#they’re all showing you playing a white mafia dude

[ragingstillness]

Law and Order Organized Crime:

My thoughts: (spoilers for 1x1, 1x2, and most of 1x3)

Genuinely curious if the actor who plays Richard Wheatley is gay. Because I understand some of it is generalized ‘gay villain menace’ but all his interactions with other men, the vibes are sus

First time seeing Sgt. Bell with short hair, not my fav look for her, she looks like Missy Elliot in Ciara’s ‘Work’ music video without the ponytail (god that’s a specific reference)

Also the lesbian has a pixie cut…kinda a trope at this point. Not objecting, just noticing

Hope the show runners don’t think I don’t notice that the whole Nitro Nibbles thing is based on how irl companies used Dippin’ Dots trucks to transport COVID vaccines because they were the only ones built to get cold enough

For a supposed mastermind Richard always seems kind of surprised to see Elliot show up and wreck his plans. I know enough spoilers to know he’ll eventually lean into the mastermind more but in these first three episodes at least if anything I think he’s under-acting

Not to mention the actress they picked for Angela Wheatley has way to much chemistry with him, to the point where even when I know their conversations are coded they still come off as a genuinely happy family. Like, there’s too much genuine affection there for me to be like, concerned that she’s in danger

The racism in the Italian mafia plot came out of absolutely nowhere and idk if it’s the best idea to have your villains come down on the anti-racism side if you want us to not like them

Idk maybe the spoilers I’ve got have me perceiving this all wrong but I thought Wheatley was like Elliot’s Lewis and currently he’s nowhere near as intimidating

I like Jet, I have always liked Jet from the moment we saw her, I want her as my gf

Elliot is probably right about who the mole in the OCCB is, but I don’t want him to be. Elliot needs to be wrong more often

OCCB is such a defeatist acronym. Organized crime CONTROL bureau? So we’re not even gonna pretend we can eradicate them? I mean, we can’t, but I would have thought Law and Order was up for that kind of fantasy

I like Gina, the undercover. I do think she’s gonna die tho and that’s gonna piss me off

It’s kind of hysterical watching Olivia’s appearances from Elliot’s perspective because she keeps popping in at like the worst possible times like a bad penny whereas when you watch the same scenes from Olivia’s perspective Elliot looks insane

Kind of surprised that we’re pretending that Jet needs a warrant to access video files when I know in my heart that’s gonna go out the window right quick

I kind of like that they’ve positioned Wheatley as a tech bro but I know they’re not gonna lean into it because then the show would be about him vs Jet not him vs Elliot

A little bit in love with how Bell is like gee Elliot's been a bit of a rogue but when I'm right in front of him he tends to defer to me pretty well I wonder why when he seems like a typical white dude unaware of the fact that Olivia has had Elliot on a strict diet of Respect Women Juice for over a decade

[acedragontrainer]

okokok lets see...

yuki answers

1. I didn’t think of a specific place, but he was born somewhere in southern italy, by the coast, he doesn’t like swimming (swimsuits are hard to fit into his aesthetic) but he does like hanging out at the beach since he spent so much time playing on the beach as a kid

2. yuki’s dad has japanese heritage in that weird namimori way where everybody has a japanese relative somewhere along the line, he’s mostly italian (not weird for namimori) but has some eastern european in there too, specifically his turkish great grandmother, but the japanese side is recent enough that it shows pretty well, his dad passed on his dark hair and eyes and while yuki isn’t as dark skinned as his dad, he is noticeably darker skinned than his mom

3. i cannot stress this enough, without all the makeup and lolita shit he just looks like some dude, his some guy energy is so strong that he’s completely forgettable, his hair is actually very short, you see namimori is incredibly unpredictable and it’s much easier to have an extensive wig collection and a bag with two backup wigs tucked away in ziplock bags than it is to have long hair, he did try having long hair for a while in high school but the number of times it got chopped off weird because some asshole was throwing knives was just ridiculous, he’s actually pretty tall, taller than most people in town, but lolita Requires Heels, so he ends up being a giant in namimori, which does not make it any easier to hide behind things when shit goes down, but you gotta suffer for your art of whatever lol

4. his favorite color is actually aquamarine because it’s the color of the sea and it reminds him of his childhood in italy, but the darker color he prefers doesn’t lend well to the lolita styles he wears so he usually ends up getting more wigs than clothes in the color, his favorite styles of lolita actually lean more towards sweet/hime lolita which have much lighter pastel pallets so there’s a lot of white/mint/pink/lavender/baby blue in his closet, this is largely unrelated but he has a lot of magical girl wands because he figured out he could run his lightning flame through them and make special effects happen (legit he’s training himself to use a wand as a conduit for his flames which hilariously would be really powerful if he knew how to fight with flames)

5. ok so this is my own headcanon about namimori, but it’s always been weird and violent, it’s a mafia adjacent civilian city where retired mafiosi and flame active kids end up, and flame active kids play fight in the same way that normal kids do, it’s just that when you have the power of a minor god play fighting tends to involve blood/broken bones/property destruction/etc. so like, yuki grew up brawling, both to defend himself and to try and fit in, he doesn’t actually like it and tries to avoid coming to blows but understands that it’s not always going to work like that, that being said lolita shit costs a lot of fucking money and if somebody tears his limited edition angelic pretty jsk because they’re fighting over something stupid, then (as a flame active whose emotions tie in to his magic powers of destruction) he’s going to rampage, ayane is a terrible friend and loves it when yuki rampages in the same way that it’s fun to watch a cat shred paper, so like he can hold his own against the average namimori thug if pushed, but if he went up against somebody like hibari kyoya he’d get steamrolled easy, it’s not like he’s been formally trained or anything

ayane answers

1. she’s very sukeban, like she had the whole look going on in high school: long skirt, bleach blonde hair, no makeup, cut shirts, the whole shebang, and after graduating she really didn’t want to bother cleaning herself up so she just leaned even harder into it and became a full blown mini boss, she actually wears fairly nice clothes since yuki likes dragging her out shopping so he can dress her up, but she never takes care of her stuff so she’ll have plenty of tears and blood stains, her wardrobe went to shit while yuki was in america and wasn’t around to maintain it for her, she owns a lot of leather since it holds up the best in a fight, most of her favorite clothes are thick and heavy and protective, she has no sense of style even though she’s got a nice face and it kills yuki, he just wants to put her in a formal yukata and do her makeup, she let him do that once after they graduated for a festival and got hit on by a bunch of guys which offended her so much that she’s refused to let yuki come near her with lipstick since

2. oh def, she sees a lot of herself in hibiari so she finds it cute that he keeps coming after her to fight, even if it is annoying and he wasn’t a challenge for the first few years they knew each other, it’s like, she’s adopted him but very specifically in a weird wild animal way, like she doesn’t talk to him or drop by his school to say hi or anything, but she’s been teaching him how to fight by kicking his ass for years and she’s really proud of the terror he’s grown up to become and has given her unsaid blessing for him to take over her former middle school empire (she thinks he took over her position in the power vacuum she left behind on purpose and is actively maintaining the organization instead of stumbling onto it and shoving all the work to his subordinates, she gives him too much credit lmao), i think the most they’ve ever said to each other is like grunts and mild death threats, that’s just how they roll (hibari thinks she’s his mortal enemy btw)

3. her family is sort of in mafia witness protection, so she was born with the fake surname suzuki because it’s incredibly common and does not stand out in any way, she has still not realized that neither of her parents are japanese

4. jumping off of that, both her parents are in the mafia, her mom especially was pretty high up in the ranks and killed a political enemy for her boss, but got caught doing it so she and her husband faked their deaths and got shipped out to namimori to live out the rest of their days as “normal civilians”, soon after moving ayane was born and they decided to tell her nothing about their background and raise her civilian, this worked about as well as you can expect

i imagine that the whole mafia thing is like an open secret in namimori, like every single person in namimori has ties to the mafia in some way, even if not everybody is in the know, and while it’s kind of a whole thing to not talk about flames (the vindice are absolutely namimori specific boogeymen), it’s also blatantly obvious that most people in town are some kind of supernaturally weird, it’s just normal and nobody points it out because that would be a huge faux pas, i mean even before tsuna got pulled into the worst of it, namimori was still bizarre and people like hibari ran around achieving superhuman feats in broad daylight

5. yeah her parents are very hands off parenting and absolutely encouraged her budding mafia boss tendencies, they think it’s charming and offer suggestions as to how to improve her budding criminal empire and by the time they realized what they’d done, she had already bought the school board (this is very important, she got her start selling grade school contraband, things like test scores and weird trending status symbols like pompoms with googly eyes and silly bands), so now they’re just very lackadaisical and weirdly supportive of anything she does, her dad often tells her she’s ‘just like her mom’ whenever he pays her bail, also also it’s namimori, she went flame active early and had a mini mafia running the school to terrify the teachers and parents, nobody wanted to try and stop her so they didn’t

I desperately want to know more about people's khr OCs! Specifically yours @lilacdon20 and also yours @masterdisastre !!!!

But really anyone is very welcomed to reblog this with ramblings of their OCs!

Yes You! The person reading this! I want to know about your OCs specifically!!!!

Also you are all welcomed to tag other people who's khr OCs you like as well!! ANYONE IS WELOCME! /pos

Questions, if needed because flustered or confused, are under the Read more!

First up! General questions!

What is their name? Their pronouns? Age? Gender identity? Sexuality? (if any of that matters lmao)

Are they somehow related to another khr character? In what way?

What does your oc look like? Do you have any art of them? Picrew also welcomed! Ai art... Not preferred >:/

What are their relationships to other khr characters? Pairings you like with your oc? Adopted siblings and parents maybe?

Actually what's the family situation of your oc? Do they have siblings that's a background character perhaps? (example: sometimes I give Kusakabe Tetsuya a brother)

Does your oc have a mental illness? Neurodivergencies? Other disabilities? At what age did they get these disabilities if they weren't born with them?

If they had a super power what would it be?

Free Space! [Anything else you want to talk about?]

Khr specific questions:

What's their flames? And how many flames do they have? One? More? None?

How do they use their flames? If they have one.

If they don't have a flame, how do they fight? Do they fight at all?

If they can't fight for any reason, what's their preferred method of self defense?

Free space! [insert any khr specific question you want!]

And last but not least and mostly for fun!!! Khr character questions:

How much does Tsuna want to protect your oc upon first meeting them? After knowing them a minute, is Tsuna now scared of them or worried about them?

Does Reborn think they're pathetic or does he have a slight respect for them? If he suddenly appeared out of a wall-hole, how would your oc react?

Would Hibari Kyoya be able to stand being in a room with them for five minutes? How long do they last in a fight against him?

Would your oc go off rambling about crytids with Gokudera? If yes, which is their fave cryptid?

Would Skull try to flirt with them? Would he score a date? Pity date or genuine interest?

How loud does your oc cheer when Yamamoto hits a home run? What if the ball hit them?

Would your oc be able to last an hour watching over Lambo, I-pin and Fuuta? What if they all had sugar beforehand?

What food would Sawada Nana cook for your oc? What's their favourite food? Drink?

Free space! [insert any other character questions you want!]

There is no pressure for anyone to answer of course. I just want to get to know more OCs and their creators. I'm talkative lately so I'll try to keep up with the reblogs as best I can :3

Multiple reblogs for multiple OCs are also very very welcomed!

[megoosa]

anybody else getting constantly bombarded with horribly racist ads for that mafia game??? thanks tumblr?????

[harveywritings92]

Bnha Mafia AU Scenario: You need a new bra

[Summary: Busty reader! the last of your bra hooks break while lifting boxes at work! Leaving you in a bit of pickle, so, you text your friend telling her to go your house get you another bra... At least you though you thought it was your friend...]

"Goddamn lazy sons..." You huffed bending down getting another box of the floor, Naoki your male co-worker was supposed to be doing this but he decided texting on his phone and flirting with Mei from accounting was productive then doing his job! you huffed lifting a box full of text-book up when you felt your bra loosen..*Crap, one of the hooks must've snapped...oh, well I still got two more." then you felt your bra start to slip off did you realize your mistake...

This was the bra from last week! the one that had a broken hook after playing with your cat, you felt the second one snap this when you were putting on your jacket this morning...  Your face was on fire as you awkwardly looked around making sure you were the only person in the storeroom before unbuttoning your blouse and and taking off your broken bra to examine it to see if may the hook didn't break, maybe it just bent and you could fix it! Nope, it was definitely broken... How embarrassing you huffed grabbing your phone and texting your friend telling her it was an emergency!

{My bra broke, I need you get me another at my house! and please hurry my supervisors gonna be here any minute! I'm in Storeroom 13} 

[seen a 12:45 ✔✔]

Twenty minutes later...

"Y/n I got your text open the door"

You blinked bemused that didn't sound like your friend it sounded like... 

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Shigaraki Position: the big boss: You open the door to see Tomura standing outside in the hall, You stared at the mob boss incredulously, before registering what he said *he saw my text...*, You looked down at you phone and saw his name on top of the screen...Your face felt like it was on fire as Shigaraki cleared his throat, you looked at him and saw he was blushing as he held out a bag from a very every expensive lingerie brand which looked at bemused did he buy her a new bra... "Y-you Didn't have get m-" He cut you off "Just take it!" You blinked and took the bag from the white haired mob boss, who waited outside thinking about the embarrassing situation at the lingerie store... 

He got that text and went to ask Kurogiri to bring the car around as he was going to attend to your wishes, until Dabi got a look at his phone and snorted. "Well, no shit it broke, she's not even wearing the right size!" the hit man noticed his boss eying him suspiciously. "And how exactly would you know that?" the scarred man just smirked knowing Shigaraki doesn't have a lot experiences with women.

"Boss I'm hit-man, it's my job to analyze people right down to what brand of socks they wear, You think I wouldn't notice a chick with {y/cup} size boobs in a {not y/cup} bra? it pretty obvious, especially when she does that little squirmy shrug thing with her shoulders."  

Shigaraki seemed to take this to heart as he didn’t like the thought of you being uncomfortable, So he had Kurogiri to take him to a lingerie store instead of your home, needles to say the staff were all on edge when the notorious head of the Shigaraki group came waltzing into their shop, looking around nervously at the various styles and varieties of underwear and sexy sleepwear.

One of the sales ladies finally mustered up the balls to approached and asked if he needed help. Shigaraki explained the situation and the lady put on a tight smile and helped him with obvious reluctance, before setting on a sky blue bra, but then Shigaraki paused when he saw a couple of other sleep sets he figured you'd like and one that he liked that was made to look like a game controller bought those too. 

He heard the door open and saw you walk out, Tomura cheeks were pink when he noticed that your chest looked like it had gotten perkier, that extra padding really was worth it, he'll have to have Kurogiri send those ladies at the Lingerie store a card or something... "D-does it fit alright?" He stammered scratching his neck while looking a you nervous about your reaction. "Yeah, actually it fits nice..." You said surprised that you're boyfriend got your size right. 

"That good! that's nice!...um I have to go I see you after work" he said kissing you on the cheek and walking out the back door, just as your worried boss rounded the corner asking why the head of Shigaraki was here? and where had he gone, yeah forgot to mention your company in under the Shigaraki's protection, but that was long before you and Tomura were a thing.

Needless to say when you got home that evening you were very surprised to find at least four more bags of Lingerie waiting for you on your coffee table, your face felt like a furnace as you read a note from Tomura detailing his high hopes that you'll be wearing at least one of them, and what he plans to do with you when he comes over to play later!~ 

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Dabi Position Hitman/Enforcer: There stood Dabi dried blood on his jacket (at least you think it was dry, the jacket too black to tell.) with a pervy grin on his face as he held up a bag from a lingerie store... your eye twitched and went close the door in his face when he wedged his foot in the door to stop you. "Easy there Fairy~ I'm just answering your distress signal!" he said teasingly causing you look at him oddly.

"What are you on about?" He put his hand in mock hurt. "Oh that text wasn't for little ol'me?" Again you looked him like he'd grown six heads, before looking down at your phone and saw that, yes. You had texted Dabi instead of Abbi, oops... "Actually that text was meant for Abbi. " the hit-man took then shrugged. "Well then I guess I'll be goin.." You grabbed his arm. "h-Hold up!, hold up lets not be hasty now!" he looked back at you with a smirk as he handed you the bag.

Dabi waited outside the door when he heard you muffled "What the fuck?" then you angerly yelling at him. "Get in here right now!" the hitman resisted the urge to burst of laughing at your face, as you held up a cupless bra for him to see. "If you seriously think I’m gonna wear this I'm cutting your dick of right now!" you hissed as Dabi feigned innocence. "What. what wrong with it?" He eyes watched you reach for a shelf where they store the extra blades for the Paper-guillotine, and he put his hands up.

"Okay, okay I’m just kiddin' with ya!" he took the bag from you and pulled out a dark purple bra with teal polka dots the inside of the cup was also teal, you hummed before putting it on and were pleasantly surprised that it fit you! "That feel better than that [not y/cup] size rag you've been wearing?"  You gawked at him bemused "Wait...I was wearing the wrong size? How did you notice?" Dabi said you squirming your shoulders and walking around like the hunch back of Notre-Dame was a dead giveaway.

You hummed putting your shirt back and Dabi with this little smirk on his face seeing the improvement that bra. "Looks like Patty and Selma are safe and snug in their new home.~" he purred watching them puff up when you crossed your arms. "I still don't get why you named them after the aunts from The Simpsons." You say as you watch him check his phone. "Because!" He kissed you on the cheek before going to the window. "...They're always smokin~" he winked before hopping out the window and running into the foggy afternoon, just as you boss cam in asking if you were done with inventory? And where the hell was your male co-worker?! that night Dabi was pleasantly surprised to find you trying on the cupless bra; checking yourself out in the mirror let's just say the Hitman was definitely buying you more underwear if he gets to come home that every night!~

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Hawks position smuggler/police informant: You were confused seeing your boyfriend standing in the hall "Hey Dove." he greeted smiling coyly and holding a sparkly bag from a Lingerie store, you looked at him oddly. "Uh...Hi?" you looked to see if your friend was hiding behind him, nope just his wings... "Why are you here?" you asked. "I got your text, see?" he took his phone and showed you his phone, your face felt warm as you saw your text staring you in the face.

You must've mistaken Keigo for Kaiko "Oh... That wasn't for you. " You hummed embarrassed Keigo didn't seemed to mind as he held out the bag to you causing you heat up realizing he bought you underwear... Which you were reluctant to take. Now it's not that you didn't trust Keigo it's just his track record buying you clothes isn't very good... but then you looked at your options and sighed taking the bag from the blond; not seeing the sneaky smirk Keigo was trying to hide.

 before he heard you go "what the hell?" he snorted and walked in the storeroom to see you holding up this, ugly neon yellow mesh bra littered with green sequins in the shape of peacock feathers that covered your nips, You looked at the bra then him at almost scared. "Dude..." You murmured in disbelief that he actually expected you to wear this! he burst out laughing you pouted and started hitting him. "Ow...ow, haha! Okay!...heh, Okay!" He snorted as he checked the bag he gave you and under all the cray paper he pulled out this red bra with little gold stars on it, it looked cute but you were skeptical as you put it on. 

"Holy crap, it fits...."You looked at him suspiciously as you were putting your shirt back on. "Who helped you?" You asked watching at he stiffened up "I don't know what you talking about..." he smiled coyly as you crossed your arms and cocked a brow, before watching Keigo's smile drop, your brows furrowed as you watched one of Keigo's feather's shot out through a gap in the door and you heard a yelp!

You both went outside in the hall to find your co-worker Naoki pinned to the wall by Keigo's feather his cell phone laying at his feet, the blond's eyes narrowed as he picked it up and looked through it, Keigo growled when he found photos of you changing on it. He looked at Naoki in disgust before crushing the phone much to your co-worker protest and hawks pocketed the memory card, then turned to Naoki. "I'd keep my mouth shut about this if I were you bub.”

Keigo hissed as brought another razor sharp feather up to nervous man's face and pressed it against his cheek. "Or else you'll learn the meaning of “”Snitches get stiches””... Ya get me?" Naoki nodded and Keigo put him down and watched him run, The blond then turned to you with a cheeky smile. "Wanna go the lunch?" You agreed and hastily left with your birdbrained boyfriend.  

[takemealivelh]

midnight city || gang!luke

gang!luke, rival gangs, mentions of drugs, alcohol and violence. smut. 2k. part 1.

feedback is appreciated

he wiped the blood off his knuckles. the feeling of beating the shit out of someone is a rush of adrenaline. it’s like getting high on coke, but he doesn’t deal with that shit. he’s known many people who do hard drugs and then end up in trouble, or dead. he appreciates his life so much. luke likes being the leader of the diamond forsaken. a mafia that dedicates its time to drug transactions and occasionally prostitution. luke doesn’t fuck with that either, at least not recently. he met this girl in a bar and he’s been thinking about her for over a month. they’ve been on a few dates, and the sex has been great. she has a great sense of humor and he can tell she’s got street smarts, which he likes. he couldn’t fathom the idea of being with someone who gets scared about his job.

“you good, bro?” ashton, luke’s right-hand man, looks over at the bruises and leans against the sink of the bathroom, lighting a joint. their day is done and it’s time to go party. luke beat the shit out of a dude who didn’t give them their money and he threatened to go to the police. there was no way they would let him leave the storage unit without a warning. luke choked the man and broke a few ribs. he’s used to the job. it’s not like he was always like this. he used to have big dreams about forming a band and become a good musician. but he fell into the wrong crowds, and now here he is. dealing drugs and other sketchy businesses. everyone in la who knows about their mafia, knows not to fuck with them. they would end up dead. the police don’t do anything, they know how dangerous they are.

luke dries his hands with a paper towel and runs his fingers through his golden locks. “yeah,” he says. he’s never walked out of a fight with anything more than a few bruises. he does boxing on his free time, so he knows how to throw a lethal punch, and knows how to avoid poor kicks.

“i heard the grey lilies will be there tonight. i swear to fucking god those girls... i would bang every single one of them, but... you know...”

the grey lilies were a girl gang. they dealt drugs, too. that’s why they were a rival to the diamond forsaken. they never got into a physical fight, but there were many times they were about to. having the best clients was a problem for the male gang, but at least they had more people wanting their goods. but still, luke was pissed that they had a quality over quantity problem. he’d grown accustomed to the luxurious lifestyle. a good place to live, the most delicious takeout, and fancy cars. 

“for real?” luke looks over at his friend. he hides his excitement. sure, the grey lilies were trouble. but their top dealer, jackie, was the most fascinating creature he’d ever seen. their dates had been fun, exciting, thrilling. the idea of a secret hookup with their enemy was another rush of adrenaline. one that he actually preferred, if he was being honest.

- 

it’d all started at one of the parties. luke knew jackie, or at least he knew her face and what she did for a living. he was jealous she did so good with clients. she was charming as fuck. they didn’t mean to show up at the same place at the same time, but sometimes the gangs coincided. “did you get the dresnners?” she’d asked him as she took a seat on the stool next to him. her caramel-colored hair was in a ponytail and her eyeshadow was pastel blue. she wore ripped jeans, an oversized white t shirt, and high-heeled boots. the look suited her. she looked like the vocalist of an 80s inspired punk band.

luke scoffed. he knew what she meant. they had been fighting over the dressners for weeks and they decided to go with the grey lilies. that night, the diamond forsaken got blackout drunk. “no, but you did.” he finally said, looking down at the glass of vodka in his hand. 

“yeah,” she chuckled and ordered a beer. luke had always thought jackie was pretty interesting, but they’d never talked. not much, at least. just a few words here and there, mostly passive-aggressive shit. but the bickering was also part of the job. that night, though, that night neither felt like fighting. they were already buzzed. jackie took a swig of her beer and looked at him. “you wanna go outside? i got a joint. it’s legit shit, this.” she smiled.

it’s not like he frowned, but something among those lines happened. but fuck it, he thought. “sure. lead the way.”

they went to the terrace of the bar and lit up the joint. luke coughed a little and she laughed.  “i told you it was legit.”

-

luke and ashton walk into the club like the kings they are. everyone stops to look at them. but shortly, they resume their activities. which mostly consists of getting drunk and high. the two men make their way towards their usual booth. michael and calum are already there. calum’s with his girl. a black beauty who gives incredible head, his words. luke takes a seat and drinks the beer in front of him, swiftly drifting off the conversation to look around. he hasn’t seen the grey lilies, but he hopes they get here soon. bathroom sex sounds good right now.

“how was the guy?” michael asks as he throws a couple of fries into his mouth. ashton tells him that luke did a good job in silencing the motherfucker. “three ribs? man, that’s dark. but cool.” he laughs.

everyone seems to stop talking again, and luke shifts his gaze towards the door. the grey lilies have arrived. they look like a grunge band. their leader, lea, wears combat boots and net tights. but his eyes are focused on the girl whose moans keeps him up at night.  she looks gorgeous in that oversized that jacket that seems to swallow her whole, but still barely covers her ass. he wonders if he looks okay, sexy. he didn’t have time to change, and he hasn’t shaved in a few days. his motorcycle jacket has a few stains, but at least they’re not blood.

jackie finds him staring and she puts on a smirk. she pats the pocket of her jacket to let him know that she’s got weed on her. they rarely ever not get high together. that makes her wonder if this, this between luke and her, is just a side effect of the drug. but she doubts it. she actually likes him, even if she despises his friends. they all seem idiotic to her. luke notices the action of her hand and he immediately looks down at his drink. “imma go to the bathroom.” he announces, even though no one is hearing. they’re too into the story about the miami trip calum and his girl took last weekend.

luke stands up from the booth and snakes through the crowd. he catches a glimpse of jackie, who’s making her way towards her regular booth. “meet me outside in five,” he texts her. he watches her check her phone and smile down at the screen. 

-

“they’re gonna kill us if they see us together,” jackie says as she pulls out the joint from her pocket. she knows the grey lilies hate the diamond forsaken. they think the other gang are all egocentric assholes. she used to think that, too. but she met luke. and he’s actually a sweet guy. he’s really smart, too. the strategy they use to get more clients astounds her. but it’s nice to know that the grey lilies have the better clients.

luke watches her light up the joint and he leans against the wall outside of the club. it’s dark outside and the air is cold. there aren’t many people in the terrace, but he doubts anyone will say anything about them being together. getting high together. “then we’re just gonna have to keep it a secret.” his smile is shy, and jackie thinks he’s the most adorable man. even if he has bruises on his knuckles from probably beating up some shady guy. she passes the joint and luke takes a drag. “you wanna come to my place later? i got some cds i wanna show you.” they’re both big music nerds, and he loves that. they sit on the floor of his room, high out of their minds, and they listen to oasis, jane’s addiction and red hot chili peppers. 

“i don’t know. lea wants to do some kind of after party tonight. and i kinda want to be there.”

luke nods his head, he’s sort of disappointed, but it is what it is. he knows the gangs come first. it’s all about loyalty. that’s why he’d be fucked if anyone of the diamond forsaken members came out right now. but he knows they don’t smoke, except for calum occasionally -rarely, actually. so he’s not worried. 

“come here,” jackie smiles as she plays with the zipper of his jacket. they’re incredibly close and she can feel the smoke coming out from luke’s mouth. she kisses him softly, licking his bottom lip. with eyes closed, luke feels stars bursting inside his lungs. he really likes her. “give me that,” she orders and he hands her the joint.

they keep smoking until there’s nothing left and they stare into each other’s eyes. jackie isn’t one to maintain eye contact, but she feels safe with luke. even if he’s forbidden fruit.

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the men's bathroom is empty. they had to sneak in so the others couldn’t see them. luke made an excuse about going to the bar to get more drinks even if the counter was crammed. jackie said she was going out for a smoke. it’s all hands and sloppy kisses as they lock the door of one of the stalls. luke bites his lower lip as his back is pressed to the white door and jackie drops to her knees. “you gonna make me feel good?”

“imma make you feel so good, baby,” she grins and unzips his pants. he’s already hard from all the making out in the terrace. so it’s not surprise that his cock springs up as soon as his briefs are pulled down to his thighs. jackie licks the tip and he shudders. he’s gotten a fair amount of blowjobs in his life. the first one from one girl that attended his school and she thought he was going to be a musician one day. but nothing compares to jackie’s mouth. her tongue slides down his length and he closes his eyes, letting out a shaky breath. she’s ecstatic that she can make him squirm in front of her. she likes being in control, even if it doesn’t always happen. luke can be pretty dominant in the bedroom. taking her from behind roughly and choking her. jackie puts his cock in her mouth and she starts bobbing her head to the rhythm of the loud bass coming from the other side of the bathroom door. luke appreciates the little detail. his senses are heightened and it feels like she’s one more instrument adding to the song.

“fuck,” he curses under his breath as he feels the tip of his dick hit her throat. she takes him in so good. she’s an angel. luke looks down and he sees her eyes staring up at him, a subtle smirk on her lips. “you’re- you’re-” he’s trying to say something but his brain doesn’t work. the pleasure is too intense. he hits his head against the door and closes his eyes once again. he’s about to cum. exactly at the same time he hears someone come into the bathroom. fuck. “stop, stop,” he whispers to jackie and cups her face to get her off his dick. she looks through the slit of the door and sees someone she recognizes washing their hands.

“shit,” she mouths. “michael.”

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[phoukanamedpookie]

Why do cis white men get to have all the fun?

@idreamtofmanderleyagain and I were chatting recently about how, within the past 5 or 10 years, so much of fandom discourse around fictional characters is filtered through whether their actions, thoughts, feelings, and attitudes are morally justified or not.

And, being someone who pays attention to these things, it hasn’t escaped my notice that this type of discourse is very pronounced with characters who are women and girls, people of color, and/or LGBT (or coded as such).

Meanwhile, there are entire shows centered on cishet(-ish) white dudes who do things that are morally reprehensible: Tony Soprano in the mafia, Walter White running a drug empire, Dexter being a serial killer, Hannibal Lecter eating people, everyone on Game of Thrones not named Jon Snow, and so on. Hell (Ha, see what I did there?), Lucifer’s protagonist is the literal goddamn Devil.

Yet, there doesn’t seem to be all this energy directed at expressing approval or disapproval of their actions or toward ships involving these characters. Instead, people seem to understand that such stories exist to explore aspects of humanity that don't get much focus because it's not safe or socially acceptable.

How does a high school chemistry teacher become a drug czar? What happens when a mob boss goes to therapy? What happens when Satan falls in love with a human? These are some fascinating questions, things I know I’m interested in exploring via stories because it’s safer than seeking them out in real life.

And the thing is I want to dive deep into these questions with characters other than white men. I want to unpack and examine the circumstances that lead to the choices these characters make, the directions their arcs can go in, and how their relationships can play out. But outside of a few dedicated spaces, there aren’t many places where fans are free to explore these kinds of questions because everything circles back to whether people (should) approve or disapprove of this character or that ship.

And it’s frustrating because if you do talk about these things openly, you’ll get a lot of people trying to debate you as though you’re trying to justify harmful behavior or toxic relationships rather than trying to understand what leads to them.

Once again, it’s that puritanical streak that shows up in fandom where we’re just supposed to accept that characters do harmful things because they’re bad rather than examining the circumstances behind their choices. Or we’re just supposed to accept that a ship is always and forever toxic as though people and relationships are set in stone from day one.

(BTW, this puritanical mindset carries over to real life too.)

Speaking for myself, I’m not interested in static characters or static relationships. I’m interested in characters who do things I can’t or won’t do in everyday life, who walk in the twilight of morality, who contain fascinating contradictions. (I was and am taken aback by how much I love Wonder Woman because she’s not usually the sort of character I go for.)

As a diehard enthusiast of the Demon Lover trope, I’m intrigued by ships that are mysterious, passionate, and a little bit dangerous or scary. As a lesbian, a femslash shipper, and a huge romantic, I live for the profoundly transformative power of sapphic love. I’m not interested in whether a ship would be healthy or ideal in the real world. I want to explore what a ship uncovers about each character involved. I want to know how the ship could change them.

So what gives, fandom? Why does it seem so difficult to make space for this?

[maxmagi]

A List of My OTPs

because it's 11 and I can't sleep.

Enjolras x Grantaire a.k.a. Enjoltaire a.k.a. ExR- Les Mis

How I fell into this I don't remember now. I vaguely remember reading a crackfic of this and then everything just went sideways.

This was also the fandom that helped me realize that I wasn't exactly straight and that it's okay to not be loud about my sexuality, that I can just be.

I think that explains my attachment to this ship, not to mention just the movie's Grantaire (played by George Blagden) also shipped the characters and played his character like how he thought it should be, Grantaire loving and pining after Enjolras without the revolutionary knowing it.

Except in the fan fics, Enjolras returns his feelings and they work it out, even though it's not easy because they're both stubborn as mules. Ah, ultimate fantasy I guess. And the number of great fics here, *whistle*

Also, the Les Amis? Is amazing? Especially in the modern AUs? Like they're great friends? I love this fandom so much! Permets-tu!

Shen Wei x Zhao Yunlan - Guardian / Zhen Hun

C'mon, Zhu Yilong & Bai Yu's performance and emotions? Plus just the fact the fanfic writers of this ship are absolutely amazing? Please, escape from this pairing is impossible!

Best opposites attract trope for me. An academic by day, superhero by night in love with a roguish police chief who has no powers but whose charisma, wit, and heart can get him to toe to toe with the legends.

Also, Professor Shen Wei constantly acting like an innocent civilian and lying badly? Gold!

Loki x Tony Stark a.k.a. FrostIron - Avengers

How did I honestly get to this ship? I really can't remember what started it all. I think it must have been a Loki redemption fic where Tony Stark and Pepper broke up and something something happened. Let me tell you, the writers of this ship have written sagas and ballads of epic and sometimes confusing proportions, and that is why I fell deeper into the pit. I mean, they gotta give justice to two brilliant but chaotic characters, right? Angst. This ship has sooooooooo much angst.

Eiji x Ash - Banana Fish

My god, if you want to keep your heart intact and not be reminded of all that's ugly in the world, DON'T WATCH OR READ BANANA FISH. YOUR HEART WILL NEVER HEAL!

If you're gonna watch/read it anyway, make sure to watch something fluffy and sweet after. There's a reason that people from this fandom go, "If you've seen Banana Fish's ending, then you can handle whatever angsty show you're watching now." ~ or something to that effect. Another thing we like to say in this fandom is, "Other fandoms: Let's write a Mafia AU! Banana Fish fandom: We are the Mafia AU." Yes, all of us in this fandom is dramatic af.

Yuuri x Viktor - Yuuri!!! on Ice

Uh, does this really need an explanation? Aside from the fact that you will surprisingly find a lot of Mafia AUs here because we all know that hiding behind that beautiful face of Viktor Nikiforov is a devil capable of... tearing down your self-confidence, like WTF Viktor, don't make Yuuri cry! Also, their dance together at the end, such beautiful love.

Magnus Bane x Alec Lightwood aka Malec - Shadowhunters

I never read the books and have no plans to in the near future. I just saw a video on Youtube about why Malec is life and now here I am, still reading some Malec fics from time to time.

Some stuff on the show were WTF but overall they were a really good couple who supported each other. Plus, they're a Power Couple.

Erwin x Levi aka Eruri - Attack on Titan / Shingeki no Kyojin

Not to be confused with Ereri, which is Eren x Levi, which I don't generally ship except for that one time when a writer wrote an epic fanfic series with Eren in his mid 20s and Levi in his late 20s/early 30s, reincarnation AU. Boy was that one a surprise. I did not expect that.

Anyway, I'm an Eruri fan through and through. Especially with that promise that Levi made to Erwin. And the reason he gave the serum to Armin. HE DIDN'T DO IT FOR THE KIDS YKNOW. HE DID IT FOR ERWIN. Plus, Levi, Erwin, and Hange are my special trio. Erwin's batch was really amazing.

Also, I really like the fact that the shorter and slighter person is the more badass fighter while the taller, bigger one is the more calculating and strategic one. Rocks the boat of stereotypes and all that. Bonus: how these two met. My god, what a meet-cute! 😂

Dani x Jamie aka The Au Pair and the Gardener - The Haunting of Bly Manor

It really is more of a love story than a ghost story. I dunno how to feel about this. I loved these two characters so much and I wished they had a better ending but I wasn't SO surprised because it was a horror series (Like, I was still hoping at the end that they'd be together forever but yknow...). In any case, Jamie was just awesome. And her nickname for Dani? Poppins?! God, what a lover and fighter. She was not afraid to cock a gun in a ghost's face.

... and now for my flexible BROTPs

Merlin x Arthur aka Merthur - BBC Merlin

Yeah, my brain is so chaotic multiple OTPs and BROTPs of the same pairing exist at the same time without clashing with one another or having major identity crises.

I actually really like BROTP Merlin and Arthur and also like reading OTP Merthur.

And when Merlin is paired with Morgana or Freya or sometimes even Gwaine, that's fine with me too. As long as his bromance with Arthur stays intact, because that's what drew me to the show in the first place. Personal preference. I see them as platonic soulmates.

*Shout-out to the Merthur writers though, you kept me sane during my "Post-Merlin Depression," which is actually a term thrown around in the fandom because of that horrid final season (not saying it's a good term but it's what it was called). A lot of amazing fics here, too, both Magic Reveal and Modern AU ones. Full of action and adventure too! I mean, there are boy-band-looking Knights and magic-wielding badasses!

Tim Drake x Conner Kent/Kon-El aka Red Robin x Super Boy - DC Comics

More like flexible otp. I dig Stephanie Brown and Tim Drake BUT I really really also dig Tim Drake and Conner Kent. When they're TimKon, it's like an entirely different entity from TimSteph. Ugh, hard to explain.

I mean, Kon telling Tim, "You'll always be my Robin" and Tim telling Kon, "And you'll always be my clone boy" is the shit. Also when Kon could pick out/recognize Tim's heartbeat. And when Tim nearly went mad scientist trying to bring his bestie back. Like, dudes, wtf. And at the same time, hell yeah.

Liu Kang x Kung Lao aka LiuLao - Mortal Kombat

- I see these two as more like ride or die best friends connected by fate/platonic soulmates. But also like their dynamic is so awesome, cute, sweet, badass, can't-live-without-you vibes.

Basically the same way I feel about Merthur. I like reading both romantic and platonic relationships between these two characters. Like, the LiuLao fan creators peeling off the layers of this relationship and exposing every raw nerve is beautiful.

They love diving into the characters' psyche, emotions, motivations, fears, and doubts and you get really amazed because... Aren't they just characters from a video game, you ask? Well yeah, but MK video game has several interesting storylines and the Mortal Kombat 2021 movie was just the perfect jumpstarter to this beautiful blaze.

I mean, "We swore that if we were to die, it would be together"? Hell no, you're not dropping that on us and not expecting us to create our very own spin-offs and 12-page essays on that shit. That's what we fans do, baby. And also, really, we need a shaolin monks/white lotus spin-off/prequel. We're starving here.

As this ship is the newest one on my list, it's the one I'm looking forward to the most. Not enough fan content, I tell you. Not enough. One of these days, I just might add my own.

But right now, it's past 1 and so I shall attempt to sleep.

***No images for TimKon and LiuLao coz apparently I've gone past my 10-images allowance 😤

[c-c-cherry]

Bucci Gang Headcanons!!!

I’m not really one to usually post this kind of stuff, but these are some lil headcanons my pal @jjadegreen and I have come up with while stuck in the same house during the quarantine!! 

These literally range from *probably would happen* to *fucking crack* so y’all have been warned...

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Giorno is one of those people that has a secret sweet-tooth. Like. An insane one where if he actually decides to indulge in it he cannot fucking stop. 

When he does go overboard, it’s usually because Bruno got his favourite ice cream flavour from the store and it’s always at some ungodly hour of the night.

He usually blames it on Mista somehow. Accidentally ate the entire tub of ice cream at 3am? No biggie. Just put the spoon on Mista’s bedside table while he’s asleep! 

Everyone blames Mista for it EVERY TIME and now he’s not allowed to eat any ice cream when they buy it. Mista thinks it’s the Sex Pistols because he swears he doesn’t remember doing it. 

Giorno just sits there like *sweats* “yeah uh no it had to be Mista, right? There’s definitely no one else it could be, right? Right??”

One time Abbacchio caught him in the act at like 4am and they have yet to bring it up.

He would spill Giorno’s big secret, but he really likes to see Mista suffer.

Narancia wears skirts sometimes and it’s not a big deal. He vibes, they all just vibe. No toxic masculinity here. 

Narancia is genuinely afraid of those “IF YOU DO NOT SEND TO 10 PEOPLE THIS WILL APPEAR AT THE END OF YOUR BED AT 3AM” emails.

One time he couldn’t do it because Bruno took his phone away and he sat in bed all night fucking trembling in fear of what chain mail monster would eat his face off this time.

Abbacchio hates geese. No one knows why. Not even Bruno.

Narancia’s real stand name IS Aerosmith, but he’s dead set on calling it Lil’ Bomber because “that’s his rapper name.”

Mista is lactose intolerant but he doesn’t know because he just thinks it’s normal to feel excruciating pain when you eat ice cream. 

“Like how pineapples hurt your mouth when you eat them.” -Mista probably

Bruno literally had to take him to the hospital one night because he inhaled too much ice cream and would not stop throwing up and Mista was like “wait this doesn’t happen to you??”

Trish hates butterflies because *fun fact!* butterflies often feed on not only nectar and fruit, but DECAYING CORPSES of animals! 

When she was a kid, she was walking in some alleyway and ran into a dead animal covered in butterflies. One landed on her arm and she fucking screamed. She will never look at them the same ever again...

Giorno loves to make things into butterflies when they all spend time together, and Trish literally has to suppress a shudder every time one goes near her.

Fugo is one of those people that is basically not afraid of anything, but when a fucking bee comes near him he will LOSE IT. He’s one of those people that will have to get up and run away from a bee when it flies near him.

If you tell him that it will leave him alone if he stops moving, he will punch you.

Giorno likes to make shit into bees sometimes just to fuck with him

Bruno does not like dogs. It probably stems from some childhood experience that went sour, but he does not care. He will be stone-faced during any mission or situation, but if a dog tries to jump up and greet him he will freak. The fuck. Out.

One time Narancia and Mista brought home a dog from the streets and mama Bruno was like “NOPE” and zipped himself out of existence.

Abbacchio found him locked in the closet under the stairs when he got home and made them get rid of it.

Leone was more of a cat person anyway.

Abbacchio eats raw pasta.

Fugo plays chess with himself. When Giorno joins the team he’s like “ugh finally an intellectual” but Giorno has literally never seen a fucking chess board in his life and is too scared to tell Fugo so he just keeps making up excuses as to why he doesn’t “have time” to play chess with him today.

Mista doesn’t shower but he has a BOMB-ass face-care routine. Even Trish is jealous. His face? Baby soft? Ten out of ten. The rest of him? Axe body spray out of ten.

Narancia went through a goth phase pre-canon. Abbacchio was not happy because Bruno kept referring to him as “little Abba” but he let Narancia use his good lipstick anyway.

Mista found his special hat in a street gutter on a rainy day and it matched his sweater so he decided to just keep it. Abbacchio does Trish’s makeup. They go to Sephora together. I don’t make the rules.

Giorno never really told anyone (besides Bruno) that he got his stand naturally so they all assume he got it from Polpo’s lighter and when he mentioned something off-hand about “when I was a kid Gold and I…” everyone’s just like “bitch hold up-”

Abbacchio wears coloured contacts and his ass literally cannot see without them. 

Yes they are expensive as fuck. He blows half his pay-check on them every month. 

One time he lost them right before a mission so he had to pull out his heavy prescription glasses from like 8th grade. They literally looked like this.

I think you can imagine the outcome

Growing up, Giorno only listened to three songs. 

The only reason he had access to these songs was because he found a really old Walkman on the side of the road when he was wandering around once. The tape only had three songs on it; Dancing Queen, It's Raining Men, and some song by Mozart. These were the three songs of Giorno’s childhood. 

He still has it and likes to listen to the tape when he gets sad

Narancia doesn’t know what a period is. Neither does Mista. 

Bruno forces everyone into the living room after overhearing this and makes them all watch one of those really awkward sex-ed videos from the 90s (you know the ones)

It was one of the worst days of their lives

They still have the tape and Narancia sometimes slips it in the VHS player when they all least expect it just to fuck with everyone

Bruno once held a capo meeting at their house (biggest mistake of his life) and all you could heard blasting through the walls of the other room was “YoUr bOdy MiGht Be gOiNg tHrOuGh sOmE cHaNgEs, fOr eXaMpLe yOuR P-”

On that note, Giorno was definitely that one kid who took notes during Sex-Ed

Abbacchio listens to Avril Lavigne

Giorno shaves his arms. It kind of started by accident but now he literally cannot stop or else his arms will look completely fucked up

Bruno has sensitive teeth. He can’t drink water that’s too cold cause it hurts his mouth. Abbacchio makes him tea :)

Fugo plays piano to help him with his anger. He would say that he plays saxophone too, but it’s more like violently screeching into the mouthpiece instead of actually playing it.

Narancia thinks that lesbian is a nationality

Even though Giorno lived in Japan for just a couple years, he’s still pretty fluent in the language because his mother would only speak Japanese to him growing up

The gang has no idea that Giorno is Japanese and when a foreigner is struggling Giorno just swoops in with perfect Japanese and they’re all just really confused.

Giorno doesn’t cry during movies or TV shows, but he’s one of those people who fucking BAWLS during video game credits

Mista and Narancia beat Ocarina of Time together and Giorno was watching from the sidelines and AS SOON as the credits started rolling there were tears.

When KK Slider starts to sing in Animal Crossing New Horizons and your character is brought into a music void and the credits start rolling he tears up just a little bit

Mista is squeamish around dead bugs. Not live ones. Dead ones and solely dead ones

Mista and Trish go thrifting. Mista goes to check the pockets of clothes for spare cash (cause he’s a broke bitch) and Trish goes to buy clothes

Everyone thinks that Mista doesn’t change his clothes but he actually just buys like 7 of the same outfit

Mista sneezes like a white sports dad. You know the sneeze.

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Bonus Bruabba shit because Jade and I always go fucking HARD when talking about our local mafia dads:

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Bruno ties up the little strings on Abbacchio’s tiddy shirt every morning.

They got promise rings. Leone’s trying to find a nice time to actually propose but the gang keeps fucking it up every time they try to go on a nice date together

Bruno and Leone watch thunderstorms together

-The rest of the bucci gang stay inside and play monopoly or something when’s its stormy but these two bring out blankets and sit on the front porch and just be all soft and shit watching the lightning light up the sky and listening to the rain on the roof above them.

Bucciarati and Abbacchio have been mistaken as the following: 

Bruno as a woman and Abbacchio as a man. Abbacchio as a woman and Bruno as a man. Two lesbians. But never an actual gay couple.

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Yeah so I have no idea what that was. These were taken from a google doc we have together that’s just all these jumbled, crack-filled headcanons just for fun. I’m sure you can sense the pure chaos in this. 

Go give my dude @jjadegreen a hello, sis made most of these!

uhhh let us know if you want any more from any other parts. Cause y’all know we probably got some. <3

[cheshasleverage]

The Nigerian Job Rewatch

Oh boy my first rewatch here we go, some of my thoughts:

First of all, where the hell is Nate? Victor finds him in what? a hotel bar? It would make sense I assume, considering Nate says he literally mortgaged his house in an attempt to get money to pay for Sam’s treatment

Whatever, moving on let's talk about how slimy Victor is. Dude needs thieves - good thieves - to steal plans from his rival company but he knows without someone to tether them in it’s a lost cause so he goes to the one dude who’s dealt with all of them. And somehow in his search for thieves, he didn’t once come across Sophie or one of her many aliases

He uses Nate's son (who apparently everyone knows about?) against him after Nate has threatened to punch his throat 10 times. Gotta hand it to him, kind of ballsy 

The camera work is a little different from later episodes, still good but there are obviously some kinks to work out and they’re trying to find the best way to shoot

Nate turning his back on Hardison, Parker, and Eliot was a neat part I think. It sets up that he's the mastermind, but it also kind of sets him apart from them as well. I’m probably thinking too much into this but he’s clearly separated himself to show that it’s just a one-time thing and to really drive home the fact that he’s an honest man and not a thief, so why should he work right next to them?

Then there’s the attempt to kill them. Hardison holding the gun sideways in an attempt to intimidate Eliot (who we learn early on can take down at least 10 guys with guns) and then Parker having her gun pushed down by Nate kind of feels like, yeah Nate’s definitely dealt with them before and treats them kind of like children, which he obviously sees them all as at first

“Do you trust me?” “Yeah, you’re an honest man.” Parker trusting Nate despite being a thief and insane, makes me think when Nate tracked her down he must’ve gone kind of soft on her, or they simply really do trust him as an honest man (plus Eliot in later episodes talks about how there are some honest men left and they shouldn’t ruin a mans honesty for a con)

Notice how Nate is suddenly working right next to them? He sits with Hardison and parker, he plays pool with Eliot, he gives Hardison a handshake. Suddenly they’re not so separated

Nate must’ve been a pretty notorious investigator for someone to go digging around that deep in his personal life. I mean, everyone - even Victor - knows about his son being denied treatment. Albeit not nitty-gritty details like it being “experimental” but still, the black market/thief world must’ve been really thrilled when Nate suddenly wasn’t working anymore and shared the news with everyone 

Showing Eliot being a little offended/caught off guard by Nate’s declaration of not being friends helps build his character as the protector of the group who really does care about the team

Also, Eliot doesn’t know Sophie either?? Surely word spreads about her??

Hardison, Parker, and Eliot all looking at Sophie to figure out wtf Nate’s cryptic messages mean

Was Nate quoting Shakespeare line for line as Sophie acted? what was he saying?

Btw they must've still been figuring out everyone’s style. Sophie, Parker, and Nate felt right, but Eliot’s coats and glasses felt weird, and Hardison’s style wasn’t quite right either

It still blows my mind how they plan the cons like Nate makes elaborate plans where it relies on Victor finding a device and then calling the FBI after making assumptions. These cons and the way it’s shot in the show so the audience doesn’t know until it’s revealed to them are really clever

“Sir, I can take your underpants”

Hardison being really really good at getting money, but then being the first to go back to Nate and tell him he liked being apart of the team because Nate kept him focused

Parker doesn’t want to retire

Eliot caring about Nate’s dive into the deep end (even if it is an excuse to work with the team again)

Nate’s chess thing coming into play by calling him a White Knight and a Black King because I know that has to do with his chess thing. But also we can see him becoming more and more of a black king

The whole crew looking like a whole ass mafia, but the parallels between the family and the crew vs the other family and the crew at the end of season 5 makes me feel things

I forgot to mention the music that starts up during the scene of Nate smashing car windows is phenomenal, I could listen to it all day

[princesssarcastia]

a veronica mars leverage au, i guess, because what else should i be doing with my life?

*deep sigh*

So I was thinking about the mechanics of a veronica mars leverage au—as in, veronica mars characters in a leverage like set-up, because the leverage setup is the golden standard™ of like, the known universe.

you have veronica mars, mastermind; the rest of the crew being made up of wallace, mac, logan, and weevil.  and mac is obviously the hacker.

but I also think that, in this au, the roles won’t be so clear cut.  the problem is that in veronica mars, all of these characters (except mac, who is an archetype) display different skills from each of the five defined roles in the leverage universe: hitter, hacker, grifter, thief, mastermind. 

veronica is a mastermind, sure, but she also makes killer fake IDs and breaks into systems like hardison does and is a hell of a grifter.

weevil can throw down, and lift things like a thief, and even pull one over on someone in a grifter-like fashion. and as head of the PCHers he has some definitive mastermind tendencies; he knows how to plan a fight, and a con.

wallace is more of a solid dude than a member of the criminal element, but when veronica needs him, he’s played roles like a grifter and pulled off lifts like a thief.

logan has a talent for violence, but also can lie like he breathes and put on shows to convince the best of them.

really i guess they all just have a little grifter in them.

if I had to had to had to give them all definitive leverage archetypes, though, it would be veronica: mastermind, logan: hitter, Weevil: thief, wallace: grifter, and of course, mac: hacker.

veronica is the mastermind because she knows all of them best, knows what they can do; because she’s capable of putting all the moving pieces together into one perfect plan; but also because she’s a control freak with maaaajior trust issues.  there’s no way she could ever let anyone else be in charge.

logan is the hitter because he’s just got that underlying current of violence about him at all times, but also because my absolute favortie scenes of his are when he’s being protective of veronica.  not that end of season three bullshit, mind you, but like the scene in season one when he rescues her from the federal agent, or the scene in season two when he bluffs his way into and out of the irish mob’s territory with an unloaded gun to save veronica.  make him the hitter and we get breathtaking violence from him, sure.  but we also get to see logan at his best: giving a damn about the well-being of others. 

weevil is the thief because this guy is smooth.  he pulled the heist at the carnival brilliantly in s2; and he stole that pen from the Kane household in s1 successfully even though the police arrested him and catalogued everything on his person, including the pen. it’s a bit of a square peg in a round hole, but I feel like he;d have comfortable knowledge of security systems and guard rotations and police jurisdictions.

wallace is the grifter because i’ve noticed that a lot of the times he asks veronica for advice on how to do stuff, its grift-related.  “how do I seduce the fake head cheerleader?” for example.  and he pulls some short term grifts for her, like when he infiltrates the silicon mafia at SD State.  also he’s got the best innate knowledge of who people are and what they’re like.  yeah, veronica can pull people apart, but Wallace is just good with them in a way she isn’t.  and also he’s got the most emotional maturity out of any of these basket cases.

mac is the hacker because she’s god’s gift to computers, duh.

what I really want, though; what any good leverage AU is an excuse to do, is to make a found family out of these losers.  imagine if these five people all...trusted and loved each other, in addition to liking one another??  i’m drooling just thinking about it.

I also think that, ironically enough, being righteous criminals in constant close contact would work wonders for veronica and logan’s relationship, lbr.  if veronica is mastermind-ing their cons, she doesn’t have to wonder what logan—or any of her other friends, for that matter—are doing, and go a little crazy to find out.  it’s an outlet for her control-freak-trust-issues.

aaaand if logan is their hitter/muscle, it’s literally his job to protect everyone, including veronica.  violently, if necessary. 

plus, they can both work out their paranoia on things that aren’t each other—cause it’s not paranoia if they’re really out to get you.

the best episodes always involved Veronica pulling her friends into cons with her; VM the show is already only a hop-skip-and-a-jump away from leverage, anyway!  solving mysteries, sure, but also getting revenge, retrieving items, getting even...providing leverage.

like, seriously.

Veronica and Wallace effortlessly pulling a grift out of their asses when they’re caught in a sticky situation, using that emotional drift comparability in their brOTP.

Mac, getting the respect and cash she deserves for finding information and recovering hard drives and also, giving her righteous side some room to move.

Logan and Weevil sniping at each other, maybe having not-so-faux fights as distractions or part of a con— but having each other’s backs.  playing partners in macho stoicism even though we all know they’re softies sometimes.

Wallace and Mac, standing to the side as exasperated captains of the maturity and stability team while Logan and Veronica share a dumpster fire.

Veronica and Weevil doing that thing, you know, where they’re kind of flirting and kind of pulling one over on their audience and pulling each other out of messes.

Wallace, prince among men, getting to play the handsome and charming credit to his gender he is.  imagine, if you will, him pulling honey-trap cons on marks like sophie deveraux did.  i am and it’s delightful.

the worst part about canon!VM is how much they all (veronica.  largely veronica) tore one another down; betrayed people; didn’t trust them; hurt them; expected the worst and got it in self-fulfilling bullshit.  imagine if all of that went away and then write it for me pleeeaaaseee

i’ve been brainstorming and like, there’s two paths you could go.  one is a complete graft to the leverage fusion, in which they never actually went to high school together but instead are professional criminals who all grew into their own on their own and came together.  in this path, we’d come in on our anti-heroes already in the thick of it—or at least, having deep histories together that allow them to trust one another right away.

the other is like, veronica falls to the “dark side” in high school and drags them all with her, handing out black hats as she goes. perhaps in a world where Aaron Echolls gets acquitted and Duncan Kane does not have an assassin at the ready to avenge his sister outside the law, where Veronica literally can’t sleep at the thought of him out there.  a world where Logan and Weevil have that same insomnia, and Mac and Wallace care about Veronica enough to help. 

and maybe it starts out as just a way to get new evidence so a judge can declare a retrial and get Aaron convicted; but ohhh, Aaron Echolls is not a man who can leave well enough alone.  He’s a rich, powerful, attention seeking mother fucker who likes to taunt logan and veronica about what he did to lily.  so even though it’s not Duncan paying for him to get assassinated, the end result is the same: Aaron dead as a doornail, like he deserves.

Maybe it’s a fake suicide, like Veronica planned out for her criminology course, the literal perfect crime.  Maybe he gets murdered and dumped on Lamb’s doorstep with an audio recording of him confessing—edited by Mac, of course, to make sure Veronica and Logan’s parts in the charade weren’t included.

also i’d like to think that, in this world where they wear black hats to better play white knights, Veronica and Logan have just...the best-worst reputation.  Yeah, they melt around each other, but ho-ly shit they’re still lethal—especially if you put one in danger.   Maybe Logan’s got a reputation as an attack dog, and maybe Veronica’s got a reputation as holding his leash, and maybe they’ve proven they’re willing to do anything to keep each other safe.  Maybe, they made a deal, a long time ago when they started out: Veronica gets to get into anything she wants, whatever crusade is currently pushing her buttons, as long as she brings Logan along to protect her. 

their story is epic, after all.

anyway! In Conclusion, tl;dr, someone please stop me from having veronica mars feelings, and if leverage could please stop being the best found family ever, that would probably help.

[pretty-in-roses]

Brutal and Benevolent

WARNING: BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF GRAPHIC VIOLENCE

Summary: In a world where soulmates feel each other's pain y/n is sure her soulmate hates her for all the pain she's put them through and her life is too dangerous for a soulmate, she is praying to God they won't find her. Jungkook on the other hand wants nothing but to find his soulmate that's constantly getting hurt, all he wants to do is protect them. What happens when a college student and mafia leaders world's collide? Will their relationship survive?

Soulmate AU + Mafia AU

Chapter 3: The Shared pain

"Hobi, don't let them out of your sight," Y/n says pointing to Jungkook, Jimin and Taehyung.

"Will do, boss," Hoseok replies, the once cheery man now serious. 

"Yoongi you're with me" she points to Yoongi gesturing for him to follow her out.

"Wait what's going on?" Jungkook asks, looking around. 

"A raid" she answers as if it’s plain as day. 

"What do you mean by a raid?” Jungkook can sense the tension in the room. 

"Raid as in, it's none of your business" she scoffs walking past him, Jungkook reaches out to grab her upper arm to confront her but as his fingers wrap around her arm she has her gun out and digging into his stomach. Before he can fully comprehend the gravity of the situation, Hoseok grabs her by the arms and wrenches her away from Jungkook while Yoongi takes a hold of her and steers her out of the room. Namjoon follows behind but not before exchanging looks with Seokjin and Hoseok. 

"Hoseok, Was she about to shoot me?" Jungkook’s voice just above a whisper, bewilderment and the slightest bit of terror running through his body makes Hoseok cringe.

"No, she would never hurt you, she's just had a rough night and we lost some people so just give her some time to cool off" Seokjin answers smoothly, 

"Right" Jungkook sighs and he can feel the headache coming on as his thoughts raced. Hoseok seeing him overthinking quickly changes the subject.

"Dude just call me Hobi and how about we go check out the movie room at the mansion? Trust me you're going to fucking love it" Hoseok grips Jungkooks shoulder pushing him out the room, 

"Jin, are you coming along too?" Jimin who has been quiet through the entire interaction speaks up.

"Well, I can't fit 5 people in my car," Hobi voices. Taehyung snorts at the obliviousness of that comment. 

"I'll take them and you go to the supermarket to grab some snacks" Seokjin replies giving Hoseok a knowing look. 

"Perfect, I'll meet you at the mansion. anything specific you want, get Jin to flick me a text" They all nod, as Hoseok pushes the down button on the elevator and it dings as it opens, they all step in. It’s quiet but not awkward so not wanting to break the silence Jungkook opts to enjoy the scenery. It dings at the underground car park, Hoseok walks towards his car.

"That's my car" Seokjin is pointing to a sleek blue BMW. 

"What the hell Seokjin? How come everyone has expensive cars?" Jimin asks, bewildered, seeing Hobi climbing in his Lamborghini.

"You can just call me Jin, also I'm a doctor so I get paid a seven-figure salary, trust me I can afford it" chuckling, he climbs in gesturing for Jimin, Jungkook and Taehyung to do the same. Taehyung is uncharacteristically quiet, Jungkook wants to ask him but he knows it’s better left for when they’re alone.

"Was she really gonna shoot me?" a shiver runs down Jungkook's spine as he remembers the feeling of the gun pressing into his stomach. 

"She would do anything to protect the people she cares about and she was just on edge from last night, once you get to know her more, she'll trust you, things will get better between you two just bear with us," Jin reassures pleadingly, Jungkook nods in understanding. 

“What happened last night?” Jungkook asks, remembering the situation. 

"Didn't you hear the commotion?" Jin looks at Jungkook in disbelief.

"Uh no I was pretty tired last night" Jungkook laughs rubbing the back of his neck in embarrassment.

"Well we were attacked, it was the gang that attacked you guys and almost got into the house too but we handled it. Y/n is going to go remind them why they’re not to mess with us" Jin’s knuckles turn white as he grips the steering wheel tighter recalling the events of last night.

"Who are they?" Jimin inquiries curiously. 

"Our biggest rival gang they call themselves the reapers or some shit and the members have this ugly as tattoos of the grim reaper on their throats" he finishes scoffing at the thought of them. Jungkooks brows furrow, he has a feeling that he knows what Jin’s talking about but before he can think further they pull into the garage in the house and step out of the car. They follow Jin up the stairs and to the movie room. There’s a nagging feeling in the back of Jungkook’s brain and he can't seem to let go of it.

"Welcome to the movie room, any requests?" Jin announces as we enter a room with a projector and a huge screen. 

"Surely a marvel movie marathon" Taehyung finally speaks up, once Hobi arrives they set themselves up with blankets and snacks as the movie starts yet the nagging feeling remains. As the movie comes to an end Jungkook stands up to grab more popcorn but suddenly pain erupts from the back of his head and he falls onto his knees, feeling nauseous like he’s about to blackout. Jungkook groans in pain which has everyone on their feet, rushing to him. Jimin is the first to reach him, he kneels in front of Jungkook. Jungkook sees his lips moving but he can’t hear anything. Jin kneels next to Jimin and they both lift Jungkook into the chair nearby. Jin examines Jungkook and he's speaking frantically to Hoseok, Jungkook still can't comprehend anything that's happening around him. He sees Hoseok leave the room frantically typing on his phone and Jin is trying to get Jungkook to focus. Jungkook can feel his vision focusing on Jin and the white noise is slowly dissipating 

"Jungkook…..focus…...I…...listen……. happened" the ringing won’t subside.

"What" Jungkook's garbled response makes Jin grasp his arm tightly.

"Is she in danger? I need you to tell me what you feel" he insists, Jungkooks brain hurts so much as he’s trying to focus. 

"I think she's in danger" Jungkook moans out in pain.

"Hoseok!" Jin yells.

"She's not answering her phone. GOD DAMNIT" he yells kicking the chair out of frustration. 

"I can track her phone, show me Yoongi's set up" Taehyung demands from beside me,

"This isn't like a movie ya know, this shits serious" Jimin speaks up. 

"I know that dumbass" Taehyung bites out, standing up and looking at Hoseok who is gesturing to follow him out the door.

"I’m coming with you" Jungkook stands up and white pain floods his body but he pushes past it holding on to Jin for balance. 

"I just want to know that she's safe" Jungkook pleads as they're about to interject. 

"Fine, let's go," decides Hoseok. They walk downstairs and next to the office is a room with a huge computer set up with all sorts of tech pieces surrounding it. Jungkook has no time to even think about it as Taehyung takes a seat in the chair in front of the monitor and starts typing, beginning the process of looking for Y/n. 

"This might take a while, I'm a bit out of practice" he confesses as they all gather around the computer anxious to find her whereabouts. The tension in the room from the building anxiety can be cut with a knife. Jungkook can feel his mind becoming less foggy but the pain is still prominent. After what seems like a lifetime Taehyung breaks the silence cheering in victory.

"YES! I found her!" He points to the map on the screen where her phone was last functioning and it's like everything is moving in slow motion as Jungkook processes the address over and over again, trying to comprehend it. 

"Are you sure that this is the address?" Jungkook is praying he read it wrong or something

"Yeah I'm positive" Taehyung insists, Jungkook reacts without thinking and grabs him by the collar of his shirt and yells.

"Are you fucking certain? Check again!" Taehyung makes no move to remove himself from Jungkook's grasp.

"Jungkook, calm down, breathe" Jin wrenches Taehyung out of Jungkook's iron grip, Jungkook's knuckles white and his face must have been as well because they all look ready to catch him if he collapses. 

"Jk, what's wrong?" Jimin questions, Jungkook feels as if the walls are closing in, his head feels like it's going to implode and the nagging voice has returned and multiplied in volume. 

"Please tell me this isn't the address of the people that are trying to kill me" Jungkook beggs desperately as his breathing gets uneven by the minute.

"It is, why?" Hoseok sighs knowing that there's something coming. Jungkook can feel their eyes on him as Jungkook is staring at his hands, flexing his fingers to get some sort of grip on reality. He can feel bile rising,

"Because that's my family home" 

The ringing in Y/n's ears is deafening, black all she sees is black and her head is pounding. One minute she is standing, the next pain explodes from the back of her head and she's gone, getting dragged away god knows where. Y/n can feel the dryness of her throat as she pries her eyes open to take in the surroundings, everything is blurry but she's able to make out a trolley filled with tools like pliers as well as a hammer. She can feel the ropes digging into her skin as she maneuvers around looking for Yoongi. She looks over to see Yoongi coming to, he groans out in pain and clears his throat before speaking up.

"You okay, boss?" Yoongi shifts uncomfortably.

"I'm fine" Y/n rasps out before testing her bindings and Yoongi tests his too. 

"How are we playing this?" He whispers, looking around for any sort of clue as to what's happening.

"Let's slow play it, I want to see where this goes" Y/n whispers back looking straight ahead at the concrete wall that's covered in unknown stains. She sighs as she catches the scent of blood and mould creating a nauseating environment. 

"Getting impatient?" Yoongi smirks at her apparent boredom.

"My head is killing me and I desperately need a drink, maybe 10" she chuckles along with him and the door jingles before slamming open, bathing the room in blinding white light as the overhanging light bulb switches on. Yoongi and Y/n flinched from the brightness and the man steps into view laughing.

"So you're the bitch carving up my territory huh" he spits getting in Y/n's face, She glares at him . 

"It's surprisingly hard to get to you, people are terrified of you and I don't know why you don't look that scary. You look like some common bitch." He smiles menacingly, attempting to be scary. 

"Why don't you untie me and I'll fucking show you when I beat you to death with my bare fucking hands you piece of shit" Y/n threatens leaning forward in the chair, glowering. 

"Big talk for little girl" he growls, grabbing her by her hair and yanking her head back. She hisses in pain making the man erupt in laughter. The grip he has on her hair loosens as Yoongi interrupts his laughter spitting out insults giving Y/n enough time to smash her head into his nose and the sickening crunch of the bones breaking fills the room and he stumbles backwards from surprise yelling out in pain. 

"YOU FUCKING WHORE" He howls, his nose gushing with blood as he stalks forward and throws his fist into the side of Y/n's face. The impact throws her onto the floor and He kicks her in the stomach and she spits the blood that's gathering in her mouth from the blows. The door slams open again and the sound of multiple boots coming in pulls the man away from her, they exchange words but the ringing in Y/n's ears from the beating prevents her from hearing any of it. someone pulls her upright as she spits out more blood. She can see Yoongi yelling and she notices the slight glisten of a knife in his hand working at the bindings before he is punched to keep him quiet. Y/n tugs at her ropes and feels it has loosened

"Follow my lead" she gives Yoongi a slight nod, whispering. 

"So this is the infamous leader of the Hwarang clan" a man steps into her line of sight, he's wearing a crisp white suit and a mocking smile. 

"I'm the leader of the-" the mysterious man tries to introduce himself but Y/n interrupts him.

"I'm aware of who you are, you attacked my house last night and killed my men. I'm here to return the favor" she looks him in the eyes, menace swimming in hers and the amusement glistening in his is as clear as day, he bursts out in laughter. 

"So I hear you have found your soulmate huh, who knew that someone like you could love. Would be a shame if something were to happen to him" Y/n's heart seizes in her chest, fury clouds her mind as her thoughts are closed with images of Jungkook getting hurt. She realizes now that Hoseok was right, there's no backing out now, Jungkook is too involved. She knows what has to be done as He gets in her face to gloat at the realization he's finally gotten under her skin but before he could say anything else an explosion shakes the room. It's enough of a distraction for Y/n to release herself from her bindings and Yoongi does the same. They both stand, ready to fight. Yoongi goes for the bodyguard and Y/n goes for the leader, she tackles him to the ground delivering blow after blow. The sound of his bones cracking under the onslaught of punches fills the room and all the noise around her fades. She sees red, knowing that as long as this man is alive Jungkook would not be safe. Before she is able to land any more hits, the door slams open and hands grip her and haul her off the man. In her fury, she whirl around throwing a punch at the person grabbing her and Hoseok is quick to block her fist while two more wraps around her, restraining her. 

"Calm down, love" Jungkook shushes her and he can feel her body stiffen. It takes a moment but she finally relaxes in his hold, his warmth soothes her rage. He picks her up bridal style, she would be embarrassed if it weren't for the mild concussion coming on. They climb into the car ready to leave and let her men take care of the rest. As the car starts moving she finally looks up at Jungkook and she notices his jaw is clenched, his eyes look furious and distraught. The adrenaline is finally wearing off and the pain returns ten folds. She throws her head back moaning in pain, snapping Jungkook out of his thoughts and he hands her a bottle of water, she scoffs at the sight of it. 

"What?" His brows furrowed in confusion and concern. 

"Get me a stiffer drink, I think I deserve it after all that" she replies, closing her eyes and resting her head on the headrest.

"No you're dehydrated, drink it will make you feel better and I have some painkillers until we can get to the house and Jin can look at you." She takes the painkillers and water with little protest. Her head feels fuzzy but the cool water relieves her dry throat. She leans into Jungkook feeling his warmth envelop her, he wraps his arm around her pulling her closer as she drifts off.

[vios-rockland-corner]

RoR Article 2: Help Callum

To make things easier on myself, I’m splitting up my thoughts on the Rumors of Rockland second article.  I already gave an overview of this game.  Here, I’ll cover whatever random thoughts and observations I had for the events that occur when you choose to help Callum.

[Major spoilers below for Rumors of Rockland Article 2]

First surprise here, Callum can actually hold his own.  Have to admit, wasn’t really expecting that (dude kind of looked sickly in older sprites). Well honestly, I wasn’t exactly expecting the MC to be capable of driving off the drunk dudes themselves unless they were going to threaten to call 911.  More like…I didn’t know what to expect.  Since it was now 2-on-2, was the MC suddenly going to start throwing down? I just didn’t see it happening. No, turns out Callum was quite capable of taking these guys out by himself.  

What I love about this though is that the minute the MC enters the scene, Callum actually goes into protection mode.  He may genuinely have not been afraid of these guys from the start and thought it was even funny to see them riled up.  He’s initially holding back his laughter when the two guys are initially antagonizing him and only got a little serious when they brought Whesker’s name up. Between the first two articles, Callum’s now shown concern for people like Avery, Whesker and the MC.  The MC isn’t even someone he’s close to yet. Maybe I’m calling this a little too early, but Callum might just be a nice and well-meaning guy.  There are certainly a lot of dangerous characters in Rockland, but so far nothing to suggest anything sinister about Callum whatsoever.

Getting back to the scene, I kind of found it adorable that the MC rushing in flips a switch for Callum. It was like he was going, “Hey, woah woah woah.  These guys are a joke, but seriously I don’t want anyone getting hurt now.”  So his playtime had to end.  Otherwise, he seems like he’s pretty goofy and relaxed most of the time.

By the way, who else took a good look at that CG of Callum giving a good kick?  If you look in the background, you can actually see the silhouette of a person.  SOMEONE saw that whole altercation go down, but didn’t interrupt.  We can’t be sure though if the MC hadn’t been there, if this person would have come down to assist Callum instead.  Might not have been someone concerned about Callum (just watching out of curiosity).  In the “Do Nothing” path, Callum does not even mention what happened outside when he goes to talk to Avery (but he doesn’t act frazzled at all).

A curious thing about the silhouette though is that it’s very reminiscent of the drawings seen in the “Nightmare Realized” teaser game for the Misfits.  Coincidence?  We do even see Sydney show up in the “Do Nothing” path.  Was he the one watching and came to help out Callum if the MC doesn’t help in anyway?  Sydney did mention helping his friends, but whether that’s related to Callum or something else, I’m not sure.  Callum is Quill’s brother, but we don’t have evidence yet that Sydney and Callum are friends with one another.

Moving on, it seems Callum is quite similar to Quill when it comes to being very chatty and dropping names like crazy.  Must be a Willow thing (wonder if the parents are like that too).  Callum gives you a lot of interesting information though, but it differs vastly depending on what person you’re most interesting in asking about.

If you ask about Sergio, you learn that the town is basically run by the IRISH MAFIA. That…explains a whole lot.  Prior to this, I had theorized that some of the crime syndicates may have some pull with finances and politics of Rockland when I was trying to think about how the Professionals could operate for so long without repercussions.  I believe this might sum it up pretty well.  It’s kind of funny how normal Callum treats the matter too.  I mean, I appreciate that the mafia aren’t racists and try to keep some order (mafia is indeed ORGANIZED crime).  That’s always nice.  Still…it is a mafia.  Not only does that mean that people in Rockland might not want to get a swelled head for justice around these parts, but crime is still crime.  We don’t know yet what kind of illegal activities the mafia does yet.  Could be just a lot of theft and forgery.  Or perhaps there is a lot of murder and human trafficking behind the scenes.

This also explains why a lot of the characters in Rockland have Irish accents.  Before these games, I knew a couple of the characters like Trevor and Roy were Irish.  Apparently Whesker has an accent too.  I genuinely just thought it was just a foreign type the creators’ favored.  But there’s actually more meaning to having numerous Irish characters in Rockland now.  It also means if you come across someone in Rockland with an Irish accent…maybe do your best to stay on their good side.  Just in case.

Wait a minute…Roy is Irish (or at least he was)…That either could be just a coincidence, or there might be something interesting later down the road about that.  Is he linked to one of the Irish mafia families in anyway? If so, did he cut ties and is in opposition?  Or is he actually still part of that group too?  If it’s the latter, that would mean the police force in Rockland IS under the mafia’s thumb too.  We won’t know this I think until much later though.  Like I said, could also just be a coincidence that he’s Irish (if he still is). Not all Irish people know each other. It’s more likely though in such a small and tight nit town like Rockland.

If you ask about Scarlet, then you just get some fun image in your head of family gatherings for holidays. Cute but what I really want to focus on here is that BEASTKIN ARE OFFICIALLY MENTIONED IN GAME FOR THE FIRST TIME!  I know there are probably several people who are excited about that.  It’s officially our first supernatural element introduced if you don’t include the Zeitgeist demo.  Now we don’t know a lot about beastkin, just that they’re around.  Both Scarlet and Foal are beastkin, but you probably wouldn’t be able to tell Foal is one at a quick glance.  They can have tails (though unfortunately some had their tails cut off), but we don’t know what other kind of physical aspects usually manifest.  With Foal, she has darker skin and white hair.  The darker skin isn’t really a giveaway, but the white hair might be.  I had figured she just dyed it or something, but it’s possible that’s her natural hair color.

If you’re trying to make a beastkin OC for Rockland, not much I could say yet for what is fair game in canon.  Just tails and possible hair color at the moment can give their beast status away. We don’t know anything about abilities yet.   I feel like we’re also going to be focusing on the more human elements of Rockland for the most part.  The beastkin are around, but not the main theme here.  Still nice to know it’s an existing element though.

If you ask about Jett, you learn Callum and Avery play music.  On the website, the Callum and Avery are indeed listed under “The Band” section.  This was more foreshadowing I believe for a future “Battle of the Bands” themed game. Fun, but not much else I feel I need to comment on here.  

After talking with Callum so long, I can’t be certain to say you gain full friendship status with him in this route, but you’re definitely on some pretty good terms now.  Avery probably appreciates hearing that you went to help Callum, but otherwise he’s more occupied with his troubled thoughts in this situation rather than getting to know you better.  You probably have earned good points with Avery here, but not nearly as much as if you do the “Get Help” route where you get much more conversation time with him.

Since you let Callum go after Avery though, Foal seemed to appreciate the choice and you get some positive interaction with her.  So points earned there too.

In the end, choosing to help Callum yourself gets you in good with Callum of course, and a slightly better reputation with Avery and Foal.  Not bad.  I can’t be certain if you’ve earned brownie points as well from the person who was watching in the CG because I don’t know if they were looking out for Callum’s safety or just looking for a show.

[monsieur-fancy-hat]

How abt an AU where dazai and chuuya are in the mafia together and atsushi and akutagawa are in the ADA

Send me some characters and an AU for me to write headcanons/prompts for.

Ended up rewriting this like twice but I hope you enjoy!!

Some parts of it were taken from the canon BSD AU light novel, BEAST.

Ages during the backstory:

Akutagawa Ryuunosoke- 11 or 12

Nakajima Atsushi- 8 or 9

Akutagawa Gin- 8 or 9

Dazai Osamu- 16 or 17

Nakahara Chuuya- 16 or 17

Odasaku- 20 or 21

Let’s start with Akutagawa and Atsushi’s backstory!!

Akutagawa and Gin have a mother. She abused them, because she believed that she had to work three times harder to take care of them as she was a single mom. She also hated the kids for looking so eeriely like the fathers (cause half-siblings).

So after a while, Akutagawa and Gin fun away from home. They take as much cash as they feel comfortable with, take important belongings (weapons), a coat given to Akutagawa by his father, and other necessities.

The end up in the slums for a while, before an orphanage takes them in. They’re far away enough from their mother that it’s pretty much safe. But the orphanage learns about the mother and stuff. And they decide that maybe they should go into the foster care system? The orphanage isn’t sure right now, so they just let the kids stay.

So Akutagawa and Gin stay at the orphanage. They’re kinda loners, cause they don’t talk to people besides themselves. Some kids believe that Gin is mute (so they make fun of her) and Akutagawa -even at the delicate age of 12- has a death glare that makes grown adults run. So he uses it o the bullies. And if he’s not around... well, Gin has her way of taking care of things (stabby stabby).

But one day, this mysterious guy talks to Akutagawa. This mysterious man starts talking ‘nonsense’ about special powers and stuff. He also explains that Akutagawa might have some.

Akutagawa doesn’t believe the mysterious guy.

But a week later Gin was cornered in a alley by a college kid, who was trying to do.... non-consenting inappropriate things to her. And Gin, being Gin, had a knife out and was about to stabby stabby, when this random kid jumps on the college dude.

And he starts trying to hang onto the college guy by his neck and yelling for help

And Gin is just stand there wondering what the heck is going on

The orphanage staff rush into the alley to see a white-haired kid biting a college dude (who is still trying to shake him off) and a little girl, who kinda looks like a ninja, slipping what they think looks like a knife into a pocket.

They bring the police to arrest the college dude.

Everyone is wondering why he has cat-like scratches on his back and tiger bites on his neck.

Gin is interested by the white haired kid (which, you know, Atsushi) and brings him to join her tiny friend group.

Akutagawa, not a huge fan of him...

And apparently, neither are the orphanage staff.

Atsushi’s 8 or 9, Gin is 8 or 9, and Akutagawa is around 12.

Akutagawa and Gin get the least abused by the staff, cause they are great at not getting into trouble.

I mean, Gin was scolded a couple times for the incidents (“You shouldn’t have run off on your own! And if you’re gonna run away, then don’t come back!!”). But that’s pretty much it.

Atsushi, on the other hand.... let’s just say that the staff have some problems with him.

Gin (and sometimes Akutagawa) usually patch Atsushi up though, so he’s not alone!

They become decently good friends. Woohoo!

But Akutagawa starts thinking that Atsushi is secretly a tiger. Cause bite marks. Also cause he heard rumors that there was a white tiger around the orphanage grounds.

So he meets up with the mysterious guy, and tries to get some answers. Cause he wouldn’t want Gin to be hanging out with someone who could hurt her. That’s a no-no.

Sadly, mysterious guy hasn’t heard about this either. So... oof.

So one night, Akutagawa gets waken up by something crashing outside.

He puts on his coat and decides to go check it out, correctly thinking it’s the tiger.

Atsushi-tiger (he’s a baby tiger, just so ya know), seeing Akutagawa, goes to attack him.

And Akutagawa hears someone shout “Use your ability!!”

Akutagawa is kinda confused, and kinda angry, so he just says the first thing that comes to mind (He remembers that when he was younger, really really young, his father would show him how he sewed cloth together. How many shades of black you could use, and all the different styles. Mr. Akutagawa showed his son one of his favorite pieces, a black coat. He named it Rashomon. Cause I need this story to make a bit of sense.)

“RASHOUMON!”

Boom

Parts of his coat fly towards the tiger, trapping him.

But it can’t hold him for long, and Atsushi springs right back at him.

But mystery guy comes in the middle of them, and activates his ability.

“No longer human.”

In a flash of white light, Atsushi is found on one side, laying face-down bottom-up on the floor.

Akutagawa was standing on the other side.

Mystery guy offered Akutagawa a place to belong. A place to go home to. He even said Gin & Atsushi could come, if Akutagawa wanted.

And Akutagawa doesn’t know what to think.

Thankfully, he doesn’t have to, cause ANOTHER MYSTERY GUY COMES OVER

He has dark red hair, and a beige trench coat.

And he seems to recognize mystery guy #1.

“Dazai, is that you?” “Oh! Hi there Oda! Isn’t this a surprise. I’ll be taking the kids and leaving now, if you don’t mind!”

Yup. It’s Dazai and Oda!

Also, FYI, Oda does mind. Cause Dazai left the A.D.A. a couple months ago and no one has had any contact with him ever since.

Oda is upset and wants Dazai to come back. And Dazai... doesn’t give a damn.

They have a standoff-staredown.

And while they do that, Akutagawa goes over to Atsushi to check if he’s alive and okay.

Dazai and Oda fight, but Dazai can’t bring himself to kill Oda and leaves alone.

Which leaves Oda with an uncounsious Atsushi and a tired Akutagawa.

Oda decides that he should take these kids in. So he goes to the orphanage the next day and adopts Atsushi.

And Atsushi is sad cause he thinks he’ll be separated from Gin and Akutagawa.

Which is oof.

But Oda ends up fostering the Akutagawa’s.

So he just ends up with 3 more kids. Woohoo!! And the other kids too, but they’re all younger than them (3-4 at the time).

So Oda has his hands VERY full. Too nice.

He brings them to the A.D.A.

And Kunikida scolds Oda cause “You were supposed to be looking for that bandaged idiot! Not going around taking in more kids!!”.

But Oda interrupts him and says, “I talked to Dazai.”

And everyone goes quiet for a minute. Cause if Oda spoke to Dazai and he still won’t come back, it’s over.

Dazai has defected from the Armed Dectetive Agency.

Oda spends his time training Atsushi and Akutagawa. They’re both young and a bit confused about what’s going on (“What the... I’M A TIGER?!” “Yes, Jinko, we know.”)

But they all get along quite well, so yay!

The trio grow up together, and they eventually become official members of the A.D.A. Gin is an assistant.

She, Naomi, and Haruno become friends. Gin is still closest to Atsushi though.

And that’s their [back]story.

But now... it’s time for Dazai’s!

So, Dazai & Oda went to school together. Dazai had a not-so-great home life, so moved away at 16.

He lived by himself for a month or two, living off weird part-time jobs. Due to his smarts, he managed to skip two grades. So he’s a freshman in college. I think.

And Oda is in his third year of college.

Dazai lived at the school dorms, cause he got a full-ride scholarship. Cause smart.

Dazai has known about his powers for a while. Some weird doctor guy went to him and tried to get him to join some mafia thing, but Oda advises him to not.

So he doesn’t. But he is interested.

Dazai & Oda end up in the A.D.A.

And Oda has a great time there. He likes the people. He has fun. It’s great.

But Dazai... nope. He hates it. He can’t suicide attempt without someone being there to stop him, he can’t wear bandages without being sent to Yosano to get a check up, he can’t even be gone for a day without being chased down by Kunikida or Oda, wondering where the he’ll he’s been.

Dazai is bored and sick of the A.D.A.

So he leaves.

After a huge argument with Oda, Dazai leaves. And Mori, predicting this would happen, appeared to say “I told you so.”

And so Dazai, at the young age of 16, is taken in by the Port Mafia.

And he’s pretty good at it too!

He loves playing mind games and doing interrogations and killing people who NEVER SEE IT COMING~ (sorry, wrong fandom-) and just being evil~

A couple months later, he’s on track to become a executive. He’s already a sub-executive under Kouyou.

But then, Fifteen (Well, it’s more like Sixteen...) happens

And Dazai meets the cutest redhead he’s ever seen in his life.

Also Dazai is a kinky man has a thing for gloves.

ALSO MOTORCYCLE & CHUUYA

So of course Dazai is in love intrigued by the tiny sixteen year old.

“What the f*ck I’m still growing!!”

“Sureeeeeee-”

“F*ck off.”

“So creative, Chuu~”

“I will torture you until you die from the pain and then I’ll burn you and chop up your ashes and scatter them in the sea so that there’s no way you can come back.”

“Oh. Sounds like fun!! I mean, excluding the pain part, I’d love to die with you~”

“...why are you like this?”

Since Mori is a sadist and Dazai, a masochist, Chuuya and Dazai become partners.

“Please NO.”

“Please yes~”

And they were roommates.

oH mY gOd thEy wEre rOommAteS

[cough cough] ANYWAYS

Chuuya and Dazai become partners. They murder people.

Dazai thinks it’s fun, and Chuuya can’t help but go along with Dazai’s shenanigans. Chuuya is very in love annoyed.

The two become a feared duo, but some who know them personally (Kouyou, Mori, & Hirotsu) know that they’re really just lovestruck teens.

It’s really cute.

And que the next backstory!

So. Chuuya’s backstory. I tried making up a new one for him, but I didn’t want to diverge too much from canon, so his is pretty much the same.

Now, the plot. Well, it’s more somewhat connected headcanons that plot, so... oof. The backstories all happened 10 years ago, so everyone is 10 years older than they were before.

Ages:

Atsushi- 18-19

Akutagawa- 21-22

Gin- 18-19

Dazai- 26-17

Chuuya- 26-27

Oda- 30-31

So. Atsushi is going grocery shopping, yeah?

And Chuuya is also grocery shopping, yeah?

And they bump into each other. And Atsushi doesn’t recognize him, but Chuuya remembers from one of Dazai’s drunk ramblings about trying to recruit some white tiger kid and a black coat?

Either way, Chuuya doesn’t really care. But he decides to tell Dazai once he’s home.

But only after he finished shopping for some fresh, non-canned crab.

But as he’s picking out a crab, the grocery store gets attacked by some ability users.

Oof.

And Chuuya doesn’t want to intervene (and risk his identity/secrecy to the public, who have limited knowledge of ability users).

But white-tiger Atsushi just goes flying towards one of the robbers.

And Chuuya knows.

So obviously, he tells Dazai. And Dazai, being Dazai, pretends he doesn’t remember.

Later, he goes to visit the A.D.A.

To see his ‘replacements’.

But he’s super chill about it.

And by ‘chill’, I mean smiley-evil. Like when he was talking to Mori during the A.D.A. & P.M. meeting (in canon).

Atsushi and Akutagawa are a mix of confused and worried.

And Akutagawa is lowkey wondering why the heck this random guy, who looks suspiciously familiar.

And ohhhh it’s that guy who tried to kidnap him a few years ago!

Wait. It’s the guy who tried to kidnap him a few years ago.

And Akutagawa takes Atsushi and they leave the A.D.A. building.

They end up on a we’re-denying-that-this-is-a-date-but-it-really-is.

But like they’re obviously lowkey dating, so yeah-

Like come on, Gin has been shipping this since she was like 9.

Also Dazai (after getting in a fight with with Oda, again oof), on his way home, he sees Atsushi & Akutagawa on the way back, and thinks of his boyf riend~~

And Dazai ships it SO HARD!!

But he first must go home to Chuu~

And that’s all I can think of right now. Also I really wanna get this posted cause it’s super late. I also gotta start the others. ;-;

HOPE YOU ENJOYED IT!! ♥️

[monicalorandavis]

‘The Irishman’ is way too long

And *plot twist* it’s not even very good. Mr. Scorsese, it is with a heavy heart that I pronounce, the ends do not justify the means. This movie sort of sucks. I’m sorry. But I’m also...not. 

A scenario: Imagine going to Chipotle and paying $7.50 for a burrito. It’s good(ish), comforting, filling, and overall, what you expected. Just what a burrito should be. Not mind-blowing but fine. Now, let’s imagine that you’re going to Chipotle but when you arrive the line is out the door. You weren’t expecting that but here you are, and you’re hungry. So you decide to stick around and wait longer than usual because you’re in the mood for a burrito. You’re waiting and waiting, trying to be a good sport but growing increasingly frustrated. You’re in line and you can’t leave because you’ve already invested too much time to pull the plug now (you’ve already waited this long, might as well see it through). Then, finally, your burrito is being made and it’s your turn to pay but the credit card machine is down and you don’t have cash so you have to run to an ATM and come back so that you can pay for this burrito that at this point better be fucking gold. So you run across the street, get some cash but by the time you get back your burrito’s cold and soggy. It’s the same $7.50 burrito but now it’s tainted with all the effort and time you wasted. This is my experience with ‘The Irishman’ - a soggy, sad burrito.

Now, I should say that I struggled to get through this film for several reasons, not for nothing, the movie is 90 minutes longer than it has any business being. Although that’s a glaring issue it ain’t the only one. I won’t even give a synopsis because, again, I’ve wasted entirely too much time on this film and I want to put it past me, so naturally, I’m writing about it now...

Right out of the gate it should be noted that the title refers to an Irishman but (for whatever reason) the title character is played by Robert De Niro who, as we can all agree, is the most Italian looking man of all time. He sounds Italian (which is explained conveniently by his learning Italian during the war). He dresses like an Italian mobster, be it due to his environment (or the fact that Martin Scorsese is not interested in things besides the Italian mafia). And carries himself like Robert De Niro - the quintessential Italian dude of the century. It’s as if Robert De Niro had no idea that ethnic identity played any part in the film (which is a note that also goes for the director). I don’t think being Irish made some huge impact on the story. I believe it’s mentioned maybe three or four times in the whole movie. It could’ve very easily been left out. So why the stupid title? People are not so familiar with the true story of hit man, Frank Sheeran. It was as distracting as the silly blue contacts that De Niro wears. And just as unnecessary. And now, I’m being petty.

No, Robert DeNiro does not look Irish. The makeup/special effects team are not wizards. These are old men and all of the back and forth through time makes for a clumsy timeline with aged actors. They look old with CGI when they’re supposed to be young and they look old when they’re supposed to be middle-aged. And I imagine it has something to do with them being old. But look, I’m no scientist. I’m a blogger, ripping apart a movie that will most certainly be nominated for many Oscars. I literally could not be less important to the trajectory of this film. But let the record state, this movie is dumb.

If I had to summarize the overarching issue I take with ‘The Irishman’ I would say, in general, I have a hard time with meandering stories of unremarkable, shitty white men. With the exception of Jimmy Hoffa, these men achieve very little and express no unique thoughts or spiritual journeys. They kill people and swindle and bribe and get out of trouble (and sometimes go to jail or end up murdered) but isn’t that part of the gig? Scorsese has delivered (maybe) his final mob movie and I didn’t love it. I kind of hate it. The whole movie feels like an expensive inside joke that I was struggling to care about. A movie for the cool kids in school who are now 80 years old. Somebody help me. Do you all really care about the Italian mob’s influence on the labor movement this much? I doubt it. You like guns and murder and stylish cinematography and killer jazz tunes. Yes, the film looks cool. It sounds cool. It has all the ingredients. Or does it? I don’t know. This movie vexed me and I just want my time back. 

I will sign off with this, there is one, solitary light at the end of the tunnel: Joe motherfucking Pesci. JP acts his tiny, wrinkled ass off and he can still get it. His Russ is a nuanced jigsaw puzzle of a man who is terrifying and beloved and yet doomed like the rest of them. Also, I just looked up Joe Pesci’s ex-wife and she’s a certified babe. Something tells me Pesci is stupid good with women and this role sort of taps into his natural charisma. No, he has no sweeping monologues. In fact, his strength lies in the opposite. He gets away with so much with so little. And chicks dig that. I found myself rooting for him perhaps because his performance showed the closest thing resembling an emotional arc. Isn’t that what good storytelling is about? We’ve all sat through a terrible story with no plot, no jokes, no interesting characters. And what do you do then? You roll your eyes and run out of the room. Right?? Needless to say, Pesci was a standout in an otherwise insufferable field of mediocrity.

But, again, what is this in the field of applause this film is receiving? Nada. Zip. Zero. But if you’re looking for a movie that might reveal some inner world, or new shade to organized crime - this ain’t it. Save your 210 minutes and fly a kite, or take a sailing lesson, paint your house, swim the English Channel. It comes out to about the same length of time.

[darkarfs]

Street Hunter

A film so mired in obscurity it doesn't even have a Wikipedia page. One of several films I own that never even got a bootleg DVD release, and you can probably only watch it if you find a Portuguese subtitled version on Dailymotion, or own the VHS and requisite VCR. Before we dive into this film, I should mention that the only reason I own this movie in the first place is that, around 2010-2011 (a simpler time, really) I became stone-cold obsessed with the career of one Reb Brown. Reb, for the MST3K set, played David Ryder in the South African railing-kill-fest that was Space Mutiny. You know, that guy. Tall, beefy, had all the acting range of an airhorn, looked kind of like a retired football player? He's actually had a storied, odd career, one that traverses a lot of genres and a lot of roles. Mostly, he did Italian knock-offs of movies like Terminator, Predator, Rambo, that sort of thing. A lot, and I mean a LOT of war movies, mostly ones taking place during Vietnam. But then he was also in things like Uncommon Valor with Gene Hackman, the Howling 2: Stirba Werewolf Bitch with Christopher Lee and Sybil Danning, and was actually the first ever Captain America, even before that really goofy one with Matt Salinger in 1990. And for some reason, I was more than entertained by watching him do what he does, and what he tends to do more often than not is...well, yell and fire machine guns into the jungle. He does that...a LOT. And he's in this film! But first, if I may reflect for just a moment. As soon as I put this into the VCR, it gave me the sneak previews of other movies made by the same distributor. I'm not a nostalgia sucker, I don't agree with things being better in the old days. But I genuinely, truly miss these. The previews on DVDs are always for the big blockbuster releases, but the ones on VHS? Who fucking KNEW what you were getting! The previews on B-movie VHS tapes are often how I found the next movie I was gonna watch! Turns out, tho, that the first preview was for the aforementioned 1990 Captain America with Matt Salinger. The 2nd was for a movie I really wanna check out now, though, and it's a ream of unconnected nonsense called the House of Usher, with Oliver Reed! This was before bad movies became that self-aware kind of bad. As a friend of mine once said; anyone can knowingly shit their pants, that's not funny. A person *not realizing* they shit their pants...that's comedy. The hero's name is Logan Blade, a name up there with Snake Plissken and John Matrix for "most action-hero name of all time." Not played by Reb (he's actually the weird, semi-warped villain in this piece), but instead by the late Steve James, who usually ended up playing the hero's sidekick in a lot of movies like this one. And you'd probably recognize ol' Frank Vincent, aka the White-Haired Guy with the Black Eyebrows in Every Movie About the Mafia. The movie starts with a bunch of heavily-armed garbage men raiding a gravesite to steal a mountain of cocaine from a guy’s casket. And they’re led by...John Leguizamo?? Yeahp. That’s him.

The guys kick over a tombstone that is 100% made of styrofoam...(one guy’s foot is all it takes, and I wish I could gif it, because it bounces)

and then are suddenly flanked by a bunch of Italian mobsters. Turns out Leguizamo’s gang are Colombian drug lords, and they’re here to steal the mob’s cocaine from this grave. The Italians have them surrounded, until Luigi’s group is flanked by 7 more dudes, led by...

Ah! There’s my dude. He immediately shouts and he and the goons shoot them all dead. THEN Logan Blade shows up, and I gotta admit, he looks like a seriously legit, badass dude.

You know, you’re kind of destined to become a renegade cop or bounty hunter with a name like Logan Blade. You don’t run into many wedding photographers with that name. He takes out all of Luigi’s goons and takes him in alive, and then maybe the weirdest, most sincerely funny thing about this film to me.

An 80s action movie where the police chief and the renegade bounty hunter...get along great! Like, uncharacteristically well! “Dammit, Blade! The mayor’s been all over my ass about those 6 bodies you left in the cemetery! You’re making my WHOLE department look great! You keep this up, and I’ll promote your ass to lieutenant so fast it’ll make your head spin!” Then we meet Blade’s friend, an avuncular grey-haired guy who may as well say “I’ve reunited with with my wife after 3 years and the guys at the precinct are throwing me a giant retirement party tomorrow” for how quickly and seamlessly he telegraphs the fact that he’s next to die. He calls Blade “paranoid” and insists that he “worries too much.” Gets shot in the next scene, and frees Leguizamo’s character (named Angel, should have mentioned that.) Reb cautions Angel that he should “always follow orders.” Y’see, Reb his basically a mercenary who stone-facedly pines for the days of the greatest generals, your Alexander the Great, your Genghis Khan, your Napoleon. He even tells Angel that “you should be as Philotas was to me, Alexander the Great.” (Alexander the Great had Philotas falsely accused of an assassination attempt and then had him beat to death with fucking rocks. Your references won’t get past me, movie!) Then we get to maybe my favorite scene in the entire movie. The Diablo gang send a crew of 3 guys to assassinate Blade’s girlfriend, which will either make him surrender in terror, or drive him into an insane murder fury.  Now, I have real issues with this in films, when someone kills the girl to get to the guy. Happens in all the big action films where the good guy is muscling in on the rival gangs or the mob or whoever. She’s being held by one guy, and defiantly spits in his friends’ face. My face fell the first time. “Oh, no.” I thought.

He goes to slash her face with a switchblade...

...she ducks, and he accidentally slits the other guy’s throat. She then takes out the one guy with a candle holder, and the third...well, thank God she was using a cast-iron pan to cook...something...when they show up. She throws the hot food in his face and then bashes his head in with the pan. ...my man Reb has not trained these men well.  But it turns out, a cop was on the mafia’s take! (This guy was in one scene, eating a donut, not a single line. You’d never have guessed a man you’d assumed an extra would be working for Don Hermano!)

So they take his girlfriend, and then Blade gives chase...

...in what looks like a 1979 Ford Econoline. Not exactly great for catching bad guys.

...unless he had a fucking HYPERDRIVE installed. What?! Yeah, okay, I’m on board! Blade closes in on the corrupt cop and Reb, who are...where else? A warehouse on the outside of town. Blade brings his dog, a nameless Doberman (he never calls it anything but “boy”) to help the fact that he’s outnumbered. Reb then tells one of the bad guys to “shoot that mutt!” I again braced myself to be disappointed and sad. The bad guy fires three shots and misses with all three as the dog runs away. He turns to Reb. “Sorry, jefe,” he says.

Reb immediately shoots him in the head. Got a genuine laugh out of me. A thing used by the villain 3 times in Sudden Death as a punchline just made me sad. Here, actual laugh. Dunno how these things work, but I imagine it’s a matter of tone. There’s some weird, “what we saw in ‘Nam” undercurrent through the whole movie. It’s what hardened Blade and made him a bounty hunter, but also what made Reb the general-worshipping lunatic merc he ends up being. It’s not but touched on, but I guess it’s as good a theme as any for a hero and a villain in one of these movies. The problem I have with this now...is that the movie ends really anticlimactically. Blade disposes of the goombas and the diablos in basically one fell swoop, and then challenges Reb to a one-on-one fight. He handily whoops Reb’s ass (a little disappointing, seeing how all he does is talk a great big heaping game about how the generals inspired his military tactics and how he fights) and then...leaves. No, really. Blade wins the fight and then leaves Reb behind. Reb goes to find him, but it turns out Blade has, for no reason, a block of C-4. Dunn where he got it. Reb trips over it, and it literally makes a squib-like “PUFF!”

and he falls through what amounts to a perfect square hole he was standing on. Blade essentially set up a trap door for him, and then Reb just stepped on it.  Blade punches Angel, restrains him, and then...the movie just kind of ends.

A movie with a lot of promise, but with an ending I couldn’t help but find flat. But they used by boy Reb real well, and that’s got to account for something. 

[acrobaticcatfeline]

You Can Dance if You Want to, Don’t Dare to Leave Your Friends Behind!!! 12 days of logince day 10!!!

Word Count: 1311

TW: Cursing, alcohol mention, deceit, cats

Notes: Sorry this is late but this got away from me and became much longer than I expected. thanks for waiting!!!

Pairings: Logince, moxiety, sleepceit

Summary: “Logan we’re going dancing and you have no say.” Logan is not excited to go dancing when he could continue testing his hypothesis, but he couldn’t deny his boyfriend and his friends that fun at this point.

“Logan we’re going dancing and you have no say.”

Logan was not keen on leaving mid experiment, but it seems like he was going to be dragged to a dance hall and forced to dance with his friends in the freezing cold around teenagers, drunk college students and professional adults. He might as well look the part he supposes. He gets dressed up, a black button up loosely tucked into black slacks with the cuffs rolled up past his elbows, adorned with a matching fedora with a simple ring of blue ribbon around the base that left a part of his hair out and covering his left eye. He enjoyed dancing truly! In his own home. With Roman and YouTube. But when Roman did manage to drag him out of his cave, he had a reputation to uphold. Whether it be depressed nerd on campus or flaming romantic nerd in town. So as soon as he had tied his dancing shoes, he went to do some “simple” makeup. When he was done, he had another face on, lip tint, bright blue to black eyeshadow with glitter highlights, eyeliner and mascara on point, with a gorgeous contour to wrap it up. He pushes his square glasses up his nose as he grabbed his messenger bag that usually held his school supplies and filled it with the makeup and his headphones, cellphone, and speakers.

When he entered the living room there was the sound of someone spitting water and otherwise absolute silence, when he looked over to the others, he saw 4 sets of eyes trained on him and he smirked. He loved to grab the attention of a room, it was something him and Roman had in common. Virgil stood and dusted off his clothes before giving him a look.

“fuck man warn a dude before you literally murder them? What the hells this all about? We’re going dancing, not joining the Italian mafia?”

Logan burst into loud laughter, Virgil’s way of explaining things always had him in a heap of laughter. Virgil stood there with his hands on his hips.

“we’re going to a nice dance hall, and I have a reputation. Plus, this is nothing compared to what Roman usually wears. He’s a bad influence remember?”

“viiiiiiiiirge!!!!!!!!!!! We should fancify toooooooooo!!!!! We have the stuff!!!!!!”

Virgil looked at his boyfriend, then to his best friend, then back again. He cursed under his breath then glared at Logan before tugging an outfit out of his suitcase and scurrying to the bathroom. Patton grinned and grabbed his own outfit before rushing into Logan’s room. Remy was getting dressed in pure daylight because he had no shame what so ever, and Cam was hiding under his blankets, obviously embarrassed.

Patton came out in golden pants and a sky-blue button up matched with a little white bowtie. His shoes were a floral print and he had 6 friendship bracelets on his left hand and a few rubber band ones he made himself on his right. On his right ring finger, he had a dark purple promise ring from Virgil last Halloween. His hair was fluffy, showing his shaved sides and making a big floof of bangs that hung over his right eye. His round glasses hung low on his nose and there was a bit of shine to his lips and a bit pinker in his cheeks. He bounced on the balls of his feet and smiled brightly as Virgil exited the bathroom.

Virgil wore a dark purple button up with black slacks and a black vest adorned it with a blue corsage stuck in the pocket. He had black knee-high converse and a matching friendship bracelet to Patton and a little chain with a raven, lion, 3 badgers, and a snake charm. He also had a separate Slytherin band on the other wrist. He had black gages in, a black choker around his neck as well as a half a heart locket, and an ice blue promise ring on his right ring finger. His hair hung flat over his left eye and you could see the smoky eye he was constantly seen with and an MCR beanie. He smirked at his nerdy brother Remy who stood in a similar outfit and was glaring at him.

“god it feels like we’re 10 again.”

Remy had essentially the same outfit as Virgil but different colors. Instead of purple he had orange, instead of blue he had yellow. Some things were different though. His hair was over his right eye, and his beanie was for panic! At the disco. He had rust colored eyeshadow only half covered by his sunglasses and a black lipstick on and had his snake bites and eyebrow piercing in. He had a matching locket and had a matching chain around his wrist. It was safe to say that Remy hated his twin.

“yeah. Thanks, I hate it.”

Then it was Cam. When he got up, he was wearing black and white slacks and a matching vest over a golden button up with a black bowtie. He had heeled black boots and a copper promise ring as well as his septum and lip piercings. His hair hung over his left eye and was half shaved, and he had foundation trying to make the hand shaped vitiligo less obviously hand shaped. It ended up looking more like a spade at the end.

Finally, they heard Roman’s door open, and Roman decided to show up. Roman was decked in red white and gold. He had a red button up rolled past his elbows and white pants with gold suspenders. His hair swept over his right eye and he had glittery gold and red eyeshadow with a red lipstain. His white dancing shoes complemented the look wonderfully. He had a locket hanging low that was a simple circle and he had small hoops in his ears. His sash was tied around his waist and he held a white and red fedora matching his outfit that sat on top of his cane. His glimmering Cheshire grin dazzled them all. Not too long after they were on their way.

  The party was in the dance center located in the center of the square. They walked, the campus apartments were a short walk away and they were reveling in any time together. The past half year they hadn’t seen each other at all. Skype calls, Tumblr, Instagram and snapchat were the only ways they could all communicate, and they all missed just being with each other and having silly fun. They stopped in the square to admire the bright lights that covered it. When they reached the hall, they could hear the booming sounds of 50s music playing loudly through the doors. Roman’s smile grew as he led his friends through the doors. As soon as they were in three girls tackle hugged Roman.

“ROMAN WE’RE SO GLAD YOU COULD MAKE IT!!! Ohhhhh!!! Is that your hubby??? Those four look new, want us to show them around?”

“aw girls of course I came I wouldn’t miss it for the world!!! Yes, this is in fact my true love Logan I told you he was radiant didn’t I? I actually plan to show them around myself, they’re only here for break and I miss my partners in crime! This is Remy, Camora, Patton, and Virgil, these are my best friends from back in Florida! Virge and pat actually go here, but they’re on a campus a while away, but rem and Cam are visiting from home. We’re gonna have a hell of a time though, I can already tell.”

The six of them spent the rest of the night dancing with no cares in the world. By the time they got home it was Christmas eve and they were maybe half sober. Queenie sat on the counter completely unamused.

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