I went through the unsubbed episodes of SCI – yes, I’m impatient, so sue me! – and I LOVE how the whole thing with Zhan Yao & Zhao Jue progresses through the season, especially since we get to see it from Bai Yu Tong’s POV. I love that Bai Yu Tong is always there, seeing it happening, sensing when Zhan Yao’s not telling him things…
In ep 11, when their suspect committed suicide after Zhan Yao hypnotized him and Yu Tong got all angry at Zhan Yao, claiming he reminded him of Zhao Jue? Zhan Yao was horrified. But come ep 21, Zhan Yao does something he’s never done before, and so very callously too, and Yu Tong sees it…
…and he grabs Zhan Yao’s arm and tells him, “You know who you just reminded me of?!” and Zhan Yao answers, “Zhao Jue?” with such a whatever-attitude. And Bai Yu Tong hates it! He hates it so much. And he’s so scared of where this thing with Zhan Yao & Zhao Jue is headed
yet he feels so powerless to stop it…
Gosh, I really hope that there IS S2 where they explore this further because it’s such a fascinating subject, especially seen from Yu Tong’s POV. Zhan Yao is a genius and Yu Tong knows he can’t stop him from doing anything he wants, not really. All he can do is be there for him, be his moral rock, and hope it’s enough.
A thing that is now happening: arguing tiny points of characterization – actually, not even that, just a random background details? – by ficlet. Here’s my contribution, and @xparrot had better post hers soon because it is adorable and breaks my heart. (I am maybe even willing to concede the point because it’s so good!)
“Hey Da Qing, it says here that cats can’t see color,” Yunlan says, frowning.
“They can’t.”
“But you can!”
“Yashou see color.”
“Oh. Okay. Well – do you know why cats like to knead things with their paws? It says that perhaps, um. Yeah, they don’t really know?”
“It feels good,” Da Qing says with a sniff. “Why else would you do it?”
“Mm, I don’t know. It says cats rub their faces on things to make them smell like them…?”
“And it feels good when things smell like you. Right?”
Yunlan giggles. “Da Qing. Humans can’t smell stuff like that!”
“Really?! But I thought that’s why you kept stealing my blanket! Because you wanted it to smell more like you.”
“Da Qing. We only have one blanket. It’s not your blanket.”
“I put my smell on it the night we got it from Mrs Wang!”
“How was I supposed to know?!”
Da Qing huffs. “Your sense of smell really is pathetic.”
“That’s because I only have… Let’s see. What did they say? Oh yeah. Five million smell-things. Um. Those.”
“And cats?” Da Qing asks, smug.
“Up to – 80 million?! Wow. That’s a lot.”
Da Qing preens. “Cats really are superior in every way,” he says.
“You sleep on average sixteen hours a day,” Yunlan retorts.
@plann-et Oh, no, my god, no! Don’t fall so far down, people!
oh hush!! your level is like … astronomical.
we are mere peasants to your royalty.
@plann-et it’s decades of hard living and a many lapses of judgement. Seriously, though, I’m just feeding off some great people. 😉 And I spent no time making the gifs, just finding them. That they exist at all is scary.
And now you want me to be the one to make the video people gif? RUDE
I’m just thinking ahead, please keep up
@fkyb Wait- wait- did you think *I* made those gifs?!?!??!?!!?
@lazygeisha i…..mostly didn’t think at all, i was too floored by how they fit perfectly
So @for-the-flail and I were having a discussion about Zhao Yunlan’s childhood and cats stress purring (long story…60K words and counting, but she’ll be starting to post it soon!!) and she made an adorably fluffy ficlet to convincingly prove her point, and then my counterpoint…got out of hand?
—The monster’s
eyes are shining in the flashlight’s beam, and Yunlan can’t move, can’t
breathe–but it’s moving; it’s coming for him—
Then Da Qing leaps forward past him, going
from man to cat mid-air, using the loss in mass to launch himself further. He
swipes his claws across the thing’s huge eyes, bites at its throat—and then
the monster’s paw falls and slams the small feline body into the ground.
Da Qing yowls, a high strangled sound like
Yunlan has never heard from him before, never heard from any cat. The cry
somehow unlocks his frozen knees; he drops the flashlight and stumbles forward,
hefting the bat he brought. “Get away from him!”
So, Leverage is my happy place. For the plot, for the characters, for the found family trope, for the Robin Hood trope and the fact that each episode is a con beautifully organized by competent-as-fuck thieves, for the way each season wraps up nicely as if it was the last, for how each character grows and how they grow TOGETHER. I love the show’s respect for women, how the two (or three, when Tara’s around) women of the crew are never sexualized except when they decide it and then it’s always a tool and they are the ones in control, how the men are allowed their weaknesses, but most.of all
The sheer joy of seeing the crew kick billionaire’s asses into next week.
All of the above and I’ll add my OT3.
But that last scene, tho! I’d kill to watch THAT show!
but imagine if Tin moves into the same apartment complex as Pete
I mean it would be hilarious, wouldn’t it?
– Obviously Tin and Pete will drive their significant others to their colleges separately. Ae and Tin claims it’s because Can and Ae are in different colleges and it doesn’t make sense to carpool together when the ultimate destinations are opposite ends of the campus. But Pete and Can knows better.
– However, there’s a time when Ae is forced to hitch a ride with Tin. It’s worse considering that it’s just the two of them. Can had a last minute study group to attend (he’s been skipping too many of them due to soccer practices and dates with his bf) and Pete is at home, recovering from a flu. Ae doesn’t want to leave Pete alone in their apartment for too long (and taking the public bus will mean another 45 mins away from his bae) and so the both of them suffer the ride together in silence. They never talk about it ever again.
– Pete and Can likes to have couple dates and both of them agreed to limit it to once a month. Anything more and they know their boyfriends will hit the roof.
– Ae and Tin still like to have their silent staring contests sometimes. Pete and Can learns to distract their lovers before it gets too competitive. Usually a quick peck on the cheeks or a hug will do the trick. They know how much power they have on their lovers.
– Ae did knock on Can and Tin’s apartment door once, asking after Tin. Can didn’t join their conversation because he’s busy cooking dinner but ‘Trump’, ‘gambling debt’ and ‘money’ did come up several times in their conversation. Ae left an hour later and somehow, their interactions seemed to be less hostile from that day onwards.
– Ae and Pete had a big fight. The only reason why Tin knows about it is because Ae has stayed over in their guest bedroom (Ae doesn’t want to be too far away from Pete).
– Can and Ae always runs in the mornings together around the complex with Gucci in tow. Sometimes Pete and Tin joins in when they don’t have morning classes.
– Tin almost didn’t rent the apartment because of the no-pets rule. Despite Can’s argument that he will be only staying over a few times a week, Tin still wanted to find a place where bringing Gucci over should never be a worry. Can didn’t know what happen but after a meeting with the complex’s management, Tin and Pete somehow managed to convince them to do an exception for Gucci. That’s the first time ever that Can realise this is the man he’s going to marry.
If possible Can held his chin even higher, as if it was possible for him to look down on Tin. But since he was standing on Tin’s bed… yeah, he was looking down on him.
“I said: ‘Come over here and make me.’“
Tin had heard him the first time, but sometimes he wasn’t sure if Can himself knew what came out of his mouth most of the times.
And suddenly he was tired. Tired because it was so late, and he had to study for midterms, and tired because of the constant battle with is big brother who just couldn’t let him be, and tired because Can couldn’t ask for what he wanted without picking a fight.
He leaned back in his chair with a wary sigh and closed his eyes. He knew how this was going to end. Can leaving after a shouting match and…
“Your head hurts?” Cool fingers were brushing his hair back and Tin could have moaned out of pleasure at the contact. He opened his eyes and Can had a little smile around his lips as if he knew exactly what he had been doing mere minutes ago.
Tin just looked up at him, because he too sometimes just wanted to be read like an open book and he didn’t grunt as Can flopped down on his lap. And maybe Can had asked him for a kiss with a fight, but Tin didn’t care about the semantics because all he cared about was the feeling of Can’s lips on his and his gentle fingers stroking through his hair.
My very first TinCan ficlet… At that time I had no idea how hard they would suck me in T-T
The Last Good Bar 
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