Chad Dylan Cooper fell first and he fell harder

I honestly think they dropped the ball on the ted and nate storyline. ted as a character was fleshed out by not having him be this two-dimensional, always positive person and having one of his pressing issues be him not being able to open up and express his emotions. while it is in character for ted to have already forgiven nate, for the show to wait to the very last episode for them to have a real conversation and for it to not even have ted express how nate had hurt him is a disservice to both characters and their overall arcs

GIL WEBBER, you have been accepted to Monster High!

"Is It Fall Yet?" (2000)

the thing about the time travelers is that being uprooted from their own time to another fundamentally breaks every single one of them. It’s the shock of it, the way the magic and the experience utterly changes them, remakes them into something that isn’t exactly human anymore and then puts them back together and says “now go try to live your life again.”

it doesn’t matter if they fall through like claire, if they smash through with a bloody purpose like geillis, or they walk through with a prayer like brianna. they all belong to the faeries now and there’s nothing they can do to get around it. down to the way they speak to each other - roger says some pretty fairy words that donner recognizes, speaking a language only they understand. claire’s magical knowledge can’t save her from being hunted and tried as a witch, a faerie, a traitor, a murderess. ottertooth’s cassandra esque warnings of the future do nothing but cause strife among the same people he wanted to save.

even their morality has wholly changed into something else, something inhuman. roger says it himself in the premiere; when you’re scared and alone and desperate and there’s no way to get home, your sense of morality shifts and twists in a vain attempt to protect yourself.

so a doctor becomes a murderess and a freedom fighter becomes a slaver and a holy man watches while a woman and her child are drowned and an independent modern yank loses every shred of what made her stand out and a man who fought the never ending death march of genocide goes back in time and stands frozen as he listens to a woman just like him be tortured and raped and he stands there and does nothing because he’s small and tired and old and he wasn’t even supposed to land in this year and he didn’t even meet his own fucking people anyway and hes scared, so scared, and he just wants to go home.

and geillis and ottertooth and donner are all forced to die in this terrifying, human world. they can never go back to the realm of the faeries because it never even existed. claire going back does not heal her, it breaks her even more. there’s no going back, there’s no going forward, because they are the ones that are wrong now. and all their worst traits get amplified and all their best traits twist into something wicked until geillis’ fanatical devotion to the independence of her people - to the detriment of all others - is what gets her killed. ottertooth’s steely resolve does nothing but get him stubbornly stuck alone in that storm. and donner’s fear for the future eats him whole, and a man that shouldn’t even be in this time lights a match that doesn’t even exist yet, and realizes that his fear will never get him back home but if all he does is drop the match and let the flame consume him, he can find his damning release all the same.

you know the trope of like “my shitbird husband gives me diamond jewelry so i dont leave him”?

what the fuck are the sharks doing to keep blackwood from hunting them for sport?

1965 Ford Mustang GT350H by David G. Schultz Via Flickr: Del Mackenzie

Autumn is only a few weeks away

Mackenzie Falls is my roman empire

Mackenzie Davis for Rodarte, Fall 2022

I recently learned that chad Dylan copper was a parody of chad micheal murray and I had to laugh

"Is It Fall Yet?" (2000)

Mackenzie Davis by Daria Kobayashi Ritch for Rodarte Fall 2022

Imagine with me, just for a second, that 15.18 the roles were reversed and Dean was the one who was about to die and he finally decided to just... say it.

Dean: Cas, I'm sorry. I always thought that this was how I'd get the balls to say it, but standing here l'm... starting to regret that.

Cas: Dean, what are you talking about? We have to go.

Dean: Cas, I need you to listen to me, okay? I need you to listen, and keep your mouth shut, because l'm never going to say it otherwise and you deserve to hear it.

Okay?

Cas: Can't this wait?

Dean: I've been waiting for years, and I - I'm going to die. And that's okay, I'm okay with that, but I need you to know this, okay? So please just -

Cas: Okay. I’m listening.

Dean: Hester was right. When you laid a hand on me in hell, you were ruined - but so was I. I’m sorry I didn’t see it sooner. I’m sorry I never said anything, but she was right. I ruined you just being your friend, I was too scared to find out what loving you would do to you. And you deserved better, but Cas, you’ve gotta understand that everything that’s happened, everything I’ve done, everybody I’ve saved, I was only able to do that because of you.

Cas: Dean…

Dean: You made me want to be better. You made me feel like I was supposed to be here, instead of like I was just living on borrowed time. You gave me a reason to fight again, when I’d forgotten how to care. You were the first person who saw me, Cas, who saw everything that I was, everything that I am, and you didn’t run. And I was greedy, and I couldn’t let you go because of that, because I don’t get to have nice things, you know? I don’t get the happy ending. People don’t love me. And Cas you deserve everything, you deserve so much better than me, and I will never be good enough for you. I will never -

Cas: You’re an idiot.

Dean: I love you, Cas. So much that it scares the shit out of me. I’m sorry that I didn’t tell you sooner. I didn’t want to lose you. 

Cas: I love you too, you infuriating man.

Dean: I know. And I’m sorry.