s1 moments that make me scream 3/?

Tom's line about Shiv being selfish and "find[ing] it very hard to think about me" is actually so telling because while it's absolutely true that she rarely takes his position into consideration, Tom never once thinks about what he can do to help Shiv unless it also benefits him.

Every single time he makes a move or sacrifice that might help her, it's always something that he thinks will give him a leg up. He volunteers to take the fall for cruises, not for Shiv, who is in no way implicated, or even for Waystar, but because he thinks it'll ingratiate him to Logan, and the second it seems like he might have to actually follow through on that, he immediately tries to get out of it and even throws Shiv under the bus. Meanwhile, for all that Shiv disregards his interests, there are a number of things she does that only help him, and she's the one who actually sacrifices something and undermines her position with Logan to beg him not to let Tom go to jail.

It just makes it so clear that no matter how much he might love her (and I think he does, in his own compromised way), for him their relationship was always built on the underlying assumption that it's her job to prop him up, but it's not his job to help her.

you shouldn’t have made her mad bro!

i hope all the terfs looking at my blog rn are able to grab me a beer and maybe make me a sandwich perhaps while they’re at it

blinks tiredly. i decide "hm maybe i should try to expand my circle and step outside of it a little, lets go look at the main community tags" and im just greeted with a bunch of edgelords who think saying "fiction doesn't affect reality, don't like don't read" is peak activism and "fighting censorship". head in my hands. this is partially why i do not ever go into the community tags, my nervous system cannot handle blocking fifty weirdos every single day just so i can have a normal experience in the community tags hfdsjkl

there's something to be said about the idea of headcanons, and of plastering bits you resonate with onto pre-written characters, in an effort to "see yourself" in them. it's not malicious at all, but sometimes I wonder what the whole purpose of it is.

if it's for some kind of representation, to see certain ideas or traits manifest in a story you like, i would understand but also tell you to just like....go read something else. instead of ordering a hawaiian pizza minus the pineapple, just order a ham and cheese pizza. if that makes sense. lots of people on here love to post all about their favorite stories with queer headcanons, but refuse to take the step outside their realm of comfort and read something that has those queer themes actually interwoven into the story.

other times, people claim to do it just to see themselves reflected more in their favorite characters. which feels equally as flimsy to me. if you can't emphasize or even find enjoyment in a story if the characters dont resemble you (or an idealized you) in some way, then. idk. maybe work on that or something

just watched challengers at the cinema w my little sister. it was so intense wtf

i think one of the most  like almost comical in how frustrating it can be things abt ppl just taking like dialogue in movies super literally and not understanding like double meanings or that sometimes characters say things that mean other things or whatever, like this whole thing of ppl just taking everything in media at complete face value instead of how theyre actually expected to take it if they used their brain for 5 seconds, was with something like promare where after galo kissed lio back to life he said ‘for the first time in my whole life i lit a fire because of you’ and ppl took that to mean that galo was literally starting a fire and all emotional abt, starting a physical actual fire, and not like. the thing that that line was acvtually obviously referring to. that hes saying after KISSING LIO. and then ppl tried to say galo didnt Understand what it Meant that he Kissed Lio like galo didnt literally just tell lio straight up how he felt about him

i love watching youtube analyses of movies and shows and i love when the person explaining something is totally wrong about the thing theyre talking about

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This is about Boscha-

FIRST OF ALL HOW IN THE HELL IS SHE LIKE AZULA???

finally figured out the reason it’s been difficult to get back into reading books after reading fic for so long is so many fantasy books are just self inserts and the mc has no personality beyond the bare minimum

if I think about katniss and peeta too long my vision starts to look like when you take damage in a cod game

the unexpected aspec experience of opening up a word document to write more pages for an ~adult~ fic, happily writing a little bit, and then suddenly being completely uninterested in the subject material anymore. 0/10 very inconvenient, finishing this fic will take forever at this rate

I love looking at a piece of media that is, objectively, bad, and thinking "I could fix her"