This stuff's medieval, darlin'...

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[forrealla]

Inspired by @medievaldarling ‘s fluffy and sexy and also kinda angsty domestic!Brio fic “Growing Pains” ❤️

[medievaldarling]

I love this! Thank you!

[medievaldarling]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

While I’m puttering away on my 14+pg Brio angst fic, I can’t for the LIFE OF ME figure out how to end it. And I’m literally at the end - the last scene - the grand finale - and I just can’t work it out. Which has been incredibly frustrating.

Instead, I dug up a kiss prompt list I’ve had saved for a year so enjoy some tooth rotting fluff instead!

While I try to get the cobwebs out and the juices flowing again.

[medievaldarling]

*me needing to sleep*

I’m going to write 14+ pages of Brio angst/yearning instead ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Season 4 Rio being in his feelings haunts me. So I’m going to write a million pages of these two idiots having feelings and getting around to them in the messiest way possible because I love a good old dumpster fire.

[bensonstablers]

— 10 Things I Hate About You

[medievaldarling]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

But missing the drop was another thing entirely. She loved to show off and never missed a chance to sit proudly at that stupid little table behind her job with a smirk on her face showing him that she'd done it again – she'd hit his impossible goal though he could see in her eyes that she'd barely done so.

A large part of him got off on her rising to the occasion and stickin' it to him. It was that moment when she was most in her element, where she thrived, burned for a brief instant before packing it away so she could go home to a lie.

[medievaldarling]

Dean of denial

Just how dumb is Dean.  Guy is so stupid should have been neutered.  Beth said it right.  Wanted to show off for his biker buddies. Everything he left out of his story like handing over the books, being harassed in prison, knowing and being really good at cars.  Dean never made it past his locker room in high school.  

Answer:

I loved when Beth threw that in Dean's face - that Vance wasn't in it for Dean, that he was using Dean to get to her. It was that final push that Dean needed to finally see that Vance wasn't as supportive as Dean initially thought.

And I think it showed another moment where Dean was sort of left behind by the people in his life - and it was one more time than he could handle. I do think that his choice to leave in the end was influenced partly by realizing that he really had nothing. Vance had replaced Beth as Dean's support system. With Vance gone and Beth refusing to tell the police who shot her - Dean realized that she was never going to leave crime behind, no matter where they went and what they did.

[medievaldarling]

Hot tubby buddies??

 Seems weird those guys sitting so close together in that hot tub.  Hating and blaming women for the mens shortcomings...those guys just seem to enjoy their time together a bit too much.  Vance with all his power hand on guys chests, rubbing guys legs....eewww.   Get a whiney guys cling together vibe from the group.  Homeless guy just lives to get freebies.

Answer:

I 100% was ready for them to show that Vance was gay, because that was my initial thought when he was touching Dean and looking at him like he almost wanted to kiss him haha. Not to mention that at the start, before we saw that he was projecting onto the Boland marriage, I thought his Beth-hate was because he was trying to separate Dean from her (clearly I was wrong, but still).

That is one storyline that I wish e got more closure on. I'll just tell myself that Beth sent Mick to visit Vance at some point to deal with him and his general buffoonery.

[medievaldarling]

Can you think of why these writers thought homeless dudes storyline was more important to the show story than Rio's ?? Felt like they were just filling with garbage fluff. Christine was producer on the episode that TV gave Rio 60 seconds of airtime3?? Think she was jealous of Mannys popularity?

I think Kevin was shown more as a set up to Annie's eventual downfall.

I know a lot of people don't like Kevin (I'm not a huge fan either) but we needed to see more depth to Annie's life - she was happy with Kevin even if the audience wasn't. She was just starting to find her footing in life for really the first time ever, so I think it was meant to add more texture to her so when she was eventually arrested, we didn't simply shrug it off.

I don't think Christina was the sole factor in deciding how much screen time Manny had. I think we saw so much of Annie/Kevin's story because they created this season under the assumption that there would be another one. If they knew beforehand, the end of the S4 probably would have played a little differently.

But no - I don't think she was jealous of Manny.

[medievaldarling]

Why you think Annie's storyline seemed to get 75 percent of airtime the last four episodes??

Sorry I have been MIA since the finale. I was moving to a completely new place (I literally have to Google Map things 5 minutes away - though I can now get to the grocery store without needing to Google it so I count that as a win) and starting a new job. It has been a lot - so much, I'm constantly exhausted - but I'm mostly settled now!

So, if I had to guess why Annie got a lot more screen time in the last few episodes was probably because they were setting things up for her arrest. I mentioned this in a post so far back that I'm not even going to try to look for it, but we needed to be invested in Annie's story. So we see her grow, we see her and Ben (and Kevin) together - we get to see Annie being legitimately happy for the first time in a long time....only to have the rug pulled out from beneath her.

[medievaldarling]

All I can think is that it’s not fair that we don’t get another season. 😭😭😭😭

Based on the last few episodes we've had, I think S5 would have been amazing. They were setting up so many great storylines that I would have absolutely loved to see fleshed out.

[medievaldarling]

Annie aside, I loved that ending. Beth and Rio protecting each other and picking one another.

As an aside, I have loved live blogging in this fandom and for this show. Everyone is amazing, and I enjoyed sharing Sunday (and recently Thursdays) with all of you.

[medievaldarling]

I’m an absolute wreck, if anyone is interested.

[medievaldarling]

“You got it boss.”

[medievaldarling]

OH MY GOD NO

[medievaldarling]

I KNEW IT. She knows she’s never going to change and she wants them to have a clean slate.

[medievaldarling]

She’s never going to give crime or Rio up because going back to who she was would kill her

[medievaldarling]

This has to be fake, right?