#once removed

[robinavitchgf]

inside no. 9 + onion/reductress headlines (part two of ???)

part one

[stomachforcrows]

Accidentally made a billion In9 text posts oops (some of these have probably already been done)

(Stage/Fright spoilers under the cut)

[silverview]

did anyone else forget about this bit in once removed... scream

also reece struggling with steve's dead body is so good i hope they had fun filming this

[vagueeyes]

Reece Shearsmith in INSIDE NO. 9 9 series, 9 performances

[bowtiesarecool11]

Inside No 9: Once Removed 4.3 & Merrily Merrily 7.1

[soliyra-the-sunbringer]

You see Avid as a father figure. I see him as a queer younger cousin who I need to look out for because his parents suck and he needs an older family member he can look up to and go to for advice, even though we're the same generation. We're not the same.

[one-boring-person]

Advent Calendar Day 23

Stay

Viktor (Inside No.9: Once Removed) x gn!reader

Warnings: none

Synopsis: Viktor paying the reader a visit at christmas time

'Viktor?' My voice rings out timidly in the dark, my eyes, still blurry from sleep, screwed up and focused on the figure moving around in the dark.

The silhouette crouched by my tree turns, blonde hair illuminated slightly by the light streaming in from outside. There's a brief shuffling sound before the tree starts twinkling, the plug of the light chain still held in place by the hitman as he gazes back at me, face pulled into a sheepish smile.

'Hi,' He replies, standing from the floor, dusting his hands on his trousers, 'Didn't mean to wake you, I'm sorry.'

I frown, tilting my head.

'What are you doing here?' I glance around the room; everything is still in place, as it should be, so he's not robbing the place, 'Someone put me on your list?'

He chuckles dryly.

'No, not this time.'

'So why are you here?'

Viktor chews his lip, then steps back from the tree, revealing the cluster of brightly wrapped gifts now surrounding the base. My eyes widen as I notice the tags are all albelled with my name, the dark ink easy to read even from here. I turn my gaze back to him, eyebrows lifting in surprise at the sight of it all, my heart swelling.

'Are…are those all for me?' I question, voice quiet, hardly allowing myself to believe it.

The hitman smiles, face going red.

'Yeah.' He nods, glancing at the gifts around his feet.

'But why?' I ask, stepping forward, dropping to my knees to examine the carefully wrapped parcels, shocked to find they're all hand-wrapped, and not simply supermarket gifts with packaging designed to look that way.

Viktor rubs the back of his neck as he watches me, still chewing his lip as he replies.

'I remember you said you were going to be spending Christmas alone this year,' He explains, 'And I didn't want it to be lonely for you. Everyone should have a nice Christmas, so I thought I'd surprise you with some gifts and then drop by on Christmas day to spend some time with you.'

My jaw drops, my eyes flicking up to meet his, practically bulging from my head at his admission. My heart throbs in my chest again, emotion flooding through me until I can feel my eyes starting to dampen at the corners.

'You…were? Really?' Is all I finally manage to say, unable to believe what he's saying.

'Yeah,' He winces, running a hand through his hair, 'I'm sorry if that's weird, I just wanted to make sure you had a good time.'

'But why? Why me?'

He takes a breath, hands clenched at his sides now.

'Because I really like you, (Y/n). I was going to ask you if you wanted to go on a date with me on Christmas day. Guess now's as good a time as ever to do it-'

I cut him off by yanking him down onto the floor with me, throwing myself into his lap. My arms are around his neck in seconds, crushing his lithe body against mine, breathing in his masculine scent, enjoying the warmth of him against me, He falters for a second, clearly caught off-guard, but quickly returns the embrace, his arms securing themselves around my waist, his hands rubbing up and down my spine, burying his face in the crook of my neck. We sit like that for a long moment, before I pull back, moving to cup his face in my hands.

We gaze into each other's eyes, his sapphire irises dark in the dim light, glittering slightly as the tree lights catch them. His stare is swirling with something between awe, relief and longing, his lips slightly parted, his eyes flicking down to glance at mine. A small smile spreads across my face as I realise what he wants.

I lean in, pressing our lips together in a soft, gentle kiss. Viktor shivers in my hold, audibly sighing in relief as he moves closer, returning the kiss gratefully, pouring pent-up emotion into it. I smile against his lips, one of my hands sneaking up to card through his hair, stroking the soft strands as we kiss, letting my eyes fall closed at the feeling of completeness washing over me. His grip tightens on me, keeping me pinned to him as he shifts in place, his lips parting ever so slightly to allow his tongue to poke out and tease along the seam of my lips. He pulls back after a second, panting as he stares at me.

'Stay,' I gasp out against him, 'Here. Stay here with me, please.'

His eyes widen fractionally at my request, but he nods frantically, leaning in to kiss me again, this time manouvering us so I'm lying on the floor beneath him, my legs around his waist, his arms wrapped around me. This time, the kiss is hungrier, messier, Viktor claiming my mouth thoroughly and lovingly as he presses me into the floor.

'I'll stay. As long as you want.'

[problematic-character-tournament]

ROUND 1 — Match 256 of 276

Whiterose (Mr. Robot)

Problematic because: "She’s the leader of the Dark Army (a criminal hacker group), secretly living publicly as Chinese Minister of State Security Zhi Zhang, and later revealed as the founder of the Deus Group, a circle of ultra-powerful people manipulating global politics and money from the shadows. Her whole thing is control - time, people, governments, belief, history, grief, everything. And the body count is obscene. The Dark Army carries out Stage 2, blowing up 71 E Corp recovery buildings and killing more than 3,000 people, while the blame is pushed elsewhere. She manipulates Angela at her most vulnerable, convinces her the machine/project can undo death or fix reality, uses that belief to make her useful, then has her killed when Angela decides to expose her. She also destroys Dom’s life by using the Dark Army to threaten her family into compliance, toys with Price, uses Elliot whenever possible, and devotes decades of violence to a machine at the Washington Township plant that may not even work." Propaganda: 1. "Everything about her is built around time - losing it, controlling it, refusing to accept that one moment in the past can be final. She lost the person who saw her fully, and from that point on, she basically spends the rest of her life trying to make reality itself apologise. I’m not saying she’s right. She very obviously isn’t. But I love how completely she believes in what she’s doing. To Whiterose, the project is proof that suffering can be reversed, that death can be negotiated with, that the wrong world can be replaced by the correct one if she just has enough time, money, and obedience." 2. "I like that she’s not “evil because trans,” which would’ve been lazy and gross. She’s evil because she’s a billionaire-shadow-government-cult-leader tech messiah who cannot accept living in a world that took something from her. Her transness makes the backstory more painful, because the life she wanted was impossible in the world she came from, but the villainy is about what she builds out of that loss. She doesn’t want revenge in the normal way, she wants a universe where it never happened. Unfortunately, she is willing to sacrifice this universe to get there." 3. "i love that she's a villain whose motivation is love. idk i just don't see many villains who are driven by just loving the world and people so much, that's kind of a Good Guy trait most of the time in my experience, but whiterose does everything she does because she is full of love and compassion and emotion and those things are funneled into evil extreme actions instead of kindness"

vs. May (Inside No. 9)

Problematic because: "orchestrates a murder than ends up getting like 4 extra people killed" Propaganda: "I don't wanna spoil the episode too much but let's just say that she's probably the smartest murder orchestrator (aside from her coming back to the scene of the crime at the end), because even if The Action she did to orchestrate it were presented in a court of law, no one would be able to do anything about it. I think she'd be cleared of all charged, even if she expressly states that she did it with the intent to get her neighbor killed. because what are you gonna do about it? her neighbor hired the hitman to kill her, how are you gonna blame her if the hitman just so happened to kill the wrong woman because he wasn't given enough intel?"

Who should advance?

Whiterose

May

Voting ended onJul 15

(Disclaimer: All text above was sent in by submitters and not written by OP.)