the way this episode was lowkey giving grey's anatomy with all the patient drama that had obvious parallels to our doctors (robby- no helmet, tree of life survivor, langdon with the kid and beads but he's not wearing his bracelet, cassie with the husband who was erratic because of the tumor etc) but not in a bad way or anything.
Langdon reciting poems about fatherhood okay cool im fine whatever
santo's face while that couple was arguing in front of her. miss ma'am really caused chaos and then backed away slowly.
I think Mrs. Yee is going to die because they absolutely should've checked on her.
no kingdon but I can just watch ep2 again I guess? where was Mel this ep?
“My brother died unmarried. The Uchiha will provide him with a ghost bride.”
Author: TitaniaFaerieQueen
Rating: Mature
Fandom: Naruto
Relationship: Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Madara
Other Tags: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Word Count: 15,063
If anyone had asked him, Madara would have been unable to explain exactly why he had paid attention to Senju Tobirama at that moment, but the result was that he had gotten a really bad feeling when he sensed excitement from Tobirama’s chakra. Worried, he had dragged his fight with Hashirama closer to where his brother was fighting against Hashirama’s brother. Close enough that, when his Sharingan caught on a minute flickering of Tobirama’s eyes to a spot behind Izuna where there was nothing except a kunai lodged into the dirt, Madara’s worry had flared up, and, not thinking, he moved.
The ballroom dance music fades as the next event begins. The announcers voice comes onto the speakers.
"We will now begin the Partner Scavenger Hunt. This is an optional game. If you choose not to play, you may spectate but you cannot intervene to help the players win.
To participate in the Scavenger Hunt, pick one person to be your partner. You and your partner will draw a card that will have a clue on what item you have to find. All items can be found in the ballroom. You and your partner can pick an item each to submit. Items have different point value depending on how close you were to matching the clue. At the end, each pairs points will be counted and the winner will be the team with the most points. The winner will receive the commemorative Rose Mask pin set for you and your partner and a prize of 100,000¥.
If you would like to participate, register with your partner at the stage and receive your clue. You have until the event ends in 1hr to turn in your two items. May the best pair win."
Masked staff await the players at the stage to register the players names and hand them their clue. A long table is also set up where the items will be placed for review.
Almost halfway through this hour, which is almost halfway through this day, is the point where Louis Tomlinson stops having fucks left to give and starts getting real. He’s still a professional throughout hour three (not like Harry in hour two, oof), but god, how??? Everything here is a disaster, and it’s infuriating when you consider that a) this must have been somewhat planned out (the band is HUGE, allegedly 32 million people are watching), and b) it’s being produced in LA, presumably with easy access to professionals who have had some experience with live shows (since, what, the 1930s???). Anyway, I would have loved to hear the choice words Louis no doubt had for Ben Winston when he ran away during one of the Google+ Hangouts, lmao.
When I first watched this two years back, Niall’s nervous laughter nearly drove me insane, but this time around, I’m loving the subtle nuances w/r/t wtf is happening on this here day as Louis’s rage starts to climb and Niall’s Slytherin core starts to emerge. Deets under the cut.
Niall and Louis literally burst through a paper wall to launch hour three and reveal Niall’s lilac hair (also revealed: the fact that Niall’s “a diva,” according to Louis). The color’s hardly even noticeable, but Niall’s all worked up about it, and I’m betting he had to do this because he has no tattoos, so everyone wanted to freak his Virgo ass out with something “permanent.”
The first bit is so tiresome (Louis’s childhood friend, Stan, forcing the Milkshake City staff to perform the world’s sleepiest version of “Rock Me”), but I’m a huge fan of Stan’s for the Larry purple dildo video alone (ICONIC; ping me if you need a link), plus I love the tidbit about the time Harry came in for a milkshake for himself and “a friend back at home.”
After we survive this long-ass bit of fill, Louis and Stan take the piss out of each other and banter a bit with Niall, which is all pretty hilarious and also makes me sad in the key of “oh how I wish that was me.”
Because it wasn’t at all tedious in hour one, it’s time for another Guinness Book of World Records challenge (Louis: “Of course it is”), this time balancing coins on faces. Hey, speaking of faces, did you know that men are at peak hotness between the ages of 32 and 36? This guy is 22 years old, doing the stupidest task ever, help me, Jeebus:
Next up is the randomizer, which randomly pulls celebrity videos, and this is when the in-ears start acting up for Louis, who’s midway through Robbie Williams asking them for the best live performer they’ve ever seen, prompting Louis to give Ben the evil eye off camera and go off script to say Michael Buble, ha.
Some random sports man (update: Doncaster Rovers manager) demands that they do pressups up and burpees, and Louis gives us a surprisingly strong and steady nine pressups before proving why he’s most relatable:
After fits of unnecessary laughter from Niall, and a lot of exasperation about the technical problems so far from Louis (friend, you’ve seen nowt yet), we get the best VT from this entire day, the iconic bts video for “Talk Dirty to Me,” and if you watch nothing from any of this, please tell me you’ve seen it in full for Zayn the goofball! Liam’s hanky code shoutouts! Harry’s hip chub! Louis and his glorious torso! Niall in full Farmer Ted mode!
Next up, we get astronauts congratulating the D from space, and whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. I mean, honestly, WHY? Are these astronauts fans? Is anyone besides Niall into space? I know there’s an intense interest in making space interesting for teens (how many times have people on the international space station beamed their way into MTV award shows at this point), but whyyyyy.
Scott tells us we’ll soon see Doctor Who (mild interest from Nouis) and Simon Cowell (Louis: “SIMON COWELL, WOO HOO, I LOVE THAT GUY!” Niall: “Simon GROWL”), but first up is Doctor Who, and this is where the wheels fall off the bus, technically speaking. First, there’s a 15-minute delay (!!), so Nouis are standing around while the Doctor handles some other interview for the BBC. Eventually, they connect, and Louis makes the understatement of the year (“This is gonna be tough”) as both the video and audio go full Inception and echo in and around each other to make us all woozy:
Louis again understates the chaos happening on screen by saying, “I think actually that this is not working,” and then begging for any VT, they don’t care, help (the VT is Niall being all humblecholy about their success and Ireland and something something, I’m not actually interested, sorry).
We come back to Louis still losing it, curious as to how they can have a link to space but can’t have a studio in LA link to the BBC, and yeah. YEAH. But enough about that, it’s Google+ Hangout (lololololol) time, and we don’t get too many answers to these vital fan questions because Ben is in Louis’s ear so much that Louis starts arguing with him about it and eventually runs off stage to yell at him in person, and god, it’s glorious. READY 2 FIGHT:
Because this is an utter trainwreck, the team decides to do another live link again, this time to the X Factor while it’s airing in the UK, and it’s…yeah, not good. Just awful, cameras out of synch, no sound, etc. Save us, random VT of Denmark!!
Hearing Louis say “tits up” is my new religion, but honestly, this chitchat with McFly is such a revelation. Apparently, they worked with Niall on something, so they gossip with Louis about what a diva Niall is (!) and how he brought a friend of his named Shawn around (!!), and there’s a lot of inside jokes I know nothing about, but I’m LIVING for Niall looking at all these boys on the screen and saying, “I feel like I’m alone in my bedroom,” and Louis’s response, “Okay, Niall!”
“Don’t Forget Where You Belong” is announced, but we don’t get to hear it (although we DO get to see some sweet Nouis dancing), and two more girls go into the call box of doom. Because this show’s producers can’t go ten minutes without a disaster, there’s increasingly urgent screaming from Louis to Ben to just roll the Zayn graffiti VT, which takes at least a full, tense minute to post.
Zayn is incredibly hot, but my heart breaks for him saying it’s their 127th show, and he’s feeling inspired and creative to make art, and I just wonder how??? How are you not banging your head against a wall instead of painting it? Anyway, it’s a lot of spraypainting/artist au Zayn come to life, with Liam working out shirtless nearby and heaping praise on just about every single thing Zayn puts on the wall (awwwww). Also some nice Flicker reference points (Niall: “Zayn, will you draw a picture of me?” Zayn: “No. I don’t like you”). Ouch.
We come back to Rebecca, an opera singer who’s here to sing some tweets, and this is a horrible idea that Ben Winston stole from Jimmy Kimmel, right? When he used to have Josh Groban sing tweets a million years ago? Anyway, this ripoff doesn’t work because nobody can really understand the words, but credit to Louis for trying to cheat and speed this whole thing up:
When Rebecca finishes, Louis says he got emotional (Niall just laughs), and this poor girl says not to worry, she’ll do more later, and lmao at Louis: “Oh, OH, there’s more in store, Niall” (Niall: “Can’t wait”), sighhhhh, it’s torture for us all, tbh. Anyway, time for some Belgian VT and reinforcement that Louis’s part Belgian, which is why it’s super relevant, I guess.
The last bit is back to Dynamo, to redo the magic bit that failed with Harry in hour two. I’m still curious about this trick because there’s a piece of paper locked in this box (Harry’s dick holds the key to it), and tl/dr, Harry says April for the month an hour ago, but Louis says November, and sure enough, November plus all the other details are in this locked box. HMMMMM. Me as Harry’s finger delivering the key immediately in this segment, meaning he’s literally right there watching all of it. Pick someone supportive, etc.
Anyway, back to the trick, there’s a bit where Louis says he told Dynamo all this information earlier (Niall starts chewing his nails a bit ferociously at that), but then he backpedals brilliantly later about what an amazing, stunning trick, etc., and this group of sneaky liars, god, I love ‘em!
We get more terrible highlights, which sucks, because I kind of liked the way Louis was asking Niall what HIS highlights were, but never mind, let’s get Ben’s. I’ll leave you with this picture that makes me think of Louis hosting Family Feud, you know, the final round, when you have to see how your answers stacked up with a family member’s and if, together, you cleared 200 (“Name someone a person may confess a crime to”):
He shifted gently so as not to wake Kakashi and pressed his face into the pillow, wanting to catch the lingering scent of sugared oranges that always clung to Sakura. Only instead he breathed in the scent of damp, freshly tilled earth. It was unpleasant and stagnant with an underlying scent of something that made his stomach tighten.
It smelled of rot.
Author: HeyItsWrenn
Rating: Mature
Fandom: Naruto
Relationship: Haruno Sakura/Hatake Kakashi/Yamato | Tenzou
Other Tags: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
Word Count: 2,720
Kakashi had come to the funeral, despite knowing Sakura would have understood if he hadn't felt up to it. He stood front and centre with Tenzo, the pair stupefied with grief over losing their lover so suddenly.
Had he not been dealt enough pain in his younger years to last a lifetime? Losing all those close to him and leaving him damn near alone in the world. And his kohai, who had been ripped of his childhood, his identity, until he wasn’t even sure he was worthy of anything, least of all love. What cruel higher power had allowed them a taste of what a perfect life could be like then mock them once more by snatching it away?
