Memoria: Okay, where are all the "look at it, it's got anxiety" jokes? Time to Kill: Spoiler: liveflail Excellent technobabble <3 "Responsible scientific suuuuuuuur-vaay!" oh Eiffel never change Lovelace, never change either. I mean. Go ahead and recover from the hideous trauma, but don't change TOO much. ...how do you play cards in microgravity, actually? Yeah, Maxwell, that doesn't make him feel any better. Poor Minkowski. Poor Eiffel. Poor Ann. Oh, she'll ask, will she? What could possibly have led you to believe that? ...tbh, I wouldn't mind some Empty Man bullshit around now. XD I mean, this is kind of a Halloween episode, right...? DUDE. Do more knocking! Talk to it! Eiffel, this is your job, right? TALK TO IT. EIFFEL, DO THE THING. DOOOO EEEEEET. wait what was that Jacobi isn't Jacobi what is this a Dear Listeners-type thing? The Dear Listeners are just over the radio, though. So... who was comm? so WHICH JACOBI oh man this must SUCK for Maxwell yeah, these aren't Dear Listeners. shiiiiiiit I really think they should let it/him in. I mean, there's three options: It's the real Jacobi out there, it's not Jacobi but it's not trying to kill them, or it's not Jacobi and it's hostile. Two out of three's not bad, and the third choice isn't insurmountable. Do they have weapons? ...yeah, why DIDN'T they have alien-doppelganger passwords figured out after the Dear Listeners? I mean, in a way, this was a predictable problem. Not this exact scenario, but a situation where there's an identical voice over a comm. ...hmm. Why Eiffel for a reassurance, not just Maxwell? So is this a perfect-mental-copy situation? Or did it sense what was being said in there? Okay, they do have weapons. So they can let Outside Jacobi in at gunpoint and figure this shit out at their leisure! Or at least they can do that if Inside Jacobi stops waving the damn thing around. YES LET IT IN ...oh fuck what the FUCK Lovelace I changed my mind, Lovelace, do change FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK and now we never even find out what it was AAAAAAAARGH
Thoughts on Persuasion (with credit where it's due to @OnnaStik for their ability to actually understand Kepler :P) I enjoyed this episode. Get ready for the roller-coaster drop, guys. Spoiler: Spoilers that didn't go in that post JACOBI AND MAXWELL ARE SO PAAAAALE. I LOVE THEM. please continue to unfailingly emotionally support each other as you make vaguely horrific decisions
Spoiler: Persuasion liveflail! /new-episode screeching you're trying to make me trust Maxwell, show. I'm not falling for it. Nope. ...kinda want to see Hera learning anxiety management from Garnet now. idk where that thought came from but... god I hate Kepler Eiffel. Eiffel, stop expecting reason in the face of Kepler's orders out of JACOBI. yeah, I was wondering where was the fallout from Time To Kill. I'm guessing they at least have alien-doppelganger passwords now, though! Doc's got a point, Eiffel. XD ...what the fuck oh. yeah, he kinda deserved slapping after that gun-waving crap he pulled. Sarcastic Minkowski is just... wrong. It's just a matter of time at this point until Eiffel does decide to do more experimenting, right? I wanna see how it happens. AW SHIT AW SHIT AW SHIt fuck you Kepler, fuck you so hard oooh, shades of... which episode was it with Eiffel outside? The fucked-up dynamics of this crew, that's what duct tape can't fix. aw, glimpse of Lovelace's former, more Eiffel-like personality ;_; TEN MINUTES? fuuuuuuuuuck yooooooooooooou -oooooh! So we've got a secret line back home? HURRY UUUUUUP knew it fucking knew it they're declared dead and we don't get to hear Mr K after all :/ yay, fallout from intense situations! The "only when alone" door is a great sekrit meeting place! shiiiiiiit. Minkowski getting homicidal is kind of half exciting and half creepy- I mean, it's definitely true he's a direct threat to their lives, I can't disapprove, but it's still a new and dark turn. Oh hey, another post-credits... YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARDS. I wonder if Lovelace was kind of hoping they'd brought back a fake Jacobi? Creepy alien impostor would be a hell of a wild card, but might actually be less dangerous to Old Crew than the fanatically-devoted-to-Kepler genuine article.
i'm listening to some of the soundtrack and it's astounding how much of this music gives me a pavlovian stress response, lmao. :')
i have not listened to it yet because i save my podcasts for my commute .....i may or may not leave my house far earlier than i actually have to bc omfg i wanna listen to it
so i'm not caught up yet, but shenanigans in the kinktsugi thread made me create this. tonight. 4000 words. time for sleep. whyyyy (no smut yet. characters didn't lead it there. but hey. hints are there.)
kaylotta, omg, i love you. this is so good. i genuinely laughed out loud in the dining hall at breakfast about Spoiler "a bumbling idiot, and a shockingly intelligent communications officer" (Eiffel!!!! your eiffel voice in general is extremely good) and also "dmitri, stop pulling the wings off flies, it hurts them" (because i love when hilbert's total lack of self-awareness can be leveraged for humor, see.. what was it.. "your favorite science experiment is-" "officer eiffel is right here")
*gleeful* yay i'm so glad you guys like it! it's my first shot at W359 fanfic, so i don't quite feel like i have the voices down yet, but it's getting there. (biggest thing is Eiffel's vocabulary. i am just not as versed in pop culture as that dude. also, which bits of English to drop out of Hilbert's speech. it's mostly sentence structure, but the tone is specific...) and no alas I am not Gabriel Urbina. but damn i'd love to have a chance to write for them. maybe i save up some cash and raise my patreon pledge and chat with them about how they write the characters ...
Oh my god, yeah, my relative total lack of pop-cultural awareness is the main barrier between me and writing anything with Eiffel in it.
Loveberg, Heiffel, Jacobi/Eiffel, and Kepler/Eiffel are my badwrong ships. Hera/Eiffel is my token non-badwrong ship. They're just so cute. Really, Eiffel is kind of the fandom little black dress. (Has anyone considered Eiffel/Dear Listeners?) Except that Minkowski/Eiffel is kinda my NoTP, I have a thing about complex friendships being allowed to just be that. Same with Maxwell/Jacobi. Kepler/Jacobi is fine in theory except everything I've read has been kinda meh.
hmmmm lovelace<3<hilbert (Help Me), eiffel<>minkowski, eiffel<3hera, jacobi <3 kepler (where kepler started flirting with jacobi as a manipulation thing and now they are.. sort of a thing? but not a thing with Feelings? and jacobi discovers to his alarm that he has Feelings about this?), i used to ship eiffel<3<hilbert but i don't so much anymore.. hera <3 maxwell (but only if it's subtly fucked up), i read some good lovelace <3/<3<???? maxwell, uh... hm. that's most of them. edit: i do intend to write some jacobi/kepler over break because none of the stuff on AO3 has the take on it that i desire, lmao edit: oh lovelace<3<hera
i just want jacobi/kepler that is, on the surface, a casual relationship between two hot dudes who work together and trust each other with their lives because of that work and enjoy flirting with each other ... and, under the surface, is 1) somewhat unhealthy and manipulative, because Warren Fucking Kepler 2) complicated by Jacobi's genuine, incredibly inconvenient romantic feelings, or at least jacobi's "desires for there to be an emotional component to this relationship besides flirting and the assumption of complete, unquestioned trust"
