What I heard: That’s fifty thousand for one night with Derek.
Look, there’s so many possibilities here. Maybe he’s a rich spoilt brat, buying a very expensive werewolf for a night and a hot dirty wrong PWP is the result of it. Maybe this is a ruse, where he needs to free Derek from slavery and the only way is to pretend to buy him for his sexual pleasure for one night. Maybe Stiles is part of a group of rebels who have been freeing key family members of high ranking werewolf rebels from slavery and he’s sent in as one of the few human members. Maybe Stiles is part of some underground organisation and he needs to buy Derek’s services from the Pack for a night to help him execute some terrible crime that ultimately has a good cause.
What I’m saying is… why isn’t there a thousand new fanfics spawning from this gif already??
I don’t intend to wage war.
Wars are fought by warriors.
I totally see where you’re coming from, but I get more of a dating show type vibe – all the alphas vying for a chance with a lovely omega (Derek only agreed to go on the show when he heard that Stiles had signed up and he may have threatened a few people to make sure he would be on the same episode as Stiles… but that’s not important). It looks like they are all trying to get ready for the events – you have Juston rolling up his sleeves to show off his arms, Glen flexing in the back trying to stand out, Wyatt just looks excited, Blake is chill and relaxed, and then you have Hoechlin Derek who looks a little anxious, and is staring off to the side (most likely where Stiles happens to be sitting..). Because the thing is, this sounded like a better idea in his head – he’d make sure to be on with Stiles and would win the heart of the guy hes been pining after for years… But now that hes here, with all these other alphas who probably have so much more they can offer Stiles, who are probably a much better match for such a vibrant, somewhat spastic, full-of-life omega like Stiles.. How can Derek even compete? He could handle the pining (shut up Laura he totally doesn’t mope that much!) but being rejected (on national tv of all places) by the person he loves? Being told hes not good enough by the only person whose opinion really matters? That he can’t handle. So he starts to fidget and look around for any way out of this ridiculous situation hes put himself in but before he can find an exit, he finds whiskey brown eyes that he would know anywhere… And they are staring straight back at him… Stiles offers him a shy smile and a tiny wave of his hand and in that moment, everything within Derek settles, he feels like he is finally in the exact place hes supposed to be. They don’t break eye contact as Stiles walks up to take his seat and no matter what the host tries to do, Stiles attention stays on Derek (who obviously wins by a landslide). As it turns out, Stiles had only agreed to go on the show to try and make himself look desirable to Derek, whose constant glaring made Stiles think he hated him (he was NOT glaring he was just nervous, shut up Stiles). In the end it makes for a pretty boring hour of television, but it does make for a pretty interesting story to tell their kids when they ask how their parents met…
we were lying in bed next to each other (fingers tangled together, legs tangled together) and you said you could see my pulse under the skin at my throat. what you couldn’t see was how it was flying, faster, faster, faster –
a hummingbird trapped under my skin, and you, the flower –
I keep thinking about an article I read several years ago about how activists got a coal plant shut down when the corporation wanted it to have its license extended for another 20 years. No-one knew who should take credit for the win – the lawyers suing for health reasons, the lawyers suing for worker protections, the activists protesting politicians and corporate offices, the activists who chained themselves to the plant gates, the group who pressured banks to refuse loans for the plant, etc. A while later someone read the company’s annual report and it more or less said they’d cancelled the plant, not because of any single reason, but because all the difficulties across so many aspects of the project made it more trouble than it was worth. They could win on one or two problems, but not a dozen attacks at once, especially when they were all weary from fighting the last battle. I wish I could find the article again, it was much more interesting than I make it sound!
But in the same way that people here keep reminding us all that this is a marathon and not a sprint, I think it’s important to attack Trump and the Republicans on all fronts rather than try to find the one perfect sniper shot to take them down. There should not be a single aspect of their working life where they can escape protests and delays and being overruled by courts and new lawsuits and bad publicity and stupid jokes about them and investigations into their affairs. Washington? Investigators and lawsuits. Home town on recess? Angry locals. Media? Questions about what they knew and when. Internet? Demands for healthcare and video compilations of them saying daft things.
It’s not that one of those tactics is a silver bullet, it’s that this is a war of attrition and every little bit of hassle is worth it. Every individual Republican congressperson should be dreading the sound of a phone or notification because it will be yet another fire they have to put out. They shouldn’t have time to provide assistance to their colleagues or cover for Trump, or time out to refresh and regroup. There are more citizens than there are politicians – tag team until they break ranks.
This Metafilter comment is good and smart and makes me feel better about the work ahead of us.
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