#she calls out cloud ON HIS BS not once but TWICE

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excuse me whilst i break from writing and rewatch AC: Complete and cheer on my brave girl.

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succession s4 e6 recap: bite me

happy international workers day, girlies!!

let's celebrate by watching billionaires be responsible for multiple SEC violations!

the bitch is back.

shitting on his children even from beyond the grave.

the video in question: logan speaking of their new product, living+, which will play a surprisingly large role in this episode, given we've never heard of it before.

shiv has a private jet rendezvous with mattson. they both excel at flirting:

mattson: we're buddies, can we talk? shiv: no, maybe i fucking hate you.

true romance<3

mattson tells her about the CE-bros and their little freakout on the mountain, which is the opposite of what her brothers eventually tell her during the meeting with the inner circle.

ken and rome, still adamant about tanking the deal, tell them that elon musk mattson is unstable and druggy etc etc etc --

somehow, i don't think any of them are buying it.

shiv sure as shit doesn't buy their bs.

this is the comeback i've been waiting for.

roman immediately makes his sadboy face and asks for a hug, because all he wants is love, but my heart is starting to harden. he is truly in his flop era this episode.

shiv pencils in 20 minutes in her calendar to cry.

i love you, shiv roy. ilysm, but you will never be holly hunter from broadcast news.

cry-time is briefly interrupted by making out with the future ex-husband she absolutely hates.

we've all been there.

roman has to deal with hollywood.

he is not pleased.

i can sense the utter distain jesse armstrong has for hollywood through my screen.

the hollywood exec pushes one of roman's buttons (lots of them lately) and he fires her in a way that reminds me of logan, but also doesn't. i have a feeling logan would send "the help" to do the dirty work for him?

roman's firing spree begins. we all know where this is headed.

kendall is being annoying.

asking too much and telling your staff they can never say no?

just a regular day for me, working with politicians.

also, a fucking minefield in terms of sexual harassment, don't we think?

anyway, he wants to play house on stage and fudge the numbers and be the cringiest of cringe. let kendall be kendall, i guess.

tom and shiv hook up twice in this episode????

unrealistic.

also they bite each other.

i shouldn't have to elaborate on that.

ken and rome are still working on their "tank the deal" plan and so far the road ahead seems very realistic and not at all like the potential symptom of bipolar disorder.

for once, greg is of use and summarizes their strategy pretty well:

bla bla bla business talk bla bla bla i don't care.

roman contemplates his own mortality, as one does, and thinks there should be some other option.

death is, after all, very much one-size-fits-all.

and where does he want to end up post death, you ask?

inside a tortoise 👀

conveniently, gerri calls him in for a talk to chat to him about some very serious issues, such as:

roman is shocked to know he can't just do whatever the fuck he pleases. but that's what my dad would do, he says, to which gerri responds, but you are not your dad.

i think we've hit another button..........

and gerri, having zero fucks left to give, does not hold back.

uh oh.

and thus, roman's firing spree continues.

i'm broken.

and also mad.

i know there are probably some readers of this recap not entirely obsessed with romangerri (but really, do you exist?!), but i just have to say, please endulge me.

we're just over halfway through the season and gerri's been fired twice. let me wallow.

kendall, however, is thrilled about this unhinged energy:

"fucking eat greg" is perhaps the funniest thing he's ever said.

meanwhile, after sleeping together, shiv and tom share a heartfelt moment.

just kidding.

tom says he loves money.

how gauche of him.

the set is not up to par for our mate kendall over here, so he morphs into joni mitchell for a short sec:

I'VE LOOKED AT CLOUD FROM BOTH SIDES NOW!

where are the clouds from berlin?? really makes u think:(

luckily, he can fudge the numbers some more to elevate the stock price to distract himself.

the sibs, however, notice his erratic behavior, and shiv convinces rome that this whole presentation is not a good idea.

and despite the eventual outcome, i think they are right, given ken's track record.

karl has a spine conspiracy?????

it feels good having the old guard telling the kiddos how they truly feel.

in the back of his mind, all karl is thinking about is that greek island. that's queen shit.

kendall goes on stage alone, because roman really doesn't want to wear his stupid pilot jacket.

he interacts with a video version of his late dad, which of course shows a man that is so very stable.

best roman quote of the episode: if i cringe any harder i might become a fossil.

gerri agrees, but in a more resigned way:

couples who hate on kendall's speeches together, stay together<3 (this is what denial looks like).

my summary of kendall's presentation: starts out shit, then he pivots into karolina's script and it's fine, and then he plays the dead dad card and we can't really argue with that.

living+ is still a fucking shitshow imo. not sure if i would go as far as mattson, tho:

yikes.

leave it to the swedes to underestimate nazi discourse (please don't come for me swedes, you know).

greg unfortunately has the best line of the episode:

and turns out, it is very much true.

tom channeling his inner oprah was not on my 2023 bingo card.

and they all agreed ken did a great job.

and karl devolves into his usual, spineless self:(

i have a feeling this all means an end to whatever sibling solidarity we've been seeing, given shiv and roman's reactions.

roman comforts himself by listening to what is basically an AI generated clip of his dad saying he has a small penis.

shiv and tom seem to decide to keep it all business, but also not??

it feels more or less like a high school relationship to me at this point. i love it.

and we get a clip of kendall in the water, but he didn't die, so i couldn't use one of my precious screengrabs on that.

you all should probably thank the tumblr gods that they have a 30 image limit on these posts.

see you next week for the afterparty, featuring more scandis for me to make strange references about!

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mayhaps navin for the "once in a lifetime" prompt?

Fandom: IBVS by @onebizarrekai

Characters: Nevin Jovel, Drew Jovel, Edward Quinton, Isaac Beamer, Christopher Jackson

Warnings: cursing, betrayal,

Word count: 977

Summary: Six year old Nevin learns something. Sixteen year old Nevin remembers at an… Interesting point in time.

tagslist: @anxiety-is-married-to-depression @angelofthehalfmoon @trainwreck-of-skeletons @hisame-amadashi​ @therandomskelekey

Nevin is six when he is first brought to a county fair. Drew is also there. But one of his hands is being held by her,  the other unable to leave her side. Nevin is luckier - he is able to wander freely away from her, and he does so with glee. He wanders from stall to stall, buying cotton candy from a vendor with some of his allowance. He wanders with the sickly sweet cloud of sugar until he finds a weird tent thing in the middle of the main walkway. He darts into it because she is glaring at him from across the crowded walkway and he doesn't want to go home just yet.

"Hello, young one. I can sense that you haven't come here to get to your fortune told." An old stranger's voice calls out from behind him, startling the young boy.

Nevin feels himself blush and he does his best to glare up at the stranger…  though he nods reluctantly. "No… can you really tell the future?" He asks, with no small amount of genuine curiosity.

"I can't give anyone certainties. We aren't storybook characters, whose lives are written and controlled by some mysterious, shadowy figure. Your actions and inactions shape your future - and you can always change it, no matter how dark things seem." The old stranger murmured quietly a twinkle in their eyes.

"Awh… Okay…" Nevin responds, both encouraged by this and kinda sad that the person can't tell him things about what is to be… If she will be nice to him again, or-

"There are a few things I can tell you, however. If you are willing to listen." The other murmurs, catching the kid's interest.

"Oh? What can you tell me? How much do I gotta pay?" Nevin asks curiously, moving closer to the cloth covered table. 

"Only that you listen closely and keep what I will say to you, to yourself, alright?" The stranger answers.

"Hmmm… Okay." Nevin promises. If it was something weird. He'd just tell gramma later.

The stranger peers at him intently, and their eyes glow funny grey-silver and they say "Once in a lifetime you’ll make a promise that is meant to last forever. Twice in a lifetime you’ll find a person to die for.Thrice in a lifetime you will meet betrayal of horrendous extent. Everything else is up to you.” there is a strange, tingly feeling all around him and the air is heavy, pressing like a weighted blanket against him, making it difficult for Nevin to breathe.

Their voice echoes all around the tent - or maybe just in Nevin's head. Either way, the little boy feels his knees shake and wobble, as he tries to wrap his head around what he was told. Who he might meet. "Oh… any...any idea as to the promise, or who the people are?"

The old stranger shakes their head "no, I don't have anything more for you, young man. You should get back to your mother and twin brother before too long. They worry."

"Drew does… not sure if she cares 'bout either one of us." Nevin huffs, glaring at the floor "I want to, promise!" With that he runs  out of the tent, to go find Drew.

~

It's a decade later before he remembers that odd interaction. Which is rather irritating, because he is swearing loudly at a certain miserable asshole "EDWARD QUINTON, HOW FUCKING DARE YOU? YOU PRETEND TO BE OUR FRIEND, AND I JUST FOUND OUT THAT YOU WERE PLAYING A TRICK ON ALL OF US. I WILL FUCKING DESTROY YOU!"

"Wh-What the fuck do you mean by that, you crazy asshole?" The Dirty Traitor sputtered, taking a couple of steps backwards, a nervous expression appearing on his face. The rest of the supernatural club turned towards him, confused.

"What do you mean, Nev?" Drew asked, walking over to him, clearly confused. 

"Watch this, all of you." Nevin hissed, playing the video that had been recently uploaded by one of Edwards popular friends - it was one of their meeting sessions - with all sorts of sarcastic and mocking commentary by both the friend and Edward every couple of minutes. It was dated less than three days ago.

"But I... I didn't... that wasn't... I wouldn't..." Edward sputtered as Chris glared daggers at him. Isaac stared hard and Drew was close to tears.

"That's your voice... and your face..." Drew pointed out quietly. "And you didn't answer your phone that day it was uploaded..."

Edward had been telling them some line of BS about losing a day - and that it probably had something Magic related. Liar. "I... I hadn't... I wouldn't... Thi-this isn't me!"

"Except that you've done similar bullshit in the past. Before we became part of the club, but you have mocked others like this in the past." Isaac pointed out, voice low and suspicious. 

"But I... I've changed since then..." Edward sputtered, his eyes widening "Th-this is a set up!"

"Oooor you're an asshole, and you're trying to win popularity points in the school by mocking the outcasts like this. I'm done with this, and I'm done with you, Quinton. Enjoy your reign, your majesty. C'mon Chris, let's get out of here." Isaac hissed, gently tapping Chris on one shoulder before marching out of Quinton's secret lair.

Drew looked up at Edward and murmured "I... I thought you changed for the better... But you're just a bully..." He was blinking hard and quickly, as if he was trying not to cry "Was... Was your answer to what I told you also a lie? I'm... Nev... Trying to fight him will only get you into trouble, because the teachers like him too..."

"You're right... Let's go, Drew. Leave him to his popularity and fake friends." Nevin growled, and the two of them left the secret hide out, heading to their classes.

[thenixkat]

Animorphs notes 7.5 or Megamorphs 1

Book 7.5/ Megamorphs 1

Why does this format of an animorph book exist? Aren’t we supposed to be under the impression that the kids are writting diaries or someshit like that?

Starts with Jake

Again, not seperating the yeerks from their hosts is a very bad mentality to have

Also aparently Ax doesn’t get to be an animorph

ALso Ax skipps out on a lot of meetings. Granted the kids could show some consideration for Ax and meet in the woods

Rachel is going on a two day gymnastics trip

Tobias is an asshole and continues to over anthropomorphise animals. I havent forgoten him sneaking into Cassie’s family’s barn to eat the patients

...Cassie teh crow can and will go where ever it pleases after it recovers. Heck it might hunt Tobias down and mob him out of spite

Melissa’s going on the trip

Wow Jake, rude. Tobias can have romantic relationships even if his body remains a bird

Marco’s the kinda jerk to crash parties he wasnt invited to

Full moon

Cassie is psychic. WHich honestly I don’t doubt.

Rachel part

Are they… all going to give intros?

Not that Jake is without his own level of stupidity. I mean, he was right there with us,

walking through an isolated, abandoned construction site that night. Wasn't the smartest

thing we ever did.

I’ve not forgotten the flea thing from book 2

Rachel gets books for Tobias

...damnit Rachel you can’t just show up at a camp without letting peolple know ahead of time. They need warning gto make sure they have room and food for you

I was close to Tobias's territory when I spotted something interesting below me. It was a

deer-like animal, running swiftly through the trees. When I focused my laser-intensity eagle

sight, I could see the semihuman torso and face and the deadly scorpion tail.

Aximili

ANd this is why large predatory bird morphs aren’t great. Rachel getting mobbed

A bunch of small birds take down Rachel

Marco part

Honestly Marco sounds like some of the jackass class clowns I had in school, Darlene’s not wrong to not invite him

The kids ARE all going to give the intro talk

Marco that is a very confusing way to talk

Ax is right, this is dishonorable

That poor mouse

Ax has parasites. ANd Marco is extorting? him to help him be a creep b4 he’d give Ax medicine for them. Dick

Technically speaking none of the kids actually knows how the morphing tech works

When I was done acquiring the mouse I handed it to Ax. He had to use both hands to hold

on. Andalite arms and hands are kind of puny. Of course, they also have four legs, and

those are pretty strong. I mean, Ax can haul when he wants to. I'll bet he could do forty

miles an hour.

Baby arms

So the reason Marco wasn’t invited IS b/c he’s a dick

A bunch of jays took out Rachel

Part Jake? What?

That whent jake> rachel>marco>jake? Bullshit

You don’t have to go to a party if you don’t want to people

Why couldn’t this part be narrated by Cassie? She’s fucking here!

Jake is fucking ready, fight or flight

Marco and Ax are very lucky none of the kids or adults at the party try to crush them to death

Huh, Marco and Ax are lucky that none manages to crush them to death

Jake is ready to cuss the shit outta Marco

Accidental human pileup saves Jake’s life

Part… Marco? BULSTIT SHILSHSTSOSHS

AX IS RIGHT THERER LET HIM NARRATE YOU THINDER CUNTS

I hate this human centric bs and it fucking leaves out Cassie

Marco,,, cats are very good at NOT being seen. Ambush predators

Marco is a dick

Then I saw it. It was gigantic! Enormous! A creature that seemed to be made of nothing but

teeth and blades and destruction. It was like twenty Hork-Bajir glued together and given

dragon wings.

heh

Poor Darlene’s family

It looked down at us with a dozen weird eyes that seemed to be stuck here and there at

random. It stared at us the way I'd seen Tobias stare at his prey.

Part, sigh, Rachel

Rachel has amnesia

Ns somehow started morphing while unconcious

If you wonder if yer a freak and are that startled with yer apperance, then no that’s not always how you were

If you need to concentrate to morph, how’d u managed that far with a heavy concussion/unconciousness?

Part Tobias

Damnit they are all giving the intro speech

Huh, so marco and ax coulda gotten killed twice b4 they even got to the party

Also the fuck how is the yeerks covering the wind monster

Part fucking Rachel

...why is this creature wasting so much energy instead of just flowing around the trees

Like people are seeing this shit

Finally! Part Cassie

Cassie spotted cryptid Rachel in the news

Part Rachel. WHy not just have her narrate the whole book at this point?

There’s an excaped yeerk host living in an abandoned clothing shop in the woods

Well, thaty’s not an unreasonable response for an excaped host

Rachel got some memories beaten back intio her

Oh she might be one of the people who’s yeerk starved from the actions of last book

Part fucking Jake again

The kids are gonna track down Rachel by scent

The monster found them

Part rachel

Old lady is gonna burn down the shack, with Rachel inside, b/c she’s not going back to the yeerk pool

Rachel morphs bear without concentrating or intending to or even knowing how

These bootleg books are so bad. Part Marco

They’d be dead if the creature turned back to particle form and just reformed around their bodies

Part Rachel. Really this is mostly just Rachel/Jake/Marco as narrators. No attempt at equaly splitting up the plot

I looked at the new creature. It had come to a stop, just a dozen feet away. I peered at it

with my dim bear vision. It had four legs, like a horse or a deer. But it seemed to have a

head and upper body that was almost human. And there was a tail, I was sure of that. The

tail was cocked back like a weapon ready to be fired.

Andalite

Fifteen fucking chapters in and Ax finally gets to narrate

Ax does the intro speech

Ax says he’s not an animorph

Ax doesnt like having to be the space expert

Ax tucks his tail to his back to run fast

Ax is smart enought to know when standing yer ground is a terrible idea

Ax figured out that morphing attracts the beast.

Morphing has a distinct kind of energy signature

Part jake

Andalites have a distinct scent

Ok lots of animals can harm or kill a large bear. This is turning into a raptors are mahjestick thing

Tobias assumes that Ax tried to fight the creature. Tobias doesn’t really know Ax well enough

Part Cassie

Why are they at the mall?

AGain I wouldn’t be surprised if Cassie is supposed to be psychic

You don’t mean Chapman, you mean Iniss 226

Learning about history is useful in figuring out humans and with invasion plans Cassie

Part Ax

… do andalites even have battle axes? They dont have the arms for it

Once, the Hork-Bajir were a decent, peaceful race. Then they were enslaved by the Yeerks.

Hork-Bajir are incredibly dangerous and very powerful. They stand on two legs, balanced

by a tail. Each leg ends in a foot, like an Earth bird of prey. They have two arms. There are curved blades at their knees, at their elbows, at their wrists. Blades similar to my own tail-

blade. Atop their snakelike heads are two more blades, swept forward. And their tails end in long, sharp spikes.

They are not a species you want to start a fight with. Which may be why they were such a

peaceful, even poetic, species. They had no one to fear. Until the Yeerks began to make

them into Controllers.

The series did so much retconing

Again, I like the Parting the Clouds fic so much better. At least there someone tried to figure out how to use the aura power

Veleek is the dust monster, from Saturn

So the andalite bandits being human was a solid yeerk theory

Visser 3 continues to waste good bodies

Visser 3 throew a lot of bodies into getting a veleek pet

Part Cassie

Compund eyes dont work like that

Iniss 226 knows about spy novels and thinks they’re stupid

Iniss 226 is not a dumb yeerk

Also Visser 3 is the worst boss

Part rachel

Rachel is starting to put things together

Part Marco

The kids ar eputting 2 and 2 together

Part rachel

Rachel made it back to civilization

Rachel breaks into a house for food and rest’

Some snitchy bitch called the police

Rachel the elephant says fuck the police

Part jake

The kids steal Cassie’s dad’s truck

Part rachel

The veleek chases elephant Rachel

The veleek cant pick up an elephant

Part marco

Why do they have marco drive?

Also that poor truck

Jack morphs to lure the creature’s attention

Part jake

Why did jake choose tiger for being chased?

Part rachel

Doesnt quite have her memory back but ready to help

Part ax

Ax feels like a failure of a warrior

Suddenly, one wall of my cage shimmered and became transparent. Ramonite is a metal

that can stretch open or be made clear or opaque by molecular realignment.

Nice’

Ax is also racist towards taxxons

Visser 3 is a terrible boss

Part marco

That poor truck

Why choose gorrila for a chase?>

Part rachel

Cassie tries to fill the gaps fotr rachel

Part marco

Part cassie

Cassie chooses squirlle

Bug fighters are stooting at em

Part ax

So bug fighters and shit DO have cameras

Flea ex machina

Ax morphs one of his fleas

… theres no way in hell thast theres no bugs on the andalite homeworld

Thats not what a flea mouth is like

Ax says that andalites have a shit vertical jump

Part marco

The veleek caught him

Ax is on Visser 3

Ax is having a blast fucking up Visser 3’s day

Part ax

And only then, locked together with it, was I able to see it through my weak flea eyes. It

was alive! It was a creature my own size, but with a hundred minuscule wings that beat the

air. It had antennae, but different than any seen on Earth. These antennae were covered in

tiny, upturned bowls. Like the dishes of primitive human radio telescopes. Those were the

structures it used to sense energy sources.

There were no eyes. And no mouth. But two long filaments, like strands of wire, swept

back from the front of the creature. These must be how it fed: by channeling the energy

down the wires.

The Veleek was not one creature. It was billions! It was a swarm of billions of these tiny

creatures. They had evolved into a swarm that could come together and become a

destructive entity of gnashing teeth and slicing blades. But in reality they were separate

insectlike creatures that fed on energy.

Its a swarm of navivorous bugs

Water is the veleek’s weakness

Marco and Ax jump out of the ship

Part rachel

Her memory is mostly back

Hork-bajir have foot long blades on their head, that’s impoalement’

Part marco

Fear speads up thei morphing

Part jake

Jake is grounded

The team apparently whent home without knowing if marco and ax were alive

Part cassie

Cassie is psychic and can probably see the future

Cassie comes up with a plan that only she can do

To make up for almost getting marco killed

Part tobias

So did Cassie not have a whale morph already? DIdn’t marco get one when they’d met the psychic whales?

Or am I thinking of a fanfic?

Part cassie

Cassie is awesome

Cetaceans are just canon psychic

Part tobias

Cassie is a total badass

Part cassie

Rapid fire morphing

Falling whale body slam

Part rachel

So apparently the veleek never evaporates out of the ocean at any point later?

Cassie speaks whale . Cassie is the one chosen by the whales. All hail the whale messiah

[uozlulu]

Dumping some out of the blue oneshot fic thoughts here so I can empty my brain

BnHA manga spoilers below

Dabi vs Hawks ends in such a way Hawks is able to leave while taking an unconscious Twice with him, probably because some of the hero forces got to them or something 

The Hero Commission took some of Eri’s DNA before Aizawa adopted her since there would be ample opportunity for it when she was in the hospital and started analyzing it so they could make a counter to the dequirk bullets, kind of like a cold war one for one except they’ve got to experiment with them first you know (Aizawa of course doesn’t know this though he might suspect as much)

They inject Twice with the serum and he loses his quirk, but he’s still the same person because losing his quirk doesn’t mean he loses the damage done by his quirk

There’s another person involved with this experiment that everyone calls Cloud. He’s about Twice’s age and seems nice enough. 

Cloud is Shirakumo who’s been subjected to the drug more than once in an attempt to return him to the hero he used to be. He knows exactly who Twice is but keeps it to himself, possibly maybe so not to make things even harder for Twice? Not sure. 

The point of the fic is I think a window into this kind of horror, a look at what the Hero Commission's equivalent to a Nomu is, about the horror of losing a part of yourself even if it’s a part of yourself that was very destructive because it was you and had been you for so long or something? I also kind of want to explore Kurogiri being turned back into Shirakumo except he’s still kind of Kurogiri in that he’ll always have his memories of those fourteen years between dying, waking, and now becoming quirkless. 

Kind of vaguely thinking about ending it as Shigaraki, now with more power but also more control (because it would make sense to augment Shigaraki for more control over his power lbr) comes to Tartarus to free Kurogiri but finds Twice and Cloud instead. 

And Twice is conflicted because like he couldn’t have really gotten through this without Cloud, but at the same time he blames himself for Magne’s death and all the drama with Hawks so he’s not sure if he can really trust his own judgment. 

And Shigaraki stares at Shirakumo for a long moment because ultimately it’s his call. And Shirakumo stares back never wavering. 

And I’m not sure what happens next exactly but I would like to think whether Shigaraki recognizes him as Kurogiri or figures that this is a person the Hero Commission was fucking with so they’re worth taking a chance on, they all go home together or something. 

Shirakumo goes with them because he has all his memories, they are his family, and through his experiences he understands their bs society needs to change. It’s not so much he’s going to embrace villainy but more like he’s going to become someone who’s the villain equivalent of a vigilante? I don’t know how to put it. Still cooking.

Now the real trick is feeling confident to write this. I might have to sit on it a little or maybe I’ll surprise myself in the morning. We’ll see how it goes