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Bonus Mitch because he looks insanely hot in that shirt:

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[gulliblelemon]

Young Royals Fic Recommendations 2

I have been reading even more fan fiction recently so I thought I'd do another (even longer) favourites list. My first one is here if you're interested! Some are newer fics, but some are also from a while ago that I've only just got round to reading (I have a bit of a chaotic system - sorry!)

(I’ve included tumblr usernames if I know them, someone let me know if I’ve missed any and I'll add them in).

Part 3, Part 4 now up.

obviously by grapehyasynth @grapehyasynth 124k words. Complete. Rating: M Normal People AU. Wille and Simon meet at school and start a secret relationship. The story follows their lives as they change and grow and meet again.

The road not taken looks real good now by stretchoutandwait @stretchoutfics 90k words. Complete. Rating: E Twenty two years after season 1, King Wilhelm has a wife and three kids and doesn't expect to see Simon again - until he does. (Honourable mention to Ex by the same author).

Protected by bastuba 44k words. Complete. Rated: M Wille has moved to New York for Uni. Simon is assigned as his new bodyguard. (The story has been expanded in one shots, my favourite of which is Interview).

Fuck The Monarchy by itsme_hi_imtheproblem @iwouldnevergetintofanfic 68k words. Complete. Rating: E Simon and Wille meet when they both intern at the Riksdag. (Honourable mention to I love the way you lie by the same author).

Almost Is Never Enough by this_time_its_just_me @in-amor-veritas 211k words. Complete. Rating: E Non-royal AU. Simon meets Wille again years after school when he starts a job at Wille's place of work. (Honourable mention to We Left Footprints When We Passed By by the same author).

you can stay by origamifrogs @princewillesothermom 23k words. Complete. Rating: E. Non-royal AU. Wille and Simon shared a childhood treehouse. Snapshots of their lives together.

No Tomorrow by p_brown @p-brown-writes 31k words. Complete. Rating: M Wille loses his memory of his and Simon's break up. Simon is called to help him remember the last few years.

Can We Just Pretend? by scissorsandstone 9k words. Complete. Rating: E Simon POV for the curtains scene in S2E5 (Simon is more conflicted than in canon).

Better With You by Spidaya @simons-purplehoodie 52k words. Complete. Rating: M Non-royal AU. Simon works as Wille's assistant at a music production company.

You Are Unbreaking by unfortunate17 @unfortunate17 38k words. Complete. Rating: E Medieval AU where Simon marries Wille in the hope of assassinating him. (Honourable mention to Stairway To Heaven by the same author)

Ace Of Hearts by Whiterabbit11 14k words. Complete. Rating: G Outsider POV vignettes of Wilmon through their Hillerska years.

perhaps more by willesworld @willesworld 28k words. Complete. Rating: T Non-royal AU. Wilhelm and Simon meet at an intensive summer program for aspiring writers.

i will, tonight by witchjeons @pleuvian 27k words. Complete. Rating: E Simon and Wilhelm meet in an antique store.

like he hung the moon and the stars in the sky 1.5k words. Complete. Rating: G Young Simon is infatuated with Young Prince Wilhelm on the TV. (Also has a lovely sequel).

finding home by Elin98 @ishotforthestars 19k words. WIP. Rating: G Prince Wilhelm disappears. Simon is trying to get on with his life.

I would drive on (to the end with you) by ceramicclown (@glassdollls) 127k words. WIP 14/15 chapters. Not rated. Non-royal AU. Simon and Wille meet at Hillerska, Simon offers to drive Wilhelm when his car breaks. They strike a deal to pretend to date.

[saturdaysky]

Midst s2e5: Sugarcoat

"Moc Weepe is in a bathrobe." Yes i DO love juxtaposing brutal characters and dystopian settings with mundane, silly, and pleasant things, why do you ask! This episode starting strong

I would love to stay the day in this gorgeous penthouse solarium if only it weren't something awarded and available to winners of the seriously fucked up Trust system. can't win 'em all, i guess

A bulletproof city floating in a glassy, deadly cloud. Everything is beautiful and armored. The city is named The Highest Light, which is lovely and also still giving me serious Sunless Skies Clockwork Sun vibes

peepaw weepe can't use the fancy telecom

peepaw weepe also doesn't know what brunch is

a huge golden statue of Jonas Spahr adorns this promenade! No pressure, Jonas

"Weepe notices a distinct lack of anything resembling poverty" hmmmm

"a basket of dried crispy flower petals as an appetizer" something you may not know about me is that my favorite flavors of anything are the ones that sound like they should be printed on a shampoo bottle. I want to eat this appetizer

"a bitter floral dirt flavor" okay they had me until dirt, nevermind

It makes so much sense that greenery would be conspicuous consumption for a city that floats in a deadly glass sky

"Caenum is not a crime. It is simply...the potential to repay." WOW. It feels very relevant that the very first appearance of the Trust on-screen was someone so deeply in debt he kidnapped some official's son to try and get out from under it

"Positivity is what gets me up in the morning every day. I get out of bed and I think to myself, 'what am I gonna do to make everything better?'" I laughed aloud at this being said by Moc Weepe of all people

I think Imelda truly enjoys torturing Moc Weepe with things like brunches and day spas

"I'll have a mani-pedi as well. What does that taste like?" it's kind of endearing seeing this brutal frontier power broker so thoroughly out of his element

[msmoiraine]

This one screencap of Claire that lives in my mind rent-free proves to me that Carmy and Claire were just not meant to be.

This shot is at the end of 'Pop' (S2E5) after Carmy gets everyone to leave when he brings Claire to The Bear for the first time. Everything about this shot screams to me that Carmy and Claire aren't meant to be because the window of time for Carmy and Claire has passed. That is literally what this shot is Yelling at me. Claire being framed in the window, the giant clock reading 11:18, even the lyrics of the line that's played over this song, they all say that "this is a wishful thing of the past" to me.

Claire is from Carmy's childhood and the past that he left behind when he started his journey to become a chef. That journey brought him back to his family's struggling restaurant which he is currently renovating and rebuilding into a NEW restaurant where he intends to be the Executive Chef for the foreseeable future. Claire being framed in the window symbolizes how she is a window to his past that is looking in on his future (the new restaurant). The giant clock in the lower centre of the shot reads 11:18, six minutes past the magical 11:11. We've all heard the saying "it's 11:11, make a wish" and a relationship with Claire was what Carmy wished for (past tense) when he was growing up. Now that he's grown, the time has passed and he's no longer pining for Claire the way he was. He's literally looking at her through a window to his past wishes.

The song used in this scene and the surrounding ones is Can't Hardly Wait by The Replacements (tbh idk this song outside of the show and haven't listened to it beyond watching this episode) and the line that plays over this scene goes, "see, you're high and lonesome" which sounds to me very much like a wishing star, standing out high in the night sky. The star that's so far away and unattainable no matter how familiar it is to see it night after night. And when you look at it, you remember all the wishes you've ever made and all the things you used to want, even if you've grown out of wanting them. Claire is a wish Carmy used to make, and every time he sees her, he remembers his old crush on her (also everyone around him remembers too (staring at you Richie and Fak).

But Carmy also wished he could work at The Bear with Mikey, and now Mikey's gone and Carmy is going to be the Executive Chef at The Bear for the foreseeable future. With Sydney, his partner. So while Claire is a wish from the past, Sydney and the Bear are his very real and concrete future.

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ofmd s2e2 rewatch where i pause to jot down my thoughts and other random shit

not quite a reaction post, not quite a liveblog. this post is gonna be unpolished and messy bc this is the only way i know to process my emotions abt these episodes enough that i can actually start talking coherently about them.

s2e1, s2e2, s2e3, s2e4, s2e5, s2e6, s2e7, s2e8

did not notice the first time around that buttons is sleeping with his legs sticking up resting against the side of the ship. king.

WHY DID THEY USE A DIFFERENT TAKE OF THE YOU WEAR FINE THINGS WELL SCENE WHAT PURPOSE DOES THIS SERVE. THIS HAS BEEN BOTHERING ME FOR DAYS.

oh god the face stede makes after he breathes out all wistfully is so pained... ogughuhg heartbreak......

why is the groom cake topper dirty ed were you kissing it. ed. edward.

hNNNG ed pushing the painted bride figurine closer..... im gonna throw up

ed!! rolling over and crying!!! TAIKA HOW ARE YOU SO GOOD AT LOOKING SO FUCKING SAD THIS SHIT HURTS ME

like i can literally feel the tears burning in his eyes. the way his chest starts shaking with sobs but he's managing to keep the sobs in for like one more second. he's trying so hard to hold it in and i've cried like this before and it physically HURTS

also oughg the song. run from me baby... run my good wife... run from me baby..... you better run for your life........ ED THINKS THAT'S WHAT STEDE DID!!! RAN AWAY FROM HIM!!!!! and he thinks that was stede running for his life bc like, he thinks he's inherently monstrous and unlovable and hnnnnnnnnngggg. ed teach go to therapy challenge.

the crew responding to zheng's wake-up bell is so relatable. me when my alarm goes off at 6am

ok so the running bit where stede's crew has never heard of China before. is kinda weird to me. and honestly it kinda runs back to what zheng said in the last episode "one thing i've learned in my time here: you people know so little" about nobody knowing how valuable indigo is. like the show is portraying your average caribbean pirate as really ignorant and only like, ed stede and fucking ricky are on par with zheng yi sao. and i mean knowledge doesnt equate to intelligence so like the indigo thing i didnt really bat an eye at but when it was played for comedy with olu not knowing how to pronounce china i was like... hm. but the season's just started so maybe im reading too much into it but idk. it's a weird writing choice to me.

loving how at the start of last season the crew almost mutinied bc stede was a soft captain but now roach is out here embracing how all of them are "tender as hell."

love how lucius and pete have their romantic reunion chat just. fully in front of an audience

stede looks. so upset. watching lupete kiss. this man misses his boyfriend so fucking bad

lucius not even trying to hide how much he Does Not want to be stuck with stede in towels

also hi the sky in this scene is so pink. it was blue when buttons was doing tai chi so i guess this is sunset. day one complete.

buttons confirmed sea witch one of the best scenes in s2 so far. intrigued by auntie saying "i have looked for you far and wide" like are there other sea witches and auntie only wanted buttons?? or is buttons literally the only sea witch in the world. i want the lore.

ed. eddie eddie edward. ed my beloved babygirl. i would fuckinggg die for you

ok but also there is literally no way frenchie didnt see ed when he walked in like ed is standing Right There. i love when directors do stuff like this tho it's so funny to me. "ok joel just walk in there and pretend like you dont see taika standing literally right in front of you"

just noticed ed was polishing the handle to the wardrobe (the main wardrobe) right there. he's tidying up. getting his affairs in order before he— *i break down into inconsolable sobbing*

i wont like tho it was very funny to me when we finally got this full scene and ed's "and no more stede" turned out to be "no more izzy." very fun for me

god i LOVE when we get pirate code shit. none of these rules ever make sense it's always just whatever works for the plot's sake. "that's the code of the sea: the new first mate always kills the old first mate. it's always been like that" i don't think it was literally ever like that i think the writers decided that making up this bullshit rule would add drama to the situation. it's like how pirates can win duels by rendering their opponent's sword inoperable (as if pirates ever had like ritualistic duels). or next episode when zheng yi sao is gonna kill them for mutinying against ed. i love how all the logistics of the plot are always some handwavy-bullshit bc the show just Does Not Care about this shit. this is the ed and stede show and everything else is just superfluous set dressing

we were all fixated on lucius living in the walls none of us predicted that it could be izzy living in the walls

"start with his leg see where it goes" frenchie what does this MEAN

archie thinking jim was asking which leg to cut off and just. answering the question genuinely. is so fucking real lmao me too girl

JIM PUTTING THEIR HAND OVER ARCHIE'S TO BRACE THEMSELF BEFORE THEY START CUTTING INTO IZZY'S LEG... the romances on this show are unparalleled

archie when izzy's leg starts gushing: aye yai yai!

stede telling everyone in laundry abt his whole romance with blackbeard. and stede telling zheng and auntie abt blackbeard when he thought they were just soup sellers. you KNOW stede's been telling literally everyone he meets abt how he's looking for his beloved ed.

lol ok but cuba was not written on the map in the one shot and then stede says "oh, hang on, he might be in cuba!" and it cuts back to the map and he underlines the word "cuba" which somehow mysteriously appeared on the map while stede was chatting. 10/10 no notes

also GOD do i relate to stede so hard sometimes. it did not even occur to stede to ask lucius how he's been until lucius points it out and then he's like "oh! right! how are you??" and he does genuinely care but he was just so absorbed in his own shit it did not occur to him to ask. like. ohhhh baby does that hit home

LUCIUS DRAMATICALLY PAUSING IN THE DOORWAY WHEN STEDE TELLS HIM TO WAIT. HIS HANDS ON EITHER SIDE OF THE DOOR AND HIS HEAD BENT. THIS FUCKING DRAMA QUEEN I LOVE HIM!!!!

LLOOKING OVER HIS SHOULDER "oh, yeah. now you care?" AND THNE SHAKING HIS HEAD AS HE WALKS AWAY god i LOVE this soap opera

ok but buttons looks very confused when auntie says "i see you've adopted the humble form of a man" and then she hands him the book abt shapeshifting. like did she know that he doesnt know how to change form or what.

auntie asks buttons to bless their travels. anyway this is how stede somehow didnt get everyone killed in e1 despite the fact that they were at sea for a few months and he had no idea what the fuck he was doing.

LOVE auntie's little... yell? whimper?? before shuffling away nervously. incredible performance.

also the spellbook thing is in chinese. pretty cool how buttons knows how to read chinese.

ed jumpscare 2!

frenchie's "fire away. not literally, i hope" I MISSED THAT THE FIRST TIME KJSGHKFJDGHJHK WHAT A GREAT FUCKING LINE

love how irl frenchie using the wrong hand for that throat-slitting pantomime would be unimportant but the show acts like that's something that could actually give frenchie away bc they need to really nail home the fact that Ed Is A Fucking Genius

another thing ed is: INCREDIBLY HOT. he is being intimidating and evil to frenchie rn and i am very very into it.

obsessed with archie casually picking some random gore off her hand

also obsessed with how jim is just poking at izzy's leg. they learned how to butcher animals as a kid tho so i guess they're not really grossed out by severed body parts lmaoo

also also obsessed with how izzy would absolutely have not survived this at all. i love this show

list part 2:

ok im sorry but "he's our dick" does not feel earned to me. like they use that fantastic shot of the whole crew in episode 6 last season but what's crucial abt that shot is izzy isn't hanging out with the crew. he's sitting away in the corner monologuing abt how he thinks maybe ed might not want to kill stede.

i do think it's significant tho that jim wasn't there for izzy at his worst aka threatening to withhold rations for laughing at him. like they weren't part of the vote to mutiny against izzy. but frenchie was and frenchie was like "start with his leg see where it goes" which does not seem like he's really that invested in keeping izzy alive.

also it's weird how we don't see fang at all for this bit with hiding izzy in the walls. like he would be the one i'd expect to have the strongest connection to izzy bc he knew izzy before the show started and he was hugging and comforting izzy last episode.

anyway imo jim keeping izzy alive is more abt them missing when they were on the ship with olu and the whole crew and the ship was like a family, not necessarily abt feeling loyalty to izzy specifically. i could be wrong tho who knows.

one thing i do know is that it is VERY important to point out how jim is struggling really hard with everything, archie is not. she wasnt there for the co-captaining era at all and she seems to be rolling with everything like it's all expected. this includes the wedding raid and ed pointing a gun at her last season and stuff. even now she's mostly just confused by why jim is bothering to try and keep izzy alive. but she acts like the amputation and the violence are all what she expected.

yay kissing!! with the shit stuffed up their nose and covered in blood and jim still holding the leg GOD I LOVE THIS SHOW

hnng when archie says "you have... hope" jim's jaw tenses and they visibly swallow after the word "hope." god jim is going through it

"the wooden demon boy that thirsted for life" god i love this game of telephone that the show is playing with pinocchio it's so fucking funny

archie definitely still says a few syllables after "no i was cleaning up blood" while jim was leaning in for another kiss but none of it forms a coherent word. relatable.

ed's "ohhhhohoho. ohoho" is so funny to me. this man is so jealous that other people are getting to kiss ppl they like but not him.

hm archie and jim are not actually kissing when we cut to the shot of ed standing in the stairwell. i imagine this is an editing goof or something

jim and archie pulling away like two kids who got caught kissing under the bleachers during gym class or something. incredible. one of jim's nose plug rags is mysteriously missing now. i think archie ate it.

ed shushing frenchie. nothing to say here but "i need him carnally"

"take the fuckin leg" ed does NOT like mess!!!

"he was your friend" well jim. he might have been ed's friend. but he had a very strange way of showing it.

why does it sound like ed has spurs on his boots

OLU IS SO CUTE I CANT BLAME ZHENG FOR BEING LIKE "you're doing so good at filing thanks so much!!" WHEN HE'S ACTIVELY FUCKING EVERYTHING UP

also. i want to know about auntie's filing system. ahead of it's time, you say?? tell me more. hi my name is jess and i love sorting things

ah yeah olu mispronouncing china moment

olu and zheng are cute tho ngl

roach is having an orgasmic experience drinking soup. very relatable.

love that stede called the broth "insane" like fics so often get stede's voice wrong bc he will randomly say casual slang in a way that contradicts his general s1 vibe of stuffy frilly rich guy. but he's more like your average dad whose general grammar when speaking is pretty outdated but he's also trying to use slang to fit in with his kids

oh god stede is trying so hard with lucius it is giving SUCH awkward dad vibes. "when i was young and edgy" and "mr. cool" STEEEEDE

"my spicy little rat boy" im so sad that lucius hates that pet name bc this is the funniest thing black pete's ever said

aw nooooo the way pete jumps when lucius yells at him :(:(:(

yo wee john has like a wristband with all these sewing needles and shit stuck on it that's such a cool costume detail

the first thing izzy says after waking up is "my leg" and in my head im hearing it in the spongebob meme voice

first: very funny how ed responds "yeah!" like, laughing about the whole. amputation thing. and then secondly i am obsessed with "up in Leg Heaven" he is so fucking quirky. i love him.

"have you come to take the other one" yeah you'd probably enjoy that huh izzy.

love ed's dangly earring. gender.

smthng abt how izzy is instantly exhausted and dismissive when ed tells izzy to take the gun vs how ed was also bored and dismissive when izzy said "i have love for you." idk if there's anything there im just making tenuous connections in my head rn

help. ed clenching his fists when he's standing with his back to izzy. he really wants izzy to do it but also even deeper than that he really doesn't he wants to live

izzy starts to laugh the same way he started to cry last episode with like a really loud sudden gasp of air. also he laughs so weirdly jesus christ

also jesus this is so fucking dark. i mean obviously but im fucking reeling right now from ed trying to get izzy to kill him and izzy's response is just "do it yourself you fucking pussy." fuck.

more thoughts on this scene here

"i loved you... best i could" i actually dont have a lot of thoughts abt this at all aside from it just seems like a weird thing for ed to say. idk. i have a few metas abt this saved that ive been meaning to read so maybe that will help me deconstruct this but i think i'd need more time to figure out why this line feels weird to me. it could literally just be that i dont like blackhands at all but idk. probably not gonna unpack my feelings for a while tho bc in terms of everything i want to dig into from these 3 episodes alone this is at the bottom of that list lol

love how ed tells frenchie "go live" right before he steers them into a storm and tries to doom everyone on the ship.

"two messed-up kids probably" i know this is one of those things that some viewers are just always gonna have a problem with but it's so fucking funny to me how stede is like. never seeing his children again. and is like "yeah they're probably traumatized by how i was a bad father. well that's for mary and doug to deal with!"

lucius winking when he calls stede quite the fuck-up. i love this snarky gay

anyway for how fucked up the vibe is on ed's ship at least they weren't playing human puppet or making people catch rats with their teeth

shit this is longer than the last post. anyway list part 3:

ok i completely forgot abt this scene where the crew back on the Revenge is talking in the hallway before they go confront ed but i think it's rlly interesting how jim is the only one who says anything abt how ed's sudden cheery mood is NOT a good thing. fang is like "do we think he's better?" and jim's like "fuck no!" and frenchie's like "idk he seemed pretty calm to me." like this is so fucking juicy to me. jim knew this wasn't "better." i think this is because jim kinda gets it. they know what it's like to be told you're only meant for violence. and they know what it's like to want something softer. last season i probably wouldnt have said jim understood ed's suicidal tendencies but the way jim KNOWS that this isnt better makes me wonder if they understand this, too.

altho when they go outside and ed is like "it's a bad storm! and i took the wheel! and im gonna fire into the mast! we're all gonna die!!" jim yells "what do you want, you piece of shit!" (in spanish) so maybe they dont get the suicide bit of it. but they did understand that ed wasn't better.

oh ed's voice in "what do i want?" is so whiny and sad. babygirl is fucking going through it. good thing the rain is hiding his tears ahaha. ha.

"all love dies im just hastening the process" objectively this is fucked up but also it is so funny to me that he's like "i got dumped so now nobody else is allowed to be happy and in love." he broke up all the couples at the end of s1 and he raided a fucking wedding. babygirl i love you. you are so unwell

VERY RANDOM THOUGHT and i would have to go back to last episode double check but i dont think any of the background crew are women?? it's just archie??? which kinda bums me out a bit like i dont only want female rep in the main cast i want to see random background women too. i could be entirely wrong abt this tho just in this scene i only see dudes in the background

anyway archie being like "alright i guess we're fighting" bc this is archie's normal. archie is just kinda resigned to her life being shit.

stede crossing out "dead" and circling "alive" is so fucking funny to me hfjkhdjvgdfjk like. manifesting.

but also he does kinda manifest that in the next episode doesnt he?? he loves ed back to life ahaha oh god oh fuck *starts sobbing*

"looks like he's gotten back into arson" okay and??? wee john's an arson enthusiast also, cmon lucius dont judge a man for his hobbies

stede's fucking face when he considers what lucius said abt "maybe his time with you is the best it's gonna get for him" like i think he tries to think abt it and just. cant. he cant fucking accept that. god im gonna throw up.

HNNNNG THE RUN FROM ME SONG COMING BACK IM GONNA LOSE MY SHIT

i cant get over how archie is like. yeah bro it's fine. it's cool just kill me im not gonna hold it against you.

jim's like "YOU WERE GONNA DO IT ANYWAY!!" and ed's like "teehee yeah :3 u got me"

oh bro some of the random background crew people just fully go overboard huh. damn. rip those guys.

ok so im choosing to believe that izzy fired a lucky shot there bc the man couldn't even shoot himself point blank in the skull but im supposed to believe that he got ed right in the arm from the other side of the deck in the middle of a crazy storm and the ship rocking like crazy and izzy's probably suffering from like, insane amounts of blood loss?? i dont buy it. i mean it doesnt matter at all but i think he was trying to hit ed's general torso area and if ed didnt have his arm held out izzy would've missed. like i said tho this makes no fucking difference. it's just a fun little headcanon hehe

love how ed laughs like an absolute maniac here. babygirl u are so unhinged.

wait it's fucking wild how in the middle of all this we to cut to auntie putting the map back together and then we see that zheng is bringing her fleet over land. anyway this is foreshadowing obviously but like considering the song choice and cutting this between ed's suicide attempt and then the crew mutinying. is a choice. and idk why they made that choice yet.

it is a pretty dramatic reveal tho. i didnt appreciate that the first time but holy shit. she's just pulling her ships all the way to the caribbean. girlboss.

and then the mutiny. the relief on ed's face hurts me so fucking much

other thoughs about this scene here

HOLY SHIT THIS POST CREDITS SCENE AHHHHHH

so first of all. auntie saying olu can be allowed to clean up random hairs around the desk and zheng being like "there's not that much hair" girl you know you're lying. her hair is so long and so gorgeous and you KNOW random strands end up making scary-ass hair spiders if somebody doesn't regularly sweep things up

second of all: olu pretending there's a carrier bird with a messege for zeng to give her a break is SO CUTE. OLU. OLU YOU ARE SUCH A SWEETHEART.

[valentinsylve]

@red-sky-in-mourning , you'll never guess. I am finally binging the living daylights out of ofmd. I am. Obsessed. I invite you to guess my favorite interpersonal dynamic. I'm in the middle of S2E5, if that gives you a hint 😏

[beigepants]

one tdp theory i will never let go is that,

A) Queen Sarai was magic

B) Callum’s father is/was magic

Either way, it explains Callum’s ability to tap into the sky AND water arcana, and also Sarai’s disdain towards Harrow’s decision to kill the magma titan in s2e5 “you keep calling it a monster, is it intelligent, does it have a family, yadayadayada”

[asgoodeasgold]

"My father doesn't trust humans to sort out the mess they find themselves in." A pensive Matthew explains to Diana why Philip meddles in politics. It seems like Philip has got us sussed out (sadly).

Matthew Goode's lit up profile is a thing of beauty.

📷 Sky A Discovery of Witches (2021) s2e5 my edit

[suchamiracle-does-exist]

II-WO Julius Fischer & Obersteuermann Eugen Strelitz of Das Boot (S2E5, 2020)

© Sky

[skloomdumpster]

I'm also due a rewatch but maaaybe farah told him that bloom found out about it? With the return of the burned ones (plural) and the fact they were lurking so close to alfea it's possible aster dell was at the front of his mind again and he couldn't take it anymore.... but i do agree that sky's life being in danger added to that. Also, rosalind had already escaped by then right?

(As a side note, i just realised that saul and sky's house was probably outside of alfea's protective barrier right? Or was it in alfean ground?)

Thank you anon!

@astrid-v, @lustrouswhite and @junkshop-disco Also agreed and pointed out that it was due to Rosalind escaping and him now being aware he either told Sky in his own terms or Sky found out in less than ideal circumstances.

About Sky and Saul's house... It SEEMS it's outside the barrier. We see them driving off a mountain to get to the house and it was nowhere near what we see in s1 as "inside the barrier". That said, canon is very loose in this part and when Bloom blows the barrier in s2e5, we see it's diameter is gigantic. So for fic purposes you could definitely write the house inside the barrier.

Regardless, it just boggles my mind that by what canon says only the school is behind the barrier and that means Saul's house and the whole village of Blackbridge are outside of it?? Insane. You create a protective barrier and then you're like "we should protect this 200 teenagers, not the whole village that provides it with supplies or the staff houses" . Crazy

[blairsanne]

Dean O'Gorman as Dean in S2E5 of Big Sky S2E5 first aired January 30, 1999

[whenshesayshush]

hi, guess who? your secret santa came back to thank you for putting so much effort and love into answering the previous ask

can neither deny nor confirm if i had been involved into creating the playlist but i'm certainly no stranger to some of the songs

i was looking more for the headcanons that are simple and somewhat childish but still essential for understanding the character as in his preferences (color, music) or type of a person (zodiac sign, mbti and similar), any kind of associations are also fine

you gave me enough of them but if there's still something to unleash i'm all ears

also i'd want you to go back to the question about the scenes you consider show riven's personality best and pick a quote or two or three you like the most

can be from other scenes too but the ones you've already named rely so much on the conversation part that it feels right to pick some lines from those ones

Welcome back, dear Santa! It's been my pleasure, hope you enjoy the playlist!

I've been wondering how to answer this next ask in line with the previous ones — film myself re-enacting the quotes, perhaps? But alas, I'm not a good actor, and I disagree with people who say I have a nice voice, so I won't be recording an audio performance either🙊 I'm actually having a really busy week, and I don't want to make you wait any longer, so I'll just answer this one the regular way and hope you're not too bitterly disappointed:

S1E3: the sparring scene and the ensuing conversation where he tries to actually be a friend to Sky always struck me as quite genuine for S1 Riven

"What, Riven gets a compliment and all of a sudden Silva has brain damage?"

S1E4: the argument with Sky where we learned a lot about his underlying motivations

"She's the only person in this damn school who likes me as is."

S2E1: the scene where he expresses doubts about Silva’s punishment and keeps his mouth shut when he sees the escape attempt happening

"Do you really have no doubts? How the hell do you have no doubts?"

S2E5: whether you choose to see it as shippy or not, the conversation he has with Musa on the running tracks is genuinely caring and honest

"Your life is your life. You can live it how you want. Fսck everybody else."

I will say though, although I would consider these the quotes I like most from those scenes, I wouldn't say they're my favorite Riven quotes in general, so here's a few contenders for that as well:

"Fun fact: if everyone around you is a nightmare, it’s not them." (S01E03)

"Oh I'm sorry, I'll be more delicate next time I'm saving your ass from fucking monsters." (S02E05)

"Specialists aren't just randoms who are picked up off the street. We're selected. We train for years. And you think you can just come here and in a couple of days figure it out? It's insulting. You could get hurt, Musa. Or worse, killed. And it's dangerous to everyone else. So go ahead, play dress up. It's not like there's more important things going on." (S02E06)

As always, I'll be here if there's more you want to know, dear Santa! And I hope you're having fun working on your HEX because that's the most important thing💕

[helielune]

i think a few poll-takers had some prior knowledge of infinity train coming into this lol but the answer is:

4 - main character gets transformed into cat-human hybrid in a cannon misfiring did not happen! if you thought it did, it's probably a fanfic

and now i am here to bestow upon you the answers in glorious Actual Video Proof (actually gifs). not all items are perfectly encapsulable into video clips but hopefully the subtitles help. i'm putting them under the cut in case you don't want Visual Spoilers but if you do it's all here!!!

1 - s2e5 The Parasite Car

2 - s3e8 The Hey Ho Whoa Car

your connection's fine, this one's just a plain image bc it's not so much an event as. a proof of fact i guess

3 - s3e5 The Color Clock Car

i'm just remembering how people would talk about the absolutely batshit juxtaposition between episode names and their actual content. also you're just gonna have to trust me on the 'mother figure' part sorry the gif would've been too long

5 - s2e5 The Parasite Car

his name is jesse and he's great. the judge is of course voiced by an irl drag queen (BeBe Zahara Benet) :)

6 - s4e9 The Castle Car

7 - s2e1 The Black Market Car

yall the gender euphoria this entire scene gives me For [Them] goes SO hard

8 - s1e8 The Ball Pit Car

:((. don't worry about it guys. he's fine. he's totally fine. easiest transmutation to bounce back from

9 - s4e4 The Pig Baby Car

10 - s2e10 The Number Car

this is why s2 was my favorite at the beginning

anyway hope u all had fun and watch infinity train!!!!!!

if ur in australia or the uk i heard sky might have it for real but otherwise u purchase the seasons from like. amazon or something. or hoist up your sails

for all those who have never watched infinity train! (if you have seen it just wait a week ok? ok)

[abriefingwithmichael]

“Slow Horses” s2e5 (2022)

Another exceptional episode. Nail-biting tension. An astonishing number of balls in the air here. All pivotal. Episodes like this are when the show reminds me most of Twenty Four.

We get some answers here. Some things are clearer. But there are big questions remaining...

And it looks as if the sky is about to come crashing down.

10/10

[you-are-the-law]

Eon: One of you might have failed their entrance exams.

Spyro: That’s probably me

Eon: Oh wait; One of you actually broke the world record on your entrance exam.

Also Spyro: That’s probably me.