hi! i saw you recommended a lot of heartbreaking fics. do you also have some fluff/fun/humour favs to suggest to mend my heart? (or if its not your thing, or don't have the time, do you know someone who might?) ty!!
so you are sort of correct that fluff is not generally my thing. so i don’t promise that all of these are in the fluff category, because i’m not entirely sure i understand what constitutes fluff? but all these fics are, i think, light on angst (or if there’s angst present they are balanced with excellent humor). i hope you enjoy!!
#hiwhilebi by ms_scarlet (@mego42) - a fic where annie and rio get high together, watch schitt’s creek, and talk about how they both like the wine, not the label.
i’ve missed this by ms_scarlet - mick enjoys food, beth enjoys being drunk, and rio enjoys beth on his lap.
listening through the air shaft by ms_scarlet - outsider POVs on brio. nobody writes annie quite like @mego42 so this fic is just a true gem.
get to be mine by septiembre (@septiembur) - enemies to lovers to enemies to friends to fake dating! beth makes up a lie that rio’s her boyfriend, and rio’s willing to play along.
faith in their forever by @kenrune - ruby and stan have trouble getting pregnant. stan keeps the faith for the both of them.
teach me tonight by @riosnecktattoo - established relationship brio enjoy a sushi date—but beth feels like she’s gotta teach her man how to handle some chopsticks.
in your hands by riosnecktattoo - rio impresses beth with his skills in close-up magic.
one step at a time by natalia17 (@bethrio) - rio’s not sure he’s ready to send marcus to preschool—but he does sort of have a thing for the preschool teacher who is a master baker.
sliding into third by fortunehasgiven up (@fairhairedkings) - beth falls for college athlete rio with a very cute happily ever after.
down for the count by szra187 - beth watches rio box, and then he invites her out to eat.
handy things. like... how to fix stuff around the house
embroidery (aka the hobby i’ve been tiptoeing around for months)
the logic behind the soundtrack dramatically shifting and not being nearly up-to-par in season 3 of good girls
11. 3 books that you would recommend everyone read
god i haven’t read anything in so long and i’m blanking on things i’d even want to rec. can i remix the question and instead tell you 3 books that have been rec'd *to* me??
the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid (i’m a BIG tjr fan, so i’ve owned this book since it was released and it’s been at the top of my tbr list since. but recently @bgonemydear was like YOU HAVEN’T READ IT YET? GO. READ IT NOW. so this one’s next!)
untamed by glennon doyle
the midnight library by matt haig (technically i rec’d this to myself bc i follow the author on twitter and every tweet review he shares has convinced me i need to read it asap)
20. 3 adjectives that you’d use to describe yourself
(nobody said they had to be single-word adjs right??)
@septiembur replied to your post “Do you have any opinion on the timing of Rio getting his nose pierced?...”
I totally agree with all of the above and I love your analysis. I also wanted to add that it has me thinking about all of this fronting being in front of other men who work for Rio. Maybe they were simply invited along to help with the body and/or to put on a show for Beth+Annie+Ruby, but Rio was using Lucy’s death to save face in quite a few ways and the scene is so entrenched in gender. As bleak as that episode is, I love how rich it is.
As viewers we can see through Rio’s facade in Lucy’s murder - especially with that picnic table scene in the episode after for context - but I wonder how many of his employees can. I think we all head canon that Rio is mad exposed to them!!! Ha, but I would adore a corroborating scene. Give us exasperated/done/totally over it Mick!!!
Thank you! And now I get to totally agree with you, haha.
The episode really is bleak, but I love it too, and it’s one I only love more on re-watches. I think it’s such an emotional turning point that needed to happen in the series overall, not just in the wake of 2.13. The way the ramifications trickle down too via Au Jus, Max and with everything that Lucy’s phone comes to mean on a character, story and symbolic level might not be perfectly done, but I do think it’s really compelling and rich emotionally and thematically.
But yes! I think there was a degree of fronting in that scene for Rio with his boys, and I think Rio was playing more than one game in that sense. I think he was using his boys to intimidate the girls (in a way that is extremely gendered, like you said, and gosh, I could talk a lot about how the show genders Rio and Beth in the ways that they Crime), and I think he was using the girls + killing Lucy to really re-establish his own power and that he was coming back out of his time with Turner more cutthroat than ever. (Significant, I think, because his boys – but particularly Mick – have all seen Rio let Beth off the hook far too often).
It was as much a performance as it was a punishment. A punctuation mark in every sense of the phrase, and it’s heartbreaking that it came at Lucy’s expense.
(Also omg yes, please give us a scene of long suffering Mich seeing straight through Rio, haha).
septiembur replied to your post: honestly, season 3 has just been a disappointment....
I echo this feeling. This first half of the season has been a lot. And it would have been a lot if we had still gotten the second half of the season. Knowing we’re going to miss 5 episodes, leaves me bummed. I still love the show and I’m still incredibly invested - but let down by the storylines.
i’m so glad i’m not alone in this. bc i still love the show and the characters and i can’t quit it. but god i’m tired of what they’re doing
septiembur replied to your post “septiembur replied to your post “i can’t find beth’s tattoo, i’m...”
It was maybe Annie who mentioned that Beth has some cheesy Chinese kanji on the hip. Ruby replied saying “Didn’t you get that lasiked?” And Beth said that it was too expensive.
i cannot believe i missed that both times, damn. tysm!!!
and wow i cannot believe beth has a tattoo like that??! it’s so cheesy and overdone (and stupid bc she has no idea what it says). omg rio must’ve laughed so hard!! now i need all fanfics to incorporate that
for the trademark ask, I tried to think of something clever and silly, but I keep coming back to the obvious stuff like: phenomenal characterization, the delicious angst, the wonderful OCs that you make me care about and the intricately crafted plots!!!
Audio asks: a recording of Ch 1 of delinquents where Rio officially meets Beth. Starting from "When Rio rounds the corner into Mr. Stewart’s classroom..." and ending with "But he wasn’t aware anyone noticed the pattern" -- if that's not too long!
Me: Oh, it wouldn’t be that much longer to just read that whole little section.
