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joansblondells · 2 years

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having thoughts. millions of them. cant stop thinking lately about the GREASE coding of chrissy cunningham and how intentional it all feels… netflix tweeting about sandy as chrissy’s hair inspiration !! the good girl cheerleader of it all !!

local girl actually on the verge of collapse thinking about eddie as the logical counterpart to chrissy’s sandy… you don’t give an 80s gal those sweet little 50s bangs and a bad boy gone soft to play off without invoking the cinematic spirit of sandy and danny, do not play with me duffer bros !! I am nothing if not cineliterate !!

beyond aesthetics, also cant stop thinking about danny zuko as a vulnerable softie around sandy + the biggest posturing asshole around his friends. translating that over to eddie.. obviously he’s not danny levels of cruel but.. how much of a contrast there is between his big masquerade of a cafeteria performance vs the way he strives to put chrissy at ease and his emotional availability in the woods… bitch hello !!!!

never understand the mad obsession with ensuring things are canon when it comes to ships I mean.. we are quite literally mashing blorbos together and making them kiss for funsies like barbie dolls BUT do feel slightly like I will die on the hill of eddie and chrissy as deliberate allusions to sandy/danny by the show.. if not in a vaguely romantic way then even just in a fun, throwaway visual sense

begging some gorgeous creatively inclined individuals to gifset / draw / write WHATEVER the hellcheer potential of sandy/danny before I actually keel over.. the prom.. the gym outfits.. the drive in.. the cheerleader bonfire… the possibilities are disgustingly endless. have to stop here before I die. IS THIS ANYTHING TO YOU PEOPLE ?!?!

#bitches (me) love grease 1978 and feel the urge to make that everyone else’s problem #not lying I really don’t give a toss about what’s canon / what’s intentional .. fiction is really whatever you make it doll #all that being said . don’t give me this little aesthetic archetype pairing with their own musical theme and tell me not to infer romance #media tropes and cliches are something that can actually be so personal #the teasing jason vibe of that gif oh god I’m nauseous I’m on my knees I'm howling in the streets #hellcheer #eddissy #chrissy cunningham #eddie munson #grease 1978 #rip chrissy god I know you would’ve vaguely despised the message of grease but adored being bad girl sandy for halloween 💔#rip eddie I know you would’ve been so idignant at being compared to a GREASER but gone along with it for chrissy’s sake #when i say cheerleader bonfire I mean I have no recollection at all what that scene is but its night and sandy's in cheerleader garb . pls #so lucky for you all that I have no artistic skills or else I would’ve had eddie in a pink shirt suit combo fucking.. months ago #💘#op

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asleepinawell · 3 years

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hiii not sure if it’s okay to ask a poi question but here it goes - i recall seeing you expressing (at least some level of) discontent with what Harold has done on the show (to root, to shaw and all those hypocritical decisions throughout). would you like to share more about your thoughts on this character? tks

always okay to ask poi questions. since the fandom is pretty small these days i was going to put my answer under a read more line so people could ignore it more easily if it’s a subject that bothers them but apparently you can’t add read more lines in ask answers? thanks tumblr! so if this is a topic that annoys anyone, please, just skip it. also, while some of this is facts or based on facts a lot of stuff is obviously my opinion and therefore not canon and not the only opinion etc etc.

in general, i wasn’t crazy about the way harold treated any of the other characters (with the exception of john who he had a pretty great relationship with). for root, there was the refusal to call her root, which i found very gross and uncomfortable (like, in general you should respect what people ask to be called, but also it was linked to the traumatic death of her childhood friend and he absolutely knew that so fuck that shit). he even said something along the lines of 'john reese is what you prefer to be called' to john right in the first episode? he was okay with using reese's fake name, but not hers because he made her identity into a power game.

he also tended to be..hmm, patronizing is the wrong word (and lbr root was extremely patronizing to everyone) but more that he treated her like ‘rehabilitating’ her was his pet project or something. i mean one thing that always struck me was his ‘what happened to you’ line in bad code and then the subsequent decision to put her in a mental institution instead of, you know, jail, which is where every other perp they ran into tended to go. he saw her as broken and flawed and in need of his help which, to me, came off as hypocritical and belittling.

also, putting someone in a psychiatric institution where they get pumped full of drugs when they don’t need to be? really fucked up! even if you argue root needed therapy/was depressed whatever, that’s not what they were treating her for. they were treating her for ‘delusions’ and ‘hearing voices’ which were...real things. like, the machine was speaking to her. harold knew that. he let her get put on all sorts of medication and put in solitary confinement and oh yes also her doctor was a really fucked up dude, something harold could easily have dug up if he’d bothered. also the whole ‘killing off a woman to advance a man’s character development thing’ is, uh, a bad trope. to put it mildly. i could write a lot more about his shit with root but let’s move on.

in some ways, his attitude towards shaw bothers me most. he consistently treats her like she’s violent and unhinged because she has aspd and despite the large amount of evidence to the contrary. she is, in fact, the most cool and controlled member of the team (not counting carter) and the least likely to go off half-cocked. shaw does play into this, but mostly only with harold and only through her words, not her actions. she knows what he thinks of her. when she’s captured by samaritan, harold gives up on her very quickly in a way he would never have done for john (and probably not for root either at that point). shaw’s reaction to sim!harold in 6741 of ‘did you even look for me’ says a lot about what she thinks he thinks of her. his whole ‘binary moral compass’ line to her is also, uh, heavily projecting. shaw and carter had the strongest moral compasses of the group. by a long shot.

moving on to the machine. so first and foremost, if you’re creating a sentient being, whether that’s having a kid or making a self-aware AI, you don’t create something with the intention of locking it up and ignoring it forever. (and he was creating her for the bush/cheney administration???? who TM pointed out was terrible if he somehow had managed to miss that. root called them something like the worst people imaginable and she wasn’t exaggerating). was it too dangerous to let TM be free from the get go? maybe! but then don’t fucking make an AI you think can destroy the world, buddy. there are a lot of reasons he made TM and none of them make this acceptable to me. once TM had clearly proven to be not a threat and trying to help he continued to ignore her and act like she was dangerous.

harold always needed very badly to feel like he had the moral high ground and not be the person who made a bad decision, which yes, is probably partly due to the trauma from what happened to nathan but that doesn’t make it okay when being paralyzed by being unable to make a decision got people killed. more than once! also, most of his morals got tossed out when they weren’t convenient. wouldn’t kill the senator to save the world because killing is bad! next episode he’s like if anything happens to grace kill all of them. cool story, still murder.

i wanna conclude this rant by talking about harold as a character vs harold as a person. meaning, harold as a fictional character who is used as a narrative device in a story as opposed to harold himself without the context of him being fictional. i don’t mind characters who say and do things i dislike. it’s very important to have characters you dislike as people imo. feels like an understatement. but lambet, for example, is a slimy asshole. the story is aware of this. he gets an ending a slimy asshole deserves. harold has a lot of flaws, and causes a lot of damage, gets his friends killed, and his stubborn refusal to budge on his arbitrary moral high ground lets samaritan take over and almost makes team machine lose. he gets a happy ending. with the woman he lied to (and caused a lot of pain and grief by lying to). root ends up dead, shaw gets tortured and fights her way back for root only to have her die which is kind of handwaved as ‘well she has tm with root’s voice good enough’, and john, after having rediscovered his will to live and have a life in the end of s4 goes right back to his whole dying for someone else thing. only harold gets the happy ending.

the show was actually pretty good at highlighting harold’s flaws and making them interesting, and then it kind of forgot that at the end in terms of story outcome. like, if harold had suffered enough to get a happy ending, then why didn’t anyone else get one? so my annoyance was with the narrative’s failure to satisfactorily conclude the characters’ arcs. (and for the record, i’m not one of the people who think he should have died. i don’t think it would have served a point. also death doesn’t equal redemption to me).

so, yeah, not a fan of him. don’t write him in my fics since my dislike would take time and focus away from writing about the people i do like. would probably be less bitter if they’d ended the show better. i was 300k words fic level of bitter. there was some post i saw going around recently about how if your found family show doesn’t end up with your found family together then you’ve kind of missed the whole point of found family and yeah, that.

#mp #asks #poi meta #don't send me hate messages or comments about this #i will just block you without responding #too tired for fandom discourse #i said at the beginning don't read if it'll bug you #so if you did anyway #that's on you #Anonymous

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marcianek · 7 years

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Sooo uhm.. ♪Mahima, ♪Karl, and ♬Karl and Aben, please? I hope that's not to much. Thanks for sharing your art and OCs, and I hope you're having a nice day!

Thank you! You too, have a nice day, and keep on making your stories (if you do, of course ’ 7 ’ )

And no problem, I’m really happy about your choices! It’s actually me who should warn you about a lot of incoming text XD Hope you’ll find it interesting :D

Note: In case of Polish song, I’ll put at least partial translation under the cut for anyone who cares. They aren’t perfect, but tad better than on some websites

Mahima

Austin Wintory “I was born for this” link - The *If it wouldn’t be the song from an already existing franchise I’d sooooo buy the rights to it @_@* character theme basically, because it’s so so accurate on every, I mean every, level. Lyrics, the fact they are in different languages, the fact they all citations, voice canon, fuck, everything.

“Dance on the circle” link - Also very accurate one, and I mean entire video, not just music - I have my own interpretations about what the patterns and the slow/energetic way they are drawn could represent her mood/development 8D. Technically spoilery, but it’s so abstract without context the interpretation could be anything, so I don’t have problems with showing it.

Nightwish “Wandelust” link

…And, to not make this set too serious, since she’s not as ethereal as the examples above paint her ;p link

Karl

Hurt “Zaloga G” link - A Polish song - The gist of it is: someone wished to remain as truthfull and pure and their fictional childhood heroes - but then adulthood happened and they are basically sad trash now. But at least they still have some pure wishes. Or are totally delusional.

Warmer“Inside” link

Budka Suflera & Urszula“Malinowy król” link - Another Polish song. The majority of it is actually about the pair of lovers completly unrelated to the titular “Rasberry King”, but apparently living somewhere on his land, absorbed by their own life. Only once in a while they recognise he protects their world, and wonder what would happen to them if he was gone, but quickly snap back to relish in the wonder of their love. So, not really K’s song, but also kinda relevant.

Lute music link - This twig is a closet bard who plays on a lute, and this is totally the music he’s into and something he’d play - romantic delicate ballads and shit. He can be cheesy like that.

Karl and Aben

Mumford and Sons“The Cave” link - From K’s perspective, adressed to A - it fits very well a certain episode from their youth.

And below are completly riddiculous, yet quite accurate examples XD:

Kollectivet “Compliments” link - A’s perspective. Poor guy just wants to be appreciated

Kollectivet “Hit Song” link - this is totally how they are gonna “save” the world. Ok, not really but the love for art and freedom against censoring the art aspect is correct.

…thb I think I can find a Kollectivet song for any chara of mine XD

Lyric translations below:

Urszula “Malinowy król/The Raspberry king” (fragments)

Give me your consent for this day, that dies right nowToss the wood into the fire, embrace me in your armsThe planet spins, carries us graciouslyLead me into the blue shadow, through the blue grass

The Raspberry King of the Painted RosesWill always protect us from the evilIf only I could paint my dreams for youIn them, there is a house, a road, a doorThe white knife flashed on the skyIt’s the Moon, standing on its guardDidn’t I know you in the past life already?Sometime long, long agoMoney will not buy meBut the light in your eyesis enough for me before the plain breadWill sink to the bottom

The Raspberry King of the Painted RosesMakes the stones bloom in the nightWhat will be of us, what will happen to usIf he were to be gone

The white knife flashed on the skyIt’s the Moon, standing on its guard(…)

Hurt “Załoga G/Gatchaman”

I happen to be dishonestSometimes I’m simply lyingI’m vain, greedyI care only about my ass

I happen to be pettyCynical, and heartlessI judge without mercywithout a heart and love

(refrain)I would like to always be innocent and truthfullI would like to always be full of faith and hope

Just like Bolek and LolekTytus, Romek and AtomekThe Six Bullerby ChildrenThomas on the trail of YetiJust like King Matt the FirstAsterix and ObelixLike GatchamanMcGyver and Pippi x2

I happen to have impure intentionsI break my own rulesI am inconsistentIrritable and unbearable

I am not capable of listeningDespite talking to no end myselfAs if I am the only person in existenceAnd the world was ruled by the Devil

(refrain)I would like to(…)

#ask #oc meme #text post #anon #karl otto baurild #Mahima Kap Ua #aben hiedra #kudos to you if you read it all xD #I hope at least you will like one song #i had more for karl #but they obviously were polish for some fucking reason #and i just had no strengt to translate more XD #I don't even know if those i did make sense #well to me they do.#thanks again <3

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