#same goes for meagan

[icedjuiceboxes]

There's something poetic about Emily's journey beginning with betrayal and when faced with another betrayal chooses forgiveness.

And you can argue corvo goes through the same journey but I think there's an important distinction that corvo /spared/ Daud’s life. He didn't forgive him. He just let him live, especially after daud begged for it. And the betrayal from the loyalists ended up with them all dead from infighting.

But when Meagan confesses to Emily and reveals shes billie lurk, and only when Emily is low chaos, Emily is faced with a choice of her own free making.

Billie, the first ally she makes after she loses everyone. The person who introduced herself as a friend of Sokolov’s, a mutual of theirs to gain trust. The person that Emily intimately gets to know over their travels to the point of joking around, complaining about each other habits and picking up on subtleties.

Billie doesn't beg for her life. There's no difference if she lives or doesn't. The betrayal wasn't an act of hate against Emily. Emily could kill Billie and it's only be taking an eye for an eye.

But Emily forgives Billie. Emily sees Billie for what she is and what she could be, and not for what she's done. Emily, to her core, is a character about forgiveness and second chances and hope.

[virtuouswhitehatorganization]

Omega Nuclear Let's Miss Heed Have It Through Song

[After seeing Miss Heed mistreat his girlfriend, Meagan, he decides to roast her ass in a private hero party. He goes up on stage preparing to sing a song in Heed's honor which she accepts with fake humility. He has a deceptive grin just waiting to show what he has in store.]

Omega Nuclear: Here's an open letter to a treasure of a girl!

Miss Heed, spoken: That's me!

Omega Nuclear: Whose behavior as a hero always make me hurl!

[The crowd begins to perk up surprised at how Omega is negatively dissing Miss Heed in front of them, while Green Rod is happily supportive.]

Miss Heed, spoken: What?

Omega Nuclear: She's a nasty, fake pink schemer who really likes to boast. Without the help of her entourage, her job would be toast!

[A spotlight is shown on Miss Heed's entourage and Anana Pina who are shown miserable and overworked.]

Entourage: Hey!

Miss Heed, spoken: Hey! Hey...

Omega Nuclear: She'll tell you that she loves your shirt, but it's something she can't stand . She's just so full of you-know-what, she has to double-flush the can!

[The Golden Rule members even began to giggle and whisper.]

Miss Heed, spoken: I eat a lot of fiber

Omega Nuclear: She bought two pairs of the same jeans, one size four, and one size eight So when she wears the bigger ones, you'll ask if she's lost weight/

Entourage: Hey!

[Everyone begins to roar with laughter.]

Omega Nuclear: She's not the gal you think she is, so let me tell you it's agreed. There's thick black hair between her toes, and her real name isn't Heed!

Entourage: Hey!

Omega Nuclear: She's a phony, scheming, weasel-nose, and her real name isn't Heed! She steals and lies, and she's evil, bros, and her real name isn't Heed! It's Cecelia!

[The crowd roars with cheers ( with Green Rod being one of the loudest voices) as victims of Heed applaud enthusiastically as she is speechless at how Omega could so harshly and openly berate her. She is waiting for the Golden Rule members to condemn this behavior, but even they didn't care and were laughing. Omega looks at her straight triumphantly with a grin of satisfaction. Meagan looked on giddy at her boyfriend standing up to Heed and rushes up on stage to give him a deserved smooch.]

[chaosandcrimson]

no way is that BILLIE BENNETT.. they're a 38-year-old HUMAN notoriously known for being IRRATIONAL & TUMULTUOUS but there are some people who have seen them being APPROACHABLE & INSIGHTFUL. if you ask me, they remind me a lot of coffee stains on important documents, handwritten notes in the margins, and taking power naps on the couch in your office, but that could just be because they're considered the FATAL ATTRACTOR around town. just keep an eye on them & see if their true colors shine through..

I'm really gonna miss you picking fights And me falling for it screaming that I'm right And you would hide away and find your peace of mind With some indie record that's much cooler than mine

OVERVIEW

Name: Billie Andrea Bennett

Nickname(s): N/A

DOB: August 4, 2086

Age: 38

FC: Meagan Tandy

Height: 5'8"

Pronouns: She/Her

Sexuality: Bisexual

Occupation: Couples and Intimacy Therapist at Therapy Matrix

Relationship Status: Single (Closed)

[+] approachable, even-tempered, insightful [–] irrational, tumultuous, oblivious

BIOGRAPHY

Billie grew up in the lower district with her parents and siblings. The eldest of three children, she has a sister, Sam, and an adopted brother, Charlie.

Charlie was their parents' godson and was taken in by the Bennetts after his own parents passed away. Their deaths were the result of faulty medication produced by Epsilon Labs, which Billie and Charlie had also been prescribed and taken, leading to them both suffering from chronic health problems.

They joined a class action lawsuit but the payout was pitiful and nowhere near enough to cover their expenses. As much as Billie believed in the cause, between trying to get through school, working a part-time job, and suffering from chronic fatigue, she simply didn't have the time or energy to spend on activism.

Her busy schedule was also the reason why, despite having a huge crush on her friend Teddy throughout most of high school, she chose not to pursue it.

She was awarded a full-ride scholarship to a college out of state and wound up staying there after finishing her degree. She had always had a knack for getting to the root of people's issues with their relationships, and she managed to turn that into a career for herself, despite her own love life being a train wreck.

It seemed to be impossible for Billie to date someone who was an appropriate and compatible partner for her. It wasn't even she was gullible, or didn't see the glaring issues with the people she was choosing—she was painfully aware that every single one of her relationships would end badly. She simply couldn't help who she was attracted to. Decent man with a well-paying job and a nice family? Nope. Drug dealer she would have to bail out of jail every other week? Yes.

Somehow, she managed to balance her successful professional life with her chaotic personal one, but where she drew a line in the sand was inflicting her terrible taste on her family—especially after Sam adopted Ginny. She never brought her partners back with her when she came to visit DFW.

She decided to move back to the Metroplex five years ago when Sam broke things off with Taurus, getting an apartment in the lower district to be close to her family and securing a job at Therapy Matrix, where she now gets to spend four days a week trying to stop married couples from killing each other.

She is still prone to attracting wholly inappropriate partners, but she is at least less likely to pursue actual relationships with them, now that she can't simply leave them in a different city whenever she goes to see her family. She enjoys being single, and if there's also a certain tavern-owning friend from high school she's trying to sort out her feelings for, then that's nobody else's business.

MISC

She suffers from the same health problems that her little brother Charlie does. Her symptoms are milder due to having less exposure to the faulty medication, but there are a handful of things that she does to lessen the strain she puts on her body, such as work reduced hours, keep a regular sleeping schedule, etc.

[petefromarma]

for clarification about pete and patrick’s wires being crossed: not the womb stuff (bc yikes) but the defending him, taking care of things, calling him baby, etc

you’re totally good dnw i figured that was what you meant ❤️ also wanted to add more about pete’s thought process because i got away from myself answering the other ask lol

for pete it’s difficult because he does actually feel like he has claim to patrick despite them not being in a relationship ever lol and he’s always felt like this but it’s compounded by the fact now that he IS single and so is patrick and he DID break up with his partner to be with patrick (tbh tho it was more like meagan broke up with him) but obviously, like, patrick does not know that. so patrick’s his, in pete’s mind, and he always has been, they’re soulmates, it was just never the right time for them to be together, or pete was worried that he would ruin patrick, caught up in his own self hatred, or in a sort of limbo between two worlds (his marriage with ashlee or patrick and the band, etc). and he’s like, okay, now it’s finally time, we can be together, and he’s trying to make that known. like, in his own way, he’s trying!

because you’re right, pete is like, oh, i have to show him i can take care of him, he’s always been the one who got stuck taking care of me, and i let go of him and he went and ran himself wild and almost killed himself drinking and not eating and doing coke (the paternalism goes CRAZY with pete) because i wasn’t looking out for him, i have to look out for him, i have to take care of him, i have to show him i love him, i have to make up for how i was before

and he’s more self-aware than patrick, certainly, but also, like, quite a bit chauvinist about it all lol. they’ve talked through their issues and gotten better at communication but there’s still a lot left uncovered and stuff they haven’t dealt with and pete’s not really aware just how much is simmering under the surface for patrick. like he knows how patrick feels, partially, they understand each other’s issues with body image, perception, dehumanization in an approximate sense, and he’s also worried that patrick is slipping back into disordered eating/substance abuse, but at the same time he’s offended and hurt that patrick doesn’t WANT pete to take care of him, that he’s so furiously and callously rejecting him. he really feels like he’s laid all of himself on the table, and like they’re maybe getting somewhere, and he’s unendingly confused when he shows up at patrick’s house the night that the video leaks, intending to be his knight in shining armor and fight all his twitter battles for him, and patrick is mean and unruly and drunk, not at all grateful

and, like, pete DID tell patrick point blank that he wants to get him pregnant and mate him, he just did so at an incredibly bad time, and he’s kind of aware of that, which is why he pulls away, in his own head about it all, hurt and worried, but he wants to try and bring them back to normalcy on the plane ride home, try and make patrick understand, but it just doesn’t work and it ends with pete snapping. which he knows he’s wrong for and ends up giving patrick space because he thinks that’s what he needs to do, even though he SHOULD apologize (still not pete’s strong suit lol), but when patrick texts him first he thinks everything is forgiven and they can start over and that patrick is ready, that he wants to let pete take care of him, and that is very much not the case lmao

[elfmoon3]

The Hollowed Woods (Transformers Animated story)

Pairings: Prowl x Oc, Bumblebee x Oc, Oc x Oc

Summary: As Halloween arrives, sightings of a tall creature have the Autobots' attention.

In the forest near the Mansion of Unknown, Meagan was walking on a path as she was heading back towards the mansion. However, she felt like she was being watched as she reached the backdoor. She turned around to see nothing, but she still felt like she was being observed. She sighed as she went inside.

Later at the Autobot Hideout, the Autobots and the agents of The Unknown Agency got notified by Captain Fanzone about weird sightings of an entity that he thinks they'd be interested in. "A tall humanoid?" Bumblebee asked, "Captain Fanzone said that he didn't know if it was a creature or if it was a decepticon wondering around. But if I could remember from the height description, it might not be a decepticon at all." Optimus said as Meagan looked through the reports, and her eyes got wide. "I think I know who this thing is." She said as she remembered a mission from her teenage years. "Ok, then what are we dealing with?" Bumblebee asked as she looked at him. "Slenderman." She said as she explained about who and what Slenderman is. A tall, faceless being who was originally known for taking people away to do who knows what to them. She even told them that children are his favorite targets. "Now that's alarming!" Bumblebee said as he didn't know what this thing might do to Cybertronians. "And with it being Halloween, he might be more active. We gotta go find him." Meagan said as Shadow Mist transformed into her vehicle mode. Meagan looked at her fellow agents and picked a few agents who were willing to go on the search for the tall creature.

While one group of the team searches the city, Meagan's group goes to the forest where Slenderman would most likely be. "So, how'd you know about this creature?" Prowl asked, Meagan sighs, "He saved me once. Despite his reputation for being a monster, he can be merciful to those he sees as a person of interest." She explained. She told them the story of how she met Slenderman during a mission from The Unknown Agency when she was sixteen. "He saved you from being attacked by something else that would've tore you to shreds? Wow!" Bumblebee yelled in shock. "By giving me his blood. But somehow, we're still connected in a way." She said as she felt that same feeling she felt earlier. "Stop!" She yelled as they stopped in a clearing. The group noticed a tree that was not like the others in the clearing, and standing in front of it was a tall figure with no face and wearing a suit. "Is that the creature?" Shadow Mist asked as Meagan got off her. Slenderman stared at them as the three Autobots transformed into their robot modes. Meagan got closer with no fear of him. "It's been a while, Slendy. What brings you to Detroit?" She asked him as the creature spoke despite not having a mouth. "I came with a dire message from The Order. They are concerned about the odd energy around the world." He said as Meagan sighed. "And they want The Unknown Agency to deal with it?" She asked him as he nodded. Bumblebee wanted to get closer, but everything he did, his optics get static. "Don't get close to him, Bumblebee. Slenderman has an ability that can mess with technology. That includes Cybertronians." Meagan explained as Bumblebee backed away. "I see you've made some interesting friends during your time here." Slenderman said as the weird tree opens a portal. "I must return to my world. Have a happy Halloween, Meagan." He said as he entered the portal, and it closed. Prowl's comlink soon heard Optimus said that they should return to the Hideout.

Back at the Hideout, Meagan reported to Director Mavis on the phone about what Slenderman told her. "If The Order is concerned about the strange things going on in the world, then we should investigate it before things get worse. I advise you to stay in Detroit since weird things are going on there, also. Good luck, and have a happy Halloween." Director Mavis said as she hung up. Meagan sighed as she was going to be super busy with this mission.

The End!

(Creepypasta meets Transformers is the only idea I have today. Happy Halloween, everyone.)

[5ft2sunflower]

TikTok Is Obsessed With Water. Experts Are Concerned

Welcome to WaterTok, where the ice is loud, the vibes relentlessly positive, and the beverages zero-calorie

BY EJ DICKSON | APRIL 14, 2023 | Article Link

“I’m on my second water of the day and it is 11:55, so I am cruisin’ with the water goals today!” Tonya Spanglo cheerily announces in her TikTok video. She bounds over to her “water bar,” a collection of sundry Skinny Mix syrups on a Lazy Susan. Cotton candy flavor? Nope. Dragon fruit acai? Nah, not today. She settles on coconut, mixed with a packet of pineapple flavoring, because, as she trumpets, “Mama’s trying to have a pina colada!” She breaks out her peach-colored, 40 oz. Simple Modern cup, twirls around her straw, and takes a sip before breaking out into Rupert Holmes’ “Escape (The Pina Colada Song).” 

Welcome to WaterTok, where the ice is loud, the vibes relentlessly positive, and the beverages zero-calorie. The hashtag, which has about 94.1 million views, features a panoply of upbeat, mostly white women in athleisure with charming Southern accents, showing off their recipes for flavored water in their giant metal Stanley cups. There is peach-ring flavored water. There is Dole Whip-flavored water. There is even banana-split-flavored water, and, perhaps most infamously, birthday cake. 

With her messy bun, Oklahoman twang, and relentlessly upbeat manner, Spanglo, who goes by @takingmylifebackat42 on TikTok, is the undisputed champion of the genre, posting her first concoction — a coconut-and-pineapple-flavored beverage mixed with Sonic’s ocean water packet, which she dubs “mermaid water” — in June 2022. “I have been dubbed the queen of WaterTok,” she tells Rolling Stone, as her four-year-old granddaughter plays in the background (later, she will request a sip of water, though Spanglo will inform me that it is plain). Through posting her water recipes on TikTok, she’s garnered more than 700,000 followers, as well as an affiliate partnership with Skinny Mixes, from which she says she gains a 10 percent sales commission with her videos. (A rep for Skinny Mixes confirmed to Rolling Stone that following Spanglo’s mermaid water video, Mermaid sold out a record seven times.) 

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Like many other food trends on TikTok, #WaterTok could be seen as relatively innocuous, if not a little silly; many commenters have pointed out that flavored water is essentially juice, or that using artificial sweetener-laden Skinny syrup is not exactly healthy. Others have noted that WaterTok skews heavily white, female, and Southern (a critique that Spanglo, who is all three, dismisses: “Maybe I need to do more research, [but] I do not know where that came from,” she says). 

Meagan Anderson, an over-40 lifestyle influencer from Texas who has made her own #WaterTok videos involving collagen, acknowledges that even she was wary when she first saw the trend: “Water seems so simple. And flavored packets have been around forever. It’s basically the same thing as Kool-Aid to someone my age,” she tells Rolling Stone. “It was funny — the younger generation was basically making Kool-Aid come back again, kinda like skinny jeans or parachute pants.” 

Yet watching content creators on TikTok playing alchemist with various flavored packets and syrups is admittedly hypnotizing, even if it’s hard to pinpoint exactly why. Some experts, however, have genuine concerns about the trend, pointing out that because many of the videos are targeted toward weight loss, the videos could be harmful to those struggling with disordered eating habits. 

WaterTok “has the element of danger because it is a classic eating disorderbehavior that happens,” says Jillian Lampert, chief strategy officer for the Emily Program and Veritas Collaborative, which offers comprehensive eating-disorder treatment programs in nine states. “In their fear and anxiety about eating and weight, they try to minimize the calories that come in.” Lampert refers to the practice of filling up on fluids as a means of ignoring hunger cues as “long-term, old-school eating disorder behavior.”

To be fair, not every WaterTok video is hashtagged #weightloss, and the trend is not overtly coded as a weight-loss method. Yet its origins are indeed rooted in weight loss, at least according to Spanglo, who is not the original progenitor of the trend but has certainly done more than anyone else to popularize it. Spanglo tells Rolling Stone she began drinking flavored water as a way to meet her water goals after having gastric sleeve surgery three years ago, with her doctor recommending she drink at least 64 ounces per day to aid in her recovery. She says drinking plain water made her literally ill: “It would make me so full I would puke. You feel like something is erupting in your esophagus,” she says. She had already been using Skinny syrups to flavor her coffee, so she decided to try using them to flavor her water; following her surgery, she has lost more than 220 pounds, she says. 

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Spanglo says she started posting her water recipes on TikTok last year, with her mermaid water and her “unicorn” water — a mix of a pink Starbursts packet and Skinny syrup’s blue raspberry frosting flavor — racking up millions of views. Along with her general weight-loss content, she now posts water recipes almost every day, most of which get hundreds of thousands of views; after featuring her new clear cup (“so people can see all the colors”) in a recent video, the cup sold out on Amazon within two hours of the video going live. 

Though Spanglo says her followers range widely in terms of demographics, she estimates that about 60 percent are gastric bypass patients like her who are trying to meet their water goals. “We have built this weight-loss community and we are all getting healthier and happier together,” she says. 

Lampert, however, has concerns about WaterTok, particularly since much of the content is marketed with the hashtag #weightloss. Though, she says, it will likely prove harmless for the majority of those who encounter it, for people who are vulnerable to developing disordered eating habits, “it can very easily be a way for people to feel like they are ingesting food and adequate nourishment when they are not,” she admits. 

In addition to the fact that many people with eating disorders drink excessive amounts of water to drown out hunger cues, there are also significant healthissues associated with overconsumption of water, says Wendy Oliver-Pyatt, the CEO and chief medical officer of Within Health, a remote treatment program for people with eating disorders. She cites hyponatremia, a condition that causes low levels of sodium in the body and can potentially lead to cardiac effects, as one potential complication. 

“Anything that is egging us on to drink water to lose weight has the potential to take us out of being balanced and thoughtful in our pursuit of health, to doing things that become dangerous,” she says. Though there is a clear distinction between trying to stay well-hydrated (the standard rule of thumb for adults is about 64 fluid ounces, or eight cups, per day) and overconsumption of water to the point of risking one’s health, Oliver-Pyatt cautions that using water as a weight-loss tool makes it easier for people to lose sight of that distinction. “If you’re drinking water to lose weight, Houston, we have a problem,” she says. 

That concern is exacerbated by the nature of TikTok’s algorithm, which recommends content to users that they are more likely to engage with, regardless of whether they’re actively searching for it. Due to its algorithm and its relatively young user base, TikTok has come under scrutiny from eating disorder specialists, who have argued that the platform prioritizes potentially harmful content in the form of weight-loss ads and potentially triggering “What I Eat In a Day”-type videos. 

In response to this criticism, TikTok issued a policy limiting weight-loss product ads for those under 18, and it has also added a disclaimer to weight-loss searches on the app. When asked for comment, a spokesperson for TikTok noted #WaterTok does not appear to be violative of any of its policies, stating, “content that promotes, normalizes, or glorifies disordered eating is prohibited on TikTok and we remove content that violates those guidelines.”

Nonetheless, despite these safeguards, Lampert says the prospect of falling down a weight-loss-content rabbit hole on an app like TikTok can be dangerous for those struggling with disordered eating.

“From a client perspective, we hear so much [about TikTok], regularly, with clients under 40,” she says. “The story used to be, ‘I heard about this diet from a friend and then before I knew it I was out of control.’ Now, all of the stories start with, ‘I was online and I saw this thing and I got sucked into it, and even when I tried to change my content I couldn’t, and my whole feed was around diet and weight loss.’ That’s really striking to me as a clinician.”

When asked about whether her WaterTok videos promote disordered eating, Spanglo says she never advocates for flavored water as a meal replacement (though she does make videos promoting protein shakes for this purpose), and that she notes in most of her videos and Lives that she is not a trained dietitian or nutritionist. “I’m not telling you what’ll work for you. I’m saying what worked for me,” she says. Anderson says that she is “12,000 percent against” using flavored water as a “cheat or hack”: “I am anti-diet and anti-skipping calories. I am pro giving your body things it needs,” she says. “This does not add to your nutritional needs. It’s just elevating your water.”

Yet with WaterTok booming and receiving media coverage around the world — Spanglo says that within the past 48 hours alone, she received requests from Katie Couric, the Drew Barrymore show, and the New York Post to talk about her videos — it’s easy to see how that message could potentially get lost in a sea of general diet and weight-loss content promoted as wellness. 

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“It will help some people because they’ll drink more water,” says Lampert. “But some people will think that drinking birthday-cake-flavored water is the same as eating birthday cake. And it’s not.” 

Update 1:40 p.m., 4/14/23: This story has been updated to include comment from a TikTok spokesperson.

[theprivatearchives]

5th January 2021

I watched most of the Anne of Green Gables movie with Megan Follows today, since I was watching Anne With an E and I have so many thoughts. Just the appearance of what you see has such stark difference to how the newer Anne looks and it is incredible just hom huch difference it makes when you go from an 80s set with 80s cameras and everything to a set of the late 2010s. It's incredible.

Well as I was watching the film, I did think how terribly fast everything was progressing. There are SO many great scenes in Anne, but it felt like the film was constantly clopping along at a fast pace jumping time here and there, whereas Anne With an E seemed too much to the other side where I was thinking "how can they draw these things out for so long?"

One thing I love about Anne With an E, though, is how they take the time to build the minor characters. :} (The major ones, too, actually.) I was so excited when Matthew mentioned Jerry the farmhand in the movie, but he was literally never in a scene. He was just mentioned twice, whereas in Anne With an E, he is a real-time character and one of my absolute favourites if I'm honest.

The same thing goes for every one of the school-yard kids, including Gilbert. I didn't use to mind the lack of breadth and depth to Gilbert and Anne in their younger years, but I guess after seeing Anne With an E, I missed the backstory and multiple scenes that just weren't in Anne of Green Gables - the movie.

I wonder if it was because I had grown accustomed to Amybeth's Anne, or something else entirely, but seeing Meagan play younger Anne always felt a little "off" to me. Even though I think she is much lovelier than Amybeth's version. That said, Gilbert in the TV show is nicer-looking than Gilbert in the film, although neither of them are that great. Marilla is one and the same. XD

I hate Prissy and Mr. Phillips in both versions. :yuck:

Anyway, the nicest thing about Anne of Green Gables - the movie rather than Anne With an E has to be the wholesomeness. I can watch it with my whole family and not have to worry. It's beautiful and funny, uplifting and curious and there's no "modern nonsense" sewn into the pattern. Anne With an E seems to forget every so often that it is a period show based on an irrepressibly positive book / book series and instead it brings in all kinds of 21st century bull. I won't go into detail as I don't want my post to get deleted, but if you're over 19 you'll probably pick up on it if you know the original story and you watch the show. It's entirely unfortunate and I with the creators didn't see this show as an opportunity to indulge their own philosophies and use it as a vehicle to bring their ideals into the living rooms of houses all around the world.

The single part that I appreciated that they added was the bit where Anne "becomes a woman" for the first time. That is brilliant. Perhaps not too suitable if there is a wide male audience but if it's primarily a female audience, which I'm pretty sure it is, that will land /very/ well indeed. Lol

[meowmeowbeepy]

A tale of how I was a poo poo pants

This weekend Ben was busy but came up so we could have an afternoon/evening date. Yay! I was happy. We had a perfectly unplanned date starting w/ La La Land that I was wanting for some reason even though I've really only been there once but had a good impression. Then we went to Hermann Park near the Med Center. It was friggin cold but lovely. The Japanese tea garden was serene, and it was just nice being outdoors I guess. I don't really remember any of it from childhood. Maybe the outdoor pavilion a little bit. Afterwards, we spontaneously went to his friends house, and I got to play with their super cute almost 2yo daughter. At this point of my life I LOVE playing with OTHER people's kids a lot :) We also just hung around and chatted a bit. Because these are Ben's friends, the process of being less awkward and more friendly and personal improves with increasing minutes of face-time. But it's a weird, unavoidable, IMPORTANT thing. Just to collect minutes and hours and place them in the bank so that we can know understand one another more casually. It goes both ways, and it's just a weird thing all couples (who don't come from the same friend circle) have to do! It is also a beautiful thing, don't get me wrong. But I am overall feeling impatient. This past time we were able to talk about both broader and smaller, personal things. I enjoyed the conversation thoroughly even tho I think Meagan must be SO tired, and I felt like we over-extended our stay. It was lovely, I liked every moment at their house. But it was indeed getting late and with Benny having to drive back to Galvy, we were going into the night a wee bit. At least that's what I was concerned about. PLUS I was hungry :) The original place we set on had a 45 min to 1.5 hr wait time. Grr. Then we tried a few other places in the 10-15 minute vicinity that all either looked more crowded outside the restaurant, didn't have parking, or only had valet parking. I was also driving and didn't do well with my own stress of deciding on the fly and being hangry. In hindsight, we could have just paid for parking. Maybe bc I know how Ben feels about downtown Houston already, I was even more irritated that things weren't working out. He didn't speak on it much and really didn't add a bit of stress to me. But I really took it away and spiraled into panic/stress/poo poo pants crankiness. Eventually, it was 9pm, and I called it. Which in hindsight I am glad bc I think it would have put him behind on Sunday if we stayed out too late. But I descended into a silent poo poo pants status, and Ben felt I was mad at him. We said goodbye in that state, and I felt guilty that we had a perfect date until I got crappy. We talked about it and said I was sorry. So all was good very quickly! But I felt like (again) Benny is so good to me. Even when I am *ruining* things, he doesn't make me feel like a bad guy. He is sad and affected by my mood which does make me feel bad bc I understand things are bad bc of me in the moment, but he is afraid that he did something wrong. Poor Benny. I must be sweeter and kinder to him. Even if it means I gotta suck my poo poo pants back up and just chill tf out

[creaturebehavior]

I do have a lot of free time and i am on my phone too much and i do wish i went outside more but the agoraphobia is so real and i do wish i was able to do more stuff and i do wish i had more friends. but at least i have two very amazing friends (although me and meagan don’t really talk these days we just kind of say “i love you” and “i miss you” cuz i have no energy to socialize but she’s my sister i feel so secure with her it’s okay if i can’t say much for awhile. most of our communication goes unsaid anyway because her and i are constantly communicating that we love each other at every second of every day and night. her and i both existing at the same time is the same thing as her and i saying i love you.) and i have time and space to try and rest in between my mind’s antics and the antics of the household i live in.

it’s past the time for me to return to school in time. which gives me room to think “what now?” instead of “do i actually have it in me to return to that toxic school?”

what now? what’s next? i’m not ready for the next yet, but i am trying to create and cultivate room for opportunity. wondering, what else is possible?

grateful for time and space. this in itself is an opportunity

[lexasdagger]

[icedjuiceboxes]

OKAY. So i've never been the biggest fan of emily's design under the context of the story and journey she goes through. Don't get me wrong, her design is AMAZING and I couldnt design her any better. But the fact she wears the same set of clothes she left dunwall in is DUMB. I HATE IT.

First off the climate. With basic knowledge of fabrics and what suits what climates, her dunwall clothes is not built for hot weather and I just know that girl is already overheating at 7am.

Going off fabrics, its so obvious that her clothes are gonna make her stick out like a sore thumb amongst the commoners of Karnanca.

All emily does to keep low is to cover her face. which helps, but her clothes still gives her away and I hate how there's no little reaction from npc about her beside being like "hi there stranger!" ITS SO UNBELIEVABLE. And emily is stated in her wanted posters she's in karcana and we're literally told that strangers arent welcomed by the grand guard.

And this is me just calling out for equality, but it sucks we don't get a cool "masked felon" moment with emily. In DH1, wanted posters are updated depending on how you completed the mission. We never get that with Emily. We get no reaction from the citizens as Emily is tearing through the city.

SO. MY PROPOSAL.

Introducing Emily Kaldwin, AKA The Black Sparrow, the fearsome pirate that appeared from the mist and the shadows.

Emily using the abandoned luggage left on the dreadful wale to cobble together an new outfit to stay anonymous . ( also in the corroded man she diys together a costume so-)

I thought the pirate aesthetic was perfect because Karnaca is a coastal town, emily uses a telescope, and it creates the perfect cover story for emily to suddenly appear in Karnaca under the guise of a new pirate to terrorise the city in a new time of crisis.

Citizens dubbing her the black sparrow, captain of the dreadful wale (One of many out of her fleet she says) (Meagan is ready to murder emily).

Her sudden appearance being believable because hey, we see pirates all the time, and shit is hitting the fan, yeah it makes sense we're seeing crime rise and new pirates arrive on shore.

Citizens reacting to her because of the mysterious and intrigue, and the worry of wondering what she's after. The Duke updating emily's poster to say the black sparrow (The citizens don't buy it. there's no way that's the empress) The newspaper updating on the black sparrow's deeds, reflecting players's choices and chaos level. (LIKE, if you rescue hypatia everyone would be pleased to know the good doctor is safe.) This ties back into Emily's reputation being ruined with the crown killer accusations, and even saving it or worsening it under the guise of Black sparrow.

Jindosh deducing Emily as the empress based off her mannerisms and intellect, RATHER THAN JUST HER CLOTHES. (you telling me that only the smartest planet on earth could tell that's the empress because of her clothes? fuck you.) I think it's more compelling if jindosh saw beyond the clothes (or the parts that emily kept from her imperial clothes to notice its of higher quality mixed with commoners clothes.) Jindosh taunting emily she can hide and alter her appearance but she can never change her core, and it will always betray her (and thus tying in jindosh's non-lethal that hey. to change someone completely you gotta fry their brains.)

I REST MY CASE YOUR HONOUR. PIRATE EMILY.

[erineverly]

❝   guess  who’s  home  early!  where’s  my…  oh,  my  goodness.   ❞   erin’s  nose  wrinkles  in  tandem  with  her  brow,  her  lips  parting  in  disbelief  as  she  fails  to  conceal  how  she’s  really  feeling  about  the  sight  in  front  of  her.  a  flurry  of  emotions  flickers  across  her  features  and  eventually  a  full-bodied  sigh  escapes  her.  she  definitely  needs  a  moment  to  process  the  fact  that  her precious,  sweet,  angelic  baby  girl  is  dressed  as  m.ichael  m.yers,  running  towards  her  on  her  wobbly  legs,  clutching  a  plastic  knife  in  her  tiny  hand,  eager  to  greet  the  curly-haired  brunette  and  show  off  her  brand  new  outfit  —  the  infamous  mechanic  jumpsuit  paired  with  ghostly  pale,  creepy-looking  mask,  ketchup  smeared  all  over,  imitating  blood.  as  erin  struggles  to  understand  why  on  earth  anyone  would  think  this  is  a  great  idea and  an  age-appropriate   halloween  costume,  m.eegan  remains  perched  on  the  leather  couch,  laughing  so  hard  that  it’s  a  wonder  she  hasn’t  busted  a  lung  yet.

today  is  evie’s  first  halloween,  or  at  least  the  first  one  where  she  kind  of  understands  the  idea  of  dressing  up  and  can  go  from  one  house  to  another  with  her  mom,  admire  the  decorations  and  enjoy  some  candy.  she’s  still  too  young  to  understand  what  this  holiday  is  all  about,  neither  can  she  truly  grasp  the  meaning  of  most  halloween  costumes  (  including  the  one  she’s  wearing  right  now  ).  which  is  why  erin  made  sure  to  plan  her  outfit  months  in  advance,  every  detail  meticulously  tended  to  and  taken  care  of  —  she  wanted  to  put  her  daughter  in  something  cute,  but  also  something  that  she  could  wrap  her  head  around,  something  that  would  put  a  giant  smile  on  her  face.  

just  like  her  own  mother  when  she  was  about  the  same  age,  evie  is  obsessed  with  disney  princesses  and  there’s  one  in  particular  that  bears  a  striking  resemblance  to  the  little  girl  —  snow  white.  every  time  she  spots  her  favorite  character  on  the  tv,  her  pale  skin,  dark  curls  and  the  red  headband,  evie  goes  absolutely  ballistic.  there’s  nothing  the  little  girl  loves  more  than  snow  white.  which  is  why  erin  spent  hours,  stayed  up  late  and  woke  up  early,  trying  to  sew  the  most  beautiful  costume  on  the  planet…  and  now  her  child  is  dressed  as  a  murderer  and  having  the  time  of  her  life.  great,  just  great.

❝   pwetty.  pwetty  pwincess,   ❞   evie  chirps  in  her  tiny  voice,  smiling  disarmingly  at  her  mom.  erin  doesn’t  want  to  break  her  innocent  heart  so,  despite  feeling  nauseous,  she  crouches  down  and  pretends  to  be  completely  in  awe  of  the  costume  that’s  being  presented  to  her.  her  hand  lands  over  her  heart  and  she  gasps  again,  watching  her  baby  twirl  and  dance  happily.   ❝   ev  and  i  decided  this  is  way  prettier  than  the  princess  costume,   ❞   meegan  explains,  practically  beaming  at  her  friend,  clearly  oblivious  to  how  inappropriate  it  is  to  dress  a  toddler  in  a  costume  that  represents  all  kinds  of  evil  things.  they  could  have  as  well  picked  the  grim  reaper,  erin  thinks  to  herself,  fighting  off  the  urge  to  tell  the  other  how  she  feels.  she  doesn’t  want  to  sound  mean  or  come  off  as  ungrateful,  after  all  meegan  does  spend  a  lot  of  time  with  evie  and  babysits  her  whenever  erin  needs  to  go  to  work  or  wants  a  moment  to  herself,  but…  this  is  a  lot  to  take  in.

❝   isn’t  this  the  funniest  thing  ever?  the  coolest  halloween  costume,  right?   ❞   meegan  asks,  giggling  as  she  gently  pats  the  toddler  on  the  back.  erin  can  only  shake  her  head  in  response,  afraid  if  she  utters  even  just  a  word,  she’ll  end  up  fighting  with  her  best  friend  in  front  of  her  daughter  or  worse…  hurt  meagan’s  feelings.  they  clearly  have  a  different  definition  of  a  cool  halloween  costume  and  fun.  she  doesn’t  find  it  one  bit  funny,  especially  when  she  thinks  about  how  much  evie  hates  getting  her  curls  wet  and  screams  bloody  murder  every  time  she  as  much  as  reaches  for  the  shampoo  bottle,  and  she’ll  have  to  somehow  get  all  the  fake  blood  out  of  her  hair.  amazing. besides,  putting  an  innocent  baby  in  a  costume  so  scary  and  vile  should  be  illegal.  for  little  children  halloween  should  be  all  about  cuteness,  making  caramel  apples,  visiting  pumpkin  patches,  baking  cookies,  not  gore  and  slasher  films  and  haunted  houses.  m.ichael  m.yers  isn’t  just  an  inappropriate  costume  choice,  it’s  disturbing  and  says  a  lot  about  the  child’s  parents.  grown  ups  can  dress  as  whatever,  sultry,  scary,  it  doesn’t  matter  because  grown  ups  can  understand  the  meaning  of  what  they’re  wearing.  but  children?  they’re  simply  too  little.  she’s  been  planning  on  taking  a  bunch  of  pictures  of  evie  tonight  and  she  wants  to  be  able  to  show  them  to  her  friends  without  cringing.

❝   mhm,  wow  —  you  look  beautiful,  honeybun,  but  mommy  though  you  wanted  to  be  snow  white  and  wear  the  cute  dress?  and  the  red  headband?  come  on,  it’s  getting  late.  we  should  probably  change  while  we  still  have  some  time  left,   ❞   erin  subtly  suggests,  but  the  toddler  shakes  her  head  and  even  stomps  her  foot  stubbornly.  a  sigh  falls  from  the  brunette’s  lips.  and  so  it  begins,  she  thinks,  deciding  she’ll  have  to  have  a  serious  conversation  with  meegan  about  all  this  later  tonight.  it’s  ridiculous… 

[shaftking]

I think a thing to note is that black cottage core folk tend to get bullied for being into that instead of mainstream media things like that black woman who got bullied for making a cottage core joke about hot girl summer and so many people went "she's not black, we don't claim her"and some really awful stuff got sent her way for not knowing who Meagan stallion was (about the cottage core post about how only white people do it, sorry if this was rude or such. I hope you have a nice day today)

Youre not being rude! I’ve seen a few black cottagecore enthusiasts(?) get some really rude comments about how they’re doing something that’s “for white people” and stuff like that.

Cottagecore is ultimately just an aesthetic and the fact that a few shitty people also like it doesn’t change that fact. The type of people who like to come after nonwhite people for liking “white” interests are upholding the same kind of racism as people they claim to hate. This happens a lot in black communities, I’ve noticed. Black people who like to keep other black people down because they engage in certain habits or interests that they typically associate with white Americans and don’t like to see them succeeding or doing something that goes against what they view as good values or norms. I think the anti cottagecore thing is just an expansion of that attitude, filtered through a social justice or progressive leftist lens or maybe just wearing the kind of hat.

I hope you have a nice day too.

[nahimjustfeelingit-writes]

Ok so since you’re a Meagan fan maybe you can help me and to anyone else who loves her y’all can chime in below. Me and my sister were talking yesterday about music. Now this started bc we were in the car and mulatto song came on and I immediately switched it to Bluetooth. She asked why I turned it off, I said I don’t care for her music so then we started talking about music in general and Meagan came up now warning my sister is a Meagan Stan she goes hard for her like kodak does for trump🥴. She kept trying to push that Meg was a lyricist and one of the best rappers out right now she has all this range etc… I told her I don’t feel that way bc I have tried to give Megan music a shot but every song I’ve tried to play is about the same 3 things sex,alcohol or hating ass bitches. Now maybe I didn’t catch the right song but after 10 diff songs I got tired. However I don’t want to keep discrediting her if she is as talented and creative as some ppl say she is. It’s just not my cup of tea rn. I need music that feeds my psyche not fuels my libido. Also though from what I’ve heard she might have an alcohol problem and while idk if that’s true, ppl love making up rumors. I don’t want to support that type of music if it’s contributing to toxic habits. If you all know of any different songs from her I would love to try them out it just seems the ones I’ve listened to were pretty much the same.

So most of Meg’s music is about sex, drinking, how cocky she is, how she pimps niggas, how she loves her body, her being educated, having money, anime, her haters, etc. if you are looking for songs about her parents, her childhood, being in an abusive relationship, what’s going on like police brutality, or anything she’s been through like that I can’t think of anything. Megan doesn’t make songs like other female rappers who rap about real life struggles. Just because she doesn’t rap about those things like Lauren hill would or other female rappers like her doesn’t mean she isn’t lyrical. She actually can rap really really well, and she is one of the best honestly right now. She even said that she gets inspiration from 36 Mafia, Pimp C, Project Pat, etc. which makes since lol

I love that she raps about anime and she has great word play and she makes it very fun. Meg gets me hype she’s that home girl that you love to turn up with on the weekend lol. Every time I listen to her music it lifts my spirits. And I love how in your face she is too. Have you listened to her freestyles too? Circles is good and I love how her unreleased songs on Something For The Hotties is very southern and true to her as well. Her features are also great I loved her feature with BTS, Maroon 5, DJ Khaled, Ariana. Tina Snow Interlude is good. But all in all if she’s not for you that’s okay. Most artist rap about the same things. Just like R&B artists sing about sex and heartbreak. Just know she isn’t poetic like No Name, Lauren Hill, or anybody like that lol. But she could be if she wanted to. Also, her mother is another inspiration because she listened to a lot of her moms music which was similar lol so yeah.

[popcornandgreenolives]

pitch

Series Review (Season 1)

IMDb Summary: A young pitcher becomes the first woman to play in the Major Leagues.

These days, whenever I see commercials on Fox for The Masked Singer or Alter Ego, I can’t help but think, “they keep these shows but they cancelled Pitch?!”

I miss this show so much :(

While some people scoff at the idea of a woman playing in any male professional sport (that’s right, I have seen those asshole comments under the YouTube trailer) I think the show did a pretty solid job in depicting a woman playing Major League Baseball in such a believable way  - she may not have had the physical strength, but she had that one special pitch - without it coming off as cheesy or patronizing.

My curiosity for the show was first piqued after having heard MPG on his Saved by the Bell podcast referring to Pitch as one of his most favorite projects that he’s ever done, several times expressing that he thought it was criminally cut short. Well, he wasn’t wrong. I cannot say enough good things about this show – it was so SO good – from the writing, the acting, the attention to all of the baseball-related detail – it just really sucked me in from the beginning and breaks my heart that it ended so soon.

What I liked:

The writing and production value. Is this show a sports drama or a soap opera? At times, I wasn’t sure, but I think the writers did an excellent job of balancing both.  It was a believable peek into the inner workings of a Major League Baseball team, and a realistic glimpse into the lives of professional athletes – the challenges and pressure of being a rookie, contrasted by the jadedness of a veteran. The storylines were compelling and only got better as the series went on. That, along with the way that it was shot (the game footage was all shot utilizing the same cameras and angles used during real-life MLB games), the set design (the clubhouse was modeled after the real-life San Diego Padres clubhouse), and the fact that Fox had an exclusive deal with MLB to use their logos and facilities added to the authenticity of it all.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Mike Lawson. Zack Morris may have been trash but Mike Lawson is fire!!! I was completely sold on his portrayal of the veteran baseball player and the range of emotions that someone in the twilight of their career must be feeling – he was egotistical and arrogant, a leader and a mentor, but also emotional and sad knowing his days on the field were numbered. I loved, loved LOVED MPG in this role – he convinced me that he deserves way more credit than for just being a child star -  he is a great (and definitely underrated) actor.

Kylie Bunbury as Ginny Baker. With regard to famous people, I always hear cliche stuff about famous people like: it’s not always as glamorous as it looks; there’s a lot more that goes on behind the scenes. The character of Ginny was the epitome of that. From the outside, she seemed to be a rock star, with tons of adoring fans excited at the prospect of the first female Major League Baseball player. But a sudden rise to fame isn’t without consequence (as was represented so well in Episode 6) – she did a great job of depicting the emotional and mental toll of essentially still being a famous kid, chasing the youth that you never had, while balancing the pressure of being in the spotlight and being expected to act like an adult and being mindful of maintaining a public image and being a role model.

Blip and Evelyn (Mo McRae and Meagan Holder). I loved their individual friendships with Ginny – he was one of her oldest friends, and she was her one closest girl friend – as well as how they treated her as part of their family. In the beginning I saw Evelyn’s character as being more of a Real Housewives of San Diego-type, but I was glad to see her evolve from being just a WAG into a more multi-dimensional and business-minded woman. Together, Blip and Evelyn seemed like #couplesgoals – I liked that while she was as supportive and loving as she could be for her husband, his career, and the kids, that it was also shown that it also takes a lot of sacrifice, understanding and flexibility being a wife of a top athlete.

Amelia (Ali Larter). I initially saw her character as mostly being self-serving and only being in it for Ginny’s fame, but as the episodes went on, I grew to like her more and more. With the revelations of Ginny’s mom being estranged, and Will becoming less and less trustworthy, she was like the big sister that Ginny didn’t have but desperately needed. It broke my heart at the end seeing Amelia leaving Ginny behind.

Al (Dan Lauria). He seemed like the grumpy old misogynist who can’t keep his mouth shut at first, but as the series went on, I liked seeing him becoming more and more of a father figure to Ginny – especially after realizing that he himself is a girl dad.

Cara the waitress (Lyndsy Fonseca). I was skeptical that she was going to take advantage of Ginny’s fame and the videos from the house party. But she ended up taking care of Ginny, making sure she got back home safely, and was genuinely concerned for her mental health. She was only in one episode, but I wouldn’t have minded her character coming back had the show continued. She was at heart a good person and I liked the idea of Ginny having one good friend outside of baseball.

What I didn’t like:

The series was short lived and was way too good to have only lasted one season. Given that the final episode ended with several cliffhangers, I was so sad that I will never find out what happens next. Are Blip and Evelyn really in marital trouble? Will Ginny ask Amelia to come back? Was Mike just using Ginny as a distraction from his ex-wife? Will Ginny ever play again? I can’t help but wonder, had the show been in a better timeslot (and not opposite Thursday Night Football) if it could have lasted just a little bit longer.

Other thoughts:

Will (BJ Britt). How did this guy go from being the one person she could trust the most to being the person she could trust the least? I hated how he almost took advantage of not only Blip and Evelyn, but of his own sister.

Charlie (Kevin Connolly). He was so easy to hate – he reminded me of people in high positions that they aren’t qualified for and where they don’t belong.

Mike and Ginny. Ugh, I’m torn because I love their mentor-mentee relationship, and I think it’s probably best to leave it that way because it would be too cliche for them to end up together… but it’s hard to ignore how much chemistry that they have. The tension in episode 9 was too good.

The actors were a bunch of 90’s throwbacks for me. Jack Arnold from The Wonder Years, Eddie Winslow from Family Matters, Matteo Santos from All My Children, Frank Buffay from Friends, and not least of all, Zack Morris from Saved by the Bell. 

Mike is very confused – and I guess so am I. Despite kind of wanting to root for him with Ginny, at the same time I definitely felt his pain with seeing his ex-wife move on. And while I get that Amelia was probably a rebound, I kind of really liked them together. I was kind of surprised he ended up breaking up with her just an episode later, then almost immediately went on to stalk his wife’s dinner party, then a few episodes later had a steamy near kiss with Ginny, and then just an episode later he ended up looking to hook up with his ex-wife again. Which is it, Mike?! Make up your mind!

[elfmoon3]

A Shadowy Mist Chapter 26 (Transformers Animated story)

Pairings: Prowl x Oc, Bumblebee x Oc

Summary: With Reaper joining the group, things have been mystical lately.

Location: The Autobot Hideout in Detroit.

Everyone looked at Reaper, who calmly put his katana back on his back. Sari and the recent agents looked at him with amazement. Chris scoffed, "Show off." He said, "Dude, you totally helped us with those decepticon losers." Razor said. "Yeah, but the question is, how did you know Bumblebee and Prowl were in trouble?" Ash asked. Reaper sighed as he stood up, "Some weird looking spirit told me. He looked like a samurai." He said, "Strangely enough, he didn't look human." He added. That got Prowl's attention. Could this mysterious human be talking about his sensei Yoketron? "What other features did he have?" He asked Reaper, "Kinda white with black and gold. Seems wise, too." Reaper said, Shadow Mist looked surprised, "That almost sounds like.." She said, "..Yoketron." Prowl finished for her. "You know him?" Reaper asked, "He was my sensei back on Cybertron." Prowl answered, "I see. I'm sorry for your loss." Reaper said, bowing to the Autobot. "He must've been important to you." He added. "He was." Prowl said, "I've reunited with him at the Well of the All Spark." He added, "Then that tells me you were revived." Reaper said, "Yeah, by her." Prowl said, looking at Shadow Mist. "I used two types of energon to bring him back, regular and dark. But somehow, he's showing signs of Terrorcon likeness and is stronger, faster, and more agile." Shadow Mist explained. "That and the fangs." Bumblebee said, "But like I said in the forest, you're still the same Prowl we all know and care about." He added. Prowl smiled, and he's lucky to have a caring friend like Bumblebee. "Interesting." A familiar voice said. Everyone turned around to see LockDown at the door. "Never thought a human would be at the Well of the All Spark." The Bounty Hunter said. Reaper took out his weapon and was ready to fight. But Meagan placed her hand on her shoulder and shook her head as he looked at her. "He's not a decepticon." She told him. "Ya sure?" Reaper asked. "Positive." She said as she then explained that LockDown only works for anyone who pays him. Reaper sighed and put his weapon away. "You're an interesting human." LockDown said, "Well, to be honest, I'm not really human." Reaper said, the others looked at him with confusion. "Then your a vampire like Meagan?" Ash asked. Reaper shook his head, "I'm actually a spirit." He answered. "A spirit? Like an angel?" Sari asked. "You can say that." He said, "Then how can we see you?" Spike asked. "I consist of hard light, not only it helps me interact with the physical world, but I'm not subjective to the limitations of a living person. So basically, I'm able to cross from the physical world and the spirit world." He explained, "So that veil thingy that Meagan mentioned when she told us about the origin of Halloween doesn't bother you?" Bulkhead asked, "Not at all my giant green friend." Reaper answered. "Actually, Halloween is when I'm more busy." He added. Meagan looked at them. "You see, Reaper is known as a Demon Slayer, he and his comrades fight demons who enter into the physical world. But knowing the demonics, they stay away from technology." She explained. "That includes Cybertronians." She added. "Cool!" Spike and Razor said in unison. Skull stayed quiet, and left the room. Chris took noticed of this and excused himself to go talk with the young man. "Something wrong, kid?" He asked Skull. "It's nothing, sir." He said, "Just wanted to be alone." He said as he goes out the back door. LockDown also seems to noticed the young agent's sudden behavior as he saw him leaving into the night.

Sometime later in downtown Detroit.

Skull was at BurgerBot all by himself as the server gave him his meal, she noticed something parked near the window of where his seat is. "Cool car, is it yours?" She asked him, Skull turned to look out to see a green and black muscle car, he sighs as he noticed something about the vehicle, he said yes to the server so he doesn't scare her off. "I'll take this order outside if you don't mind?" He asked. As he got to an outside table near the green and black muscle car he sighed and sat down, "you know your not fooling me." He said, the car laughed, it turned out to be LockDown in vehicle mode. "Sorry kid, but I got curious when you left, but I'm not alone." He said as Chris came by with his own order. "Look, you can say what's on your mind, kiddo. Me and the Bounty Hunter are willing to listen." He said as he sat down. Skull sighed, "Alright, I give up. When Reaper talked about demons, memories of my sister's murder came crawling back." He said. "I was 15, she was 18, but one day she disappeared, and when they found her body, it was too late for her." He explained. "No one knows how she died, but suspicious cult activity was in our area and I feared she was a victim to that activity." He said sadly. LockDown looked into what he meant and sighed, "I may be working for the decepticons when needed, but I can't help but feel sorry for you, kid." He said, "Same here." Chris said, "But what happened to her wasn't your fault, mate." He added, "You don't have to beat yourself about it." Skull looked at Chris, for a strange person, he's really kind. "I know, I just wish I did something to save her that day." He said sadly. "You know what, kid. If I were a human bounty hunter, I'd find the sickos who put your sister offline." LockDown said, "But, I don't think revenge is your style. When you finish your fuel up, I'd like to take you somewhere. If you don't mind?" LockDown asked. Chris looked at the Cybertronian dead in the windshield. "As long as I go with him." He demanded. "Sure, Chris, if you have the fuel tank for it?" LockDown said. The Australian chuckled, "Try me, mate." He answered

To be continued...