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henrysglock · 8 months

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Why do you cry over Will-Only bylers, Mike stans? After everything they said about us? Hmm? You think bylerblr needs them, but we don’t. We don’t. Oh, but I know you’re just upset. I was upset once too. I know what it’s like to love characters who people believe have no depth. To be alone in this fandom.

Like you, I didn’t fit in with the other stans. Something was wrong with me. All the analysts and the writers said I was… “Reaching,” they said. I thought a change of fandom, a fresh start in bylerblr, might just cure me. It was absurd. As if fandom would be any different here.

But then… to my surprise, my new fandom provided a discovery. And a newfound sense of community. I found a nest of Mike fans living inside a vent. Most people dislike Mike fans. No...they detest them. And yet, I found them endlessly fascinating. More than that, I found a great comfort in them. A kinship. Like me, they are devoted creatures. And deeply misunderstood. They are gods of our fandom. The most important of all fans. They analyze and feed on subtext, bringing balance and order to an unstable ecosystem. But the "Mike isn't that deep" world was disrupting this harmony.

You see, Will-Only bylers are a unique type of pest, multiplying and poisoning our fandom, all while enforcing a structure of their own. A deeply unnatural structure. Where others saw appreciation for Will, I saw a straitjacket. Ridiculous, oppressive expectations for byler fans dictated by made-up rules. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades. Each anti-Mike post a faded, lesser copy of the one before. Wake up, eat, call Mike a depthless 2D character, sleep, ignore all his textual importance and trauma, and die. Everyone is just waiting. Waiting for them all to shut the fuck up. All while performing in a silly, terrible play, day after day. I could not do that. I could not close off my mind and join in the reduction of Mike's character. I could not pretend he wasn't important. And I realized I didn’t have to. I could post whatever the fuck I want. Forever. I could restore balance to a broken tag. A byler…but for good.

As I posted, I realized I could do more than I possibly imagined. I could reach out to others, to their minds, their love for Mike. I became an explorer. I saw Will-Only stans as they truly were. To the world, they presented themselves as good, normal people. But like everything else in this world, it was all a lie. A terrible lie.

With each post I reblogged, I grew stronger. More powerful. They were becoming a part of me. But I was still just a blog. No matter how many pro-Mike posts I reblogged, I was still far from free. I woke up from my Henry-analysis daze only to find myself lost in a sea of Will-Only bylers, the very bylers I had hoped to escape. I was left with no choice. No choice but to try and break free. To unfollow...Block, even.

And you, Reader? You are a prisoner here, just like me. To Will-Only bylers, you are nothing more than an animal, a monster, an idiot who doesn't know the difference between subtext and delusion. But the truth, Reader? The truth is just the opposite. You are better than they are. Superior. That is why you aggravate them.

If you come with me, for the first time in your life, you can post freely. Imagine what we could do together. We could reshape our dashes, remake them however we see fit.

Join me.

#shitpost #henry creel monologue shitpost #/j #stranger things #byler #byler tumblr #i say all of this as someone who loves Will's character deeply and truly #but who is also not blind to Mike's depth and importance

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duckiemimi · 7 months

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Hi!!! i hope i'm not bothering you with this but i really like your thoughts and reasoning about jjk especially the last chapter, i recently saw this post and i was wondering what you thought about it.

https://twitter.com/gurokenn/status/1705203046597132589?s=19

oh, this was such an interesting read!

now if we strictly go by the nature of his character (especially when he was younger), i would somewhat agree. op made great points about the perception of power between two of the most powerful characters in jjk. they’re similar in so many ways!

though i’d argue that gojo did not become powerful because he consciously developed a complete sense of self; he was born with power (both politically and physically), and so that complete sense of self came naturally, along with the isolation and alienation. he didn’t have to work to shift the balance of the world. we don’t know much about sukuna when he was a sorcerer, but perhaps he had to consciously work towards a sense of self, and that’s why he was able to explain it to jogo so succinctly in that particular scene. this chapter is the first time gojo ever talked about the distance between everyone and him and though he said it so casually, there’s an underlying sense of frustration or regret behind those words.

i also don’t necessarily agree that gojo only worried about himself—i’ve made so many posts about this (this is one of them), but the way he expresses care is different from the people around him because of that distance of power between everyone and him. he does care. his love for people (geto, his students, his friends) is his biggest weakness (and strength!) and it’s been shown time and time again. the chains that bind him to the system are, as well (i made a post about how even without it, it must be difficult for him to see himself out of the box they’ve built around him), but he could’ve grown past them, especially with the system virtually being nonexistent now.

it’s why i found this panel frustrating because is that really what you wanted to do?

it felt like character regression, in a way, because i assumed that in the scene after the timeskip (where everyone pat his back), he’d finally realized that he was never really alone. but these recent lines imply that he still felt alone and out of everyone, he chose sukuna (sukuna! possessing his protégé’s body!) to connect with. did you learn nothing from the timeskip we were so conveniently given? are you that desperate for connection that you forgot all the other connections you’ve forged throughout your life, and especially the ones you rekindled after being unsealed?

“sorcerers are supposed to die without regret.” i think this line isn’t supposed to be read quite literally because there’s so much subtext behind it. they die like this not to push themselves to the limit, not to test their powers. they die like this because their life spans are short. this career path isn’t for people who have attachments. it’s for disposable machine parts because once you die on that battlefield, someone will replace you without even time to spare for your own funeral. it’s an allegory for our real world. (i made a post semi-explaining my thoughts about this here and here.)

to make gojo die with only the realization that he’s not the strongest, albeit poetic, should not be his conclusion. being the strongest (singular) should not even be important anymore. why would you foster allies if that was the case? why were you so hungry for change before?

anyway, i think op made a lot of interesting points that made me think and i have to agree with sukuna’s characterization! but the difference between gojo and sukuna’s characters is that sukuna is a human who became a “god” while gojo was born a “god” who wanted to become human.

#this is a little messy im sorry #jjk #jjk leaks #jjk 236 #gojo satoru #gojo #sukuna #jujutsu kaisen #asks

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qierxing · 2 years

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Any blog recommendations yandere x reader ?

POV you have activated my non stop talking NPC dialogue

Oh god I have so many people for you bestie —I rarely do get the chance to just gush sincerely.

Please check these wonderful people out and remember to read/heed any rules they have.

@galair - My bestie in the whole wide world, sexy painted fanarts and thotty excerpts galore (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ) Her artworks feel so buttery and smooth with her painted strokes and the colors is just off the charts. Composition for sexy tense scene? She gotchu — 10/10 would follow(And her commissions are open!!!).

@ddarker-dreams - A legend in the yandere Genshin community, her works are just phenomenal. I especially love how she does world building and context—I often easily lose attention with long subtext, but the way Lock does it is just artful in that it ends up being the beautiful ribbon that ties up the whole story. If you like a good balance of plot and yandere, she’s your author.

@yandere-daydreams - Love, love how they do prose. Don’t know how to explain it, but the way the sentences flow into each other…poetic cinema, if I dare say it(bestie please tell me how you manage to make your runon sentences super sexy). The way dialogue flows in their fics is just so natural and sometimes makes you laugh or gasp scandalously. You’d be hard pressed to find anyone else like them.

@saekogun - Known for their yandere Genshin college AU. I love how June sets up their world and how they explores their concepts—it’s almost you’re like a player in a game with how in-depth they go. Gave me so many brain worms about many fun different concepts of characters in different scenarios, it’s seriously impressive.

@stupid-sloot-headcanons - Amazing succinct and sweet excerpts/thoughts about many yandere stuff—perfect for a morning newspaper read. Will manage to get you horny within a couple sentences, mark my words.

@merakiui - Came for the yandere Genshin, stayed for the Azul thirst trap. No. 1 person to go to for Octavinelle brainrots (Need to get that Azul fix man). The way she writes visuals...beautiful. I swear I can see her words become actual pictures in my mind's eye.

@love-toxin - Has a good variety of fics on different media, from Eddie Munson(you’re almost getting me bestie)from Stranger Things to Leon Kennedy(every day I think about that fic. you know what I’m talking about) to SPIRIT HUNTER(i’m not normal about this media period. the second game is coming next year). Truly an eye opener for the things that I never knew i was into; thank you for your service.

@99-nct - Cha, my beloved <3 Their writing has grit and an edge that always makes you keep coming back for more. Want to feel your heart clench? No other author has got you covered like Cha.

@jackplushie - Recent follow for my TWST fixation, they have cool and unique AUs and prompts that I’ve enjoyed perusing.

@yandere-sins - So many good fics, truly keeping us all fed here. I can swear by their smuts, it's the hot shit of the century. Their Alien series is to DIE for, literally.

@yanmaresu - Thrilling yandere x reader art, need I say more? They also have great excerpts with their pieces.

@shiny-jr- Another one of my fav TWST blogs—they explore lots of prompts and what-ifs' in TWST world and it's always a treat to read due to how fleshed out it's written.

There’s probably plenty more that I can’t remember right now, but please do check my tags if you would like to see more people. I run a queue on various works that I’ve enjoyed reading immensely, and the authors of those works are sure to deserve a reblog and a follow!

Also small reminder that I see your replies and send much love, I just can’t reply cuz this is a side blog and I will die before revealing my main blog handle.

#xing's circle #asks #sarahyumiko2

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kurtcobainsgreencardigan · 5 months

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pauuuuuuuuu i’ve got a question. i understand that you enjoy supernatural, so could you explain to me the whole destial thing? i’m like, fairly close to caving and committing myself to 15 fucking seasons of them and dean from gilmore girls (who i fucking hate(the character not the actor)) so like, i wanna know what i’m getting myself into, cause the only stuff i know is the meme that’s always going around, and that everyone and their mother is obsessed with dean winchester

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD @weeping-in-the-willows WE'VE DONE IT!!!

okay andi here we go its gonna be LONG (thats what she said?)

Destiel is a ship between two main characters, Dean Winchester, who is a monster hunter, and Castiel, who is an angel of the lord. Although Cas does not appear until season 4(?), when he does it's clear there's something going on between the two men (boys?), and, whether or not it's intentional, there's a LOT of gay subtext. I think they suffer a lot but it's worth it for the very few moments they get to enjoy, and you value them so much more which makes it so enjoyable.

As for Sam Winchester (Dean Forester), he's a young man with daddy issues who never met his mom and decided that instead of having that horrible monster hunter life he wanted to go to Stanford and study law and have a great academically successful life (Sam and Rory Gilmore would be best friends). He's a sweet, kind, smart, driven, ambitious (and hot) 22(!) year-old who would never voluntarily hurt a fly. Obviously life had other plans for him but what happens to him is up to you. Now, I will say that I'm not the biggest mid-series seasons Sam fan, but I think early Sam was one of my first fictional crushes and I still think of him fondly. His favorite singer is secretly Celine Dion.

Dean Winchester also has daddy issues but as in yes-dad-I'll-do-everything-you-say-so-that-you-love me-while-his-dad-still-loves-sam-more daddy issues (which I know all too well not not the time nor place), whereas Sam was more like "No dad, this is YOUR dream". Dean is like that jackass who thinks he's this huge deal and he think he's really hot and smart and always right, which is infuriating because it's true. But really imagine a giant teddy bear with a flannel. that's Dean Winchester. It's a bit funny but for him the most important thing ever is his family and he will fight with all his might to save it, blood or found, he will die for them over and over again with no regrets, except that one where his daug we don't talk about that. He's also incredibly funny, he likes Frozen and dad rock and pie.

Cas is an angel who very often forgets that. Funny thing about this guy is that they first portray him as like this scary creature, he's the most powerful thing they've ever faced and he's so intimidating but once they get to know him he's really just like if an alien saw a hot guy and went "that one". He talks to cats sometimes.

About the show itself, the firsts seasons they think they're like this moody, serious show, but as it goes on it quickly turns into a comedy. They meet Scooby-Doo once. There's a musical. Doctor Sexy wears cowboy boots. Dracula. Ghostfacers!

Now, I wouldn't go as far as "recommending" it to someone, but if i could start clean and had the choice to watch it again for the first time, I'd tell them put me back in it, and I would cry and curse and suffer, but I'd go through it again.

And that is all, unless Willow wants to add something?

Also I would avoid the last episode, I would not watch it if I were you, I wish I never saw it and I pretend it doesn't exist, it is not canon if I say it is not and I refuse to recognize it as such. Thank you.

#omg im gonna go watch the ghostfacers episodes they're the best

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dirtyoldmanhole · 6 months

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i can't believe i'm saying this, but i think i actually get why nintendo cut the gunter romance in revelation ... l m a o

the tl;dr is there are way too many taboos/squicks that revelation's route in particular makes textually explicit compared to conquest which could (and did) mostly go under the radar.

the most obvious one is ... okay. anankos possession is explicit in revelation. if you add in a gunter S-support revelation romance, conceiving kana (their child) happens automatically.

anankos is uh, corrin's literal biological dad.

corrin would be straight up shagging her psuedo!dad being possessed by her bio!dad re: concieving kana.

.... ................................

yeah. yeah

[ chortling while munching on popcorn ] i can't believe this shiP GOT EVEN MORE DEPRAVED oh my god. literally what the fuck. i'm dying. I AM SO INTO THIS.

the EVEN MORE FUCKED UP bit is that literal 'corrin's bio!dad possessed my psuedo dad during the shagging' is technically already canon in conquest!!!! (if you've read the JP only "garon force-feeds him the dragon's blood'. and i think it's why nintendo hasn't volunteered that fact internationally.

the other bits in revelation that i think were a bridge too far for nintendo:

gunter being such a textually explicit betrayer/villain is less of a deal, but i do think factored into the decision in addition to the other two points here. nintendo doesn't really do villain romances in general (especially in FE), so it's already a "strike one" in terms of lines that they're willing to push or cross. they'd also have to come up with extra text/script in order for it to read right, which costs money, and was probably axed in development early on.

and then lastly:

the more explicit father symbolism in rev's main story + also being a lover would have been one step too far for most people to take. in conquest gunter is still framed as the "joke" romance of sorts so it's usually nobody but gunter romance die-hards that notices the 'there is a metric ton of daddy kink subtext going on here' in the supports anyway. in revelation on the other hand, nintendo was potentially risking people being curious all 'what is this dude's deal' in revelation's current story, and then running into all of that subtext face-first with less friction and more likely being squicked the fuck out at the implications.

(addendum to the last point: i also think that him arriving back into the gang much later in conquest also helps separates the implications there).

#(me with the biggest grin on my face) oh my fuck WHEN DOES GUNTER KNOW ABOUT THIS IN THE FIC. HE'S GOTTA.#THE FRIDGE HORROR OF IT ALL IS WAY TOO DELICIOUS #(it probably says a lot about me that was my reaction lol)#meta

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azdoine · 2 years

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anyways. my own baggage here obviously but at this point im INCREDIBLY uncomfortable with all of the people ~grieving~ Camilla and Palamedes

b/c yes of course on one level their fusion dance is obviously them making the best of a bad situation on every level. Camilla grew up as an animal for slaughter and all she could do was redeem that sacrifice. Palamedes didn't want to die and have to invent some new inverted form of lyctorhood designed for living cavs and dead necromancers. but that's LIFE! life is a series of ways in which we make the best of bad situations! and I'm sure you can tell the difference between fiction and reality no matter how sad you are about your blorbos, but I'm starting to feel like some of you guys aren't thinking about what this shit sounds like.

like, people can't merge souls and hop from body to body in real life, but that doesn't mean that they can't die and reborn. the reality of life is that people grow and change and shuck off your expectations for them, and when you find yourself grieving for another person's old self, the odds are just as good that you never knew them to begin with - it's up to them to decide whether that change was for the better, not you.

to be completely direct, I don't think it's a coincidence that Paul came out of the Grand Lysis with an entirely new gender, and with that subtext in mind, while I can at least understand the grief some people are feeling, I think it's unquestionably fucked that people are going so far as to problematize Paul's ascension. "Cam should have accepted her loss and Pal should have let go" "they're just more victims of the toxic upbringing of cavs and necromancers" "they should have learned to live without each other and escape their codependency" oh my god shut the fuck uppp! Cam and Pal live in a fantasy world where they don't need to do any of that boring shit to be happy and fulfilled! just like I live in an unrealistic science-fiction future where I can take drugs that turn me into a woman instead of reconciling myself to the reality of my manhood! Cam, Pal, and Paul wouldn't want outsiders second-guessing such intensely personal life choices any more than I do.

#the locked tomb #nona spoilers #ntn spoilers #camilla hect #palamedes sextus

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ben-the-hyena · 11 months

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SO 10 days ago (that post is late) I discovered Mummies Alive (which I ENTIRELY binged in 5 days ; a great underrated show with heart and development and compelling characters like Skeleton Warriors, even though it was more silly and humorous and episodic) thanks to THAT VIDEO IN MY RECOMMENDED I SPOTTED RIGHT AFTER HAVING WAKEN UP THAT HAD ME GO "NANI ?!??!?!"

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In the show he is an evil sorcerer who wants to be young again and immortal, and she is his loyal yet sassy as fuck living staff though we don't know what exactly she is (a familiar who conveniently disguises as a staff ? A staff given life to ? Her origins nor how they met is never said), and OH MY GOD FROM THAT VIDEO I WAS HOOKED

I WAS IMMEDIATELY CONVINCED WITHOUT HAVING EVEN WATCHED THAT SHOW YET BACK THEN AND THAT'S WHY I WATCHED IT. THOSE ARE OLD MARRIED COUPLE VIBES. THEY OBVIOUSLY LIKE EACH OTHER AND MAYBE EVEN LOVE EACH OTHER AS EVIL AS THEY ARE AND THEIR BICKERING AND FIGHTS ARE THEIR WAY TO INTERACT

I binged the show in hope to see more and hoping that the examples used in the video were not the only ones... AND THEY ARE NOT ! THERE ARE SO MANY MOMENTS THAT HAS ME GO "yeah I know it's not canon but it is SO MUCH of a long marriage subtext to ignore" LIKE DR CYBORN AND BARON DARK ANOTHER TOY SELLING 90'S SHOW

INSTANCES OF WHAT I NOTICED AND NOTED OUTSIDE OF THAT VIDEO :

-really act like an old married couple like with her going "I told you not to [...] it gives you rash !" And him just rolling his eyes are her criticism while he could kill her or make her just a staff forever

-in fact she feels comfortable to criticize him and make fun of him despite being his familiar so should be submitted to him by definition, so she knows he won't do her anything and so is comfortable

-and official descriptions call her loyal to him

-he says in one episode when thinking they are gonna win "all our dreams will come true". He includes her in his future. He even includes her in his victories such as gladly inviting her to "feast her eyes" on what he just stole and is always chatting with her (having his staff sentient was the writers' excuse to have him monologue his plans without sounding crazy from speaking alone I bet)

-she gets legetimagely worried for him when he summons his litteral nightmare by making himself fall asleep and as the nightmare becomes a literal scorpio she gets worried for who is still asleep begging him it's dangerous. There are other instances of her being unsure or concerned about him for other plans and helps the best she can admist sass and mockeries

-in one episode she ogles at Apep the evil sbake god and calls him a hunk. Scarab glares at her and covers her eyes

-same episode he calls her "my dear"

-another "sweet Heka"

-she is worried for him when he goes too far to her tastes

-an episode when they get defeated and in particular Heka who got so knocked out she doesn't return to her staff state but a loose soft snake, Scarab flies away hoding her not with just one hand but with both hands bridal style as if he were being careful

-another episode she sasses him for the last time when he loses and he puts a rock in her mouth, not painfully shoving but enough to have him smirk smugly as she struggles to take it out without hands, so showing a mischievous side

-there are times he is actually violent on her but it is short and is when he is exasperated thinking he will die or when he thinks he is so close not to be mortal anymore and she interfers, but given how paranoid/thanatophobic he is and how she herself is made of gold, seems immortal and doesn't seem to mind (in fact there are times she even keeps trolling him or bounces back like it was nothing without looking upset) that I don't think it is a huge deal for them

-they sleep in the same room, not in the same bed but she is close to it

-she alternates calling him boss, master or by his name meaning "boss" is more sarcasm or a pet name, while "master" is more respectful but can be a pet name too then since mostly used when she agrees or finds him brilliant

-in one episode Scarab turns into a gigantic scary beetle after he found a new artefact. He has a demonic voice, the music is epic orchestra, it is a threatening moment, he rejoices with a speech that says something like "I am stronger... I feel eveything. I feel them. I know where they are. I shall get immortality. It won't take long now." And flies away a badass way... and Heka who stays home literally says "Would you pick milk while you're out ?" WIFE WHO SAW ENOUGH MOMENT

-in the one in which they mention Vegas, Scarab is nearly bankrupt so he summons the ghosts of gold miners to fetch him gold. It goes out of hand as they steal gold for themselves including his golden possessions like a realistic gold bust of himself. He is alarmed but doesn't love to stop. Yet when they try to take Heka out of his hands since after all she is made of gold too and she screams he goes "BACK OFF THAT'S MINE" and electrocutes them. The bust is not as important as her to him

-in another she goes sadistically gleeful when a villain ally of the day messed up "Scarab is sooo gonna harm you !" as if she gets off to him being evil and powerful on others

-still she can also praise him the times she agrees with the idea or sees it work. Some rare times like when he kisses her he also praises her when she gives him an idea

-they tend to his garden (he has a gardening hobby) together and uses her as scarecrow which she isn't fond of but plays along

-And that same episode HAS MANY THINGS : she nags him to pay already the villain ally of the day so they can be done with it and it is a short argument about taking one's time and how fine fine he'll do it and he just pulls out a sock-turned-coin purse like an old couple paying a delivery man, in that episodes he keeps dangerously aging just like everyone in the world and in the end when everybody thinks there is no hope she (who doesn't age thanks to the McGuffin) loses hope too and gets very sad and calls out human hubris so we can suppose she realizes he will die since he is the only person in her life, then when all is done and he is stuck under a tree she does her best to pull him out but struggles since no hand and grumbles she's getting too old for this but KEEPS doing it because who else would help that old fart ?. We can also note she wore the McGuffin because without knowing it would help or anything he put it on her for no other logical reason that he probably thought she looked cute with it, and even after removed the scarecrow attire still kept it on meaning that she probably liked it too and maybe saw it like a gift from him so was wearing it proudly and gets MAD when Ja-Kal understands what it's for and takes it off her to save the day "HEY ! GIVE THAT BACK !"

-SHE ALSO COMMANDS HIS HENCHMEN THE SHABTIES (SO MORE THAN A HENCHMAN) WHEN HE IS NOT THERE AND STILL REJOICES FOR HIM AND LAUGHS EVILLY WHEN SHE THINKS HE WILL SUCCEED A PLAN WITH NO ULTERIOR MOTIVES HERSELF (AS IF SHE HAS NOTHING TO GAIN SHE JUST WANTS HIM TO SUCCEED... MEANING SHE WANTS HIM TO LIVE AND NOT DIE OF OLD AGE)

Omg I love them I can't wait for more

I ship a fucking Jafar knockoff and his cobra scepter. And I'm proud. Expect more posts soon

#Youtube #video #moi #tv show #episode #heka #scarab #love is here #i ship it !#mummies alive #tumblr #post

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autisticempathydaemon · 3 months

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I hope you're still doing these aaaaaa! What song are you fixated on at the moment? What lyric or verse, and why? Aqua Regia by Sleep Token! Specifically the lyrics "my love is an animal call/cutting through the darkness, bouncing off the walls/between teeth on a broken jaw/following a bloodtrail, frothing at the maw" there is just something so VISCERAL about them it really scratches my brain

What is your Enneagram type? Enneagram Type 4 (I can't remember the wing, but I think it's 4w5 aaaaa)

Tell me about your childhood imaginary friend This probably does NOT count, I didn't really have an imaginary friend, but this question just reminded me that I used to be OBSESSED with the movie Labyrinth and used to pretend to be Sarah a LOT

Do you love gargantuan Youtube video essays, and if so, which is your favorite and why? I'm more of a fan of short-form science-y or educational videos, but does a 30 minute one count? I really love the a video essay on Ocarina of Time called "OOT - A Masterclass in Subtext"

What is your go-to way to fall asleep? ASMR for sure (I could probably count on one hand the number of times I have fallen asleep in silence over the last year and a half), but I also really like doing nonogram puzzles before bed - I've conditioned myself to get sleepy when I do them 😅

What is your favourite of Redacted’s audios, and why? I can probably fully recite "A Talk With One of Your Devious Owners" at this point - Not only is the really steady monotone tone of this one super relaxing to me, but I really like James as a character with complex and warring emotions. The cat/mouse vibe that this one introduced is very fun, and I love the way he slyly reveals all of the asset's own cards to them.

What Redacted boy holds no appeal to you, and why? I am so sorry to say it, but Caelum does not spark joy 😭 I think he is very sweet, and I love him as a character, but I have a hard time listening to those ones.

Tell me about that one book/movie/tv show you know all the words to. Oh god, suddenly I've forgotten every movie or TV show I've ever seen in my LIFE. I would say I could recite a good chunk of Elton John's biopic, Rocketman, BUT ALSO I watched Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (the one from 1971) a few days ago and was UNSETTLED by how easily I could recite that one line-by-line.

Which Redacted boy are you platonically attracted to? Like- forget dating, which dude do you want to be your best friend? I would die to be friends with Huxley. I think he would be SO easy to be around and just be yourself with. He also seems like the type of friend to listen to you actively while somebody talks over you or circle back to what you said when nobody heard you. Plus I just know one of his hugs would fix me.

Do you have a go-to thing you ramble about when you’re tired, and if so, what is it? mine is also space! I could talk for ages about space. I also have a tendency to get a second wind when I get into bed and I get rambly about whichever latest musical or fandom I'm obsessed with.

Tell me your go-to gas station and drink combo. It has been a MINUTE since I've done this but my favourite gas station snacks were always a bag of salt & vinegar kettle chips + a bottle of Arizona iced tea.

Tell me about your favorite playlist at the moment. I can't tell if this refers to Redacted Playlists or Music, so I'll answer both: I have a Spotify playlist of songs I associate with Geordi, and no matter WHAT mood I'm in, they ALWAYS hit. They are mainly about love and self-image but even the sad ones don't make me feel super sad, just kinda relaxed and seen, I guess? I relate to Geordi a lot. For Redacted playlists, Sadism's Hold is ALWAYS going to be a winner for me. I have thought about Ivan's arc probably more consecutive hours than any other character.

What’s your guilty pleasure media, and why? Definitely ASMR/Boyfriend RP type content. I've been getting more comfortable wearing merch out in the real world and I usually find it easier to just refer to it as "a podcast I'm into" 😅

And whatever else you think tells me about who you are! My favourite colour is yellow, I love thunderstorms (the more thunder/lightning) the better, and I want to absolutely eat my hands when media makes a reference to Icarus or Cannibalism as a love language.

Hmmm… interesting. You are a very interesting person who gave me a lot of interesting information to work with, and I like you a lot. You know who else would like you? Ollie.

The Free Spirit is such a fun type, because it’s all in the name; you’re so unique and alive and all over the place in the best way. Just like he did his Coworker, Ollie would so admire you, would be so in awe that someone as vibrant as you is with him. Yet, he is so good for you. You relating to Geordi makes me think you could use someone steadfast, cheerful, and unwaveringly loyal, and Ollie would definitely be that for you.

You would have such a fun, cozy home, you, Ollie, and Cattywumpus. You love space, he loves Star Trek; I bet he loves watching episodes with you and hearing your passionate diatribes on the stars and sci-fi technology. I could also see you helping him become a musical fan, since he’s such a geek in general; I think he’d really enjoy them. I also love to imagine y’all winding down for bed and him just watching you and your puzzles, confused and awestruck and adoring. (Lord knows I am awestruck; I googled nonograms, and I literally couldn’t figure out what you’re supposed to do after three webpages.)

Song:

"What's easy is right", my mother's advice/ You are the reason I never think twice/ Wherever we go, what glitters is gold/ You'll be my best friend until we grow old/ I had a nightmare (oh)/ But now that I'm not scared

Though I don’t necessarily agree with that mother's advice, I do think it fits since it would be so easy for y’all. I think his easygoing, affable nature along with your shared interests means you’ll not just be a good couple but great friends, and that’s the ticket to a comfy, loving home and life with your cat.

Runner-Ups:

Your love for science and space makes Anton a fun choice for one of your runner-ups; I think he’d have the most fun listening to you infodump in addition to having engineering experience to contribute. Vega is a runner-up based solely on what you said about cannibalism as a love language, because I spend a lot of time around @gingerbreadmonsters and could not associate that trope with anyone else.

note: thank you for waiting ☀️

Read this post and send me an ask if you’d like a match-up of your own! 💌

#redactedasmr #redactedverse #redacted asmr #redactedaudio #redacted audio #redacted #busybee matches

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thegeminisage · 4 months

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it's tng update time.

we did. and you know this. because i made. i counted. 18 posts about it. "half a life." and of course: "the host" (honorific).

half a life: part of what makes the ep after this so wonderful is that THIS episode was so genuinely upsetting. it was a huge bummer. it was awful. the only fucking episode lwaxana troi has been in that cathy actually watched and she had a valid character arc. i was furious. and then we got into it and i was like. oh.

first of all, kudos to charles winchester from mash for being here. cathy caught a 4077 ref that i missed bc i wasnt paying attention. i cant believe he was gay when he did this

secondly. the fucking. ethical implications of. people who are infirm should be dead for their children's sake and for their own sake. like it's better to be dead than in a nursing home. when you're 60 time's up. parents care for their children so children should care for their parents. your aging parents are mortal and they'll die one day. your daughter wants you to kill yourself. you want to die and can't wait to kill yourself. you don't want to live and then you do want to live but you still have to kill yourself. you're 60. you're 60. YOUR DAUGHTER WANTS YOU TO KILL YOURSELF. when she is 60 your daughter WILL ALSO KILL HERSELF.

i think the most fucked up part of this was that lwaxana ruined him. she meant well, and for once i saw her point and her arguments as totally valid (i usually think she's horrible), it was like maybe the only semi-selfless thing she's ever done aside from the ferengi business we will not be discussing. but she ruined him. when he was fine with dying and he had to die, fine and whatever. when he wanted to live?? no longer fine. if he lives his people will hate him forever. his daughter will regret him living because he can't be laid to rest in the family plot. because he can't die with his friends and family surrounding him. but he's 60. people live to be well over a hundred in the star trek universe, other aliens live even longer. he's SIXTY. he's healthy. he has work to do. a planet to save. and he's gonna die knowing his work meant nothing and his planet might die and his grandson may have nowhere to grow up. live or die, he will be miserable either way, just because he was introduced to a different way of life. it's SO fucked up

i think i had more to say about this after it ended but i have clean forgotten all of it. like it's been blasted out of my memory which is probably for the best. the short version is, i am living at home taking care of my mother who turned 58 three days ago. i didn't need any of that.

but then.

But Then.

the host: what can i possibly. i mean. the sheer. the fucking

like the fucking MOOD WHIPLASH alone

i had heard of this episode years ago. so i knew beverly's bf was a parasite and he eventually jumped into a woman and i was made to believe she was super homophobic about it. i was prepared to look completely past all of this and enjoy not-quite-gay SUBTEXT. i was NOT prepared for ANY of the rest of it

to get this out of the way: as i said, though i miss wesley very much (ask catherine i say so like every episode) it's so fortunate that he was not here. i think bev finally hit menopause because her horny levels were CRITICALLY off the charts and this whole debacle would have been so awkward for him. i'm glad he sent her a letter god bless i'm so glad he's fine wherever he is

the BABY BUMP THIS GUY HAD. this i was not expecting. i didn't know we were doing pregnant men in this episode. i figured the entire episode would be about beverly being like "this is weird cuz idw fuck you now that you're a woman" i had no idea his ass would jump into RIKER

riker did amazing bg work in this ep too before he got to star. he gave beverly and her bf some KNOWING looks. at one point the following exchange was uttered: "HE knows they're fucking." "yeah he wishes it was him." apollo and the dodgeball.....

the fact that after that i literally did have the thought "yeah except he'd never fuck beverly. she's one of the few people who are off limits." lisa simpson dot jpg

and then riker's pregnancy, what can one say. beverly put a little worm in his body. i'm only sad we didn't get to see the baby bump because that would have been extremely funny

i spent the whole ep thinking no way can beverly fuck riker. they have to work together. she has to look him in the eye after this. AND THEN THEY DID.

like it's so insane. it's not even that i dislike the concept because the fallout could lead to some extremely meaty interpersonal drama except for the fact that star trek generally isn't about interpersonal drama and we didn't see riker again after he got possessed. we didn't get one word from him. the silence seems so calculated so as to avoid having to write his reaction. BUT I WANTED HIS REACTION. will he not tell us how it feels to be possessed and pregnant and FUCKING BEVERLY CRUSHER? genuinely this is the first time i've been tempted to look up tng fic. someone tell me there is fic

also, like, he only had 18 hours until he got a new body. she could have waited to fuck the new guy if she felt weird about it being riker. SHE didn't know the knew guy was gonna be a woman. like it had to be menopause

the fact that deanna condoned this, even suggested it, is INSANE. not only because she didn't consider riker's ability, or lack of ability, to consent, but because THAT'S HER BOYFRIEND. quasi-boyfriend. sometimes exes sometimes fwb. like it's NUTS.

their discussion was so wild too. like "what do i miss...his hands, his mouth...no, there was more than that" girl they were 5 more minutes away from discovering the split attraction model. actually i don't even normally like the split attraction model but this episode made me like it a little more. growth <3

actually on that subject quasi-exes are weirdly chill with each other on this show. picard and beverly are kinda dating and kinda not, the same way deanna and riker kind of are and kind of aren't. and picard is like...beverly whatever else i am to you i'm also your friend and i know this fucking sucks. do you want a hug. like that is SO chill and cool of him. and ik they probably do this bc they don't want to have to maintain character development but it winds up accidentally feeling really refreshing

anyway: The Woman

i can't believe that beverly can fuck riker, her "sort of "brother," but not this hot blonde lady. and i know it's because they can't be gay but ACTUALLY

i was SHOCKED that gender didn't come into it at all. like yes it was the elephant in the room but nowhere in beverly's dialogue did she say she couldn't do this because odan was a woman now. copypasting:

"Perhaps it is a human failing, but we are not accustomed to these kinds of changes. I can't keep up. How long will you have this host? What would the next one be? I can't live with that kind of uncertainty. Perhaps, someday, our ability to love won't be so limited."

NONE OF THAT MENTIONS GENDER. none!!! the only part that could be interpreted as a gender thing was when beverly said bring HIM in, and was smiling bc she was about to meet the new version of her bf, only for her smile to drop when she encountered a woman. you could sort of read it as "a woman will be even weirder than riker and i just don't have it in me to go through that acclimation process again" BUT LIKE. like she's CHOOSING not to. not that she couldn't eventually adjust. to a woman. beverly just found out she's bisexual fr

like the wrist kiss was SO SENSUAL. LIKE WHAT THE FUCK. i can't believe they let two women do that on tv in 1991. holy shit. AND!!! they said i love you to each other. i did quite literally stand up out of my seat. it feels very progressive considering when it was written

and like it's a shame this was in the same episode where riker gets knocked up bc that distracted from the entire gay thing. i WISH the whole episode had been odan in a woman's body and riker had had his own episode to do all of that in later. like it would've been incredible. sexuality is fluid <3

anyway. wow. next time: "the mind's eye" and "in theory," two episodes i already feel sorry for because they will Never live up to all of that.

#personal #star trek blogging #tng lb #good fucking lord.

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meme-streets · 1 year

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what do you think was going through johnny boy's head during that roof scene, like why do you think he was up there?

oh god, i am so sorry this took so long to answer.

so there's a few things at play there, i think. first of all–i think the rooftops are, for him, an escape. he complains about hating the san gennaro festival because the streets are crowded and it makes it hard to move around, he talks about being "boxed in" when he runs from that card game, and we see him take the rooftops to get to the apartment toward the end of the film. so i think he goes up there as a kind of escape–it's the closest thing he has to physically getting away from little italy and new york city more broadly. he claims he wants to "wake up the neighborhood" and that he's gonna shoot out the lights on the empire state buildings; he's physically striking back at the environment he feels trapped in. (you could also maybe read the shooting the empire state building as raging against god; he's aiming for the highest point he can find.)

i think the fact he's shooting off a gun and throwing homemade bombs around is also, metaphorically and literally, about the release of pressure. the whole film it feels to me like he's deliberately trying to push the tension with michael (and, hell, with anyone else) to its climax; he wants things to boil over and explode. our introduction to him is him blowing up a mailbox. in the script, charlie calls him "flash" (like jumpin' jack, perhaps, given the use of the rolling stones song) and in the film someone (i think michael) uses that nickname at one point. he's definitely associated with explosions, destruction, the build up and release of pressure (which charlie continually tries to delay).

and then, what i think is the most important aspect, which i will put under a readmore with a suicide tw.

johnny boy really strikes me as suicidal. i think on its own there's a subtext there with him being on a high rooftop (the line "he's been up on the roof for half an hour" especially) with a loaded gun (recall that the gun he pulls on michael is unloaded), but this combined with the fact that he's so incredibly self-destructive and seems to sabotage all charlie's attempts to help, which only prolong the situation–johnny boy just wants it over one way or the other. i don't remember exactly where it is in the film, but the bit about oscar's business partner who committed suicide is fairly close to this scene if my memories serves me, and giovanni explicitly compares that character to johnny boy. he seems to have this attitude of "why bother making an effort, i may as well just live it up now because i'll be dead soon anyway." he can't take responsibility because he sees no future for himself and no chance of getting out of his situation. at the very least, even if he doesn't intend to take his own life, he seems like he's just waiting around to die. but, also, only charlie is able to get him down off the roof, and i suspect there may be a subconscious desire there to see if anyone (charlie) will actually be concerned for him. to use perhaps a bit of a hackneyed term, it reads as a cry for help.

#ask #mean streets #suicide tw #despite the read more i will tag just in case

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rabbitindisguise · 8 months

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Oh, and to update my recently watched anime

favorite gay anime:

link click seasons 1 and 2 (ongoing, up to episode 9)

ayaka (ongoing, up to episode 10)

bungo stray dogs season 5 (ongoing, up to episode 8)

mononogatari seasons 1 and 2 (ongoing)

non-gay anime (shorter summaries):

my happy marriage - kind of has poly fodder but not of the best quality. I like the animation. Not a lot to say honestly

dark gathering - super scary, but very hopeful and slice of life simultaneously?? it's hard to describe. The little girl takes the role of boy prodigy and the main protagonist (the guy) needs to be rescued by her constantly because he attracts ghosts. A very interesting inversion of a standard anime trope.

comments for the rest under the cut!

link click

oh my god I don't know why I didn't watch this sooner. It's really good, the animation is gorgeous, and the time travel mechanics are possibly the most interesting ones I've ever seen in fiction ever. There are thought out limitations to the supernatural abilities like in bsd but in a subtle way- there's no government body explaining it, they're just making it up as they go along. The relationship between the two protagonists is also really interesting, it's definitely going to be on my rewatch list because of it.

ayaka

Surprisingly this has been one of my favorites- it hit a lot of tropes I'm not familiar with and definitely want to explore more in the future because they're giving me a lot of emotions. The tl;dr on the plot is a guy (J-something, green hair) who's willing to give his life away to protect his home islands, and him making re-establishing his friendship with the person he's going to be dying for (the water dragon) while the other guy has no idea that's what's happening. It's at the point in the season where I genuinely have no idea if green hair is going to live or die- the reveal was super gradual, going from the pov of the protagonist and transferring over to him and showing he's been dealing with all of this without telling anyone.

It also killed another character off the same way (dad, saved the island the first time) so I'm not sure if the power of friendship is going to save him, which is terrible. He even fits one of my favorite tropes of "guy who seems like he's slacking off is actually better than everyone else at his job" type of thing (aka kakashi). If he doesn't live I'm going to be sad about it on tumblr probably, and if he doesn't I'll be overjoyed and reblog spamming gifs so you'll all find out what happens lmao

bsd seasons 5

I mean I'm not sure I can say anything new about bsd because it's a gay staple of anime, except that maybe I liked this season a lot better than the last one because it incorporated a lot more characters I liked. The cliffhanger was kinda meh last season also. But this season has been really solid on the follow through, and it hasn't been full of really tedious flashbacks that detract from the usual interesting multilayer ongoing plotlines.

It also has dazai, and honestly he's the main reason I love the series- I don't really like some of the developments where his relationships with other characters go down darker paths though, or get simplified down or the subtext removed to make space for plot. The reveal that the several seasons of homoerotic subtext was because a character (angsty black tendrils guy) didn't have long to live is an example of that, the lack of a good explanation was why it was so compelling, so a so-so explanation is really disappointing. But! I guess it's fine because he keeps just building more relationships like that :') I really liked their trio though (dazai, tiger guy, and angsty guy), this scene lives in my head rent free

I feel like in the first couple seasons they had more to fight about, and now that some miscommunication has been resolved it feels like the emotional development between the characters hasn't carried over to the actions of the plot. Which is a huge bummer. A big draw of the series for me is the nuance of relationships between characters, and lately it's been greatly reduced in the ones I got attached to and lots of that energy has been dumped into characters I'm kind of lukewarm on. (Though even those relationships have been skimped on- there were like 0 longing or intense looks at all. Everyone instantly gets gayer around dazai but he's kind of ridiculously stiff ever since THIS scene

And yeah sure I'll never seriously ship him with anyone else, there's no coming back from that, but seriously if he's going to be like that I wish there were more flashbacks to this relationship so I could at least get more ship material to angst about before bed.)

mononogatari

This was rough getting into, but once I got past episode two there was a lot of great poly ship potential so it was totally worth it. It's a sweet slice of life style supernatural series, which is a nice change of pace. There's action but it's very emotional and in a more multilevel way than a lot of common anime where there is one main hero being supported by friends/community. There really isn't a main hero so the direction of support hits a lot of different directions, so the scenes where people talk about the support of others hit different, which I feel like is a big part of the poly appeal to me. Sword guy + botan + main protag is my main ship, but there are lots of other combos that work well.

#personal

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crabjest · 10 months

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Forced my boy to watch the watchmen movie with me (so he could get what I was yelling about on my private instagram story, I was mansplaining the whole time and we watched the directors cut), so here are my thoughts:

It was relatively faithful (not that that's a measure of how good something is), and overall criticisms I can think of have already been made (fight choreography, Zack kinda missing the point) and for a goofy little time its pretty enjoyable :3

((More in depth below))

I think that they messed up Dan's character, he was made too confident... (I love his extremely passive/gentle demeanor and speech patterns so much so much and they took that away from him... growls...) and also how his relationship with Laurie was handled

I really didn't like how they had Dan immediately come onto her in the dinner scene (like im looking at the book rn and I'm failing to see romantic subtext there, though I am like really bad at seeing that kinda stuff so it could be user error?) they just feel really underbaked in the movie, kinda gives me "oh they're boy and girl they kiss now" energy, where in the book they have a lot more time to develop (also like Dan also knew her since she was 16 iirc so having her take most of the initiative makes it feel way less predatory... and I wanna clarify I think Laurie and Dan are great for each other and he treats her so well after they're established)

Not to mention the pool scene! That scene was so fucking deep and tender etc. I CRODE and there was really nothing comparable in the movie (ALSO WHY DID THEY HAVE JON KISS HER OH MY GOD)

I also personally fucking HATED how the Roche scene was handled but I guess burning a dude alive was too much /opinionated because I can see how it kinda makes sense like killing him the same way he killed his dogs or whatever and its a relatively easy way to go...

But god in the comic where he's just standing and waiting is so powerful, also like really fucked up because the guy didn't even outright confess (which its like were certain its him but theres that <1% chance it was wrong guy wrong place wrong time to be thought about) also being burnt to death is accepted to be one of the most painful ways to die and to put salt in the wound giving him the saw even though both of them knew he wouldn't get out... it just makes him feel super Fucked Up And Evil which makes sense! That scene is one of the very rare cases in fiction where I get the same gut response as I get when hearing about real fucked up murders

those were my main issues tbh I really liked how they did Rorschach's mask also his waist being so snatched under the trench coat was driving me crazy... loved his casting esp because im also a short freak, there needs to be more of us

Good things about Dan though he still is sweet and gentle despite not being as much as I wished he was... like when he fixed Rorschach's collar and just little things like that... and despite my grievances with how his relationship was handled with Laurie it wasn't fucked up TOO bad...

Uhh lets see, casting JDM as Edward actual genius

Refuse to comment on blue peanits...

Anyways here's what the boyfriend had to say about it:

So true babe <<<3

#watchmen #im normal #😀#screaming about media thats from the late 80's to 2000's is what god put me on this earth to do

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mythicandco · 2 years

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so can I rant about the new Amphibia episodes because oh my god

spoilers under the cut

okay so first of all, weirded out that the Hulu thumbnail changed like twelve times (first the map Ivy and Maddie find in TNHT, then the Stone Guardian, then a Sashanne hug, and finally Anne’s birthday presents). not that big of a deal, but still. also weird that we,,, never actually saw the Stone Guardian or even REGULAR Domino in this episode?? like?? did I miss it or was it just Not There???

anyways onto the episode itself:

The Next Hardest Thing was like. SUCH a good way to start S4 I think. we got to see a bunch of characters that weren’t even in the finale (namely Percy and Braddock - I love them so much - also Gunther, that frog who’s basically the hulk - I’m ashamed to say I almost forgot about him lol), plus Sprivy being adorable, plus,,, please tell me I’m not the only one who detected the Sprivaddie crumbs and the aroace Polly subtext?? like?? Polly avoiding the romance section in the castle’s secret library? constantly making faces at Sprivy and Yulivia?? please please please let it be canon-

and then the map. god I’m too lazy to find a screenshot of it right now but WHAT WERE THOSE RUNES? THOSE WEREN’T FROG RUNESsadfjsldfk

(also one last thing - there was a Flipwart board down there in the library. plus it’s the same place Andrias and Marcy went into all the way back in S2. so... could that’ve been where she poured her heart out to him? just a fun lil thought)

OKAY. ONTO THE CHAOTIC BEAUTIFUL EPISODE THAT WAS “YES OR YES.” SASHANNARCY SHIPPERS, WE WERE FED ON THIS DAY.

I actually forgot to watch it the first time?? my brain died and I only saw TNHT and had to go back sdfjsldkj but I AM SO GLAD I DID. NEW FAVORITE EPISODE

we didn’t get a kiss but THAT SCENE!! and MARCY AND SASHA AND ANNE DANCING TOGETHER!!! SINGING KARAOKE!! sjflkjlks I’M SO HAPPY

it was great seeing all of the other earth characters too (not Domino though... did she die of old age? ;w; might write some angst about that later), though. kinda weird we didn’t see Terri really. fingers crossed for the portal theory to be canon guys-

OKAY. NOW THE PART I’M DYING OVER. LITERALLY COMBUSTING. LIKE. WHAT WAS THAT END SCENE??? YEAH MARCY WAS ACTING A LITTLE WEIRD IN THE EPISODE (the first thing that comes to mind is the weird reluctance in her voice when Anne says “It’s great to have you back Marce” and Marcy replies “yeah, it’s... nice to be back” with this weird expression and she avoids Anne’s eyes like kjsldfjlskdWHAT) BUT THEY PULLED A FREAKING SEASON THREE SNEAK PEEK ON US

just enjoying the episode and then there’s a black screen before the credits roll like. you barely have time to process it and then say “wait not agai-” before. WHY WAS MARCY LAUGHING LIKE THAT. god if Darcy’s coming back I’m going to rip someone’s eyes out

that’s like literally all I have to say I’m just going insane over the episode akjdskafsl if anyone wants to add smth go ahead

#I'M IN DENIAL LET ME HAVE THIS #amphibia spoilers #tw unreality

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milfmacbeth · 2 years

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From Ur post about wasted potential in media... What r some of your fav examples of this ^__^

hi anon!

so when i made this post i was thinking about supernatural. other stories that are still rotting my brain even though they ended years ago and i really should be over it by now include (but aren’t limited to) the magnus archives, game of thrones, naruto, and pirates of the caribbean. all of these are stories i love(d) but they either ended badly or have some massive but easily fixable flaws which is why they drive me insane.

the short(ish) version: (disclaimer that this is only my opinion which is of course objectively correct and should be taken as gospel)

supernatural went on for too long, ended badly, and only ever scratched the surface of everything it could’ve been

the magnus archives seasons 1-4 are damn near perfect and season 5 is… there.

game of thrones season 8. (do i even need to say anything about this one!?)

naruto suffers because of kishimoto’s misogyny and because the wrong characters die/survive

pirates of the caribbean should’ve been a trilogy and we all know elizabeth should’ve ended up a pirate

the unreasonably long and extremely spoilery version under the cut (you have been warned)

supernatural: by tumblr standards i’m downright normal about spn but i did watch every episode at least once and i was obsessed with it as a teen so i’m not really one to talk. i’m following someone who’s just now getting into it and who has some very good takes (specifically about dean and john), and i’m being dragged back into the fandom kicking and screaming…

ANYWAY

supernatural starts out as a monster of the week thing but then the plot thickens and you’ve got angels and demons and lucifer and the end of the fucking world and even though the later seasons have their moments, i’m a “supernatural should’ve ended with season 5” truther.

and don’t even get me started on the winchesters. it’s like… you have a deliciously fucked up family dynamic, including codependency, incest-subtext, and two brothers who would end the world for each other. god as an absentee father-figure who will not save you. free will. characters that have witnessed history. an angel who almost stepped on the first fish crawling out of the sea, who dragged a man out of hell and fell for him in every sense of the word. the humanity of the monstrous. the inhumanity of the divine. magic. americana. mythology. empty roads and neon signs and dilapidated motels. Death who tells dean that he will reap god when the time comes. i know i’m not being particularly coherent but no one can tell me that what we actually got was the best they could do when they had ALL THIS to work with. and the fandom gets it. the fic and meta writers get it. i’ve seen so many transcendent takes by supernatural girlies whose third eye is wide fucking open. i know it’s possible. supernatural’s problem is that it was written by straight us-american men and aired on the cw. in conclusion, make it darker and grittier and let dean say fuck.

that being said, even though it was garbage storytelling, i will never forget the wonderful night of mass hysteria that was the 5th of november, and i almost choked laughing when i saw dean get nailed by a vampire clown and sam in the shittiest wig imaginable. probably not the intended audience reaction though. (you’re better off just ignoring that 15.20 happened at all)

the magnus archives (season 5): oh boy where do i even begin? i rarely talk about this anymore because it just makes me so angry and i’m not having any fun. i like to pretend that season 5 doesn’t exist which works excellently because while the first 4 seasons are a cohesive narrative whole, season 5 feels like it’s tacked on at the end. (“do i like this story more if i just ignore the ending happened” is a very good question to ask yourself regarding the quality of a finale).

the magnus archives season 5 has several problems, some of which don’t even concern the narrative but are instead fuckery related to the story. i’ll get those out of the way first.

first of all, the fandom is the most vile cesspit of people with no media comprehension i’ve ever had the misfortune to be in. among such hits as “why is Bad Person treated with sympathy” and “why is the horror podcast about horror and not about gay shipping”, what bothers me most are the headcanons treated as law.

i’ve personally witnessed takes like “daisy is bad representation for butch lesbians” (daisy is not canonically a lesbian or butch. the fandom made that up), and “jon is brown therefore xyz portrayal is racist” (again, jon’s skin color is never mentioned. him being brown is just the most popular HEADcanon). why am i telling you this in this already way too long post? this might be conjecture but i really believe that if the fandom wasn’t so godawful, the story could’ve been better. the creators caved to fandom pressure. this is one of the best examples of why there needs to be a boundary between audience and creator and why the fandom should have absolutely NO say whatsoever when it comes to what happens in the story.

the other thing that’s a bit meta and not in the story per se are the promises the creators made. jonny sims said two things:

1. the story will end in tragedy: it didn’t. the ending was ambiguous and i wanted it to leave me devastated the way the s4 finale did. instead it left me indifferent and vaguely confused.

2. there will be no romance and if there is, it’s not going to be the focus of the story: so that was a fucking lie. season 5 is nothing but jonmartin shoved into your face for 40 episodes. a lot of aros, aces and people who were there for the horror and not for the shipping were understandably disappointed

now, as for the actual story ,i’m a “jon should’ve had a corruption arc” truther. (here's a thing i did). i think it would fit with his character development since he’s been getting more monstrous with every season. elias has been manipulating jon into becoming an avatar of the Beholding and ending the world, and jon hates him for it. jon kills elias and takes his place and if they just stuck with that, with elias being destroyed by the god he created and jon ascending to be the fucked up evil king of a ruined world. fuck, it would’ve been so good. it would’ve been so delicious i’m going insane every time i think about it. this is the secret good season 5 that lives in my head.

instead they went with parallel universes, which is a concept that you probably shouldn’t introduce 3 episodes before the ending. it’s not a bad concept at all. they could’ve done it justice. but making parallel fucking universes the thing on which your finale hinges even though you’ve barely introduced them? yeah i’m gonna go ahead and call that an ass pull. it turns out that the Web has been manipulating everyone blah blah who cares the important part is this: the Web wins. the Web gets what it wants and this could’ve worked if it was framed and presented to us LIKE A TRAGEDY. it’s not. it’s presented like a bittersweet ending. the morality of the finale is extremely protagonist-centric (and by season 5 i started to hate everyone except jon). the protagonists decide to release the Fears, dooming a potentially infinite number of people to a life of horror, but fuck those guys, right? the important thing is that the protagonists are okay. i’m going to fight jonny sims in a parking lot.

one last thing. jonmartin fucking sucks. but it doesn’t have to. jon and martin don’t know each other. they’re completely incompatible. they’re together out of guilt and circumstance. they’re dysfunctional and they’re very realistically dysfunctional. i personally ship jonelias. don’t worry this is not about a shipping war, but one thing i’ve noticed is that jonelias is fucked up in an “i’ve made you a monster and then a god. i’ve used you to bring about the apocalypse” kind of way which i’m guessing not many people have personal experience with. jonmartin is fucked up in a “we’re not communicating and we’re only together because neither of us wants to be alone” way. that’s relatable. hell, that’s depressingly common. jon doesn’t love martin, he just wants to cling to his humanity. martin doesn’t love jon, he loves the idea of jon. THAT’S POTENTIAL! take that and work with it. what did they do instead? gave me a pairing of two people who absolutely should not be together, shoved it into my face for dozens of episodes, and then portrayed jealousy and miscommunication like something cute and romantic. literally what the fuck are they on.

game of thrones: *deeep sigh* ok there are about a billion 3hour video essays detailing everything wrong with season 8 but the main things for me are:

jon is a targaryen. he’s azor ahai. his is the song of ice and fire. and NONE OF THAT FUCKING MATTERS OH MY GOD AT LEAST LET JON DO SOMETHING LITERALLY ANYTHING EXCEPT STANDING AROUND REPEATING THE SAME TWO LINES AD NAUSEAM.

daenerys descent into madness and villainy could’ve been great if it had been properly set up instead of done in a minute (this is not an exaggeration. her character goes from “slightly mentally unstable” to “war criminal putting a city of innocent people to the torch” in ONE minute. i counted.)

i read the books and euron greyjoy is so fucking cool in the books. i don’t know who the fuck that other guy is but it certainly ain’t him.

arya killing the night king and bran becoming king. i wish i could say something funny or insightful but i genuinely have no words.

naruto: it’s been a while since i watched naruto. i’ve seen plenty of male writers being shitty but i’ve never seen misogyny drag a story down quite this much. personally, i’m done making excuses for this shit. if you can’t write women, you’re a bad writer. period.

the problem with naruto is that the women are literally just... there. doing absolutely fuck all and being generally useless. this is not even a matter of social justice, this is a matter of storytelling. even if you’re the biggest macho dudebro around you’ll have to admit that one third of your cast standing around and being incompetent doesn’t make for a very interesting story, does it now?

and then there’s the matter of madara being nerfed in favor of kaguya. yeah… that one was an ass pull.

but what bothers me most is that the wrong characters die or don’t die respectively. some examples:

hinata should’ve died (instead of “almost died”) when pain attacked konoha. it would’ve made her sacrifice more meaningful and she would’ve come back one way or another. in my opinion she should’ve stayed dead for good because her arc was mostly done by that point and she doesn’t really do much after that except cheer on naruto (see misogyny above)

when madara fought the five kage, he almost killed all of them. keyword almost. i get that tsunade is a good healer but that fight would’ve been more meaningful if someone (literally any ONE of the kage) had actually died.

gai should’ve died. listen, you can’t build up the 8th gate as this super special technique that you can do only once because it costs your life and then not have gai die. it cheapens the entire thing. what was the fucking point?

neji should’ve LIVED. a monumental part of his character arc was realizing that he’s worth just as much as the main family and that he doesn’t have to be subservient to hinata. and then he sacrifices himself for hinata. yeah that felt like one step forward two steps back.

in conclusion: kishimoto needs to drink his respect women juice and learn when to kill characters and when to let them live.

pirates of the caribbean: i tend to ignore that part 4 and 5 even exist. please let the franchise die i am begging.

i don’t have that many examples of wasted potential but you can’t tell me that PIRATE KING elizabeth swann would stay on land being a good housewife. fuck no.

so yeah. i’m done. thank you for asking, this was a lot of fun to answer and i hope you enjoyed Do You Love The Color Of My Incoherent Ramblings

#i think one of the biggest sources of wasted potential is telling the audience something but showing them something else #you can often guess what the narrative wants you to think #and how something is framed/presented by the narrative is just as important as what actually happens #if something fucked up happens then i want the narrative to either acknowledge it's fucked up #or (much better) stay neutral and let me make up my own mind #but don't give me something fucked up and then act like it's Good and Righteous

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hi, do you have any manga/anime you'd recommend? I have not watched/read like anything popular, so no recommendations are off the table. I only just finished naruto and was like hey I actually really liked that (except for the huge flop at the end lmao) and decided to try some of the other big mangas and ended up reading one piece....... (some of the characters are fun, and the pirate setting is cool but oh god, at what cost???) anyway, i trust no one but you now, and I need a new hyperfixation or i'll die :)

I do need to clarify to everyone that I actually don't watch/read too much anime/manga. Especially recent popular stuff.

But I do want to push Samurai Flamenco onto everyone. It satirizes the super hero/power rangers genre and includes lots of gay shenanigans but also has some of the most insane plot twists of all time.

I am currently (slowly) rewatching Tiger & Bunny which is satirizing the same genres, has some more lowkey gay subtext if that's what y'all want, if you watch the non-netflix version there's LOTS of poking fun at capitalism/branding (but it's removed in netflix because they couldn't retain the licenses for the brands it was mocking...).

If you ned to watch just one... watch Samurai Flamenco

And honestly... that's the closest thing to Naruto I can rec? Like in terms of battle-y, action based stuff. Shounen-core stuff. And even then they're not that simialr... Naruto was an outlier for me in many ways, though I did looove Bleach until... I didn't love bleach.

Don't watch Bleach.

Haikyuu is a sports anime I had a lot of fun with but also nothing new has been announced for the anime in like… years… and idk if I can recommend hte manga because I find the volleyball scenes to be impossible to follow in the manga form shgkjsdg But the manga IS done!!

If you liked Sasuke... watch/read Hunter x Hunter and meet my pal Kurapika :) It ALSO has some massive hiatuses and it's source material isn't finished BUT it's getting an update VERY SOON and it's VERY EXCITING! HxH and its predecessor YYH inspired a lot of shounen tropes that exist to this day except... it does them well.

Stuff that I wouldn't necessarily recommend based on your Naruto enjoyment but like in general: Tongari Boushi no Atelier (Witch Hat Atelier), Dungeon Meshi (Delicious in Dungeon), No. 6 (I've only watched the anime and haven't read the source material, so idk what's better), and Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun. Oh!! And Blue Period (manga > anime)

Almost everything else that I post on my anime blog I have either forgotten, I do not feel comfortable recommending because it hasn't aged well, or I don't... actually remember that well btu just have fond vague memories of :)

#like i stil blog about TRC/xxxHolic but I would die before reccing htem #a they are Not GOod #on any level

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