#speckulators

[speckaboo]

this might be a wild take but something I noticed about The Magnus Protocol is that we haven't seen ANY statements about the Web so far. Like no spiders or manipulation whatsoever. The lines between Fears seem more blurred in TMP but we've had loneliness and bloody violence and ceaseless watching so they're still around, there's just new stuff now too. But you know who seems to be trying to manipulate things behind the scenes in order to stay in control of all the horrors and keep them in check? The OIAR.

[sweet-sexy-small]

Is it bad I’m still on team Evan..... like the girls don’t deserve to be harassed at their work obviously but like 90% of the problems were with their co-workers who got fired, the pay wage which Evan didn’t even know about but then sought to fix and idk who this imaginary board is but they seem to cause some shit which still is out of Evan’s hands like he didn’t do the best at running his company but it’s not like he said que sera, he was and is trying his best!!!!!!!!

[speckulators]

[tfc2211]

The Speckulations: Walking The Dog In The Midnight Hour With The Speckulations (1966)

[iloveevanspeck]

I knew it had to be a dream but I still squealed.

[anonynaomi]

Good Trouble 1 x 13

LET ME PUT THIS OUT THERE YOU GUYS.

I hate the fact that they sunk Evan and Mariana (my Maraj heart loved it tho)

HOWEVER,

I don’t care what they do with Callie or Gael or whoever but they BETTER NOT, and I repeat THEY BETTER NOT, ruin Evan or his character.

EVAN DESERVES TO BE UNDERSTOOD AND DESERVES SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS HIM AND I DONT WANNA FIND OUT THAT HE’S ACTUALLY GUILTY. IT BETTER ALL BE A MISUNDERTSANDING BECAUSE I DONT GET ANYTHING THEY’RE TRYNA DO.

I. WILL. PROTECT. EVAN. SPECK.

honestly, I hope he gets a satisfying storyline that does him justice.

ONE WORD: WHOLESOME

[madlilsongbird]

Evan being Evan just makes me smile for some unknown reason

[lingeringscars]

"They truly are the yin to each other’s yang, and she really, really admires Callie’s opinion on things, and Callie is always there for her in ways that she needs."

“I think this season, you have seen Mariana really kind of be compartmentalized from what exactly happened to her"

“She’s keeping herself busy with the idea of being needed by people. She wants Evan to need her and to help at Speckulate. She wants Joaquin to need her help with looking for Madison, and she’s not really listening to her own feelings. She’s kind of been pushing them down for a while.”

[infinitemusicplaying]

Sooo on this week of Good Trouble: not only did Mariana's fake ass friends kick her to the curb on a company she basically started, they accept her back to give her a second chance on the condition thay she is as an employee. If that wasn't wack enough as is, they don't even have the confidence as partners of a group to make pitches and connections for themseleves. Once again, they are using Mariana's peak conversational skills to get a meeting with Zelda and her boss, all the while barely thanking Mariana and took her chair basically shuffling her to the back... oh oh but also requiring the code for the whole shebang..... Honestly while BB may have been a good idea, Marina should leave them behind, given now she has an additional choice with what looks like could be BB's competition and be project leader.

It may be fucked but these girls got a hell of a nerve to be talking about loyalty meanwhile one of the girls of dating Mariana's ex and them not even having confidence to pitch things for themselves because if I remeber one of them just sucking at picthing things.

Also these girls really act like they didnt follow Mariana out of Speckulate due to the toxic environment they faced.. because if it wasnt for her they'd all still be there suffering and hating life because they lack confidence to do anything for themselves whatsoever. I again understand why they are upset with her but I think they took it to the extremes by literally removing her from the group.

[thetypologymodel-archived]

Good Trouble | Mariana Adams Foster: ESTP / 7w6

Well, you may be able to play that game, but they want to know what it’s like to work here. I’m gonna tell them. And if I get fired, then at least someone had the guts to speak up.

Perceiving Functional Axis: Se/Ni

Mariana walks into Speckulate, upbeat and ready to work hard, but when it doesn’t work out, she’s not above spending all night partying, wasting her money on clothes and furniture, and accruing debt. She’s bold, adventurous, and willing to jump head-first into doing new things (pitching her ideas to Evan even though she’s new; agreeing to have a threesome when she’s put on the spot.) Mariana is determined to change the work culture at Speckulate and takes immediate, concrete steps to do so. First, creating a Women’s Fight Club and then releasing their salary information. Mariana is smart and fearless, but she’s not good at assessing the consequences of her actions; sometimes it never even occurs to her until someone points it out to her (she doesn’t consider what it would mean for her and her Latinx coworker if she ticks the race box until her coworker explains it to her.)

Judging Functional Axis: Ti/Fe

Mariana is more than comfortable working a situation to her advantage or finding loopholes that will allow her to do so. She’s satisfied with cashing her paychecks and doing no work — at least, at first. She has no problem throwing Evan under the bus to save herself and the women (she doesn’t understand why they shouldn’t do it until people tell her why.) She makes Raj the team leader of her project instead of one of her female coworkers to micro-manage him from the sidelines. She allows Evan to help her team get their foot in the door once they quit. Mariana is also good at rallying people around a common cause. She has a “we” mindset that inspires the women to join her, stand up for their HR head together, and then quit their jobs with her. Mariana has no filter. She’s incapable of hiding her feelings from people — she almost breaks down when she and Callie talk to their moms. She needs to vent about Callie with her friends in the Coterie and just assumes that Callie must be doing the same thing, as well. To her, it isn’t malicious or personal — it’s just something she needs to do to blow off steam.

Enneagram: 7w6

[more-hats]

I don’t fully remember everything, like why Mariana lied about her birthday, but I’m pretty sure she didn’t promise Claire the spot of team leader or whatever. Claire just expected it because she’s a woman. And let’s face it, none of the Speckulate girls are good at leading except for Mariana.

[speckaboo]

next prediction! the next time we see or hear from Colin it's gonna be his corpse reciting his statement

Jonny and Alex have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever and unceremoniously kill off this universe's versions of Jon and Martin within moments of introducing them in TMP after all this dramatic build-up

[sweet-sexy-small]

It wasn’t enough that I was in my feels during Evan and Mariana’s heart to heart conversation on the roof, but they had to play that sad ass song used in the Goldfinch trailer!!?!!?!

I get where Mariana is coming from though, she doesn’t want her male co-workers to think she is getting special treatment more than they already do. But still Evan basically admitted he has feelings for her!!!!

And as if I didn’t already dislike Raj enough....

[reggiemantleholdmyhand-tle]

GOOD TROUBLE.

Name: Clara Abbott

Fic: TBD

Love Interest: Gael Martinez

Face Claim: Victoria Pedretti

Summary: Clara always considered herself to be a bit of a recluse — with her art keeping her busy, there was really no reason to leave her loft in the Coterie. Of course, it didn’t help that she didn’t really have any friends. Enter Viviana Morales, Clara’s new roommate who instantly breaks Clara out of her shell.

Name: Diego Morales

Fic: TBD

Love Interest: Mariana Adams-Foster

Face Claim: Tyler Posey

Summary: Diego only had one dream: move to LA and work for Speckulate, one of the largest tech companies in the world. But when he arrives for his first day of work, he realizes that Speckulate is not all it’s cracked up to be.

Name: Viviana Morales

Fic: Crash

Love Interest: Dennis Cooper

Face Claim: Ana De Armas

Summary: Viviana follows her little brother Diego to LA on a whim (and by order of her strict parents) and moves into the Coterie, having been promised by her boss that it would be just fine for her to work remotely. That had been a lie. Viviana finds herself doing all sorts of odd jobs, including performing as a lounge singer at Douro. She meets Dennis while practicing her set at the Coterie, and her entire world flips upside down.

[tfc2211]

The Speckulations: Walking The Dog In The Midnight Hour With The Speckulations (1966)

[bowenandjohnson]

here’s my lil take on the mariana/evan/raj/isabella love square on good trouble:

since s1, there has been a clear setting up of a romantic foundation between mariana and evan in their overall dynamic. he’s become comfortable with her, and she doesn’t judge or take advantage of him for his social anxiety or the fact that he’s on the autism spectrum. they make mistakes, screw up, and ultimately apologize to each other--mariana for her angry, public outburst at evan, evan for his half-baked plan to tank mariana’s app and then take back control over speckulate. they spend time together, actually talking and enjoying each other’s company. 

mariana and raj, while ultimately a good dynamic as well (so refreshing to see a south asian man as a romantic interest!), is lacking in the fact that they don’t have much of an emotional attachment to each other. when onscreen, i don’t believe we’ve seen them on an actual date outside of coterie events or group outings. raj and mariana do work well as coworkers, allies, and friends, especially when they’re sticking up for each other at work. however, raj is often jealous and insecure of mariana’s relationship with evan. that is often the point of strife in their relationship. they don’t know each other on a deeper level, which brings me to my next point. 

raj and mariana both know each other as talented engineers, as outsiders in a tech world that is largely male and white-dominated. however, when isabella comes onto the scene, she immediately latches onto raj with interest. an interest in raj’s life outside of work. they bond over chinese food and raj ends up telling her about his hobby with magic. this had never been brought up to mariana until the valentine’s day episode, who had no idea that he had an interest in that. 

it makes sense that raj is struggling with his newfound feelings for isabella, because she is showcasing an emotional interest that mariana has rarely offered raj during their relationship. he’s insecure over evan because he knows that mariana has shown him an interest that they’ve never achieved during their own relationship. based on the next episode preview, it’s definitely going to get messier and murkier for these characters.

to conclude, mariana and raj have now both been emotionally cheating on one another, and that doesn’t bode well for their romantic relationship. hopefully they can remain friends? their dynamic is sweet, and i don’t want to see raj disappear from the show completely.