#young hackett

[x3no9]

Animated GIF (sketches) for my latest Harper x Hackett fic. I am really enjoying this fic, so fun to write.

I know it's fluffy.

[teenagedirtstache]

Brutus October 1987

[cellard0ors]

I want it well understood that when I write young!Travis in the 80s in the Cards and Full Deck verse, THIS is exactly how I picture Travis

[elklounge]

I hope you all know this is what I think Travis Hackett looks like.

[draganwhorror]

Ted Raimi as Prison Guard - 30 Days of Night: Dust to Dust (2007)

[bisexualmultifandommess]

I’ve loved replaying The Quarry but one thing that I really love about the game (aside from nearly everything) is that Travis throughout most of the game is like “These fucking kids…” like he’s so annoyed by them lmao

In the car scene every time Laura and Ryan make a comment he’s just like 🤨 he’s so baffled by these kids and the way they talk.

[mabelsguidetolife]

whenever lance henriksen is in a video game, they don’t use him enough…… i know he’s elderly and therefore presumably tired, but he’s such a great character actor

[jackienautism]

briefly talked abt this w/ my friend (hiii @kilowattsons) (dont read this if you dont want too many spoilers) after i FINALLY watched saw (2004) w/ them but i just. i jsut. ii..

throwing my SMG followers a bone rn. but hear me out hear me out. laura and travis + amanda and john parallels. esp in fanon context

I JUST. to preface this i KNOW that amanda canonically refers to john as her father, but that ddef doesnt make the relationship any better fdgkfng butOKAY OKAY. HEAR ME OUT

it pisses me OFF how (outside of that dumbass batch of ppl that ship them ...) fans REALLY tried to make travis out to be some sort of uncle figure for laura and thats just ..... not how things work? kdfgnf no matter HOW you spin it, their relationship will NEVER be healthy, unless you wanna have something so DEVOID of canon, which is just annoying. like. at that point just make up your own characters DSFKGNFDGK LIKE. travis and laura will not and can NEVER have a relationship where things arent icky or bad. and if you say otherwise youre just too indulged in fanon and i recommend playinmg the fucking game again

but the same goes for amanda and john yk... it jjust. their relationship is MEANT ot be one of toxicity and whatnot. its not MEANT to be healthy. but (and i see this a LOT) ppl love to paint a picture that shows them in this normal and loving relationship and to me its jsut ???? dont get me wrong i ENJOY seeing these characters in happy and normal contexts, but sometimes its just.. it becomes so far from canon that it becomes almost .... ignorant? like youre purposely avoiding the canon material and making things that only YOU wanna see? if that makes sense? which, once again, there is no problem with. i of course indulge in stuff like this from time to time as well but its just .... this is fucking saw we're talking abt. its not meant to be happy or w/e

the only reason WHY this relationship exists is bc of the saw world and the in world contexts. outside of it (if everyone and everything were cookie cutter and happy and not Bad) there wouldnt be a need for john to have amanda and for amanda to have john. bc in a "happy" case, john woudlnt have lost his child. and amanda woudlnt have a shitty relationship w/ her father. the NEED for them both wouldnt exist if everythign were ideal

i hjavent rly looked for it much but the whole "jigsquad" thing is just sooo ..... like. i dont want to be mean ! and i get ppl can do whatever they want w/ the media they consume ! but ! it annoys me kdfngfg bc realistically nothing in this world is healthy and its sort of annoying when ppl make it out to BE healthy. like. thats the whole appeal of these characters and their relationships. theyre MEANT to be bad for each other. theyre MEANT to be toxic. theyre NOT meant ot have a normal relationship! and writing it as such defeats its original purpose!

ok back to travis and laura . like. first things first travis being a cop and locking her and max up for 2 months already deters them from having a good and meaningful and normal relationship lmao . but at the end of chapter 9? he manipulates himself and his situation to get laura to help him in his family bullshit. aka . killing a person she knows absolutely nothing about. shes not a shitty person, so of COURSE shes goingn to say "sure" to the person tthats practically begging for her help. and in this line of events, she can even be killed! like! and travis should fucking know this! hes willing to use this girl hes traumatized for his own gain! to solve HIS problems! its fucked up

and do i even need to say how john used a girl hes traumatized for his own gain? its written all over the movies brother. and in canon, he DOES end up killing her! he leads her to her demise! yes i kn ow hoffman's note is essentially what lead amanda to her demise but. john is the one who put this all in motion and who wanted to test her again despite beating her test in the original movie. and for making it through the bullshit of saw ii

but yeah. long story short. ppl making it seem like that these 2 duos have good familial relationships is so just errrghhhh . in laura and travis' case, this is NOT the answer to being a normal person and not shipping them. they shouldnt have a relationship at all realistically lmao. and the same goes for john and amanda, even if amanda canonically relies on and sees john as a ffather figure. if it werent for their pasts, they wouldnt need each other

basically what im saying is that. travis and john traumatize these girls then eventually uses them to further their own agendas, which get them (or can get them) killed. and yet fandom LOOOVES to see them as this normal healthy familial dynamic and it pisses me off and and and

[thepandalion]

I have a fic idea and I dont know if I want to write it or not send help

[campbellstruts]

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Yall know anything about the Chinese zodiac orrrrrrr

[x3no9]

One more ;) Different hair.

[anghraine]

For my friends who know P&P and not Mass Effect, but are faithfully trying to figure out wtf is going on with the P&P/Mass Effect AU I keep talking about, a guide ;)

In this AU, most of the major characters of P&P are thrown together because they're crew mates on a super cool stealth starship belonging to the human military. As in Mass Effect, the ship is called the Normandy and its crew are on a covert mission to get up to shenanigans that will hopefully save all the species of the galaxy from getting genocided by AI. Some of the P&P crew members in the AU know each other already, but none are related to each other.

Commander Elizabeth Bennet = Elizabeth Bennet, of course; Commander Bennet is a human and the captain of the Normandy, as well as an elite operative known for never backing down from a mission that has any possibility of success, no matter how remote or difficult. She's pleasant and prefers diplomacy to violence, but makes for a relentless enemy if forced into combat, and is skilled with a terrifying array of technologies.

Dr. Illia T'Arzi = Fitzwilliam Darcy; Dr. T'Arzi is a haughty asari and respected expert in ancient civilizations. The asari are a species of monogendered but very feminine-coded, long-lived, blue aliens with innate telekinetic powers (known as biotics) as well as a lot of political power and wealth, which they mostly use to be cautious and arrogant. Dr. T'Arzi has extremely strong and well-trained biotic powers, but prefers to spend her time arguing with people about history.

Lieutenant George Wickham = George Wickham, obviously. Lieutenant Wickham is a human and was one of the first human children to develop biotic powers. He was trained and educated in a charity program run by the asari matriarch Daethyta (=late Mr Darcy).

Gunnery Chief Janani Hackett = Jane Bennet. Chief Hackett is a human, a profoundly kind woman, but tough as nails. She's the niece of a respected human admiral, though she was stubbornly trying to build a career on her own merits when the plot happened.

Jori'Zanah nar Rayya = Georgiana Darcy; Jori is a nervous but highly skilled young quarian on a Pilgrimage (a sort of quarian bat mitzvah) to prove herself to her wandering people when she accidentally discovered information critical to Elizabeth's mission. She's eager to join the crew when invited and particularly admires Dr. T'Arzi.

Sharra Lukarian = Charlotte Lucas; Sharra is an intelligent, observant, and ambitious turian security officer for the central galactic political power, the Citadel. Her lack of influential connections has continually hampered her work, and she sees Elizabeth's offer to join the crew as not only a chance to help save everyone, but also to save her career.

Matriarch Cathrizia = Lady Catherine de Bourgh/Lady Anne Darcy. She is not on the crew but comes up a lot because she's Illia's mother and the most significant ally of the villain.

[cellard0ors]

[elklounge]

Young Travis Hackett and young Chris Hackett.

[ghostradiodylan]

In general Ryan gets so mistreated and overhated by the fandom and it makes me sad because I really like Ryan even in my first playthrough :/ I get that the part where he was arguing with Laura about the existence of werewolves when he watched Nick transform and run out the window was kind of dumb but he’s all around a great character who’s brave and helpful and he helped save everyone’s lives in the best ending….

While I don’t agree with all of their actions I can’t bring myself to hate on any of the counselors. They’re all young adults who are stuck in a horrifying and traumatic situation, of course they’re going to be flawed and not perfect. It just baffles me how Travis, Constance, Jedidiah and Eliza do the most horrible things in the game yet people viciously hate on Ryan : (

Oh, the actual adults in the game are absolutely The Worst. (Even Chris, though I think he wants to help, is incredibly negligent at best).

I think there are a few things happening here that can turn people against Ryan (and I'm not saying anyone has to like him as a character, we all have characters we vibe with and ones we don't, but it's worth examining why we don't vibe with some characters especially when those characters are Black or other POC, LGBTQ, and ND-coded).

Ryan is a victim of some of the less compelling writing choices in the game IMO. They don't have anything to do with his character, really, he's generally well-written, but some of the things that were cut from the game, and the way the relationships unravel in the latter half of the game does Ryan kind of dirty.

First of all, his relationship with Chris Hackett isn't fleshed out enough for a lot of players to understand why he's willing to sacrifice so much on the hope that his mentor isn't actually a werewolf (or a deeply irresponsible asshole of a boss). If they'd left in the scene of Chris following up with Ryan about following his dreams and going to animation school and the initial confrontation with Chris that was patched out, where Ryan questions how he hid this from them all this time when he cared about them and Ryan trusted him (literally heartbreaking to watch tbh 🥺), it might have been a little easier for players to empathize with his loyalty to Chris. This kid has no known father, absentee mother, aging grandparents, a sister he clearly feels a lot of responsibility for, and his father figure who he goes to for advice left him in the worst possible situation. Of course he's going to be in denial about that and about him being a werewolf until he sees it for himself, and then Ryan has to kill him. It's so fucking tragic. And he doesn't even get a second to mourn or even react because the Silas plotline kicks in immediately (and they spent all the animated tears budget on Jacob).

Then there's Ryan's relationship with Dylan, which I could (and will) write about for days. Based on the game we got, plus the cut content, I don't think Ryan was ever supposed to have the option to get with Kaitlyn. I think that's a red herring that allows homophobic players to avoid a gay kiss (kind of a fucked up use of a BAMF character and Brenda Song's star power but, ok). I don't think he was ever supposed to get to romance Laura either. But I do think he was meant to be able to either end up with Dylan, or decisively not end up with him. If they'd kept the relationship system that we still have traces of but no actual structure for, then his ability to say 'maybe neither' to Laura wouldn't be something players held against him because it would have a basis in the choices we've made as Ryan (and Dylan) so far. As it stands, it feels like that is unsupported by what's happened in the game when we've had Dylan and Ryan flirting with each other and taking an obvious interest in each other since they were introduced.

Even if you choose the less favorable dialogue options, Dylan and Ryan are never really shown to be truly at odds (with the possible exception of the gun argument, but even that pretty much smooths over in the end). Even if you have them be hard-headed assholes to each other, they still have their heart-to-heart on the way to the radio hut (which I really think was supposed to have an alternative if they had low relationship stats).

Complicating matters is the fact that a lot of people really love Dylan. Obviously I'm one of them, I mean, look at my url and writing choices. I think Miles gives the best performance of the game, hands down (and I think all the actors did really well tbh). He's a great actor (his line reads are flawless and that sassy boy body language? I die.) but he also gets a lot to work with in terms of the script. Dylan is complex and compelling in a way that tends to be highly relatable for most people. He's probably neurodivergent (ADHD) but it's portrayed in a more palatable way for neurotypical people. Plus, as an audience, we are primed to empathize with the person who wants to be wanted, who is afraid of rejection, who has the cute crush that we want to see reciprocated and is trying not to get their heart stomped on. We've all been there! That's a centuries-old trope in drama and literature for a reason. And while Ryan does not owe Dylan reciprocation, we see some pretty clear signs of it at least being possible. So the game sort of dangles it in front of players like we can make that happen with our choices and then makes a half-baked attempt to snatch it away. That annoys people and, I think at least partially because Ryan's race and stoic demeanor (/autism) have people subconsciously primed to view him negatively, they take that out on him instead of the SMG writers who opted for that rather than fleshing out the relationships any further for the latter half of the game.

Like, yes, it's a horror game not a dating sim (Ryan and Dylan dating sim DLC when tho??), but you spend so much time building relationships that end up not mattering to the outcome of the game, I get why that's frustrating for people. It's frustrating for me! I just think being mad at Ryan over it is the wrong take. I still see people saying "Dylan deserves better than Ryan." Dylan and Ryan both deserve to exist in a finished fucking game where we have the option to get them together or not, but blaming whatever happens, or doesn't, on Ryan as a character is kinda trash.

[aceofwhump]

Man life has been so hectic lately between moving and starting my new job that I've barely had any time to come on here! Makes me sad.

So how's everyone been doing? What's the latest in the whump community? What have I been missing? Any new fun polls or discussions I've missed? What's the popular whump show right now? What am I missing?

Me? I've been rewatching Wings again cause it's the perfect wind down show and now I'm thinking about all the whump potential. For those of you who don't know this show, it's a sitcom from the 90s about two brothers who run a small airline and all the hijinks they go through. It's so fun. The Hackett brothers give me a lot of feels. Their mom abandoned them when they were young and their father went crazy so Joe basically raised his younger brother Brian. They had a huge falling out and didn't see each other for 6 years and the show starts with them meeting again due to their father's death. Brian has huge abandonment issues and constantly feels insecure about himself and worried that Joe will leave him behind. Joe feels responsible for everything and everyone and works himself to exhaustion all the time. I have so many whump ideas I'm not gonna lie. There's an episode where Brian gets knocked out while piloting the plane. I'd expand on that and actually show some worried Joe about his little brother. There's also an episode where they have to ditch the plane in water. Well what if either Brian or Joe got hurt in the crash? Or even a closer look at the times when Brian is depressed would be interesting. There's several episodes where he's depressed. He goes to therapy in one episode and ends up massively overeating in another. Would love to do something with that.

Anyway that's what I've been thinking about lol. What about you guys?