This Is Episode Was Crack For Alicole Shippers.

Whiteman’s  lounging with a whisky, looking comfortably casual in a pair of chinos and a t-shirt—blazer combination. He might be taken for any young, up-and-coming London professional out for a drink to celebrate the long weekend. Hillinghead, by contrast, looks like he should be at a wedding- the man’s in a three piece suit and the most complexly knotted tie she’s ever seen.  Still, Shahara’s hardly going to judge him for feeling more comfortable completely covered up and the man is (she still can’t really wrap her head around this) a Victorian. He’s got a pint of beer in front of him, though it doesn’t look like he’s touched it. 

She takes the first of the two empty seats at their table, her coke sloshing over the side of the glass as she sits, and remarks: “You two found your way around alright then?”

Whiteman sniffs sharply and half shrugs. “Fine. Nice to see the place not bombed to bits and rationing over.”

“It’s so- loud,” Hillinghead murmurs. “And crowded, and it smells-”

“It’s always smelled,” Whiteman interjects. “What, was it all roses in your time? I don’t believe that.”

“No,” Hillinghead stresses. “But it is- more.” he rubs the bridge of his nose.  “Have you heard from-” He freezes, staring at something just over Whiteman’s shoulder. Shahara can read a shift in to flight-or-fight posture easily and from the way he’s suddenly more alert, Whiteman’s clocked that something’s got Hilinghead spooked as well.

“Problem?” he asks quietly, in his clipped, cockney accent; a half-strangled vowel slips from Hillinghead’s throat and Shahara turns to see what he’s looking at. There’s two men enjoying what’s clearly a date, holding hands and locking lips. Shahara sighs internally, bracing herself for a slew of Victorian attitudes- “Yeah,” she says, a little sarcastically- Hillinghead’s knuckles have gone white, he’s clenching his fist so hard. The gold of his wedding band stands stark against it. “That’s allowed, nowadays- we don’t care.” 

“Hm?” Whiteman glances around- there’s a moment where Shahara thinks she’s gonna have to deal with 1940s attitudes as well, but Whiteman turns back, uninterested. “Fair enough.” he starts patting himself down, like he’s looking for something in his pockets. 

“They can-” Hillinghead murmurs. “I could…” He swipes for the beer and downs a quarter of the pint in one. Now Whiteman looks interested, he pauses his search, leans right forward and says, smirking, “Detective Inspector Hillinghead. Do you have a fancy man?”

Hillinghead sputters and brings down the glass. “Are you twelve?” he demands, something of the outraged parent seeping into his tone as– he’s blushing, Shahara realises. He’s actually blushing. 

“Are you-?” She asks, leaning forward, and she knows it’s rude and none of her business, but still. “Are you gay?” The wedding ring. “Bi?”she suggests, as a follow up, and then: “Do you have a boyfriend?”

“I- what? I-” he looks back at the couple, then grabs his beer again. “I have- I have a- I have Henry,” he downs more of the beer. “It-it would be nice, to- to not…” he trails off, his eyes drifting away from both of them.

“See, I’ve always been a bachelor- a bachelor bachelor, not a confirmed bachelor, myself, but I - fuck, I left my cigars and my lighter in the other jacket-”

“Language,” Hilinghead reprimands at the same time as Shahara says: “You can’t smoke in here anyway.”

Whiteman drops his elbow to the table and points at her. “You what?”

“No smoking in public places, it’s banned.”

Whiteman flops back in his seat and grabs for his whisky. “The future is bollocks.” he drains the glass and slams it down. “Good whisky though. So. While we wait for Maplewood to join us….Hillinghead can kiss blokes, and I can’t smoke in a pub. What else should we know about this 2023, then…?”

you know what i loved about IP?

at the start, the episodes were just showing how hard everyone was working and the struggles all the trainees were going through 

but towards the end of the show, every episode was a 3 hour long meme-show with cold-jokes and stupid ass puns and bromances with shade being thrown left and right and people exposing each other all the time 

like even zhang pd was getting in on the ‘huba’ train, bu fan x xiao gui daily violence, cai xukun x wang ziyi x zhu zhengting love triangle family with their son qian zhenghao, zhu zhengting and his actual kids the yuehua sprouts, you zhangjng x lin yanjun couple goals, everybody loving xu shengen, everyone acknowledging that zhu xingjie is such a well-rounded artist and so much more 

MEME FACES ALL AROUND THERE WAS NO ONE LEFT OUT 

everyone genuinely supporting and hyping each other up in the waiting room?? like have you ever seen such a rowdy bunch of kids? every time there’s a performance based episode it was literally 5% rehearsal, 1% performance and 100% screaming 

ghost pranks?? fat suits?? zhang yixing being a little shit and coming up with that idea to swap mentors just for reality show content?? 

all of that behind the scenes and interview content that was apparently uploaded but you had to go searching to the ends of the earth to find? 

everyone going to extraordinary lengths to help people out even if they were in another team? everyone was always so focussed on working together as a team and making sure they succeeded together 

people being genuinely devastated when their friends are eliminated and promising to keep in touch afterwards? 

it just shows how close everyone was after four months of training together and i don’t think i’ll ever watch a survival show again because i’ll never get the genuine joy that i had watching IP anymore 

as much as it was a survival competition it definitely didn’t feel like it and that in short is why i love IP so much and prefer it over any other survival show that i’ve watched 

Hi there,Maria.☺️

i actually thought about the Con&Mailin ship possibility,but it's obvious that Consti needs some one who has the positive energy of Josh fatou and sascha combined (or plus more) to save him from his constantin world.lol

On the other hand,mailin seems to have some problems on her own(she's sweet of course,but her conflict with ava and stealing the test answers really reflect that she herself needs some guiding.)

And god,how can we forget about lou.Consti&lou endgame probably?😅

Hi there !

Oh God, please not Lou and Const. ☠️

And yes I agree with you about Contantin and Mailin, I think in theory they could be the new Noorhelm/Winterberg, but obviously it wouldn't work.

I actually heard the rumors about Mailin/Finn if S8 is either one of them.

Never thought about the possibility but I think I could get behind these two, and you ?

Let's see what happens and be sure to support what ever crazy decisions the writers make 😂😅

Random friend: Helen Pevensie, your children are just so well behaved and mature. I can’t imagine having children who act as nicely as yours do.

“Pile on Pete!” Lucy yells and they all jump onto Peter who grunts and grumbles but doesn’t push them off.

Peter and Edmund hitting each other with sticks in the back garden

Susan and Peter telling Edmund to eat his vegetables and him telling them that he’s an adult and he will eat his vegetables when he wants to. And to back off.

Lucy climbing a tree in her nice clothes because “I’m really good mum don’t worry it’s like the trees taught me”

Susan sneaking back inside at midnight with an empty quiver and bow. “I can explain”

Peter and Edmund routinely leaving school grounds on weekends to see Lucy and Susan at their own school.

Lucy spending more time with girls twice her age than other 10 year olds.

Edmund always sneaking away from the children’s section in the library and getting books on gory battles and great military failures.

Peter getting in fights over stepped on toes.

Lucy fighting bedtime every chance she gets.

All of them accidentally drinking wine on more than one occasion because they saw the glass and didn’t think about where they were.

Lucy somehow knowing how to punch.

Edmund ‘borrowing’ a horse from the school coach house to go riding over the weekend while he was bored.

Susan always spilling flour over the kitchen when she’s tasked with dinner and Peter can’t do dishes without soaking everyone in the kitchen.

All of them being terrible about cleaning up after themselves because they got so used to having staff to do those sorts of things.

Lucy forgetting electricity is a thing and taking candles to read in the dark, which half terrifies her parents. She gets lots of playing with fire lectures.

Edmund and Lucy releasing all of their cousin’s science project subjects.

All four of them routinely covered in mud and brambles from the woods.

“Yes, I’m not sure how they all got to be like this,” Mrs. Pevensie laughs awkwardly. “It certainly wasn’t me.”

You know what I need everyone to know about?

David Raum, Joshua Kimmich and Robert Andrich adopted a bird during the Euros 2024. It lived in the training camp with them. They called it Ringo. It was yellow with black feathers on his head. They got it some other birds as company. They got it a loving home with one of the workers from the camp. They named their whatsapp group after him and still talk about him apparently. I can‘t stop thinking about how fucking cute this is, the euros 2024 were truly magical

y’all if you haven’t heard nicks parents are chad danforth and ryan evans and kaylas parents are taylor mckessie and sharpay evans

being on rh*enicent twitter during the alicole leaks pre s2 was the funniest thing ive ever seen in my life. two hot actors fucking on screen and you would have thought these women had seen active combat. people were saying they couldn’t eat or sleep because ryan condal and fabien frankel had personally come into their homes and forced them to watching 10 seconds of pussy eating with the machine from clockwork orange

gays will get divorced and make it everyone's problem smh

I have to speak my truth, why has every Davron shipper agreed on Aeron being a "submissive cutesy bottom twink"?

Davos was all confident and cocky insulting Aeron but when he said ONE sentence back to him Davos suddenly looked like this? Lets be fr...

SO excited for this!!!

Tom Glynn Carney and Phia Saban on how they approach playing siblings/married couple as Aegon and Helaena