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[therepressions]

NPR Tiny Desk Contest 2025 ~ Trust Your Doors

The Repressions’ song “Trust Your Doors” is the official entry for NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest 2025! This is a song about the difficulty of making changes, for even the best changes to our lives are not easy. This contest features independent artists and is a lovely showcase of songwriting, and desks! A new tiny Repressions desk and all of the previous customized tiny desks can be seen in between…

[hacash]

Underrated little moment, but I love that when Rebecca, Ted and Trent - three people who have reason to think poorly of Nate - discuss the rumours of inappropriate workplace behaviour over at West Ham, all of them instantaneously say Nate would never have anything to do with it.

[rxvera]

Who else is thinking about the SPK having to constantly, exasperatedly parent Near?

[plushyparfait]

Near took a potato chip and ate it 🥔 (ref below)

[leverage-ot3]

okay I’ve seen a lot of posts about sterling just being crowley and. guys. the implications just hear me out 😭😭😭

bending lore slightly here BUT let’s say crowley’s body was once inhabited by a human and crowley is possessing the body (maybe he kills the initial inhabitant bc he doesn’t care)

but he still has the guy’s memories. he doesn’t bother keeping up appearances with his ‘ex wife’ because he is too busy building up his hell empire. BUT for some reason he can’t quite identify, he still feels something towards his ‘daughter’. he lets the divorce happen and doesn’t feel the need (or desire) to fight for custody, but he can never quite forget her, to cast her out of his mind for good

some hijinks ensue with the leverage team. it’s mostly because even a grind culture demon wants some off time every once in a while, and for him the insurance investigator stuff is more of a hobby. interacting with the leverage crew is very low stakes for him, and honestly, quite amusing. they aren’t on his level power-wise, but that ford character gives him the mental exercise he hasn’t experienced in, well, he can’t even remember

he can feel their frustration and anger when they learn he has become employed by interpol and feeds off it. it’s great, and relaxing in a way he is never able to achieve while conducting hell-related business

one year he gets wind that olivia is in a really bad situation associated with his ‘ex wife’s’ new husband. he’s selling vital hardware to terrorists, and while that might actually be the kind of chaos he would normally support or be entertained by as the king of hell, something feels wrong about letting olivia stay anywhere near that man

he calls upon the body’s adversaries. he wouldn’t admit it, even under duress, BUT he feels slightly fond of them. nate for the three dimensional chess they play, sophie for her ability to charm and disguise, parker for her chaos and slightly unsettling nature (it’s the autism swag and being bad with human interaction but he doesn’t know that lol), hardison for his unapologetic intelligence and eliot for his hardened violent past and take-no-shit persona (he’s fun to tease)

they perform exactly as he expected, right into his carefully crafted plan. and then olivia is under his care and things get more complicated. he keeps her FAR, FAR away from anything related to the supernatural (heh). no one can find out about her, ESPECIALLY not those imbecile hunter brothers (if for nothing else than the embarrassment in revealing he has a weak spot)

not sure how to work it into this post but I also want to add that somewhere along the way he develops feelings for nate and sophie. the frame up job is near and dear to my heart and you can’t convince me that isn’t fighting as flirting behavior. his interpol persona is more of a side hustle so to speak, but he finds it fun (relaxing, even) to fill that role. there aren’t any obligations of other demons, bothersome hunters, or anything like that. nate and sophie are low stakes, except, they aren’t, really. they make him feel things he can’t ever really remember feeling. his heart beats fast when sophie sat in his lap and cradled his face, his hands sweat when nate gives him that certain smug look. he’s exasperated by the way they can run circles around him like no one else has ever before. they annoy him and get under his skin in a way no one else can and it’s infuriating. but also not, at the same time. maybe he likes it

and then the long goodbye job happens

hear me out and suspend your belief here for a second, because I can’t remember if crowley supernaturally knows when ppl die/are dead or not.

so nate is in interpol custody and the interviewer is obviously out of her depth. (most people are, when it comes to nathan ford.) he walks in and pours the man a drink, but he’s fuming. somewhere along the way he came to care about the team. hell and suffering is literally in his (official) job description, but he can admit (only to himself) that he admires what they do. it’s not for him, not anything close to where his passions and interests lie, but he respects their drive and purpose. he is also aware enough to acknowledge that they are a family, a group of misfits that never belonged quite anywhere except to each other.

and nate fucking blew it up, ruined it, because his vice is being so obsessed with the end game that he is apparently willing to let his team, his family, the people that anchor him to reality, die because the ends supposedly justify the means.

not this time. not to sterling crowley

he is enraged. he can admit within the confines of his mind that he cares for nate, for sophie, even for the other three (though nate and sophie have somehow made it a hierarchy where they are more important to him. which he will dissect later in private. maybe.)

nate let them die, he let sophie die, and for what? the black book? hell below, crowley would have made things easier somehow, if he knew that this was where nate’s sights had lied. he would have prevented this somehow. he wants to have prevented this. he doesn’t want any of them dead and is too afraid to check and verify because that would make it real. the idea of sophie (or any of them) somehow making it to hell instead of heaven would probably break something in him he might not be able to reapir fully.

he yells at nate- he’s angry. hellfire burning in his heart because everything is ruined. the deaths aside (however hard it is to set them aside in his mind), nate will not recover from this, not ever. this will be the start of the end, he is sure. a miserable, guilt-ridden existence where he drinks himself to death and nothing will save him. it plays out in crowley’s mind in a thousand different ways that are beyond painful to conceptualize, even in theory.

the story starts to unravel and there is a game afoot. a solemn, miserable, infuriating game because the con is still in session because parker is alive and in the building- which sets another fire alight in his chest. ‘parker even know you got hardison killed?’ he rages for her grief when she finds out. he knows it will double when she finds out eliot has perished, too, because he isn’t fucking blind.

but nate is a brilliant man, lest he forget too quickly. they are all alive, and somehow still the entire crew slips through his fingers. he’s not even angry (he never would have been- he doesn’t actually try too hard to catch them. it’s about the game, not the consequences). he lets them keep the black book because he’s fucking exhausted and honestly, they more than earned it.

‘now we’re even. tell sophie to drive carefully’. they will never be even, not really. crowley would never admit or agree that being human is the superior state of being, but that have made him feel human in a way he doesn’t actually mind. they keep him on his toes and match him in a way unique to them, they remind him that there are other things than the realm of hell. not necessarily bigger than hell, but maybe just as important in a different sense.

watching the van drive away, something inside him settles. when he walked into the interrogation room that day he thought this was the beginning of the end. it’s not the end at all, not an end to anything. it’s a continuation of their story. maybe, he thinks, a beginning to a new era in it

[dailynicknews]

Paramount+ Removes Slew of Nickelodeon Shows, Including 'Rugrats (2021)', 'Big Nate' and 'It's Pony'.

[tha-wrecka-stow]

You Can Find The Instrumental Version -> Here

[archivistofnerddom]

The reaction I imagine Wrecker, Tech, and Omega having when Hunter and Echo want to know whose brilliant idea it was for Tech to participate in (and win) that Riot Race on Safa Toma to save Cid:

[willpowers]

sometimes the 2020 death note chapter doesnt feel real because they both killed donald trump not a handful of pages in and also gave near rocking depression tits

[kieran-culkins]

can we introduce nate into kenstewy college cannon

[grimalkinmessor]

Once more thinking and obsessing over the mirrored dynamics of Lawlight and Meronia where a lil skrunkly with big ole eyeballs that you can see the depths of your own soul in and yet not even a hint of what goes on in the mind beneath sits all curled up in front of his many screens and fidgets and hunts down the little arrogant golden prince of their mind who is constantly running from them just to chase something darker that will eventually kill them and swallow many other people along with them in the process and how the lil skrunklies want to find and contain the lil princes not out of any moral standing but because they prefer them where they can watch and hold them at all times whenever they want forever

[therepressions]

Stand By Me - Ben E. King cover - The Repressions - Nate Lay

[coachbeards]

Roy being the only one to notice something was off about the port vale match is so funny like

[thelionheartedo3]

Happy Valentine’s Day, lovely person 🌹

I am so very much in love with your writing! With everything, from the Camelot AU to the fic about Ely finding Mango. The way you write UB is so good!

Here’s a romance-themed OC question for any OC(s) of your choosing (no pressure to answer on Valentine’s day itself, or at all):

If your OC ever gets married, who proposed? When and how did it happen? Bonus question: What would their wedding be like?

ahh, thank you for such sweet words and the sweet ask!! I hope your day has been great! I've been busy busy today, but I've been thinking about this since seeing it this morning!!

to answer your question (with Ely!), I don't think marriage is a big thought to her! she'd probably be just as alright not being married and having a life partner, so I think Nate would have to propose to her to actually get her thinking about weddings and the like. Nate would probably pull out all the stops to propose and Ely would be like ! oh! weddings! those are a thing!

she'd probably also get overwhelmed with a big wedding, and want something smaller and outdoorsy. she's not big on religion so any church-like wedding would probably give her some anxiety. truly, I think she'd be content to leave the planning to someone else for everything but her dress, which she'd either wanna make herself, or embroider something along the hemline of one she buys!!

[crow-talks-hockey]

my brain is awful to me so you all must experience it too:

imagine rumors about connor and nate getting tr^ded for each other. like. brain, what the hell. why would you do this to me. i'll cry. do you know how badly that would mess with everything? bitch it's not connorcale or macleo, it's NATECALE and MCDRAI. ALWAYS. do NOT ever separate them so help me-

[hiddensarang]