#this might be the chattiest I can be for awhile

[blodreina-noumou]

The 100, 7x02 - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

The Good

+ I really cannot think of any single moment in this episode that I did not like. It’s been a very long time since I felt that way about this show.

+ Octavia and Diyoza became the old married couple Diyoza quipped about last season! It’s real!! Together, with Hope, they are my new favorite found family dynamic, and it was so adorably refreshing to see some simplicity and healing and growth in this show. Long overdue for Octavia, and explains so much about her miraculous transformation post-Anomaly.

+ Hope and Echo initially seeming at-odds, with Hope bringing up Echo’s botched attempted capturing of Auntie O - the way that turned into that incredibly heartwarming and cathartic scene of the two women hugging and crying and promising to work together. I was expecting the animosity to stick around, and I’m so glad it didn’t. In fandom terms, I love this new brotp.

+ Hope’s storyline is really interesting, and really sad. I love the echoes of other kids - being raised on stories like Jordan and Madi, being a girl hiding in her own home like Madi and Octavia - those are the kinds of meaningful callbacks that I really, really like.

+ I really do feel so much more satisfied with Octavia’s storyline now. Where she’s at makes so much more sense to me. She’s clearly grown so much. There were just so many parallels and callbacks to her relationship with Bellamy, and her own childhood. It made me really emotional.

+ Diyoza’s storyline, too. When she cries, “I need you too. Is that what you want to hear? Why aren’t we enough?” The vulnerability and need to belong was so strong for both of these women, and the fact that they found a family together is going to keep me happy with this show for a long, long time.

+ There are parts of the “time moves differently on different planets” thing that I really like. I like that it gave a reasonably believable way for Hope to have aged up so quickly. The sort of haven that Planet Beta became was definitely a big plus for me. Octavia is 33 now, y’all!! What!!!

+ The more I see of Gabriel, the more I like him.

The Bad

0 - That being said, it was VERY frustrating to have the sole reason the code slipped away from them be Gabriel’s eccentric curiosity and carelessness. A man as old, wise, and smart as him should have never let that tablet out of his sight, no matter what. Definitely not to get something to write with. I know he’s obsessive and a bit distractible when it comes to the Anomaly, his 200-year-old mystery, but the way we lost the code still felt like a contrived plot point to undoubtedly stick another time-jump in. Guarantee the next time we see AnomalyKru, there’ll be a “Five Years Later” caption.

0 - With time behaving differently, it shouldn’t have too much of an impact on the Sanctum storyline. That being said, I am already having trouble keeping track of who is doing what, when, and where. There’s SO much going on this season. We’ve burned through so much of the trailer footage, and we have 14 episodes to go, so it’s impossible to guess where things will go from here. That’s exciting, but also nerve-wracking. Every time they wipe a world and move on, I’m disappointed with the result. But who knows? It’s still so early.

0 - I don’t know if I totally understand the purpose of having a prison world where you can serve a five-year sentence over a weekend. So you continue to age, but time essentially stops for your “real life”? So they have prisoners returning home to loved ones seriously aged and probably a bit crazy from the isolation. That seems like a flawed system. Do the prisoners get the helmets that allow them to keep their memories? How much did the dude with the countdown tattooed on his arm know before he went a lil crazy? Is he going to become an actual character?? I don’t know how on board I am for all of that, and another time-jump. Just seems like a lot.

0 - Speaking of a lot - this episode was a different show from last episode. We can agree on that, right? This episode was essentially a spin-off. The Sanctum plot with the Primes already feels miles away. I didn’t really care about it before this episode, and I care even less, now. Intentional? Not sure. But this plot is crowded, and I still cannot see how it’s all going to converge.

0 - I felt Bellamy’s absence in this one. It definitely felt like he should’ve been with AnomalyKru. Hope’s line: “If what I know about the two of you [Echo and Gabriel] is true, we’ll be fine.” referencing Gabriel and Echo’s ability to fight, felt like it was a line that originally included Bellamy. IIRC, Octavia didn’t know much at all about Gabriel before she went into the Anomaly. She knew he was crafty, and knew his planet very well, but I’d be surprised if she got the impression that he was much of a fighter. Bellamy was known for being a badass though, especially in Octavia’s eyes. That line felt like it didn’t belong without him.

The Ugly

- No Memori. Not even a glimpse! Incredibly rude way to treat royalty, y’know? I just cannot stand for it!

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I kid. I mean, I missed them, but I kid.

Honestly - loved this episode, and there really wasn’t much about it that I can complain about. Most of my gripes come from confusion or concern for the future. But I’m actually really excited to rewatch this one, and I’m even more excited to see what happens next!!

[theyreonlynoodlesmike]

Hello! I’m new here. I’d like to request the boys, separately, with a cuddly girlfriend. Or just how they are with being affectionate/cuddling

Oh this has so much fluff potential! I hope you enjoy!!

The Lost Boys x Cuddly/Affectionate Fem!S/O

David

David doesn’t look like a cuddly guy. He wears all black, has an earring, and a bleached mullet. He, also, leads a biker gang and kills people nightly. There’s just something about that that doesn’t necessarily scream ‘cuddle me’! But when he met you for the first time and you enwrapped him in a big, tight hug, he knew he was going to keep you. You weren’t afraid of him, and, most importantly, you weren’t afraid to show how much you liked him. Even if you’d only just met him.

The attention. The worship. He absolutely lives for it. He loves how much attention you pay him, even if he doesn’t give anything back. It makes him feel like a king to be showered in so much love. 

Honestly, at the boardwalk, the most he’ll give you is an arm around the waist and he’ll purposely tease you by basically ignoring you otherwise. He loves how many lengths you’ll go just to get a smile from him. Just as you're about to give up, he’ll grace you with one of his irresistible smiles and ask, “Need something, sweets?” And you’re right back to showering him in attention. If you really, really give up, he’ll give you a kiss. That’ll usually get you back to your cuddly self

He’ll tease you for how much attention you give him. He’ll call you clingy and needy, but he never means it in a bad way. He thinks it’s cute, and god knows this boy is attention starved. Between Max and the nightly killings for however many years, it’s been a long time since someone has seen him and seen someone worth giving some genuine loving to. Not just sexual loving.

If you take it as a bad thing, he’ll make sure to keep you from becoming too insecure by kissing your knuckles or caressing your cheek. It’s more than his usual amount of attention, so you must be doing something right.

David doesn’t really give you attention back until you’re back at the cave. He has a reputation to uphold, but not in front of his boys. He’ll sit on his wheelchair and drape you over his lap. It’s the first time that night where he’ll be the one that’s holding you. He’ll hold your knee, rub your thigh, and smooth his hand down your side. He’ll use the close proximity to have easy access to your neck, where he’ll pepper kisses and whisper sweet words. He’ll tell you how cute you are, and hold you tight against him as the boys around him amuse themselves with their own shenanigans. 

The only time that you two will really, truly cuddle is in the nest he’s made you inside the cave. The wheelchair is great, but it’s hard to sit there for hours. Usually, the two of you will cuddle after one of your trysts. David will have a cigarette dangling from his lips as he reads, and he’ll have you lay your head on his chest. He’ll comb his fingers through your hair, almost as if he’s petting you. It’s why he calls you his kitten. To him, that’s exactly what you remind him of. When you fall asleep for the night, he’ll smile down at you and kiss the top of your head. He’ll set his book down so he can pull you closer, snuffing out the cigarette so he can bury his face into your hair and inhale your scent instead.

Dwayne

Dwayne is the definition of intimidating. He’s so tall that he looms over people most of the time, and it doesn’t help that he’s got a permanently stoic expression on his face whenever he’s talking to people that aren’t the boys. Sometimes, he’ll grace cute girls with a some smiles, but those are usually only the girls he wants to eat. When you two met and you immediately brought him into a hug, he had no idea what to do. He just kind of stood there.

Dwayne didn’t really understand what being touch starved was until he met you. He’s been murdering people for decades, the only parental figure he has is Max, and the boys aren’t exactly cuddling eachother twenty-four seven. They’ll rough-house and push eachother, but they don’t necessarily hug one another. The second you pulled away from your hug (it was like hugging a brick wall) his mind just kind of went wait, come back. He practically followed you around like a confused puppy after that. He hadn’t realized that he’d been missing anything until you gave it to him, and, as far as he was concerned, that was directly tied with you

He lets you touch him as much as you please. You can touch his face, hair, hands, and even his chest. Though, when you do the latter he may give you an arched brow and a small smirk. He doesn’t return the affection nearly as much, mainly because he doesn’t even know where to start. Once you two have been dating for awhile, he’ll start to get the hang of it. He’ll usually add on to whatever you give him or return it

You hold his hand? He’ll intertwine your fingers. You hug him? He’ll hold you so tight you think he might break you. You give him a kiss on the cheek? He’ll give you a forehead kiss. It’s the most affectionate the boys have ever seen him and they’ll definitely give him shit for it.

It’s why, even when back at the cave, he still won’t wander too far out of his comfort zone. He’ll let you do whatever you want, but he’ll really only reciprocate whatever you give him. The two of you will sit on the couch and he’ll hold your legs in his lap. Just the act of him touching your legs is considered more than normal, and he’ll lean his head against the back of the couch as you ramble to him.

When you two are back at your house, that’s when his walls truly fall down. The second you’re in bed with him, you’re not allowed to leave. This is when you really get to explore all of his boundaries, and he’ll truly just melt under your fingertips. You can braid his hair or give him a scalp massage, caress his face, and hold him as close as you want. He’ll practically be purring under your touch and you are not allowed to stop. He likes to face you while cuddling so he can kiss you as much as he wants. It’s a type of affection that he’s more familiar with. If you ever give this boy a massage, he’ll be clingy for days. He’ll look at you with so much love in his eyes and he won’t even care where you are when he pulls you in for kisses. The other boys be damned.

Marko

Markos the token wild card of the group. With a face like that and eyes as wide as his, you’d expect him to be an angel! Instead, he regularly murders people and gets into fights on the boardwalk. Seriously, he’s had to have his fellow vampires hold him back from destroying surf-punks right on the boardwalk. With a reputation like that, most people would avoid him. But not you. Upon meeting him, you gave him a big hug as a greeting. And, surprisingly, Marko hugged you right back.

Marko is the most affectionate of the boys. He even stands closer to the other boys and is always down for rough housing. But that doesn’t mean he gets a lot of positive touch. Most of the touching he gets is either play-fighting, actual fighting, or sexual touches from a cutie on the boardwalk before he sinks his fangs into them. To have someone walk up to him, see him, and decide “Must cuddle!” is not what he’s used to.

He openly welcomes it though. He uses physical affection to get his meals nightly. But you? You weren’t just flirting with him. You were just a cuddly person. He saw that in how you treated the others as well, and he quickly decided that you were going to be more than a meal.

He’s one of the only boys that will initiate a touch first. He’ll hold your hand, kiss your cheeks, and boop your nose. He thinks that you are too cute, and he’s not afraid to tell you. And when you match his energy, maybe even return the nose boop, he’s got heart eyes for days amd a smile so wide it’s almost concerning

He tunes out the boys teasing and dishes them back the cruelest revenge. He is so disgustingly cute with the PDA he gives you that the others have to look away. There, that’s better. Just because they’re no longer paying attention doesn’t mean it stops though. He wants kisses, cuddles, and pretty much everything you can give him. He doesn’t care if you’re in public! The public can frick off and he’ll pummel the first person that tries to get you two to pull away! You learn fairly quickly that that’s not an empty threat either

Somehow, he’s even more affectionate when you two are at the cave. This boy will straight up just lay on you. Whether that’s on the couch or in your nest, he doesn’t care. The two of you will giggle in-between kisses, and this boy will nuzzle your cheeks, hair, or neck. He likes to bury his face into your neck and inhale your scent as you play with his hair. He’ll wrap his arms under you and let out a content sigh when you kiss his ear, and he’ll reciprocate by pressing a kiss to your neck

He wants to cuddle all the time and as much as possible, and he’s happy he’s found someone willing to be as cuddly as he is. He’ll hold you all the time, even when you sleep. He may even try to find a way for him to sleep with you in the main room. If he succeeds, you two will effectively never have to be apart. Just how he likes it.

Paul

Paul is easily the friendliest of the boys. He’s got a care-free laid back attitude and he’s the chattiest of the four. He’ll strike up conversations with random people on the boardwalk, and he’s known to be a huge flirt. No one would expect him to be a murderer, especially one that commits utter atrocities nightly. They see him, and they think he’s just a regular, flirty teenage boy. When you hug him as a greeting, he’s overjoyed that someone was willing to make the first move. That’s exactly what he thinks it is. He reciprocates it with a flirty one-liner, and some touches of his own. However, they may not be as nearly as innocent.

When he realizes that you’re just a touchy person in general, he’s ecstatic. Finally, easy prey! He doesn’t need to worry about you slapping him because he got a little too handsy in public. He totally just sees you as a meal at first, even if the boys comment that the two of you seem to be getting pretty close. So what if he’s gonna eat you later? You can totally play with his hair! So what if you’re holding hands? He swears that he won’t get attached! No, he did not just give you his jacket as a completely romantic gesture. It’s just because he thought it would look cool and you were cold! Not because he’s scent marking you! Okay, he’s totally into you and totally attached. By the end of the night, you two are practically dating already.

Like Marko, he doesn’t care if you two are on the boardwalk or not. He wants affection and he wants it now. If it’s not given to him, he’s not afraid to whine, pout, and act like the biggest baby on the planet. Luckily, you’re super affectionate even with just your friends. With him, he gets to enjoy a whole onslaught of attention. He’ll grin and smile as you caress his face and play with his hair, and he’ll give you kisses every time he thinks you’re acting too adorable for him to handle

His brand of affection is far more flirty. He likes to pinch and grope, but it’s just how he shows that he thinks you look hot. He’ll reach down and fondle your butt, squeezing it like it’s a stress ball. He’ll totally makeout with you in public, and you have to be careful with this boy. He’s not afraid to pick you up, plop you on the railing, and totally stick his tongue down your throat in front of the Santa Carla locals.

If you go back to the cave, it’s hard to keep his hands off you. He’ll do his absolute best to climb on top of you, and the moment you’re under him his lips are on yours. Sit in his lap? Babe, you’re just asking to end up scarring the others. You’ll be in the middle of having some time with the boys, sitting in his lap and innocently playing with his hair. All it takes is for you to scratch one little sweet spot, and then he’s grabbing you and pining you down on the couch. What? What’d he do? Is exactly what he’d ask when he gets a chorus of “Jesus, Paul”

If you two lay in your nest, you’re asking for a couple of rounds to take place. Why else would you be on a bed? He likes to hold you from behind for more reasons than one. First, he gets to have your butt pressed up right against his special place. Second, he loves how he can completely envelope you in his arms. He gets to pull you close and kiss the back of your neck. Maybe even your cheek. Was that a non-sexual form of affection? Good thing you were asleep so you couldn’t notice.