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(ongoing)

combining everything I’ve drawn for this au so far, I’ll use the tag (# hkdoodles wb au) for future posts!

I had the thought that what if Sabo was saved by the Whitebeards instead of the Revolutionaries? and this little comic was the result.

I have no experience at all in story telling but I hope it’s understandable. feel free to ask if anything is confusing!

thelostsmiles

astral dimension reading Doctor Strange \ Scarlet Witch

rhaenyratargeryen

MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE + Superhero Landing

partywithponies

transformativeworks

[image description: the lyrics of Bohemian rhapsody spelled out by screenshots of fic titles on ao3. end of description]

matan4il

Buddie 405 meta

This ep was The Buckley Siblings Begin tied in to being Buck Begins and I very much love it. That’s about as much as I can say about Buck and/or the sibling relationship, because like last week, there are things that hit too close to home and I’ve been crying way too much since the ep aired. But even as an older sister, I had to say I loved this! And I loved that where Buck’s parents couldn’t see beyond their pain and looked right through him, Maddie kept every postcard and image of Buck on his journey to find himself. She saw it all and she retained it all and it all mattered. Excuse me, I am a puddle of feels.

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Overall, I think out of all of the ‘Begins’ eps, Buck’s resembled Eddie’s the most in terms of structure. Both eps start with something that the protagonist needs to learn tied in to his present story by and large, then we have a crisis during a call, and eventually the way that the call is resolved ties in with the protagonist coming to embrace a resolution that will help him grow and move on from the past that was just fleshed out to us. I won’t bore you with an analysis of the other ‘Begins’ eps, but each of them is missing at least one crucial component of this structure. And I like that this means the parallels you can draw between 315 and 405 are almost endless. I like that in this, the show highlights how much these two men have in common, having been mistreated by their own parents, going through a crisis, almost giving up, but then finding exactly what they needed to move towards their own new families that they invested themselves in out of choice (Eddie finding the realization he has built a new family with the 118, and with Buck and Chris; Buck finding that Maddie was there for him even when he thought she wasn’t and, if he was unsure during the LS crossover whether his friends would come for him, learning that they would, always).

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We didn’t get a lot of Buck with the firefam scenes, if you think about it. And when we did, they were short. However! In each one of those scenes, Eddie was emphasized. From the moment Buck starts voicing his pain through the humorous tone, Eddie is the first face the camera cuts to, capturing his reaction, with a zoom in, twice in a row. That Eddie was first was already telling, but for a more neutral tone, I would have expected the camera to do the second zoom in on another of Buck’s teammates, to allow them to deliver the second line that lets us know how much pain Buck is actually in. But nope, we get Eddie again. Then the camera turns to Bobby and Hen together. Yes, it will then also zoom in on the rest individually, but the pattern established of Eddie being highlighted will continue. The building explodes with Buck inside? Eddie gets a lot of zoom in shots, while Chim and Hen are mostly shown together. The team makes it inside to save Buck? Eddie will be the first to appear, the first to grab the rope which signals Buck’s rescue, and the only one zoomed in on. Buck has a scene with the firefam after he’s out and Eddie’s not there? Eddie will be the first one to greet him when Buck returns from his medical check up and they will share this scene all by themselves while Bobby just walks away like it’s obvious they need time for themselves. Hen wasn’t focused on like this while Chim was inside with the bomber. Chim wasn’t zoomed in on like this when Hen was trapped underground. If Buddie isn’t endgame, why are they so constantly emphasized in relation to each other, Buck during the well collapsing in 315 and Eddie during Buck’s internal and external turmoil in 405?

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Speaking of that turmoil. We have all noticed that Buck is trying to play his pain off as a joke, right? At first Eddie reacts in kind, but then he realizes that it’s way more serious than Buck initially let on (and in this, Eddie sets the tone for the rest of the firefam in that scene, too). I wanted to point out that this made me think we keep seeing them rubbing off on each other. Just like we saw Eddie in 403 sharing weird trivia he clearly knew thanks to Buck’s passion (which is even hinted at in the dialogue), we see here that Buck has learned from Eddie’s tendency to use humor when trying to deflect pain. This is so married couple behavior, I’m astounded.

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In that bar in Peru, Buck was also using his passion for trivia in order to try and connect with the guy he was serving. He drops it when the guy checks out a girl passing by, sort of laughing it off knowingly, even though they continue talking. It’s subtle and more open to interpretation, but the fact that he drops it when the guy shows his sexual interests lie elsewhere makes it seem like maybe Buck was interested, but realized the guy’s a no go. Yes, we have another bi!Buck hint IMO. Then consider how with Eddie, Buck is successful in connecting using this tactic and I’m… at a loss for words, really.

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Ooof, when Eddie welcomes Buck upon his return from his medical check up, that scene is so coupley, I can’t even… First, that he was waiting for Buck to return, like a good spouse. Then, he brings back their coupley banter and Eddie looks so happy to be doing that! Next, we see Buck explaining himself, not to his Captain (who has had issues with Buck’s recklessness in the past) but to Eddie, he’s the one that counts and is expected to be upset. But Eddie isn’t, doesn’t even roll his eyes (like he did, for example, at Buck’s passion for rope rescues in 316). No, he’s soft and fond and familiar, knowing that this is what Buck had to do and clearly finding something very comforting in that: in that Buck is still the guy he is even during rough times; in that Eddie gets how he is and in that Eddie values him for it. Again with the parallels to 315, think of how Eddie himself had to cut the rope, so he gets why Buck had to try and save the guy despite the risk. But then also consider the parallel with Ali in 218. She watched Buck and who he is, but couldn’t take it. Eddie not only takes it, he loves the way his husband ticks. And yes, I said husband, there is no other word for them at this point. Especially because then we get Eddie telling Buck about his parents, which suggests that he had been spending time with them, probably sharing with them the stories about how amazing Buck is. How is that not spouse behavior? Tim Minear, explain!

Thank you so much to the incredible @bicepsie for making these wonderful gifs for my meta post! xoxox Also, if you like my takes on Buddie, you can find more of my meta and fics for them here and you can find my kind of fix it fic for Buck Begins, Reflections of You, here.

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endgame

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: M/M Fandom: One Piece Relationships: Ace/Sabo, Marco/Sabo, Sabo & Luffy, Slight Marco/Ace Characters: Sabo, Ace, Marco, Luffy, Teach, Sakazuki Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Future Fic, Snippets, Hurt/Comfort, Eventual Happy Ending, Battle Scenes

Summary:

"You took everything from me."

As the final war rages on, Sabo is just in time to stop the looming darkness from disturbing Luffy's battle with Sakazuki.

(or: Sabo remembers Ace, and settles his score with Marshall D. Teach.)

femaleidol

solar 🌹 egotistic 180721

jenskyus-blog

#13YearsWithBIGBANG 🌺

marynevskaya

WWI AU’s

Alright, I adore FB fanfiction, where Newt, Theseus & Percival are shown during the events of the First World War. So have a little bit of inspiration from me <3

P.S. I know it’s not historically accurate, but still nice to look at

Percival Graves

Theseus Scamander

Newt Scamander

+ Bonus

what if Albus Dumbledore was there too

#percival graves #theseus scamander #newt scamander #albus dumbledore #fantastic beast and where to find them #movies 101

anaurorandahugger

“We carry on through the storm,

Tired soldiers in this war,

Remember what we’re fighting for.

Meet me on the battlefield.”

A Thesival War-Time gifset for @loveisforchildren-percivalgraves

#thesival #theseus scamander #percival graves #fantastic beast and where to find them #movies 101

two-old-misplaced-souls

Eddie Begins - 3x15 meta

There’s something about Eddie Begins that stood out to me but that I haven’t seen anyone talk about yet. And that’s how much birth imagery this episode had.

The episode literally starts with a birth–Christopher’s–and Shannon pushing hard to bring her baby into the world. Eddie’s there with her to welcome their son, and while he’s not the first one to hold the baby he gets to cut the umbilical cord, an action that’s required for Christopher to become a whole separate person; while he stills needs to be cared for, he’s no longer physically connected to his mother. Eddie will ‘cut the cord’ twice more in the course of the episode, once literally and once figuratively.

The story shifts then to the rescue of a little boy who fell into a narrow well pipe and got stuck, and that immediately brings to mind the circumstances of Christopher’s birth, who got stuck in the birth canal during labor–and yes, we don’t see that happen in this episode, but I choose to view that omittance not as a continuity error but simply as having happened before the opening scene starts.

A tunnel is drilled parallel to the well pipe so the 118 can try to reach the trapped boy, Hayden, and Eddie volunteers for the task. Bobby tells him he has thirty minutes to find and free the boy, because the heavy rains they’re under are making the tunnel walls unstable and flooding the underground system. Eddie is lowered into the tunnel and he finds Hayden, but there are unforeseen complications, and just as he’s getting the boy out his team starts bringing him back up because the time he had is over, and he loses his grip on Hayden. Eddie doesn’t want to leave Hayden to drown, so he cuts the line and slides all the way to the bottom, and now he’s also stuck down there.

This is the literal cutting of the cord; in this instance, Eddie does it knowing beyond any doubt that his team will do everything in their power to help him and Hayden out of the trouble they’re in. He trusts them with his life. In contrast, there’s the flashback where Eddie’s parents are urging him to relinquish custody of Christopher to them. Instead of showing pride in Eddie’s efforts to provide for his son, instead of offering assistance, they try to make him feel guilty for not having been present in Christopher’s life before. And it’s here that Eddie cuts the cord in a figurative sense, by choosing to take Christopher to LA with him, away from his parents and whatever support system he’d had until then. He’s freeing himself from them, following his own instincts. And it’s in LA, with the 118 (and most specifically, Buck) that Eddie will find the kind of faith and support and unconditional love that his blood family failed to show him.

Underground, Eddie manages to pull Hayden all the way out of the well pipe, again mirroring a birth, and after Chim comes down to check on Eddie he takes Hayden with him back to the surface, into the safety of his mother’s arms. Eddie’s still down at the bottom waiting for a line when the storm that’s been raging outside causes the walls of the tunnel to collapse, essentially burying him alive.

(Topside, Buck desperately tries to get to Eddie by clawing at the muddy ground with his bare hands; it’s a futile endeavor, but one that speaks of the scope and intensity of his feelings for Eddie. The deeper the love, the more devastating the grief.)

The 118 doesn’t know for sure if Eddie’s alive or dead. And they’re not giving up on him, but they’re aware that the chances of saving him are slim. Eddie, in the meantime, is still alive but trapped. And he too will come to realize that his team can’t reach him, and that he’s going to have to fight for himself.

The water rises fast. The little oxygen that Eddie has runs out. He’s faced with his own inevitable, and now imminent, death. But Eddie doesn’t quit; just as he kept up hope in Afghanistan, just as he didn’t give up on Hayden. When faced with certain death he doesn’t surrender himself to it. Death will arrive, but while there’s still breath in him Eddie chooses to try. That’s what he’s always doing–trying the best he can. And as it’s often the case in life, for him now the only way out is through.

So Eddie takes a deep breath, and he dives into the water and swims. The cold is numbing and the air he’s holding in his lungs won’t last very long. Blackness threatens to engulf him. Eddie is now in a liminal space, poised on the very threshold between life and death. This, also, can be interpreted as birth imagery. Because what is birth if not a moment of transition? In the womb the baby is waiting, suspended in amniotic fluid where it’s dark and quiet. As the mother’s body goes into labor the baby is forced out into a larger world where light and noise await. The baby is alive in its mother’s womb, but it’s not until it’s born that it can truly experience life.

There are also spiritual/religious undertones to Eddie’s predicament–it can be said that Eddie is now in the underworld, a purgatory of sorts. An intermediate state where he might be purged of his sins before being allowed to rest.

Eddie relives key moments of his life, and they’re all about the family he’s made for himself and Christopher with Buck and the 118. It can be said that Eddie’s greatest fear, and the core of his insecurities, is the sense of not being enough. It’s what he confesses to Bobby when he talks about Shannon and how she’d asked for a divorce just before her fatal accident; it’s what he tells his superiors in Afghanistan after saving the lives of his unit; it’s what his own parents imply when they tell him that Christopher would be better off with them instead of Eddie. But here in this moment out of time, I think that Eddie looks at his accomplishments and his shortcomings and finally accepts and forgives himself. As long as he’s giving his all, he is enough.

Driven by his love for his son, Eddie finds the strength to swim all the way back to the surface. His time isn’t up yet, and the kind of rest that he’s seeking isn’t the unbroken sleep of death or an idealized Heaven, but the comfort of home.

Water symbolizes, among other things, healing and cleansing and renewal. Rebirth. So as Eddie breaks out of the water and fills his aching lungs with fresh air it’s as if he’s taking his first breath all over again.

Buck and Bobby and Hen all rush to Eddie’s side as he staggers toward them, and when he stumbles and falls from exhaustion they lift him back up. They’re all supporting him, physically and emotionally, and Buck is not only helping Eddie stay on his feet, he’s lending Eddie some extra strength and reassurance by also holding his hand, just as Eddie did with Shannon when she was straining to give Christopher his final push into the world. (Just as Eddie did when he held Buck’s hand when Buck was pinned under the ladder truck.) With that simple gesture Buck is telling Eddie louder than the others: “I’m here; you’re not alone.”

Christopher has taught Eddie to be a nurturing parent; and from Buck, the person who’s closest to him, Eddie has been learning that it’s okay to need and receive support, to openly express his feelings. He’s been reconciling those parts of himself, embracing the more tender aspects of his personality that are associated with a more feminine energy, eschewing the toxic masculinity and the pent-up anger that led him to the fighting cage.

Is Eddie a completely changed man now after this recent brush with death? Probably not. Growth doesn’t happen all at once, so he probably still has a ways to go. And that’s just fine.

This, after all, is only Eddie’s beginning.

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