#not exactly a liveblog but

[luminousstardust]

important imodna-isms / references from tonight’s episode 🖤💜

…and a bonus callowmoore :)

[aashiqeddiediaz]

me convincing my boss that it's a 2-person job

[foxstens]

never not thinking about how kevin day is david wymack's son

imagine you're kevin, practically born with a racquet in your hand, you grow up with your mother for a while and maybe you ask about your father and she tells you not to worry about it, or maybe you just never ask because she doesn't mention it and you don't know how important it is, yet. then she dies, you're moved to evermore, it's so different from what you've seen previously but you have no choice so you just bow your head and do your best to survive, clinging onto your mother's sport, clinging onto the idea that you'll become a star.

you're there for so long you eventually forget you've ever been outside of it, but you see how desperate riko is for his father's attention so you start wondering, however briefly, about the concept of a father.

then you're in high school, you find the letter and suddenly it's not just a vague concept you have to wonder about, suddenly it's something real and tangible. you've heard of david wymack, it would've been impossible not to since he was a friend of your mother's and considering the kind of team he's taken up to creating, maybe you've even met him extremely briefly at some point. you know enough about the industry to think his team isn't just a publicity stunt, and somehow you know that if he finds out he'll do everything in his power to get you out.

you're not stupid enough to tell riko this, but you do tell jean and he laughs at you. of course he does. but you've been there for too long, you've seen too much, and you're old enough to understand what the master would do if he deemed david wymack to be a threat. you can't leave riko's side therefore you can't tell him any time soon, possibly ever, so you resolve to reading the letter over and over instead. (riko reads it almost as often as you)

then you're 19 and the erc thinks riko is holding you back. you're 19 and you're watching riko stomp on everything you've built up through the years. you're 19 and the letter is the only reason you have the strength to leave.

you tell wymack and the team as much as you dare because they deserve to know the risks of having you here, and wymack takes it in stride, he puts himself and his team at risk and even takes out loans to keep you here, like you knew he would. he signs you and he deserves to know about the letter, the more time passes the worse it'll be when you do tell him, but you can't yet because it's too soon and you don't trust yourself to tell riko no when the time comes.

then neil is asking for your help

now imagine you're wymack. your childhood was shit and you didn't have the support you needed at the time, but you believe you can be better than the hands that shaped you. kayleigh taught you everything you know about exy, and you loved her so it stung when she died and you couldn't be there for her only son. but, no matter what you might think of tetsuji moriyama, you don't think kayleigh would send her son to an unsafe place. you just go on with your days, maybe tune in on the news to see that kevin's doing well. you have no reason to think otherwise.

when you have the opportunity to start an exy team from scratch, you dedicate it to the kids that need another chance, the kids the world has given up on. you'll never give up on them.

then, what feels like a lifetime later, kevin day is standing in front of your hotel room and asking you for help. he's saying his 'beloved brother' broke his hand, he's saying the moriyamas are part of the yakuza, he's saying they'll kill him if they find him. throughout the year you get to know him better, you see that he's grown up to be a caged and abused wreck, you see he was raised to care about nothing but exy, you see him having a panic attack at the mere mention of having to face his former team, you see him drinking himself to oblivion to cope. you can't undo the past so you do your best to support him now, but damn if you don't wish you could've been there for him.

then he's telling you he's your son

[secriden]

Don't mind me, just going to hold on desperately to this wonderful treasure trove of sleepy, slightly dazed, and carelessly fond Fadel waking Style up with a warm palm rubbing gentle circles over Style's knee, voice filled with the gravel of sleep, his gaze and tone all tender soft and unguarded in the brilliant morning light.

Fadel oh so gently brushing his fingers over Style's cheek like he's something infinitely delicate and precious even as the smudges of his fingerprints are still visible on Style's waist and hip and Style stares up at him in captive adoration.

[neenack]

No he did not bust out the shit eating grin

[completeoveranalysis]

[4]

Magic Knight Rayearth accuracy: 100%

This whole scenario is fascinating to me from Sakura's point of view, especially since she retained her memories. I was initially wondering how she'd be feeling being in Hong Kong in particular, but now that I think about it there was nothing about Tsubasa that implied Syaoran was from Hong Kong, so wouldn't know! She doesn't know the Cardcaptor Sakura side of things! She wouldn't know who she's about to meet!

But even that aside I can only imagine what it was like growing up in Japan with her memories from Tsubasa. Knowing she has a life with Syaoran ahead of her but not knowing when that begins. Getting to live a nice and happy life knowing that all the hard part of fighting for the universe is over. And also like, meeting Hikaru and remembering that she had to fight a robot based off of her in Infinity that one time.

Is her father Fujitaka in this world too? Is that weird for her, remembering him as Syaoran's father? Or is it switched in this world and Syaoran has Fujitaka here too? There's just so much AU to explore and I'm sure we'll only get the tiniest taste of it.

[sparring-spirals]

chetney is just So Chetney all the fucking time that its funny when someone is like 'hmmm he seems even more chetney than usual' and then its heightened even more when someone else goes 'no hes Always This Fucking Weird wdym' and meanwhile Chetney is just sniffing things and licking stuff in the background with unmatchable vigour. while they all discuss casually. you're all perfect for each other. not perfect for chetney, exactly, because only he is perfect for chetney. but collectively perfect.

[altschmerzes]

writing goal for the weekend is picking the break points for both history rhymes and drive the wedge. big step towards posting…

[mandareeboo]

I think Maddie provides a lot of the basic comforts Caitlyn needs. Warmth, companionship, support. She's a great woman, really. For most people, landing Maddie Nolen would be the highlight of their careers. Great girlfriend material.

But Caitlyn needs someone who knocks her upside the head (metaphorically), who remembers back routes through slums and can stitch a wound shut while laughing at her bad luck. She needs someone who can keep her honest, who reminds her of the bad things she's unintentionally doing along with the good. She needs Vi.

[peachdoxie]

Sorry about the communication issues, sir, we had a prob– yes, sir, it was the slugs, the psychic slugs– well, you see, sir, the problem is that the psychic slugs have unionized.

[be-the-glenn-to-my-maggie]

Survivor blogs on tumblr, I love you. You all show up like Fuck survivor I hate everyone there and I hate Jeff and I haTE this season, everyone sucks so bad at playing this game, anyways see you all in a few months to do this again. This show is my life.

[cyndaquillt]

Side note, Metatron sounds such a mecha kinda name like I'd expect a giant Transformer have, not an archangel. And me being from not an Abrahamic religion nor growing up in a culturally Abrahamic setting + getting my archangel knowledge secondhand from media or friends, I genuinely thought TWSA/ORV made Metatron up.....

[eerna]

I have seen so many "TLT but make it straight" stories out there but only one is actually good AND carries the spirit of the original. I am, of course, talking about the TV show Severance,

[stellar-jay]

im still processing fool's fate. so they are married right? i was reading that right? they are by southern tradition, married? and the fool doesn't know this? they are married? the fool proposed. i am reading this correctly? they're married? that's nuts.

[secriden]

you can always always count on style to have his priorities in the right order no matter the situation. always. 😂

[agnesandhilda]

I think it was a good character writing decision for mark's catalyst to be nolan insulting debbie, but the degrading way nolan talks about humans affects him too. mark is half-human, even if his viltrumite side is the only part of his heritage the characters of invincible acknowledge because nolan does everything he can to foreground it in-universe—declaring that his viltrumite-ness is the most important part of his racial/species background was arbitrary, and that status can be arbitrarily revoked too. mark only asks this once, but what was nolan planning to do if his son had never developed powers, i.e. proven he could grow into a "proper" viltrumite? he would be just another human, and nolan's treatment of debbie shows he has no issue belittling and mistreating even the humans that he's emotionally close to. nolan slaughters unfamiliar humans in front of mark to make a point. he uses mark's body as a weapon to kill humans with for the sake of upsetting him. mark, who is the son of a human just as much as he is the son of a viltrumite. who at the start of the series was less than a year away from being a normal human, the kind of person who his father would at best treat like a thing he possesses and at worst like a bug to squash. does mark feel threatened by nolan's contempt towards his people (the kind of person that mark is)? is that driving him to fight? is mark thinking about that at all, even if it's just subconscious?