#ope nevermind she just said it

[thewaywardfangirl]

I was wondering at the beginning if he meant rats or criminals but I guess they went with both

Nvm I was wrong...I think?

[classicintp]

Goddammit I miss that cat.

[chaosandmarigolds]

(Screaming) LEAVE ME ALONE YOU ARE NOT MY MOM YOU ARE NOT MY DAD-

Anyway! :D So I’ve been working nights, meaning I have too much free time on my hands (yet none at all, it’s weird)- and as far canon ships go, I am very much fall into the Ghoap (I laugh whenever I say it. It’s so funny, like?? There had to be a better option for a ship name) category and so, I know! This isn’t what I generally post and don’t worry I’m gonna stay to normal stuff HOWEVER I have to get this out of system or I may actually scream

Okay, so all yall. Just for shits and giggles (canon doesn’t exist in mind. MW3 did not happen don’t- no-no Soap is fine. He is fine) like hear me out- hear me out!!

-

“Do you like Taylor Swift?”

Ghost looked up from the tablet to the young person sitting cross from him on the carrier, no older than ten most likely. “The fuck you just ask me?”

“Taylor Swift- ta know like, ‘Our song is the slam screen door and tapping on your window-‘ do you like her?” A pause, “She also made that one gay song.”

He stares at them for a moment, confused on how a child he had quite literally picked up the wreckage of a village was so…nonchalant. “Why would I know-“

“Cause you’re gay.”

“…excuse me?”

-

Or!!!

“Alrighty, lass up we go,”

Simon just happens to walk in post op, with a limp, exhausted, just to see his boyfriend hoisting a small child up to get something he had hidden from him.

Johnny and the child, staring wide eyed at him.

“I-wha-nevermind, m gonna go to bed.”

“Smart idea, luv.”

—

Price, babysitting, “An your dads-“

(The child is Polish. Why? Cause I said so.) “no, papa and then Taty.”

Kyle barely awake, “The fuck you just call Ghost?”

“Taty.”

“Did you just call LT a tit?”

—

And yeah, I had to get that out of my system. Happy Pride!!! 🩷

[jedi-hawkins]

The Bad Batch Episode 13 Watch Thoughts

Spoilers (duh)

Dafuq mustache

I cry she’s back in the prison greys

She’s so big compared to the kiddos

She’s not acknowledging the straw Lula? Ope nevermind she is

The way Eva mimicked O-mee-ga even though she doesn’t have an accent 🥹

Baryn!!!!!

Rampart being pissy lol

Ugh Hunter’s voice is so hot

Hondo? ECHO!!

Get him Crosshair

YES 😂😭 that had to be the line the trolls creators were talking about with delivery

Bruh Rampart being a whiny lil bitch “This is a captain’s uniform” 😭 I can’t

“I’d like to believe you” oh damn got her

Oh she’s good

Loving Omega with her prison shank hidden in her sleeve

‘Specimens’ BITCH WHO TF ARE YOU

I just noticed how similar Emerie’s glasses are to the visor on Tech’s helmet

Fuck I love Omega so much. SHE IS HUNTER’S DAUGHTER

Their paint is gone 🥺

They’re so over Rampart PLEASE 😂😭

Okay but the blackout armor is kinda… fanartists I'm looking at you

PLEASE the way that Imperial officer towers over Hunter 😭

"Iss-ewe" Rampart is so funny

Their armor is so distinct I think it’s so funny they thought taking the paint off would do anything. (It’s giving Marvel baseball cap and sunglasses disguise)

Please the lil face Rampart made when Hunter stunned the data guard and Crosshair shoved him into the room 😂

Wrecker just clocking that guy

Echo getting to solo ARC Trooper again 🥹

Woah that was a cool aerial shot of Tantiss into the vault

Why did I think Echo was going to steal a Stormtrooper's armor?

Stopppp Echo is going up the droid chute? Echo went up the droid chute.

Wrecker wearing the guys hat I’m deaddddd his little smile when he gave it back to him

Oh please please please let this work

ECHO IS NOT A DROID

Crosshair trusting in Echo, his team. When he told Rampart to relax it didn’t even sound snarky, it sounded like genuine reassurance.

Rampart was the one that said the line "Abort the mission."

Okay but husband with the "...Negative..." take me now

YESSS YES IT WORKED

OH my god this is probably my favorite episode of the season so far. Things have been really heavy with the overarching plot so I feel like we needed a little bit of a breather.

The creators did so well balancing the script for this one between the humor, the tension (especially at the end of 'will they attach on time') It almost felt like a callback to how a TCW episode would be balanced.

I'm relieved to know they literally just took the paint off their armor to 'blend in' (which were they really?) But I've been stressing all season that something horrible was the reason for them scrubbing the paint off.

I needed this episode, we all needed this episode to have some action and progression in the overarching plot with some good humor. Not the only two (three) things missing.

WHO IS CX-2?? (It's Tech. I won't be taking notes)

Give me wet rat Hunter (episode-whatever did not count)

Crosshair and Omega Hug

[sayruq]

Is the person who made that post about comparing the stark girls to their parents a hater? You and the other fans seem to be mad at them. Personally, I didn’t read anything malicious in the original post. But I can understand your reaction if it’s based on previous things they said.

I don't know them, I've never seen them before but you have to understand Arya stans have a long habit of working themselves into a fury over anything that we say about Sansa (or any other character but mostly Sansa). They live to micromanage our fandom and people's perception of Sansa.

If we spend a week discussing Sansa and tourneys, for example, by the following week they'll be in Sansa's tag going on about how tourneys are awful, how Sansa is so dumb for enjoying a national past time, and how she's wasting resources by organising one, nevermind that the whole point is to bring the Vale together and by doing this, many players in the Vale now know what she looks like, idk I think that could be important later on (like, say, if she ever needs an army).

How is comparing Sansa to her father a problem? How are we flattening both characters? I'd say the opposite is true. It brought a bigger spotlight on how Ned copes with trauma and Robert's behaviour because that's how Sansa deals with trauma and Joffrey. It showed how carefully GRRM has weaved that coping mechanism into both characters and how Sansa is slowly but surely working to overcome it so she can escape Ned's fate. And that's just one thing they both share, there are others.

The only reason OP and people who agree with them even care is because Sansa is the one being compared to Ned, not Arya, with the obvious implication that eventually Sansa will take on Ned's role as the ruler of the North.

[useless-and-confused]

Ok so it took me a while but I finished the elden ring dlc, I beat the final boss like yesterday, I had to wait to get the dlc but nevermind that, I wanna share my thoughts based also on what I've seen other people post. I really liked I thought it was amazing on how it expanded on the existing lore and introduced things we didn't know about (the hornsent and their society etc.), I do have a few criticisms like I do believe the last boss was bullshit, second phase especially, first phase was fine but nothing special, but second phase omg I hated that shit couldn't see anything and was waaay too overtuned, which is a shame cause all the other major dlc bosses were amazing, rellana and messmer especially. Also about some things I've seen people talk about, I've seen way too many people talk about how it's "lore-breaking" which is ridicolous, like instead of going "oh with the limited information I was presented with I came to the wrong conclusion" going "they made shit up and didn't care" which I'm sorry but that's like so dumb. I've also seen people say that it should've been godwyn and not radhan but like you guys know that the whole thing with godwyn is that he's like real world dead right? there's nothing to bring back, while radhan's soul is in the cycle of the erdtree, also (I saw this on a post that I unfortunately don't remember the op's name, if someone does please link or share it) there's the whole thing with the hornsent worshipping a horned lion and the person being brought back on top of their divine tower is radhan that uses a lion a symbol and has horns because of mohg's body; so acting like radhan is there just for fanservice just proves how little attention you pay to actually important aspects of the world design. With that said I do agree that the base game shouldn't have just deleted all connections between radhan and miquella, fromsoft does exhaggerate with their how cryptict (is that how you spell it??) they are sometimes. Lastly I want to touch on the marika situation, now I like marika, but I like her as an evil character and I see so many people act as if what she did was justified, to put it simply genocide is never justifiable, was hornsent society awful and bigoted? yes; are marika's feelings towards them understandable seeing what they did to shaman village? yes; does this justify destroying their culture, their cities, killing and torturing civilians, hunting down anyone born with horns posthumously and deleting them from history? no absolutely not. I really like marika as an evil, coldhearted, manipulative woman, don't pretend like she's a good person when she's much more enjoyable as she is. So yeah I don't understand why so many people have problems with the dlc honestly, I'd like to hear some more objective opinions on the matter so feel free to interact (also I just woke up so I feel like this is full of spelling mistakes so sorry about that)

[egg-emperor]

New lore was dropped by Iizuka at a fan Q+A apparently. Interestingly, it's been revealed that Eggman is below the age of 50, that he never personally knew Gerald and Maria, his father was one of Gerald's two sons and that he is younger than Maria.

I find all of this fascinating.

You scared me LMFAO my heart stopped and blood ran cold for a sec but before I could go through all the stages of grief I was like hold on lemme see that source and found that isn't the case phew. If it was final that he was so young in his 40s I'd be devastated lol. Not just because I wouldn't want to believe it but also all the evidence suggests otherwise.

They considered putting him at 60 in the Sonic CD concept art, he's referred to as old and middle-aged, uses the Washi pronoun in JP, is associated with the Respect for the Aged Day in Japan where senior citizens are apparently 65+. Most recently we have the Egg Memo where Eggman specifies that he "never really knew" Maria, so he had to exist for at least some time when she was alive to feel the need to specify that.

Also, while a bit more speculative, it'd make sense if part of the reason he was so upset about how Gerald's plan to destroy the planet would've resulted in his death too is because he existed at the time even if he was very young, and Gerald would've known he had a grandson despite not meeting him and didn't consider or care for it to stop him. And that hit hard with him being his grandfather and idol he admired so much. I feel it'd kinda water down the impact and weight of it if it was like "He didn't consider that he could've potentially killed his grandson, even though I didn't exist yet." :P

But yeah it wouldn't make sense for him to be so young in his 40s, there's way too much emphasis on him being old and that would be way too young for it. Plus with the memo being solid canon on top of all the hints, it still doesn't make sense if you disregard the rest of the logic. So I was like no this can't be!!!

Then I saw the source to see that Iizuka apparently didn't actually say Eggman "yes, Eggman is 100% under 50" and I'm so relieved lol.

I just wanna break it down so I have something to link to people if this ever comes up in the future:

It was specifically the OP saying Eggman was literally "under 50", as if it was said to be 100% certain and confirmed final fact

But when they quote Iizuka directly, it turns out he apparently said: "His age hasn't been disclosed but he's probably under 50."

I knew they weren't gonna suddenly reveal his solid age now after all his time of it being unknown in all his bios, only heavily hinted at and implied with the examples listed above. If they're finally gonna go all out and finalize a specific age, it's definitely not gonna be at a Q&A.

Iizuka still saying it "is not disclosed" and the use of "probably" doesn't count as confirmation at all. He's just basing an estimate on the logic that if he didn't know Maria and Gerald then he might not have existed at the same time as them at all but all the evidence seems to show otherwise. Either way, it still "is not disclosed." So it's all just probable estimates.

So yeah at first my heart was like *glass shatter sfx* 💔 then I read the actual thread and I was like oh wait nevermind lol ❤️‍🩹 Here's the link to it btw

--------------------

Anyway now that we've got that out of the way, let's talk about the other stuff.

It was always obvious that Eggman never knew Gerald personally. He never speaks of direct anecdotes or personal experiences. Hell, he doesn't even know about the ARK before SA2. So of course the same goes for Maria, that was clear before it was confirmed in the Egg Memo.

As for Maria being older than Eggman, I never decided on whether I thought so or not because there wasn't ever anything to actually suggest it. But sure, that can make sense. She can be older than him without it meaning that he didn't exist at any point while she was still alive.

But I'm still definitely under the impression that he did exist for at least some time when she was alive, even if he was very young. He had to be. He specifically emphasizes that he "never really knew" Maria in the Egg Memo. Why would he need to if he never even existed when she was alive? It would've been obvious.

So I feel it implies he didn't *really* know her because while he was alive at the same time even if just a little, he didn't meet her in person and only learned of her through how others talked of her.

Then him mentioning that she was "gone" immediately after is just him then jumping to the part after her death, where he started learning about her more because she became the big subject after her tragic death and then of course he became jealous.

This also adds up with Iizuka saying Eggman didn't learn all this information about Maria until after her death

Here's what I'm thinking. He existed the same time as her even if he was very young but he didn't meet her obviously because she was on the ARK all her life wondering what it was like on Earth and Eggman didn't even know about the ARK until SA2. Then she became the hot topic after her tragic death so Eggman got so somewhat "know" her through their word but still didn't "really" know her because they didn't literally meet. Makes sense!

And lastly, if it's true that he said Eggman's father is Gerald's son then I'm so happy about that, since it's always been my headcanon that he was the paternal grandfather! :D

So yeah this was really just Iizuka saying what me and others have been saying already as far as him not knowing Gerald and Maria personally. Then also him making an unconfirmed non solid estimate of his age with the "probably" but the games and Sonic Channel suggests he has to be 50 AT LEAST. Seems to be over it actually, since he had to be alive some time before the ARK raid/the same time as Maria, even if just for a little while.

[after-nine-at-the-oasis]

Ayo 💀 xD

Hi Owen :D

Lol yeah

Hi Judd 🥰

OPE 💀 xD she's probably joking though lol

And hi Marlene :) nice to see you

Nice nice

:o :D hi doggy :)

Fair lol

Hmm interesting

Ope- I don't think he will

Nope xdd

OPE OH gosh o.o :O

THAT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE A GOOD IDEA

Yeeeahh xdd

Oof gosh 😭

Them just watching xD lol

Ehh he'll be fiiiine

LOL yeah xD

Oh I thought she was talking about Owen lol

Or maybe she-

YEAH SHE WAS XD

Oope-

Okayy okay :D

OH DANG O.O

Oof 😭😭

Hi opening zdd

Oof lol 😭😬

Funn fun drinks

Ahh yeah

Idk if it's your fault

Nevermind turns out it is

Ope O.O

Not to put to fine a point on it xD

Not subtle lol, that's my point

Uh ohhh 😬

Ooh 911 call :D

Oh no D:

Ohh gosh 😳

A moment to be glad and sad that Carlos isn't still an officer lol

Hi Wyatt :DD

Oh no D: yeah help him

Is it gonna be some like infamous criminal- okay good no

Girl be fr 🙄

Okay phew-

YAYY he's out :D

:o

Nahh he's helping I bet

😬😬

Hi Mitchell 🥰🥰 nice to see you :D

Oop?

I bet he got him out

:D?

YEAHH :DD whoo hooray :D

LOL fair xD

Yayy :))

Hey guys :D!

Hi Mateo :))!!

Hi Marjan :DD!

Hi Nancy 🥰!

Mateo you being flamboyant with it, bougiee

Hi Paul :DD

Oop?

Ahh drama lol

Okay okay a poll I see

OH WAIT THE EPISODE DESCRIPTION O.O

Ohhh noo she's not sending the food picture is she xd on accident 😬😬😳

Ohhh no xd

YEP O.O

Ohhh crap 😭

Poor Nancy xddd

No bro that's rough-

Oh gosh what did you take it here 😭 o.o

Go y'all run xD

Okay okay who's lol

Ahh Judd's phone xD

Why would it be those

Try Grace's birthday

Eh fair I guess

Lol Mateo?? Did you get them presents xD?

OPE based on the description and the promo, Tommy's gonna notice o.o anyway

Okayy okayy

Oh gosh xdd

Why are his toes out 😭😭-

Ahh ice lol

Hmmm okay xD

LOL Owen xD

OOP guys 😳

Hmm okay xD

I feel like TK would just trust you if you said you needed his phone lol

Ahh nice

LOL nope because THEY'RE too nice xD

I mean yeah it's karaoke it probably wasn't that much lol

I love how everyone in tv shows go to karaoke xD love that for them lol

Careful guysss xD

Hmmm

They're working together xD

LOL SLFJSKHD OWEN JUST KNOWS XDD that's so fair lol

He's like just get it off xd

Lol

XDD guys?

LOL the pulling rank is crazy xD

Ahh nice guys

Where from here though, what's the plan Mateo lol

AHHH (awh not aah) niiice Mateo :D

Okayy okayy

Good lol

NICE good job guys :D

Okay cool lol getting it-

Oope Tommy o.o

Ahh gosh xdd

Good luck lol

[deeg9]

Chenford + 5.13 fix it fic.

They all find out!

Hey anon -

Thanks for this request. I was also hoping for a more robust ensemble moment from 5x13. You can read my take on it below or on AO3 here.

5x13: The Reveal

“Hey,” Lucy said, whisking through Nolan's front door. 

“Lucy. Sure, why not? Come on in,” Nolan replied with a flip of his hand. 

“Oh, you look surprised.” Lucy set her duffle bag down in front of an empty chair in the living room. “Wait, weren't you on the group text?”

“No, no. I turn off my phone when –” Nolan paused when Bailey shot him a look. “Nevermind. Can I get you a drink?” 

“Tequila. Double,” Lucy said with a sigh.

Everyone stared at her. 

“I need it,” Lucy said with an uncomfortable laugh. “We have a big problem.”

“What’s going on?” Wesley asked. 

“Tim is miserable in his new role and he won’t admit it,” Lucy explained. “We need to figure out what chess moves to make in order to get him into a better job.” 

“Wait. Tim isn’t a sergeant anymore?” James asked. “When did that happen?”

“No, he’s still a sergeant,” Nyla interjected and then smirked. “He took a new job for reasons neither he nor Lucy will say out loud.”

“Yeah.” Angela nudged Lucy with her elbow and handed her the drink Nolan had poured. “Why, exactly, is Timothy Bradford the Court Liaison Sergeant again?” 

“Grey said it was because of the officer no-show rates getting too high. He needed Tim to get that under control,” Nolan interjected, completely oblivious. He dried his hand with a towel and tossed it on the counter.  “Wes, let me show you where the charging cable is.”

“Thanks,” Wesley said and followed Nolan down the hall, but not before throwing a sly look at his wife. 

“I’m going to lay Leah down,” James said, motioning at his baby girl who was struggling to keep her eyes open. 

“Thank you,” Nyla smiled. James kissed her on the cheek and took Leah out of her arms. 

“You can use the first room on the right,” Bailey told him, pointing in that direction. 

“Is Nolan right, Lucy?” Angela egged on. 

“Mm-hmm,” Lucy hummed. She took a big gulp from her drink before the burn reminded her it was tequila on ice. She couched into her elbow. 

“Come on, ladies,” Bailey said with a laugh. She walked over and swung her arm around Lucy’s shoulders and guided her toward the living room. “They’ll tell us when they’re ready.” 

“Right,” Angela agreed before playfully narrowing her gaze on Lucy. “Even if it hurts our feelings more every day they don’t.” 

“Angela–” Lucy started. 

“No, no.” Angela held up her hands. “Just know that I’m not telling you my secret until you tell me yours.” 

Lucy ignored the comment and unzipped the bag at her feet. She unpacked sticky notes and markers onto the coffee table and then wrote the names of different departments on separate notes: Motors, SWAT, Robbery, Metro, Vice, IA, Air Support, and Homicide. Nyla took a stack of stickies and began to write the names of sergeants and other high-level officers on each sheet. 

“Is it really even a secret at this point?” Lucy finally asked, looking between the women.  

“What do you mean, ‘at this point’?” Nyla asked with a laugh and Angela joined in. “You two literally went from being attached at the hip, to not being able to be in the same room together, to being attached at the hip.”

“That doesn’t mean…” Lucy shook her head. 

She wrote ‘Retired’ on one more sticky note and then arranged them all on Nolan’s living room window. Nyla and Angela joined her and sorted the cops under each of their respective departments. 

“You didn’t even see Tim lie to my face about not having feelings for her,” Angela said to Nyla. “His voice cracked and went up an entire octave. And that was before The Great Resistance.” 

Nyla and Bailey snickered. 

“The Great Resistance?” Lucy grumbled, her cheeks flaming red. 

“Yeah,” Nyla nodded, picking up a grape from a bowl of fruit Bailey had set on the table. “You know? The time between the UC op and when Grey made you two ride together again.” 

“Oh my god,” Lucy pressed her palm to her forehead. “So everybody knows?”

“Well, not everybody,” Bailey interjected, motioning her wine glass toward the hall. “I’m pretty sure Nolan hasn’t figured it out. He’s had his hands full with Celina.” 

“Well, that’s ironic,” Lucy mumbled. “Okay, let’s focus. We really need to figure out a solution for Hicks and then everything else should fall into place.” 

“What about motors?” Angela asked. 

“He has triplets,” Lucy and Nyla said simultaneously. 

“Oof,” Bailey cringed. “Definitely not the safest job for someone who isn’t going to get a good night’s sleep for the foreseeable future.” 

“What did I miss?” Nolan asked as he jogged up. 

James and Wesley were right behind him and Nyla explained the musical chairs they were trying to accomplish. Wesley took a sleeping Jackson from Angela’s arms and went to lay him down in Nolan’s guest room. 

“I got it,” Nolan said. He picked up a sticky. “Hicks leaves Metro, goes to IA. Remington moves to Motors. That means Watson gets into SWAT. Halsey comes over to Metro. There's still a spot for Tim.”

“Remington's wife won't let her on a motorcycle, so that's a non-starter,” Nyla said, shaking her head.

“Okay, um, Fuji retires?” Lucy moved Fujii to ‘Retired’.  “Halsey goes to Metro and Madison goes to Robbery. Hmm?”

“Primm will go to Vice?” Angela suggested. 

“No, they hate each other,” Nolan shot down. 

“Okay.” Lucy tapped her chin.  “Um, Jones goes to SWAT.”

They stared at the window and a slow smile grew on their faces.

“And Bob's your uncle,” Angela said. 

A knock sounded on the front door and Nolan went to answer it. 

“Yes,” Lucy clapped and then her smile fell.  “Oh, no.”

“What?” Nyla asked. 

“Well, the only way this works is if Fuji retires,” Lucy pointed out, “and the only person who can convince her to do that is…”

“Smitty,” Nyla supplied.

“Yeah.” Lucy grimaced. 

“Hey, Tim,” Nolan said loud enough for his voice to carry. “This is unexpected. What's your -- What's the -- What are you -- What's up?”

“Shhhit!” Lucy whispered. They all frantically pulled the sticky notes off of the glass.

“Uh, I heard you had power,” Tim said. “I was hoping you had the game on.”

Bailey plopped on the sectional and stuffed a handful of stickies behind her back while James shoved some down between the side arm and cushion. Lucy stuck a stack under her thigh as she sat. 

“Yes,” Nolan stalled. “I mean, yes, we have power. The game is -- We can...”

“Is that Lucy's car?” Tim pointed over his shoulder.

”Uh, yes. Come on in,” Nolan said and waved him in. “Hey, guys, look who it is.”

Nolan headed for the kitchen while Tim approached the group. 

“It's a party,” Tim said suspiciously. “What's going on?”

“Nothing,” Angela shrugged. “Just enjoying the A/C.”

Lucy nodded in agreement a little too eagerly. 

“You okay?” Tim asked her. 

“Yeah,” Lucy said with a smile. “Couldn't be better.”

“So you’ve all just been sitting here in silence?” Tim asked, raising his eyebrows. 

“Well, we just got here.” Lucy provided. 

Nolan cleared his throat and handed Tim a beer. 

“The game?” Nolan asked. He picked the remote up from the coffee table and navigated to the local sports channel. 

“Oh, sure,” Tim said. “If that’s cool with everyone?” 

“Of course,” Bailey said and scooted down the sofa closer to Angela to make room for Nolan and Tim. She carefully slid the stickies behind her back to Angela. 

An uncomfortable silence fell over the room as everyone pretended to be focused on the screen. James tapped his fingers along the armrest and Nolan’s leg bounced nervously to the same beat. 

Wesley returned and sat on the floor in front of his wife. He glanced around the room, an odd expression on his face.

“Did I miss something?” Wesley asked. 

“Nope,” James said, but it was clear he was holding back a smile. 

“Then why isn’t anyone talking?” Wesley looked between Tim and Lucy sitting on opposite sides of the room. 

“We’re enjoying the game,” Lucy said, clearing her throat. 

Tim huffed and rolled his eyes. 

“What?” Lucy asked, pursing her lips with a dare in her eyes.   

“I’ve known Nolan for years and he’s never sat in silence this long,” Tim said. “ Something is definitely -– Oh.” 

Tim’s brows shot up and he looked around the room. His eyes widened and Lucy subtly shook her head, silently trying to communicate. 

“You told them?” He asked and she let out an exasperated breath. 

Angela, Nyla, and Bailey burst out laughing from a mixture of relief at the awkward silence ending and amusement that Tim had picked up on the wrong secret. 

“No, Tim,” Lucy rolled her eyes but she was smiling. “You told them.”

“Okay, now I’m missing something,” Nolan said to Bailey. 

“Oh, honey,” Bailey slapped Nolan on the knee and shook her head.

Angela wiped tears out of her eyes and Nyla leaned back against James. The air seemed to clear with the news finally out in the open so Tim put his hands on his knees to push up from the sectional and walked over to Lucy.  

He held out his hand and Lucy took it, rising to her feet. She swiped the sticky note stuck to her thigh off and it fell to the ground. 

“Are you going to tell me what’s up with the sticky notes everyone thought I didn’t see being passed around?” Tim asked.

“Don’t worry about it,” Lucy said, standing on her tippy toes to peck him on the lips. “Trust me.” 

“I do.” Tim smiled down at her. 

“Oh,” Nolan let out a surprised noise and then chuckled. “Wow. Am I the only one who didn’t know about this?” 

“Yes,” everyone on the sectional said simultaneously, leading to another round of laughter. 

Tim used the momentary distraction to steal a kiss from Lucy, perfectly happy that he no longer had to hide his affection for her. 

“Ew!” Angela threw a pillow at them, hitting him in the back. “Get a room!” 

“But please, not here,” Nolan teased. 

Lucy turned in Tim’s arms until she was leaning back against him. He wrapped his arms around her waist and held her close as they listened to their friends all join in to heckle them.

Suddenly, their relationship felt real. Lucy thought that would scare her when they finally reached this moment, but instead, the warmth of their friends' happiness and acceptance put her perfectly at ease. These people were her family and she’d never felt more grateful that she'd taken a risk on a whim a few years ago to join the LAPD. She smiled up at Tim and knew without a doubt, he felt the same way. 

[Thanks for reading! Kudos and comments on AO3 -- linked here --are always appreciated.]

[buzbu]

I’m watching ‘Ladybug and Chat Noir: Awakening’ (you can watch a really bad quality bootleg recording on most pirating sites right now), these are my reactions while I’m watching . A lot of the points won’t make sense unless you’ve seen it too I’m sorry 😭

If you don’t want to watch the movie but want a vague idea of the plot, here u go

⚠️NEW MIRACULOUS MOVIE SPOILERS⚠️

- master fu is soo dramatic

- THIS IS A MUSICAL???

- whoever the singer is for marinette sounds so noticeably different to her it is throwing me off

- the character designs are so cute

- brand placement: 1

- Adrien is brooding so hard with his headphones. I bet he’s listening to something emo

- omg gabriel agreste backstory right away

- Luka cameo

- whyd they make plagg a fart monster

- there are more than 4 background character designs this is crazy

- whyd they make gabe kinda fine

- gabes first musical number as hawkmoth is so insanely Dr Facilier

- they made him such a good villain omfg I’m actually rooting for him he’s got the whole ‘a villain who would sacrifice the world to save her’ thing going for him

- oooo they have the mime villain from season 1 (?), and they are actually showing how op his power is. He could create literally anything and he just made a wall and a gun, he couldve done so much more. They did him justice they made him kinda fine too very Danny Bailey from Schmigadoon

- chat noir calling himself a sidekick is my villain origin story

- didn’t know how much I needed an action montage with a rock cover of the miraculous ladybug song until now

- a slither of adrienette in the montage

- brand placement: 2

- I’m an hour in and chat noir hasnt called ladybug milady ONCE

- oh my god they have the play fighting trope where they end up pinning eachother against a wall this is so them

- I don’t think the songs are very movie like, the words are pronounced like radio songs so you can’t really understand what they’re saying a lot of the time without captions (I don’t have captions 💔)

- the romance feels a lil rushed. Because they spent the first half hour almost exclusively on marinette and setting up her character/insecurities/etc and all the romantic development was in a montage. Now there’s a love song and theyre in love and it feels very underdeveloped to be at this stage already

- this song is cute though I can’t make out the majority of the words but in-love ladynoir content has my heart

- no marichat so far . Waiting patiently

- they haven’t set the love square up to its full potential 💔💔

- ok nevermind they kind of have, ladybug rejected chat noir for adrien, she asked adrien out and he rejected her for ladybug. But there has been no ladybug + adrien interactions or chat noir + marinette interactions yet

- omg gabriel adrien angst omg gabe is so much less of a dislikable character, they actually gave him some depth . Adrien is full on yelling at Gabriel and gabe actually looks like he cares about his son

- this bootleg is terrible quality but even with the bad quality the quality is so obviously good

- I’ve gotten used to the marinette singing voice and now I just love it

- this movie is so dramatic with the love songs and songs about insecurities, I feel like it’s that movie ladybug made fun of in the show

- GABE AKUMATISED HIMSELF AND ITS SO COOL THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN THAT WEIRD IPAD VILLAIN HE WAS IN THE SHOW

- adrien just said ‘the less interested you are, the more they run after you 😒’ because ladybug called him for help after she rejected him😭😭😭😭 bro rlly said all girls are the same

- idk if this bootleg is just clipped together but it keeps randomly turning french with no subtitles and it’s confusing me so much. I don’t know french, why must they be in paris

- these boss fights are so well animated

- chat noir is so bitter god damn

- ladynoir angst but it’s actually high stakes im loving this

- LADYBUG SAVE YOUR CAT WHAT ARE YOU DOING

- SHE LET HIM FALL WHAT

- gabe just turned the water they fell in into lava this is crazy

- they just turned french again I have no idea what they’re saying

- MARINETTE / HAWKMOTH SHOWDOWN

- nevermind

- I’m sorry marinette would pick this dialogue to shreds it’s so corny

- GOT THE TINIEST SLITHER OF MARICHAT I AM HAPPY

- YES YES YES GABRIEL FORCED TO FACE THE FACT THAT ADRIEN IS CHAT NOIR

- HES SELF REFLECTING!!! REALISING EVERYTHING HE DID WAS INSANE AND HURT ADRIEN WHEN HE TOLD HIMSELF HE WAS HELPING HIM. THIS IS WHAT THE SEASON 5 FINALE SHOULDVE BEEN

- THIS IS PERFECT

- this is what ppl wanted for the show . adrien being resentful at first, Gabriel hit in the face with his own guilt and mistakes, having a genuine moment of self reflection, adrien forgiving him and gabe changing instead of getting his wish and being remembered as a hero, plus all of paris finding out hawkmoth was Gabriel, etc. I love this

- brand placement: 3

- omg there’s a masquerade ball everyone looks so good

- so marinette knows that adrien is chat noir but he doesn’t know shes ladybug yet ? That better change in the next 2 minutes

- HE KNOWS!

- marinette is so pretty I’m actually so happy with this

- OHHHH NATALIE VILLAIN ARC ????

- oh theyre talking in french again I have no idea what this ending means

FINAL THOUGHTS!

obvs it isn’t canon but I love this adaptation. The superpowers are portrayed as powerful as they actually are, there’s more drama and angst which I needed, the timeline is VERY different to the show. Marinette stands up for herself to chloe the same day that ladybug and chat noir reveal their identities, so it’s like the origins episode of season 1 mixed with one of the various identity reveals from season 4. Also she’s not friends with any of her class other than alya, adrien and nino, so it’s also kind of pre-origins vibes. Idk, it was really good and I can’t wait to watch it in better quality, with captions, and without ads playing every half hour

Also I’m forever thankful that there was no lila rossi storyline

[ryozeki]

(Something recited from my "Why KaguKeine" document)

...Next is the some line for Kaguya Bullshit Adventure ig? and we reach the end,

why that name?, that story is just me throwing random bullshit at Kag for, uhm well, “character development”.

You have to understand, Kag is just too fucking OP, I have to install a bunch of corny tropes and debuffs on the princess to actually have some kind of stake.

Another important question: Is Keine in that story?

No of course, this is Kag oriented story, and Keine’s first life haven't even died yet

Ok let's get this done

Here the corny ass…metaphor…thingy:

The moon princess, the most beautiful oh so perfect princess. Like a bird trapped in a high cage since birth, dreams of going to that blue orb on the window and touch something called an “inaba”

The bird see how others fly, but when it tries, it hits its head on the ground of the cage, the doctor said that it’s sick and needs special care.

The bird have wings but only used them for decorations, it has a voice but only chirp the thing they want to hear, all it need to do is to stay like that, and it’ll be fine, right?

…

The cage is thrown around, rolled across the table, hit the wall, slammed on the desk

…

Aren’t I sick?

“Kaguya you don’t deserve to be a Lunarian”

What are they saying

“Be grateful that you could have this comfortable life”

This cage?

“Well you should since…. it’s not going to last for long”

…

Am I going to die?

…

…

The doctor came again, this time the bird use its voice to ask the doctor

“Can I be cured?”

…

She repeated that it’s sick and needs special care

…

…

But when nobody is near, the doctor whispers

“You’re not the one that’s sick. It’s me and so does my family”

The doctor made a deal with the bird, only it can find the cure

Then the bird will get what it dream off

“But I can’t fly”

Said the bird, “Sooner or later you’ll die, this is your only chance, the choice is yours”

��

“Why me?”

“They think you can’t fly, prove them wrong…

don’t eat the food”

…

What

Ah I see how it is, the cage was never locked, the food was never questioned

I have never…ah nevermind

“When can I start?”

“Now”

The bird tries spreading its wings once again

…..

…..

…..

…..

Ah shit I’m falling, who said this was a good idea, jumping from skyscraper

Am I going to die like this?

….

….

….

Naahh, not until I bring them down with me

Let’s see how many bones I’ll break this time around

[chidoroki]

Ron Kamonohashi EP3

aka: your typical hot spring shenanigans

I really wanna know what’s the deal with those markings on Ron’s body. Aside from the 96 looking one on the side of his neck, there’s smaller ones around it that we don’t see nowadays so did the majority of them fade?

“And to ensure that justice is never overshadowed by evil, we train detective. We cannot have a detective who kills people.” I know both organizations have their differences, but BLUE reminds me of the Sibyl System just a little bit.. also Bifrost but only because of how everyone is sitting around a large table acting all superior.

The lady in charge at BLUE talking about Ron’s punishment only to have the upbeat OP play seconds right after is kinda hilarious. Talk about a mood shift.

Aww Ron being such a good cat dad buying it all kinds of food and stuff. Also, his shirt with the little face is adorable.

He’s gonna win the lottery on the first try, isn’t he.. yuuuupp, a trip to the hot springs for you!

“We’ve handed out both the grand and second-place prizes.” I bet ya anything the purple haired man from BLUE won second.

Oh, speak of the devil.. now that we got a better look at him.. yeah, he’s fine. & he does indeed share a voice actor with Friede so that’s gonna give me whiplash hearing my adorable professor suddenly sound all sinister.

Nevermind this man also winning the lottery, he’s somehow working at said spring instead. Glasses fit him well too.

Oh! Yeah now that we can get a better look at Ron, he really doesn’t have any of those other markings on his body anymore besides the one on his neck.

“I once suffered injuries all over my body, yet this was the only one that scarred.” I’ve received answers yet now have more questions!

Even Ron believes part of it looks like a 6, but still, how did ya get a scar like that?

This man is obsessed with his black sugar syrup that he even drowns his rice with it.

Uh huh, I had a feeling Ron was gonna take the ping-pong game seriously so I was excited to see a full match, but the fool lost the ball after the first serve.. shame.

Oh my god, it was Amamiya who won the second place prize! Poor girl walked right in on the boys in the bath.. she’s never gonna live that down.

Ron is so hellbent on playing Life with everyone and he’s gonna get his wish darn it!

Ohhh that wife from earlier found lifeless in the spring, seems as if that legend is coming true.

With everyone playing Life from midnight to 2am, that really lowers the suspects down a bit I think.

Ron, for fucks sake, always getting up close and personal to the dead huh?

Damn, purple-Friede putting all the heat on Amamiya instantly since she was the only one who returned to her room last night without playing the game.

Oh he definitely planned for this so he could catch Ron sleuthing.

I swear I’m gonna swoon each and every time we get a glimpse of Ron’s eyes.

[ireallylikehickorysticksyay]

LOOK HOW THEY MASSACRED MY GIRL

she's canonically older in the last pic than in the others. in the show they made her consistantly look like a larger version of her movie appearance cub form.

if her cub form was dolled up with hairspray for some fucking reason.

i know this isnt "just the style" because we have smoke-demon-scar looking more or less the same.. for a cluster of smoke. like in the sense that they didnt give him a fucking nosejob. for some reason. why give one and not the other a nose job if its an artstyle thing?

this screencap from the show takes place in the past before simba was even born, yet he still looks more or less like scar did in the movie, nose angle (if you look closely) and all

i get that they wanted to "make her design more consistant" since her cub form looked noticeably different but that's the thing. people change as they grow up, and even if we ignore the blatant nose job (???) she had her fuzzball volume throughout the entire show, she's an outlander. they're canonically underfed, "we have no food little water" even if she got more rations due to her place in the outlanders pride she wouldve been less fed than kovu, who they were obviously putting the most resources into making strong. you know. to eventually have him kill simba. she would have thinner fur as a result, even as a cub in the movie her fur quality was still clearly less fluffy and full than this adult version of her in the show. the entire point of why she (spoilers) got to get the roar and become leader of the lion guard is because she was willing to fight kion, even though she'd have lost since she had no The Roar tm op-cheat-code like kion did. so her being a fighter despite being malnourished wouldnt have gone against the show even, much less the movie.

i honestly partially blame the fans. some of them anyways. there was a sub-sect from the beginning that always made fanart of her in a dolled up cubbish looking "redesign" because heaven forbid an adult looks different from what they did as a cub/child. heaven forbid that adult be a good guy and not be conventionally attractive. Nevermind the people who grow up not being able to look in the mirror because a physical trait or even a large portion of their face looks like their abusive parent. WOULDNT WANT TO STAY TRUE TO THE MOVIES PREMISES OF: LOOKING LIKE AN EVIL PERSON DOESNT MAKE YOU EVIL

i was originally going to put a side by side picture of a celebrity as a kid and as an adult to show that people dont look like children when they grow up, they look different after puberty, but honestly that felt kinda scummy since child stars often get compared to when they were kids, often in a demeaning way and i feel like maybe theres possibly something to be said about that in relation to whats going on with vitani but at the same time.. i dunno, still seems scummy

it's not the end of the world obviously there are worse things, it just rubs me the wrong, pet peeve, kinda way. like maybe they wanted vitani to be pretty to appeal to kids, but, she was already appealing to me as a kid, i dont think it was from sexist intentions specifically, they clearly wanted to use her to teach kids that girls can be strong too, like a 90's girls can do everything boys can do in heels sort of pop feminism. i get it. but i think people in general just have this weird need to make good characters "pretty" and bad characters like villains "ugly". i take issue with that specifically. because it's fucking weird. her character design was already good. in the first pic you wouldnt guess her to be evil, but she can easily fill that role and look intimidating. like her character's essence. they didnt need to revamp her. lookit that smile, she's a fucking delight, lookit the sinister grin that takes place in the exact same scene, she's a menace. she fills both rolls of her character well visually aaaa.

people also did this with ashfur in the warrior cats comunity

[sunfoxfic]

Okay so I'm Fiona Frost Defender #1 and someone tonight left a comment on a post I made in her defense.

The context is that the typical point I make when people make Fiona out to be a bad person is that all of her actions fall into at least one of the below categories:

Something Loid did

Something Yor did

A thoughtcrime that has not actually caused any tangible harm

And this person asked me (paraphrasing), "What did Yor do that Fiona also did?"

Now I'm fairly certain this person was not asking in good faith, and I chose to delete my response to their reply because I needed to block that person for my peace of mind and also it wasn't my original post and I didn't need to clog OP's inbox with my petty squabbling. But I do want to preserve my tags because I really do want to make people understand why I'm so defensive of Fiona - yes, it's because I love her, but also it's because the hate she gets is almost all based on a sexist double standard.

So. Here are my unabridged original tags on the post.

#look i don't wanna get into arguments bc i left petty discourse behind in the ml fandom #but this response really does not come across as a good faith question #a lot of the hate fiona gets is because she threatens yor's position as loid's love interest #whether or not that's why people SAY they hate fiona #my point was not “everything fiona has done WRONG is something that someone else did/not an actual crime” #it's that people dislike fiona for the same things they like in loid and yor #they dislike that she's cold and calculating and prioritizes the mission above emotional wellbeing #they dislike that she wants to be a militant parent to anya #when loid is cold and calculating and makes decisions that put the mission above his family he's a good man tho #when he leaves anya alone in an apartment and allows her to get kidnapped that's fine; it was just a mistake and he learned from it! #nevermind that fiona hasn't gotten the chance to learn because she's not actually made that mistake yet #when fiona is competitive and prioritizes her emotions over yor's she's a bitch #when yor is competitive and doesn't give fiona the chance to prove herself she's a badass #when fiona cares for loid with every fiber in her being she's selfish #but when yor marries loid so that she can keep acting as an assassin against his very allies she's SO made for him #this isn't anti-twiyor. i love twiyor. i want them to be happy. i've written fics about them #i like the ship and i think it's tremendously important for the story being told #but you can't sit here and say twiyor is good and nightlight is bad #while using sexist double standards to justify that argument #does fiona make mistakes? yes. she's not perfect #but if you're going to sit here and say that makes her worse than yor when yor kills people who are fighting fascism #you need to reassess your standards

Again: This is not intended to be evidence against Yor or Twiyor. I like both and I think they both are so important in canon.

But don't sit here and act like Fiona's icy exterior is as harmful to Loid as the fact that Yor kills his allies. There's a nonzero chance Yor has killed WISE agents, and yet Fiona asking Loid to drive her home after their tennis game is over the line for you? Huh. How peculiar.

I left the tags in where I said that I don't want to get into petty squabbles because I do want to live up to that, but I'm letting myself get into one (1) petty fandom squabble as a treat because I've been such a good girl. If you try to discourse over this you're getting blocked.

[after-nine-at-the-oasis]

Yeah I mean like it's probably not a good idea to actually fight a student's dad D:

Mr. Johnson no xD 😭

Ope Barbara seconds it 😬😬 so we know he's been this way but what do we do :(( xd

NO GUYS HE CAN'T FIGHT HIM 😭 XD

AVA NO

Real but no xD

Aww LOL poor Melissa xD

I'm behind and I don't remember all the specifics of this conversation but it was just absolutely HILARIOUS!!

Hey Jacob lol

Not you too xDD

SLFKFJDS XDDD "I was talking to Janine!" HE'S SO RIGHT THOUGH XDD 💀

LOL yeah training may be a good idea though xdd

Aww Melissa 😭 I get it xdd

I'm sorry honey xd :(

Oh she on drugs

Idk what but she is on it

Mmmm idk about that

Even more suspicious

Ahhh yup xD

Are the Jacob's 😭

YUP 😭

Melissaaaa

GIRLY

The he/I and stuff xD

Fair Jacob 😭😭

Girly 💀💀💀😭

Expired and double is even worse xdd

Girl you still can't use it well- OOF

YEAH OH MY GOSH IS RIGHT

GIRLY GO TO THE DOCTORRR 😭😭 XD

Smh xddd

Lol so real Barbara

Oop

Janine's face XDDD

OOP

Oof 💀💀

Poor Janine xdd sorry honey lol

That's rough xD

Ah yeah nice let's talk to the mom about it :D

Mm clearly they said something

Fair, but Jabari did then-

Ahh okay xdd

Okay uh well this is getting worse

Yeepp aand there it is xdd

The role model for HIM is crazy o.o tryna get him killed xddd

"The threats make sense now" XDDD 💀 just the way he said it lol

SLFJDHKGS girl knew too xD she was like "yeah that makes sense :/"

Okay yeah l

I don't think it's solved though Gregory xd

Especially when they don't even like each other lol

SLFKFJKDHS YEAH SUCCESSFULLY

Thaaat's not a good track record xDD

Oof bye girl

Lol is he gonna try and train him- YEP xD he was listening the whole time lol

Maybe not yep to training him but just yk xD

SLFKFJDKHS JACOB XDD

LOL yeah he was xD

Oh okay-

SLFKFJDKGLJHS JANINE XDDDD

I'm dying oh my gosh 😭😭 this episode is SO! GOOD!!!

SLFKFJDKHGS???

Honestly I kinda think that might work xS

Okay cool we're going with that- xD

I mean they are Gregory's not with it lol

xDD poor Gregory 😭

Ope?

Girl probably those meds you took didn't help 😑

LOL nevermind that's a great answer xD

Yeah girl they're not authorized to do anything 😭 go to the doctor 😭 xd

OOF

That's when you know you've hit a low point xdd

Hey guys lol

Okay what's your plan Janine xD

Barbara's jump xD

Ookayyy technology

I'm sorry Janine xdd

Pretzels are very good 😌😌😌

Ahhhhh venmooo lol

OOP that's rough 💀💀

Oh gosh that's rough for you Janine xdd

She just loves throwing random dollars around to everyone but you xdd

SLFKFJDKD :OO OH MY GOSH THAT HIGH PITCHED VOICE 💀 XD

So perfect and real 😭😭 and also hilarious LOL

Gosh xD

Janine is trying her best lol

Mmmh nah I don't think so idk how but-

STOPPP that's rough honey 😭😭😭

. . . Are we sure she didn't just pay you back at some point and you forgot xdd

She's being very specific and not paying you xD idk lol

[hadtochangemyurlquick]

we don’t talk about this enough but it only too shelby like 23 days to give up and fuck toni. like even with all of her “hateful church shit” and repression, and the trauma of becca dying, it only took twenty-three days. and also like, they were fighting for day to day survival, like the forefront of her mind should not have been toni but without her clothes on but. then also when you take into account how long shelby and becca were friends before shelby kissed her. idk i’m just saying we should discuss.