#they just break the link nbd

[ultralaser]

i am posting a link to my instagram, which is something that is now illegal on twitter

i wish that was a joke but it's not

he caught on that everyone was posting their other social media and said okay, thats against the rules now

instagram.com/seandehey

[milkweedman]

Hi! Nbd but on your pinned post the link for "How to tell if your handspun is over or undertwisted" links to a post about moving from park and draft to suspended instead

Auuhj yeah. Thanks for letting me know ! They keep breaking and switching, just seems to be Tumblr being Tumblr >:/ I'm in the process of moving them to my neocities page so I don't have to deal with Tumblrs link scrambling anymore, might try and finish it today.

[spngeorg]

Episode 111 - 6.07 Family Matters

The Campbells are up to some shady shit. The Alpha Vampire gets to break some delightfully terrible news. And oh yeah, Sam popped outta hell wrong!

I think I covered pretty much everything I wanted to in this one, so I’m gonna lay out some puzzling conundrums in this space for everyone to ponder instead:

The Alpha Vampire could tell Sam had no soul at ten paces, but apparently none of the other supernatural beings Sam had encountered in the previous year-plus could tell (or at least none of them bothered to tell ~him~ or any of his cohorts). (obviously leaving out Veritas last week who was shocked he could lie to her, assumed he wasn’t human, but didn’t pick up on the why...) I feel like this was written for a “make for a shocking and badass moment for this episode” while not really considering the wider implications of this statement meant for the cosmology and supernatural beings in their universe on a larger scale.

(maybe because they’re predators vampires have different senses for detecting prey, and more finely honed skills at differentiating what they’re sensing? as opposed to angels and demons who don’t specifically prey on humanity in this way? eh... there’s just so many holes in the logic to poke at! and this is in an episode I generally enjoy!)

It’s never really explained later in canon how the Alpha Vampire survived being taken directly to Crowley for torture, unless Crowley just didn’t have a weapon capable of killing him. Or just like... came to an accord with the Vampire and released him, or the Alpha escaped yet again. He just turns up again next season like nbd. And I have questions :’D

But all that’s not exactly relevant to the episode. What is relevant to this one and upcoming canon for the rest of s6 is that I truly believe this is the first time that Cas actually learns how tragically wrong he’d been in his assumption that he’d rescued Sam from the Cage. (and makes me question the logistics of how that cage rescue actually happened... Crowley-- we’ll learn in later seasons-- had been studying the magic of the cage for his own purposes, he would’ve had access and either granted access to Cas or else yoinked Sam himself and handed him over to Cas to raise from Hell. I just cannot reconcile Cas having done the deed all on his own, all by himself, and *not* realized he’d missed a significant bit. Because he is *genuinely* shaken and disturbed in this episode when he learns the truth about Sam... and it’s one of the main reasons he continues to avoid Dean... guilt, shame, horror...

Anyway, on that cheerful note, please have some LINKS!

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[alketaire]

ce lore pseudo-liveblogging under the cut

link to an upload post

started with the osiris logs. always fucking stoked when ikora and ophiucus are doing their thing.

he can’t even say Sagira’s name nooooo ;_; IKORA CAN’T EVEN DESCRIBE HOW HE LOOKS AT HER SHELL NOOOOO TT_TT

and then he’s a tea snob lol ofc. if you hand osiris anything he’s prob encountered it in at least 320400 timelines, he’s a ___ snob all day every day

we’re at a 2-harrumphs-per-page consistent rate so far, most excellent

significant discussion so far of potential ways both Sagira and Savathûn could be brought back. HMMM.

ooh, use of “katabasis” in the mythological sense as a metaphor for what Osiris thinks Savathûn might have gone through, neat

why is Osiris mumbling to himself a point of worry, he’s been talking to himself for three kajillion years. plus he’s mumbling about inanna and i am ALWAYS down for more sumerian mythology in media

lol Ikora and Ophiucus talking again is great bc the second one of them agrees with the other they switch sides and keep arguing, love it

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ok on to calus! dan said this one has people in an uproar which. the woman is a civilization of problems in a 500-pound bag, i think i’m ready *immediate missing mom* oh no.

baby caiatl slip slidin around you deserved so much better than the everything ;_;

oh, cool, specifics of uluran biology/history/culture! love it except this family is still a fucking nightmaOH JESUS CHRIST WHAT THE FUCK

ok why is Umun’arath the least insane person here

wait. wait. WAIT THE FUCKING SECOND. THIS SEEMS TO IMPLY THE PSIONS ARE THE ECUMENE. WAS OXA MADE FROM TAOX. I THOUGHT THAT SHIT ON REDDIT WAS PURE SPINFOIL BUT WHAT THE FUCK

this whale riding shit sounds like if you asked calus what he thought “drunk driving” should be

aw MANNNNN i wanna turn into a monument of solid bone when i get too old

gotta say all the like uluran worldbuilding so far is just. cool as fucking hell. lithium-carved cave art would be super shiny for a while compared to the oxidized rock surrounding it. shame torobatl and the uluran homeworld wherever it is are fucked.

speaking of cool as fucking hell, caiatl, empress of ‘rip to my copilot but im different’

lol @ calus smooshing his face through a model of the Almighty as he throws a drunk tantrum at umun’arath. he’s, uh, not wrong tho?

glad that caiatl and dan agree about ghaul’s voice. that man could be telling you to go to the corner store for milk and you’d be ready to duel someone to the death for the last carton of lactose-free 1%

OOOOOOO THE GHOST PRIMUS WHO WILL RESURRECT OUR EMPIRE HOLY SHIT HOHOHOHO guardianghaulsomehowplease

mood whiplash, am now crying

so MUCH fucking light imagery around ghaul, cmon now

aaaaand ahamkara. fuck’s sake. do we - OH NO. oh shit. caiatl empress of being fucking BORN paracausal!!

fortunately, she is caiatl and spends the entire next page going “yeah fuck all this bullshit” because a wish for someone to love does not mean a wish for someone who won’t be your downfall lol

omg cabal fantasy football i’m DEAD

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on to the elsie book! i have known tokki for two lore entries and three paragraphs and i would die for her

oh so cloudstriders are uluran-sized. neat.

hmm. wonder if pouka’s communication works that way with guardians. or even non-exos, for that matter.

oh so elsie knew there was a mega-human out on a station near pluto two four years ago but nbd, what is this fish thing?????? ig it helped her learn stasis but ma’am really?

lol after a bunch of people being all like ooh hive magic is the next darkness class ooo! nah brah hive magic was fancy stasis the whole time

OH NO. yeah fuck that timeline elsie. ooh THAT timeline fucks though

ooh so does that one! mara with stasis yes please

OH POUKA IS AN EMOTIONAL SUPPORT DARKNESS FISH, VERY COOL

the image of elsie breaking out of stasis prison shouting SCIENCE is pretty good, not gonna lie, but for a second i thought it was gonna be ALLAHU AQBAR and that’s also pretty fuckin good

man i knew the brays were all fucked up but “i didn’t in hundreds of years think of just loving my sister (eta: WHO SPENT TWO LIFETIMES DESPERATELY SEARCHING FOR WHAT IT MEANS TO BELONG. IF YOU DIDN’T NOTICE.) like a normal goddamn person until i was threatened with death over my need for total control” is a pretty big L, elsie

[linguisticparadox]

Worth noting, previous waves have just had totally blank blogs, which is why people keep emphasizing changing from the default icon. Your icon can be a picture of a flower or a meme or whatever you want, it's easy to change and won't break links the way changing your url will (KNOCK ON FUCKING WOOD), so don't get too hung up on it, but please, PLEASE choose something, and I seriously recommend against using a selfie since the current wave of bots all use (stolen) selfies and pics of women.

Also if you don't want a blog title that's fine but delete the "untitled"! and if you don't want to reblog anything then consider putting something in the blog description like "I'm just here to lurk." If you want, you can also make a post saying the same and pin it (or not, if you really aren't reblogging anything). You can even set the reblog control on the post to "no one" if you want!

I know it can seem daunting to have to set up a blog with a whole Aesthetique™️ but you don't have to do that! Just a few slapdash touches so people won't block you (which would prevent you seeing their blog or their content on your dash!) and you can forget about it, nbd.

I saw a post that was like "stop shaming people who don't change their profile pic because they 'look like a bot,' you're policing how ppl use tumblr <3 <3 <3" and it made me want to bang my head against the wall.

When people tell you to avoid looking like a bot, it's because if you look like a bot, you will be blocked and reported as a bot.

I don't are if you lurk, I don't care if your pic and title are cool or clever or whatever, just change them to something that shows anyone you follow that you're human.

Otherwise, if I see you in my new followers I'll assume you're one of the 30+ bots that followed me today, and I'll block and report you.

tl;dr: For crying out loud, it's not "policing people's experience" to tell them how to avoid having their accounts blocked and suspended.

[wutheringmights]

“Call Them Brothers” - 1 Year Statistics

So now that this fic is one year old, I thought it would be fun if to look at some of the statistics for CTB.

If you didn’t know, AO3 has a statistics page that shows some internal numbers for your stories that readers can’t see. It’s not as detailed as the statistics we used to get on sites like FF.net, but they can still be very helpful to look at (for example, if you want to see how the number of new hits change between each chapter, you would need to keep track of that yourself).

So without further ado, here are CTB’s stats after one year:

If you can’t read the image very well, here are the numbers:

Words: 209600 

Subscriptions: 128

Hits: 10202

Kudos: 345

Comment Threads: 113

Bookmarks: 118

So what do these numbers mean?

First off, 209,600 words is a lot. And as of right now, CTB is the third longest fic in AO3′s Linked Universe tag. As much as I don’t want this story to be too long, I can definitely see it becoming longer than the current number one, In an Era by  Script_the_Skeleton. That’s... a little scary to think about, but we’ll deal with those emotions some other time.

As for the rest of those numbers-- I am blown away. Looking at my fics on my old accounts, this is my most popular story by far. There’s definitely other stories that have way more bookmarks or subscriptions, but that doesn’t worry me. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I’ll rather have fewer people reading my stuff as long as those people really like what I write.

So all of this is to say that, once more, thank you for reading CTB! Thank you for the kudos, comments, subscriptions, etc, etc! 💛

[bamfdaddio]

X-Men Abridged: 1980 - The Dark Phoenix Saga

The X-Men, those enduring mutants that have sworn to protect a world that hates and fears them, are a cultural juggernaut with a long, tangled history. Want to unravel this tapestry? Then read the Abridged X-Men!

(X-Men 132 - 140, X-Men Annual 4) - by Chris Claremont and John Byrne, John Romita Jr. and Bob McLeod

Go on. Name a more iconic X-Men panel. I’ll wait. (X-Men 134)

If you were born in 1980, you were born under the sign of the Phoenix. This means you will have great hair, but you’ll also be absolutely corrupted by power. Don’t worry, as long as you don’t consume any stars and/or galaxies, you should be fine.

This year hits the ground running, introducing Emma Frost, Kitty Pryde and Dazzler in one fell swoop. The White Queen is the first of the Hellfire Club to make her move, but Phoenix is quickly able to dispatch of her, as you can read here.

Cyclops, worried that the rest of the Inner Circle will soon come in for the kill, decides to abscond to Angel’s Aerie in New Mexico to throw their pursuers off their scent. Jean decides to make the most of it and has sex with Scott on top of mesa. (Kinky!) She also shuts off his uncontrollable destructo-beams, nbd. This somehow inspires Scott to go from reactive to proactive and lead an ill-advised charge straight into the Hellfire Club on the night of their big ball… soirée... thing. Call it a Hellfire Gala-avant-la-lettre.

Fine, he might have been inspired by the raw power of the Phoenix. She’s the biggest gun on their side and, if there's one thing you can be sure of, it´s that reliable powerhouse Jean won´t switch sides in the middle of battle.

Oh wait, that's exactly what she does.

As soon as they enter the Hellfire Club, Jason Wyngarde, who reveals he’s actually Mastermind, takes control of Jean, finally turning her into the Black Queen. With the power of the Phoenix and the patriarchy on their side, the Inner Circle makes short work of the X-Men. They consists of:

Jason Wyngarde, aka Mastermind.

Sebastian Shaw. Often shirtless. The Jeff Bezos of mutantkind. Has the ability to absorb kinetic energy, which means punching him only makes him stronger. (Colossus and Storm figure this out the hard way.)

Harry Leland. Ability of mass manipulation, which has got to be one of the dopest powers ever. Uses it to dunk Wolverine three floors down into the sewer.

Donald Pierce. 25% robot, 100% asshole, 100% useless in taking out X-Men, 225% the worst.

Wolverine is the only one who escapes, resulting in another iconic image:

Apparently, this picture is solely responsible for the fact that Wolverine became the face of the X-Men in the zeroes. It also lit my cigar from the other side of the room. (X-Men 132)

Needless to say, stabbing ensues.

Meanwhile, Shaw pontificates what he wants with the X-Men. He means to use them as guinea pigs to isolate the X-Gene, which he’ll then reverse engineer to give everyone (with money) super powers and all of a sudden, I want Shaw to do a team-up with John Sublime. Jean is not all there, however: she’s trapped in the astral plane, cultivating a cruel streak a mile high.

And suddenly, Jean-turning-evil is not all that funny anymore. (X-Men 133)

Cyclops traverses the mental link he shares with Jean to confront ‘Sir Jason’ and challenge him to a duel. Guy can’t catch a break: in Jean’s mindscape, he is stabbed and he promptly collapses in the real world. Ruh-roh!

Wolverine, meanwhile, has done a passable impression of the Bride against the Crazy 88 in Kill Bill, and he interrupts the Hellfire Club and their gloating. That’s when Jean resurfaces as well, snapping out of her voluptuous Victorian fantasy and, playing a dubious tango with everyone’s trust issues, switching sides once again. The Phoenix is like the golden snitch: as long as your team holds it, it’s enough to win.

Colossus snaps Pierce’s robo-arm, Shaw gets punted through a floor and Leland uses his powers to increase Wolverine’s mass - just when Logan is jumping on top of him. Oops! Should have made him lighter than a feather, Leland.

Jean, meanwhile, is doing her own passable impression of the Bride and goes on what the advertisements would refer to as a ‘Roaring Rampage of Revenge’. (Oh, she roars, and she rampages, and she gets bloody satisfaction.)

This is what happens when you fuck around and find out, Jason. (X-Men 134)

Phoenix makes Mastermind’s mind touch the infinite. His tiny human mind can’t cope. And, just like me when I’m at Pride and surrounded by a bevvy of shirtless gym bunnies, he becomes a dribbling mess. A shell with nothing inside. For those of you paying attention: this is where your Lit teacher would shout “dramatic irony” and underscore Emma Frost vs. Storm on the chalkboard.

This is also the moment where she officially Breaks Bad.

We see powerless people become heroes all the time. The reverse, where the angel falls? That happens far more rarely. I think that is the reason this story was so shockingly effective in the eighties. The reason why it’s still so effective? I think because, like the One Ring, you can read the rise and fall of the Phoenix in a myriad of ways. Is this a victim, reclaiming power? Is this a woman, trying to rise in a man’s world? Is this someone who was always buttoned up, daring to embrace her own power, her sexuality, her dangerous side -- only to get promptly beat down? The ambiguity of the narrative gives it strength, which is why I think it keeps resonating even now. This counts especially in the X-Universe, inherently designed to appeal to the underdog.

Anyway, the X-Men try to flee, but it’s too late. Jean can’t hold it in any more. She explodes in Phoenixesness and vaporizes the X-Men’s aircraft over Central Park. Relishing in her power, Jean easily defeats her friends, before flying off into the galaxy.

In the Avengers mansion, Beast gets the report that the X-Men are trashing the Hellfire Club. Ignoring his duties as an Avenger, Beast chooses his old family and hops off to investigate on his own.

The report, by the way, comes from Shaw, who knows when to turn tail and cut his losses. Among the confused, scared refugees of their party, he begins working a politician on the importance of a Sentinel program. That politician? Senator Kelly. Remember that name.

Jean can’t talk, she’s doing hot girl things. Nomnomnom that star system, sis. (X-Men 135)

Originally, Jean wasn’t meant to die. This one panel, the one showing the inhabited planet, is the reason why she eventually does: Jim Shooter, editor-in-chief, felt Jean shouldn’t be able to get away with a literal genocide. Claremont and Byrne, who had planned to strip Jean of her powers at the end of this, had to change the end of their story within days before it went to print. Additionally, this stoked the adversarial fire between the two: Claremont claims that he hadn’t originally intended there to be an inhabited planet, but felt his hands were tied when Byrne drew one. I wonder how true this is, considering how embedded it is in the narrative, but that’s neither here nor there.

The Phoenix’s genocide alerts the Shi’Ar - and therefore Lilandra - to her presence. Lily says that Galactus is nothing compared to the Phoenix: he merely eats planets, she will consume all that exists.

A hungry Jean, meanwhile returns to Earth, not sure what she’s looking for. She pays a visit to the home of her parents, but when they warily come to greet her, she can’t help but read all the innermost thoughts of her family. Nothing is secret, nothing is sacred. (Imagine knowing all those little thoughts your parents had about you, all those little terrible human things they did in their life. Imagine knowing all their sexual fantasies. Brrr.) It sours the Phoenix against them and she is about to start familicide to her list of sins, when the X-Men attack!

Nightcrawler slaps a psionic scrambler designed by Beast on her, but she’s still too strong. Wolverine tries to end her, but he isn’t ruthless enough to do the deed. When the scrambler overloads, Scott tries reasoning with her, appealing to her love. This causes the Phoenix to waver and Charles Xavier (airdropped in by Warren), bolts Jean telepathically.

Drinking game rule for the Phoenix saga no 6: shout “ca-caw” and take a sip every time the raptor appears. (X-Men 136)

Xavier feels Jean helping him out from within the Phoenix and together, they slowly trap Phoenix in the same sort of energy-matrix as Jean did with the M’Kraan-crystal. The Phoenix finally lays dormant, the X-Men have Jean back and Scott, overwhelmed by emotion, sort of awkwardly proposes to her. Happy Ending! And then, pulling the rug out from under our feet, the X-Men (including Beast and Angel) are whisked away.

They appear in front of Lilandra. The Shi’Ar hold Jean accountable for her planet-killing ways and Lilandra orders her Imperial Guard to take her away! But Charles invokes an ancient law with the same relish of someone who invokes an obscure board game rule against the person who is about to win: he demands a trial by combat.

The rules are easy:

X-Men win: Jean lives

Shi’Ar win: Jean dies.

The trial will be on the dark side of the moon. The Shi’ar are way too strong and, one by one, the X-Men fall, until only Jean and Scott are left. In their last stand, Jean loses control and becomes the Phoenix again, wiping the floor with the Imperial Guard. Technically, they win, but she knows now.

Suicide by abandoned-machine-of-a-long-forgotten-civilization-on-the-dark-side-of-the-moon. (X-Men 137)

She dies. Phoenix dies. The X-Men lose. Scott, bereft, leaves the X-Men.

One detail I love is the holempathic crystal that Lilandra bestows on Jean’s parents.

Without becoming too maudlin, the idea of this is beautiful. A condensed image of a person you love, one you can touch when you feel memories slipping away so you can remember who they were. (X-Men 138)

And with that, season 2 of the X-Men ends. Without Cyclops and Phoenix, the X-Men have to readjust. While Beast returns to the Avengers, Angel takes up residence in the mansion again. He confesses to liking most of the new X-Men, except Wolverine. (To be fair, Wolverine is an acquired taste.) Kitty Pryde also formally starts attending the school and slowly, the Jean-and-Scott-shaped void is filled.

Patriarchal Charles is thrilled to finally have a new teenager in the house who will hang on to his every word. It’ll be like the sixties all over again! (X-Men 139)

There are so many beautiful touches in the few panels:

Wolverine calling Charles ‘Chuck’

Nightcrawler getting drinks (and a beer)

Most amazingly of all, Storm becoming the leader. (I give Chuck a lot of flak, but this decision is Right.) Not just because Storm is the best X-Man for the job, but also because she was a black woman leading one of premier Marvel superhero teams for, what? The better half of a decade? The eighties had barely started, so this was a big fucking deal.

Storm also takes up a motherly role for Kitty, who takes up her suggestion for a codename: Sprite. (This after Kitty rejects Charles’ suggestion of Ariel, which is only fortunate, considering that name would soon be associated with redhaired mermaids.)

The rest of the year is dedicated to two adventures, both of them starring Kurt. The first is depicted in the annual: on Kurt’s birthday, he receives a mysterious package with a mysterious figurine that mysteriously explodes in his face. Professor X calls guest star Dr. Strange for aid, who deduces that his soul has been stolen. What follows is a quest to regain Kurt’s soul in an adventure that feels a little too I just read Dante’s Inferno, check how smart I am.

Hell is a little too pedestrian and boring, though we do get a King Minos hitting on Kurt and Ororo. A man of wealth and taste indeed. Anyway, at the end of this side quest, it turns out all of this was a convoluted revenge scheme concocted by one Margali of the Winding Road. She turns out to be Kurt’s (adoptive) mother, who’s getting revenge for Kurt killing her son.

Kurt, racked with guilt, reveals he had no choice. Stefan had always feared the darkness in his soul and he’d made Kurt pledge to stop him if he should ever succumb to it. After Stefan killed a child or two, Kurt had no choice but to end him. Stefan perished and Kurt was blamed for all of the murders, having to flee an angry mob.

Margali forgives him, with some help from Jimaine, Kurt’s foster sister. In a twist that is a little too soap opera for my tastes (and I watch Riverdale), Jimaine turns out to be Kurt’s squeeze, Amanda Sefton. I’ve always disliked this twist, and not just because of the incesteous vibes: I like the idea of Kurt dating a regular lady who is into him despite his appearance and his being a mutant. Making Amanda Sefton his sorcerous half-sister dilutes that message a lot.

The tail end of 1980 involves Wolverine going to Canada so Wolverine can make amends with Alpha Flight. Kurt joins him, ostensibly to flirt with Aurora, but in fact this shows that Kurt and Wolverine are establishing a rapport. A deeper friendship.

In a pretty paint-by-numbers adventure, Wolverine, Nightcrawler and the worse half of Alpha Flight take down a Wendigo. We don’t get Northstar or Aurora, but we do get more Snowbird, who can change herself into Canadian animals, with the danger of being consumed by her animal side.

We get this delightful panel out of it:

Scared Nightcrawler almost makes me forget how full of shit Jimmy MacDonald is, considering last time Kurt saw them, they tried to kidnap the fuzzy elf. (X-Men 139)

This whole arc is meant to show the softening of Wolverine. Not only does he share his name with Kurt (well, sort of: “Logan, is that your name?” “Yup.” “You never told us.” “You never asked.”), but when they fight the Wendigo and Snowbird turns into a white wolverine to deal the final blow, he talks her out of being consumed by her vicious animal nature.

The year ends with two details worth mentioning:

The Canadian government dissolves Alpha Flight, which I can only find a prescient move that highlights their good taste. A realistic note I like is the minister referring to the mutant problem as ‘an American problem’ even though they employ the Beaubier twins. Wankers.

Fred Dukes escapes prison to join the New Brotherhood of Mutants!

We’re now entering a run of the X-Men which I haven’t read much of yet, but Freddy mentions he was helped by some lady lawyer. That’s gotta be Mystique, right?

I can barely contain my glee.

Ugliest Costume: Despite that godawful hooded thing Kitty wears, I have to give this to Dazzler. There’s no salvaging that costume: I’m sorry, but she’s wearing a disco ball around her neck. It's a boot from me.

Best new character: Emma Frost. Fight me by the bike rack near the parking lot if you disagree.

Turns evil: Jean Grey, famously so.

What to read: X-Men 129 to 137, the Dark Phoenix run.

[lazywitchling]

Re: my absolutely batshit tags on the original post. You do not understand how absolutely unhinged I am about this video. Y'all, I found Lindsey's channel when she had only three videos posted. I have been here almost since the beginning, and I. AM. GOING. FERAL.

You're getting the full breakdown.

(0:00) This is the outfit Lindsey wore when she was rejected from America's Got Talent. That's the voiceover that's happening: the judges ripping apart her performance. 'Not good enough'. 'You need to be in a group.' 'You can't sell out a theater'.

(0:32) She has said that after that, she went back to the dressing room and just sobbed, and said she'd never go on another stage again.

(0:39) Enter: Lindsey from the future. This is Artemis!Lindsey, and is a character from several of the videos off her Artemis album, which tells a VERY cinematic story. (Watch that playlist in reverse order to see the story.) Sidenote, I know Lindsey writes her own music videos, and she also makes or designs her costumes and directs her own videos, though I don't know if she does those two things EVERY time. She might, she might not, idk.

(0:53) AGT Lindsey looks to the side and sees Lindsey from her Crystallize video. This one went viral, and ended up being an absolute CAREER CHANGER.

(0:59) Okay I don't recognize this specific costume, but this one is a reference to her time on Dancing With the Stars. TBH, marketing failed me because I didn't know she had competed until I heard her talking about it at her concert I saw in 2019. I'm gonna go watch all her dances when I'm done writing this essay. (EDIT: Yeah, it's her costume from the Freestyle dance in Week 10)

(1:07) This Cyberpunk!Lindsey is another character from the Artemis videos and makes appearances in several. There's a whole storyline. Also as if playing, dancing, composing, writing, costuming, and directing weren't enough, Lindsey also wrote a comic book. Because of course she did.

(1:16) On the chorus, the backgrounds of the music videos start to fade in. Crystallize, then Underground/The Upside, Artemis/Between Twilight.

(1:41) The shot of her on the bench is from her first album, self-titled Lindsey Stirling.

When we get to the bridge, this would be the 'plot-twist' portion, except that we're not talking about a fictional story, this is autobiographical. But we're stepping into a low point here, fasten your seatbelts.

(1:45) The ballerina AGT!Lindsey sees is from Shatter Me. Lindsey wrote this song and video about her struggles with anorexia (and possibly depression and/or anxiety? but don't quote me on that, I might be misremembering something she said at the concert).

(2:06) Sometime before Dancing with the Stars, Lindsey's father passed. I'll let Lindsey tell you about that one through her music and video writing.

(2:09) Hold that thought, we'll get to Hoop!Lindsey in a second.

(2:11) Here's Roundtable Rival Lindsey to pick us back up. This music video of hers was really when she jumped into the NEXT LEVEL of video production. If you only watch one video I link in this post, make it this one.

(2:12) Piers Morgan on AGT told Lindsey that she was not good enough to go 'flying through the air' while trying to play the violin. He meant it as hyperbole. Lindsey said 'Watch me' and made it literal. She decided that she'd play the violin while flying around in a safety harness like Peter Pan, hanging by her hair, trapeze?, and aerial hoop.

(2:17) This costume is from The Arena. This video was when she started incorporating the ballroom dancing she's learned on Dancing with the Stars in her videos. Her dad had passed in January the year that she was on that show, so her time there was where she really really had to dig up whatever inner strength she had.

(2:19) Another reference to the Shatter Me video in which the broken ballerina breaks free of her prison.

(2:29) Lindsey played at Lollapalooza in Paris 2023, nbd. She tours, she sells out stadiums. But y'know. "You'll never fill a theater" and "You can't be solo".

(2:37) More video backgrounds from The Arena, Roundtable Rival, and Shatter Me.

(3:22) New album cover just dropped! We're getting "Duality" in June! Also the last few shots are the main characters from her main album releases.

(3:27) And we're back to rejected AGT!Lindsey as we once again hear Piers Morgan's voice. "You're not good enough." And then of course Lindsey's own voice responding "Not good enough... yet."

Anyway.

I'm gonna go watch more of her videos and cry again.

[write-haikyuu]

Hi! I saw that requests were open, if you will could you write about a 5' fem! reader who is extremely affectionate with her friends (example(s): Calling them darling, sweetie, baby boy, or just straight up hugging them and kissing their foreheads and cheeks? Like she also jumps on their backs and clings onto them like a koala?) Hc's for Aone, Asahi, and Lev?

I wasn’t sure if you meant for the reader to be affectionate with them or with her own friends so I just did what I thought would make sense when I was reading this ^^;; Hopefully this is what you’re looking for!  also fun fact, I couldn’t find any blushing Aone photos so I made one myself. hehe

Aone Takanobu

Aone isn’t one to complain, but he’s definitely not used to constant physical affection in any form. But that was before he befriended you! (っ˘ω˘ς )

He’s taken back by how someone half his size could behold such love and bubbliness? 

breaks a cold sweat when you give him a back hug and kind of holds his breath

But over time you both become more familiar with each other and Date tech is used to seeing Aone waltz in the gym with you clinging on his back to watch him practice /unphased 

“Hey Aone! Oh hey y/n!” 

“Ossu~” 

He’ll never admit it, but he LOVES it when you pat his head (especially after a great block) and call him sweetie because he damn sure hell knows he is one

(づ◡﹏◡)づ mood when you go in for hugs. (he’s a hugger)

Purely platonic friendship between the two of you, but aone also doesn’t mind it when you kiss his foreheads every so often. It’s like validating that it’s okay to show affection in life

Precisely why he’s able to be comfortable enough to eventually high five, chest bump, and hip bump all his teammates. He credits it all to you for teaching him the ways of skinship :’( 

It’s not that he’s deprived from affection or anything, he’s just never… had friends that were as open as you or was able to show him how to be touchy 

That’s why it’s only you that he allows to share this dynamic with 

Asahi Azumane

Oh boy, is this boy a flustered cluck 

He’s very easy to blush and get riled up over a PDA

The first time you kissed his cheek he was cupping his cheek throughout practice and it finally took Suga to slap his back to snap him out of it 

When you study together, you like to weave your legs over his. Nonchalantly, he gets comfortable enough to not do anything back. 

He’s at a point now where he’s 100% comfortable with any form of affection you give him. He loves it when you play with his hair, like stroke it or brush it.

(´｡• ω •｡`) ♡ mood 

I know it’s not affection related but uh- you and Asahi do hair masks together. That’s why his hair is always holy and shiny like jesus

Especially since he tends to worry and stress a lot, your subtle touches, hugs, and presence is what calms and soothes him down. It’s very reassuring for him

One time he was sitting at the benches of school with his head down, clearly he was stressed out. You came up and squeezed his shoulders, nearly knocking him over but for some reason that really snapped him out of his worries and calmed him down. 

I feel like over time he gets really accustomed to your personality so he’s confident enough to reciprocate those bear hugs and affection back to ya

That of course throws YOU off at first but in a genuine and delighted way! 

Forehead kisses are a staple of your friend with Asahi :) 

Lev Haiba

I’d imagine you already being super close with his sister Alisa, so it’s not surprising you pick up on her bubbliness and PDA! That easily translates to the type of relationship you share with Lev

You and Alisa both tag team with Akane and become the ultimate cheer squad for Nekoma. 

Like whenever Nekoma wins a match, you’d run up to jump and hug him. He twirls you around, equally showing his comfortability and excitement too. 

Despite the height difference, you and Lev are always seen linking arms, giving each other piggyback rides, and just overall really giddy with each other. 

Being the fun and affectionate person you are, you always manage to heighten the playfulness of Lev. So it’s natural for the two of you to have laugh attacks, tickle sessions, and subtle pranks that involve messing with each other. 

The whole team wonders if you two are dating, to which he’s always like “We’re just friends!” as he scruffs your hair up 

٩(◕‿◕｡)۶ mood 

I could see you and Alisa teaming up on Lev. By that, I mean like babying him. 

Nothing too weird though. Like you just always happen to have snacks around you and it just so happens that Lev always wants a bite too. Y’all would just hand feed each other food and take naps on each other’s laps. 

When walking home together, you’d be on his back casually chewing on a steam bun while feeding him bites, things like that

Everything between the two of you is nbd, and he loves it. He loves how he could easily be himself around you and express himself freely. 

[honey-bri-books]

Not everyone uses sarcasm or vents through social media like some of us do, but if Misha’s tweet (not included because he deleted it, and others pointed out that means he doesn’t want it on social media, anymore) was insensitive, then so are ALL of MY tweets. And other people’s. He’s not the only one tweeting or posting things, like that. 

Anxiety and sensitivities are triggered more easily nowadays, but if we were all so literal and so serious and “polite” I would break down (if I haven’t already). I don’t believe in Stepford or Pleasantville. I don’t believe in being coddled, and don’t start crying when someone says something “negative” or “mean.” Or expresses their own opinion that does not hurt anyone, at all. It’s not a reason to put on a frowny face and act like a privileged idiot.

Misha does NOT need to apologize, unless lots of other celebrities are expected to apologize, for tweeting similar content that share his vibe. 

Why do I feel this way? Besides the fact that Misha worked his butt off, bringing awareness to the importance of voting and getting involved in politics (and not just this past year)? 

I grew up in an environment where if I made a sarcastic joke, my mother would start crying and look at me like I’m a monster. She was angry at me once, for wanting to go back to sleep, when there was an ambulance outside of our neighbor’s house at 2am, and expected me to look out the window with her until it left, saying I’m uncaring and something’s wrong with me. She started crying once, when an ambulance drove by and started praying (nothing wrong with caring, but she thought something was wrong with me for not responding in the exact same manner). She thought I wanted to be evil, because I saw a horror movie and then started crying....(all years before the pandemic hit, so that had nothing to do with it). Her response to me seeing Mean Girls was “That doesn’t sound nice. Why would you want to see a movie where people are mean?!” and looked horror-stricken.

So (in my mind) I couldn’t move or breathe or think for myself. I was told by my mother which member of the family I loved more than others, and that I wanted my sister to be my bridesmaid and was scolded for not making oatmeal the same way my mother does. I ended up estranging myself from her, in the end.

That’s why I acknowledge that Misha’s social media is HIS social media. He is not posting or tweeting anything to impress fans, as some may believe. He cares about the political situation, clearly. And if people are saying they’re sick of seeing his tweets? Block him, so you don’t have to. Unfollow him. Don’t follow Misha fans. 

And Misha is not any fan’s responsibility. He doesn’t owe us perfect Tweets or words of advice or positive, bubbly, “this is fine” words of wisdom. He doesn’t need fixing. He’s not a Trump supporter. He did not approve of what was happening and did not think it was an opportunity to get likes or attention. He tweeted what was on his mind. He’s not happy about what happened! People are saying it wasn’t dark humor. If that’s true, it still shouldn’t have made anyone cry or extremely upset. In my opinion, that’s odd. It’s expecting someone to behave perfectly and say only what someone else wants to hear. 

I’m sorry that some are feeling hurt (by literally everything he says?), but he’s the only person out there being smothered and silenced by fans. WE ARE NOT HIS PARENTS!!!! Other people are posting things similar to his posts/tweets (some are worse and supporting the MAGA-hats who were at the US Capital saying “Go get ‘em!” or “I love Trump”) <-- They are the problem, here!!! So, why is there such an extreme focus on Misha Collins, ONLY!?

He’s wrong when he doesn’t post anything, at all. He’s wrong when he volunteers at a food shelter/soup kitchen. He’s wrong when he posts anti-Trump. He’s wrong when he makes a joke. He’s wrong when he’s angry about something (and rightly so). He’s wrong when he sees people accusing co-workers of things that aren’t necessarily true and gets upset, but manages to calmly speak his mind without yelling at you. He’s wrong when he apologizes. 

“Yeah, but the rogue...” His script did not include “I love you too, Cas,” that was the point of the the word  “rogue” he did not mean it seriously are people insane?! “But an interpreter could lose their job, it’s serious...” A sarcastic person says something in an off-hand way, and you think that’s dangerous? Really? “Yeah but people who don’t know him...” ...could check in with people who do, and confirm it wasn’t an official PSA. NBD.

It’s fan entitlement. It’s unhealthy. It’s coming from a place of privilege and spoil. Let go of Misha, if you feel he’s been “hurting” you.

He’s not the problem. Do not hurt him, anymore. I wouldn’t blame him for leaving social media permanently, at some point. Refusing to attend conventions. Refusing interviews. He has the right to break off from connecting with fans, because of all the policing. I would have quit Twitter if I were him, after seven or eight or nine or ten people shared the buzz feed article “Please, Misha! If you care, read this!” “Misha, read this. You’ll know why your words hurt us.” “Misha I left a very important link in your...” JFC!

Misha doesn’t deserve the smothering he’s getting from people who are clearly obsessed with him. If your reply to that is “No, but he does need to apologize for what he said, and it was insensitive...” No. I’m not even asking Misha-haters to apologize. I’m hoping that they’ll stop telling Misha to apologize, or to delete tweets. It’s got to stop. Misha will cut himself off from the fandom completely, if things continue on, like this.

*Opinion Piece. 

❤

[hopskipandarump]

ok i finished the first palace, heres all the really stupid shit that happened to me

the very first fight of the entire thing?

just threw me a superboss nbd (i died)

so i died, restarted, got a new set of enemies and- oh. oh no.

jk, he couldnt attack me for some reason so i just sat there and used rush

WHO WILL WIN: INSANELY STRONG BOSS or ONE SLICY BOY

so anyway i escaped the super totally hard and close fight with shido and proceeded to get thrown into my next fight

THE SAE AND KUNIKAZU TAGTEAM NOBODY SAW COMING HOLY FUCK

just casually did black mask's job for him and finished off okumura, and then levisae also couldnt attack so she met the same fate as shido of being slowly poked to death

running around the palace like normal la la la oh hey another forced ba

a

yeah so anyway el wiwi showed up after i ate tremendous shit

more boring stuff happened like level 30 enemies etc

and then

...i ran, and ran right into 3 of madarame's right eye painting

a refreshingly easy encounter after everything id been suffering with to this point, i cleaned them up, saved, and went right into my next battle and

FOR FUCKS SAKE NOT YOU AGAIN

I ACTUALLY GOT HER TO HALF HP AND THEN MY GAME JUST ENTIRELY CRASHED AND WASTED LIKE 10 MINUTES

whatever this is just part of the experience ill load it back up, turn on the randomiser, and just go do that fight again and get new enemies

omg hey bestie!!! just goro akechi hanging out with a literal penis. bit on the nose maybe but slay i guess

(he almost did slay it took 3 rez beads, 2 recarms, and abusing the FUCK out of my RPL Phys persona and he died a second before he would have used that oneshot joker move)

ok that nightmare is over im gonna save and move on to the ne

...a

there were no survivors

just a random nose floating around kamoshidas palace, dont think i wanna know wtf that place smells like, probably stale cum, old gym mats, and rancid body odour

one of shidos forms turned up and i know from experience (aka the testing i did with this randomiser earlier) that this fucker has a very very very high chance of softlocking my game, so i took the gamble and managed to run, only to then run into

she gave me 5k yen :)

more paintings, something kinda funny is that if you get multiple of the same one, at least one painting will be in a permanent loop of its death animation even though its completely alive? probably some kinda bug to do with the fact theres only ever meant to be one of each alive at the same time

randomly got kaneshiro's scripted 3-wave security battle that miraculously didnt break at all?

this guy turned up

i guess okumura doesnt pay well if all i get is 3.8k

got an encounter that was two sandalphons and i spent over 15 mins whittling their hp down, i had to keep ailmenting them so they didnt flee

at some point my personas got randomised too??

i fixed it afterwards but it was still wild seeing mercurius turn up randomly when i used heat riser

had to turn it off for a moment to get the eyes for the scythe bridge, it wouldnt work unless it was the correct enemies, and then i had something happen that i cannot do justice with using just words so im gonna link a vid and show you just how lucky i got when i hit the wrong item

next fight starts and yeah i didnt mention that ANY ENEMY can be a disaster shadow with this rando

kamoshida exploding and killing himself gone wrong gone sexual etc etc. he gave me a life stone :)

sent the calling card, went in to fight the boss aaaand

game crashes

reload

go again

get into the boss

three mots that fall over with one hit from my baal

treasure: stolen

kamoshitter: changed

homies: obtained

time to chill for 2 weeks ingame and then hope the second palace doesnt crash too much

im gna do a proper p5r rando run, im spamming tw*tter as i do it but ill make sure to update tumblr after each palace

[fandomplethora]

mystic messenger webtoon

(repost since my last post disappeared OTL) 

LONG POST

warning: unorganized, rambling thoughts lol. (i’m all over the place right now, guys)

you guys. i have never been more excited and more *terrified* in my life.

let’s break it down.

it is officially announced that mystic messenger, as a webtoon, will be returning to us on april 11th. the prologue has already been released today.

LINK BUT HAHA IT’S ALL IN KOREAN T_T

from what i have been able to read *very briefly* is that there is no plan for an english (or any other language) translation just yet. it will be released on bookcube, a pay to read site.

(someone on reddit mentioned a hope that it may come to tappytoon or tapas? but there is no confirmation of any other site besides bookcube.)

that being said - we have *wonderful* people in this fandom already ready with some english translations! at the very least :’)  

B O O M

creds, yo

let’s go into my (personal) negative outlooks first! (maybe i shouldn’t use an exclamation point when talking somewhat negatively...)

1. (not super negative) b u t - our mc is different. :,( i’m just attached to the idea of mc w/ bangs and long brown hair - the gold eyes. while other mc’s have made their way into art and ect...the mc from the game is the most popular one. i don’t understand the need for the change...besides to perhaps build upon this new version of the story with a brand new character. because mc *like this*, in this format, is a new character. she will, hopefully, have her own personality and traits and maybe backstory? even a minor one. b u t that could also, in the eyes of some people, be a negative...and, to others, a positive. we, as players, have been the mc this entire time so while good ending mc is looked at as, mainly, canon - which brings some fundamental characteristics to her character such as being empathetic, kind and...holy shit, incredibly *flexible* (like, apartment bomb? “nbd.” brand new group of people? “dope, let’s be friends.” cult? “well, what are we gonna do about it then.” mc, are you okay? mc: “are y o u g u y s okay tho?”)  mc has not had her own story. does this mean she will now? now we may get new traits on top of those, a unique personality to who t h i s character is.

SIDE NOTE: *SLAMS HANDS ON TABLE* ya’ll, holy shit...is MC getting a name? she has to get a name now. AAAAA, okay this may go another direction and i may just have another character in this damn story i’d willingly throw myself in front of a car for. dAMN IT.

2. okay, it somewhat makes sense that saeyoung would NOT be there in the introduction of the four to this mc shown in the webtoon prologue. same with jihyun. of course, with saeran. but my fear is...i want equal relationship development with every character. unless they are approaching this in a “reset” type of way...(which i’m not sure if they will tbh).

from, my guess, the already meeting of them (all at the same time) shows us that we may just be on one big route with almosteverything included? which i am down for. but...then do it like that, right? bring saeyoung and jihyun into the picture, as well, more consistently. bring vanderwood in too due to his major role in saeyoung’s route, the secret endings and the entirety of another story. (y’know? what could be considered the “main plotline” that affects everyone in mm.)  he IS a part of it. also, more moments with saeran. perhaps we will get (new) more mint eye scenes? a type of back and forth?

i’m really not trying to dictate how this story should go. i really am interested in this new take and what it may come with. but i just want...everyone there, y’know? i want those relationships equally delved into - how we all got to know them as we completed all routes and other dlc’s on the game.

3. i’m just...kind of scared of being disappointed. or *too much* changing. or...characters being made out in a way they are not? if that makes sense. i’m not trying to set it up for that...to play some “i’ve been here over three years and i know more than you” type of role, haha. they can bring in all of the angst from the game...but maybe change a few things to handle it better? deeper? make sure characters are more universally okay? add some things in too if you want! i also understand if not everything makes it in.

but they have a chance of really reigniting the fandom and also growing it. mm is a wonderful story that does capture your heart. and cheritz has done a lot of good, more good than bad in my eyes (personally!)...but also...sometimes have messed up too. i just want them to do the game, the characters and themselves justice.

P O S I T I V I T Y T I M E

1. okay, guys. c’mon. this mc is super cute UwU (not that that is what it’s all about lol) but i’m hoping we get to know her as a new character with unique traits. i’m excited to see her added into the story and for her interactions. we should all root for her! because we have allll been her shoes already, guys. <3 (also, as someone else pointed out, peep that bisexual bob, ya’ll.) let’s do this!

2. THE ART STYLE IS A M A Z I N G. they ALL look so good to me. i saw them and immediately went “there they are”. :’) kind of got emotional, ngl.

3. i do believe in one positive change that is going to happen! we are meeting them *right away* at least from what i can tell from this panel -

i think this makes sense in order to see the story in this form (and i even said this so long ago in another post when musing about changes if they ever made mm into a tv show). meeting them right away makes sense. and i am glad they are doing it this way! that made me excited to see. (and now you guys know what i mean about every character, hopefully, getting the part they deserve in this webtoon that i mentioned earlier.)

4. so, i may be getting ahead of myself and i am NOT trying to continually ask for more and more. but the fact that this game became a webtoon...means it could become a show one day. perhaps this is a way to test the waters? feel it out and see where things go. either way though, a webtoon happening (all on it’s own) is beyond exciting.

5. there will be new additions to this fandom! just the other day (and, as i’m sure, many of us feel too) i just miss this game and fandom so much. i’m not ready for it to just be over, i think. mystic messenger meant, it means, so much to me - so much to others. it is a wonderful story, a different approach to this genre while including important themes and filled with i n c r e d i b l e characters. things are not perfect but maybe...this can be the boost we all need again. and i am excited to welcome people into this fandom!

let’s all be kind to each other.

final thoughts;

i’m probably going to hunting down a translation all over the place on april 11th (and every release following, haha). i hope we do see this story translated in numerous languages - to include our, truly, worldwide fandom. i will be reading this and i am excited for this new part and chapter of this fandom and story! to see it this way and read it as such. i’m glad to see a boost to this fandom and to find my love for mystic messenger again...and hopefully others will too!

overall - THANK YOU, CHERITZ. and while i am incredibly nervous - i am going to remain (mostly) positive and excited! and only *slightly* skeptical.

i’d love to hear anyone else’s thoughts and discuss more about this.

and i can’t wait to see you all (and welcome even more) into the messenger again. <3

until then!

oh, and also...

...same, mc. same.

[bunnykaye]

Agents of SHIELD 1x06 Rewatch Recap:

the very first scene of 1x06 involved camping kids telling each other scary stories… seems fitting since 1x06 aired Nov. 5, ‘13 -- a little past Halloween!

“I don’t sweat… i glisten”

“A man of my age? That’s something you say to an old person”

... and Jemma’s awkwardness HAHAHAHAHAH

dkw Ward is so particular with the Night-night Gun ounce… like WTF LOL

“I’m Agent Grant Ward. I could shoot the legs off a flea from 500 yards… as long as it’s not windy” 😂🤣😂🤣

GOOD LORD I HAVE FITZDAISY FEELS HERE BYE 😭😭😭

.... ALSO, this was the ep that ended Fitz’s crush on Skye, except for the first 5mins of the ep. He was still crushing on her when he said that “about like we do”… and he also acted a bit jealous when Skye mentioned Miles LOL

and then Skye HAD TO add that “it’s like you’re psychically linked” part. AH YES, OUR SHIP CAPTAIN SKYE EMERGES. *applause* BLESS HER!!!!!

“I am Agent Grant Ward… and I can rupture your spleen with my left pinky… blindfolded” 

FitzSimmons imitating Ward -- an instant CLASSIC 🤣🤣🤣

“so sad a man died this way.. and yet so amazing” OH JEMMA YOUR FASCINATION FOR ANYTHING MORBID IS SHOWING. LOOOL

Coulson asking FitzSimmons and them just blabbering on top of the other LOL.. GOSH I MISS THOSE DAYS!

... and then Jemma getting near the floating body… I mean we been known but SWEETIE NO

“Everybody looks clean on their first go-round” COMING FROM YOUR MOUTH, WARD? *cackles loudly*

“She lied to us.” -- AGAIN. Gossshhhh i’ve watched FZZT quite a number of times (it’s one of my most rewatched eps!) but the lies that come out of Ward’s mouth still amazes (and baffles!) me UGH

May and that poor kid — lmao

FITZSIMMONS ARGUING!!!!! And the source of many Academy fics with the cat and the lab and Fitz’s aversion to anything that involves dissections lol

Coulson and Ward discussing how to open the barn door  — and then May just kicks it like NBD. LMFAO

Fitz mentioning that metals were around the body of the 2nd victim — like an electromagnetic field was present — AND I JUST NOTICED THIS BIT NOW!!! Like I knew from rewatching the ep numerous times that certain metallic things float around the victim before he/she releases that electric pulse, but it’s just now that I learned that Fitz already had an observation about it THAT early on the ep. omg

Coulson reassuring the 3rd victim and just talking him through what will happen to him. It just goes to show how compassionate and how Coulson values every single life.

You can see the tiiiiiiniest bit of weariness to Jemma’s makeup/appearance when Coulson was talking to her after Fitz screened Coulson/May/Ward. She already looks a bit sick but not deathly sick. Kudos to AoS’ makeup team!

May asking if Coulson was alright when he requested for the physical

“You’d tell me if something’s wrong”

... as well as her reassuring him about what happened to the fireman

her concern for Coulson is very apparent on this ep y’all

AAAAAAAANNNNNNDDDDDDDD THEN SHIT GOES DOWN.

poor Jemma.. having no idea a thing was already floating around her and just finding out when Coulson quarantined the entire lab 😳

the look on Coulson’s face thooooooo. PURE HEARTBREAK!

the look of pure panic on Fitz’s face while he was building the device for the antiserum!

“There’s only one person on this plane capable of finding a solution for this. And i’m willing to bet my life that she will.” Coulson’s trust on his team knows no bounds :)

“She’s just a kid” THAT LINE IS SO HEARTBREAKING OK

Ward and Skye’s moment. Up until this point IDK whether that concern, that tender moment he shared with Skye was just for show. If I had no idea about what this show was about and I started to watch this ep, I would assume he really was that concerned with them. 😑

AAAAAAAANNNNNNDDDDDDDD THEN WE HAVE PURE FITZSIMMONS GOODNESS RIGHT HERE Y’ALL

THE SCENE that probably started the army of SS FitzSimmons. While it is debatable whether this was Fitz’s a-ha! moment, or the moment when he realized that he IS in love with Simmons, I think this was THE MOMENT when he realised that he couldn’t live without her, or AT LEAST cannot fathom the thought of her not around. His “you’ve been beside me the whole damn time” was ICONIC for that very reason.

... ALSO the progression of Jemma’s makeup omg

the FitzSimmonsing moment here was FREAKING GOLD too. They really do share the same mind!

... ALSO Fitz was already crying throughout that whole exchange hOLY SHITBALLS

He didn’t even hesitate to break quarantine and enter the lab WITH the Chitauri helmet. That’s AMAZING FRIENDSHIP right there, Y’ALL. (Also LOVE, but don’t tell Fitz, LOL)

“We’re gonna fix this. TOGETHER.” YOU’RE NOT CRYING, I’M CRYING.

AND the “FZZT” score on the background while FS were creating the antiserum WILL NEVER NOT BE ICONIC!!!!

the look of heartbreak on Skye’s face!!! 😭😭😭

Jemma looking deathly sick and saying how to inform the news to her parents TO Coulson!!! This was the moment when we realized how Elizabeth Henstridge can KILL US with her amazing acting. TRULY.

Coulson STILL trusting his team/Jemma to the very end even if he knows the repercussions of him letting infected Jemma in the plane.  WE STAN A GREAT LEADER.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but THIS IS THE FIRST EP WE’VE HEARD FITZ CALLING SIMMONS JEMMA. LKSDJSALJDALJSDSA

Let’s not forget Iain in his AMAZING ACTING in this ep too!!! IAIN + LIZ = FREAKING ACTING POWERHOUSES! The “comedic” duo of the show on S1 throwing all the EMOTIONAL STUFF right in this ep. AMAZING.

FITZ REALLY WAS GOING TO JUMP AFTER HER MY HEART

Ward doing the Bond-esque jump tho

Coulson reprimanding Jemma and Ward.. but we all know he’s just a softie and just glad Jemma’s alive. :333

Also that moment with Jemma confessing to Ward about the ounce on the night-night gun will never not be funny (even tho i’m pissed off at Ward. lol) 😅😅😅

... and that Jemma x Skye hug!!!!!

“...a little heavy on the iron.. but don’t worry, you don’t have to start calling me Iron Man” OMG. LMAOOOOO

“take off your shirt” CATCH ME SCREAMINGGGG

“Whether it was 8 seconds or 40, you died. There's no way you can go through a trauma like that And not come out of it changed. You know how long it's taken me to-- I know. 

— the mystery of May and The Cavalry.. all the clues were slowly dropped on S1 eps… AMAZINGGG.

Fitz clearly frustrated with himself ‘coz it wasn’t him who jumped, and Jemma quick to reassure him. Because she’s right, Fitz. It wasn’t Ward who brought her hope when all was lost. And I know there is a meta of Fitz and all his heroic acts but it all boils down to — basically all of his heroic acts have one motivation and one motivation only — and it wasn’t to be a hero. It’s about a woman. ❤️

And Fitz’s reaction to the cheek kiss? PRICELESS.

[arcitechs-archive]

good evening future world changer !   if you are receiving this letter it means you have been formally accepted into our vibrant learning institution : AVENGERS ACADEMY .  we’re SO eager to have you on your campus and we ABSOLUTELY KNOW you’ll make your mark here - whether that’s for good or for worse ! enjoy your college years - you only get to experience them once ( unless you create a time machine and break the time flux to create an infinite loop of your college experience which HAS happened and we DIDN’T enjoy being stuck in said time loop WITHOUT permission ) . 

aries wtf ? this is a group verse ! college based ! inspired by the avac game ! but really just chaos !

do i need to have played the game to join ? absolutely not the game is dead lmao 

can i join even if i’m not marvel ?  hell yeah everyone’s welcome 

can i join if my muse isn’t a hero ? hell yeah villains are SO VERY MUCH ALLOWED as well as shield personal stark industry people literally . . . anyone . be as creative as possible 

do i need to have an avengers muse ? no hello gimmie the mutants inhumans the everything . . . 

rules ? under the cut ! 

how do i join ? also under the cut !

will this be fun ? oh hell yeah let’s rock and roll babies . . . 

track the tag:  #avac gv: we are the future

THE QUICK AND DIRTY RULES 

have fun number 1 

drop out whenever you want to it’s nbd this is at your pace

collaborate and contribute this group verse is shared we all making this boat ROCK 

no ooc drama i swear i’ll fight

all the ic drama pls

duplicates are SO ALLOWED 

mostly in dash interactions with some discord shenanigans

i’ll im the link to the discord once you join ! 

uh . .. . gang . 

ask me about anything pls i probably forgot shit lmaooo 

THE APPLICATION 

STUDENTS

NAME: AGE: YEAR: MAJOR ( can be anything from science to how to conquer a planet in 30 days . . .  ) SHORT BIO RELEVANT TO THE VERSE:

ICON OF YOUR MUSE:

PROFESSORS

NAME: AGE: CLASSES TAUGHT:  SHORT BIO RELEVANT TO THE VERSE:

ICON OF YOUR MUSE:

when you’ve applied at me @arcitechs

                                                 PLS JOIN IT’LL BE FUN I PROMISE !

[6ad6ro]

cool turned on my ps4 to find they now install add links on ur dash even if u disabled that "feature" in settings? n most ppl are reacting like "nbd just delete it n move on"

again. big companies (not just in games) are convincing you that this sorta shit is ok. you pay for the system. you disable the ads (that start out enabled) and they give you ads anyways. because they get away with it. because things have shifted to the point where the companies come before the customer, even in terms of the product.

soon we'll have companies show up, pollute all our air, and then sell us slightly less polluted air. and we'll be thankful? like who am i kidding this has already happened. a lot.

well anyways in tech they don't even hide this shit anymore bc it's already past the breaking point. you pay to not be harassed and they harass you anyhow. we are literally paying for the privilege to pay more.

[presumenothing]

on haibara in the dog lovers kidnapping case: a throughly unscientific review

aka @deductionfreak slapped me with the hatchet so now i’m legally obliged to write the essay. bearing in mind that i’ve never written meta before and that it’s also 1am but now or never so leggo

(for reference, this is file 290-292/ep 233-234)

((also: am reading the raws, so salt this for my probably-flawed comprehension))

[morning eta: mangadex link in case anyone would like to read along]

zeroth of all, context for the case: this directly follows the bus hijacking, about 10+ days later in-universe per conan’s dialogue

ALRIGHT SO can i say first of all that i like how this case starts, bc the mental image of haibara and agasa dropping off the kids (conan included) before going to park is just plain hilarious. have a nice day at school crimefighting y’all

not so fun: haibara half-hiding behind agasa and looking warily around, and that’s before arthur (the dog, not the author) barks not-nicely at them. which at least lets us learn that they both pet a doberman just this morning!! pls tell me this is at least a semi-regular occurrence bc yes it should be.

unfortunately that’s the last of the warm fuzzies we get for a while bc haibara herself proceeds to give one of her chilly monologues. you know the kind. in fact she does it three times this chapter and all aloud within the others’ earshot, which is unusually many? even for her? but we’ll get to that later (probably, i’m not writing an outline for this or anything). anyway, line 1, regarding arthur:

“an odd one out, a dangerous person… in my case… to the contrary, it might actually not be an error…” (仲間外れの危険人物…私の場合…案外勘違いじゃないかもしれないわね…)

which is a similar sentiment to what she expressed in the previous case, i.e. the bus hijacking, that she’s dangerous and Does Not Belong. but just as important is her subsequent action when conan reacts – she brushes it off like she’s joking and absolutely refuses to engage. (uncoincidentally this combination of commenting about a lack of belonging then deflecting happens almost identically in higo’s intro case.) 

somewhat ironically neither her nor conan seem to notice that the db have in fact realised and are plotting away, though their attempts to interest her in picking a gift only begets line 2, this time about doyle (still not the author):

“because if i, like marie, were to vanish with the dew on the guillotine… just like her beloved dog tisby, you too would chase after me and throw yourself into the river seine, wouldn’t you?” (だって私がマリーのように断頭台の露と消えたら…彼女の愛犬だったティスビーみたいに、私の後を追ってセーヌ河に身を投げてくれそうじゃない?)

this time she doesn’t even wait for conan to react before deflecting right off.

both these lines basically neon-light sign that she’s still stuck in the mentality aka cloudy-with-a-chance-of-death fear from that bus hijacking – that she ought to disappear so as not to endanger the rest, and no one should rather miss her. and agasa’s description of her behaviour since essentially confirms it: not wanting to leave the house, not eating properly, apparently not even sleeping well. yes i am in fact crying inside

in return we learn that conan had in fact called to say that the bus passengers’ background checks cleared (probably why he was surprised that she’s still wound up now). also, he’s in fact taking her dire predictions of “the org will murder everyone around me/you if they find out” at least somewhat seriously. unfortunately haibara does not hear this part.

finally after doyle disappears (and haibara does actually participate actively in the following search, which i bet a virtual dollar is more interest in anything than she’s shown for the past ~2 weeks) we get line 3 after conan suggests that doyle might’ve hidden somewhere in fright:

“that’s true… to live afraid in hiding, with the terror that you may be found eventually, there’s nothing quite as harsh…” (そうね…いつかは見つかるかもしれない恐怖に怯えて隠れ住むぐらい、辛いことないもの…)

pleasant thoughts indeed. but interestingly, this time when conan reacts and tells her to cut it out, she actually engages to respond. third time’s the charm? or more likely because he asks if she’s sulking only about the possibility of assassination nbd which probably suggests to her that he’s not being as serious about this as she thinks he should be. this is reflected in her calling him “an optimist without any plans” before reiterating the danger they face if she’d been found out – without knowing that conan had said almost the exact same thing very seriously to agasa literally just hours earlier.

but of course! she wouldn’t! because conan responds by cheerfully reassuring her that she definitely Has Not Been Discovered. sometime later (aka in the jodie & heiji case) she will learn via overhearing that conan’s hiding org-related things because of his promise that she needn’t worry, but at this point she takes him at face value and responds with perfectly comprehensible incredulity: “how can you say something like that!?”

and his response (which she’s shown to be briefly surprised by) starts to negate that idea of him being a zero-plan optimist, because he has in fact considered and dismissed the possibility of someone from the bus having targeted her.

…by detecting a lack of killing intent with his detective-y senses.

alright, so maybe he’s only half an optimist with even less of a plan. reassuring.

(two notes here:

one, conan’s answer here is absolutely inconsistent with his earlier words to agasa, where he reasoned more logically that (a) any Org agents that might’ve been coincidentally on that bus shouldn’t have noticed Haibara’s presence, and (b) it’s been 10 days they would’ve murdered us all long ago otherwise. which points to him not being as certain of things as he claims to be here, but that shouldn’t really be a surprise to the readers.

two, if it’s not already obvious, haibara’s evaluation of conan at this point is not as accurate as she assumes it to be – a revolutionary concept that we later revisit via her thoughts in the post-bloody valentine murder-by-vcr case.)

anyway, they proceed to brush things off with some collective salt, and haibara stalks off declaring that she’s 100% done with detectives it’s almost 2am, i’m allowed to paraphrase??

after which case resolution happens, etc etc, followed by what is inarguably among the top 10 Best Haibara Panels ever, but tl;dr – 

the three lines collectively show that the fear and doubts/thoughts of escape raised by the bus hijacking didn’t miraculously end just because conan physically saved her and told her not to run (her accepting that doesn’t really happen until the higo intro case but that’s a whole ‘nother post which i am def not writing), but the subsequent conversation starts her re-evaluation of both conan himself and the idea that… well… you don’t have to be blindly optimistic to be optimistic? or at least not end-of-the-world pessimistic?

which – and this is important – still does not solve everything: if nothing else the ever-lurking possibility of pursuit still remains in her mind as of the subsequent case (aka genta’s barbershop adventure) and arguably only gets partially resolved during the later cases as brought up above.

and on a last note: how Good™️ is it that what finally breaks her doom&gloom mood is reaching out to reassure arthur that nobody is mad at him anymore? at which point the db reveals their topsekrit plans to cheer her up because they’re good children who deserve many good doggos, and i should sleep before this degenerates any further into drivel? responses welcome, i’ll figure out what to tag this in the morning. presume out