men have made a lot of bad TV shows.

fandom sideblog. mostly Graceland and Good Girls atm. also ft Mythic Quest and the occasional IASIP post. (main: thatwhichresembles)

[chrundletheokay]

my most recent fics, shameless self-promotion style:

1. triangulation (Graceland): in the drama between Briggs and Jakes, Johnny feels like he’s getting fucked from both ends. metaphorically, that is.

2. Monty’s Python: A study in punitive morality. (Mythic Quest): Poppy wants to introduce drastic consequences to punish players for immoral behavior in-game.

3. lost in the void (Mythic Quest): Ian’s questionable interior design choices come back to bite him in the ass.

[tedbecca]

RUBY HILL | 4x07 Carolyn with a Y

[tedbecca]

butterfly dress appreciation post

[tedbecca]

Good Girls | 3x05 Au Jus

[richyjerimovich]

HIGH POTENTIAL 2.09 "Under the Rug"

[tedbecca]

Let me ask you something. What’s in it for you? What do you mean?

[chrundletheokay]

"it'll take a lifetime to wash all that cash!"

"yeah, that's kind of the point."

it's true: rio won't kill someone he loves. instead, through blackmail and threats of violence, he'll coerce her to wash cash for him for the rest of her life. that way, she can never leave.

[tedbecca]

BETH + RIO | 4x02 Big Kahuna

[tedbecca]

Take it up with HR, yeah?

[tedbecca]

Please, just go.

[tedbecca]

What do you want to call this, then? Let's just not label it, okay? Yeah, yeah, you're right. It is kind of early, huh?

[chrundletheokay]

[chrundletheokay]

it really is remarkable how quickly Johnny is able to move on. this is the very next episode:

[chrundletheokay]

i am so obsessed with this aspect of Johnny's character, i had to include it in a fic:

Then one morning, Briggs invited him out for an early surf, and Johnny caved. Out on the water, he felt the anger evaporating. There was something wrong with him—he could never hold a grudge against Briggs for long. He had reason to be angry, so he tried to hold onto that anger, but it slipped through his fingers like sand. Briggs was Briggs and would never change; a tiger would never change its stripes.

Out on the ocean, the waves died down. Straddling his board, Briggs considered Johnny for the longest time, the silence stretching on between them until Johnny was restless and squirming. Briggs had this uncanny way of studying people like he could see right into their souls. God, but he looked so hot in his wetsuit, his hair all slicked back with salt water, cheeks flushed with exertion and sun, brown eyes glowing with the faintest glimmer of gold in the morning light. Voice calm and reassuring, Briggs swore it would all die down soon. Everything would go back to normal. “You’ll see,” he said. Johnny believed him, and didn’t ask questions.

from "triangulation"

[gksrnrdlsdla]

Why they look like a married couple arguing about parenting styles…

The last head shake literally kills me every time

[chrundletheokay]

from another super old MQ wip:

“You’re gonna be okay, Pop,” he promised her. “Mythic Quest was never your final destination. You’re bigger than this.” Poppy let out a choked-off sob and scrubbed the tears off her cheeks roughly. “But what if I don’t want to be?”

[chrundletheokay]

i am going to rend my garments. why is everything i write so goddamn depressing?

[tw child abuse + physical abuse under the cut]

Ian became good at telling stories: I fell out of the treehouse, he said in the ER after his dad pushed him down the stairs. This was the same story he told his friends as they competed for the honor of being the first signature on his new cast. I stole my dad’s cigarettes, he told the school nurse after the first cigarette burn. I just was messing around. Please don’t tell my dad. (She called home anyway. Ian’s dad, who knew about the burn, having been the one to inflict it, was furious his son had let the nurse see the injury. Ian had a new story to tell the next day at school: he was learning to skateboard, and was getting off to a rough start. He was a clumsy boy; everyone knew that.) But stories weren’t always lies meant to cover up pain and keep family betrayal a secret. Sometimes they were fun. Sometimes they were make-believe, like the one he’d told his son so long ago about a kingdom enveloped in darkness, the wise king who held a tournament to save his people, and the small boy who overpowered the looming threat. Little Brendan had loved that story. So, too, had Ian’s employees all those years later, when Everlight was born. Ian was good at telling stories. Mythic Quest was a story, in the end. And all stories came to an end.

[chrundletheokay]

from another super old MQ wip:

“You’re gonna be okay, Pop,” he promised her. “Mythic Quest was never your final destination. You’re bigger than this.” Poppy let out a choked-off sob and scrubbed the tears off her cheeks roughly. “But what if I don’t want to be?”

[chrundletheokay]

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[gayhoediaz]

CHRISTOPHER “RIO” MARTINEZ in every episode:

↳ 3.05: “Au Jus”