#nonners

[Make me write]

Hi Nonners! Thanks so much for the prompt and sorry it took so long: I saw it yesterday while I was at work (and no longer procrastinating so much) and proceeded to be either busy or asleep ever since ^^" There's a little bit of a time skip between the last snippet and this one, but it's only a few minutes.

Mark is a creation of roseganymede95 for the fic Like We’re Gonna Die Young (Again) which I heartily recommend!

[Series: When I’m somebody else] [Fic: Good Luck Babe]

It’s been years since Charles cried. He hates the powerlessness of it, hates the burn in his eyes, hates the mucus that fills up his nose. Hates the humiliation of being useless and weak and reduced to it by a man he could knock to the ground in three seconds flat if he weren’t so stupid about this. Edwin’s hand touches his shoulder and Charles flinches away on instinct, disgusted by the whimper that comes out of his mouth and unable to stop it at the same time.

“Charles,” Edwin breathes out, stepping closer, “please talk to me. I don’t understand what is happening—”

“I don’t know!” Charles says, trying to apologise and landing closer to a whine, “It’s nothing it’s—it’s just stupid!”

I can't believe they didn't even give Roy's sister a first name on screen! Quite insulting. But I agree about Ruth and I've seen a few fics that use it, it's my favourite option for her name.

Also, I've read another fic where he goes to PSG! (https://archiveofourown.org/works/40234527 )

Hehe, glad you liked them, Nonners !

I think City would be an option also, I just tend to be a little fixated on the fact that he was obviously not happy there when he was young and I think a lot of it has to do with his dad. I guess it really depends on how much he repressed his trauma and whether or not he manages to untangle Tartt Sr from City (though I will say so far canon leans into 'he's okay with City' territory indeed^^)

Like you said though, we still have two episodes to see where they take Jamie and whether we want to ignore it or not :P

Thanks for the fic recs, too, turns out they were the sources of my headcanons, so it's nice to see we share some favorites :D

(I did mainly latch onto the PSG idea because of the potential for multilingual insult trading, especially with Dani and Spanish. I just fucking love this trope.)

I know I like to say Catra did no wrong, but I do hope people know I'm joking. She's a flawed and complex character and not acknowledging that is simply not giving her or the writers their dues.

Oh shit,I do I’m actually trans myself,I just wanted to rewrite it with more explanation.

I’m trans myself.

I support all trans people.

Hoo-boy. Well, I’ll save full commentary because someone’s asked regarding the @youtotallymadethatup episode, but the short version is...

We could debate over their choice of resolution, sure. Having said that, They ____ and go to ____! is pedestrian. It’s unoriginal. It’s lazy. Let’s go with it for argument’s sake, though. Bottom line, if you’re gonna do something that drastic vs. a more open-ended with enough of a satisfactory conclusion kind of jam (see: Buffy the Vampire Slayer finale) or a veiled, let-the-viewer-fill-in-the-blanks wrap-up (see: The Sopranos finale, or the Angel finale), then do it well (see: Six Feet Under finale). And they didn’t do it well.

Pandemic issues explain some logistics (such as casting and locale and set pieces, etc.) but not bizarre writing choices and - sweet babby jeebus - lousy hair/makeup effects, to name but just two things. If the virus wrecked what they originally had planned (which is my understanding), the answer is to scrap it, hustle up, and start again during the *months* they were graciously given by the network. You do what you can with what you have where you are, you don’t stubbornly re-cobble what got destroyed into something that’s passable instead of something that’s close as you can possibly get to being worthy, something that at least conveys the utmost efforts were made even if the end result wasn’t the ideal.

I was a guest on another podcast recently and the subject came up during our warm-up, matter of fact, and I advised the host and anyone in the chat who hadn’t seen it to just stop with the penultimate episode - which would also be my advisement to anyone reading this who hasn’t finished out the season.