#the last bit of the episode with the whole buck thing kind of ruined the hype of it all lmao

[buddieinmybeddie]

Alright well... I'll see you all again when season 7 drops.

[thesrctsoftheuniverse]

i finished season 2 of 9-1-1 last night, here’s my thoughts:

athena and her family are so important to me. i love them so much and i love how quickly they accepted bobby into the family (except for athena's parents). bobby is going to be a great stepfather, and I love the relationship between him and michael. bobby and athena's relationship is adorable, i love them and i love the way they talk to each other. the sudden engagement and wedding were a bit wild ngl, but damn bobby knows what he wants!!! bobby's struggle with addition and with the grief of what he lost is so important to me. him telling athena that he's struggling to stay on the wagon after eating those brownies is so important to me. i love him.

maddie buckley you are the love of my life, want to get married?? she is so brave and so cool and so strong and i LOVE LOVE LOVE her relationship with buckley and chimney. her growth throughout the show, the confidence she gained in doing her job. one of the lines that still flies around my head is "help is not coming". she is genuinely so great. i loved the episodes centered around doug finding her, she fought so much. and the scene where she gets back up and stumbles through the forest and buck finds her and runs and jumps over stones and shit to get to her is truly one of my all time favourite scenes. as an older sibling that shit is so beautiful to me. buck and maddie love each other so much. it ruined me ngl

chimney is such a fucking hero. i love him. he's a fantastic friend and somehow managed to save the fucking day while on sick leave. if he hadn't checked the news and hadn't called his team and then called tommy to ask for help with the fires, that whole neighbourhood would probably be gone. i love him so much. he is so patient and kind with maddie. he loves her so much but he also respects her and her boundaries, no questions asked. he is just such an amazing character and i love him and i love his friendship with hen, they are truly besties4life!!!

hen. idk how to put into words how much i love her and how much her being a lesbian and having a family means to me. her recording that audio message while stuck in that hotel in the earthquake episode broke me. she loves her family so much. eva hurt her so much and she could have just let her die, but instead she did her job and helped her. her selflessness and compassion is so amazing. her hen begins episode is wonderful i miss her and athena having more scenes together though

buck is going through it with his relationships this season. he clearly has abandonment issues, he clings to his thing with abby way longer than necessary out of a sense of guilt or gratitude and simply because he believes that he cant find someone else that likes him for him. and then taylor goes buck 1.0 on him (deserved!!) and then ali dates him for a while (wish we had seen more of that, instead of time jumps) but as soon as he gets grievously injured drops the bomb on him that she doesn't know how to be with him while he has this job, the job that means everything to him. he's a workaholic and needs therapy, this much is clear. he loves maddie and watching him realise in real time that his sister and his coworker like each other was HILARIOUS. his relationship with eddie..... no words. and he LOVES chris. and i love his friendship with carla!!

eddie diaz i am a lesbian and i am in love with you. the introduction.... alright gay ass. he is just there and hot and competent and buck gets all angry over it LMFAO. the fact that he was still a probie during all of season 2 is wild, that man is so smart and quick at his job. him literally spider-manning up a building to save that boy??? jesus. i love him and i love his love for chris. he clearly loves being a father so much and puts chris before everything. his partnership with buck at work and friendship outside of it is everything to me. they are bonded for life. his character arc and getting to know him this season was beautiful. i loved shannon but it was clear they would have only stayed together for the kid(s). he wasn't sure of anything until she mentioned she thought she was pregnant again. the fact that he got her back, only for her to want a divorce when he had just told her he wanted to be a family again and then her immediately dying.... that man goes through so much shit. also FUCK his family. dude had to bury his wife and mother of his son and they're trying to uproot him. i love him i love him i love him. he is such a good dad and so good at his job and he deserves the world.

the earthquake episodes were amazing, i loved having them all react to this one thing from all different sides instead of 5 different emergencies in one episodes. the hen/chimney begins and the bobby begins again episodes were so important to understand the characters and their relationships to each other. chimney losing kevin. i kinda saw that coming but still. and hen having to deal with all that shit as soon as she got to work at the 118, only for chimney to immediately try to adopt her as his friend. i love them. bobby was fucking amazing at showing the 118 that he was a great captain once he got there, i love understanding more of his story. he is a great captain. he might not go to therapy but at least he talks to the priests, which seems to help him a lot and thats all that matters.

ALSO THOSE TWO OLD GAYS THAT HAD SPENT THEIR ENTIRE LIVES TOGETHER AND WHEN THE ONE DIED THE OTHER DIED SHORTLY AFTER WHILE HOLDING HIS HUSBANDS HAND WAS SO FUCKIGN BEAUTIFUL AND HEARTBREAKING I LOVED IT IM GONNA CRY I LOVE SEEING OLDER GAYS ON TV

also that scene at the end where civilians help life the truck off of buck's legs....crying.

hope i didnt forget anything! i currently have a headache, likely from always staying up late watching this fucking show.

bye

[inawickedlittletown]

Serendipity - Buddie Soulmate Au - 1/?

Summary: Soulmate Marks were personal, they were the most personal thing that a person could have. They were the connection to your other half, the thing that linked you so completely to someone in a way that was magical and unexplainable and they were supposed to be yours and your Soulmates and no one else’s.

When Buck's Soulmate Mark is leaked to the world, ruining his plans of meeting his Soulmate organically, he has no idea that fate has him covered. 

Meanwhile, Eddie has never watched an episode of Serendipity, but starting the show involves becoming a fan of one Evan Buckley and finding out that the Soulmate he wasn't looking for is a famous actor responsible for his new favorite show. 

Notes: Serendipity is defined as: the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.

Welcome to my new Soulmate AU. I've been wanting to write another Buddie Soulmate AU pretty much since the last one I wrote and then this idea popped into my head. It is a WIP and I am honestly still figuring things out about this fic so the tags and rating may still be updated. Enjoy. :)

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Chapter One

The entertainment news were at it again. Some of the pictures were grainy, kind of unclear and you could only just barely tell it was him inside the car. It was just that Buck was distinctive and he hadn’t been trying to hide who he was that day. On a day when he was trying to go incognito, Buck would cover up the birthmark above his left eye with the expensive make-up that a stylist had recommended to him — the kind that they’d used back in his soap opera tv-days when he’d had to play his own identical twin whose only difference was the lack of mark. He would wear his aviator glasses and maybe a hat on his head and his clothes would be comfortable and worn and of course, Buck wouldn’t be driving his Jeep. It didn’t stop some people from noticing him and asking for pictures or autographs if he was out and about and someone got a closer look at him, but it kept some people unaware which gave him anonymity. Buck didn’t really mind that kind of attention because it felt like he was bringing people joy and maybe because it made him happy too. 

 “After months of silence, we finally have a Buck sighting,” the E!News reporter said as the pictures were shown going from the first grainy ones showing him driving his car to the more clear ones. 

 He was getting out of his Jeep in a few and then the next ones had him going into the bookstore. After that came when he exited the store with a small white canvas bag. A few pictures of him inside his Jeep driving away came next. 

 “Buck was seen out shopping at a bookstore in downtown L.A. This is the first time anyone has seen Buck since the picture revealing his Soulmate Mark was leaked a little over three months ago. That breach of privacy coincided with the end of filming for season three of HBO’s Serendipity whose season finale will be airing this Sunday. It has been complete silence from Buck since the incident three months ago.” 

 “Well can you blame him?” the other host of the show said. “Buck has always been a private guy when it came to his Soulmate Mark. Always keeping it covered up. No one even knew where his Mark was until that picture came out.” 

 They showed the picture. Buck couldn’t look at the screen. He couldn’t be reminded of how stupid he’d been to let that picture be taken when he hadn’t had it covered up. He’d been so stupid to trust her and to imagine that he’d found someone that could be his friend and that he could let in. 

 He’d missed a bit of what the E!News hosts were saying, but when he looked back up they were still talking about him but at least they had moved on to talking about Serendipity. That’s what all the pictures had been about anyway. It wasn’t that Buck hadn’t needed to go to that bookstore, he had a PA that could have gone and picked up the books for him, not to mention that there was always the option of getting anything shipped. The whole thing had been very calculated exactly so that the entertainment news cycle could talk about him and the show. Buck had even known exactly where the cameras had been situated. Everything in Hollywood was a calculated business arrangement. 

 The hosts finally moved on to something else, a young singer had gotten caught with his pants down — literally. Buck didn’t even know who the guy was, but he let himself chuckle before turning off the tv. 

 It hadn’t been too bad. His publicist said that until Buck actually spoke about what happened with his Soulmate Mark, it would be subject for speculation since all the public knew was that the pictures had been leaked. Going out and getting his picture taken began a conversation without Buck having to speak out or explain anything. It got people talking and it promoted the show too. 

 The leak had happened at the worst possible time for him. No one knew how it had been leaked or by who. None of them knew that for Buck the whole thing had felt world ending. At least, because filming was done, Buck had been allowed to disappear for three months. Buck had even been booked to a bunch of talk shows to talk about Serendipity that week, and no one had been mad when Buck pulled out from every single one. It was just that everyone did understand on some level. 

 Soulmate Marks were personal, they were the most personal thing that a person could have. They were the connection to your other half, the thing that linked you so completely to someone in a way that was magical and unexplainable and they were supposed to be yours and your Soulmates and no one else’s. At least, that’s what it used to be. 

 The age of the internet had changed things. Before then, there had been matching services where you would provide a picture of your Soulmate Mark and then the matching service would work to figure out if they had someone with the same Soulmate Mark in their database. Even if they had a match, it took months to figure it out and the whole thing wasn’t popular in the first place. It was always a long shot. But then the internet grew into popularity and with it the option to have your Soulmate Mark added to a world wide database. Maybe it wasn’t romantic, but people were impatient and most people did put their Marks on there with the hopes to meet their Soulmates faster.

 There was still some anonymity in that it was a computer program that matched up the Marks and then informed the people involved. But once people were comfortable with sharing their Marks like that, it became more and more common — especially for younger people — to just show off their Marks. Social media made that even more prominent. It didn’t help that a lot of celebrities didn’t hide their Soulmate Marks. Some because they had found their Soulmate and wanted the world to be aware, and others because they liked the attention, and some because they hoped to find their Soulmate that way. 

 Being a celebrity with a known Soulmate Mark came with its own hardships especially for those that hadn’t met their Soulmates yet because some fans were crazy enough to fake Soulmate Marks. It wasn’t easy to fake a Mark and make it look like it was the real thing, but even if someone did manage to do it, it wouldn’t take much to disprove it and just a touch alone was enough for the Mark to be discovered as fraudulent. 

 For Buck, it wasn’t that he didn’t want to find his Soulmate, it was that he wanted it to happen organically. He wanted to run into them somewhere and just know because that’s what it was supposed to be. He wanted his fingers to skim over the matching Mark on someone else’s skin without having first seen a picture of it on Instagram. He’d wanted his Mark to be for the eyes of his Soulmate and the very few people that had ever gotten so see it. It had always felt like one of the last things that Buck still had when everything else about his life was public and scrutinized. Someone had taken that away from him. 

 And while at first in the days following the release of the picture, Buck had felt destroyed and betrayed, a week into it he’d wondered if the silver lining would be actually finding his Soulmate. Of the nine people that had come forward, none were the real deal. Buck hadn’t even had to meet all of them because the fake Soulmate Marks hadn’t been good enough. One Mark belonging to a woman named Ali had looked like it could be the real deal and Buck had been convinced to meet the woman. His first impression was that she was pretty, he wouldn’t have minded if she was his Soulmate. She hadn’t even seemed like a crazy fan and the Mark was definitely a real Soulmate Mark, it just didn’t actually match Buck’s even if it came close. They’d known the moment their hands touched in a handshake, when nothing happened. No tingles. No warmth over the Marks. 

 “I didn’t think it would be you,” Ali told him. “My friends, they’ve all seen mine and when they saw yours they were sure it was the same. Figured I had to try, I guess.”

 She was genuine, and Buck liked her eyen more when at the end of their meeting she reached out and touched his arm. 

 “I do want to say, I’m sorry about what happened to you. No one’s Soulmate Mark should be leaked like that.”

 He’d thanked her and then she was on her way and Buck hadn’t had to meet anyone else that contacted his agent about possibly being a match for him. It was either that his Soulmate somehow hadn’t seen the picture, or that knowing it was Buck had put them off. His sister thought he was being ridiculous in thinking that way. 

 “You didn’t even want to meet them this way. I don’t understand...are you disappointed?” 

 “No. I guess I figured something good might come out of it,” Buck said and they didn’t talk about it again. 

 Maddie had met her Soulmate already and something about that made her less pushy about Buck’s own thoughts about the whole thing. Buck had expected her to be mad on his behalf when the picture was leaked, and she was, but then she hadn’t pressed and pushed and tried to make him talk about his feelings and about what his options were. Instead, she’d been supportive and let him call the shots and when he told her that he was going to leave the spotlight for three months and literally not even leave his house she’d only offered to stay with him for support instead of trying to get him to confront the whole thing head on. 

 A text came through on his phone and Buck glanced at it. 

 Chim: Saw the pictures. I didn’t know you could read. 

 Buck laughed out loud. Chim was Maddie’s Soulmate. He was a firefighter/paramedic with the LAFD and he was one of the few people that Buck had met after becoming famous that didn’t shy away from teasing Buck. Buck had liked him almost instantly and he’d known that he was perfect for his sister. 

 Buck: Maybe that will finally make them figure out how fake this is. 

 Chim: You are okay with all of this, though? Them talking about you again.

 It wasn’t a question of whether he was okay with it. He had to be. Promoting the show was written into his contract and while Buck had managed to get out of a number of interviews back when the pictures were leaked, that didn’t keep the studio and the show runners from needing him to show up. In some ways, it was nice that the scandal meant Buck didn’t actually have to do much. He did have one interview to do and at least it wasn’t live so they could cut around things, and they’d asked him to do a Q&A over Twitter. Stepping out and getting papped hadn’t been the worst thing. 

 Buck: It isn’t a big deal. Hope the finale on Sunday distracts them some.

 Chim: It’s gonna be a cliffhanger isn’t it? 

 Buck: 🤷‍♂️

 Buck laughed when he saw the gif that Chim attached to his next text. It was from Serendipity and it featured Buck’s character, Jasper, throwing up the middle finger. 

 There were other texts on his phone. There were always texts on his phone, but Buck didn’t want to deal with other people so he ignored them in favor of getting up and walking to his kitchen to figure out dinner. Cooking had been an easy escape in his time away from everything. It was nice to just be on his own reading and following instructions and then getting to eat the end results and know that his own hands had made it possible. It was a skill that was entirely different from everything else he did and needed to do for his job. 

 Buck had never set out to be an actor. He’d fallen into it like people fell into other jobs. It was just that for a while all he’d done was go from place to place — Buck didn’t like to talk about how a part of him had moved so often in search of his Soulmate  — and he’d wound up in L.A. and somehow found himself working as a PA on a set. And then, he’d found himself showing up for an audition and surprising everyone including himself by getting cast. Buck hadn’t known what a high it would be to act, to become someone else and embody those emotions and display them for all to see. He hadn’t known that he’d been training for it his entire life and that he did owe some of his skill to how much pretending he’d done growing up. He had no regrets about his choices or where he’d ended up. 

 Being a working actor in Hollywood hadn’t been easy off the bat and for a while after that initial role he’d settled into work on a Soap but his agent had sent him on audition after audition and Buck had become a much better actor by then. He’d taken a few classes to improve himself and it all paid off when he had a big break that really made him a household name. 

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Chapter Two

[littlerosetrove]

Yeah yeah the reporter being in Treasure Hunt ruins the episode a bit, especially knowing what comes next (rewatching was not as fun), and I agree her being in Bobby and Athena's house was weird (I *almost* wish they had a moment of Athena being 😒😒😒 about it, but the fact that they didn't address or try to redeem her after what she did just tells me they never planned to try and get everyone to like and forgive her because she's not sticking around), BUT let's talk about Eddie being jealous AF, pouting to get Buck to work with him, clearly having an issue with Buck working with her, and his petty little 'go team' when he feels left out. Let's talk about everyone else working with their partners and Eddie not even mentioning his gf or trying to team up with her, and the framing of that shot in Buck's kitchen with Eddie squarely between Buck and his future love interest.

Ok. Ok... I don't even think this is my bias talking (re: my dislike for Taylor), but I'm also looking for a silver lining here, and I think the writers knew exactly what they were doing. What I mean is, Taylor just felt out of place in the Treasure Hunt episode, particularly in any regard to Buck and the team. She never seemed to fit or click. Especially when she was at Athena's house. I know I just watched that episode last night and I should remember clearly, but yeah, I don't really recall any of the fire fam truly talking to or acknowledging Taylor at the table? She just felt like a strange outsider. Ahhhhhhh!! The ONLY reason Buck paired up with Taylor first is because the writers (want to torture us) are trying to show a growing "connection" or whatever between Buck and Taylor. Since they're going to be in a romantic relationship soon. 🙄 (even with that, it still feels super weird that Buck would want/think to go to Taylor first over his best friend Eddie. i don't care that the writers are, again, trying to get Buck and Taylor together in some way, but why in this regard? truly doesn't make sense. seems forced. oh hey just like this whole Buck and Taylor thing 🙃) The noise I just made about Eddie not even mentioning his girlfriend. 😆 God. Okay? At this point in my watching, uh thing, I've barely seen Ana. Still know nothing about her beyond she's educated and nice. So like... I can't really feel anything more than indifferent about her. And I feel like this has also been on purpose by the writers. They're clearly doing nothing to get us the audience attached to Ana in any way. She's very much in the background, really, and kind of a blank slate. That framing of Eddie, while in the background, but between Buck and Taylor was kinda genius.

[rhomaa2]

Not to be a Buddie clown on main but my face is painted and i am ready 🤡

So like that prolonged eye contact and Eddie reaching out for Buck as he's lying there bleeding out was pretty gay and totally leading up to Buddie canon. Apparently even casual fans thought there was something inherently romantic about how they framed the scene (which they are not wrong, it practically reads fanfiction)

But that got me to thinking about the Carla scene and her telling Eddie to follow his heart and not Christopher's, which yes! Boy needs to find the person he wants and not just someone who he thinks is "easy" - gotta love his description of that relationship. So thank you Carla for hopefully helping in the leadup to the EddieAna breakup!

We already knew that the dinner wasn't gonna be all sunshines and rainbows though because Cocoa Brown kind of hinted at the fact multiple times on insta, saying that things are not what they seem (which hopefully this means that the big Diaz family dinner in the next episode actually is a dream sequence, that would make the picture not what it seems) and that Carla would have something to say and she did!

But then Cocoa went off on the whole attacking Buddie shippers when people rightfully pointed out that GW shouldn't be playing a Latina character as a non-Latina. Except i'm wondering if that whole thing was actually a misdirect. Like Cocoa shared a pretty big clue that the EddieAna nonsense wasn't going to last, which lead all us clowns to the Buddie endgame route even more aggressively, so what if she actually got in trouble for sharing that info.

Like maybe they wanted the Buddie endgame (and you can't change my mind about them being slowburn endgame) to be more of a secret and to make us, and even the casual viewers to think that the EddieAna relationship was here to stay, the pictures without the Cocoa comments do kind of lead you to that assumption, but she did sort of spoil that theory if you take what she said at face value. It was after those original comments that she started to get more shady with the Buddie stans attacks and also the cryptic emojis when asked about Taylor Kelly.... almost as if she was told to be vaguer if she was going to post, and to mislead the conversation a bit. Because let’s face it, her credibility as a source for info was kind of ruined after she went on the attack. I at least saw multiple people no longer deciding to trust anything she says in regards to Buddie or any other ships.

tldr: Cocoa was silenced for letting slip that the EddieAna nonsense wasn’t gonna last and Buddie endgame is happening 🤡

[woodchoc-magnum]

Hi! I need some moral support because I'm at work and my eyes can't stop tearing... blame the lack of sleep for watching live from Europe, blame the sour taste still in my mouth after some Tim interviews, but with those two forced love interests still around I really can't enjoy the little jems from the season finale... Eddie was shot... again... but it feels like was more a plot to shows Buck insecurities and let him leaning in Taylor... Don't get me wrong, Buck has always been my favourite from the beginning but now every story seems to resolve around him and more they do this more grows my love for Eddie. I hate what Tim said about Eddie, that he's to pretty to kill of... that he's an ex-soldier so he's not going to be "particurarly traumatized"... wtf... he's also a father who cares so much for his son that he sacrifices his own happiness and had been shot twice and buried alive. Season 5 need to show us Eddie healing from all his trauma, gaining the confidence that he's a wonderful father, and finally let him explore wath really want from his love life and clearly it's not A*a after what we saw in 4x13... if they keep going with this bullshit they clearly decided on purpose to ruin Eddie character...

Okay, first of all - it's going to be okay!

The two love interests aren't going to stick around long term, that's for sure.

I agree with you - they do seem to lean heavily on Buck as a crutch and the character that propels things forward? And in terms of Eddie, that's kind of putting him at a disadvantage because things that should just be about Eddie - i.e. being shot by a sniper - now also become about Buck.

I would love them to do a meaty PTSD storyline for Eddie in Season 5 but honestly... after the way that ended, I'm not sure? I mean you could say that he's putting on a brave face, but... it doesn't seem to me like they want to go down that path.

But also - Tim's full of shit. He says stuff and most of it is meaningless. He was hyping up the wedding from the last episode and that was a whole bag of nothing. His interviews are like word vomit, he says one mildly interesting thing and then undoes it all with the next sentence. I mostly just ignore him.

I don't think they're going to keep Eddie and Ana together; I think they'll either breakup offscreen or very early in Season 5 (hopeful for an offscreen breakup because I really hate the actress who plays Ana and want her gone). It would've been a bit rude for Eddie to come home after being in the hospital and breaking up with her on the spot, so... I can understand why they left it out of this episode, lol.

I also don't think Ana would've made much of an impact on the regular viewing audience so they probably wouldn't miss her too much/care if the breakup happened offscreen. (kinda like Ali)

So - in conclusion - don't lose hope. This is a good episode for Buck and Eddie. They solidified their relationship at the end - Eddie essentially told Buck that they're family; that he's not going anywhere. What happens in Season 5 I don't know, but this ship is still sailing and everything is going to be okay!

[wo-wann-was-wer]

WHAT I WAS THINKING: DARK SEASON 3 EDITION

EPISODE 1:

Who are these dudes with the harelip and what do they want

Why did she just take him to a cave and leave that’s kinda rude

So everything in this universe is just gonna be backwards. Love it

Ugh I’ve said this a million times but this show has such Fringe energy and I can’t wait to get a tattoo for this too

This is super freaking me out, i dont like that everyone’s in everyone else’s house.

Ooooh Katharina with glasses yes girl you better work.

I like Michael and this hat he’s rocking

Super into the fact that magnus and fransizka are involved in this universe too

There’s nothing cuter than sex before school. Ahhh the nostalgia

Ten bucks says that Hannah gets out of this bed and is pregnant

Fucking YEP

I am loving Martha in this Jonas journey

I know that all they did was flip the lens of the camera but my brain is breaking at this flipped Winden

Who the fuck is this random dude Martha is with

You know what he kind of looks like Jonas. I wonder if that's relevant or if I'm just grasping at straws

Bartosz looks like he's going to his first grade violin recital

I straight up just did not recognize Charlotte with makeup. She looks hot

There's got to be another person in that picture other than Ulrich because that's a lot of space to rip out for one person

okay hold up Woller looks so good and then when I saw that he was missing an arm I almost lost my fucking mind

Oh shit okay Hannah is living in Katharina's house.

Oh my God are Ulrich and Charlotte having an affair

Is it normal in Germany for kids to just walk into classes that aren't there’s and just sit down

follow up he has a clear noose mark on his neck

Aleksander looks so hot with this beard. universe B is the fucking glow up universe

It's weirding me out that the whole school is black and gray instead of light brown

The look of satisfaction on katharina's face

Wow honestly Louis just broke my heart with his facial expression when he realized his mom didn't know who he was

he looks so scared

Yes yes do it afffffffffair

Oh no you done got found out!!!

Oh the theme of the play here is red and set of gold

Fransizka looks so cute in this little outfit

Oh my God she's deaf!!!!

What the fuck. the fact that this actress can talk is blowing my mind

RIP to Regina a real queen

Peter's a fucking priest

All the fucking weird-ass freaky motherfucking trio is back

The dopplers have the same house That's cool

excuse me sir I think your child is broken

these guys are so creepy What the fuck

I definitely don't like the piano wire

oh this motherfucker is the one who gets lost

I feel like winden in this universe is just a little bit fancier

Well Charlotte and Ulrich just be fucking like crazy

Bartosz is the Jonas of this group and I love it

who was that??????

I cannot get over Aleksander in this beard

I like that things are opposite but they also have things that are different enough.

Like I'm so into the fact that they all went down into the bunker

who in the unholy fuck is that. who is that

Oh shit old Martha

What the fuck is this Tannhaus’ factory we're at

hold up Martha's in 1888

What the fuck. why is Jonas in 1888 and looking SO good

EPISODE 2:

casually sitting over your bed watching you sleep

he's look so good though

yo what the fuck everybody else is there too

Oh no things got really ugly at Mads’ wake

Not for nothing but Tronte is a dick

I kind of don't understand why Claudia would want Regina to live in such pain in this type of universe

Peter is such a good boy

lurking is the freaking national past time of this place

Oh shit we got some spin-off timeline stuff good

who is This is blind guy

I love Katharina so fucking much

I know what she's thinking and it's the same thing I'm thinking which is can I kill a child

why does this picture of Tronte make him look like Jimmy Smits

Katharina looks amazing in this jacket

Also I definitely did not just start yelling GO GET YOUR MAN KATHARINA

Regina just gets more and more badass as time goes on. Also all of the women of the tiedemann family are so fucking badass

I am so excited to watch this fucking relationship develop. they're both too cute

awwww he's using signs!

oh they're writing back and forth

DAMNIT PETER

I always feel like little Noah should do fuckboy sign offs when he leaves rooms because he's so smooth

yesterday Laurel said that this was back to the future but serious and just now Bartosz said it's not super easy to get nuclear fuel in 1888 and now I think that Laurel's right

I will never get over how good he looks JONAAAASSSSSSS

This guy feels like the OG inventor of sic mundus right

Katerina why are you even trying to check in at the front desk bitch Go and get your man

Is this Katarina's mom why does she just recognize that woman's name

everyone on the show is so talented.I spend the whole damn time being like oh my god the performances on the show and it's like yeah we know

Katerina get your man

I literally love them so much look at the look on her face She is a mama bear She is not going to let anybody take her man or her children and I love her

Not a huge fan of people who quote Shakespeare right before they kill other people or am I an enormous fan of people who use Shakespeare right before they kill other people

using a garotte to kill someone is ugly as fuck

I feel so bad for Jana

see this is one of the reasons why I'm like why would you bring Regina back to this world.

wowwwww TRONTE what's up dude

YO WHAT

Oh so how did Charlotte get back there but Elizabeth's still there too. didn't they switch places?

oh the head bump

Not excited for the mother daughter abuse stuff that's about to happen

I love these split sequences that they do at the end

anytime somebody stands and stairs for a lonely at a spot on the ground I assume to somebody died there

Oh shit that guy is a tannhausokkkk I see you

a religious images we love to see it.

This show is a whole series of pause that frame.

No I ruined something for myself!!!!

EPISODE 3

got to love those through and through Ariadne references

okay so Charlotte's great great grandfather has her watch?

who are these horrible traveler human beings

they look like less sexy Francis dolarhydes

I can't get over the fact that wollers missing an arm here I swear

we ARE the glitch BITCH

alternate universe Ulrich is a better person than standard Ulrich

what's this new like zoom-y thing they're doing

I was attracted to Magnus at this jump of the show but he looks better with dark hair

How did they not all die of fucking flu

eternally repeating deja vu

I looked at the production stills and I was like what the fuck is this hair do that Moritz has but he looks amazing

Also everyone on this show deserves an acting award

and Magnus is wearing a skeleton sweater

Hannah does that deep dive detective work any bitch knows the Nose doesn't lie

why doesn't anybody want to fuck wöller

omgggg eat the RICH

also he has that x tattoo on his hand that represents the no future thing

oh the light is rectangular and not circular ooooooh fancy

The show is also a lot of people catching each other's wrists as they walk away

I knew we couldn't trust this bitch

What did he give her

I love the parallels and characters behaviors between universe a and universe b

I want to know how Noah factored into all of this on this side

Martha has a type and her type is iconically Aryan

Oh Aleksander's back with that beard he's back

Hannah is such a snake

Omg that's her!!!!! I thought she was a trans actress.. hm. not super happy bout that :/

What is Helge talking about Ulrich did what??? omg

I would be like SIR DO WE NEED TO FIGHT STOP FOLLOWING ME

I stopped taking notes for the last half of that episode cuz I was really sucked in haha

EPISODE 4

FIRST OF ALL I'D LIKE TO GO ON RECORD THAT I DON'T CARE FOR THESE GENTLEMEN AT ALL

second of all why is this guy being like oh I took your name

why does he have Agnes's bracelet I don't like that

I don't like anything about this guy That's the end of the story

Also hold up a red hot second is Agnes dead cuz if so that's a hate crime

see what did I say

I knew that Hannah was going to get involved with Egon

from the second she walked in that office I was like that bitch has her eye on him and as she should he's handsome as fuck

Also he spoils her so much more than any other man she's ever been with AKA is Egon the only man she ever deserved

Is Hannah going to develop a heart cuz I'm not sure how I feel about that

Also what happens if Hannah gets pregnant

why is Ines a bitch I thought she was mad cool the beginning and now I feel fucking deceived

Also it's such a sweet gig that The kids who are playing kids can now play teenagers

poor Doris. Also he was shitty to her but he was far nicer than I would have been

Doris is so beautiful it's bullshit

older Magnus is so handsome

All I wanted was middle-aged Martha

bitch you have been having unprotected sex with him why do you think that pregnancy was not on the tabl

I'm like who's this guy in the church if it's not Noah I bet it's that little bitch

yeah I fucking knew it

Is this the dude that was married to Agnes I feel like this guy isn't real or something

I'm not surprised he let her go but I don't know why I'm not surprised. I feel like she's important to his timeline and I'm not sure why

look at these relationships forming between these sweet little bab

Hannah looks good in this red. Hannah looks good in all of these styles. 

who is this child

I like that already as a child Bernd had his eye on Claudia as someone who was smart and had a ton of potential

 I keep forgetting that I'm taking notes because I get so invested in episodes

Also I realize the zoomi thing which is going back and forth between the universes

Is Agnes Silja’s mom And if so with whom 

he gave her Agnes’ bracelet that dope All right Tronte

Wow Claudia needs to back off her man

Claudia force him into a relationship with her

I fucking hate Hannah but sometimes she speaks so much sense

ooh I don't need anyone Yes girl that's true You don't need anyone You needing people was what made you act fucking crazy You don't need anybody

This was always my big problem with Hannah was that I initially identified with her because she was such a survivor but then she did such horrible reprehensible things I just couldn't let it go and I absolutely couldn't identify with her anymore

Oh here's my daddy Noah looking so good

I mean okay so I have been in this position before where I was cheating and then my man cheated on me and I was like how dare you but also you cannot be mad if your partner cheats on you when you cheated too. You both fucked up

Is Hannah going to have a redemption arc cuz that's a lot

Oh my God she's not going to get rid of this child is she

Oh my great God I cannot believe that she gave Helene that necklace. 

I knew she was fucking connected to Katharina in the older generation I knew it

Louis and Lisa are a super cute couple and I know that they're not dating in real life but I think that they're very cute together

Oh everybody fucking

yeah they created the Apocalypse yeah

Oh no they have a child outside of worlds that's a mess How does that work so they had they gave birth to that ugly fuck

honestly I hate that he's their child for the most part just because he's ugly as fuck and neither of them are ugly as fuck so it makes me mad.

[madamewriterofwrongs]

I literally just watched all of 9-1-1 Season 1 in a single sitting and my brain is full so I've got some things to say.

Season 1 Buck is really endearing to me. I hated him in the first few episodes (I think the words I texted to my friend were: I don't like Evan. He needs to get his shit together). And I was not wrong but I fell in love with him. The fact that we're the same age may have made me imprint a little but also he's a good character to follow in the ensemble. He has always had the instinct to protect and save and rescue, he just didn't have a lot of discipline. And he knows that and even though he knew he hated having to follow orders, he still became a firefighter and begged for his job. Having someone give tough love but also offer a hand at the same time made something click and Buck wanted to be better and more mature. But he has always been kind and good with kids and genuinely wants to help people. And yeah, he's a reckless dumbass who likes to do the flashy stunts - and he's going to have to figure how to do his job without being that much of a reckless dumbass - but I liked seeing him follow his instincts of honesty and caring with a little more maturity.

Hen is a gem of a character. She is honest and passionate and will absolutely laugh at you if you do something worth laughing at - her reaction to Athena and the handcuffs gave me life. 

I genuinely don't understand the cheating arc. I didn't see any conflict, I didn't see any build up. It does not make sense to me. So her explanations of "I wish I could explain it but I can't" just felt empty to me. I get that people just do dumb shit sometimes but from what we see of Hen, it doesn't fit. She's also the one we know the least about. We don't meet her family until over halfway through the season (I don't even think we learn she's a lesbian - I don't recall any mentions before that episode) so it's hard to know the whole history there. But when she's not cheating on her wife, she's a great friend.

Chimney! One: king of the one liner, always makes me smile. He's another great friend. He gives his friends crap and teases them but will still look out for them without being asked. He's the one who sees things as they are for everyone else but himself - relatable. He's also got some struggles with feelings of self worth - like he is constantly having to prove his place. He complains about getting sidelined, he makes up stories to please his girlfriend (I also have feelings about Tatiana and how to react when a man you don't love but loves you is on his deathbed but anyways), he doesn't invite Buck to a party because he doesn't want the competition. And yes, that last one is a joke but the poor man needs to learn that he has people who love and accept him.

Bobby. Bobby, Bobby, Bobby. I don't know why I said his name four times. He's got a really powerful arc in this season. He goes from closed off and brooding to ready and willing to move on in a great way. He also goes from "we're not a family" to "we're his family" in like four episodes and it's lovely. I think it was the call from Chimney at his car accident - that Chim only trusted his captain to get him out safely - that flipped the switch and he let himself open up again. He allowed himself to be paternal with Buck and you can see that bit of pain knowing that he'll never get to do this with his own kids. I think having those three (especially Buck) to care for gave Bobby that permission to live his life for himself and realize there are people here and now who rely on him. P.s. Peter Krause in the freaking "help!" moment got me real good. It's also when we finally see him start to rely on others.

Athena, Goddess of Wisdom is always a great character. She tells it like it is, she's tough but nurturing, but we do get to see her struggle. Her and Michael's relationship is wonderful because we get to see the conflict of "I want you in my life but I have to adjust how I see you". Plus she has two kids who are going through their own problems and they're figuring it out together. Finding a companion in Bobby - someone who is struggling in a whole different way but understands what she does every day - was good for helping her trust a little. But she is a smart badass and I will always love her.

With Abby, yes, I'm a little focused on the ending where she wanted to find herself again and that meant leaving everyone and everything behind. I can't blame her for feeling the need to just step away after losing her mother and her sense of self all at once. I don't even blame her for taking what Buck offers in a relationship and not giving the same thing back. They needed different things and I think they got those things. As a person, she's naturally selfless and calm under pressure, and cares about people to the point of consumption. She's great on paper.

Anyway, these are thoughts about the first season versions of these characters. I love them all and this show is going to ruin my life.

Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.

[thethirdwheel404]

Med Rewatch Series (#1)

Right, monkey brain said no sleep no rest, only suffering at the hands of med.

I am going to start with the first episode of S2: Soul Care. Reasoning? I need to check if Latham references Ava in his first interaction with Connor.

If my memory serves me right, when Connor is passed over to Latham for his fellowship, Latham says that he was not his first choice. In fact, his first choice was a brilliant surgeon from South Africa. In the first episode of S2, a season where Ava Bekker is only introduced with one line at the end of the last episode.

If I remember correctly and Latham does actually say that in the first ep of s2, it will be huge for the continuity (and my theory that I came up with today, if you’re interested in following this you should really read that really long post that came a little before this where the basis of the theory is laid out). 

Also in rewatching this I see more of Sarah which, again, I have not seen in two years, and she was the reason I became invested in the show, and the reason I stopped watching after she left.

And all of this even before I start the episode.

There are so many emotions and thoughts running through my brain it literally hurts. I think i’m getting a headache. I’m already really regretting this, this cannot be healthy for me.

(btw, this will basically be a train of thought type thing, I’ll do my best to keep it coherent)

- omg its starting

- i completely forgot how s1 ended but its not importnat in anyway

- just, why are they in a helicopter

- how fast does the episode move ive forgotten and i need to know

-JESUS CHRIST SO DRAMATIC

- THE BEGINNING WITH WILL WHY

- it is at this point where I apologize to all those who made it this far bc we’re literally not even 30 seconds in yet

- i just have a lot of med thoughts

- oh god save me

- i am laughing hysterically

- JESUS CHRIST THE APRIL TB STORYLINE AND TATE WTF

- god that feels like a lifetime ago it was relevant holyshit

-remember when she was pregnant?

- literally what have I missed

- side note, i really like the cup april drinks out of.

-THERE SHE IS

-SARAH

-SHE’S HERE

-and she’s a barista

-literally wtf is this show

-and the dramatic music is still going literally chill man god

-THE WAY SARAH SMILES HOLY SHITTTT come on man there was literally no way i’d survive this but fuck not even a minute in...

- okay but i never understood charles’ family scenario but this is already too fucking long for a minute in so i hope we can just skip past that

-hahahah sharon’s fucking divorce? holy shit, this is too dramatic for the first ep literally save me (at least she acts well)

-yeah the one thing I will say about med (thats a lie ive already said a hundred but yk) is that for the crap storylines and all, the actors take what they’re given and give it their all and i appreciate it so much

-the helicopter’s number is N365UCC and just... succ

-ethans bird (!)

-also the fact that’s so big for ethan to be chief resident is so weird to me. like the last medical drama I watched was greys and they are all like grizzled veterans and have been doing that stuff for actual decades and i tend to put med and greys on like the same level bc they are the only medical dramas ive watched but.. holy crap the people on med are so young?? half their main cast is med students and residents. when nearly every main character on greys is a department head. its wild.

-proud of ethan. proud of my boy (did you know that adam jacobs who played aladdin on broadway was in a s3 episode? fun facts) (fun fact: did you know that ava is the only main character on the show who’s status is now deceased? I’ll shut up now.)

-oh my god i say roland buck III’s name and GOD noah jesus

- i find noah incredibly annoying, especially bc he tries to overshadow reese (my fav) but also just bc hes spoiled [that thing that said that one of the biggest mistakes med made was not having sarah get the emergency med residency at the end of s1 comes to mine, and the fact that noah got his residency easy peasy] - but, i will say that the moment at the end of this season where noah and reese dance together at the party is very adorable. (pre reesker brain showing lmao I really did love sarah with my whole heart) (moreover my snapchat memories were filled with just recordings of reese scenes lmaooooo)

-okay at this point I need to stop once i get to the potential ava thing bc what is happening we’re not even two minutes in why is this so long. (so many thoughts)

- i find will annoying but,,, he is kind of nice to look at. and what i mean is like facial acting (i am a lesbian). like. just. don’t speak. and when he’s being a good character he’s fine. it’s very few and very far between ig

-natalie annoys me so much and shes only had one line, and it wasn’t even a character line, it was mainly exposition.

-EW

-FUCKING EW

-ITS CONNOR HE’S HERE. god i forgot what he looked like in red scrubs and his poofy hair. child compared to s3 and s4. hopefully we see latham soon so we all don’t have to suffer through this. and he looks so angsty. he definetly glowed up in the later seasons.

- i have no clue how to spell definetly. I am guessing literally everytime.

-latham please come and end this all.

-oh haha there’s downey hes dead.

-okay so i actually watched s1 after i watched s2 which is so weird to think about. like that means that i liked s2 so much that i BOUGHT THE DVD FOR S1. yeah. I liked it that much (it really only means I was that much of a simp for sarah). but it also means that technically i watched s1 after i met ava?? like i honestly had NO CLUE what was in my future. did young me ever think she was going to stay up late at night, avoiding history hw while analyzing a defunct character from this show on a whim? a character i was super annoyed with at the beginning? who has no become a huge part of my personality? honestly? no. no she did not.

-and the story with downey was so jarring. and the story with zanetti. like i think i first started watching with the first ep of s2 (the one im talking about rn) and i was a bit lost. so going back and watch s1 to like connect the dots. but i never expected the dots to look like that. its like each season of this show is a completely different show from all the other seasons. like i’ve said before, this show is a headache. but literally latham please come and end this for now.

-GOD CONNOR LOOKS SO YOUNG WHAT THE HELL thats so weird lmaooooo

- like i had absolutely no clue who downey was going into this. and they they started talking like ‘oh yeah he killed his attending’ and i was just like ‘damn bro ill cheers to that’

- that’s literally ava’s first line actually. “i heard your girlfriend went insane and you murdered your attending.” - which was why she was hated at first. that was literally her first line to connor which is like, so hilariously rude that it was instantly iconic.

-also HAHAHAHAH CUE FUCKING ANGST ABOUT CONNOR HURTING EVERYONE AROUND HIM WTF BRO THE EFFECT YOU HAVE ON PEOPLE

- but i’m also sad now. --- “I heard your girlfriend went insane.” Oh. Oh, sweetie. Ava... No. --- but why does s2 ava (all two lines) foreshadow s4 ava in so many ways. like literally what were the writers on.

-baghdad.

-ah yes. the return of baghdad. been a long time since i heard that one, but it is easily one of my favorite running things about med. its just a little detail but the nick name is like perfect. (when i read fanfic where the chars are actually doing doctor stuff in the hospital it makes me light up) the WORLD BUILDINGGGGG. but whatever

-this is the girl who has the fake baby right? that was a really good ep (bc sarah content. can you see my favorites? for the same reason the one where the girl has split personalities easily ranks high with me.) oh wait this is the one where the dad like dies but then comes back for a split second to see his grand child. there’s not really a lot I can say about that, but the fact that i remember it vividly is... weird.

-okay but I actually love the ED in this show. I love how the show is centered around the ED and not the OR like greys. its fast paced, you see a lot about the characters really quickly (one of the reason’s connor’s intro to the hospital in the pilot is certified iconic in my mind [his interactions with will are gold]). the team works well together (usually, when things are good. - which is another reason I hated the show more as time went on. The personal lives interfered more and more and more with their work as time went on. it got so annoying). but like right here will just calls maggies name and maggie is just On It. I love it. I love the fast pace. it’s why this show got me to come back. so many things happen, it overloads my brain, like the way a video game works y occupying all of your attention.

-when is the dad gonna pass out i’m just waiting

-AHAHAHAHAHA JEFF NOOOOO. what even was the deal with jeff that storyline annoyed me so much I never got it. he was friends with nat’s husband (who died) and they were both named Jeff? and she actually ended up getting with Jeff a few times?

- the more you watch med and see how the characters get with each other, the more jaded you become

-omg they’re transferring the girl to the bed i love it when they count

-maggie was great but from what i heard/read they ruined her character too??? just not the same

-lmao only real g’s remember the chicago fire backdoor med pilot (if you want an explanation ask me lmao it was a ride)

- i was a real med simp bc I bought that episode on apple video.

-ahahaha this is so stupid. Jeff tries to do things and Will (being a fucking asshole and jealous, doesnt’ let him). he’s a med student let him fucking learn. also i remember why i hated will

-okay but if you look at greys vs. med, greys literally gives their med students no rights. scratch that. they give they’re interns little to no rights. (i only watched the last three seasons bc lesbian, but in those seasons they introduce the bottom of the totem pole, the sub I’s, who are a step ahead of med students, yet they are jokes on the show.) its just a weird juxtaposition is all.

-”lungs are wet.” dramatic music intensifies.

-OKAY BUT I LITERALLY FORGOT NATALIE SPECIALIZED IN PEDS. LIKE I COMPLETELY 100% FORGOT. HOLY SHIT THATS SO FUNNY i can’t believe in my mass hyperfixation i forgot, just more proof that she doesn’t deserve anything.

-why did will make nat do that call? also idk why but is it weird to anyone else when the characters call each other but just.. their names.

-ahahahah i laugh literally everytime i remember that will is supposed to be in charge like he is threatened by anything that MOVES. (also more juxtapositon to greys bc here the attendings are treated as a joke!)

- hly shit i just remember monday mourning and god damn the angst literally never takes a day off but whatever.

- i dont usually get like this but the dad’s acting here is actually making me sad lol. Usually i get annoyed when family members get emotional (im weird uhhhh)

-why did we have to watch the tube being put in for so long - med is so dramatic this fucking show whyyyy

- i bet u the dad is gonna pass out

-oh ig not oops

-OKAY FUCK ME THAT LITERALLY ONLY TOOK US TO THE TITLES HOW DO I HAVE THESE MANY FUCKING THOUGHTS.

-wait latham introduction we may just be able to call it here.

-haha i fucking hate him (connor). he just... comes off so fake-charming its annoying. i cant get over it lmao

-okay but literally every gives connor shit and I am here for it. Latham: “did you kill him?”

- it is literally so funny but annoy how connor throws hands with literally everyone in his path (like dude just chill come onnn)

-okay. okay. okay. finally the part i was waiting for.

- Latham: I preferred a young woman from Groote Schuur, but I was outvoted.

That’s an actual quote, from Latham. For those who are wondering, Groote Schuur is a famous hospital in, you guessed it, South Africa. This is where I’m calling the episode. This is all I needed.

I just want to restate. This is the first episode of season 2. Ava Bekker is introduced to the show in the last episode of season 2. What does this mean, my friends? It means everything.

For those of you who stuck through to the end, I am very thankful. Here we have probably the first piece of evidence to my theory, at least chronologically.

I, personally, think it’s absurd I remembered this point, but I did. That point, that line, presently, watching this episode with no idea of what the future holds, is only there to tell us that Latham and Connor are not going to agree. But this is the single greatest piece of foreshadowing med has ever done.

Med has never planned anything. I feel confident when I say that. Look at their storylines. They are literally on fire, and every decision the characters make reads like the writers going ‘we have no idea how we made it this far, we thought we would get stopped like ten steps ago.’

When has med ever planned things more than a few episodes in advanced, honestly? Almost never, and going a full season sitting on a plot point, that’s major. This was the first time med has ever planned something miles in advance.

In all honestly, yes I am probably giving the med writers a lot more credit than they deserve. It’s quite possible that as the season progressed they just decided connor needed a new love interest or at least a new dynamic, so they could have just easily looked back and thought ‘oh, hey, here’s a fun little thing we said earlier in the season, wouldn’t it be fun if it paid off?’ That could be true.

Here’s why it probably isn’t. The med writers have no respect for their own continuity. you really think that, in order to come up with a whole new character, they went back to the first episode of the season and paid off a line that is said in less than 2 seconds? no way. Bull. Shit.

honestly, it is probably equally unlikely that either of these things happened. The med writers don’t look back at their story. It’s true, but they also don’t plan things in advance either.

here’s the thing, the more i write, the more absurd it starts to sound. Yeah. Sure. the med writers sat on a character for an entire season, that’s totally a thing that happened and not sarcasm. When pigs fly. everyone knows med is impulsive and messy. But what I am saying is that they planned one thing. One thing.

Ava has an accent. That was a commitment. A pretty uncommon one too. South Africa is such an out of the box choice that god its barely on the map. It asks a lot of someone to act hard while also doing an uncommon accent. If the med writers just decided they needed to give connor a new dynamic, they could have made it a n y o n e. Yeah, sure it would have been nice to have the latham dynamic with the new character, but it would have been so much easier to just create a new character that doesn’t have such a commitment. We all know people who play opposite of Connor Rhodes do not stay around that long.

There is absolutely no reason Connor’s s3 love interest had to be the girl from South Africa. It could have literally been anyone. They could have kept Robin on. They could have made the new character not have so many specific requirements.

At this point, I’m pushing this really hard. Yeah, obviously Ava was planned from the beginning of s2. She had to be. It’s way too specific to be anything else.

What I’m pointing out here is med has never done that before. (at least to my knowledge, if i’m wrong please tell me i don’t want to be a fool) They have never had such a concrete plan for a character, so much as to tease them a full season before they were introduced.

I’m saying, that Ava was special. She was the only character who was teased ahead of her arrival. The one who they knew they wanted, other than the originals, and honestly saying the ‘knew what they wanted to do with the originals’ is being generous. But Ava was different. They had big plans for Ava.

It’s undeniable. Ava was the only character who was planned and teased ahead of her arrival. Ava has such a different style and character than anyone else on the show. She was always planned to be, even when she was just being teased, a rival to connor, meaning she could stand her own against him (or without him).

Now of course, the med writers forgot this when writing s4 and s5. But for the purposes of the important things, all that really matters are the two mentions in s2, and what happens in s3. (for the theory at least).

In conclusion: think about how odd it is that Ava was the only character that was planned over the course of the show. Like sure the characters are planned, but never this far in advance. Med writers don’t really plan anything. I would be shocked if they did anything but through a dart at a spinning wheel. But they had plans for Ava, and they had plans for s3, when she was good.

Think about how odd it is that the med writers had a character planned from the start of s2, that they sat on for a whole season. They never, ever did something so slow and deliberate. Never. It goes against their formula. Like a fucking shark, they have to be moving or they die, at least in their heads. But Ava was always a change to the formula. They had a plan for s3.

that’s it for now. we will see what happens when i watch the last episode of s2.

read the next parts:

Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 7 / Part 8 / Part 9 / Part 10 / Part 11 / Part 12 / Extra

[mxliv-oftheendless]

Ruining KISStory: The False King of Persia, Pt. 1

Oh my, what could this be? Why, it’s another Ruining KISStory installment! I am officially back home for the rest of the semester, so I decided, what the hell, and finished this up for y’all! This has to be the most hilarious episode, and it’s also my absolute favorite, so prepare thyselves! Part 2 will be posted shortly! Hope you enjoooooy!!!

Tag list: @cosmicrealmofkissteria @ashestoashesvvi @kategwidt @retronova

[camera opens on Paul, who is sitting at a panel. A map of the world is hung up behind him. The sound of tuning violins plays in the background]

PAUL: Welcome to Ruining History! Today we’re gonna talk about the ascension of Darius the Great.

[camera pans out to the full panel. From left to right: Vinnie, Gene, Paul, Bruce, Ace]

BRUCE: Darius?

PAUL: Darius.

BRUCE: That’s a kinda modern name. I know like five Dariuses.

PAUL: Well, maybe they were inspired by this guy.

BRUCE: [shrugs] All of ‘em are pretty average. [panel laughs]

[intro and title card]

[cuts back to panel]

PAUL: You guys know anything about Darius?

BRUCE: He’s a bass player.

PAUL: [laughs slightly] Heh, no, I mean Darius the Great.

ACE: He’s a bassist and he owes me 40 bucks. [Bruce laughs]

PAUL: He was a Persian king; he was known for uniting the Persian Empire. He’s actually thought to be the greatest Persian king. Also, I should say now: this story is not really about Darius much at all, so much as the weird chain of events that led to him becoming king.

GENE: [seriously] Is Al Capone a part of this story at all?

PAUL: [snorts] Pfft, no, Gene. This is in ancient Persia. There are a lot of characters in this one, so I decided to make models as little visual aids. [reaches under the table and takes out a small figurine labeled CYRUS THE GREAT] Now we’re gonna start with this guy, named Cyrus.

ACE: Oh, that’s a kid on Andi Mack!... Not that I watch.

[screen cuts away to a title card:

CHAPTER I:

A DEAD GUY AND HIS TWO WEIRD SONS

screen then cuts to animations as Paul narrates, while traditional Middle Eastern music plays]

PAUL [voiceover]: First, there was Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenian Empire, which was sort of in this region here, in Turkey, the Middle East, and spilling into Asia. Kind of a big deal. Darius just so happened to be a distant relative of Cyrus, but the king didn’t seem to care for him. As legend tells, he had a dream about the twenty-year-old Darius, in which Darius had, quote, “wings on his shoulders, the one wing overshadowing Asia and the other Europe.” Cyrus interpreted this as a sign that Darius was plotting against him.

ACE: Pretty sure every ex-girlfriend I’ve had…

BRUCE: [nods] Yeah…

ACE: … has gotten pissed at me for doin’ something bad in a dream.

GENE: [nods] I remember that happened with Shannon once.

VINNIE: Is this the time where she banished you to the couch? [Ace laughs]

GENE: [frowns] No, that was something else.

BRUCE: Can I just say, both Cyrus and Darius look like they belong in that one Lloyd-Webber musical.

PAUL: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat?

BRUCE: Yeah, that one.

PAUL [voiceover]: But it wouldn’t really matter what Darius thought, because he was caught up in a conflict with Tomyris, the queen of the Massagetae. And after she slayed him in battle, what she did is, according to some accounts, cut his head off, then dunked it into a skin of blood like a gory Oreo, stating, “I make good my threat, and give you your fill of blood.” So… that’s it for Cyrus.

ACE: Damn!

BRUCE: What’s a skin full of blood?

PAUL: It’s like a wineskin, but with blood.

GENE and VINNIE: Ohhh.

PAUL: [picks up the Cyrus figurine] So that’s— [pulls off Cyrus’s head] —the end for Cyrus.

ACE: Oof, it came right off!

PAUL [voiceover]: Now Cyrus had two sons, Cambyses and Smerdis. Cambyses was described as, quote, “an ardent, impetuous, and self-willed boy, such as the sons of rich and powerful men are apt to become.” And Smerdis was described as… I dunno. His brother.

ACE: [bursts out laughing, as does Vinnie]

PAUL: [takes out figurines labeled CAMBYSES AND SMERDIS] So we got this guy, [holds up Cambyses] Cambyses, who’s got sort of a superior look. And Smerdis, [holds up Smerdis] who’s just sorta chill.

ACE: Me Smerdis! [panel laughs] Kinda got a Charlie Brown sorta tunic on.

PAUL: Yeah, he does. [moves Cambyses and Smerdis to be on either side of the headless Cyrus figurines] I’ll put them here with their dad.

GENE: “Oh, Papa’s head’s missing! Ha ha ha ha!”

PAUL [voiceover]: Being Cyrus’s firstborn son, Cambyses inherited the throne, and very quickly decided to invade Egypt. This made people think he was crazy; and honestly, it’s kinda fair, because he was a bit of a reckless guy. While in Egypt, for example, he asked to see their sacred bull… and then he stabbed it to death.

ACE: [bursts out laughing]

BRUCE: [laughing] Oh my god… Jesus…

ACE: That’s so funny.

VINNIE: Kind of rude. Ancient Egyptians didn’t deserve that.

PAUL: Yeah, it is rude. You show up, ask to see their sacred bull…

ACE [tapping the table] “Can I see your sacred buuuuull? I promise I won’t touch it!”

VINNIE: It would take a long time to stab a bull to death, so I bet they were just like, “Please stop stabbing our bull…”

BRUCE: [laughs] Yeah, and he’s just staring them in the eye and just— [pretends to stab. Gene laughs]

PAUL [voiceover]: Cambyses was also known for his fits of blinding rage and making rash decisions that he would later regret. Take for example, the story of Croesus. Croesus had been a close friend and counselor to Cyrus, who asked him to watch over Cambyses. With that in mind, one day Croesus decided to offer Cambyses some constructive criticism. He warned the king that he’d been treating his men cruelly. Annnnd you can probably guess what was bound to happen to him.

GENE: How so? How was he treating them cruelly?

PAUL: He was known for being really reckless. There’s one story where a guy told Cambyses that he thought he drank too much…

GENE: I’m sure it didn’t end well for that guy.

PAUL: And Cambyses went, “Okay, if that’s true, I shouldn’t be able to shoot a bow.” So he called the man’s son in, and had him stand against the wall, and he said, “If I drink too much, then I’ll probably miss this shot.” And then he shot the man’s son in the heart.

GENE: Oh…

VINNIE: The man’s son?

PAUL: Uh huh.

GENE: Oof… that’s way worse than what I was imagining. I was just imagining him being a bratty dick or something. But no, that’s worse.

PAUL: Yep.

ACE: Maybe he was aimin’ for the face, an’ he really was too drunk. [Bruce laughs]

VINNIE: [laughs] “Oh, I just meant to take out an eye.”

ACE: “Aw man, did you guys see that?!”

GENE: Or he had to play it off like that was his plan all along.

ACE: Wakes up the next morning an’ he’s like [rubs his eyes with his hands] “Ugggh, what did I do last night?” [panel laughs] “Tell me I didn’t murder anyone’s kid.”

PAUL [voiceover]: Anyway, Croesus warned the king that he’d been treating his men cruelly, and that it wasn’t a great way to keep their loyalty. Cambyses responded by telling the supportive old man that he’d always hated him. He pulled out a bow and arrow, and Croesus fled the scene.

VINNIE: Does he just have a bow and arrow on him at all times?

BRUCE: [laughing] He takes out his bow and arrow; “Where’s your son, man?” [panel laughs]

GENE: Love how this guy knew what was coming and was like, “Aw shit, it’s heart-shootin’ time! I’m gettin’ outta here!”

PAUL [voiceover]: Cambyses ordered his officers to chase after the man and kill him. They did chase after him, but knowing the mad king would likely regret having his friend killed, they instead hid Croesus away. A few days later, when, as expected, Cambyses expressed remorse over his actions, his men revealed that—surprise! Croesus was still alive! Cambyses was overjoyed. He then had those guards executed for disobeying him.

[whole panel bursts out laughing]

BRUCE: Jesus Christ!

GENE: What the fuck…

VINNIE: Literally killing the messenger!

ACE: “You’ve brought me such joy��� Where’s my bow and arrow?” [panel laughs]

BRUCE: “Bring me my bow and your sons.”

PAUL [voiceover]: Anyway, back to the story. Cambyses decided to bring his brother, Smerdis, along with him to Egypt. It’s thought that Cambyses was jealous of Smerdis, and worried that if he left him alone in Persia, he might stage a coup and seize a throne. Since both brothers were away from their hometown, Cambyses left a magian in charge of keeping an eye on his palace. Magians were basically just a priestly class.

PAUL: I’ve actually got a big Persia set. [takes out a cardboard set that looks like a Persian castle]

VINNIE: Oooh, nice.

PAUL: Thank you. [takes out a figurine labeled MAGIAN and puts it in front of the Persia set]

BRUCE: Wait, so Cambyses is worried that his brother’s gonna seize the throne… so he prevents this by giving the throne to a stranger?

PAUL: I mean, I assume it was someone he trusted.

GENE: Why does—Why does the magian have red eyes? Is that a—artistic thing?

PAUL: He’s a spooky magician.

GENE: Okay.

ACE: [giggling] Or he’s just high as fuck.

GENE: [snickering] So in his free time, he’s a pothead magician.

BRUCE: All magicians are potheads.

ACE: I dunno, I always thought magicians were more cocaine guys.

PAUL: [thinks and nods] Yeah, I guess that makes sense. They’re got a lot of energy.

GENE: Not David Blaine.

ACE: Ah, yeah, that’s true.

GENE: No one’s ever had to tell David Blaine to calm down.

PAUL [voiceover]: Meanwhile, in Egypt: Cambyses had a troubling dream about Smerdis, in which he saw his brother, quote, “seated on a royal throne in Persia, his form expanded supernaturally to such a prodigious size that he touched the heavens with his head.” Fed up with Smerdis, he ordered him to skedaddle back to Persia. And then he seemed to remember why he was concerned about Smerdis being alone in Persia in the first place. So, he called upon one of his men, Prexaspes

[panel ooohs as Paul takes out a figurine labeled PREXASPES]

BRUCE: Oh wow, I didn’t know we had a stylist here!

VINNIE: That’s a great robe he’s got!

PAUL: [looks at the camera] Full disclosure: none of these drawings are historically accurate.

BRUCE: [looks at the camera] All of these drawings are historically accurate.

ACE: They might be. Prove ‘im wrong.

PAUL: Prove me wrong!

PAUL [voiceover]: Cambyses called upon one of his men, Prexaspes, to track down Smerdis and secretly assassinate him. Prexaspes would do so, and he succeeded. He returned to the king and gave him the good news: Smerdis, his one serious threat to his power, was now dead.

PAUL: Also, [laughs] I don’t know where this fits in the story, but Prexaspes was the guy whose son was killed by Cambyses.

ACE: No way?! [bursts out laughing as the rest of the panel laughs]

GENE: That’s hilarious!

VINNIE: Also [giggles] the name Prexaspes sounds like a medication of some kind.

ACE: [laughs] “Ask your doctor if Prexaspes is right for you.”

PAUL [voiceover]: Shortly after, though, Cambyses would receive more news, some rather shocking news given the circumstances. In his absence, his throne had been taken… by SMERDIS?! Yep, by Smerdis.

ACE: [looks comically shocked] The dead Smerdis?!

BRUCE: Oh shit!

PAUL: So we know have this mysterious Smerdis. [takes out a figurine identical to the Smerdis figure, except it is labeled SMERDIS(?)]

ACE: So someone,, posing as Smerdis… See this is why people get verified on Twitter.

BRUCE: [laughs and nods] I mean, yeah, you’ve got a point. [to Paul] You should put a blue check mark over the real Smerdis.

PAUL: [grins and points his finger at the Smerdis figurine. A blue Twitter checkmark appears on the head as well as a text box that says VERIFIED]

GENE: Wait a minute, did he ever consider that the guy lied about what he did?

PAUL: No, he trusts that guy.

GENE: I just think it’s odd that he immediately thinks its an imposter, instead of thinking the guy was lying.

[screen cuts away to a title card:

CHAPTER II:

TO BE SMERDIS OR NOT TO BE SMERDIS

screen then cuts to animations as Paul narrates]

PAUL [voiceover]: Cambyses was, at first, greatly confuzzled by this recent development. Until someone reminded him of an important little detail, that made it clear to him that this must have been a power grab by an opportunistic usurper. I’m gonna leave that detail a mystery for now so that you continue to watch this video…

GENE: How does no one in the kingdom know this isn’t the real Smerdis?

BRUCE: It’s the beards, man. [Ace and Vinnie laugh]

GENE: Are you sure? I feel like…

BRUCE: Nah, man, everyone’s got a beard, ya can’t tell anyone apart.

ACE: “Alright, if you’re Smerdis, what did I give you for your birthday last year?” “An urn.” “Damn, it is Smerdis!”

To be continued in Part 2!

[21st-century-daydreamer]

Bleed

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“I don’t know Tony, I just don’t get it... what’s his problem really? Does he really hate me that bad? What did I even do?” I said while sitting on one of Tony’s table in his lab. He’s working on some updates for his suit on his holographic table, putting in some formulas and muttering words that I don’t understand.

“Lighten up sweet cheeks, Capcicle’s probably just having a life crisis right now. He’s like 100ish you know? Or maybe he’s just not getting enough of “it”. He said while making quotation mark gestures with his hand. “My best guess is that 100-year old virgin is just sexually frustrated.”

“He is definitely not a virgin, I mean... look at him. Yes, he can be annoying sometimes like...” I stood up, put my hand on my hips trying to imitate him. “Y/n do this. Y/n DON’T BE RECKLESS. Y/n YOU ARE NOT GOING. Y/n blah blah blah blah blah... it’s annoying but it’s kinda turning me on for some reason when he goes all cap like that.” I looked over at Tony and he’s rolling his eyes. Typical.

“And those bulging muscles and like those uniform, UH the stealth suit. I mean damn...” I sighed closing my eyes picturing Steve in that stealth uniform.

“Don’t drool on my lab. I’m warning you,” he said. Tony is surprisingly quiet during this whole conversation and it is very uncharacteristic for him to do.

“Shush Tony, and that ass though... That is America’s ass right there.”

“Y/n I’m kind of worried that you are having an episode of some kind. You walked in here ranting about how much you hate him and a couple seconds later you are drooling and daydreaming about his ass. Do you hate him or bang him? it’s really confusing. Don’t get me wrong, hate sex is awesome and all that bu- or maybe you are the one who’s actually sexually frustrated. When was the last time you get some?” and with that comment, I found a small piece of random metal and threw it at his head which he deflected. “TONY NO! My sexual life doesn’t have any effect what so ever in this conversation.”

“Hey! Don’t destroy anything in my lab!” he said rolling his eyes while picking up the metal that I threw. “Maybe you should just talk to him? Tell him about how you feel, cause that old grandpa still doesn’t know how to read a woman.”

“NO! Are you insane? Every time I walked up to him to talk about something that isn’t regarding work, he just walked away. And you know what frustrated me, even more, is that when we are in the same room he glances at me like he wanna say something, but when I caught him he just looked away.”

Tony was silent for a moment and said: “ You can do it right now?”

“Right now?” I asked.

Tony looked up and meet my eyes. “Yeah... He is standing right there, and he looks like he’s kinda stuck...Steve wait for a moment I’m gonna buzz you in.” I turned around, petrified. He was standing between the lab doors and the door to the hallway. A small space that Tony created to contain anything inside the lab in case something happens. He stood there holding a file that I guess was about the mission tomorrow with an unreadable expression on his face. As soon as Tony opens the door he just walked toward the hallway without even saying a word. 

I looked over at Tony while getting off the table “ Thanks a lot, Tones” and ran after him. While I was running a thought made me stopped dead in my track. If I found him and had a chance to talk about what just happened, what am I even gonna say? Am I ready for that super awkward and embarrassing conversation? will I be able to accept the fact that I just ruined the relationship between me and Steve? I decided to just ignore this and retreat straight back to my room and get some rest before the mission tomorrow.

*the next day*

I woke up around 7 am which gives me 3 hours before the team and I leave for the mission. We are going to a small town in Russia where a HYDRA lab has been detected. From what we heard and know the lab has got its hand on some Chitauri technology.

I walked to the kitchen to get some breakfast and saw Steve, Bucky, and Thor already munching on their breakfast. Thor was the first one to notice me walking inside the kitchen. “Good Morning Lady Y/n.” Steve’s head spun around at the sound of my name. “Morning guys.” I tried to be cool and act like nothing happen. I make myself a cup of coffee and put a toast in the toaster. “So... you guys all set for the mission?” I asked while taking a sip of my coffee. “Yeah, I guess,” Bucky replied. Steve acted like I wasn’t even there. I moved over to sit next to Thor. “Y/n that stool is broken, don’t sit on it,” Bucky warned me. I groaned. I’m not sitting next to Steve like no. ABSOLUTELY NO. And I’m also too lazy to walk over to the other side, “Thor scoot over your chair a little.” Thor looked at me and did as I ask him to do. I placed my breakfast on the table and sat on his lap. Thor and I are pretty close like he’s actually my best friend so this type of stuff is normal between us. 

Steve for the first time spoke up. “Are you gu- Are you two-fondueing?” he asked with his eyes still glued to his plate. 

“Ohh, pal...” Bucky chuckled.  

I decided to ignore his question and keep eating my breakfast, while Thor was to busy playing and doing weird shit to my hair. “You know lady Y/n some of the women in Asgard braid their hair this way,” he said while doing braids on my hair. “Do you think my hair would look good with it?” I asked him, clearly trying to get a reaction out of Steve. “You will look good in anything, even bald.” Steve suddenly stood up and left. “What’s up with grumpy grandpa?”

“You know what doll,” Bucky said.

While I was getting ready for the mission I ran into Steve. “Steve lo-” he cuts me off. “ I can’t talk right now Y/n we’re leaving in 30 minutes.” he continues doing stuff and trying to find little random things. “STEVE!” I stood in front of him blocking his way. “About the thing the other day. I just wanna say that I don’t hate you or anything an-”

“You know what, Tony was right. You are confusing. Yesterday you say all those things about me and this morning you did that with Thor. I don’t get you.” Steve said. 

“Well, I’m not the one who acts like the other person is not in the room. You’ve been avoiding me always and all this time you acted like you hate me. And NOW YOU ARE MAD BECAUSE WHAT I DID? JUST SO YOU KNOW ME AND THOR ARE BEST FRIEND AND NOTHING IS GOING ON BETWEEN US.” I said and stormed out of the room.

The ride in the quinjet was awkward, to say the least. Steve sat on the farthest opposite side of where I was sitting. Natasha was talking to Bruce about the Lullaby and Thor well... Thor was asleep. Bucky was talking to Clint about a show that they both just discovered. Tony was doing something on his tablet. “Y/n you better not lose it again this time,” Tony said referring to the last mission where I lost control of my powers and cause a massive power outage because my power accidentally crushed one of the city power plants. “I know Tones,” I replied shortly. 

When the plane landed, Steve tried to talk to me. “Y/n I-”

“Can’t talk now Steve, I’m busy.”

The fight was intense. Little did we know someone tipped them off that we are coming. After what felt like 30 minutes of consistent fights I heard Tony’s voice through the com. ”I’m in!” followed by cap’s voice. “Tony and Nat focus on taking and destroying whatever tech they have. The rest of us fight out here, keep them out of the facility.” I was fighting side by side Thor when I saw a huge tank coming towards him. I used my powers to crushed the tank and it exploded.

After Tony and Nat blew the lab we can finally breathe. I was finally able to relax for a bit. 

But no one saw what happened a couple seconds later coming, a sound of a gunshot rang behind me and I felt pain on my stomach, it was a blur after that. I heard Thor screaming and electrocuting something behind me, and I fell to the snow. In seconds Thor was crouching next to me.

“We need to go Lady Y/N is hit.” He carried me and spin Mjolnir sending us flying towards the quinjet. Everyone was already there. Everything was blurry and I can only hear muffled panic voices. “Stay awake for me doll, please.” I can feel someone holding my hand and after that, I fell into the void of darkness.

Steve was sitting outside of the operating room, his suit still stained with blood. “Buck, I can’t lose her. I’m an idiot.” Bucky stood next to him silently. “I was so scared Buck, I feel like I’m the reason for all this. The reasons she’s bleeding to death in my arms while I carry her. Maybe she was distracted because of our problems. I can’t accept it if the last thing I did with her was fight Buck, I can’t.” Bucky puts a hand on his shoulder. “She’s strong, she’ll pull through Steve. Words of advice though, when she wakes up tell her straight away.”

*5 days later*

The first thing I saw when I woke up was a blinding white light, “damn am I dead?” I thought to myself. And then I heard a familiar voice, “Hey, doll. How are you feeling?” I turned to my left and saw Steve staring at me. “Hey...” I replied. “How long was I out for?” I asked him. I remember vaguely of what happened. I remember being shot and Thor carrying me to the quinjet. “5 days, you got shot in the abdomen sweetheart,” he said. “I was so worried. I thought I lost you.” 

“it takes more than a shot to the abdomen to get rid of me cap.” I smiled at him.

“Listen Y/n I’m so Sorry I couldn’t say this earlier. I care about you. I’m sorry that I’ve been hard on you... I did that to avoid any of this from happening. I’m sorry I ran out of the lab. I was just in shock. I’m sorry.” he’s holding my hand and his eyes are watery. 

He moved closer to me, leaned in closing the gap between us. I brace myself for the kiss that I’ve been waiting for soo long. His lips were grazing over mine and I closed my eyes when “Code Blue. She’s flatlining. Rogers that’s not how you give CPR.” I heard Tony’s voice and groan. Steve retreat back to his original position which is on the chair. The whole team walked in and asked me how I was while Bruce is checking my vitals.

“Well Y/n you need a little more rest, I can discharge you from the med wing and you can go back to your room. But no mission for a month alright? No hard physical ability, well you can be the guy in the chair.” He looked at me and smiled. 

“Thank you, Bruce.” The team stayed in the room for probably about ten minutes asking me how I am and telling me stories of what had happened the last 5 days I was out until Steve subtly asking them to leave us alone.

“Guys, I think Y/n needs some rest.” He said.

“Right, guys we should go. What he meant was Y/n and he needs some time alone to finish the kiss they were about to have and maybe some...” Tony made a thrusting motion.

“Tony I just got shot.” I chuckled. When the rest of the team finally cleared the room Steve immediately hovered on top of me and gave me a kiss I’ve been dying to have. His lips were a little chapped but still soft, our lips moved together in sync until we heard cheering from outside the room. “Cap you are needed in the meeting room.” I heard Tony called out. “Give me a minute.” We laughed and continued kissing each other until we heard Tony. Again. “CAP!”

“Alright...Alright...” Steve sighed. “I’m gonna be back.” he gave me one last peck. And walked towards the door. 

“That is America’s ass...” I sighed earning a chuckle from Steve.

[imperiusv]

I - Oh, I just died in your arms tonight

I think it was during that damned pub crawl , that i first thought of you in that way, we were kinda organizing it, if i remember correctly, i was with all my gang and Dilara too and at the time i was into her, we were flirting back and forth , but i didn’t want to make a move on her, because i was insecure , that she won’t like the real me, being so fragile at the moment, I thought to myself i wouldn’t want anything like that to fuck me up even more, I needed more time to heal and develop, so yeah for the first time in my life, I ignored and rejected  someone who had more sexual  market value than me, it was really fun, as she wanted , but yeah that’s whole different story, so back to the pub crawl, I was with Dilara the whole evening, we even got tied up in that game, but the conversation was kinda boring and stale , so I quickly proceeded to get wasted, to make her more interesting, all my squad was there too, except for the germans and i think Key didn’t come,as they had gone to the one before. It was a really good night, before i got drunk as fuck, but that evening i noticed you and was the first time  me thinking that you are actually kinda cool and cute. Funny enough you introduced me to Baptiste that evening,strangely for a person that remembers everything, this is something i can not recall even to this day. Halloween was  quite a special day for me  on that day I finally came to accepted that  i had a crush on you . That’s why my ringtone for you was that ariana grande song you hated, focus, because I finally focused on you, that you are something special, a fucked up girl I thought I could fix and in fixing her, perhaps mend my own wounds and fix myself, never have I been so wrong. I did save you from the Pit, pulled you out at the cost or my very soul, you of course repaid me in kind , I traded my freedom and who I was for you. A mistake I will never forget or forgive myself for.  It was a really posh evening , you making my make up and stuff, me making dumb jokes, cuz i didn’t know how to act around you, it was all really cute, i didn’t even realize it at the time,when we went to Indie, we all had a good time, that turkish/french girl wanted to fuck both me and Timur, but he pussied out in the last second and we didn’t have a threesome that time , which sucked, cuz she was really hot that evening and probably things between us would have been different, imagine how something so small can change a lot of stuff down the line, everything has consequences that ripple in time and change your world. We went to shots after the party, I didn’t want to spend money in the centre, as i was already spending most of my cash on booze and other dumb shit, that winter semester i spend more than five thousand bucks on booze,parties and having fun, all the hard earned cash i got in Germany, also i prefer your company rather than being with the others, which worked out great , as we clicked and had always a good time when it was just us. We tried that stupid weird game as i wanted to challenge you to do something with me, but we were too wasted and the music was too loud to hear one another, funny thing that the entire evening the slovaks were stalking us and later she was complaining.  The next big episode was the famous couples party that we hosted together for sure, we arrived for our own party fucking wasted, as you even recorded in your diary, by that time i was already really hooked into you, after the traffic lights and Halloween party,  I remember at that bloody party , that i was looking so desperately for your match , the whole kissing thing - to find your famous partner ( Shrek and Fiona,Cleopatra and Mark Anthony) i invented for you, but unlike the next such party, i didn’t have full access nor control over the drawing of the numbers, the next one was rigged af, never told you that , but i hooked up more people than Cupidonis himself. Imagine my surprise when you kissed some stranger, it was disgusting, but my fault entirely. After that i saw you kissing Alfredo in the bathroom,my heart sunk and i went outside to drown my sorrows in the vodka bottle we had hidden in the bushes, thank God for Timur. The next couple of parties you didn’t come of course - the mustache and nerds/hipsters bullshit, there was this thing with Antonio and you blowing me off , cuz i was a dick, but who cares, btw i really wrote him last year out of desperation to reach out to you in some manner to see if you still care,the fact that he didn’t even bother to reply, proves what kinda of scumbag shitty slug he is - a disgusting spineless person and a liar, he never fucking came close to kissing Justyna , let alone banging her,what a sad joke that fat wanker was and still is! So yeah through malus I managed to get you to come to the preparty at Etienne’s place for the i think it was a bad taste party or some other shit. It was such a great evening, that you ruined or I ruined , idk who is to blame, me having feelings for you or you being a slut. The whole squad was present, even fucking Pierre came , it was glorious , a night full of booze, laughs and good times, until you decided to make out with Alfredo again in front of everybody and more especially me , even after i tried to stop it from happening, I remember you said that he kissed you and you didn’t want to. but i was too wasted to remember, so yeah i was rage incarnate, damn I had so much fucking anger in my during those months and the ones after, it was like I can’t even comprehend now how can someone be some enraged all the time,i was never calm , just a whirlwind of emotions , a tornado and a volcano in one, losing complete control over the slightest of mishaps happening , i really had no control over myself back then, but yeah  , praise the Emperor, that Timur saw what I was about to do and stopped me on time, or i was gonna make an even bigger fool out of my self , punching that smug Italian faggot in the face for something that was not his fault. I ended up with Dilara in Blackroom ,but she didn’t want to play second guitar and i wasn’t in the mood to even talk to her, so she went home with some guy and as I was drinking outside, minding my own business, trying to make sense of it all, guess who came crying. You were really upset and embraced me and cried,never felt so low as you told me why you were crying, i couldn’t hold it any on and added gasoline to the fire, by confessing my feelings for you, such a beta move that was, what was I thinking or drinking. Couple of days of drama and then came my birthday, to which you actually came and brought me a cake, it was one of the sweetest things someone has ever done for me,at that time we were already good friend and texting back and forth all the time , even before we were together we had around 500 000 messages between us, which i do not know how it’s even possible. But yeah the first birthday party, it was all good, until you pulled out a Victoria and vanished on me, again i was left with a thumb in my mouth, looking like a fool. The second Birthday party  was actually Timur, Ouriel and mine’s , we did it cuz we wanted to get wasted and i didn’t want to celebrate together with them, as my redneck friends didn’t like Erasmus people and Timur needed a reason to get wasted then and on the first of December which is his actually birthday, so  technically only Pussiel’s , but yeah whatever. It was  in Yavuz’s place you didn’t want to come , but we managed to get you there , you and your green umbrella - weeks of flirtations and tension building up to the event, finally shit was going down. The party was wild, around 40 people in a top floor flat , we had hit up a casino with Timur on the days prior and had won some good money , we bought so much booze and even a disco ball , also got some amateur DJ to play EDM. I was trying to avoid you, but then you  came to me and we started talking. Soon i went from golden to drunk, and being wasted, i let go of all the dumb things that held me back , like what would people say and how will everyone react i was finally brave enough . As i looked deep into your eyes , i remember how you  bit your lips and said this will ruin everything. And it did. I took your face into my hands and                                                    Ausculor we made out probably for a good two- three minutes. But at the same time it felt like eternity and few seconds, i couldn’t really tell, my dopamine and Oxytocin receptors were exploding Inside my brain, i felt like i was high, better than cocaine, booze or whatever, we connected, body mind and soul. Release. My knees were soft , i was euphoric , literally felt like the best thing ever. You just had kissed me. As i want to end up every story with something positive i will end  it here. The next one will continue right off the bat from this one and will cover up the next couple of months as they were crucial  for the whole story. It must’ve been something you said I just died in your arms tonight It must’ve been some kind of kiss I should’ve walked away, I should’ve walked away

[bucky-at-bedtime]

Don’t Cross the Bar

A bartender!Bucky au (inspired by an episode of New Girl)

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x reader,  reader x OMC (briefly)

Summary: Bucky has one rule, until one day, someone forces him to change it.

Warnings: Kissing?? 

Words: 2462

A/n: This is kind of long and I’m not super proud of it but it was an interesting dynamic I wanted to explore - hope some of you enjoy! It is midnight in Australia right now and I have been writing all night, so I’m going to bed. 

She was biting her lip. Goddamn she was biting her lip and it’s so hot. Her fingers circled the edge of the glass. And she pulled her phone out of her pocket, rolling her eyes at something on the screen.

“Buck”

She bought the brown liquor up to her lips, tipping the glass back and allowing the whiskey to flow across her lips before disappearing across her tongue. He never knew how much he wanted to be whiskey until that moment.

“Bucky”

When the glass hit the table her tongue poked it from her mouth, gently wetting her lips to taste the remains of the liquor on them. A hand ran through her hair and he imagined it was his-

“James Buchanan Barnes”

His thoughts were abruptly interrupted as a large hand waved in front of his face, quickly bringing his attention back to his friend sitting across the bar.

“What, Steve? What could you possibly want? I’m already giving you free drinks” he snapped at the blonde, irritated that he had been pulled from his daydreaming and slightly embarrassed that he had been caught.

“Oh, you mean the beer I finished 5 minutes ago while you were ogling the pretty girl in the booth?” Steve teased, leaking across the bar to grab another bottle of beer.

“I was not– ok, you know wh–“ Bucky stumbles over his words for a minute before glancing over at you again “shut up, Stevie”

“Go talk to her”

“Absolutely not”

“C’mon, Buck! You’ve been staring at her every Thursday and Friday night for the past 3 weeks!” Steve gestured towards the booth you were sitting in, attempting to convince Bucky to gain some confidence.

“You know my one rule, Steve” he buried himself by wiping down the bar in front of him. “Don’t cross th–“

“Don’t cross the bar, I know, I know” Steve interrupted taking another sip of his beer “but this is ridiculous. Rules were made to be broken”

“Shut up Steve. Bad things happen when I cross this bar.”

Bucky’s eyes drifted back over to you, only to find you already looking at him. He cleared his throat and quickly looked away, briefly glancing back up to see you smiling behind your glass.

He stared at the 3 feet of wooden bar in front of him. The 3 feet separating him from you.

He was seriously considering breaking his rule.

A couple of hours passed and you were still sitting in the same booth.

Originally, you were waiting for your boyfriend. Now, it had been 3 hours and you were just getting drunk.

“Hey, (y/n), I’m sorry I’m late”

You turned your head and saw Matt walking towards your booth. The man looked dodgy - his shaved head decorated with tribal tattoos and his leather jacket worn and ripped. Bucky looked up as your boyfriend made his way towards you and found himself rolling his eyes. He wouldn’t keep you waiting.

“Are you fucking kidding me, Matt?” You threw your hands up in the air. “We were supposed to meet three hours ago! I’m so sick of this”

“Oh come on! I’m a little late it’s not a big deal.” Bucky scoffed internally at his words and watched as you stood from the booth, your eyes flashing with anger.

“A little late?” You were a bit tipsy and suddenly it didn’t matter to you if the whole bar overheard your argument “did you not hear me? I’ve been waiting for her for thre–“

You abruptly stopped your rant when he turned his head and you got a glimpse of his neck underneath the collar of his leather jacket.

“Is that– is that a hickey?” Your hand reached for his neck but he quickly grabbed your wrist.

“It’s nothing, (y/n)”

“I’ve been sitting here for three hours and you were fucking somebody else?!” You were hysterical now and you bought your other hand up to slap him but he grabbed your wrist roughly, now holding both of them hostage and Bucky almost jumped the bar to get his hands off you.

“Look, I’m gonna go” he let go of your wrists and begun to walk out of the bar “call me when you’ve calmed down,” he hissed.

You slumped down into your seat, suddenly extremely uncomfortable with all the attention you had brought on yourself. Your head fell into your hands and you gripped your hair tightly. You suddenly felt far too sober for this. Bucky watched as you threw your head back and gulped down the rest of your drink. His eyes shifted to where the bar opened. “Fuck it” he whispered the words to himself as he stared at the bar in front of him. One rule. Don’t cross the bar. He ran his hand down his face, took a step, and suddenly his rule was broken. He sighed, looking back at the bar and hoping nothing bad happens. “Here we go” he murmured to himself before walking over to where you were sitting and cleared his throat. “Uh, hey can I get you a whiskey?”

Your head left your hands and you quickly found him standing beside you “What?” you asked, confused by his sudden appearance.

“Uh, I say that because you like whiskey” he paused, smiling at you nervously “you’re a whiskey girl, like me”

You chuckled lightly at his words “You’re a whiskey girl?” you bit your lip to hold back a chuckle, suddenly forgetting you just had an argument with your boyfriend.

He closed his eyes, regretting his phrasing. “I’m Bucky” he sighed. He was starting over.

“I’m (y/n)” You rubbed underneath your eyes, both from tiredness and checking for tears. When you looked back up at him he was standing silently, obviously struggling with what to say next. “Well, Well, what are you standing there for? Go grab a bottle and get me drunk, idiot.”

“Well, I-I couldn’t drink with you– I work here.”

You raised an eyebrow at him, having seen him drinking with his friends every time you were here.

“Just kidding, I get drunk, like, all the time.” He laughed and quickly strolled back towards the bar, leaning over and grabbing a full bottle of whiskey. You watched him, slightly confused by his approach but happy to have some company.

“Thanks, Bucky”

“I respect the amount you drink-” Bucky chuckled as you took another swig from the bottle. You were both considerably tipsy by now. “Oh, - FYI these drinks -” he gestured to the half-empty bottle between you “aren’t free.” He was smiling so you knew this was a joke. The bar was empty now, supposed to be closed but Bucky didn’t want to leave yet.

“Wow, well, joke’s on you ‘cause Matt left with all my money.” You pouted your lips and shrugged at him, both giggling from the alcohol.

“Oh really?” he laughed “Then how’re you gonna pay for these drinks, doll?” you had both become touchy over the last hour or so, he would rest his arm over your shoulders or rub your arm gently as he spoke. You didn’t mind.

You watched as he took a sip of the whiskey and decided to have some fun with your answer. “Oh… probably with sex?”

He choked on his drink and some of it escaped his mouth, exploding onto his shirt as you laughed at his shock. He was visibly affected by your words and it made you want to say more.

“I mean, I was gonna let you have sex with Matt” you continued to joke and he groaned lightheartedly.

“That was a trick” he mumbled and you took another swig of your drink, gently laughing at him. “Can I just say, you two…” his sentence trailed off and you looked at him curiously. “Actually don’t worry - not my place to say”

“What? What were you gonna say?” you placed your hand on his arm, urging him to continue.

“I– I just don’t think you should be with a guy like that,” he mumbled, obviously uncomfortable with this conversation.

“Yeah? Why would you think that?”

“He’s an asshole” he practically yelled, the alcohol getting to him. “Sorry, I don’t feel like it’s my place to say, doll”

“Well, you just said it–”

“I don’t know, doll–”

“Do you think I should break up with him, Buck? Do you–”

“Look, it’s not my–”

“You think I should dump hi–” You weren’t annoyed at him, but you continued to interrupt his bumbling, wanting to get the truth out of this dark-haired stranger.

“Dump his ass!” Finally, Bucky interrupted you. The alcohol was clouding his better judgment and he had always gotten bad vibes off that Matt guy. You were both silent for a moment and he closed his eyes, regretting his words. He did not want to ruin your relationship.

“I’m sorry, (y/n), I just… You seem like such a great and vibrant person. He seems like such a dick. You deserve better.”

You suddenly realized how close you had gotten, your face only inches away from his and you caught his eyes dropping down to your lips.

You grabbed onto Bucky’s collar, pulling him towards you and pressing your lips to his. You both tasted of whiskey and the kiss was sloppy and passionate. You were sober enough to realize what you were doing and tipsy enough to not care as his tongue brushed across your bottom lip and he deepened the kiss. Your hands went to his hair and he gripped your waist tightly, groaning as you tighten your grip on his roots, pulling gently at his hair.

You pulled at the bottom of his shirt, lifting it off of him before continuing the kiss. You were both lost in it, unaware of how lonely you felt without his touch and you never wanted to stop kissing each other.

Suddenly he remembered he had to breathe and pulled his lips from yours. Then he remembered you had a boyfriend and pulled away completely.

It wasn’t long after that when you both retreated home.

He closed up the bar, thinking about your lips on the edge of the glass and your hand on his arm. He thought about your smile behind the cheap glass and your hand running through your hair. He thought about your chapped lips on his and pressed his hand to his mouth.

You walked home, thinking about how this complete stranger had just come and changed your entire night. He made you laugh. You thought about his hair and his hands and his eyes. You thought about his advice. But most of all, you thought about his lips on yours. His hands on your waist and how it was better than any kiss you had ever shared with Matt.

That night, Bucky dreamt of you. That night, you broke it off with Matt.

It was the next day when Bucky was standing behind the bar, chatting with Steve and Sam carelessly. Matt burst through the bar door, you following in his footsteps, attempting to grab his arm and hold him back but he looked determined. He looked angry.

Bucky looked up when Matt reached the bar, “Are you Bucky?” he asked, anger laced in his voice as he practically spat straight into Bucky’s face. You caught Bucky’s eyes, a worried look on your face as you mentally attempted to apologize to him.

Bucky should not have crossed the bar.

“Um… no?” The denial came out as a question, that was a mistake. The man gripped onto Bucky’s collar and Steve attempted to pull him back, but Bucky dismissed him with a shake of his head. Steve struggled, he did not want to sit back and allow this to happen so he quickly dialed the cops.

He really should not have crossed the bar.

Matt reeled back and threw his fist at Bucky’s face, his knuckles hitting his cheekbone. Bucky groaned in response but didn’t fight back. He probably deserved this for kissing another guy’s girl.

Suddenly, Matt’s grip loosened and when Bucky opened his eyes, he saw you standing there, holding a ceramic bowl of what used to be pistachios above your head. You had knocked Matt out.

Bucky turned to look at Steve whose eyes were wide. “I should not have crossed the bar,” he groaned.

It was about an hour later, after Matt was removed from the bar and taken into custody that you re-entered the bar. Your hands were in your pockets and you avoided eye contact with bucky, evidently embarrassed by your ex’s outburst.

Bucky, unaware of your break-up, did not want to get more involved and sighed when you approached the bar, attempting to treat you like a normal customer. “What can I get for you?”

“I don’t want a drink, Buck” you murmured, hearing the coldness in his voice you were determined to gain his trust again. “I came to hang out”

He sighed again, looking up at you, his blue eyes piercing as he rubbed the back of his neck. “I have this rule” he begun to explain “Don’t cross the bar.” He shook his head slightly in regret. “And I broke that rule and–” he cut himself off, running a hand through his hair again, exhaling loudly.

“Look, these 18 inches of oak are the only thing that separates me from guys like Matt!” he gestured vaguely to the place where the incident had occurred, shaking his head gently. “I should not have crossed the bar last night.”

You stared at him for a moment, deciding what to say. You did not want to lose whatever it was you and Bucky had shared last night.

“I don’t have any rules”

His eyebrows twitched in confusion as you stood up from the barstool, pushing a couple of glasses and napkins to the side as you climbed up onto the bar.

“Don’t do th-” you pressed your hands to the bar, swinging one leg over “Don’t, no–” you pulled the other leg over “No customers–” he protested weakly but gave up once you were sitting in front of him, your legs on either side of his body. “Behind the bar” he murmured, but he was silenced when you grabbed the collar of his black shirt, pulling him up to your lips and pressing them harshly against his.

He immediately kissed you back, wrapping a hand around the back of your neck whilst the other rested on your thigh. A couple of customers clapped and whistled as your hands tangled into his dark hair, but he didn’t stop, pressing his lips to yours, as his tongue entered your mouth and you moaned into his.

“Okay, okay, you two need to stop, you’re ruining this place for everyone” Steve nudged Bucky’s arm and the two of you finally disconnected. “I told you rules are made to be broken” Steve mumbled before continuing his chat with Sam.

You leaned down so your lips were right next to Bucky’s ear, your breath rushed across his neck as you spoke “When your shift’s over, you should come to my place” You chuckled lightly into his ear making him shiver before continuing “unless, of course, you can’t cross the bar.”

[meant-to-be-a-hero]

Season Four, Chapter Nine: The Piggyback

I made it. Somehow, I made it.

The Netflix synopsis upset me even before I started the episode. "With selfless hearts and a clash of metal..." is just Eddie all over, isn't it?

I'm honestly still surprised no one in the Russia story died. I thought for sure the guard or Yuri was going to bite it. Or possibly Murray, but they just made him a regular so that seemed unlikely.

The Hop/Joyce hook-up was a long time coming. They're as bad as Nancy and Jonathan, dancing around each other - you can see where Jonathan gets it from.

Hey, breadsticks and lasagne ARE good!

Ninja!Steve!

This is the last time Nancy, Steve, and Robin see Eddie alive :(

Argyle suggesting the baggage compartment is just...yeah. He does come up with the right solution in the end though, so he gets points for that.

Fucking Jason, ruining everything.

For what is essentially longer than most movies, this episode really does keep you going all the way through. There's a LOT to it, and I never felt like I was getting bored even having seen it once before.

They manage to link the Russia storyline back to the Hawkins stuff pretty well, surprisingly.

Hey, it's Chekov's flamethrower!

Pizza is always the answer.

Oh god, the Argyles are multiplying. I'm sure the other guy is even billed as Other Argyle or something in the credits, I forgot to check.

You should probably lock the door, Jonathan.

Preparations for war take many forms. Guns, guitars, and pizza dough are equally as important.

I'm glad at least some of the pizza ingredients got eaten.

Eddie's final stage :(

Super confident idiot. We love Steve. I'd forgotten about this whole conversation, it really does sum up Steve's arc up to this point.

Of all the things you wouldn't expect to work, appealing to Yuri's better angels is what gets him to buck his ideas up. Huh.

The Lucas/Max scene with the notepads is adorable as fuck. Also Caleb's a lefty.

Good thing Vecna was home and not out for a walk or something.

Oh, it's the sad Will hour.

Jonathan is still Big Brother Of The Decade.

And there's Tear-Up #1 - Will and Jonathan hugging it out set me off.

I hope the water they had MBB laying in was warm, at least.

Sadie Sink really knocks it out of the park this season. She's always been the strongest of the kids, but this season was another level.

Max wanted something bad to happen to her, and she definitely got it. I wonder how she'll feel in Season 5, if she'll think she deserved what happened to her?

The timelines for this last bit are kind of weird. Pretty much everything happens at once, but because they linger on certain scenes it makes it feel like some stuff takes longer than it does - like Steve, Nancy, and Robin are being strangled for like 45 minutes because the prison stuff is so far behind.

The blending of the Billy footage is really good; you'd never know Dacre didn't re-shoot it.

I love that Eddie's reaction when Dustin tells him it's time to go is to rock harder, and not run away.

Couldn't Eddie and Dustin's plot just end there? Let them leave and live happily ever after?

Silly Russians, you should know not to play with evil clouds.

Memory-ception!

Blood balloons. Gross. I know high school dances are bad, but this is kind of ridiculous.

Jason's little minion should NOT have messed with Erica.

Eddie shoving the nail-shield into the ceiling was very clever.

Oh, it's kinky strangle time! Vecna has a choke fetish for Steve, this is like the third time it's happened.

And here we go. Eddie's fucking face when he realises that he has to go back is just...the journey he goes on, it's so painful. This is the part where I realised he wasn't going to make it out of the season the first time through, and it broke me.

"Eddie, what are you doing?!" Yeah, we were all asking that, Dustin.

Crit hit! Go Erica!

Lucas's speech to Jason is A+. "Normal is a raging psychopath" indeed.

If Jason hadn't smashed the cassette player, I wonder if this would have ended differently.

The parallel between how Henry held El in the Rainbow Room vs. how El holds Henry in the Snow Ball is delicious.

There's just so many of those bats, but Eddie stays anyway. What a fucking hero.

"Touch her again, and I will kill you...again." El has entered her BAMF stage. Kali would be proud.

That shattered Creel House set in Vecna's mind is so good, it's smashed to bits, just like Vecna's mind itself.

I do enjoy the Mind Flayer/Vecna dynamic twist. Considering we haven't seen the Mind Flayer at all this season, and we know it's still alive out there.

Also, the Mind Flayer is a giant spider. I never noticed that before, but it is. So clever.

"It was always you." The best kind of retcon is one where it doesn't even look like a retcon. Amazing storytelling.

"Stay still, it'll all be over soon." That's exactly what Billy said to the people that got flayed.

Murray + Flamethrower = <3

Everyone really does play a part in the final fight, even if it doesn't look like it from the beginning.

Just fucking die, Demogorgon, jesus christ.

Epic Kate Bush reprise is epic. Get his ass, Nance!

But of course, he gets away.

Eddie's lifeless eyes, FFS.

Here comes Tear-Up #2 - Eddie's death, and then Max's literally the scene afterwards was just too much, man.

Did Jason deserve to die? No. Am I glad he won't be around anymore? Yes.

God, somehow watching that was worse the second time around. I was a mess even before Eddie died.

Oh, we're going into the final season, let's smash all the sets!

Steve's ass in those jeans at the end is perfection.

God, Vickie and Robin are as bad as each other. What a pair.

And just when I'd recovered from #2, here comes Tear-Up #3 - Dustin's little speech to Wayne broke my fucking heart.

Jonathan's still lying to Nancy. It's not going to end well, bud.

I wonder if, because Vecna apparently absorbs everyone he kills, El might be able to like deep-dive into his mind and pull her out, so she can get back to her body?

That final shot is chilling as hell.

What a great season.

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#5

AU where Buck 1.0 slept with Shannon when he first got to LA and when she comes to confront Eddie in the firehouse Buck spots her first and it's all revealed that they slept together when Eddie comes up to them and asks how Buck knows his wife.

Cue Eddie being mad that even if they were technically separated Shannon has been cheating on him. And Buck trying to make things less awkward but making things extremely worse by saying that he "can't believe he slept with his best friends mum" and Shannon getting pissy because Eddie won't even let her see her own son, but he'll let him meet his coworker.

And everyone in the firehouse is looking like 👀👀 cause the drama going on there would just be entertaining

36 notes • Posted 2021-10-25 08:39:12 GMT

#4

Not to be a Buddie clown on main but my face is painted and i am ready 🤡

So like that prolonged eye contact and Eddie reaching out for Buck as he's lying there bleeding out was pretty gay and totally leading up to Buddie canon. Apparently even casual fans thought there was something inherently romantic about how they framed the scene (which they are not wrong, it practically reads fanfiction)

But that got me to thinking about the Carla scene and her telling Eddie to follow his heart and not Christopher's, which yes! Boy needs to find the person he wants and not just someone who he thinks is "easy" - gotta love his description of that relationship. So thank you Carla for hopefully helping in the leadup to the EddieAna breakup!

We already knew that the dinner wasn't gonna be all sunshines and rainbows though because Cocoa Brown kind of hinted at the fact multiple times on insta, saying that things are not what they seem (which hopefully this means that the big Diaz family dinner in the next episode actually is a dream sequence, that would make the picture not what it seems) and that Carla would have something to say and she did!

But then Cocoa went off on the whole attacking Buddie shippers when people rightfully pointed out that GW shouldn't be playing a Latina character as a non-Latina. Except i'm wondering if that whole thing was actually a misdirect. Like Cocoa shared a pretty big clue that the EddieAna nonsense wasn't going to last, which lead all us clowns to the Buddie endgame route even more aggressively, so what if she actually got in trouble for sharing that info.

Like maybe they wanted the Buddie endgame (and you can't change my mind about them being slowburn endgame) to be more of a secret and to make us, and even the casual viewers to think that the EddieAna relationship was here to stay, the pictures without the Cocoa comments do kind of lead you to that assumption, but she did sort of spoil that theory if you take what she said at face value. It was after those original comments that she started to get more shady with the Buddie stans attacks and also the cryptic emojis when asked about Taylor Kelly.... almost as if she was told to be vaguer if she was going to post, and to mislead the conversation a bit. Because let’s face it, her credibility as a source for info was kind of ruined after she went on the attack. I at least saw multiple people no longer deciding to trust anything she says in regards to Buddie or any other ships.

tldr: Cocoa was silenced for letting slip that the EddieAna nonsense wasn’t gonna last and Buddie endgame is happening 🤡

40 notes • Posted 2021-05-18 13:38:40 GMT

#3

Guys we got so many crumbs this episode it was practically an entire cookie... tonight we don't kill tim

40 notes • Posted 2021-09-28 01:06:36 GMT

#2

Oh it's happening

Buck is gonna be Chris' legal guardian if Eddie was to die 😭😭

There truly is nobody he trusts more with his son than Buck

He called him Evan 😭😭😭

41 notes • Posted 2021-05-25 00:59:53 GMT

#1

Oh my god i can't believe all the insane Jan theories were actually correct! I thought we were all just grasping at straws but we weren't! And that is some damn good storytelling right there

Also the setup for season 2? Yes please!

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Self-Promo Sunday: Do-Si-Dos and Tagalongs

(This is a little one-shot originally written for Halloween a few years back, prior to season 7 airing. I know that Halloween has passed, but only by a couple of days, and so I thought I would bring this little bit of mischief and fluff back. I suppose we might call this a sort of alternate s7 headcanon fic, looking at a bit of domesticity that might have happened had everyone stayed in Storybrooke post s6. Enjoy!!). I have attempted to use a “Read more” break - I hope it worked on mobile. If you prefer this fic can also be found on AO3 and ff.net in my “Of Swans and Swords and Hopeful Hearts” collection.

Summary : Emma stumbles into a bit of a household mystery, leading right back to her pirate husband and a very sweet reward for everyone.

“Do-Si-Dos & Tagalongs” By: @snowbellewells

It all began with little Robyn, as it often did, and her wisps of untamed auburn hair framing her face, with that mischievous, gap-toothed six-year-old child’s grin and twinkle in her bright, beguiling eyes – both features that never failed to remind those who had known him of her late father and the bit of roguish bandit his smile never quite lost, even after settling in modern day Storybrooke. She had come to the two-story house Emma, Killian, and Henry had called home for some five years, with a platter full of cookies and tarts, nearly three months past, beaming and incredibly proud of herself as she presented the whole thing to the Savior, her pirate husband, and their Author son, whom she merely called “Auntie Emma”, “Uncle Killy”, and “Cousin Henry”, as a ‘thank you’ to the three of them for helping her to corral and coax her erstwhile little black cat Mac back home when he’d gotten out of the house and made a beeline for trouble, just as his young mistress often did. Regina and Zelena both trailed after her, doing their best to look bored and unconcerned with the proceedings, hands in pockets of tailored coats and matching sisterly arched brows challenging anyone to assume otherwise.

It was Regina who had shrugged sardonically when Killian exclaimed over the deliciousness of the crisp, chocolate Thin Mints, “No need to get so excited, Pirate. We just over-ordered from the Girl Scouts.”

There had been a whole, long explanation required of Emma from her inquisitive Captain once the Mills sisters and their pint size charge had gone. ‘What were Girl Scouts? Why did they sell cookies? How does one procure such delicacies? Which flavors were the best?’ and so on. For the moment, however, Emma had not been able to do more than giggle to herself at her dumbstruck husband smiling affectionately at the little girl and her gift, crow’s feet crinkling adorably beside his eyes – not to mention Robyn beaming back at him. She had sneakily managed to snap a couple pictures of the whole thing with her iPhone before Killian realized, and though Henry had seen what she was up to and smirked knowingly, he had refrained from giving her away.

Emma hadn’t thought much more about the little episode since. As was always true of Girl Scout cookies (and homemade Enchanted Forest-style apple and cherry tarts too, she was quickly learning) the plate of goodies hadn’t lasted long. Henry, fully a teenager and having recently taken up track at Violet, Grace, and Nicholas and Ava’s urging, (‘His own little crew!’, the perpetual loner Emma had been all through her own school years kept crowing happily inside) ate enough for the three of them combined, Killian had the most ridiculous sweet tooth she had ever seen, and she was rapidly discovering her own weakness for warmed up baked goods of all kinds on a chilly Fall evening. Never in her life had Emma been so settled and comfortable in one place for so long, and she couldn’t deny that she was savoring it. So when her favorites, the Do-Si-Dos, Henry’s preferred Samoas, and Killian’s Thin Mints all vanished by the end of that week, she was disappointed to find their surprise treats gone, but not at all shocked. Nothing seemed strange in fact, until she went to dig through her purse where she always kept five or ten bucks worth of dollar bills tucked away for impulsive buys, and instead found nothing but empty space.

The first time, she merely shook her head at herself; confused, but figuring that she must have snagged something at the gas station counter the last time she filled the Bug and then forgotten to replenish her stash. But it kept happening – a second, third, fourth, and even fifth, time. The radar which used to serve her well as a bail bondsperson tracking down skips in Boston had been set off and her suspicious nature engaged. A strange little mystery had presented itself in her house by the sea – and Emma Swan was determined to get to the bottom of it.

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Henry was her first suspect, as she thought he might have just figured he was getting a quick advance on his allowance to take his friends for Cokes and cheese fries at Granny’s after practice or something like that. Yet, after watching her son for just a couple of days – and his allowance payout coming and going without him offering to pay her back – Emma ruled him out as the culprit. That only left her sneakily playful pirate husband, and honestly she should have known it was him without even having to test her findings.

Emma wasn’t sure how Killian was managing to swipe his loot right out from under her nose without her being able to catch him at it, and she was even more puzzled by what he could possibly be buying so often that she never saw a trace of, but then, she had never doubted how slick he was, and he’d had centuries to perfect his skills.

The whole little intrigue carried on for nearly another month before Emma finally got the lucky break that spoiled Killian’s secret. She came home early from the station one afternoon; her dad having arrived a couple hours ahead of his own shift to give her a break, and as she turned the corner onto their street – though theirs was really the only house on it as the land began to roll down toward the harbor – she saw Killian closing the door behind him as he disappeared back inside, while Robyn with one of her little Girl Scout buddies in tow hopped down the front steps and out through the white picket fence onto the sidewalk, the two of them giggling together conspiratorially as they did.

Pulling up beside them, Emma parked her car at the curb quickly and hopped out to catch them before they could get far. She met the girls at the sidewalk, and for a moment wasn’t sure whether to crouch down at their level playfully, or to cross her arms and give them her ‘Mom’ look to get the answers she suddenly sensed she had found at last. She went with arms crossed authoritatively over her chest, eyebrow cocked expectantly, not wanting to consider the fact that she must look like some sort of blonde cross between her own schoolteacher-princess mother and Robyn’s Aunt Regina when she meant business. All she said was, “What brings you two here?” with a hint of a jest in her words, even though her stance clearly expected an answer.

Robyn had the decency to flush and look a bit nervous, her eyes falling to study the squeaky-clean saddle shoes she always wore with her Girl Scout uniform, before snapping her eyes back up to the Savior’s with a smile that would have done both her snarky mother and her charming outlaw father proud. ‘Oh yeah,’ Emma thought, she was definitely seeing a bit of Zelena’s formerly conniving streak now. “Nothing really,” the girl tried brightly. “Laney had just never met Captain Hook before, and so I told her it was no big deal, we were tight, and brought her over.”

The other little girl said nothing to confirm or deny Robyn’s claim, though her awkward shifting from side-to-side easily spoke for itself. Not that Emma would have mistaken her for the ringleader of whatever shenanigan was playing out here anyway; that had her unofficial niece’s fingerprints all over it. “That’s all, huh?” Emma questioned, making her tone clearly convey her doubt.

Zelena’s little troublemaker she might be, but Robyn had a penchant for stepping into mischief that was all her own and everyone knew it. When Emma didn’t budge, it only took a few more awkward seconds of stare down on the sidewalk before the little schemer cracked. When she spoke again, it was with the sincere tone of Robin Hood, legend of Sherwood Forest, which she confessed. “Oh alright, fine! You caught us! But it was just too easy not to try!”

“Wait…what was too easy?” Emma questioned, momentarily more confused than she had been, tapping her foot on the concrete and giving the youngster an even more searching look. “What are you talking about?!?” she pressed in near exasperation.

It was at this juncture that Robyn’s little pal lost her nerve and deserted the cause, clearly not having signed on to face questioning by the Sheriff-Savior. She blurted out an excuse about her mom waiting for her, blushing and stammering as she did, and then turned tail and ran.

“Fraidy cat,” Robyn muttered in disgust, the curled lip and glower she adopted as she crossed her own little arms in annoyance reminding Emma so strongly of the now reformed Wicked Witch in her heyday that for a moment she almost burst out laughing at the expression on such a tiny face, completely ruining the serious stance she was trying to hold.

“Okay, Robyn,” Emma sighed, once it was just the two of them. With a guiding hand on the little girl’s shoulder, she walked them back toward the front porch, taking a seat on the steps with her. “Let’s have it – the truth this time. Whatever you’ve been up to, it can’t be that terrible. I’m not really mad, just ready to get to the bottom of this little mystery.”

Robyn heaved a large sigh, dramatically aggrieved as only a little girl could be, and then finally started talking. “I just wanted our troop to sell the most cookies – and your husband’s such an easy target. You know that, right? I mean, I figured it out weeks ago when we brought you guys those ‘Thank You’ treats – Mom, Aunt Regina, and I… remember?”

Emma nodded, thinking back over evening meals since then, when Killian hadn’t eaten much and she had questioned if he felt alright, only to have him say he wasn’t very hungry; occasions where she had offered to make cookies and he had evasively insisted she needn’t trouble herself on his account, and again to the odd disappearance of her random bits of spending money. She was putting the pieces together even before Robyn finished coming clean.

“Your pirate just can’t resist us,” the kid shrugged, looking only a little bit sheepish now that she was caught, but not really sorry. “I don’t know if it’s the outfits, or little girls with big pleading eyes needing help, or if he just really likes our cookies, but every time I bring a new member of the troop by with boxes to sell, no matter how often we show up, he buys some more. It’s like he can’t help himself. And hey, who am I to complain?”

Emma snorted indelicately, struck by Robyn’s cunning and ingenuity, along with the sheer ridiculousness of the entire situation. Shaking her head in both disbelief and begrudging affection that wouldn’t have him any other way, Emma wondered mildly for a few seconds how she hadn’t known this was the case from the start. ‘Fearsome pirate of the seas,’ she mocked in her head, ‘bested by a bunch of cute six-year-olds with baked goods.’

Knowing that she shouldn’t simply let Robyn off with being so opportunistic and sneaky, yet not really sure what to do about it either, Emma merely gave the little girl a wry smile and light one-armed squeeze to her side with a gentle remonstrance. “Well, it’s not like you’ve really done much harm – except to my pocketbook.” She did frown just a bit there, and Robyn looked genuinely contrite. “But no more, okay? I don’t know where my pirate has been stashing his loot, but he has to be almost out of room. We’ve made our contribution to the Girl Scouts for the year. Got it?”

Robyn nodded dutifully, and though there was no judging the mischief that her hurricane “niece” could get into, Emma sensed that she understood the game was up.

Ruffling Robyn’s hair, Emma felt a momentary pang in her chest, picturing Henry at that age and wondering what he had been like and if he had been as playfully ornery as well. Having her son with her now, the relationship they had forged, and the family they’d become was incredible – so much more than she had ever thought she would have – but things happened occasionally, striking her at the oddest times and there would be a melancholy moment or two of wishing she could take a portal back in time to re-live what she had lost with her son, who would be grown up and ready to leave them all too soon.

As if sensing her change in mood, Robyn reached out her little hand to lay it on Emma’s arm. “Aunt Emma?” she asked softly, her voice as hesitant and concerned as it ever got. “Are you alright? Your eyes got kinda funny and far away.”

Shaking the bittersweet reflections from her mind, Emma gave Robyn another gentle smile. “Yep, Trouble, I’m fine. Just got sidetracked for a minute.” She stood and pulled Robyn up playfully beside her. “Now, you’d better go home before it starts getting dark. We’re good, okay? Don’t worry. I am gonna have to call your Mom and talk to her about this, but I imagine if you don’t pull any more get-rich-quick schemes, we’ll all just put this behind us.”

“Okay, Aunt Emma,” Robyn agreed, bouncing back to her usual chipper self and past the anxious moment with a child’s usual resilience. She gave her honorary auntie a hug around the waist, which Emma gladly returned, and then set off toward Zelena’s little house a block over.

“Go straight home and get there safe!” Emma called after her in parting, to which she saw Robyn nod smartly and wave back over her shoulder. Emma watched her until the little girl rounded the corner at the end of the street and out of sight.

Turning, Emma opened their heavy oak front door and slipped into their home soundlessly, hoping if her luck held, that she just might catch Killian unawares with his prize. What she got as she stood in the entryway, flabbergasted and mouth hanging open, was not quite what she had expected at all. Standing almost directly across from her, frozen before the door into the cellar that until now they had both skirted around and almost never opened – demons purged, but still not eager to loose painful memories – looking both startled at patently guilty, was her husband. Caught red handed, Emma’s inner voice supplied smugly.

“Why, hello there, Love,” Killian finally greeted, trying for suave and “turning on the smolder” as Emma had often teased him in calling it since showing her pirate Tangled and delighting in his resounding approval of Flynn Rider. He would have succeeded too, if she hadn’t known him as well as she did. “You’re home early.”

“Yep,” she stated simply, popping the ‘p’ sound as he often did in his own speech and immediately causing a change in his demeanor, alerted that she was onto his subterfuge. Emma pushed away from the door and stalked toward him slowly, the heels of her boots on hardwood the only sound in the quiet foyer as her gaze pinned him in place – turning all of his usual methods back on him and loving it.

“Would you like to tell me what you’ve been up to?” she queried, her voice practically a purr as she reached out a finger to run lightly through the chest hair peeking out of his overly undone shirt collar and batting her lashes seductively at him, as if she really were some blushing damsel in his original realm.

“Why – uh – whatever do you mean, Swan?” he tried, an equally over-the-top stab at guileless innocence on his face and in those stunning blue eyes, even as she also saw him swallow hard and scratch nervously behind his ear, the one tic he couldn’t seem to rid himself of, no matter how much a dead giveaway it was.

“I mean,” Emma murmured silkily, eyes narrowing as she leaned in even closer to him, nose almost brushing against his and her breath hot along his collarbone as she practically licked her lips while studying her quarry. Granted, her own pulse had skyrocketed at his close proximity, but she was more pleased to revel in the way her husband squirmed nervously under her hungry gaze. “You’ve been discovered, Pirate. Your supplier ratted you out.”

At that, Killian huffed out a low breath, eyes falling as he gave a slight chuckle and shook his head, having known his wife would eventually get to the bottom of what he had been doing, and almost relieved to have the secret out in the open. He truly had not meant to gather such and collection of the things anyway, but he simply could not bring himself to say no to the adorable miniature females in their sharp skirt and vest ensembles, and by this point, he was pretty sure they knew it and kept arriving at his doorstep on purpose. At any rate, Emma might have his head at the amount of money he had pilfered from her and spent needlessly, but surely they would enjoy the spoils, if nothing else. At length, with a short dip of his head in a resigned nod, Killian answered, “Aye, I figured she might at some point.”

Emma couldn’t help cracking the tiniest smile, the whole thing so silly, so domestic, so normal, and nothing like the trials they had faced ever since meeting one another and the secrets they once held back for fear of losing the other they had fought so hard to find. She shook her head, leaning in to rest her forehead against his, simply enjoying the warm comfort of his skin on hers and the soft texture of his hair where her fingers had delved in at his nape. “You’re hopeless, Babe… You know that, don’t you?”

“As you say, Wife,” he agreed good naturedly, his voice low and mumbled against the shell of her ear, making her tremble helplessly to the point of being weak-kneed, the stern composure she’d been trying to hold long gone.

“Well, let’s see this stash of booty you’ve stored up,” she prodded, curious now just how many boxes of Girl Scout cookies he had managed to amass, and anxious to tease him just a little bit more about how he had been so taken in.

Sighing with mostly pretended reluctance, Killian took her hand and led her back down the cellar steps behind him, into the once dark room she had not ventured to for some time. Once there, to her amused shock and surprise, right up against the bars where she had once, while possessed by the Darkness, bound Gold as a prisoner, were stacked boxes and boxes of every type cookie the Scouts sold, nearly reaching up to the ceiling. There was nothing else to do but burst into a fit of helpless giggles, and when she did, leaning into her husband’s side to stay upright, Emma felt his shoulders shaking as he joined in.

Never again would she look at this space and see nothing but lonely dark and a depth of despair and hate. Unintentional though it might have been, Killian had placed a whole new memory front and center.

They ended up bagging the cookies in half dozens and giving them out to very happy trick-or-treaters the next week on Halloween night.

And if they enjoyed feeding the remnants of the last couple boxes to each other in bed… well, that was their own delicious secret no one else need know.

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