#5x25

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

The YMCA vs. The Macarena (Choose Your Fighter)

[thebarroomortheboy]

Why, indeed, Emily. Because you're cruel and miserable people! Because none of you respond to love! Emily responds only to what her petty hungers dictate. Wilfred responds only to things that have weight and bulk and value. He feels books; he doesn't read them. He appraises paintings; he doesn't seek out their truth or their beauty. And Paula there lives in a mirror. The world is nothing to her but a reflection of herself. And her brother. Humanity, to him, is a small animal caught in a trap to be tormented. His pleasure is the giving of pain. And from this, he feels the same sense of fulfillment most human beings get from a kiss or an embrace. You're caricatures. All of you. Without your masks, you're caricatures.

THE TWILIGHT ZONE | 5.25 THE MASKS (1964)

[radarsmenagerie]

local couple looking for a third blocked by notoriously polyamorous man denouncing polyamory

[giflxndia]

[kasienda]

ML Conformation (5x25) - Alternate Ending

Okay!! This episode almost worked for me and I really enjoyed watching it. Here’s how I would have integrated Adrien in without changing a whole lot:

• Adrien realizes that nightmare isn’t real - that it’s caused by an akuma - most likely his father because it’s the SAME nightmare that was in the previous episode.

• Adrien in his cell uses the alliance ring to cover the mic of the robot spy just like he did in the episode so he could talk to Plagg. He knows that he’s being watched and he knows the only way to get his father’s attention elsewhere is to pretend to conform to his father’s wishes. He tells Plagg that he’s going to put on the app and that he needs Plagg to bite him in a few minutes to get him to take it off. 

• Gabriel falls for it, and once it looks like Kagami and Adrien are complying, he starts his plan. 

• Plagg removes Adrien’s alliance. Adrien fights off/resists his nightmare knowing it’s caused by an akuma - most likely his father, it’s not real, and he’s gotta help Ladybug. He blocks the robot camera again with the alliance ring same as he did above, transforms and cataclysms his way out of the cell - (maybe makes a hole small enough that he can drag that foosball table over it, so it’s not immediately obvious. Haha!!)

• Chat Noir heads towards Paris and to his father’s mansion, since he knows his father is most likely the akuma. He gets there after Ladybug has experienced all her revelations, right as the miraculized are attacking.

• He and Ladybug fight of miraculized back to back for a moment, but not long enough for them to compare notes.

• At some point he takes a hit for her, or pulls the miraculized away from her with a distraction, but in the process gets cornered. Monarch shows up at this time. Adrien knows that he’s going to lose his miraculous, so he removes the ring revealing himself to both Monarch and Ladybug. While they’re busy reacting, he throws the ring to Ladybug or shoves it into Plagg’s hands.

• Adrien is restrained by the miraculized or ordered to stop fighting by Monarch.

• Marinette’s nightmare strikes in that moment seeing Adrien restrained and Monarch controlling him and Ladybug goes a little crazy. This allows Monarch to break past her defenses, and she loses her transformation.

•Adrien says something inspiring/calming/reassuring or how much he loves her, and Marinette is inspired all over again! She then transforms into Bug Noir. End of episode!

I don’t yet have thoughts for what to do with Recreation (5x26). That episode felt batshit to me and I feel like I will need the context of season six before I know how I feel about it.

Anyway, if anyone wants to write this fixit fic, DO IT! And then send it to me so I can read it. Haha!

[odoes]

[quotent-potables]

Live now; make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation, 5x25: "The Inner Light”

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