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[ozzgin]

Yandere! Bad Guy x Reader

I am currently in my Natural Born Killers nostalgia, and so I'm borrowing its vibes and bringing you this: a bad-to-the-bone, rock-and-roll attitude yandere who constantly makes you question your own morality. Featuring an old OC!

Content: gender neutral reader, violence, murder, male yandere

He fell in love with you at first sight. A goody two shoes, quiet and obedient. Shy. Oh, terribly shy. You couldn't even meet his eyes. He knew you were the kind others would step on, take advantage of. But there was more to it, much more to uncover.

Who was it? A relative, a friend, a coworker? You know, that person holding you back, keeping you in your place. The one who'd always make you feel small and insignificant. The one who would always find something to criticize. How did it feel when you found them on the ground, bashed in and bloodied up? He was standing above the lifeless body, catching his breath, a cocky smile plastered on his face. His way of courting you.

He looked so tall in that moment, towering above your hesitant self, his gaze of a confidence and intensity you'd never known before. "Well? What are you waiting for? Get in", he said, gesturing towards a convertible he most likely stole earlier that day. What possessed you in that moment to join him without delay? Was it his charisma? Or did you know in the depth of your soul that he wouldn't take no for an answer?

You see, he's known it from the beginning. Someone like you needs someone like him. You’re a sweet little lamb lost among the wolves. The world would eat you right up if you were left by yourself. But now you have him. And he won't let his precious prey get away. Oh, dear, no. If he wants something, he gets it. And he's never wanted anything more than you.

"You didn't...even tell me your name", you sheepishly spoke up from the passenger seat, trying to keep your mind away from the crime you'd just witnessed. "Just call me Tig", he said casually with a yawn, speeding away. "Won't you be in trouble, Tig? Why would you even kill-" you tried to reason. "What kinda question is that? They treated you like shit and it pissed me off." He glanced at you with a frown, taking another drag off his cigarette. "You're mine now, so whatever happens to you is my business. Got it?" You just stared. Was that his way of asking you out?

Tig lives by his own rules, as you quickly learned from becoming his companion. Always on the run, indifferent to the world. For the most part, to your surprise, he's well-behaved. If people don't mess with him, he doesn't mess with them. Simple as that.

Anything involving you, however, sets him off terribly. Like a rabid, ferocious guard dog, he's ready to pounce on whoever approaches you the wrong way. Last week you stopped at a highway diner for coffee, and on your way back to your table, you jokingly pulled a clumsy dance move to the song playing from the speakers. Tig observed you with an amused smile, sipping from his cup. A passerby joined you, resting his arm on your waist flirtatiously. Tig's smile dropped in an instant, and next thing you knew, the whole place was splattered in blood. No one made it out.

"I didn't even finish my coffee", you whined, already used to the occasional massacre. The man hopped behind the counter and threw on a bloodied cap. "What will it be, sir/ma'am?" he pretended, dangling a takeaway cup and starting the espresso machine. "I never told you, but I used to be a barista", he declared proudly. An entirely different person from the unhinged killer you witnessed minutes ago. "What? You said you were a mechanic", you questioned with raised brows. "That's also true. I'm a jack of all trades, I suppose. You know what I'm best at, though?" He lowered himself until his forehead touched yours. "Pleasing you."

The man is romantic in his own way. He twists the key, and the engine stops. You follow him out of the car in confusion. "Why did we stop here?" He briefly lifts himself up onto the tall fence securing the bridge, and inhales deeply. "Isn't it a nice view?" he says, nodding ahead. It is a scenic sight, sure. The river slithers along the lush valley, and the setting sun gives everything a dramatic tint. "Give me your hand", he suddenly demands as he goes to grab it himself. Before you can ask for an explanation, he quickly drags a blade across your palm, and you wince in pain. He repeats the gesture with his own hand, locking his fingers with yours over the rail. You watch as fresh blood trails along your skin, eventually falling into droplets and vanishing into the river. "Now we're going to be everywhere", he remarks playfully. "Okay, but what was the point?" you insist, a little baffled.

"Isn't it obvious? Maybe this will help", he continues, procuring a ring from his pocket. "I'm saying I want to marry you, (Y/N)."

You open your mouth to answer, but he already slides it up your finger, eyes glimmering in excitement.

"You're never getting away from me, love."

[anamelessfool]

For the fanfic writer emoji asks:

💖 What made you start writing?

🧐 Do you spend much time researching for your stories?

Hello! Thanks for the ask! (And thanks for the copy paste of the questions because man I get confused)

💖

I've been writing on and off since I was a very young kid. But what really got me writing consistently again was a random comment made by a very successful animator friend: "I organize my thoughts so much better in writing instead of drawing."

And it sort of clicked for me there. I went to school for animation, for art. But....I felt sort of embarrassed for not obsessively drawing all the time. Like there was this dam that kept my thoughts locked away and it was the belief that if I am a visual artist I should be drawing.

So for some reason I got an idea and rather agonize over how I don't draw I just started writing. And writing.

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Yes, I am always researching, especially since I am creating some historical fiction right now. I am listening to the music and watching live performances. I am watching YouTube videos on how items are used. There's a lot of in period home movies or man on the street interviews uploaded to the internet. I look at contemporary advertisements, look up photos. I'm writing a noir-ish thing now so I watched some classic noir to get a feel for the pacing of a noir story. I know what guns Primo and Edelweiss use, what car they drive, how people find information in that era and how far are certain locations from others. Even though I don't explicitly write these things down, they are there. It helps me understand how a character would move, their thoughts and their limitations. Limitations are what make conflict and drama possible, and conflict= plot

My other hobbies include historical research so it comes naturally to me. It's been quite fun learning about the connections of music and cultural influences from one era to another. I love how Tobias Forge also thinks about the scope of history when he writes his own stuff.

Thank you and here's the emoji writer ask game!

[xoteajays]

So far.. I'm not sure. I see Red Rain and DTC being removed September 20, possibly other the spinoff movies. But not the main three movies though? I'm not sure. Just rewatch what you can before then.

I know there are sites where you can watch Asian shows and movies. Obviously. But if a lot of those sites lag or freeze up, don't forget the frequents ads too. So many advertisements even with blockers on to prevent ads, which really completely annoys me.

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If it wasn't for Murayama losing against Cobra, then he wouldn't reflect on his life choices. Like how that he loves his family and friends, wants to protect the people and places to matter to him. So on, so forth.

Hyuga complains about Rascals being fashionable while fighting, even though he's biting and pulling a lot of hair. Like a girl. But that... Is also how I figured Hyuga's kinks too. He definitely bites and pulls hair, during any intimate connections with his partner.

Yeah. The injury was accidental. But that's the main reason why Murayama becomes cautious of people he fights now. That's why he banned fighting... With the full time students and part time students.

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White Rascals are true feminists. These men are so handsome, fashionable, cares and protects women. Ideal boyfriends or friends. Depending on the whole relationship characters have with these guys.

Don't really know if you read the facts about White Rascals..

The four new members of White Rascals that join in the second movie are group Koo handpicked himself to join. They are referred to as SMG, which stands for Sekai Meisaku Gekijou (World Masterpiece Theater). This was a famous annual anime series that ran for several years, based on classic stories. Each year would debut a different series. It’s said that Rocky watched this with his mother and thus gave the four members names based on characters from these classic stories. The members are:

Heidi, named after the titular character of Heidi, Girl Of The Alps.

Marco, named after a character from 3000 Leagues In Search Of Mother.

Lassie, named after the titular character from Famous Dog Lassie.

Cosette, named after the titular character of Les Misérables: Shōjo Cosette.

Lastly, name “Rocky” was chosen for the character based on the fact that his actor is named Kuroki Keiji. A few of his outfits and accessories are actually Keiji’s own.

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Coincidental. Unintentional. But yes! Basically very similar to their actual ages... Just switch Kento and Yuki. Yuki's born in September 1990, and Kento's in December 1990. So just switch their ages though.

And yes. Because how Keiji's appearance, I actually didn't expect him to be one of the older men who is involved with Exile. Granted the whole franchise did come out nearly nine years ago. But still. Keiji really does look good for his age. In my opinion anyway.

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Murayama might not be the most intelligent leader, but he's definitely not stupid either. He just has this different method of learning compared to any other characters. That's how I see it. But still a himbo.

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There are people who post snippets of the whole spinoff series. If I find those videos again, then I will send those videos to you. For you to watch.

Okay! Since you never said anything about the clip, about that scene, I really wasn't sure if you watched the video. But yes. They complained over the most.. That is what they complained about over the guys?!

Seriously.

They complain about Rocky being too old, a party animal, not cleaning his grille. Seriously? Rocky is a very man, not old. Just because he owns the club, doesn't mean he's a party animal since he is not the one partying. And, minus the smoking, Rocky cares about his hygiene so he'd clean his grilles too.

They complain about Cobra because he's too quiet. What's so wrong about dating a quieter man? Since I can't complain. I'm an introvert.. I enjoy the quiet.

They complain about Murayama being an adult still in school. That would be open to interpretation.

Smoky's from Nameless City. It isn't like he choose to be abandoned as a child in a city like that. So it is not his fault that happened to him. Like.. Seriously.

And Hyuga. The man was in prison for the violence, fighting and killing people... His older brothers were even involved with the yakuza. But they complained that he sits on the hood of his car. Like seriously.

Seriously?! These girls are stupid if that's what they choose to complain about when it comes to a lot of these men. No wonder most of them are still single.

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"Great minds think alike." Like us when H&L is really involved. Same concepts. It's a good and bad thing.

I've already mentioned before about another active person in the High&Low fandom who's writing their story whenever they can. Well.. For example. One of the introduction scenes where their character ends up meeting the White Rascals. A lot of that, not the entire thing, scene was how I imagined a character meeting Rascals. But now it feels like I'm stealing it from them. So now I have to think of something too different from that, just so people don't assume I'm stealing from that person. Because I'm not like that. Which is why I have not really written introductions yet, because I don't know how to introduce them.

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Do you have personality types for your original characters? Because I know some people have their personalities set for their characters.

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I should eventually watch more Ghibli movies. I did watch Spirited Away, maybe a few scenes of Howl's Moving Castle but never the entire movie.

Besides High&Low. What are some other shows or movies you've been watching? Unless that may end up distracting you from H&L. If it does distract you.

my biggest issue with watching on non-streaming apps like netflix/etc is that sometimes they’ll throw up and explanation for some specifically japanese/korean-ism but only for half a second and then i have to slam on the ‘go back 15 seconds’ button and wait for it to load again. like please! leave it on the screen a little longer! i want to understand!!

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if murayama didn’t lose to cobra he’d be undefeated and have wins across the board. #king. he did need to have his ass humbled tho, so thanks for the character development, cobra.

i think hyuga and murayama definitely have a kind of equation between s*x and fighting. like fighting is foreplay. they’re gonna kick some dude’s ass and then go make out with their gf. hyuga absolutely bites on any occasion, no girl is getting out of a sesh with him without marks.

murayama really ‘haha oops’ed himself out of that. like boy u better have apologised. todoroki is lucky he took his glasses off or that would’ve been a whole worse situation.

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rocky said ‘everything i do is for women and especially for my mom and sister’ and i respect him for it. the whole childhood scenes got me in my feelings. like he was so little!! and also so f*cked up, him sitting there with his dead family while eating and then just. leaving. poor baby :(

i very lowkey ship cosette and marco. idk what to tell u. they’re just boyfriends in my brain. marco sleeping with his foot on cosette, leaning his arm on cosette’s knee while they’re planning, moving together to stop the daruma babies and chiharu fighting. they’re boyfriends! dtc’s entire rewatchability is dependent on me looking at them in the bg.

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high&low is just rife with himbos. no complaints. incredible character choices. winning across the board.

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i know we’re biased because we know all the backgrounds and have seen them in different situations and the strawberry girls likely don’t have all that information but still, no complaining! you wish - you wish! - you could get a guy like rocky!

what’s wrong with a quiet guy? also he’s got a motorbike. let him take u for a ride. maybe get to know the guy more than just in passing and he might open up to you.

well murayama’s graduated now. and he’s got a job. cant have any complaints about him now. he’s even got a bike too!

all the rude boys dudes are so cool and fun, just as an aside. also in addition to being abandoned in nameless, he’s mega sick and they realise that and just ‘he should go to a hospital’ - he’s got no money! all his friends are trying so hard to help him! no more talking about if he’s hot or not, get him some help!!

exactly! there is so much more to complain about about hyuga. the riding on the hood of his car is the least worrying thing on the list. (and also murayama does that. and technically worse since hes on the top of a gd truck).

they’re all single and then complain about literally the hottest dudes that they’re surrounded by who are also single. like ladies. cmon. oshiage is the only one who made a move, albeit at the wrong time bc murayama was having a character development moment.

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you n me 🤝 having excellent thoughts about h&l.

i’m so bad at figuring out how to introduce characters to canons they don’t have established relationships with. i’ve been turning over ideas in my head for how to introduce ryuko to the other sword groups (she already knows hyuga+kato) and haven’t come up with anything i’m completely sold on yet - hence why i’ve only written that murayama fic and just started writing her character-focused introduction scene of when she runs away.

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if you mean like myers-briggs types, then no because i cant figure them out. they’re kinda confusing to me. i do have their personalities planned out in my head though, like i know how they react to things and how they act, but i can’t slap a personality type on them. i have the same problem choosing birthdays for my ocs bc zodiac signs ahsdhfjdl

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spirited away and howl’s moving castle are absolutely excellent and both are my childhood movies. they’re all very good though. they’re all on netflix iirc

i haven’t started anything new yet, but i’ve got a handful of things queued up to watch when i finish h&l - including a couple that have some h&l dudes in them, like sugarless and prince of legend. i’m also planning on watching the killing vote and the zom100 live action movie. and a couple other things i can’t remember the names of rn, they’re on my list tho. that’s just the j/kdrama stuff though.

[saint-starflicker]

With most movies/books/shows I consume the canon and can see that there IS a fandom but if I don't already have brain rot from the canon then I don't want to join the fandom. But if I meet people who love it then I'm not opposed to hearing them be fans, or my chipping in to the conversation about something we both know about. (I think most classic literature goes in this category: Austen, Brontës, Wilde, Forster, Fitzgerald, etc.)

More often I find the thing, love the thing, and get brain rot about the thing that gets expressed in a variety of ways... sometimes I don't need a fandom, other times I want one. (Discworld: love it mightily, don't need a fandom because my two Discworld-fan offline friends are sufficient; Babel: yes please let's all make a mega-cohort! His Dark Materials and Neil Gaiman's Sandman, I can avidly enjoy the works without getting into the fandom.)

Very rarely, I find somebody saying what they loved about something out of context—If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio got me this way, fan essays and fan squeeing is free advertising—so I go to find out what it's about. It's different from "I keep hearing about it that it's good" or "it's popular right now so I want to be able to keep up a conversation"; if a specific aspect affected somebody so profoundly and uncontainably then I'm going to be much more curious than if the thing were traditionally marketed. I guess that counts as joined the fandom before the canon.

And sometimes I'll find out about something, watch or read it, decide it's not my thing, but it comes up again either incessantly in my social circles or a few times years later... so I honestly don't have brain rot about it but then I start behaving very strangely for somebody who definitely doesn't have brain rot about it: arguing for the merits of the work against what I think is unfair criticism, creating transformative works for the thing, and putting posts in the tags about "our fan community" as if I even go here when I don't even go here. (Dead Poets Society and Saltburn are apparently in this category to me).

My relationship with Canon

Please answer and reblog if you're part of a fandom (or not)

[glofigs]

Dan Stevens Interview: I'm Your Man

I'm Your Man star Dan Stevens talks about what drew him to the German sci-fi rom-com and what he looks for in new roles.

BY ASH CROSSAN

PUBLISHED 25 MINUTES AGO

Dan Stevens plays a humanoid robot designed to be the perfect life partner in the new film, I'm Your Man. Directed by Maria Schrader, who co-wrote the script alongside Jan Schomberg, the film takes a playful look at relationships, romance, and what it means to be human. Stevens stars alongside Maren Eggert who plays Alma. She is persuaded to partake in a study that requires her to live alongside the robot in order to receive research funding.

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Stevens spoke to Screen Rant about the unique new film and how he chooses his roles.

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Screen Rant: I loved this movie, it was so darling. But this is also the moment that I learned that Dan Stevens speaks fluent German! What is your history with German, and was there a challenge in doing a romantic comedy in a language that isn't your first language?

Dan Stevens: I spoke German from quite an early age. I learned it at school, and we had some family friends who lived there, and we used to vacation there a lot, and [I] just fell in love with the language and the country pretty early on. I did a movie there about 13 years ago, so I'd had some familiarity with film German, which it is its own kind of language in a way.

It definitely improved a lot last summer, and I polished it up pretty quickly to tackle this role. The language, and the heightened language that this role requires is I think pretty complex even for a German. And it was a tremendous challenge, the physical challenge of portraying this evolving Android. But also you had the linguistic challenge of just getting my head around some of the languages, and thinking almost doubly differently. It was kind of wonderful.

My favorite characters to watch are those newborn-baby type adults, like in Wonder Woman when she's discovering the world for the first time. What was your favorite part about playing a character like that?

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Dan Stevens: There's a certain kind of naivety to him, for sure. And in that sense, it falls into a classic genre in a way, whether it's like a caveman coming back to modern-day or whatever. It's like, "What is this world?"

I think in this film, you sort of see-through both the character’s eyes, really, and I think Alma is a wonderfully naturalistic human character. And then you have this, as you say, this naive man-baby very quickly trying to adjust. And yeah, just looking and learning, and that's kind of a delightful space to be and a place to play. And just calibrating exactly how quickly he's learning, and how much he's learning, and watching him get it wrong as well. And I think that's what the film looks at very much, is about imperfections, and how human it is to get things wrong, and to be off.

You're one of those people I run to the theater for, because what I love about you so much is that you haven't fallen into this typecast thing, you're not pigeonholed into any certain type of role. How do you feel like you've managed to navigate that? And is that something that's intentional, because you're so great at every single genre, you're so funny too.

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Dan Stevens: Thank you very much. I definitely am always looking for challenges, and that's not to say that I wouldn't retread old ground sometimes, but trying to look for things that stimulate me, and hopefully stimulate audiences. And also to keep surprising people, I think, and it's as much about what you say no to, as what you say yes to. I could tell you the things that I would like to do, but I don't know if somebody out there might not want me to do those. But there are plenty of people who want me to do certain things that I've maybe already done, and I feel I've done those, or the way they're presented, it doesn't make me want to do them again yet. So, it's about just picking and choosing, it's as much about the filmmaker, and the role, and the quality of the writing as the genre, exactly. So if someone came up with any number of genres I've already done that really appealed, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

Was there something that came up to replay a character, and you were like, "No, I'm not ready to do that yet"?

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Dan Stevens: I don't know. I struggle to think of specifics, but it's funny, each time you do something, well usually, there'll be a wake of similar things that come along, whatever that is. But yeah, not many German sci-fi rom-coms come my way. So yeah. It's the challenge.

If I could pitch one to you, I feel like it would really save the day if you would do a Eurovision prequel or sequel with your character, because that was my favorite role you've done. I thought it was so funny.

Dan Stevens: Oh, bless you. Yeah, it was one of my favorites too. I had a huge amount of fun doing that, and yeah, getting to learn from the likes of Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams. And it was a real treat, that one. So yeah, thank you.

(The link also has a vid as well) 

[jeannereames]

Hi, Dr. Reames. This is probably a dumb question to ask, but I know you´ve been wrting your whole life, I think, so I thought I might ask you anyway, as I admire your work a lot. How do I overcome my fear of writing? It's kinda hard to explain, It's not about what other people will think about my work, It's what I will think of it. I never think it's good enough, in my eyes it's always bad written, unoriginal, boring. Even when I have an idea I love I struggle to get myself because of these thoughts. Any time I write something, when I think about posting it somewhere I´m like “I will cringe so bad for this in a few hours/days/months/years”. Every time I find something I wrote a while ago I think “how could I even think about writing this?” and I know I should take it as part of the progress, failing to win y'know, but instead I find it keeps me from writing and sharing my work, even when I think it is good. I want to write and post my work, I have too many ideas but I don't know how to overcome these fears to actually do it.

Right now I'm struggling with writing a story I have to do for college and give in a few days, but I'm completely blocked. I think it's a ridiculous idea, although I like it a lot, It is making me feel anxious and embarrassed beforehand.

First, I’m answering a little out of order for what’s in my inbox, as the asker mentioned she had a story due in a few days, so it seemed time-specific.

So, let me just open by saying I don’t know any professional author who doesn’t hit that “I hate my story” point somewhere in the midst of writing it. “This is terrible! What was I thinking? Who would be interested in this? Who do I think I am to believe I could write about that/that character?”

Seriously, this is a normal litany, particularly for women authors. (I do not know if the asker is female gendered, gender fluid, or male gendered, but it seems that a lot of folks on Tumblr belong to the first two categories.) After all, we’re taught to sit back, look pretty, keep our legs crossed, our hands neatly folded, and let the boys talk. Let the boys win. Nobody wants to hear from us. Our job is to showcase the men in our lives.

Even if you never heard those words said to your face, you’ve “heard” them in everything from the advertising industry to TV shows and movies to political dialogue and Twitter. It hurts EVERYbody. Men are not expected to question themselves, so if they (naturally) do, they assume they’re secretly a failure. And women are expected to question themselves, apologize for having an opinion/original thought, so they learn to do so from preschool on.

Writing a story that one intends to share with the universe is sort of arrogant, when you think about it. To assume that anybody besides me gives three shits about the stories I tell myself in my head is an act of either great self-confidence or great self-delusion. And if one wants to go pro, we add another layer of expecting other people to pay for my “little whimsies”? Who do I think I am? (Echoes one of the questions above, no…?)

That’s the negative way of thinking about it. Let me turn that around…

Writing a story that one intends to share with the universe is an amazingly generous action.

That’s right. Generous.

I will never recoup in royalties the blood, sweat, tears, (and cost) that it took me to write Dancing with the Lion. I can’t even begin to add up the hours devoted to writing, revising, rewriting, revising again, that story. And you get to read it for $6.99 each, or, if you go for the Riptide special, $8.99 for both! (Pricier if you want a paper copy.)

Some authors don’t go quite as overboard as I did in perfectionism (it’s kinda part and parcel of the phud). Yet even established professional authors with 5-figure advances do not make anywhere close to minimum wage, sometimes not even 6-figure advances (depending on what those 6 figures are). And the bulk of us will never see either of those.

Writers write because they have a story to tell. That’s an act of generosity. You don’t have to like that story. You don’t have to read that story. You may, in fact, think that story is utter crap and should be consigned to the dungheap. (There are some even professionally published novels, never mind self-published, I feel that way about.)

Yet it’s still an act of generosity. And even if I don’t like __ story, probably somebody out there will. More to the point, nobody gets better unless they, you know, actually work at it by writing (and getting useful constructive criticism because virtually nobody is Carson McCullers, to pen a classic at the tender age of 21). So yes, some writers may not be up to publishable quality fiction yet…although what IS publishable quality lies somewhat in the eye of the acquiring editor. But keep going.

The biggest and most munificent leap any author makes is to finish a story, hand it to someone else and say, “Would you like to read this?”

Writers are all but driven to write. I can’t NOT write. I’ve been writing since 6th grade when my English teacher gave us one of those “Use this word in a sentence” assignments and my sentences turned into paragraphs, then into little stories. And she let me get away with it. Lord above, she even encouraged me!

Write. Trust yourself. Share it.

Yes, take constructive criticism if somebody offers it. Ignore unconstructive criticism. The former pinpoints weaknesses with concrete suggestions for how to fix/improve them. The latter is just soul-sucking drivel.

Long, long ago when I was an ambitious but uncertain 18-year-old, I got to hear Lawrence Dorr give a talk on writing. After, I introduced myself and said, “I’m a writer. Well, I want to be. I’m not published yet.”

He stopped me and replied, “Do you write?”

“Yes.”

“Then you’re a writer.”

That has stuck we me, coming from an award-winning published author.

So I will pass that on to every other aspiring author out there.

Do you write? If so, you’re a writer.

[saltandburn-ilovesamwinchester]

Salem Nights

Dean x Reader

Warnings: fluff, smut

A/N: I really enjoyed this! Hang in there folks!

The tapping sound of keyboards and swishing of papers filled the bunker's library. There had been zero cases in over a month and now that it was October, your were sure to find something. The scary movies weren't cutting it anymore, now you needed something real.

"I've got nothing," Dean huffed and threw the news papers onto the table. Sam's expression the same. "Maybe there isn't..."

You threw your hands in the air shushing the room. "I think I found something," your excitement boiling. You giggled and showed the computer screen to Sam and Dean. "Supposedly, there was a siting of a witch in... wait for it.. Salem Massachusetts. Every year, two weeks before Halloween, some young girl goes missing an' you wanna know what everyone says about all the victims, they were last seen walking past the main cemetary after visiting the local historic sites."

"Wait a minute," Sam laughed. "This could be any story someone made up and Salem is known for it's 'spooky witch stories'. Why does this excite you so much?"

"Sam," you squeaked and looked at Dean for help, but finding the same confused brow raise. "This is Salem we're talking about! Have you never seen Hocus Pocus? Come on dude, I know the two of you are getting restless just as much as I am. I don't ever complain about going on the cases that you guys choose. Please let me have this one!"

Dean rubbed his hands across his face before a smile spread across his lips. "The kid's got a point," he said and looked towards you, your eyes looking at the table after hearing the nickname. He only used it because it annoyed you. You put your feelings to the side for a minute and looked up to find those beautiful green eyes on you. "All of us will go crazy if we sit here any longer. I'm sure we can find some activities to enjoy while we are working."

You couldn't hide your excitement any longer, jumping up and walking up the library steps. "I'm going to pack my bags," you laughed and raced to your room. "This is going to be amazing," you screamed over your shoulder.

"We leave at three," you heard Dean's voice echo.

...

The next morning you woke up to Baby's engine purring. "Rise and shine, Sleeping Beauty," Dean said and caught your tired eyes in the mirror. "I was starting to wonder if you were going to sleep the whole way. This is your trip after all."

You laughed and sat up further in your seat looking between the boys. "Ya know, Dean, you could just wake me and tell me to get in the car. If I didn't know any better, I'd think you like carrying me when I am still asleep." You smiled your best smile, running your hands through his short hair.

"Yeah, yeah," Dean blushed and fiddled with the radio, trying to distract himself from your touch. He finally found his classic rock station and the last advertisement was going off, followed by the tune of a familiar Halloween song.

"Oh no," Sam and Dean groaned. They knew you would be singing in a heart beat. "This must be some special playlist or something they are doing," Sam sighed and sat further into his seat.

You couldn't help but giggle and started to sing the first verse. "I put a spell on you," you leaned into Sam bumping his shoulder. "Because you're mine," you slid your ams arcoss their seat now nudging Dean. For a split second he found your face, his tongue slipping past his lips to wet them, until his wondering eyes found the road again. The fall colors outside the Impala windows made his eyes and face seem brighter. He was showing his age in the yellow and orange light and you shivered.

Sam looked at the two of you like you had went crazy. "Wh.. what Sam? Can't keep up," Dean cleared his throat trying to adjust his stiff jeans the best he could. "I put a spell on you," Dean hummed quietly.

"This is going to be a long trip," Sam rolled his eyes and looked out his window.

...

The Impala rolled into town as the sun was setting. You couldn't believe how beautiful this place was. The old buildings from left to right. You couldn't hear the conversation from the back seat, but you could have sworn Sam said he had seen the word 'witch' at least five times already.

Dean pulled into the first hotel as soon as you got into Salem. "Maybe once we get settled we can start one of our tours," Dean looked at you as you made your way to the front office. "Two rooms, please," he smiled at the clerk. The girl behind the counter typed something into her computer and handed Dean the keys, one for you and the other for him and Sam. Oh, how you wanted to be sharing that room with Dean.

You were happy to find that your room wasn't but two doors down and not across the hotel from the guys. A blast of warm air comforts you when you step through the door frame. There was nothing special about the room, but you did smile at the fall colors that decorated the room. Maybe you weren't the only one who thought Salem would look weird without them.

Once you threw you things down on the table the small room had to offer, you checked you hair and makeup you did on the ride there. "As good as it's going to get," you smiled and twirled your ponytail. You jumped when the sudden knock at the door pulled you from your thoughts.

"Coming," you sang and bolted for the door. Before you, the two Winchesters stood. "Ready," you asked and stepped outside.

"Hey, I spotted this shop right as we came in. I figured we could check it out first," Dean smiled at you and your knees almost buckled. Did he really see the store and think about you?

...

The three of you stopped just outside the shop door and looked in different directions of the store. The wood on the building was stained from years of weather, hex bags hung on the shutters and small signs were tapped on the windows. "On sale. Cast a spell on any friendship jewelry," Dean read and laughed. "Hey, what if I buy you something and you buy me something and we see what the 'spell caster' has to say about us?"

"Great," muttered Sam. "I'm going to find us something warm to drink. You two go and geek out."

"You're on Winchester," you giggled at his offer and walked through the tiny room before waving goodbye to Sam. The smell of sage hitting you fast, sending you and Dean into coughing fits. It was almost too funny. "I'll take this isles," you pointed at the men's jewelry. "An' you take that one. We meet at the palm reader's table and then our first tour," you ordered.

It didn't take much convincing Dean and you hummed to yourself looking at the beaded jewelry. You were admiring a beautiful hand crafted watch when you read the note at the bottom of it's box. Watch your soulmate fall for you. "Sounds cheesy. What the hell," you laughed and put the cover over the box.

When you found your way to the palm reader's table, you spotted that familiar leather jacket and a calmness in those beautiful green eyes. Apparently Dean didn't want you to see what he picked out for you because his box was closed too.

"Next," you heard the gypsy behind the booth say. You and Dean slid in across from her and smiled at the older lady. "Oh, I know just the spell for you two," she smiled and her dimples showed for a split second.

Dean made a nervous glance towards you and you saw his hands shake. You bumped into his shoulder playfully like you had in the car, his smile reaching his eyes. You hadn't heard her spell end and the small lady cleared her throat for your attention. "That'll be seven fifty, doll face," she said and Dean fumbled for the change. "One more thing," she added. "Before the sun completely sets, before you wear your jewelry, you must pass the old Witch House or the spell doesn't work."

With a quick goodbye you and Dean made your way out the door, finding Sam outside with three cups of cider. The blast of cold air hit your nose and cheeks in a matter of seconds. “Damn it, it’s cold,” Sam mumbled before taking a sip of his apple cider. “The two of you can have this. I’m going back to the hotel to research.”

You and Dean giggled as you watched the baby brother scoot between tourists on the busy street. His head ducking every sign that hung low and his ‘I’m sorry’ to everyone he bumped into on the small sidewalk. “Hey, maybe we should hit that witch house first like the lady said,” his eyes finding yours again and he reached for your free hand with his. “In case we see someone or something trying to get you,” he smirked when your eyebrows raised at his touch.

“I like the sound of that, Winchester.” You smiled and gave his fingers a light squeeze before wondering further down the busy street. Leaves were falling and swaying in the cool breeze all around you, and the bright shade of the sun made the small town glow with its orange and yellow beams. Your eyes caught sight of the witch house tour sign outside a iron gate covered in the thickest of vines and leaves. “Well this is it. It’s more beautiful than what I was expecting,” you let out a deep sign and turned to Dean. You were a little shocked to find his gaze on you instead of this house.

“Mmhmm.. I have to agree,” he smiled and brushed a stray strand of your hair behind your ear.

You were caught in each other’s stares and blushes when a small woman with a slim figure walked up to you. “Will the two of you be joining the tour tonight,” her voice chirping when she spoke and you nodded yes, not trusting your own voice to speak. “Right this way, then.” She smiled and gestured towards the larger crowd. You looked at Dean one last time and nodded at the group to join them.

“Before we go in there,” Dean smirked. “Do you think we can exchange our gifts now,” he asked and his face lit up even more.You had never seen the hunter before you so happy about something so small.

“Okay, Dean. Close your eyes.” You watched his eyes flutter and adjust to the movement before you pulled the small box from your bag and took the top off. The glass clock shining in the sun light. “Alright, open.”

There was so many emotions that crossed Dean’s face in that moment, you couldn’t tell if he liked it until he gave you his best ‘ Dean Winchester’ smile. “This is beautiful handwork, Y/N! I love it, thank you,” he licked his lips and gave you his wrist to wrap the band of the watch around it. You smiled when a thought about dressing Dean Winchester crossed your mind.

“My turn,” you giggled and put your hands over your eyes like a little kid.

“Okay, open,” Dean’s voice almost a whisper. You put your hands down at your sides and then they came to your face, covering your mouth. The dainty necklace swinging from Dean’s fingers. “I know you love fall so much, I wanted you to have something to remember tonight by. And I know you like the color red..” he trailed off when he caught your blush, staring at the little red pumpkin on the small chain.

“Dean this is the sweetest thing. I love it so much.” You turned from him and pulled your hair over your shoulders, waiting for him to drape the necklace in its place. He turned you around to face him when he was through. “Come on, let’s not keep them waiting.

There was more to the tour than history and the chill in the house. There was a small tension that lingered throughout the group, gasping and humming to the neat information that went through one ear and out the other. You stopped in the large hallway of that old house, the floors creaking beneath your feet when you swayed back and forth. “Dean, did you find something,” you turned to him and his face lit up before pulling you closer to him.

“Yea, I think I did,” his eyes reflecting from the glow of the sun through the large window in the room. “An’ she’s been beside me this whole time,” he said before his lips met yours. His fingers drew slow circles into your cheeks, his tongue licking your bottom lip just before exploring your mouth. Dean’s lips were so soft and smooth and all you could do was feel. Feel him all around you. His weight shifting on each foot before breaking the kiss.

“The spell,” you said in realization before kissing him again. His hands roamed freely around your waist, up your back, and through your hair. You squeezed your legs together, trying to fight that sensation there and losing. All you wanted was Dean. When you stepped back again you saw the many faces from the crowd you were with and they started whistling and clapping for the two of you. You flashed a smile towards them and back at Dean. “Let’s get back to the room, handsome,” you whispered before leaving a kiss on his pink nose.

The walk back to your room was pure torture and when you slipped through the bedroom door and heard the door slam shut behind you Dean had you pushed onto the bed. The warmth of his body over yours all too real. His breath tickling your neck from the light kisses he left there. Dean’s fingers grazed down your thighs and to your shoes, removing them from your feet then his as well. When he crawled up your body again you were pushing each other out of every layer of clothing until his naked body hovered over yours. He looked into your eyes before leaning in close to your lips again. “Y/N, are you sure you want this,” he asked brushing your hair behind your ear like earlier that day, trying to find any hidden discomfort.

“Dean,” you pleaded and ran your fingers through his hair and down the center of his neck. You watched him lean into the touch there. “There has never been a day where I didn’t want this.” You watched the small smile spread across his face. Dean found your lips again, his teeth pulling your bottom lip and letting it pop back. His hand held your wrists above your head and his other hand spread your legs further between the two of you. You knew Dean was tall and strong but you never guessed he was this soft and sweet. His lips never breaking from yours. Your breathing faltered when you felt his fingers move in circles over your clit. The pressure building there. “Dean,” you moaned into his mouth and arched you back off the bed.

Dean’s fingers slowly made his way to your dripping heat and he teased you there with a bitter sweet back and forth motion.He took his time and watched you adjust to him. You had watched his hands for years on the job, wondering what they were capable of. Now you were in the middle of closing yourself around them taking in two knuckles at the same time. “You’re so wet and ready for me, sweetheart,” his voice sounded so hot, and his fingers still pumped in and out of you causing you to scream out and hit your high. He let you ride his hand until you came down, leaving small kisses from your shoulder to your lips, dropping your hands.

Running your hands down his chest and past his waist, you felt his breath hitch when your fingers began to wrap around him. You gave him a few pumps before smearing the precome on his tip down his member and over the vein that ran on the underside of him. “Do you liked that baby,” you cooed in his ear when you felt him come down from spilling in your slick fingers.

You felt Dean tease your folds again before his tip eased through you. The stretch was sinfully sweet and the breath the two of you let out in unison turned you on even more. This seemed so right with him. The twitch between your legs pulled you from your thoughts and made you gasp out loud, leaving that comment and the case you were there for behind.

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And the going there to try and retrieve Jesus Christ because they saw the ship in the upper Midwest in Obama's building where he worked on the airbag design with my son our son and it is wonderful it's a kickoff he did it and didn't realize it but yes American werewolf in London is next in the series comes after Trump becomes Victor has a great time and our son says can I call you Lord Vick and he says no how about Lord dick it says definitely not you know I take Jermaine he says I'll think about it and Terry cheesman is laughing now giggling as Sherry teasemen.

Better son has the same ubiquitous question as how does werewolf American werewolf in London start and he loves that movie but hates it a little grossed out by it but boy he's an American werewolf in London fan and Hera is to a solid fan they both have this real fascination with it and didn't know what it was when they're younger and are absolutely in love with it and it's going to really change everything it's a cult classic there's a huge following but it's not very big it's going to become gigantic because our son is into it and his friends sort of with BG and BG is wearing his clothing and they're out there and other people are wearing his clothing and it's a plot in his names mentioned it is insane how popular it gets insane people start wearing the fangs it's crazy and it's just a hilarious movie on top of it he goes around em all these people and their possessed so kind of like healing but slowly because of mac and power and they're not like walking around half dead going boy this is terrible and they're mocking us on and mimicking him the bright side I'd like a ghost and they go we can feel pain I said as a ghost I can feel pain it's not my body feeling I'm out here and people like you thank you again it's kind of how it works with the max around or those little runs from below so they got mad and said he's feeling pain too in both I don't know how to make your burden worse but I think I do I really don't want to but Lord Vick is here and he's a vampire the head of the vampires he's not even one it's his possession that is using it I hope it's wisely you know him. And it goes on with them they're talking about it where'd Crisco and said I only come when I'm called and stuff and it's kind of a pain they start laughing again and said she knew you guys like eat some wheat germ or something that's not laughing again too we can't eat that stuff the bugs are awesome right away. Get the clothes to eat so they're down there and Australia getting the clothes are attacking them they keep doing it to me she need those damn things yeah roll up so good they have hardly any East and people need it it's trying to advertise it in the subway dude and here we go these people are going to turn into werewolves and it's going to be freaky and the series starts and they get to necromonger ships, get grabbed because her possessed and the max are following them around and it works

Thor Freya

[garetthawke]

the top thing I'm hearing is "it doesn't pass the bechdel test." 😶 it's literally a movie with maybe 4 actors in it. one plays a character who died in the first few seconds. the other besides the main woman and the main man is her best friend, a woman, who she has bechdel-passing convos with, its just over facetime bc she isolated herself. her being alone and surrounded only by men is part of the horror of the movie (and the title.)

its actually funny that people are trying to even apply the bechdel test to this and it shows they have a fundamental misinderstanding about what kind of movie it is. its very clear that from the title and some of the subject matter, people were expecting some deep observational commentary on feminism, and not a horror movie.

"it just shows this woman get traumatized over and over again!" yes. that was the premise of the film. it is also a horror industry standard, although this one did manage to do in a subversive way that was not for the enjoyment of the viewer. but if you're bothered by a woman experiencing repetitive trauma, i might suggest next time refraining from going to a literal horror movie with the blatant premise and trailer telling you its going to be about men being doing terrifying things to a woman.

"its a horror movie about men being scary by a man that had nothing feminist to say except men are scary" and? it definitely wasn't trying to be anything else, and advertised itself as exactly that, and honestly it both plays into very classic horror movie traditions and managed to do things in a newer, better way, so i do have to give it kudos for that. after all a "men are scary" message about women experiencing trauma from them is still better than the hundreds more horror movies where women experience trauma purely for laughs, gore, or even sexual entertainment with absolutely no meaning or message.

so yeah the reviews for this movie are so laughably off the mark because none of you went to see a horror movie, you wanted a feminist think piece. and it sucks because there is very real critism to be had about this movie, such as the perpetual victimhood of white women to the point that the only black person in the movie, a black man, was painted driectly as her violent abuser. but instead of observing the racial issues, I've mostly seen people saying "it doesn't pass the bechdel test." which, you know, it actually does anyway. abysmal critical analysis all around.

damn i kinda wanna write a post on why all the negative reviews on Men are bad, not because the movie was good, but because everyone making them has quite literally no analysis skills

[the-firebird69]

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Thor Freya

I didn't order any RV and man that shout out works pretty good

Will Smith

Our son says damn that's black that shout out and shack is smiling out of nowhere it's really effective... Will Smith says I didn't order any RV I'm going to say we know you can have it if you want it's for free because we'd like to advertise but if you want to make a deal to drive around that would be great too he says yes this is I didn't order any damned RV I said accidentally got ordered because I'm watching these people try and rub their design in my face so he smile says that's how I got ordered with white people

So accept your generous offer and the promotional I'm going to see who these people really are I didn't use it how I want cuz that's what he said and the more exposure the more money I get though it's like a video game drive through the center of town I get more money practicing a public place and set up good morning use it during filming tons of money so it's a movie ideas this group of people that just goes around the monster sightings they have to hang out with James you know is almost matching camper his 1978 Winnebago cuz it's it's a classic and it can't get destroyed Will Smith is laughing and he's sniffing a nice Cuban cigar and James is smiling and drinking his high c oh no that's Tang it's on they say and we're so Tang again with a different sweetener

I'd like to thank you and my fans at this moment for a good time today it's always about Good times I feel sorry about the camper maker you did a really good job but it's slow lethargic I can't drive it around I was making fun of you for having this huge lumbering camper these are huge but they're not lumbering there's a lot of power and you don't have to have a driver it sucks cuz the driver is going to sit on me like Jenna and yeah it's one of them probably is them too

Will Smith says.

What's a better things I'm pumping out Harley-Davidson's like crazy and we're going to take over this area and it's happening now we're getting rid of Tommy fabino and we're taking out his place using this idiot that he likes getting stuck to they're going to shoot him all the time and we're pumping out so many that it's not even funny and putting plants here too and we're building Harley-Davidson's here and my son was imagining him looking at one and was thinking that is a lot of motorcycle for me I'm tooling around and bicycles and stupid things forever and I looked at him and said that is a lot of motorcycle for you too much for you right now and he agrees doesn't want to ride it a lot of people do though tons of people want to ride that particular bike is selling right now it's almost as many sold as it were hard knock kicker 50 $150 the first day we have tons of hard not kicker factories here and we're moving in on them taking them over they were pumping them out too tons of people want the scooter huge droves of people ordering scooters here and we're going to bring in tons of parts so sick of you people they're moving tons of apartments and condos and all sorts of things from all over the place remodel them reconfigure takes less time than putting a new ones believe it or not an effort cuz I already built as a matter of fact it's really just about them being built already cuz renovating takes three days longer it's already built we grabbed him and moved them right now I don't have to wait for them to be constructed to claim the land we're doing it now we have tons of them going in we're not listening to anything the Max and others the same cuz we're doing it all over the world that way and I'm tired of you here pushing him around it's ridiculous

Thor Freya

[araminakilla]

OMG! When I saw the "keep reading" I was: Oh yeah baby, I'm so really going to enjoy this! I didn't knew mighty prideful people in the archeology community did that! But that makes perfect sense now that I think of it. I like your rant/info about monsters and what they would mean to people.

As a bonus sight, I think Tad has a mummy movie poster near his bed in Movie 2, and if my memory doesn't fail me, it's a mummy attacking something, or in the classic mummy pose when walking.

Never heard of the cowboy mummy, I saw the girl before, but it was a show that sadly I never found on my tv.

I really feel sorry for Inca Mummy, because he's hiding in plain sight without problem (except for Tad's freakouts) and now he's going to have scales, feathers and other animalistic traits and that's not even his fault! (as far as we know)

And... Surprise! Here comes a rant/info dump of mine. Sorry!

So, let me tell you something about peruvians that you're not going to find in turistic advertisement: For the majority of us, everything has to do about race. Like, have you ever encounter a comment in some fandom that says "Stop saying this is a matter of race!"? Well if the person at the other side is peruvian there's nothing you can do to convince them to drop the race aspect.

And like, some peruvians are resentful and hostile toward the incas' descendants (natives, people most from the Andes or the Jungle) because they lost the battle towards spaniards many centuries ago. I know it sounds stupid but it happens (it's kind of an never ending inferiority-superiority complex) There are many people here who would trade an ancient relic to a black market without question it if that means fast cash is on the way. And we saw that, in the form of Freddy, Tadeo’s first peruvian companion in the first movie.

There are so many reviews that say he's a racist stereotype of a peruvian and they're... not wrong, but also wow Freddy's also a person that I can find in the other block near my house. He's well meaning and deep down a good guy but doesn't really have respect for his culture.

Like yes, we are proud about belonging to Peru, especialy if we win something against another country (and if the country is Chile....boy I better stop talking because I would never end) The point is, my country is home to 90% peruvians and 40% or more are Freddys. Se tenía que decir y se dijo.

Back to Mummy, idk what he expects when encountering Tadeo again in Movie 3. I mean, the guy put it very clear in the sequel. He doesn't know where to go in modern Peru. His old home before the Spanish came probably is an ancient ruin protected by the Peruvian Goverment or it was destroyed by the conquistadors many years ago. He probably didn't know the country was spanish-free when he began his journey. Just how much he has seen of Peru before going North to USA? I mean, for all our faults, we are really kind and friendly people. So imagine...Mummy, being all the friendly and outgoing being he is, sees how these "peruvians" are towards each other and towards tourists. Of course he wants to have a slide of their love! Who doesn't? But there's a minor inconvenience. He's... dead. Practicaly a walking corpe. Let's just say that his encounters with many peruvians ended... bad.

Because if things were good, he wouldn't have the reason to go to Tad because he's his best and only human friend.

The point is, man that must HURT. He is stranger in his own land. He was there first but his home is no longer his. He lived under Peru for 500 years but probably doesn't know many things about the place. It is a shame because for all the oddball behavior, he's truly from Peru at the core. Loyal, friendly, sometimes will tell you things as they are and many other positive things. If the people from the Tad movies see him as a dangerous monster, I just see a Peruvian with bandages, one of the many native south americans who conquistadors did them dirty, and sadly, even if they never acknowledge the impact of colonization in Mummy's life... they kind of did with the whole "I don't have where to go" situation.

He used to have a home and a life before the Europeans came, and when they arrived, they said "We are the superior race" and took everything from him. I really hope Mummy has a happy ending or a least stops being a nomad in the third movie. I'm pretty sure he's already a confirmed member of Tad's team and that means he's always going to travel with him. Maybe he has a soft spot for Peru and South America, but he knows he doesn't have a place there anymore.

Do you think that in the Tadeo Jones universe, some people (average or rich people) think living mummies aren't persons but some creatures they can capture and claim as their own 'cuz they have no rights? (as mentioned by Tad in Movie 2) Kind of like the Apex's view of denizens in IT. I think this could be adressed in Tad 3. But I'll be sad because Mummy is going to find the hard way that for powerful people, his feelings and opinions doesn't matter (Twice, if we count the Spanish conquista)

Ohhhh man!

I have been-- stewing over how best to answer this since I saw it yesterday, because part of me has IDEAS-- the other part has a rant that has kind of been building for a while in general when you just examine the movies and the setting and even the actual community represented in reality(that being Archaeologists not-- well)

And LOOK-- I have TEA!

Frustrated, frustrated tea regarding other aspects of how this all could play out that basically boils down to the one major issue that a lot of those groups has is the issue of "But WE all know!" and the we've boxed this in already.

Which-- Debatably, Tad isn't the only one with some issues... But Sara has-- at least insofar as her reactions to Mummy in movie 2, come to terms past her more nebulous in concept repeated line.

"Mummies can't be alive, it's a contradiction in terms" 

Which-- actually might be an issue that's just on the question of the life/death binary more than it is actually a question of whether someone is human/a person or not. And we ALL know she's definitely got Major Respect over Tad--

Like, I will write a proper analysis over their "Mummy gives advice/pep talk" scenes later-- but--

Sara doesn't just take it and run how Tadeo does-- and she doesn't get hyped about it either. It's soft and subtle and just ARGH--

--

Which, okay beside the point, but I have-- so much on this idea of how people view Mummy-- Because let's for a moment consider what Tad actually says-- in answer to Mummy's "What is with you?" and I want to also talk on what people tend to associate with and call monsters... and how... that might also factor into this whole mess.

"Listen you're a mummy, you scare people. In my world you're a zombie!"

Which-- okay, on the surface this is just an on the nose point about how well, Mummy is undead. Ahahah, the living dead and I suppose living mummies are their own form of zombie-- although really it's more like they're cousins as zombies are usually more... in process of decay while mummies are preserved/petrified... Buuuut in any case... not the point here really.

But rather...

Let's talk about how "Monster Movies" come in here. And what zombies tend to be synonymous with nowadays. You know-- for the most part. Mindless, brainless, sometimes killers though not always-- But ultimately-- Does... anyone actually watch zombie shows for in-depth exploration of zombies ever anymore? Aside a few exceptions, and same in games-- Zombies are relegated to just brainless/mindless monsters.

Which--

On the other side of that-- monsters.

Tad never quite uses that word but--

"First, you're not human"

Mummies-- are monsters. In stories and fiction. Used to scare, used to awe, used to add scenery dressing, spooky, freaky, creepy-- and when they're not-- well it's rare. But if they're not the villains, they're not "human". Which think about that for a moment, in all the monster stories we have but a few where the monsters aren't outright put in that position.

But a monster is usually in a story put into one role and box. And if they're not outright there just to be spooky, or the whole new misunderstood monster trope-- which well, that's a whole other thing. But we all know the usual "monster shtick".

Violent, scary, simple, dumb, driven by base impulses, nonhuman, Very, very often as lesser, other, and something to be feared/hunted/destroyed.

And while modern day does move away from that--

ISSUES still prevail.

And I have-- just got to aside here, but like, thinking on this but-- the Phone Mummy sign outside of Tad's window as a child has some... other weird things. Because as a wild aside, my dumb brain has decided to A - B link this with a series I watched on television from 2005-2007

Because of THIS stupid Mummy Scam Artist character. And it's dumb, has nothing to do with the issue of mummies(and other potential beings and creatures of myth and legend) having less rights. But this whole phone billboard-- with the Mummy, it's legit right up this character's kind of scam alley and I may or may not one day just rewatch his two villain episodes to get his personality clear in my head JUST to do a dumb crossover.(And for nostalgia, but that's not news)

BUT--

Advertising does tell us some things already. In how people possibly think and could respond/react.

Yet still-- there is something more I think that we're missing in this conversation on how people will potentially treat the discovery of a living mummy. Or really any supernatural being. If not with fear(which look-- fear the unknown, fear different, fear of monsters), arguably those who're intrigued, interested could be far, far worse.

Also-- I just have, much tea on other responses for even those who might briefly "respect" him. Because look-- Mummy would be a priceless artefact in a way, treasure and discovery all on his own-- BUT also a new potential source of information of a culture that for the most part has been lost and erased by history.

People could and would ask questions.

Whiiich is where I have doubts about how they will accept the answers to those questions. Because here's the thing, for all the Archaeology community loves to act as if they let discoveries speak for themselves, and even I suppose historians-- There are just-- so many times I watch and listen to documentaries and get SO FRUSTRATED-- because they're stubborn IDIOTS, who actually refuse to take in the evidence in front of them of any truths outside of what they're SO SURE has to be the TRUTH!

For those who speak of learning all about history and it's secrets, they're so damn high and mighty to reject anything that doesn't immediately fit with already established "facts". It must be an anomaly, aliens, can't be what we're actually seeing right--

And well even people today interacting-- Like-- I've seen people try to correct someone on the pronunciation of their own name before.

So I am almost certain there would be at least one idiot who'd be all high and mighty and just-- Mummy has LIVED it. It's his culture he grew up in and some idiot speaking over him saying his lying, which I just-- I am certain would happen(but probably not in canon because who would DARE?!)-- Just "EXCUSE ME?!"

Which is it's own kind of disrespect and hell, crash Tad's pillars again. Yes please!

Which... on that account--

I kiiiind of want to talk about how Tad needs a smack on this... and that wake up to the truths of the high and mighty and bloody prideful issues of the community. BUT more than that-- I actually want to think about that point you made about how Mummy's supposed transformation in movie 3 comes across and the further themes of this question of humanity and rights is in regards to this whole issue.

Because yeah, there's the issue, front and CENTER.

The question/implication of this resembling Ammut, and implied loss of humanity. Along with the fact that Tad's the likely TRUE CENTER of the curse-- since he's the idiot who opened the sarcophagus in the first place...

WHICH CAN I JUST SAY--

There's a very good possibility in regards to that issue-- potentially having to do with some of Tad's more... subtle issues. Or even the ones that are close to the surface and yet not. I've screamed already on Tadeo's Internalized Ableism... along with some small nods to Mummy's own less severe cast with that but-- This is directly playing into that image of monsters and nonhumanity--

And I could probably add an additional few pages of speculation onto this but--

I actually am... also worried for the pets. If only because uhhh, have you seen the original two Tadeo Jones shorts from before it become movies? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XxhNMbpE2A & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoJBzI2AUOw

I mean not assuming anything, but I can definitely believe they wouldn't be above having that threat present at the least.(I mean just that second one... with what I guess is concept-Jeff) Even if Mummy is most definitely going to be the one at the MOST RISK. But with that-- comes the question of humanity.

And while yeah-- I do imagine, all too easily there will be many people more focused on the discovery-- I think there's an interesting mess that Tadeo is going to be FORCED to confront with this-- in how he has that displaced view.

Because here's the weird thing.

I've kind of mentioned it before but not really expanded or explained very clearly-- but for all of Tad's issues... he cares about Mummy probably more than he even really realizes. It's in small to big things as well. Again-- for all his trash behaviour in movie 2, I do think a lot of it is very, very misplaced attempts at some form of protection...

Which I also really want to at some point make a post that's just...

"Tad's I'm Helping moments and how they made things worse for everyone"

But that's for later... For now...

I kind of want to grab a few things.

"You're already dead, RUN!"

I also actually counted how quickly he ran back to Mummy for this moment, and it's LITERALLY two seconds, from when Mummy collapses to Tadeo's check on him. Also I'd like to mention with this-- he's supposedly tunnel visioning on Sara(and he ruins it within the next scene pretty quickly)

...

And for all they're kind of dumb decisions.

DEBATABLY-- when he's trying to hide Mummy.

"Hide"

Ugh-- BUT Tadeo has a very... complicated issue here really. Because yes-- Tad very much has that nonhuman issue, but he CARES. And then-- there's how the whole Ammut thing feels set and the symbolic meaning there(ALSO INTERESTING SARA SEEMINGLY ISN'T CAUGHT BY THAT). But here's the thing--

With Ammut kiiind of come those scales and the feather.

It's not like that mythology isn't unknown-- but more to the point-- it feels kind of like force Tad to confront his mixed up view. On Mummy's humanity or lack of-- But really as the audience Mummy feels the most human at this point in time-- whiiich we can get into a debate on what even is human nature later-- but--

I am kind of hoping that we get a callout of a number of things regarding Tad's behaviour.

With some primary focus on this dynamic between him and Mummy and really seeing how he responds to that idea that Mummy is nonhuman to really be thrown into full view and scope. And listen...

You cannot cheat the scales.

...

As an aside generally, if he is turning into a form or version of Ammut even if initially the community is a danger because he's a living mummy that creates a whole other issue of how he'd be viewed as a danger due to the role that's possibly growing more and more of an instinct.

But yeah... I will probably now make a more formulated rant on this later, or like, minor expansions on the topic but-- yeah.

I have been CHEWING on these thoughts, ideas and concepts for a while.

With additional tea. Because when people think they know something too often they refuse to see differently.

(Also at some point I am going to make a personal rant on duality verses binary due to insistent terminology issues I have but ugh)