shovels and dirt
I have examined the evidence and come to the horrifying conclusion that Trevor is the most competent adult in the OT3.
2018-12-10
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Jim Sterling vs the truth
I’ve been thinking about the long goodbye job and Sterling in it- specifically the moment when he says “does Parker even know you got Hardison killed?”
Because in retrospect that’s horror in his voice.
So Sterling asks “does Parker even know you got Hardison killed?” But he’s thinking it was always going to end this way and Nathan Ford’s fucking god complex and you could have been great you goddamn asshole.
Jim Sterling is always certain. He’s never wrong, the same way Nate is never wrong. So this is what he knows- he’s got two bodies, Nathan Ford looking guilty (and not just that lapsed choir boy guilt that is Nate’s default. This is worse.) and no word on where Sophie Devereaux is.
This is true- Nathan is predicatable, Sophie is not. But Sophie Devereaux (she of the faked deaths, legit titles, and mob connections) would abandon Nate in a heartbeat if he got his team killed.
At least 75% of Sterling’s resentment of Nathan Ford is this- you are supposed to be better than me.
So Sterling says “does Parker even know you got Hardison killed?” And Nathan Ford gets physical and he almost misses the trick. Because he can’t get past Nathan Ford willfully leading his team to their deaths. It’s been the stuff of Sterling’s nightmares the last five years, Nathan Ford and his fucking god complex, fucking up.
He doesn’t think he’ll survive it. Sterling knows Nate won’t. He’d kill himself for grief before a year was out.
(Two weeks after Sam died, Jim sat by a hospital bed and thought about praying, as the nurses fed Nate activated charcoal. It’s not the sort of thing that leaves you.)
Because in retrospect that’s horror in his voice.
So Sterling asks “does Parker even know you got Hardison killed?” But he’s thinking it was always going to end this way and Nathan Ford’s fucking god complex and you could have been great you goddamn asshole.
Jim Sterling is always certain. He’s never wrong, the same way Nate is never wrong. So this is what he knows- he’s got two bodies, Nathan Ford looking guilty (and not just that lapsed choir boy guilt that is Nate’s default. This is worse.) and no word on where Sophie Devereaux is.
This is true- Nathan is predicatable, Sophie is not. But Sophie Devereaux (she of the faked deaths, legit titles, and mob connections) would abandon Nate in a heartbeat if he got his team killed.
At least 75% of Sterling’s resentment of Nathan Ford is this- you are supposed to be better than me.
So Sterling says “does Parker even know you got Hardison killed?” And Nathan Ford gets physical and he almost misses the trick. Because he can’t get past Nathan Ford willfully leading his team to their deaths. It’s been the stuff of Sterling’s nightmares the last five years, Nathan Ford and his fucking god complex, fucking up.
He doesn’t think he’ll survive it. Sterling knows Nate won’t. He’d kill himself for grief before a year was out.
(Two weeks after Sam died, Jim sat by a hospital bed and thought about praying, as the nurses fed Nate activated charcoal. It’s not the sort of thing that leaves you.)
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parker is the chosen one, fight me
Anonymous asked: Hi i like Leverage and i like analyzing narratives. i'm really interested in hearing your thoughts regarding 'Parker as the Chosen One of Leverage' if you have the time to expand on that
This got super long and waaaay out of control so meta under the cut. 1.5k of sleep deprived leverage meta below. sorry not sorry
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supergirl and sadness, an afterthought
Does anybody ever think about the fact that when Kara looks up at the stars she can still find Krypton?
She can calculate the distance in her head, thinks of space in lightyears, and still she can find Krypton in the stars unerringly. Krypton will be amongst the stars over Earth for decades after it’s destruction.
Do you ever think that Kara did the math? She knows the date of Kryptons destruction to the nanosecond. She was there, witnessing, unable to do anything. Somethings can’t be forgotten. The equation isn’t that hard, not for a girl raised in the future, not when she knows exactly how far she’s traveled. Solve for x, when x is the exact time Krypton will vanish over Earth, to the nanosecond.
She lost so much in the Phantom Zone, and this is one more thing, the two decades of time when she can still imagine her planet whole, can still see it with her own two eyes.
Do you ever think about how she thinks about time counting down in the back of her mind, how it’s running away from her?
She can calculate the distance in her head, thinks of space in lightyears, and still she can find Krypton in the stars unerringly. Krypton will be amongst the stars over Earth for decades after it’s destruction.
Do you ever think that Kara did the math? She knows the date of Kryptons destruction to the nanosecond. She was there, witnessing, unable to do anything. Somethings can’t be forgotten. The equation isn’t that hard, not for a girl raised in the future, not when she knows exactly how far she’s traveled. Solve for x, when x is the exact time Krypton will vanish over Earth, to the nanosecond.
She lost so much in the Phantom Zone, and this is one more thing, the two decades of time when she can still imagine her planet whole, can still see it with her own two eyes.
Do you ever think about how she thinks about time counting down in the back of her mind, how it’s running away from her?
things we need to talk about when we talk about: Supergirl
Theoretically she’s stronger, faster, better than Superman.
Some of that missing time was spent orbiting the sun. Her capability for absorbing solar radiation is higher than his (which is probably why it took so long for recharge in human for a day).
Kryptonian was her first language and she swears by Krypton’s gods.
She, unlike Clark, was a person fully formed before she ever left Krypton. She remembers tech that humanity won’t catch up to until the 31st century, knows how to build it. From her perspective we are so hopelessly backwards.
She is so much more the alien god that Lex Luthor, Maxwell Lord, and the Goddamn Batman fear than Clark Kent could ever be.
Some of that missing time was spent orbiting the sun. Her capability for absorbing solar radiation is higher than his (which is probably why it took so long for recharge in human for a day).
Kryptonian was her first language and she swears by Krypton’s gods.
She, unlike Clark, was a person fully formed before she ever left Krypton. She remembers tech that humanity won’t catch up to until the 31st century, knows how to build it. From her perspective we are so hopelessly backwards.
She is so much more the alien god that Lex Luthor, Maxwell Lord, and the Goddamn Batman fear than Clark Kent could ever be.
ruthless hermione
The sorting hat drops over Hermione Grangers head and the first word it says to her is Slytherin.
No. She says, brisk and abrupt, the tone that in a decade ministry workers will have learned to cower from.
No.
No. She says, brisk and abrupt, the tone that in a decade ministry workers will have learned to cower from.
No.
three headcanons and a lot of angst for the Miraculous Ladybug fandom
1. Alya keeps track of everybody who has been akumatized for the ladyblog and realizes that their class has a statistically high chance of being targeted. There’s a powerpoint with hand drawn charts, motivations for akumas to strike, and a list consisting of question marks and whys. (She’s a little obsessed.) When she’s done she looks over her findings and comes to two conclusions. One- Ladybug and Chat Noir definitely go to their school, 5,000 years old or not. (She’s leaning towards not.) Two- Marinette and Adrien are the only ones in their class who have never been akumatized and therefore MUST BE PROTECTED AT ALL COSTS.
Alya presents her findings to the class and when they’re nodding agreement, she sets up a rotation, bullies their classmate into keeping an eye on them. When Adrien is having a bad day she drops cookies on his desks, Chloe is rude to Marinette and Kim trips over himself to draw her off. Rose leaves them cute notes in their lockers, Alix invites Marinette to watch movies and Max helps Adrien beat Undertale.
Every time an akuma attacks the class holds it’s breath. This time, they think, this time we’ve lost something important. Neither of them gets left alone until their classmates confirm they weren’t the one akumatized.
(This is Massively. Inconvenient. to Marinette and Adrien.)
2. The Miraculous Cure works on everything and everyone except Ladybug. It heals broken bones, restores city blocks. It can bring. back. the. dead. So yeah the cure is Ladybug’s ultimate power. Except it does’t work on her. Ladybug takes every scrape, every bruise, every broken bone for the sake of the akumatized.
Chat Noir doesn’t know. (Ladybug, in fact, goes to great lengths to hide this from him. She has no desire to encourage his death wish.)
It’s instinct that has him throwing himself between her and the enemy, her and the bomb. Chat Noir remembers aches like a phantom pain, three-fourths gone. They fade when the cure hits. Nothing sticks to him.
This is true until he slips up. Chat Noir’s not in the right place and his Lady takes the hit instead of him. Ladybug bleeds. Chat Noir screams his rage to the world and has the akuma before anybody can catch up.
Ladybug throws the Lucky Charm high and fixes the world. She’s still bleeding.
3. The food that powers the kwamis is the previous holders favorite food. Think about it. (Don’t let it crush your soul.)
Alya presents her findings to the class and when they’re nodding agreement, she sets up a rotation, bullies their classmate into keeping an eye on them. When Adrien is having a bad day she drops cookies on his desks, Chloe is rude to Marinette and Kim trips over himself to draw her off. Rose leaves them cute notes in their lockers, Alix invites Marinette to watch movies and Max helps Adrien beat Undertale.
Every time an akuma attacks the class holds it’s breath. This time, they think, this time we’ve lost something important. Neither of them gets left alone until their classmates confirm they weren’t the one akumatized.
(This is Massively. Inconvenient. to Marinette and Adrien.)
2. The Miraculous Cure works on everything and everyone except Ladybug. It heals broken bones, restores city blocks. It can bring. back. the. dead. So yeah the cure is Ladybug’s ultimate power. Except it does’t work on her. Ladybug takes every scrape, every bruise, every broken bone for the sake of the akumatized.
Chat Noir doesn’t know. (Ladybug, in fact, goes to great lengths to hide this from him. She has no desire to encourage his death wish.)
It’s instinct that has him throwing himself between her and the enemy, her and the bomb. Chat Noir remembers aches like a phantom pain, three-fourths gone. They fade when the cure hits. Nothing sticks to him.
This is true until he slips up. Chat Noir’s not in the right place and his Lady takes the hit instead of him. Ladybug bleeds. Chat Noir screams his rage to the world and has the akuma before anybody can catch up.
Ladybug throws the Lucky Charm high and fixes the world. She’s still bleeding.
3. The food that powers the kwamis is the previous holders favorite food. Think about it. (Don’t let it crush your soul.)
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things we need to talk about when we talk about: Alya Césaire: Internet Sensation
Alya runs the definitive Ladybug site. She’s the first call for Ladybug interviews (and if Chat ever gives one she’s likely to be his first choice too- a. Because he trusts his lady’s judgement and b. Because he knows her.) Alya is, in fact, the only member of the media we’ve seen Ladybug speak too.
Ladybug literally leaps right past the camera crews to talk to Alya in the mime episode.
So she has exclusive content, is basically guaranteed to be right on site when an attack breaks out (I have theories about that too but that’s a whole ‘nother post) and runs a site specifically for her content.
Alya Césaire is absolutely internet famous. Full stop.
The Ladyblog is not something she really expected to take off. (tbf Alya never expected to be living in a world with superheroes in it.) But she was on site when the first attack happened and a child of her generation and a reporter to the bone- so she’s got the best angle when Ladybug appears and shouts at “Lucky Charm” to the sky.
She ran a blog half heartedly before Ladybug and the footage of that fight, the first fight, is the post with the single most comments, reblogs, likes. She turns off her phone that night because it won’t stop buzzing as notifications come in. The conversation that comes out of it, the speculation, it’s better than fandom for her. She’s deep down the rabbit hole when the next Akuma strikes eight blocks down from her apartment. Alya runs towards the fight.
The Ladyblog is created the next day. It’s a mix of exclusive footage, speculation on origins and identity of their hero, and squee.
She’s there two weeks later when Chat Noir joins the fight, already recording, and he has to haul her out of the way of a plasma blast. She gets the first interview either of them ever gives that time.
It’s willful the way she throws herself into danger after that.
Ladybug literally leaps right past the camera crews to talk to Alya in the mime episode.
So she has exclusive content, is basically guaranteed to be right on site when an attack breaks out (I have theories about that too but that’s a whole ‘nother post) and runs a site specifically for her content.
Alya Césaire is absolutely internet famous. Full stop.
The Ladyblog is not something she really expected to take off. (tbf Alya never expected to be living in a world with superheroes in it.) But she was on site when the first attack happened and a child of her generation and a reporter to the bone- so she’s got the best angle when Ladybug appears and shouts at “Lucky Charm” to the sky.
She ran a blog half heartedly before Ladybug and the footage of that fight, the first fight, is the post with the single most comments, reblogs, likes. She turns off her phone that night because it won’t stop buzzing as notifications come in. The conversation that comes out of it, the speculation, it’s better than fandom for her. She’s deep down the rabbit hole when the next Akuma strikes eight blocks down from her apartment. Alya runs towards the fight.
The Ladyblog is created the next day. It’s a mix of exclusive footage, speculation on origins and identity of their hero, and squee.
She’s there two weeks later when Chat Noir joins the fight, already recording, and he has to haul her out of the way of a plasma blast. She gets the first interview either of them ever gives that time.
It’s willful the way she throws herself into danger after that.
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HP ask from tumblr
themisofpumpkinpie asked: Hi there! Bypassing the meet cute so we can talk seriously about "how do you fix harry potter world"!!! I'm so glad you asked b/c while I understand plot-wise why certain things are written the way they are (HP is basically a mystery novel series and I love it) common sense wise it isn't always the best.. Massively Problematic Not-Fav Dumbledore anyone? Anyway! I'm not sure if you were looking for a strictly in canon fix but my personal fix that I've been working on forever is timetravel!! [1/2]
[2/2] Hi again!So! My best friend helped me develop a world where HP, HG, NL, & DM all go back in time after a worse outcome of the war to do things better!Basically just a gratuitous build up of the DA, making their own society in the RoR, being badass warriors and spies!Of course everyone gets a, mostly, happy ending.I’m not sure if that’s what you meant about fixing the HP world but I always find it easier to blow things up and start over when canon gets too ugly! I’d love to hear your ideas!
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[2/2] Hi again!So! My best friend helped me develop a world where HP, HG, NL, & DM all go back in time after a worse outcome of the war to do things better!Basically just a gratuitous build up of the DA, making their own society in the RoR, being badass warriors and spies!Of course everyone gets a, mostly, happy ending.I’m not sure if that’s what you meant about fixing the HP world but I always find it easier to blow things up and start over when canon gets too ugly! I’d love to hear your ideas!
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