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I tagged 303 of my posts in 2022

#jatp - 73 posts

#julie and the phantoms - 52 posts

#911 fox - 49 posts

#9-1-1 - 48 posts

#buddie - 37 posts

#comment exchange - 27 posts

#roswell new mexico - 25 posts

#malex - 19 posts

#911 spoilers - 18 posts

#rnm spoilers - 18 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#casey looked down at her feet and along the track of wet footprints leading back to the stairs. “yeah that’s probably best. sorry about that

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

I really want to get back in the habit of writing but I haven't really managed to find the motivation to work on any of my WIPs lately, so I took a prompt from this prompt list from @creativepromptsforwriting and ran with it.

Football game - Merlin/Arthur Pendragon

Merlin hated Football. He would never get the appeal of 22 people running after one ball. And why people thought it was fun to watch others do the running was even more of a mystery to him. 

Somehow he had gotten sucked into the whole thing anyway and had been made the water or towel boy or whatever they called someone who was supposed to do little tasks like make sure the players had water, clean towels and shirts was called in football. 

Merlin didn‘t have a clear idea how it had happened but he knew it was Arthur’s fault. Things like that were always Arthur’s fault. Merlin could never really say no to him and then one very hot day, the previous towel boy had gotten sick and Arthur had been all dramatic about dehydration and how Merlin was the only one who could save the team. One thing lead to another and now it was months later and Merlin was forced to spend a really nice Saturday afternoon watching football and keeping water bottles and towels prepared for halftime and players that got switched out. He could have been doing something so much more enjoyable, like helping Gaius with his weird but interesting experiments, or read, or just hang out with Will or his Mum. But no, he was at the football field for the third time this week. 

The only upside to the whole thing was Arthur. Merlin might not enjoy watching football, but he very much enjoyed watching Arthur play football. Well, if he was honest he enjoyed watching Arthur. Period. 

Arthur was just so graceful, energetic and passionate while playing football. He was the team captain and his team was a well oiled machine, a testament to the kind of leader Arthur was.

Merlin may have gotten a little distracted by Arthur because he startled when Gwaine clapped him on the back with a wink before jogging out to the field to… switch in for Arthur. Arthur, who was now jogging towards Merlin, glistening with sweat, tousled hair and slightly panting. Merlin’s mouth went dry and he didn’t react when Arthur held out his hand for a bottle of water. With and eye roll he grabbed one himself. “Seriously Merlin, your job really isn’t that hard.” 

He took a long drink from the bottle and Merlin watched as his Adam’s Apple moved with each swallow. When he finished he handed the bottle to Merlin and pulled the hem of his jersey up to wipe the sweat off his face, revealing his glistening abs in the process. Merlin gulped and now he was the one who had to take a sip of the water Arthur had just handed him. Suddenly he wasn’t quite as annoyed at having to spend his Saturday like this. 

@creativepromptfills

11 notes - Posted August 6, 2022

#4

Brotherly Advice

“So Forrest,” Greg kept up the interrogation “were you on a date?”

“I guess, he invited me to the open mic night a couple of times, I just didn’t say yes before.”

Gregory couldn’t help but snort slightly. “So on your first-“

“Second.”

“-second date with him you decided singing a very personal love song to and about your ex, who you’re clearly still in love with, was a good idea?”

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Greg talks to Alex after his performance at the open mic night and gives him some relationship advice.

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I felt like someone had to call Alex out on singing a song about and to the love of his life while on a date with another guy, and who better to do that than Gregory? This is pretty short, probably not the most in character, not beta read and barely edited. I've been pretty stressed with finishing my thesis and figuring out what comes after university and in the mids of that I found RNM and completely gave in to the escapism.

12 notes - Posted April 12, 2022

#3

So in 3x12 Heath talks about the place where he and Dallas “used to quiet the voices” and in 3x13 Liz says to Max “you quiet all the noise” when talking about their first meeting at the playground. Those lines have to be intentional parallels to “together we could quiet all the noises, drown out the voices” from Alex’s song right? 

27 notes - Posted April 5, 2022

#2

Since there are prequel spin offs made for shows left and right these days, I think they should make one for Call the Midwife about Sister Monica Jones as a Young nurse and midwife. I feel like that would make for some really interesting stories.

29 notes - Posted September 25, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

If I had a nickel for every time I fell in love with a character on a TV show named Alex M. who loves music, has homophobic parents and has a chaotic, supernatural boyfriend with great hair, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s wired that it happened twice.

51 notes - Posted April 1, 2022

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[michaeltrevino]

We haven't been fair to you, Kyle. No. I brought this on my myself.

ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO | Black Hole Sun (3x03)

[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 | "Black Hole Sun" (3x03)

[bella-monoxide]

Our boy needs a great big hug - and a vacation on the other side of the planet! #pray for Kyle

What if…um…I told you I had a clone? 

[mariadelucadaily]

MARIA DELUCA and GREGORY MANES ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO | 3.03

[youngsamberg]

top 5 rnm episodes

205 i'll stand by you

308 free your mind

101 pilot

303 black hole sun

106 smells like teen spirit

[zenlesszonezero]

You feelin' fired up now? Make way for the undefeated Champion! Welcome to New Eridu!— PS5™/iOS/Android/PC | Version 1.3 "Virtual Revenge" of Zenless Zone Zero, HoYoverse's urban fantasy ARPG, is out now

[stillcosmic]

rnm soundtrack moments that live in my mind rent free

- would you come home, 213 💘

- god of wine, 102

- first day of my life, 106

- can’t love me, 112

- hurricane, 203

- the night we met, 303

- mrs potters lullaby, 101 etc

- zombie, 201

- here with me, 113

- untitled love song, 313

- wonderwall, 308

send me more hahaha. these are all of the ones that i could name off the top of my head

[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.

[michaeltrevino]

KYLE MANUEL VALENTI Black Hole Sun (3x03)

[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. 

[zenlesszonezero]

You feelin' fired up now? Make way for the undefeated Champion! Welcome to New Eridu!— PS5™/iOS/Android/PC | Version 1.3 "Virtual Revenge" of Zenless Zone Zero, HoYoverse's urban fantasy ARPG, is out now

[mariadelucadaily]

I don’t know why I’m so upset. You’re afraid that you’re not doing enough.

[roswelldetails]

Added detail from 3x03…

When it went off, all the lights started flashing.  The turquoise that amplifies alien abilities was like a receiver and when held up to it, music played.

The song:

Also, in unison, Kyle’s radio went off.  The same song Alex hears is playing, but behind the music is his father's voice. It says: "Magoo? Are you there? If you've… (breaks up) ...you've come too far."

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.

[roswelldetails]

More deets on the Lockhart Machine from 3x06.

Alex studies the inside of the machine using a laparoscope.

The laparoscopic camera picks up a symbol inside of the machine. Note that Alex's chunk of alien turquoise is sitting on the edge of the machine in the bottom right corner of the frame.

Alex shows it to Ramos who looks startled at the discovery and in turn asks Alex if he believes in aliens? But before Alex can learn more, they get interrupted by suicidal bats.

Alex thinks that studying the machine caused the bats to die and is feeling all guilty about it.  Ramos reminds him that Laparoscopic technology is noninvasive and couldn't have been the cause of the bat incident.

Ramos also tells Alex that his work led to an unprecedented breakthrough. Whether that's the currently known breakthrough with the music, or finding the symbol, or something bat-related is unclear.

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.

[zenlesszonezero]

You feelin' fired up now? Make way for the undefeated Champion! Welcome to New Eridu!— PS5™/iOS/Android/PC | Version 1.3 "Virtual Revenge" of Zenless Zone Zero, HoYoverse's urban fantasy ARPG, is out now