#stefano dimera the evil wonderful character that you were

[lauronk]

10 favorite tv shows

thank you for the tags @ameerawrites and @jessthebaker

okay this was kind of a struggle because my partner and i don't really watch tv anymore, we practically live on youtube. but in no particular order after lots of googling "popular tv shows" to remember wtf i used to watch...

also hopefully these all gif properly i never know if it's gonna work lol (they did not gif properly, i will try to fix later lol) ((i fixed!))

[steve-smackdown]

THE MATCHUPS HAVE ARRIVED!!!

There are six brackets of 16, meaning that there are 96 participants in total. Brackets 1 and 2 will come out tomorrow, with brackets 3 and 4 Friday and brackets 5 and 6 on Saturday. Here are the matchups, under the cut:

Bracket 1:

Steve the Chameleon (Phineas and Ferb) VS. The Steve Convention (Phineas and Ferb)

Stephanie Meanswell (LazyTown) VS. Stefan Karl Stefansson (Real Life)

Steve Jobs (Real Life) VS. Steve Cobs (Inanimate Insanity)

Steve “Patch” Johnson (Days of Our Lives) VS. Stefano DiMera (Days of Our Lives)

Steve Rogers (Marvel) VS. Steven Grant (Marvel)

“Stone Cold” Steve Austin (WWE) VS. Steve Austin (The Six Million Dollar Man)

Steve (Wii Sports) VS. Steven (Wii Sports Club)

Steph (Wii Sports) VS. Stéphanie (Wii Sports Resort)

Bracket 2

Steve McQueen (House MD) VS. Steve the Monkey (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs)

Steve the Vehicon (Transformers) VS. Steve from Accounting (Transformers: Botbots)

Steven Stevenson (Dayshift at Freddy’s) VS. Steve Stevens (Even Stevens)

Uncle Steve (Regular Show) VS. Pizza Steve (Uncle Grandpa)

Steven Moffat (Real Life) VS. Steven Taylor (Doctor Who)

Steve (You, Me, and Steve by Garfunkel and Oats) VS. Steve (Epic Rap Battles of History)

Steve Palchuk (Tales of Arcadia) VS. Steven Universe (Steven Universe)

Steve Trevor (Wonder Woman) VS. Stephanie Brown (DC Comics)

Bracket 3:

Steve Burnsides (Resident Evil) VS. Stefano Valentini (Evil Within 2)

Steve Urkel (Family Matters) VS. Steven Keaton (Family Ties)

Steven the Bus Stop (Milo Murphy’s Law) VS. Steel Vengeance [aka SteVe] (Cedar Point)

Steven (Papa Louie) VS. Steve Smith (American Dad)

Eh! Steve! (Homestar Runner) VS. Steve (Tankman)

Steve the Hedge (Over the Hedge) VS. Steve the Red Pikmin (Chuggaconroy)

Stefan Domaschke (Die Wilden Hühner) VS. Steven von Namtzen (Lord John)

Steve Hardy (General Hospital) VS. Stephen Strange (Marvel)

Bracket 4:

The Steve Army (Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series) VS. Steven Steel (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure)

Stevie Nichols (Wizards of Waverly Place) VS. Stevie Nicks (Real Life)

Steve Haines (Grand Theft Auto 5) VS. Steve Hale (Full House)

Ninja Steve (WarioWare: Gold) VS. Steve (NES Open Tournament Golf)

Stephen King (Real Life) VS. Steve (Book Scavenger)

Stevens (Emma: A Victorian Romance) VS. Steeve (Deep Rock Galactic)

Steve McCroskey (Airplane!) VS. Steve McGarrett (Hawaii 5-O)

Steven Armstrong (Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance) VS. Stefan (Fire Emblem)

Bracket 5:

Steve (The Owl House) VS. Steve (Bigtop Burger)

Steve (Minecraft) VS. Steve Carlsberg (Welcome to Night Vale)

Steve Harrington (Stranger Things) VS. Steve (She Kills Monsters)

Steven Carter (Torchwood) VS. Stefan Salvatore (The Vampire Diaries)

Steve (Blue’s Clues) VS. Steven Spielberg (Real Life)

Steven Franklin (Babylon 5) VS. Steve Jinks (Warehouse 13)

Stephen Bonnet (Outlander) VS. Steve Randle (The Outsiders)

Steve (hi, i’m steve) VS. Stefon Meyers (Saturday Night Live)

Bracket 6:

Steve Stronghold (Sky High) VS. Steven Stone (Pokémon)

Steve (Cucumber Quest) VS. Steve Irwin (Real Life)

Stephen Hawking (Real Life) VS. Steve Harvey (Real Life)

Stevie Wonder (Real Life) VS. Steve Taylor (Coupling)

Stephano (The Tempest) VS. Stephen (Shin Megami Tensei)

Stephen Gevanni (Death Note) VS. Steven Crain (The Haunting of Hill House)

Stephen Stills (Scott Pilgrim) VS. Stephen Sondheim (The Unsleeping City)

Steph (Pride) VS. Steve (Dark Cloud)

quick side note: every matchup from round 4 to round 6 was randomly decided, as i had ran out of connections to make. no matchups were created with the intention to get rid of a character.

[daysofourlivesrecaps]

Friday, 26 May 2023

Remember yesterday’s recap, when I said that they were providing us with setups for some extremely compelling bullshit to come? That was not hyperbole. This was also easily the biggest cast I’ve ever seen in a single episode of this show (despite the fact that I’ve been here for a number of weddings and funerals).

Anna is sitting in a restaurant having a phone conversation with Nicole and saying **THANK YOU FOR CONTINUING TO TRUST ME WITH THE EXTREMELY INTIMATE SECRET THAT YOU’RE PREGNANT!!** as loudly as she possibly can. Then Tony (her husband) walks in and, in the proud tradition of people walking in at the end of a conversation they’re not supposed to know about (a Days staple), asks “what pregnancy are you talking about?” Anna, who (assuming she’s the same age as her performer ) is sixty-eight years old, claims that she is the one who is pregnant. Tony then proceeds to list all of the earthly pleasures that Anna will no longer be able to enjoy, and if you don’t think it’s funny to watch a Wine Mom get told that she can’t have wine anymore then we have very different ideas of what comedy is.

It turns out he’s fucking with her, because Tony’s no idiot and he knows full well that his nearly 70 year old wife is not about to have a baby. “You were talking to Nicole, weren’t you?” he says. Because, again: no idiot.

Back at DiMeraHaüs, EJ wonders who this woman is who just let herself in. But the potential misunderstanding-driven hostilities are bypassed quickly (yet another way in which this show is superior to most superhero comics) and the two swear allegiance to one another in the ever-nebulous battle to control the shares of the ever-nebulous DiMera Corporation.

Sensing that this is turning into one of those reality shows where people build alliances, Kristen approaches Stefan and Gabi and, after a lovely sequence where Gabi puts her foot in her mouth and then slowly extracts it with Stefan's help, the three of them declare themselves Also on the Same Team in regards to the shares. Whatever the fuck that even means.

Meanwhile meanwhile, Eric visits Marlena and Brady to firm up those plans to have dinner with his girlfriend (Sloan), whom everyone still hates for no discernible reason. But since Kristen has just left, Brady finds himself in an extremely flimsy glass house in regards to psychotic partners, so he relents. Marlena does too, because Marlena is a grown-up who knows how to set her own feelings aside and abide by the social contract. I have no idea how she manages to do this and remain such a compelling soap character, given that every aspect of a soap is driven by people's stupid impulses and total lack of control thereof.

Then we get a scene with EVERY DIMERA. Well. Except Chad. And the newly-discovered Dimitri. And Johnny, thank christ. But this is still a fuckload of DiMeras. They're going to have to create a spreadsheet to keep track of whose turn it is to monologue to the portrait of Stefano. I, for one, cannot fucking WAIT to see all of these delightfully evil bastards cohabitating in the same sinister lair.

Oh, and Nicole realizes that she'll need a DNA sample from at least one of her baby's potential fathers for the whole paternity test to work. (Not *that* kind of sample, you pervert. They just need a cheek swab.) Somehow, impossibly, Sloan (who loathes Nicole) agrees to get one from Eric. Speaking of unholy alliances.

Also I didn't even include a shot of Kayla explaining how the paternity test works to Nicole. Seriously, this one was packed to the rafters. And we are having a fucking blast.