I Need To Talk About Gwen For A Minute Because Gwendolyn Baby Sweetheart I'm So Sorry They Did You So

I need to talk about Gwen for a minute because Gwendolyn baby sweetheart I'm so sorry they did you so dirty this episode.

She was opening up!! She was trying!! To tell them!! About The Externals!!!! And then

GODDAMNIT SAM!!!!

Okay look, I get that saying Mr. Bonzo is an evil being out killing people for the OIAR is objectively ridiculous BUT COME ON MAN how much more ridiculous is it than magic tattoos?? Or doppelgangers from alternate universes?? Or computers that can talk in multiple voices despite running on software that came out before text-to-speech was even a thing?? No fucking wonder Gwen freaked out and ran off, I'd have had a hard time not slapping him if it was me.

Also, I like the touch that Alice didn't laugh... not even a chuckle from the resident jokester... if i can't have protocule please give me Alice and Gwen together, they would be such messy fucked up sapphics and i want to explore that dynamic so bad

Once again, a tmagp rant

Spoilers for tmagp 19

So the “Protocol” talked about in the incident has to have something to do with the burned Magnus Institute building. Given that in the incident it’s implied that fire and destruction is what is done when the “Protocol” is executed.

So is the OIAR the future incarnation of this Royal “Good Science” Society, and they seem to be doing the same sort of balance the fears and there incarnation to keep the public hidden from the almost fatal chaos it would cause, given the chaos of the Mr. Bonzo incident.

Also the fact that Colin specifically says he watches, relating back to the first episode where they might have mentioned a big boss above Lena, I can’t remember but I saw a post mentioning it, I’m going to go back and look just to confirm.

Also, the mention of Gwen’s family possibly having pull at the OIAR is interesting and could point to Elias still the big bad?

I honestly don’t know but thank you for coming to my ted talk!

"I'm wonderstruck, blushing all the way home."

~ Taylor Swift (Enchanted) - Pairing: Wolfstar - Rating: G

Sirius Black did not get flustered. He was confident and smooth, and used pick-up lines like it was his job. He didn't get nervous. Nerves were for lesser mortals.

But for some reason, one person always made his ability to keep himself together fly out the window. So it was no wonder that, on his first date with Remus Lupin, Sirius was a blushing, stuttering mess.

"Fuck!" Sirius swore as he spilled his water on himself for the third time that evening, fighting back tears as Remus made to dab at the table with his napkin. "Shit, Moons, I- I'm sorry."

"Sirius, you have nothing to be sorry about. It's okay," Remus reassured him with a smile that didn't quite reach his eyes.

But after the waitress brought Sirius a new drink, Remus seemed to finally speak his mind. "Sirius, do you want to be here? It's just...you don't seem like yourself. If you said yes just to pity me, you don't have to-"

And, terrified, Sirius interrupted. "No, Remus! Moons, I...you have no idea how much I want to be here! Fuck, I'm just so bloody nervous, you know?" And as he gestured with his hands wildly, he knocked into his glass again, sending it tipping, but thankfully not falling.

"You're nervous," Remus repeated, surprised.

"Yes," Sirius nodded, biting at his lip. "I just...I want to make sure you like me, you know? I mean, I know we're friends, but like...as more."

But at that, Remus gave a soft grin. "Sirius...I told you. I've liked you for ages. You don't have to worry about...about pulling me, or something. Fuck, I've been yours for ages."

Those words made Sirius's eyes water as he blushed, relief flooding through his body, wonderstruck at the adoring way Remus was looking at him.

And, hours later, as Sirius lay in bed, the blush still stained his face as he grinned, thinking of the words. Fuck, I've been yours for ages.

Redraw my favourite Harry art

Oh man, this is an *interesting* one.

"It was I who begged patience, certain as I was that my work on Micrographia might have rendered a remedy for that most awful plague. It was I who warned that to enact a Protocol against the great city of London itself was a step beyond the rights of our position, but you were, as is so oft the case, correct in your steadfastness and I confess purgation of all that most dangerous and unfit knowledge was both necessary and good." (bolding mine.)

In 1665 there was an outbreak of bubonic plague in London; during this time Robert Hooke was pioneering the study of life on a microscopic scale. In 1666 the Great Fire of London destroyed a major portion of the city; Hooke played a major role in helping the city to rebuild, and rose to wealth and respect as a result.

So:

1. The plague year had a supernatural cause (or Hooke and Boyle thought it did, at minimum.)

2. The Great Fire of London was probably a result of the Protocol being carried out. Yikes.

3. The Protocol, however, was not about fighting disease directly. It was about purging "dangerous and unfit knowledge." This lines up with the 1666 fire: along with everything else lost to it, some £150,000 worth of books were destroyed, which... that's in 1660s money. I'm not sure how many books that would have been but it had to be quite a few.

So if this universe had the equivalent of Leitners, this might be where a bunch of them went. Also seems increasingly likely that the Magnus Institute fire was an enactment of the Protocol.

Not even touching the whole apple thing right now other than to say I'm doubling down on my suspicion that ink5oul's tattoo is a reference to the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Got a lot of other thoughts but they're going to have to wait for after work.

about colin’s lines at the end 🫡