#patton nightingale

[dannyreviews]

Veteran British born/based film/TV actors born before and including 1936 still alive:

With the recent death of Dame Maggie Smith, I thought I'd detail the legendary actors of UK cinema and television that are still living as of the date of this post:

Eileen Bennett (b. 1919)

Arnold Yarrow (b. 1920)

Beulah Garrick (b. 1921)

Elizabeth Kelly (b. 1921)

Elisabeth Kirkby (b. 1921)

Sara Luzita (b. 1922)

Annabel Maule (b. 1922)

Paul Harding (b. 1923)

Vincent Ball (b. 1923)

David Lawton (b. 1923)

Anne Vernon (b. 1924)

Donald Pelmear (b. 1924)

Thelma Ruby (b. 1925)

Pete Murray (b. 1925)

Michael Beint (b. 1925)

Shelia Mitchell (b. 1925)

Kerima (b. 1925)

David Attenborough (b. 1926)

Elizabeth Benson (b. 1926)

Margaret Barton (b. 1926)

Terry Kilburn (b. 1926)

Stanley Baxter (b. 1926)

David Frankham (b. 1926)

William Glover (b. 1926)

Josephine Stuart (b. 1926)

Patricia Davidson (b. 1926)

Barbara Clegg (b. 1926)

Glen Michael (b. 1926)

Araby Lockhart (b. 1926)

Eileen Page (b. 1926)

Rosemary Harris (b. 1927)

Cleo Laine (b. 1927)

Lee Montague (b. 1927)

Genevieve Page (b. 1927)

Neville Phillips (b. 1927)

Jean Lodge (b. 1927)

Barbara Ashcroft (b. 1927)

Jill Freud (b. 1927)

Jean Southern (b. 1927)

Antonia Pemberton (b. 1927)

Peter Cellier (b. 1928)

Jeanette Landis (b. 1928)

Sheila Ballantine (b. 1928)

Dorothea Phillips (b. 1928)

Jeannie Carson (b. 1928)

Hazel Ascot (b. 1928)

Brenda Hogan (b. 1928)

Philip Guard (b. 1928)

Raymond Llewelyn (b. 1928)

Pauline Brailsford (b. 1928)

Leonard Weir (b. 1928)

Kevin Scott (b. 1928)

Tony Hughes (b. 1928)

Joan Plowright (b. 1929)

Patricia Routledge (b. 1929)

Colin Jeavons (b. 1929)

Michael Craig (b. 1929)

Thelma Barlow (b. 1929)

Peter Myers (b. 1929)

Paul Williamson (b. 1929)

Kevin Miles (b. 1929)

John Gale (b. 1929)

Phillip Ross (b. 1929)

Jimmy Fagg (b. 1929)

Hazel Phillips (b. 1929)

Mignon Elkins (b. 1929)

Margaret Stallard (b. 1929)

Maya Koumani (b. 1929)

Clive Revill (b. 1930)

Charles Kay (b. 1930)

Roy Evans (b. 1930)

Una McLean (b. 1930)

Roddy Maude-Roxby (b. 1930)

Ruth Trouncer (b. 1930)

Cyril Appleton (b. 1930)

Vera Frances (b. 1930)

Gary Watson (b. 1930)

Keith Alexander (b. 1930)

Libby Morris (b. 1930)

Pauline Jefferson (b. 1930)

Claire Bloom (b. 1931)

Leslie Caron (b. 1931)

Carroll Baker (b. 1931)

Virginia McKenna (b. 1931)

Vivian Pickles (b. 1931)

Stanley Meadows (b. 1931)

Gerald Harper (b. 1931)

Patricia Greene (b. 1931)

Ellen McIntosh (b. 1931)

Elvi Hale (b. 1931)

Maureen Connell (b. 1931)

June Laverick (b. 1931)

James Martin (b. 1931)

Denyse Alexander (b. 1931)

Arthur Nightingale (b. 1931)

Eileen Derbyshire (b. 1931)

Carl Held (b. 1931)

Shelia Bernette (b. 1931)

George Eugeniou (b. 1931)

Corinne Skinner-Carter (b. 1931)

Tusse Silberg (b. 1931)

Petula Clark (b. 1932)

Prunella Scales (b. 1932)

Phyllida Law (b. 1932)

Ray Cooney (b. 1932)

Brian Murphy (b. 1932)

Edward De Souza (b. 1932)

Alan Dobie (b. 1932)

John Turner (b. 1932)

Roland Curram (b. 1932)

Gabriel Woolf (b. 1932)

Johnnie Wade (b. 1932)

Eileen Moore (b. 1932)

Laurie Leigh (b. 1932)

William Roache (b. 1932)

Athol Fugard (b. 1932)

Carmen Munroe (b. 1932)

Norman Bowler (b. 1932)

Marcia Ashton (b. 1932)

Thelma Holt (b. 1932)

Antony Carrick (b. 1932)

Sally Bazely (b. 1932)

Michael Caine (b. 1933)

Joan Collins (b. 1933)

Sian Phillips (b. 1933)

Sheila Hancock (b. 1933)

Elizabeth Seal (b. 1933)

Shani Willis (b. 1933)

Patrick Godfrey (b. 1933)

Caroline Blakiston (b. 1933)

Donald Douglas (b. 1933)

Ann Firbank (b. 1933)

Vera Day (b. 1933)

Tsai Chin (b. 1933)

Geoffrey Frederick (b. 1933)

Marla Landi (b. 1933)

Monte Landis (b. 1933)

Mary Germaine (b. 1933)

Ruth Posner (b. 1933)

Barbara Archer (b. 1933)

W.B. Brydon (b. 1933)

Robert Gillespie (b. 1933)

Brian Patton (b. 1933)

Arthur White (b. 1933)

Barbara Archer (b. 1933)

Sally Bazley (b. 1933)

Madhur Jaffrey (b. 1933)

Jeanette Sterke (b. 1933)

Ann Rogers (b. 1933)

Barbara Knox (b. 1933)

John Boorman (b. 1933)

Derek Martin (b. 1933)

Michael Aspel (b. 1933)

Bill Edwards (b. 1933)

Judi Dench (b. 1934)

Eileen Atkins (b. 1934)

Tom Baker (b. 1934)

Alan Bennett (b. 1934)

Jean Marsh (b. 1934)

Annette Crosbie (b. 1934)

Wendy Craig (b. 1934)

Richard Chamberlain (b. 1934)

Millicent Martin (b. 1934)

John Standing (b. 1934)

Vernon Dobtcheff (b. 1934)

Nanette Newman (b. 1934)

David Burke (b. 1934)

Christopher Benjamin (b. 1934)

Mary Peach (b. 1934)

Geraldine Newman (b. 1934)

Renny Lister (b. 1934)

Priscilla Morgan (b. 1934)

Audrey Dalton (b. 1934)

Leila Hoffman (b. 1934)

Simone Lovell (b. 1934)

Magda Miller (b. 1934)

Robert Aldous (b. 1934)

Ram John Holder (b. 1934)

Jamila Massey (b. 1934)

Margaretta D’Arcy (b. 1934)

Leslie Saeward (b. 1934)

Maurice Podbrey (b. 1934)

Steve Emerson (b. 1934)

Peter Bland (b. 1934)

Michael Darlow (b. 1934)

Barbara Archer (b. 1934)

Joy Webster (b. 1934)

Jacqueline Ellis (b. 1934)

Jacqueline Jones (b. 1934)

Julie Andrews (b. 1935)

Julian Glover (b. 1935)

Jim Dale (b. 1935)

Anne Reid (b. 1935)

James Bolam (b. 1935)

Christina Pickles (b. 1935) 

Judy Parfitt (b. 1935)

Wanda Ventham (b. 1935)

Amanda Barrie (b. 1935)

Derren Nesbitt (b. 1935)

Nadim Swalha (b. 1935)

Gary Raymond (b. 1935)

Janet Henfrey (b. 1935)

Melvyn Hayes (b. 1935)

Susan Engel (b. 1935)

Amanda Walker (b. 1935)

Delena Kidd (b. 1935)

Derek Partridge (b. 1935)

Allister Bain (b. 1935)

Derry Power (b. 1935)

Phyllis MacMahon (b. 1935)

Rowena Cooper (b. 1935)

Derek Partridge (b. 1935)

Jill Dixon (b. 1935)

Des Keough (b. 1935)

Barbara Angell (b. 1935)

Lucille Soong (b. 1935)

Anita West (b. 1935)

June Watson (b. 1935)

David Daker (b. 1935)

Shirley Cain (b. 1935)

Bobby Pattinson (b. 1935)

George Roubicek (b. 1935)

Brian Blessed (b. 1936)

Richard Wilson (b. 1936)

Tommy Steele (b. 1936)

Edward Petherbridge (b. 1936) 

Ursula Andress (b. 1936)

John Leyton (b. 1936)

Jess Conrad (b. 1936)

Elizabeth Shepherd (b. 1936)

Sandra Voe (b. 1936)

Doug Sheldon (b. 1936)

John Golightly (b. 1936)

Peter Ellis (b. 1936)

Andria Lawrence (b. 1936)

Jon Laurimore (b. 1936)

Tony Scoggo (b. 1936)

Barry MacGregor (b. 1936)

Frank Barrie (b. 1936)

Kenneth Farrington (b. 1936)

Eileen McCallum (b. 1936)

Frederick Pyne (b. 1936)

Philip Lowrie (b. 1936)

Marian Diamond (b. 1936)

Anthony Higginson (b. 1936)

Elsie Kelly (b. 1936)

Ann Taylor (b. 1936)

Heidi Erich (b. 1936)

Keith Faulkner (b. 1936)

Ruth Meyers (b. 1936)

Julia Blake (b. 1936)

[artorojo]

Top 100 military movies of all time.

1. Saving Private Ryan (1998)

2. Apocalypse Now (1979)

3. Full Metal Jacket (1987)

4. Platoon (1986)

5. Black Hawk Down (2001)

6. Das Boot (1981)

7. The Thin Red Line (1998)

8. Paths of Glory (1957)

9. Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

10. 1917 (2019)

11. Dunkirk (2017)

12. Patton (1970)

13. Gallipoli (1981)

14. We Were Soldiers (2002)

15. Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

16. The Deer Hunter (1978)

17. The Hurt Locker (2008)

18. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

19. Zulu (1964)

20. Black Book (2006)

21. Stalingrad (1993)

22. The Battle of Algiers (1966)

23. The Longest Day (1962)

24. The Bridge at Remagen (1969)

25. Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

26. Jarhead (2005)

27. The Patriot (2000)

28. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

29. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

30. Enemy at the Gates (2001)

31. Glory (1989)

32. The Great Escape (1963)

33. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

34. The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

35. Lone Survivor (2013)

36. Kelly's Heroes (1970)

37. The Green Berets (1968)

38. The Alamo (1960)

39. The Messenger (2009)

40. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

41. 12 Strong (2018)

42. The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

43. The Pianist (2002)

44. Rescue Dawn (2006)

45. The Beast of War (1988)

46. A Bridge Too Far (1977)

47. Behind Enemy Lines (2001)

48. Inglourious Basterds (2009)

49. The Boys in Company C (1978)

50. Red Tails (2012)

51. Battle for Haditha (2007)

52. Courage Under Fire (1996)

53. 5 Fingers (1952)

54. Company of Heroes (2013)

55. The Finest Hours (2016)

56. Windtalkers (2002)

57. Battle of the Bulge (1965)

58. The Nightingale (2018)

59. A Midnight Clear (1992)

60. Attack on the Iron Coast (1968)

61. Sergeant York (1941)

62. Empire of the Sun (1987)

63. The Pacific (2010) - Mini-series

64. The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)

65. The Pacific (2010) - Mini-series

66. Enemy at the Gates (2001)

67. The Monuments Men (2014)

68. Days of Glory (2006)

69. Fires on the Plain (1959)

70. The Steel Helmet (1951)

71. Battle of the Damned (2013)

72. Memphis Belle (1990)

73. Crimson Tide (1995)

74. Attack on the Iron Coast (1968)

75. Sergeant York (1941)

76. Empire of the Sun (1987)

77. The Pacific (2010) - Mini-series

78. The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)

79. Enemy at the Gates (2001)

80. The Monuments Men (2014)

81. Days of Glory (2006)

82. Fires on the Plain (1959)

83. The Steel Helmet (1951)

84. Battle of the Damned (2013)

85. The Longest Day (1962)

86. The Bridge at Remagen (1969)

87. M*A*S*H (1970)

88. Jarhead (2005)

89. The Patriot (2000)

90. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

91. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

92. Glory (1989)

93. The Great Escape (1963)

94. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

95. Platoon (1986)

96. Come and See (1985)

97. Hamburger Hill (1987)

98. The Red Badge of Courage (1951)

99. Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

100. Fort Apache (1948)

[practically-an-x-man]

Your OCs are given a time machine and one no-consequence trip through time- anything they do won't affect the timeline in any way, but they can only do it once. What do they do?

Ooooh that's a fantastic question!! Thank you!

Rae: Well she's a linguistics nerd, so she'd probably jump back a few hundred or even a thousand years and see how the languages (namely Gàidhlig, she's Scottish) shifted over time

Robin: Hm... I feel like she'd pick one of her favorite operas and jump back to see it when it was first released. Or go even further back and see Shakespeare at the Globe (though... that one's probably very crowded and smelly)

Madison: Hm... Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. She doesn't have any particular historical interests, but maybe she'd enjoy just jumping back a ways and seeing some now-extinct creatures - anywhere from the thylacine to the T-Rex, take your pick

Ophelia: Da Vinci, Archimedes... she's meeting some great historical engineer and picking their brain about everything

Jasper: Well, they picked their middle name after Florence Nightingale, and she's literally the whole reason they became a trauma nurse to begin with, so they'd want to meet her if given the chance

Katherine: She'd jump back to Ahk's reign in Ancient Egypt, just to get a feel for what things were like back there.

Quinn: I honestly don't know for Quinn. If they can't actually affect the timeline, everything they'd want is in the present. They'd probably just save this power until they encounter a historical fact cool enough to want to witness in person, I guess

Kestrel: Hm... I know this won't make sense to you if you haven't read the Fablehaven books, but they'd jump back and meet Patton Burgess. He was rumored the best magical explorer of all time, and he's also a relative of their partner Warren, so they'd definitely want to see what all the hype is about lol

Eris: Honestly, would probably just pick one of their favorite moments from history and relive it a second time for the memories.

Nikoletta: At one point in her life, she'd jump a the chance to meet Marie Laveau in person - to study her life, her mannerisms, and pick up as many details as possible for use in her voodoo scam back in the present. In the present... I don't know that there's anything she'd want to jump back to?

[i-am-bitterly-jittery]

If Love Is A Game, I’m Going To Win

Word count: 3652

Rating: gen

Pairings: Prinxiety, Logicality

Warnings: if you’re looking for some fluffy Prinxiety endgame this is not it my dudes, self-discovery, minor swearing, crying, angst

Aromantic!Roman agenda 💚💚🤍🩶🖤

~~~START~~~

It started on a normal day. Roman spent the morning writing ideas in his Hopes and Dreams journal for more videos Thomas could create, then he spent the afternoon adventuring in the Imagination. Where it got weird was when he headed down to the common room to have dinner.

Logan and Patton were kissing in the kitchen. Logan and Patton were kissing. Roman didn’t know that kissing was a thing that they — as different facets of Thomas’s personality — were allowed to do.

“Oops, sorry did you need something, kiddo?” Patton asked once he noticed Roman standing in the doorway gawking at them.

“You two were kissing,” Roman observed dumbly.

“Yes,” Logan confirmed, straightening his glasses and entering teacher-mode. “That is an act that two romantic partners commonly engage in.”

“We’re allowed to have romantic partners!?” Oh, wasn’t this day getting better and better? Roman loved romance but he hadn’t realized that he was allowed to participate in it!

“Sure, kiddo, why wouldn’t we be?” Patton giggled, cuddling up to Logan. They were adorable and if Roman wasn’t so focused on his new revelations, he would have probably jumped right in to demanding to know everything about how they got together.

“I don’t know, I guess I just never thought about it before. Romantic partners,” Roman mused to himself as he sunk out, meal forgotten.

Romantic partners. Oh boy did Roman need a romantic partner by yesterday. Why hadn’t he thought of this sooner!

Romantic partners!

Logan and Patton were obviously out since they were already spoken for.

Remus was a hard-pass-not-in-a-million-years-Roman-would-rather-duck-out-than-date-him no.

Janus was… there was a time when Roman greatly enjoyed the way Janus stroked his ego. That was before Roman realized that it was all just lies to further Janus’s own agenda. So Janus was out.

That left Virgil.

Virgil would be perfect! He was the introvert to Roman’s extrovert. The emo to his prep. The pessimist to his optimist. Plus, they would have this whole enemies-to-friends-to-lovers vibe that made Roman giddy.

Yeah, Virgil was perfect.

Now all Roman had to do was ask him out.

A public display of affection was the obvious route to take, but Roman didn’t think that Virgil would appreciate that very much. Still, a musical serenade would be best. Plus flowers. And chocolate. Oh, and balloons. And confetti!

Roman grabbed his Hopes and Dreams journal and began writing down all his ideas. By the end of the hour, he had almost the entire thing planned out, all he had to do now was set it up and do it.

The actual event had to be pushed back a couple days due to Thomas’s filming schedule, but less than a week after Roman had first seen Patton and Logan kissing, it was time. He knocked on Virgil’s door bright and early in the morning, he had the whole day planned out and there wasn’t a moment to wait!

Except that Virgil didn’t answer the door. So Roman knocked again.

And again.

Finally, after a full five minutes, Virgil wrenched the door open.

“What– oh, hey Princey,” all the annoyance drained from Virgil's face when he spotted Roman. This was going to work. “Is something wrong?”

“Nothing wrong, my Nightmarish Nightingale–” that was a compliment, right? “I had just hoped that you would do me the honor of accompanying me on an adventure to the Imagination today!”

“I– now?” Virgil asked, somewhat reluctantly.

“Of course! I have the whole day planned out and there’s not a moment to waste!”

The hopefulness on Roman’s face was probably what melted the Winter Warlock’s heart because Virgil’s reluctance gave way to resignation.

“There better be food,” he warned, stepping completely out of his room.

“Of course! Anything your spooky heart desires!”

The first stop on their soon-to-be date was a charming little cafe that Roman had set up just outside his castle which was filled with Halloween themed cookies and pastries. After that, they went to the tailors for some new clothes (Roman may slay in his usual outfit, he needed to be absolutely stunning when he actually asked Virgil out, not to mention the fact that Virgil’s usual outfit was in no way appropriate for this soon-to-be incredibly romantic occasion). Then they went to the stables to get their horses for their ride through the countryside on their way to the lakeside picnic Roman had set up as his location to serenade the emo Side.

Virgil, it turned out, did not like horses, and horses, no matter how hard Roman tried, did not like Virgil.

“I am so sorry about that,” Roman apologized after Virgil’s horse finally succeeded in throwing him. He dismounted his own horse in order to help the other Side up and make sure he wasn’t too badly hurt by the fall. “I usually have more control over the animals than that, but there’s something about horses that sometimes gives Remus the edge.”

“It’s fine, Roman, seriously,” Virgil assured him as he tried desperately to brush the dirt from his new suit — a rich purple brocade with black threads woven into an intricate skull pattern. Roman waved a hand and all the dirt faded instantly. “Thanks. Can we just go back now?”

“No!” Roman all but screeched. “No, we’re almost there! I just– I have– please, Virgil?” Roman seized Virgil’s hand imploringly. “It’s just a little bit further, we can walk it in no time.”

Virgil looked down at their joined hands then back up at Roman’s face, his cheeks a little redder than before.

“Just a little further?” He asked reluctantly.

“Barely even five minutes, I swear on my sword.”

Sigh. “Okay. Let’s go.”

“Yay!” Roman pressed on to their destination, never letting go of Virgil’s hand.

He did mentally shorten the way to the lake — he had planned a much longer ride — so as to not break his promise, and they soon emerged into a clearing on the shores of a lake where a picnic was set up on the beach and a small rowboat sat ready at the end of a small dock.

“Oh wow,” Virgil marveled as he took in the scene.

Roman finally dropped Virgil’s hand in order to unpack the picnic basket for them. “Do you like it?”

“It’s beautiful,” Virgil complimented. Roman beamed.

The day was going perfectly other than the horse ride, and Roman couldn’t be happier.

…except that it didn’t quite feel the same way it did when Thomas was partaking in romantic activities. Obviously Roman knew that he wouldn’t feel exactly the same as Thomas did since he was a facet rather than a complex human being, but Roman didn’t even feel the same way that Roman felt during Thomas’s romantic escapades.

But all of that could be pushed to the side because that was Thomas and this was Roman, it was different. It made sense.

After their lunch Roman ushered Virgil onto the boat so that they could get to the next and most important step in Roman’s plan: the serenade. For this serenade Roman had chosen, obviously, I See The Light from Disney’s Tangled. Perfect song, perfect movie, perfect location. At no point did it occur to Roman to explicitly ask Virgil out, the song made it obvious, obviously.

On their walk back to town — which Roman had once again shortened but was still about ten minutes — Roman grabbed Virgil’s hand once more.

“I’m reading this situation correctly, right?” Virgil asked as he stared at the joined hands.

Roman was staring at their hands too. He had held hands with both Virgil and the others on numerous occasions, but this time it felt different. Like he could feel every millimeter on his hand where it was pressed against Virgil’s.

It didn’t feel particularly nice, it just felt overwhelming.

“I certainly hope so,” Roman chuckled as he tried to shake the uneasy feeling. “The rest of the day would be awkward otherwise.”

“You have more planned?” Virgil laughed incredulously.

“Of course! Grand romantic gestures are my specialty!”

Virgil shook his head, but he was smiling, so Roman thought he was enjoying himself. “Do I get to know any of these plans?”

“Most shall remain a surprise, my Melodramatic Melody, but I will tell you that I have fireworks planned for the grand finale, unless you find fireworks too distressing, in which case I could make them quieter, or could change course slightly if you’d prefer.”

“Quieter should work just fine,” Virgil assured him. “Especially if I know they’re coming.”

“As you wish,” Roman smiled as they entered town.

The rest of the day consisted of a leisurely stroll through the palace rose gardens, a private viewing of the Nightmare Before Christmas in the palace’s movie theater, and a romantic candlelit dinner in the Imagination’s finest restaurant. Finally, at the end of the day, a horseless carriage ride around town while muted fireworks lit up the sky in dazzling displays.

“It looks great, Roman,” Virgil commented as he watched the fireworks out the carriage window.

“Not as great as you,” Roman said, enjoying the way Virgil’s face blushed. There were a lot of elements of the day that hadn’t quite felt right, but he always enjoyed watching Virgil blush red under his white foundation.

Eventually, Roman noticed Virgil trying to stifle yawns and had the carriage take them back to the palace. From there they exited the Imagination, and Roman walked Virgil back to his room.

“I had a good time today, Princey,” Virgil smiled as they walked.

“Really?”

“Yeah. Um, if I could just ask one thing, next time you want to spend the entire day doing something, can you give me some heads up? Like, you don’t need to tell me what exactly, but maybe a general idea of what and how long?”

“That’s fair. I may have gotten a bit carried away; I was just so excited.”

“It’s all good. Thanks, Roman.”

Virgil had stopped in front of his door and turned to face Roman somewhat expectantly. It wasn’t until that moment that Roman remembered that goodnight kisses were practically a date staple. He hadn’t considered kissing before now, but faced with the expectation, he panicked slightly.

Instead, he did the first thing that came to mind: he grabbed Virgil’s hand and brought his knuckles to his mouth.

“Farewell and pleasant dreams my Sweet and Sour Lemon Drop!”

Virgil looked a little bemused, but not disappointed by the exchange. “Goodnight my, uh, Dazzling Prince.”

Roman beamed at the term of endearment before turning dramatically and making his way back to his own room. Once he was alone his smile dropped. Virgil had seemed to enjoy their date, but it hadn't quite felt right to Roman.

Clearly, he was doing something wrong.

Maybe he hadn’t been trying hard enough?

Whatever it was, Roman fell asleep lost in thought and his dreams were plagued by imperfect dates, social faux pas, and curses placed by dragonwitches.

Roman was just about ready to crawl out of his skin. It had been two weeks, but still Roman couldn’t shake the feeling that he was fucking up at every turn.

Nothing he did felt right. He and Virgil hung out in the living room, and Roman couldn’t stop wishing Virgil would get tired and leave. They went on dates in the Imagination, and he couldn’t stop wishing that he was on a quest alone.

Even when not in a date-setting, Roman was so hyper aware of where Virgil was that it was driving him batty. If Virgil so much as entered a room that Roman was already in, Roman would tense up until he’d either sat down away from Roman or left again. He was dating Virgil; he shouldn’t be feeling afraid of him!

It had to be some sort of curse!

Virgil, he was certain, had yet to notice Roman’s discomfort. Patton and Logan on the other hand…

“Alright there, kiddo?” Patton asked, having just witnessed Roman practically flinch when Virgil walked past him to the kitchen.

“I’m right as rain, padre!” Roman assured him, aiming for upbeat. Judging by the frown on Patton’s face, he’d missed the mark.

“Are you sure?”

“Now that you mention it, I am feeling a little tired,” Roman yawned, hoping for an easy escape. “I think I might go have myself a little cat nap.”

“Do you want to reschedule our date tonight?” Virgil asked, returning from the kitchen.

“I wouldn’t dream of it, mi amor!” Roman reassured him, kissing Virgil’s knuckles once more. He’d pull that move probably too many times in the past week, but luckily it was very in-character for him, and Virgil had yet to question it. “Just a little nap, and then two hours to do my makeup and I shall be ready to sweep you off your feet!”

He sank out after that in fear that if he stuck around any longer Patton might call him out in front of Virgil. He wasn’t actually tired though, so he instead spent his time making sure their date would be perfect.

Whatever Roman’s problem was, it was clear that he just wasn’t trying hard enough during his and Virgil’s dates, so tonight, under the moonlight, he would finally kiss his boyfriend, and like a fairytale, the curse would be broken, and everything would fall right into place.

It just needed to be perfect.

As he always did when they had a date in the Imagination, Roman picked Virgil up from his room and the two of them walked to the Imagination together. Their date would be a royal ball in Roman’s castle; Virgil was once again dressed in his brocade suit from their first date while Roman had picked out a stunning floor-length red gown with a plunging neckline and a train longer than Thomas was tall.

As they danced, Roman began to regret his choice of date. Virgil was pressed all the way up against him with one hand on his waist and the other in one of Roman’s — it was too much contact and it was making Roman jittery.

A thunderous crack echoed through the castle.

“What was that?” Virgil asked, looking around the ballroom for the source. There was nothing to be seen.

“Probably just Remus playing a game somewhere,” Roman suggested, mentally berating himself for his unexpected lapse in concentration. “Nothing to worry about, my Spooky Sweetheart!”

“If you’re sure.”

“I’m positive.”

The music started back up and the two continued their dance. Roman shifted his focus on his surroundings in an attempt to ignore the unpleasant buzzing Virgil’s touch caused beneath his skin.

All was going well until Virgil started to lean in.

His lips were barely an inch from Roman’s before the ground started shaking. A second, even louder crack tore through the ballroom, and seconds later the north end of the room broke away as though falling from a cliff.

“Roman!” Virgil yelped, staring at the wreckage.

This was a disaster, but Roman had a mission. He just needed to kiss Virgil, and everything would be perfect. He cupped the side of Virgil’s head to turn him towards him then cut off Virgil’s confused sound by smashing their lips together.

There had to be some sort of technique to this, and in the back of his mind, Roman knew that he knew it because Thomas knew it. But the technique didn’t come to him, and Roman ended up just aggressively pressing their mouths together.

Virgil flailed for a few seconds before firmly pushing Roman away. The rest of the castle cracked and fell until Roman and Virgil were left staring at each other in shocked silence, surrounded by the ruins of the castle.

“That always works in the movie,” Roman mused sadly, mostly to himself.

“What works?” Virgil asked, looking thoroughly shaken.

“Kissing,” Roman answered. “It’s supposed to fix everything — break the curse and stuff!”

Virgil opened his mouth, then closed it again. “Roman,” he said slowly. “I need you to be clear about this: what curse?”

“The curse that makes it hard for me to be around you,” Roman shrugged.

Virgil’s face fell, and before Roman could say anything else, he’d sunken out.

“Wow!” A voice mused behind Roman. “That was so much better than what I was going to do!”

“FUCK OFF, REMUS!” Roman screamed. Only silence followed.

It was about an hour later — an hour that Roman spent wallowing in misery and making uncomfortable realizations about himself — that someone knocked on Roman’s door. He opened the door because he was expecting Patton and he could use one of his Patton-ted hugs.

It was not Patton.

“Oh,” Roman sighed dejectedly. “I thought you were Patton.”

“Ah yes well Virgil was crying, and I thought it might be best for Patton to handle him.” Logan replied, seemingly taking little offense at the statement.

“What would you have done if I were crying?” Roman asked. Truthfully, he mostly just felt numb, Logan was probably safe from any overly emotional responses.

“I have a list!” Logan informed him excitedly, pulling out his notebook and flipping to a marked page. “It’s tailored to Patton, but I believe you would find many of the items to be agreeable!”

Roman glanced at the list and yeah, Disney movies and cuddling with someone non-romantically sounded excellent. Much better than it had when he and Virgil had done that exact same thing as a date.

“You got me there, Teach.” He was going for enthusiasm, but he couldn’t have been more off the mark.

“Hmm.” Logan’s eyes surveyed Roman searchingly. “Would you like to tell me what happened?”

“What did Virgil tell you?”

“I did not manage to get much coherent information out of Virgil, though Remus has informed me that you quote ‘flipped your shit’ end quote.”

“I was stupid,” Roman sighed. “Just one, gigantic, prince-shaped idiot! I fucked up worse than when Woody pushed Buzz out the window!”

“That is a very emotional response, with what appears to be an unhealthy dose of bias and exactly zero helpful clues as to what transpired between you and Virgil earlier — unless what you did was push Virgil out of a window.”

“No, I–” Roman choked. “I just– I was so excited by the prospect of having a romantic partner, that I didn’t stop to wonder whether or not I should have a romantic partner!”

Logan’s brow furrowed. “I am afraid I’m not quite following.”

“I think I’m aromantic,” Roman confessed. The word had been sitting heavily in his chest for the past hour, but now that it was out there, he felt the weight had been lifted. “I think I’m more excited by the idea of romance than I am by the experience of it — or at least, me experiencing it — and I know I chose Virgil because he was the most convenient option. I played with his feelings; I am unworthy of the title of Prince.”

“Beating yourself up over guilt is not a productive use of anyone’s time,” Logan stated simply. “Sometimes experimentation is required to learn things about ourselves, and sometimes those experiments accidentally hurt people. The best thing to do is apologize.”

“I know,” Roman sighed, rubbing a hand over his face — his makeup had long since been ruined so it hardly mattered now. “Can we do some of the things on your list afterwards?”

“Of course.”

Patton and Virgil were on the couch in the living room when Roman and Logan found them. Virgil was in Patton’s lap, clinging to him like his life depended on it, and didn’t seem to notice the others’ arrival. Patton sent Roman a reassuring smile.

Roman steeled himself up, mostly helped by the firm but gentle hand Logan had on his shoulder.

“Virgil?”

The Anxious Side froze for a moment before slowly pulling back from where his face was buried in Patton’s shoulder. His eye shadow was smeared across his entire face, but he said nothing.

“I need to apologize to you,” Roman continued, focusing on Logan’s calming presence. “It was not my intention to use you like I did, but I did, and for that I am so very sorry.”

Virgil said nothing.

“I was too excited by the idea of a romantic relationship that it took everything literally falling apart around me to realize that I didn’t want to be in one. You didn’t deserve to be my guinea pig. I hurt you and I will try my hardest to make it up to you because I value your friendship above anything.”

“...okay,” Virgil finally croaked before burying his face in Patton’s shoulder once more.

“I’m very proud of you, kiddo,” Patton smiled at Roman gently. “I think Vee needs some time now, okay?”

“Yeah, alright,” Roman agreed. He still felt awful, but he knew Patton was right.

“May I?” Roman turned to find Logan watching him expectantly.

“Sure,” Roman accepted, though he wasn’t quite sure what Logan was asking.

Logan took his hand — it felt nice when Logan did it, platonically, with no expectations — and sank out. They came up in Logan’s room, where the bookworm’s desk had been temporarily replaced with an in-home theater.

“My library, of course, contains every movie and television program that Thomas has ever seen,” Logan explained as he led Roman over the couch. He sat down and pulled Roman down with him, shifting them both around until he determined them to be in the perfect position — no doubt Logan had boiled cuddling down to a science. “We can watch anything you would like.”

“Moana?” Roman requested. He didn’t think he could watch a romance-heavy movie right now.

“Of course,” Logan promised.

Despite how poorly it had all gone down, platonically cuddling with Logan while watching Disney movies was the most content Roman had been in weeks. He drifted off to sleep to the sounds of Auli’i Cravalho and The Rock returning the heart of Te Fiti.

~~~END~~~

Vaguely based off of the six months in high school where I had a 🤢 boyfriend 🤮 (it was a time 🙃), and the fact that my college roommate (who I’m not sure is aromantic but def has the vibes) calls tinder her “game”

General taglist

@royalty-of-all-things-snuggly @pixelated-pineapple @arsonic-knight @misunderstood-shadowling

[eurekaspringshq]

welcome to eureka springs, LUCIA CASTRO-GIBBS & SASHA CARMINE. becky g & candice patton are now taken !! please send us a message within 24 hours to receive the link to the discord.

( Becky G /25 /cis female/ she/her. ) i heard that LUCIA CASTRO-GIBBS is an DANCER AT THE NIGHTINGALE STRIP CLUB. they have lived in town for WHOLE LIFE i also heard that they are 2 +ADVENTUROUS AND FUN LOVING but also 2 - BLUNT AND CRUEL . there’s a rumor they Got addicted to drugs by ex-partner, but you didn’t hear it from me. ( Ozzie .He/they.25.Cst. )

( candice patton / 32 / female/she/her. ) i heard that SASHA CARMINE is a/an MIDDLE SCHOOL ART TEACHER. they have lived in town for HER WHOLE LIFE. i also heard that they are INTUITIVE & SHARP but also DISORGANIZED & FICKLE. there’s a rumor they HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY FOR A JOB OUT OF TOWN, but you didn’t hear it from me. ( autumn. )

[cool-chick-c-c]

Remus: Where are you going?

Patton: To either get ice cream or commit a felony.

[thefairytower]

Sumarry 1: Meeting and Snooping

This post is a little introduction story.

After one of the fairies saved one of you, the queen decided to make contact with the curious group in the mysterious tower on the field you lights have been hanging around.

They seem to have been here a while and most seem to be happy to make some new friends.

They introduce themselves as:

Logan Berry, a teacher/librarian, he/him pronouns.

Patton Goodwill, Nanny, he/him pronouns.

Janus Sundrop, Magician, they/them pronouns.

Virgil Nightingale, Knight, Logan’s protégé, any pronouns.

Remus Dawn, Prince, General, he/they/it pronouns.

Roman Dawn, crown prince, he/him or she/her pronouns.

More official titles were used in the initial introduction but this is the essentials.

You tell the fairies that you are born from the truest hearts wishes of other creatures and can either move on to a new wish or choose to join the stars upon fulfillment of your wish.

You don’t all know what your exact wish is though or who it belongs to.

They tell you that their tower is under some sort of cloaking spell that should make it hard to find and that they’ve been here for four years.

You decide to stay with the fairies for the coming year, the final year they reside here in this meadow.

While the fairies all go to bed you explore the tower.

You find a training room in the basement where some of you pick up a souvenir. Then some cool murals on the ground floor that seem to let you hear memories when you pay close attention to them.

Going up you find a common room with pictures that come to life when you focus and chairs that seem to change shape when you tap them.

Higher you find a kitchen and Patton’s room. Though Patton is not in his bed, but cooking in the kitchen. He can’t sleep.

He tells you about learning to cook when they came to live here, and about baking cookies when the twins had bad dreams.

Patton is surprised to hear about the moving pictures though.

Suddenly one of you makes a loud noise, waking Virgil who comes in with a sword at the ready.

They are a bit grumpy when they realize they were woken up by you.

The situation escalates and instead of keeping you company, he scolds you and heads back to bed, not too pleased with your group as a whole.

Feeling bad you put your souvenirs back and keep Patton company until he is ready for bed. Finding that you can see his pictures move too.

Patton mentions something about the uncle of the princes.

When you comfort him, you see key moments of his life flash by.

Having caused enough mayhem for one night you decide to settle in the common room for the rest of the night. Reflecting on what you’ve learned about these strange fairies and yourselves.

[mysticmeadowscamp]

vee has gotten every one sanrio plushie who got what character i don't know- sleby-nightingale

Dee

Patton

Logan

Remus

Roman

[tuseriesdetv]

Noticias de series de la semana

Renovaciones

Netflix ha renovado You por una cuarta temporada

Amazon ha renovado Jack Ryan por una cuarta temporada

Starz ha renovado Blindspotting por una segunda temporada

HBO Max ha renovado Doom Patrol por una cuarta temporada

HBO Max ha renovado Titans por una cuarta temporada

Pennyworth se muda de EPIX a HBO Max, que la renueva por una tercera temporada

Noticias cortas

CBS encarga temporada completa de NCIS: Hawaii y FBI: International.

Bosé será desarrollada por Paramount+.

Jennifer Coolidge (Tanya) volverá en la segunda temporada de The White Lotus.

Octavio Pisano (Joe Velasco) será regular en la vigesimotercera temporada de Law & Order: SVU.

Fichajes

Emma Corrin (The Crown) protagonizará Retreat. Será una joven detective.

Common (Never Have I Ever, Hell on Wheels) será Sims, el jefe de la seguridad judicial del silo, en Wool. Tim Robbins (Mystic River, Dead Man Walking), Rashida Jones (Parks and Recreation, The Office) y David Oyelowo (Selma, Nightingale) serán Bernard, jefe del departamento de informática; Allison, trabajadora del departamento de informática y esposa de Holston; y Holston, el sheriff del silo.

Harvey Keitel (Bugsy, Reservation Dogs), Laura Harrier (Hollywood, One Life to Live), Grace Zabriskie (Twin Peaks, Big Love), Olunike Adeliyi (Workin' Moms, Flashpoint) y T.J. Atoms (Wu-Tang: An American Saga) se unen a Iron Mike como recurrentes. Serán Cus D'Amato, el primer entrenador de Tyson (Trevante Rhodes); Robin Givens, la actriz y primera esposa de Tyson; Camile D'Amato, la esposa de Cus; Lorna Mae, la madre de Tyson; y Barkim, ladrón y amigo de Tyson.

Michael Peña (Narcos: Mexico, The Shield) se une a la cuarta temporada de Jack Ryan. Se desconocen detalles.

Melanie Lynskey (Castle Rock, Two and a Half Men) será Betty Gore, la amiga de Candy Montgomery (Jessica Biel) en Candy.

Patton Oswalt (The Goldbergs, King of Queens), Nat Faxon (Ben & Kate, The Conners), Carlos Valdes (The Flash, Arrow), Erinn Hayes (Childrens Hospital, Kevin Can Wait), Patrick Walker, Raphael Sbarge (Once Upon a Time, Murder in the First), Chris Conner (Altered Carbon, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story), Anne Dudek (Mad Men, House M.D.), Brian Geraghty (Big Sky, Chicago PD), Nelson Franklin (Black-ish, Veep), Reed Diamond (13 Reasons Why, Homicide: Life on the Street), Johnny Berchtold, Adam Ray (American Vandal) y Billy Smith (Homeland) serán Chuck Colson, consejero de Nixon (Danny Winn); Bob Haldeman, jefe de gabinete de la Casa Blanca; Paul Magallanes, agente del FBI; Peggy Ebbitt, amiga de los Mitchell; Frank Willis, guardia de seguridad; Charles N. Shaffer, abogado de John Dean (Dan Stevens); John Ehrlichman, la mano derecha de Nixon; Diana Oweiss, la secretaria de John Mitchell (Sean Penn); Peter, el guardia de seguridad de los Mitchell; Dick Moore, mano derecha de John Dean; Mark Felt, director asociado del FBI; Jay Jennings, hijo de Martha Mitchell (Julia Roberts); Ron Ziegler, secretario de prensa de la Casa Blanca; y Ken Ebbitt, amigo de John Mitchell; en Gaslit.

Celia Weston (Modern Family, American Horror Story), Michael O'Neill (Rectify, Scandal) y Gable Swanlund (The Shrink Next Door) se unen como regulares a Echoes. Tyner Rushing (The Terminal List), Hazel y Ginger Mason (The Blacklist, The Post), Alise Willis (Ruthless) y Madie Nichols (The Outsider) serán recurrentes.

Kathleen Robertson (Bates Motel; Beverly Hills, 90210) será Rosenfeld Guoliang, miembro importante del círculo de confianza de Marco Inaros (Keon Alexander),W en la sexta y última temporada de The Expanse.

Natasha O'Keeffe (Peaky Blinders, Misfits), Meera Syal (The Kumars, The Split) y Ceara Coveney se unen a la segunda temporada de The Wheel of Time.

Adam Korson (SurrealEstate, Imposters) será recurrente en Maggie como Daniel, un hombre dulce y autocrítico que ha abandonado el crossfit.

Bryana Salaz (Team Kaylie, Best Friends Whenever), Keyla Monterroso Mejia, Ciara Riley Wilson (L.A.'s Finest) y Shiv Pai (Iron Fist) protagonizarán Freeridge.

Melissa De Sousa (Valley of the Dolls, The Best Man) y McKinley Freeman (Hit the Floor, Queen Sugar) serán recurrentes en Our Kind of People como Alex Rivera, reportera financiera y exmujer de Raymond (Morris Chestnut); y el padre de Nikki (Alana Bright).

Lily Cardone (Bernie the Dolphin) y Lowrey Brown (The Gifted) serán las versiones jóvenes de Irene (Sissy Spacek) y Franklin (J.K. Simmons) en Lightyears.

Djouliet Amara (Guilty Party) será recurrente en la segunda temporada de Superman & Lois. Interpretará a una estudiante de Smallville High con un pasado lleno de secretos.

Kausar Mohammed (What Men Want), Wilder Yari y Theo Germaine (The Politician, Work in Progress) serán recurrentes en 4400 como Soraya, amiga de Jharrel (Joseph David-Jones) que trabaja en el departamento de informática; Jessica, agente de Seguridad Nacional y exnovia de Keisha (Ireon Roach); y Noah, uno de los aparecidos.

Kalyne Coleman será recurrente en Interview With the Vampire como Grace, hermana de Louis (Jacob Anderson).

Pósters

              Nuevas series

AMC encarga Tales of The Walking Dead, antología episódica en la que veremos a personajes nuevos y antiguos.

Apple TV+ ha encargado diez episodios de Shrinking, que sigue a un terapeuta en duelo (Jason Segel; How I Met Your Mother, Freaks and Geeks) que comienza a incumplir las normas y decir a sus clientes exactamente lo que piensa, ignorando su formación y la ética, originando así enormes cambios en las vidas de los demás y también en la suya. Escrita y producida por Segel junto a Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Spin City) y Brett Goldstein, guionistas de Ted Lasso.

FX encarga The Bear, comedia sobre un joven chef (Jeremy Allen White; Shameless, Homecoming) que vuelve a Chicago para llevar el restaurante familiar. Con Ebon Moss-Bachrach (Girls, NOS4A2), Ayo Edebiri (Dickinson, Big Mouth), Lionel Boyce (Hap & Leonard), Abby Elliott (Odd Mom Out, How I Met Your Mother), Liza Colón-Zayas (In Treatment, David Makes Man), Edwin Lee Gibson (Fargo) y Matty Matheson (Workin' Moms). Creada y producida por Christopher Storer (Ramy, Dickinson), que dirigió el piloto.

Ryan Murphy y Jamie Lee Curtis quieren producir Outfielder, sobre el hombre que inventó el high five, para Netflix. Se trata de Glenn Burke, de Los Angeles Dodgers, que chocó esos cinco el 2 de octubre de 1977. Burke fue el primer jugador de las Grandes Ligas de Béisbol en salir del armario durante su carrera profesional. Escrita por Robert O'Hara (Slave Play, Insurrection), que también la dirigiría.

Patricia Clarkson (Sharp Objects, Six Feet Under) y Nathalie Emmanuel (Game of Thrones, Four Weddings and a Funeral) protagonizarán Gray, thriller de espionaje basado en una idea original del novelista David Baldacci, escrita por John McLaughlin (Black Swan, Carnivàle) y dirigida por Ruba Nadda (Frankie Drake Mysteries). Producen Baldacci y Clarkson, que interpretará a Cornelia Gray, una espía que lleva 20 años huyendo de los agentes del gobierno que sospechan que es una traidora y regresa a su antigua vida justo cuando se descubre que hay un nuevo topo dentro de su vieja red de espionaje poniéndola a ella y a su red en peligro.

Bess Wohl (Grand Horizons) escribirá para televisión la limited series The Children's Hour, adaptación de la obra de Lillian Hellman (1934) que tuvo versión cinematográfica en 1961 y que trata sobre dos mujeres que dirigen un internado de chicas y son acusadas falsamente de mantener una relación sentimental. La serie expandirá la historia para incluir detalles del caso legal en el que está basada la obra y profundizar en la comunidad que rodea a la escuela y en la mente de la joven acusadora. Produce Jon Robin Baitz (Brothers & Sisters, The Slap).

Fechas

La segunda temporada de Temple llega a Sky Max el 28 de octubre

La decimotercera temporada de Doctor Who se estrena en BBC One el 31 de octubre

Head of the Class llega a HBO Max el 4 de noviembre

La segunda temporada de Saved by the Bell se estrena en Peacock el 24 de noviembre

La tercera temporada de Hanna se estrena en Prime Video el 24 de noviembre

La segunda temporada de Alex Rider se estrena en IMDb TV el 3 de diciembre

La sexta y última temporada de The Expanse se estrena en Prime Video el 10 de diciembre

La segunda temporada de Crossing Swords se estrena en Hulu el 10 de diciembre

Stay Close llega a Netflix el 31 de diciembre

Peacemaker se estrena en HBO Max el 13 de enero

La segunda parte de la undécima y última temporada de The Walking Dead se estrena en AMC el 20 de febrero

Tráilers y promos

The Shrink Next Door

Temple - Temporada 2

Dickinson - Temporada 3 y última

La casa de papel - Últimos episodios

Doctor Who - Temporada 13

Colin in Black & White

Gentefied - Temporada 2

Narcos: Mexico - Temporada 3 y última

You - Temporada 4

The Sex Lives of College Girls

Curb Your Enthusiasm - Temporada 11

Saved by the Bell - Temporada 2

The Expanse - Temporada 6 y última

Hanna - Temporada 3

Alex Rider - Temporada 2

Mayor of Kingstown

Hawkeye

Swagger

Big Mouth - Temporada 5

Peacemaker

[typingtess]

NCIS: Los Angeles Season Eleven Rewatch:   “A Bloody Brilliant Plan”

The basics:  Two reformed British criminals enlist NCIS’s help in retrieving a kidnapped young woman.

Written by:   Terence Nightingall, Kate D. Martin and Frank Military.  Teleplay by:  Frank Military.  

This is both Nightingall's and Martin's first script.  

Frank Military wrote/co-wrote "Little Angels", "Deliverance", "Lockup", "The Job", "Greed", "Betrayal", "Crimeleon", "Vengeance", "Out of the Past" Part One, "Rude Awakenings" Part Two, season four’s finale "Descent", season five’s premiere "Ascension", "Allegiance", "Spoils of War" (which he directed), "Black Budget", SEAL Hunter", "Rage" (which he directed), "Unspoken", "Unlocked Mind", "Revenge Deferred", "The Seventh Child", "Crazy Train", "Uncaged" (which he directed), "The Silo", "Monster", "Line in the Sand" (which he directed), season ten opener "To Live and Die in Mexico" (which he directed), "The Patton Project", "Better Angels" and "False Flag" (the season 11 finale).

Directed by:   Terence Nightingall directed "Expiration Date", "Old Tricks", "Warrior of Peace" and "The Sound of Silence".

Guest stars of note: Medalion Rahimi returns from “Let Fate Decide” as NCIS Special Agent Fatima Namazi, Melise is back from “Liabilities” as Jennifer Kim, Vinnie Jones as Ricky Dorsey, Steve Valentine as Frankie Bolton, Marc Crumpton as Albert Goshman, Joss Glennie-Smith as Michael Giger, Simon Kim as Seok Nahng, Adam Blake as Steve McMillian, K. Harrison Sweeney as Micky, Stephen Marcus as Andy Green, Angus Benfield as Willie "Super Fat" Hollingsworth and Jessica Erin Martin as Angela Dorsey.

Our heroes:  Star in a Guy Ritchie movie.

What important things did we learn about:

Callen:  Dressed as a clown for a Halloween party. Sam:  Not terrified of clowns, just doesn’t like them. Kensi:  Snipering with ease.   Deeks:  On the outside of his snipering comfort zone. Eric:  Not around. Nell:  See Eric. Hetty:  While absent, plying bad guys with whiskey.

What not so important things did we learn about:

Callen:  From Deptford. Sam:  Family is from Peckham. Kensi:  A Bromley twist-and-twirl. Deeks:  Croydon. Eric:  See Nell. Nell:  Not around. Hetty:  Absent.

Who's down with OTP:  They are snipering together.

Who's down with BrOTP:  Sam and Callen are fine but I loved the friendship and respect Ricky and Frankie shared.  True ride or die guys.

Any pressing need for a young FBI Agent:  Not unless he could translate British English into SoCal English.

Who is running the team this week?  Fans of British Cinema.

Fashion review:  Blue checkered buttoned-down shirt for Callen.  Sam wears a dark-blue, long sleeve tee-shirt.  Kensi is wearing a grey-tee shirt.  Deeks has blue tee.  At the poker mansion, Callen is in medium blue suit, white dress-shirt with a blue tie and a tie clip.  Sam is wearing a red non-suit suit with a black tee.  Kensi is in a black, sleeveless, sequence gown.  Deeks is wearing a dark blue, pinstripe suit with a cornflower blue polo that has white piping on the collar.  

Music:  “Green Onions” by Booker T and the MG’s is playing as Ricky sets up the undercover identities.  “Every Trick in the Book” by The Allergies is playing in the pub at the end.

Any notable cut scene:  No but I was hoping there would be a behind the scenes piece for this episode.  There wasn’t.

Quote:   Rick:  “They spotted the old bill.” Callen:  “English?” Frankie:  “We invented English.  It is our language.  We can do with it what we want.”

Runner up:  Sam:  “Enough of the rhyming.  I hate rhyming.”  LL Cool J hates rhyming – you saw it here first.

Anything else:   The previously-s are Granger promising to help Jennifer Kim on the Santa Monica Pier, Jennifer working with Callen and Sam, Granger apologizing for not being around as Jennifer’s father.

In Hampstead Heath, England, four men exit a SUV outside a fancy home.  Two are wearing ski-masks.  The man without the mask, a Mr. Cooper, is taken to the door and ordered to turn off his burglar alarm.  Also, if Cooper types in teh panic code, the police will learn about everything Cooper has inside his home.  Cooper thinks his captor’s breath smells like cat pee.

Inside the home, Cooper is ordered to open the safe.  As a warn to his captors, Cooper promises to kill their families and their pets if he learns their identies.  The fellow running the show threatens to blow off Cooper’s head but that won’t get teh safe opened.  A threat to amputate finger and then other more delicate places makes Cooper a bit more cooperative. There are bars of gold in the safe.  The three men leave with duffles filled with the gold bars.

Traveling to the Royal Air Force Base Lakenheath in England, the thieves are all dress members of the English Air Force.  In an airplane hanger are coffins draped with US flags.  The gold bars are going into an empty coffin before being sent to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.  A man in a dark suit and a hearse is there for the special coffin.  

The hearse and its driver wind up in a garage where a large man is grilling.  The driver turns over the casket and wants a meet set up.  The man grilling is surprised to see the gold bars – didn’t think the man in the dark suit and his associates could pull it off.   He has a buddy mocking the man in the suit.  The man grilling does as well.

The man in the dark suit gets a phone call from Frankie, the leader of the thieves in London.  Frankie will be in LA in 16-hours.  They are going to get the man in the suit’s “girl” back.  While the call is going on, the griller – Andy – is mocking the man in the suit.  He asks Frankie to remind him to kill Andy when they’ve everything is wrapped up.

Sam and Kensi are waiting in the Challenger – Deeks’s CI gave them the location of a buy.  Kensi points out the minivan they were told would be there.  Sam is a little out of sorts – Kensi asks if he wants to talk about it.  Sam doesn’t know what to talk about.  Kensi suggests why she is working with Sam while Callen is “forced to work with Deeks today.”  Sam is angry that Callen showed up at a Halloween party they both attended dressed as a clown.  Sam doesn’t like clowns.  When Callen showed up to work wearing a clown nose that day, Sam thought it was best if Callen annoyed Deeks instead.  Callen has lost his Hellcat privileges, according to Sam.  

Kensi laughs at the concept of Hellcat privileges until she realizes that Sam thinks riding in the Hellcat is truly a privilege.  Callen and Deeks facetime Sam wearing clown noses, wondering if they should pick up the people in the minivan.  Amused, then suddenly serious, Kensi calls Callen and Deeks disrespectful – asks if he wants her to talk to Callen and Deeks.  Kensi of course, is also wearing a clown nose.  Sam remains unamused.

The minivan leaves with Sam and Kensi in in tow.  Callen and Deeks are in the big black SUV, cutting off the minivan.  Inside are Frankie, the man who picked up the coffin, Andy and his buddy.  Inside the trunk is nothing.  Andy’s buddy was Deeks’s informant.  Whatever he promised Deeks was not in the back of the minivan.

In a very talky but entertaining bit of exposition, the two men - Frankie and friend Ricky (the man in the suit) - explain that Andy the griller was their boss years ago but now is helping with a problem.  The men wouldn’t mind a spot of tea, either.  When not grilling, Andy is an arms dealer who stole the MAHEM weapons system.  MAHEM shoots molten metal into armored vehicles.  The two men think the weapon sounds “very Star Wars-y.”  NCIS thought the weapon would be in the van.  Ricky and Frankie can’t help so Callen and Sam hope they enjoy the next 15-years in jail.

Ricky would like NCIS to help him.  He starts cooperating.  Andy stole the MAHEM system but was looking for far more money than anyone was willing to pay.  Ricky was approached by a man named Steve McMillian.  McMillian wanted Ricky to get Andy to lower his price.  Ricky has been out of the crime business for years – he’s reformed, changed his life.  After Ricky turned him down, Rick’s daughter Angela was kidnapped.  Ricky told Andy to sell the system – Ricky would make up the price difference.  

Frankie jumps in.  He “acquired” the necessary funds from a despicable criminal in London and shipped the funds to the US.  Frankie joined Ricky in LA and traveled to Santa Clarita to drop off the weapon system and that’s where NCIS “jaspered the whole thing.”  NCIS’s involvement had McMillian’s people run and Ricky still doesn’t have his daughter.

Fatima comes on comms with a British accent.  Callen and Sam are not amused.  Sam is also not aware it is Fatima – he thinks it Nell (who is visiting her Mom).  Callen wonders why does everyone in Ops pretend to have an accent.  Sam wants to know what Scotland Yard told Fatima but without the accent.  Ricky and Frankie were criminals but have been clean for years.  Frankie even volunteers at a hospital.  Andy Green, the arms dealer, is wanted for a long list of crimes, including murder.  The British government wants him extradited right away.  

Kensi and Deeks arrive.  They see Ricky and Frankie as good guys who made bad decisions for the right reasons.  Micky, Deeks’s informant and Andy’s buddy, is a complete idiot according to Deeks.  He confused the weapons drop location with the kidnapping drop.  Deeks starts dropping into an English accent, much to Callen and Sam’s dismay.  Ricky really doesn’t care what happens to him – he just wants his daughter back.  

Ricky thinks if they are going to get MAHEM and his daughter back, Steve McMillian is the place to start.  Fatima finds a Steve McMillian she thinks could be the right guy and Ricky confirms it is.  Frankie thinks Fatima is the name of NCIS’s supercomputer – like Alexa and Siri.  Callen won’t confirm or deny.  Kensi and Deeks are going with Ricky and Frankie to see McMillian.  Now Kensi has an English accent and Callen is really not amused.

In the Chevy Excursion SUV, Deeks drives with Kensi in the front seat, Ricky and Frankie in the back.  Deeks approaches McMillian’s house only to see the door forced opened.  He enters with Kensi – is leaving Ricky and Frankie outside to their own devices a good idea – and finds McMilian shot and bleeding out on his living room rug.  Kensi asks McMillian who shot him.  “Bottoms” is the answer just before McMillian expires.

Home security shows McMillian opening the door to a man he seemed to know only to be pushed into the residence with several men in hoodies following.  McMillian grabbed the man at the door’s throat – he should have DNA of his attacker under his fingernails.  Using McMillian’s GPS, Fatima found he regularly visited a home in Lake Sherwood.  Sam thinks it looks like a rock star’s mansion.

Kensi shows the mansion to Ricky and Frankie.  Ricky doesn’t recognize the place but Frankie does.  It is owned by “Super Fat” Willie who runs a big poker game every day.  There are five or six tables going at any time and all the players are British.  There is no way the team can just pull up and ask questions.  Kensi mentions “Bottoms”.  Deeks thinks that’s the name of an arms dealer.  Frankie disagrees – it could be a card player/cheater, someone who deals from the bottom of the deck.  Frankie was a card cheat – “a damn fine one” – he knows things.  Deeks thinks this is great – they all go to the house, Frankie spots the card cheat and they have the killer.  It doesn’t work that way, Frankie explains.  British citizens only.  Deeks thinks they can pass – he’s seen “Mary Poppins”.  Ricky doesn’t think looking like a skateboarder is going to get Deeks in.  

In a terrific montage, Ricky explains that everyone’s look, jewelry and mannerisms have to be right.  Callen is from Deptford, Sam is from Peckham, Kensi is a Bromley twist and twirl (a girl) while Deeks is from Croydon.  Everything matters here – the jewelry, the cologne, the clothes are all specific from their fake hometowns.  The vehicles they drive also have to be fine British cars.  Kensi and Deeks arrive as a couple followed by Callen, Sam, Ricky and Frankie.

Super Fat Willie acts as a matre’d – assigning Kensi and Deeks to one table, Sam to a second and Callen a third.  Ricky is moved to the back while Frankie floats over to Callen.  Frankie notices right away that their dealer is dealing from the bottom of the pile.  Franke winds up winning his hand.  Callen walks away, Frankie takes his winnings and moves to the bar.

Ricky approaches Frankie.  Frankie misses the life a little.  Ricky talks him down.  The dealer at Callen and Frankie’s table was cheating with help from the player at his immediate right.  Looking around, however, Frankie sees a lot of people cheating.  He wonders if this is nothing more than one big con being run by Super Fat Willie.  When Callen’s dealer steps out for a smoke, Callen and Sam follow.  The dealer is Michael Giger and he tells Callen and Sam, who have identified themselves as NCIS, that he doesn’t know Steven McMillian.  

Joining Kensi and Deeks, Frankie notices immediately that their dealer is also working from the bottom of the deck.  He’s also not nearly as smooth as the first dealer.  Under the table, Kensi is working her foot up the dealer’s leg.  She leaves and the dealer asks to be relieved.  The dealer follows Kensi up to a bedroom in the mansion.  Deeks pulls up the rear.  In the bedroom, the second dealer doesn’t recall knowing Steve McMillian. While Callen and Sam are questioning their dealer and Kensi and Deeks are questioning theirs, a fight breaks out in the cards room.  It seems Frankie was cheating – “it’s like a reflex.”  

Both the dealers accuse the other of being “Bottoms”.  Ricky wants to beat the truth of them.  He’s happy to show Deeks how if someone has a crowbar.  They dealers are off to the boat shed.  Frankie approves – there are likely more crowbars and hammers there.  Frankie even mentions a dentist drill.  Good thing Deeks is putting one of the dealers in a car when that suggestion was made.

Fatima tells Callen and Sam that the FBI found DNA on Steve McMilian.  Callen is worried about search warrants and time – they need to get the DNA from the dealers now.  Irish whiskey is suggested by Frankie.  

At the boat shed, Callen brings in the whiskey, courtesy of Hetty.  He explains that they aren’t in all that much trouble and the dealers both enjoy a glass.  Callen pours seconds just before Kensi arrives to announce last call.  She bags and tags the dealers’ cups.  Sam explains the wonderful world of DNA to the men.

A few hours later, Deeks arrives with the results.  Sam takes Callen’s dealer to interrogation downstairs while Callen and Deeks handle the other dealer.  Both dealers are being sold the same story – their DNA matches the DNA found on Steve McMillan’s body.  Kensi and Deeks’s dealer let the killers into McMillan’s home.  The dealer’s brother was threatened by a group of North Koreans.  Callen and Deeks share a glance before Ricky breaks in.  He’s ready to kill the dealer but the dealer is like Ricky – had a family member threatened.  Sam knows someone with a background in North Korean spies.  The dealer who was threatened is going to sit with a sketch artist to see if they can figure out who it is.

Kensi brings Jennifer Kim to the boat shed.  She is doing well in the country.  Even tried her hand at gardening until everything turned yellow and died.  Frankie suggests composting – as an Englishman, he knows gardening.  After bringing Jennifer up to speed about Ricky’s daughter Angela and the MAHEM weapon, she is shown the sketch of the man who killed McMillian.  She recognizes Seok Nahng – he’s in the US under one of a dozen alias.  If they want her help, Jennifer needs a deal – she needs to speak to them in private.  In interrogation, Jennfier isn’t looking a deal, she was looking for some privacy.  Angela is likely dead and if she’s not, she is going to wish she was.  Nahng is a skilled torturer.

Since moving the MAHEM weapons system is too risky (and difficult), North Korea likely has engineers in LA learning everything they can about the weapon.  They will take it apart, download all the computer codes.  The spies won’t have to worry about transport the weapon if they know how it is built and how the computer internals work.  The North Koreans don’t one weapon, they want hundreds.

Fatima pops up on the boat shed plasma.  Frankie thinks she’s a virtual image created by the NCIS supercomputer.  Nahng has two U.S passports, one as Michael Lee and one as Michael Park.  Michael Park has a cell phone that is sitting  Chevy Tahoe that is parked outside a warehouse in Pacoima.  The team is on their way.

The team enters the warehouse but it is largely empty.  There are remnants of what is likely one of the weapons system’s computers is on a work table.  The cell phone was a set up to get the team to the warehouse.  Sam realizes the North Koreans knew they were coming.  

Tracing Nahng’s other cell phone, Fatima found a call made from Super Fat Willie’s phone.  Only that call was made at the boat shed.  That makes no sense to Fatima so she calls Super Fat’s phone.  It rings in Ricky’s jacket pocket.  Ricky stole the phone from Super Fat during the fight.  Ricky thought he could save his daughter by tipping Nahng off.  He agreed to trade Jennifer Kim for his daughter.  North Korea wants their traitor spy back.  And since Ricky tipped them off to NCIS’s movements, he’s earned some trust.  Frankie thinks it is a bloody, brilliant plan.

Jennifer does not think it is a bloody, brilliant plan.  She’s furious at NCIS but believes they were in the dark.  North Korea wants her dead.  Ricky tries to explain that Angela is a true innocent.  Everything changed the day she was born.  But he doesn’t think NCIS cares about Angela – only the weapons system.  Sam fights back – they have been trying to save his daughter but Ricky made his own deal and one that is outside the normal risk.  Ricky wants to know who is at risk besides Angela. Jennifer answers – she’s at risk.

The team is going to the meet and try to bluff that Jennifer is available to be traded.  If they can’t get Angela, at least they can arrest Nahng.   Jennifer wants to know how involved Ricky was with Angela’s life.  Telling Jennifer he was in prison when Angela was born, Ricky first saw her at seven-months old and was with her every day after he was out of prison until she left for college.  She’s the reason he’s a reformed criminal.

Nahng calls.  He puts a crying Angela on the phone.  When Nahng returns, he give Ricky an airplane hanger for the swap – Angela for Jennifer.  Anyone else shows up, Angela dies.  The swap is at a small airport in San Bernadino.  The idea is to make the exchange and leave the country.  Callen wants the REACT team a mile out.  They will all barely get to the airport in time for the swap.  Sam asks Fatima to call the FBI and have them monitor all aircraft in and out of the airport.  Standing, Jennifer Kim agrees to help.

The airport should look familiar to Jennifer Kim since it looks like the Salt Lake City airport where Granger picked her up.  Also looks like the airport where Spencer Williams sold guns to ATF.  Deeks and Thapa may have been there too in “Frozen Lake”.  Anyway, Jennifer agrees to be cuffed and walks toward the North Koreans.  Feigning a struggle, Ricky thanks Jennifer.  Jennifer tells Ricky he was always there for his daughter, unlike her father.  “You did good, Ricky.”  

Four men in a pick-up truck pull up.  One is riding outside in the truck bed.  Kensi has the truck in her sniper’s scope.  Deeks has the FBI waiting – if the plane starts to take off, they’ll put firetrucks on the runway.  Kensi can’t see Angela in the truck.  Nahng leaves the truck, telling Jennifer it is time to go home.  Ricky wants his daughter.  After Nahng has Jennifer, then he’ll tell Ricky where he can pick up his daughter.  Ricky walks, talking Jennifer with him.  Nahng sees that Jennifer is handcuffed as they move away.  Nahng calls them back – Angela is in the bed of the truck.

Deeks is set up with a long gun but thinks the “this is a long shot for me.”   He is focused on one of Nahng’s bodyguards.  Kensi is read to shoot the body guard holding Angela.  That leaves Jennifer with Nahng.   Jennifer starts making her way to Nahng but her handcuffs are now off.  She also has a weapon.  Jennifer is not moving quickly enough for Kensi to fire.  When Nahng threatens to kill Jennifer on the spot, Kensi tells the team to “execute” and the shooting begins.  

Kensi takes out the guard with the gun pointed at Angela.  Jennifer does the same to Nahgn.  Deeks misses his target initially, allowing the man to get off two shots – one hitting Ricky, one hitting Jennifer – before Deeks takes him down.

Angela races to her father as Callen and Sam arrive.  Kensi notices one of Nahgn’s injured men was about to shoot Angela so she takes him down.  Ricky had on a bulletproof vest but was shot in the shoulder.  Jennifer’s bulletproof vest to the bullet intended for her.  She’s has the breath knocked out of her but she’s fine.

In a British-style pub, Callen tells Jennifer that the MAHEM weapon was retrieved.  After all she did today, Callen wants Jennifer moved to witness protection.  No more guards, back to living a normal life.  Jennifer explained that while she was working as a spy, she truly believed she was doing the right thing.  After today, saving Angela and bringing her home to her father, she was doing a good thing – it defines who she is.  Callen thinks she’s Granger’s daughter.  The two talk about estranged fathers who aren’t bad men, just aren’t around.

Ricky arrives at the pub – he escaped the hospital.  Angela and Frankie are with him.  The group toasts to tough guys, fathers, daughters, old criminals,  friends and the little gangster in all of them.

What head canon can be formed from here:   The idea of doing a really different episode once a season is interesting, especially when it is this well done.  CSI use to have an episode like this every season – the corpses in autopsy would review their unfortunate demises, the story was told from the point of view of the criminal.  Some worked, some didn’t.  But it was a nice way to mix things up.  The high quality guest stars – Vinny Jones and Steve Valentine were excellent choices

I think this episode was wonderful.  Wouldn’t want it every week but it was a treat.

Episode number:  Episode 246 – nice round numbers.  Episode six of season 11.

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Open Rp.

Virgil Nightingale a Fallen Angel walking among the humans invisible living his days alone. As he wasn’t the angel who he used to be, selfish, reckless and will take things and not give them back. Born without a heart some say ,but that was far from the truth as he was just building walls around him not to get hurt. Not again not after he lost everything,lost Patton,Logan,Roman. Wings splotched in black on his grey wings, Looking up back to the sky wishing for a undo button,anything to help him. Or a way to even see his lovers again even if they don’t remember him.

[theatresweetheart]

Brook’s Masterpost

Hello!

I have finally managed to get myself organized enough to compile all of my stories into one place! I put everything underneath a “Read More,” as I’m not entirely sure how long this post will get through time.

This Masterpost will be continuously updated with every story I have and will release.

I have a mix of G/t Stories and Non-g/t Stories. 

Some of my stories are In Progress, some are On Hiatus, some are Complete and some are just purely One-Shots. (Unless I get inspired by something and feel compelled to write more for that certain universe, in which that story will then be re-marked.) I will label these all accordingly! 

Enjoy!

--- G/t Stories ---

- Borrowers in the Attic - Virgil, a young borrower, is abandoned by his parents after they told him to wait for them to come back. Patton finds him in the attic and decides that it isn’t fair for him to try and survive on his own. Pairings: (Implied) Romantic/Parental Logicality, Platonic Moxiety [ Chapter 1 ]  - On hiatus -

- Welcome to Fatherhood - Roman is having trouble bonding with his boyfriend’s son. Virgil is convinced Roman is exactly like the rest of them, bound to leave him and Patton sooner or later. Pairings: Romantic/Parental Royality, Familial Moxiety, Familial Prinxiety, Platonic (endgame romantic) Analogical. [ One Shot ] [ Ask Blog ] - On hiatus -

- Nightingale - Roman is captured by a group of bandits and is used for their entertainment because of his voice. Logan hears the soft tune, the breaking voice and the shouting and he lets his curiosity of the situation get the better of him. Pairings: Platonic Logince, (Mentioned) Romantic Prinxiety [ One Shot ] - Complete -

- High Strung Hearts - Patton can’t help a sad Logan, so he recruits Virgil instead. Pairings: Platonic Analogical, Background Platonic LAMP/CALM [ One Shot ] - Complete -

- Heavy Silence - Virgil refuses to speak. Logan and Roman are frustrated and Patton tries for what feels like the hundredth time. Pairings: Platonic Moxiety, Background Platonic LAMP/CALM [ Part 1 ] - In progress -

- Horror Movies and Soft Landings - Horror movies can be the bane of one’s existence, especially with an overactive imagination. Good thing Virgil drops in to ease Roman’s worries. Pairing: Platonic Prinxiety [ One Shot ] - Complete -

- Thorns and Arrows - Virgil, after narrowly escaping capture by humans who believe his witchcraft is demonic, ends up getting caught by Roman instead. Pairings: Platonic Prinxiety, Brief Mentioned Logince [ Part 1 ] - In progress -

- Desperate Measures - Logan, a borrower who has been captured by humans, is stuck inside a pet shop and separated from his family. Roman makes it his mission to get Logan out and back home with the assistance his borrower accomplice, Thomas. Pairings: Romantic/Parental Logicality, Platonic Logince, Platonic TLAMP, Familial Analogical, Familial Moxiety. [ Chapter 1 ] [ Chapter 2 ] [ Chapter 3 ] [ Chapter 4 ] [ Chapter 5 ] [ Final ]  [ Epilogue ] [ Homeward Nightmares ] - Complete -

- Broken Words - Rescuing humans has never been too difficult for Roman. However, the little one currently glaring at him from its enclosure has proven to be a very different case. Pairings: Platonic Prinxiety, incredibly brief mentions of Royality/Logicality. [ One Shot ] - Complete -

- Quiet Comfort - When Virgil just wants to nap, Patton is more than happy to help. Pairing: Platonic Moxiety [ One Shot ]  - Complete -

- The Idiot Jar - When Roman gets irritated enough with Remus, he puts his tiny twin into what he has proudly dubbed “The Idiot Jar.” Pairing: Creativitwins [ Part 1 ] - On hiatus -

- A Little Lovesick - Patton is a borrower that has a huge (pun intended) crush on Logan. Thing is, the human is so frustratingly oblivious to literally anything emotionally related. Pairings: Romantic Logicality [ One Shot ] - Complete -

- A Little Misunderstanding - “Good news: Logan’s shrink ray works. Bad News: Logan accidentally shrunk himself in the process. ??? News: He has been mistaken as a fellow “Borrower” by Patton, a tiny humanoid being who apparently has been living in his walls all this time.” Pairings: Platonic Logicality [ One Shot ] - Complete -

- Snap-traps and Misconceptions - In a world where humans are viewed as pests, Logan is constantly asked to set traps “just in case.” However illogical he believes this to be, he is pleasantly—and completely—surprised to find that the trap actually works. Pairings: Platonic Analogical, Platonic Logince [ One Shot ] - In progress -

- Enchanted Shackles -  When Virgil, a Shifter, is wrongly imprisoned for something he didn’t do, he has to pay the consequences of another’s actions. Except for the fact that he’s sick and tired of the whole charade and is ready to do just about anything to get out. Pairings: Platonic Moxiety, Platonic Analogical [ One Shot ] - Complete - 

- Crash Landing - When a ship goes into auto-pilot and ends up hurtling towards earth, there isn’t exactly much one can do.  Pairings: Platonic Moxiety, Mentioned platonic Analogince [ One Shot ] - Complete -

- Glass Jars and Rolling Thunder - A concerned veterinary student and an injured merman stuck in a jar cross paths. Things can only go up from here... Right? Pairings: Platonic Analogical [ Part 1 ] - In progress -

- What’s in a Name? - Roman’s a fae with a soft heart. This soft heart eventually leads him into getting seen by the human child he didn’t want to be seen by. Unfortunately, while he knows leaving and never coming back is the right choice, hearing about Patton’s guardian leaves him feeling conflicted. Pairings: Platonic Royality [ One Shot ] - Complete -

- Paint Water - Roman takes an accidental dip into Virgil’s paint water. Who knew a human could be so annoying about it. Pairings: Platonic Prinxiety [ One Shot ] - Complete -

- Student Struggles - He knew it had been an illogical descion. And yet, he’d made the choice anyway. Pairings: Platonic Analogical [ One Shot ] - Complete -

--- Non-g/t Stories ---

- Thunderstorms and Stowaways - Logan is a dragon that has seen the horrors of humanity and refuses to allow such poisoned mindsets to infect his son. Keeping Virgil away from humans has been relatively simple—until one all but stumbles into his presence harbouring a hatchling of his own. Pairings: Platonic Logince, Familial Analogical, Familial Royality [ Part 1 ]  [ A Snowy Twilight Find ] [ Childish Innocence ] - On hiatus -

- Sick and Sleepless - Virgil gets food poisoning and Logan is quick to assist him through it. Pairings: Parental/Romantic Analogical, Familial Logicality, Brief Familial Moxiety [ One shot ] - Complete -

- Blink and You’ll Miss It - Roman has been crushing hard on his best friend but not wanting to break up the group or risk Virgil hating him, he suffers in silence. Up until Logan has had enough of it. Pairings: Romantic Prinxiety, Romantic Logicality [ One shot ] - Complete -

- Parental Prinxiety Verse -  [ Dad Against the Darkness ] Being a father is a lot of responsibility, being a new father even more so. When Virgil wakes with a nightmare in the middle of the night, Roman is right there with him. - Complete - [ Snipped Wires ]  School can be rough, especially when one’s peers already see them as the “odd one out.” It only gets worse when Virgil’s headphones get snipped. After trying to stand up for himself and instead gets painted in the wrong light, the school calls his Dad—but Roman only gets one side of the story.   - Complete - 

- Platonic Anxceit Short - Virgil struggles with his anxiety, and Deceit steps in to assist him through it. [ One Shot ]  - Complete -

- Of Stars and Royal Gardens - When the king of the Eastern Kingdom falls ill suddenly, the wedding that was supposed to unite the Eastern and Northern Kingdoms via the princes suddenly gets moved immediately.  Pairings: Romantic Prinxiety, Familial Analogical, Platonic Logince [ One Shot ] - Complete -

- A Dragon’s Prince - When Prince Virgil gets kidnapped right from the castle gardens by a dragon, he expects nothing less than never seeing the light of day again. However, this particular dragon seems to be a bit...odd. Pairing: Platonic Prinxiety [ Part 1 ] [ Part 2 ] - In progress -

- A Curse and a Promise - The Imagination can be a dangerous place. Navigating it can be difficult. It’s worse when the one person you were there with is knocked out cold. is True Loves Kiss really as true as the movies make it out to be? Pairing: Romantic Prinxiety, Background Romantic Logicality [ One Shot ] - Complete -

- Catharsis - Virgil receives letters from resentful relatives. It’s a good thing he doesn’t have to fight this battle on his own. Pairings: Romantic Prinxiety [ Part 1 ]  [ Prequel ] - Complete -

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[sebthesnipe]

I Hear you

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Prompt: Deaf/Dare

Ship: Logicality

Logan’s gaze shifted over the words on the page before him slowly. He had read the same paragraph at least half a dozen times and yet it still didn’t sink in. He gave a heavy sigh, rubbing his temple as it continued to throb unpleasantly, before closing the book and setting it aside. He simply hadn’t been able to enjoy reading as much as he had before the accident.

His gaze caught on the tiny hand that set a small mug of tea onto the coffee table in front of him before it rose to meet Patton’s gaze. The smaller man offered a gentle smile and spoke to him. The eerie silence was something Logan had grown accustomed to over the last six months; but he still struggled to read lips.

“I apologize Patton… I… didn’t catch that.” He replied, his words sounding almost as if he had cotton in his cheeks. It was so strange not being able to hear your own voice. The pain in his temple increased as he tried not to flinch, tugging on his ear in response.

“Oh.” The smaller man chuckled. Oh, what Logan wouldn’t give to hear that laugh again. He had always loved the sound of Patton’s laughter. It was high pitched and so pure… Like church bells in spring.

He watched as Patton’s hands moved slowly, deliberately. The smaller man had worked very hard to learn sign language for Logan. He had been so distraught when they discovered Logan had become deaf during his car accident and was determined to make every accommodation possible.

‘Cookies... Me... Bake... Future/will... you want?’ he signed a bit clumsily asking Logan if he would like Patton to bake them some treats.

“Ah.” Logan replied, beginning to sign in return. He continued to speak, knowing that the man learned more easily when he paired the two. “No. Thank you, Patton. However,… I know date night isn’t for another few days, but I thought it would be nice to perhaps participate in some extracurricular activities.” he explained.

He watched as Patton gave a squeal of excitement and began to bounce in his excitement. The sight had Logan’s lips turning up with affection. He truly adored the man before him. It wasn’t the first time he considered himself one of the luckiest men on the planet.

‘What... have... in... mind?’ Patton signed in a rush, making Logan struggle to keep up.

“Perhaps a board game? We still haven’t opened the newest expansion to Mansions of Maddness.” He reminded.

“Yes!” Patton squeal. Logan certainly didn’t need signs to understand that bit. “I’ll go make some snacks while you set up!” he urged before rushing off, not even bothering to use ASL.

Logan pushed to his feet slowly, still pulling on his ear, watching Patton disappear around the corner. He supposed that all and all life was pretty good. Sure, he would never be able to enjoy the lectures he use to listen to on the way to work in the same way, or Bach and Mozart as he read, but Patton was still there. Logan was alive and well. The entire incident brought them closer than ever be-

He stumbled, as he headed for the shelf filled with a variety of games, suddenly growing dizzy as pain washed through him. His hand moved, from where it had been pulling on his earlobe, to massage his temple as he leaned against the wall practically gasping from it all.

For a moment, the world stood still. It was just him, bracing himself against the wall, the sound of his blood rushing in his ears. His heart beat began to speed up, sounding as if it were about to explode. Everything was so loud! Too loud!

Then… slowly… The whisper of a whistle made its way towards him. The sound was soft and heavenly like the nightingale in June. No, it put the nightingale to shame. His eyes began to sting with the force of his tears, a hand dropping to cover his mouth, hanging open in disbelief. The whistling shifted to a soft breathless, happy, singing.

He pushed off the wall, stumbling towards the kitchen, tears flowing freely as he was overwhelmed with emotions. He braced himself against the frame of the door as he watched Patton move about in his preparations, back still turned to the man.

“Do, a deer, a female deer.” Pattons soft, sweet, voice came. “Re, a drop of golden sun. Mi, a name I call myself; Fa, a long, long way to run.” He continued before switching back to whistling as he began to pour pretzels into a bowl.

“So.” Logan’s voice came, the word broken on his lips. The sound made the smaller man jump before chuckling and turning towards his other half. The sight of Logan barely keeping himself upright as the tears continued to fall had his smile disappearing instantly. “A needle pulling thread.” He finished making Patton’s brows furrow in confusion.

“Lo?” He mumbled softly. His body began to tense as he started putting the pieces together.

“La, a note to follow So,” Logan continued with a broken laugh as he stepped forward.

Patton’s eyes grew wide in shock and he had to brace a hand on the counter behind him to steady himself. The doctor had said it was possible for Logan to regain his hearing but he hadn’t truly believed… Wouldn’t allow himself to hope…

“Ti…” Patton continued a bit shakily. “a drink with jam and bread.” He finished, the sound muffled as he hid his mouth behind his hand.

“That,” Logan smiled moving forward and placing his hands on Patton’s cheeks and guiding him to look up at the taller man. “will bring us back to Do.”

A sob escaped the smaller man as he practically collapsed into the other’s arms. Logan’s own legs gave out sending them both to the cold tiles below. He buried his face in the honey locks of his lover as he allowed himself the cry with relief, clinging to the other man.

“I hear you.” he mumbled incoherently. “I hear you.” he sobbed.

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[stillebesat]

Make it sad- he has lost everything, everyone (he got kicked from his previous bfs house for being too eccentric and they shredded it because, "He needs to grow up.") He's trying to get back to normal (his normal, he's not crazy, he's not!) And ends up having a breakdown. Cue a few days later and he's starving, completely slipped into a delusion, being found by Patton or Logan- (Roman is mentally ill- diagnosed, but his previous boyfriend had, "Those aren't real. Grow up." Mentality.

Tattered

Sanders Sides: RomanFic Type: AngstWarnings: PTSD, War, Blood, Guns, Swords/Knives, Death, Toxic Relationships 

Betrayed from every side.

Not only were his foes his enemies, but his friends had become his foes.

His loved ones turning their backs just when he was certain they would never—Roman shivered, slipping out of the cave -dumpster- into the rain with a bolt of stained fabric in his arms that he could use to create a new disguise, his current tunic, with it’s thin and torn sleeves, doing little to protect him from the fury of the Hurricane -rain storm- the Dragon Witch had sent to test him.

All a Test.

No one was trustworthy.

Everyone was against him.

Everyone.

Everyone?

Roman flinched, darting -stumbling- into the nearest crevice -alleyway- as twin torches roared past him along the ravine, hunting for his blood, sent by the Dragon Witch to bring back his head.

“Never.” He growled out, holding his treasured cloth in one arm while he edged along the dark path, feeling along the craggy way to the next cave in search of any sustenance he could find since the first hadn’t contained any of the travel rations he desperately needed.

So hungry. Famine had struck the entire province due to the Manticore Chimera’s reign in this part of his kingdom.

Roman hunched his shoulders as a door slammed in the distance.

A Prince should be welcomed everywhere.

Yet all had fallen under the same cursed spell.

Thrown out.

Unwelcomed.

A Prince to no one.

“Again with the stupid Prince thing, Roman? Grow up.”

Roman flinched, breath hitching in his throat as the wind picked up, tearing at his ragged shirt. “I am a Prince.” He whispered, brushing his dripping hair out of his eyes. “Ruler of–”

“Idiocy. It was cute in the beginning, but now? Dude. Some days I can’t believe you actually fought in the war.”

Gunshots.

Dust.

An Explosion.

“ROMAN GET DOWN!”

He ducked, dropping the bolt of cloth, as a long piercing whistle of the Dragon Witch’s roar sounded over head. He twisted, hands scrambling for his rifle–no the sword! The sword would be better–gah! Roman grabbed at the helmet that was on far too tight on his head. Too tight! Tootighttootight He couldn’t brea–

“The enemy has us surrounded.”

No. “DRAGON WITCH!” Roman screamed, throwing a punch into the rock wall his knuckles splitting as they crashed into the red brick stone.

Not that–anything but–but–

Bright blue eyes.

“You’ll get us through this Captain.”

No, not a captain. He was a Prince!

“What do we do now, sir?”

Sweaty hands on his rifle.

Blood flowing from his shoulder.

Communications. Down.

Surrounded.

Roman fell to his knees, fingernails digging into his scalp as he tried to remove the helmet. Tried to breathe. To–to save–save—

“This pathetic make-believe has to stop. You’re just doing it for the attention and I’m tired of it Rameno.”

He shuddered. Don’t call me that! “I’m not–” He was perfectly NORMAL!

“Stop being so weird. It’s creeping out everyone. You think they like it when you randomly burst into song?”

But songs hel–helped the the–

BANG. BANG. BANG.

“I–I’m wishing” Roman whispered, his voice shaking as he clawed his way to his feet, leaning heavily against the rocky crag -brick wall- “F-for the-the one I-I lo-love…” 

To find me.

“True love? That’s for fairytales, Rameno and I’m tired of dealing with make-believe.” 

“Captain!”

BANG. BANG. BANG.

All the blood.

Red spreading across the greys and browns.

Glazed eyes.

Staring.

Accusing.

Roman violently shook his head. Get away get away get away. Gotta save. Gotta have— “To-To find me.” The Dragon Witch wouldn’t win. He would find his sword. Find a way to defeat her and then the manticore—

“Captain Roman?” A voice echoed down the ravine, achingly familiar.

Sing sweet nightingale. Oh si~i~ing.  

A trap.

“Roman, kiddo, that is you right?”

He wasn’t a child!

Roman whirled, hands raised defensively to the rain fogged figure standing nearby.

Moving closer.

The Dragon Witch couldn’t have found him so soon! He’d been covering his tracks–

“They tapped our communications.”

Heart sinking. “We were set up.” And he’d been a fool to trust–

“Captain?”

A cool scaly grey hand landed lightly on his shoulder. “Cap–”

BANG.

Agony. Burning. Pain. 

The Dragon Witch had found him. Was attacking him! He was doomed–

Roman screamed and surged forward, slamming the figure against the wall. “NO!!” He hissed as the other grunted. “You cannot win, Dragon Witch!” Not again. He was Prince of this land and she Would. Not. WIN!

One calloused hand grabbed at his wrist, the clawed-metal-one resting on top, the tips only lightly digging into his skin. “Cap–” The figure whispered, black frames wrapping around his dark brown -bright blue they’re blue!- eyes in a feeble disguise. But Roman knew those brown eyes. Knew the glare of the Dragon Witch!

“THAT IS PRINCE TO YOU, DRAGON WITCH!” He roared.

“What do we do, Captain?” They all looked to him, eyes filled with hope, their hands ready on their weapons.

“Ro–I’m not–Not the Drag–”

Roman bared his teeth. “LIAR.” He hissed, slipping one hand to his boot–sneaker- withdrawing his sword- broken butterknife- from its hiding place. He wouldn’t be tricked again.

Surrounded.

Trapped.

He took a breath, offering them a smile he didn’t feel. “We fight.” He said, leaning in to the others as he adjusted his grip on his rifle. “Follow my lead, we’ll get out.”

Blood.

Death.

So. Much. Red.

He used to love that color.

He raised the knife. Once more that color would fill his vision. But this time.

This. Time.

The Dragon Witch would die.

“Roman!” The figure cried, feet kicking uselessly in the air. “Please, It’s Me! Pat–”

The blade fell. 

 Part 2

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[cool-chick-c-c]

prologue: 1-800-DATEME

summary: remus meets a cute boy at a coffee shop. you know how this one ends.

pairing: pre-romantic intruality

word count: 471

cw: intrusive thoughts (mild violence, sexuality)

taglist: @rosesisupposes @acanvasofabillionsuns @art-chive @nobodyw8s4evr

It’s cloudy. It’s the perfect weather for a murder. It's the perfect weather for running around outside without caring about who's looking.

No one's looking anyway, but they don't think about that either. It's eleven p.m., and Remus is bored and not tired at all.

There's a Starbucks on the corner. It's open 24/7. 

That's new, they think.

Remus doesn't like Starbucks (too many choices, none of them fun), but they go in anyway.

It's full, and everyone looks bored. The barista massages their temples when they see Remus, and they're almost about to walk out again when they see someone sitting at a table in the very back.

Remus smiles and walks up to the counter. "One of everything in a grande cup."

The barista blinks at them a few times. "Anything else?"

For you to lick it off me. "No." They raise their eyebrows and smirk.

The barista rolls their eyes but gives them their order without complaint, and Remus locks their eyes on the person they spotted earlier and walk confidently towards them. The person doesn't look up, not until Remus is already seated with them.

Remus puts their elbows on the table and stares at them intently. They tilt their head and blink.

"Hi." The other person smiles. "Is there something on my face?"

"If there were, I would've--" Eaten it. "--said something. I just wanted to talk to you."

“I'm Patton!” The other person laughs. “He/him.”

“Remus." He looks covertly around the room. "Like penis. They/them.”

Patton smiles when he hears it, and Remus’s heart skips a beat. They wonder how many skips it would take for them to die.

“I don’t think a lot, actually.” Patton places his arms on the table.

“Ooh, you’re actually listening to me! That’s new.”

“Aww, you’re giving me too much credit. I just like new people.”

"And you listen to them! And don't screw them over!"

"I might. You don't really know me, Rem."

Remus swings his legs. "I want to."

"Then let's talk." Patton looks at the cup and smiles. "Right?"

"Right!"

And they talk. They talk until it's midnight and they barely remember why they came here, until nothing matters but the two of them. Until Patton glances at his watch. 

“Oh! Looks like we’ll have to cup this one short!” He giggles. “That was fun, Remus. You’re fun.”

He almost trips over the carpet as he rushes out the door, and Remus smiles. Someone actually likes them.

Does he? He didn’t just want to get away?

Remus imagines smashing a hammer on Patton’s face, and they regret it immediately.

“Well, I like him!”

It's twelve hours and five hours of sleep later that they call Jekyll and tell him about it. 

For once in their life, Remus wants to keep a secret.

[thefairytower]

(Stop it I already absolutely ADORE this AU!)

I blink in many colors cheerfully!

Hello! It’s nice to meet you all! I haven’t seen you guys before, might you all introduce yourselves?

(Aw thanks!!! Hope I can keep it up!!!)

The purple fairy, the queen called them Virgil you recall sighs.

"Well then the spell did its job I guess," they mutter.

"And I suppose you already blew your identity with the queen?" They add looking at the red one, who looks sheepishly as they nod.

"Well, they would've done something while you were by yourself if they'd been sent... fine," Virgil relented gesturing to the deep blue fairy who nodded.

"Yes. Greetings to you all," they said very formally. Arms folded behind their back, back straight and eyes looking at you like they were trying to figure out your deepest secret jusf by looking at you.

"I am Logan Berry. I use he/him pronouns. I am Master of the scrolls, keeper of knowledge of the fairy kingdom of the dawn." He introduced himself importantly.

"*cough* librarian *cough*" the green fairy interrupts to the amusement of the others. Scroll master Logan pushes on gesturing to the light blue one in a dress.

"This is Patton Goodwill. He/him too. Steward of the crown of the dawn."

"*cough*Nanny*cough*" The green one again. And again all but Logan laughed. Even Patton.

Logan gestured to the yellow fairy. "Master Janus Sundrop. They/them. Scholar of magic and mystic advisor of the crown of the dawn," he stated.

"*cough*magician*cought*" this time the chuckles were accompanied by shaking heads and sighs.

Now Logan pointed to the purple one, Virgil, who straightened their posture at once.

"Virgil Nightingale. Any pronouns, though he/him will do if you cant make up your mind. My protege," for the first time Logan cracks a little smile. "Keeper of the sun blade, banisher of shadows and personal guard to the princes of the sun."

"*cough*teachers pet*cough*" Virgil shot the green one a glare but didnt drop his proud posture for a second.

Logan sighed and gestured to the green fairy at last. "Prince Remus Dawn. He/they/it. First born twin to Queen Daphne and Quin River. Duke of the damned marches, by choice. Leader of the armies of the sunset," Logan announced.

Remus grinned "*cough*total boss*cough*"

This time everyone burst out laughing.

Logan waited patiently for the ruckus to die down.

When it did he gestured to the red fairy. The one the queen had addressed first.

"Finally. Roman Dawn. He/him. But when he dresses feminine he will happily accept female pronouns and nicknames. Second born twin to Queen Daphne and Quin River. Bearer of the heir's crown, our future king."