#star city transplant

[godhatesmetas]

Seems like star city will indeed be the focus of the apartment search since I found a group of like minded individuals based there

[maybe-boys-do-love]

A Tale of a Thousand Stars answers the age-old question: What if Hallmark movies were good?

[beardedmrbean]

Michelle Trachtenberg passed, apparently.

https://nypost.com/2025/02/26/entertainment/michelle-trachtenberg-dead-at-39-former-gossip-girl-harriet-the-spy-star-shared-troubling-posts/

Actress Michelle Trachtenberg, known for a wide range of TV and film roles including in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Gossip Girl,” has died at the age of 39, sources told The Post.

Trachtenberg was found by her mother around 8 a.m. Wednesday at One Columbus Place, a 51-story luxury apartment complex in Manhattan’s Central Park South neighborhood, the sources said.

The actress recently underwent a liver transplant and died of natural causes, according to the sources.

The NYPD confirmed Trachtenberg was found “unconscious and unresponsive” by police and pronounced dead by EMS workers. Her death is not deemed suspicious and the city medical examiner will determine the cause, cops said.

Trachtenberg had posted a series of troubling photos in recent months on Instagram, where the award-winning actress has 800,000 followers, in which she appeared gaunt and frail, prompting some fans to comment about her startling weight loss or ask if she was on drugs.

Last January, Trachtenberg responded to fan concerns, saying she was “happy and healthy” and had never had plastic surgery.

Born in New York City on Oct. 11, 1985, Trachtenberg’s first credited role came at the age of 9 on the classic 1990s Nickelodeon series “The Adventures of Pete and Pete,” in which she portrayed quirky gal-pal Nona F. Mecklenberg.

She went on to star in a variety of kid-oriented movies and shows, making her film debut in 1996’s “Harriet the Spy,” in which she played the title character.

In 2021, Trachtenberg made bombshell allegations against “Buffy” creator and “Avengers” director Joss Whedon, then 55, claiming he was physically abusive during filming and that there was a “rule” in place prohibiting him from being alone in a room with her on set, she wrote in a cryptic Instagram post at the time.

Whedon later denied the allegations in an interview with New York Magazine.

On her birthday last Oct. 11, Trachtenberg posted a glamor shot on her Instagram with the caption “39 and I’m feeling fiiiiiine,” which garnered more than 32,000 likes. ________________________________________________

This is shocking news, liver transplant so there was something going on there but she never really came off as a huge party girl so I'm guessing it's not that as a reason.

This is a bummer in a major way.

F

[im-gonna-sing-the-doom-song-blog]

KEEP YOU WARM 

Dick Grayson X Reader

Request! Stuck in a snowstorm, a young vigilante and Nightwing take shelter in a cold cabin. As they endure the storm together, they form a bond, finding warmth and comfort in each other's company.

No warnings.

*sorry for bad grammar and all that!

The snowstorm howled outside the tiny, dilapidated cabin like a restless wolf. Inside, the air was a mix of frigid drafts and tense camaraderie. You held yourself close, trying to keep you body warm against the freezing temperatures. Your costume, designed to endure torrential rain and oppressive humidity, did little to protect against the biting chill of a Blüdhaven winter.  

You really should have gotten a warmer suit. You look at the vigilante leaning against the opposite wall. Skin tight suit? How???? This dude should be shivering right now. Unbelievable!  

“You doing okay there?” Dick Grayson—Nightwing, you reminded yourself—looked at you with concern from across the dim room. His own suit, designed for the city’s chilly climate, seemed to shrug off the cold that had you gnawing on the inside of your cheek to keep your teeth from chattering. 

You nodded, though your shaking hands betrayed you. “Totally fine,” you said, your voice a strained whisper. “This is nothing. I’ve been through worse.” 

It was a blatant lie. Growing up in a tropical climate meant the closest you’d ever come to snow was a slushy machine at a convenience store. You were twenty-one now, freshly transplanted to Blüdhaven at Superman’s recommendation, and still acclimating to a world so vastly different from the one you’d left behind. The idea of learning from heroes like Nightwing had sounded thrilling in theory, but at this moment, all you wanted was a heated blanket and a hot bowl of soup. 

Dick’s lips quirked up in a knowing smile. “You don’t have to pretend to be invincible. We’re in this together, remember?” 

You gave a weak laugh. “Yeah, well, being freezing cold wasn’t exactly part of the mission plan.” 

The mission had seemed straightforward enough when it started. Intercept a small gang trying to smuggle weapons out of the city. But the storm had rolled in faster than expected, cutting off your escape route and killing your comms. Now, here you were, stuck in what looked like an old hunting cabin with no heat, no backup, and no way of knowing when the weather would let up. 

“Come here,” Dick said, patting the spot on the floor next to him. 

You raised an eyebrow. “What?” 

“You’re freezing. I’m not. Body heat is a thing.” 

Your cheeks flushed, though whether from embarrassment or cold, you weren’t sure. “I’m fine. Really.” 

Dick gave you a look that could only be described as ‘big brotherly disapproval.’ “Hypothermia isn’t a joke. You’re not doing anyone any favors by being stubborn. Come here.” 

Reluctantly, you crawled over to him, shivering as another gust of icy wind found its way through the cracks in the cabin’s walls. Dick wrapped an arm around you, pulling you against his side. The warmth radiating from him was immediate, and you couldn’t suppress the sigh of relief that escaped your lips. 

“Better?” he asked, his tone light. 

“Marginally,” you admitted, though the truth was you felt significantly better. The heat from his body seeped into yours, chasing away the worst of the chill. You still felt like an ice cube, but at least now you weren’t actively contemplating death by frostbite. 

“You know,” Dick said after a moment, “I’ve been meaning to ask—why Blüdhaven? I mean, there are plenty of other cities you could’ve gone to. Metropolis, Star City, even Gotham.” 

You hesitated. “Superman recommended it. Said there were ‘good heroes to learn from’ here.” You glanced up at him. “I guess he meant you.” 

Dick chuckled, the sound warm and genuine. “Well, I’ll take that as a compliment. But seriously, it’s not exactly a prime vacation spot. What’s the real reason?” 

You shrugged, leaning your head against his shoulder. “I wanted to get as far away from home as possible. New city, new start. Besides, I’ve always been better at hitting people than giving interviews. Vigilante work just…makes sense to me.” 

“That’s fair,” Dick said, his voice soft. “But don’t forget to take care of yourself in the process. It’s easy to get caught up in the mission and forget you’re only human.” 

You laughed. “You sound like Superman.” 

“I’ll take that as a compliment, too.” 

For a while, the two of you sat in silence, listening to the wind battering the cabin. The storm showed no signs of letting up, but at least the cold didn’t feel quite as unbearable anymore. Dick’s arm around you was steady and reassuring, a reminder that you weren’t alone in this strange, snowy city. 

“You know,” Dick said eventually, “you’re tougher than you look. Most people would’ve bailed on Blüdhaven the first time they saw what winter here is like.” 

“I’ll take that as a compliment,” you said, mimicking his earlier tone. 

He grinned. “Good. You should.” 

Outside, the storm raged on, but inside, things didn’t feel quite so bleak. For the first time since arriving in Blüdhaven, you felt like you might actually belong here. And maybe, just maybe, you’d found someone who could help you figure out how to navigate this new life—snowstorms and all. 

[maxwell-grant]

"porous and easy-to-transplant like Spidey's villains" is it just me does Marvel have more of these guys than DC? Like we can just have random buff list villains go after a a variety of different characters?

Oh yes, Marvel absolutely has the advantage when it comes to rogues gallery transplants, it's not even a contest. That's in large part because Marvel existed as a shared universe from the get-go: DC didn't quite jump on that wagon for a while. For most of the Silver Age, there was little to no cross-pollination between Superman and Batman, the existence of the Justice League not really mattering in their titles, where as Marvel was crossover town from day one. They each offer different kinds of narrative real state for their villains to exist in.

The DCU's defining figures, Superman and Batman, live in opposite cities with opposite tones and opposite casts and everybody else has to occupy the space between their two extremes, and most of the other bigger heroes have their own cities: your Star Cities and Central Cities and Hub Cities and Bludhavens and whatnot. Thus most of their villains and villain casts are centralized, and sometimes they even have formal agreements about this kind of stuff. There's almost like a Venture Bros-esque union thing going on sometimes in the DCU where most of their popular villains and heroes are fairly exclusive to one another, with characters like Killer Frost, Gentleman Ghost and Solomon Grundy who transcend this being mostly such due to their heroes being more absorbed and integrated into ensembles than their own adventures.

The major exceptions for these tend to be villains specifically made or set to menace the entire universe, like Superboy Prime or Perpetua or, Amanda Waller this month I guess, and Event Villains are kind of their own thing (and mostly not very good). DC doesn't have a Doctor Doom, in the sense of a big great iconic villain for the whole universe and specific heroes in it who also can and will fight anyone and it will pretty much always be great no matter who he's fighting. They try to make cosmic baddies like Brainiac into those kinds of figures and it never works as well, it always just makes them too generic, there's no spark to the ensuing dynamic. Vandal Savage is probably the closest to one that works and, love the guy, but he's sporadically great and simply not up to the standard this requires.

Marvel, in turn, has been in the business of regularly loaning out bad guys, maybe ever since Sandman joined up the Frightful Four? He wasn't just a one-off thing like that time Daredevil and Doctor Doom swapped bodies and fought, no he was regularly showing up as a villain in F4, in a new costume even. Marvel already started with all of their major defining characters living in the same sandbox, everybody is within a few blocks away from each other most of the time, and so everybody is everybody's problem most of the time, it's the bastardverse and they are all crammed together, and it's not terribly surprising why they fight all the goddamn time. All the major Marvel villains are shooting to rule the same city/planet and destroy more or less the same people and therefore they kinda have to be on a first-name basis with each other, and all the middle-leaguer/second-stringer baddies are getting beaten up by the same people in the same city. Reverse-Flash and Joker going after anyone other than their respective arch-enemies feels fake and perfunctory, but guys like Ultron and Norman Osborn, who also have specific arch-enemies, can transit between individual problems for different heroes and larger-scale problems for everybody just fine. A DC hero will rarely be in Lex Luthor's line of sight unless they are specifically doing something that will piss him off, where as if you are a Marvel hero, it's a fact that sometimes you'll just randomly orbit Wilson Fisk's business and thus you gotta dodge gunfire for it that day.

This especially applies for the smaller-scale villains, not too strongly attached to the hero they may have started out with to the point they become ensemble villains, the ones that easily and eventually become someone else's problem. Your Mr. Hydes and Absorbing Men and Arcades and High Evolutionaries and whatnot, Spider-Man is stuffed with these. Sometimes these characters will click so well with specific heroes they'll achieve wholly different kinds of stardom or characterization (Kingpin in Miller's Daredevil, Brain Drain and Kraven in Squirrel Girl, etc), and sometimes they'll graduate into the position of supporting character or even main character. The peak example of this is Taskmaster, because while the likes of Loki and Venom can claim greater stardom, they did so by becoming anti-heroes and are generally still attached at hip to their heroes of origin, where as Taskmaster is a midcard villain to the bone and it's extremely easy to forget he was an Avengers villain at first, he is just fully A Guy in his own right who will go anywhere and menace anyone for the right price (except Moon Knight, because he is too scary), he'll scale up and down and be everyone's problem until he's not being paid to do so and then it's cool. DC doesn't really have an equivalent to him (they kinda try with Deathstroke but, pfft, please, that guy is a diehard obsessive Teen Titans villain and that's not even the more embarassing thing about him). They have countless midcarders just picking dust within their respective rogues galleries that could easily be migrated elsewhere.

But on the other hand, Marvel doesn't quite have what you'd call a Legion of Doom/Injustice League, in the sense of being able to pair all of it's biggest villains from the biggest corners of the world together in a team-up and have it work. There's been attempts over the years to make things like the Masters of Evil and the Cabal land as such and they never really stuck, the closest you get to an iconic Big Villain Team is the likes of the Sinister Six and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, groups tailored to menace specific heroes or hero teams, or things like The Black Order and the Dark Avengers, ultimately extensions of bigger villains (the Thunderbolts are their own thing). Maybe it's because Marvel doesn't really have a major concentrated dominant heroic force on the level of the Justice League that would demand all their villains to put everything aside to try and stop it (although DC can't really justify the Legion of Doom/Injustice League as an ongoing thing most of the time, they don't exist as a regular thing). It might be a mismatch of priorities, that it doesn't have a Lex Luthor as a a clear-cut Union Chief to properly call in and command other arch-enemies who would be willing to pay union dues and work together to better destroy the specific guys they individually hate. Marvel's major villains are a clutch of arch-bastards all trying to be king of the world who hate each other as much, if not more, as they hate their heroes and the only one who could rise above them to the top leadership position is Doctor Doom, who has no need to be leading or participating in something like this. Loki had to put on a whole charade of pretending to be subservient to each of them in order to pull off the gathering he did in Acts of Vengeance, and that only worked once.

Another obvious immediate answer for why is that, as Acts of Vengeance and other stories have shown time and time again, you kinda can't gather all of Marvel's biggest villains in one place and not include the Red Skull, and thus other villains jumping over themselves to murder him the second he walks into the room. But they've done attempts without him or a significant Nazi villain in the room, and they still largely didn't land. It might be overall that, the point of the Legion of Doom is to force all the separate characters and domains of the DCU to join forces to oppose it and that's why they have to be a threat to the Justice League, with none of it's villains exactly meeting that standard on their own, but Marvel's heroes are already all crammed together in cliques on the same places and fighting/putting differences aside to tackle bigger threats all the time, and so there's not really a point of forcing that through a especially big villain gathering.

There isn't really a unity among the Marvel heroes comparable to the one that demands Lex Luthor to call in all the other arch-enemies to try and break, and the one time Norman Osborn attempted to call in one at the height of his power, it was repeteadly emphasized how stupid he was to expect to be able to gather and control and command said people (and when Namor tried to revive the Cabal for the sake of succeeding where the Illuminati failed, things went even worse for him). In the end, Marvel is just too chaotic for the villains to exist in a centralized ruling body like that, if the heroes can't agree on anything why would their villains be any different.

[queerstones]

decided to binge-watch a tale of 1000 stars because i really enjoyed earthmix in moonlight chicken and eight episodes in, i can say this show does frustrate me a bit and i think the direction falls a little short in emotionally charged confrontations so far, but i still enjoyed it a lot. it’s a very meaningfully told story and everyone’s doing a great job with the acting, especially mix. which makes me feel every emotion and up and down that tian’s character has to go through. for me, the strongest character in this show isn’t chief phupha or torfun or khama or longtae but tian. i admire him the most. he has, from the beginning, been someone to look the reality in the eye and confront it. he could have stayed in his comfortable bubble, smothered by his mother, and ignorant of the truth behind the transplant but he actively and stubbornly sought out the reality of what went down and decided to take matters into his own hands in a majorly brave way. he opened himself upto new experiences and always picked himself back up after a failure, no matter how much his guilt tried to stop him. the villagers and phupha’s support was essential to tian’s growth but not more than his own individual, innate resolve to adapt to his new circumstances and persevere.

he was so sincere in everything he did and willing to learn from others and apologise for his wrongdoings. so lovely to see a rich city kid trope character have such a refreshingly humble head on his shoulders. a large part of it is probably the grounding truth of having attained a “second” go at life but still, i really adored tian throughout his journey. i would have liked more direct communication between phupha and tian when the truth was revealed but i’m satisfied with the show atleast acknowledging that phupha’s way of confronting tian wasn’t the wisest. i think everyone’s entitled to their grief and though i don’t believe that tian is at fault for torfun’s death, i’m fine with him apologising multiple times for it because it’s the only way he can feel forgiven and then forgive himself. that’s the key to tian’s arc. it was much more about him forgiving himself, even for shit that he wasn’t culpable for, than seeking this forgiveness from someone else.

anyway, i think it’s rare to find redemption stories that still feel layered and the amount of social courage tian showed made me a fan of his character and i just wanted to share that.

[silviakundera]

to make up for the vicious atos slander...

what is a tale of thousand stars about, actually?

10 episodes, 60 min each; slow burn with product placements

30-something forest ranger, working the same job that killed his dad, in an incredibly rural village (i mean, rural rural: no indoor plumbing or internet and a long trip to the nearest city). Very gay and very closeted

20-something rich kid of a politician, who has a defective heart and expects to die young before even completing his degree; jumped up the transplant list due to his family pulling strings. Been too busy being terminal to figure out he likes dudes.

Rich kid discovers his new heart came from a woman who died due to his street racing bet that night. When he gets ahold of her diary and finds out she was a volunteer at this tiny village, he decides to finish her assignment. Without telling anyone why.

They fall in love. It's about✨the yearning✨

But the Dark Secret™ and their difference in social status and age loom large

Will a young man with wealth & privilege throw away all modern conveniences, abandoning facebook & toliets for love?

After learning the truth, will this strict & set-in-his-ways ranger still want him to?

Can they have a happy ending? lol ofc this is a gay romance novel, haven't you been paying attention?

vid recs?

beautiful mess by jimochies

breathe by samyvids

[tsotf-fic]

♚ chapter 1 - when stars collide ♛

ii. birds of paradise

The Royal Family departed Cantham House for the Imperial Palace right as the Coruscant sun began to set. Within the speeder, nobody dared to speak under the looming shadow of Imperial surveillance.

Y/N leaned up against the transparisteel window, wistfully looking upon the planetwide city. Coruscant was unlike any other metropolis planet; as far as the eye could see, there were absolutely no traces of life that weren't artificially transplanted from somewhere else. To many, including the Organas, it served as a cold reminder of the effect humans had on the galaxy.

If planets were considered living beings, she pondered, Coruscant would certainly be considered a droid.

"Be careful not to smudge your makeup, dear," Breha said, breaking the silence and snapping Y/N out of her daydream.

To the untrained eye, Breha maintained an air of queenly confidence and serenity, but her family could tell she absolutely radiated with anxiety.

Bail gave her hand a gentle squeeze and smiled. "She'll be fine, my love. We all will."

Feathers rustled as Leia shifted uncomfortably in her dress. "I still have a bad feeling about this," she muttered under her breath.

The speeder landed on the platform just outside of the Imperial Palace, where a crowd of dignitaries, politicians, and socialites from all corners of the galaxy rushed to enter the party first. Each person seemed desperate to outperform the other with their custom-made costumes commissioned from the best designers in the galaxy. The costumes themselves included animals, historical and legendary figures, and various other symbols of planetary cultures.

Leia scoffed. "I bet the materials used to make those are worth more than entire planets in the Outer Rim!"

"I doubt anyone else here cares," Y/N replied, subtly gesturing towards a gaggle of visibly intoxicated politicians.

"Girls, please do not stare at your colleagues," Breha said under her breath with a fake smile plastered on her face.

Bail stifled a laugh as he watched none other than Representative Binks trip over the tail of his blarth costume. "How he manages to stay in power is certainly one of the galaxy's greatest mysteries," he whispered to Y/N and Leia, earning a glare from his wife.

"Perrin! This is a formal celebration, not an excuse for you to get drunk!"

Mon Mothma's husband stumbled out of the crowd. Sparkling, crystalline triangles jutted out from his outfit at all angles, and one could only assume it was meant to mimic the crystal cliffs north of Hanna city, albeit a very gaudy version.

"I jus' wanted to have a li’l fun before the party starts," he slurred, completely oblivious to his wife's anger at the spectacle he was causing. "It's a celebration! I'm celebrating!"

"Not like that," Mon retorted, practically dragging him by his collar. Whether intentional or not, her costume directly contrasted his with its organic, blossom-covered branches twisting elegantly around the lush green fabric of her dress. "If you plan on acting this way the whole night, don't even bother returning to the embassy!"

Most bystanders turned away in embarrassment as the Chandrilan senator berated her husband. Mon did her best to maintain her composure, but she was clearly on the edge of tears; it didn't help that Perrin's inebriated friends loudly tried to egg them on.

Breha and Bail exchanged sympathetic, knowing glances, almost as though they had an unspoken secret language–they were practically Lorrdians when compared to their Chandrilan counterparts.

Perrin wriggled out of his wife's grip and turned around to point an accusing finger at her. "And you wonder why your daughter hates you!" He hobbled off, leaving Mon standing there, flustered and humiliated. However, something about the way she quickly regained her composure told Y/N that she was happy to be rid of him.

Mon’s tear-pricked eyes lit up when she saw the apprehensive Alderaanian girl.

"Y/N, dear, how are you? My, you look so beautiful," she said, placing a hand on the side of Y/N's cheek, her face glowing with pride.

"It's so nice to see you, Auntie Mon! But I guess the situation requires that I refer to you as Senator Mothma," Y/N laughed.

"Oh, please, there's no need for that. People are already judging me for that little fiasco, so what harm would it do for us to drop a little formality?"

With that, the senator immediately drew in the younger woman for a tight embrace, albeit yielding enough to prevent their costumes from being crushed together. Y/N didn't know if it came from the flowers on her aunt's dress or a perfume on her skin, but something about the warm, delicate scent made her feel so calm, so at home. Perhaps it was just a reflection of its wearer's personality: gentle and elegant, with hidden strength beneath the surface, everything Y/N aspired to be. It pained her so much to see someone she held in such high regard be treated so poorly.

"We're here, too, you know," Bail's voice rang, interrupting their embrace.

"I figured as much, Your Highness," Mon playfully retorted. She pulled away from Y/N, giving her one last smile as she wiped the remnants of tears from the corners of her eyes, and went to greet her colleague. "It's always a pleasure to see the Royal Family."

After exchanging bows with the Viceroy and Queen of Alderaan, she turned to the young princess and her eyes lit up again, although not as bright as they were for Y/N.

"Ah! Matching costumes, how charming! I wonder whose idea that was." She turned to look at Breha, who let out an uncharacteristically loud laugh.

"What better way to compensate for our lack of costumes than by showcasing Alderaan's loveliest young ladies?" The queen responded, resting her hands on both girls' shoulders.

"I still think a costume would have suited you well, mother. You and father would have made for quite the pair of swans," Leia said with a tinge of sarcasm behind her voice as she patted her mother's hand.

"Well, perhaps you're right, but I'm afraid there are more pressing matters than us arriving at the ball as a flock of birds."

"I would have liked to be a bird," Bail chimed in, earning a chorus of laughter in response.

Y/N laughed along with the group, but something about the whole conversation felt stilted, awkward, especially considering how well they all knew each other. Perhaps it had to do with the discomfort of her being a mere noble in the presence of planetary leaders; as much as they tried to include her, she never truly fit in among them. They couldn't help that, though, none of them could. It was just the way things were. So, she continued to smile as she always did.

fanfiction by @kaleidoscope1967eyes

[warningsine]

The funniest show on television is Girls5Eva, which transplanted from the backwoods of Peacock to the mires of Netflix for its third season. While a lot of shows have taken off after landing on Netflix — You, for instance — Girls5Eva, from the data available publicly, didn’t get many viewers on the platform. I’m no expert on the mechanics of streaming, but I have one radical explanation for why this is happening: There are simply not enough episodes of Girls5Eva available to watch. On Peacock, the show had two eight-episode seasons. Netflix has given it an additional six. That means that Girls5Eva has aired, in total, only 22 episodes, about the same number as a full-season order of an old-fashioned network sitcom like 30 Rock, to which Meredith Scardino’s series is deeply indebted (Scardino wrote on 30 Rock; Tina Fey is a Girls5Eva executive producer). Over a three-year period? This is simply not enough!

Sitcoms are built for mass production and consumption, with dynamics between characters designed to generate an endless stream of story lines, and it can take a season or two to fully gel. Girls5Eva is lucky enough to have a distinct sensibility and a strong cast from the start, but it hasn’t had the space to work through all the possible material. There’s so much to mine in flashbacks to the girl group’s checkered early-aughts past, in Wickie’s failed solo career, in Summer’s wackadoo Christian upbringing, in Gloria’s fraught lesbian drama, and in Dawn’s attempts to find her own way as a songwriter (plus the larger meta arc of Sara Bareilles coming into her own as a comedic actor). Season three, in which the crew goes on tour around the country, tries to cover so much ground it’s like a distance runner sprinting at her vO2 max. The overarching plot — they want to perform at Radio City Music Hall — encroaches on all the fun along the way, rushing past a guest appearance from Cat Cohen, the reveal of Wickie’s real backstory, and an intricate Harry Styles parody. Sitcoms should be about all the fun everyone is having along the way, and we’ve lost that.

But there is another and perhaps more important reason that we need longer seasons of Girls5Eva: holidays. Network sitcoms, airing on a traditional schedule, have the opportunity to set episodes around the holidays near which they would air; think of the Thanksgiving episodes of Friends, The Office’s Christmas episodes, 30 Rock’s impeccable use of Leap Day. In my ideal universe where Girls5Eva has 22-episode seasons, Netflix would also abandon the binge strategy and air those episodes weekly, but that’s not a necessity. You could still drop them all at once, which gives me the opportunity to revisit the holiday episodes as those holidays occur throughout the year. If you need convincing, here are my suggestions for some holidays the Girls5Eva might celebrate:

Christmas (duh): Dawn tries to write a Christmas song; Wickie reveals a longstanding feud with Mariah Carey (she claims one of the items from her riff rolodex appears in “All I Want for Christmas Is You”; Mariah does not know her).

Thanksgiving: The girls try to book a gig at the Macy’s Parade (as Peacock actually had the stars do, to the confusion of my parents watching at home) while also atoning for their past sins at the event (revealed in flashback).

Valentine’s Day: Gloria revisits a past relationship with Taylor Lautner (she was his dentist).

Tax season: Summer reveals she hasn’t been paying taxes for years (thought you were covered if you already paid your church).

Presidents’ Day: Dawn tries to write a song about Lincoln being sexy, inadvertently offends a gay activist group.

Pride month: Return of Bowen Yang’s lip-sync influencer.

Cuffing season: Big for Gloria.

The Feast of San Gennaro: Big for Dawn (why is the show so all-in on Sara Bareilles being Italian??).

V-E Day: Wickie and Dawn’s husband, Scott, discover their mutual fascination with the Eastern Front: “I spent a lot of time touring post-Soviet states, okay!”

Casimir Pulaski Day: Gloria has beef with Sufjan Stevens.

[smosh-fessions]

I am going to respectfully disagree with you. They make jokes about female pop stars and such almost every episode of Bit City.

One of the first was about Selena Gomez’s kidney transplant….thats fucking weird.

The jokes they make about female pop stars are way more than the ones they make about any male singer.

I wish I could point this out without being labeled as a crazy fan or whatever, even though I’m really not a ‘fan’ of most of these women I just don’t like that they have to be the butt of the joke 99% of the time and be disrespected. It makes it hard to watch.

Maybe it is Erin’s writing. But is she not also a ‘crazy fan girl’ of Harry Styles??

She is, and that's why I expect she's biased towards male pop stars, probably without even noticing it. The South Koreans have a point in calling the member/s of the band you go wild for your 'bias.'

When you have guys up on a pedestal in a huge way and you have for so long, it influences you. Putting anyone on a pedestal does.

[thgfanfictionlibrary]

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Breathe-Chele20035 (ao3)  Summary: A tragic accident leaves Katniss a precious gift, her niece Abby. Moving back home gives her a new life full of second chances as she meets her old love, Peeta Mellark. Broken Arrow-AnotherSongAnotherMile (ao3)  Summary: You swore to yourself you'd always be there to protect Katniss Everdeen. But it only took a moment for someone to break through that facade. Brokenness-chele20035 (ao3)  Summary: After Katniss wins the 74th games (Peeta was never reaped)... its thirteen years later when a family tragedy breaks her.   Bubbles and Honesty-Alliswell (ao3)  Summary: Katniss and Peeta have sweet heart-to-heart time together while in the bathtub in this outtake of the "Are Those For Me?" Universe. Burnt Around the Edges-HGfanonezillion (ao3)  Summary: A series of one shots that follows Promise I'm Worthy. It includes some scenes from around the time of Bittersweet Dance. It's not entirely chronological. Can I Get There By Candlelight?-authoresskika (ao3)  Summary: AU: To appease his childhood sweetheart, young Peeta Mellark ventures into the magical forest just outside the protective walls of his city to fetch a fallen star—certainly no easy task when the star turns out to be a girl on fire. Catch Me As I Fall-HGfanonezillion (ao3)  Summary: After the devastating news that neither she nor her mother are a match for a bone marrow transplant for Prim, Katniss is hit with the news that she and Prim don't share a father. As she tries to come to terms with the news, she also must come to terms with the drunken mistake she feels she made at a party she didn't even want to go to. All the while praying that her sister gets a miracle. Cheese Buns and Bad Puns-HGfanonezillion (ao3)  Summary: Peeta has as cooking vlog. Katniss has an archery vlog. They are avid watchers of each other's stuff and strike up a friendship over the internet. But could there be more to the friendship? Or is it just their fans' wishful thinking? Christmas In Panem-Alliswell (ao3)  Summary: For 75 years The Capitol suppressed all festivities that could bring joy and hope to the Districts, but with the birth of the Free Republic of Panem, the new leaders are attempting to bringing back the forgotten costumes of the old days, when Panem was known as America. Christmas has caught the eye of one District 12 baker. Clubbing 101-Alliswell (ao3)  Summary: Prompt 144: She has a night of fun before the start of the semester. She meets this guy, they hit it off that they sleep together. But when she shows up to her class the next day, she sees the guy again. But he’s her professor and he’s way older than she originally thought. #olderPeeta

[ridox]

Questions about Xavier & Theories Following Chapter 8 —

I need anyone’s input/theory/thoughts regarding this matter because I haven’t gone through much of Xavier’s Secret Times and Tender Moments yet, and I’ve only unlocked 3/9 of Shooting Stars

Discussion under the cut for potential spoilers

Anyway, I just finished going through Chapter 8 of the Main Story and based from this conversation with Jeremiah. Does this mean Xavier has direct/or indirect influence over what happened to Josephine and Caleb on Chapter 4?

I’m assuming the Nonintervention Principle is for the Lightseekers who venture through space, calling for them to basically NOT ALTER anything in the timeline they’re hopping onto as a preventative measure to creating a butterfly effect (?)

I remember some people saying that Xavier caused the explosion but now that I think about it I don’t think he inherently has anything to do with it. Rather, I think his presence, Jeremiah’s, alongside all the other backtrackers or whatever you call them, is what caused Josephine and Caleb’s death (?)

I have to gather my thoughts for a more concrete theory about this but in essence, the fact that some of the residents of Philos never returned to their own home and their correct timeline… caused a major butterfly effect that essentially kickstarted the catastrophic events that’s happening in MC’s life as of the moment

I feel like Xavier knew what was going to happen to MC’s grandmother and PERHAPS he even knows if Caleb really died or not but he’s bound by this rule to not intervene and to just let it pan out the way it’s supposed to be

Which kinda creates a loophole because his existence itself in this timeline is what caused it to happen in the first place (?) if that specific theory is right

ANYWAY MOVING ON TO MY ACTUAL QUESTIONS —

I remember reading a theory or perhaps an actual explanation that - in an attempt to try and save Queen MC - Xavier created a Möbius Strip that essentially catapults him back in time creating this unending loophole in the Philos timeline

MY QUESTION IS… IS THERE A POSSIBILITY THAT THE MÖBIUS STRIP IN QUESTION IS WHAT RESULTED IN THE DEEPSPACE TUNNEL? OR THE DEEPSPACE TUNNEL ITSELF IS THE MÖBIUS STRIP?

I haven’t done enough research to support this theory because it’s 12 AM and I just finished the chapter and want to document these thoughts but I’m theorizing that Xavier’s effort to save his MC in his own timeline resulted in a time rift in the form of the Deepspace Tunnel.

The same tunnel that was the main reason why MC’s heart got implanted with the Aether Core in the first place. What if the Wanderers that ravaged Linkon City those many years ago were actually Philos citizens (backtrackers, lightseekers) that died during the creation of the tunnel and emerged on the other side as just that… Wanderers?

What if the Wanderer that stabbed current MC through the heart is an alternate timeline/Philos timeline MC who recognized herself and essentially transplanted her heart to hers?

LIKE MY MIND IS GOING MILES AN HOUR THINKING ABOUT THIS BUT I KNOW EVERYTHING’S MESSY AND UNORGANIZED SO LIKE MAYBE I’LL WRITE THIS UP MORE IN THE FUTURE WITH SUPPORTING FACTS AND STUFF

But yeah! To summarize it all —

- Xavier and the rest of the backtrackers/lightseekers in Linkon City are Space and Time anomalies

- Their existence in itself is wrong and is what resulted in the catastrophic event many years ago

- Possibly the Wanderer that pierced current MC’s heart is her from a Philos timeline

- Also Xavier may have been indirectly involve to the death of MC’s grandmother and Caleb

- BUT ALSO I think Xavier knows whether Caleb is truly dead or alive

- Bonus: I feel like Caleb found out that an alternate timeline exists and he had to fake his own death for the sake of MC’s safety

- Just by the end of Chapter 8, everyone was talking about the recent discovery of Philos and imo I feel like this happened prior to Caleb coming home in the first place

- I feel like since Ever pretty much runs everything in Linkon, they tried to sway Caleb into turning MC in for the sake of “research” or something after they found out she’s probably the only living person who fused well with an Aether Core

ANYWAY SORRY FOR THE RAMBLE I WOULD LIKE TO HERE ANYBODY’S THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS PLS I’M SO NECK DEEP INSIDE L&DS LORE

[catmomjudy]

Airport 1975 Tropes & Plot Points

People/Situations On Plane:

Woman with dog in purse

Airport official with wife and son on plane

Famous aging actress (actually Gloria Swanson as herself)

Middle-aged male passengers played by popular comedic actors and providing questions/commentary

Sick child needing kidney transplant brought to plane in ambulance for transport

Singing nun (Helen Reddy in this case)

Feisty old lady who offers support while swilling Boilermakers

Intrusive and overly-dramatic reporter

And the plot as a whole (curated for 9-1-1 watchers):

Original Destination: Los Angeles (Columbia Flight 409)

Man has heart attack in small aircraft (diverted to Salt Lake due to fog in Boise) and flies into airliner cockpit while the Boeing 747 is making a routine landing in Salt Lake City (due to Pacific coastline being fogged in) at about 12,000 feet.

Flight crew: Pilot blinded; copilot sucked out of plane and navigator dead. Stewardess guides pilot’s hand to autopilot and then calls airport on radio.

Stewardess takes charge and flies the plane.

The boyfriend of the stewardess is the pilot who guides her through the radio (from a small aircraft at first, where he’s flying from LA to Salt Lake with the airport official husband; later from Salt Lake).

They call in the Air Force to survey the damage and then send a helo and rescue pilot to do a midair transfer.

Fuel leak!! 🙀

Debris hit radio!! 🙀 They get signal back.

Mountain ahead! Time is limited!

Airport official husband and stewardess’s boyfriend go on rescue helo to scene with the Air Force crew.

Stewardess hit by debris and knocked out for a moment. Radio is now dead. 🙀

Mountain!! 🙀 The two stewardesses get the blind captain to give them instructions since the stewardess flying hadn’t had to increase air speed yet. Suspense!! 🙀

Midair transfer!!!! 🙀 Pilot on rope from helicopter to cockpit through the hole in the windshield.

The pilot fell to his death!! 🙀🙀 Noooooooo!

And there goes the boyfriend. Of course he goes.

And he’s in!! Yay!!! Cheers all around! 🎉

Some engine trouble. “There is nothing to be alarmed about.” Famous last words?

Firetrucks! Ambulances! Heading to the landing zone!! 🚒🚑

And the landing gear is down!!

”Nancy, I love you.”

And they’re waiting on the firetrucks for the plane to land!! 🚒🚒

🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒

No brakes! 🙀 Phew. SKID TO A STOP!!

🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒🚑🚑🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒

To the blow-up slide exit!!

And all the kissing!! ♥️ 💜 ❤️ All of the kissing!! 😻

Pilot and stewardess leave plane together, last.

An all-star 70s cast! And 107 minutes well spent.

Airport official after tossing reporter down the stairs: “Sometimes the public’s right to know gives me a huge pain in the ass.”

“Climb, baby, climb.” (Boyfriend under breath in helo)

Yeah, I can see Bobby getting in on some of that.

And will Tommy be the guy flying the helo (which is pretty precision) or the guy on the rope?

🙀

[zenkor123]

Katniss saw what Peeta’s back looks like

October 5th 75 DD. As guard she was outside the bathroom, Peeta found his uniform to be a heat sink, and got an insect bite, he took off his shirt. Katniss saw the back which was filled with warts and scars, dotting his back like someone with psoriasis. They included burns, scars from puncturing, scars from slashes, atrophic scars from starvation and a form of torture that destroyed fat, bite marks, stings and keloid scars Peeta was about to enter the sink enclosure and didn't notice her. It horrified her,she put her hands on her mouth and she ran off then returned to the other side of the restroom door as Peeta applied water to the insect bite. Peeta dropped his journal and it was open to "Peeta Mellark ???-75 DD t shows Peeta with a Snake's tongue and eyes and a train of lovers in the d12 meadow. Her self hatred was magnified.

at the bottom read a eulogy, no a death warrant Peeta had written

"Was old Peeta really worth fighting for? This runt! If I had continued I would have spent the rest of his life having episodes, being treated like a charity case, mooching District 13's resources like a parasite, for the lie that I could become Peeta, with his memories and identity who does not spend the rest of his life in a hospital bed. Who really cared about Peeta anyway? Why am I so pathetic, with my back that looks like the surface of mars, hallucinations from hell, a mind empty of identity living on false hope that the destroyed identity would return, a person without a real past? I am useless! Johanna and Delly had called me a mutt and I wish I was one, I would have a purpose I would be needed. I don't want to be used, never again! But if I have no past, in a sense that makes me a mutt, because do mutts have a past like humans do? Everything about me is wrong. Restoring Peeta had given me a purpose, and a delusion that everything was fine I just needed to work on recovering memories of the quell, that this wasn't real. I have done all this work in the name of restoring Peeta for what? My memories are mine and don't affect anyone else. Katniss who was mentioned all the time in the memory restoration efforts clearly didn't care, she has everything whatever happens to me in the hospital wing does not affect her. If the treatment was done for the star crossed lovers how pathetic was that! She does not give a fuck about me and never did, I am just a mere threat at this point, that's all I am to her, and if all my memories of her are false doesn't that make her a stranger? It made it all the more sad that I did work she never could imagine, for someone who had everything and would just laugh at me for being so stupid and then put an arrow in my head. I was glad that Coin has finally ended this sham. I requested my doctors "destroy" the Capitol transplants, so my mind could be my own, so I stopped being a living tombstone, so lies that are disrespectful not just to Katniss but to me, that I was forced to believe, would be wiped out, which they refused to do. A corpse or ruined city has value apparently. A person without a past has a clean slate for the future. The Capitol must pay! It's time to stop this self pity, well its a warrant for the burial of the late Peeta it isn't  self pity.  America when it fell became Panem so too will time let the Old Peeta rest. Thanks to 13, Hope is not yet lost, amidst the thundering storm clouds a ray of light is present, red white and blue, the colors of 13. I will not give up on living, from Peeta's corpse something even better will emerge. Even after all the Capitol threw at me I'm still alive and kicking."

When she was on the rotation for Annie she saw a back that looked similar to Peeta’s but it wasn't as horrifying as seeing Peeta's back. Peeta using illogic considered them to be physical features of a mutt thinking how most people didn't look like rainbows but he did, and compared himself to a leopard he thought of decorating his scars with paint. In September prior to his funny ideas the scars had given him tremendous shame even to look at them. Peeta told her this and Katniss wanted to puke. Her mind would revisit the image of the debased back, and would make her wince it was a disturbing image it appeared in her sleep and was an intrusive image in her mind.

As Peeta ran to the bathroom after being stung all his therapeutic drawings fell to the ground it included depictions of his time in the capitol. Katniss picked up after him after she visited Peeta’s symbolic grave. Katniss could not hold it in anymore and sobbed. She picked up all the other drawings of various topics related to his time in the capitol, the insides of the capitol torture avoxes fighting for their lives,"plumpy Avoxes being served" Darius and Lavnia, "overcooked food"burnt bodies, mutts of all different kinds. An avox was shown feeding them human flesh, feeding him Darius with Annie eating his flesh. The subtitles usually have black humor, "yummy human steak" The doctors who destroyed Peeta are also shown with their names written. Dead bodies abound everywhere, and President Snow beating Annie with a Cane is seen in another drawing, there are over 66 drawings in total all dropped pn the floor as Peeta ran to the bathroom. Nobody wanted to pick those dark photos up so it fell to Katniss. There are numerous drawings of the torture machines and President Snow overseeing it. The hijacking is also shown with films, hijacking equipment, tubes with venom, and shiny bubbles The last one is a drawing of a pill marked "mind breaker-Killer of Peeta Mellark." Without any attempt at humor. She puts the postcards back in an envelope that is in the front of the book, which Peeta named "Happy times in the capitol for therapy" with a yellow smily face in front of the envelope.(☺) Peeta leaves the bathroom, Katniss quickly puts the book down. "What the hell happened to you?" Peeta asks Katniss decides to be honest otherwise Peeta is going to think well .... "I saw your drawings of your torture in the capitol" "right my happy times in the capitol" Peeta laughs. Katniss just stares him she leaves out seeing Peeta's symbolic grave. .

[hp-fanfic-archive]

Remus/Sirius Angst Masterlist | Works With 5-10k Words

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A Piece of the Aftermath (Series) by Snromance [M, 7k, Raising Harry]

Sirius didn't chase after Peter after finding James, Lily and Harry at Godric's Hollow. Instead, he picked up Harry, contacted Remus (as he was out of the country) and moved them out of the magic public's eye. The two of them then attempt to raise Harry to the best of their abilities whilst attempting to deal with the emotional problems that come with trying to raise a kid with no experience, a relationship, and dealing with what part they all played in the death of James and Lily.

And the Night Keep Your Secrets by grandilloquism [T, 6k]

Scenes from the life of Sirius Black, concentrating on his relationship with his mother.

*Colours by LuminousGloom [E, 8k]

Today is their anniversary. It’s the first time Sirius has remembered it, since Azkaban. He decides to mark the occasion.

my eyes adored you by moony_andthe_stars [T, 5k]

“Well that’s bullshit,” he declared, “I bet Moony has plenty of prospects. People would be stupid not to like him.” James and Peter nodded in agreement. “I mean, he’s smart, and witty, and he’s tall!” Sirius continued. “And not to mention, he’s, you know-” Sirius gestured towards Remus and turned in his seat to look at him. Time seemed to slow down for a moment. Remus had his chin propped up in his hand, lazily skimming the text in front of him. The evening light came streaming from the window making Remus glow golden, a halo forming around his curls. His eyebrows were drawn, pulling at the scar that went through his left one. His bottom lip was caught between his teeth and Sirius was suddenly struck by the fact that Remus was- “-bloody gorgeous.” --or-- Sirius is suddenly struck by how beautiful his best friend is

*Of Comets and Counter-Examples by Woldy [T, 5k]

If the past is a foreign country, can travel help to resolve a troubled history? Dumbledore assigns Remus and Sirius a mission to explore three European cities, or perhaps to find each other. (podfic available)

Of Envelope Glue, Twitching, & Two Percent Chances by xxanglophilexx [T, 7k]

At 8:10 am on April 13, 1976, Sirius Black will realize that Remus Lupin fancies him. And if Remus stops twitching and remembers to breathe long enough to have a proper conversation, he may realize something, too. (pdf & e-book files available)

real life has no appeal by orphan_account [G, 7k]

In which Remus is Lily's roommate and Sirius, James and Peter break into places.

Sight of the Stars by orphan_account [M, 8k]

Remus Lupin had always been blind, but when presented with the opportunity to have his sight restored through a corneal transplant, he's not sure he wants to go through with it. Sirius reminds him that whatever he chooses, there's nothing that can break them apart.

*Spaces Between by stardustings [E, 5k]

Remus is gone. Which is to be expected. Remus is always gone, slipping away into the moonlight and shadows, leaving Sirius to wake up alone again. At least he waits until Sirius falls asleep to go. Sirius craves another cigarette and tries not to think about the way it all makes him ache.

*The Battle at the Ministry by whataflammableheart [T, 5k]

The history books would say that the Battle at the Ministry of Magic was the turning point of the war. For Remus Lupin, it marked the night when everything could have gone wrong, but didn't.

*The Best Laid Plans by baobabble [T, 5k]

Remus receives a telephone call from his mum, and Sirius finds out that his boyfriend's parents don't know about their four-year relationship.

The Blood Blistering Brew by Deena [T, 7k]

Sirius is an arrogant berk and Remus is complete pants at Potions. (pdf & e-book files available)

*The Nominal Form of Familiarity by rev02a [M, 5k]

“‘It’s just the darndest thing; as far as we can tell, the Veil is bringing back special possessions… about three a person. It’s sort of a Christmas miracle of sorts. […] to be honest, we haven’t a damn clue.’ The Ministry is also quick to point out that this magic does not appear to be related, in any way, shape, or form, to You-Know-Who.”

*There Isn’t a Word for What We’ve Got by mutuisanimis [T, 7k]

Five people who misunderstood Sirius’ relationship with Remus and one two who didn’t. (translation available in Русский (ficbook))

*This Word Lies at the Bottom of a Lake by berhanes [T, 7k, James & Sirius]

Briefly he'd considered going to visit Remus, but Sirius has too many stacked up feelings about him to add any more, and he doesn't trust himself not to ruin their carefully patched situation in the wake of the incident – it's only been a year, after all, and there's no better way to shatter a barely recovered friendship than by doing something stupid like throwing out a declaration of love in the middle of explaining the myriad ways in which your family is deranged and terrible. So instead Sirius had hailed the Knight Bus and requested Bowness-on-Windermere. (translation available in 中文-普通话 國語 (AO3))

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[respectthepetty]

Hello Petty,

Do you honestly think we could have Transplant with Max and Tul? Like, I would LOOOOOVE that, but I guess the chance to see it happen is... Low? 😣 But I would be so happy so see them acting together because the chemistry is insane 🥵

I reside in Optimistic City, so just like I act when Justin Bieber's "Sorry" comes on, I. Am. A. Believer.

Dr. Sammon has always been a catch, but in 2024, we got Dead Friend Forever, 4 Minutes, and the upcoming Spare Me Your Mercy, Petrichor, and Lost on the River from her when previous to this year, we had only four works from her: Manner of Death, Triage, Bite Me, and Make a Wish.

I'm not great at math, but in ONE YEAR, we will have more Dr. Sammon's pieces than we did in the five years prior. Homegirl is a hot commodity and this gives me some hope that companies want to adapt her work because it has an audience, which hopefully translates to guaranteed money.

Also, Max is in Petrichor. MaxTul did the fan meet in Japan and have done some ads together this year even after Tul announced his retirement. So Tul is open to making money off of the MaxTul partnership, but Max is fine with acting against others as well as we've seen in The Outing and Club Sapan Fine and will see in Petrichor. If we ever get Transplant, it'd be odd to have Max but not Tul, but the option is there with Max being willing to act with others (as he should), so Dr. Bun could be recast if Tul really is done with acting.

Or all the characters could just be recast since another company would produce it much like GAP The Series from Idol Factory and Blank The Series from Nine Star Studios are by the same creator set in the same universe with the same characters but two totally different shows with different actors.

Basically, I believe I will get Transplant one day one way or another, but it'd be nice if it were with MaxTul because just like Justin Bieber sang in "Sorry," "I'm missing more than just their bodies!"