Tell Me A Story

Just a personal archive of all the stories that make me feel things. TV, movies, fan fiction, books, poems, etc. You can also find me at Postcards From Faraway.

[faustandfurious]

Howl’s Moving Castle plays into the teenage girl power fantasy of being more competent and interesting than your low self esteem will let you believe that you are

[faustandfurious]

Wouldn’t it be amazing if all this time, while you’ve been doubting yourself and feeling stupid and plain and insignificant, you were important and powerful and loved? Wouldn’t it be amazing if even at your grumpiest, your most hostile, someone was delighted by your very existence? Wouldn’t it be great if you didn’t have to force yourself into contortions of palatability to earn a happy ending?

[smol-ackerman]

HAPPY OCTOBER 3RD!!

鋼の錬金術師 BROTHERHOOD: Ep. 11

MEAN GIRLS (2004)

[grahamsgarrett]

MEAN GIRLS 2004 — dir. Mark Waters

[probably-watching-fmab]

everyone mark your calendars!! tomorrow is the annual “burn your childhood home down so you can never go back and leave on a long journey to get your brother’s body back because you committed the biggest taboo in alchemy and paid the price but all you really wanted was to see your mother again but now you realize dead people really can’t come back to life but there is still love and joy in the world” day!! :)

[andremichaux]

[strawbebehmod]

Yoooooooo

So the government just defunded PBS and NPR which is fucked. That being said, the public can cover the damage if we orginize and donate.

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If you want to donate to your local station, look them up by your town here to make sure your local stations get helped specifically:

[ladyofthehouse]

Truly, this is in fact important stuff.

[sugarforsalt]

If you’re able; do it.

[scattered-vernal]

new show new slides you know how it be

[spooky-spacegirl]

Josh x Donna + Text Post(s)

(Part 13/?)

Part 1 ➰ Part 12

[charmingwords23]

Fanfic: The Light on the Other Side

Fandom: The Night Agent

Pairing: Peter Sutherland / Rose Larkin

Summary: Peter is assigned a Night Action case to identify and apprehend a foreign spy trying to steal technology that is of interest to the United States Government. The catch? That technology is the code that Rose Larkin created, and to do his job, he is going to have to see her again after asking her to forget about him and move on. When he made that request though, he never imagined he would have to take a front row seat to the moving on part, and he is seriously starting to regret it.

Chapter: 1 / 15 (?)

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/65018206/chapters/167173021

I just want to keep writing for these two! This time I needed to feed my jealous!Peter agenda. Don't worry though, I'm a peterose truther through and through. I'm not writing anything I'm not interested in, if that makes sense. ;) Enjoy!

[mayasdeluca]

COLE ELLIS AND MAX MITCHELL WILD CARDS 2x04: 'Dial ‘A’ for Alibi'

[catgirl-coven]

I feel like people have forgotten about this

[shinesprites-moved-deactivated2]

Stage-Toph: “I see everything that you see, except I don’t ‘see’ like you do. I release a sonic wave from my mouth.” *elongated scream* “There! I got a pretty good look at you.”

[lemonsharks]

but the LOOK on Toph’s FACE it is the best thing E V E R R R

[emthroney]

#there is no way in hell I could ever forget about this who do you take me for

[cats-and-metersticks]

Okay but I also love this scene because the way this play was written and cast tells us two really important (and hilarious) things about the way people (specifically people in the Fire Nation) perceive Toph-

1. Although they know she’s blind, no one actually has any idea how her seismic sense works 

2. No one who’s fought her is willing to admit they got their ass beat by a 12-year-old girl who doesn’t clear five feet and weighs 95 pounds soaking wet. 

[junetwilight]

[stellaaglacies]

an ao3 annie porter/jack traven post canon fix-it, by stellaglacies.

a little slice of life fic series for annie porter & jack traven from speed (1994), but they stayed together, had a happy albeit wacky time, and speed 2 can get Recked (even sandra bullock regrets doing that film, come on).

SUMMARY: jack traven is a LAPD SWAT officer, sworn to protect and serve the public. his bold, quick, and oftentimes impulsive (but always unusually so) way of thinking has saved countless lives over his somewhat short tenure as an officer, including many of those held hostage upon the terrorist bus 2525 incident in the spring of 1994.

annie porter is a graphic designer temporarily-turned-waitress (until she has enough money to shoot herself) whom had been taking the bus to work during the same incident. despite having had her license previously revoked for speeding, she ends up a hero ━━ the wildcat behind the wheel ━━ by driving said bus full of passengers above 50 mph until the SWAT team could neutralize the threat.

jack and annie not only dismantle howard payne's entire terroristic plot through their courageous and unrivaled teamwork throughout the ordeal, they also end up together after all is said and done. and, despite annie's insistence that relationships based on intense experiences never work, she and jack seem to be in it for the long haul in the end.

PART 1 : don't wanna fall asleep.

Take my clothes off. God, please, Jack ━━ take me out of this body. There is no bomb strapped to her chest, but it's all she can think about ━━ all she wants for him is to take everything, rip all of her clothes off . . . throw them away, and just forget.

PART 2 : how i met your mother.

"Annie Traven," she finally says, out of nowhere, trying it out loud. Jack's lip curls slightly at the corner nearer her, a tiny grin at the implication of this. Annie looks at him, smiling back. "That sounds super weird, right? It's like a private investigator in a Dick Tracy thing." "Sounds nice," Jack says. "But you could keep your name. If we got married." "Really? You wouldn't mind?"  "Why would I mind?" Jack can't help but chuckle at that; the way Annie reacts to him sometimes is a stark reminder of the oddities of most others; he usually forgets that, oh, yeah. People are this way.

PART 3 : take me home.

He wants to ask her if that’s still true. Is that all they are, is that all they’re doing together? Two people, finding each other after an intense experience, coping with their own demons and nothing more — is that all they’ll be? Does Annie think that’s all it is?  He notices she’s tracing little circles with her finger on his hand, her other arm around his shoulders, as she sits beside him. Would a person who was basing this solely on sex do that?

PART 4 : from crisis to commitment.

“I want to do something stupid.” “We could go to Vegas,” Jack suggests, careful but curious. “Elope or … something.” “Oh my God, you’re right, that’s perfect.” Annie hasn’t hesitated for a moment. “Then we can come back in those T shirts that say Just Married (By Elvis). That’s how we’ll tell our friends.”

PART 5 : coming soon!

*this series is a work in progress and will be updated periodically.

[chiefnooniensingh]

KEANU REEVES and SANDRA BULLOCK Speed (1994) dir. Jan de Bont

[mancandykings]

SPEED (1994) dir. Jan de Bont

[34to42]

Okay. So.

It’s no secret that I’ve been eagerly anticipating season 2 of The Night Agent so I made the very adult decision to take a vacation day from work and binge watch the whole thing in one day. And I have some thoughts.

Obviously spoilers lay ahead so please be aware of that before you continue reading if that’s something you care about. There might also be some swearing.

It’s not often we see a Netflix show get to season 2 and more importantly, have a season 2 that either lives up to or exceeds season 1 but I think The Night Agent is one of them. Season 2 is SUCH an experience, one that I was desperately worried about before it aired, and one that I am so happy I got to participate in now that it’s done. I was worried that the show would forget the events of season 1, that Rose would play a less integral role, that the show’s bigger and better storylines would be overdone, that they would play America as the hero when dealing with plot lines regarding international relations - none of those fears came true.

Though the showrunners were in uncharted territory having no other Matthew Quirk novels to adapt, they did a fantastic job in creating a new situation that felt similarly dire and equally as convoluted as the events of season 1. And the events of the previous season are directly referenced, and Rose continued to be integral, and the bigger and better storylines were handled well, in my opinion at least.

The overarching result of the events of season 2 however, has to be… tragedy. So many different characters have their lives upended, affected, or changed and it’s all just tragic. The character of Noor, an outstanding addition to the show, risking everything to get her family into a better situation only to lose her brother, traumatize her mother, and receive a cheque from a smiling bureaucrat for her efforts. Warren’s son Ethan, having to go through the betrayal of a friend (David), meeting his estranged father, getting so much conflicting information about his dad, only to lose him and be traumatized forever. Rose, desperately wanting a normal life but unable to fully process her grief and trauma because the only person she fully trusts left her and isn’t coming back. Even Alice’s family and the way they had to deal with their broken hearts when she took the Night Action job and stopped keeping in contact with them.

And finally… Peter.

Peter, who is a good man and wants to do the right thing but keeps getting into situations where the right choice has consequences. Who desperately wanted to clear his father’s name only to learn that it was all true and then have to make the same choices to save the one person he loves. The soul crushing tragedy of the scene with Peter and the broker in the rail car as he taunts Peter with the knowledge that by making the choices he did, he will become his father and follow in his footsteps. The absolute fucking agony on Peter’s face.

And then the tragedy of Peter telling Rose to forget him, because he knows that he cannot keep her safe and she will be used against him even though she means “everything” to him. 😭😭😭😭

My poor shipper heart.

Although I, and I suspect a lot of people, would have loved to see a happier ending for Peter and Rose, I will say that this one felt true to the story they were trying to tell. I can think of other ways this could have gone to get them that ending which I will definitely be exploring in fanfic but I can see why this choice was made. That scene in the hotel broke my fucking heart. Again, the absolute agony on Peter’s face.

So… yeah. Just, tragedy all around with this season.

I do want to mention a few things that I really appreciated about the new episodes. First, that Rose continued to not be a damsel in distress but rather continuously came to Peter’s aid and helped him out, much as she did in the first season. Second, the character of Javad was INCREDIBLY acted by Keon Alexander and made for an excellent villain, even if not the ultimate one. Holy shit, watching the shifts from romantic interest to quiet, seething menace on his face and in his demeanour throughout the show were so compelling. Third, all the scenes between characters at the Iranian mission. I was really worried this storyline would feel rushed but instead we got so many sweet moments between characters such as Haleh and Noor and an insight into their relationships.

Some specific moments I loved:

- Noor wearing her friend’s headscarf to the event at the mission

- Haleh warning Noor that Javad knew she was at the UN even though it could have cost her her job

- The ambassador’s handling of how to get Javad out of the mission, such a stroke of brilliance

- Rose’s conversation with Catherine where she told her off for talking about her aunt and uncle because she didn’t know them

- Peter holding doors open for Rose even when they were trying to get away from gunmen

- Peter immediately crawling into bed with Rose when she was having a nightmare

- Basically ever scene with Peter and Rose

- the fight scenes, they felt incredibly realistic and used a lot of elements from around the scene

- Peter and Rose’s silent communication regarding shooting Markus, it was so awesome to see them in sync like that

- Rose’s speech to Tomăs regarding the chemical weapons, she was able to get through to him even without any type of training because she is awesome

- Peter’s immediate confidence in Rose when Catherine asked “who knew she could do that?” Fuck, that was an awesome moment

- Peter and Noor’s conversation on the steps of the UN where she understood why he did what he did and accepted his apology by holding out her hand. The number of times Peter did and tried to apologize to Noor for her brother because he wants to do the right thing

Despite how much I loved the new season, I do have a few lingering questions and complaints that I also wanted to write out in case anyone else is struggling with them:

- How did the broker know to contact Rose at the beginning of the season if Peter’s name and involvement in Camp David were scrubbed?

- that President Travers wasn’t in more episodes. I really, really appreciated the way she stood up for Peter in front of Catherine at the beginning and wish there could have been some follow through later on in the season

- it feels like Rose and the doctor could have maybe thought of knockout gas a little earlier? I understand why the show did what they did for the plot but it didn’t ring quite true that they would both make so many cannisters of KX without trying something to get out of there

- Soloman’s speech to Peter as he was taking him to meet the broker regarding the one agent of theirs Peter killed in Bangkok. How they all attended his funeral and he had 40-some people who loved him. Dude, YOU killed Peter’s partner!! That whole speech just felt off.

- the character of Catherine. Things improved towards the end of the season but I really didn’t like the character at the beginning and especially didn’t like the way she spoke about Peter. It isn’t his fault that they sent him in without a lot of training and it was her job to make sure he was ready

- Peter’s tattoos being gone. I understand why it makes sense that a spy cannot have very identifiable tattoos but come on. I think we can all agree that Gabe’s tattoos are incredibly hot and we should be able to see them

So, those are my thoughts. I’m sure I’ll have more once the dust settles from watching all the episodes in one day but for now, I hope you enjoy the new season as much as I did.

[babyjapril]

Grey's Anatomy 10.22

We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together