band AU outtakes !

[fic pending]

I love that we can laugh like this.

Thinking about Jimmy/Saul/Gene/Viktor and how he’s now “made” in all his personas - Howard’s wife now knows about his role, as Jimmy, in Howard’s death / lying to the police to prevent a murder investigation + the information Kim confirmed about his involvement representing criminals / cartel members.

Everyone knows he’s guilty of crimes as Saul Goodman.

Jeff, Buddy, and Marion know that he’s a conman as Gene too.

Whatever happens next, Kim knows he’s going by Viktor now too …

He’s got nowhere to go.

BB 2023 doodle dump. with two 2024 sneaked in ther

tua s3 shaping up to be just as much of a hargreeves trainwreck as always <3

Yuuri: I have a bad feeling about this.

Viktor: What do you mean?

Yuuri: Don't you ever get that little voice in your head that tells you if something is going to get you in trouble?

Viktor: No?

Yuuri: That explains so much.

Since Arcane is inexplicably trending again (despite no news on when it will return), here's a question I'd like to ask to the rest of the fans. Please reblog to spread it around!

Why yes, of course my favorite K-pop star is Viktor Tsoi from Кино! uwu

with the return of umbrella academy, I only want one thing. I want all the characters to just pretend that viktor has always been viktor. If someone asks about vanya they all act like they have no idea who that is. Better yet, no one even mentions vanya. No one questions it. This has always been viktor idk what you’re talking about.

Lil Vik study. I’m decently proud of this

Analyzing the Merging Jimmy/Gene/Saul/Viktor Personas + Why We Needed the Jesse / Kim Scene

Last week (copied under the ***** below) I observed the deliberate, visual merging of Jimmy/Gene/Saul/Viktor and I’ve copied and pasted it here to add more after last night’s episode, “Waterworks.”

Significantly, “Waterworks” references both, the weather during the scene with Jesse and Kim in front of Saul Goodman’s Breaking Bad era office, AND to Kim’s sprinkler job, where Gene, under the Viktor persona, reached out to Kim and she told him to turn himself in, to his fury. The Jesse and Kim scene symbolized another transition - the end of Jimmy as Kim knew him, and beginning of Saul as Jesse and Walt come to know him.

We knew Saul successfully represented Jesse’s partner and Krazy 8’s cousin, Emilio twice. By the time Jesse and Walt meet him, Jesse’s confident in identifying him as a criminal lawyer/ “the real deal.” This meaningful scene demonstrates Saul signing away his life as Jimmy; he identifies that life as one with Kim, and he literally signed the divorce papers right before this scene. Kim exits his life, and in the last part of her conversation with Jesse, he asks, “so this guy, is he any good?” And she says, “when I knew him, he was.” But now, he’s breaking bad, and he’s already there before Walt ever meets him. Through Kim and Jesse’s seen, we saw another visual transition.

The Viktor/Gene phone call to Kim symbolized the end of “Viktor” as Jimmy knew the persona, and his fate of remaining trapped as Gene eternally, whether he dies, gets locked up, or continued on, bored, tired, and reckless, leaving us to imagine the outcome. We already KNOW the outcome. Jimmy never turned into Saul, Gene, OR Victor. He’s just always been the same person, getting progressively worse as time goes on.

I’ve noted some people questioning if the scene with Jesse and Kim was necessary (if we had to see Jesse there). In my analysis, the answer is absolutely, yes. It serves this “transition” idea, Jimmy becoming different versions of this person he’s always been, and the people, crucial to his life, who all knew him differently.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this, and the below part written last week.

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The visual transitions, back and forth from the BCS and Gene eras also struck me as telling for this character we’ve watched for years now, wondering about defining moments that would explain drastic shifts in his character. The writers shocked us initially by seeming to glaze over all that, but now I see why.

Those transitions blended Saul and Gene so perfectly, and Gene exhibits clear relics of Jimmy’s character, even going back to the Viktor-with-a-k identity from his early pranking days. Gene channels Jimmy because he IS Jimmy and he IS Saul. The scenes between Saul and Gene blend impeccably to the point that it looked for a second that Gene was there in the desert on the ground before we zoomed into him laying in bed. That’s the point. It’s the same guy. It’s been the same guy, now we’re finally learning who he’s always been, and it’s these characteristics that are taking him down.

Driving this point home for me: when Jimmy tried to convince Kim to stay and telling her she’d one day forget all about what they’d done/ the horrible things that happened, that sounded like he was channeling the advice Mike gave to him, back when he got into the dangerous situation because he was in over his head, “dragged” into the situation, but really he got there himself because he couldn’t turn down the money Lalo agreed to pay. This time, when Gene tried to persuade Buddy to proceed with robbing this man with cancer, it reminded me of Lalo persuading Jimmy and Kim to kill Gus, telling them they could do it and it was no big deal. That’s how far gone Jimmy/Saul/Gene is; he sounds like the same guy Saul is so terrified of when he meets Jesse and Walt, making it perfect that the episode began with and featured that scene.

"there's this one new year's tradition I always wanted to do..."

(another) bite sized s3 trailer recap

For science, I think we should just. drop Victor Frankenstein in Arcane LoL. U know. Let him lose his shit. Let him grab another Viktor and tell him "STOP BEFORE ITS TOO LATE AND EVERYONE YOU KNOW AND LOVE IS DEAD"

Yuri on ice?

Chris is a mess too, but much more comfortable with it. He’s barefoot, his shirt is only held closed by the middle button, and his belt is undone and letting his pants hang loose around his hips. He’s grinning when he comes through the door, but then his eyes sweep over Viktor and his smile slides away and is replaced with solemn concern. He knows Viktor; knows that for all his playful cheer, he is always in control when in public. This is an evident exception.

In which Viktor has a minor Menty B in a bathroom right after the dance-off. (Probably the only bit for YoI I'll be sharing. Idk what was going on with me when I dabbled in writing for YoI, but the results are especially cringe. 😅)