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I MOVED TO A NEW ACCOUNT: FLIPPINGTHEVAN. TUMBLR. please unfollow this blog and follow the new one, thank you!

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I MOVED TO A NEW ACCOUNT!

Okay this is the last post on this blog. I re-named it flippingthevan-x and it will only serve as my 'dead archive' now. Please unfollow.

You can now find me here: FLIPPINGTHEVAN.TUMBLR

I know, it's the same URL-name as before, but it's a whole new account (I just switched the usernames around so I can keep the old name but have a new blog that is a MAIN blog so I can follow people back etc.)

If you would like to keep in touch I'd be happy if you followed my new blog. Thanks and see you guys around (if not as mutual followers, then surely in certain tags ^^ )

PS: I will transfer some Almost Human posts from my old blog to my new blog, so there will be several reblogs that are a bit older, but I'll make sure to just sporadically do this and mix with new stuff so I won't spam any dashboards with the old. And it's not extremely much anyway.

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Guys, I'll "close down" this blog and make a new one (I mean a whole new account); I'm sooooo fed up with the fact that my personal blog 'flippingthevan' is only a stupid secondary blog while my creative blog where I just post an image edit or gif-set every other week happens to be my main blog. That sucks so much. I wish I could switch "main" and "secondary" but it's not an option in the stupid tumblr settings.

I just hate that I can't follow people (back) with my secondary blog URL. I hate that I can't "like" or comment with the secondary blog URL. I hate that most of the times when I'm writing someone an ask or 'fanmail' with my main URL, I have to explain myself and say that I'm the same person who's flippingthevan but I can't write mails with that one because it's just a damn secondary blog. I do a lot of 'likes' and follow-backs and comments with my main URL blueshirtsdoitbest but I guess it's hard to make the connection that this is actually another reincarnation of me.  

My personal blog isn't really huge anyway and I don't have many followers, so I guess I can set up a new one (another "main blog") without too much trouble or losses. I'd be very happy if some of you followed me to the new blog and unfollow this one, once I'm finished with setting everything up, so we could stay in touch!! And continue talk about stuff, especially Almost Human :)

I'll make another post here with the new link once it's done and start following the usual suspects with the new blog ;)

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God I’m still not over Richard taking a day off to take his Ma to Mexico, I’m sorry!

But can you imagine his mother trying to play matchmaker whenever they come across a pretty Mexican lady while they are there? Maybe when they go to a restaurant because it’s her birthday and the waitress is really nice and cute and they (the women) chatter along in Spanish like they’ve known each other forever, and suddenly Mrs Paul is like “Oh and this is my son Richard. He’s a bit grouchy sometimes but a good boy. And he always wears nice shoes. Did I mention he is single and hasn’t been seeing anyone for over two years?” And Richard is like “Mom. Please. Eat your salad.”

Also, I need Richard to speak Spanish in one episode.

[brokenmoonsongs]

Haha, that’d be cute. And yeah, would love to hear his Spanish. But remember, there’s a lot of indigenous languages in Mexico, so it might not even be Spanish he or his mom knows (or only).

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Ah yes, of course! You are right. I just went with Spanish because it's the most common one and wikipedia says that "most Mexicans are monolingual Spanish-speakers" so chances are probably high. But it's really fascinating that there are so many different indigenous languages, like 70 or something (I'm no expert at all and only using Google here, I hope that's not wrong information.)

I certainly didn't mean to erase the possibility that Richard doesn't actually speak Spanish but one of the many other languages of Mexico. (It could also be possible that he only speaks English, if he was born in the USA and wasn't brought up bilingually; It seems his mom lives in the US too, or he wouldn't have 'taken' her to Mexico but 'visited' her in Mexico on her b-day. And who knows when she moved to the US - before or after Richard was born? When she was an adult, a kid, or even before she was born? Well, that's just assuming she's really from Mexico and moved to the US at some point, but I think that's pretty likely. Maybe Richard's dad is/was US-American and she moved there to marry him? But I'm digressing. I just think it would be cool if Richard was in touch with his Latino roots and spoke two languages fluently - or even three, if he knows Spanish and one of the indigenous languages. It's now my headcanon that he's bilingual until the show proves me wrong.)

My apologies if I came across as an ignorant dweeb with my first post! It wasn't my intention to step on anyone's toes. And thanks for adding your comment :)

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God I'm still not over Richard taking a day off to take his Ma to Mexico, I'm sorry!

But can you imagine his mother trying to play matchmaker whenever they come across a pretty Mexican lady while they are there? Maybe when they go to a restaurant because it's her birthday and the waitress is really nice and cute and they (the women) chatter along in Spanish like they've known each other forever, and suddenly Mrs Paul is like "Oh and this is my son Richard. He's a bit grouchy sometimes but a good boy. And he always wears nice shoes. Did I mention he is single and hasn't been seeing anyone for over two years?" And Richard is like "Mom. Please. Eat your salad."

Also, I need Richard to speak Spanish in one episode.

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cheesecake12 said: i haven’t watched the ep yet and i’m saving this for later but i read the first sentence and oh god yes i’ve always headcanoned that his dad’s dead and he really loves his mom like she raised him on her own and he will mess you up if you insult her

AAAH YES LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS LATER (when you've seen the episode). That's a good headcanon. Paul will kick your sorry ass if you talk bad 'bout his mom. This works for me :D

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So does that imply that Richard's father is deceased and his mom is a widow? And he cares for her, like taking a whole day off on her birthday so he can be with her. I mean, it sounded as if it was just the two of them going to Mexico. Otherwise Sandra could've said "Detective Paul took his parents to Mexico for his mother's birthday."

Or maybe his parents are divorced? That would be sad if you think about it; Paul being a divorce child, and later when he was an adult his own marriage didn't work out either :/

Well, either way, it's good to know that he's sweet to his mom!

And did you notice the reactions of the people John lied to about Richard's 'surgery'? Most of them were genuinely concerned. Rudy was like "Oh dear!" and sounded worried. That one police guy kind of double-checked by asking where Richard was first, then asking if he was okay when John said he had surgery. He even showed honest sympathy with 'the patient' ("Oh that's rough!") and collected money for the recovery gift. You don't do that for a guy who is hated in the whole precinct. Not one single person laughed or smirked about John's stories, so I guess nobody really thought "Haha his d*ck is infected, that's hilarious and Paul the jerk deserves it!"

Just saying.

[decembirth]

"Piercing, Hemorrhoids, STD Infections…"

I hope Richard gets John back for this.

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If it eventually turns out that Paul was absent from work because of a bad personal reason (like death of a close family member or something), I hope John feels really bad.

I do hope it’s something different though (Why he’s got a personal day off)

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I’m really glad it was for a cute reason. Paul’s a good son, and established in-verse as Latino, which makes me even happier. :D

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ME TOO!!!! And it makes me extra-happy that they picked Mexico, because Michael Irby's mom is actually from Mexico too. That's just so nice that they kind of put a personal background detail of the actor into the show for his character.

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seriously though is there fanfiction for that? like an mx/anyone. John, Paul, Valerie, random background cop no one remembers from that one scene. I dont even care I just need it.

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I’m writing some Paul/MX. It’s on AO3 if you’re interested: here

I didn’t get to the, uh, ‘interesting’ part yet, but it’s just around the corner now. I was really busy lately and couldn’t update. I hope I’ll get around to it soon :)

[fantastic-artemis]

i was reading it in between commercial breaks lol :) i hope you update soon, i like it. 

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Hehe between commercial breaks! :D Thank you, and yeah I'll do my best :)

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Aw Richard has a good relationship with his mom and is a caring son, that's sweet :)

And I guess now it's finally official that he's got Mexican roots; same as the actor. This makes me happy!

[decembirth]

"Piercing, Hemorrhoids, STD Infections…"

I hope Richard gets John back for this.

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If it eventually turns out that Paul was absent from work because of a bad personal reason (like death of a close family member or something), I hope John feels really bad.

I do hope it's something different though (Why he's got a personal day off)

[fantastic-artemis]

seriously though is there fanfiction for that? like an mx/anyone. John, Paul, Valerie, random background cop no one remembers from that one scene. I dont even care I just need it.

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I'm writing some Paul/MX. It's on AO3 if you're interested: here

I didn't get to the, uh, 'interesting' part yet, but it's just around the corner now. I was really busy lately and couldn't update. I hope I'll get around to it soon :)

[spenshi]

I love all the different Star Trek bridges like

The TOS bridge is all business business business gays business do this do that beep boop buttons and switches official

And then the TNG bridge is like

Ye man get comfortable lean back relax and we can have a romcom marathon or something let’s make popcorn and do each other’s hair

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I want to know the true reason why Richard Paul needs to take a ‘personal day’ off from work, ARGH THIS IS KILLING ME. If they don’t reveal that by the end of the episode I will cry lol

[zhongbeishi]

I need a season 2 so we can have a Paul-centric episode that doesn’t revolve around people insulting his dick.

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...or making jokes about his height.

Count me in! I want a Paul-centric episode SO BAD IT HURTS.

I'm optimistic about a second season. (But if they get the axe, I will have to write a damn book about Richard or something, because I have all these headcanons and theories and thoughts on how his character and his relationships with the others could have developed along the way. There's so much potential!)

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I want to know the true reason why Richard Paul needs to take a 'personal day' off from work, ARGH THIS IS KILLING ME. If they don't reveal that by the end of the episode I will cry lol

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