10 gif sets for 10 years of Defiance | #1 - Season One

Happy 10 years to Defiance!

This wonderful show gave me endless joy and I miss it so much. Stahma and Datak remain two of my favorite characters ever made. They were such messy, lovable people, watching them create chaos was so fun. I ship the hell out of them because they’re both so awful they deserve each other. 

Doc Yewll is another character I love. She was full of sass and absolutely hilarious. I choose to believe she was just fine at the end. 

Alak, Amanda, Christie, Tommy, and Irisa also earned my love for being such fantastic characters. 

I like to think from time to time about a fourth season. Seeing what else they could have come up with lives rent free in my head. Still feel like we needed more flashbacks to the start of the town and to witness Stahma shove her betrothed out of the air lock. 

The show may be over but I’ll always remember the great times I had watching every week, waiting impatiently for the new season to start, and worrying about Datak & Stahma’s survival. They made it to the end! 

I still haven’t completely forgiven Syfy for cancelling it. Three seasons was not enough to explore the rich universe this show had. 

I love this show so much! I am so grateful for all the hard work the writers and actors put in to make this show so amazing. ❤️

Stahma: The Enchanter wants to spirit me away to Australia. Do you have any idea where Australia is!?!?

Datak: *visibly appalled* Why would I know that!?!?

Stahma: It’s FAR!!

14. which of your muses second guesses themselves the most? why? and 15. do any of your muses have trouble falling asleep / staying asleep? <333

multimuse meme - accepting. do any of your muses have trouble falling asleep / staying asleep?

muses who can't sleep + why sweeney todd, grief tyrion lannister, fate of the realm and alcohol kathryn janeway, duty, also probably had too much caffeine kim wexler, too much work not enough time malcolm tucker, has whatever brain rot thatcher had that meant she only slept 4 hours eve of eden, she spents 2 hours staring at the ceiling, thinkin house, he's solving it (the universe) muses who sleep well hilda spellman, honk shoo mimimimi robert dubois, he has one really inconvenient nightmare every now and again marcellus wallace, he's busy and needs his sleep datak tarr, he ruined your family and he sleeps like a baby. hogs the bed charles xavier, mostly gertrude robinson, starts dreaming to solve more cases madame thenardier, passed out drunk and very tired from madaming andromeda tonks, passed out drunk and very tired from raising her grandson grunkle stan, sleeps & dreams of money mimimimimuses who don't sleep - lilith, archaic demon who doesnt sleep - seven of nine, alien tech puts her in 'regeneration cycle' - alfie solomons, too much redbull, he will never sleep again

which of your muses second guesses themselves the most? why?

i am starting to realise that my muses are not generally 'second-guessing' types. most of them are ego-maniacs and completely devoted to their own goals, whatever those may be. under the cut because this got long!

i have a genre of character who second-guess their perceptions often - alfie solomons second guesses what he knows constantly because he's brilliant but paranoid, and is not afraid to change allegiances or flip the world on its head. but he does not doubt himself. house fluctuates between self-loathing and arrogance/hubris, but he does not doubt his mind. lilith doubts the reality of what she can impose (specifically when she is under the yolk of the dark lord), but she is dogged and determined to the very end. tyrion lannister similarly can doubt the things he thought were certain, so that he can see more clearly. of the characters listed, he is the one who doubts himself the most, out of resentment that was once from others, and is now in him. kim wexler has a crisis of confidence in who she has become, but when she figures out what the right thing to do, she pursues that no matter any consequences also. to compare her to someone else who goes through a similar experience but for the worse, sweeney todd was a fairly unassuming, sweet person - a traumatic event unmoors him from his life, and he commits wholly to a new life (over a period of time) that he cannot be dissuaded from. any of the complicated feelings of grief, he can sublimate into rage and revenge. the effect it takes on him, hollowing him out, is the same - but he does everything he can to avoid dealing with the tragic, mature feelings that will make him feel uncertain. instead he becomes extremely certain: the world has been bad, and now he will do as the world showed him. people who doubt themselves the most would be: robert dubois: he has been a man with a single purpose all of his life, and now that this is complicated by prison, and by being a father, he finds himself increasingly unsure of what he should do. most of his mission in TSS he spends, half-in and half-out, doubting if he is only a man like his father, or if he can be more, and better. in fact, he's certain of it - his self-doubt is a softening of his idea that he is hopelessly destructive, a cruelty to others lest they try to visit cruelty upon him. i think upon arriving back to america, he would be emboldened enough to try to take on the task of being a good father like he never had, something he actively pushed away for fear of how hopeless it felt.

eve of eden: eve's entire story is about doubt. doubting god, doubting the world, doubting herself. she's been given everything - almost. that last inch of unexplored land festers away at her. i don't think she was easily led (though that was a part of it) i think she was someone who could not help but pull at threads. if the seams of the world come undone, that's a tragedy. but she'd do it again. as i write her (my canon for her is that she and adam are undying and forever roam the earth, even though their children age and die) she is extremely self-doubting, fighting her urge to pick at things with the knowledge that she has ruined things by doing so. she fights her instinct at every turn, and it is this self-denial that contributes to her misery. because, inevitably, she will one day pull at the string again. she will one day see the serpent's bounty and respond without words, respond by wanting to bite into it.

seven of nine is reckoning with having individuality, when this has never before been the case. she's a mess of self-doubt. she's going between the values and way of being she has always known to something more 'flawed'. while she can be incredibly sure of her actions, she has never had that same security in herself as an individual. it comes slowly over a few years, and continues after voyager. once voyager lands, i think seven is truly feeling alone - voyager was a small community of people who absolutely relied upon and needed one another, with a written code of behaviour. the real world would challenge her even more, but i see her eventually buildiing up confidence once again - she remains as someone who is self-doubting, because that is part of the nature of humanity as she has learned it.

kathryn janeway is someone who has taken on the role of a captain fulltime, navigating her crew for seven years through drama and alien hjinks. she has a few breakdowns adn bouts of depressions, exacerbated by self douubt because she simply has taken on too much. usually she is incredibly confident and driven, but the souls of her crew weigh heavily on her - constantly, and without breaks. she makes friends with people around her, she has romantic interests in people off of the ship, but her ideas about authority isolate her from others. she is a Doubter, she doubts if she's good enough for the impossible task put to her.

charles xavier is someone who has a relationship with doubt a little similar to kathryn janeway - he worries if he is good enough to lead mutants. but, he has a strong idea of what mutants should be, formed in opposition to what magneto believes. he is someone with a healthier relationship to self-doubt. while it bites at him, he can see the joy and bittersweet experience of seeing something come to pass that confounds him, or someone showing a new side to themself that he feels he 'should' have caught. he is confident, but he is able to examine himself and his place in relations to others critically, and grow with circumstances.

some of my most confident muses are: malcolm tucker is someone who lunges at his next move with infamous ferocity. but in his final moment, he sees stops talking, the very thing thaht has kept him in power for so long, always moving to the next disaster to prevent or manage into subission and irrelevance. i think his last line is him giving up on it all, truly retiring - but while it's painful, it's not because of disillusionment. he never felt politics was anything but a vicious game to maybe have some good effects through harsh toil. he just knows he will no longer be a part of it. aunt hilda: hilda doubts her place often, but she's got a palpable determination. when lifes trials (mainly zelda) kill her and stick her in the cain pit, she crawls out every time. things don't often go right for hilda, but when they go wrong, she digs her heels in harder to doing what's good for her. the chuurch excommunicates her? ok! she'll go get that job she wanted. the high priest inappropriately propositions her? ok she killed him. in a crisis, hilda never doubts herself, even if she seems a little fragile or gentle in her demeanour.

Baby Datak and Dad

sorry if this went through twice-- I got an error when I sent it! How about Datak and Stahma seeing Alak’s blue hair for the first time? I'm sure Datak was thrilled. :3

His parents, Alak is sure, will be... displeased. His father in particular is unlikely to appreciate the new look. But Christie liked it, so Alak doesn’t care what his parents think. He’s going to keep his hair like this.

He still hopes they’re not too mad.

He sneaks into the house through the back door, since he’s likely enough to get in trouble even if his parents don’t know he was out when he wasn’t supposed to be. If they find out he was out with Rafe McCawley’s daughter, he’ll be screwed, but they’ll just have to never find out about that. He and Christie have agreed that, at least for now, their parents absolutely cannot know that they’re dating.

The only thing that would make his parents angrier than seeing his blue hair, Alak thinks, is knowing that it was Christie’s human hands that helped him dye it.

He heads to the dining room, since he knows dinner will begin in a few minutes. His parents aren’t there yet, so he spends the time eyeing his reflection in a spoon, checking to make sure that he looks like a perfect Castithan son in every way but his hair. He was very careful in how he dressed, after all. Hopefully, it’ll cushion the blow.

His mother enters the dining room first, and Alak sees how her smile becomes fixed when she sees him. “Alak,” she says cautiously, “what did you do to your hair?”

“I dyed it,” Alak replies, trying to strike the right balance between bold and respectful. “I wanted a change.”

“A change would be a new outfit, or a haircut,” Stahma says in the scolding tone that is paradoxically so gentle it cuts deeper than yelling could. “This is-”

Datak enters the room and Stahma immediately shuts her mouth. Alak isn’t sure whether or not that’s a good thing. He didn’t really want to hear what his mother had to say, but he doesn’t think he’ll like what his father is going to say either, especially given the look on his face.

“What have you done to your hair?” Datak finally demands.

“I dyed it,” Alak repeats. “I like it. And it won’t wash out for weeks, so it’s not going anywhere.”

Datak grumbles a prayer for patience. Stahma sighs, apparently accepting there’s nothing she can do about it now. “Well,” she says, “at least you didn’t pick too garish a color.”

“After this washes out, you will never do it again,” Datak adds.

It’s a much better response than Alak was expecting, honestly. For a moment, he wonders if he should keep going, since he’s apparently lucky tonight. And also, Christie McCawley helped me dye it, cause we’re dating, even though I know you hate her dad and he hates you.

No, Alak decides, probably best not to push his luck. He’ll tell them someday.

Hopefully.

I had this dream last night about an anti-vaping episode of defiance. Young Castithans were vaping. Datak said “VAPING IS AGAINST THE CASTI SCROLLS”. Stahma secretly vaped.

The Enchanter wants to spirit me away to Australia.

I finally watched the end of Defiance!

What was that final season? It was brutal and emotional, and I thought the writers where literally trying to rip out my heart!

And yet it also felt like a master class in character and storytelling!

I need more shows like this on my screen!

10 gif sets for 10 years of Defiance | #3 - Season Three

TV Review: Defiance (2013-2015)

TV Review: Defiance (2013-2015)

Summary: Life in the city of Defiance, in a near future after the arrival of different alien lifeforms to Earth.

Not gonna lie, I only came across this show and watched it because of Jesse Rath who is AMAZING in Supergirl as Querl Dox or Brainiac 5. He quickly became my favorite character in the entire Arrowverse, and I need him to be on the show forever lol.

Spoilers ahead. 

Cast and Characters. I…

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anyone else think about how stahma had to choose between datak and christie and she wanted to choose what alak would want and she knew alak would want to save christie but that would mean risking luke's life and alak and christie would both choose luke above themselves so stahma kills christie to save luke but alak sees that as choosing datak over christie when really she was just choosing him over everything sjdkjshdkjshdjshd -

14 and 24 for the multi meme

multimuse meme - accepting.

which of your muses second guesses themselves the most? why?

answered.

which of your muses would be most likely to survive a zombie apocalypse?

i have made a list from least to most likely to survive. creed bratton - either lasts 14 years by drinking his own urine or dies immediately, no in between. sweeney todd - the zombies didn't get him immediately. rushes to the judge's house to be the one to kill him - judge is already a zombie. sweeney "kills" him again and allows himself to be consumed by the hoarde. gertrude robinson - assembles a team to help people survive / give a task to undo the apocalypse, dies as soon as u realize how much u need her kathryn janeway / raymond holt- dies for others to live. its very noble and moving. alfie solomons - has a completely gated community where he becomes a tyrannical overlord. killed by humans. datak tarr - you think he's dead, he's double crossed you twice, he's actually not dead, he double crosses you again lilith - she's doing some double cross action, but she has a lot of knowledge. eventually gets left to the zombies, presumably dies but its never confirmed. mother miranda - caused the plague. elias bouchard - holed up in some maximum security underground fortress. caused the plague n cahoots with miranda. needs to be killed in order for people to get to the antidote. kim wexler / robert dubois / seven of nine - they all have colossal final girl energy. they make it to the end, covered in blood and dirt. not pleased about decapitating a guy but will do it. hilda spellman - surrvives because no one would watch the movie otherwise. starts a garden community for other survivors. talks to zombies very sweetly and kindly as they die.

Defiance 3x07

Datak Tarr

This is your grandfather Datak Tarr. When you are older, I will help you understand that he was deeply flawed but not without honour.

Defiance S03E07 “The Beauty of Our Weapons”