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madame-wilsonn · 2 years ago

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Where the home is

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Request: I'd like to request a fluffy fic with Arthur where he gets to live in the country with his love (very cottage core), raise his children (awkwardly but adorably), and run a garage. I'd love to know how his life would have turned out if the vendetta hadn't happened so I supposed this is a "fix it" fic? I know you're really good at those! I don't have a dialogue prompt for you, but perhaps an "ambitious man" comes to the garage and Arthur's wife worries he'll want to go back to his gangster lifestyle, but he assures her he's happy? (You don't have to take that direction tho.) - @zablife

Summary: after a certain visit, you fear Arthur might not be happy with your life anymore.

A/N: Thank you so much for your request, lee!! I was really hesitant at the beginning with this story but I still hope I did justice to the request! Nonetheless, I had a lot of fun writing for Arthur and imagining a s4-free life! Clearly, this man doesn’t get enough love so I did my best to change that! I really hope you like it!!

And special thanks to @thesoldiersminute for making the perfect gifset to fit my story in such a short time (again), you’re a real hero 💗

Warnings: a bit of angst and fluff!!

Word count: 3,074 words

“Arthur, breakfast is ready!” you yelled out the kitchen window, setting up a plate of scrambled eggs on the table.

Your husband joined you a few seconds later, wrapping his free arm around your waist. He kissed your cheek tenderly, handing you Billy.

“Hello, little guy,” you cooed, tickling his neck.

You pulled out the high chair, making sure he was safely seated before taking place next to Arthur.

“So, what are your plans today?”

“Hmm…gotta go to the garage,” he explained, eating a mouthful of toast. “I’ll come back for lunch, we can go pick those apples for your pie, yeah?”

A soft smile graced your lips, your hand reaching to squeeze his.

He got up, quickly sipping the last of his tea. One kiss on your forehead, one kiss on Billy’s and he left. You watched him get into the car through the window, chuckling when he waved at you, a huge grin on his face.

This was your new routine, your new life. Far from the dust and soot of Birmingham.

Arthur’s last deal got him enough money to buy this cottage, with enough land to grow chickens and have a garden. It all seemed like a dream. Watching your husband play with your son, prepare dinner with him next to you.

You never thought Arthur would finally accept giving up the Shelby business. It became the only option for him once he learned you were pregnant. He didn’t want to raise kids in the middle of gang fights, drugs, and gun powder.

His little family was his last shot to a happy, brighter future and he didn’t want to ruin it. That’s what he would tell you.

However, you couldn’t help but wonder if he missed his old life sometimes. Of course, you knew he was happy with you and the countryside allowed him to fulfill long-forgotten dreams. But was this really enough?

You sighed, grabbing a screaming Billy in your arms.

“It’s okay, it’s okay, we’re going to see Dada. Come on, you can stop crying, now.”

At the mention of his father, your two years old began calming down, repeating “Dada?” until you explained yourself again.

Ever since Arthur left this morning, Billy did not stop asking for him. And what was once a sweet little boy, turned into a screaming, kicking monster. Nothing could silence him. No matter how many toys you brought to his attention, no matter how many cookies you tried to bribe him with. All he wanted was his father.

Which is why you found yourself entering the garage a few minutes later. Oliver— one of Arthur’s mechanics— warned you your husband was in a meeting with some man. You waited outside the office, trying to distract Billy.

Finally, the door opened. A man came out first, dressed elegantly with a hat in his hand. You had never seen him before, not even in the village. But considering the three-piece suit he wore, you could only guess he came from the city.

A smile stretched your lips as Arthur came out, a confused look on his face. The stranger looked at you, then to your husband, expectedly.

“Mr. Lavin, this is my wife, Y/N.”

“It’s a pleasure to meet you, Mrs. Shelby,” he shook your hand as you replied then grabbed a small card from his pocket, “Alright, here is my card. You can call me when you’ve made a decision. Have a nice day.”

You frowned, staring at Mr. Lavin exiting the building and turning back to Arthur.

“Who was he?”

“Oh, he sells cars. Wants to join our businesses together,” he explained, taking Billy from you. “Did you miss daddy, hm?”

Your toddler giggled, resting his head on Arthur’s shoulder.

“What do you mean?”

“Well…he’d keep selling the cars and I would deal with fixing them when it’s needed. And his company is much bigger which would increase benefits, I’d make more money.”

You hummed, realizing this man just proposed to give Arthur his old life back. The small voice of insecurity grew louder and louder at the sight of your husband, thrilled with the idea of expanding his business.

“Love? Is everything okay?”

You focused your attention back on Arthur who had Billy sitting on his knees. A sight you’d never get tired of. Although your husband could be quite clumsy and rough on the edges, you discovered a whole new side of him when he met his son. You had never seen your Arthur so happy. And you were absolutely sure that this lifestyle was the best for him and for Billy. But you were terrified that he may prefer his previous life and accept the businessman’s proposal.

“Yes, yes, I’m alright,” you cleared your throat, pushing your worries further down in your heart. “We just came here because Billy couldn’t stop crying but we should head back now.”

“You know what? I’m going home with you,” Arthur got up from his chair, still carrying his son in his arms. “It’s calm today, I can let Oliver handle it so that little rascal doesn’t drive you mad,” he added that last part while tickling Billy.

With one hand against your back, Arthur guided you outside where the car was parked. The way back home passed in a flash. Staring out of the window, you were only half-listening to your husband. All you could think about was the businessman in his classy suit. Arthur dressed the same way when you met him. His hair used to be shorter. He was close to his family and worked with them at the company.

And then you married him.

You weren’t a controlling wife but you saw how your brother-in-law, Thomas, manipulated Arthur into doing dangerous jobs. No matter how hard you tried to help your husband to give up his drug consumption, his brother would always come back with a man to threaten, beat up or kill.

Of course, he promised it was the last step to become a fully legal company. You believed him in the beginning until Arthur’s state got worse. Your pregnancy was the last thing to convince him to move away.

You lived a happy life, raising your child in the middle of green fields and chickens. Your husband had almost no contact with his brother except for the big family reunions.

You contented yourself with what you had. Granted, it was a less glamorous lifestyle but you never missed any of it. You tried to convince yourself Arthur felt the same way when you had some doubts. It used to work, only by seeing how much better he had gotten.

But this morning’s meeting made you question everything.

“Y/N? Hey!” blinking a few times, you looked at Arthur who opened the door for you. “We’re home.”

You thanked him with a tight smile, your mind still clouded with your doubts and insecurities. You were aware you could share your feelings, and maybe talk about different solutions to make everyone happy. But you knew that as soon as you admitted how you felt, there was no taking it back and you didn’t want Arthur’s decision to depend on what you wanted. Especially if it meant that he could be happy.

Strolling through the garden, you stopped in front of each tree to collect the apples. Arthur had Billy sitting around his shoulder, gleefully trying to catch the red and green fruits.

“Oh, this one is beautiful. Good job, Billy,” your husband exclaimed when he saw his son’s find.

You adored apple picking, it was always a lovely moment. But you couldn’t enjoy yourself as much today. Your incessant ruminations were eating your general cheerfulness away, making you quieter than usual.

Arthur had picked up on your strange behavior ever since you visited him at the garage this morning but he thought you were just tired. Your growing silence only turned his slight concern into worry.

Noticing your absentminded state, he gently put Billy on the ground, letting him meander off in the field. Arthur brought you closer to him, passing an arm around your shoulders.

“Are you alright?”

You nodded, tiptoeing to grab one of the apples that caught your eye but you were too short. Before you could do anything else, you found the fruit in your hand, your fingers grazing Arthur’s calloused ones.

“Thank you,” you tried to smile as naturally as your troubled state allowed you to. Glancing at your basket, you added. “I think we have enough apples for now.”

You began walking back to your house, Arthur right behind you. As you entered your kitchen, your husband announced he would be taking Billy to the nursery for his nap. You began working on your dough, the house quiet and peaceful.

However, the silence only made the buzzing in your mind stronger and louder. Your thoughts wandering and spiraling until you felt dizzy.

You kept mixing the batter mechanically, your arms sore. But the pain was incomparable to the despair you found yourself in. There was no way to win. Either you forced your husband to give up something he loved. Or you let him even though it would wreck the balance you had installed.

“Y/N?”

You jumped as Arthur’s voice startled you. A shaky breath escaped your lips, turning your head to look at him.

“Billy’s asleep. Can I help you?” he stood in the kitchen’s door frame, his gentle eyes gauging your expression.

“You can cut the apples if you want,” your tone came out harsher than you expected. Arthur frowned at your cold voice, hesitantly walking into the room.

As he peeled the fruits, he tried to replay in his mind the last few hours of the day. You were obviously upset, more likely about something he did. But the poor man had no idea. It was neither your birthday nor your anniversary. He fixed the lightbulbs in the hallway like you asked. He even brought you fresh flowers yesterday when he noticed the old ones started to wilt.

And you seemed perfectly fine this morning.

So he began thinking about the events that must have happened between the time he left for work and now. You did seem pretty upset when you arrived at the garage but he hadn’t seen you for hours.

Arthur dropped his knife as he realized he may have found the issue. Maybe you were upset that he left you alone with Billy to work instead of helping you at home. But you usually didn’t mind…

Regardless, it seemed to have bothered you today and as your husband, he couldn’t be the reason behind your low spirits.

He took the time to cut the apples the way you showed him, making sure they were “thin but not too much”. He took his time, trying to be as diligent as his rough hands allowed him to. The last thing he wanted was to make you even angrier with chunky apple bits or paper-thin ones.

Sheepishly, he walked to the sink, setting the bowl next to you. He observed you for a moment, noticing the deep frown on your forehead. It was now or never.

Arthur cleared his throat, trying to gain some courage before hugging your waist from behind.

“I-I’m sorry for this morning,” he whispered, resting his cheek against yours.

As soon as the words hit your ears, your movements stopped. You clenched your jaw as you inhaled deeply, wondering what gave you away.

“I promise to stay home more often to help you with the baby. I’ll hire more men at the garage so you don’t have to be alone when he gets fussy like this morning.”

You frowned, confused. You tried to understand his speech but no matter how you analyzed it, it didn’t make any sense.

“What are you talking about, Arthur?” you turned around, dusting your hands on your apron. He didn’t reply right away, staring at you strangely.

“I-I thought you were mad because I went to work this morning. Billy was giving you a hard time and I wasn’t here to help so I thought…you’re not angry about that?”

You sighed, exasperated. It wasn’t his fault and you shouldn’t have been angry at him. But how he completely missed the reason you were so upset just…ticked you off.

You went back to your pie, trying to distract yourself to not cause a fight but Arthur couldn’t give up.

“But…why are you mad? Did I do something to-”

“You didn’t do anything, Arthur. It’s fine.”

You heard him scoff, letting go of your waist.

“Then why have you been like this the whole day?”

Biting the inside of your cheek, you stayed quiet. You reminded yourself that Billy was asleep and how hard it would be to calm him down if he woke up. You focused all your attention on the dough before you, trying to ignore your husband. Trying to ignore the growing red monster in your chest.

But Arthur called your name, a hand on your shoulder and you snapped: “because I feel you’re not happy anymore and I’m fucking terrified! There!”

His hand left your shoulder and you took advantage of that second of disbelief to escape, throwing your apron on the table.

You walked to your favorite tree in the garden— the one with the swing attached to it. It was a small gift from Arthur. He built it when you moved in after you mentioned having a similar one in your childhood home.

You let out a shaky sigh, feeling the whole world crumble around you. You couldn’t help but feel a pinch of guilt in your chest, realizing you had convinced yourself you lived a perfect life when it wasn’t the case. You prided yourself in your family, having built a happy and safe household.

But maybe all you did was manipulate Arthur into accepting what you considered a “better” lifestyle.

Tightening your hold on the edge of the swing, you allowed yourself a minute, crying your frustrations away. You breathed in the fresh, summer breeze, slowly calming yourself down.

You were aware your reaction had been disproportionate and you needed to apologize to Arthur for your behavior. You just wished you could stay here forever, shut yourself away in joyful memories. If you focused enough, you could almost feel the wind caressing your cheeks and hear Billy’s precious giggles as Arthur pushed the swing.

But running away from your problems never really made them go away.

Opening the door as quietly as you could, you found Arthur on one of the sofas. Billy must have just woken up as he lay in his father’s arm, nodding on and off against his chest. You played with your fingers anxiously, entering the living room.

Your husband’s gaze on you almost made your cheeks heat up. He had every right to get mad at you for your outburst, to tell you how ridiculous it was and make you feel even smaller than you already did.

Instead, he extended his hand to you, allowing you to sit on his lap. You nuzzled your face against his neck, bringing an arm around Billy as well.

“What’s going on, hm?” Arthur finally asked, tenderly brushing the hair out of your face.

“Do you miss your old life?”

Your question made him frown. He had no idea where this was coming from. You knew everything about his past. You had stood up against his demons, dragging him out of the hell he was a prisoner of. Without you, he would probably not even be here anymore. So why would you ask him that?

“No, love. Why would I?” he replied, his confusion clear in his tone.

“I’m scared you do…sometimes,” you whispered so quietly a part of you hoped he wouldn’t hear.

“What?”

“I’m not angry at you for that. I understand…I think. I’ll always do what’s necessary to make you happy but I’m not sure it’s the best decision and-”

“What are you talking about?” he interrupted, just as confused as before.

“I’m talking about the job, Arthur!” you exclaimed, getting up. “That businessman who came this morning! He’s just offered you your old life back!”

Your husband blinked, everything finally clicking in his mind. Sighing, he put Billy on the sofa and joined you in the middle of the room.

“I never planned on accepting it,” he admitted, taking your hands in his.

You shook your head. “You’re just saying this because I don’t like that idea.”

“I’m not,” Arthur leaned in, kissing your forehead. “Expanding my business means I’d have to work in the city, I’ll be less home. I don’t want that. I don’t want to go back.”

You found yourself melting in his touch, your worry slowly withering.

“I want to be around. I want to see Billy grow and have more children. And the future I imagine is here, in the countryside with my family. Because that’s where my home is,” he explained, bringing tears to your eyes. “I am the happiest man on this whole planet. Never thought it was even possible to feel that way. But you give me that and that’s all I want.” You felt another kiss against the crown of your head. “Also, working for those big companies means cutting my hair and I like it long.”

You giggled at his comment, hugging him closer. Arthur chuckled, his heart welling up as your laugh resonated through the house.

Feeling a small tug on his pants, he looked down to see Billy, extending his chubby arms towards you. “Dada. Hug,” he kept repeating.

“Oh, you wanna join, little man?” Arthur bent down.

You embraced your boys as tight as you could, contentment filling the void you had felt. Arthur’s earnest words eased your insecurities, shutting down the ugly voices in your head.

“I want this as well,” you whispered after a beat of silence. Your husband gazed at you, dropping Billy on the ground. “Everything you said, I want it too.”

A radiant smile appeared on his face, his eyes gleaming under the afternoon sun. Caressing your cheeks, Arthur brought your lips to his. Your fingers got lost in his hair as you felt your knees grow weaker.

“What do you say we leave Billy with John and Esme for a few days and have the weekend for ourselves?” he muttered, eyes growing darker.

“Sounds like a brilliant idea.”

#arthur shelby x reader #arthur my bestie #arthur shelby #peaky blinders #ma copine lee #lee tag ♡#friends #anna's grand ball #500 followers celebration #anna’s fics

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teiasviago · 2 years ago

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Sorry for all the asks lately 😅 but do you have any head cannons about Scully being director of the bureau? Also your gifset is beautiful ❤️

Thank you so much, loaf! To lay the groundwork, Scully being Director of the FBI fits into my AU where there’s no baby at the end of S11, which I illustrate in my fic Crumbs. I reference Scully wanting to go back to medicine but having been suddenly offered a position as the head of the bureau’s Laboratory Division, which she took. (Mulder left and got a PhD in Psychology just to have something to do with his time other than troll around for X-Files between lectures at universities in the area and at the FBI academy, which I reference in my Director ficlet.)

Essentially, through a statistically improbable but not impossible series of events, between taking that position as head of the Lab Division in 2016 and assuming the role of Director in 2023, she rose up the ranks. Head of Lab retired and Scully was a very easily-qualified candidate to push through. Then the Executive Assistant Director of the Science and Technology Department suddenly died, and Scully was pushed through to get the job. It’s not until she got put on the shortlist for Director after the previous one was arrested for a federal offense that she found out Skinner (an Assistant Director like her) and Kersh (Deputy Director, which is the position just below Director) were the ones pushing for her promotions. But still—statistically improbable that a retirement and death and arrest happened at the precise times for Scully to irrefutably have enough experience necessary for each position. Or at least enough not to cast doubt on her abilities.

It’s because she’s trustworthy. She charms people. Sometimes they try to use her or bribe her (politics, after all) but she holds fast, and that’s why Kersh and Skinner pushed so hard for her. All this to say that sometimes Scully’s a little out of her depth and overwhelmed and constantly seems 100% done with her job, but every time Mulder suggests stepping down after the next presidential election, she shuts him down immediately.

She loves getting her hands dirty, although she doesn’t really have time to do autopsies, but she manages to finagle enough time in her schedule to teach a forensic pathology class every few months. All the secretaries love Mulder, of course, because he sends her cheesy letters, especially with pictures of their dog Pequod inside. (Yes. Pequod. The name of the ship in Moby Dick. It was Mulder’s attempt at being funny while sticking to Scully’s dog-naming. Not originally part of the AU but I’m adding it now.)

It was definitely an interesting interaction when she ran into one of the Congressmen who interrogated her while Mulder was trapped in a gulag, though. But they were a representative in the House, and the vote for her was in the Senate, so there wasn’t much he could say.

Mulder takes great pride in making a game out of his Valentine’s day flowers that he sends to her office. He spaces them out throughout the day and sends clues with them to hint at which restaurant he’s taking her to. (Never any fancy ones with reservations required—she’s had to cancel too many times for those, but he always makes it special for the occasion regardless.)

Jackson sends his holiday pictures to her office ever since she told him she framed one for her desk. He sends a copy to the house, too. The first one was just him and his dog dressed up in festive clothes, and Scully still has that one in her office, too. That framed photo of her and Mulder back when they were on the X-Files is also in her office.

She and Mulder text throughout the day to stay in touch, which is especially important due to how often she works late. But she always makes sure to be home around six unless there’s a true emergency.

#ask #txf #i'll probably think of more later but i feel like that might be a bit lengthy lol #<333

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texasdreamer01 · 3 months ago

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#i'm going to be wild and eat the pegasus alien chicken foot with ronon #mind you got to wonder what other galaxy foods would do to your digestive tract #how often did they get digestive distress #do pegasus tavern cooks know proper food handling and hand washing #wait maybe i should join team rodney he's probably on to something (x)

#rodney and ronon food habits are everything to me since that gifset that reminded me of ronons first mission eating food they found in that #prisoner camp and rodney being like. ''...well is it good'' yeah he's squeemish but he was ready to try that soup and is always snacking #anyways i was like (things about why rodney might have food insecurity like ronon) hang on. hold on a minute hang on-#stargate #i gotta think not too hard about how much he likes packaged foods like mres and jello and stuff too or i feel like i'm taking poison damage #no one in my family has allergies so i never understood growing up other people's fear on that. until i started having reactions to stuff : #anyways does he share his food with anyone? like even on the kid planet it was ford and john bribing them with chocolates right #i think it'd be cool if rodney and ronon ate together most of the time idk. passing weird stuff to the guy like i used to pass stuff off #onto my family members when i was out dining as a kid. they don't even talk #(''have u ever had a conversation with the man?'' / ''we have an unspoken bond.'') #cause they're fucking eating but they sit together like cats sit together ignoring each other. #(taping the mic in the middle of the empty room) hewwo can anyone hear me out there (x)

The squeamish bitch.

I'm the kind of person who will eat anything that resembles food, I'm on Ronon's side

#rodney mckay #ronon dex #sga fandom analysis #sga fandom headcanon #no idea what episode this is supposed to be #multiple tags copied over bc I think they vibe well #both of them having complementary risk assessments on food is fascinating

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birbs-in-space · 3 years ago

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ok maybe i will do a proper year in review completely unprompted

to preface. see my art year in review. i'll only be mentioning less impromptu art stuff here. remember. this is hardly a comprehensive list.

january.

i went on a mini road trip and took the above picture and these pics of a red shouldered hawk. i also made this silly spn uquiz based on my own (more niche) music tastes. and apparently these misha collins in the tv show 24 gifs lmao

february.

started posting my spn art to tumblr :') listened to that entire every single personal jesus playlist i started making amvs! they're silly though: [sam short king] [metatron short king] metatron gaslight gatekeep girlboss gifset connor and i put together a list of all the states that featured in spn eps and i made it into a gif!

march.

destiel bezos sext giftset (which i would later remake in sept) cas aesthetics... spn 4 horsemen uquiz

april.

this was my giffing era. for the sake of saving time, let's attribute most of the pinknatural era to this month. also rainbow trench gifs. finished up the siegenatural fancam! and my beloved fly away amv...

may.

i changed my url 😳 and graduated from college #real tmwwnk fancam i made eurovision gifs this amv is not good but . I'm adding it anyway dipped briefly into emoji making. here's some cas inspired emojis cool for the summer endverse cas fancam that originally very much flopped lol

june.

i moved this month so...rather busy launched my (public) speech bubble career -> @spn-speech-bubbles destiel wallet pics! [dean's wallet] [cas' wallet] destiel webweave but make it an article about brokeback

july.

bubblegum bitch pink trench amv AND 9x09 aescam please watch this jeremy carver gifcam connor and i made i did a full recolor of 15x18 (link is entire ep as gif. if you want to see it, dm me) did some great gatsby fancams (nick, jordan) tfw dynamic uquiz FINALLY got posted, also by connor and me this sherlock monologue but as a destiel webweave...

august.

meet me at the tavern at bowerstone amv (26 second song) connor and i made a casjimmy amv for 1d day baby aescam (no control) amv after this i attempted to bribe the amv server into making a bunch of no control amvs for the "it's not unusual" joke of it all, and made this amv celebrating love on spn as a result

september.

so i disappeared for quite a bit near the end of the month to focus entirely on my dcbb art which also went into the first week of October (art here: 1, 2, 3). took 100+ hours :') posted the accursed blue cas 1 :( publicized my spnwiki transcript searcher . oops 😔

october.

started my cas dress-up-tober endeavors, though it would end up taking me until the end of november to finish. masterpost here why did it take so long? i unintentionally ended up as the server owner of cule jail/turbohell server and it ate both my time and my physical and mental health. posted my "which version of dean are you" quiz connor and i made this destiel/cas amv using a song from the spn musical mine craft gif

november.

see october lol i made friends i also transcribed a bunch of songs on genius dot com :) literally every second of my time was occupied and i'm still recovering

december.

new endverse cas amv (sweet escape) made THIS jughead/jarchie amv with dean got involved in the banned tag fallout which killed my activity page for a few days and was overall an extremely frustrating experience. beans penguin

#new post #hi lmfao #tumblr should have one of those click to reveal things #spn #for those who've blocked it

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five-wow · 5 years ago

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Steve + his torrid love affair with pancakes. 🥞

Allow me to ramble about Danny’s involvement in every single one of these moments for a bit because that’s most of why I made this gifset in the first place:

1.04: See this post for a transcript of the full conversation and some thoughts, but essentially, we get Danny asking someone else if they like pancakes with definite flirty undertones and Steve jumping in to let Danny know that he totally likes pancakes, Danny, did you know that??? Keep in mind that they’ve probably known each other for like, maybe four weeks at this point.

6.12: On the surface, this is the only one that does not directly involve Danny, but I’d be willing to put actual money on “when the pancake bubbles, you flip it” being a piece of wisdom Steve picked up from watching Danny perform his magical pancake summoning routine, especially with the way he says it, which is this kind of awkward justification where he doesn’t even look at Mary most of the time, and doubly especially because the next few words are Mary saying “Wow! Micromanagement?” and Steve responding immediately with “Hey, you don’t need to get all Danny Williams on me”. Now, it’s of course a well-known fact that Danny seems to occupy a minimum of 50% of Steve’s mind during 100% of his waking hours anyway, but this line would make even more sense if the thought of Danny was extra close to the surface at the time because of pancakes and bubbles and flipping and Danny giving Steve (perhaps unintentional) cooking lessons.

6.19: This one is so damningly obvious that I don’t even know what to say. Steve is having breakfast with Lou, no Danny in sight, and randomly, out of absolutely nowhere, he goes hey, do you know how Danny takes his pancakes? Because I do, and I have an opinion about it, which I will now share unprovoked. (That opinion, by the way, comes right after he tells Lou about the berries, and it is, I quote, “It's disgusting, right! It's so wrong.”) That’s just Steve McGarrett’s idea of making conversation, I guess. Spouting off random little facts about Danny Williams.

9.13: Danny makes Grace pancakes, Grace (who’s already had too much soup because Danny is in full overprotective dad mode) tries to donate them to Steve, and Steve immediately throws up his hands, goes “yeee!” in celebration, and gets ready to dig in. Tragically, he’s stopped by Danny, who orders him to put the plate back in front of Grace, which leads to Steve obediently doing so, but not without heaving a deep, put-upon sigh of protest.

9.13: Danny asks if he has to butter Grace’s pancakes like she’s six and Grace says “yeah”, probably mostly to postpone actually having to eat the pancakes just a little longer, and Steve complains that Danny never butters his pancakes. Now, A) this strongly implies that Danny with some regularity makes Steve pancakes, which, seeing as this is usually seen as a breakfast food, is potentially interesting, and B) it’s such a silly, childish complaint, gosh, and I love that Steve feels silly enough to voice something like that. Also, C) do you see the way he’s leaning his head on his arm and smiling and seemingly content to just stare at Danny with fond eyes as Danny butters Grace’s pancakes before the phone goes off and interrupts this little domestic dream? Good Lord, Steven. [Not pictured from 9.13, but nonetheless relevant: Steve making a grab for a pancake the moment Danny puts the plate down in front of Grace and getting his hand slapped away by Danny; Steve being asked by Grace to get Danny out of the house for a few hours and trying to negotiate a deal that would leave him in the possession of at least one pancake as payment for this favor, but getting interrupted by Danny’s return to the room before he can close the deal.]

9.15: Steve, a grown man with money who could make or buy his own pancakes wherever and whenever he wants, comes over to check on Danny and Rachel, basically asks for the dirt, and then tells Danny that he should make him food if he wants him to keep his mouth shut while Danny talks. Specifically, Danny should make pancakes. With bananas. And! Some chocolate chips. It’s totally not a bribe though; this is just what Steve is owed after Danny so callously kept him from the Danny-pancakes two episodes earlier. (And then Danny acts somewhat annoyed and stares around the room for a bit and goes “fine” and heads in the direction of the kitchen to make Steve those pancakes, meaning Steve’s evil plan totally worked.)

So anyway, Steve loves pancakes. Pancakes definitely make Steve think of Danny. Steve keeps chasing Danny’s pancakes, which could be because they’re the best, or just because they involve Danny as well as pancakes, which in the end would still mean they’re inevitably the best, probably. Season 9 Steve has reached a point in life where he’ll pretty much just show up on Danny’s doorstep unannounced and demand a very specific order of pancakes (which I love), and more impressively, Danny hardly even starts complaining before he gives in. (Danny definitely likes making Steve a good meal and watching him eat it with genuine excitement - in 8.10, in the restaurant bit of Danny’s hallucination, the food he literally fed Steve from a fork he was holding was not a pancake, but happy hallucination!Steve was full of praise and enthusiasm for it anyway, which tells us something about Danny’s mind.)

tl;dr: You know how they say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach? Yeah.

#h50 #mcdanno #1.04 #6.12 #6.19 #9.13 #9.15 #parallels #pancakes #my gifs #*#meta #or something vaguely like it #I JUST FOUND THIS DRAFTED POST from almost a FULL MONTH ago and realized i'd never posted it #have some pancakes tumblr 🥞

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ruensroad · 5 years ago

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for the rest of forever

I’m sappy today and wanted to write weddings, thanks to this show and gifset. SO, here’s a Jinyi wedding for @this-solaris-life. Set in a historical-esque au in a Song-inspired Imperial China.

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He’d known since he was thirteen that he’d be marrying one Lan Jingyi. Ever since the day he’d pleaded with his mother to break his engagement to a girl, because he’d seen a boy stand up for another in the fields and proclaim, loudly, that any bullies had to go through him and had felt that moment go right to his heart, it’d always been Lan Jingyi, the very boy who’d taken a punch from a bully and given one back, muddy faced and utterly grinning. He still wasn’t sure how he’d gotten so lucky with such understanding parents, or with a matchmaker who’d tracked Jingyi’s family down with their courtship offer, but he was lucky, so lucky, and he’d long ago stopped wondering how.

Especially on this day of all days, auspicious with sunlight and a sweet smelling breeze. With his home draped in reds and a gown to match, his family laughing outside the door as they tested Jingyi’s mettle with too hot soup, swordsmanship displays, and very loud, gushy poetry that made his cheeks flame to hear. With laughter outside and cheering, with Sizhui at the door biting his lip in good humor, and Zizhen at his side, smoothing down his hair.

This day of all days, where he was not an Imperial Guard, not a soldier or son of a powerful family. He was just Jin Ling, a grumpy, yet glowing bride, and a man in love.

“I think Lady Jiang is making him hop on one foot now,” Sizhui laughed just as Jingyi’s voice rose again, breathless around what had to be the sappiest love poem Jin Ling had ever heard.

Zizhen snickered and adjusted the hem of Jin Ling’s robe, where it was currently hiding one of his wedding shoes. Jin Ling’s idea, that. “Probably for the best. The only good way to stomach your Xian-ba’s soup is by sweating it out through physical exertion.”

Sizhui nodded in amused sympathy. “Shu-shu said it was so hot it could melt steel,” he said, wincing. “I hope hopping and talking is helping him, not making it worse.”

“It’d better be helping,” Jin Ling huffed, impatient. He hated this bride business for all the waiting. Waiting for Jingyi to cross from his home to Jin Ling’s, waiting for Jingyi to get through his crazy family’s games. Waiting so many years for this day, only to wait more. It was infuriating. “If you lot make me a widow before he even gets in here I’ll break all your legs.”

“Yes Mistress Jin,” Zizhen huffed right back, far too used to his moods to be properly threatened. Unfair. “He’ll make it. He loves you, after all. So he’ll make it.”

Jin Ling blushed to his toes, but merely scowled in response, not that his traitorous friend and cousin cared. Sizhui, thankfully, went back to listening at the door, and lit up just a new round of cheers sounded outside. “He’s coming now. Get ready!”

“Oh, we’re ready,” Zizhen laughed and tossed the veil over Jin Ling’s head, letting it drape just so over his hair and shoulders. Jin Ling immediately hated the way it obscured his vision and told him so, but the damned veil was not moved. “Patience, A-Ling. You’ll appreciate this, i promise.”

“I’m still stuffing it down your throat later,” he complained, squinting hard to see through all the red, and could make out the shadowy shape of the door, as well as the gleaming white robes Shizui was wearing. “Let him in. I’m done with waiting.”

“Not even going to wait for a bribe?” Zizhen gushed, sounding ready to float away. “How romantic you are, A-Ling. I had no idea.”

“Did I say later? I think I’ll stuff this down your throat right now.”

“A-Ling.” Sizhui this time, in his gentlest voice, which always made Jin Ling pause and calm, if begrudgingly. “They’re getting the paper money ready, it’ll be under the door soon. Just a little more patience.”

Jin Ling bit his tongue and couldn’t stop the singing of his heart when Jingyi called for entrance from the opposite side. Sizhui and Zizhen teased him, per tradition, until the packet of money passed to them, then finally, finally, the door opened and footsteps moved towards him.

He could not see Jingyi’s face, or any part of him, but the smell of his favorite incense clinging to his robes had Jin Ling grinning and a tremble shooting down his spine. He heard Jingyi’s breath hitch and felt his own heart jump, even before two hands gripped the end of the veil and lifted.

There were few things in Jin Ling’s life he remembered with utmost clarity. The sight of Jingyi in wedding red and gold, awe plain in his face and dark eyes wide with love… he would never forget it, he was sure, for the rest of his days, even if he wanted to die from embarrassment.

“Jin Ling,” Jingyi’s voice was hushed and hoarse and that too went right to his heart, making it skip in place.

“Stop staring and find my shoes,” Jin Ling huffed, cheeks aflame under such an intense stare. He was a soldier, for Gods’ sake, a warrior. To be reduced to a true blushing bride…

Jingyi chuckled at that command, that same wild grin flashing over his face, and he obediently started searching the room. “My Mistress Jin, are you so ready to be mine?”

“Maybe,” Jin Ling gave him the sass right back, and stuck his chin in the air in full challenge. “Depends on how stupid you look climbing the bookshelf.”

“Sizhui’s idea, I take it,” Jingyi sighed as he reached for the barely visible toe of red at the top of the upmost shelf, but even with a jump only managed to bump it back out of sight. Jin Ling laughed in victory as Jingyi was indeed forced to climb the bookcase to retrieve it.

“Sizhui’s idea, Zizhen’s placement,” Jin Ling said and stuck his foot out at him expectantly. Jingyi sighed, but his smile was all fondness when he slipped the shoe on.

The second shoe, like a well hidden treasure, took much longer, and Jin Ling laughed the whole way through. Given the shoe was between his thighs, Jingyi got his revenge with a quick pinch, but even that was not enough to dull his mirth. Jingyi barely managed to get the second shoe on before Jin Ling was pulling him into a quick, secret kiss, grinning wide against his mouth.

“We haven’t even gotten to the vows yet,” Jingyi admonished, but there was nothing but laughter and love in his voice.

“I don’t care,” Jin Ling huffed, because he didn’t, and stole one kiss more. “I’m tired of waiting. You’re here and you’re mine. I can kiss you now whenever I like and no one, not even you, will stop me.”

That had Jingyi blushing, laughing, and smiling that toothy grin that had captured Jin Ling so completely, so many years ago. And as Jingyi turned and knelt before him so Jin Ling could be carried on his back to the waiting carriage, Jin Ling knew it was forever. This laughter, this trouble they could and would make together.

Because today was his wedding day, the start of the rest of his life, and he had never been so blessed. And he had the rest of his life to make sure Jingyi felt it too.

#ruenwrites #jinyi #chinese wedding #i love them #i am soft #jin ling #lan jingyi #lan sizhui #ouyang zizhen

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evak-fic-rec-turtleanon · 5 years ago

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Evak Fics - Dom/Sub

This list is for subby Isak. You may want to skip this if you don't like that characterization. I have included non smut and smut fics and I tried to put them into categories:

NO SMUT - Needy/Clingy, Soft/Shy, Stressed/Comfort, Protective/Possessive, Daddy Kink

SMUT - Stressed, Possessive/Protective, Daddy Kink, Gentle Dom, Dom/Sub, Bottom Isak, Others, Sugar Daddy, Long Fics

Here's a gifset of season 1 & 2 Isak by @jesyblack just for the heck of it.

Fics are under a read more:

********* NO SMUT **********

NEEDY/CLINGY

The Traffic Jam Conversation by dear_ida (1k words) - Isak and Even are stuck in traffic. Isak is a tad dramatic. Even is in love.

(Drunk) In Love by verlore_poplap (orphan_account) (1.5k words) - Isak falls in love at first sight. Too bad he's drunk off his ass when it happens.

take my hand (take my whole life too) by Anonymous (1.7k words) - Isak loves holding Even's hand. Light smut

I'll take care of you even if you're a brat by syubsyubsuga (1.8k words) - Isak is sick,Even takes care of him. He didn't know Isak could be a brat

Sweet by Lisforlove (1.9k words) - Isak is drunk and needy. Jonas pov

smoke in the air, binge drinking by boxesofflowers, Eeyoreneedsahug (2.3k words) - Isak accidentally gets wasted at a house party and Even is there for his boyfriend.

Sunshine in the Shade by MrsFredWeasley1996 (2.6k words) - sleepy Isak being all in love with Even

the kids are alright by Skamtrash (2.7k words) - Anxious Isak loses his friends at a music festival and starts panicking and crying. It's then that he meets Even.

too busy being yours to fall for somebody new by aestheticzjm (4.3k words) - light smut. the one in which 3rd year even sees 1st year isak at a party and is immediately transfixed.

Build Me Up Buttercup by sundaymournin (6.7k words) - isak turns nineteen and some stuff goes down with a familiar, blue eyed blonde

i have everything i need. here. with you by Skamtrash (6.9k words) - Isak and Even rely on each other for everything, they're dependent and clingy and very much meant to be. Everyone realizes it but them.

SOFT/SHY

The Bartender Series by evak1isak (SERIES, 2 fics) - Isak is a bartender who wears crop tops

secrets i have held in my heart by aestheticzjm (SERIES, 3 fics) - Penetrator Even, cocky Even, soft boys

Hoodies Laced With Love by givemepizza (378 words) - Even's hoodies

My Ideal by givemepizza (1.4k words) - Isak considers his boyfriend Even to be the epitome of perfection, and He feels quite insecure and lacking because of that.

Waking Up with Your Enemy by evak1isak (1.6k words) - Isak can't remember what he did last night, but he's woken up with a hangover, in his underwear and in the bed of the boy he loathes the most

Neon Party: Redux by givemesumaurgravy (1.7k words) - Noora didn’t come home and interrupt Isak and Even

Covered In Gold by wyoheartsmusic (1.7k words) - In this universe, Isak is a little younger and a little less jaded when he meets Even.

Love in a Color by alijan (2k words) - One of Even's favorite activities is making Isak blush.

After Midnight by dear_ida (2.1k words) - Even's bitter about having to work New Year's Eve. Seeing his boy makes it better.

the only heaven i'll be sent to is when i'm alone with you by aestheticzjm (2.8k words) - isak and even ride the same bus home and isak develops a crush.

chanel by ohsusie (3k words) - isak likes skirts and pretty underwear. he's not sure even would be so happy about it.

Sharing beds by evak1isak (4.6k words) - Isak shares a bed with Jonas' flat mate, Even. And from that moment on he develops a crush

Safest With You (Green Curtains) by eavk (5.3k words) - Isak keeps staying up too late studying at the library, but luckily there's an escort service that gives students a buddy to walk with to keep safe at night.

closer to free by Skamtrash (7.7k words) - Even works at a coffee shop that Isak always studies in and Even has been crushing on him from afar for way too long so Elias makes them happen. Isak has a past. Light smut

STRESSED/COMFORT

I'll be there by Wolle19 (SERIES, 2 fics) - Mpreg. In the first fic, Even had to be away from Isak and their baby for a while

holding onto you for dear life by boxesofflowers, Eeyoreneedsahug (527 words) - Isak has a nightmare. Even cuddles him.

the sweetest thing by BeingAPartOfSomethingSpecial (555 words) - Isak hasn't been sleeping again. Even is in full soft-boyfriend mode.

bloom later by neptunebaby (1.2k words) - After a stressful day of work at the hospital, Isak comes home to unravel with Even

Now let me take care of you by Treehouse (1.4k words) - Isak is exhausted. Even gets to take care of him.

until we fall asleep by strangetowns (2.2k words) - Even and Isak stay up past midnight.

Well, What Did You Expect When You Told Me To Get My Shit? by LavenderWater (3.5k words) - Isak is stressed and exhausted from all of his school work and during a fight tells Even to get his shit and leave.

PROTECTIVE/POSSESSIVE

i'll defend your every breath by wolfsbanex (806 words) - a game of truth and dare escalates and Even defends his boyfriend.

citizen erased by theyellowcurtains (865 words) - What happened after Isak got punched

that boy is mine by orphan_account (1k words) - someone tries to touch Isak while he's drunk at a party. Angry, dangerous Even

spill yourself in fearing to be spilt by withoutwords (1k words) - someone flirts with Isak and Even gets jealous/possessive

Don't You Let Me Go Tonight by isakbeanie (1.1k words) - Isak gets tipsy at a party and Even gets jealous about some things that go down.

We are by ReadingDreams07 (1.4k words) - Isak starts to do more PDA because the first years wouldn’t stop looking at this boyfriend.

Don't touch Isak by radiantsilver (1.8k words) - Ex stripper Isak. Dangerous Even. Even is soft for Isak but he's not so soft when someone messes with Isak

The one with the narcos by radiantsilver (2.7k words) - Even is a narco lord. He's making a deal with a not so convincing man who's trying to bribe him with hookers, but he doesn't know about his husband Isak.

i can’t handle no liquor by boxesofflowers, Eeyoreneedsahug (3.1k words) - Isak trying to stay sober with Even goes wrong.

sixteen going on seventeen by sundaymournin (5.5k words) - “I don’t know why you always go after weird, older guys. You’re a baby.” “I’m sixteen. I’m not a baby.”

I'll Wait For You by photographer_of_thoughts (8.2k words) - The AU in which Isak and Even didn't get a chance to save each other at Nissen. But time is a funny thing.

DADDY KINK

Spank Me Patriarchy by nyicris (773 words) - What happens when the Feminist and Woke™ Noora finds –a blindfolded and tied up – Isak calling Even ‘daddy’?

Daddy's Tattoo by evak1isak (959 words) - Isak wants to get two tattoos, one of them designed by Even to mark him.

yayo by neptunebaby (1k words) - Isak wears panties and puts on a little show for Even. Lapdance

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********** SMUT **********

Stressed

soft by isaksforelsket (1.4k words) - Isak just wants Even to help him relax

Watching Over You by lavishsqualor (2k words) - In which Even knows exactly how to loosen his boy up. Daddy kink

i fill the tub up halfway then ride it with my surfboard by orphan_account (3.4k words) - “Take care of me,” Isak whispers

ivory by ohsusie (6k words) - Gentle Daddy, Isak has an oral fixation

POSSESSIVE/PROTECTIVE

ride it, my pony by LouisCutie (1.8k words) - Isak gets turned on by Even's protectiveness and gives him a strip tease

come again, get me excited by ourheartsintertwined (1.8k words) - Isak flirts with another guy and Even punishes him

i may be bad but i'm perfectly good at it by orphan_account (2.2k words) - Isak knows Even is mad. And he has the right to, Isak can’t deny that he would be mad too, if the roles were reversed. Isak dances with some other guy. Daddy kink, spanking

ride on you baby by LouisCutie (2.7k words) - Isak gets jealous and rides Even for the first time

taking care by orphan_account (4.9k words) - There's a new man in Isak's life. Even doesn't notice the signs until it's too late

give me gold by orphan_account (5k words) - Isak doesn’t realize how much Even actually does for him until he meets his friends from Bakka. It doesn't go as well as he'd hoped. Sugar Daddy. Even comforts Isak. Coming untouched

DADDY KINK

Baby boy by Violetsroses (1k words) - Isak is a lazy whore that needs to be fucked a lot (gotta love that summary). Subspace

Teddy Bear by evak1isak (1.3k words) - Even comes home to find Isak playing dirty games with the plus sized teddy bear he had gifted him

Cotton Candy Pink by riyku (1.4k words) - It's the kinda place where a seventeen year old boy in knee highs and a short schoolgirl skirt can belly up to the bar and order a beer for himself and another for his boyfriend, and the bartender won't say a word. Semi-public. Plug

can't keep my hands off by theyellowcurtains (1.7k words) - Riding. Spanking

Baby come light me up, and baby I'll let you on it by vildehellerad (1.8k words) - Even finds a pair of panties in Isak's laundry.

Hit it Like You Want it by Smallcandy (1.8k words) - Isak looked at Even over his shoulder and took two of his painted fingers to his mouth and started licking and sucking them.

you can be the boss by neptunebaby (2k words) - Isak likes for Even to take control in bed, and Even likes to take control for Isak. Pet names

baby kiss me thru the phone by LouisCutie (2.5k words) - Isak's horny and misses his boyfriend. He calls him. Dirty talk. Spanking

Starry Nights by sensualstalker (3.6k words) - Even and Isak go to the cabin to look at the stars and they have a bangin time that ends in cuddles. Hand and finger kink

you so bad boy, drive me mad boy by voidskam (3.9k words) - "You're so immature, and shameless," Isak says, rolling his eyes again and continuing to look through the fridge. "Is that all?" Even asks after blowing out smoke, "Or is there more?" Bad boy Even

slid the panties right to the side, ain't got the time to take draws off by orphan_account (4k words) - panties, pet names

Wanna be with you all alone, take me home, take me home by SkamLS (skamLS) (4.7k words) - Isak is horny. Even takes care of it

Gymslip by DiscoNight (6.5k words) - Isak wakes up grumpy and Even decides to teach him a lesson, which goes a little further than he expected. Exhibitionism, D/S, punishment, possessive Even, brief sexual harassment (by other people)

I’m Not That Innocent by orphan_account (6.9k words) - Halloween. Britney costume. Rimming

i won't deny it, i'm not trying to hide it by orphan_account (10k words) - Even buys Isak a choker. Featuring panties, choking

do you want me (dead)? by theyellowcurtains (13k words) - Isak broke Even’s number one rule and he needs to be punished for it. Featuring plugs, rimming, Jonas in chapter 3

GENTLE DOM

you look pretty good down here by LouisCutie (2.2k words) - Isak is sick and Even is the most wonderful, caring boyfriend. Rimming

floating upon the surface by Misscaitlin_g (2.3k words) - Isak in subspace.

i need a man that makes it right by orphan_account (5.7k words) - Isak is just about to come, but then Even’s pulling out and kissing along his jaw, murmuring, “Don’t come yet, baby.” Edging, allusions to subspace, holding hands

melt me down (i'm like wax to your jokes) by empty_venom (6.1k words) - Part 2 of the cheerleader costume fic. Pet names, praising

DOM/SUB

santa, baby by empty_venom (SERIES, 14 fics) - There's a lot in this series involving advent calendar. Spooning, panties, choker, remote-controlled butt plug, bratty Isak, sex tape, pet names, spanking, bath tub, dildo, boy squad

just a touch of your love by orphan_account (SERIES, 3/4 fics have smut) - 1st year Isak. 3rd year Even. Even calls Isak little one. belly bulging, car sex, public sex

Glorious We Transcend by verlore_poplap (orphan_account) (680 words) - Isak likes punishing himself for silly things. He likes it more when Even does it. Overstimulation. Subspace. After care

bodies on fire by neptunebaby (1.4k words) - isak wants fast, but even teaches him slow

Grumpy Isak (one shot) by allthespices (1.5k words) - Isak had been playing video games all day, but Even wants to have some fun.

when i'm alone with you by shadeandadidas (1.6k words) - Isak Valtersen was shy. Which is why it didn’t surprise Even at all when the shyness and softness and sweetness carried over into their bedroom activities.

Playing video games by evak1isak (1.8k words) - Isak comes home horny to find Even playing video games with his friends. Needy Isak. Exhibitionism

Frisky by evaksskam (1.8k words) - “Officer, I know you’re frisking me and all, but what the fuck? Your hand is on my dick?” Isak asked, trying to keep calm.

Venus by Skamtrash (2k words) - Even buys Isak a buttplug and tells him to wear it all day in school. Isak's desperate, he's horny and Even fucks him into oblivion.

What up, glitter dick by Wrappedbubble (2k words) - Consensual non-con, light bondage, coming untouched, toys, role play

spoiled by orphan_account (2.3k words) - Sometimes, Isak can be a brat. Even knows just how to take care of him. Praise kink

recovery by Skamtrash (2.3k words) - After Isaks heated conversation with his dad and lashing out on Even, Even knows exactly what he needs to do. Spanking, fingering

I'm all yours by Skamtrash (2.7k words) - bad boy even + rough sex. bondage. controlling

Pour Some Sugar On Me by staylucky (2.7k words) - Isak's put on some Halloween weight and feels self-conscious about it until Even shows him just how much he loves Isak's body, whatever size. Rough sex, dirty talk, spanking

Small Death by Laika_the_husband (3.2k words) - Anonymous sex, unsafe sex, choking, rough sex. Isak wants the danger and Even obliges

Bad Boy Even by Skamtrash (3.5k words) - Even is a scary bad boy who hates everyone and everything but Isak is cute and smol and he can't help but love him. Fruits, ice. Light dom

i will wrap you in my arms and you will know that you are saved by staylucky (3.5k words) - During a lazy morning in bed, Isak becomes transfixed by Even's teeth. Biting. Spanking. Dirty talk

fuck me & feed me by orphan_account (4.2k words) - Light d/s. Weight gain, body worship, praise kink, rimming

the furry fic by chokingonroses (4.2k words) - Kitten costume. Plug. Rimming

Silk Ties by TheFilthWithin (Flatfootmonster) (4.3k words) - Sensory play, blindfold, ice

on the verge, now submerge, i'm your church by orphan_account (4.5k words) - Even has a huge dick. They fuck in his parents' house. Light d/s. Belly bulging, overstimulation

Command by cami_soul (4.5k words) - Even gets Isak alone and stripped down to his pink panties. Praise kink, rimming

the morning on the your skin and loved up light by staylucky (5k words) - Isak tries to take a creeper shot of the hot stranger on the tram, when his flash goes off. Barebacking, bratty Isak, rough sex

don't want you to get it on with nobody else but me (i'm selfish, i'm obscene) by empty_venom (5.4k words) - The thing is, Even really likes getting his dick wet. Deepthroating. Coming untouched. Snowballing. Dirty talk

we're lost in the heat of the moment (and i'm moving in you) by empty_venom (6.3k words) - Even fingers Isak in front of people. Isak in a cheerleader outfit

Jailbait by starlesspappillon (8.1k words) - make sure to read the warnings. one of the chapters have dubcon. different kinks

Beat that Record by Dutten (81k words) - First chapter is all smut (chapters 2 and 3 are plot heavy). Subspace, overstimulation, multiple orgasm, coming untouched

BOTTOM ISAK

oh baby don't you know i suffer, oh baby can you hear me moan by theyellowcurtains (550 words) - Isak loves sucking Even off, Even loves doing filthy things to Isak after. Even also loves that Isak is crazy about being overstimulated.

from belly rubs to something else by vodkabunny (837 words) - Isak's new belly button piercing turns Even on.

Gag Order by riyku (1.4k words) - Dirty talk

someone who knows how to ride, without even falling off by orphan_account (1.5k words) - Isak rides Even in a hammock.

wreck me by Skamtrash (1.5k words) - Isak gets dicked down at 2am in his boyfriend's parents house. Belly bulging

after, definitely after. by yourelectriclove (1.6k words) - Pet names, riding, cum eating

I'm Gon' Ride on You Baby All Night by Dutten (2.3k words) - their friends walk in on them

poolside convo by ohsusie (2.4k words) - even fucks isak's thighs in a pool

stolt by isaksforelsket (2.5k words) - Birthday and pride month. Pet names

Back to the Backseat by sherllycolmpels (2.7k words) - Isak and Even are doing it in the backseat of their car

ride it, cowboy by orphan_account (2.7k words) - Even sees Isak ride a mechanical bull and then gets him to ride Even

just a little bit out of my limit by theyellowcurtains (3k words) - Isak is pissed about where he got placed for work experience, that is until he meets his fine ass supervisor. Belly bulging, overstimulation, multiple orgasms

that soft perfect spot by reasoniwantyoutostay (3.1k words) - Even is obsessed with a certain soft perfect spot that always makes Isak tremble.

can't take my eyes of you by orphan_account (3.1k words) - cute boyfriends in the morning who simply cant keep their hands of each other

i had the sexiest dream by reasoniwantyoutostay (3.2k words) - Even discovers Isak having a wet dream. Rimming, comeplay, pretty hole is said a lot

aren't you something to admire by orphan_account (3.4k words) - Even fucks Isak in front of a mirror. "Kitten", coming untouched, praising

You Think You Can Be Quiet, Baby? by Victory4 (3.8k words) - Isak think's he'll win a little sexual competition between him and Even, and discovers how truly wrong he is. Hand on mouth kink

show me with your body baby by yourelectriclove (4k words) - Balcony. That's all I'm saying

red by evak1isak (4k words) - Isak is obsessed with Even's red russ uniform. Featuring exhibitionism, riding, praise kink, no lube

baby won't you let me get it wet by orphan_account (5k words) - Isak gets eaten out for the first time.

mark me up (say I'm yours) by orphan_account (5.1k words) - Isak has never thought about getting choked and spanked until really its all he can think about. Pain kink

sweet dreams turns into fucking in the morning by orphan_account (5.3k words) - Even wakes up to a surprise on the morning of his graduation. crop top, riding

I Feel Your Skin (Smooth As Silk) by CouldBeBlue (5.6k words) - Isak shaves his legs. Praising

Yours Always by Skamtrash (6.3k words) - AU where deaf Isak loves everything about the universe and Even loves everything about Isak. Shy Isak

i tried to be strong but i lost it (i knew it was wrong, i’m beyond it) by orphan_account (6.3k words) - Even has a thing for his intern, Isak has a thing for his boss. Age difference

for him. by Skamtrash (7.4k words) - Isak finds out the online relationship he's been having is with Oslo's biggest movie director, Even Bech Næsheim

Winter Cabin by alijan (7.5 words) - Isak and Even go to the winter cabin with the boys. Shy Isak. Cabin smut

When I See You, I Keep Getting Chills by plumclouds (8.8k words) - Isak is asked to be Even's tutor by his teachers. It doesn't go like anyone's expecting it to. Bad boy Even

RoadHead by Skamtrash (15k words) - Even and Isak are on a roadtrip to Even's cousins house to ring in the summer. roadhead, car sex, overstimulation, public sex

Rock Hard Paper Scissors by skamsnake (16k words) - second chapter has bottom Even. oral fixation, christmas

OTHERS

The Air Near My Fingers by riyku (1.1k words) - Spanking

Versatile by anaisanais (1.2k words) - Even is versatile

all he wants to do is party with his pretty baby by orphan_account (1.3k words) - Even and Isak attend Even's very first movie's premiere and Isak gets so needy. Rimming, fingering, blowjob

wanna feel your heart and soul inside of me by orphan_account (1.5k words) - Fisting

Heaven by Skamtrash (1.9k words) - Isak wants Even to finger him again

Lørdag 09:21 by unfancyandy (2k words) - Isak wakes up before Even one Saturday morning. Pet names

come undone by Skamtrash (2.2k words) - Four times Isak gets embarrassed in front of Even. Premature ejaculation

hot thoughts melting my mind by orphan_account (2.6k words) - Isak can't stop thinking about Even choking him. Even can't stop thinking about choking Isak.

let me work it by yourelectriclove (2.9k words) - even has stubble and isak loves it a little too much. stubble burn

Peep Show by riyku (3.5k words) - This might be the kinkiest thing Isak's ever done, the only kinky thing he's ever done, but he's committed to it by now, and screw it, he's gonna give this guy something worth watching. Voyeurism. Comeplay

Summer by DickAnderton (5.8k words) - Isak and Even have been crushing on each other for a whole year when their paths finally cross at a hipster music festival during summer break and they spend the night together.

The First day of Autumn by sherllycolmpels (8k words) - Isak and Even try to bake some apple and cinnamon muffins together, and let's say they're more making out and being soft boyfriends than baking. light smut

House Edge by panshambles, skamsnake (15k words) - Isak wants to try edging just because Even did it before. It's a competition. Light d/s.

SUGAR DADDY

life support by Skamtrash (12k words) - Isak is behind on rent, Eskild jokingly suggests a sugar daddy. He knows its a crazy idea but he's desperate and seeks one out but fate has other plans

Didn't See This Coming by givemesumaurgravy (26k words) - Isak is behind on his rent again and Eskild has the bright idea to sign him up for a Sugar Daddy dating website.

Club Avfall by RobronSugdenDingle (44k words) - Illegal drugs and strip clubs are Isak's life. Money from his boyfriend, the owner of Club Avfall who is also his sugar daddy can definitely complicate things.

I Don't Need Saving by Skamtrash (47k words) - Isak has a traumatic past. He's a stripper to pay for med school. When he meets Even after he pays for a private session for a night, they continue to see each other and Isak learns to fall in love. Lowkey sugar daddy

Old Money by twentyonetwentyone (100k words) - Pretty Woman au

LONG FICS

Neko verse by Laika_the_husband (SERIES, 4 one shots, 1 long fic) - Tomcat!Even meets a scared Kitten!Isak and brings him home for hot sex.

Skamløs by Skamtrash (18k words) - Even is Isak's professor and they have a thing going on

Hard Knocks by DiscoNight (25k words) - Even's depressive episodes are difficult for both him and Isak to cope with. When a frightening experience leaves Isak unable to talk to his friends, and not wishing to impact further on Even's current state of mind, things go from bad to worse. Lot's of angst

We Found the Stars by Sabeley (39k words) - Call Me by Your Name AU

Red roses & cotton candy by dantetrieswriting (56k words) - A rose. He gave Isak a fucking red rose. Doesn't matter, Isak was still not interested. Or at least that's what he kept telling himself. Bad boy Even

Drowning in your love by depressed_mermaid_53 (62k words) - Even is captain of the swim team. Isak and the boy squad join the team. First year Isak

my sweet prince (you are the one) by isaksforelsket (67k words) - After meeting Isak, the younger brother of his friend Lea, Even becomes infatuated with the boy and no matter how hard he tries, he can't seem to stay away.

The Oceans Shall Freeze by DiscoNight, realityiwanted (121k words) - The viking au. Even the berserker sees Isak and immediately wants him.

Smutty Tumblr Prompts and Drabbles by isaksforelsket (WIP) - A collection of fics

let me be yours by isaksforelsket (WIP) - Penetrator Even, snarky Isak

"You don't know it yet, Isak Valtersen, but you're mine" // Secret Admirer AU by Jules_poupard (WIP) - Isak has a secret admirer. Possessive Even. Daddy kink

#evak fic rec #skam fic rec #dom/sub #sub isak #dom even #bottom isak

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laylainalaska · 6 years ago

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Brand new horrendous thought about Ward: I reblogged this gifset of Ward earlier - in Harold’s apartment from 1x08, from the scene where he’s manipulating Danny into leaving so he can clean up all the blood and whatnot after stabbing the shit out of Harold - and it occurs to me that this kind of emotional manipulation/gaslighting is something that isn’t really in Ward’s usual toolbox of tactics. I mean, he does plenty of horrible things in season one, but it tends to be more straightforward: trying to have Danny killed, trying to buy off Colleen, that kind of thing. Even when Ward manipulates people (or tries to; he’s not very good at it), it’s not generally like this: pretending to cry and playing on Danny’s emotions to get the desired result, which is Danny going away and leaving him alone.

You know who does that? Harold. To Ward. CONSTANTLY. It’s not the only thing Ward seems to have picked up from the Harold Meachum playbook of manipulating people; I also noticed on my recent S1 rewatch how frequently Ward tries to bribe or buy people off in S1, as opposed to very rarely doing it in S2, which makes me think that’s quite likely a thing Harold trained into him, as well. (Also, notice how often it works for him? Basically, never.) But this is perhaps the only scene in which he is blatantly drawing from Harold’s gallery of gaslighting techniques, and deploying it both ruthlessly and effectively.

In general, Ward is a blunt instrument, not a master manipulator. He’s not good at the finer manipulative stuff the way Harold and Joy are. One of these days I need to write up a post that’s been brewing in my head about how it never even seemed to occur to him to do the kind of long-game vengeance planning that Joy does between S1 and S2. With both Harold and with Danny in S1, Ward never actually seems to think of working out some kind of elaborate plan to trap, thwart, and/or kill them. It’s entirely reactive, a kind of self-protective lashing out. I’m not saying that makes anything he does right; it’s just interesting to me that Ward never actually seems to engage in the kind of active malevolence that Harold does (and that Joy is also capable of). He can be incredibly nasty when he’s hurt and/or pissed off, and for a very long time his more sympathetic qualities are almost entirely focused on people he cares about, with utter indifference to his effect on everyone else. (This is starting to change in S2, but he’s only just starting to get there.) It’s very much about Us and Them for S1-era Ward, and Danny only gets incorporated into Us after he saves the Meachums at the penthouse.

So basically it’s not like he can’t be awful. But he isn’t cruel. Let alone cruel in that calculatedly cruel kind of way that Harold and, sometimes, Joy both are.

Except in that one scene. And ... actually, come to think of it, he does something similar with Joy a little later in the same episode (I think it’s that episode? maybe the next one?) when he takes her to the penthouse and then has a freakout and tries to chase her away. It’s the same thing he’s doing with Danny -- taking the things he knows that will hurt her most and using that as a bludgeon to get her to stop doing what she’s doing.

I kinda feel like it’s thematically important to his character arc that the one point in the series when we see him acting in this incredibly Harold-like way is right after Harold's death. It’s almost like a passing-the-torch kind of thing -- Harold tried to mold Ward in his own image, and the part of the series in which it came closest to working is in those middle-to-late episodes in S1, when he kills Harold and then teeters on the edge of becoming like Harold.

#iron fist #ward meachum #meta

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silverlozhka-nah-blog · 5 years ago

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talk about that moment igor knew he had to kill stas in order to stop him. what was that moment like? was it a difficult decision given their history or was it easier to accept because of what he's done? talk about your bby @ us thanks

I’m going to start off by saying, wow how dare you, but also thank you, I love you, I can always count on you.

and the second thing, I’m leading with is that the show didn’t really give us much to go on with it, but judging from the first episode, they were relatively close. igor of course ends up proposing to his sister, lera so that kinda gave me the sense that they’d known each other for a long time. they said since school but i’m thinking igor never went to university because the law degree he does have was bought by his father, vladimir. so I’m going right here and saying they’ve known each other for probably 20 years.

I want to say it was shortly after his mother died because igor was no longer home-schooled after that, his father mostly just sent him to school and hired people to take care of him----- he’s a very absent father and when he’s there it’s not exactly the best relationship verbally or physically, he usually just threw money at igor, just basically used his money to ‘ parent ‘ him. it definitely unironically led igor down that self-destructive path he was on, while he did have a choice, he chose a bad one. I also don’t think though that he let it escalate too far, in which it was probably him being the voice of reason for stas unless that day he was feel particularly destructive. but stas was definitely the wilder of the two of them, I’m thinking they also had a reputation of being the two guys in school you don’t mess with: aka the popular rich kids. it was very, and is very much as the richest people have the most say in things, and while igor himself wasn’t rich, nor stas or lera, they were the children of oligarchs, both stas and igor set to inherit whatever their parents riches were.

anyways unbeknowst to igor, stas had his own issues with drugs, that started in the equivalent to high school. he didn’t know about it until recently just before his father forced igor onto the police force. of course it started off with small things, weed mostly because that’s about as far as igor had gone. there was a night where igor did in fact get caught up in it. it was a night in high school, where stas took igor to ‘ a party ‘ while igor is fine with drinking and weed and naked girls, the whole stronger drug perspective was not on his idea of fun. he ended up giving into peer pressure and snorting cocaine, the reaction he had to it wasn’t exactly positive. he didn’t like the way it made him feel or think, so drugs had never really been something that igor wanted to dive into. stas, of course had other ideas. igor could put up with it to a degree, he loved stas and he loved lera but the pair of them were not good for his health in any shape or form.

igors belief had always been that weak drugs lead to strong drugs, to stronger drugs like heroin that can consume your life, it’s why he drew the line for himself at weed--- knew that if anything wild happened, it wouldn’t be because he was trying desperately to get a fix. there was also a part of him that cared slightly about his fathers reputation, about his own reputation. it’s seen in season one episode one, stats pulling out pills right in the middle of the club and igor trying to shut it down, he fails at it because he knows it’s pointless to try and stop him. LATER ON IN THE EPISODE HOWEVER, igor gets set up by the police in a heroin and drug den, witnessed someone overdosed on the couch. it doesn’t take long to shape igor up and its something he envisioned happening to stas if he didn’t stop.

once igor is on the police force he makes stas promise to stop the drugs: a little perspective, stas is not a good friend. the night where stas pulled drugs out in the middle of the club, stas ended up getting pulled over by the police, the very same ones that igor ends up forced into working with them. in some effort to help, igor tries to bribe them because honestly it’s all he’s known his entire life by his father, have a problem, need something fixed, throw money at it. it doesn’t work and igor ends up attacking them because well he was drunk and the urge he had to get his friend out of trouble was stronger than his voice of reason. lera contacts him after, mostly at igors prompting and she gets back to him because she’s marrying him. stas made no move to contact igor back and just completely acted like igor didn’t exist. which eh /: [ I didn’t like stas from the moment I saw him, I’m like he’s a douchebag and I already know this is going to end so poorly ]

anyways, farther into the episode after igor makes stas promise not to do drugs anymore because of that set up scare to try and get igor kicked off the force. igor storms off and leaves lera and stas at the club. the next day, igr goes with zhenia, danila and vika to a crime scene where a nine year old girl was killed in a hit and run. and what does igor find at the crime scene but a piece of stas’s license plate. he goes straight to stas and confronts him about what he did after the club and told him not to do anymore drugs. they go to his car and there is blood on it, ie this gifset. igor is furious. lera is stupid because she insists they get the car cleaned and detailed and try to cover it up and igor just, the dead look he gives her is whew. he tells her he’s never seen her before until now and wow it hits home. he technically wasn’t ‘ in love ‘ with her but there was a part of him that did love her, and to have her only want to protect her brother and not care about the girl who lost her life was yet another eye-opener for him. so he ignores that and tells stas he has two hours to turn himself in or he’ll do it himself.

and i think it’s a big development compared to before, and how just a few hours seeing the death of the little girl just triggered something in him. igor ends up turning stas in because he doesn’t do it himself. lera calls of the engagement by throwing the rings at igor. after that he lost contact from them for a while. lera just hated that he became a policeman. and stas fell deeper into the drugs. he got really bad and when i say i mean he went through kidnapping someone and blackmailing his own sister for money just to get a fix. they found him but it was too late and he appeared to have died of an overdose of injected heroin. despite the distance, he put between himself and stas, despite their issues, he felt deep sorrow and regret that he didn’t try to do anything more, but what they always say: you can’t help someone who doesn’t want to be helped and stas was one of those people.

in season 2, we find out that stas didn’t actually die, he was just sent to montenegro for ‘ healing ‘ however, he doesn’t at all wean himself off the drugs, in fact, he moved from heroin to other drugs, I’m thinking meth or pcp because he is essentially crazy in season 2. his only goal in season is to torment igor and eventually kill him. so stas plants a bomb on igors car, does go after and threatens anyone who even remotely comes close to igor. he kills someone who was helping igor simply because she knew igor. he threatened, katya and vika (both women he loves). it’s generally a miserable time on that front, igor does his best to handle it himself, to try and talk stas down from whatever he was trying but the minute someone physically died was when he knew he couldn’t keep it to himself anymore. it took him a little before he finally accepted help and told the police lieutenant, who of unknown to igors knowledge was having stas killed. stas escapes and as a result of it vikas fiance danila, who is also the father of her baby gets killed because he was driving igors car. after that all bets are off, they find him and danilas and igors friend zhenia, vika and igor all shoot him.

a lot of things were running through igors mind because he mourned stas, when he thought he was dead. and despite everything they had been through, he still cared about stas, still hated the fact that he turned into this monster, that he couldn’t save him, and stas couldn’t save himself. there is also a part of him who accepted it, hated stas for hurting vika. for killing danila, a man who they had a rocky start, but he had so much respect for danila. and stas just had to be stopped, there was no way around it, he had to be killed or it would never end. by the end of it all he was so angry at stas that shooting him felt right. igor has only had a had in killing two people, and stas was the second. he felt peace once stas was dead, then again, even though he felt sadness for this moment, he knew that stas had died after that overdose, at least to him, stas was already dead.

#drugs .#drug overdose .#long post .#anyways im lajbkmwlbmr #eh #this was like not expected to get this long but here we are and i'm having all kinds of emotions #ichorimbrued

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inappropriatefangirlneeds · 7 years ago

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Gotham s4ep5 “The Blade's Path” Personal Review

“Don´t worry people will talk”

Warning spoilers below

* The Episode in which no one can do their Job without bloody CRITICS. HARVEY BULLOCK thinks he is doing his job freeing the licensed criminals JIM GORDON brought in thinking he is doing his job. Both disagree with each other. “That's above my pay grade, pal. I just, uh, bust the bad guys.” Then there is also ALFRED PENNYWORTH and Jim who still want each other to do their jobs (well). They still are in nagging mode but team up to find Bruce.

* There is a place people named “slaughter swamp”, people made a sign writing “slaughter swamp” on it?! Also those people kill a helpless patient that´s one thing but do they have to be joking jerks about it? Yeah I know some people make jerky jokes to cope ??!?! * SOLOMON GRUNDY approaching guys outside the swamp. What is this Frankenhulk?! The colours of the scene, the “don´t hurt the monster” rhetoric, the children´s (?) song, the fire that all reminds me of Frankenstein adaptions. Weird. * Why is the guy he hit asking “who are you” with his last breath? Is he expecting to report him to the police after he wakes up? That is a question that troubles Grundy, and yeah I get that it emphasizes this issue for the audience but what reason has this guy to ask this?

* BRUCE WAYNE & ALFRED PENNYWORTH have a dispute about who understands what. “I see.” “No. You clearly don't.” // “Taking a life, never mind how justified, will lead you down a darker path than you could ever possibly imagine. I know. I've been down it. You understand me, Master Bruce?” “I understand.” * “It is my FAULT” Bruce is luckily still taking the blame for Alex death, he´s not overlooking his involvement in it. But yeah Alfred & Jim are right it´s still Ra´s who is the murderer.

* ALFRED PENNYWORTH & JIM GORDON are a joy to watch. “Look I am telling you this as a courtesy.” Pretty sure Jim can think of some better curtsies .. someone write this please..... Anyway once Bruce run away to break into Blackgate they team up. Alfred can even make me like the overdone has 500 weapons in places you don´t wanna know about joke enjoy but dear .. that choice of words .. same Jim, same. Alfred keeps up Bruce´s Billionaire Brat Act up by suggesting he might have bribed his way into the prison, otherwise you know .. people might start to think he could have climbed over a wall. The prison guards show them round but just the all the wrong ways. * And you know I´d really like to have seen Jim´s time in Blackgate to have had more impact reflection and introspection wise but I take what I can get they at least reference back to that incident that week and quite well. Jim is like “Hello I´ve been here before” and none of you assholes punched me during that time something is wrong.

* “My Name is Bruce Wayne” that might have gotten him out of breaking into a prison but unluckily the guards are on Ra´s team so that name verhallt wie Schall und Rauch. That attitude of “my name´s gonna buy me free” is insufferable but on the other hand if you have that card why not play it to save your ass. * “You weak foolish boy” You weird freakish mummy .. RA´S AL GUHL gets stabbed by Bruce just like he wanted. The inscription, just as Bruce suspected does not mean the knife is to be used by but against him (“it is intended for the one who has bathed in the healing waters”) just that he is wrong about Ra´s wanting the knife to keep it from being used against him. Immortality is a curse. Ra´s want´s to be stabbed so badly he even threatens the not yet existent loved ones of Bruce. (And that´s Cersei levels cruel that actually gave me chills .. nice) But if this was his plan along I´m pretty sure there would have been easier ways to accomplish that, and I would not have needed to sit through that plot. The talk about an heir falls flat. And his death was strangely anticlimactic. (Okay except that last bit where his lower jaw dropped a bit .. I giggled) I know that could have been to focus on Bruce and the effect this deed has on him. This was not a big boss battle to be the fulminant end of a long fight between two foes no spectacle on purpose because this should shed light on the characters .. but .. it´s Gotham .. I suppose that´s not yet over ..

* BARBARA KEAN & Ra´s relationship should be over before we actually saw it!? Also she seemed to enjoy his company but also expected a reward, of course that´s not a contradiction per se but opens questions. Also just tell me what he gave Barbara! Please let it be something awesome and something she enjoys! Naive? Probably ..

* “Just because you know you're capable of doing something doesn't mean it has to happen again.” Okay but is that JIM GORDON missing the point and projecting?! I still don´t believe that the Virus in Jim´s ear that told him he is a killer actually brought out the worst in him (Jim just isn´t, he´s stepping over bodies if he deems it necessary but he´s not a bloodthirsty killer who enjoys it) rather it voiced a fear he has (stored very very very deep down in him, that doubt he pushes away about his deeds). Which would absolutely explain that line because otherwise he´d just kind of miss the point. The upsetting thing is not Bruce suddenly turning murderous, the upsetting thing is having ended a life. But I see how Jim “criminal´s lives aren´t worth much especially not if weighed against non criminal lives” Gordon might have issues with that concept. * “Now, you may not feel like you're that kid anymore, but I know that you are. One who believes in doing good. In fighting for what's right. Who will do anything to keep the people he loves safe. Nothing that happened today changes that.” And that is Jim Gordon after browsing tumblr and liking that “be the person that you would have needed” post (which is a wonderful one no shade on that).

*“I´m not the hero Gotham needs” BRUCE WAYNE feels guilty about being responsible for Alex´s death and taking a life. He wants to burn his suit. That´s the Bruce Wayne I wanna see! ALFRED (needs another slap with the newspaper) PENNYWORTH can´t let him do that. He claims he was wrong, Bruce can make a difference, the whole thing has become bigger than preparing for Ra´s return. As soon as Bruce feels ready. Well at least he has the curtsy to wait that´s something I guess but that´s the point where Alfred´s guidance crosses the seriously shady line. If Bruce wants to step back you let him and you let him without interfering or paving the way back. * “This will be waiting for you” Uhm yeah, if he still fits into it that is .. kid is growing fast. But the added that Alfred will wait for him too was sweet.

* “Come on, you people have pills for everything!” Yeah I wish. I so wish. EDWARD NYGMA is way to adorable, and funny. Omg those scenes. He is too good. “Fogginess of the mind. Decreased capacity to think ten steps ahead. Inability to solve riddles” Why do I relate with those symptoms. Oh and I really love that for once it is shown that getting stabbed through the hand or something like that hurts like a lot. * Why has Edward´s suit Polka Dot lining ?! * “I´ll even consider a natural remedy” Ed you had three bottles of that in your place! (St.Jonn’s Wort, Echinacea & Ginkgo leaf from N a t u r e ’s Answer)

* I´m not sure if I like that they brought Butch / SOLOMON GRUNDY back but at least the interaction with Ed was entertaining. “I can´t even help myself” * Ed doesn´t want to help him until he sees use for Grundy. I´d really like to see them bonding a bit over the “Who am I” issue but I doubt that will happen. * Grundy calling Ed “smart” was too precious! (And some niceness that´s not manipulative for once) * Ed´s plan: muscle > money > smart ( > memory ) I´m not sure if he intends to keep his promise but I´m quite sure that lying to Grundy about his and Butch´s friendship will come back to bite him in his green ass. * Is CHERRY a cousin or something of JERI? * How, why, does Ed know Cherry´s place? Would he have found a probably underground fight club that fast in his state? I´m assuming no, he must have been there before. Watching ? He looked delighted when entering ..

* LESLIE THOMPKINS Leslie, honey what are you doing? I doubt she would not have gotten a fine nice job somewhere. Why is she in this place. She does not seem to be happy about it even the slightest bit. Nor does she seem to care about anyone´s well being. She´s still a doctor, at least let her keep that part of her identity? Okay I´m in rant mode not even knowing where they are going with her character, let´s postpone that a bit.

* Does anyone know what song it is around 10:50 that can be heard playing in THE ICEBERG LOUNGE ?! It seriously gives me flashbacks to The Stranglers: No more Heroes in 1x15. (Didn’t I have a gifset for this? Have I posted that? Did I make it? Am I imagining things? No I think I totally did something with the no more heroes .. where is it) I think I´d actually like visiting the Iceberg Lounge if that musical theme continues.

*“Numbers Mr. Penn” Am I becoming a fan of Mr. PENN?! I think I am. I´d really like to steal the man´s job though. I know barely anything about statistics but I can learn and I´m good with lists. I can do this. Penguin must like/cherish Penn since he kept him around after losing the crime list to Bruce. Or is this already known? Also did they really name that character Mr. Pen(n)?!

* OSWALD COBBLEPOT & SOFIA FALCONES interactions are a joy! They are even more joy if you just enjoy them for a moment and think they could actually be allies. Their banter is wonderful “100%” “Now you´re just rubbing it in” And I love how Sofia is picking up the Penguin characteristics “send those outlying criminal elements scurrying back under your umbrella” It makes me really think her choice of words with Jim was very deliberate too! * Oswald letting Penn read the “kill Sofia” to do list point was wonderful .. “Add a question mark” * Sofia offers Penguin the support of her name, they shall eat in public. She even got Gertrud´d recipe. Where did she find the recipe ?! How, Where ?! How?! No srsly, I´m usually a fan of just let things like that slide for the sake of enjoyment but that bugs me. * Someone tasting his food like that would only work if he has some magic ability to taste poison (was he someone from Indian Hill .. ) but his face looked too worried for that * Ghost Goulash. Ugh. Oswald is done with the taste of it. Sofia not knowing if he liked it or not was sweet but I did not like his reaction. That´s just so over the top. What is this ratatouille? Also you´ll never get a recipe on spot like that. They would have needed to know where she bought the ingredients and probably used the same pots with greasy patina and in general there´s just so much going on with cooking that can´t be in a recipe and stuff and things. Also there´s just so many ways Goulash can taste. I don´t like it, the scene I mean.

* Sofia visits him at his club again. I did not quite get why door guy let her in ?! “There was only one person in my whole life who ever did things for me without wanting something in return. And that was my mother.” “Then I envy you. My father never helped anyone unless it benefited him. And eventually it drove away everyone who loved him.” This is not only putting her in a light she wants to be in it also doubles as warning that would support Oswald seeking a relationship with her. Actually it´s three things at once. Girl you are so good. And for some reason I like that not so sleek outfit so much better.

* When Sofia first got in the Iceberg Lounge she saw Oswald putting away the Ice from his injury. When she is there the second time she sees him visibly struggling with pain. She offers a massage and advice about treatment laced with another emotional story about her childhood and her harsh father. Moreover she mirrors Gertrud´s singing with her humming. * This is LIZA 2.0 and 50% of me want Oswald to see through this. I found it odd that he would let Sofia see him in pain like that, that he would let her touch and see his injury from which even he himself turns his face away. He has never let it get into his way in the slightest and suddenly he is dropping his guard like that?? So that half of me would be delighted to see that this is already Oswald manipulating Sofia right back! Three steps ahead Oswald from Season 1 ! Then there is 50% of me who would actually be delighted so see Oswald believing that someone can be kind to him. Oswald being able to be vulnerable and open like that. Oswald accepting comfort. Sofia and Oswald as a team would be sweet, I think they could really add to each other, in another time, in another life ..

* Were there umbrellas on his socks ?!

#gotham #gotham meta #gotham s4ep5 The Blade's Path #mine Gotham full episode reviews #gotham language

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klarolineawards · 7 years ago

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Hi ! Every category of votes has a link with it can we share a link on twitter and make a tweet saying if anyone wants to vote they can vote here? Or would it be unfair?

You can advertise that polls are open and they can vote, and if you are nominated you are welcome to tell your followers, but please do not offer to trade votes, bribe for votes, or generally do anything that could be considered cheating.

Here’s the exact language from the rules page:

If nominated, you are allowed to say you have been nominated in such and such category. However, nominees shall be disqualified if they try and ‘win over’ votes with bribes (i.e. VOTE FOR ME AND I WILL PROMO YOU). This is to keep voting as fair as possible. The awards must be fair, to all who participate in it. The deciding merit for winning should be the quality of the persons work and not their ‘popularity’ in the fandom, in terms of followers, etc. Hence to assure this, the strict rule is that; while you can inform your followers that you have been nominated and ask them to vote for you, you cannot however, promo/rate/take requests (for drabbles/gifs/whatever) in exchange for votes. Any form of unfair methods used to gain votes will not be accepted. Isn’t it better to win fairly? And on the merit of your work? Any other forms of bribery, whether in forms of promos or requests for drabbles/gifset/etc will result in instant disqualification.

Hope that helps! :)

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lchnss · 8 years ago

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ooc / this is long and i’m sorry for that, i’ll probably delete this soon anyway but i needed to a) explain and b) get it off my chest to a platform that isn’t involved in anyway tbh.

so i haven’t been around lately because frankly, work has been shit and it’s been kind of dragging me down throughout the past week or so. i’ve been making gifsets and such over on my resource blog, and sticking to mobile mostly. but not really doing threads or such, though i tried to kick out a couple drafts earlier today but here’s the deal:

i had a panic attack at work on tuesday, and i’m not an anxious person. i’ve had about three ( that i can remember ) panic attacks in my life and i can tell you what they’ve all been about. but this girl at my work turns every conversation into an altercation, and i don’t do well with confrontation. at all. whatsoever. to the point where a stranger could be causing a disturbance beside me and if there’s potential for someone to get pissed at them, i’m out.

and i asked her if we could start splitting the work because she had been creatively finding ways every day to slack off and give me more / the shittier end of things and she completely accused me of things and smirked the entire time while i sat there stuttering and clearly freaking out. i had to call my mom during my break to talk me down, i was nearly crying ( and i don’t cry in public. i avoid it at all costs because i don’t have tears when i cry, instead my face gets blotchy and puffy and i look terrible. i hate crying in front of people. not to mention, it takes a while for my complexion to restore afterwards too ), and it was a terrible experience. i was hiding in the back corner of a warehouse that was practically empty because it was break and still shaking because of the panic attack but also because i was afraid someone would hear me talking on the pphone and come over to see / talk to me. tuesday fucking sucked.

my boss said he would let me know if there was an opening on another shift that i could take and switch shifts away from this girl, because it’s not the first time i’ve had issues with her -- we really don’t get along, i’ve just never seriously reported it. i’ve bitched about it to my supervisor but that’s different. then my sup comes over and tells me she’s going to trained me on a different job but same shift so we don’t work directly together anymore.

and my sup came in this morning and handed me a tim hortons frozen lemonade and muffin and said ‘ consider this a bribe ‘. we had a long talk about it yesterday afternoon, after work was done but i still don’t think she understands just how uncomfortable i am around her. and since there is no openings on other shifts, i can’t do much about it. i can’t quit because i can’t seem to find another job and i have to have an income.

but this job is stressing me out lately and i seriously don’t like it. this woman is ( close ) to double my age, i have more seniority than her by a few years and i couldn’t tell you a single person in the workplace that actually likes her. and yet, she’s turning my mood inside out every single day.

#panic attack /#honestly. i needed to vent because i tried talk ing to my mom #who just sided with me but also tried to give me the professional opinion #then my grandma just shit talkes the other girl and tries to invalidate my problems with her own #and my boss tries to make peace between us when no. there is no peace to be had. i've tried and i ended up like this #✧ ｡• ooc. ❞#long post /#i'm sorry this is so long.

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kitwilsonsass · 8 years ago

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why do you think jervis is an interesting character?

*inhales deeply* okay.

I assume we’re talking strictly Gotham!Jervis here.

Buckle up, this is an embarrassingly long winded ride.

I also assume this question gets asked so much because people love to excuse their favs shitty behavior as murderers in that weird, “your fictional problematic fav is worse than my cinnamon roll problematic fav” mentality. Which, in some ways, I don’t entirely blame people for when it comes to this particular character (even extending into the less lighthearted interpretations outside of the show).

So I’m not going to focus on that because I can’t tell anyone anything they don’t already know about it. Other than being a broken record and saying enjoying a character does not equal condoning or endorsing their actions (I’m more concerned with real life sexual assault or people like the guy at my work who gleefully laughed as he explained to me how he’d love to electrocute immigrants to death with a fence at the border than I am with fictional friendzoned Lewis Carroll fanboys mirroring the shitty side of humanity). And, in extension, a character being an awful character doing awful things does not instantly make them somehow magically uninteresting - they’re still complex and imagined no differently than most others, just in a much darker, morally grey-at-best fashion.

For some people, characters that are shown in the worst possible light can be the most “interesting” because it’s so far removed from their experiences that they find it more compelling to try and understand why someone would be driven to go to such lengths or do such unfathomably bad things. Psychologically, problematic villains can be downright fascinating. And that’s what makes Batman villains so popular among fans of the medium - the fact that they tend to be psychological flaws and/or the bad side of mental illnesses personified.

MOVING ON~

Why do I think (Gotham!verse) Jervis Tetch is interesting?

Let’s start with some basics, shall we? I love that this guy came into town, essentially running a con on people, hypnotizing poor saps at his stage show in his tacky plaid suit and stole their jewelry, house, and then sold everything off to bribe and stroke the ego of a desperate wannabe bounty hunter, for starts.

I like the direction they took for this particular incarnation. Which is funny, because I hate stage hypnosis acts. Ask anyone. I almost turned off Look Into My Eyes the second people were barking and clucking. I can go on tirades longer than this post will be because I’m Consumed With Rage™. But it WORKS for the aesthetic of Gotham in a way that being too over the top with literal mind controlling hats wouldn’t have. His entire look and shtick just fits right in, and allows him to be taken seriously as a threat in ways his comic counterpart often cannot be. The way they work in subtle references to the Wonderland stuff works really well for me, too - the whole White Rabbit thing was great, and I fucking LOVE that The Tweeds are luchadors because it works so well with Jervis being a performer himself. Also, I just *clenches fist*, fucking love that professional wrestling,

Being a sad, sad mind control-as-a-plot-device-in-media critic, I also have to say I really like his inductions for the most part. I’ll get to whether or not he has a power later, but the whole watch synchronizing with your heartbeat thing? That’s genius. I love that. And it makes it so easy to theorize about whether or not the watch is early tech he’s created if they do ever go down more of a technological route with him (which, honestly, I hope they don’t).

Also just look at his hair:

Fuck. How?

Ahem.

Let’s talk about his mental state, before and after Alice’s demise.

The thing I find most interesting about Jervis right off the bat is when he proclaims he can’t make anyone do anything they don’t wish to do - deep, deep down. Because 1.) I don’t buy this, considering the things he makes people do, and 2.) Just the way he SAYS it.

There’s something to be said as well for the way he reacts to Gordon saying that Alice shot a guy and set fire to a building. There’s a brief look of confusion, almost as if he doesn’t want to think his dear, sweet, innocent sister could do such a thing.

Jervis, in outside canon, is typically a representation of schizophrenia. Whether he’s a good one or not isn’t up to this discussion. The point though is that he tends to live in his head, to the point of even manipulating himself, and not always willfully. There’s his perceived truth to the world, and there’s the actual truth he’s not accepting. Be it consciously denying it, or unconsciously trying to protect himself from it.

I believe that he believes he can’t make anyone do something they don’t want. When it’s convenient for his mental and emotional wellbeing. Because that means he’s not abusing the woman he loves. Who just also happens to be his goddamn family. If he can’t FORCE anyone to do anything against their will, that means she must want this too, on some level. By this logic, he’s not hurting her if she wants it too, right?

He’s not killing people in happy, loving relationships he’ll never have if they’re not REALLY happy, right?

He can’t even accept that Alice ran from him to a completely foreign location to try and be free of him. He can’t fathom why she would be holding a gun with any intention of firing as opposed to wanting to “talk”, even as it’s pointed directly at him. It’s not like he’s putting on a show in that scene - there’s no one to see it but her and the guy about to jump off a ledge who literally isn’t capable of paying attention to their conversation.

Even once he kidnaps her he just says he forgives her for HER supposed wrongdoings against HIM.

He genuinely is not understanding what he’s done to this person and has a completely falsified version of events that transpired to lead to where he is at that point. Even if it’s partially made up to manipulate Gordon, his reaction to seeing her still seems to imply he believes it to some degree.

And when she’s dead because of him, he blames Jim. He blames the city. For corrupting her and taking her away because in his mind he would never hurt his sister.

Jervis is already barely holding it in when we meet him. He’s just great at being a showman. He’s great at reading people, casually and professionally, and knowing what can pass as normal behavior and what people want to see. The way he carries himself and speaks not just on stage, but speaking to the likes of Barbs or even Jim initially is a completely different manner than how he carries himself alone. He’s a child inside in a lot of ways, and the real world can’t accept him for that, so he makes a persona for them to see instead.

Benedict had one interview where he mentioned the mentality in acting that was something along the lines of “I understand you, but you don’t understand me” that he felt fit playing the role well and I’m inclined to agree that’s the perfect way to describe Jervis. He gets people. He very easily understands what makes them tick on the deepest levels and can twist that to his advantage. He can boil down Jim’s relationship problems in about five seconds flat and burn him for it. But they’re never really seeing the whole him.

It’s noted she’s the only thing keeping him “sane.” As viewers, we know he wasn’t exactly sane in the first place, but we see how quickly he goes off the deep end once she’s gone and how much worse he is at containing himself. Especially in terms of speech and vocal inflection.

Worth noting that the whole rhyming thing, mockable as it may be in fandom, is also an actual thing in psychology:

clanging

[klang´ing] a pattern of speech in which words are selected because of sound rather than meaning, resulting in rhyming and punning instead of logic; normal in young children but a sign of mental disturbance in older persons.

He has depth for an arc villain on a silly show like this and I can’t but appreciate that for everything it’s worth.

Let’s also gab briefly here about parallels. ‘Cause who doesn’t love parallels? Parallels make gifsets so round.

I thought Red Queen sucked. Like, not worst episode of the season sucked, but it was a big let down for me. Admittedly, I wanted a giant chess board, but I digress. In Follow the White Rabbit, Jervis raises a valid point about Jim’s moral compass situation and the good guy bandwagon he so sloppily fell off of back in Season 2. Given Jim is our primary protagonist and no matter how embarrassingly easy he is to hypnotize, his relationship with villains is important for the growth of his character now vs. who he will be in the future we know as possible fans outside the TV universe.

Maybe Jim’s hallucinations were a little on the boring, predictable side, but we got to see something pretty tangent here in regards to what he longs for. Good old traditional family values, really. He wants Lee to be his doting wife with their two perfect kids running around the house. He wants to come home to dinner. He wants to not deal with this bullshit that plagues his life and makes it impossible for him to ever have that. Thing is - he can’t have that. And he ACCEPTS that as reality and works through it. Maybe in unhealthy ways, be he works through it.

Jervis, in contrast, cannot handle that. Jervis wants the world around him he sees as ideal to be the real world and will go to extreme measures to ensure it happens. That’s what separates them. Jim makes awful choices, he’s killed, he may kill again, but he learns and knows where the line is drawn to stop him from being “a villain.” Jervis crosses it freely and does the best he can to absolve himself from the blame.

I think they really should’ve dug into that more, but it’s Gotham, and there’s 500 plot lines always happening at once so what we really expect?

Also, let’s just appreciate (or not, whatevs, it’s cool) that Benedict Samuel brings some amazing little nuances to his performance when it comes to this role. Nuances that made me do an IMDB crawl of his filmography. Nuances that made me watch a goddamn six part Australian mini-series*.

[*Okay, he’s KIND of cute. Kind of. A little. ]

For real though. Go watch his interrogation scenes at Arkham with Barnes and Jimbo. Watch his face. Watch his eyes. Again, Jervis can READ people. And you can see that in his performance even when he’s really not being asked to do much of anything. You can see him trying to figure them out, and that’s awesome, because it can be so easy for “crazy” characters to just be played as straight up stereotypical/ableist loonytunes with no intelligent thought behind them.

I. Love. It.

I never expected to, but I love it. I thought I’d watch one episode, get pissy that one of my lowkey villain favs was ruined, and never turn back. Well you just get fucking rekt @ myself.

Anyway, is Jervis Tetch a sack of fucking garbage? Absolutely. He’s awful. Unforgivably so. I think I described him to my friend as being a garbage fire in the back of a sushi place. Like, the worst stenched kind of garbage fire.

Poor fucking Alice. Seriously. We don’t know what happened to their parents. We can assume it was probably one of them. If it was her, we can also assume it probably wasn’t intentional. Or who knows, maybe it was. If Alice really did like amusement parks and the like, maybe the family was abusive too. Maybe everything was an escape for them and Jervis just ended up way, way down the wrong rabbit hole (SEE WHAT I DID THERE?!). We don’t know.

We just know that he hurt her, a lot. He mentally and physically/sexually violated his own sister and thinks it’s “love”. He used her for an infection in her blood and kept her hostage with it out of “love”. It’s disgusting in every way.

It does raise questions though, about them as a unit. Alice is actually the first confirmed person I can think of on the show who had a superhuman ability at birth. Stupidly, the show has yet to address this as being worth noting. Also stupidly, the show has avoiding addressing that Jervis’ fucking eyes go jet black when he’s hypnotizing someone and definitely does not obey the laws of realistic mental manipulation. If they really are “two sides of the same coin”, this is also a power he has and not natural in this incarnation of his character.

That alone is CRAZY NEAT but so frustrating it’s not a topic of interest in-universe given all the shit with Strange in Season 2.

Were they both just born meta-human? Is Jervis actually infected (he knows them voices and whispers awfully well) and continuity about the blood being so contagious just badly done? If he can influence her, why can she not influence him? Is he legit immune because they share genetics, and if so, why have the GCPD not tapped his blood to help with the potential cure for her infection?

There’s so much Tragic Backstory™ to be unlocked here and people want to glance over it because it’s uncomfortable along the way and I really think that’s sad. Understandable that it could be triggering for many - but strictly from the perspective of loving the depths comic book universes and characters are capable of, kind of sad.

Characters like this exist for a reason. Again, we’re mirroring (or exposing, to some degree) reality’s darkest parts and twisting it for a fantastical world outside of our own. Unfortunately, terrible people exist in the world. Killers exist. Rapists exist. So on, so forth. It’s a rough thing and impossible to excuse, but it’s real. But the fact that they’re so bad is the reason why we root for the heroes to take them down. It’s the reason why, even though I love Jervis, I laugh out loud every time I watch Jim hanging up on him, or why I laugh when Barnes beats the shit out of his face. He deserved that and a whole lot more. He’s awful and needs to be stopped at all costs. Just like any, or most other villains in any particular scenario.

If we didn’t have our Riddlers and Freezes and Hatters we wouldn’t have much need for a Batman, and a lot of kids (and adults who grew up with characters like that) wouldn’t have the escape from the real life bad out there in the world and the heroes we so often can’t have in reality. Or the inspiration to stand up to adversity themselves, to end this on a corny note.

tl;dr lmao he has a fuckin’ paper mache top hat so??? all arguments are invalid??? clearly???//

#is this the same anon who asks this to everyone who ever posts in the jervis tetch tag #like truly i don't mean to come off aggressive and if i do i apologize #i just get frustrated seeing people constantly asked to explain why this #when it seems to by default come from a place of 'i will never understand/agree/change my mind on it anyway'#does that make sense?#like if you don't enjoy the guy you never will and that's fine #but the problematic fav serial killer olympics fans of that show play gets so frustrating to see #LONG POST WITH APOLOGIES #sam watches gotham #Anonymous #asks

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