when taylor swift said ‘they told me all of my cages were mental, so i got wasted like all my potential’ and when sabrina carpenter said ‘cause you were all i looked up to, now i can’t even look at you’ and when phoebe bridgers said ‘are we only biding time until i loose your attention?’ and when olivia rodrigo said ‘god, i wish that you had thought this through before i fell in love with you’ and when finneas said ‘so go ahead and break my heart again, and leave me wondering why the hell i ever let you in’ and when billie eilish said ‘i’ll try not to starve myself, just because you’re mad at me’ and when gracie abrams said ‘i should’ve cut all the ties but i didn’t, i didn’t let go’ and when laufey said ‘i know i sound stupid, i do that's what love will do to you’ and when kodaline said ‘if you loved me, why’d you leave me?’ and when harry styles said “we don’t talk about it, it’s something we don’t do, cause once you go without, nothing else will do’ and when timothée chalamet said ‘you don’t like who i am now’
And now we get into the various venjix!Ziggy AUs (alright, there's only two of them, but I've got playlists for both, so strap on in). First up is the first RPM fic I actually wrote, which ft. Ziggy getting captured late in the season and made into a Venjix attack bot ala Tenaya. Not only did it set up a lot of conventions for how my RPM stories would play out (like how Venjix memory wipes work and how dead Soulmates are handled), it also ft. trans!Ziggy, his twin sister Meredith (possibly my favorite OC in this series), and remarkably little focus on the romance in favor of exploring the implications of amnesia, mind control, and sibling love.
The emotions in this entire episode are heartbreakingly and hauntingly beautiful. Jared & Keegan hit it out of the park with this. Season 3 will not be matched with its family dynamics & how it dealt with mental health.
king lear, trevor nunn // all i want, kodaline // philadelphia, jonathan demme // romeo and juliet act V, 3, william shakespeare // succession hbo, jesse armstrong // summertime sadness, lana del rey