bring out a pod-thing to store stevie in. and this other guy (later revealed to be named bronschweig- simply too many german names on this show) is watching the boy with grave concern.

THIS DUDE LEAVES THE FIREMEN DOWN THERE TO DIE?????

absolutely DIABOLICAL.

a ton more trucks pull in and block off the area while the doctor bronschweig guy calls someone to say that…. the impossible scenario that they never planned for??? well, they better come up with a plan!!

a week later, a helicopter arrives in dallas. the FBI says there is no evidence of an explosive in this building, but this other guy (michaud) says they had better check again. he sees something in the distance….. upon the roof....

SCULLY IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i cheered and screamed!

“mulder, it’s me!” “where are you scully?” “i’m on the roof” <- it was her on the roof!! oh, my heart is so happy to see her!!! she says she hasn't found anything. and you know she is good at observing

LMAOOOOO she wants to know what the fuck she is doing there!!! after going up 12 floors of stairs!!! they are not acting in accordance with the data on how to respond to terrorist threats!!! the bomb threat was called in ACROSS THE STREET!! lives could be lost!!! yes diva, monologue statistics!

BOO! mulder scares her LMAOOO LMAOOOOOOO aww. babies.

(her lecturing him on the statistics and terrorist behavioral analysis is so funny because he is the behavioral analysis guy... but i recognize that they are doing a sort of character introduction for the girlies who are just tuning in for the movie, and she is the one who likes to do things by the book)

(he pops a sunflower seed) “what are we doing up here, scully? it’s hotter than hell” <- many are asking this question...

NOOOOO, he’s bored because they’ve CLOSED THE X FILES 💔💔💔 and now they have to follow the rules!!! and do boring things like look for bombs! but at least they get to do it together? that has to be a plus!

“maybe we should call in a bomb threat to houston; i think it’s free beer night at the astrodome” (she glares at him) LMAOOOOO she’s mad as hell!!!! and so is he!!! but in a different direction!

OHHHHHH she pretends the door is locked…. and he goes into open it…. AHAHAHA, OH I JUST GIGGLED!!!

“it’s locked?” “so much for anticipating the unforeseen” (he opens it and turns to her, who is smiling, crossing her arms) “i had you” (he’s laughing) “no you didn’t” “had you big time"

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH i love when they write scully as a smartass!!! THAT IS MY BABY!! <3

SHE’S STILL TEASING HIM AS THEY GO INSIDE, BAHAHAHA! he says he saw her jiggle the handle; “i saw your face, mulder, there was a definite moment of panic” “you’ve never seen me panic. when i panic, i make this face” (he has no discernible expression)

BANTER!!! THE BANTER OF IT ALL!!!

OHHHH, SHE MAKES HIM BUY HER A SODA and she wants something SWEET... AGAIN, i say, that is my baby!!!!!!

15 minutes in and i’m already kicking my feet and giggling at their banter, oh my god… this is going to ruin me

LMAOOO what the hell did he just pull out of his pocket as he is putting the change in for a soda?!!

bro is slamming all of the buttons…. bro is kicking the machine… i have been there too, brother, i promise. 

aha! the machine was unplugged!

this DVD is skipping a little but i think he got locked in the drink room 💔 for what purpose??

he panics and calls scully on his nokia, and her number is 555-0113 btw, for those of you who keep track of these things

he says he found the bomb!!!! and she thinks he is joking, but he is absolutely not!!! 

OH SHIT!!!!! the bomb really is in there!!!! where the vending machine should be!! he starts counting down…….

so scully runs out, saying that she will get him out of there, but first: get everyone else out!!!!

YES, TELL THEM GIRL!!! “i need this building evacuated and cleared out in ten minutes. i want you to call the fire department and have them block off the city center and a one-mile radius around the building” “ten minutes?” “DON’T THINK! pick up that phone and make it happen!” <- YAAAAAAS EXACTLY RIGHT!!!

love when she raises her voice at men who doubt her. it brings me inner peace.

she needs to speak to michaud NOW…. tell him to deploy the FBI AT ONCE!!!!

oh, poor mulder, stuck in a locked room with the vending machine bomb….. he jumps when his cellphone rings. “scully, you know that face i just showed you? i’m making it again” <- NOOOOO his normally cool exterior is cracking 💔

she informs him to get away from the door because they are coming in. is michaud a welder????? or do they just keep one on hand for events like this?

michaud says to get out NOW!!! and mulder doesn’t want to listen, but scully forces him out. now why tf would this michaud guy know how to diffuse a bomb?? but he says he does.

okay, but he lies, because he’s just sitting there looking at it?????

mulder wants to run back in but she SCREAMS IN HIS FACE THAT THEY DON’T HAVE TIME!!!

(this was most pleasing to me as well. something about her screaming in his face to save him made me nod in approval)

they just barely get in the car, when the whole building blows!!!! poor limping agents emerge from the bombing as the place is in ruins. “next time, you’re buying”, mulder says. oh, this man, and his dumbass quips…

back to the FBI headquarters in DC. is scully in trouble??!?! but skinner is here!!!! surely he will defend her! oh no… mulder is here, too. there were 5 deaths in the explosion!!!

mulder rushes in, asking if the bodies really were found in the building, because they were told it was clear. but this lady tells him he was late and he better go wait outside… what is afoot at this moment…? skinner shakes his head ever so slightly

cut to him pounding sunflower seeds outside the door while the meeting takes place.

skinner emerges!!!!! NOOOO he gently informs mulder that they’re being blamed for this!!! he was so careful about the way he worded this news, too 💔💔

“if they want somebody to blame, they can blame me. agent scully doesn’t deserve this” “she’s in there right now saying the same thing about you” <- OHHHHHH……….. i fell to my knees in a walmart parking lot.

(metaphorically, of course. for in reality, i sit here, cozy in bed)

mulder says that he broke protocol by leaving the SAC, so he should take the blame, but she says she was the one who ordered him out. and he denies wanting to go back in.

poor scully :( she emerges

and now the people from the panel in the meeting room want skinner back :( she always calls him “sir” :(

NOOOOO, THEY’RE SPLITTING OUR AGENTS UP??? 💔 

“this is not about you scully, they’re doing this to me” “they’re not doing this. mulder, i left behind a career in medicine… because i thought that i could make a difference at the FBI, but it hasn’t turned out that way, and now if they were to transfer me to omaha, or cleveland, or some field office it just doesn’t hold the interest for me that it once did. not after what i’ve seen and done” <- OHHHHHH… his face while she says this…

and her guilt…. it’s like she wants to atone.

again, scully and her need to Do The Morally Correct Thing at all costs. and at this point, can she say that being in the FBI is the Morally Correct Thing to do? i don't blame her for wanting to go be a doctor instead, even though i am surprised she doesn't want to figure out who got her sick and killed her sister. maybe she thought if she cut her losses now, she could still make a life for herself somewhere else.

she looks so SAD, and she says she’s sorry, and when mulder walks away, she grabs his jacket that he left behind... ohhhhh my GOD, her standing alone in the hallway… someone please kill me

(post viewing note: i think he was trying to blame himself for the whole situation and assuage her guilt with the "this is not about you, scully" line, but it seemed like he was saying that he was the only one being persecuted for the pursuit of the great and noble Truth, which rubbed me the wrong way. i think i know what he MEANT, but when he said they were doing this to HIM, it was like, damn, pretty sure y'all have been a team... again with the hearing 'i' when he ought to hear 'we')

NOOOOO! mulder’s absolutely smashed at the bar. bro barely drinks and tonight he is going for the gold. 

AND THE BARTENDER ASKS WHAT HE DOES SO HE JUST. TELLS HER EVERYTHING??? so she cuts him off for the night. because his alien story seems to indicate his inebriation.

oh my god, it's like it doesn't bother him that he is a joke to his peers when he is getting results, but when he is separated from those results, being belittled hurts

“one is the loneliest number” <- SAID BY THE MAN who never wanted a partner….. oh my god…..

OH, the poor guy can’t even go to the bathroom in peace… which leaves him pissing against the wall… truly an all time low for my best friend mulder

this guy is talking to him while he goes to the bathroom. he says he has been watching his career for a while…….. since he was a promising young agent….. okay, who is this kurtzweil fellow? OH! HE CLAIMS TO BE “AN OLD FRIEND OF YOUR FATHER’S” EEK! i don’t think that will endear him to you 

HE CALLS THEM “FELLOW TRAVELERS”.... RED MR. MULDER CONFIRMED???

he’s trying to get away from this guy. kurtzweil heard he comes in there sometimes. huh, that’s interesting. i feel like we never see him drink. and he said he usually doesn’t, which he stated as much before. maybe he goes there on the tough nights. maybe he gets bored. maybe his general sobriety is being retconned in this film. very interesting.

bro is trying to get tf out of there… but kurtzweil says that michaud never tried to diffuse that bomb!! "they" wanted the medical quarantine office in that dallas building destroyed!! which is where the bodies came from!!! the dead they found were already dead before the bomb went off!!!!

ohhhh, mulder's eyes are alight again… he tells the doctor he thinks he’s full of shit, but i can see that spark in his drunk and pondering eyes.

he is now off to georgetown. where poor scully cannot sleep. in her white robe. sadly looking at the ceiling.

(i know nothing about DC. so scully lives in georgetown? then where does he live? how far away is that? you have to call a cab, so it's probably pretty far... how long are their journeys to work? and most importantly, how far are they from the museums?)

OH she immediately clocks that he is drunk and she is SUSPICIOUS. oh, i want to STUDY this interaction:

“oh, i woke you. did i wake you?” (he stumbles in)

“no”

“why not? it’s 3 in the morning” 

“are you drunk, mulder?” (i find it very fascinating she asks this without judgement- just very matter of fact)

“i… i… uh, was, until about 20 minutes ago, yeah”

“was that before or after you decided to come here?”

“what exactly are you implying?”

(she stares at him) “go home, mulder”

“no, get dressed”

“it’s late”

“get dressed”

“what are you doing?” 

“just get dressed, and i’ll explain on the way” <- ohhhhhh…. will she go with him?

she will, but only after a deep sigh

(post-viewing thoughts: i thought this was so fascinating because it felt like she thought he was going to break whatever tenuous barrier was between them. like, he was either going to try and sleep with her, or beg her to stay, and either one was something she couldn't handle. it felt like she assumed it was sexual, to me at least. and that firm rejection was very interesting. i shall unpack this for decades, i am sure)

back to texas, where the quarantine effort where stevie and the firemen fell in the hole is being resumed. AND CSM IS LIGHTING UP AS HE DESCENDS FROM HIS HELICOPTER!!! sadly and pensively smoking. 

the guy from before who we saw leave the firemen behind- bronschweig- has something to show CSM. AUGH, the fireman that they left in the hole is still alive, but he is very goopy??? why is this???

the black oil alien is eating him away!!! but they managed to slow it down by bringing him back to freezing!!!

he asks if CSM wants him to destroy “this one too, before it gestates” and he says no, no. we need to try the vaccine. and if it doesn’t work… burn it like the others. nasty.

AUGH....... the oil alien moved in the fireman's body a little bit. didn't care for it.

the agents are rolling up to the naval hospital at 4 am. i sure do hope mulder wasn’t the one driving. scully does not seem like the type to allow this.

LMAOOOO he is trying to get into the morgue by pushing around the young and inexperienced guard, and he does that thing where he calls him “son”, which makes me feel so weird, but the trickery of a guy named fox never fails to amuse me. he points out to scully once they're successfully inside that it’s pretty weird a hospital morgue is suddenly off limits on the orders of a general. yeah, seems sus.

mulder is unboxing this corpse, and it is horribly sticky!!! she’s gloving up to investigate. “god, it’s completely edematous”, she notes, and i giggled when she said that. scully using medical words makes my heart skip beats. i even giggled while gagging as she dragged her fingers through the human body that had become gel. and there was evidently absolutely no autopsy, she declares!!! the death report is obviously not true!!!

(shoutout to the props team)

STEALING A BODY with agents mulder and scully! but she is concerned! it takes a long time to conduct an autopsy! she’s worried they'll get caught!! “we’re being blamed for this man’s death. i’d like to know what he died of”, mulder points out, and you know what? i can’t really argue with that logic 

how is she gonna cut the body open if he’s goop?!?!

off to dr. kurtzweil’s apartment, where an outside investigation is taking place, and you bet mulder is going to crash it.

OH SHIT??? the cops who are in kurtweil's place accuse him of a very serious crime??? mulder also found a book he wrote about “global domination conspiracy” um… can we trust this guy? 

earlier when he said he was an OBGYN, my first thought was that he was one of those guys who works in the fertility clinics and makes the clone people… maybe he really is?

(after seeing the film, i think it was just a coincidence LMAO)

mulder make a joke about needing a pelvic examination and cracks the other cop up lmao. he has a way of charming people

GASP! as he tries to leave, he’s being summoned around the corner by kurtzweil!!! he says "they" know that he is talking to mulder. mulder is like how tf did you know all that about the goop guy in the hospital morgue?

well, let me tell you a story about a mouse disease, says kurtzweil.

and FEMA mentioned…. what are they doing in a mouse disease outbreak?? with their newfound powers? hmm.

MR. MULDER LORE!!!! they worked on a bio weapon together. “a plague to end all plagues… a planned armageddon” arranged with the aliens!! that's... not good.

so he says the president will declare a state of emergency when this plague arrives, and all power will come under FEMA/the secret government. and then i think he implies it will be transferred over to the aliens?

he says to go back to texas and dig… or else.

poor FEMA. always being blamed for something.

meanwhile, scully is working on getting an autopsy on the goopy body. but there are people approaching!!!

she hides!!! in the freezer!!!! but no!!!! her phone goes off!!!!

LMAOOOO!!! DESPITE the horrible timing, she picks up and says she can’t really talk right now- but mulder wants to know more about this infection she found. 

he wants her to come to dallas with him, but she says she can’t, she has a hearing tomorrow!!! OH SHIT!!! the army men are approaching, but just in time she hides under the bodies…… very gross

now mulder is in a lab far away. looks like she did not accompany him to texas.

JUST KIDDING!!! SHE DID!!! she walks in right as he is told about some archaeological bone fragments!!

she didn’t want to come, but whatever those men were infected with has a protein code she has never seen before!! and i KNOW scully knows her protein codes!!! it is a serious health threat!!!

time to look at the fossils with a microscope. oh, whatever she sees is crazy, judging by the face she is making

(i thought it was so funny how he tells the dude in the lab he wanted her to explore the bones because it was so conveniently timed AND because they were archaeological remains that were thousands of years old, and i'm thinking, is she trained in archaeology? or is that implied with a training in forensic pathology? at what age is a bone no longer in her area of expertise?!)

back to the texas site…. the scary government people are going to try the vaccine. BLEH, whatever was in that guy has come free through his chest!!!!!!!!!!! bronschweig is looking around all over the place, freaking tf out!!!! where did it go?!!!!!

bronschweig says he can see it?? in a cave.

it looks slimy. and kinda little? he’s loading up a syringe with some sort of liquid that must be the vaccine, but then it vanishes!!!

OH. IT IS NOT LITTLE. NOT LITTLE AT ALL!!!!

GIRL. IT EATED HIM!?!!!! bronschweig stabs the alien fellow with the vaccine, but the other scientists lock him down in the hole because he has been mauled!!!!!!! and they bury him!!!! damn!!! there are truly no alliances in this alien business!!!!

why are we in england now? OHHHHH! IT’S WELL-GROOMED MAN!!! his butler says he has a call….

(okay, yeah, his name is “well-manicured man”, as the subtitles show, but come on!! it’s been 5 seasons of me calling him the wrong name!! i can’t switch it up now!!)

CSM says there is an emergency meeting TONIGHT. and strughold called it- whoever tf that is.

i have a feeling i am supposed to be most sympathetic towards well-groomed man. especially as he runs for what i presume to be his crying grandchild who hurt their knee. he was also the only one to advocate for working alongside the resistance, which morally elevated him above the others. but still. he is IN the alien groupchat, which you do not enter by being a morally clean fellow

syndicate meeting time!! who is this strughold fellow? aww, well-manicured man’s grandson broke his legs :(

so, breaking news: the alien virus has mutated into a new entity! they need to reevaluate their role in the colonization! well-groomed man points out that they have been used this whole time!! and they dismiss all of his wisdom!

so, they are once again going to ignore his advice of trying to have any hope. but there have been complications… allow us to look at a TV to illustrate

it is mulder and scully on the security footage!!! someone must have tipped him off to what is going on!! and they suspect kurtzweil. so he must go. and so must mulder.

but if they kill mulder, they risk turning one man's quest into a wider crusade… so they must take away what he cannot live without… 

cut to scully!!!! NOOOOOO!

ahhhhh!! i left off at 54:52, i feel that this is an okay place to leave for the night, because my writeups take so long. i started this almost 2 hours ago, and i think a break is appropriate here. so! until tomorrow!!!

ahhhh… so many things to analyze. while trying to fall asleep, i couldn’t stop thinking about the following: scully teasing mulder at the very beginning of the film; how she doesn’t want to work for the FBI anymore without him, and how she no longer feels she can make a change there (and how she Needs to make change rather than simply earn a paycheck); how she is trying to find her place in life still; his sadness at this fact; how he went to the bar and got smashed to cope, spilling his guts out to the waitress, clearly crushed that the world thinks he’s a joke when he doesn't have the answers to dull the pain; how he showed up to scully’s place drunk and she was confused, and the careful line of their relationship was being walked upon when he did so, but she still followed him into the hospital; and then how she immediately started nerding out about the goopy guy, and then hid in the morgue to autopsy him!!!!! and then there’s the whole thing with the well-groomed man and the aliens and colonization and blah blah blah, but come on!! i want my babies back together!! kicking ass and taking names!!! so.

part 2 shall commence shortly!

[starsandmargsabls]

Do you plan on rewriting the Onderon Rebels Arc?

Imma be honest, I had kinda forgotten about that arc until you sent me this ask 😅

Well, I could, I definitely have problems with it, most of it being the forced romance between Ahsoka and Lux, so lemme think for a moment.

General Rewrite Premise:

Ahsoka and Rex are assigned to train up the Onderon rebels, all that is fine. The change should happen when they meet up with Lux, Steela, and Saw. My biggest problem with The Clone Wars is that Lux never apologizes- tbh honest, almost no one that's ever hurt Ahsoka has apologized to her, she's just supposed to forgive them- so I'm going to use that lack of verbality to my advantage.

Ahsoka sees Lux and is instantly distrustful seeing as the last time she saw him he kidnapped her, sexually assaulted her, was far too comfortable being sexist and xenophobic, demeaned her, didn't take the hint that the obviously dangerous group was dangerous until he saw them burn a village down with his own eyes, and then left her for dead- Ahsoka was dragged through the ice and snow without proper clothing, had to fight in it without proper clothing, and then Lux didn't even stop to check on her before taking the escape pod. Also, seeing as there was an escape pod- and we see in ROTS that escape pods are navigable- Lux could've just taken the pod and left Ahsoka unconscious in space on the ship when he first tasered her.

We could also add in a line from Rex that Ahsoka had gotten in trouble with the Council and brass when she returned to the Republic. After all, that was the second time she'd gone off to a Bonteri/Separatist, and even though both were somewhat instigated by Padme, the only one who can vouch that Ahsoka was actually kidnapped by Lux was R2, and he wasn't even in the room when Lux tasered her or when Ahsoka demanded to know what his plan was.

I'm fine with Steela liking Lux, seeing as she doesn't know about...all of the above. And that makes sense, Lux is from the same planet as her and wants to free it from the Separatists; Dooku killed his mom. Her distrust and dislike for Ahsoka can be brought upon by having to share her leadership position with an unknown entity, their training/teaching styles being different, and Ahsoka's unknown- but obviously negative- history with Lux.

Essentially, Ahsoka and Steela do fight about Lux (sometimes) but it's more Ahsoka is distrustful after past actions and whether or not Lux is actually going to be useful in the coming revolt, and Steela has been given no reason to distrust Lux plus a crush. They do eventually have an accord- I'm still debating having them be friends, cause they don't have to be- when Steela confronts Ahsoka in private and she alludes to what Lux did to her. Steela confronts Lux, and he fully admits to what he did and that he wants to be better and move past it, having up to that point been trying to prove to Ahsoka through the training that he's changed for the better.

Steela's death is okay seeing as she's destined to die for her brother's development. My main problem with this arc is that the writers thought that it was good for a girl to fight over a boy with the girl he assaulted, also sexual assault is romantic actually, and I could break someone's thumbs over that. Steela needed a better send off and an arc about two young girls in positions of leadership having strategic and logistic differences with a hint of teenage crush shenanigans is far better than what we were given.

Well, that was my first thought process for a rewrite. You all will have to tell me what you think, and what changes could be made. I'll probably think on it more later.

Thank you for the ask! Also, if anyone was inspired to use this as a prompt, be my guest.

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday, March 23rd - Monday, March 24th

Guy#1: Beer. Had the earliest morality developed under the influence of beer there would be no good or evil. There would just be kinda nice and pretty cool. Everything would be different.

~~Beer Bad~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

The Only One by badly_knitted (Willow, PG)

Defenseless by apachefirecat (Buffy, Joyce, G/K)

Bang-Up Job by veronyxk84 (Buffy/Spike, Angel, PG-13)

thrill of knowing by anonymous Buffy/Giles Valentine's Exchange participant (Buffy/Giles, Faith/Wesley, Graham/Larry, Spike/Larry, Anya/Oz, M)

Keeps On Turning by Nicnac (Giles & Spike, G)

Mad King Lear by anonymous author (Angel/Wesley, not rated)

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Reunion - Chapter 1 by heste (Buffy x Faith, G)

The Past, Again by waterintheshadows (Willow/Faith, T)

Beer Bad by Sdhuskerfan (Buffy/Giles, M)

Cross My Heart and Hope to Die (Welcome to My Dark Side) by ItCouldBeBunnies_OrThemAliens (Spike/Drusilla & Buffy, Xander/Willow, T)

Тазики, бассейны и океан by B_E_S (Buffy/Angel, T, in Russian)

Winning a Battle, Losing the War by CoffeeMilkLuvr (Giles & Wesley, not rated)

A Buffy/Spike/Drusilla ficlet by selkiemaidenfae (not rated, brief sexual reference)

Shot of Jack by Serenitey (Giles & Buffy, Buffy/Spike, PG)

Domestic Dispute by Miss Kitty (Buffy/Spike, PG)

[Chaptered Fiction]

necesse est aut imiteris aut oderis by madimpossibledreamer (Crossover with Blake's 7, Teen)

Spare Rib - Chapter 1 by maizula (Faith & Dawn, Buffy/Faith, other relationships, M)

we have not touched the stars - Chapter 1 by tenderjock (Spike/Drusilla/Buffy, T)

More to Life - Chapter 1 by HaleKent (BtVS s5 ensemble, canon relationships, M)

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Chapter updates

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Drawing: I've only had Dru for one season... by dont-leafmealone (worksafe, some blood)

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[that-one-i-think]

Sso in my scifi au, Vylad is going to be half alien and essentially an information broker. He is the one who originally found Aphmaus restoration pod. (Given how she is a clone formed from he DNA of a mysterious alien). Garte was going to use her to essentially try and not only solve THE RED (Shadow Knight zombie parasite) and takeover the galaxy, as power hungry men do.

Here is Vylads major plot points in my scifi au

- He is the product of an affair between his mother and an unknown alien species. While Vylad can be human passing, it was still obvious that he was an affair child. Garte covered up the alien features because Zianna having an affair with a human is a lot better than her having an affair with an alien.

- Zianna did willingly get pregnant because she wanted a baby, her own child that wasn't going to be twisted by Garte. Garroth was already 9 and at "private military school" (human experimentation) and Zane was always following his father because his health prevented him from going to school. (His body rejected experimentation so Garte decided to make him an heir)

- Vylad lived happily under their mothers care for many many years. Given how Zianna refused to tell Garte what type of alien Vylad was, he couldn't experiment and since his wife was happy he left Vylad alone. Until it did get out that Vylad was part alien and he had to "deal with the problem"

- Zianna, seeing the assanation attempt coming a mile away decided to use it to her advantage and made it so Vylad wouldn't die but get sent away. So she staged her own much earlier accident where Vylad ship would be lost on transit and crashed on a planet resulting in the death of her baby. The plan worked, until it didn't.

- The shuttle she sent to receive Vylad's captain worked on a planet that had recently been in a planet infested with THE RED, and it had spread throughout the crew. When Vylad was picked up, they were also infected and before you knew it, a bloodbath had begun.

- The majority of the crew turned on each other with the exception of Vylad and a cabin boy, Zenix. The two were the only ones who had a resistance the full affects of the red and eventually had to team up and slaughter the rest of the cabin.

- The ship did get to its destination and Vylad and Zenix quickly went their separate ways, not wanting a reminder of what they went through. That is when Vylad became employed by his mothers old friend, a cybernetics expert Hyria who used Vylads ability to blend into the background to gain information. Then he quickly became an information broker with the goal of taking down Garte with the help of Hyria.

- He soon gained word about Zane hiring the S.S. Phoenix Drop to transport a weapon of mass destruction and decided to turn the tides. He intercepted the message and arrived at the warehouse keeping the weapon to discover it was Aphmau. So he decided to mess with fate and killed the previous captain of the Phoenix Drop (who had been feeding information about Garroth to Zane) and made it seem like Aphmau was supposed to join the crew.

- He hires Zenix when they meet up again to be a 3 way spy. Hired him to spy on Zane and Garroth while also feeding Zane false information. Betraying Zane and Garroth but also not betraying Garroth.

That's it for Vylad right now.

[vestaclinicpod]

Audio Drama Sunday - 23rd July ✨

This week has been such an amazing week of listening! I’ve found three new shows that I absolutely adore and I can’t wait to tell you all about them ✨

Spoilers ahead!

🌲@hellofromthehallowoods (126) FIRST OF ALL 🚗🚗🚗 BEEP BEEP GET IN LOSER, WE’RE GOING TO GET MOTH 🚗🚗🚗 So glad to hear from you again, Ray!! This line: “the devil’s a better man than I am” had my eyebrows disappearing into my hairline and that’s all I’m going to say at this time. It’s always a risk listening in public, because the scene on the beach made me want to cry a little. I hope in my heart that they’re all going to make it out of there but I have no idea how right now! 

📻 @monstrousagonies (106) the first letter this week made me laugh so much! I was fully expecting the ‘moocher’ to be a brownie or someone like that, so it was a fun surprise to hear of a demonic midnight snacker! I may have to use that excuse when my baked goods don’t turn out so baked or good . . .  

🎞  Tiny Terrors (021) What a welcome VA jumpscare from Mx Wellman!! I loved the story (I, too, would feed the mega-toad to make it happy) but the surrounding footage was really creepy... I sure hope the gang goes to investigate the Riverside Institute. What’s the worst that could happen?? 👀

🌍 OOH the most recent episode of @lastechoespod was genuinely empowering! The political pressure the Archivist is under seems to have ramped up this ep, and reading @skyfullofpods’s thoughts on it last week makes me want to listen to it all again with fresh ears! 

🧛‍♂️ @re-dracula What a great week! Alasdair Stuart nails it as the Captain of the Demeter. His voice in the first ep is the calm surface of the sea, hiding the teeming mass of life and death below. The Renfield arc honestly unsettles me so much, but I, too, would love a kitten if there’s one going spare … 

🧬 Regina Prime (ep 4) The revelations!! I loved the sound design of the getting ready montage in this ep but I loved the lore drop even more! 300 clones?! And cloning is something that’s happening commercially? Damn. The last line actually made me grin, Epsilon is quick-witted and brave (or stupid!) and I like her a lot. Every episode I get more enthralled by this show and everyone needs to be listening! 

 💫 Wolf 359 (20-22) Hot damn. The tension aboard the Hephaestus is something else… the paranoia is written so well, you’re listening with your most suspicious face trying to unpick it and getting nowhere. I love how I have no idea where this is going but I know the ride is going to be BUMPY. 

🎩 I started @ethicstownpod this week and it deserves ALL the hype. The show uses a well-loved audio drama trope to bring us a very interesting new story. The writing and voice acting are spot on from the get-go, and the sound design choices feel fresh despite the radio format. Most podcasts make me feel, but this one makes me think as well! I really love it!! I’ve been following the development of the show on Tumblr for a while and I remember the creator being so excited about January’s VA and yeah, I totally get it. Amazing. Hard to believe the role wasn’t written for him. 

SPOILERS: I love how the main ethical issues are presented while January currently seems oblivious to the ethical quandary of keeping important information from someone and who has the right to make that decision . . . ALSO Artemis and Grace are very close in age . . . imagine if they became friends . . . and then Artemis found out . . . . HOO BOY. 

🥾@doyoucopypod The first two episodes are very promising! In the first ep, the pod-within-a-pod recording leads to some fun & cheesy dialogue which contrasts well with the jaded but wary interludes from [REDACTED]. I love a spooky woodland mystery and I’m really hoping for a Blair Witch style descent into terrifying found-footage chaos! The second episode really tugged on the old heart strings. I need a Does The Dog Die for this show bc I’ve had Wilson for 8 minutes but if anything happened to him I’d make that Dead Zone REALLY much more dead-er. 

🏴‍☠️ @levianpod This show has dropped its anchor right into my heart!!! DAMN. I’ve listened twice this week. I can’t recall the last time I was so immediately ALL-IN for an audio drama. I mean, firstly, that cover art is GORGEOUS. I genuinely think this show has it all, there’s LORE, there’s spiciness, there are sea captains who are also sea monsters (a GIFT for the wlw, thank you 🙏), there’s a teenage romance gone WRONG. Then there’s the voice acting!! Incredible performances right out of the gate. It’s safe to say that I am OBSESSED. Why are you still here? Go fucking listen to Levian. 

🎧 In the most recent ep of The First Episode Of, W Keith Tims talks to Packhowl - a creator I greatly admire. I love these interviews! It’s so fascinating to hear how other creators came to audio drama and it’s shed some of the brilliant The Madness of Chartrulean in new light for me. I miss grumpy space Jesus. 

That's it from me! PLEASE go listen to Ethics Town, Do You Copy and Levian!!

[sandymybeloved]

I recently asserted that Sarah-Jane and the Bannerman Road kids rarely stumble across trouble, trouble comes to fuck with them. I have decided to test if my assertion is true, the numbers are as follows

investigative journalism (characters investigate a company/phenomenom/disappearace/whatever and find aliens): 9/37 stories

an accident (no matter what these characters would have been involved, wrong place wrong time): 5/37 stories

fuck you (antagonists are specifically messing with Sarah-Jane or the Bannerman Road kids, sometimes for the sake of it, sometimes because its part of their plans for world domination): 17/37 stories

fuck you Sarah-Jane (the antagonist wants Sarah): 10/37 stories

fuck you Luke: 3/37 stories

fuck you Clyde: 5/37 stories

fuck you Rani: 5/37 episodes

please note some of the episodes count for multiple categories, obviously every fuck you is targeted, sometimes at multiple people, but sometimes different characters get involved in different ways

also bear in mind I have a better memory of some episodes than others so some may be miscounted

the specific breakdown by story is under the cut

[ID: graphical representation of the cummulative total of types of inciting incident \end ID]

Series 1 (Invasion of the Bane - The Lost Boy)

Investigative Journalism: 3/6 | Accident: 3/6 | Fuck You: 2/6 | Fuck You Sarah-Jane: 1/6 | Fuck You Luke: 1/6

Invasion of the Bane: Sarah-Jane does investigative journalism, Maria is on a tour of the factory when shit hits the fan (1 investigative journalism, 1 accident)

Revenge of the Slitheen: Slitheen infiltrate the kids new school (accident)

Eye of the Gorgon: investigating ghosts at an old peoples home (investigative journalism)

Warriors of Kudlak: Maria and Sarah-Jane investigate weird weather patterns and disappearances, Clyde and Luke play laser tag at what turns out to be the front for the alien's plans (1 investigative journalism, 1 accident)

Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane: the Trickster causes Sarah-Jane to die as a teenager so a meteor will destroy the Earth (fuck you Sarah-Jane)

The Lost Boy: Slitheen pretend to be Luke's biological parents so they can use his intelligence (fuck you Luke)

Series 2 (The Last Sontaran - Enemy of the Bane)

Investigative Journalism: 3/6 | Fuck You: 4/6 | Fuck You Sarah-Jane: 2/6 | Fuck You Clyde: 2/6 | Fuck You Rani: 1/6

The Last Sontaran: investigating strange lights around a telescope (investigative journalism)

The Day of the Clown: a clown follows Clyde and Rani, they then do investigations, but the clown following is the inciting incident (fuck you Clyde and Rani)

Secrets of the Stars: investigating a guy for who astrology works, his plan would have happened anyway, but the group are interested before that (investigative journalism)

The Mark of the Berserker: this one is difficult to call, ultimately the main antagonist of the episode is Clyde's dad, the episode would have ended a quarter of the way through were it not for Clyde's dad stealing the pendant Rani found, him then getting Clyde to leave with him is what got everyone else involved. Ultimately this one is a combination of Rani investigating why that boy was acting strangely, and Clyde's dad taking Clyde and causing the actual problems (investigative journalism, fuck you Clyde)

The Temptation of Sarah-Jane Smith: the Trickster lays a trap for Sarah-Jane so cause the world to descend into a dystopian hellscape (fuck you Sarah-Jane)

Enemy of the Bane: Miss Wormwood shows back up and asks Sarah-Jane for help, it is a trap but thats how our group get involved (fuck you Sarah-Jane)

Series 3 (Prisoner of the Judoon - The Gift)

Investigative Journalism: 2/6 | Accident: 1/6 | Fuck You: 4/6 | Fuck You Sarah-Jane: 2/6 | Fuck You Luke: 1/6 | Fuck You Clyde: 1/6 | Fuck You Rani: 2/6

Prisoner of the Judoon: Sarah-Jane tracks a pod and they find an alien fugitive (investigative journalism)

The Mad Woman in the Attic: Rani's friend has been emailing her about weird stuff at a themepark local to him, as she is pulled into it by investigation from someone not in the main group, I'm not counting it as investigative journalism (fuck you Rani)

The Wedding of Sarah-Jane Smith: another trap by the Trickster (fuck you Sarah-Jane)

The Eternitiy Trap: this one is tricky, as far as I remember, the group are asked there by some scientist friends, but I don't think it counts as a fuck you deal (investigative journalism, fuck you nobody)

The Mona Lisa's Revenge: the Mona Lisa comes to life while the kids are at the art gallery on a school trip (accident)

The Gift: the Blathereen give the group a gift that turns out to be a bioweapon (fuck you everybody)

Series 4 (The Nightmare Man - Goodbye Sarah-Jane Smith)

Fuck You: 6/6 | Fuck You Sarah-Jane: 4/6 | Fuck You Luke: 1/6 | Fuck You Clyde: 2/6 | Fuck You Rani: 2/6

The Nightmare Man: a being haunts Luke with nightmares (fuck you Luke

The Vault of Secrets: Androvax returns and asks Sarah-Jane for help, its a trick but thats how our group gets involved (fuck you Sarah-Jane)

Death of the Doctor: the Doctor fakes his death, Sarah-Jane, and by extension the group, are invited to the funeral (fuck you Sarah-Jane)

The Empty Planet: everyone on Earth disappears, except Clyde and Rani because they were grounded by the Judoon in a previous story (fuck you Clyde and Rani)

Lost in Time: another tricky one, investigative journalism least them to a man who spreads them all throughout time, except the man wanted to be found so its more like a trap (fuck you everybody)

Goodbye Sarah-Jane Smith: a woman ingratiates herself with Sarah-Jane and the gang so she can make Sarah-Jane believe she's loosing touch, and ultimately take over the Earth (fuck you Sarah-Jane)

Series 5 (Sky - The Man Who Never Was)

Investigative Journalism: 1/3 | Accident: 1/3 | Fuck You: 1/3 | Fuck You Sarah-Jane: 1/3

Sky: a baby is dumped of Sarah-Jane's doorstep (fuck you Sarah-Jane)

The Curse of Clyde Langer: Clyde gets a splinter, then his life falls apart (accident)

The Man Who Never Was: the group investigate a company launching a revolutionary new computer (investigative journalism)

[royalchewy]

Brozone Parents

my personal take on the Brozone parents. Got the idea while matching Brozone to AJR songs and thought “how can I make JD even more sad” and then ‘God is Really Real’ came on and I thought “perfect”. Please let me know any thoughts you have if you read the rest below

Brozone is in its early years, Floyd is getting ready for his debut into the band. Everything is going well, their parents are so happy with how the band is already taking off and their boys are so happy to be performing together. Everything is perfect. 

Then, their mom is taken during trollstice, and their dad is taking it badly. He doesn’t know how to continue without her, they had built a family and home together, she was his true love. He turned grey, he won’t eat or speak, he won’t even leave his bed. He is essentially dying of a broken heart.

Rosiepuff and JD are doing everything to give the other bros a sense of normalcy, they’re still working on new music for Floyd’s debut. Rosiepuff is old though, so JD is stuck with a lot of the responsibilities. This includes keeping the egg that had been in his dad’s hair safe, since being grey means he’s less warm and the trolling in the egg would die if JD doesn’t step in.

JD is doing his best to take over raising his brothers. Grandma handles more of the cleaning and providing a home, while JD does a lot of the parents. It’s a lot of work and always chaotic, but he always takes time at the end of each day to give his dad an update on everything happening and also tries to get him to leave his bed.

Eventually, his dad is put in a medical pod, to give him around the clock care to see if any forms of therapy help, but nothing is working. JD is gradually begging more and more desperately for him to get out of bed and to get better, because he isn’t ready to lose both of his parents. He’s hyping up his newest song, but says he’ll only play it for his dad once he gets out of bed.

One day, he walk into the medical pod and his dad isn’t there. A couple of options from here:

1)Their dad just up and left, and they have no idea what happened 

2)He died from his broken heart and the medical staff moved his body to hopefully prevent JD from turning grey 

3)It’s Trollstice and he is willingly sacrificing himself to be with his love again 

4)He leaves a note to say he’s going to the Neverglade trail, where the two met, and when he feels her spirit is roaming and he’ll feel the greatest connection to her.

All of these leave JD feeling like he failed his mother and brothers, by not being able to get their father back. It’s also why he puts so much pressure on the band, because maybe if they’re successful and can hit the perfect harmony, he’ll make their mom proud from where ever she is, and maybe, just maybe, their dad will come back (in scenarios where he didn’t die).

4 though, is why Clay holds so much resentment for JD. Because he left them for the same thing their dad did, which means he lost all his parental figures (in a way) to the Neverglades. Bruce had the same resentment for that reason too, but it fizzled out a bit over the years and after finding his own true love and becoming a dad.

I wrote a majority of this at 3am one night, so I’m sure some of this needs adjusting, but let me know any thoughts/questions

[naughtless0000]

i played and beat mouthwashing for the first time yesterday. here's how that went..

to start off, i wanna say there's MAJOR spoilers and im gonna be yapping so here we go

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staring off with cool screenshots i took, just so we dont immediately jump off into the depressing yap fest

immediately said "oh boy i love playing fnaf" when i was here (i saw fanart of daisuke and it was him saying 'cmon, its just like among us, you can do this' while crawling though the vents) -

despite the implications i found this to be really fucking cool, but thats just me. and the more you think about it the more games you remember that have a scene where youre going into/coming out of a giant open mouth from the head of a character -

i still cant entirely wrap my head around the fact that swansea has this custom swan key just for him. like, haha, i get it, "swan"sea, swan key.. but where did he get it from? not the key, but the custom holder? makes you wonder how long he's had it for.

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i couldnt find my own screenshot of him, i dont know where it went, but yimpy........ yimpy.. i have a feeling daisuke drew it, who else would it be -

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ok, now its time for the depressing stuff

god. let me tell you about the genuine distress i felt. i had the isopropyl before it was even mentioned, so the first time i had to clear the foam to get to the medicine cabinet. i was just fucking around a little bit when i was stuck in the game (for a stupid reason might i add) so i just mixed it with mouthwash cause i was like "hey, this will make it actually better to use as real mouthwash, right?" (am i an idiot? out of game, like, am i stupid? do you understand what i was thinking though? the disinfectant? anyways..) and when it made the plain mocktail.. i was like "haha this is funny." and then it quickly became NOT FUNNY. when daisuke NEEDED IT, so i had to take the LONG ROUTE TO GET SOMETHING ELSE. AND I BLAME MYSELF FOR HIS DEATH

i know that there probably arent any different routes in the game and it was meant to happen.. but i feel like i should play it again BECAUSE COME ONNNNNN. - i got it spoiled for me that anya was pregnant when i was looking for the solution to helping her out of medical. which, by the way, i was a complete idiot during that part. all i needed to do was click on a different part of the door to continue the game, so im just stupid. you wont believe my face when i realized how dumb i was. so when she said she was pregnant i didnt have a genuine reaction to it, cause i got it spoiled. kind of the same thing for when we get to see what curly looked like before the game, but it wasnt really a spoiler to me because i had no intention of playing the game when i started seeing content for it. i was seeing fanart, and friends posting about it, but i really had no clue. so i knew of curly, and i started to recognize who daisuke was in fanart, and i knew anya but not her name, but i never saw swansea before i went onto the steam page. daisuke ended up being my favourite character.... we can all just WONDER how im FEELING NOW. technically speaking, everybody but curly does die in some way. so if you have a favourite character besides him, forget being happy- actually, scratch that. if you play mouthwashing AT ALL, FORGET BEING HAPPY. BUT ITS SO GOOD!!!! genuinely!! another 10 dollar indie game that completely ruined me!!!!!! mouthwashing is genuinely such a wonderful game, and i wonder if we could be getting another one? but i dont know how a second game would go. does curly ever get found? since he's in the cryo pod, but also (like i just saw someone say when i was looking up the word for cryo pod..) his injuries alone could end up killing him, right? maybe? he is frozen for 20 years, would that stop the bacteria from killing him? i dont know for sure. -

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I HAD EVERY RIGHT NOT TO. I NEVER WANTED TO GIVE HIM THE AXE IN THE FIRST PLACE. -

well. when you show a giant, sharp knife, its gotta be used for something other than cake. time to feast. (IM SORRY.) -

youre just an idiot. click on the door and not just the handle. -

this pretty much sums up my experience playing the game after a while (especially being a daisuke fan) -

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anyways. two more screenshots i took

and thats pretty much it i feel like playing the game again after writing this, so maybe i'll do another post about it take this thing i made before i go

sums it up................

[halfdent]

Two  Face  is  no  court  jester  even  he  knows  there’s  just  nothing  funny  about  this  clown  .  All  the  while  she’s  running  her  mouth  he’s  glaring  in  silent  agitation  .  Quips  about  their  face  aren’t  something  they  are  unaccustomed  to  .  If  anything  Two  Face  found  his  own  remarks  about  it  far  more  entertaining.

❝  y’know  ,  they  says  comedians  get  more  famous  after  they  die  —  well  it  applies  to  artists  or  anythin’  really  —  got  me  thinkin’  though  .  I  wonder  if  I’d  find  yer  funnier  when  yer  dead  .  How  ‘bout  it  ,  clown  ? ❞ Gun  straight  to  her  temple  .  ❝  see  the  really  funny  thing  is  every  part  of  us  thinks  yer  deserve  it  .  Solve  a  lotta  problems  an’  finally  put  the  case  to  bed  make  a  lotta  people  smile  without  none  of  that  gas  of  yers  ! ❞ Clearly  that  was  a  no  to  the  lease  of  their  land  then  .

◖ @thewomanwholaughed  /𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐃: "It's my favorite two-peas-in-a-pod!" She throws her arms wide, as if she's expecting applause and cheers. Only for the Joker herself to take a more closed off stance. Fingers rubbing her forehead. "Okay, that nickname was bad. I'll come up with something better later down the line..." "Anywhoosies!" Bouncing right back into energy, the Clown Princess of Crime started swaying from side to side. Humming in delight. "Just wanted to know I'm going to run a convoy through 'your' part of Gotham." Putting her cane down, firmly, she leans on it with her elbow. Her entire body is smiling, but the subtle threat in her voice would not go unnoticed. "Don't touch it." "And my boys won't have to shoot your boys! You know how it goes! I would take my usual route, but it's a LOT of stuff! And this is faster, so. JUST A HEADS-UP BACKSTABBER!" She's pausing, brows furrowed as she properly leaned on her cane instead of her usual antics. "See, that doesn't feel right either. You usually say two-faced backstabber, but if I just say backstabber, it's... hmmm." "What is it the kids say these days? Let me stew? Well, something like that! I'll get a good one! HAHAHAHAHAHAA!"

[eriexplosion]

Clone Wars - Rising Malevolence

Gonna try to get this whole little three parter done tonight.

This is one I was REALLY looking forward to because when I watched it the first time I had no idea what was going on but I did know that I liked Plo Koon. Well now I ADORE Plo Koon and know more about what the fuck's going on and who Wolffe is so I am excited to see how the episodes hit with that knowledge.

And boy is it getting me more already. LITTLE 'SOKA <3 Plo is just wholesome vibes personified AND I love his look, I want nothing more than to treasure him.

As soon as Anakin says he'll need to ask the council about reinforcements you know the answer is going to be No Sorry. Like, anytime the line is about asking for permission they never seem to actually GET permission. What gets me though is that we have a whole entry speech about how super important it is to find the weapon that's destroying all the ships, then we go into a meeting about how important it is to find the weapon that's destroying all the ships, but when Anakin says they have Plo's last location and then he was attacked they suddenly can't spare any ships for a rescue mission?

LIKE GUYS, PLEASE, HE FOUND THE WEAPON. HE FOUND THE THING YOU WANTED. YOU JUST SAID YOU CAN'T LOSE ANYMORE SHIPS TO THIS THING AND YOU NOW KNOW WHERE IT IS. But suddenly you can't spare ships for it? You idiots? Like, even if they think there really are no survivors, you now know what system it's in and could regroup to take it out, anything other than just going WELP WHAT CAN YOU DO and ignoring it?

I of course also hate the whole not even looking for survivors thing, but that's just my continuous gripe with the lack of value placed on individual lives by Jedi protocol.

Back in the Plo Pod though, I genuinely forgot that Wolffe didn't have his damaged eye yet, so the whole opening I thought he was just some other random clone, whoops. Doesn't help that he's not in armor. Boost and Sinker though I recognize on sight. God bless alternate hair styles, even if the bacon strips look a little silly and Sinker's rocking that Crosshair lego hair look.

I think that Plo Koon's line here - "I value your life more than finding that weapon" - is what really made me think it was worth paying attention to this series on the first watch. It's both incredibly touching on his part, extending care to clones that haven't really received it before, and kind of sad because he still is certain someone is coming for them. And they are, but not because of the Jedi council, who was going to just leave all of them for dead. If Anakin didn't 'redeploy' himself then they would have just died out there without anyone even trying to save them and I just! Hate that for them!

I'm always stuck on the 'non-attachment' point with the Jedi I know, but this episode is just a really good example of it. They don't even consider searching for survivors they just go ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and move on immediately. That's not being able to let things go that's just not caring if their allies live or die and the writers keep tripping themselves into that and then go tsk-tsk at Anakin for his attachment problems when he's the only one that's interested in saving lives here. Just ridiculous choices.

On a better note, this episode has some killer horror beats in the debris field, though, like the pod circling around slowly to reveal the dead clone troopers inside. We know that Dooku ordered them all killed, but we don't get to see the how until that second, it's just a nice little moment for Creepy Vibes that contrast with comedy moments like Sinker's deadpan 'HOW are we going to make things worse?' while fixing the power.

Then crash directly into the hope spot of finding another pod just in time to hear them dying in addition to watching it happen! Nightmare material, I appreciate it.

AND THEN THERE GOES PLO KOON, CASUALLY JUST. GOING OUT INTO THE VACUUM OF SPACE. Yeeting Sinker around with the force to take out the droids. Insane choice of solution, I love it. This episode was fun the first time but it's definitely more fun knowing who everyone is.

"Sergeant, why are you so certain no one is coming?" "We're just clones sir. We're meant to be expendable." "Not to me."

THIS EXCHANGE. THIS EXCHANGE GETS ME EVERY TIME. And Plo finding out that it's literally just him and these three clones that survived I'm CRY. He fought so hard for his last three men. I love Master Plo Koon, I love Master Plo Koon!!!

I'll be real this was the episode I remembered most so I don't know shit about what's coming in the next two, but we will find out! On we watch!

[nextstopwonderland]

Masterlist of Bryan Danielson content I've posted Part 1

BCC/Bryanmox related content & links to other masterlists

Graphics/collages

(Original post)

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Video clips

Bryan Danielson puts over Orange Cassidy during the Forbidden Door II press conference

“Is that real leather?”

“I don’t put myself in high energy situations because I don’t enjoy necessarily frenetic energy” - Bryan Danielson on the outlet wrestling provides

Daniel Bryan calls out Raw for not showcasing women

Bryan Danielson doing a promo in a makeshift crop top while stroking his “sexy beard”

Best moments on Rampage compilation by TNT

AWS promo - April 30, 2005

“FICKLE! They’re FICKLE”

A wild Bryan Danielson appears at Starrcast

Bryan puts over Ricky Starks at the All Out 2023 media scrum

Full match: Bryan/ZSJ round 1

“Who’s overrated now??”

Bryan sells his ass (no, he really does)

“Let’s talk about the illusion of free will”

Bryan and Paul London dolphin pod promo

Bryan + Henry’s Gym

Bryan and Brie

Bryan + Blue Panther (includes screenshots)

“I am going to break your arm. I am going to break your right arm and you’ll never be able to do the rainmaker again.”

“I haven’t done a cartwheel in a long time”

“I’m not what?”

“Oh, I’m on!!”

“I just wanted to subdue him a little”

“My wife and I joke we could turn it into a gimmick”

“That makes me feel alive”

“Put your cameras down, wink wink”

“I can feel the end coming”

“My brain is so focused on wrestling”

“So at what point am I deceiving myself?”

“Im beat up, but happy”

Dragon grr’s, but is merely adorable

WK slow-mo vid

Daniel Bryan + Muppets

Random ROH WRD clip

Bryan is superstitious of a cat

“Because I know what I’m willing to do.”

“Blue Panther has been my favorite luchador since I was 15”

Bryan gets his hair braided in Arena Mexico

“You said you wanted to introduce me to proper Lucha libre.”

Wrestling to me has never been about proving I’m better than anyone else.”

Bryan returns to Mexico City

“My heaven will be standing in a wrestling ring bleeding in front of all of you”

“A BANGER!”

Bryan calls William Regal his favorite wrestler

“I don’t give a fuck if I die or not!”

Video compilations/edits

Bryan Danielson sings boy bands

HEY (EW) supercut

Bryan I don’t like frenetic energy Danielson being unhinged

Ring of honor compilation

Bryan’s got legs and he knows how to use ‘em (fanvid set to legs by ZZ Top)

Supercut of Bryan/ZSJ round 2

Wrestling road diaries supercut

“I may suck. I am opening to sucking” - 4 min and 33 seconds of why we should be thankful for Bryan Danielson’s existence

Bryan + Will + doctors post-dynasty

The I have till 5 edits

Bryan has till 5 (a fanvid/fancam set to he’s a rebel & also a scaled down edit)

Bryan and his opponents still have till 5

Bryan and even more of his opponents have till 5

Audio clips

Robin Tran thanks Bryan Danielson for inspiring her to come out as transgender

Part 2

[princecharmingtobe]

New guy! Don't know if anyone remembers the "punk rock bard" I made up a while ago, before BG3 was out. A tiefling named Rebellion, Rebel for short. I finally caved and got the Basket Full of Equipment mod, and I am so glad I did, look at my boy. He should be an interesting one to play, as he is very chaotic good, and as his name suggests, HATES being told what to do. His in-character reaction to Lae'zel asking "Do you intend to die for a stranger?" would be to turn to her and say "Yes, as a matter of fact!" before continuing to search for a way to open the pod.

Backstory for those interested: Rebel was born to human parents (obviously they didn't name him that), and his mother died in childbirth. His father tried to raise him out of obligation, but very obviously blamed him for the death of his wife and saw him as a devil, a curse on the family, and after only a few years abandoned him. Rebel was found by an older tiefling who basically took in kids like Rebel and tried to give them the best upbringing he could. When Rebel was about 15~ the old man was murdered, and he and his "siblings" decided that simply trying to live a good life wasn't enough, if things weren't going to change for the better they'd MAKE them change. However, he came to realize that his siblings weren't so much trying to change the world for the better as they were just taking their hurt out on whatever targets they could find. After a violent disagreement with them he left on his own, traveling the land to spread the message of rising up and pushing back against oppressive and bigoted systems and mindsets.

[suguwu-archived]

Okay I lost internet connection 😔 but I’m here now!

AHAHAHAHA I LOVE MAKO!! Yes you are excellent!! Def has some sort of angsty backstory but I love a woman that fights. Who is random smirking dude? 🫥 “that’s my room” PLEASE I CANNOT 🙈 The marshal bleeding??? Oh dear those are meds. Newt my dear boy I am very concerned for you.

HE DRIFTED WITH A KAIJU!!! And MAKO is so cool!! Oh my god the kaiju are COLONISTS?? That’s crazy. GROWN? That’s so cool. Also my boi Newt is not looking good that man should not drift again 😭😭😭

Oh I finally understand what chasing the rabbit is! Itoshi brothers pacific rim au I will come back to you again while understanding more of what’s going on. OH NOOOOO THE RED SHOE 🫠🫠🫠 AHHHHHH SUDDEN FIGHTER JETS??? OH DEAR it’s all going wrong. Not the canon 😭 oooop Rayleigh beat up jerk whose name I can’t remember.

OOOH MORE KAIJU 👀 curious to see the other teams. JAHDJFKFKF newt you can’t keep a secret to save your life. Wow why do I suddenly like monster battles when it’s several people working together 🤣 ALSJDKFKFKGG NOT THE MONSTER BREAKING THROUGH THE HULL!! Nooooo the triplets 😔 Acid???? Oh dear I mean I figured it’d go poorly to force Mako and Rayleigh to come out but still seeing them drown and die? 💀 oh wow they’re all digital and the kaiju has an interference? The evolution is fascinating. OH NO NOT NEWT GIVING THE KAIJU INFO VIA THE DRIFT???

Brave father son with flare guns but I have many concerns. AHHHHH right in the eye 👁️ oooh they beat it!! Elbow rocket is fun. Omg the glowing tentacle kaiju? This is interesting. Oh using the coolant was creative! OAJDKFKF IT SPROUTED WINGS??? OH BUT THEY WON VIA SWORD!!

People in that brain I’m very concerned for you and you’re def not paid enough 🥲 PREGNANT? OH MY GOD! I’d start screaming too. AH IT ATE THE DUDE 💀 SIR YOU WERE BRAGGING TOO MUCH.

OOOH the scientists are teaming up? LOL “with worldwide destruction as the alternative” 🤣 NOOOO NOT THE MARSHAL HE IS GONNA DIE THEN? 😭😭😭

AHHHH WHY ISNT THE PLAN GOING TO WORK??? sweating here 🥲 TRIPLE EVENT oh not both the scientists being right… NOT THE SWORD BRING RIPPED OFF AHHH BEEE OH NOO!! Omg good bye son and marshal 🫠🫠🫠 AHHH THEY WENT INTO THE BREACH 👀👀 awww him taking care of Mako. And both escape pods made it!! That was lots of fun

anon this is so late i'm so sorry but i am SO GLAD you enjoyed pacrim!!!! as i've said it's one of my favorites and it's very dear to me!! this live react was so fun i love all of your commentary ssjldkfjsldf it's quite a ride of a movie. lots of varying emotions throughout it!! at least for me hahahah.

AND AREN'T THE KAIJU SO INTERESTING LIKE THERE'S SUCH DETAIL TO IT BUT THEY'RE STILL SO MYSTERIOUS!! i love that they evolve to better target the jaegers/to take them out. it's just so fascinating to me. honestly the worldbuilding in general in that movie is so good.

thank you for sending this in!!! again i'm so delighted you enjoyed <33333