i feel like people ascribe a certain coldness and calculation to shiv’s end of the failmarriage, and like, yeah she’s selfish and self-centered and wants someone around with no real needs of his own etc., and asking for an open relationship on your wedding night is deranged and terrible behavior, but also, she didn’t have to fess up about nate, you know? tom wasn’t going to call her on her obvious lie, because he is as much of a pushover as she wants him to be in many ways, and i think she knew that, or at least suspected it enough that it wasn’t like she was afraid of being confronted. i dunno. by chance of timing my rewatch hit 1x10 right after the season 4 premier and shiv’s big speech about love made me cry because that is what love has been to her, her whole life, and because she’s so fucked up about love that i think she does love tom as much as she can love anyone (as much as anyone can love anyone when you’re allergic to your own feelings), and because she’s doing two things in that scene. the one we remember is the most obvious, which is that she is, again, asking tom for an open relationship on her wedding night. but the other thing is that she is being, i think, as honest and vulnerable and human and genuine as she has been… ever? in the show? i can’t think of another scene where she comes close. everything she says in that scene is something she completely means, and tries not to think about. and when she tells tom “i fucking love you,” it’s maybe the one moment in the series where it really feels like she does. and then, you know, she takes her open relationship and uses it to run away from having to have so much of her poured into one person, which i think is really what her allergy to monogamy is about, and meanwhile tom doesn’t respond in kind (for, i think, understandable reasons) until the next season finale, which like maybe could have salvaged their relationship in the long run if this had been their ONLY problem which it is manifestly not, but. i dunno. just really still having failmarriage feelings i guess. tomshiv is very sad for tom in terms of what shiv does to him, but it’s sad for shiv to me in terms of what her parents have done to her and how totally incapable she is of something that i actually do think on some level a part of her genuinely wants. they both did want this to work and it didn’t! human emotions! hand in unloveable hand!

Percy age 12: And if the mission required someone to push me down a flight of stairs for it to succeed… you’d want someone who won’t hesitate when they do it

Percy age 17:

really funny that every website is in an arms race to make itself as bad as possible and immediately someone makes a firefox extension to fix it

Expertise can't help you here.

KE HUY QUAN wins Best Supporting Actor for WAYMOND WANG in EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE | 2023 Oscars

The Percy Jackson renaissance and The Hunger Games renaissance happening in the same year is something so special to me

the funniest part of any Robin meeting the JL is that every Robin is so distinctly different from the previous one in terms of personality and vibes that the league literally gets backlash. and like, I don't blame them. not to mention that they are non-meta children that dress as a traffic light and fight crime alongside batman in gotham on a nightly basis. i'd also be a bit concerned. Batman, literally The Night of Gotham personified in the League's eyes, coming into a JL meeting: This is Robin, my crime-fighting partner. 11-year-old Dick Grayson, dressed in the brightest primary colours possible, vaguely hidden murder behind those eyes, never stops moving even for a moment: Hi! Superman: That's a child. That's-- Bats that is a child. You let a child--? Batman, deadpan: You try to stop him. Would you rather he try and murder a grown man with a wire?

Batman: This is Robin. 12-year-old Jason Todd, with the biggest grin on his face, about 3 books in his hand, stars in his eyes and a distinct street-kid drawl: Hey!!! Green Lantern: That's ... that's a different child. What?? Jason: I stole his tires :) Batman: Tried to. Jason, stage whispering to the League: basically did. Green Lantern: that is a different kid, right?? I'm not seeing shit??

Batman: This is Robin. 14-year-old Tim Drake, bo staff clutched in his hand, a wary and tired expression on his face, more on the quiet side, the literal walking definition of don't judge a book by it's cover: hello Flash: Where do you even find these-- Tim: I found myself.

Batman: This is Robin. 17-year-old Stephanie Brown, literally blonde, with a shit-eating grin, eyes full of nothing but mischief and the most explosive personality you've ever seen: hiya!! Superman: I give up. Stephanie: I know, I have that amazing effect on people.

Batman: This is Robin. 13-year-old Damian Wayne, a literal wet cat that will hiss at you, has a sword, the most judgemental stare you'll get from a teenager, ready to jump anyone there: Green Lantern: WHY DOES HE HAVE A SWORD?! Batman: ... he came with the sword.

I genuinely hope American media sucks for a while! I hope the big companies keep trying to churn out shit and that it’s all embarrassing garbage! I want it to be extremely apparent to everyone how important the writers and actors are to create good media and that they deserve to be compensated appropriately!!!

though the movie might be cancelled, yuri on ice will live forever in our hearts. thank you yoi fandom, it's been real ♡

I probably won't finish this piece any time soon, but I wanted to share the unfinished version with you anyways!

I like to think that Vulcans who come to understand that Humans just can’t try to process emotions the same way as them, it’s just healthiest to let it out in harmless ways, decide that venting and stuff should be taken just as seriously as Vulcan’s meditation time, and will encourage the Humans around them to complain about what’s upsetting them

People who are used to aloof Vulcans who avoid Humans at all cost running into one comforting a Human

“-and then they said my cheesecake was subpar, and they didn’t even bring a dish!!!”

“The purpose of this event was that every participant brings a food item of sorts, correct?”

“Yeah!!”

“And they did not follow this rule while insulting dishes that were brought?”

“Mostly just my dish but yeah >:(“

“How illogical”

“That’s what I’m saying!!!”

I love when fiction makes the audience feel guilty about their role as the audience. When something fucked up is treated as a joke but later it's recognised how fucked up it was and the audience feels guilty for finding it funny. When a character breaks the fourth wall to plead for help, and you can't do anything so you just watch. And you know that the characters pain isn't real, but they're begging for help and you're not helping because their suffering is entertainment for you

just had SO much fun with the fallout tv show... i love you missus okey dokey

i have neither a good imagination nor aphantasia, but a secret third thing

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"