#rnm 302

[roswelldetails]

Isobel’s Ophiuchus Aesthetic in S3

At @wunderlass​‘s request I went down a little rabbit hole tonight examining Isobel's costumes this season, and what I saw frankly blew my mind:  Every costume that Isobel wears in a scene where she interacts with Jones incorporates a snake.

In 3x01 and 3x02 she wore two different snake rings…

In 3x03 she wore these snake earrings:

And in 3x05 she wore this:

But in 3x04? She doesn't interact with Jones and she doesn't wear snakes.  Instead, she wears U's.  In the vision quest with Maria, this U necklace is pretty prominent.

In the funeral vision, her bolo tie has a big U on it.

So I dug a little more and noted that (though it's a bit hard to see) at the beginning of 3x05 when she's talking to Michael in his lair, she does have these thin dangly U-shaped earrings.

Note that she did NOT have a noticable U or snake in the opening scene of 3x01 before the 1 year jump….but that purposefully was her S2 aesthetic because of the cliffhanger.

So why snakes? Why U's?  Well, the show gave us a visual reminder in 3x04: 

This is the zodiac symbol for Ophiuchus.  The U is the man (specifically, his outstretched arms), and the wiggly line is the snake.

So, subtle reminders of Noah and the whole Ophiuchus thing. It'll be interesting to see if this is just an Easter egg from the costume department, or if it's leading somewhere!

[michaeltrevinosource]

ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO Michael Trevino as Kyle Valenti | "Give Me One Reason" (3x02)

[michaeltrevino]

Lately, I’ve been feeling like failing’s all I do.

ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO | Give Me One Reason (3x02)

[roswelldetails]

Yeah... This poor guy. 🥺

Kyle Valenti’s No Good, Very Bad Week

Kyle Valenti begins his week at a medical conference. Which his girlfriend of the past year joins him at, and then dumps him. On his last day in LA, he meets up with his ex-girlfriend and friend Liz Ortecho and notes that she doesn’t seem happy. He then flies back to Roswell and presumably sleeps.

The next day his friend Maria comes in for brain scans because she’s having visions again (because someone is going to die) and proceeds to ignore his medical advice. This apparently prompts him to go confront his other stubborn alien patient and tell him he’s tired of keeping his condition a secret because he thinks Max is the person in the vision. Later that evening Kyle discovers that Max took some of his advice (for once) when Isobel shows up at his office. They share a drink, and then Kyle goes and visits his pal, Alex, at the Wild Pony. 

That same night, his half-sister is assaulted by one of the local racists. It’s unclear if Kyle sleeps this night, but we know the next morning he’s checking out Wyatt’s vitals given Rosa has erased the last 10 years of his memories. That same morning his mom drops by to give him an old radio of his father’s, and suggests he consider moving out of Roswell like she is. While she is there he gets a text from Max telling him that Maria was also assaulted the night before. He immediately makes a house call, except she is acting irrationally, asks him and Max to meet her at the Crashdown, where she proceeds to throw herself off a roof.  

Later that same day, he meets Rosa at a cafe to check in on her, and then meets Maria and Isobel at the Pony to give Maria a shockingly stupid and dangerous shot of adrenaline. 

The next morning Liz is back in town and asks him to join her on a sample scavenging trip to her old lab. Max then calls him in distress and Kyle not only learns that Max is in late stage heart failure BUT HAS A CLONE HE’S BEEN KEEPING SECRET FOR A FULL YEAR. Then Liz shows up at his office to yell at him for not telling her about Max.  

It is that same evening that Isobel tells Kyle after he confesses about feeling empty (I WONDER WHY???) that he should get some sleep. He proceeds to ignore this advice, going back into the office, where he hears the voice of his dead dad on the old radio his mom gave him the day before. 

Kyle Valenti would like to know how your week is going. 

LET. THIS. MAN. REST. 

[mariadelucadaily]

Maria and Max a.k.a. Tweedledee and Tweedledum

[lire-casander]

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPS. snatched from @justapoet

5+1 Malex dates

ideas for new yr wip

sacrifice + goodbyes

302 rosabel

chapter 3 of day 16

coda 3.02 #2 paul

continuation to 14

continuation to day 11

dirty dancing yr au

fic for buckybarnesalways

followup to man on the ledge

for tom

tk showing carlos off to his friends in nyc (no alex)

post s2 - malex - alex singing to michael

rnm prompt by shirley

sequel to feel these slices and cuts

sequel to live like your life is on the line

sequel to only have my heart to spend

sequel to pondrás mi vida donde debe estar

sequel to wishing for rain as i stand in the desert

sequel to the house where the heart don't cry

kristina's unfortunate romance

wearing the other's clothes

birthday fic #1

birthday fic #2

isolation + malex

abandonment/neglect + malex

touch starved + malex

voice breaking + malex

the fic

i know there are a ton here, and most of them aren't even in the planning stages. but feel free to nudge me and make me write some!

[roswelldetails]

Excellent detail that I missed!

Did they already change the future?

Maria’s first vision in 3x01:

Maria’s later vision in 3x01:

Maria in 3x03 says: “During the vision, I saw sunflowers, and they were placed across a casket.”  Presumably this is a comment about her latest vision from the end of 3x02 that we did not get to see.

So yeah I’ve now reached the point where I am analyzing the stems of the flowers in the first pic, because those obviously aren’t sunflowers in the second pic. The flowers laid on the casket in the first pic may just be out of view in the second pic, and could in fact be sunflowers. BUT IF NOT:

I’m wondering, is there any chance that they have already changed things? Could they have already altered the future? i.e. have the flowers been changing from vision to vision?

In an interview with Jeanine she did say, “We realize pretty quickly we can make adjustments.“ Hmmm.

[litwitlady]

Fic Writer Interview

NOTE: This will prove interesting since I deleted half my fic on AO3.

Tagged by: @lambourngb - <3

Name(s): Brooke, ALovelyLitwit on AO3, litwitlady on Tumblr (other names on other sites that I’m never sharing here)

Fandom(s): The ones where I’ve written multiple stories include - US QAF (20 years ago), The Walking Dead, and Roswell New Mexico. 

Where you post: Tumblr and AO3. I have posted on LJ, FFN, and Mibba in the past.

Most Popular One-Shot (by kudos) This year: To be clear, I am in no way a popular author. RNM has been a strange fandom to enter, especially having entered at the end of S2. So my most popular one-shot (pre-purge and post-purge) is ‘Day into Night’ with 167 kudos. It was the first fic I published on AO3 back in May. So everything has been downhill since then! I almost want to count ‘this godforsaken mess’ because it has 175 kudos which were mostly gained from the first part. (I entirely regret the second chapter, lol). If we are expanding outside of RNM, my most popular one-shot was a Joe x Nicky fic ‘Deceit’ which has 300 kudos.

Overall: It’s probably a TWD fic, to be honest.  (Again, there’s the Joe x Nicky one-shot.)

Most Popular Multi-Chapter (by kudos) Overall: Absolutely a TWD fic. Maybe even the RPF fic I wrote a few years ago for a friend and buried on the internet where you’ll never find it. My most popular RNM fic got deleted a couple of days ago. It had 302 kudos. I doubt I’ll ever write anything for RNM that gets 300+ kudos ever again. The only reason that one got 300+ kudos is because I wrote it for the prevailing fandom attitude of idolizing Alex while throwing Michael under the bus. That will get you kudos your writing didn’t earn every time. My writing on its own struggles to get 200 kudos. After the purge, ‘Cosmic Clowns’ is the most popular RNM fic at 242 kudos. I’d love for ‘Send Me Home’ to beat ‘Clowns’, but I’m not holding my breath. 

This year: See above.

Favorite story you’ve written so far: Easy. ‘Send Me Home’. It’s self-indulgent and has so many of the things I love in it. Michael-centric, an Alex Michael deserves, baseball, Danny and Lena. I’ve never written AU for any other fandom ever. I’ve always hated them - never even read them. But S2 really sent me down a path away from the shitshow that is canon.

Fic you were nervous to post: Every single one. ‘Send Me Home’ is a mixture of nerves and excitement because I love it so much and any word against it makes me want to never write again. Smut of any kind is hard. The last chapter of ‘Date Nights’ (Alex’s Bed) was scary because I wanted the conversation about Tripp/Nora to be perfect. Plus, it goes against the widely-held fanon opinion that Tripp and Nora are cosmic soulmates. Being an unpopular writer (in terms of kudos, hits) is tough because the mean voice inside your head doesn’t even come close to being quieted by feedback from your readers. 

To be clear, I love the feedback I get! Y’all are so sweet. 

How do you choose your titles?: Lower case titles are generally song lyrics. Upper case stuff I come up with on my own. Sometimes it’s from a line or very specific idea in the story. Other times it’s just nonsense that feels ‘correct’ somewhere in my gut.

Do you outline?: No. I am a sit down and start writing person. A pantser, through and through. I always have the next 2-3 scenes in my head though. If I outlined everything, I would lose momentum because I would feel like the outline was the story and I was done. The energy would whoosh away from me as soon as the last bullet point was complete. My brain is a WILD place.

Complete: I wrote over 100 pieces of Malex nonsense this year. 50 or so remain on AO3. Most of those were ficlets of less than 1k words. 

In-Progress: ‘Send Me Home’ - hoping to complete during the first months of 2021. ‘Date Nights’ - hoping to complete by end of 2020. ‘Whatever Walked There, Walked Alone’ or Ghost!fic - hoping to complete maybe????? It might take me until next Halloween though!

Coming soon/not yet started:��Thanks to a group of sweet enablers with great ideas, the Malex neighbors AU where Michael is a romance author is on my list to work on once I complete ‘Send Me Home’. That idea came to me because all of my ideas are dead and gone. I was worried I’d never have another story idea, and so I sat down one day to force myself to think of something. That’s the idea I came up with. And I really like it! 

If I’m being honest, there’s a part of me that wants to retire from writing fic altogether. RNM has so many extremely talented writers that it’s easy to talk myself into leaving the storytelling to them.

Prompts?: Umm...I deleted all the prompts that were in my inbox. Sorry. 

Upcoming work you’re most excited about: Finishing ‘Send Me Home’ is the writing I’m most excited about. The neighbors AU sounds great in theory, but I won’t feel real excitement for it until I start writing and know that I’m capable of telling the story.

Tagging: Anyone and everyone

[michaeltrevino]

KYLE MANUEL VALENTI Give Me One Reason (3x02)

[michaeltrevino]

KYLE & MARIA "Give Me One Reason" (3x02)

[michaeltrevino]

Lately, I've been feeling like failing's all I do. I can't tell if it's a reason to give up or if it's a reason to keep going.

KYLE MANUEL VALENTI | Give Me One Reason (3x02)

[michaeltrevinosource]

ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO Michael Trevino as Kyle Valenti | "Give Me One Reason" (3x02)

[michaeltrevino]

I wanted to see you in your white coat one last time before I left.

[michaeltrevino]

KYLE & MARIA "Give Me One Reason" (3x02)

[michaeltrevinosource]

Michael Trevino, Heather Hemmens and Nathan Dean in stills from Roswell, New Mexico 3x02 “Give Me One Reason.”

[roswelldetails]

3x02 - Give Me One Reason (Details) Part 3

The Lockhart Machine

The Lockhart Machine, named after Private Ryan Lockhart, the first man who studied it.

Private Lockhart (and a lot of men) went crazy trying to figure it out (not sure if Ramos means literally or figuratively though). 

They started studying it 50 years ago and have learned nothing new in that time.

All they know? Every 47 days, at 11:11pm, it turns on for exactly 1 minute.