on the one hand maggie did throw a lot of pandering into greywaren i suspect to cover up a some rushed narrative and character arc resolution that didn’t completely hit the mark. on the other hand she pandered pretty directly to me and and what i wanted so her tactic worked because i got so caught up in adam and ronan soul fusing in dreamspace that the narrative fuckups went almost completely over my head, so, touché mstief

the percy jackson tv show is actually great when there isn’t a little shit in your ear telling you it’s not “book accurate”

i think some of the popularity that meta horror has garnered is a little bit disingenuous tbqh even though i do like some of the movies that have come out of the subgenre, people don’t realize that the foundation of the slasher genre was established in the 60s/70s and a lot of the 80s movies that have become so classic were already riffing off of the tropes established by those movies before full fledged meta took off. the idea to make friday the 13th was sparked by the commercial success of halloween. the original script for slumber party massacre was a parody of the genre and the movie retains much of that humor which is referential to past slashers by nature. + it intentionally uses typical slasher tropes around gender and sexuality to bring forward the concerns of teenage girls. is that not something that meta horror is frequently touted as doing? child’s play is like a slasher, “except —” which is what a lot of meta horror comedies do now (“slasher except it’s a possessed doll” is not that far off from “slasher except it’s freaky friday” and whatnot). this isn’t to say that scream isn’t foundational to what the slasher genre evolved into or that contemporary meta slashers aren’t doing something interesting but i also think they tend to lean towards cynicism towards the movies they’re deriving their themes from + they’re not even as different as they think they are from “classic” 80s movies that already are borrowing from classic slashers which in turn borrowed from even older horror (for example, in halloween, laurie is watching the thing from another world from the 50s which was adapted into the now classic john carpenter’s the thing in the 80s). and of course many of these older horror movies were adapted from literature which also inspired more literature. like the shelley/byron/polidori scary story writing contest is now legendary but also you don’t get the shining without the haunting of hill house (and you don’t get the haunting of hill house without turn of the screw, for example) and the shining is probably one of the most referenced movies by other media of all time. horror has always been an intertextual genre let’s stop pretending it didn’t become “self aware” until 1996

why do none of the rebels characters or ahsoka have actual personalities anymore,,,,,

okay one very small critique I do have specifically of the post-ritual ending where Tav is aghast at how Astarion has changed, I do wish the dialogues took more into account that Astarion’s vibes prior to the ritual weren’t exactly “sweet boy” in that one specific dialogue branch — I do understand the point, emphasizing how dramatically further down he’s fallen from himself. But like. This is a guy who goes “let’s go hurt someone >:)” when you click on him. I understand it’s to drive home the emphasis and all that but let’s be real with ourselves here. yes he is sad when he can’t see the sun and also yes he giggles about violent murder. both are true

like. okay. i have no real horse in the race of “which brother is the secret bad abuser” because the show does not actually care about that or think that either of them is actually treating each other that badly (except for when sam get manipulated, which is always his own fault and he should suffer for it /s)

but what i will say is that the way dean is written sometimes manages to make me more uncomfortable than any of the villains on this show. dean scares me. completely unintentionally, they did write a guy who only gets Worse over time, and it’s compelling, and it’s upsetting for me to watch.

must everything be SO polarizing like literally people are doing the most over a shitty cw show as if we all have not watched a shitty cw show (spn)

using pj!aragorn and pj!boromir to argue that the films “respect the source material down to the details” (v rings of power, it’s always v rings of power) is objectively very funny, i have to admit

something about orym’s reactions to imogen’s considering ‘switching sides’ being so outright vs when fearne does the same it’s more subdued and he doesn’t Like it but doesn’t outright oppose her in the same way. like thinking about how much dependence he places on imogen as his replacement keyleth who will situate the party and their decisions even if she’s not the one Making the final decisions is So delicious and intriguing and i’m excited to see how the tensions there even in their apologies to one another develop

idk anything about fantasy games but I keep running into comments and posts online that r essentially like “fantasy racism is completely different to irl racism because [insert mechanism or trait that is essential to perpetuating irl racism]”

Aight, I can’t tell if I’m just noticing very basic themes/symbolism here or if I’m onto something but the thought wouldn’t stop haunting me so I guess y’all get to behold my conspiracy chart for Impera being an echo of Meliora

I got no idea what I’m supposed to do with this information but if any of y’all have more to add then let me know cause I’m genuinely curious. My working theory currently is:

Meliora: A masterfully crafted thesis

Impera:

DID I FUCKING STUTTER?

Bonus:

ngl i kinda wish precure would stop making teams where 2 characters are clearly meant to be a duo and the rest are there for merch purposes

pisses me off so much much that i’m not immune to people arguing about steven universe

Be sooo fucking for real rn MC 😒 Truly think she has nothing going on upstairs

I wish I could not have to speak verbally ever

I don’t like talking to people. I wanna just. Text. Or write.

Fuck talking out loud

Shiho lets Shinichi bejeweled 💎✨💖

Shiho doesn’t keep Shinichi locked in the basement over his love of mysteries~