#we will never be -escu's

[officialromaniantranslatiuni]

Random piece of information I need to research because it is too chaotic for me: the reason why people have the 'possessive female name' last name is because during invasions, women would get r*ped and their husbands would not recognise the children as their own, so the children received the "belonging to their mother" last name...

[molagboop]

Long time no model post. Last time I did this, the image limit was 10. Now I am bound by no such constraints. Let's take a look at a statue from Ferenia. Specifically, chozosancstatuebig02mirror.

I'll preface this by saying I haven't done anything to make the textures look more like they may in-game (e.g.: making the gold portions look more metallic).

What we're looking at is a black and gold statue depicting a kneeling Mawkin warrior wearing a red cape. It holds a soldier's spear in its left hand, and its right hand is enclosed in a fist, touching the ground.

This statue appears in Escue's arena alongside two other statues: chozosancstatuebig02 (left) and chozosancstatuebig01 (center). chozosancstatuebig02mirror and chozosancstatuebig02 are identical, except the mirrored version is just that: flipped. sancstatuebig02 is kneeling on the left knee, and sancstatuebig02mirrored has its right knee touching the ground.

The subject of today's post is on the right-hand side of the above screenshot. We take a closer look at it beneath the cut, reaping the full advantage of Tumblr's spankin' new (several months-old now) 30 image limit.

The model is comprised of two meshes: the cape and the statue. It has no bones, as expected of a prop, and the textures are pretty low res because it's a background element that's not intended to be seen up close. This helps the developers save space on the cartridge, and the game doesn't have to render super detailed textures that you're never going to scrutinize in-game (at least not very closely).

I've removed the cape to examine the whole statue. It's modeled in full: unlike some larger props (and some NPCs: see Quiet Robe's chest), there is no vacant hole beneath the cape.

As you might have expected by looking at it during gameplay, its design doesn't deviate terribly from the Chozo Soldier NPCs. It's like someone posed a soldier, removed its bones, changed the colors, and crunchified the textures.

I gotta say, I appreciate the Mawkin's dedication to realism with this one. Some of their statues are styled or have a lot of edges and fancy details, but this is just a guy.

If I may be a nerd for a minute or two, it seems like this one embodies values that a warrior tribe may hold dear: gravity, duty, humility. In the boss room, two kneeling statues flank a standing warrior draped in cloth.

We're not given any context as to who they are or what exactly this represents, but the standing warrior in the center of the arrangement appears to be a figure of some renown: like a decorated officer flanked by a selection of solemn warriors. The Mawkin are warriors: their army seems to be a large part of their culture. Respect for one's betters, the act of honoring someone who stands out for their exceptional martial prowess: that's what I think of when I look at this.

I don't know who this is, but the arrangement gives off military ceremony vibes. According to "Adam", Ferenia is a temple complex, and the site of many ceremonies. Maybe one was held here.

The concept art shown here is from page 103 of the Metroid Mission Logs. The first image is on the top half of the page, the second is near the bottom. I can appreciate that they gave us two versions: the dramatic lighting in the second version is stunning, but I also like being able to see the room under more neutral light.

That's enough out of me. Here are some close-ups of the spearhead.

I tried to capture the detail in the front of the blade, crunchy as the textures may be. There are three pointed grooves in the center of the blade's front.

It doesn't appear any different from the... "living" soldier's spears.

The cape's going back on so I can talk about it.

The cloth rests just above the base of the neck, draped over the area behind the shoulders and falling over the back. The right foot is clipping through the back of the cape (from the leg with the knee on the ground), but that's a secret between us and the developers: you never see this during play.

I wanted to paint a better picture of where the breastplate ends and the cloth begins, so I took a few more shots.

You thought we were doing one statue today? No! We're also looking at chozosancstatuebig01.

This one also possesses two meshes, and they're the same as the last one: a cape and the rest of the statue.

As previously stated, this one differs from its companions in that it's standing instead of kneeling. The cloth is draped over its front instead of its back, but it doesn't wrap around the whole of the figure. It also appears tattered, like there's supposed to be more cloth covering the other half of the statue. The strands hanging over the left side could just be tassels or decorative drapery hanging off the main bit. Like it's wearing a cloak. Or a half-cape.

If you look at the concept art, that seems to be the case: there are gold stripes at the base of the strips, as well as at the top of the greater drape. If you look really closely at the red drape on the statue in the image above, you'll notice there may be traces of this idea left on the cloth, but they're not quite as golden as they appear in the concept art. The stripes on the tassels are hardly visible in the texture!

I wish the concept was translated with more clarity: I dig the idea of a soft, velvety, ceremonial drape with golden embroidery.

Something I find peculiar is the three circular indentations on the front of the chestplate, in the section between the concave indicators of where those red lights are on normal soldiers. There's one tiny hole on the left-hand side, and two larger holes on the right.

There are also two holes in the right bicep, a dent in the left bicep, and a big chunk taken out of the upper left leg. It stands to reason that these blemishes might be the result of long-term wear and tear: environmental damage, Silent Spear falling backwards into the arrangement like an idiot, that sort of thing. Who knows?

The blade on this one's spear is wider than the other statue's, and their construction is different, as well. The pole isn't visible halfway through the back of the blade on the other statue.

That about does it. Thanks for sticking with me, and expect more statueposting.

[zoradementio]

Interesting thing I just realized about the Four Lords & Miranda

So, we know that Resident Evil: Village takes place somewhere in Romania. You can tell because the currency in game is Liu, which is the real-life name of Romania’s currency. But when thinking about the Four Lords and Miranda, something struck me as odd. Namely, none of them seem to actually be directly of Romanian decent, at least based off their names. Let’s start with easiest origins to hardest.

Donna Beneviento: Although the surname does not seem like an actual surname (or at lest is not common enough to have been listed on sites like Behind the Name), the origins for both are definitely Italian in origin. Donna, though being a name mostly used in English, comes from the Italian word for “lady”. While Beneviento could come from a few places. For one, it could be taken from a city in Italy called Benevento. Second, it could be a combination of the Italian word for good “bene” and the Spanish word for wind “viento”. And finally, the surname also sounds similar to “benvenuto” an Italian word meaning welcome. Another note is her mother’s name, Claudia. Although the name is used in many different countries, it is included as being both Romanian and Italian. Heck, the name is even pronounced the same between the two (KLOW-dya rather than the English KLAW-dee-ə). This could mean that Donna’s mother was either a village native or a foreigner like presumably her father. Angie is a very similar case. Though the name Angie itself is more of a specifically English name, it is a shortened form of Angela, a name that does again appear in both Italian and Romanian. But for the most part here, all roads lead to Rome(an Italy).

Karl Heisenberg: While the name Karl can come from a a good many places, based on his surname I’d say he’s German. “Heisen” likely comes from the German word “heißen”, meaning to call. Meanwhile, “berg”, meaning mountain, is a common word used in Germanic surnames. Though, to be fair, the reasonings behind the surname could also be aplied to Norwegian as well. But I doubt a surname would uses the word for “the elevator” in it. So yeah, I’d say it’s safe to say he’s German.

Miranda: Since she doesn’t have a surname to worry about, that means we’ve only got to worry about her on a first name basis. Miranda is a name that can be found in both English and Dutch. Now, I can’t be quite sure which side of that to pin her down as. Hell, even the name Eva doesn’t help much as it’s found all over the fucking place. My best guess would be that she leans more towards English decent, but either or could go.

Salvatore Moreau: Here is where we get into the trickier ones. Now, Salvatore, at least based on the spelling, is the Italian variation of Salvador. However, we never got a pronunciation of the name (at least to my knowledge) so it could be either “sal-va-TO-reh” or “sal-va-TOR”, which if it was the later would make the name more similar to a Late Roman version of the name, Salvator (note the lack of terminal e). Though, one other thing to note is that apparently during certain periods of the 1900′s, it was also a relatively popular French name. Thankfully, Moreau is the one surname of the four that actually shows up on Behind the Name. It’s listed as a French diminutive of the Late Roman name Maurus. Based on all that, I would guess that he’s probably French. Frog legs, yum.

Alcina Dimitrescu: Now this is where we truly enter Village of Shadows difficulty here. For one, Alcina is a name that originated in theater, specifically from an opera of the same name. Although the name is sometimes attributed as a feminine version of the Greek Alcinous. Her last name’s origin is not better. Her name comes from “Dimitr” the Slavic rendering of Demeter with the  Romanian patronym, “escu”. On top of all that, in-game, the name is pronounced as if it were French. Her daughter’s names aren’t much help either. Bela, based on how it’s spelled, is either Georgian, Spanish, or Portuguese, Cassandra is English, French, and Greek, and Daniela is all over the place. So, my best guess is that Alcina is either Greek, Slavic, or is actually the only household that actually has any amount of Romanian decent.

“So what?” I hear you ask. “It’s an RE game, it’s not like any of this is actually important.” But there is another aspect I’d like to point out. And that is the names of the other villagers. All of them are Romanian names. Even Elena’s last name, Lupu, is a Romanian surname. So this does beg the question, just why and how did four families find their way to a middle of nowhere village in Romania and establish themselves as the fore-founders of it?

[lacrimosathedark]

Who'd like some good old fashioned name analysis?

Okay, so, I been doing so much research for Resident Evil stuff and learning shit about fairy tales and timelines and genome editing and searching for impossible Romanian poetry I got overwhelmed and went, fuck it. Why not just look at their names? Maybe I'll learn something there.

So, here I have done it. Name meanings for characters of the Mold Saga so far aka 7 and 8 aka Biohazard and Village.

(Sorry I'm on mobile I'll put a cut here when I can)

Ethan: Firm, enduring, strong, impetuous, long-lived. An incredibly consistently common and popular name. E name just like Eveline, so could be a successor of sorts to the mold.

Mia: Derivative of numerous other names of many possibilities. Mia as a word means “mine” in Italian and Spanish. Mamma Mia is a well known Italian phrase, particularly due to the ABBA song and musical of the same name, and it being the catchphrase of the Nintendo character Mario. The phrase means “my mom”.

Winters: First and last season of the year where everything becomes dormant and cold and either dies or sleeps.

Eveline: Contains “Eve”, as in both the biblical first woman. Also means a night before an event, and the game takes place in the span of one night. The name Eve means “ life”, “living one”, “mother of life”, or “giver of life”. Another possible name origin is as a variant of Aveline, which is a diminutive of Ava, which is the same pronunciation as the name Eva as pronounced in Village.

Baker: Occupational surname. In older times consider an upper-middle class job, much like the family. Also adds the emphasis of the “food” and also how they essentially make more molded.

Jack: God is gracious, supplanter. A nickname for John and other related names, but also a name in itself. It is also a word with a couple meanings, including a heavy lifting tool, to steal something, to take control of something, or an everyman.

Margueritte: Pearl. French name for ox-eyed daisy. Derived from Margaret. Sounds like maggot.

Lucas: Light. Derived from Lucius which means “the bright one” or “the one born at dawn”. Luke is also an Apostle of Jesus and was a physician.

Zoe: Life. Came from the name Eve. Fitting as Zoe was practically pushed out of the family after Eveline’s arrival, replaced as the daughter of the family.

Joe: He will add. Was added as DLC. Short for Joseph. Joseph is the name of multiple biblical figures. One is a child of Jacob and Rachel and Jacob’s favorite son in Genesis (note: Jack is a nickname for Jacob) who was sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, but rose to become vizier, the most powerful position nest to the Pharoah, and forgave his family and brought them to Egypt. One is the husband of Mary, the mother of Jesus, who loved and raised a child he knew was not his against social norms. Another is a disciple known as Joseph of Arimathea who notably took Jesus down from the cross for his burial and testified when he revived and was gone. 

Rosemary: Dew of the sea. Combination of Rose and Mary or the plant rosemary. Roses as a plant vary in meaning depending on color. Mary and its variations have many differing meanings, among them being, “beloved”, “love”, “bitter”, “rebellious”, “wished-for child”, and “drop of the sea”. There are also the allusions to Mary, mother of Jesus as she is sometimes worshipped with roses, and you say Hail Marys on your rosary which is only two letters from her name. In regards to the plant, it is relatively resistant to drought and cold, though some breeds are susceptible to frost and they don’t like too much water. They have fibrous roots, so they spread and fan out like we see with the mold. They thrive in more alkaline soils and seem to have been named by a taxonomist named Carl  Linnaeus. In stories, folklore, and tradition, the plants or flowers are often used for remembrance, specifically for the dead. It’s also been used as a spice and in medicine.

Miranda: Worthy of admiration. Latin in origin. Character in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and whether she is a strong female character or not is highly debated, as she frequently defies men like her father, but often when they expect and/or want her to. She is otherwise compassionate and naive. The titular character of a Polish novel in which everyone is a mage and Miranda is a medium connected to another character, Damayanti, who is portrayed as the ideal woman and has a romance with the male protagonist, yet sacrifices her body so her spirit can experience a higher state of consciousness. Miranda can contact her soul, and disappears when she dies. Miranda in the US refers to the required practice by police of reading suspects their rights before interrogation.

Eva: Latin form of “Eve” and meaning “life”, “mother of life”, or “giver of life”.

Duke: A ruler of a duchy. A title bestowed by royalty or passed through family, often given to royalty or nobility, but can be given to anyone. In France,  the peerage system was abolished in 1789 (vive la révolution), brought back in 1814, and finally perma-abolished in 1848. 

(Note: While the wife of a duke becomes a duchess, the husband of a duchess does not become a duke. At least, from what I gather. This shit is confusing.)

Alcina: Strong-willed. Greek origin. There are two operas using the same story about a sorceress named Alcina who lives on an island with her sister Morgana and seduces every knight who comes to the island, but turns them into plants, animals, or stones when she bores of them. When the source of her power is destroyed, she, her sister, and their palace crumble to dust. The Hungarian name for Alțâna, a commune in Sibiu County, Romania in the historical region of Transylvania.

Bela: Bela Lugosi was an actor who famously portrayed Dracula. His name is Hungarian and meant to be spelled Béla meaning “heart”, “insides”, or “intestines”, roughly translating to “having heart” or “having guts” in modern terminology, as in being brave. However it is considered a male name and as Bela is female there is also the possibility of the influence of the name Bella short an l, Bella an Italian name meaning “beautiful”.

Cassandra: The one who shines and excels over men. Name of a Trojan princess and priestess in Greek mythology. She was given her gift of prophecy by the god Apollo but, in most versions of the tale, he asks for sexual favors in return, and she initially agrees but then rejects him once she’s gotten her gift. In anger he cursed her to always tell true prophecies that no one would believe and was thus thought a madwoman. She served a temple of Athena, goddess of wisdom, handicraft, and warfare. When Cassandra was assaulted and possibly raped in Athena’s temple and dragged out while desperately clinging to Athena’s statue, Athena was so enraged by the damage done to her temple and/or her priestess that she enlisted the help of both Zeus and Poseiden to exact revenge on the Greeks for failing to punish the man who attacked Cassandra and caused the resulting damage. Zeus gave her one of his own bolts of lightning and she struck them down at sea. While Cassandra was never believed, she was always right.

Daniela: God is my judge. Feminine form of Daniel. Daniela is also a genus of moth with only one species in the genus, Daniela viridis. It is also another name for the Italian wine grape Prè blanc.

Dimitrescu: Child of Dimitri. -escu suffixes in Romanian are like -son suffixes in English, it derives from parentage (ex. Jackson is Jack’s son, Dimitrescu is Dimitri’s child). Dimitri means “devoted to Demeter”. Demeter is the Greek goddess of the harvest, agriculture, sacred law (i.e. cycle of life and death), fertility, and the earth. Like many Greek myths, she is repeatedly wronged, and rather severely, by multiple male figures. Demeter in particular is a mother who has her daughter Kore, later known as Persephone, stolen away from her and goes on a rampage searching for her and those responsible.

(Note: Considering the founders had these names it’s a bit dumb seeing as this trend of parentage -escu names supposedly came about mid 19th century (1800s for those who find that confusing cuz I do), long after the Village was founded)

Donna: Lady or lady of the home. Italian name and a title of respect. Derives from the Latin term Dominus. The Romanian form of the word (not the name) is Doamnã. The Atropa belladonna aka deadly nightshade have berries and foliage that contain tropane alkaloids including atropine, scopolamine, and hyoscyamine which are extremely toxic and can cause hallucinations and delirium, but are also used in pharmaceutical anticholinergics. Throughout history people cluelessly used the berry juice as eye drops to cosmetically dilate their pupils, giving them a seductive doll-eyed appearance. Symptoms of belladonna poisoning are dilated pupils, sensitivity to light, blurred vision, tachycardia, loss of balance, staggering, headache, rash, flushing, severely dry mouth and throat, slurred speech, urinary retention, constipation, confusion, hallucinations, delirium, and convulsions. The plant's deadly symptoms are in atropine’s ability to disrupt the parasympathetic nervous system’s involuntary regulation like sweating, breathing, and heartbeat.

Angie: Diminutive of many names containing “angel”. Angels are messengers and warriors of Heaven, a realm souls go after death. Angel statues are also common grave markers. Children are also often told they have guardian angels, a being watching over them to protect them.

Claudia: No sure meaning has been found, but some think it comes from claudus, meaning “lame”, “limping”, or “crippled”, or clausus, which means “shut” or “closed”.

Beneviento: Good wind. Neapolitan spelling of Benevento, the name of both a province and its capital city, located in the Campania region of Italy.

Salvatore: Savior. Italian name. In the movie version (I specify as I have not read the book and the movie synopsis has more on the characters) of The Name of the Rose, the character Salvatore is hunch-backed and twisted, and has a history of not-really-acceptable religious beliefs. He was also tortured and falsely accused of witchcraft. He dies when a library is set on fire.

Moreau: Moorish, dark-skinned. French surname. Titular doctor in The Island of Doctor Moreau, in which said doctor performs disturbing and torturous experiments on people and animals, especially through vivisection, to make beastial humanoid creatures.

Karl: Free man, strong man, manly. Werner Karl Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist who made notably important contributions to hydrodynamics, ferromagnetism, cosmic rays, and subatomic particles. Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, and socialist revolutionary who believed societies develop through class conflict, and in a capitalist society this is the “ruling” class (the bosses) having power over the working class. He believed people should have equal footing and should and would inevitably fight for it. Karl Jaspers was a German existentialist philosopher and psychiatrist. His humanist ideals had him dissatisfied with the medical community’s approach to mental health and worked to improve it, and philosophizing on it after.

(IMPORTANT NOTE: Since I’ve seen accusations of the RE character and his influences being so, I feel I must state it here. Karl Heisenberg is NOT a Nazi. Both Heisenberg and Jaspers lived through World War II and neither were Nazis. Jaspers was blackwalled because of his Jewish wife. Heisenberg was forcibly drafted into the Army Weapons Bureau, but pre-war he had been repeatedly slandered as a “white Jew” and his career held back, and post-war became more political, worked against traditional primacy in the education system, and actively protested the government considering equipping the army with American nuclear weapons. Capcom reps have also stated that Karl Heisenberg has nothing to do with Nazis.)

Heisenberg: Calling mountain (could not find a specific definition, “heisen” means “to call” and “berg” means “mountain or hill”). Reference to Werner Karl Heisenberg, (explained above). Likely unrelated, but another well-known (in the US at least) name thief of Heisenberg comes from the popular TV show Breaking Bad as the alias/street name for the main character Walter White who takes the name and starts selling drugs when he is unable to afford medical care for his in-need child, but grows more twisted throughout the series. Also place name.

Berengario: Italian form of Berengar, which is derived from Germanic root words meaning “bear” and “spear”.

Cesare: Italian form of the Latin word Caesar, which is an imperial title like an emperor or empress. The word Caesar itself may come from caesaries meaning “hairy”. 

Guglielmo: Italian form of the Germanic William, meaning “vehement protector” or “desired helmet”

Nichola: Anglicized form of the Greek Nikolaos meaning “victory of the people”. Also a variant of Nicholas (Considered a female variant but fuck gender roles and the description says he.). This character is also referred to as Father like a priest I looked into saints and while I found no notable Saint Nichola (meaning on Wikipedia) there are multiple Saint Nicholases, most notably Saint Nicholas of Myra, also known as the Wonderworker and the model of Santa Claus. Stories of him include gifting gold coins through a window of a home for three nights to prevent three girls from being forced into prostitution, calming a storm at sea, saving three soldiers from execution, and chopping down a possessed tree. More connected to where his treasure is found, there is also a tale of him resurrecting three children who had been murdered by a butcher who had had intended to sell their meat as “pork” during the famine.

*BONUS TIME*

By that I mean these are less important so I did slightly less research and/or didn’t  feel like typing all the research so there’s less info, but it’s still relevant, so here you go!

Chris: A rare name in its own right, often a shortened version of names like Christopher, meaning “Christ-bearer”, and Christian, as in the religion.

Redfield: Literally red field. Fitting for the trail of blood in his wake because have mercy on any of his enemies, but regrettably including many of his friends and allies (rip in peace Piers Nivans). 

Elena: Shining light. Greek origin.

Leonardo: Strong as a lion. Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese version of Leonard.

Lupu: Wolf. Romanian surname. Fitting as the surname of the man we saw become a lycan before our eyes. 

Luiza: Renowned warrior. Polish, Portuguese, and Romanian name.

Iulian: Romanian name from the Greek iulius meaning “youthful” or “juvenile”, or ioulos meaning “downy-bearded”.

Vasile: Romanian name from the Greek basileus meaning ”king”. Vasile Voiculescu wrote a poem called Schimnicul, The Recluse in English, about varcolacul.

(Note: For those who don’t recall or didn’t notice his name in Ethan’s diary, this is Luiza’s husband.)

Rolando: Famous throughout the land. Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese variant of Roland.

Elba: Spanish form of Alba, which can mean “dawn”, “white”, or “elf”, depending on origin.

Dion: Shorter form of Greek Dionysios meaning “of Zeus”.

Wilson: Lineage surname, “Will’s son”. Very common surname in English.

Charlie: A name in itself but often a nickname for names like Charles meaning “man” or “warrior”

Graham: Gravelly homestead. Habitational surname, apparently derived from Grantham in Lincolnshire, England.

John: God is gracious. The most common name ever with the most variations.

Perlman: Ashkenazi Jewish surname. Also literal, “perl” possibly meaning “pearl” thus being an occupational name, or Perl being a woman’s name making it mean “husband of Perl”.

Emily: Rival. Latin name. 

Berkoff: Could be Jewish, Dutch, or German surname. Definition not quite certain, but likely related to birch trees.

Josef: German, Czech, and Scandinavian version of Joseph.  

Simon: He has heard. From Hebrew Shim’on.

Roxana: Bright, dawn. Latin form of Greek Rhoxane and Persian Roshanak.

Anton: Priceless, praiseworthy, flower.

Sebastian: From the Latin name Sebastianus which meant “from Sebaste”. Sebaste is a town in Asia Minor and comes from the Greek word sebastos meaning “venerable”.

Eugen: Well-born.Romanian form of Eugene. From the Greek name Eugenios. 

(Note: This is the man who lived in the house with the red chimney.)

Ernest: Serious. Germanic name.

(Note: This man is noted to be missing in a letter to Luiza and his diary is found with the Cannibal’s Plunder in Otto’s Mill.)

[obscureoperations]

If Martin's lover is being teased by a guy, what would he do? Would he try to confront the boy? Would you avoid the fight?

Think lowkey confrontation. He happens upon the scene and acts solely from instinct beyond then. This is sorta bad yall

~

With a sigh you shove your roller skates into your gym bag, lacing up your sneakers ignoring the annoying blonde. To think when you first spotted him, you thought he was cute, though pale in comparison to your lover. It was just a simple observation.Ever since Martin, you barely noticed other guys. None of them had his full pout and gorgeous eyes.None of them looked at you like their hearts wanted to explode the second you called their name. He stood across the ring chatting with one of the other instructors, casting you not so subtle glances. At this point you just wanted to get out of there. You were a sweaty mess and craved a shower. Martin was supposed to be meeting you, you glance at your watch. You had no idea where he was. Hopefully he didnt get held up at the shop. If he did, you knew he was probably so anxious to call, just to let you know what was wrong.

As soon as you laced up your sneakers reaching for your bag, two long toned legs stepped to move in front of you. “Oh gods...” 

As you sat up fully you were greeted by a full on smirk from the lithe instructor, hands poised on his hips, dangling earring glinting in the light. 

“I just want to let you know that I’m impressed. Do you come here often for practice?” He asked.

“Yeah...” You offer as you stand. Slinging the bag over your shoulder. 

“I have second spot on the roller derby team.”

“I can tell--”

“Excuse me?”

“I mean ,I can tell that you must be on the team. Half the other morons that stumble through here can barely chew gum and speak at the same time.Let alone be trusted with skates. I’m Jim by the way.. “he says, extending his hand.

“Y/n...” you reply, briefly grasping for his hand. He held on for a bit longer than you would have liked.

~

In a haste Martin turned the corner, he honestly hoped you wouldn’t be angry. Cuda seemed to not want him to leave as he went over the tasks for tomorrow morning. He could have easily told him this at home, but he had a feeling he just wanted to make him stay behind. He nearly sprinted to the bus stop, he had to get there in time. before that he wanted to be early enough to see you in action. That would clearly have to be at another time-- but at this point, he just wanted to see you. 

As he steps into the ring, the dim lights soothes his eyes, he removes his shades shoving them in his pocket. As he scans the room, you were no where to be seen. For a moment he starts to panic. Was he really that late? He glances down at his watch,no. It was only two minutes past three. Where were you? He continues to scan the room and then he spots you standing by the bleachers. You were talking to someone, a man-- ta bit taller than he was. About six three with styled blonde hair. Leaning into you, laughing as though you were the funniest person on earth. A sick feeling settled at the pit of his stomach, which he quickly tried to dispel.  You were talking. You were free to talk to whoever you wanted. He just didn’t like the way he was leaning into you.

~

“You really should check it out, I’m literally the most popular instructor over there... my clients cant get enough of me!” He boasts

“Sure, I’ll have to check on that escus-”

“Wait, here’s my card!” As he reached into the pocket of the shorts that were a bit too high, you note that he takes a moment to re adjust himself. Oh for fucks sake...where is Martin?

“I appreciate your offer, but I don’t really have time to go to an aerobics class. I mostly train from home.” 

Jim’s face falters only slightly, before running his tongue over his teeth, at this point no longer attempting to hide his blatant leering.

“Like I said... I can tell. Give me a try for about a week.After that,I bet you won’t be able to keep away.”

You were just about to say screw it all , flip him off and make for the exit. But that was when a  familiar arm slips around your waist, you could have sworn you visibly exhaled.

“ Martin! Come on lets go” You whisper, after gently pecking him on the cheek. His feet remains firmly in place. “Are you okay?” His eyes never leave ‘Jim’.

 “Yes, of course, I’m just so happy that you’re here... C’mon, lets go!”

“Martin? Hi, I was just talking with your babysitter here... I think she should really consider taking my class.”

whats with this guy?

“ Babe, we should leave...” You whisper, but not before, sparing Martin another kiss on the cheek. You could practically feel him vibrating from anger, the grip on your waist tightens like a vice. “Jim” Made no attempt to hide his blatant leering, tongue once again traveling over his teeth. He could feel you leaning against him, fingertips grasping at the hem of his shirt. You were shaking slightly, as you glance over his shoulder, taking a moment to rest your forehead against him. 

Hurt. I could really hurt him right now There were just so many other people around. Every second that the obnoxious blonde arrogantly allowed himself to look at you made him sick to his stomach. The way you clung to him so tightly as if you were afraid. He glances down to the name tag on his chest. Jim, I could hurt you really bad.

Jim extends his hand once again,offering you his card. The second his hand gets mid chest level, Martin reaches out clasping his wrist in an iron grip. 

Jim, we’re not interested, but I know that y/n appreciates the offer.” Martin says lightly. The two of you notes the look of sheer bewilderment on the young man’s face as he glances down at his wrist then back to Martin. He winces slightly, before jerking away.. His grip remained unrelenting. You could see the wheels spinning in his head as the well toned muscles of his forearm contract. Trying in vain to escape the smaller man’s iron grip, why were his fingers so cold? He seemed transfixed on his eyes for a moment, and you could swear that he grew slightly pale. Could he see the yellow? He looked as though he wanted to be sick.

“Right” Jim nods after a moment. He looked to be in some sort of trance.  “Alright man, that’s totally cool...”  As soon as Martin releases him, he stumbles back briefly inspecting his wrist, before glancing around-- running his fingers through his hair.

“Really good practice today y/n..” He nearly trips over his own feet as he steps back. Absentmindedly tugging at his collar-- adjusting his earring out of habit, combing through his hair. Beads of sweat already started to form at his forehead before he darts towards one of the employee rooms.

Your teeth still dug into the insides of your cheeks suppressing a laugh, as you quickly glance over to Martin. His eyes were still trained on the closed door with a small smirk played across his lips. What was he thinking? What did he actually do?

“Martin?”

The sound of his name quickly earns his attention. You were beaming, eyes skimming over his entire frame-- landing on his lips. “Lets go home... yeah?”

[pollylynn]

“That something we’re missing. I think we just found it.” —Richard Castle, The Good, the Bad, and the Baby (6 x 10)

Title: Mad Libs Rating: T WC: 1000

“It wasn’t as bad as you thought it was going to be,” he declares as he steps up behind her and flashes a grin in the mirror. “Admit it.”

“I didn’t think it was going to be bad.” She swats at him lightly with the back of her hairbrush and gives him a sly look. “I admit nothing.”

“Fair enough.” He shrugs. “You thought it was going to be a complete disaster.” Her hand reaches back with certainty born of practice—a lot of practice—but he dances his way clear of another swat.

“Oh, and you thought what?” She goes back to brushing the tangled waves of her hair. “That the Hallmark Channel would be beating down the door to secure to the rights to the story of the first Castle–Beckett–Rodgers–Whatever-the-heck-Pi’s-last-name-is Family Thanksgiving?”

“I don’t think they have last names on Pi’s home planet.” He crosses the room to sit on the bed. He leans down to begin extracting himself from the Pilgrim costume. “But did you see your dad trying to get his real first name out him?” He chuckles to himself as fusses with the baffling shoe covers with their big, fake buckles. “Always thought your interrogation skills came from your mom, but that was impressive.”

“Impressive is one word for it.”

Rude is another word for it. It’s certainly the word Alexis would have used if Martha hadn’t come to the rescue with a phone full of Benny pictures. Her dad, apparently, had developed  an abiding distaste for PI in the space of the elevator ride up from the lobby with no one’s favorite fruitarian. Of course rescue isn’t quite the right word, given how much of the evening’s conversation then revolved around grandchildren and significant looks she’s definitely not prepared to acknowledge. She sets the brush down and sets to work on her own costume. Trying to get the fringed tunic off is kind of like going through a carwash without the car.

“You’re just—” She growls in frustration, and the next second he’s there, lifting the soft faux-buckskin free of her head. She gives him a grateful pat on the cheek before taking the top from him. “You’re just glad to have an ally in the war against Pi.”

“War?” He starts to follow her to the closet, but falls back to the bed when she gives a baleful look to the wide white collar and the general silliness of the costume he hasn’t made much headway on. “I am a reformed man when it comes to Pi. I’m just glad that there was someone at the table your dad hates more than me.”

She freezes in the act of trying to get the stupid, slippery costume on to its hanger. Her head pops out of the closet to gape, but he’s working at the costume’s awkward arrangement of fasteners. “My dad doesn’t hate you.”

“Someone he likes less than me, then,” he shrugs.

It’s an offhand comment, but it’s not at all. Stipulated, she thinks to herself. She remembers her mom, her dad, saying the word to one another, smiling about it sometimes and gritting their teeth others. She thinks about the ebb and flow of tension in her own little family and how long—how very long—it’s been since she’s dealt with any kind of family dynamics beyond just how she and her dad are. How they’ve come to be, and that’s not at all how they were before. She drops the costume in a heap. She throws the hanger on top of it and goes to him.

“My dad doesn’t not like you.” She sits on the bed hard enough to make the mattress bounce. “Castle—”

“Kate, I’m kidding.” His hands fall away from the button under his chin he’s still struggling with.

“You’re not,” she says. She sees the hint of tightness in the smile he gives her. She feels the tension in the squeeze of her knee he means to be reassuring. “You’re not,” she says again. She waits him out.

“I’m . . . mostly kidding.” He draws his hand away. He fiddles with the skirts of the stupid, long black coat. “He’s gotta hate me a little. I let Pi happen, after all.”

“Castle.”

His name is a warning. He heeds it. He caves with a nod at the floor.  

“We’ve been through a lot.” He steals a look at her. His hand twitches toward the scar peeking over the neckline of her camisole. “He’s your dad. He has to wish you were with someone . . . steadier?”

He’s having trouble finding the words. He’s having trouble, so she doesn’t know what hope there is for her. She stares at her knees. At his knees and the rug.

“He never met Josh,” she blurts suddenly. She’s not sure what it has to do with anything, but the next factoid pops up. “And he only met Will by accident.”

“Accident?” He gives her a curious look. She can see his mind working a mile a minute on the information itself, but he still can’t resist the story. “What kind of accident?”

“He’s early. All the time. He showed up at my apartment and Will hadn’t left yet.” Her toes still curl at the memory of four excruciating minutes of Will stammering Sir repeatedly and her dad saying close to nothing at all. She shakes it off, though. She finds what she needs in the uncomfortable memory. In the memories she doesn’t have at all. “Me and my dad—we have a big blank. A lot of big blanks. And we’re both still working out how to fill them.”

“Blanks,” he repeats. “We’ve got those, too.”

He does, she realizes. They do. She thinks about the elbow-bumpingly crowded table and the people who aren’t there.  

“So we fill in the blanks,” she says as she sets to work on the stupid buttons of his stupid costume. “And it’s not always a disaster.”

images via homeofthenutty

A/N: Hitting pause on these again, while I try to work my way clear of some of the bad stuff. I’ll try to be back.

[thenixkat]

Animorphs notes: Megamorphs 2

Megamorphs 2

Marco 1

Saw something on the news and mentioned it to the others leading to everyone in a storm trying to breathe in dolphin morph

Of course its not like sharks need to breath air and might be better in some cases

Marco uses humor to cope

Rainy day

So why are the animorphs getting involved with a sunken nuclear sub?

Marco wants to go out of his way to save people again.

Him and Rachel are like the most likely on the team to become superheros

Or they could put their stuff in a bag and bury it on the beach instead of putting things in the trash?

How exactly do these guys plan on rescuing people?

Cassie 1

Everybody morphs dolphin

They find the sub

Jake 1

Ah yes the plan to kidnap an officer. Totally would have no negative reprocussions

Can’t just act in a weird and obvious manner to direct people to the sub

Sometimes dolphins help people, sometimes dolphins kill people. Its a rulette game as to whichever a dolphin is more interested in at the moment

The writter makes a comment on war and nukes

A nuke goes off and instead of being vaporised by the light the kids get transported through time and space for some reason

Rachel 1

One of these days a kid is gonna get trapped in morph when they’re uncoincious

Cassie’s the only one who had any injuries from the fucking nuke going off

Why is there a volcano over there? There shouldn’t be volcanoes where they are

Rachel watches the Magic Schoolbus

That’s not how plesiosaurs work and you could never mistake them for a whale even with sonar

Ax is smug about those not being whales

Tobias 1

Why the hell are fucking plesiosaurs intered in them in the first place?

Tobias got vored by something big enough to swallow a 10ft at least dolphin whole

This is causing me pain

Rachel got vored by something that can fit 2 ten or so foot dolphins inside its stomach

Looked it up and yeah no, plesiosaurs were def known to not have flexible necks by the time this was written

No that can’t be an ichthyosaur b/c they’re gone by this point in the Cretaceous and the on ly ones that big were likely FILTER FUCKING FEEDERS

Random ass gulper eel dolphin sea monster

Rachel decides that morphing is the best idea in the stomach

Tobias morphs too

Jake 2

Ax doesnt get to have a turn yet what a surprise

Cassie says they should try to rescue Rachel and Tobias, Jake says thats a fucking dumb idea and he’s right

Jake is pissed at people getting themselves eaten and Cassie coming up with dumb fucking idea

There should actually be some seagull like dinosaurs but I think those were discovered much later than these were written

Kids finally put 2 and 2 together and realized that they aint in Kansas anymore

They havent actually put togther the gone back in time bit yet

Jake and the writer seem to be under the impression that dolphins have no natural defenses

They are almost there in realizing what happened

Cassie 2

Still no fucking Ax narration

THESE KIDS ARE REALLY FUCKING DUMB

Sauropods did not leave elephant like foot prints. At all

Nope not figured it out yet

Cassie, you should know that whales can’t swallow whole full gown dolphins

Cassie almost gets eaten by a crocodilian and these kids still haven’t fucking figured it out

Wait a minute. Grass doesn’t exist in this time period

Also Cassie should know better. Herbivores can and will fuck you up with little provication

They finally figured it out

I see we have movie monster Tyrannosaurs

Rachel 2

Wow Ax really doesnt have any rights does he?

...that’s not how anatomy

Bears are not herder to digest than dolphins

This is hurting ,me

Tobias everything you said aside from the hadrosaurs was pure bullshit

Rachel thinks the dinosaur angle is rediculous

Tobias 2

Tobias you have a fucking hork-bajir morph you utter dumbass

Wow Tobias is bad at morphing, he can’t even get rid of his injuries

Tobias gets to be extra useless and cause Rac hel pain by haveing to perch on her

Grass doesnt exist in this time period

There was a gradual decline in the late Cretaceous of nonavien dinosaurs, the asteroid was the last nail in the coffin

T. rex was just another animal not not much more dangerous than say a lion, just bigger

Marco 2

Ax doesnt get to narrate I guess

There is no reason for the tyrannosaur to be chasing them it just made a fucking kill

They aren’t even the right size to be worth the fucking effort either

Marco almost gets eaten and is saved by Ax who papercuts the thing to death

Ax 1

Yeaaaah Ax vs Tyrannosaur should not end in victory for Ax

I flatout don’t belive this rediculousness and my suspension of disbelife died several chapters ago

Ax is fucking shook that worked

Ok good Ax was very very fucking lucky that worked and not gonna try that again

No, Ax, no that is not scientificly possible b/c theres no fucking dna in the fucking fossiles they are bone and other shit shaped rocks

When the fuck did Cassie get any survival skills? Did she decide to brush up after the Karen incident

Well we have ‘I will survive this with or without you’!Cassie today

Yall could actually morph Ax and have your own andalite tails. Or fucking morph hork-bajir

Rachel 3

Grass still doesnt exist yet

At no point did rachel think to escue some modesty and make wraps for her feet

Rachel suggests that Tobias morph human, even perminatly

He is very shit at morphing 

I guess he expects that he’s got days to live as a wounded bird over anything else he could fucking morph

Rachel refuses to fucking make it known that she’s suffering

In what fucking world does that description matach a triceratops

Also deinonychus, not around at the end of the cretaceous

Deinonychus is about almost 3 ft tall at hip and a ft longer than that

Naked ass ones at that

Them going after them at least makes sense

Cassie 3

Camping and eating tyrannosaur meat

Gonna sleep in shifts

People keep forgetting that they have hork-bajir morphs which are amazing and also that they could just aquire Ax

Tobias 3

Nothing about the majority of large dromaeosaurs suggests that they’re fast. The opposite actually. Ambush predators not chasers.

Tobias and Rachel split up

Tobias and the writers forgot about wing assisted incline running and the fact that raptors can fucking climb if the have to

Tobias drops on one and aquires it

Tobias 4?

This is going with the not-dynonicus being diurnal for some reason

Tobias lost control of the morph and will probably attack Rachel

Jake 3

The rock that was the final nail for the dinos is estableshed bvery firmly\

Stampede

And a nother tyrannosaur

Jake trips and falls when it matters most

Rachel 4

Tobias is really serious about not identifying as human

Rachel tries to reach him over smashing the lead raptor

Jake 4

Jake gets vored by the tyrannosaur whole even tho it was already eating bigger more interesting prey

Jake aquires the thing and starts morphing imediately

That tyrannosaur broke its fucking tail

Everyone aquires the injured dinosaur

Marco 3

Marcos not happy and everyone misses Rachel

More travel

Ax says the flash of light that started the stampede was artifical

Did Ax just say he can see ultraviolet and infrared

They find an alien city

Tobias 5

Tobias is bitching about Rachel still being mad that he gutted her

Neither of them are healing their injuries for no good reason

Ew, Tobias gross.

Rachel has a raptor morph now

Rachel isn’t a coherent person when hrungy and tired

Why are there coconut trees? They dont exist yet

Rachel eats a not coconut

No. That is not a fucking spinosaurus. Spino is fucking African and didn’t live at the same time as T.rex

Tobias metally calls Rachel stupid

Rachel 5

This is really fucking poorly reserched

And lo an alien:

And that's when I noticed the other creature step smoothly out from the

bushes.

It walked on two legs. It was rough-textured, like it had really chapped

skin. It was reddish in color. It had two big eyes and a small mouth,

all of the same reddish-rust hue. It stood about eight feet tall. It was

carrying a weapon.

The creature gazed curiously at us with what seemed to be eyes, although

they were mere indentations in its face. From its head a pair of

antennae, flexible as whips, grew and began waving toward us.

The alien calls dibs on the dinosaurs and speaks Fucking English

The nesk

The nesk is a pile of antlike creatures

Anmd really Rachel just fucking escalate things to outright violence

Cassie 4

Cassie suggests that they just go see who the aliens are

And that Jake stay behind b/c she doesnt want to loose more people

The alien city:

We flew toward the shining city in the valley. With osprey eyes I could see much more clearly. I saw buildings that rose in steep, smooth sweeps, like they'd grown from the bedrock. Windows were stuck in odd locations, some aiming out, others more like skylights. And there were fields planted with green and arranged in neat circles instead of rows.

The aliens themselves:

As we got closer, I could see creatures of some sort. They looked a little like large - very large - crabs. Only with shells in a wild array of colors, deep blue, spring green, orange. And while on one side there was something very much like a large pincer, on the other side there was a pair of hands.

Crab people

TRhe kids are attacked by naked pterosaurs

Tobias 6

Wow its almost like starting a fight with an unknown party can go wrong

The ship:

The ground beside me exploded, like it had been ripped by an invisible

plow. I jumped. Another plow mark just behind me! I saw movement. And

there, racing toward us across the plain, was a gleaming, silver craft.

Maybe twice the size of a Bug fighter, but shaped like an elongated

pyramid, long end forward.

The nesk herd Rachel and Tobias away from their claimed territory

Ah they’re falling over the cliff of the mercora city

Jake 5

Daring mid air antics and the team is reunited

Also a force field wich is smart\

Ax is tired of having to be the info guy

At least its not a killer forcefield like the kind that yeerks use

The mercora introduce themselves

Ax 2

Ax and his andalite bullshit

More of the mercora:

There were three of the creatures. They moved upon seven legs. Four on

one side, three on the other. To make matters worse, the four

legs were larger than the three. So they scuttled sideways in the

direction of the small legs.

They stood about half the height of a tall human, and seven or eight

feet wide.

On the side with the four big legs, there was a sort of three-way pincer

claw. It looked very powerful. It looked like the sort of thing I would

not want to have to fight against.

On the other side, the weak side, there were two arms similar to my own,

but even stronger than human arms. The arms ended in long, tapered,

delicate fingers.

There were a lot of eyes. They kept opening and shutting, one or two or

three at a time. They were each hidden beneath tiny trap doors in the

Mercora's exoskeleton or shell. Eyes were forever appearing and

disappearing. It was very, very distracting.

Which is a cool design

They talk in thought speak

Just b/c humans in the future don’t know about the mercora doesnt mean they left or were destroy you dumb fucks

Marco 4

The mercora healed Tobias, gave everyone food, a place to stay and even offered to make them soem clothes

The crabs wear clothing or at least make it

And they have force field furniture

Also that’s not how broccli works

Marco makes a vore joke about the mecora

Really Cassie?

The mercora are herbivores

All you have is the mecoras’ word on that and they are in direct conflict with the nesk 

And so what if they’re scavengers?

Very rarely but sometimes Cassie has a valid point

Ax 3

Ax is still kinda specist

Hmm I wonder why the mercora aprove? Its not like they can have an alterior motive here

And the mercora are going to help

Ax is very lonely in genera;

Cassie 5

The writers are fucking awesomebros

And they can’t control the morphs

Cassie gets wounded by a ceratopsian

Jake 6 

What? We were just with Cassie oh forget it

Jake is suicidally confidant that Cassie wouldn’t eat him

Apparently Jake is right

Cassie freaks out

Ax 3

Tobias keeps being wrong.

The nesk have thought speak detectors

Tobias 7

They group steal an explosive and destroy the nesk ships

Rachel 6

The nesk retaliate very effectively

Ax calls for back up 

TRachel throws herself around to draw away fire from the others

The mercora attempt a rescue and loose a ship

Culture:

The Mercora saucer picked us up, us and our little nuke. But they were a

grim, depressed bunch of aliens. It was hard to tell at first. But then

I noticed that each of them was minus one of their smaller legs. There

were just oozing stumps.

"What happened to your legs?" I asked. But even as the words were out of

my mouth, I saw the limbs in the corner. They were laid out on a

brightly colored cloth which was draped over a shelf. There was

something ceremonial about it. Almost religious.

<Can you explain the meaning of this?> Ax asked politely.

<We must make the sacrifice of pain. The legs will regenerate, but those

we honor will not,> the Mercora pilot said. <This is a symbol. It speaks

to our spirit's pain, by echoing it in physical pain.>

"They did this for the Mercora who were in the other ship?" Jake asked.

<For those who were in both ships,> the pilot said. <To be killed is a

sadness. To kill is a sin.>

Jake says the they owe the mercora for saving them

Fuck you Tobias

Tobias 8

Tobias this is premeditated murder

The nesk have decided to leave the earth

The mercora claim that the nesk altered the path of the meteor

They want to use the bomb to save themselves

Cassie 6

Fuck you Tobias

You need to be held accountable for this shit

Its almost like the vast majority of things to ever live never leave any fucking fossils you nit

This bastard is really trying to justify himself like this is anyway defensible

Fuck you Tobias, you get to join Cassie and Jake in the bin of fucking terrible people

Jake 7

Oh what you little bitch babies can’t handle the consequences?

Tobias deserves his unhappines and eventual death

Cassie 7

Cassie at least decides to bear witness to their crime

CVassie saw the time pass

No good reason given why they can’t retain those morphs

Tobias needs to pay for his shit

[humble-native-blog]

"Deep Conversation"

(Verse 1)

I gave you the best of me,

But you didn't feel the recipe

Constantly, stressin' me...

Testin' me & testin' me.

Actin' like you wanted to invest in me,

But you brought out the less IN me;

The Universe tryin' to lesson me!

You're full of deception see,

& that's why I must go, out of this dome,

story untold!

I guess we'll never really know, how it truly unfolds.

How could you be so cold?!

You took a piece of the soul & turned it into coal,

& even tho we gave it a try,

I have to leave it behind.

You are misleading, cruel & unkind,

& everytime I wanted to drive,

You still ended up guidin' me blind;

Redirecting me back into your guideline.

I don't know what else to say, except fare well & good bye

(Verse 2)

Hold on,

you seem to forget I'm the Matter of everything!

What makes you think this is all on me?!

Im here you so you can achieve greatness n gleam.

Bring you to existence so you can lead,

You take me in when you breath,

But I do nothing for you, Are you kidding me?!

Instead you piss me away like I'm some excuse.

All that I am was created by you!

There's nothing I can do except provide alternate routes,

With a different point of view,

So you can move in the direction you choose!

It's my design that has most people escued,

Open your real eye if you want the truth.

Just don't get me confused when I'm separate from time.

Even the smallest visions still reaches the blind,

If you seek within yourself you will find;

That I'm "The option to continually

change"

My rains are embedded deep inside your DNA.

The shock wave that pumps through your vanes,

You're just thoughts in a space behind the face,

Ashamed of what you do with free will as a man

So watch where you point the blame dear ego...... for I just am...

( Sorry I'm almost done, by now you know the first verse was my ego finally giving up, Life responding with strong passion for the ego. I have another verse to write but an having troubles with it. So it's on a pedestal until I can figure out how to speak from the soul.

I want to make this a set, one on each album, what you think?!)

[johnstonpartyof4]

WEDNESDAY

Day 7- (9-16-20)

ITS WEDDING DAY!

The morning consisted of craziness, everyone getting ready, getting dressed. Separating Kevin from Carrie.

The wedding was beautiful, simple, and tearful. Everyone looked beautiful. It was time to head down the chapel. Since we arrived here if your standing out our balcony down below you could the gazebo where they were getting married. It was fun to watch and see people people getting married for the last several days, it was definately a busy day.

At about 5 after the wedding was over the 15 of us went to the Hatfield McCoy Dinner Show which was a honeymoon rewatch and it was just as good as the first time we saw it. The food is absolutely delicious and so very filling. The entertainment was spectacular and definitely made us laugh, if you've never been strongly encourage going . The girls did absolutely outstanding all day long. We were so proud of them.

Afterward we all headed back to the cabin. Although we eneded up needing escued because Jeremy truck broke down we finally made it to the cabin.

We all got back and got our wedding attire off and put on comfy clothes and continued playing games, it was an early night for us all. I think we all were asleep by 9 or 10.

[harryfeatgaga]

I became a 1D weirdly. I remember watching them on X factor but wasn’t bothered about them then my sister was a fan and her Skype name was her name then Styles. Even though she was a Liam fan. Then in 2013 we got this is us DVD. I secretly watched on my own because I found Harry really funny then 2014 my sister got FOUR for Christmas and I got 1989 so I listened to Style and out of the woods because they where about harry. 2015 I per ordered MITAM but said it was something else. Now they know.

NOW THEY KNOW JBFHFHJK

Anonymous said: My dad started staning him in 2017 and I never seen a grownup man dancing to anything the way he do with Harry's album so yeah habies (including my dad ) are winning

IM CRYINGGGG

Anonymous said: harry couldnt give one fuk about when anyone became a fan tbh

tbh!!!

Anonymous said: I remember when 1D announced their hiatus bc I wasn't into them anymore, but I was like Harry's solo music is coming!!!!! That was the only thing 1D related I was hanging onto lol

LMAO

Anonymous said: um escue me where is slicked back hair harry

i miss him

[shootfortherightreasons]

pmuchdead:

There’s a beat of silence following the question, Shane’s gaze lingering on Carl a moment before diverting off to the forest between them. “Told ya’…” A conspirators glance is once more sent in the other male’s direction, before slowly, gradually lowering to his coat. Calloused fingers open one tattered cargo flap, but already a plaintive ‘mew’ emerges from the folds. Digits of his opposite hand cautiously edge the feline out into the open, at least to get a clear view of wide, azure eyes wandering curiously between the two. “Went on an unexpected rescue mission. Can’t believe it, I almost missed her at first,” Mistaken for another piece of refuse upon first glance; if not for her mewling, he actually might have passed her over. That, and those eyes peering out into the dusk were near impossible to ignore upon closer inspection. “She’s definitely underfed, that’s a given but, I figure with some time an’ care she’ll be boundin’ around like nobodies business,” There’s a gentle smile on his lips as the words flow, the tip of his finger lightly stroking beneath the kitten’s chin.

“Now, how’s about we come up with a name. Any ideas?”

🔫 This was something Carl and Daryl did often. Not many others had picked up on the action of it, only being aware that it happened. Carl never minded going out to rescue animals, and it was rare anyone else either had the time to do so or was capable of doing so - at least without being afraid for their own life out here. Often Carl didn’t really think about it. About putting his own life in danger fighting walkers to save what was likely an injured animal. If anything, he may have always been faster to do that than to even save a person.

Single eye looked over her, gentleness and worry his foremost in the look he gave off. It felt like such small creatures were the only ties left that they had anymore to a normal, less bloody life. She seemed comfortable enough at his gaze, not squirming to run off or having her ears perked in alertness, so Carl took the initiative with her and pulled her right into his hands. It always tore his heart right open to see such small animals in this state, but that was why he was here now. For now, he deemed that his purpose. To fix them. To care for them.

After looking her over more and giving a light sigh, he held onto her as he put her head over his shoulder. The small head could be felt on him, looking around. It was simple curiosity and no discomfort, so if she’d been lucky, there hadn’t been enough to completely traumatize her during her so far short life. No reason to be terrified of being held like she wouldn’t be able to save herself. “I’ll take her back and feed her first.” He looked to her as best he could with her on his shoulder, resting his hand on her back with light petting. “It’ll be easier to name her once I see what she’s like. I’ll get the most out of her personality once she’s eaten and had time to rest. They act more themselves once they know they’re safe.”