#tbh it exceeded my WILDEST expectations

[thestarlightforge]

I’m gonna wait a few days to delve all the way in so I can speak on it with full spoilers without ruining it for too many people, but—

THE COSTUMES & MAKEUP. THE MUSIC & SCORE. THE SET DESIGN & SUBTLE PROP WORK. THE CINEMATOGRAPHY. THE DIRECTION. THE PERFORMANCES. THE INTIMACY CHOREOGRAPHY 😭

Here checking on the people that have watch tbosas… how are we doing? How was it?? Pls share🐦‍⬛🐍

All opinions are welcome

[selfwriting-sugarquills]

Heat in the rain pt. 10: New Years Eve (FINAL)

(Can you believe it’s the end? Writing hitr has really helped me get back into writing, and honestly, all of your responses have exceeded any of my wildest expectations tbh, I’ve loved every moment of writing this series thanks to you all!) 

Description: It’s new years eve and well, George has gotta kiss someone, right? 

Warnings: None

Word count: 1159 

Parts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 

New years eve had always been your favourite holiday if you were being honest. There was something about the prospect of a whole new year in front of you that excited you much more than the cosiness of Christmas or the fleeting joy of your birthdays. And it seemed, that as this year came to an end, everyone residing in the burrow was looking forward to leaving 1998 behind. 

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“Exciting, isn’t it?” Fred mused as he picked up a cracker and handed it to George who took the other end, putting down his glass of Old Odgen’s, 

“Sure is,”

“Whole new year,” 

“Yep,” 

“Only a few minutes left to,” BANG “sort out any unfinished business,” Fred’s eyes held a twinkle as George looked at him with annoyance, “It’s not like she disappears after the clock strikes twelve, Freddy,” He scoffed, picking up his glass again, 

“Who’s disappearing?” Ginny asked as she appeared in the kitchen, holding two empty bottles of champagne, which she placed beside the sink, “No-one,” Said George insistingly, shooting a glare at his twin, “Right Fred?” 

“Absolutely, Georgie,” Fred sniggered as he went to grab his own glass, which he had abandoned earlier, “No-one at all,” He said, making a grimace as if asking his brother -who-could-it-be? while George sipped his whiskey slowly, daring Fred to mention Y/n, 

“Say, George,” Asked Ginny, “Who’re you kissing at midnight?” She gave him a knowing smirk causing George to draw in a sharp breath through his nose, 

“You too?” was all he asked, Ginny smiled, “Don’t know what you’re talking about,” She stopped in the doorway and turned to wink at her brother, “but you should probably know that Y/n’s still available, unless you wanna kiss Fred,” She chuckled and exited the kitchen, 

“Fred stop snickering or I swear,” George began but Fred put up a hand, “Oh don’t worry Georgie, we’re only teasing, besides I’ve given up on being your wingman, you’re far too slow,” Fred smiled, “well, there’s only,” Fred checked his watch, “four minutes ‘til midnight, should we go in?” 

George looked at the whiskey swirling in his glass, “You go ahead, I’ll be there in a second,” 

*** 

You checked the time anxiously, only three minutes left now. The whole family stood ready, Harry and Ginny were handing out champagne glasses to everyone when Molly looked around and asked, 

“Where’s George?” 

“He said he’d be here in a minute,” Fred said, sipping his champagne, 

“Well in a minute it’ll be past twelve!” Ron said, 

“I’ll go look for him!” You said, raising a hand, you grabbed two glasses of champagne, if you didn’t catch him in time, at least you’d be able to celebrate a late new years eve together, smiling at the thought you headed towards the kitchen. Behind you Molly made movements to go as well but was stopped by a reassuring hand from Arthur, the two exchanged a knowing smile. 

***

You found George in the kitchen, he was looking out of the window in the far end of the room, someone far away, you expected the Lovegoods, were already firing off fireworks, the room lit up in shades of green and pink with every muted bang, 

“Oh good, George, I was afraid you’d run off somewhere far and-”

“I’m in love with you.” 

Stunned, you froze, there was another muted bang, this time the colour was a brilliant red. 

“George, what-” 

He spun around, 

“I’m in love with you,” he said again, a little more insistently, someone in the living room called out for you, you didn’t hear, you didn’t hear the fireworks either but you saw the golden shine appear behind George, enrobing him momentarily like a halo, 

“whatareyouonabout,” you whispered, people in the living room started counting down, starting at 30, 

“I have been for a while, actually,” he made his way towards you, grabbing the champagne glasses and placing them on the counter, “-probably put those down before you drop them,” He let out a breathy chuckle, his hands found yours, you couldn’t stop staring at him, unable to form any words, “I-George,” you choked out, 

“It’s alright if you don’t feel the same way, really it is, but I wanted you to- needed you to know,” He said, squeezing your hands, “New Year's resolutions and all that,” He added, nervously grinning down at your intertwined hands, 

You looked up at him and his eyes found yours, he opened his mouth to say something but your lips met his before he could utter a word. The kiss was sweet and soft at first, and as the Weasleys broke out into a collective cry of cheers, his arms snaked their way around your waist as you deepened the kiss, your hands trailing upwards into his hair. When you broke apart, both a little breathless, you looked at each other in awe, then you broke out into a giggle, 

“Why on earth didn’t you say something sooner?!” You asked, 

“I thought you were in love with your co-worker, y’know, the one with the dark hair and shiny teeth!” George proclaimed, his hands finding yours again, 

“Gabe?!” You exclaimed, “George, he’s gay, he’s literally in Cancun with his fiancé as we speak!” you laughed, George looked stunned for a moment, then he too broke out into a laugh, 

“GEORGE IT’S TIME!!!!” Fred yelled from the living room, followed by a “Don´t! they’ve just gotten together let them be!” from Ginny, 

“How do you know that?” asked Ron, 

“Duh- I peeked through the opening to the kitchen while we were all hugging and kissing and whatnot,” Ginny said, 

“I DON’T CARE, THEY’VE HAD TEN WHOLE MINUTES AND WE’VE GOT A WHOLE BOX OF FIREWORKS TO SET OFF!” Fred yelled, at this point, he was standing directly in front of the entrance to the kitchen, 

“Mate, you’re looking at us, we can hear you,” George chuckled, 

“Good, then come on,” Said Fred, 

George leaned down and placed a quick kiss on your forehead, 

“Let’s go outside,” He said quietly, squeezing your hands again. You followed him outside, grinning like an idiot. 

As you arrived in front of the house along with everyone else, Fred had already set up the first of many fireworks, however, he only got halfway through his salesmanlike speech about the firework before a crack of thunder could be heard and soon rain was pouring down, causing the family to react in groans and then laughter, you and George were both dripping already when you made it inside, Fred trailing behind you, looking like he was silently cursing every god of whether he could think of. As people were getting towels and talking about getting changed you couldn’t focus on anything other than the heat coming from George, as he hugged you from behind, whispering quietly in your ear how much he loved you, and at that moment, you didn’t want to be anywhere else.

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Okay now that it’s finished, can I just say what a dumb name Heat in the rain is? okay, thank you and that’s all lol 

[truetgirl]

Now that we have them all I’m gonna put down some thoughts on each of the C19 decks:

Faceless Menace (Sultai Morph):

I went into spoiler season ready and almost determined in a way to hate this deck. Ever since I started playing Morph as a mechanic has always flummoxed me. It is not until recently that I’ve started to appreciate what it brings to the table. The much harder hill to overcome is how I despise to its festering bone marrow the Sultai color combination. I’m most naturally a white and red play, so there’s that, but I do also like green a good bit. It’s Sultai I hate because those three colors in combination do the most deeply unfair things in magic and though I will always concede that it’s good I will never really like it.

That said, with a more fun and focused theme than “stomach turning, absolutely disgusting value,” this is the deck I think I’ll be getting. This one really impressed me from the lowest possible starting point.

Arcane Intellect (Jeskai Flashback):

Not nearly as much to say about this one. It’s got my favorite colors and it looks like a fun and interesting build. of the three Commanders I honestly think they chose the most boring of all as the lead, but oh well. I particularly like Elsha and may want her for a deck i already have. Possibly as the commander tbh because that is raw card advantage I cannot ignore.

Primal Genesis (Naya Populate):

Ah, the best colors. I already have a naya deck that I’m real happy with (see it here if you like) but I can certainly appreciate a good thing when I see it. I really think red with populate is a fun idea because while it might not make very many, red makes some big fun tokens, often temporarily, so it’s nice to have a permanent way to keep them.

Merciless Rage (Rakdos Madness):

And the deck that interested me the most conceptually at first has turned out to be an unfocused mess of cards. That is truly unfortunate, but such is life. I’m not too upset after the Sultai deck exceeded my wildest expectations the way it did, but I’d have liked to see something, anything, better or at least more interesting than this.

[aro-acethetic]

Hi its the fire fly anon and I just wanna thank you so much you exceeded my wildest expectations tbh omg tysm o((*^▽^*))o

Thanks a million, anon! It’s always wonderful to hear back that people like their moodboards. :)

[gaysurrectionf]

Ep. 89 revealing A Second Female Saiyan is like Christmas come early, it exceeded my wildest expectations and has me insanely stoked for what the story of these two Saiyans is going to be. The rest of the episode tho.... yikes:

The Chinese-inspired setting, mystical elements and perverted humor make this episode feel like a throwback to classic Dragon Ball. It also makes me remember how little I enjoy those ‘Roshi is a lecher’ jokes. Sexual harassment was not funny when I first watched DB a decade ago and it’s still unfunny now.

Yurin as a character is thinly written, annoying, and sexist af lbr. Here we have a woman (in between being objectified for laughs) acting hysterical, screeching and stamping her feet, MASTERING WITCHCRAFT and causing chaos and destruction because???? a boy didn’t wanna play with her at school?? And placating her is as easy as Tien saying “alright fine I’ll let u stay at my crib will you calm your tits now” Which makes the entire driving force behind her character to be: getting attention from a man. Blech.

This is Tien’s recruitment episode, it’s his chance to prove his worth to be in the tournament, and the best he can do is..... spout extra limbs only for it to accomplish absolutely nothing and then get zapped by lightning? Frickin Chiaotzu contributed more smh

It also does a disservice to Roshi tbh. He is more than just an old pervert, but this episode won’t remind you that there is more than one side to him. Also also, since they’ve spent most of the episode doing lame pervert jokes they ran out of space to properly justify Roshi’s power increase, leaving Goku’s single-sentence exposition as your only explanation :/

I’m always able to find something to remember fondly in Super’s weakest episodes but this has to be the first one I’d actually describe as unpleasant, largely due to its poor treatment of a female character and the overplayed, frankly offensive gags. Not looking forward to watching this one again.

two female saiyans tho i’m squee