#thing from the first season involving anybody black was a beheading....

[sleepynegress]

All signs point to

Please. Dance of the Dragons showrunners do not have the range. I use IWTV as a great example of getting BIPOC right, when writing characters. But DOD? is the opposite. They thought they could simply swap skin color on a white-haired family and call it a day. They're getting that early 2010's Bonnie Bennett treatment yall, -hell worse, because at least Bonnie got some lines.

Seasmoke claiming Addam House of the Dragon | 2.06 "Smallfolk"

[fyeahwynonnaearp]

What Just Happened?!?: Let’s Pretend We’re Strangers (S02E05)

So many things happened. So many things are happening. So many feelings were felt and so much screaming at the TV was done.

New Character(s)

Ewan (@unrealfehr): Volunteer firefighter by day and cult leader by night. Likes big shiny axes, red cloaks, bird masks, and working out.

Juan Carlo (@The_Real_ShaunJ): Re-introduction of the mysterious mechanic/watcher(?). Still uselessly helping and provides more questions than answers. Has a teleporter!Truck? because he drove in with it and disappeared with it.

The Order: A cult of volunteer firefighters whose motto is ‘Praesidium et Conservatio’. Under the (sometimes) guidance of Juan Carlo, they help protect the Ghost River Triangle.

Monster(s) of the Week

Miksun, or The Goo™: Have apparently infected a crap ton of people that The Order had to hunt down and kill. Put down by Peacemaker, but is it fully gone?

Final Thoughts (No Spoiler)

Game changer indeed. 

Although The Goo™/Mikshun was the focus of the episode, so many little things happened that may ripple out and have huge repercussions in the future. It was such an intense episode and, as of now, I have watched it three times. Back to back. I am emotionally drained.

Honestly, before watching this show I take one or two or three shots of Fireball and after the show I chain-smoke like Doc Holliday and hug myself to contain all the feels.

Jump into the rabbit hole for some spoiler-filled rants, theories, and fun!

10 Things That Happened/I Learned

1. Ewan and The Order - ‘Praesidium et Conservatio’: We find out that the Purgatory Volunteer Fire Department (or VFD, which makes me giggle because Lemony Snicket) has an impressive battle axe collection, hunts down Goo-infected citizens, and likes nachos as an after-beheading snack. Based on Ewan and The Plate™, it seems that The Order used to have a relationship with the Earp heir. Now in possession of The Plate™ and open to partnering with Wynonna, we will probably see more of Ewan (or FitBit, as Melanie likes to call him). How The Order and The Squad™ will butt heads will be very interesting and I’m ready for The Squad™ to have help because IDK if people remember/realize, but The Ghost River Triangle is a huge freakin’ area.

2. Nicole, the kicked puppy. The first-half of this season have completely REKT the Officer. Goononna was especially in top-shelf form with the emotional beatdown. I expect Nicole and Wynonna to clash because Nicole is clearly the (mostly) by-the-book rookie and Wynonna is the free-spirit protocol-lel-what-protocol Black Badge Deputy. Perhaps Nicole never understood how or why Wynonna got to be in the super secret government agency and was maybe a bit jealous, but damn! Goononna definitely knew her weakness and insecurities and hit where it hurts the most. I’m excited to see how they move on from this and how they form a relationship outside of Waverly. (I’ve read somewhere that Nicole was constantly being mean and a bit of a bitch to Wynonna; I honestly will have to rewatch, but I don’t remember Nicole being an outright massive bitch to her.)

3. IN MEMORIAM: AGENT JEANIE LUCADO.Goocado, or goo-infected!Lucado: Head exploded. Tentatively dead because regeneration is a thing and where the hell did her body go?!? 

4. Doc Holliday has a new car. It is red and has a cassette player and I wonder if he constantly avoids eye contact with Nicole while at the station because she knows he doesn’t have a driver’s license and definitely has an unpaid speeding ticket.

5. Purgatory Fair 1952. The plate is important enough that it was hunted down, wanted by BBD, and people were killed for it. It was definitely important to The Order. Not only does it bare their seal, but it might be connected to the broken seal because Ewan was talking about it to JC and it seems they are also responsible for maintaining it.

6. “I will shoot anybody for you”. Not only is Nicole whipped, but this line just cements the notion of the Officer being loyal to Waverly despite her position as a police officer. It might be nothing, or it could be the overarching struggle Nicole will face throughout the season and beyond. Being a good cop matters to her, and being involved with Waverly could mean ignoring things for The Squad, covering things up, and breaking protocol and maybe the law. And, I think we know how she feels about covering things up. I’m excited for this ride because this could be such a wonderful character development storyline and gives their relationship depth and substance many shows ignore. Because Nicole will never ask Waverly to be someone other than herself, but Nicole might have to change and compromise her morals for the woman she’s totally not-in-love with.

7. Hot Uniform for Officer Haught. Is Nicole being Lexa-levels of extra with her new uniform? Gone are the khakis and barely-buttoned long sleeves and the has-anyone-seen-me-this-season stetson. Enter the Black Widow-inspired, Alex Danvers-might-steal-this long-sleeved form-fitting zip-up top and is-this-gay-enough vest and no-really-is-this-too-gay boots and the I-am-a-gay baseball cap. I love it. I do. It would be equally horrifying and funny if the entire Purgatory Sheriff Department changed uniforms because Officer I’m-Too-Haught-For-This hates khakis, but I hope the department also forked over the cash for the super expensive extra-lightweight concealed body armor to wear under that tight-fitting top. Because Officer Haught did not ask for the most gay, hot, are-we-sure-this-is-not-a-sexy-cop-costume uniform just to be a bullet magnet.

8. MISSING: BLACK BADGE HQ. Honestly, I’m confused about the actual organization of the...well, organization. It is introduced as a joint task force between the US and Canada, even the badge shows both flags. Like, cool. But is Moody (AKA Orphan Black’s Art Bell), the Head of Black Badge or is he only in charge of the Purgatory/Ghost River Triangle branch or whichever branch is overseeing Purgatory? When Dolls, Lucado, or Jeremy mention HQ, do they mean the place where Dolls was broken out from? Because that means BBD HQ is near the Ghost River Triangle. So when Jeremy says Black Badge is gone, does that mean just the HQ/where Dolls was being held? Are there more BBD sites like in the comic books? Where are the other agents?

9. Waverly and her ‘dark corners’. Is Waverly an Earp? It’s the question that can be easily answered if only the Earp Sisters didn’t have major communication issues. In all honesty, all it takes is one over-due conversation and a saliva swab, then one DNA test later we get our answer. But, no. Waverly will probably never ask Wynonna “so, our mom was pregnant with me, right?” and Nicole probably won’t overstep and compare the Earp Sisters’ DNA behind Waverly’s back. I just want this issue to be resolved before Waverly crumbles under the pressure of meeting Wynonna’s expectations of what being an Earp entails. Because this season shows us that Wynonna does give being an Earp so much meaning and expects Waverly to act accordingly and this might cause issues between them and it might be hard to remember, but they just found steady footing with each other. If Wynonna keeps expecting certain things out of Waverly all in the name of being an Earp while Waverly is struggling with the idea if she even is an Earp, we might have the Earp Sis angst-fest we don’t really want but we might just actually love because it means they come out of it (hopefully) stronger together.

10. Baby Earp, the game changer. There’s a divide in the fandom: Pro-baby storyline and what-the-fuck-no!-pregnancy-storylines-ruin-everything. No matter what camp you reside in, you must admit and eventually realize that this baby-bump of a game changer is going to be the catalyst for several major character development. 

Wynonna: No longer can she numb herself and drown her issues in whiskey. Even though she says her job is to protect her baby sister, we have to remember that she’s been MIA for three year prior and have been mostly absent from Waverly’s life. Yes, she was placed in a mental institution when she was 14 and has been in juvie at least once, but she also willingly spent time away from her sister and ran with the Banditos, a gang that was mentioned in season 1 and explored in the comics. Wynonna joined a gang which could have placed Waverly in danger. With a baby, Wynonna has to be responsible for another life and now has to actually think about the possible consequences of her actions.

Doc: The chance of Doc being the father is really high. Let’s assume that he did get his best friend’s great-great-I-actually-forgot-how-many-great-grand daughter pregnant. Because he’s been established as somewhat traditional, in the loosest sense of the word, he will want to meet the duties and obligation of being a father. That means he can’t really just take off anytime he wants. It means being open and having an honest line of communication with Wynonna, which can be hard for him and his Slytherin ways. While he does let Wynonna be Wynonna, I think that will change when he learns he’s a father. Also, he might start actively searching for a way to reverse the Stone Witch’s curse on him. Meaning, he might have to dig out Constance from the salt flats and OMG is she still out there or did someone dig her out?

Dolls: As much as I would love for DocWynDolls to be one happy polyamorous family raising Baby Earp, there is a good chance that Dolls might feel the need to take a step back and let Wynonna straighten out her priorities. He will be there for her, absolutely, but he might emotionally distance himself and choose to focus his attentions on BBD and figure out how The Squad will continue without a government agency backing them and how to proceed without the power of a badge and probably start figuring out what exactly he is. 

Waverly: Protective acting-like-the-big-sister Waverly will be adorable and fluffy and amazing to watch. Waverly questioning her role and childhood and how she was treated will be heartbreaking and will make me leak from my eyes. I think Waverly will be worried about her place in Wynonna’s life now that there will be a baby. Waverly is so used to being pushed to the side that she probably won’t talk about her concerns and will just keep supporting and helping Wynonna. On the other hand, a baby Earp can just be the prompting for Wynonna to start reminiscing and talking about a Baby Waverly and the biological origins of Waverly will finally be settled. 

Nicole: A part of me hopes she won’t get shut out and Waverly will start incorporating Nicole into her life and that Nicole will help Waverly with pregnant!Wynonna, but I can see her being shut out. Again. I can see Nicole figuring it out for herself (like always) and subtlety helping Wynonna by giving her food and giving her coffee, it’s caffeine-free of course, but Wynonna won’t know that. I really hope Nicole gets to be involved in some capacity because it will be just one more thing that would strengthen her relationship not only with Waverly, but with Wynonna as well. 

Overall, I am happy this show is still true to itself. Some people have said that the show doesn’t treat its villains as actually villains and it all ends up being anti-climactic. To those people, I say to you, this show is not the episodic procedural of monster-of-the-week and one big bad a season kind of show. This is about the people that have to deal with those monsters and demons. This show is about their relationships with each other. It’s about how they grow as people and how they deal with their issues and personal demons. Sure, demons are killed. But unlike other shows, our heroine still questions her humanity and still have issues with the fact that she is destined to kill, whether they are demons or creatures or humans-turned-demons.

It is often overlooked and no one talks about it enough, but I think we need to remember that even though these revenants and demons are all trying to kill her, Wynonna Earp still tells them to “make your peace” and sure she sends them to hell, but she tries to make sure they get some semblance of peace in the afterlife. 

[rusalcele]

jeepers creepers in a diaper

faceclaim: park chanyeol

group: exo

age: 27

race: human with custom perks

nationality: serbian

current residence: south korea

job: elite exotic pet shop worker; oversees the feline/canine/avine sectors

name: park vedran braniam

The very first word he uttered as Vedran Branimir was 'dick' and that, when his older brother pushed past their father to pick his wee self up.

Whoever said children were exceptionally good judges of character was certainly onto something — Todor was a fucking dick.

It wasn't like Todor refused to play with Vedran or share his toys with him. It was Vedran, in fact, the one hiding under the blanket, going as far as playing dead to avoid being detected by Todor and dragged to the back garden or the streets to go along his odd games, which almost always had to culminate in Vedran faking fainting so they could come to an end. Todor would simply loom over his body and poke it repeatedly with a stick until he got bored and had to go look for something else to entertain himself with.

Fucking asshole never even bothered dragging Vedran's ass back into the house, regardless of whether he was truly unconscious or not. It's the principle of it, after all.

Hell, it wasn't like his parents were anything but incredibly, boringly mediocre to justify Todor ending up being the fucking creep he was.

To put it simply, Todor was a prick for a lot of reasons, but the main one, the one at the top of the list, bolded, highlighted and most concisive one, had got to be the fact that he was a blood thirsty serial killer overly zealous in his pursuit to increase his body count.

Vedran supposes the biggest red flag Todor could've waved in everybody's faces was his obvious interest in black magic and sacrificial rituals, but alas, not everybody can possess as much common sense as Vedran does.

But with all the demonic reading his brother did, and knife sharpening and torture chamber designing, he couldn't find it in himself to start like any self-respecting serial killer and target animals; for as eagerly as he bared his teeth at any human being, he cowered at the idea of harming animals.

Vedran clearly remembers his brother crying with his cheek pressed against the toilet seat, having just finished retching for close to an hour, after attempting and failing to sacrifice a goat from one of the farms on the outskirts of town. It was as tragic as it was hilarious, even more so when you take into account that Todor was vegan on all days except for Tuesdays when the lunchlady whipped out her secret recipe and made the most amazing double cheeseburger with two stripes of bacon thrown in.

Todor went as far as to visit Vedran at school just to get a taste of it, long after he graduated.

Vedran did consider killing his brother, yeah, like all teenagers do at some point or another; it was just a tiny bit more justified in his case. Even so, he never believed he would end up actually going, not to mention with a shovel.

It happened in week before Halloween. Vedran voluntered to be the one to put up all the decorations and had every intention to make them as extra and ostentatious as possible. He had put together a playlist he blasted through his headphones as he got started on it, too.

It was when he was digging holes to place plastic hands in that it happened. He wanted them to look like the dead were crawling to the surface from the depths of hell, trying to grab anybody that came near. Vedran didn't hear nor feel Todor coming from behind; he didn't even think Todor would show up that night instead of going about town and murdering people to spice up this year's Halloween, as well.

So somebody grabbing his shoulders whilst Vedran was listening to a most spoopy horror playlist? A sure way to get somebody beheaded.

Next thing he knows, there's fucking blood spraying everywhere and his brother's head is merrily rolling away across their property.

He didn't feel that bad, really, once the shock wore off and everything settled in; like he mentioned previously, his brother was a fucking prick. Their parents seemed to had shared his sentiment as they quickly got over it and went ahead with the funeral prepartions without too much sobbing or mourning.

Vedran did milk the whole situation for a hell of a long time, though. God knows how many classes he skipped or how many homeworks he conveniently forgot to turn in, overstriken with grief.

Plus, he got to eat twice his weight in chocolate that Halloween, with his brother gone and children being to terrified to come trick-or-treating at his home.

However, that which is Cesare's to Cesare — not once while he was alive did Todor anything to harm him or their parents. If Vedran was to ignore the lack of empathy, terrifyingly good social skills, the black magic shit, and the, well, killing, Todor was a pretty standard older brother. Better than some, worse than others, in some aspects. A pass, let's say.

It was 4 years later, when Vedran was 21, that he truly understood how much of an actual prick his older brother actually was.

He had decided to sign up as a camp councelor for Halloween. The camp that was usually only running only during the summer had decided they were going to do something special that year and be open for an entire week, with activities all thematically surrounding the holiday.

It was all going amazingly well, surprisingly. All of those who had signed up were well into highschool and most, if not all, of the councelors were around his age. Vedran had prepared himself for lots of angry snotty children demanding ridiculous things of him, and so he was glad to had it all been for naught.

What he didn't prepare for, however, was his dead fucking brother literally coming back from hell on the night of Halloween and going on a killing spree that this time, involved him as well.

Vedran was far too preoccupied with preparing the snack bar before the bus with all of the kids returned to camp after a day spent at the pumpink farm, at the other end of town, to notice it at first. Out of the 12 councelors, only 4 went with the kids, leaving the rest at the camp to get things moving for the grand night.

By the time Vedran decided to take a small break to check on his colleagues and finally realise what had happened, Todor had already killed all of them leaving Vedran the only one still standing.

Poor guy didn't even have the time to properly shit himself before Todor started chasing him. Vedran had tried to reason with him and explain that what he was doing was incredibly rude, and that killing Todor was never his intention, though even he had to admit that it was poetic, in a sense.

Vedran was lucky his legs were as long as the petty bone Todor had inside his body, even if he was as blind as a bat, especially at night, which made him seriously regret spending so much time beating his meat to horribly pixelated adult games in his childhood, although it did help him build quite a breathing strategy.

Him being built like a grasshopper certainly helped putting a distance between Vedran and his brother, but the exicitement was shortlived when he fell into an underground bunker deep into the woods and busted his nose.

It was there that Vedran got the second surprise of his life that night, this time, in the form of a fucking baby — a whole breathing and crawling baby that actually clapped upon discovering Vedran haphazardly strewn across the cold cemented bunker floor.

It was quick thinking that quite possibly saved his life that night, spurred on by newly found paternal instincts that forced him on his feet, looking for a way to cover the hole he had fallen through from his brother. Vedran make good use of the leaves that had gathered over the seasons inside the bunker and abused the hell out of his impressive height, using a long piece of cloth he dumped the leaves on to obscur it from view as he huddled into a corner with the baby pressed to his chest as he waited until the next morning, when the police sirens blared all across the forest, from the camp where they gathered.

Todor hadn't found them, though he was close to it, a couple times.

Vedran had bullshitted his statement as much as he could, trying his hardest to avoid having them suspect him, as well as trying to dodge the hell out of a mini-vacation at the psychiatric ward. Nobody questioned the strange presence of the baby that literally poofed into existence, not more than they were legally required to. They didn't even bother verifying Vedran's claim that he was just a kid he had to babysit at the last moment for a classmate from college.

It made sense, then, how his brother had managed to stay under the police’s radar, though he all but had a neon sign above his head pointing down as him as the town’s killer mascot.

That's how Vedran became a single father. The murders faded pretty quickly into obscurity and most of the townfolks moved on with ease. Vedran smashed open the piggy bank he left untouched since his childhood along with his brother's and paid for somebody to settle the papers of the boy's custody, boy which he affectionaly called Octane.

His parents didn't bat an eyelash at the revelation he has a son, as being a parent at such an young age is obviously better than being a serial killer and this, at least, they knew how to handle.

Vedran, however, doubted he was anywhere near adequately equipped to handle Satan incarnate, as he will later find out.

Actual Satan, with horns, tail, legions of demons and all, which, in all honesty, is somewhat acceptable.

It could've been some 'Predestination' shit meets fratricide.