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Happy Birthday @gleafer! So, a bunch of us smutgoblins got together and wrote a fic for Gleafer, inspired by Gleafer⊠Happy Birthday to a GOAD legend. Go and support her on Patreon. This fic is rated E for Exceptionally Smutty. Interdimensional LeakageSummary Googling yourself, especially when youâre a celestial being, is rarely a good idea. But when dimensions bleed into each other, Crowley and Aziraphale get a glimpse into the creativity of the human mind. One human in particular and their astoundingly evocative art, inspire the angel and demon to commence a journey of discovery all about themselves.With thanks to our smutgoblin writers: @doonaroseâ @fuzzygoblinâ  @ghst-signalâ @kneelbeforeyourdogbabylonâ @smitten-like-anythingâÂ
#good omens#good omens fan fic#gleafer art#exceptionally smutty#first time#ineffable husbands#inspired by gleafer art#post eventual season 3#interdimensional leakage
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welp, didn't manage to get everything out before season 10 started, but i gotta post it one way or another so here we go! heard there was a fandom swap game going on, wanted to do a couple promts of my own :D
#guys with freaky eyes <3#i really didn't expect season 10 to be so soon what do i do now...#very sorry to all the naruto girlies. there might be a lot of minecraft art for a while đ bud ninja stuff is coming too eventually#anyways! about the drawing:#decided to turn hypno into the 'bug tango with 4 arms and antennae' variant instead of a regular one because it's just more fun and unique;#and tango is in his dungeon master color pallett because his regular one looked a bit plain.#and i think hypnosis really fits the theme of a dungeon master and wrangling ravagers.#plus i wanted to use the design i drew a while ago at least once#oh also yeah hypno is a bee here because of his honey shop and stuffs#hypnotizd#tangotek#hermitcraft#my art#sketch#season 10 fanart is coming but later. i wanna post everything in the order it was drawn. so...
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Henry Danger Reader Insert | Captain Man x Reader: SEASON 1 Masterlist
| Status | Complete!
Captain Man never thought he'd grow old. For years, he fought to keep Swellview safe from monsters and villains, but one day, he realised he couldn't do it forever. Enter Henry Hart, a thirteen-year-old boy needing an after-school job, but he never expected an indestructible superhero to hire him as his sidekick.
Now, they blow bubbles and fight crime with (y/n), Ray's best friend of many years, keeping them in check. He swears he's not in love with her, but Henry doesn't buy it. Will they ever confess?
This story is mature in places with adult themes and language. It uses she/her pronouns for a female reader, but anyone is free to read and enjoy :)
Main masterlist
Episode 1: The Danger Begins Pt.1
Episode 2: The Danger Begins Pt.2
Episode 3: Mo' Danger, Mo' ProblemsÂ
Episode 4: The Secret Gets OutÂ
Episode 5: Tears of the Jolly BeetleÂ
Episode 6: Substitute TeacherÂ
Episode 7: Jasper DangerÂ
Episode 8: The Space RockÂ
Episode 9: Birthday Girl DownÂ
Episode 10: Too Much GameÂ
Episode 11: Henry the Man-BeastÂ
Episode 12: Invisible BradÂ
Episode 13: Spoiler AlertÂ
Episode 14: Let's Make a StealÂ
Episode 15: Super VolcanoÂ
Episode 16: My Phony ValentineÂ
Episode 17: Caved InÂ
Episode 18: Elevator KissÂ
Episode 19: Man of the HouseÂ
Episode 20: Dream BustersÂ
Episode 21: Kid GroundedÂ
Episode 22: Captain JerkÂ
Episode 23: The Bucket TrapÂ
Episode 24: Henry & the Bad Girl Pt. 1Â
Episode 25: Henry & the Bad Girl Pt. 2Â
Episode 26: Jasper's Real GirlfriendÂ
#danger force#fanfiction#masterlist#captain man#henry danger#ray manchester#henry hart#dangerverse#miles macklin#x reader#reader insert#cross posted on wattpad#cross posted on ao3#nickelodeon#ray manchester x reader#jace norman#cooper barnes#chapa de silva#mika macklin#friends to lovers#slow burn#fem reader#eventual smut#eventual romance#idiots in love#danger force season 3#bomika#unrequited love#unrequited feelings#unrequited crush
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Batcher had been properly trained to only bite any threats to her family. Crosshair, however, has not and constantly fails his training despite even Omega's best abilities.
#star wars#the bad batch#tbb omega#tbb crosshair#tbb hunter#tbb tech#tbb echo#tbb wrecker#the bad batch season 3#tbb batcher#bad batch batcher#the bad batch crosshair#omega bad batch#i will eventually post my Headcanon about Crosshair and bitting stuff#just give me some time#aka hundreds of years#he's secretly a feral gremlin
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This is their dynamic during and post S3
#NOT A SHIP POST FOR THE RECORD#during s3 and that era Andes still prolly talks a bit of shit abt Johanna when sheâs not looking#but the moment she is heâs like yes johanna sorry johanna because at some point after they got divorced she went from sighing#and taking his bullshit#to taking lives#he doesnât know how it happened but he respects it honestly#post s3 Hilda talks some sense into him#against all odds I actually love their eventual dynamic in s3 and beyond#because itâs so funny#a couple so thourghouly divorced that no one beleives them when they say they used to be married#including their children#I think they do sort of like eachother#weirdly enough their relationship is close in energy to that of siblings I think#but thatâs definitely NOT how theyâd describe the selves#it just has that energy#yk??#hilda#hilda the series#netflix hilda#hilda netflix#Hilda s3#Hilda season 3#Hilda spoilers#Hilda season 3 spoilers#Hilda anders#anders Hilda#Johanna hilda#Hilda johanna#shitpost#meme
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S6 ep speculation
Get ready to hear my 80% wrong predictions even though Iâm like, super not caught up on this show! Itâs still fun to guess. Also this post will be generally leak-free so donât go replying to it with âuhhh actually from the leaks we know this and thatâ. Not the place. Warning, this post is incredibly long.
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1) Climatiqueen
I lean into the microphone and say, âAuroreâ. The crowd erupts into cheers and fervent applause. Everyone shouts and whistles and pumps their arms in the air.
Interesting that they went with the French name for both translations, and she clearly seems to be a powered up version of stormy weather. Itâs so fitting to circle around and start this new arc and new butterfly user off with the OG⊠I just hope weâll get to learn a little about her character this time (doubtful). Sheâs gone to the main castâs school this whole time and was Marc and Zoeâs classmate. Itâd be great if they made her an actual recurring character instead of a special NPC. The children yearn for a character who acts like a cunty Mean Girl but isnât actually a bad person.
Iâm guessing this episode will serve as a general intro to the new world, showing us a typical day in the life of LB & CN kind of like the original pilot without dropping any important main plot developments.
2) Dessinatriste/The Illustrhater
Why is nobody talking about how funny the English name is, thatâs hilarious. The haterrr. Iâm getting very different vibes from both translations emotions-wise. The English title makes it sound like theyâre petty or angry rather than sad.
My first thought was Nath because the name follows similar conventions as Dessinateur/Evillustrator in both languages and as one of the earliest and most iconic akumas it might continue this idea of Lila following in Gabrielâs footsteps while first learning how to butterfly.
In early s1, Gabriel was still experimenting with his powers while figuring out what does and doesnât work when making an akuma. Well actually, since it was Gabriel, he learned absolutely nothing and was shocked when making the same mistakes over and over didnât give him different results.
I think putting Lila through that same test drive phase would show her being much more analytical and actually develop her skills based on what she learns. In s1, Gabriel had a hard time making The Evillustrator do what he wanted, going so far as to like bloodbend him, then never targeted him again. If Lila was in that situation, she might figure out how to be more persuasive/manipulative/motivational or just learn that she has to choose akumas who will align with her goals in the first place.
Nath is also majorly due for character development. And he might be a pro level hater. Itâs odd and a shame that weâve only seen him once while every other class character has been akumatized like a hundred times atp. I think itâs most likely him.
Iâve seen people bring up that the French name sounds like a pun on the feminine form of the word. While Nath might be a diva, my counter argument is that this might be referring to Kagami, who is also interested in illustration and a girl. <- LMAO [insert Kagaminette joke], I mean âand is a girlâ.
We havenât heard much about her artistic journey in a long time even though it was important enough to mention in that trading card game where they said she secretly wants to make her own manga but lacks the confidence to start even though she has it planned out (super paraphrased).
Since Tomoe will become a greater villain, this could be the opportunity to show it since sheâs the reason Kagami is self-conscious about her art. Maybe Tomoe will provoke Kagami into getting akumatized on purpose to test out Lilaâs abilities or use her somehow. Iâm not sure what her motivations are. Kagami does have, what, four different akuma forms already not counting powered-up ones? Crazy evolution tree, why not add more.
This might be an episode where Kagami becomes more comfortable pursuing what she wants and finding support among Marinette and friends instead of looking for Tomoeâs validation, continuing the plot line from Perfection. Once again, I donât think itâs likely to be her tho.
3) Sublimation
Iâve seen the leaks and I believe everything Iâve seen has been from this episode. I feel comfortable saying this since it was already released in the official trailer, but the villain here is the coach woman. This episode seems to mostly be focused on this new runner girl character. I wonât elaborate because I donât think any of the other stuff I know about this ep was in official material, but yeah, very much a new character situation.
Youâd think this episode would have something to do with the power of the rooster miraculous, but there is absolutely no indication of that. I like to imagine the writers have a âword of the dayâ calendar at the office, and when they learned the word sublimation they were like, âhollllyyyy shit you guys, we need more people to know about thisâ.
4) Daddycop
I expect this to be a Sabrina-centric development episode and would be shocked if itâs not. Her relationship with Roger is pretty interesting since they seem to be on good, loving terms, yet heâs okay with all the Chloe bs and seems apathetic or ignorant to how Sabrina was being treated. Maybe weâll see some rebellion from her now that she hangs out with other people.
The akumaâs name, to me, implies that Sabrina will be responsible for Rogerâs akumatization or at least the main focus of it. Maybe he will become overly protective of her and target anyone who fucks with her or worry that sheâs straying from the right path and exaggeratedly try to correct her behavior.
Sabrinaâs behavior up to around Penalteam was likely informed by Rogerâs influence, possibly more-so than Chloeâs. He had this âdoing what youâre told is rightâ mindset that he instilled in his daughter, so in this episode, she might help him unlearn it. As a cop, he was always mindlessly bossed around by Mayor Bourgeois, so since Andre is gone, Roger will have to think for himself more.
5) Papys Garous/Werepapas
Continuing the theme of dramatic dads, the consensus seems to be that this will be Tom and probably Rolland. Iâm not sure why, but Marinetteâs always getting up to some silly billy antics, so. Tom doesnât seem to have any issue with Adrien and idk what type of beef is gonna start for the grandpa to get involved. It might be some misunderstanding situation or another âChat Noir is on our fucking balcony again, get the broomâ moment.
It might very well be the mom and dad though, not the dad and grandpa. People have been talking about how itâs unrealistic that Marinette has been able to keep huge secrets from her parents for so long, so they might snap this time, not because of Adrien, but because sheâs been acting shady herself. They might assume sheâs getting into trouble. People have been long speculating that Sabine will learn Ladybugâs identity soon, so maybe she will finally have to tell her parents in a situation similar to gang of secrets.
6) Princesse Syren/Sleeping Syren
Ondine yayyyy! Yay! Ondine. Possibly a Kimdine episode to redeem Kim after they ruined his character for no reason and everyone got really mad because it didnât even make sense. Remember when the instas were still a thing Alya had a post like âhanging out at the pool! Ondine is so awesome idk what she sees in Kimâ or something. Yeah. Howâd he pull a baddie like her if heâs been acting the way theyâve been showing him to act? Makes no cents luv. Iâm dying to see more of their relationship, more of her, and some repair of what theyâve done to Kim.
It sounds like they might be doing some kind of sleeping beauty retelling? Idk how that would make Syren a threat if sheâs asleep the whole time, but maybe sheâll still be doing the whole flooding the city with tears thing while sheâs sleeping.
I also really hope Ondine will be attending their school now. I want to see her interact with other characters and become more relevant. Please give The People (me) what they want (official Ondine street clothes design). Also theyâve been introducing too many lamely designed girl characters with average heights and athletic-skinny body types. We need the 6ft swole girl to balance them out.
7) El Toro de Piedra
This name is so Ivan-coded that Iâm tempted to just say that itâs not him, but why would they make an intentionally misleading Ivan clone. The name is concerning because it sounds like a mix of stoneheart and his hero persona. That makes me think maybe heâll get akumatized AS Minotaurox. His arc has been about how heâs scared to accidentally harm others because being the first akuma bothered him so deeply. If heâs in a situation where he has to act tough or use force as a hero, he might become upset, worrying that heâs going overboard. I can see him cracking if his fight against an akuma ends up getting a civilian hurt in the crossfire or with someone being scared of him afterwards. Having his regular/akuma and hero forms mix together could compromise his identity.
Also I guess heâs Hispanic? *sonic voice* I didnât know that. I remember a long while ago they said in an interview to look forward to Ivan lore which is one of the things I am most excited for this season. He is probably THE most underrated character in the show and most overdue for development.
8) Vampigami
Guys I hate to say it. I really hate to say it. My heart wants this to be vampire Kagami sooooo bad but my brain says we arenât allowed to have nice things. I already suggested a Kagami akuma earlier, and she can totally get akumatized several times a season again because her mom hates her, but Iâm not ready to be disappointed like this. I want her to become a badass evil vampire and acquire a Ben 10 arsenal of villain forms, but Vampigami is probably gonna be some stupid shit like Optigami except it looks like a bat instead of a butterfly this time.
I really donât know what to seriously expect. I canât imagine vamp referring to anything other than vampire, although it can also mean patching/editing like the word revamp. Gami has only been used in a senti name before to mean oragami. Idk man vampire Kagami is so engrained in my mind that I canât come up with anything else. Like to charge reblog to cast. Letâs manifest that the writers have finally tuned in to what the people want.
9) Monsieur/Mister Agreste
This has got to be the episode that introduces Adrienâs grandparents, right? Meaning his grandpa is gonna be Gabrielâs dad and the title could stand for three generations of Mr. Agrestes. Iâm surprised we havenât heard much about them yet, but since Gabrielâs dead, it makes sense theyâd come around to get his affairs in order or attend the funeral etc etc.
We got a big movie about Emilieâs history and her noble family, but all we know about the Agrestes is that they werenât rich, and they sold fries. But thereâs the weird part: wouldnât Gabrielâs parents be the Grassettes? How much do they know about his life after he moved out? This episode might show us more about where it all went wrong for the Gabriel of this timeline. Maybe his dad will get akumatized because Gabriel abandoned their family, and heâll become Mr. Agreste instead of Mr. Grassette to try to fit himself back into Gabrielâs fake narrative. Heâll turn into a rich asshole old guy because he thinks thatâs the type of dad Gabriel would have wanted instead of his real self. Dang thatâs sad.
10) Le Chateau Noir/The Dark Castle
My first reaction was Chat Noir, but I saw someone say Darkblade which makes so much more sense. I mean Chat Noir getting akumatized is an avengers-level threat, and last time it happened he blew up like everything, plus the episode was pretty late into the season.
Darkblade fits pretty well with the castle thing since heâs a knight. He lost yet another mayoral election, unable to even blame it on corruption this time. On top of it all, the new, fairly elected mayor is his old coworker from school who also didnât have much political experience. Ouch.
11) Revelator
Iâm getting Reverser from the name but only vaguely. This sounds like a similar type of villain to Gold Record who forces people to reveal something about themselves. Maybe this episode will go into how suddenly having secret identities is affecting the other charactersâ relationships like Gang of Secrets again or Truth/Lies. If the akumaâs power has to do with revealing secrets, someone may get their identity exposed on accident like in Wishmaker. By that I mean a reveal between characters other than the akuma and the secret they want to find out.
12) Psyconductrice/Wreckless Driver
My first thought here was Maxâs mom because sheâs a train engineer, but the name seems to imply cars specifically. Totally unrelated, but remember that one poll on here about whoâs the hottest MILF in miraculous, and Claudie Kante was in dead last by a lot, even way behind Audrey with her fuckass Anna Wintour bob and horrible child abusing bitter personality? Yeah you all have horrible taste. Democracy is dead and I hope everyone is happy being so goddamn ignorant and wrong. /hj.
On the topic of moms this could still be someoneâs mom. Iâve brought up the pattern before: many moms are associated with a mode of transportation that are connected to their villain form. Car: Tomoe, boat: Anarka, train: Claudie, motorcycle: Gina. We could get a bus driver mom, or a trucker or taxi or racecar driver. Imagine. Iâve been saying we need a pilot mom.
Even if this isnât anyoneâs mom, it might be a new character. Idk who else it could be of existing characters.
13) Yaksi Gozen
This bitch again. Boo. I mean she IS super badass actually, but can we comically pull her offstage with a long hooked cane and let someone else have the screentime? I gotta say I am interested in her as a major villain but. Her akuma was cool the first two times and itâs time to calm down.
Clearly thereâs something new about her this time. When looking up what yaksi means, it brings up yakshi, a type of nature spirit, but nothing that actually matches with âyaksiâ. Maybe sheâll run a greenwashing campaign with her company? That reminds me of Mega Leech and how she wasnât held accountable for her involvement in that scenario. If she comes under fire, she might get herself akumatized on purpose Collector-style to save face. Does anyone know if yaksi means something else? Iâm not convinced itâs supposed to be yakshi without the h.
14) Couchorak/Grendiaper
Gigantitan vibes, possibly a powered-up version of him. When Hawkmoth first akumatized the baby, it was by mistake, and he ended up regretting it because he was hard to control and useless to his cause. Would Lila akumatize a baby on purpose, or is this an accident too? Since thereâs a time skip, baby August would be a year older as well, so heâd actually be a toddler now, which might make him less unpredictable.
A shot in the dark Iâm gonna make is that this might be Ivanâs younger sister. We know he has one, and while we donât know her age, it sounds like sheâs probably a toddler. We also know that heâs interested in childcare as a career. If I had to guess, Iâd say he probably takes care of her often, which might be what gave him the idea. If she gets akumatized, it would be a great setup for his superhero focus episode.
15) La Redresseuse/The Ruler
My hottest take on this whole post is that this one is Mendeleev. Isnât she the principal now or something? Idk but sheâs a strict teacher who needs order, so I think the name matches her because 1: rulers are school supplies, especially for a science teacher who needs everything to be measured exactly, 2: ruler meaning leader with a totalitarian connotation, 3: the French title means straightener which connects to disciplining students or controlling how the school is run.
I think sheâll get akumatized because her students lack respect for her, and her strictness makes them dislike her which actually hurts her feelings as seen in the NY special. She might have a hard time adjusting to this new school system and her new role, not seeing the same positive relationships Bustier and Damocles held with the kids. Sheâll go way overboard and turn into an evil school-themed dictator to try and regain control, but then learn her own lesson.
16) Noe
This is most likely a new character or something, but I love the idea that itâs just like, evil Zoe. Zoenât. Noe.
OR imagine if itâs a more powerful version of Ninoâs brother because itâs Noel but without the L, meaning this time, he wonât be taking the L. Coincidence? I think not. He is Lilaâs pawn or whatever after all.
In all seriousness I have no idea what this is and the name could mean a lot of things, so Iâm gonna just go with a completely new character.
17) La Fee De Beaux Reves/A Fairy Good Night
This is so Pigella energy. Not Rose, Pigella. In Jubilation, we saw how terrifying her power is when used for evil, trapping people in their own daydreams. Maybe sheâll struggle with nightmares or sleep problems and turn into an akuma that forces everyone to get stuck in imagined utopian illusions so they can ârestâ. This idea is kind of the opposite of Sandboy and Nightormentor. Iâd love to see more of her power and how it can be used for both good and evil, especially since a lot of people seem to think itâs useless or too situational.
18) Les Crassetastrophes/The Dirtifiers
This might be the little kids in another obligatory babysitting episode. The villain name is plural, so it could be a comic relief moment where the kids get mad because they donât want to clean up or something silly. Otherwise maybe this is another pollution situation? Iâm leaning more towards children, though. Another possibility is that we might be getting our first animal akumas.
19) Riginarazione
So Iâm pretty set on this being Lila herself. Italian words? Check. Villain name having âqueenâ (rigina) in it because they canât be too creative? Check. Iâm guessing the pun is supposed to be regeneration rather than âqueen rationâ so maybe sheâs gonna make herself some sort of nearly invincible self-healing villain.
20) Renverse-cĆurs/Heartfixer
This sounds like that monstrosity Andre and Audrey turned into. Heart Hunter. I had to Google the name because I erased it from my mind. Out of all the old villains, Iâm surprised this is one theyâd choose to revamp since it was such a jumpscare, but I can see how theyâd want to revisit it in the context of the Bourgeoisâs messed up relationship since they were more of a temporary joke villain the first time. Maybe weâll get some backstory on Chloe and Zoe as kids and who this Lee guy is whoâs supposed to be Zoeâs American Dad (goooood morning, USA!). Based on the akuma name⊠maybe theyâre gonna get less divorced. Wouldnât that be a shocker? Audrey character development? Or maybe theyâll feel the need to keep it together for the kids.
21) Les Titans Chaines/The Chained Titans
I have no idea but it sounds awesome. Clearly more than one person. My first thought was s5 finale energy with the miraculized, like a whole mob of people sharing the same negative emotions. The metal vibes make me think maybe Couffaine family just because theyâre so dramatic, and Jagged was a titan in the music industry who didnât want to feel chained down? Kind of a stretch perhaps. Of course, it could be something new.
22) Lady Chaos
Iâm saying Marinette akuma idc. I know people have been making this prediction for the past couple seasons and the writers were saying no but. Episode 22 is the one where shit goes down. Now that Bunnyx is active full time and thereâs an entire team of other superheroes, thereâs finally a chance to beat her if she does turn evil. Iâm guessing itâs gonna be a bad timeline one like the Adrien akumas.
My concern with this type of ep is that theyâd Mary Sue her and be like âher power levels are so high that nobody stands a chance against her, the best ladybug everâ even with like 20 heroes fighting her. I donât think itâd be too bad though, because thinking about Chat Blanc, if she instantly blows up the whole world and the goal is just to undo that timeline, itâd probably be about equivalent.
23) Tristanansi
Using triste in two of the French akuma names is uh⊠we couldnât come up with anything more creative? Anyway obv Nora so this could once again be a Nino episode like the first, but it could also (more likely imo) be an Alya one. Nora has a fiery personality and strong opinions so maybe Lila couldâve taken advantage of that to manipulate her kind of like what happened with Jalil. We were briefly introduced to a character who is her friend or boyfriend last season, and he may be more relevant this time, like maybe they have a fight. Similar to Sentibubbler, maybe Lila is targeting Alyaâs family to try and get information out of her or steal the fox miraculous.
24) La Reine de Frayeurville/Queen of the Dreadzone
Other people have been saying this could be a Halloween special but⊠I want to say this might be a powered up Horrificator. This might be one of those episodes where they make it more lighthearted before the finale, and we havenât seen her act on her own since s1 which is like the whole point of her akuma. She isnât effective at all in groups and everyoneâs been kinda desensitized to whatâs supposed to be scary about her. Maybe theyâre bringing her back scarier. Mylene has come far with her phobias, so theyâd need something to really scare her.
I remember something about a proposed Halloween special taking place in the catacombs, which is coincidentally where Lilaâs lair is. There might be a connection where the gang figures out sheâs there, and something spooky goes wrong while investigating. The Paris catacombs are an understandable place to get scared in and a great setting for horror.
25) Protocole Secret/Secret Protocol
26) Nemesis
^^^ Ok I donât know what specifically to say about the finale except that theyâre probably gonna fight self-akumatized Lila since they tend to be kind of unpredictable.
What I do want to do is bring everything together and point out that Lila knows the identities of like half the heroes from the beginning because she stole Nathalieâs iPad or whatever happened. In Miracle Queen: Alya, Nino, Luka, Kagami, Kim, and Max had their identities revealed, which was relevant again in Optigami. Alix didnât even try to keep a secret. Lila can easily connect that five of these people are her former classmates and all of them are friends, so she must have figured out that the rest of the heroes are also from their group. In the London special, it didnât take a lot of hard work to uncover Marinetteâs identity. She also targeted Kagami last season on a personal level. Side note, I have no clue if she knows Felix is Argos or not. That point is unclear to me, but Iâm gonna assume she does since Gabriel knew.
We have Marinette, Adrien, Juleka, Rose, Mylene, Ivan, Zoe, Marc, Nath, and Sabrina left in the safe zone. I predicted most of these characters will get akumatized, and I believe Lila will be targeting them on an individual level under the suspicion that theyâre on the team. Itâs likely that she will even expose some if not a lot of them. In fact, she might have gone after Ondine as a red herring because sheâs friends with them and King Monkeyâs gf. From her perspective, Marinette could be one of the superheroes just as easily as anyone else could.
Iâm not too worried about Adrien since heâs been the best at staying secretive, and Lila might not even suspect him because of the idealized yet untrue preconceived notions she has about him.
She may also be going down the list to see who does and doesnât show up to each fight, making ladybug feel the need to call the minimum number of people to help her, which would solve the narrative problem of âwhy canât ladybug sic the whole team on every akumaâ. Discounting any Mirage tricks, having a certain hero help fight an akuma would tell Lila that the akuma is for sure not that hero. And obviously if every hero except one shows up thatâs uh⊠suspicious.
Something very interesting is that out of all these characters, the episode I predicted to focus on Sabrina is one where the akuma is not her. Perhaps Lila will overlook her because she only recently made new friends, thinking sheâd never be trusted with a miraculous. This same mistake of underestimating Sabrina is what led to her downfall the first time, so itâd be poetic if Sabrina managed to play the spy twice.
I did not predict any of these episodes to potentially be a Juleka akuma, but you know this girl will never in her life catch a break, especially with the rest of the pattern Iâve laid out above. Which episode do you think is secretly gonna be Reflekta? I guarantee you itâs one of them.
As a final note, I think Nathalie will be instrumental in helping the team identify Lila as the villain. Theyâre very unlikely to defeat her this season for good, but Nathalie knew about Lilaâs little internship with Gabriel, and she was the one who originally had all the grimoire pages and Optigami identity data digitalized. She may recognize that information has been stolen or connect that Lila may have had the opportunity to physically take the butterfly miraculous by entering the lair. Sheâs in a unique spot because sheâs the only one who knows this much about Lilaâs villain plans, but also knows Ladybugâs identity now. Iâm interested to see her role as a redeemed ally to the team.
Aaaaand thatâs my novel length essay. Thanks for making it to the end. As always, Iâm interested in hearing what other people think! (I feel like a YouTuber doing an outro lol) Iâm excited to see the first episode soon which is actually gonna be the second episode I guess. So close! Off to an incredible start. I want to hear other theories!
#miraculous ladybug#ml#ml season 6#ml s6#miraculous season 6#lila rossi#cerise bianca#sabrina raincomprix#ivan bruel#marinette dupain cheng#kagami tsuguri#adrien agreste#gabriel agreste#rose lavillant#juleka couffaine#mylene haprele#nathaniel kurtzberg#marc anciel#kim le chien#max kante#alix kubdel#zoe lee#luka couffaine#this post took me so long to write god itâs way too long#I have part 3 of my headcanons posts in my drafts I should add to it and post it eventually#I think Iâll finish watching what I havenât seen when it gets added to Netflix#I want to hear speculation from other people too even if itâs like AU what if stuff and not actual theories
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#nobody talk to me i am so fucking IN AGONY#HEAD IN HANDS. AT LEAST SOME PEOPLE CAN BE HAPPY???????#jinx#jinx arcane#powder#powder arcane#arcane#arcane spoilers#im afraid i have to admit guys i just stopped watching after this episode. it was so fucking (bitter) sweet and by far the happiest#i've ever been post-arcane-episode#god!!!!!!! i don't want to ruin the high!!!! and i don't want to see everyone start fucking suffering for their lives again !!!!!#in my defense i finished at like 8 am after not sleeping all night so. i was also tired. but now after waking up#i just don't want to continue Even More o777#arcane season 2#arcane s2#arcane s2 spoilers#arcane season 2 spoilers#idk how fast people usually watch episodes so i'm mass tagging even more than usual#god fucking. aughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh#time taken on this like 3-4 hrs#in my current state of mind (completely off my rocker abt this show) i can probably fuel like Months worth of fanart#from just this one episode. sooooo what if i just never watched the rest fhhggggskfjnfnfnfndjsjd#nah i know i'm gonna end up watching it. eventually. soon probably but idk how soon. anyways. peace out guys. live laugh love đđđđđ#my art#the funny thing about this is that i drew it facing the opposite way and then flipped it to check and never. flipped it back.#uhhhhh. don't worry about it
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#zephs art#star wars#tbb#emerie karr#the bad batch#tbb spoilers#tbb season 3#tbb fanart#i have a really huge backlog of tbb stuff i need to eventually post on here but this one was too good to wait until later#emerie makes me want to climb the walls ARRGHERGHERG#ive been predicting her arc for MONTHS now and i feel so satisfied knowing i was spot on w it <3
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welcome to eden
this is a love letter. inspired by this song
As soon as Steve picks up the phone, she knows sheâs making a mistake.
âRob?â
âNo,â she says instead of hanging up like she should.Â
âNancy?â He sounds more alert now, and she can picture him standing up straighter, calling to attention at the sound of her voice. âWhatâs wrong? Are you okay?âÂ
âNot really,â she sniffs, hating herself for it. âIâcan we talk?â
Heâll say no. Heâll say no, because itâs one in the morning and he was probably asleep before the phone rang and she shouldnât be asking to talk years after she broke his heart and didnât even rememberâ
âOf course,â he says, and Nancy could kick herself. âOver the phone?â
âNo. Not over the phone. Iâm sorry, it can wait, you can go back to bed.â
She hears him huff a laugh, even though thereâs nothing funny about any of it. âI wasnât in bed,â he assures her. âAm I picking you up?â
Tears spring anew to her eyes. âIf thatâs okay.â
âWorks for me,â he says. âSee you soon.â
âSee you,â she echoes, and hangs up.Â
She spends the time it takes pacing quietly in front of the front door, berating herself for using him like this. But she needs to talk to him, and the sooner itâs over with the better.Â
Headlights cut through the window way too soon, and she nearly throws herself out the door.Â
She gives him a look when she opens the car door, telling him she knows how many traffic laws he must have broken to get here this quick. He just grins in return, ready to point out the felony in her closet.Â
âWhere are we going?â He asks, and her heart clenches. Heâs so good. Heâs so good, and she couldnât-canât love him like he wants. She has to tell him.Â
Tonight probably wasnât the best night for this conversation, but her skin feels like itâs peeling off and the faster she says something the quicker it will be over with and she can go back to how it was before. Back when she didnât have anyone to talk to, because Robin might never speak to her again after she breaks her best friend's heart for the second time.Â
Just rip the bandaid off, Nance.Â
âI donât know,â she says instead. Maybe sheâs a coward. âA field? Somewhere I can see the stars.â
âI can do that.â
The drive goes by in silence, Nancy staring stubbornly out the window. She can feel Steve periodically checking on her, and she knows he wants to know why she called. She canât open her mouth to say it in the suffocating enclosure of the car. She rolls down a window.Â
They get to a field almost out of Hawkins, and the car is barely in park before sheâs climbing out, going around to sit on the hood. Steve cuts the engine and follows.Â
She still doesnât say anything. She called him to have a talk, why canât she just open her stupid mouthâ
âNancy?â Steve asks, gentle in a way that used to make her melt. She pulls her legs to her chest, feeling vulnerable. âWhatâs wrong?â
âJonathan and I broke up,â she finally gets out.Â
âOh shit.â He looks genuinely surprised. âThat sucks, Iâm sorry.â
âYeah, well, it was never going to be forever.â Except sheâd thought otherwise. She thought they were Nancy and Jonathan, the two of them against the world. She hunches her shoulders. âWe never talk anymore, and he was pulling away from me, and he was lying to me for months-â she shakes her head, clearing the anger she feels at that. âIt doesnât matter. Iâm starting to realize thereâs things I need to work on, too. A lot to work on, actually.â
âI donât know what that could be,â he says, flashing her a smile filled with boyish, roguish charm. âYouâre already the best person I know.â
She sniffs, and suddenly sheâs crying into her knees, shoulders shaking. He freezes beside her, before wrapping an arm around her and pulling her into his side. She leans in for a second, chasing the comfort, before remembering what she came here to do and ripping away violently.Â
âFuck,â she whispers. âFuck, Iâm so sorry. I donâtâI canâtâthis isnât what Iââ
âHey,â he soothes. âSlow down. Let it out.â
She wipes her eyes, suddenly furious. âI donât want to date you,â she says, finally looking him in the eyes. âI donâtâIâm sorry for calling you. I just remembered how much better you used to make me feel, but then I realized thatâs likeâŠreally shitty of me.â
âWhy?â He asks, as if Nancy didnât come out here to break his heart again. âI want to make you feel better. I like knowing I can make you feel better.â
âI donât want to lead you on,â she says, mouth screwing up. âThatâs why I called you out here. And I know itâs shitty of meââ
âNancy, youâre not leading me on. IâŠI donât want to date you either.â
That stops her in her tracks. âOh.â
âYeah, oh,â he echoes quietly. âIâdonât take this the wrong way, okay, âcause I know Iâm gonna sound like an asshole saying it, but, uh, I canât do that again. And even outside of that, I donât like you that way anymore. Uh, sorry.â
She tries not to sag at the overwhelming relief she feels at that.Â
âAre you sure?â She studies him closely, trying to see if heâs saying this for her sake or if he means it. âBack in the Upside-Down, and when we were fighting Venca, it seemedâŠâ
He grimaces, and Nancy thinks if it wasnât dark sheâd see the beginning of an embarrassed flush on his ears. âIâŠmay have been feeling things,â he admits. âI was testing the waters, I guess. I started feeling nostalgic, and you were there, and everyone was encouraging me, and it all just ended up in this weirdâŠfeelings soup. Sorry.â
âYou said you wanted to have six kids with me,â Nancy reminds him. âAnd travel the country in a Winnebago.â
He groans, covering his face with his hands. âI am,â he says, âso sorry. I donât know why I said that. That had to be so weird for you.â
âIt was kind of sweet?â She tries, not letting her relief show. Not yet.Â
âWe havenât been together in years, and I decided to tell you I used to dream about you having my babies. How do you deal with me?â
âWell it helps to know you were dropped on your head. Puts everything in perspective.â
âYeah, yeah, yuk it up.â He looks at her, really looks at her, and she tries not to fidget under his gaze. Too earnest, too caring for someone who doesnât deserve it. Heâs always tried so hard. To woo her, to be a better person, to keep back the vicious streak she still sees in him. âI meant it, when I said I loved you,â he tells her gently, no sign of that cruelty that had him painting her as a whore for the whole town to see. âBack then, I mean. I just wanted you to know that.â
She wants to cry. âI know. Iâm sorry I couldnât say it back.â
âItâs okay,â he says like he means it. He leans back against the windshield, looking at the sky. After a moment, she copies him.Â
They watch the stars together, and the air feels clearer.Â
âWhere do we go from here?â She asks, afraid of the answer.Â
âWhat do you mean?â
âWhat happens with us now?â
âWell,â he says gingerly, like heâs testing the waters. âI donât know about you, but Iâve heard youâre a pretty kickass friend.â
Friends. She doesnât know that she and Steve have ever been friends, not properly. Even after the apologies they made to each other, she doesnât know that she could call what they had friendship. It wasnât substantial on its own, needing Jonathan as the barrier between them. When it fell, so did they.Â
âI havenât had a friend in a while,â she admits. âRobin is kind of a novelty for me. Sheâs amazing.â
Itâs funny, in a way. She was so jealous of Robin, of how close she was with Steve in a way Nancy wasnât. Sheâd thought, at first, that it was because they were so clearly dating. After Robin told her they werenât, she realized how badly sheâd just wanted friends. She missed hanging out with Steve, missed his laugh and his squint and his bitchy attitude. Sheâd hoped that eventually theyâd get to that point, was sure they were almost there before Starcourt. In a way, sheâd been jealous of Robin for stealing Steve. She knew it was ridiculous. Steve had found a friend, a real friend who hadnât cheated on him or slept with his girlfriend. She couldnât begrudge him that.Â
She just missed him.Â
âShe is, isnât she?â Steve grins, but sobers up quickly. âI didnât really think about that. How lonely you must be, sinceâŠâ
Sheâs already shaking her head. âItâs not your fault. I didnât reach out.âÂ
âI didnât exactly reach out either.â
They fall silent again, at a loss for words. Barbâs death, as always, the canyon between them.Â
Finally Nancy huffs. âItâs both of our faults,â she declares, âor neither of our faults. I donât know. I just missed you.â
âWell shit, Nance, I missed you too,â he says, touched.Â
âIâve heard youâre a pretty kickass friend too, you know,â she says, glancing at him. He smiles.Â
âOh yeah?â
âYeah.â
âWell, Nancy Wheeler, I would be honored to be friends with you,â he says, and sticks out his hand to shake, like theyâre meeting for the first time.Â
She stares at him, and starts laughing. âYouâre an idiot, Steve Harrington.â
She shakes his hand.Â
Max has always felt like a mirror. One Nancy wanted to smash, pull her out of the shards of her reflective grief and hug. Stroke her hair the way she wanted someone to do for her and say youâll get through this. So Max could hear it from someone who knows.Â
Except Nancy doesnât know anything. Still drowns in her guilt, the ball and chain dragging her into the depths. She canât help when sheâs still such a mess, three years later.Â
Her hands clench when Mike says Max is pulling away from Lucas. She wishes she could look her in the eye and tell her you donât have to be me. You can be better.Â
Sheâs Mikeâs friend. They barely know each other outside of a quick hello as they cross paths or fighting monsters. Max has enough on her plate, she doesnât need her friendâs weird older sister butting in to tell her how to mourn the right way.Â
Nancy just hopes sheâs getting out of bed. Remembering to eat. Brushing her teeth. She had more cavities in the year after Barb died than sheâd ever had in her life, and she knows Max doesnât have insurance.Â
Now, sitting next to Maxâs hospital bed, Nancy wishes sheâd reached out.Â
With school back comes studying, and with studying comes Eddie Munson, in all his super-senior glory. Nancy is going to get him a diploma if it kills her.Â
He laughs when she tells him so. âShit, Wheeler,â he says. âThe day something manages to get you is the day this shithole goes down for good.â
Robin turns down her offer to form a study group. âIâm pretty sure if I joined, Iâd just distract Eddie, and let him distract me, and weâd end up throwing things at each other until you killed us. Sorry. Steveâs going to help me study for finals, though!â
She looks at Steve, eyebrow raised. Sheâs pretty sure itâs fair to be dubious, since she was the reason Steve passed his finals in the first place.Â
âIâm her rubber duck,â he says as an explanation, and she nods in understanding.Â
Her mom isnât about to let her study alone with a boy in her room, though, and especially not a boy like Eddie, so she drags him to the library three times a week. He complains, he bitches, he tells her he doesnât care about his fucking history class anymore. She just hands him a Rubikâs Cube she found to keep his hands busy as she quizzes him.Â
Three sessions in, he slowly puts a worksheet down and screams into his hands.Â
âStop that!â She kicks him in the shin. âIf you get me kicked out of the library Iâm never forgiving you.â
âI canât do it,â he says, staring up at the ceiling. âIâm so fucking stupid, Nancy. I canât even get past question two. Is this torture? Did I die and go to hell? That would be fitting, wouldnât it? Doomed to repeat high school for the rest of eternity?â
âStupidâ her ass. She knows what kind of work goes into those campaigns of his, has absently flipped through his annotated fantasy novels and left feeling as if sheâd seen the story anew. Plus, she went and made a tape of everyoneâs favorite songs, just in case, and she knew damn well how quickly heâd taught himself to play the song he did in the Upside-Down. âStupidâ and âEddie Munsonâ donât belong in the same sentence, much less belong in the same space in his brain. She hates Hawkins High just a little bit more for it. âStop being dramatic. What are you stuck on?â
âFucking nothing! I canât focus, itâs driving me fucking insane. I keep trying, I swear, but itâs like I canât even read anymore! This always happens, I swear to God itâs killing me more than the fucking demobats ever did.â
âDonât joke about that,â she snaps. âYouâre smart, Eddie, you know that. You just need to try.â
His face twists, and she realizes that was the wrong thing to say.Â
âOh, thank you, Miss Wheeler, why havenât I thought of that? Sorry for wasting your time, Iâll get out of your perfect hair nowââ
âSit down,â she protests as he gathers up his stuff. âEddie, Iâll help you work through the problem, okay? Just sit down, please.â
âNo, Nancy!â He swings around, eyes wild. âItâs what everyone always says. Just sit still, stop doodling, be quiet, pay attention, try fucking harderâŠI tried, okay! Iâve been trying, I tried for fifteen fucking years, and I canât do it! I might as well just drop out and get it over with. Iâm fucking sick of this.â
âOkay!â She feels herself getting riled up. âYou want to fail so bad, fine! Iâm not your keeper, do whatever you want.â
âI will!â
âFine!â
âFine!â
They stare at each other, not moving. Finally Eddie storms off in a huff, flinging open the library door in a grand gesture she pretends not to see. Thereâs a sinking feeling in her stomach, but she can ignore it.Â
She pretends not to notice when he comes slinking back five minutes later, shuffling his feet.Â
âSorry.â
âFor what?â She asks primly, going over her notes.Â
âNancy, please.â
She sighs. âIâm sorry too. Iâm justâŠfrustrated.â
âIâve been told Iâm pretty frustrating,â he offers.Â
âItâs notâŠâ
âIt is,â he says, sitting down. âItâs okay. God knows I piss myself off with this shit.â
She studies him, looking over his defeated face like heâs one of her flashcards. âYouâre trying your best,â she says, sounding it out. She canât really make sense of it. After all, trying her best has always been straight Aâs, not stopping until she knew everything she needed to and more.Â
âItâs not good enough.â
âIt will be,â she says. âYouâve got me this time.â
âListen, I know youâre trying to helpââ
âDo you want fries?â
âWhat?â He blinks at her, shocked, as she starts packing up her things. Â
âWeâre not getting anywhere today. Sometimes you have to step back, and come back with a clearer head.â Usually she locks her door and cleans her guns, the repetitive motion soothing her mind until she can think again, but she has a feeling that wonât work for Eddie.Â
âI usually just give up.â
âI donât. Get your backpack, weâre going to the diner. Dinnerâs on me tonight.â
At the diner, he makes her laugh so hard soda comes out her nose. The next day, they go to the library again.Â
After a couple of days, he solves the cube. After three weeks, he nearly kicks her door down rushing to show her the B he got on a test.Â
Two months later, he throws his cap into the air and his cane on the ground. Swings her around, both of them laughing.Â
âNancy fucking Wheeler!â He crows. âAchieving the impossible yet again!â
âEddie, put me down!â She shrieks gleefully as he stumbles. She barely makes it back to solid ground before two more bodies are slamming into them, Steve and Robin whooping in their ears.Â
It was weird, to see Steve and Robin effortlessly communicate the way she and Jonathan always had and have it be so unabashedly unromantic. Sheâd always thought that knowing someone like that was a sign you were meant to be, and they did it while still loudly proclaiming Platonic with a capital P.Â
She and Jonathan didnât do it much anymore. It was like dancing to a song that was always a beat off, syncing for just one moment before stumbling again, unsure that they were still allowed this.Â
Sheâd known him better than anyone, once, and heâd known her the same. Now she wonders if that was ever true.Â
âSo,â Eddie says, throwing himself onto her bed. âSteve.â
She sits in her desk chair, raising an eyebrow. âWhat about him?â
âYou broke up with Jonathan, right? Are you going to get back with him? I thought you would, but it's been months and neither of you said anything.â
âNo,â she says. âNo, thatâs not what I want. Itâs not what either of us want.â
âReally?â He rolls over, eyes searching. âWhat happened there, anyway? With both your boys. Iâm a nosy little asshole, and I wanna hear it from you.â
It makes her laugh, the way he admits to it so freely. He grins wolfishly at her, baring his teeth in a grin. Thatâs probably why she tells him the truth.Â
âI wasnât okay, when I was with Steve,â she says honestly. âI was distant, grievingâŠI was a mess, and I stayed with him because I didnât know what else to do. With JonathanâŠI was getting closure, I was healing, and things were good between us. They were so good, but after a while, we just started toâŠdeteriorate. I donât know if we lost momentum, or if the stress just got to us, but we started fighting more and more,â She traces the desk with a finger, remembering the sour taste of Oliver Twist on her tongue. It was a shitty thing to say. âI thought weâd figured it out, for a little while, but then we justâŠstopped talking. I think, maybe if weâd talked more, we could have worked it out. But IâmâŠnot upset that we didnât, you know?â
Itâs a different kind of loneliness when your partner wonât talk to you. It was different than grieving, different than not having anyone to talk to at all. Because even when she didnât have friends, she had Jonathan. And then, slowly, she didnât anymore.Â
âNancy, youâre one of my best friends, so-â
âSteve is your best friend.â
âSteve is my best best friend,â she agrees. âBut heâs also more than that? Like, I think weâre literally soulmates. Platonic with a capital P soulmates, but, like, it feels like more than friendship sometimes? Like sometimes itâs like he can literally feel my bad days even when I havenât talked to him yet. He told me once he just knows sometimes. Itâs like I hit my hip on my desk and he felt it, but emotionally. Itâs wild. Itâs like the drugs literally combined our minds. Where was I going with this?â
âI donât know,â she says, slightly bewildered. She wants to ask how they do that, but Robin barrels forward.Â
âRight. So outside of mine and Steveâs platonic more-than-friendship, youâre kind of my best friend? And youâre, like, the coolest person I know.â
She blinks. Sheâs not sure sheâs ever been described as cool before.Â
After Barb, Nancy tried to cut her own hair.Â
Her mom found her in the bathroom, unshed tears in her eyes and hair a mess on the sink and floor.Â
She hadnât laughed, hadn't said oh, honey, your beautiful hair. Just clucked her tongue and took the scissors from her hands. Stepped behind her and took over, took the uneven mess and made it something good, something presentable.Â
She didnât say anything until she was done, setting the scissors on the counter. âSometimes,â she said, wetting her lips. âSometimes we need a change, before we can move forward.â
The closer she gets to Emerson, the more she feels like sheâs letting someone down. Mike. Max. Jonathan. All the people who have relied on her, all the people who trusted her to fight.
In a strange turn of events, her mom is the only one she doesnât feel is disappointed in her. Her mom is more excited about college than she is sometimes. Chattering excitedly over dishes about the classes sheâs going to take as Nancy dries and smiles and tries not to feel like the ground is being pulled from under her feet.
This is everything sheâs ever wanted. Why does it feel so wrong?
She takes Eddie to the gun range, because having a gun in her hands has always made her feel safer. More in control. More like the badass protector she wants to be, than the scared little girl she feels sometimes.Â
Eddie stares down the scope of the gun and shoots like he has experience, but doesnât hit a single bullseye.Â
âYour hands are shaking.â
âIâm in a fucking gun range and a bunch of small town hicks were hunting me not too long ago,â he snaps, taking another shot and missing the target completely. He swears and changes the magazine. âExcuse me if Iâm a little bit on edge.âÂ
She hadnât really thought of it like that. âYou didnât have to come,â she says. âI just thought with everything thatâs happened, you should know how to use one. Just in case.â
âI know how to use a gun,â he rolls his eyes.Â
âYou know how to shoot one.â She looks from him to the target pointedly. âNot the same thing.â
âDeep. I could really feel the judgement there. Tell me, is there anything else wrong with me?â
âThereâs security cameras all over this place. Weâre not in Hawkins, so thereâs no mob coming after you. Iâm here, and I do know how to use a gun. No one is going to hurt you here.â
âI know all that.â
âDo you?â
He scowls at her. She looks back unflinchingly. Sheâs been here plenty of times, and the guys laughed at her until they didnât anymore. By the time she brought Eddie, all she got was a raised eyebrow and a âboyfriend?â from Hunter at the desk. She didnât know what was more incriminating, so she just shrugged.Â
âYouâre kind of a pain in the ass, you know that?â
She rolls her eyes, taking the gun from his hands and lining up a shot. âIâve heard worse,â she says, thinking about Nancy Dre-ew, and Nancy âthe slutâ Wheeler, and priss, and shoots. It hits the bullseye.Â
So do her next five shots.Â
Eddie looks begrudgingly impressed when she reloads and hands the gun back to him. Itâs more satisfying than it should be, to realize that while heâd known she had guns heâs never seen her actually shoot before.Â
She raises a challenging eyebrow at him, and he huffs around a smile. âAll right, all right,â he says good naturedly. âLetâs try this again.â
He does a little better this time around, now that heâs actually trying. He does a little dance when he hits one of the inner rings.Â
âTake that!â He crows. âI bet Steve couldnât do this. In your face, Harrington!â
âHeâs much more of a close-combat kind of guy, isnât he?â Nancy agrees.Â
âOh, yeah, definitely,â he says. âDoes he really have a bat with nails?â
She blinks, caught off guard by the fact that Eddie hadnât seen it. She never registered that he hadnât used it during Vecna. Something about the fact seems weird somehow, as if it was as integral to Steve as his coiffed hair. âHe keeps it in his trunk.â
âYou and Byers need to update your Steve manuals. He said itâs under his bed now.â
âAh,â Nancy says, thinking of all the times sheâs slept with her pistol under her pillow. Empty, because sheâs not stupid enough to sleep with a loaded gun when her little brother sometimes wakes her up after a nightmare, but the comforting weight of it alone makes it easier.Â
âJust tell me one thing,â he says, widening his eyes imploringly at her. âDid he look as sexy as I think he did? Byers wonât give me a straight answer.â
Itâs a joke, but his cheeks are a little pink. Sheâs not dumb, sheâs seen the looks the two of them share, as if he and Steve were circling each other. Caught in a whirlpool, waiting for the moment the vortex would drag them down and they could finally touch.Â
The looks between Eddie and Jonathan, too, that share a certain camaraderie she doesnât entirely understand and at the same time understands all too well. Steve and Jonathan had always had a strange relationship, too close to not be friendship but not quite there. Surprisingly enough it was better after she and Steve broke up, Jonathan no longer avoiding them and the talk sheâd forced the three of them into clearing the air. Sometimes, sheâd wake up to Jonathan climbing into her bed, smelling of cigarettes and a hint of something stronger, and heâd tell her it was Steve who drove him there.Â
Sheâs a journalist. Itâs her job to notice things. She just wasnât ready to confront that reality, where the two boys sheâd wanted wanted each other as well. But sheâs grown since then.Â
She also knows that whoever Steve chooses, it wonât be easy.Â
âYou know,â she says, considering, âwhen we were dating, Steve never pressed me up against the wall or anything youâd expect from the King.â
Eddie gets this look on his face, caught between confusion and caught out. ââŠokay? Did you want him to do that or something? Are you trying to ask me to hint to him?â
âNo,â she says. âIâm just saying, he never did any of that. It was kind of funny. He always made it so that he was the one pressed against the wall.â
Eddie misses the next five shots entirely, and she laughs at him through it all.
Sheâs hyper aware of touching other girls now. She didnât used to be. Even with Robin, who is a lesbian and definitely wonât hate her. Whoâs probably gone through the same thing. She canât help it.Â
What if they get the wrong idea? What if someone else sees? What if they can tell, what if they know, what if they hate me?
She hates feeling like this. She doesnât know why it started, doesnât know whatâs wrong with her. Sheâs no stranger to casual affectionâor at least she didnât used to be. Why does it make her feel so tense now? Itâs been years since she realized she liked girls, shouldnât this have happened back then?
Deep down, she knows why. The Reagan sign in her front yard. Her dad sitting in his chair, the news always on. âAlways that nasty disease, Karen, I swear some people are just asking for it.â Sheâs always known she could never tell him, but now she knows that if she gets sick heâll say she deserves it. She doesnât know what her mother thinks. Sheâs afraid to find out.Â
Sheâs growing up, and her fear is growing with her.Â
Objectively, Nancy knows she and Eddie donât make sense.Â
Theyâre not cut from the same cloth, like Steve and Robin. They donât calm each other down, like Jonathan and Argyle. Theyâre too different, too alike in all the wrong ways, for them to get along. Theyâre both snappy, a little mean. Eddieâs dramatic enough to get on her nerves, and sheâs prim enough to get on his. At their worst, they have earth shattering arguments that end in them not speaking to each other for days.Â
When people see them walking down the street together, they whisper about âthat nice girl Nancy Wheelerâ and âthat awful Munson boy.â
Itâs not fair, never has been. Nancy hasnât felt nice for a long time, maybe before Barb ever disappeared. Eddie isnât always particularly nice either, but the court of public opinion takes it to extremes, twists him into something cruel instead of the kindness he carries under his leather armor. Someone to keep their children away from. It really is a shame, because Eddie loves kids in a way Nancy never has. She can see it in the way he interacts with them, his bright smile fading when a parent comes to drag them away. Even when heâs expecting it, his face falls, just for an instant, before spinning around with a grin that wonât reach his eyes.Â
Nancy wants to take him out of here. Thereâs an offer on the tip of her tongue that she knows heâd refuse.
Heâs not her brother, but heâs notâŠunlike one. Itâs almost like talking to an older, flashier Mike. Heâs annoying, is what he is. He picks at her, keeps pressing over the littlest things. Tries to get under her skin, succeeds, until sheâs on the verge of stabbing him with her pencil. Looks triumphant whenever Robin has to grab her arm to drag her away, rambling an excuse about âsome girl thing I totally forgot, yeah itâs an emergency,â while Steve drags him the other way to have bro time.Â
âShe loves it,â sheâd heard Eddie crow delightedly once, when Robin didnât get her out of hearing range fast enough. âDo you see that fire in her eyes?â
âDo I?â She asked Robin. âLove it?â
âI mean, far be it from me to tell you what you do and donât like,â Robin answered. âBut, uh, as far as I can tell, you totally love it. You look like youâre going to rip him to pieces and enjoy it, and he loves that. I didnât think youâd be this much of a nightmare together, seriously, like, how are you two at each otherâs throats one second and then best friends the next? Steve and I have debated locking you in a bathroom until you get along, but weâre kind of afraid youâll kill each other.â
So no, Nancy and Eddie donât get along. Theyâre kind of a nightmare together. They donât make sense, and they donât try to. They have other friends, who they get along with better, that they can seek out.Â
But when Eddie knocks on her window, the only surprise is that he could even get there.Â
âHow?â She hisses, opening the window. He tumbles in, doesnât even try to play off the utter gracelessness heâs displaying.Â
âWowie, I am never doing that again,â he breathes, flat on his back. âYouâre going to have to help me down the stairs when I leave, had to leave my cane at the bottom and I cannot get back down that way.â
She doesnât even want to know what he had to do to get up on her roof with his bad leg. âWhat are you doing here?â
âIâm but another lover, nothing but an ant in the face of your unwavering beauty, my queen,â he says, batting his eyes at her. The dramatics donât hit the way he intends, given that heâs stuck on the floor. He holds a hand out pleadingly, and she rolls her eyes, hauling him up until she can get him to her bed.Â
âNever mind.â She puts her hands on her hips, a gesture that is so obviously Steve she removes them immediately. From the glint in Eddieâs eyes, he notices.
She tries not to be jealous. She tries, she swears, butâŠ
Three of the four (five? she doesnât know what Argyle thinks of her) friends she has are dating each other. Two of them dated her, first. She canât help but wonder, if sheâd known that was an option, if everything would have been different. If she wouldnât have this aching bitterness between her teeth.Â
(Nothing would have changed, she knows. Sheâd been too desperate for other things. Trying so hard with Steve so her best friend didnât die for nothing. Staying with Jonathan because he understood her more than anyone else, so maybe they didnât need to talk. It wouldnât have helped anything. She still wonders.)
It doesnât matter. Whatâs past is past, and she needs to move forward. She canât stop to think about could-have-beens, because thinking about boys is what got her into this mess in the first place.Â
She closes her eyes, taking a shaky breath. Thatâs not fair. None of this is fair. None of it is fucking fair because Nancy stopped caring about fair when Barb died.Â
She needs a drink. She needs a nap. She needs to stop feeling like Atlas with the world on her shoulders.Â
She doesnât do any of that. She calls Robin.
âBarb was my first kiss.â
âReally?â
âYeah,â Nancy says, and keeps talking, because Barb is dead and Robin is a lesbian and sheâs long forgotten what Barbâs favorite chapstick was back then. âWe were seven, and I liked it but I didnât know if I liked her. But I was convinced I was going to marry her, until my mom told me that girls donât marry other girls. And I knew she liked girls when she died. She told me when we were fifteen, and I didnât know the word bisexual but I knew I loved her and that was all that mattered. Notânot like that, not romantic, or maybe it was but it doesnât matter because she was my best friend and I still love her but sheâs gone forever. I loved her.â
She feels Robin lay a tentative hand on her back.Â
âI had to look her parents in the eye and pretend. All those fucking NDAâs, I had to pretend there was hope. Pretend she was still missing. It was like everyone forgot about her except for me and them, and they sold their house to find their dead daughter and I wasnât supposed to say anything and Steve kept reminding me about the fucking NDAâsââ
 âNancyâŠâ
âItâs my fault,â Nancy says, staring at the water. âI lumped in Steve, because it was easier than being alone. He didnât know her like I did. She was worried about me. She stayed because she cared, and look where that got her.â
âThatâs bullshit!â Robinâs eyes are wide, and she waves her hands around as she talks. âIf itâs anyones fault, itâs thoseâthose scientist guys experimenting on El! They knew there was a problem, and they tried to cover it up instead of making sure people were safe. You didnât know it was dangerous. How were you supposed to know it was going to end up as anything other than normal teenage drama? None of this is supposed to be real, you didnât knowââ
âBut I left her,â Nancy cuts in. âI left her alone to go lose my virginity to a boy she didnât even likeââ
âHe was your boyfriend, it shouldnât have mattered if she liked himââ
âIt doesnât matter!â Nancy shouts, and Robin falls silent, mouth still moving. âIt doesnât fucking matter how it happened, because it did and now sheâs dead and sheâs never coming back and itâs all my fault.â
Nancy is sick of crying. Sick of feeling helpless. Sick of not being able to change the past.Â
âItâs not just Barb. I took Fred to the trailer parkâhe didnât even want to be there, and now heâs dead. Eddie needs a cane, Max is almost completely blind and might never walk again and it was my plan that put them there. My plan that almost killed them. Iâm responsibleââ
âFuck that.â
âRobinâŠâ
âNo, you listen to me, Nancy Wheeler,â Robin says, grabbing her by the shoulders. âYou are one of the most remarkable people I have ever known. Max would have died without that plan. We all would have died. Venca-slash-Henry-slash-One would have won without that plan, and I am not going to sit here and listen to you blame yourself for saving lives. And-and Fred! Venca had already marked him, you know that. You couldnât have done anything! And Barb is not your fault, okay? I-I-I know I canât convince you, but Iâll say it as many times as it takes until you start believing it, because itâs true. You didnât kill her. You didnât kill anyone.â
âI killed Bruce,â she says, just to prove Robin wrong. And isnât that shitty of her, to forget about him until she can use him to prove a point? Sheâs a fucking awful person.
âI donât know who Bruce is, but given your track record I highly doubt that.â
âI bashed his head in with a fire extinguisher.â
Robin pauses, and Nancyâs stomach sinks. This is it, she thinks. This is what will convince her, this is what will make her see that Iâm wrong, that Iâm poison-
âWhat was he doing?â
âWhat?â
âBruce. You had to have a reason for it. What was he doing?â
Itâs like Robin doesnât even care that Nancy just admitted to first degree murder. âHe was flayed,â she admits, knowing Robin will take it as proof that sheâs right.
âThatâs not murder, thatâs self defense,â Robin says, just like she knew she would. âAlso, if he was flayed he was already dead. Sorry, Iâm sticking to your side on this.â
âBut Iâm less torn up about killing my asshole coworker than I am about anything else. How does that not make me a monster?â
âHe was already dead, Nancy!â Robin shakes her. âYouâre not beating yourself up over it because you know he was already dead, a-a-and I know youâre using him to try and push me away and I wonât let you.â
âRobinâŠâ she says, tears springing to her eyes. Sheâs so fucking sick of crying. So sick of the way she never seems to stop anymore.Â
âNancy,â Robin says. âNone of us are going to leave you. Stop trying to make us.â
She pulls her into a hug, and Nancy sags into it, boneless.Â
There, sandwiched between the sky and the water, Nancy starts to feel like she could forgive herself.Â
âNancy,â Steve says, putting a hand on her shoulder and ducking his chin to look her in the eye. âThey wonât be alone.â
Tears well up, unbidden, at the way he seems to understand her now in a way he never did before.Â
âI want this,â she insists.Â
âI know you do,â he says. âWhich is why youâre going to go out there, kick ass, and take names. Weâll be here, okay? Weâll keep an eye on them.â
âI know you will.â She swipes a hand across her eyes. âCan you talk to Holly, too? She gets lonely.â
Steve smiles. Heâd always loved Holly, when they were dating. He used to braid her hair sometimes. Asked her about her drawings, her TV shows, listened to her talk with the same attentiveness Nancyâs father had never shown any of them. Heâll be a good dad, someday. To someone elseâs children.
âIâll talk to Holly,â he promises. âDoes she still like princesses?â
âLadybugs,â she says. âItâs ladybugs, now.â
âLadybugs. I can do that. Black and red, and theyâre all ladies. Whatâs not to like?â
âThere are male ladybugs.â
âWait, seriously?â
She laughs, tearfully, but theyâre happy tears. Steve wipes them away gently, and she smiles at him to let him know sheâs okay. âYouâre an idiot, Steve Harrington.â
âYouâre the best person I know, Nancy Wheeler,â he replies, achingly sincere. âYouâre gonna have the whole world under your thumb, I just know it. Ever thought of running for President?â
âCanât be worse than the one we have now,â she says, grimaces as her own joke lands too bitterly to be funny. She sees his jaw tighten before he forces himself to relax.Â
âIâd vote for you.â
She grins at him, sharp to punch through the tension sheâd made. âIâll make Eddie my Vice President.â
âOh, fuck no. You lost me,â he says, and Eddie makes an offended noise from where heâs stealing snacks from the glovebox. Jonathan swats him, and she smiles at him too. He smiles back, tentatively, and wanders to her side.Â
âYou gonna be okay up there?â He asks quietly. She can hear the guilt in it, still, and she reaches down to squeeze his hand. The one with the scar that matches hers, so their palms line up. It feels full circle, somehow, the three of them together like this.Â
âIâll be okay,â she confirms, and feels the truth of it in her chest. Her boys are here with her, the ones who have been there since the beginning. Eddieâs watching them fondly, munching on a granola bar. Robin is inside somewhere, rambling at her mother. Mike and Holly are probably still bickering over the last cupcake. She loves them so much, all of them.Â
âOf course you will,â Steve says. âYouâre Nancy fuckinâ Wheeler. Nothing stops you.â
She wants that to be true. She can feel in her bones that it will be. Eighteen has nothing on who sheâll be at thirty.Â
Sheâs Nancy Wheeler, and the world wonât see her coming.Â
#welcome to eden au#stranger things fanfic#nancy wheeler#eddie munson#steve harrington#robin buckley#jonathan byers#this is the biggest thing i've posted so far#i ran out of the little fics i'm gonna have to start figuring out how to format the big ones#there's background steve/eddie/jonathan bc this was originally a companion piece to a seperate fic about them#that was 22k before i lost interest#i'll post that one eventually#can you tell nancy is my favorite character. i love u miss survivors guilt <3#sometimes i think about how nancy has no friends for p much three seasons after barb died and i get very upset#jonathan could count but he also wanted to date her so i'm not counting it#I JUST WANT HER TO HAVE FRIENDS#i also love nancy/eddie friendship they're both judgy bitches#so is steve frankly. nightmare trio#i'm gonna write that ot3 one day (don't hold me to that)
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It's okay, everyone. Adiescar Chase is listed as being the composer for episode 1 of season 3 of Heartstopper, very likely meaning she's done the music for the whole season.
We can all breathe a sigh of relief.
#I don't know if anyone else has been as worried about this as I've been (irrationally and with zero foundation)#but I'm so glad#Adiescar Chase appreciation post eventually incoming#I found this out while I was looking things up for that#Adiescar Chase#Heartstopper#Heartstopper music#Heartstopper S3#Heartstopper Netflix#Heartstopper season 3
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Maybe in another life.
#arcane#arcane season 2#vi#maddie nolen#madvi#vaddie#golden hour#sakura trick#fanart#league of legends#artists on tumblr#cross posted on tiktok#netflix#alternate universe#episode 3#caitvi fans are gonna hate this one#you mad?#i'm sorry#but good#trash#caitlyn lowkey toxic#vi and maddie deserve better#i'll get to requests tomorrow#eventually
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was explaining the Drake-Kendrick beef to my mum when it suddenly dawned on me that the chances of the dndads cast parodying one of the songs released by Kendrick Lamar is low, but itâs not zero
and this realisation will probably haunt me for the foreseeable future
#Do I want it#do I not want it#I honestly do not know#But please suffer with me#dungeons and daddies#dndads#dndaddies#I swear I will post about other stuff eventually itâs just that my dndads brain rot is too real ever since we got the season 3 premier#meet the grahams#more like meet the GRAMMARS#Iâm sorry if this is too cursed
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sorry, i'm currently so obsessed with rayllum on the star spire -
"one more?" đ„ș
"one more what?"đ€
"you know~" đ
"i know." đ
đ€§...đ
"aw, don't be mad at sneezles. there'll be more kisses later." đ
like oh my gosh i can't get over this scene - i'm so happy they're back đ„č everyone who worked on this scene outdid themselves 10000000/10 thank you for this scene! đthank you for feeding me đ„čđ i'm gonna be thinking about this scene and so many other s6 rayllum scenes for the rest of my life
#rayllum#i can't đ#tdp s6#tdp#they're too freaking cute#Ahhhhhhhhhhh#her little wink#they way they hold each other#i don't care to be in a relationship#never been much appealing to me#but if it was something like this rayllum moment i would consider more lol#oh my gosh im obsessed with them#how am i supposed to sleep now#their little chuckles#oh my gosh the people who worked on this season especially the rayllum scenes absolutely cooked#they DEVOURED#thank you#seriously one of the best written seasons of tdp#and the rayllum scenes were absolutely some of my favorite of all of tdp#maybe i'll have to rank their moments sometime just for fun#it would be hard because i love so many of their moments#also i haven't been able to screenshot any of the scenes so sorry for lack of pictures đ#but just know im obsessed#I gotta make some more playlists and graphics ASAP#eventually more video edits but that takes me forever unfortunately#I still haven't finished ones from the first 3 seasons or s4 i started one that really fits them in s4#and s5 too#but hopefully people won't mind if i post them way later when i hopefully actually finish them#even if it's not as relevant anymore đ
#lali talks
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For the title thing - "Do You Think About Me?"
When Jamie was little, he'd talk to his dad â not to his dad his dad, but who he'd never met in person but sometimes made his mum cry when she talked to him on the phone or, once, came pounding on the door in the middle of the night while she told him it was no one, baby, go back to sleep â but the version that lived in his head. That version was strong and tall and never afraid of anything, and he loved Jamie very, very much, only he had some big important job he had to do first, and mummy didn't cry 'cause she was afraid but because she missed him but she knew he couldn't come home yet.
Late at night when mummy was at work and their flat was dark and empty and full of leering shadows, Jamie would wrap his blankets tight around himself and squeeze his eyes shut and like that he could almost pretend there was a warm solid weight sat at his side. He'd ask, what're you doing, dad? And if he concentrated hard enough he could pretend he felt a spark of warmth and that it was dad's hand rubbing his back through the blankets the way mummy did when he couldn't sleep, that he leaned in close like he was telling some great secret and he'd say, I'm off fighting ghosts on the moon, or, I secretly play footie for Man City but I can't tell anyone who I am 'cause I used to be a spy, or, I got turned into a vampire and now I can't go out in the sunlight to get home. And Jamie would say, that's so cool, da, can I come? And his dad would tell him no, it's too dangerous, or too far away, or too expensive, but he was waiting and when Jamie grew up and became a famous rich footballer then he could come find him. And Jamie'd say, I miss you, da, even though he'd never known him long enough to miss. Do you think about me? And his da would say, of course I do, Jamie. I think about you all the time, and I love you so much.
#thank you!#this just uh. fell out of my brain. idk what the plot is#maybe something non-chronological about jamie's shifting perception of his father over the years#and trying to reconnect with him post season 3 (and eventually realizing that's a terrible idea)#ted lasso#jamie tartt#kvetch oc
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The end of Colin's arc in this season of Ted Lasso should include, at the very least, him driving away in a regular looking car
#something something once he eventually comes out and is accepted by the team#he won't feel the need to prove his masculinity to the team#and he will get rid of that orange monstruosity#bonus points if his boyfriend is either sitting next to him or he's the one driving#ted lasso#colin hughes#ted lasso spoilers#ted lasso season 3#ted lasso season 3 spoilers#nym's posts
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whats ur favorite danger force episode?
Uncle Hambone is on top for me. It's such a confort episode filled with fluff and funny moments. We also see new sides of our characters, like Bose woke up that day and decided to be so sassy to everybody for no reason, and he STILL wasn't able not to fidget or get nervous around mika. In the end, tho, I really like how he mustered up the courage to ask her out on a date (in his own way, but ykđ). And just after that, we learn that Mika doesn't think with her heart or that she is always trying to find the logic behind what somebody said without ACTUALLY listening to what they said, and that her explains the 'what?đ€š' reaction.
I don't think I even have to explain chapa's motives and actions during this episode. Her soft side for her sister made such a huge impact on me as an older sister. I couldn't even begin to explain why I think that's so important for her character and how I think that's such a good way to end her season 2 storyline. (Actually, I can, and I did it on my page, you just have to scroll a little bit around to find my chapa analysis).
Well, as for miles, although he didn't leave a big impact on me this episode, I liked how they(the writers) decided to finally not isolate him from the rest of the group, like they were doing for HUGE chunk of season 2đ(bisky billions, Jack the clipper, the girl who cried danger are big examples of that).
We, also, should really talk more about the colors and the color palette during the entirety of this episode because I could talk about it for DAYS. The drastic change between the warm tones at chapas house and the cooler ones at the man's nest, with dark night sky in the background, is *chef's kiss*. I could also talk about how I think it was meant to symbolize bomika's feelings for eachother, how the warm tones were meant to indicate bose and his welcoming and cozy nature, while also indicating that he knows and he is aware of his feelings for mika. And that's what chapa represents (metaphorically), feelings. Chapa needed to come out of her house because she was needed in the man's nest to quite literally shock it back to life, kinda like mika (who is represented by the cooler tones) needs someone needs to shock some sense into her (maybe bose revealing his feelings for her) and get her head out of the dirt.
Chapa's porch would indicate both bose and mika since it's a mix between both warm and cool tones.
While still speaking of color palettes, everyone's outfit was really likable.
#listen#i know the color theory might be a BIG BIG stretch#but we are talking cinematography here#1 am posts#no reread#sorry for eventual mistakes#i really went and started yapping#i love this episode so much#pls make boses birthday episode better tho#danger force#dangerverse#nickelodeon#danger force season 3#bose o'brien#mika macklin#chapa de silva#miles macklin#bomika
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