"Not In That Way" By Sam Smith Is So Topez Coded It's Heartbreaking, Really

"Not in that way" by Sam Smith is so topez coded it's heartbreaking, really

Jeez, in terms of symbolism they really nailed it when they gave the woman that killed her husband a weapon's name for a diminutive 👀

Hey sebinis/gauntlow fanfiction writers!

Just wanted to share an idea of a fanfic plot with you. I've had it for a while now, and I even started writing, but never finished and apparently never will. Don't know if anybody has come up with it so far? Anyway, feel free to use it in your works if you like😁

OC and Ominis agree not to put Sebastian behind bars, but Ominis has one condition - Sebastian must forget the unforgivables. (Due to Obliviate or another spell like that.) Ominis is just worried that Sebastian, being his impulsive self, might accidentally kill someone else (now that he, well, got a taste for killing) and he would hate to have his only close friend locked up in Azkaban.

Sebastian, being stubborn, overconfident and all, doesn't like the idea in the slightest. A falling out follows, during which Sebastian comes to realise a life without Ominis is duller than a life without the unforgivables will ever be. So he reluctantly agrees.

Ominis uses Obliviate or suchlike on the friend and it turns out that because of some mistake or whatever Sebastian forgot him. Just him.

Ominis gets Sebastian to St Mungo hospital where Sebastian comes around and actually gets flirty with the ~handsome guy from his faculty he hasn't met yet for some stupid reason~.

St Mungo nurses recommend getting Sebastian to the places where he spent a lot of time with Ominis. So naturally, it's Undercroft. And little by little Undercroft makes Sebastian start telling ~a new acquiantance of his~, aka Ominis, how he suddenly remembers this guy he has a crush on, while totally not associating him with Ominis right in front of him. Sebastian, being his usual open self, reveals quite a lot at that, including the moments from the past that now begin to make sense to Ominis.

While Ominis is doing his best trying to show the connection between himself and the guy Sebastian's reminiscing about and not hurt his best friend mentally in the process, he is left feeling frustrated and jealous of himself, or rather a memory of himself in Sebastian's head. OC is sympathetic, ever helpful, of course, but highly amused.

At least, that's the short of it. Hope you guys enjoyed it and will use it😄

If you're into kenommy, you've probably watched those videos on youtube explaining why Tommy never called Ken back, right?

I mean I did😅 And when I checked out the comms, it was a total bummer!

There are so many people out there truly believing that Tommy just ditched Ken for being a liability. Yeaah, okay, Rosenberg could really fck up Tommy's deals and stuff, given in the end he was high more often than not.

But! What gets me is -

Some people are convinced that Ken has ~always~ been a liability for Tommy! And that got me so worked up I ended up writing this!

(a lot of 'ifs' below)

Alright so, only Tommy and Ken made it out alive at the beginning of Vice City part.

But what if it was just Tommy?

Just think about it! The guy's been away for 15 years. Sonny's his only contact and he's unlikely to stumble on any old ones, if there were any at all, to begin with.

So how's Tommy gonna find the trace of those fckers who stole the money? A rhetrorical question, really. Ken provided invaluable contacts Tommy simply could not do without.

Besides, even if Tommy somehow found a way to a party similar to the one he visited thanks to Rosenberg, he would simply make a fool out of himself! I mean if it wasn't for Rosie, it would have never occurred to him to dress up for a good first impression. The high and mighty would just take him for, well, a yokel and therefore wouldn't take him seriously. Hence, no deals, no contacts.

And last but not least - who did money laundering? Ken!

Ken has been nothing but loyal. If not for him, the legendary Tommy Vercetty wouldn't exist!

Is it just me or

"Who the hell is Shanks?"

sounds an awful lot like

"Who the fuck is Tommy?"

Guys, do you remember Berta? The girl who kinda posed as Bert's "love interest"?

Well, as a sucker for details I am I just can't help comparing Bert&Berta's "Love song" with Bert&Ernie's "But I like you".

In "Love song" Bert sings about how much in common they have with Berta. Namely, pigeons, music, oatmeal, paper clips, and checkers.

It literally ends like this:

You play checkers.

I do, too.

You like me.

And I like you.

So, basically, the love confession is based on common interests.

What's funny is that Bert&Ernie's song goes completely opposite direction.

After Bert mentions liking paper clips, buttlecaps, and pigeons Ernie answers:

I don't really like any of those things,

But I like you.

And then Bert reacts in the same way to Ernie's interests.

Ain't it peculiar?

Having different interests with Ernie doesn't make them drift apart, so having common interests with Berta doesn't necessarily mean they are gonna be together, right?

Besides, it's worth mentioning that in "But I like you" song Bert and Ernie take their turns to sing "I like you" to each other, whereas in "Love song" it's Bert who sings "You like me and I like you". Berta doesn't say anything at all, only Bert sings!

Which makes me question if perhaps Bert's feelings for Berta were meant to be unrequited from the start??