#nora answered to you

[starry-night-ly]

Just been pondering the thought of how Laila and Cat basically adopted Jean. They went into this thinking he’d be a bit weird but overall a functional person, and instead they are teaching a 19 year old how to do the laundry and all other normal life skills.

[sunriseabram]

RT for bigger sample size!

[feelingthedisaster]

anyone knows the name of that aftg blog that posted what the characters did in the exact day and hour of the books and/or has a timeline for what happened in december during the books?

[wizard-tinky-winky]

alright, serious topic: which of the foxes would vape and which would say it's better to just smoke an actual cigarette?

[jeanmoreausautismstickers]

just found out some people think Kevin was overreating after neil barged into his room and insulted him with a huge fear of his (in the language taught to him by the first person to care about Him that he left and likely felt guilty for leaving)

I'm sorry but trust if someone broke into my room, made fun of my insecurities, and called me a cripple...

[pseudophan]

unironically your trigger warning tags were like a follow forever to me since my Main method of following new blogs is the peer-reviewed "people I follow follow them" but you never reblog from anyone 😭

oh yeah everyone in that screenshot is great! and you're right i really do not reblog enough people 😭 i still don't follow enough phannies... i'm still scared of following people in case they hate me bsdfbskd especially because if people block this blog they're not blocking my main so i can still follow people even if they've got pseudophan blocked so i'm like yikes oh god. i really do want to follow more phannies though

that being said i don't reblog a lot of people in general cause i'm not on my dash all that much but when i am most of it isn't phannies and when it is it's the same like five people. idk how to fix this. i feel like asking people to ask me to follow them is kinda cringe, though i have done that in the past for this same reason lmao, but... idk IDK life is very hard lol

[ardate]

Was tagged by beloved @cruisingheightswithdragons for this fun game!

Tagging @birbwell @infamouslydorky @science-bastard @slightly-gay-pogohammer @claraknight @cherryberg @colonelgarfield @kamaloo and anyone else that feels like adding onto this!

[sirmanmister]

ARTFIGHT ATTACK FOR @leavingautumn13 of Nora!!!!!

This was literally so fun to do I love Nora to bits 🥰

[rwby-encrusted-blog]

Might I ask for some JNP(enny)R shenanigans?

Nora: Subs are so fun to play with. All you have to do is hint at what you might do, back them into a corner with a look, or grab their wrist in a certain way and they're a wide-eyed mess.

Jaune: What the fuck kind of Subway are you going to?

Penny: Substitute teachers deal with so much disrespect, and that sounds at though it's assault.

Ren: *Rubbing bruised wrists* Guys.

~~~~~

Jaune, Nora & Penny: screaming

Ren: *runs into the room* What's wrong, Penny?!

Jaune: Wait, why are you asking Penny that when Nora and I are also here?

Ren: Because Penny wouldn't scream unless it's an emergency. You two scream whenever you have the chance.

~~~~~

Ren: What’s the announcement, Penny?

Penny: It’s a lecture. Jaune’s gonna tell us everything they know about sex.

Nora: It should be an enjoyable 60 seconds.

~~~~~

Nora: Ren, I have a great idea.

Ren: Let’s hear it.

Nora: We trick Jaune and Penny to go out on a date together.

Ren: YES!

Ren: And hey, if that doesn’t work out, maybe you and me could go out, get some drinks—

Nora: *hits Ren with a book* THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU.

~~~~~

Nora: I sleep with a gun under my pillow.

Ren: I sleep with a knife.

Jaune: Both of you are pathetic.

Nora: Oh yeah? What do you sleep with?

Jaune: Penny.

~~~~~

Penny: *sees Nora and Ren together*

Penny: They're cute. I would put them on a boat.

Jaune: You mean… you ship them?

~~~~~

Nora: ARE YOU READY FOR THE BEST FOOD IN THE WORLD!

Penny: *Flinching at the volume* I am as prepared as I can be.

Ren: Then here is your first pancake. I hope you enjoy.

Penny: *Nom Nom ... nom ...* Well. It is certainly sweet.

Nora: It's great right?!?

Penny: Uhm. The Texture is rather 'Cakey' for my palate, as well as being denser than I enjoy. I do not know that I can finish this. I'm sorry.

Nora: *Shocked Silence*

Ren: Oh. I'm sorry. I know Nora likes them very much. Perhaps Waffles would be better for you.

[chittychittyyangyang]

Since I don’t want to flood your inbox I shall bestow you here a million boops. So many boops you won’t know what to do with them. Boop boop :)

[cabesswtaer]

@korakos do we have a page count for tsc? I’m assuming it’s gonna be around 300-400 like the other aftg books but im just curious.

[saturnisfallingdown]

how is castiel pronounced anyway

he was pronounced dead back in 2020! they had a whole episode about it actually

[amarimeta]

Maybe a weird question but I can't stop thinking about it after Certified, what do you think Nora and Laurie's relationship was like in the three years between s2 and s3? I lean towards thinking they were mostly awkward and at the periphery of each other's lives, but there's also an immediate intimacy between them in Certified that's incredibly compelling (it makes me incredibly happy that they were in contact all those years)

okay i want to apologize for two things.

this is sooo incredibly late i’m sorry. i was resisting the urge to rewatch every single scene of both of them (which would have led to a full rewatch)

this is barely even talking about your actual question. this is just an excuse for me to yap about laurie and nora.

HERE’S THE THING. i think nora and laurie’s relationship can be categorized into three distinct phases / eras. I ALSO WANT TO SAY. THAT IF AT ANY POINT IT SOUNDS LIKE IM HATING ON EITHER LAURIE OR NORA. I’M NOT.

phase 1 (preshow - s1)

i don’t know about the rest of you but i imagine that laurie and nora hated each other before they knew each other. it wasn’t anything personal. who gives a fuck about kevin? to me its because of the differences in how publicized their losses and grieving processes were, if that makes any sense. nora’s loss is widely known, she’s nora cursed™ and she lost her entire family. but nora’s reaction to this loss, at least publicly, is largely tame. people in mapleton, generally speaking, think she’s normal. jill only becomes disillusioned because she watched nora deliberately knock over a mug and also saw the gun in her purse, but everyone else thinks nora is fine. they think she’s sad sure, but she doesn’t act out. the one moment i can think of where she acts out in mapleton is when she sprays the GR with her hose to get them to leave, which while rude… other people throw rocks at the GR. so i don’t think anyone is judging that too harshly. on the other hand. laurie’s loss is a secret she carries alone. as far as everyone else is concerned, laurie didn’t lose anyone in the departure. and yet laurie is the one who publicly abandons her family and joins a cult. i think nora had to despise laurie for this. in nora’s eyes, being a wife and mother were precious things stolen from her, and laurie chose to deliberately toss them aside, seemingly for no reason. from laurie’s perspective, nora is much more successful when it comes to dealing with her losses. idk if this is something others would agree with, but i personally think that laurie believes that had she experienced nora’s loss, she would have killed herself. NOT HATING.

ANYWAYS so that’s them before you even bring the kevin of it all into the equation. which brings us into phase 2 (s2 finale - time skip / pre australia s3) (you know. that part this question was actually asking about)

i think this is a difficult situation because its the first time both of them see the other as an actual person, and not a character they’ve made up in their heads. to nora, laurie is no longer “my boyfriend’s ex wife who abandoned her family”, she’s my boyfriend’s ex wife who lives next door to us and is married to our neighbor (who tried to kill my boyfriend that one time. but that’s neither here nor there). to laurie, while i think she still doesn’t know the extent of nora’s grief, i imagine she was able to see through the cracks a bit more. clearly this is not a woman perfectly content in her life having lost her entire family.

i think very little of it has to do with kevin himself. i’m more interested in the jill of it all. for all intents and purposes, nora is jill’s favorite. now there’s multiple reasons to this. number one, nora is not jill’s parent. nora’s relationship with jill from season 2 on is easy because nora treats jill like an adult and generally speaking does very little to "parent" her. number two, nora has not traumatized jill to the extent that both laurie and kevin have. again NOT HATING. we simply must acknowledge that jill’s parents bring a ton of baggage. so yea maybe she thinks hanging out and speaking to nora is the easiest option. i don’t think nora ever considered herself jill’s mom nor do i think she intended to replace laurie, and i don’t think jill thought either of those things. HOWEVER. from laurie’s perspective, i think it’s reasonable to assume she felt insecure about jill and nora’s relationship and dynamic. i think about that scene in 3.01 where jill says she doesn’t want to stay the night because if she stays with nora and kevin it will just hurt laurie’s feelings, but if she stays with laurie and john laurie will keep her up all night apologizing. jill and laurie’s relationship will never have the easiness that nora and jill have, and i don’t think thats unfair. the tommy of it all is less of a factor. tommy obviously never bonded with nora to the extent jill did, his relationship with laurie is (with a valid few exceptions) significantly less strained than jill’s. (there’s also the fact that tommy has to (evidently) keep speaking to nora about leaving christine and lily alone). if we DO want to talk about the kevin of it all i think 3.04 is an important piece of the conversation. kevin reaching out to laurie, laurie telling kevin to speak to nora about what he is experiencing, nora getting upset with kevin for it. “you won’t tell me but you’ll tell laurie?” (for the record. again NOT HATING. but kevin kinda ate her ass up like no sweetie he can’t tell you everything. you DID leave him handcuffed to the bed. yes you left a note with the key location but you did still LEAVE. we love you <33).

SO. do i think their relationship in the time skip was strained? yes. i agree that they very much existed in the peripheries of each other’s lives. to the extent that two women who share a family and a lawn can exist in each other’s periphery. i don’t imagine they were ever snide or rude to each other, but i think they both had egregious amounts of baggage associated with the other that they were still unable to let go.

SO WHAT THE HELL GOES ON IN CERTIFIED AND BEYOND??? phase 3 (australia 😁)

there’s multiple parts to this. obviously. lets go that scene in the car in 3.06. laurie choosing to help nora has less to do with nora and more to do with avoiding kevin and all the shit happening there (in my opinion). nora needs to stalk these two lesbian doctors who want to blast her with radiation into space? that falls under laurie’s skillset! AND laurie just found out matthew is dying of cancer again so we might as well throw nora a bone y'know? but anyways. obviously the more involved they get and the more dedicated nora is to crossing over, the more laurie realizes that nora’s facade was just that. nora is not the perfect widow grieving in a healthy and unobtrusive way. she is feeling the same pain laurie feels, and they’ve both been feeling it for the last seven years. nora feels untethered to the point that she would rather get blasted into space for the chance to see her family again than stay here. and then they’re in the car. and now we’re talking about a suicide machine. and then we get the following beautiful exchange:

nora: if i wanted to kill myself i’d go scuba diving :) it’s the perfect method :) especially when you’re scuba diving certified :) laurie: i’m scuba diving certified… nora: i know <33

(side note. do we think nora has every single person’s individualized perfect suicide method categorized in her brain. i love this idea. she is so kind <3)

and you know what i’m gonna sound crazy but i think in this moment laurie and nora make a suicide pact of sorts. they both realize that the other is carrying this pain. and they’re tired. so nora is going to enter the radiation blast suicide machine and laurie is going to go scuba diving and the world will be more elegant. that scene by the beach is crazy to me. when nora asks what laurie plans to tell the others and laurie takes the ciggies to become nora’s therapist and gain client patient confidentiality. that’s part of the suicide pact. when nora jokes “same time next week?” that’s the suicide pact.

and then laurie gets that phone call. and she realizes that she is not as untethered as she thought. the pain she feels and has felt is real, but it doesn’t discount everything else she has. (i also think her telling kevin about it was an important step. she’s been grieving silently for the last seven years, unable to properly heal). and then one day she gets a call from nora. who is back. the suicide pact was effectively voided, but i don’t think either of them mind. nora feels safe talking to laurie once she’s returned, because she knows laurie wont betray her trust. i think there’s a sense of safety they find in each other because of how much they recognize the other.

TLDR: i completely agree with you. there was definitely a lot of awkwardness in the time skip period. weird barbecues you have to spend with someone you don’t really like or know, but they’ve somehow become part of your family. and then in terms of certified and the book of nora, i think the intimacy seen between them is a culmination of their respective arcs and existences as foils to one another.

[two-sides-halved]

Father son bonding time go!

[pseudophan]

wait where do you live? (i ask cause im og from the yukon in northern canada so saw a lot of northern lights growing up as well)

northern norway! bodø specifically, which is definitely doxxing myself but i've done it many times before on here so i don't really mind. according to google yukon's at a latitude (or degree north as we say in norway) of about 64° and bodø is at about 67-68° so yeah we're very close! we probably see about the same amount of northern lights i assume?

the arctic circle is at 66.33°, just south of me, idk if that makes a difference? probably not too much. i know that like north of that is where the sun doesn't set during the summer, and since i'm just north of it the sun doesn't set here for most of the main summer months and barely sets right now (like it doesn't get dark but Technically it's Barely below the horizon). and during the winter we have a few hours of sunlight still a day whereas further north it's fully dark for months. i assume since you're just south of the arctic circle you don't have these fucked up phenomenons lmao but also does it affect you at all? like does the sun set earlier/later for you ever than it would other places do you think

oh also i say all this but idk if google is right. is all of yukon south of the arctic circle? cause it only gives me one degree north, i feel like it's long enough to maybe have different latitudes?

[cerealboxlore]

The number thing, I recommend numero 18

WIP #18: Loose Ends Tied Up In A Bow "Holy moly..."

Billy Batson was a boy who had seen wonders beyond the minds and imaginations of man. From monsters to the mythical and magical, Billy was accustomed to the strange nature of the universe and participated in being an active part of it.

He'd been to the depths of hell and farthest corners of space, experiencing what many could only dream of as a superhero. However, nothing could ever beat the pure joy of a childlike sense of wonder when experiencing something new.

Nothing could beat a cool-looking train.

"Billy! If you stop staring at the train, you might be able to get on it with the rest of us this century." Billy's sister, Mary, shouted at him, with a drawn-out yawn from the check-in entrance. She may have sounded irritated, but she was just as excited for this trip as Billy, if not more. Neither of them had gotten any sleep last night, staying up late thinking about their first family vacation together. They'd planned all the things they'd do together and all the sights they would see, the only thing the both of them didn't plan for was sleep.

Mary was not unfamiliar with the age-old tradition of traveling for vacations with family, but for Billy, this would be his first time ever leaving Fawcett that wasn't related to Captain Marvel or Justice League business. This would be his first time just...relaxing, with his new family, the Bromfields.

Naturally, Billy was hesitant at first, but with Freddy promising to look after Fawcett in their absence, sorting out any potential problems with the League, and most of their major rogues locked up in prisons at the present, Billy was eventually convinced to take some time off. Billy believed he was bullied into it by Mary and Freddy, but he wasn't too upset about it in the end.

What could go wrong on a train anyway?

Stopping his admiration of the cool train in front of him, Billy gleefully sprinted back to his family. Mr. Bromfield ruffled his hair the moment he got close and reeled him into a side hug, trapping him in his arms.

"Aha! There we go, Nora, I think we're all here now. Our boy's not getting left behind like some cheesy "Home Alone" sequel. Lord knows we don't need more of those movies going around." Nick Bromfield chuckled. The dad humor was something Billy was trying to get used to.

"Oh, Nick. Let the poor boy go, his hair is all a mess now. Here, give him to me." Nora Bromfield coerced her husband into setting Billy free, but upon the taste of freedom, he was just met with another trap which was Nora Bromfield "fixing" his hair. She cupped his face and pushed his hair back with a comb, straightening it out. Billy once again struggled to escape the arms of a loving parent, but ultimately let Nora comb his hair in defeat.

He never knew having loving parents could be such a hassle.

Mary did, apparently, as Billy heard her laughing at his misery. His face flushed red over feeling so fussed over. Suddenly, Billy felt a devious little idea pop into his head.

"Uhh, hey, Mrs. B, I think Mary's hair needs some help, too. You know, the hair she's hiding under her hat because she didn't want to tell you her hair was bad today?"

"Oh! Thank you, Billy. I need to get on that. Mary! Come here, let me clean up your hair real quickly. No, a hat is no excuse to be lazy about your hair. Come here- no don't hide behind your brother! Remember, we're sleeping in the same cabin. You can't run from your mom!" Mary zig-zagged away from her mother's comb in her hands, glaring at Billy with an expression that could make Medusa shake. Clearly, neither of the twins liked being fussed over, almost like cats who hated baths. Billy couldn't help but laugh in return.

While Nick Bromfield sorted out the check-in line for them, Nora Bromfield got to embarrassing her kids in front of everyone else around the train station. Multi-tasking parents. You can't get any better than that.

The Bromfield family were so busy smiling and enjoying their time together, that none of them had even realized they were being watched by a pair of glaring eyes. Eyes that would follow them on the train soon after.