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[poisonheadcrabsalesman]

Cursed (joke) ship idea: Linda/Miller

Liller, if you will. Or Millinda.

I love a good rarepair, and these two under-characterized Spartans have opposite personalities and nearly incompatible communication styles. I love it.

The easy route is making Miller Linda's shaking purse dog, but that's too simple. It could be fun, but it ignores all the other problems these two have. It takes a belt sander to their other facets about how they can make each other worse.

Linda is quiet, incredibly skilled, and fiercely loyal. She's also a super under-socialized S-II. Miller is a kind of whiny, smart S-IV who's building confidence at his job but he exists in the "we have to spell things out for you" halo media.

Borrowing an initial meeting from @bloodgulchblog's speeddating au, the Infinity has a speed-dating event. People who would not usually talk meet at a table for 3 minutes. They leave. Miller now has a S-II haunting him because of miscommunication/ she adopts the ones she likes. S-IIs engaging in a light-hearted speed-dating event with the focus and rigor of an active mission would be so so funny.

Miller is the guy in the chair feeding her intel on exercises and missions, that's new and helpful. Point for Miller. Linda is observant, works well under pressure (I wish she got more personality than being zen and loyal), and would take Miller's intel seriously. Point for Linda. Miller can be worn down to agree with the most insane plans if they're the only viable option, Linda is a S-II, all their plans are insane. Point for Miller.

It wouldn't be a straightforward relationship. Spartan Courting could be insane. Affection showed differently. Looking out for each other, sharing food, Linda ominously t-posing just outside render distance. Miller gets a single thank you or good job and he's amazed. The Handler/Sniper dynamic of trusting the calls and evac. You need to know how the other will react and will trust you to get the job done. Needing to know they will pull you out of the fire and bring you home. Linda camping out for hours to get a shot but she lets the funny guy she found in on the radio.

[dathen]

Something that strikes me about Mina’s letter to Lucy today is how, as responsible and go-getter as it is, she sees Lucy as a confidante and a respite from having to bottle everything up. She complains about work and wishes they could hang out in person so Mina can be FULLY honest with her.

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

She’s yearning for that openness that only being with Lucy can bring.

[writeforfandoms]

I just wanted to let you know that I love all of your fics, I first found your writing through the CoD fandom but you singlehandedly made me interested in Halo again. I never realized how much lore the games/books/tv show have since I was pretty young when the first few games were coming out, but your writing made me want to revisit them and its given me brain rot. so thanks for that <3

Friend, I held on to this for a long time. Because this has meant the world to me. I've been having a very busy time in RL and I haven't written anything in weeks. But this? This message? Every time I came back to read it I smiled and felt much better about everything. This means so much to me, it really does. I can't thank you enough for your timing and your kindness. I hope you've been well and you're having a wonderful day. 💖

[julymp4]

nonexhaustive list of iwtv s2 predictions

three way kiss (loumandstat OR dubai trio)

devils minion sex scene breaks containment and some conservative nut tweets abt it (which leads to s3 announcement)

louis and madeleine argue over claudia's wellbeing at some point (lou loses)

someone will be put on a leash (theatre de vamp segment?)

loumand knuckle/hand kiss (will def happen 100% dont even second guess it)

[all-thestories-aretrue]

I am TAKING NOTES about that Wynn, Britta, Neil conversation in 89. I will need to relisten to that for reasons But boy. Britta wanting Pendragon. How fraught. I am living for the inner turmoil she has 😈😈😈

Neil AND Wynn talking about their own experiences and their candid views on Pendragon. Deep deep character insights. My favorite.

I will now take all that info, extrapolate it, and twist it for my own sick fanon purposes.

[enigmaticdiary]

misc

sorry to the person i vagued🙏🏾

[randomwordzard]

@whoareyoueventhough

oh the poetry of punks and their patches. this one is for the band that got me through 9th grade, this one’s is a matching one i didn’t realize the first boy i loved kept on his vest when we didn’t talk for years, this is a piece of lace i found on the ground, this is the backside of one of the first ones i made, this one my brother made me, this is a precious memory, this is a shared commitment, this is my heart on my sleeve. this is my soul that i wear around this is a tapestry of the ppl i’ve loved.

[wedarkacademia]

- Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945)

[poisonheadcrabsalesman]

I should strive to put more of the sci-fi nonsense in the longform palmer lasky thing because I think it'd be interesting to have Lasky react to his new coworkers as having tracking devices, experimental organs, and microchips tracking their vitals at all times embedded in their bodies.

Palmer eating her Spartan Meal designed by nutritionists and scientists while Lasky attempts small talk and he learns Too Much because she was a Helljumper and a marine and now a Spartan, TMI is something they train into you when they pick you for command. She thinks it's bonding and he's trying and failing to eat his own lunch now.

[divinediva]

remember as a kid thinking Monster House was so beautiful because that was his wife and he couldn’t leave her…

[elamarth-calmagol]

It's a combination of 1, 9, and 11, I'm pretty sure. Also, they're more powerful as a whole group.

Can I please ask for your top five theories on why the Ringwraiths become so much more powerful over the course of the LotR trilogy? By the end of the books a single Ringwraith holds an army of 6000 men in paralysing dread from a height of a mile, they're dismaying hosts of men, etc. And in the beginning, they're easily defeated by "jumping behind a tree," "pretending to be in a different room," "getting on a little boat," "man with a stick on fire," etc.

hmm ok

1) their power depends on how physically close they are to sauron/mordor

2) they consciously weren’t unleashing their full power early in Fellowship bcos it didn’t seem worth it when they were just dealing w hobbits

3) they just woke up from a REALLY long nap and it takes them a while to fully come ‘online’

4) their power just waxes & wanes sometimes

5) hobbits are their One Weakness 

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

Because of the fact that BTV rarely repeated episodes during the Classic Era,

most Inspectators filled their need to revisit the Inspector’s adventures by reading the novelisations, which often included added details that were cut from the serials when they originally aired.

[meow--wows]

BECOME AS GODS

[eggwishing]

I ONCE TRIED TO WASH THAT SCUFFED OLD THING WHILE HE WAS TAKING ONE OF HIS NAPS, BUT WHEN I TOOK IT OFF HE WAS WEARING ANOTHER IDENTICAL ONE UNDERNEATH! AND ANOTHER! I GOT THROUGH TEN MORE LAYERS OF THE SAME THING BEFORE HE WOKE UP. I WAS SO FRUSTRATED! WHERE DID HE EVEN GET THOSE FROM? THEY ALL EVEN HAD THE SAME STAINS!!

[bubreherro]

I feel I need to write my understanding of their characterization. There’s always so much that comes up and out and it’s like sand pieces that turn into a castle eventually. They’re beautiful

Also I believe @f1-stuff is the Charlos historian and she keeps feeding my Charlos reference library

Did carlos also used the friend word? Do you know when?

Hi, so I actually compiled some links mostly for myself, but also for you and anyone else interested. See below the cut!

Times Charles has referred to Carlos as a "friend":

The most recent instance: 'He has obviously become a friend.'

‘We were already good friends before we joined Ferrari.'

'We have a very special relationship. I mean, we are obviously friends outside the track as well. We are sharing good moments. We spend so much time - I mean, I see Carlos more than my own family...'

Times Carlos has referred to Charles as a "friend":

'My teammate and I are friends off the track, we get along very well and we have a very good relationship. And we make a very good team. I think that if there is something that worked and works in Ferrari, it is the two drivers...' (translated from Spanish)

This is just what I could track down, but if anyone knows of others let me know!

Carlos has spoken about how he and charles get along very well, but that it's hard for him (and other drivers) to truly be friends with their teammates bc they're always so competitive with each other, and there's so much pressure to beat one another. ("Friend is a strong word that I don’t like using for anything or anyone.") And combine that with what we know about how, as a kid, he was surprised by other kids he thought were his friends running him off track and out of the race, we can see how much weight he applies to the 'friend' label.

To Carlos, I think a 'friend' is someone that a part of his brain would hesitate to race too hard against, and he can't let that happen with his teammate, who he wants and needs to beat more than anyone. He can afford to maybe leave Lando or Alonso a little more space on track bc he values his relationship with them as friends, and they're not currently his teammates. But he can't let himself have that relationship with Charles, or, for that matter, Alex next season.

Will he be able to say that he and Charles are friends more readily next year when they aren't teammates any longer? I think so. That was certainly the case with Lando. But I also think his relationship with Lando was a bit different - Lando was almost like a little brother to him. With Charles, he's more firmly a peer, and I think that hyper-competitiveness between them may always linger, right up until they aren't racing eo anymore, maybe especially bc their partnership was cut short before either could win a championship as teammates.

Time will tell, but it's clear that they already view their time together very fondly. They've spoken plainly about 'hating each other' inside the helmet when they've battled and disagreed, but that they always make up after two minutes. It's beautiful that they can always come back to the respect they have for one another. It's a unique relationship, and I look forward to seeing how it evolves in the years to come. ❤️

[cherriielle]

ye who know of death before life is done ⚜🩸