Goncharov (1973)

Dir. Martin Scorsese

Screenplay by Matteo JWHJ

redrawing another screenshot because it's good practice and because I'm a merthur whore let's be honest

Michael and David are "so strong and so real and true." This is fine. I'm fine...

@ilarual YOUR TAGS ON THIS POST ARE SO REALLLL I had to make a separate post about it

cas canonically does not angst about liking men. liking one man in particular yeah, but not about being gay in general. in an AU though? he literally comes from a fundamentalist xtian """community""" (cult) that has a disproportionate level of power over the lives of the general public. everyone in the cult is a huge narc, including himself. one of the only trustworthy people is his big sister who ran away and went no contact years ago. His mother is a CONVERSION THERAPIST who, let’s be real, probably isn't great about the autism either. too. i don’t get people who think cas’ backstory is impossible or even difficult to adapt to a mundane setting because the parallels are blatant and everything hints towards cas being deeply closeted.

I mean fuck, remember how balthazar was like “wow i’m so glad i rebelled and get to do whatever i want now including have obscene amounts of gay sex” and s6 cas was like :O you're using your freedom for HEDONISM? instead of SERVING THE CAUSE??? meanwhile he had spent the last year watching dean rake leaves in dead silence. and that's a cas whose family were only homophobic in the metaphorical and not literal sense. AU cas is not going to figure out that he's gay without a real fight!

rolling on the floor and screaming how do people watch dps and NOT think neil and todd were madly in love with each other like wdym do you not have eyes 

Don't get me wrong, I love me some "plain text" gay content as much as the next guy, but there's nothing like that deep, deep subtext pining that allows you to explore the 'what ifs' on your own.

Of course Destiel immediately comes to mind because the fucking longing was RIGHT there

But also Hannibal, gay as shit. Longing so deep that it felt palpable. House. Wilson and Dr. House were just insanely, toxically attached at the hip and just w a n t e d. Psych. Gay gay gay.

oh they're in yuri fr??? - person who just read chapter 17 of dungeon meshi

s1e3 is A Thing

El and his ex interacting is so interesting. She's so mad at him for leaving a bunch of times, he has been tortured while he was away, tells her he's been working, they make out.

El's team helps her get the horse back. She tells him that she knows he's not gonna stay because he'll never be the kind to settle down. That she's glad he found a family. They kiss.

It feels like he genuinely cares about her but can't actually commit to a romantic relationship. And she knows. Not the actual term aromantic but she knows that he doesn't love her Like That. They love each other in very different ways and it's never going to work out long-term WHICH THEY KNOW.

Eliot grieving the idea of romance while also knowing damn-well that it's never going to be something he actually feels. All the mess that causes. Not intentionally, just trying to persue something that very much isn't what works for him kinda always ends up messy. I love him. I love the way he has to work through All That. It's a very distinctive type of angst.

Speaking of Lessa and Mardra’s relationship and how we deserved to see it fall to pieces in dq, we also deserved to see more of Lessa and Kylara interacting on-page in flight

Here again is a woman who could have been Lessa’s equal and ally and even friend, for a while literally the only person in a position similar to hers. You would think that at the very least early on when she was training Kylara up to be a weyrwoman she would have hoped for that in some repressed way. Would have been fun to see that relationship develop to make it all the more dramatic when inevitably they ended up hating each other

Team Soldier

I’m up to episode 6 of Siren: Survive the land, but I have to say that Team Soldier is probably the best group of team players.

When they first arrived with the flags, they set the tone for other teams by cheering for the second team. If they’d stood by and watched the Stunt Team work in awkwardness, it would continued that way for everyone.

Not to mention, during the build a fire challenge, they stuck by their alliance with Stunt team, even when Stunt team thought they’d be targets. I was a Stunt Team stan until ep5. I couldn’t watch that episode because I knew my heart would be broken.

But now I’m Team Soldier. They’re having fun and they’re winning. Fire fighters had a Cinderella story going but they’re too bitter for me right now. Maybe it gets better for them, but the animosity they have towards Team Soldier is so off-putting for me. Especially when the Soldiers cheer people on, even when the soldiers lose.

This is what sets the soldiers apart for me. Because their victories seem so LARGE in comparison. Everyone has won something, but the soldiers are having fun. They’re strategizing and forming alliances and weighing their options. These women even went to the clinic just so they could spy on their opponents ailments. They're a very sensible team.

But beyond that, they’re making noise, cheering people, blustering around to put on a fun performance. They're not being humble about it, either. When they win, they rejoice. When someone else wins, they cheer for the person.

I don’t know what else is coming, but right now, Team Soldier is who I’m rooting for.

The thing is that supernatural went from a show that unabashedly embraced common prejudices and hangups to one that didn't. So you can look at earlier seasons and be like "they were crazy for this" and "what were they thinking?" and what they were thinking was that they were writing a normal show.

it's very interesting that people genuinely consider the ending twist of showa genroku rakugo shinju to have happened in the story bc for me, the gay subtext for yakumo is so apparent that there is just no way he could've slept with any women, let alone the daughter of the man he loved and the woman he was supposed to love.

and not to mention that the whole premise of the story is that rakugo allows for unreliable narration. the ambiguity of the ending goes with the entire theme that these characters are simply retelling stories and it's a mix of both fact and fiction.

also the way this "yakumo is actually shinnosuke's father" theory only came up from a dude who was obsessed with yakumo but never actually came close enough to truly know him. i think it was purposefully written that it was eisuke who created the theory bc while he never became a successful rakugo performer, he still used the essence of rakugo - aka the juicy, entertaining storytelling - to manifest a narrative he thought was believable with the little information he had.

like mia, the second speedy, whose main thematic through line is living with HIV and trauma, being in conversation with the 2nd robin, whose main thematic throughline was dying and then making that his whole personality? two characters with thematic resonance being in conversation with each other as characters?

perish the fucking thought :|