#weird ass alien piano man

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

So more on the Beauford Swan AU, how do you think Alice and Rosalie's relationships with him are different? I assume Rosalie doesn't compare herself to Beauford the exact same way she compares herself to Bella, and Alice's Barbie Bella dream probably doesn't translate directly into a Ken Beau. How would that effect their initial relationships and the eventual family dynamics (Let's just assume this is the Beau Gives Up and Asks Carlisle to Turn Him version)?

Ooooh, interesting question anon.

For reference the Beauford AU: one, two, and three.

Specifically, we're in post number three, where Beauford survives Edward (huzzah for Beauford).

Rosalie

Rosalie's relationship with Beauford is a rollercoaster of weird.

At first, Beauford is a nothing special human. Rosalie's a little amused the girls are going wild for him, and she sees the appeal if you're into sensitive pretty boys (not Rosalie's type), but it has nothing to do with her.

As you point out, Rosalie doesn't have that conflict with her own beauty and comparison to Bella. Just per being a man, Rosalie will not compare herself to Beauford constantly.

Then Edward has his Biology breakdown and becomes increasingly weird.

Rosalie probably still suggests they kill off Beauford for nearly being crushed by a van. While Rosalie did have inner conflict over Bella, most of what informed that was Rosalie's lack of desire to move, that wouldn't change because of Beauford.

She probably wonders what the hell Edward's deal is, why is he obsessed with this guy, and then she has her "oh" moment.

Edward is gay.

Edward has always been gay.

Suddenly everything makes sense. The fact that Edward has shown 0 interest in Rosalie, that he showed 0 interest in Tanya who was practically throwing herself at him, that he shows 0 interest in any woman period.

Rosalie never suspected as much before, or at least, never put two and two together. But of course Edward is gay, it all makes sense now.

Edward doesn't like that idea, not at all, and accuses Rosalie of being a jealous shrew who is so offended by the idea that Edward isn't attracted to her that she accuses him of homosexuality.

Rosalie never said a word of this out loud.

The family has the biggest fight they've ever had. And, somehow, it's not over the murder of Beauford, but Edward's sexuality. No definitive conclusion is reached, but if you ask Edward, he is most definitely a heterosexual hot blooded man. Now, if you excuse him, he's going to go sneak into Beauford's room to crush the spiders that might sneak onto his pillow.

But back to Rosalie and Beauford.

Rosalie becomes increasingly exasperated as Edward romances Beauford without admitting he's romancing Beauford. He also does ridiculous things like adamantly refuse to turn Beauford into a vampire.

Rosalie tries to point out that he and Edward have no future like this. Edward doesn't care, he'll nobly leave Beauford anyway, as soon as he has the strength to. Rosalie tries to point out that a man doesn't take another man to a romantic Italian dinner (where he can't even eat anything) unless he's romantically interested. Edward tells Rosalie that she's never been as beautiful as she thought she was!

Rosalie decides, "fuck it", and she will be a part of Beauford's welcome committee when Edward invites him to meet the family. She's only given a few hours notice, but she just feels so bad for this guy. Edward's stringing him along, but is too in love with his own closet to ever have a real relationship.

She has no idea what Beauford thinks about it, but she's just dying of secondhand embarrassment. And yes, she thinks that Beauford should probably live a human life, and that Edward should either leave him alone or turn him, but at the very least she has to explain that her brother's an idiot.

Well, turns out, Beauford is also an idiot. And he's weird.

Rosalie finds herself meeting the most sensitive, womanly, man she's ever seen in her life. This guy is a delicate flower, she feels like if she breathes on him he might shatter into a thousand pieces.

He's very polite, very charming, but she watches as he does things like cry at Edward's piano playing and then let Edward eat his tear.

What the fuck?

Rosalie throws her hands in the air. There's no helping these two, they deserve each other, Rosalie out. Well, the baseball game happens, which turns into a disaster and a half.

Rosalie still likely gives her "Why are we risking our own deaths over this guy we don't even know" and Beauford assumes that Rosalie hates him (not helped by Rosalie giving him "are you crazy" looks all the time as well as Edward telling Beauford that Rosalie is jealous of his beauty and Edward's very platonic affections for him).

That summer Rosalie barely sees Beauford. When she does, he and Edward are cuddling on the couch. She asks if Edward's admitting he's gay yet, the answer is always no. She rolls her eyes and leaves to work on her cars.

New Moon happens, Rosalie doesn't know what to think anymore, but she supposes this is a decent outcome. Beauford gets to live a normal, human, life and move on.

They're back six months later.

Fast forward a bit and Beauford is turned by Carlisle. Rosalie sits down to think about it, Carlisle makes it clear why this happened, and she's back to feeling bad for Beauford.

Edward treats him like trash, he's downright vicious to Beauford, and Beauford looks like he's about to cry constantly. Rosalie reaches out and the pair have a good long talk about life, the universe, and her Pig Brother Edward.

Rosalie assures Beauford that Edward will get over it, he'll forgive Beauford eventually, and someday he'll stop being an ass. Beauford is comforted, but Edward never stops being an ass.

Rosalie and Beauford end up best friends instead.

They have nothing in common.

Alice

Alice still makes Beauford her Barbie Beauford, but with a slightly masculine twist.

She buys him fabulous clothes, so that his closet is filled with blazers, turtlenecks, and very tight pants. She still throws him a sweet sixteen eighteen, only instead of a million pink candles the candles are now blue.

Beauford is still utterly mortified.

She gets him a tux for Prom and Beauford ends up going with Edward though neither Edward nor Beauford realize they're in fact going to Prom together as a couple.

Alice still sees Beauford as her best friend and is absolutely ecstatic for his and Edward's "friendship". As Alice never sees the pair having sex, she is absolutely fine with the platonic label and fully agrees with Edward that theirs is a very platonic relationship.

Alice is still the best friend Beauford ever had because he has no friends and doesn't know what friendship is. Though he kind of wishes she'd stop buying him clothes.

Their relationship goes down the drain after Beauford is turned.

As Beauford and Edward's relationship falls apart, he looks to Alice for comfort, but she has none to provide. She doesn't see him and Edward working out any time soon and, well, glad you're a part of the family?

Alice realizes that her and Beauford's friendship isn't going to work out either. She's upset about this, but doesn't see any way to salvage it without completely alienating Edward. Alice will choose Edward.

Alice ponders over might have beens and wonders when the future shifted but quietly watches as Beauford becomes closest with Rosalie.

[floralkittygambler]

Am I Tripping Or Is Helluva Boss Also Stereotypical? (Bit of a rant sorry, wasnt impressed :< )

Name is Cleatus with a ‘hill billy’ (sorry, idk if that’s seen as an offensive term? I think red neck is offensive so Im going for what feels safer but idk help me out-) accent. (Honestly the voice is so unfitting it feels like a parody-). HB seems to love the Southern accent (nothing wrong w the accent but the portrayals... Ehhhhh...) Considering everyone gets their own VA to sound unique, the female sheep sounds like we’ve heard her voice in all of Viv’s works before. It’s a pretty voice! But just... Save money and VAs are versatile to play various roles in one series- This really caps their full potential.  Horse imagery everywhere. Lets be honest, Blitz liking horses and his IG pet ended up being the SH logo, it’s really awkward self praise- I hate to say it but it does make me cringe a little... The sciency villians designs. Just... Awful and out of place- Seems like a try hard attempt at a parody. Forced. Misses the mark. Also got Villainous vibes too, like that Dementia (sorry forgot her name but lizard hoodie girl!) lady. She suits her world at least and carries her humour a bit better. The warning is again immature (its an adult cartoon yet I - an adult - feel more like a teen when they cant trust their audience to understand ‘sexual references/scenes’ and opt for ‘horny’. Also no suicide warnings bc dayum even censored it was graphic - and Im a fuckin horror simp! Plus - even accidental - it’s a sensitive topic you need to be careful with. Again, just feels like childish attempts to make ‘funny edgy humour’. Dark humour is an artform most think they have yet lack.  Removal of Tilla. The most unique designed and actually interesting looking imp. Gone. And with the poster originally showing all three earlier it just shows lack of consistency when S2 is scripted therefore there should be consistency now.  Blitz going back to the silent o. CAN WE PLEASE JUST LEARN THE CORRECT FUCKIN NAME! I struggle with pronunciations as it is ;; Moxxie abuse for no reason that isnt actually funny needs a counter. Does anyone else find some of the animation in HB a little robotic/delayed/jarring sometimes? Idk... Just doesnt feel as fluid or smooth anymore - ESPECIALLY for actual movement (like walking. They look and feel so rigid..) Tour bus appears and disappears a lot.  Free stock photo of money for a trillionaire is pretty chuckle worthy! But immediately ruined by suicide prompting. No warning for animal mauling if anyone needed it (Honestly they could have done that joke way better like how it’s done in Madagascar, which this scene reminded me of) Pro: Cat suits (minus Blitz’s, sorry. It wasnt cute) Idk how I felt about the cuties ref tbh. Imma sound fuckin paranoid as hell but Im pretty sure Netflix declined Hazbin according to the timeline and tweets. Agreed, cuties was fucked up and why they accepted it idk but this felt less calling out nonces and more of a petty jab at Netflix. Again, personal opinion but still. More suicide prompting. Also kinda weird Blitz is asking teens in cars whether theyd fuck an old guy... Right after using pedophilia to upset him. The opera was empty then suddenly full. Also Im getting Phantom of the Opera vibes but... Less classy of an homage- Sorry. Im not normally into musicals but that is a brilliant one!  Ok I sorta like the glimpse of Heaven being just as bad as hell but it feels messy. Good point, they’re hypocrites. However the easy to anger seems more like the sin of wrath- which doesnt make sense for a Heavenborne. The swearing... Look, Im always fuckin effin and jeffin but couldnt they just for ONCE think of some more articulate way for the characters to express themselves? At this point, it feels like 50 shades of a single oc. It’s nice to see Millie and Mox be affectionate but that kiss was definitely a gross factor and what teens joke about kissing being like.  Pro: Cat Mox and Mil. Again. I love cats. Though seeing Millie never help when he’s hurt yet him always coming to help her gives me Chaggie vibes.  How is Opera lady still singing when shes dead? Another horse ref shown by unicorn. Old man you could literally de-age yourself in the machine you stupid motherfucker (I miss cowbelly) Ok seeing the old man in diapers and hearing some creepy shit recently about diaper kinks was yikes. Also Cherubs, yall coulda helped him with that piano. Love the pianists class though. Again good to show the hypocrisy of Heaven yet it feels really... 1 dimentional? Also didnt Viv say in a recent stream Heaven was going to be alien and futuristic? And yet its... Just cliche lambs and cherubs with a doe and some bees? The same futuristic heaven she criticised another creator for-  Im sure Wally’s only back bc he got so much fan simping tbh, similar to how Pent was supposed to be a one off and Travis is a minor character. Overall the humour really didnt hit (and I LOVE shitty puns-), it felt mediocre at best BUT BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT Can we give credit that FU-CKING FINALLY we had 1 - ONE - UNO - SINGULAR plot that actually fucking flowed, made sense (sorta), wasnt just messily patchworked plot pieces together and actually flowed like an episode? Still that should be bare minimal that it feels almost dirty to give credit for. Likewise, I felt *stupid* watching. Like they think the audience is so stupid they have to explain everything to them. Basically a kids show if blood and swears slipped in.  Weirdly, this was the weakest episode as well as the strongest plotwise. Halfway through S1, this is... I laughed once, which was even less than last time.  It just feels like watching someone with talent piss it all away for their 15 minutes instead of building a more solid foundation thatll last far longer. Likewise, it almost felt like anti-heaven propoganda in a way rather than ‘both sides wack’ and like heaven is an after thought. I didnt really feel the passion. Yes the other episodes need a LOT of work to be professional studio quality but at least you could feel a soul, a passion. This felt filler. There was no development or anything. Like you could skip it and still understand (well ‘understand’ considering the usual storytelling). Like Ep 1 had a flowing, linear plot (look Viv and SH have shown they arent capable at branching and juggling multiple plots efficiently) and everything sorta feels downhill from there for me... Also for a cat owner it feels Vivs only seen persians and tuxedo cats. (Id also like to personally add - AND IM SORRY - that how husk-like Mox’s felt, idk whether it was a subtle shitty HD ref or just lack of creativity for cats. Also the tux cat with ‘buttons’ and bowtie needs some variation and spice FAST) Again, its a shame Viv/SH dont open themselves up for genuine critique as itll bit their ass sooner or later. Been there, done that, never a-fuckin-gain.

[echo-bleu]

Oct 19-21 is the Good Intentions WIP fest ( @goodintentionswipfest ), the time to let go of abandoned WIPs and post them as is. Given that I’ve written a lot in the last year and also recently moved fandoms, I thought it was a good time to clean up my WIP folder(s), so I’ll be posting a few things that I started and gave up part way through. This means that each snippet is unfinished and not meant to be a full fic.

RNM, Alex & Rosa 2x04 (I think) coda. 1496 words.

“Hey, Rosa,” Alex sighs, laying down the cleaning supplies he's used to scrub the heinous tag off the gravestone. Absently, he aligns the two bottles and the sponge and bucket in front of him on the floor. His leg is on fire from kneeling over the grave for too long. He had the forethought of bringing his crutch, but being down one hand means he'll need several trips to bring the supplies back to his car, and he's not ready for that yet.

Instead, he sits back, manually moves his leg into a position that doesn't put pressure on his stump, and stares at the now mostly clean gravestone. “I miss you. I haven't been here a lot since I got back and I'm sorry.” He closes his eyes, and Rosa's face is there in his mind, less clear than he'd like now after ten years, even though he has pictures of her. “Recently I feel like I'm seeing your ghost everywhere. Someone's been tagging the walls around town again. Not like...this,” he waves a hand at the grave, frowning in disgust at whoever took it upon themselves to spray-paint it. “It looks exactly like your stuff. I don't know if I should be angry that someone is stealing your art or if it's supposed to be some sort of homage.”

He looks around. The cemetery is mostly empty, at dinner time on a Thursday. He saw the tag when he came earlier, on his way back from work, and he had to come back to clean it up. The only living being he can see is a person with a baseball cap on, crouching by another grave and looking away from him. He wonders idly what loved one they're mourning, if it's a fresh loss or one that has long scabbed over, like his.

Lost in thought, he doesn't see the person approach until he hears their footsteps, far too close to him. He turns around in alarm, thoughtlessly trying to stand up on his aching leg. He falls back on his ass immediately, and finds himself in a particularly embarrassing position, especially in front of a potential threat.

“I was trying to come up with something a lot snarkier than this but, are you okay?” the figure asks.

Alex chokes on his breath. He knows this voice. He knows this face.

It's not possible.

“Hey, I'm really here,” Rosa says with a half-smirk, worry edging into her face.

Rosa, who looks exactly like the day she died.

Rosa, who died ten years ago.

Alex bites hard on his finger, and when that doesn't help, he scoots back in an undignified way, until his back hits the gravestone.

“Please don't react like Maria,” Rosa says, crouching down to his level.

Alex wheezes for a moment more, before his brain turns fully into danger mode. The shock can be dealt with later. Right now, all that matters is the threat.

“Rosa,” he acknowledges coldly, shifting his weight until he's reasonably sure he could stand up fast if needed. “How?”

Rosa looks a little wide-eyed at what must be an obvious change in his behavior. “Whoa, I think I preferred the panic,” she says.

“How?” Alex repeats, ignoring her.

“I know you know about the aliens. Max Evans healed me.”

“You were dead.”

“And now I'm not,” Rosa shrugs. “What's wrong with you?”

“Rosa, you were dead. For ten years,” Alex works his jaw, unable to say just how much this isn't possible.

“I know. Look, I know it's weird, okay? It's been over a month, and I'm still not used to this.”

“A month?” Alex frowns. “Does Liz know?”

“Yeah, of course. She's the one who told me everything that happened. And that Max is an alien.”

“Right.” Alex carefully stands up, using the gravestone as a crutch, even though it feels a little sacrilegious. The grave is apparently empty, since the person it belongs to is standing in front of him, so he can probably be forgiven.

Once up, he picks up his crutch and leans on it. It makes a good weapon, if needed, and a better support, since his legs feel wobbly from shock.

“Who else knows?” he asks, assessing the threat.

“Kyle,” Rosa answers. “Isobel and Michael, and Maria, since yesterday.”

Alex doesn't let the pang of sadness−anger?−that he's apparently the last to know get to him. He can think about that later. “Maria's been told about the aliens?”

“It was an accident,” Rosa admits. “But now she knows.”

“Okay. I'm going to need to confirm this. Give me a minute.”

Rosa frowns. Alex takes his phone out of his pockets, goes to take a picture of Rosa, but he thinks better of it. His phone is encrypted, but Liz's probably isn't. They don't want a photo of a dead girl to end up in any government database. Rosa? Over a month? he texts her instead.

“Alex, I don't−what are you doing?” Rosa asks nervously. She has the same tilt of her head, the same frowns as Alex remembers.

But it's becoming quite clear that the aliens have powers much further reaching than any of them thought. Up to resurrection, maybe, if this is real. But Alex knows for a fact that mind manipulation is. Texting Liz probably isn't enough of a check, but it's the only thing he can think of. “Wait,” he raises a hand.

I was going to tell you, Liz texts back.

I just need confirmation, Alex writes. He'll deal with the rest later.

Then yes. She's real.

Alex takes a deep breath and looks up at Rosa again. “We can't stay here,” he says. “Where are you staying?”

“Max's house,” Rosa answers.

“How's that working for you?”

“Well, Liz comes over twice a day and she can't leave without touching his hat. I'm mainly just bored.”

“Um.” Alex doesn't want to intrude into Max's space, even though he saw the man naked in a pod just a few days ago. ��Let's go to my place.”

Rosa obediently picks up the cleaning supplies Alex can't hold in one hand and follows him back to his car. “What's with the crutch?” she tries once more.

Alex bites down the brutally honest answer he would probably give someone else. “I got hurt in Iraq,” he says instead.

“Liz said you enlisted,” Rosa says.

“She said that, uh?” Alex can't help the thought that he wasn't even told Rosa has been resurrected.

“I asked what you'd become. This is all very strange to me, you know. I last saw you a month ago and you were an emo teenager.”

Alex swallows. “Yeah. It's strange for sure,” he says, for lack of something better to tell her. His emotions are a jungle he's not entering. Rosa died the same day that changed everything and set him on the course that led him here. He's only recently learned that her death was actually connected to some of these events, but even when it had seemed like a separate incident, it affected him greatly. She was once one of his best friends, the rebel, free teenager he wanted to model himself after, and her death caught him at one of his lowest points.

They don't talk at all during the short ride to Alex's house, or while Alex fishes out his keys and opens the front door. He wants nothing more than to go remove his prosthesis and lounge in his armchair in sweatpants after a long day, but he doesn't want to deal with Rosa's shock.

He doesn't know how to deal with Rosa, period. She sits like a cat on his couch, legs tucked beneath her, her gaze expectant, and he doesn't know what she expects of him. Probably nothing he can give her.

“So you've been back a month,” Alex states, sitting down on the piano bench. The armchair looks inviting, but he can't get out of it fast enough if something goes wrong, not with how much his leg aches. “Max resurrected you. I assume that had something to do with his death?”

“Yeah, it killed him. Now Liz is trying to resurrect him. I'm pretty sure the world's gone crazy in the ten years I was gone.”

“No argument there,” Alex shrugs. Roswell has certainly gone crazy in the time he was gone. Or maybe he's the one who's changed. “Are you the reason Liz was so ready to leave town again?”

“Yeah. Apparently I’m not dead if I’m out of state. Or something. And she needed a change of scenery.”

Alex sighs. “She’s had a rough time.”

“But now she’s decided she can bring Max back too. I guess if anyone can, it’s Liz,” Rosa shrugs. “I just don’t really get what’s the big deal with that guy.”

“Me neither,” Alex mutters, too low for her to really hear.

“What was that?”

“Nothing. I just…” He runs a hand through his hair. “I can’t believe you’re back.”

[classic80sand90smovieloves2]

Meeting and Dating Mac

(Not my gif)(Requested by anonymous)

- You first meet Mac when you stop by to check on Valerie after she called you the night before, telling you all about what happened with her and Ted.

- You and her had been friends for a while and you decided you were going to try to cheer her up or at least make sure she was okay after such a rough night. Although when you got there you were greeted with the completely unexpected; trashed house, an interesting contraption in the pool and three furry guys roaming around your best friends living room.

- Immediately upon seeing them you dropped your things and froze; they turned around when they heard the thudding on Valerie’s carpet. All of them got up and started to move towards you in curiosity.

- You were about ready to faint before Valerie came into the room, saw you and ushered the aliens back onto the couch. Meanwhile you had quickly picked up your things and rushed out of there with Valerie hot on your heels trying to explain what you had just seen.

- She slowly coaxed you back into the house where you were properly introduced to the three extraterrestrials.

- Of course Wiploc immediately tried to “flirt” with you. Him and Zeebo probably freaked you out more than you already were before Mac and Valerie managed to get them to act “normal”.

- You went with Valerie to the salon where you got to see the guys once they were madeover. Like Valerie you were practically speechless when they came out especially once you saw Mac; neither of you were expecting a washboard stomach and the face of a movie star.

- Mac pretty much trails after you like a lost puppy when you arrive at the club (and everywhere else you go), trying to get to know you better with his limited understanding of the English language and people as a whole.

- The only time he leaves your side is when Valerie walks off and after he follows her you sort of assume he was only around you because you were next to Valerie.

- After Valerie tells him about what she and most girls want; a Mr. right, he goes to you and asks if he could be someone’s Mr. right (hint hint cough cough). You grow a little flustered but think he’s talking about Valerie so you awkwardly tell him yes and list off a few reasons why.

- Each reason makes him smile a little more and gets him to move closer to you before you ultimately excuse yourself to go sulk; confusing him as he’s left standing on his own and wondering if he did something wrong.

“He’s an alien, you’re from the valley. It could never work out anyway, you shouldn’t bother getting upset about it. This whole thing is crazy!” You keep telling yourself. But that doesn’t help the fact that your heart still races everytime you see him and that you are still indeed upset when you see him looking at your best friend.

- You still hang out with him and the gang all the while pretending you aren’t falling for him harder and harder every minute.

- Mac tends to watch you a lot, it’s because he’s amazed by you and your beauty but you just assume he’s interested in you because you’re human and a foreign being to him.

- One night as you were hanging out; alone together for the first time in a while, he asked you why you were single amongst other personal questions. He can’t help but smile as he listens to you describe your ideal man and the dreams you’ve had about that special someone since you were young.

- You begin to realize that your idea of a perfect man is just him; so you finally decide to confess no matter the outcome. Slowly, you start to finish your sentence getting quieter and quieter until you end it with “I guess I’m looking for someone like… you.”

“I am your mr. Right?” He asks slowly.

“Yeah,” you smile nervously. “Yeah, I think you are.”

- You watch as he smiles at you and stay still as he begins to lean in, letting his lips meet yours as his hand comes to hold your cheek.

- And from that point on, you began your inter-species relationship with the extraterrestrial.

- Wiploc tries to flirt with you a lot and usually thinks it’s funny when Mac reprimands him even though it doesn’t always happen. Mostly because Wiploc has the mentality of a five year old and 90% of the time his flirting is half jokingly asking for a kiss when he barely understands what a kiss is.

- Observing his weird quirks.

- Being amazed by his different, odd abilities. He just gives you a sheepish smile when he catches you watching.

- He’s probably the best man you’ve ever dated purely because he isn’t a man and hasn’t been contaminated by earthly society.

- Whenever you’re out on the town you sometimes have to remind him that normal humans cannot do certain things that him and other aliens can. Be prepared to watch that he isn’t making anyone suspicious.

- He doesn’t understand your insecurities. What’s the big deal about some markings on your skin or the fact that you have a different body shape then those around you? He’s seen all kinds of humans look all sorts of ways, isn’t looking different a normal thing with humans?

- Even though he doesn’t understand he helps you with them and reassures you whenever you get upset.

- What do you mean sex is taboo, why?

- Oh and what’s better than sex? Sex with an alien that can give you sexy time psychedelics.

- Helping him rehearse being human when you have to go somewhere important.

- He tends to mimic you when you do something he’s never seen/heard before like a gesture, facial expression or some kind of phrase. It’s really kind of cute.

- He copies a lot of things from tv.

Wow that compliment seems awfully familiar.

(Cut to you watching some rom com) That adorable motherfucker

- Travelling to space with him at some point, even if you don’t stay forever.

- Wiploc and Zeebo are pains in the ass but you can’t help but love them. Mac usually makes sure to keep them in line, especially when they try to run off or flirt (too much) with you.

- Always listens very closely to what you say. If you think you’ve been “heard” in the past, just you wait until you talk with him.

- Hand holding, he loves when you grab his hand in public even though it’s probably just to keep him with you and make sure he doesn’t wander off.

- Only has eyes for you, he’s completely disinterested in anyone else and he’ll quickly go over to your side whenever he can get away from the person keeping him from you.

- Even after you start dating he still stares at you a lot and you really don’t know why; you just hope it’s for a good reason. It’s because he’s absolutely in love with you.

- Loves affection, like he can never get enough or give enough.

- He tries very hard to impress you especially before you’re dating. Oh you’re stopping by Valerie’s, well it just so happens he’s shirtless and covered in grease while working on the ship. You think the guy in the tv is strong? Watch this!

- Listening to stories about his planet and space, more often then not its the soundtrack of your dreams.

- He’s honestly fascinated by you, even after you’ve been dating a while he’s still caught off guard by how amazing you can be.

- He always wants the best for you even if it’s not with him.

- But lets be honest would you even dare dump an alien especially when they look and act like Mac?

- Listening to his double heartbeat.

- He loves holding you to his chest whenever you’re laying in bed. He’s very cuddly for someone who really shouldn’t understand the concept of snuggling.

- Picking you any little flower he sees and is allowed to grab or can grab without anyone noticing.

- You need help? He’s always there for you.

- If you ever want anything fixed he’ll definitely give it a try even if he goes into it not really knowing what he’s doing. He’ll pick up a book from the library, touch a few of the pages and go to work. It usually only takes him about an hour to get whatever’s broken fixed.

- Be prepared to get alien upgrades on your home appliances.

- He can get sort of jealous but more often then not he just gets confused as to why he’s feeling the way he is. Before you realized what it meant it always confused you whenever you’d catch him standing or sitting beside you with a puzzled look on his face.

- He’s very sympathetic and he likes helping you with your problems so don’t feel like you’re being annoying whenever you rant to him. You could never be a burden in his eyes.

- He’s very touchy so you’ll end up having to swat his hands away a lot.

- Always trying to keep his hands on any part of you. It’s your job to decide when it’s because he wants you to himself or when it’s because he doesn’t want to get lost. (Spoiler alert: you cant ever really tell!)

- Trying to stifle your giggles when you hear his odd combinations of slang. Sometimes he purposefully strings together weird sentences just to see you try to hold back a smile.

“Miss Dude”

- He always tries to make you happy no matter what it takes.

- He loves seeing you; he could never get tired of looking at your face or being around you. You’re basically his home now so whenever he’s homesick he just looks at you.

- Hand kisses. He used to think it was just how humans addressed each other so he’d kiss your hand every time he saw you but now he realizes there’s more to it than that. Since he’s learned that there’s; usually, intimacy behind it he tries to do it even more now and reserves the action only for you.

- Listening to him play piano. He memorizes your favorite songs by heart(s).

- Gifts from space whenever he has to leave earth. You have a shelf full of moon rocks and alien plants.

- Be sure to keep a razor and some Nair handy for emergencies.

- He’s a natural at modeling for photos but the smolder he tends to have in them is literally just him squinting from the flashing light.

- He likes when you take him shopping with you, especially when it’s clothes shopping. He finds it fun when you style him even though he doesn’t really care for fashion all that much.

- For an alien he sure can kiss. He will literally kiss you until you’re weak in the knees and then some.

- Sitting between his legs with your back on his chest while you listen to him tell you about the stars.

- I feel like he’d have cat-like tendencies; head nuzzling, purring, etc.

- You’ll probably have to deal with a long distance relationship for a little while; it’s only a matter of time before he’ll have to return to his home planet for something.

- The instant he learns what “I love you” actually means he starts telling you it constantly and gets really excited when you say it back.

- Mac would have “proposed” to you (or the alien equivalent) the day he met you so rest assured he’s in it for the long run.

- And plus, an intergalactic wedding must be pretty interesting, right?

[laszlowrobinson]

A playlist that your character would actually listen to

It didn’t say to describe why they would listen to these songs, but I did it anyway because while idk anything about music I like to rave about it lmao

Spice Up Your Life - Spice Girls 

I mean the Spice Girls were and still are iconic spelled to sound like eye-con-eek. They were a good chunk of his childhood to adolescence since they WERE the 90′s. So not only is their music just, you know, great, it holds a very nostalgic place in his heart. I mean he for sure watched Spice World and didn’t give a single shit that it makes no sense. It didn’t need to, it was the Spice Girls hanging with aliens and chilling out on the bus in their iconic fashion. Anyone in that movie he will reference as their character from that instead of like oh Hugh Laurie from House MD? NO, it’s Hugh Laurie, Poritot from Spice World. Oh Stephen Fry? From Gosford Par? NO, it’s Stephen Fry, the Judge from Spice World. 

Anyways, while he would and does put their entire discography on, I’m putting this one in particular because it’s such a bop!! And their anthem. When the bitches were back for the 2012 Olympics, while they may have opened with Wannabe with choreography, (except Victoria who literally stood there Posing, the icon) they really went in with Spice Up Your Life okay, they rode around that stadium ON the cabs while singing it!!! It’s 100% the song that will pick him up off the floor. 

LA DI DA - EVERGLOW

What a song??? Holy SHIT. It may be only like a month old in its life span but it Hits, so it gets a spot on this playlist because as soon as I heard it I was like, “Laszlo would be obsessed.” It’s a bop, it’s a jam, it’s everything he could ever ask for in a song. First off, the production on it is just so good!!! The beats HIT and the clapping behind their vocals picks it up to another level. And that part where they like lmfao aggressively grunt?? after “Everglow forever let’s go.” amazing, brilliant, stunning, absolutely the best thing he has ever heard before. And then the VOCALS!!! The talent!!!! Like the range between all the girls is astounding, and I don’t just mean their vocal range. I mean ALL of it, the singing, the rapping, the power and then pulling it back for the softness until they come back to make heads bop for the chorus. Whew!!! Just such a good, pump up song that he can bop around too and that’s his favorite kind of music!! 

Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) - ABBA but the Cher Cover 

No disrespect to ABBA because Laszlo loves them, but he looooves Cher and while he would ALSO play her entire discography, this song just hits different sung by Cher in 2018 in her beautiful, earthy voice. And she did it so tastefully. She respected the original song by not turning it over into something completely lost to the track but it still felt like she was putting her own magical Cher-y blessing upon it as if it were her very own song. It’s like the perfect crossover??? He probably had an out of body experience listening to her cover album of ABBA and then going to see her in Mama Mia! 2. Plus, like, this song is also his life lmfaooooo where is his man,,, @ god (who is Cher, as confirmed on Will and Grace.) 

I Know A Place - MUNA

Not only is this song just...so good...but the lyrics of it really hit home for him. Like??? “Don’t you be afraid of love and affection/ just lay down your weapon”??? ow bitch. But it is a celebratory song!!! It’s about being able to be whoever you are and not having to worry about getting hurt or dealing with the bleeeh people of the world because they’re going to a place that’s safe and accepting, and that’s in LGBT+ spaces. And there are a lot of people who don’t feel safe and who are having to hide themselves, but this song is providing them a little slice of heaven to be themselves. It also serves as a reminder that there are places were you can be safe and happy and yourself and you will be accepted!!! And that’s just such a lovely message, and for music like this to be out there in the world for the youth makes him so happy! And the music itself is so funky and absolutely something that one can dance to. It has those places that slow down...and then HIT for the bopping around for the hype of the chorus!! UGH! and Katie’s voice still being sort of haunting really just brings it on home. This song is so good!! Stream MUNA!!!!! 

Paparazzi - Lady Gaga (TW: fake blood from 3:20-end of the video) 

I’m linking the 2009 MTV performance because I’m going to say that this was his first exposure to Lady Gaga and holy shit was it life changing!!! This was everything. Like the performance art of it really came for his throat. Spoiler alert: when the blood started pouring from her chest and the crowd like gasped and groaned??? It was a Cultural Reset!! She was singing her heart out and going all out on that choreography. Her foot up on the piano as she slammed the keys??? The set design?? SO GOOD! And her dancers? Shout out to them, because damn they really did that. So, not only is the song amazing, he will always associate it with hearing it to this performance and it is still such a good song!!! The lyrics are insane. She did this when she was 23, only a year older than him, and boy did it light a fire under his ass. 

And it also serves to keep him humble lmfao. Even though he isn’t Famous famous like his other family members he does have his own little corner of fame and can’t be out here falling in love with the attention. 

Coisa Boa - Gloria Groove

Honestly, anything Gloria Groove puts out is pure gold to his ears. They don’t have to go as hard as they do, but they do it anyways! The really pronounced instrument that’s going on? Their singing??? Going from rapping to hitting that note at the end of “Quer papo de ousadia?” absolutely sends Laszlo off the rails. Like, there’s no other way to describe their style than Iconic. It’s fun and fighty and gah! So good!! Also it just being about getting the Squad and going ham is just, chef kisses. Again, his favorite songs are things that get him moving and grooving, and this ones ticks all the marks and so much more. One day they will release an album and on that day someone should check to make sure Laszlo is still alive. 

Toxic - Brittany Spears

I mean what is there to say. The song is iconic, it came out when he was like 17. It was everything and still holds up today. The production on it still just boggles the mind. That like eeeeee sound??? The spy music break in the middle of it?? And the video!!! Art. The fact that she did the back handspring during the laser bit really just made him go insane. Cultural reset from the pop queen of the time. Turned him into a bigger Britney fan. Everything about it is so good. Another nostalgic one, but !! it still holds up baby!! If this is played he is legally required to perform. 

El Mambo - Mon Laferte

Her voice is just?? out of this world. Laszlo is a huuuge fan of everything she puts out but this one really just took him out. Like she can hit some powerful vocals and that’s what the beginning seems like they’re counting up to, but when she came out of the gate just rapping about this guy who needs to get over himself, woooowie. And then she comes back for that mambo sound in the chorus and her beautiful voice going In, ugh. UGH. It’s so good!!! She is amazing and the instruments on this one really highlight that as well as making it groovy enough to dance around to as we say goodbye to toxic men and their overwhelming jealousy!!

Too Little Too Late - JoJo

I’m linking to the 2018 version because JoJo re-releasing all her music so that she can get the cash money from HER music is...stunning, amazing, love her and love that for her. This song was yet another cultural reset. And you know what, she just got better. Her vocals kick ass and the lyrics are still just as good as they were when they first came out. That high register run she does toward the end??? Okay?? go off!!! Another song about a wonderful lady kicking a man out of her life and becoming better for it. also she JUST came out with a Christmas album so go stream it. 

Endless - Frank Ocean

Now this is the whole album because, honestly, that’s how it’s supposed to be listened to. There’s also the visual element that you’re supposed to watch while listening, but since that’s like no where to be found since Mr. Ocean’s people snatched it all up from the internet unless you want to buy it off Apple, this is all we get to work with. Which is fine, honestly. ANYWAYS, this whole album is just so beautiful. And no one really knows the full story behind where it came from or why Mr. Ocean made it, and that’s a whole over layer as to why Laszlo adores it!! Not only is the music stunning but the mystery surrounding it gives him life. Frank Ocean is another artist that he could press random on the entire discography and be happy with whatever decided to play, but THIS album is his favorite from the man. It may seem like the outtakes from Blonde but to Laszlo, they all feel intentional. It’s like peaking into a sketchbook versus the novel of Blonde, and that appeals to him!! There is a certain effort that needs to be put in to listen to it by finding it. So it’s that little bit of extra artistry that makes this album hit different than the others, plus the songs, though some very VERY short, are all GREAT. Every song has this sort of improv feeling almost? but feel effortless like all his other music. Some of them are really short, just snip bits of a song, but they don’t feel that way with how they flow together and cut one another off and it’s just a weird entity of music that feels fleeting and yet...endless. 

[deities-fanfiction]

Bakusquad movie night with jenny

wooooah jennys making EVEN MORE CONTENT-shut up!

It was an average Sunday afternoon. Jenny was listening to the first Percy Jackson audio book for the fifth time when there was a knock at the girls door. She paused and took off her headphones , saying a usual “one sec!” before she opened the door.

 At the door was Sero. Or as jenny wrote in her diary , piano teeth. “we’re setting up a movie night for the bakusquad. Wanna join in?” he asked. Jenny smiled at the thought. It had been a while since she hung with the bakusquad and she missed those goofballs. “I’m down.” jenny told Sero.

 Mr.soy sauce took jenny by the hand and led her to the couch where kaminari and Mina were sitting. Mina threw her arms around jenny. “yaaas the other queen has arrived!” she cheered. Jenny laughed and patted Mina’s back.

 Kaminari high fived Sero. “I’m surprised she came too.” the blonde stated. Jenny looked over at pikachu. “well I guess listening to Percy mess up for the fifth time isn't better than annoying Katsuki.” she smirked.

 “oi the hell are idiots talking about?” speak of the devil. Bakougo walked over to the group with Kiri right behind him.

 Jenny looked back at him and smiled “me annoying you~” she said honestly. A flick to the ear later and Bakougo was next to jenny on the couch. “yeah yeah , feisty.” he mumbled. Kiri was on the other side of jenny while mina was by bakougo. Kaminari was on a pile of pillows on the floor while sero was still standing up.

 He pulled out two DVD’s. “okay first decision. What are we watching?” he asked. The two films were spirited away and infinity war. “all for spirited away raise your hand.” sero said.

 Jenny , bakougo , mina and kiri wanted spirited away.

 “well damn that’s a majority vote. Sorry denki we lost this one.” sero said before he turned to pop the dvd in.

 Kaminari sighed “ah man! Alright mina you and me are on snacks.” he said before he got up. Alien queen stood up too and giggled. “sucks for you goldie locks!”.

 “kiri and jen are on blankie duty.” sero said as he put the infinity war dvd on the coffee table. “wait hey arent those my dvd’s what the hell dude?” she snatched the case. Sero snickered. “maybe.”. kiri  was already up and hauling a pissy jenny away from beating up Sero for snooping in her room.  

 Eventually jenny just followed the red head to his room. “I keep a bunch of blankets and stuff in my bottom drawer!” Kirishima said as he knelt down to open the drawer. He handed two to jenny and held the other three himself. “omg eij are these themed to the squad?” jenny asked. Kiri blushed a bit as they walked back “maybe.” he admitted.

 As they were doing this sero and bakougo were helping set up the snacks with mina and denki. To announce their presence jenny dumped her and bakougo’s blankets onto bakougo’s head. “ah- fiesty why?” he grumbled as he took them off his head. Jenny jumped over the back of the couch to sit back down. “cause I can.” she replied before wrapping her own blanket around her.

 Okay since you obviously want to know ; jenny’s blanket is baby pink with little purple jellyfish all over it. Bakougo’s is black woth die printed in orange printed all over it. Denki’s is a pikachu blanket and sero has a spiderman one. Mina had a black and pink tiger print blanket with kiri having a red blanket with a shark on it.

 Alright that’s out of my system.

 So sero pressed play on the movie. The ads went by as everyone got comfortable. Mina leaned on the side of the couch with kaminari on the floor in front of her. Like I said , sero was on the chair while jenny was between kiri and katsuki.

 As the movie began to play jenny felt the familiar calm wash over her as it did every time she watched spirited away. The soothing music and beautiful animation was perfect to her. The effort put into this film , like many others , made jenny smile to herself.

 Lets be honest the snacks were all eaten by mina , kiri and denki. C a n o n. and lets be honest sero has fallen asleep by the first 30 minutes. His famous last words are “no no im still listening.”. fucking jr grandpa iida here-

 And yes I call him grandpa Iida.

 Suddenly Bakougo spoke up. “I bet lin’s your fav , feisty.” he nudged Jennys leg with his. She snickered and hit his chest with her hand. “most definitely. She doesn’t take shit lying down.” the girl shrugged. Katsuki snickered.  “so she’s just as difficult as you?” he added.

 Jenny kicked his leg with hers. “hey you ass you were planning that the whole time werent you!” she crossed her arms.

 “oh both of you shush!” Mina told the pair. Kaminari looked up from his place on the floor “you act like siblings way too much for it to be normal! Jen you sure you haven’t known kaa-chan for longer than a few months?” he jabbed.

 Jenny tensed a bit but shook it off as the movie continued. As scene by scene went by the music along with the comments from her friends the girl between kiri and kastuki fell asleep , falling back onto the red heads shoulder.

 As kiri pulled the blanket over his friend , Chihiro and her own friends rode the train to swamp bottom. He put a hand over his mouth to stifle his laughter as Jenny drooled a bit in her sleep.

 The familiar voice of Yaoyorozu interrupted the moment. She had come out to check on the group before going to sleep. Her hair was down instead of in its usual pony tail. She pointed at jenny who was out cold “if you want I can get her to her room.” momo offered. Kiri smiled at the class vice president “don’t worry I’ll take her.” he politely declined.

 Momo nodded “don’t stay up too late.” she told the group. Mina called her no fun while Bakougo yawned and told mina to shut her mouth. Momo just nodded and went to her room.

 Once the movie was over mina and bakougo retreated to their rooms first. Sero had woken up and was taking out the disk. Kiri looked over at him and said “remember to get those back to jens room. She’ll kick your ass if you don’t give them back.”.

 Sero agreed. “yeah I will im not an asshole…most of the time.” he shrugged before putting on that signature smile and placing the disk back in its case. He took both the case he had taken and put them on the coffee table. Then he took the snack containers to the kitchen.

 While flex tape was doing that kiri picked up jen , still wrapped in her blanket. Still drooling…of course. “I might just let you keep this blanket��that is if you drool on it more.” bestie shark chuckled as he carried jenny to her room and if you think that anyone in 1A cant carry someone like its nothing your dumb these guys are absolutely shredded are you kidding working out if a hobby for half of them. Ok lil weird tangent over-

 Kiri held onto jenny with one arm , propping her up with his leg as he used his now semi free hand to open her dorm door. Once inside he shifted to hold her higher up before he bent over her bed and placed her gently onto it. Kiri moved back to go back out. When he got back to the couch he found that sero had left the cases on the table. He sighed and swiped them before heading back to jennys room.

 The dvd cases now set in their place in jennys massive movie shelf. “man how long as she been collecting. Got diverse taste at least…” eijiro marveled at the different movies his friend had gotten in the past what…[shit I need to check-] like almost 13 years so since she [I] was like 2…my parents like movies okay-

 Barbie , veggietales , marvel , DC , anime sets liek sailor moon and inuyasha , a silent voice and okkos inn. She also had the platnum disney and anniversarary disney dvd’s. along with one offs like rio , storks , kubo and the two strings.

 Ok bird theme.

 Speaking of birds.

 A loud chirp came from the bird cage in the upper corner of jenny’s room right by the door to her balcony. Right…buttercup. A small yellow bird jenny adored. Buttercups a brat but a cute one. Kiri glanced at jenny , worried she’d wake up. “shh! Your gonna wake your like…mom up? She calls you your mom right?” did he really just ask a bird this question. But never the less buttercup shushed herself.

 Kirishima sighed in relief as his shoulders lowered. He looked over at jenny again. She had moved positions to hold her oh so beloved minecraft squid plushie in her arms. And yes I have him irl. His name is Bartholomew and he likes sporks. Squids , octopi , birds and lizards were her favorite animals. Basically dinosours...

 And yes she was still drooling. Kiri took a tissue from jenny’s desk and wiped the drool from her mouth before he shut her mouth.

 Then he left the room. Turning off the light and shutting the door as he did. “night.”

[flying-elliska]

I’m still not over it, so here’s a drabble about what happens after…well, after. (not really expl*cit, more like *metaphorical* lol)

VENDREDI 19 : 24

The world is an explosion of colors.

And it’s theirs, all theirs. Shock and need and giddy pleasure mixing and thrown all around them in a joyful mess, marking the world wherever they touch.

The moment he felt the cold brush of paint touch his nose, something let loose in Lucas, and now he’s got Eliott pressed up against the wall, looking at him like he’s a work of art. It’s intoxicating. Every second is a frantic rush and yet Eliott’s eyes seem to hold eternity.

Neither of them hesitated before chucking off their clothes, Eliott only stopping  to grab two condoms in his pocket and it hits Lucas he came prepared and he thinks the nerve and also thank god because he really, really would not have thought about it in his current state of mind. He just needs them to be closer, closer, closer.

…

The first thing he does when they let go of each other and sink down to the ground is laugh.

He cannot believe what they just did. Eliott looks at him, mischievous, so loving it would completely overwhelm his heart if it hadn’t just tripled in size, and they laugh together.

As he lets the endorphine high course through his body, awareness of how sticky and slippery everything is starts to break through the haze. Also, he’s got paint in his mouth. Ugh. He spits on the floor.

Eliott makes a smacking noise with his lips.

“Hm, I’ve tasted worse, as far as paint goes. I mean, it probably doesn’t bode well for the longevity of our masterpiece, but you chose well.”

“Oh yeah, that’s totally what I had in mind when we picked these. Which ones are going to look and taste the best on my boyfriend’s butt.”

Eliott raises his eyebrows, and his smile is the brightest thing in the room flooded by the evening sunlight.

Lucas realizes what he just said.

“I mean…”

Eliott grabs one of their shirts off the floor and leans towards Lucas, using the spotless inner side of it to tenderly wipe off the worst of the paint of Lucas’ face .

“Good call, boyfriend.”

Lucas feels like the happiness is going to lift him off the ground, and he can’t help but draw Eliott to him and kiss him, and mix their colors together all over again.

…

Eventually, they manage to get dressed. They’re an absolute mess, there’s no avoiding it. Lucas’ whole shirt is half-orange, and then there’s the paint under his clothes, which is starting to dry and flake. Eliott looks like he crawled through mud on an alien planet, his cheeks muddy brown and hair shot through with electric blue. It’s going to be absolute hell trying to explain this to anybody. Especially as they turn towards the wall, and well.

It’s pretty damn obvious what happened there. Their ‘masterpiece’ doesn’t even begin to cover the old design, except in the center. Where it definitely looks like two people throwing themselves at a wall covered in paint while naked. Is that a butt print ? Lucas is going to absolutely die if anyone sees this. Well, he would definitely get a few high fives from at least Emma and Basile, but it isn’t worth it.

Eliott sees him having a crisis and grabs one of the largest brushes, dips it in a rest of red paint on the ground, and starts swiping it haphazardly over the worst of the offending marks.

“It’s like an explosion started here.” He wiggles his eyebrows. “It’s a metaphor, see ? Deviating a bit from the abstract theme, sorry, but I think we’ve thrown all the liquids we can at this poor wall.”

They didn’t even…well this style of painting is…anyway. Forget orange, Lucas is turning bright red. But he loves this. He loves how wild and carefree being around Eliott makes him. Like they could repaint the whole world in their own colors.

…

They manage to make it to the bathroom and clean off their faces and hands. But there’s no two ways about it - the fresque is probably uglier than before, and the room is a mess. They might have to come back early on Monday to clean it. He’s got no cell in his body inclined to do it now. Before he leaves, though, he snaps a picture of the paint-covered floor, empty paint buckets and two very visible, ah, remains of their activities. He’s in a bragging mood.

They walk out of the school, thankfully avoiding meeting anyone. There’s no way they’re going to get into public transport looking like this, so they walk the rest of the way home - to Lucas’ appartment, the closest to school.

Eliott’s hand keeps brushing against Lucas’s.

He wants to grab it. He really wants to. He isn’t there yet.

But he feels like he might be, soon.

As he walks, he posts the painting picture on his insta. He has been avoiding it for a while and he didn’t check his notifications when he posted the picture with the boys earlier, but he sees he has a new follower who has tagged him in a picture. The lettersoup name makes it sound like a bot, but hey, you never know.

The picture is Jackson Pollock, and the caption is a row of rainbow hearts. He looks up at Eliott.

“Aha, you found me !”

“You tagged me, that’s not very subtle, dude. Is your whole profile full of pretentious artsy references ?”

“I don’t know, why don’t you tell me ?”  

Lucas is readying a smart-ass comment but when he actually clicks on srodulv’s page, his heart kind of stops, and so does he, right there in the middle of the sidewalk.

The drawing of rain drops, dated. February 16. The night of their first kiss. “Not afraid.”Quotes in English about stars. The piano, god. That video of Eliott listening to rock in the exact same manner Lucas had put dubstep in his ears for days.

Some of the drawings are pretty dark. He’s starting to understand that Eliott’s a bit of a troubled soul, and maybe it explains a little bit of the rollercoaster they’ve been on. He’s messed up recently, he can understand. All he really wants to know is that Eliott really cares. And - from this ? Well, he really really does.

The f*cking chocolate bar - the very first day they met. Chelou, their first inside joke.

Fuck being timid and fuck shame. Before he knows what he’s doing, he’s kissing his man in the middle of the street, right in view of the whole world.

And then he follows him back on insta, of course.

…

When they arrive to the appartment, the first thing Lucas does is knock on Manon’s door.

“Hey, I need the room.”

Manon’s smile is the biggest he’s ever seen in someone who’s basically just been s*xiled.

“Of course, but wash up first okay ? You’d better not leave any weird stains. Hello, Eliott, nice to see you.”

Eliott greets her back, and Lucas is suddenly afraid she’s going to give him the shovel talk, so he pushes them both to the bathroom.

…

It takes them a long time to get clean, both because paint is difficult to wash off and because they can’t seem to keep their hands off each other. And well, it’s a small shower.

Eliott is so beautiful, and Lucas can’t get over being able to see and touch all of him, wherever he wants. As the pigment washes off with the water, he leaves new marks, more permanent, deep pink blossoming under his teeth and lips.

He wants the whole world to know. Eliott said he was the only one that mattered.

When they’re done, the shower stall looks like they murdered a clown in there. But they’ll have time to be fussy tomorrow.

…

They dry off and burrow under the covers together, skin against skin, cosy and clean and the closest thing to a holy experience Lucas’ ever known.  

It feels like a whole age since they were last here, like this. He feels like a whole different person. It’s been gruelling, but it was the kind of change he needed, to love Eliott wholly. There’s nothing holding him back now.

There’s still a shiver of fear. That he will go to sleep and Eliott won’t be there tomorrow, that he will find another sad drawing about how they can only be together in parallel universes.

But he has learned to step away from fear. And as Eliott whispers sweet nothings in the crook of his neck, as they move against each other again and again and the pleasure builds like waves of warmth breaking together, the reality of it sinks deeper and deeper.

This here is real, and it’s his life, right here and now.

[moviestorian]

Rock Montreaaaaal 1981 - Liveblog!!!

Hi there, it’s me again, did you miss you! I certainly did miss you! <3

Let’s get straight to the liveblog, shall we???

- OMG this is so HD - I'm EXCITED - the candles are a nice touch - of course they start off with a series of dramatic explosions and thunder-like sounds XD my fave band is so extra and dramatic and I live for it - Roger's face on a drum kit! - this version of WWRY rocks - finally a cameraman that doesn't fail to show a fair amount of Deaky power - the godly lighting department - Freddie with a Superman t-shirt? Give me that DC spinoff with Queen members as superheroes - they'd fight with evil producers, stupid critics, close-mided people - "you wanna get crazy?" Heck YES - Brian, please STOP making that face... I'm feeling my sin - "We'll give you crazy performace" I BET YOU WILL - Deaky seems to like blue as uch as I do, also he looks SO HOT - Roger's backing vocals are everything - Freddie: *takes off his leather jacket* crowd: *cheers* - man, the cinematography is better in this concert than in some movies I've recently watched - I adore the colouring - this version of Play the Game is far superior to the album version - okay, I'm totally gonna screencap this concert like crazy - Brian looks so elegant, oh my - YASS Roger, bang the drums! - SOMEBODY TO LOVE! - Freddie looked directly into the camera! - Oh my, this is killing me... I can't start crying on the train, please stop making me feel - ROGER'S VOCALS ARE DIVINE, you can't change my mind - all of them are pouring their hearts into this heart, you can SEE and HEAR it - now this is what I call the perfect performance - slay that guitar solo, Bri! - THE DRUMS OH MY - this HD and high sound quality is too powerful - Find me...somebody to love...find me...somebody to love... - *gulps beer* - Freddie cries - I cry - I died BYE - "shift your asses" XD "take off your clothes" XDDDDD - KILLAH KWEEN - where's the triangle!? - perfume came. *naturally*. from PARIS!.! - daaaamn, that transition! - Christ, Roger's killing it - he sounds a bit tired but STILL GOOD - Brian, please remove yourself from camera when they're showing Roger pls - Roger's drumming... I'm dead and in love - that drumset looks amazing, so sparkly and silver - sexy Deaky - Get down make love - cringy lyrics but it sounds pretty cool - ESPECIALLY live - Freddie & Roger are the most powerful vocal duo on earth - the lighting-mist-drumming coordination: POETIC CINEMA - some crazy sci-fi shit going on on - I feel I'm being abducted by aliens - awww, Brian on a piano - their tiny interaction, I MELT - "how I loved you, how I cried" - daamn, Freddie, I didn't know you were singing about me and my love for Queen - I want to offically apologize to everyone for forgetting how beautiful "Save me" is - I love that you can totally hear how better Freddie's control over his voice and vibrato become (compared with Rainbow and Odeon) - HeRe I sTaNd *dum dum* - oh hi shirtless Freddie - hop Deaky Deaky hop Deaky doo - Freddie and Roger - the ultimate brotp - YEAH! YEAH!  - I love those interactions with the audience - Freddie & Rog looking at each other. I'M CRY - Roger was doing a weird thing? Are u okay babe? - LOL Roger back spitting - some fine ass drumming - "are you in a mood for singing?" sure I am - "This is love of my life" NO YOU - the lady in the audience: *heart eyes* SAME GIRL, God I wish that were me - SLAY thay bassline, John! - okay I love this version of Under Pressure better than the David Bowie one (and you know, I LOVE the original!) - Rog smiling at Freddie <3333 - that falsetto, maaan - well, Freddie didn't do the highest note... I'm not surprised though, after 50 minutes of continuous singing I wouldn't expect him to hit a super high falsetto note, and he’s doing a splendid job all the same so - ...the.best.version.of.Under Pressure - Keep Yourself Alive always slaps - especially when Rog is banging his drums like that - noooo he threw the tambourine! He has no RESPEC - this shit is better than the entire Greatest Hits compilation - Roger's legendary drum solo strikes again - Maaaan this is extraordinary - the concentration! the SKILLS! - where you going, Rog? Come back! - OH HELLO THERE - how can he do it so fast??? - and some people still don't remember his name jgajgsdjhgsdjhgsdjhsd - *bows* *thumbs up* Roger, I'm coming to get you!!! - I can sense the longer guitar solo approaching - scratch those strings, Bri!!! - I love how you can see the audience's enthusiasm, and when you compare it with the relatively cold applause at the Rainbow, it's so uplifting and beautiful that people's love for them kept growing and growing - this one guy in the audience hyping Brian... bless you, man and your positivity - Crazy Little Thing Called Freddie with his gutar - love his vocals here - you know, how he rapidly makes this super high and quick sound - "ready Freddieeeee?" - give me a proper shot on Deaky! Yes, that's what I wanted - licky Deaky - Brian changed his clothes, still looking very nice - they really liked Jailhouse Rock, didn't thye? - "move it you fuckers" OMG so mean - Freddie & Brian <333 Brian's smile <3333 - Roger must be really hot in that shirt....in every possible sense - it's Bohemian Rhapsody time! - my mum would cheer, it's her second fave - the best thing about the live versions of Bohemian Rhapsody is that they always play my favourite parts - I'm actually gonna turn up the volume for that godly guitar solo - Oooo they played the operatic part via playback??? - I didn't see that coming actually - Nice touch! - SPARE HIM HIS LIFE FROM THIS MONSTROSITY - ROGER'S DRUMS - okay that hard rock section SLAPS hard - this is my favourite version so far - please tell me there's a CD version of this concert? I want it all (no pun intended)on my phones - I'm totally gonna search for a victim who's gonna watch this with me again - Sensing my mum or my flatmate - SMASH THAT GONG ROGER BOY - the flowers Freddie deserved - I'm pretty sure I'm watching this way too loud (on headphones but still), considering I'm on a traine...I have no regrets though - the editor knew what he was doing, unlike the Odeon one - they have more energy than me, - more explosions...SO EXTRA - Another one bites the dust! - Deaky's time to shine again - Freddie...I'm in public..stop taking off your clothes - AOBTD should be a Freddie/Roger vocal duet, change my mind - "Are you happy? Are you satisfied?" I SURE AM - "How long can you stand the heat?" I'm not sure, you guys are too good - wow Brian, how did you know I love guys wearing black trousers and white shirt? - those people who got to stand so close to the stage... they're blessed - now I'm reminded of the people from that facebook group I’m a member of...They all hate Sheer Heart Attack...BUT HAVE THEY HEARD THIS VERSION? - Me: man I wish I was born the same year my mum was so I could attend this concert  Me: reminds myself that if I were, indeed, born in the early 60s, I'd spend my entire youth in the communist Poland and I certainly wouldn't be allowed leave the country and go to Montreal to attend the rock concert  Me: *laughing hysterically* - Freddie and Roger brotp strikes again! My crops are watered - We Will, WE WILL ROCK YOU! - I lowkey wanna sing along but I'm public and I'd totally embarass myself - I DON'T WANT THIS CONCERT TO END - We are champions - again, my mum would love this concert - I'M EMO - Roger looks kinda sad, I wanna hug him - I think my brain has been forever scarred by that cursed WATC crack video - I can't unhear it XD - Freddie shaking hands with people...THIS IS TOO MUCH - I feel like my life hasn't been complete before I watched this - yes Rog, come forward! - the person who got Roger's sticks..jealous me - "thank you for being such a good sport" I CAN'T Freddie's too adorbs - In short: my expectations were very very high and yet they were grossly EXCEEDED, I'm nostalgic, emotional, happy at the same time - SO WHOLESOME OMG - Like, LIVE AID WHAT? - and they managed perfectly well without any synthesisers, because THEY ARE GREAT and SKILLED MUSICIANS, there was literally not a single weak spot in this performance??? - The bar is set very high for the Hungarian Rhapsody and Live at Wembley, hopefully I can watch these very soon! :D

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(That pic has nothing to do with anything, it’s me that tried to make my irl cat as a miqo’te)

Moonstruck: I Like RP Partners to Know

I like to be called: Mael

My favorite colors are: I’m very fond of pastels, especially pink.

Gender: I’m confused about that.

One thing you should know about me (or several): I started RPing at 12-13 years old on those BBC-type of forums. At first, I was on other’s people, then I created my own. My high school friends, to this day, still remember my primary character I had for years: Chaos, a chthonic devil-god with two dicks and two vaginas, that fucked himself, to create the demonic race. In those years, I was OBSESSED with the idea of evil and was trying to find a solution or explanation to it. It was through my writing I considered what it was - mostly with that OC, which was the most repulsive character I could ever create. A funloving, whimsy, joker-type outside, but a beast of every sin inside. There was no filter when I was RPing him. He was cartoonishly evil, which was the point. I think.

Thank Sobek King of the Nile I outgrew my edgelord teenage years lmao.

I work a lot of myself, ameliorate skills, learning,... I don’t have much time for hobbies anymore. Because of that RP, as much as I like it, is taking a backseat and I have to pick my partners pretty carefully.

I don’t like public RP events, they are all organized the same way, I find lazy and boring. If I had to choose between a public event or the Quicksand, I will pick the latter. In both cases I will stand around touching my dick for 3 hours but at least at the Titsand can hook up with someone and write ERP. That alone makes it not a complete waste of my time.

I play piano and try to get back into dawing. I practice every day and I’m starting to see the result which makes me pretty happy.

My favorite food is Frank’s Red Hot Chicken Wings Sauce.

I’m currently working on a book and trying to be a professional writer. Wish me luck!

PS: If you make me tea I will be your friend forever.

One thing you should know about my muse(s)(Or several): I do have 15 OCs on FFXIV and I don’t feel going through the whole list. I’m lazy, please forgiving me. I’ll probably go through my “Big Fives” as I call them in my inner monologue.

Louis: Louis is an extension of my alienation and loneliness. How he feels about being different and not belonging to anywhere is how I feel myself lot of the time. I have troubling connecting and understand people and so does he.

He’s a Nightkin and even if I initially present him as being “awkward and cute” don’t be mistaken. He is a killer and he is dangerous. He will exploit a weakness when he sees one. Yes, he will feel remorse about it but that won’t stop him for doing it.

Celestin: Hey do you know what happens when you shove one of those rockets you buy from the convenient store and you shove it into my ass? That character happens. His my own pride, exaggerated to the 9th degree;  he’s my salt and my anger. He’s the asshole I become when I get hurt.

Celestin is a very proud man (one could say he has some kind of god complex - which is not completely false) willing to go to unimaginable heights for his goals. He’s Machiavellian: the ends justify the means. It’s all a matter if the sacrifices he does is worth it…

Ezrien: He started as a joke character which I assume. He still got a LOT to do but bit by bit, I’m building him. I would really want to explore more his drug and alcohol addiction, to get GRITTY instead of always be joking with him. Still waiting for the good person to unpack this box of worms.

I really enjoy Ez, and I enjoy him more since I made him and Rochel cousin. They are excellent foils to each other and bring me a lot of joy.

Narcisse: My sad elf prince (tm) and my attempt to try to make a “Lawful Good” type of character. He’s a knight, living to serve other people and get rid of evil on this world. He has a very black/white worldview (which is his weakness) and he’s… well, he’s kinda of intolerant sometimes.

I still have to figure him a lot but I really love his aesthetic. I feel he’s missing, I don’t know what, and that spark of oompf is what holding me back to really enjoy him.

Ephraim: My baby. Oh, do I love Eph hahahaha. When I created him I was “okay dude, stop doing fucking egdelords all the time. No dark, break the mold.” And I succeeded! He’s the softest, gentlest necromancer I ever made -and at the same time, breaking the trope of the ever-so-dark necromancer.- I really like how I can switch my gear with him, he’s an extremely versatile character. Yeah, his backstory is sad and I can still make dark stuff with him but I can do comedy and absurd plots. Which I absolutely adore. When I RP with Cecilia and Ruruka, things get so dumb so fast. I love it.

First language: French. I’m foreign and I tend to use sentences that work in French but doesn’t in English. I do think the way I structure my writing work in my main language but sometimes is lost in translation. When I’m tired I tend to revert back more often to French which can be hilarious… or horrible.

RP blogs/Main Blog I only have this blog so uh that’s it folk

Age range:  under 13  |  14–17 | 18–22 | 23–25 | 26–29 | 30+ |  70+

Am I okay with NSFW?: yes | no | some nsfw  

I’m not particularly “shopping” for porn; I do have more sexually inclined characters than others (Ezrien, Narcisse.) I don’t mind ERP neither I mind people that do it (either regularly or casually). However, I do find it pretty pointless most of the time. What I mean by that is, the consequences of characters having sex will be the same whether you describe or not every moan and cum shot. IN ANY CASE, I’ll be honest, I did write a loooooot of smut in the past. While I don’t really do it anymore (I barely RP at all lmao), I’m not 100% closed to the idea to dip my toes back into it. It’s all a matter of what’s my mood today, what kind of char you got and who you are.

My favorite/most common thing to rp is: angst | fluff (maybe)| smut (a very soft maybe)  | crack (I don’t understand what this means in that context sorry) | action | plots | AUs (maybe, depends) | Violence | Darker themes | Yandere (yes, baby, please) | Comedy | Weird | Horror | Enigmas/Mystery

Yeah dude I added some of my own because I find there wasn’t enough

OC friendly?: yes | no | depends

RP blog: does contain ooc posts | doesn’t contain ooc posts | occasionally contains ooc | Aesthetic

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THE SIMSELF TAG featuring yours truly and her wonderful assistant, antoinette

1. WHAT IS YOUR FULL NAME? mia and thats all ur getting out of me

2. WHAT IS YOUR NICKNAME? oh god we have some embarrassing ones but jordan and jords are nicknames of mine and u might be able to guess the other obvious ones dgjhfdj

3. BIRTHDAY? february 25th babey

4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE BOOK SERIES? OH uhh princess diaries by meg cabot probably

5. DO YOU BELIEVE IN ALIENS OR GHOSTS? not to sure about those funky alien dudes but ehh yeah i believe in ghosts

6. WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE AUTHOR? i’d say michael morpurgo but that’s probably because his books were shoved down my throat at an early age DKJDFGJ if you can have a favourite poet i can answer this: atticus and lang leav

7. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE RADIO STATION? radio one probably!!

8. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FLAVOR OF ANYTHING? the purple one. like, starburst? purple. wine gum? purple

9. WHAT WORD WOULD YOU USE OFTEN TO DESCRIBE SOMETHING GREAT OR WONDERFUL? being the millenial i am probably Uh...li...litty

10. WHAT IS YOUR CURRENT FAVORITE SONG? OH Hm i’d say ocean eyes by billie eilish

11. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE WORD? Hm!

12. WHAT WAS THE LAST SONG YOU LISTENED TO?  copycat by billie eilish!!

13. WHAT TV SHOW WOULD YOU RECOMMEND FOR EVERYBODY TO WATCH? LIE TO ME IS THE UNDER APPRECIATED SERIES OF THE CENTURY

14. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE TO WATCH WHEN YOU’RE FEELING DOWN? oh uhh i don’t watch films a lot and especially not if i’m feeling?? sad

15. DO YOU PLAY VIDEO GAMES? never heard of them

16. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR? OH jesus lets say. being forgotten or making no difference in the world

17. WHAT IS YOUR BEST QUALITY, IN YOUR OPINION? oh Jesus not a lot of these GJFDH over the past mm month or so i’d say i’ve grown a lot as a person in the fact that i have more respect for myself than i used to, and if i have an opinion on something i evaluate it and decide Do People Really Need To Know? (DPRNTK)

18. WHAT IS YOUR WORST QUALITY, IN YOUR OPINION? EASY my weird. defense mechanism thing. i’ve gotten a bit better in my opinion but the reason i’m usually in so much trouble is because as soon as i’m attacked, i act with anger? its some weird defensive wall that i put up and regret later because i’m not really thinking like a rational person. i just see that i’m being attacked and my first thought is to fight back

19. DO YOU LIKE CATS OR DOGS BETTER? OH cats because i haven’t had one in ages. one of our cats was run over and the other was taken by our neighbours and now he doesn’t even remember us or respond to his name so thats really fun

20. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SEASON? SUMMER because my skin turns olive in the summer and right now. a bitch is pale! also school is so much nicer in the summer... the whole yeargroup feels like much more of a community because we all sit together outside n it’s just overall very fun and makes me nostalgic of year 7

21. ARE YOU IN A RELATIONSHIP? bitch u really thought-

22. WHAT IS SOMETHING YOU MISS FROM YOUR CHILDHOOD? still in it but. because of a lot of things i was forced to grow up very fast. something i miss is having everyone in the house (my siblings are both a lot older than me so they’re never around) and not having to worry about fitting into certain stereotypes or WASHING MY HAIR!!!!!

23. WHO IS YOUR BEST FRIEND? oh god ok so i have a “best friend” but we don’t. agree on a lot of things and she takes everything i say 100% seriously so even though we’re not close i’d consider this group of boys from my school my best friends. and online ofc i have Many Many good friends which i would name but i dont wanna leave anyone out bc i talk to A Lot of people DGHDFJ

24. WHAT IS YOUR EYE COLOR? blue blue blue

25. WHAT IS YOUR HAIR COLOR? blonde babey

26. WHO IS SOMEONE YOU LOVE? my brother

27. WHO IS SOMEONE YOU TRUST? would say myself but sometimes i’m not even sure i can trust HER

28. WHO IS SOMEONE YOU THINK ABOUT OFTEN? i think about people loads because im a lonely romantic so. i’d say Love Interest and i think about myself a whole lot too like who does this bitch think she is

29. ARE YOU CURRENTLY EXCITED ABOUT/FOR SOMETHING? all the time i’m looking forward to things bc. not a whole lot happens in my life so if Love Interest looks at me a certain way i’ll look forward to going to school for the next couple weeks FDJGHFDJ

30. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST OBSESSION? i think of the future way too much. she’s a dreamer

31. WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE TV SHOW AS A CHILD? oh god uhhh i used to cry at in the night garden all the time when it ended bc i hated that iggle piggle sailed away on his boat DJHFD it was probably still my favourite though

32. WHO OF THE OPPOSITE GENDER CAN YOU TELL ANYTHING TO, IF ANYONE? i had a best friend who moved away after year seven and i feel like i could but. who knows we haven’t seen each other for years

33. ARE YOU SUPERSTITIOUS? sigh i think so like does it count if my tarot deck says not to do something because. i trust those tarot bitches with all my soul if i have one

34. DO YOU HAVE ANY UNUSUAL PHOBIAS? don’t like the dark, i have a fear of holes, can’t sleep without the door open, can’t sleep when i can see in a mirror (fun fact theres a mirror in my room but it’s on a shelf which i can barely see at night like. i can see a glimpse. but knowing it’s there freaks me out so its flipped and has something covering it)

35. DO YOU PREFER TO BE IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA OR BEHIND IT? oh ummmm in front i guess because 1. i look horrible in photos other people have taken of me 2. technically being in front of it. you can still take selfies and 3. the people i know take pictures from really weird angles

36. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE HOBBY? we love a bit of vidya games but i love reading poetry because i’m a whore and also i like singing but that doesn’t mean im good at it!

37. WHAT WAS THE LAST BOOK YOU READ? UHHH god i really dont read uhh probably lullabies by lang leav

38. WHAT WAS THE LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? romeo and juliet (the blessed one featuring young leo dicaprio)

39. WHAT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS DO YOU PLAY, IF ANY? i can play the guitar, the recorder, a bit of the piano

40. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ANIMAL? GIRAFFES it’s really sad that they’re now endangered. if ur talkin domestic pets i love guinea pigs, cats and (i’ve never had them but rats

41. WHAT ARE YOUR TOP 5 FAVORITE TUMBLR BLOGS THAT YOU FOLLOW? don’t. this’ll turn into a follow forever and i won’t get any clout bc it’s in such a long post !

42. WHAT SUPERPOWER DO YOU WISH YOU HAD? OH hm. i thought as hard as my tiny brain could about this and i think teleportation would be interesting but if we can choose ANY superpower. is magic one? that’d b pretty wack

43. WHEN AND WHERE DO YOU FEEL MOST AT PEACE? when i’m walking to school at half 7 in the morning and no one’s there and i can hear the trees lining the field rustling in the wind in the distance. it was rainng this morning and even though my whole ass was exposed from the wind and i was soaking it was really peaceful. also there’s a red kite that’s resident to our school field and i love to stand there in the morning and watch it sometimes

44. WHAT MAKES YOU SMILE? feeling included DGJHDJ doesn’t happen a whole lot

45. WHAT SPORTS DO YOU PLAY, IF ANY? i play a lot of sports because i’m in school obviously but i’m really good at rugby bc a bitch is Tactical and Nimble. i love hockey and badminton and stuff though

46. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DRINK? i LOVE smoothies and milkshakes and everything ugh. i’d be bold enough to say i love drinks more than i love food. like apple juice orange juice MIXED juice smoothies BROWN BAG MILKSHAKES! BITCH! THE STRAWBERRY ONE IS SO GOOD UGH

47. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WROTE A HAND-WRITTEN LETTER OR NOTE TO SOMEBODY? oh jesus um. 4 years ago

48. ARE YOU AFRAID OF HEIGHTS? fuck yeah brother

49. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST PET PEEVE? UGH A LOT OF THINGS like. people biting their nails. people tapping their foot on my chair. people not listening when you’re explaining something THEY needed help with. tapping a pen on a desk or clicking it on and off

50. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO A CONCERT? nop

51. ARE YOU VEGAN/VEGETARIAN? my mother is a vegetarian so i eat a lot of vegetarian meals. sometimes i get really put off meat but like. a bitch is 13 and doesn’t pay for her own meals so she doesn’t really get a say in what she eats

52. WHEN YOU WERE LITTLE, WHAT DID YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GREW UP? always wanted to entertain people and be nationally recognised. take that as u will

53. WHAT FICTIONAL WORLD WOULD YOU LIKE TO LIVE IN? TOO MANY let’s go... the arcana so i can marry the 1 (one) love of my life dr julian ilyushka devorak... chill in the hanged man’s realm...

54. WHAT IS SOMETHING YOU WORRY ABOUT? i don’t worry about a lot not gonna lie to u

55. ARE YOU SCARED OF THE DARK? cheers i’ll drink to that broe

56. DO YOU LIKE TO SING? if the screeching sound i make to a slight tune counts as singing then. yes

57. HAVE YOU EVER SKIPPED SCHOOL? not illegally but i’ve had days off sick where i wasn’t sick bc i couldn’t be asked

58. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PLACE ON THE PLANET? alone

59. WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO LIVE? somewhere safe

60. DO YOU HAVE ANY PETS? yeah i have a dog and a cat but as i said m cat got taken by my neighbours and doesn’t even remember us so sjfhdjg

61. ARE YOU MORE OF AN EARLY BIRD OR A NIGHT OWL? night owl but if i’m rested well enough i love being up early

62. DO YOU LIKE SUNRISES OR SUNSETS BETTER? sunsets

63. DO YOU KNOW HOW TO DRIVE? no a bitch is 13

64. DO YOU PREFER EARBUDS OR HEADPHONES? probably headphones bc i can’t lose them and the sound quality is better but i’m not a MONSTER so earphones. also headphones automatically make old people scoff at u and hate u more

65. HAVE YOU EVER HAD BRACES? nah

66. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE GENRE OF MUSIC? whatever’s poetic enough to be On Brand

67. WHO IS YOUR HERO? don’t really have one

68. DO YOU READ COMIC BOOKS? no

69. WHAT MAKES YOU THE MOST ANGRY? the holier than thou attitude Often showcased on simblr by some. familiar faces

70. DO YOU PREFER TO READ ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE OR WITH A REAL BOOK? it doesn’t really make a difference

71. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SUBJECT IN SCHOOL? computer science (mainly for the people because right now we’re just making fucking. powerpoints) or english bc of the people again

72. DO YOU HAVE ANY SIBLINGS? yee a brother and a sister

73. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU BOUGHT? christmas presents and some perfume & a purse for me

74. HOW TALL ARE YOU? 5′4

75. CAN YOU COOK? not well

76. WHAT ARE THREE THINGS THAT YOU LOVE? attention DFJHGSDJ uhh being kind to people who deserve it and hard work paying off

77. WHAT ARE THREE THINGS THAT YOU HATE? patronization, people who believe their opinion is the only opinion and people who cause minor inconveniences for you for no reason

78. DO YOU HAVE MORE FEMALE FRIENDS OR MORE MALE FRIENDS? more female probably but i prefer guys

79. WHAT IS YOUR SEXUAL ORIENTATION? i say bisexual but no one’s ever been close enough to let me find out

80. WHERE DO YOU CURRENTLY LIVE? party in the UK

81. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TEXTED? kyla rosymiel

82. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? UHHH i really can’t remember i know me and kyla were talking about something and i started crying JGFHDGJ

83. WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE YOUTUBER? oh god umm probably smii7y but i also really like all his friends like. kryoz etc

84. DO YOU LIKE TO TAKE SELFIES? when i look good FJDHSJD

85. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE APP? would say tumblr but she’s gone ! right now i’m really feeling zepeto bc It May Be Tracking Me but it lets me take pics with all my online friends and i have some sort of weird following on there SDFHSDJ

86. WHAT IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR PARENT(S) LIKE? i don’t think i’ll ever be able to fully confide in them, i really like my dad but there’s elements of him that don’t really float my boat. same with my mum but i’m less close with her

87. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE FOREIGN ACCENT? probably australian or. is it swiss? might be swiss.

88. WHAT IS A PLACE THAT YOU’VE NEVER BEEN TO, BUT YOU WANT TO VISIT? france and ofc america

89. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE NUMBER? 4

90. CAN YOU JUGGLE? with like 2 things skdghsd

91. ARE YOU RELIGIOUS? not really but i believe in a higher power of some sort and a life after death. i believe there’s something out there that is listening but i prefer to think it’s the stars

92. DO YOU FIND OUTER SPACE OF THE DEEP OCEAN TO BE MORE INTERESTING? i find the ocean really ineresting but man will always romanticise space

93. DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF TO BE A DAREDEVIL? im a 13 year old white girl how ruthless can i be

94. ARE YOU ALLERGIC TO ANYTHING? sesame seeds

95. CAN YOU CURL YOUR TONGUE? nop but everyone else in my family can

96. CAN YOU WIGGLE YOUR EARS? nope

97. HOW OFTEN DO YOU ADMIT THAT YOU WERE WRONG ABOUT SOMETHING? whenever i realise

98. DO YOU PREFER THE FOREST OR THE BEACH? forest

99. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PIECE OF ADVICE THAT ANYONE HAS EVER GIVEN YOU? it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission

100. ARE YOU A GOOD LIAR? i lie all the time but i am. SO terrible ASJDFHJ i would love to lie less but it’s so easy to slip into one

101. WHAT IS YOUR HOGWARTS HOUSE? gryffindor

102. DO YOU TALK TO YOURSELF? hell yea brother

103. ARE YOU AN INTROVERT OR AN EXTROVERT? kyla put ambivert so i looked that up and. yeah

104. DO YOU KEEP A JOURNAL/DIARY? did when i was younger but i guess tumblr is somewhat of a personal diary

105. DO YOU BELIEVE IN SECOND CHANCES? depends

106. IF YOU FOUND A WALLET FULL OF MONEY ON THE GROUND, WHAT WOULD YOU DO? turn it in most likely

107. DO YOU BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ARE CAPABLE OF CHANGE? “yes, but you should never forget about their past” thanks kyla

108. ARE YOU TICKLISH? only monsters aren’t

109. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ON A PLANE? nope

110. DO YOU HAVE ANY PIERCINGS? i have my ears pierced. WILD i know

111. WHAT FICTIONAL CHARACTER DO YOU WISH WAS REAL? UGH FUCK DR JULIAN ILYUSHKA DEVORAK!! it’d be illegal for him to marry anyone but me though

112. DO YOU HAVE ANY TATTOOS? yep! i have a tattoo on my back. i plan on getting a lot more tattoos in the future, but i don’t want anymore in the near future

113. WHAT IS THE BEST DECISION THAT YOU’VE MADE IN YOUR LIFE SO FAR? being outspoken and not. watching things pass by

114. DO YOU BELIEVE IN KARMA? of course

115. DO YOU WEAR GLASSES OR CONTACTS? nopee

116. DO YOU WANT CHILDREN? oof i really don’t know because of what’s happened to me i don’t know if i could knowing i could never protect them from everything. idk pregnancy seems very nice but once the kid gets annoying thats It for me

117. WHO IS THE SMARTEST PERSON YOU KNOW? “i think everyone is smart in their own way” thanks kyla

118. WHAT IS YOUR MOST EMBARRASSING MEMORY? i started laughing once in drama and i pissed myself a lil and i was like ehh thats fine i do that all the time and then i didnt stop pissing and someone was like ‘whats that wet on the floor? they were like mia have u pissed urslef i was like nOSDJF so i had to ask the teacher to leave. u coiuld see the piss down my leg

119. HAVE YOU EVER PULLED AN ALL-NIGHTER? have u SEEN these bags. she’s seen hell 

120. WHAT COLOR ARE MOST OF YOUR CLOTHES? like varying tones of beige and then grey/black

121. DO YOU LIKE ADVENTURES? of course

122. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ON TV? oh uhhh i feel like maybe when i was younger but i’ve. repressed that memory if i have it

123. HOW OLD ARE YOU? 13 years young

124. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE QUOTE? oh jesus something poetic and by atticus probably let’s see

after spending more time searching for a quote than i did on literally this whole tag, i decided on this. and then i realised. it will always be ‘YOU ARE A SAD BOY’

[that-shamrock-vibe]

Movie Review: Halloween (Spoilers)

Disclaimer: Alright so I am doing two separate reviews for this movie, instead I am giving an overview of the movie with some detail but not in depth. I am also posting this review the day the movie first airs so if you have not yet seen the movie do not read on.

General Reaction:

I am slightly concerned about just how much I enjoyed this movie. Yes it’s official, I am starting to enjoy the horror genre. I don’t know what it is in recent years but, particularly since seeing It and television shows such as American Horror Story, this kind of thing does not phase me like it used to, in fact it gives me somewhat of an adrenaline rush.

That’s not to say I wasn’t hesitant to see the latest horror slasher movie because, particularly with the Halloween franchise, the main worry I have with them is the jump scares. I am 26 and value my heart and do not want it to give out in a cinema.

However I knew Halloween was a must-see due to the fact that this franchise, as well as others like A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th are the classic big slasher franchises. Also I wanted to see it on the day of release so that when the gossip mill started turning about what’s in this movie I was not put off by the gore-ification.

Speaking of which, and this is where we slightly go into spoiler territory, this is possibly the goriest horror movie I have ever seen, more than the original for sure, but the choices in ways of showing the level of gore here was fascinating and actually bordered on artistic both from the creators standpoint and also Michael Myers. The goriest moments are the kind of hiding behind your hands type of moments because, particularly the later moments, they are quite grotesque to watch but with the cashier at the gas station having his teeth removed and jaw practically torn open only for Michael to use his bloody teeth as a warning to the reporter was both disturbing but also slightly artistic from a murderer’s point of view.

This is why I am so fascinated in this type of slasher movie, other horrors like Alien, Predator and even It are fantastical horror because these creatures don’t knowingly exist, however Michael Myers and others like Jason Voorhees are so terrifying because that type of person could very easily exist and has in history. But they also present a psychological threat as well as a physical one as shown in this movie with the effect Michael had on Laurie.

The main issue I had with the relationship between Michael and Laurie is trying to determine exactly where it stems from with the retcon this franchise has made. In promotion for the movie it has been stated that this movie is a sequel to the original Halloween released 40 years ago and is a real-time direct continuation omitting the 7 sequels that spanned from 1981-2002 and the two soft reboot movies in 2007-2008. This means that the reveal of Laurie being Michael Myers sister is now non-canon and referenced in a throwaway comment near the beginning of this movie. But if you take away the sibling connection between the two, then why does Michael seek vengeance on Laurie? Is it just because he is a psychopath on automatic or are they keeping the sibling connection in flux? I just think it is because Michael enjoys killing people who are home alone. If he ever met Kevin McAllister he’d do the world a favour right? Even though killing kids is bad.

On that note this was my other big issue with the movie, now I get in horrors they make it so nobody is safe, and this movie follows classic horror tropes of letting the audience know who is going to die before they even do because the character will say or do something stupid. However, as far as I am aware, showing the death of kids has always been where the line is drawn, It gets away with it again because it’s not showing them die on screen. But here, there were two boys who couldn’t have been older than 10, and one was strangled at the start of the movie until you heard his neck snap and the other’s fate was ultimately left unknown, unless I missed something, but the fact they show any sort of gruesome death for a child crosses a line for me and it made me slightly uncomfortable liking the movie after that.

But to put a positive spin on things, the two young actors, Vince Mattis and Jibrail Nantambu, did a much better job at acting for their brief 5 minutes of screen-time than the two young adults who played Allison’s and Vicky’s boyfriends. I did like the guy who was besties with Allison’s boyfriend though.

My final note on this part is about the score and specifically that classic theme tune. I have always thought the original theme was the perfect set-up for the movie and the fact they also incorporate it into scenes whenever Michael Myers is on the hunt adds to the tension of the movie. Here though the updated versions which seems to feature both a stronger bass and piano blend made what we are watching almost exciting. Particularly when the opening scene cuts directly into the rather genius titles it added to the anticipation to see what exactly Michael gets up to.

Cast:

The cast as a whole is great, Jaime Lee Curtis is superb in this role. Yes it was her first major role and her mother is a known scream queen from Psycho but I just enjoy watching Jaime Lee Curtis act, she is similar in acting style and roles to Christine Baranski for me.

Judy Greer surprisingly played the role of the daughter and mother side-role rather well here compared to how she plays the mother side-role in Ant-Man. I started to really like her towards the end and there is one bad-ass moment she has that I felt worked really well. I also understand her and her family’s relationship with Laurie here because of what has happened throughout the last 40 years and how closed off she has been.

As for Nick Castle, who I believe only reprises his role as Michael Myers for one or two scenes from the original movie, I do think James Jude Courtney did a similarly great job throughout the movie of providing that same creepy and sinister presence but there isn’t a lot to say about a character that doesn’t speak and wears a full face mask that makes the actor behind it expressionless.

Franchise Future:

There are several stingers in this movie that set up potential sequels or even prequels to this movie. For instance it seems that Laurie’s granddaughter Allyson went through a similar journey here as Laurie did in the original movie so seeing if the experience traumatizes her in the same way as it did Laurie going forward would be an interesting venture.

Also I would love to see this movie being a rejuvenation in the classic slasher franchises and characters, we already have Michael Myers in current culture, but I want to see Freddie Kruger, Leatherface, Jason Voorhees, Ghostface and Norman Bates all given the modern-day Halloween treatment. Yes Bates Motel was a hit and Freddie Highmore was great in the role but to see the character back in a cinematic setting would be great.

Overall I rate the movie an 8.5/10, there were some clunky moments and weird dialogue choices however in terms of horror, which again is something I used to openly avoid, I left the movie with quite a buzz. I do think this is a great choice for anyone deciding what to do for Halloween this year.

So that’s my review of Halloween, what did you guys think? Post your comments and check out more Movie Reviews as well as other posts.

[infamousmountaintown-blog]

Tweek Tweak

MUN

Name/Alias: Alex / Skull Pronouns: He/Him Age: 24 Timezone: EST

MUSE

Muse’s Name: Maxwell “Tweek” Tweak Physical Description:  5'9" with green eyes. Pretty slim and kinda pale but not unhealthily. Usually has bags under his eyes. Covered in freckles, and scars all over his fingers and hands from accidental mug shatterings. Self-harm scars line the inside of his forearms from trying to focus on something other than the voices. Messy ass blond hair, and missing one and a half fingers on his right hand that got caught in a coffee grinder a few years ago. (A sentimental memento of my first ever Tweek muse.) Background:  Tweek’s always known about the meth and cocaine his dad puts in their two ‘special’ blend the coffee house serves. Tweak blend Death Wish. it’s been a constant pretty much since he was born so he’s never??? Actually considered it as odd?? It’s very rare that he indulges, he just knows it’s their most expensive blend and makes them good bank. He also knows to not give it to kids and obviously that it gets customers high.  Tweek’s issues pretty much just kept escalating since the 4th grade and his parents continued to assume that he was just a spazz with ADD no matter what odd ticks he developed. His only solid source of support was Craig, his boyfriend from 4th-8th grade. What happened with that and the actual end-date TBD with Craig mun.  He spent his middle school years missing half his classes in a panic, but managed to turn that around once high school came around. He actually turned out to be pretty smart when his mind isn’t glazed over with anxiety or other things. He joined the drama club in High School and was actually really, really good at it and got a lot of lead roles in the school plays. Personality:  Tweek is terrified of or worried about most things. He can be pretty frank and reply to things flatly at times, especially if he hasn’t had coffee or slept in a while. Tweek is an unreliable narrator and over-exaggerates so keep that in mind when he’s freaking out about something. He’s probably spinning more onto it than there actually is.He has a surprisingly decent sense of humor and is very competitive. He usually lets loose in online games way more than real life because he knows the consequences are a lot less severe and he can go all out without fear. He’s a feisty fucker that won’t hesitate to fight someone if they piss him off bad enough and frequently carries around a pocket knife because it makes him feel more comfortable. He’s shockingly extroverted, and WILL make his opinions known regardless of who is around or who he’s disagreeing with. He weirdly likes being the center of attention so long as that attention is positive. Acting has become his passion since he did so well with his and Craig’s fake break up in the hallway in 4th grade. 

HEADCANONS

- Loosely Buddhist  - Vegetarian due to Buddhism, will still do eggs and dairy. - Impulsive as hell  - Almost always has cuts and band-aids on his hands.  - Wears colorful rubber bands on his fingers. Used to be to remember things; now he just feels weird without them.  - Needs glasses to read small print.   - Hates the idea of having to live on medications so tries to deal with his shit in other ways.  - Loves birds a lot.  - Likes cats but is mildly allergic.  - Hates yappy dogs, fine with big ones.  - Black Coffee. Shocker.  - Someone needs to take the TV and computer away from him. He keeps watching Ancient Aliens and Monster Hunters and Celebrity Ghost Stories as well as various YouTube horror and caught-on-tape countdowns.  - Loves gardens, but doesn’t have one. Kills every plant he tries to grow. Including a cactus. RIP Pokey.  - Favorite Coffee is French Roast (because it’s the richest) but will dip into his Dad’s Death Wish Blend (the meth-addled one) if he’s stressed out enough.  - Doesn’t trust himself to drive and doesn’t have his license. Would probably be a hazard on the road anyway.  - Doesn’t like to eat in front of people  - Loves and is really good at playing the piano  - Is terrified of Vamp Kids. He’s pretty sure they’re not real vampires but you can never be sure!  - His bottom lip is usually split and scabbed and his finger tips are the same way due to him constantly nervously chewing on either his fingers or bottom lip.  - Amazing singing voice - Frequently taking parts in local plays  - Really wants to be an actor.  - Nails are usually really pretty since he tends to chew his actual fingers rather than them. 

SAMPLE PARA

Fingernails chewed short drum on the surface of the counter as the morning rush filters through the coffee shop. Tweek’s sleepless eyes stay trained on the glass door, desperate for the minute hand to finish its cycle. Two minutes.

Years of practice leaves the shaky seventeen year old breaking far fewer mugs than he did in his childhood, a fact that his father makes a point to underhandedly praise him for. He doesn’t take it well. It rings in his ears as a reminder of past failures rather than current successes, and considering it’s been months since he last broke anything he’s sure it was malicious.

Man, he can’t wait to get out of here.

Tik, tok, tik, tok the clock goes until finally, finally, it hits the number he was waiting for. He belts out, in a voice practiced to be higher than natural for him, “It’s time for school!” and barely stops himself from vaulting over the counter. He moves around it instead, the more fun option too dangerous, as his father comes out from the back to take over.

He snags the backpack he’d left at the edge of the counter and rushes out onto the sidewalk. Never, never the street. Blue-green eyes dart away from the pavement and he hurries himself along across town.

Except, the moment he rounds the corner of his usual route, something is different. He thinks it’s Craig, for a fraction of a second. Dark hair, and intense bored eyes belonging to the guy he nearly slammed into- but Craig hasn’t met him on the way to school since freshman year and these eyes aren’t the cold stormy grey he knows. These eyes burn unnaturally red. Damien.

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Do you have any favorite scifi shows? Or any recommendations?

Well! This is a fun ask. Let me see…

So, I really like sci-fi, but sometimes I also don’t like sci-fi. I overdosed a little bit on spaceship stuff after my years of Star Trek obsession and then BSG (and like, I hear The Expanse is great but I just…haven’t been in the mood), and these days my favorite sci-fi is talky, high-concept atmospheric mystery stuff in a fairly realistic world where something is a little bit weird. What I really DON’T like is violence/shooting/chasing/action, and a lot of sci-fi, unfortunately, is that. (Westworld, I am looking at your ass.) I also am a LITTLE bit over sci-fi as sledgehammery social parable, again a la Star Trek. Even though I’ll always love Star Trek (and will get around to watching Discovery one of these days). 

Some sci-fi TV that I’ve enjoyed recently includes:

(hey surprise, this got very long! so it’s under a cut)

Dark. There’s just one season of this on Netflix right now, but I LOVVVVVED it. Talk about atmospheric. It made me want to move to Germany and live in a forest where it rains all the time. It’s in German – this isn’t a bother to me because I like subtitles, but it’s available dubbed as well if you prefer that. It takes place in a small town and starts with a missing child, and it quickly becomes clear that something strange is going on. Time travel is an element. A central part of it becomes about the way all the characters in the town are interconnected and how the events of the past affect the future. It’s part Lost, part Stranger Things, part Back to the Future. 

The Returned/Les Revenants. So there’s an American show called The Returned as well, and this is not that one – the one I’m talking about is in French (sorry…I swear some ones without subtitles are coming) and was on uh, IFC or something like that. One day in a(n extremely attractive and cinematic) French town in the mountains, a girl comes home from a class field trip…except she died on that field trip years ago, in a bus accident, and her family is completely shocked and freaked out. The same thing is happening all across town. Includes one (1) very creepy child. Very spooky and also super atmospheric. (One reason I loved Dark so much was that aesthetically it reminded me of Les Revenants.)

The 4400. I binged this show and had a window of time in my life where I was super obsessed with it. Premise is similar to The Returned, actually: A bunch of people (4,400 of them to be precise) who were believed to be the victims of alien abductions – across many years – are returned to earth all at the same time, all at the age they left. So you have a man who was taken in the 1950s (Mahershala Ali!) and a little girl from the 1930s, etc., all dropped back into modern-day America – and most of them (all of them? I forget) have mysterious powers of various kinds. Two police detectives (am I predictable or what) investigate. Things escalate from there. It is a little XF-y in a way I appreciate, while also being totally different (and much less arty than something like Les Revenants). 

Stranger Things. I might as well list it…everyone knows about this show but it really is pretty great. Season 1 especially. Huge ET vibes, creepy/Spielbergy, not a cop-out where it’s all a metaphor or something (pet peeve). 

Fringe. This isn’t so recent (well, neither is The 4400), but if you like sci-fi and you haven’t watched it, you should! It starts out being a liiiiiiittle bit of a less-hooky ripoff of XF (a group of FBI folks, including a retired mad scientist basically, investigate paranormal cases), but after a few episodes it finds its groove and it becomes its own weird and wonderful thing. It was a show I really enjoyed and it ended satisfyingly. John Noble as Walter Bishop is fantastic, and one thing I really loved about it was that it was not afraid to make things happen and shake up the premise if needed. 

Jessica Jones. I really, really am not into Marvel or any of the superhero stuff, but I like this show a lot. It puts the idea of having “powers” in a very grounded kind of gritty, cynical, noir-y setting and I enjoy that. It’s also woman-focused, which is nice, and it’s just different from other stuff on TV. I dig it. 

Orphan Black. Man, I loved Orphan Black. What a fun show, and – not necessarily the most important thing to me in a show, but hugely refreshing nonetheless – it’s also very woman-centered. The premise is that a woman named Sarah sees someone who looks exactly like her – right before the doppelganger throws herself in front of a train. And in unraveling the mystery, Sarah learns that she’s a clone and she has a bunch of “sisters.” Tatiana Maslany is FREAKING AMAZINGGGGG as all the various clones. It is definitely sci-fi, but it’s also a lot of fun and just a fast-moving, action-packed (but not in a way that makes my eyes glaze over) cool-ass show. 

Grimm. Grimm was a pretty silly network-y show, but my affection for it really never waned (though it also never really went too far above “mild”). Premise: Basically, that fairytale monsters (broadly speaking) are real and walk among us (disguised for the most part), and there are these people called Grimms who can see them and are supposed to fight them. Lots of ancient documents, old books, mysterious keys, etc. This one dude who is a police detective in Portland (it was shot in Portland and is basically the second Portland-iest show after Portlandia, as far as I can tell) finds out that he’s a Grimm, and he meets this guy who is one of these monsters but also a delightfully civilized clock nerd who becomes his friend and helps him learn about this hidden world, and it’s pretty much monster-of-the-week episodes every week (though there is a mytharc of sorts involving an evil cabal of European royalty or something, snore). I think it’s the people who did Angel (which I never watched; I’m not a Buffy person). It also started the same year as Once Upon a Time, so it was the “other” fairytale show.

The Leftovers. Technically, it’s sci-fi. It’s also just very imaginative storytelling, and is a good example of what I mean by high-concept and atmospheric and something being a little bit weird in an otherwise contemporary setting. (This is a post-Lost Damon Lindelof, and Damon Lindelof has learned from his Lost mistakes, with wonderful results.) The central premise is a sci-fi one (2% of the earth’s population mysteriously vanishes), but aside from that there are also just a lot of kind of fantastic imaginative leaps and surreal settings and…ah, The Leftovers. My standard intro/warning: Season 1, while really good, is VERY depressing; Season 2 becomes marginally less depressing while also changing things up considerably and in my opinion becoming much better; Season 3 is even better than that. Love you, show. 

Lost. I suppose I should mention it even though it’s another obvious one. I have rarely been hooked as hard as I was by the pilot of this show. It doesn’t necessarily deliver on everything it promises, and it’s interesting to think of it in terms of it being one of the first shows to, basically, cancel itself – to choose to end so that it could pace its story effectively and lead to a deliberate ending instead of just vamping forever and trying to keep sucking the audience in for one more season until that stopped working and it was canceled. However, before that happened there was some time-killing, and I think that maybe contributes to people’s perception that it didn’t know what it was doing half the time. A divisive ending that I did not have a problem with. If you watch it in the spirit of being taken on a ride and enjoying the feelings that the twists and turns give you in the moment, you’ll find it more satisfying than if you’re trying to solve every mystery and trying to make it all work out perfectly with every loose end tied up.  

The OA. This was a weird-ass motherfucking show on Netflix and I still don’t know what the fuck it was about. I feel like I dreamed it. It maybe involves angels? And stuff. 

Carnivale. Lord, talk about atmosphere. This was an HBO show several years ago now about a creepy traveling circus in the 1930s. Being on HBO, it’s very violent and dirty and twisted and stuff. I was obsessed with it, and loved watching it although I vaguely remember the ending being not super satisfying? I should rewatch it, really, because I have forgotten a lot about it beyond impressions (it started in 2003). It’s not that sci-fi, but it has kind of mysterious portents and shit like that all over the place. Anytime I see anything remotely carnival-y I’m like AAAHHH CARNIVALE

Westworld. Sigh…I’m having a lot of trouble connecting to the season of Westworld that’s currently airing (Season 2, on HBO). I loved Season 1. My opinion is that they blew their premise too quickly and now they have nowhere to go – it’s just been violent chaos of the sort that puts me to sleep. Literally – one episode a couple of weeks ago I tried to watch and fell asleep during TWICE – two evenings in a row – before I finally got through it on Day 3. Because it was just a bunch of shooting. But the premise is cool – in the undetermined nearish future, there is a giant elaborate theme park where extremely realistic robots interact with the superrich guests who pay to come and basically be super destructive and violent (this show doesn’t have a particularly high opinion of humanity) in an Old West-themed setting. Like Disney World if your dream was to fuck and murder everyone in the Hall of Presidents. It’s made by one of the Nolans so there are lots of twists and also you don’t know what the hell is going on half the time. But there are some high-budget groovy sci-fi set pieces in it, and if you like amazing piano covers of popular songs (sometimes but not always in the in-show context of the player piano in the saloon), that is a fantastic bonus (the music is terrific overall). ROBOTS.

Battlestar Galactica. Speaking of robots. I loved the hell out of this show, although I have my issues with it. I felt when I first saw it (this is the 2000s remake I’m talking about, not the 1970s original) that it was like Star Trek had grown up. It gets more and more high-concept the longer it goes on, and some people weren’t fans of where it ended up (I, again, was fine with it), but it starts out with a hell of a premise: Cylons (humanlike robots originally created by humanity, which then evolved) destroy almost all of the human race except for a few stragglers in a few scattered ships, who have to pull together and somehow survive. Great acting, great writing, big themes, Laura Roslin. 

Black Mirror. This is an anthology series, meaning each one is a short story basically, with different characters, a different near-future setting, and a different premise (often having to do with technology going wrong. In the words of Mallory Ortberg: What If Phones, But Too Much?) Some of them are better than others but if you can take some upsetting conceptual stuff, it’s really a super interesting show. Your bingeing tolerance may vary, but I personally could not handle more than a couple of episodes a night.

Roswell. Holy shit I was so into this fucking teen soap opera about aliens. Also not recent. They might do a remake of this I heard?? MAX + LIZ 4EVA

Millennium. Yes…Chris Carter’s Other Show. I’ve said this before, but in a weird way I feel like this show is…CC’s best work???? Without the chemistry supernova of Mulder and Scully dimming everything around it, the “scary stories” he’s always talking about actually have room to be kind of interesting. It also works with his inclination to do what is essentially an anthology series loosely connected via recurring characters that are almost more narrators/observers than participants. In XF, this makes me want to break things when it results in stagnated character growth and no continuity and endless reset-button-pushing. In Millennium, Frank wandering grimly through the show universe encountering fable after fable (grimmer than XF – less on the stretchy mutants and fat-sucking vampires and lake monsters and Reticulans and spooky green bugs; more serial killers and cults and angels and apocalyptic stuff) actually worked pretty darn well for me. It’s not that the characters aren’t good, but they are VERYYYYY archetypal (kind of like how M&S could have been if not given such aliveness and humanity by David and Gillian, and Morgan and Wong and Vince Gilligan at that). Frank Black is the tormented detective, he has a beautiful kind wife and an innocent young daughter and they live in a beatific yellow house and he has to keep them safe from the evils out in the darkness. You might say this is hammered home a lot. But: the kind of mythic tone of it is a much better fit here than on XF. Lance Henriksen is perfect as Frank, and some of the stories are really absorbing and emotional. I cried during WAY more Millennium episodes (I can think of three or four off the top of my head that I remember WEEPING openly over, one of which stars Darren McGavin) than I ever have at XF. 

Everything changes in Season 2 when Morgan and Wong take over as (I believe) showrunners – things lighten up considerably versus S1; there’s even a Darin episode! With Jose Chung! And the Spotnitz Sanitarium! – and then everything changes again in S3 when they leave. The show does suffer from a lack of cohesion in that sense, and frankly the “mytharc” parts never did a lot for me (loosely, the world is going to end in the year 2000 and a cabal of mysterious dudes something something). But there is a lot of cool shit in this show. There really is. Every few years I attempt a rewatch and never finish; I should try again. In late fall, which is the only time Millennium should be watched. 

 BONUS

Face Off. This isn’t sci-fi per se (it’s a reality competition show, on Syfy), but if you’re a sci-fi person you might love it. The way I describe it to people is very simple: It’s the exact same premise and structure as Project Runway, except instead of fashion, it’s FX makeup. The best thing about it is that everyone is NICE and HELPFUL to each other. It’s a bunch of creative nerds making monsters together and the competition element is there but no one is a dick and there’s no fighting and drama. Michael Westmore, who did the makeup on Star Trek: TNG among many other acclaimed projects, is the mentor (and the dad of the show’s host, McKenzie Westmore), and he pops in to give dad advice to all these starstruck dorks. The new season just started and it’s just a fun show. I have, at times, thought of it as my FAVORITE show on TV. 

Well, that was probably more than you wanted, anon! I feel like I’m missing some, too. TV! I like it. 

[disford]

63 reasons why Fidds wants to kick Ford’s ass

1. The sass

2. Fucking triangles everywhere Stanford WHY

3. Why must you always be such a pretentious asshole

4. Legwarmers are fab as hell fuck you

5. GO! TO! BED!

6. You talk too much shit for a man who's never in his life seen a boob

7. Coffee isn't breakfast

8. YOU STOLE MY HAIR STRIPE THING

9. You fucking ignored my warnings

10. Your roast game is so weak that you had to write down your potential roasts in fear of me roasting you harder in return

11. You have flannel pajamas and won't teach me how to make my own

12. I'll pluck this banjo all damn night you can't stop me

13. Adopted a violent alien as a child

14. Almost mistook that shapeshifter for me and costed us all our work.

15. I'm supposedly your best friend but you didn't trust me enough to give as much of a hint as to where the hell you got the idea to built a portal to hell in your basement

16. All those precarious stacks of books in our old college dorm room

17. Just make up with your brother already your cold uncaring facade isn't fooling anyone

18. Why is it that you can outright order me to destroy my inventions but i can't even inquire as to the safety of yours

19. 4 years in college together as roommates and not once did you ask me out of a date.

20. …And then you're all salty when i marry someone else

21. You think my southern farm boy habits are gross but when was the last time you showered

22. You said Tate had great eyes, you didn't pull his bangs back once during your visit

23. You dissed me for being from a hog farm but at least my upbringing was honest

24. Oh, I see how it is, I couldn't have a pig in the house but your 12 year old niece can

25. You didn't deactivate the portal before calling your brother over

26. Where the FUCK did my smez dispenser go

27. You got yourself a work out regime but didn't share it with me

28. Leave my goddamn cubik's cubes alone

29. You waited until after I made you bacon for breakfast to tell me you were Jewish

30. You won't just shut up and accept forgiveness

31. You suck at being big spoon

32. Your dab game is WEAK

33. Stop correcting my grammar you know I'm just as smart as you if not more so and it has nothing to do with my word choice

34. You called my banjoing annoying yet you keep on playing the piano at 4-a-fucking-m in the morning

35. Using bigger words doesn't make you smarter

36. Licorice jelly beans are trash and you know it

37. Molasses is a perfectly reasonable popsicle flavor

38. If I find ONE MORE GOSH DARN SKELETON ON THE PORCH I SWEAR TO GOD

39. What was the one thing I told you not to do tonight? Raise the dead… And what did you do? Raise the dead!!

40. You value the advice of a literal demon over mine

41. For a supposed genius you're oblivious as hell

42. You think looking at a framed picture of Tesla is the same at looking at your family

43. You talked shit about laptops but fucking what's the best selling piece of tech?

44. If you needed my help on this project so bad then why are you ignoring literally all of my contributions

45. I survived 30 years without shoes I don't need em you can't make me

46. Why I'm God's name are you wearing a sweater IN SUMMER

47. What is that belt strap across your chest even for? Do you think it makes you look cool? It doesn't

48. Maybe don't go poking every button in a literal alien spaceship

49. Learn some god damn basic lab safety please

50. Why did you put that weird symbol into the side of the portal console?

51. Ok so bigfoot is real but palm reading is bogus? Where do you draw the line

52. You threw away that weird squash I gave you that was a HEARTFELT TOKEN OF FRIENDSHIP

53. You never let me have a dog

54. You never introduced me to your mother

55. After 30 years of hell you're still hot somehow and it's not fair

56. KISS ME YOU FOOL

57. You couldn't keep your damn mouth shut and hold your brothers hand for 3 seconds to stop the literal apocalypse

58. You almost always made sure I'd skip leg day

59. WITCHCRAFT

60. You said I was being too kind to the plaidypus

61. Just admit you don't know how to play chess

62. You can't expect people to trust you if you don't trust them

63. YOU STILL HAVEN'T KISSED ME

[paperhats-and-evil-schemes]

Ravenclaw Ask Game

Rules: click on your house and copy and answer the questions.

Tagged by the lovely @asksimbaandkovu!

Gryffindor | Slytherin | Hufflepuff

1. Do you have a passion project? What is it?

RIGHT NOW??? GETTING ALL MY CURRENT FICS DONE TBH

2. How many languages can you speak?

JUST ONE ADGHFFJGKHFDGG

3. What was the last book you read?

IDK, HYPERBOLE AND A HALF I THINK??? I DONT READ MUCH JKHGFDFGJHNK BEEN MEANING TO RE-READ THE NARNIA SERIES THO (ONE DAY, SAM //SHAKES FISTS//)

4. Where in the world would you most like to visit?

NORWAY OR SCOTLAND!!!

5. Top 5 fictional characters?

OH MAN UUUHHHH DEFINITELY ALSO BILL CIPHER AND BLACK HAT, FLUG AND DEMENCIA TOO TBH, SORRY 505 ILY BUT UR NOT IN MY TOP 5, AND UUUUHHHHH IDK, PROBABLY ERIS FROM SINBAD HONESTLY

6. Something you miss from your childhood?

LMAO, NOT A THING THAT I CAN RLY THINK OF.... MAYBE THAT I GOT TO SEE MY HALFSISTER MORE??? BUT ASIDE FROM THAT, NOTHING LOL

7. What skill do you wish you had?

OH MAN, THERE ARE SO MANY AWESOME THINGS TO CHOOSE FROM??? UUUUHHHHH PROBLY SPEAKING MULTIPLE LANGUAGES TBH, THAT WOULD BE RAD AS HELL

8. Tell us an interesting fact

THERES A LAKE IN AUSTRALIA CALLED LAKE HILLIER THAT IS LITERALLY PINK, LIKE LOOK AT THIS WEIRD SHIT

ISNT THAT FUCKING RAD

9. What was your favourite subject in school?

ENGLISH

I FUCKING LOVED ENGLISH CLASS

10. Favourite planet?

JUPITER, BECAUSE ITS HUGE AND PRETTY AND HAS A CRAZY ASS STORM ON IT

11. Which historical figure fascinates you and why?

OH MAN, IDK, MARTIN LUTHER KING JR WAS PRETTY FUCKING AMAZING, IVE ALWAYS ADMIRED EVERYTHING HE STOOD FOR AND LOVED THAT HE CARED ABOUT ACTUAL EQUALITY REGARDLESS OF WHETHER UR BLACK, WHITE, PURPLE, ECT., ITS PRETTY SELF-EXPLANATORY STUFF WHEN IT COMES TO HIM DOES HE COUNT OR DOES IT HAVE TO BE FURTHER BACK THAN THAT???

12. Favourite mythical creature?

PIXIU, BC THEYRE SUPER LUCKY AND AWESOME AND THATS THE KINDA SHIT I LOVE, AND HONESTLY WHO DOESNT LOVE COOL DRAGON LION THINGS???

13. Do you believe in any conspiracy theories?

NOT REALLY??? I DONT THINK MUCH ABT THAT STUFF

14. What is your favourite word?

UUUUUHHHHHH IDK IVE NEVER RLY THOUGHT ABT THAT LMAO

I LIKE THE WORD ‘CATS’ BC I LOVE CATS, DOES THAT WORK??????

15. Do you have any obsessions right now?

VILLAINOOOUUUSSSS

16. Do you play any instruments?

I PLAYED A LITTLE BIT OF PIANO ONCE UPON A TIME, BUT NOT FOR YEARS LMAO AND I NEVER HAD OFFICIAL ‘LESSONS’ OR ANYTHING

17. What’s your worst habit?

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH TOO MANY TO CHOOSE FROM LMAO

18. Do you have a collection of anything?

MY SINS

19. What’s your biggest ‘what if’?

WHAT IF WE WERE ALL JUST A RLY WEIRD TV SHOW FOR A BUNCH OF ALIENS OR SMTH, WHO WOULD BE THEIR FAVORITE CHARACTER???

20. What is your favourite fairy tale?

DONT REALLY HAVE ONE IN PARTICULAR??? NEVER THOUGHT MUCH ABT FAIRY TALES, IDK

21. Have you ever dyed your hair? Is there a colour you’d like to dye it?

NEVER HAVE, DONT THINK I EVER WILL

22. If you could learn one language overnight, which would you choose?

SPANIIIISSSHHHHH

23. What’s the most useless thing you know how to do?

I USED TO BE RLY GOOD AT SOLVING RUBIX CUBES, BUT AGAIN, ITS BEEN A WHILE LOL THAT WAS ALSO BACK WHEN IT WAS LIKE THE ONLY THING I HAD TO FIDGET WITH SGDHFJGKHLJHGF

24. What’s the most important change that should be made to your country’s education system?

MORE FUNDING TO IMPORTANT SHIT LIKE DECENT SUPPLIES, ALSO RAISE TEACHERS’ WAGES

25. Most ravenclaw thing you’ve ever done?

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHH IDK, IM MORE OF A HUFFLEPUFF, NOTHING RAVENCLAW RLY COMES TO MIND ASDFGFJHDGCFKNJM

[zennyshoneybunch]

Mystically Destined - The Musical (Chapter 6 - Issues)

It was the middle of the morning when Lizzy arrived at the park. A few chariots from the other night were already there, their bright colors shining under the warm rays of the sun. The drivers waved at her and she gave them a quick smile before raising her head, basking in the sunlight. The weather was already warm and nice. It was a perfect first day of Spring.

Enjoying the day’s warmth with closed eyes, she heard a soft giggle. Looking at its direction she found Jihyun. His white shirt was half unbuttoned, showing the top of his low cut white tank top. His collarbone peeking behind the leather and metal chained necklaces. With his hair shining in the golden light and his beautiful blue smiling eyes, he seemed enveloped in a mystical aura. He was the picture of perfection and for a brief second she wondered if this devastatingly handsome man was not a figment of her imagination.

He smiled happily at her and all the blood in her body rushed right to her face.

- Lizzy! Hi.

- Hi, Jihyun.

- You got my note.

- Yes, Vanderwood gave it to me.

- I'm glad. I'm glad you came, I didn't think you would.

- Well, you asked me to, so…

He chuckled and the delicious sound of his soft laughter found its rightful place in her heart. She looked up at him only to find his eyes staring at her. She could swear she had never seen a sweeter look in them.

But then it downed on her. She could never be with him, he was so perfect and she was so flawed. A simple waitress with big crushed dreams. She could never be a good match for him. Rika, on the other hand, was beautiful and elegant with mysterious green eyes. Of course he’d chose someone like her to marry. His father was right all along.

Trying to run away from these saddening thoughts, she slowly set off to the park. Jihyun followed.

- I want you to know that I'm not angry at you, Jihyun, and that I understand that life goes on and you moved on.

- Lizzy...

- It’s only natural, especially since you thought I was the one who ran away. And she is very pretty too, you’ll look great together…

- Lizzy!

He griped her shoulder, making her stop her rambling and her, now, faster steps.

- Please believe me when I tell you it was not as easy as you think. To forget you. I never did.

- We were kids…

- We were. But it was real. What we had, it was the real thing. At least to me.

Her body relaxed under Jihyun’s touch and that’s when she realized she was holding her breath.

- It was real to me too.

She looked at her feet, embarrassed, trying to avoid his eyes. But he bowed slightly in front of her, peeking into her face. When that didn’t help he simply tilted her head up with his fingers.

- Do you think we can be friends?

How could anyone say no to that lovely request? She gave him a shy smile.

- Of course.

In that moment a group of girls walked next to them, unashamedly gawking at Jihyun. But, just like when they were kids, he didn’t seem to notice. He was looking at Lizzy, smiling with that happy mature smile that made her knees feel all wobbly.

They kept walking side by side, strolling idly around the beautifully kept park, talking about how Jihyun was now not in the best of terms with his father and how he met Jumin in the private school instantly becoming best friends. Lizzy talked about how her father remarried with a nice lady a few eyes earlier and how she was staying at Lucy’s for the time being.

Time went by fast while they were catching up, like old friends would. Walking between the tall trees they could feel the light breeze kissing their faces and a comfortable silence fell between them. Well, it would be comfortable if Lizzy was not so conscious of Jihyun’s proximity. She could hear every breath he took, and every unexpected movement would send her heart to race.

She had to speak to distract herself and she opened her mouth to do so, but Jihyun broke the silence first, and what he said only made her heart run faster.

- I really wish... things were different.

With an almost inaudible voice she replied:

- ...Me too.

For a moment she thought he might not have listened, but then she felt a tight grip on her hand, followed by an abruptly softening of its hold to the point he almost released it. She looked at their connected hands not understanding what he was trying to do.

Finally making up his mind, Jihyun brought her hand to his lips, kissing it gently. It was barely a brush of the lips, but Lizzy’s body immediately reacted, spreading burning flames from the point Jihyun’s lips touched to every single extremity of her anatomy. Her cheeks flushed and after he noticed it so did his.

He lowered her hand still holding on to it.

- I need to go now. We’ll be rehearsing on the pub again later so I’ll see you there.

- Oh. Yes, sure.

- I hope you don’t mind our noise too much.

- Of course not. I love to hear you guys. It was too quiet yesterday.

He laughed.

- Good. Then, I’ll see you later.

- See you later.

She was reluctant to let go. But then again he was the one still holding on.

Saeran was already at the pub, playing on his beloved piano when he felt someone coming inside. He subtly watched to door, making sure it wasn’t a stranger and hoping it to be Vanderwood with his drink. Is was neither. Through the corner of his eye he watched Lizzy cross the pub to the bar.

- Hello, Saeran.

Instead of answering he gave her an almost imperceptive nod. She seemed fine with it and smiled, taking off her jacket and moving her things to the room on the back. He heard her interject something, her voice muffled by the walls and the sound of the piano, but he didn’t really care about what she found so interesting or if she saw a rat or something.

But if he was curious, it wouldn’t have taken him long to find out what it was, because Lizzy was now walking back to the bar, pushing a big card box in front of her, filled with decorations Saeran knew Vanderwood was planning to throw away.

Pretending not to, he watched as Lizzy went back to the back room bringing with her a ladder. He watched as she settled the ladder and went through the decorations, picking and choosing the things she liked the most. Sunflowers, he thought. She picked all the sunflowers she found, laying them in a pile with a few other flowers, arrows and things.

He knew she was planning on hanging those things around the pub, and he could warn her Vanderwood absolutely hated to see those “girly” things around his pub, but… well it was not like she asked him right?

«Besides, she looked pretty happy going through the box and Vanderwood would be back soon and settle it».

«And his sorry ass was not bold enough to talk to a girl anyways».

Saeran closed his eyes (like that would help him avoid the voices inside his head) and abruptly stopped playing, touching a few keys that made a weird and loud sound.

- Saeran? Are you feeling alright?

- Yeah.

He dismissed her with a movement of the hand and she gave up approaching him.

- Okay, if you need something just tell me.

«She’s nice».

«Hahaha loser».

He could hear her climbing up and down the ladder. It made a shaky noise as if it wasn’t steady enough, but she didn’t seem to mind much.

Suddenly he heard it shake a little too much and Lizzy’s small surprised cry. He opened his eyes only to see her lose her balance, her body tilting to the side. He didn’t know how he did it, he didn’t even remember thinking about it, but in a flash he was next to her, holding her close to him, preventing her from falling on the floor.

Both their breaths were raged, their hearts beating wildly against the ribs. Saeran was looking at the ladder without even seeing it, his mind running aimlessly. Only when he heard the girl’s voice he felt himself coming back.

- S-saeran… uhm… you have big hands...

- What?

Confused he looked down at his hand, not understanding what she meant, and that’s when he realized his hand was placed right on her chest, basically grabbing her… lovely feminine forms. Hastily he let go of her, moving away a step or two.

- I... it wasn't on purpose!

- Of course, I know that.

- No, you don't understand! It really wasn't! I'm... it wasn't HIM.

Oh no, he was sounding like a crazy person again. She was looking at him like he was some sort of alien, with her big blue eyes.

- Saeran?

- No, forget it!

The young man shut his eyes again, he could sense him struggling to rise. But a light touch in his arm startled him. She was right in front of him, a worried look in her pretty face.

- Saeran... you can tell me.

He immediately felt the turmoil in his head subside. The soft tone of her voice and light touch calming and relaxing all his muscles. But he didn't want her to think he was a weirdo.

- You’ll just think badly of me if I do.

- I will not!

The vehemence in her voice surprised him, his mint eyes as big as saucers. With a sigh she crossed her arms, holding herself.

- I know a thing or two about psychological issues. When I was younger I wanted to be a ballerina...

- But you got into an accident.

- Yes, that's right. When I found out I wouldn't be able to dance ever again I became severely depressed. But that wasn't all, I also had anger episodes. I felt like I had lost everything and… everyone. So I was just angry all the time and after my rage fits were over I would fall into deep depression. I wouldn’t talk with anyone, wouldn’t want to see anyone, all I wanted was to stay still and sleep. Crazy things went through my mind all the time and no matter how much I slept I was always too tired to do anything, even to eat most of the times.

- I would not have imagined it looking at you. How come you're fine now?

- Well, I accepted treatment. I had a therapist and I started taking meds for my depression. But I think the best remedy was seeing how it was hurting my father. He only had me and he was so worried and suffering so much because of me. So I tried to focus on better things. On finishing school and finding new hobbies and things to do to distract my mind... My dad was all I had too, so I couldn't do that to him.

He looked down to his feet, scratching his arm on the spot she touched before.

- You make it sound like it's easy.

- It’s not. It's really hard. You need to want to fight for it and you need to be strong and have people who support you no matter what. It's not easy... but it's not impossible.

She placed her hand on top of his making him stop scratching, and without realizing what he was doing he blurted.

- I hear voices inside my head.

She seemed surprised but didn't say anything. Her eyes were prompting him to keep talking.

- There is this voice... it's like the devil on your shoulder, only he's inside my head. There's a good voice too but it's so weak. The bad one usually wins and I end up having bad thoughts. Bad feelings. Or perhaps I'm just a bad person...

- You are not!

She said it with such certainty the boy felt his face heating up.

- How do you know that?

- Because, Saeran, did you see what you just did?

His expression was blank. What could she mean? She smiled.

- You helped me. You ran to me and helped me without pausing once, without a second thought.

She placed her hand in his heart and slightly lowered her voice.

- That alone tells me you have a good and kind heart. No matter what the voice inside your head tells you, you are good and there is nothing it can do about it.

She kissed the boy's astonished face and smiled at him once again before adding.

- Now, back to work! I always enjoy hearing you play the piano.

She moved the ladder to another place and climbed it carefully, smiling at him. He felt himself smiling back, a shy smile. Oh boy, his head was feeling clear now but his heart felt like a mess.

Saeran ~ “I'm jealous, I'm over zealous. When I'm down, I get real down. When I'm high, I don't come down.”

He watched as Lizzy hanged another pretty flower decoration.

Saeran ~ “I get angry, baby, believe me. I could love you just like that, and I can leave you just as fast.”

He walked closer to her, watching her fiddle with the suspended flowers.

Saeran ~ “But you don't judge me. 'Cause if you did, baby, I would judge you too.”

Not noticing, he steped on one of the sunflowers that fell on the floor and bent over to pick it up.

Saeran ~ “No, you don't judge me. 'Cause if you did, baby, I would judge you too.”

Feeling a little ashamed and sad he tried to fix the broken decoration to no avail.

Saeran ~ “'Cause I got issues, but you got 'em too. So give 'em all to me and I'll give mine to you. Bask in the glory of all our problems, 'cause we got the kind of love it takes to solve 'em. Yeah, I got issues. And one of them is how bad I need you.”

Lizzy got down from the ladder and walked to Saeran, smiling.

Lizzy ~ “You do shit on purpose. You get mad and you break things, feel bad, try to fix things.”

She took the little decoration from his hands, casted it on to a nearby table and petted his soft white hair.

Lizzy ~ “But you're perfect. Poorly wired circuit.”

She gave him a mischievous smile and held his hand.

Lizzy ~ “And got hands like an ocean.”

Still holding his hand she pulled away and then twirled into his arms.

Lizzy ~ “Push you out, pull you back in.”

Caressing her arm as lightly as a feather would, he held her close to him.

Saeran ~ “'Cause you don't judge me.”

He pushed her back and spined her slightly before letting her go.

Saeran ~ “'Cause if you did, baby, I would judge you too.”

She smiled at him moving the ladder away again and he shoved his hands on his pockets.

Saeran ~ “No, you don't judge me, 'cause you see from the same point of view.”

He leaned against the nearest by wall as she climbed the damn thing again.

Saeran ~ “'Cause I got issues, but you got 'em too.”

Noting she forgot to take some decorations up with her, he hurriedly grabbed some and gave them to her.

Saeran ~ “So give 'em all to me and I'll give mine to you.”

She accepted them smiling kindly at him and he resumed putting his hands in his pockets and leaned a shoulder against the wall again, turned in her direction so he could still observe her.

Saeran ~ “Bask in the glory of all our problems, ‘cause we got the kind of love it takes to solve 'em.”

Making sure she wouldn’t notice, he ran his hand through her soft strawberry blond hair.

Saeran ~ “Yeah, I got issues. And one of them is how bad I need you.”

She kept hanging the silly things around with a happy expression and he kept handing them to her, making his own color and shape choices.

Lizzy ~ “I got issues, you got 'em too.”

Saeran ~ “And one of them is how bad I need you.”

Lizzy ~ “I got issues, you got 'em too.”

Saeran ~ “'Cause I got issues.”

Lizzy ~ “I got.”

Saeran ~ “But you got 'em too.”

Saeran ~ “So give 'em all to me.”

Lizzy ~ “You got 'em too.”

Saeran ~ “And I'll give mine to you. Bask in the glory.”

Lizzy ~ “I got issues.”

Saeran ~ “Of all our problems, 'cause we got the kind of love.”

Lizzy ~ “You got 'em too.”

Saeran ~ “That takes solve 'em. Yeah, I got issues, and one of them is how bad I need you.”

Lizzy ~ “You got.”

Saeran ~ “Yeah, I got issues, and one of them is how bad I need you.”

Lizzy ~ “You got.”

Saeran ~ “Yeah, I got issues, and one of them is how bad I need you.”

The bell chimed and in came Vanderwood. One look at his dead expression and Saeran knew they were done for it.

Lizzy was certain, after glancing at Vanderwood’s face, she was going to be scolded and forced to take all the flowers and spring things off again. Still she tried to convince him it would be a nice change for the customers, that people enjoy a change once in a while and that it would definitely help the pub’s income.

Still, her boss kept his mouth close with an annoyed expression which made her turn to Saeran to back her up. And even though all his help consisted in a very awkward “Uhm… yeah” remark, Vanderwood in the end allowed them to keep the décor up. For a week. Tops!

Considering it as a victory, Lizzy smiled brightly at Saeran, nudging him lightly. He rolled his eyes and moved to sit by the piano again, smiling the whole way.

Not long after they heard the tinkling of the bell and in came The Mystic Boys. Zen, Yoosung and Saeyoung were making a ruckus, like usual, and Jumin and Jihyun followed behind.

Jihyun’s eyes immediately searched for her, smiling along with his lips as soon as they found hers.

- Ooooh! Hey, is Mandy back?

Saeyoung asked observing and pointing at the hanging decorations. Vanderwood’s answer was curt.

- No.

- Then who hanged all the pretty flowers?

Zen asked, but of course they all knew the answer.

- Well, I didn’t do it by myself, Saeran was a big help.

Everyone looked in Saeran’s direction in absolute awe and he gave her a look that said “Did they really need to know that?” which only made her laugh.

- Whaaaaat? My bro helped Elly, the new pub’s waitress, to hang all the pretty flowers?

- Shut up!

He scowled when his twin hugged him tight, trying to push him away with an obvious lack of effort.

- Still, I can’t believe Vanderwood allowed someone else other than Amanda to put these thing up.

- Did Elly convince you with goo-goo eyes? Or was it Saeran?

- Hey, shut up, idiot!

- Yes, better listen to your brother, dweeb.

- Oh, don’t be mean to me, Miss Mary Vanderwood...

- I thought I told you not to call me that again.

Vanderwood growled, leaning forward on the bar, pointing a threatening finger at the red head.

- Oh, yes you did. I'm sorry madam!

Saeyoung turned to Lizzy, whispering loudly enough so that the pub owner could hear.

- She's so scary!

Lizzy stiffed a giggle, whispering back.

- Why do you call him Madam?

- To mess around with him of course.

He answered winking at her, a mischievous spark in his hazel gold eyes. Unable to contain it any longer she giggled making him laugh too.

- But, anyway, when is Amanda coming back?

Yoosung asked.

- I have no idea. I’m not even sure she will.

- Of course Mandy will be back! Why are you saying that?

- She’s unpredictable. And insane.

- Yeah she’s just like you, Mary. I miss her~!

Jumin interrupted, undressing his coat and hanging it on a chair.

- What is there to miss? She's noisy, flamboyant and obnoxious.

- So, basically Zen in a dress!

Saeran retorted with a mischievous grin.

- Hey!

- Exactly.

- Hey, I am right here you know?!

Zen threw a lost decoration he found on the floor at Jumin, missing him by a hair’s length. Lizzy was just feeling too curious at this point.

- Who is Mandy?

- Amanda, Vanderwood’s other waitress.

Jumin answered, rolling up his sleeves. Yoosung, playing with the decoration Zen threw, explained.

- She’s taking this fancy bartender training, learning how to make her own drinks and stuff. It’s pretty awesome.

- I don’t really see what’s so awesome about it.

- Jumin, don’t be so rude.

V admonished with a troubled smile. Zen laughed.

- Yeah, when it comes to Amanda you’re always twice the jerk.

- Ok, if everybody is done shitting around, shall we start our rehearsal?

- Oh my God!

Yoosung ran to his place in the assembling group, trying hard not to laugh at Jumin’s last remark.

Saeyoung on the other hand snorted and threw his arm around Lizzy’s shoulders.

- You’ll like Mandy. Everybody does. Well except Jumin… and Grumpy McGrump there.

He pointed at Vanderwood with his shin before walking to the rest of the group, playfully sticking his tongue out to Lizzy.

Jihyun couldn’t believe how conscious he was of Lizzy right now. He was never one to speak a lot, but he could hardly get a word out of his lips while watching her speak and play around with his friends. She would fit perfectly in this family.

Saeran arranged the music and their song started playing. Jihyun was so nervous he was afraid he would miss his steps.

Mystic Boys ~ “Aaaahhhhh. Aaaahhhhh.”

Jumin was gripping his Vintage Dynamic Birdcage-Style Mic on its stand, singing smoothly while they were making the back voices. Jihyun couldn’t avoid glancing at Lizzy, busy cleaning and rearranging the tables with a smile on her lips.

Jumin ~ “Well its been building up inside of me for oh I don't know how loong. I don't know why, but I keep thinking something's bound to go wroong.”

They all bent the knee and leaned to the right at the same time, holding on to their microphones.

Jumin ~ “But she looks in my eyes and makes me realize and she says:”

Straightening up they moved their index finger left to right, which indicated denial, and then letting their arms fall in front of them with their palms up. Each arm at a time.

Mystic Boys ~ “Don't worry baby.”

Jumin ~ “Don't worry baby.”

Mystic Boys ~ “Don't worry baby.”

Jumin ~ “Everything will turn out aaalright.”

Mystic Boys ~ “Don't worry baby.”

Jumin ~ “Don't worry baby.”

Mystic Boys ~ “Don't worry baby. Ooooh.”

With a little cool pirouette, Zen took Jumin’s place and held the mic’s stand with both hands. Jihyun noticed how Lizzy watched Zen sing with a little more attention than she did with Jumin before.

Zen ~ “I guess I should've kept my mouth shut when I started to brag about my car. But I can't back down now because I pushed the other guys too faaar.”

Now they all leaned to their left.

Zen ~ “She makes me come alive and makes me want to drive when she saays:”

Straightening up they repeated the same moves they did a moment before. Jihyun saw Lizzy distractedly prepare a table while watching them perform.

Mystic Boys ~ “Don't worry baby.”

Zen ~ “Don't worry babyyy.”

Mystic Boys ~ “Don't worry baby.”

Zen ~ “Everything will turn out aalright.”

Mystic Boys ~ “Don't worry baby.”

Zen ~ “Don't worry babyyy.”

Mystic Boys ~ “Don't worry baby. Ooooh.”

Now it was his turn to take the mic. He couldn’t avoid glancing at Lizzy to see if she would watch him sing like she did with Zen. And she did, with her lips slightly opened in an adorable (and also kind of sexy way).

V ~ “She told me "Baby, when you race today just take along my love with you. And if you knew how much I loved you, baby nothing could go wrong with youu".”

He missed her. They all slightly bent to the front with the mics. He missed her lips, her smell, the touch of her skin, her hands clinging to him. He missed the feeling of having her in his arms so much it was torturing him.

V ~ “Oh what she does to mee, when she makes love to me-

Realizing where his thoughts were dragging him to, Jihyun chocked on his own words and had a coughing fit.

Saeran stopped the music and Zen was the first to approach him.

- Are you okay?

Lizzy also rushed to him.

- Do you want me to fetch you a glass of water?

He nodded her yes just to make her leave. He knew his cheeks were seriously flushed, but with luck everyone would think it was due to the coughing.

He drank the water Lizzy brought him, carefully avoiding her eyes so the crazy thoughts wouldn’t rise again.

- Let’s just take five and allow V to rest a little.

- No, no. I’m fine. Let’s just start over.

- Very well. Saeran, please.

The boys resumed the rehearsal with flawless performances. They sang a few more songs and tweaked with the tunes with Saeran’s help. As usual, when it was almost time for the pub to open its doors, the band left. Only this time Zen, Seven and V decided to stay for the rest of the night.

This was a calmer night so they all had enough time to play around together and have fun.

Seven kept trying to help behind the bar when Vanderwood wasn’t looking. Or at least when he pretended not to. Zen decided to help Lizzy serve the tables, giving the feminine clientele great joy. And V was sitting by the bar, calmly having his drink and talking with Vanderwood. But what he was really doing was watching Lizzy. She would look at him and smile from time to time. And whenever she had the time she would hang with him and Vand, participating in the conversation.

It was definitely a fun night.

After saying goodbye to the last clients, Jihyun started pondering whether it would be too distasteful to offer Lizzy to accompany her home, or if it could be considered as a friendly offer when the jingle of the bell made them all look at the door.

They all recognized the blond girl that was walking inside with a smile on her lips. She eyed Lizzy before focusing on her fiancé.

- V, my love!

- Rika! I thought you were spending time with your friend today.

- Oh, no, I came back earlier to be with you~! And I brought all my things so I can stay at your place tonight.

She kissed him hard on the lips and he glanced at Lizzy, his familiar guilty feeling sinking in.

- Oh, hello boys. Long time no see!

Both Zen and Seven said hello in low awkward voices.

- I see Lizzy is here too…

- Hello Rika, how are you?

- Much better now that I’m in my lover’s arms!

She stated clinging closer to him.

- Come on, baby, let’s go home, I can’t wait for us to be alone!

Rika darted at the door, barely losing time to say goodbye, dragging Jihyun with her.

Right before he went through the door he looked at Lizzy. She was also looking at him with a sad expression that she tried to mend with a smile that never reached her eyes, while waving him goodbye.

He could swear he felt his own heart breaking.

The gloom could be heavily felt after V and Rika left. Zen was feeling embarrassed by proxy with what they witnessed. Even Seven was keeping his mouth shut.

He watched as Lizzy’s waving hand drop lifeless to her side. The fake smile on her lips fading away. His heart sunk. Lizzy was a beautiful, sweet, lovely girl and she deserved better.

Part of him knew there was nothing V could do about it, and yet he could smack the mint out of his hair on that moment for making Lizzy feel so bad. Well, actually it was all Rika’s doing, but he couldn’t lay a hand on a girl now, could he?

Heaving a long sigh, Lizzy walked to the closest chair and slumped into it, retying the laces of her old combat-looking black boots. He wanted to do something to lighten her mood, but what? All he knew how to do was sing…

He took a look at Seven who seemed to read his mind, already moving to sit next to Lizzy. Zen followed him, sitting on Lizzy,’s other side, so she would be in the middle of them both.

Vanderwood was watching them without a word.

- You know what? I think we need Marvin Gaye.

Lizzy looked at him, confused.

- We need what?

- Ohhh yeah, Marvin Gaye would be perfect. I'm so in!

Seven chimed, rubbing his hands together.

- When we're feeling down, there's nothing better than Marvin Gaye to lift the spirit.  

- Is that so?

- Oh you're doubting are you?

- I guess we gotta prove her, Zen...

- I guess you're right! Seven, tell her what you've been doing...

- Well...

Seven ~ "I've been really tryiiing, baby."

Lizzy couldn’t help a surprised giggle from escaping her mouth. She was obviously not expecting that.

Seven ~ "Tryin' to hold back this feelin' for soo long.

Seven got up from the chair and moved in front of Lizzy, taking his glasses off with a cool movement. Her eyes grew bigger and she looked unsure of what to expect.

Seven ~ "And if you feel like I feel baby. Come on, oh, come on.”

Seven started moving his hips in a (purposely) silly attempt of seduction that made Lizzy laugh louder and Vanderwood cover his eyes with his hand.

Seven ~ "Let's get it on. Ohhh baby. Let's get it on. Sugar, sugar. Let's get it on. Oh baby. Sugar, let's get it on.”

Getting up from his sit, Zen joined Seven.

Zen ~ "Yeah, let´s start:”

Seven took a bow and left the improvised stage with Lizzy clapping. But Zen claimed the attention to him, touching her chin delicately.

Zen ~ "There's nothing wrong with me lovin' you. Oohhhh yeah.”

He had her full attention now so he winked and moved away from her a little.

Zen ~ "And givin' yourself to me can never be wrong, if the love is truue. Oh baby, yeah.”

He started lifting his shirt showing some incredible abs and moving his hips in a very - very - sexy and suggesting way. An annoyed Vanderwood could be heard on the back saying “oh my God…”.

Zen ~ "And I'm asking you, baby. I'm asking you to get it on with me, yeah.

Half joking half serious Lizzy started screaming, muffling the sound with her hands as best as she could, making Zen almost miss his place by laughing.

Zen ~ "Aaaaaahhh, babe."

Seven joined Zen again, mimicking his movements and Lizzy pretended to fangirl over them.

Zen & Seven ~ "Oh Let's get it on, baby, yeah. Yeah, oh let´s start, baby. Let's get it on. Sugar, sugar. Let's get it on. Ooh baby. Yeah, let´s get it on.”

Lizzy gave them a standing ovation, while the boys bowed with happy, satisfied smiles on their faces.

Sitting back next to the girl, Seven asked:

- Feeling better?

- I do feel better, yes. Thanks to you guys.

Following Seven, Zen settled himself on the other side of Lizzy.

- I told you. There's nothing like some Marvin Gaye.  

- Sure. It was all Marvin Gaye's doing.

She smiled sweetly and softly touched Zen’s hand before standing up and caressing Seven's hair.

- Thanks for the private show guys. I need to go home now.

- We’ll take you!

They both said at the same time.

- That sounds great!

Looking brighter, she went to get her things from the back room.

- Zen?

- Hm?

- I think I'm in love.

- Yeah, get in line man.

Vanderwood let out a dry chuckle.

- Just so you boys know… one: neither of you stands a change; two: I need an eye surgery now.

- You want to see us better, you sly dog?

Vanderwood chased a cracking up Seven along and outside the pub. After getting her things Lizzy and Zen followed them out and all three boys walked Lizzy home, bickering and laughing all the way.

 *** Chapter Songs ***

Issues by Julia Michaels

Don't worry baby by The Beach Boys

Let’s get it on (by Marvin Gaye) Cover by James Arthur