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martyfromgiant · 2 years

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i’m so proud to see that every piece of sapphic media is better and more validating than the last. a league of their own showed the pain of being queer in the 40s and how hard it was to hide. but they didn’t make it the whole story, they still showed the joy and the fight to be together, not just the misery. they still showed greta and carson being accepted by their community, things we didn’t get to see with shows like stranger things. sure we get to see them accepted by peers, but no people that truly get it. the show was also made by queer people for queer people and wasn’t seen through the male gaze or fetishized at all. we also bet to see black queer relationships in the 40s which is huge.

with first kill, we see a relationship that isn’t all about coming out and the struggle of being queer. the problem outsiders had with their relationship wasn’t that they were both women or that one was a black woman, it was that they were dating their sworn enemy.

with the wilds, we got to see queer relationships and relationships between young girls evolve and develop during difficult times. it really harped on the concept of girl power and female relationships. it focused on girls being themselves and having safe spaces to discover who they are.

with killing eve, we got to see the dark side of ourselves being explored and once again, the problem people have isn’t that eve is dating another woman, it’s that she’s dating a psychopath and murderer.

with the haunting of bly manor, the queer relationship isn’t questioned, they’re too busy fighting ghosts. it’s a relationship not shown through the male gaze or fetishized at all.

it’s so nice to know that queer media doesn’t stop at shows like atypical or movies like portrait of a lady on fire. while yes, they are good pieces of media, there are so many new things out that more holistically represent the sapphic experience. it’s refreshing to be able to see yourself on screen when it was never an option before. this is why people are so upset about cancellations, our validation and representation is being taken away. it fucking sucks and you can’t fully grasp that until you have experienced it.

i could talk about this stuff for hours on end but this is really my only outlet. this is the only place people really understand, where people have absorbed the media i have absorbed and those people are just as obsessed as i am. it feels good to have a community of people that understand and want to relate to me.

#a league of their own #aloto #carson x greta #first kill #calliope x juliette #the wilds #shoni #the haunting of bly manor #thobm #killing eve #villaneve #lgbtq #wlw pride #sapphic community

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leviathanspain · 1 year

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constellations

bill weasley x reader

synopsis: new revelations under a set of stars

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bill had never been one to cause any fights, let alone land the first blow. but as his fist connected to amon inkwell’s nose, watching as the boy fell back onto the pavement, in almost slow motion, bill thought back to the conversation that he had overheard, causing this situation.

his legs had been shoved over the ledge, the bridge was his favorite spot, quiet and normally empty, it was always the perfect time to smoke a smuggled cigarette, and ponder over his life. his red hair was blowing just over the side of his face, as he exhaled the smoke. a quick huff when he turned suddenly, hearing the door creak open, he saw a group of boys messing around, and went back to his cigarette.

he kicked his feet as he heard the boys near him, and just a few pillars down, sat to have their conversation. their voices carried to his ears, and bill couldn’t help but pay attention, especially as he heard your name.

“..senna mentioned that y/n was a virgin. desperate to get it over with, she said. i say, i volunteer myself. offer a date, and a little bit of private time?” he laughed, and the rowdy laugh of the other boys joined in.

bill huffed, and before he knew it, he was landing blows left and right to amon’s face, the other boys having to use all their strength to shove him off.

“talk about her again and i’ll kill you!” he threatened, his eyes wild as the boys peeled amon off the floor, his face already bruising and swollen.

you burst through the infirmary doors with a stern look on your face. your hair blew back with the wind and bill noticed your expression. he rolled his eyes, and shook his head, “i’m fine.” he said as you neared, but didn’t say anything as you peeled back the bandages and looked at his hand. cut and bruised, there was still some dried blood. you sighed, “god, really bill?!” you wrapped it up tightly, causing him to hiss, “it’s not that bad, y/n. just a battle wound.” he tried to seem his usual, nonchalant self, but this behavior was not like him at all. bill was one to argue, maybe even get a little loud, but violence had never been a thing associated with the weasleys.

bill looked down, “at least amon and his goons have decided not to say anything. i assume that’s not just because of me?” he looked at you, smirking slightly and you shrugged, “i can also pack a really good punch.”

bill nudged you, smiling, “im sorry, for what they said. i- i just got really mad.” he shook his head and you scoffed, “relax, weasley. you have my full gratitude for defending my honor, and for canceling that date unintentionally. i had found it hard to say no.” you admitted, and bill nodded, “you should lose it with someone you love, not someone like amon.”

you blushed, “ah. yes, i,” you cleared your throat, “listen, i’ll see you later. i have to get to an exam for divination but are we still on for tonight?” you stood up, brushing your robes down, bill noticed that your face was incredibly red, and he looked down, “yes. i’ll see you then.”

the quidditch field was almost ominous, the heavy flapping of the tents in the wind created a noise that had you looking over your shoulder, but seeing bill already on his back, looking up at he stars, you felt safe. you ran towards him, and landed next to him, lying down.

“evening, weasley.”

he smirked, looking at you, “evening, y/n. how was your exam?”

you shrugged, “bleak. the professor said she saw ‘something of a revelation’ in my tea leaves.” you scoffed, and reached into bills robe pocket. the semi crushed cigarette pack was pulled out.

bill laughed, “not very open minded are we?” he teased you, and took the pack out of your hand. you watched him light it, and draw a large inhale. bill noticed your silence and looked at you, “what’s wrong?”

you laughed bitterly, “i can be open minded!” you defended yourself, taking the cigarette from him.

bill rolled his eyes, laughing, “yes, of course, and im a non smoker.” he threw his head back onto the grass, and you shoved him.

“this isn’t funny. i- i’ve done a lot of open minded things.” you held out the cigarette, “look! im smoking, i never smoked until i met you!” you sounded unsure of yourself and bill could tell, “that stick is so far up your ass you cant even convince yourself.” he joked, and you let out a laugh, “okay, that was a little funny.”

“yeah, i know.” he mocked his arrogance and folded his arms behind his head, closing his eyes, “show me your open minded side, show me that rebellious girl.”

you inhaled the smoke, and without even thinking, you leaned down, blowing the smoke over bills face, your lips kissing his suddenly.

bill reacted with his hand holding your head, leaning up to meet your lips with a hunger he didn’t know he had.

you kissed him deeply for a minute, unsure of what to do, but bill was leading the kiss, heavy on the tongue.

you pulled back with a smile, “see? i did something i would never do.”

bill smirked, “kissing me cannot actually be that bad.”

you shrugged, “it wasn’t, but you’ve been passed around so much that i should probably head down to one of those muggle clinics and see if i caught anything.” you joked, and bill tipped his head back with a laugh, “at least i’ve been passed around.”

you rolled your eyes, “ha, ha. not funny, weasley.” your mood had suddenly felt spoiled, and you took a frustrated drag.

bill sat up, and shook his head, “i’m sorry. that wasn’t very nice, was it?”

you looked at him, and you sat back, handing the cigarette to him, bill tossed it aside, “no it wasn’t. but i guess i can’t blame you. seventh year and still a virgin? im pathetic.”

bill shook his head, “no you’re not. half the guys here are all knobs, you don’t have to do anything, especially because you feel like there’s some sort of pressure.”

you sighed, “you’re just saying that because we’re friends. last i remembered, you had girls on standby, waiting to take a ride on the weasley express.”

bill wrinkled his nose and you laughed, “that was in bad taste, im sorry.” you admitted and bill shrugged, “no it’s fine. im a slag.” you laughed loudly now, and shoved him.

you and bill got into a slight tumble as he shoved you back, you losing your balance and falling down onto the grass, he paused the little fight and smiled up at the sky, “remember what i said in the infirmary? do it when you’re ready, with someone who you love.”

you looked at bill, his face watching the sky was bordering even more beautiful than the constellations themselves, and suddenly that urge to kiss him hit you again.

bill turned to look at you, and as he did, you were already leaning down to kiss him again.

you crawled on top of him, your legs on either side of his, you kissed him roughly.

as much as bill would’ve loved to keep kissing you, he paused, and pulled back, his hands holding your face, “what are you doing?” he knew exactly what you were doing, but it was if you had really wanted to be doing this, that he questioned.

“you said to lose it to someone i love.” your hands reached down to the white collar poking underneath his sweater, “i love you, bill weasley.”

bill nodded, “i never thought you’d say that.” and bill kissed yoh again, wondering just how a wonderful girl like you, someone who had been his friend for years, seen the ugly and the bad side of him, had seen his family, met them, spent summers with them, had chosen him.

he was not like anyone in hogwarts, good or for bad. but you looked at him like he mattered.

and as his hands trailed up to your skirts, peeling back the elastic, you looked at him and nodded, wondering just how perfect this moment was.

and as bill took you for his own, your cries echoing out into the quidditch field, you on your back and bill on top of you, your eyes focused on the constellations in the sky, and suddenly you saw what bill saw. the constellations were in harmony, and as you came, bill fucking you right into it, his declaration of love came out as a groan, his lips kissing yours.

#bill weasley fluff #bill weasley smut #bill weasley x reader #bill weasley #bill weasley angst #bill weasley imagines #hogwarts imagines #hogwarts smut #hogwarts angst

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neverchecking · 11 months

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More random thoughts .3.

So, our three good bois… they have all been through a lot in their respective lives.

Cal moved away from his family to serve as a knight to a princess who doesn’t even know how to achieve her full potential yet… and he’s supposed to care, then it all gets ruined in the end anyways… and DIES!

Wild, gone through all of that… awaken 100 YEARS LATER! All of his friends and family are long gone and he’s told to protect and save the princess AGAIN! Mind you the SAME ONE who couldn’t even save him in the end, but somehow saved herself. Yes technically Zelda was able to have others take Wild to the shrine but that doesn’t make it any better. But he tries to get everything back to the way it was and have some peace.. but then…. Of course… she had to explore underneath the castle… SHE JUST HAD TOO!

Sage, with everything that happened. Everything thing that had happened…. Including damn near losing an arm and being corrupted…. It all make sense now. Sage has EVERY RIGHT to be as feral as he is. The rage… the RAGE!! Lost his family, friends, position, his status, his sanity…. And it was all for a princess… WHOES KINGDOM BARELY EXISTS!!! AND SHE TOOK HIS HOUSE! But you want to know what I think? As much as I can see the rage, the anger, and the hate that Sage has kept inside for so long… he honestly just wants to break… he wants to just cry all of the tears that he had kept looked up for so long, hell if you think about it… who’s not to say that Sage hasn’t thought about canceling his subscription from his existence??

I finally understand why he’s so attached to the Reader, not only do they see him as an actual person with feelings, they don’t judge him for it. They understand just how much this poor cupcake has went through… and all Sage wants is to hold them and cry, cry until his voice is long gone from existence, but he still has too many tears to spare, he’ll just hold on to Reader and cry for days, weeks if he could… and Reader knows that Sage needed this, he needed to know that he is loved and it’s ok to be sad… and they’ll hold him for eternity if they have to.

The triplets are so fun to spitball with.

Cal feels so trapped by his duty, especially with Fauna treating him the way she does. So when he's given the opportunity to have someone who isn't oppressing him, but instead steps back and lets him flourish? It absolutely strings something between the two of them. Something heavy and unbreaking because he can't go back to the way he was before. He'd go insane.

Wild is almost the exact opposite. He's so sporadic and unpredictable that he's so thankful to have someone to ground him at long last. Even with Flora breathing down his back, all about rebuilding this and redoing that (Even redoing the very things that killed him and the champions in the first place), he can get through it all with you beside him, acting as an anchor.

Now, Sage. I love the ideas you brought because we have to look at his character as a whole. He went through the militant training that Cal did, lost his life and his friends, woke up over a century late like Wild, was just as lost and manic as he was. But he had managed to pick himself up. Had managed to settle himself long enough to deal with the initial threat before attempting to give himself for room to fully quell himself. But then he wasn't given that time. Instead forced back on the front line, now tainted by this Gloom, and dragged back to the bottom of the barrel, sans a whole arm (While he had Rauru's, it wasn't the same). That and the bitch took his house. That would absolutely destroy any sane person, let alone someone like Sage who is so broken.

Small TW: Talk of unalive-ing!

The idea that Sage has in fact thought of that route is something I've been toying with back and forth. He is such a broken man. He's tired and destroyed in every way. Mentally, emotionally, now physically? He had nothing. People don't care for him, they forget he exists without Natura parading him about. He can't even go to Hateno, they all plainly favor her over him; after all they just let her take his house. And worse of all? He's sick. He's infected with this Gloom, which tears him to shreds and hurts. It clenches his heart and constricts his lungs to the point where he's too delirious with pain to tell up from down sometimes.

There were probably times he debated just...giving up? Why be a pawn for Hylia to use? Why go through this torture and this pain over and over and over again? There was so much more to do since his first (Second?) adventure and just thinking about it is exhausting.

But when he meets Reader?

When someone cradles his shattered parts with any form of genuine care? Who lets him cry without holding it over him? Who doesn't think twice about shielding his vulnerable parts from the outside world?

He has a reason to live now. To fight and survive. Not just survive, but thrive. Because he's not living for himself anymore. He's living for his Goddess. He's buying a house on the outskirts of Tarrey Town, he's hunting those shrines down for the light inside. He's learning how to use this new arm to his advantage. He's honing his senses and perfecting the techniques that helped him survive the first time. Foraging, hunting, fishing? All of it? He excels to impress you. He is clawing out of the hole he was dropped in and fucking prospering.

And he'd make damn sure he'd continue to do so. Just to keep his Goddess in his grasp.

I just wanna hold Sage while he cries ;-;, like lemme brush your hair and cradle your cheeks, with a little smooch to your perfect cheeks.

#cinder rambles #lu sage #i love him #just wanna smooch his face #get therapy for sage #please

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bingoboingobongo · 1 year

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task force 141 + christmas day

Characters: Simon "Ghost" Riley, John "Soap" MacTavish, Kyle "Gaz" Garrick, John Price, Alejandro Vargas, Rodolfo "Rudy" Parra

Warnings: none

A/N: oh lordy i can't believe it's christmas already. keep sending me requests so i have stuff for january por favor. merry happy to all u guys

alright so the big day has finally arrived

christmas

it's been snowing for the last week and the trend continued today which means rudy is ecstatic because it's always been his dream to have a white christmas

he's also one of the first people to wake up and he has to fight the urge to run around and wake everyone else up

another person of the first people to wake up list is soap and unlike rudy soap does not fight the urge

he goes throughout the base blasting christmas music (mariah carey ofc) and shaking everyone out of their beds

ghost's been up for a while (as expected) and is already waiting in the kitchen with a cup of tea as everyone else piles in

pretty much everyone is in pajamas or sweatpants

rudy and soap are wearing their favorite ugly christmas sweaters tho

and as price starts up a pot of coffee the gift opening ensues

they all let rudy start out because he's literally trembling with excitement

of course everyone chipped in to get rudy his dream lego set this year

the ferrari daytona sp3

but in addition to that ghost somehow managed to get rudy a mint condition, never opened, ferrari f1 racer set

and for those of y'all who aren't familiar with legos (pretty much the entire team except rudy) this is a huge deal because the set has been retired

rudy was so excited he couldn't stop himself from running up to ghost and giving him a massive hug

ghost awkwardly let him but mainly because rudy looked so happy he couldn't say no

and yes rudy spent the rest of the day raving about how cool the set ghost got him was

the next person to open up their gifts was price

and apparently all his coy hinting worked because he got what he wished for, a heated weighted blanket

unfortunately (or maybe fortunately idk u decide) his hinting worked a little too well because gaz, soap, and rudy all got him one

so now he has three

in addition to that alejandro got him a super nice bottle of macallan whiskey

and ghost got him a really expensive set of cigars

after price went gaz

soap felt so bad for sitting on and breaking gaz's speaker that of course he had to buy him a new one

it's bluetooth of course and very nice

that being said the gift is technically from soap and price because the speaker was pretty expensive (but really good quality)

alejandro and rudy both chipped in and got gaz a really nice pair of noise cancelling headphones so that he wouldn't have to deal with the task force's nonsense anymore

and gaz had recently mentioned how he had gotten back into listening to the weeknd

and ofc ghost bought him two vip tickets to the weeknd's after hours til dawn tour

gaz literally freaked out when he saw the tickets like im talking jumped up out of his seat jaw dropped wide open

ghost let's gaz give him an awkward hug too because he doesn't want to kill his mood

and then it's alejandro's turn to open his gift

and low and behold what does he see when he opens up the wrapping paper

of course it's his dream gift and like the one thing he wished for

a brand new ps5

everyone on the team chipped in to pay for it

and they got him a few games too

then next it was ghost's turn

he wasn't expecting much and he was pretty surprised when he opened his gift

he got all the books he wanted of course, plus a few extra

soap got him the metamorphosis by franz kafka

gaz got him the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde

alejandro got him journey to the center of the earth by jules verne

rudy got him the count of monte cristo by alexandre dumas

and then somehow, price managed to score a signed, first edition version of treasure island by robert louis stevenson

ghost was literally speechless for the first time in his life when he realized what he was holding

like his hands were literally shaking and he had to put it down because he was scared he would ruin it

he tried to interrogate price and find out where he had got it from but price wouldn't say anything

and then last but not least was soap

he was getting kinda nervous as everyone opened up their gifts because it didn't look like there was gonna be any for him

and the ghost opened up the last box and soap's heart pretty much broke

but before the sadness could fester too long everyone dragged him to the garage

and low and freaking behold what does soap see

but his dream gift, the yz250 sitting in front of him with a bow on top

and soap freaked out he was literally bouncing off the walls in shock

it turned out ghost knew a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy

and so he was able to get the bike at an insane discount

and with everyone chipping in, they were able to get him a helmet/gear as well

and again soap was literally freaking out

he tried to hug ghost, who declined at first but then gave in

after gift opening was over they all went to have lunch and the kinda split off to do their own things

simon "ghost" riley:

alright so the first thing ghost does is take his first edition treasure island and sprint to his room

like i cannot emphasize to you enough how insane of a deal this is

because not only is a first edition copy valued at literally ~$10,000, treasure island has an insane amount of sentimental value to ghost because that was his favorite book as a child

that being said ghost was literally terrified to touch the book

like he put on his gloves and anything

the book was in really good condition and even the signature looked like it was in mint condition

i mean again ghost was just in awe completely shocked

he ended up tucking it away in his safe because he was too scared to read it

he ended up brewing himself a cup of tea and reading the count of monte cristo to relax

and if you're there with him than congrats u get to see a new side of ghost, nerd!ghost

because he will not stop raving about the first edition treasure island

he'll also give you your gifts in private

and they're everything you ever wished for

including something you didn't even remember wishing for until you saw it

and then he's more than happy to spend the rest of the day hanging out with you while he reads

at least until price calls everyone to the dining room for christmas dinner and soap starts drinking

john "soap" mactavish:

alright after seeing his gift soap has one thing on his mind and that's riding the dirt bike

unfortunately the weather outside is not the most friendly to dirt bikers

but what soap wants soap does

and so (very unwisely i might add) soap decides to try riding his bike indoors

he takes it to the hangar because it's got a lot more space but just because he has the extra space doesn't mean he's successful

it's been a long time since he last rode a dirt bike and so he almost immediately nearly ran into one of the planes

and then you and price practically forced him to stop so he wouldn't immediately destroy his bike

he was disappointed for a bit but you made it better

he gave you his gift and it was the best, most soap-centric gift you could ask for

it was absolutely perfect and it referenced one of your many inside jokes

he also let you pick one of the soap's everyone put in his stocking

you picked a fancy bath and body works one

then he spent the rest of the day hanging out with you and the others until dinner time

and you know that afterwards he's getting stupid drunk again

kyle "gaz" garrick:

alright so honestly gaz was freaking out about the weeknd tickets a lot

like it took him a good while to finally relax

and of course the other ticket is going to you so you can join him

he also pretty much immediately put on the noise cancelling headphones alejandro and rudy got him

and you just know he was listening to the weeknd's entire discography

he also pulled you aside so he could give you your gift in private

he got you some new clothes you've been wanting for a while

as well as some jewelry with your initials engraved in it

he was kind of nervous it was too much but you assured him it was perfect

he spent the rest of the day listening to music and dancing with you

as well as hanging out with the others until dinner came

and during the after dinner party gaz's speaker was the prime music source

john price:

alright so price is just ready to milk his gifts as much as possible

but before he does he knows he has to give you your gift first

it's something really sweet and heartfelt and you can tell how much he loves you through the gift

and he also got you your own bucket hat with your initials embroidered on the inside

he says you look like the most beautiful girl in the world with it on

then he drags you to his room where you milk his presents with him

he pours you a glass of the fancy whiskey while he lights one of ghost's cigars

if you smoke too he'll offer you one as well

and then he'll have you cozy up to him under one out of the three weighted heated blankets

and the two of you will just cuddle there until dinner

alejandro vargas:

alright so the first thing alejandro does after everyone's done opening gifts is hook up his PS5 to the tv

he's super excited to play some games and he brings you over to play with him

before you start though he gives you your gift

it's something you've been wanting for a while

plus an all expenses paid for spa trip at a really nice spa

then he pulls you against him and has you pick a game to play

and the two of you will play that until dinner comes

and then he might still keep playing after dinner, although this time he'll be much worse because you don't get to go through a soap party without drinking at least a smidge of alcohol

rodolfo "rudy" parra:

alright so rudy is just super duper hyped about his legos man idk what to say

his first thought is to immediately start building one of them but he has enough reason to give you your gift first

one of them is an expensive set of shoes you've been eyeing for a long time

another is a lego set of your own (because he wants to build legos with you but he also gets super defensive if you try to build his so he needs it to be seperate)

and then a super duper heartfelt homemade gift

he's really really nervous about it and his heart just about bursts when you wrap your arms around him and tell him it's perfect

and then the two of you spend a pretty long amount of time building legos

honestly you finished pretty quickly but you stuck around to watch him finish his

you also helped massage his back/shoulders whenever they would hurt from being hunched over for too long

and lord knows rudy would sing your praises so loudly for doing that

he's done by dinner and during soap's little party rudy is more than happy to be all over you

and it's easily the best christmas he's had so far

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callmegaith · 1 month

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There's a line from David in roots in the last section when you talk to him that's like. "I hope I will not be the one to die tonight" or smth similar and. Explodes so hard. I think about it SOOO often. I don't have words but. Yeah.

Paradise*

(roots = Vanderbooms

Paradise = Eilanders

Don't worry, it's common for them to be mix up in the fanbase. xD)

I ALWAYS WAS LIKE "WHY THE FUCK WOULD U SAY THAT?! UR ASS KNOWS UR NOT THE ONE WHOS GONNA GET KILLED UR NOT THE FIRST BORN" unless there was a reason for this line that we simply just don't know yet and it'll make more sense in the future.

I have read one theory that tried to explain this and it's that David is the son of Caroline and Gerard, so technically, he would be their first born. Tho the only thing backing this up is that David's hair color and mannerism is more like Gerard's and that he seems to always be closer to Gerard even in the family photo

Wild if true but I don't think that would generally cancel out Jakob being the first born since he's older xD

Tbh? I think David was just being sarcastic and funny. The same way he was in the beginning when he said to Jakob "it's been a while, brother" even tho he hasn't seen Jakob since he was a toddler, too young to even know or remember he had a brother. Is it a dick move? Yeah. But is it hilarious? Also yes.

#asks!#RL: lore and theories

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insertcoolusernamehereee · 7 months

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Spider-verse, but Nightwing

OK I once saw a comment somewhere which went along the lines of...

"I wish Dc would give us a animation-like Spiderverse of Nightwing"

and at first i kind of ignored it- cuz idk, i don't really care about Nightwing- I mean, i love him! He's great, but not one of my favorite batfamily members.

BUT THEN I REALIZED THE OTHER CHARACTERS WOULD BE THERE TOO

so, here's what i think a Spiderverse movie would be like,

(If the plot was similar)

Nightwing- Obv he's Miles Morales, the main character!

Gwen- OK, the love interest. So we have three main competitors for fan favorite ships! Dick/Wally, Dick/Barbara, and Dick/Kori! Now one of them is already cancelled by default, because Dc is a coward, so we only have Barbara and Kori left! and well, Barbara fits Gwen's personality much more than Kori, and that paired with the fact that DC favors DickBabs in general, WE HAVE A WINNER!

SpiderVerse- okay, this is where it starts to lean a bit away from the movies and a bit from the comics; Spiderverse is now the Court of Owls! My headcannon is that for some reason all vigilantes (minus Batman and one other person, u will find out) join the court of owls thinking it has the right idea, and then BOOM its not actually that good (it kills people it can't control). BUT its not that wrong either. When it figures out what its doing wrong, it starts helping the vigilantes against the real evil, which is...

Spot- The league of assassins :)) YES I KNOW, IT ISN'T REALLY A MAIN VILLAIN of Nightwing's, but STILL, it's too good of a opportunity to give up seeing Ra's and Talia in the movie.

Miles Parents- Bruce and Selina, obviously. I think Jefferson's personality as a parent is PERFECT for Bruce-emotionally-constipated-dad! Selina is Bruce's wife, obv, BUT there is one change here...Y'know that scene where Rio gives Miles that 'your un-grounded" talk? I think it would be Wally giving Nightwing a super cool heartwarming speech (it won't be the same though) and then turned out Selina was listening to it all and at the end is just like "sigh, ok, you're ungrounded, come back soon, i'll deal with Bruce."

NOW FOR THE REST OF THE BATFAMILY MEMBER'S

Tim Drake- DRUM ROLL PLEASE, Hobie Brown! Hobie's smart, and while his personality might be a bit too much....It's still perfect for the role Tim would be playing. Hobie doesn’t trust the Court, and at the end he’s the one who had everything prepared for when they realise that the Court Of Owls is wrong!

Stephanie Brown- AND SHE'S GOING TO BE OUR FAV CINNAMON ROLL, Pavitr Prabhakar. And as much as it pains me as a Pakistani to remove his Indian heritage, it must be done. He's goofy, he ships the two main characters, and is just adorable, he's perfect for Stephanie, and will definitely give her justice.

Cassandra Cain- Sadly, Cass is going to have a less prominent role in the second movie, but hopefully she shows up more in the third; Margo Kess! the scene where she lets Miles go is perfect, because she can detect body language and would understand that Nightwing is right, and Miguel is planning on hurting him.

Damian Wayne- FINALLY MY FAV CHARACTER, but this one is more of a original character instead of a already made character in the movie; Damian is going to be the person Dick has to save. Because i love their dynamic. So, Damian is probably being manipulated by LoA, and idk maybe Ra's is trying to use him as a body vessel without Damian knowing, and the court of owls needs him dead because "HES A WILD CARD" but Dick just NEEDS to save him "BECAUSE THAT'S MY BROTHER, DAMN YOU, IM NOT LETTING ANOTHER ONE DIE" and cue everyone fighting LoA and then a wholesome Dick and Dami scene; Feel free to elaborate on it.

Jason Todd- I had to think a lot for this, but i have a PERFECT answer; Uncle Aaron. ITS SAD AND WILL BREAK HEARTS BUT ITS PERFECT, HELP- The relationship with Jefferson? check. Dies? check. What more do we need?

a happy and alive Jason

Hey! Maybe he comes back when hey go to save Damian! Actually, yes, that is 100% the plot. They find Jason revived at the league and save him :3

Duke Thomas- I CANT FIND A CHARACTER FOR DUKE BUT HE HAS TO BE HERE DAMN IT- please either come up with a original character for Duke or find a already made character PLEASE.

RANDOM OTHER CHARACTERS

Peter B. Parker- Must i explain why? No, no i do not. its perfect.

Mayday- Jon Kent :))) Because why not///

MJ- (Peters wife and Maydays mother) Obv Lois Lane.

Miguel- Random court of owls leader (any idea's?).

SpiderWoman- Can't think of anyone...let me know what you guys think in the comments!

Peni Parker- Kori!! She's perfect

Pig Spiderman- Beast Boy lmao

Black and White Spiderman- Meme version of Raven.

Roy Harper- Just another original character who i need in the movie.

King-Pin- Mr. Freeze! his goals match up pretty well with Kingpins anyway.

The rest of the villains Miles faces will be random Rogues from Batman's gallery.

The rest of the Spiderman's in Spiderverse will be random Justice-League members (OMG I LOVE THIS)

And, well, the first movie takes place when it's only Dick and Jason adopted (Before Jason's death, and then a bit after, when Dick is dealing with the grief)

Feel free to add more stuff in reblogs/Comments! Really want to see what you guys come up with :3

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olliethescribe · 1 year

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Well, time to write about Hypno. He's my favorite for a reason.

Hypno is many things, overpowered being one of them (but this dipshit's powers have backfired on him in almost every appearance of his so it evens out). He's also a genuinely good person and you can't change my mind.

Sure, he absolutely tries to murder the turtles in Newsworthy after being tricked (and then attempted murder on April's entire high school in Hypno Part Deux because he was jealous of a teenager getting more attention for a disappearing act, whoops), but he seems to mellow out after his meet-cute with Warren. By the time we get to Stuck On You, his first thought when he saw the turtles glued together was actual concern (I mean, even the Foot Clan thought something happened, but ehhh).

In The Evil League Of Mutants, he shows the most personality by attempting to separate himself from the others, saying "as an actual magician, I'm offended by this" at their shitty attempt at a magic show. It seemed to be directed at the turtles, too, which is wild. So he cares what they think of him. In Warren And Hypno Sitting A Tree, when pleading with the turtles and April to help him save Warren, once they hold up their end of the bargain (which he helps them with), he doesn't betray them. He's grateful, the opposite of Warren who instantly gave them up.

That brings me to The Clothes Don't Make The Turtle. Not only is this one of the best episodes in the entire series (imo), but it also showcases that Hypno cares about the turtles. He puts them in an illusion trap instead of killing them outright, even though he had the chance. Once they break out and find him, he asks how they escaped with curiosity rather than malice ("did you learn the power of self-love to break free?"), and even as he's bending reality to his whim, he doesn't try to kill them. Beat the shit out of them? Yes. Kill them? No. Plus he lets Leo watch him perform (most likely remembering that Leo was interested in magic back in Hypno Part Deux after calling the magician the turtle looked up to a talentless hack)! Sure the other three got the shorter end of the stick (especially Donnie), but they weren't seriously injured. Hypno's still holding up that end of the bargain from WAHSIAT; he's holding back because he cares about them.

The most obvious way that shows that he cares whether they live or die was in Battle Nexus New York. He was the only villain that didn't complain when paired with a turtle (Donnie), instead apologizing for his lack of skill in chess. He tried his best (even by doing nothing at all) so neither of them would get hurt. And when they were freed and the turtles joined back up to take on Big Mama? He cheered! He sung the praises of brotherly love and was glad they were okay, only to be booed and called lame.

So yeah, that's why I think Hypno's a good person/more complex character, and if Rise weren't canceled, he had the potential to become an ally.

#headcanon #short essay #shitty analysis #warren stone #hypno potamus #rottmnt #he's a sweetheart i swear #i like him a normal amount

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milfmacbeth · 27 days

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Hi! Your top 5 best and top 5 worst endings of anything that you liked? Could be TV shows, books, movies, podcasts. Thanks!

hi!! thank you for the ask <3

i generally prefer tragic or bittersweet endings over unambiguously happy ones; this will be long; spoilers ahead (obviously)

best endings

hannibal

the wrath of the lamb fucking rearranged my brain chemistry. how do i explain to people that one of the most romantic things i’ve ever seen was a murder-suicide?

technically hannibal was canceled and not ended but in absence of a season 4, i will consider twotl the ending. i don’t even want a season 4 because i can’t imagine any better ending than the one we’ve got. yes, season 3b was a rushed mess of hannibal, will, and dolarhyde playing fuck marry kill with each other, but they stuck the landing so well, and it’s this perfect tragic mix of “this could’ve all been avoided” and “there’s no other way this could’ve ended”.

and yeah the ending is ambiguous and it’s implied they lived but my favorite interpretation is that they died in each other’s arms.

black sails

wars have been fought over the interpretation of this ending. i personally think john silver is lying but whatever your take, jack’s “a story is true, a story is untrue” speech is brilliant and it’s a perfect ending to a great show

fleabag

“i love you” “it’ll pass” I AM NORMAL.

i love you, female characters written by women. i love you, comedy that turns into tragedy halfway through. i love you, clever use of narrative devices.

this show is damn near perfect, and even though the first thing i did after finishing fleabag was go on ao3 in search of thousands of words of fix-it fic, i wouldn’t change a thing about the ending.

white fang

i wouldn’t say i have a favorite book, but if i had to answer that question it would either be the iliad or white fang. this is the book that got me into reading.

this book caught me at exactly the right time in my life. i was obsessed with wolves as a kid; i was 11 or so, and my grandma handed me this beautifully illustrated book that had the most amazing old book smell (because it’s been in a wooden attic up until then).

it’s about the life of a wolfdog (more wolf than dog) that was born in the wild but gets tamed/adopted into a dog pack that hates him because they can smell he’s not really a dog and hooo boy does something is wrong with you and others can tell that you’re not like them hit when you’re a lonely child.

anywayyyyyy it ends with white fang, having been adopted by a kind man, lying in the sun, still a little confused/out of his element but content. the ending is bittersweet and thematically fitting and he’s a good dog and deserves it.

the mechanisms

the mechanisms are a band of immortal space pirates telling stories of their adventures. their last album is titled death to the mechanisms and in the eponymous song , they realize they’re not quite as immortal as they thought they were. it’s sad, it’s funny, it’s beautiful, it’s poetic, and it’s a worthy send-off.

if you’ve got six and a half minutes, it’s worth a listen (even without context), if only for gems like “witnesses will say that they have never before seen someone so viciously excited to die” or “his body will float there forever, far beyond the warmth of stars” or “pointless, ignoble deaths the lot of them. but who that lived can really boast otherwise?” (this band is so quotable it's insane)

onto the hating!

worst endings

dexter

what the absolute FUCK was that. i adore this show but the ending sucks so much it feels almost malicious

supernatural

i’m not sure i can answer “do you like supernatural?” without a lawyer present. i was obsessed with supernatural as a teenager, then i stopped watching around season 10 or 11. i decided to rewatch the entire thing after november 5th.

supernatural would be so good if it was good. i’m a “supernatural should’ve ended after season 5” truther but i admit that some of the later seasons do have their moments.

not the ending though. the ending is so completely beyond parody i don’t even know what to say. castiel is in superhell for gay angels. dean gets nailed by vampire clowns. when i first saw the aged-up version of sam i literally burst out laughing. at least the wincesties got a forehead touch out of it i guess???? i am so glad that i’ve built up enough emotional distance to laugh instead of rage about this because i know my teenage self would’ve had a conniption.

goethe’s faust and euripides’ orestes

they’ve got nothing to do with each other but i have the exact same beef with both of them so i’m just gonna throw them together.

faust ending: faust loses his wager with mephisto and should’ve by all rights gone to hell but god says ????? (don’t even ask i’m not sure i could explain whatever twisted logic is going on there. something about faust using his devil-bestowed powers for good) and faust goes to heaven anyway.

goethe, my guy, you named the thing faust. eine tragödie. where’s the tragedy i was promised? false advertising. fuck you.

orestes ending: standoff between menelaus and orestes; orestes is holding a knife to hermione’s (menelaus’ and helen’s daughter) throat; this will not end well. or so you thought! at the last possible second, apollo swoops down and fixes everything, tells orestes to marry hermione and ???

nothing is satisfyingly resolved but hey, at least no one’s dead. except iphigenia, and agamemnon, and clytemnestra. this fucking family…

this is what the ancients called deus ex machina and what i call an ass pull.

i just think if you’ve constructed an entire narrative that follows a very clear, specific direction, you shouldn’t then swerve to the left. SEEMS LOGICAL TO ME

and it’s not just philistine bitching on my part btw. there’s actual academic debate about what the hell these authors were thinking. that being said, i’m a hater because i’m a lover, and i wouldn’t be so mad if i didn’t love both these plays

game of thrones

i am sure everyone has heard about how much the ending fucking sucks. from building up the night king to be a badass villain only to kill him in the ass-pulliest way imaginable in one (1) night, to walking back all the character development the characters went through to jon’s heritage being meaningless to having a thus far sympathetic dany snap and burn a city down over literally nothing to jaime and cersei being killed by falling rocks to brandon fucking stark, a character so uninteresting the show forgot about him for a whole season, sitting on the iron throne.

also, euron greyjoy is my favorite character in the books and i’ll never forgive the show for butchering him (i don’t know who the fuck that guy on the screen is, it sure ain’t euron).

one thing that i find fascinating is that it’s literally just the writing that sucks. the costumes are beautiful, the soundtrack is better than the show deserves (thank you ramin djawadi ilu mwah <3), the dragons look great, the actors are doing the best they can. highest production value piece of garbage ever made.

the magnus archives

(little warning bc i’m really mad about this so vitriol ahead. also, i have not listened to the magnus protocol and i’m not sure i ever will)

i yelled about this a lot and i’m ready to yell about this some more!! THIS IS A SEASON 5 HATE BLOG. i’m so serious it’s literally a better podcast if you ignore season 5 and act like MAG 160 is the ending. jonathan ‘the archivist’ sims should’ve had a corruption arc and i will die on this hill, everything E V E R Y T H I N G pointed towards jon becoming a monster and enjoying it. it could’ve been so good!!! instead we got some formulaic bullshit, the concept of (and i cannot stress this enough) parallel universes introduced like three episodes before the ending, and the single shittiest romance i have ever been subjected to. the way martin treats jon is sooo fucking vile and yet the podcast is constantly like aren’t they so cute :) isn’t this soo romantic :) NO IT FUCKING ISN’T. he’s dating his shitty coworker who he doesn’t even like that much why exactly am i supposed to be rooting for this relationship jesus fuck i feel like i’m being gaslit. i don’t just have a notp i genuinely feel like jonmartin ruined the entire thing.

s5 also completely ignored jonah magnus who, apart from being one of the most interesting characters, is THE GUY THE PODCAST WAS NAMED AFTER. but yeah, sure, who cares about him? let's have five more episodes of jon and martin being fundamentally incompatible.

and then there’s the ending where jon is the only one who stands up for what’s right. the podcast tries to act like keeping the fears in their world or releasing the fears are two equally bad choices but the latter is so clearly worse. so clearly the wrong choice to make. AND THEN THEY MAKE THAT TERRIBLE CHOICE FUCK THIS SO MUCH

tma season 5 is one of those cases where you can so clearly see the potential of something that could’ve been so great and they just threw that away AND FOR WHAT

(ok i’m done yelling about this now. just kidding i’ll never be done)

#i am long overdue for a rewatch/reread of some of these #ask

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kanohimineka · 8 months

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The Death of the Power Rangers: A Eulogy

I know it seems it may be early, or late, but I feel I need to eulogize Power Rangers for a second. Yes, I know it's not done yet. Cosmic Fury comes out in about a week, and Hasbro is planning a reboot... eventually. However, this feels like the end of an era.

I don't just mean this pre-reboot Hasbro era. As far as I'm aware, we are leading up to a 2024 where there will be essentially no Power Rangers efforts, toy or filmic, for the first time since the series started. Of course, we've come close. After RPM, Disney planned to kill the brand outright, but they still output a bizarre reissue of the original series with comic panels in 2010 before Saban rebought the brand and quickly produced Samurai for a 2011 release. Power Rangers has always seemed to find a way out of cancellation. From In Space to Wild Force to RPM, Power Rangers has, somehow, always found a way. But now, in the year's 30th anniversary, the main series's luck has finally run out. Even still, it is trying to push it's luck. Cosmic Fury seemingly only exists because of delays within the reboot.

That's probably why the Cosmic Fury suits look a bit bad. They were on a production crunch only rivaled (and probably beat) by Samurai season 1. But still, this essentially marks the death of what we've known as the Power Rangers. When it does continue, it will probably end up with a completely different feel. Yes, there will be no Sentai footage, but it will also seemingly be missing the overly earnest yet endlessly charming Tokusatsu charm in exchange for Marvel inspired cynical quipiness. This sucks even more in a year where One Piece proved that Tokusatsu stylings can work in a high budget prestige series and both work for audiences and critics alike. I would hope for better, but comments about the corporate reactions for the franchise gives me my doubts. As always, the people at the top of these companies are often the dumbest and least qualified people to make art. Support the Strikes. (Not to be overly antagonistic to Simon Bennet, we attack him to much. It's mostly the corpos up top.)

Anyways, this corporate idiocy has led to the death of a franchise that ultimately helped me through some of the darkest moments in my life. I won't get too much into it, but finding Power Rangers in my childhood was one of the few lights in my youth, alongside Bionicle and Pokemon, and it was still there through most of it. I watched SPD first, and it hooked me. I learned about the universe through reruns of Dino Thunder. After missing RPM through bad marketing, I refound it in Samurai and, while that show isn't greatest, it led me to be introduced to some of my favorite Sentai suits, the Samurai suits, and later, the Gokaiger suits. I found Sentai, and the grander world of Tokusatsu productions, around Dino Charge, finding Youtube videos on the subject. It helped that the universe was still connected. Each show is individualized, which allows me to appreciate each one on their own, but the few connections did help me to feel connected to my childhood. But now, it'll be gone soon. I haven't been the closest to it in a bit, mostly looking at Ultraman, Kamen Rider, and the original Sentai for my fix, but I did still appreciate it.

A bunch of this in my adult life came through the Lightning Collection. It gave me figures of some of my favorite series, especially since it started when I first started seriously collecting action figures. However, alongside the main series hiatus, this series seems like it will go on hiatus alongside it. This is mostly through rumors, though credible ones at that. As of right now, we have only heard about a few unannounced products, and Hasbro isn't particularly good at hiding listing leaks. The Lightning Collection feels like the perfect line to have going during a hiatus like this. It is a collector focused line not trying to tie into any current content, looking back on the past of the series in a fun, relatively inexpensive way. And Hasbro keeps lines like this up without fitting content, they make GI Joe stuff after Snake Eyes flopped, and those figures have been strongly received. However, I guess a part of this has come from fan displeasure with the line. Yes, there were some general Hasbro issues before, but the move to Vietnamese factories have hit PR hard. Yes, other lines have had complaints, but none have been on the level of Power Rangers in terms of QC issues. It is absurd, I've had to mostly drop out of the line because of it. But it is still sad to see.

This leads to yesterday. Hasbro has this super paltry segment in their Pulsecon show, on the level of series that don't have current Action Figure lines, only 20 minutes, as opposed to Transformer's 45. In which, they only talk on the show coming out in a week and 2 toys that went up for order that day. I decided to pick up the Omegas, with which I'll be mostly checking out, symbolically. I do still need to finish SPD and Dino Thunder, but for me, this feels like a nice symbolic ending. It fits for what Hasbro wants to do further in the show. A set of weird, Western exclusive suits that play on weird MMPR nostalgia. I prefer these over any of Hasbro's live action efforts so far, in terms of original suit designs, but still. It symbolically shows, to me at least, the end of the Power Rangers. The end of something important to me. It's bitter, it's a bit stupid, but it's happening anyways. Maybe the new stuff will be good, who knows. But given Hasbro's attitude towards the brand, it won't be the same. Therefore, I need to bow out in this 30th anniversary. Symbolically at least.

#power rangers #cosmic fury #lightning collection #I am really tired #Isn't it funny how everything I grew up with dies... except for Pokemon I guess

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My midnight shower thought: for Ozma and all his incarnations Salem has remained the same visually. She looks more or less the same since he met her for the second time, in the first new life where they became gods among men and had a family. But for Salem the Ozma that she loved and lost too soon has never returned to her. It’s his soul moved up in there, an undercurrent of his voice below all the others. But she hasn’t truly seen Her Ozma since many man lifetimes ago. Stagnant water isn’t safe to drink. The Salem he loved he saw for the last time as he died in a bed. They have not seen each other in so long god. God!!!

ok ok ok

the thing

this is a wild tangent from what you said i apologize

but the THING IS

the first thing we learn about the grimm beyond the vague mythical description of inevitable darkness, creatures of destruction, so forth—the first proper information we get about them is that they are “manifestations of anonymity,” that their darkness is the darkness of ignorance, of not knowing, contrasted against the light of knowledge and understanding. the soul is identity and grimm lack souls because they are anonymous

which is all very interesting as it pertains to salem’s monstrosity being so inextricable from her anonymity, from the isolation enforced by ozma’s absolute commitment to erasing her from history and keeping her existence a secret. obviously. BUT,

salem throws herself into the pool of grimm because she reasons that the force of pure destruction it holds might cancel out the pure creation she has been forced to carry, right. it changes her profoundly, restoring the equal balance between creation and destruction that people are supposed to have and in the same stroke making her grimm. there’s an obvious metaphor being constructed here about scapegoating and dehumanization that like 95% of the fandom is missing in truly hilarious fashion but also more saliently to the point i’m getting to, salem stood on that precipice and gazed down into the abyss and thought about what might happen to her if she jumped before making the choice to actually jump, and i think maybe the most critical piece of information we have about what she thought the pool of grimm would do to her is “if the fountain of life granted her immortality, then surely the pool of grimm would take it away.” jinn implies a suicide attempt but her description of salem’s own reasoning is not about death, it’s about trying to become mortal again. trying to remove her infinite life by throwing herself into a darkness equal to the light inflicted upon her; i don’t think it mattered to her much either way whether the pool would kill her outright or spit out one more monster as long as whatever was left of her afterwards had the possibility of death. she didn’t know exactly what would happen, but she very much chose to do it to herself with full awareness of what that choice entailed.

and then when ozma comes out of his impulsive agreement to do what the god of light asked, screaming in disorientation and terror, when a stranger asks him “who are you?” and he recoils in horror as the realization of what happened to him sinks in, it’s with oscar standing by to mutter pityingly that he didn’t know. he didn’t know what he said yes to, what it would mean, and then god of light hurled him back onto a battlefield and he didn’t even know who he was.

salem has always been herself and her face has always been her own, the face of her birth and the face that she chose for herself, and it is so so achingly clear that the physical transformation did not fundamentally change her. she’s still just the person she’s always been, if buried under the weight of a thousand facile narratives piled on her shoulders by people who cannot or will not see her for who she is.

but ozma said yes to a duty he didn’t want just so he could see her again and he’s spent every goddamned minute of his existence since then having his identity shredded by an endless parade of other people whose lives and souls he’s forced to consume and then become, over and over and over again until it becomes fucking meaningless, until he’s spent thousands of different lives doing the exact same fucking thing in different flavors, variations on a theme. and the only comfort he can get is don’t worry, eventually you won’t even know whos who anymore. he still doesn’t know who he is, he’s spent thousands of years not knowing who he is, because the god of light tricked him into saying yes to being torn apart and molded into an instrument of divine authority.

and there’s, like

i go a little nuts every time i think about the fact that salem still calls him ozma, that she intuitively knows whether it’s him speaking or oscar, that even the very first time she saw him with an unfamiliar face she recognized him instantly. bc ozma can’t tell the difference, ozma doesn’t even self-identify as a person anymore and treats the distinction between himself and oscar as a temporary technicality, but salem still knows who he is as clearly as she knows herself, just as he has lost his sense of who she is as thoroughly as he’s lost his own identity. and by the same token ozma has for lifetimes defined himself solely in opposition to her, solely by his fixation on destroying her.

and all of this in the narrative that made it explicitly, plainly clear upfront that the soul is a person’s knowledge of themself. that what makes a monster a monster is having no sense of identity.

the god of light tried to take his champion’s soul and salem is the reason he can’t.

#she is continuity to his loss and change to his stagnation #she makes a SPECIFIC POINT of learning oscar’s name #( hazel didn’t tell her. hazel probably didn’t even know. )#salem had not the slightest idea who neopolitan was #but she took the time to learn oscar’s name #and she used ozpin when she talked about him #so it’s not like she doesn’t know what he calls himself #it’s a deliberate choice #to use his name #when she speaks to him #and when she speaks about him to the boy whose soul he’s eating #i just hbnnghbndn #ITS ABOUT. KNOWING

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a-tad-bit-obsessed · 1 year

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Out of all the wonderful shows we’ve lost this year (/that were bloody cancelled), it honestly may still be The Wilds that I’m still most disappointed about.

As yes, things like First Kill had great potential and I wanted to see them reunite and yes, I do wish Legends of Tomorrow could have had a final season to wrap it up, but I loved The Wilds, it turned so many stereotypes on their heads, made you understand why some of the characters act like they do, and, after all they’ve been through, I want to see Leah prove she was right, I want to see the girls (let’s be honest, that’s who I mainly care for) escape and get justice against Gretchen

#amazon give me a wrap up film dammit #the wilds #leah rilke

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also. not to request two prompts. but i just read your tag on the post so i want to give you something to live vicariously through: the chain playing d&d together

I had a very in character moment and wrote a thousand or more words for all the requests I've gotten so far. Instead of living vicariously this turned into torturing Four with my own pain. Do note that I do these in whatever order I want and other asks are on their way.

Title: To Kill A God

Words: 998

“Hey, just checking, you’re still good for Dnd on the fifth, right?” Four asked, their fingers and all but Legend’s name crossed. He’d resorted to actually calling people at this point so they’d respond.

“Wait, that’s on the fifth? I can’t, Ravio and I are going antiquing that night.”

One of the colors wouldn’t stop thinking ‘f’ and instead of letting Blue’s obscenities come out Four took a very deep breath. “Antiquing,” he repeated. “On Dnd night.”

“Yeah sorry, he’s only in town for so long,” Legend said, but he didn’t sound sorry at all. Four couldn’t believe it. This was like, the fourth time in a row they’d canceled, and it was because of antiquing? It was like nobody even cared what happened to the lich king!

“Plan on the twelfth then,” Four managed before hanging up. He chucked his phone at his bedspread and crumpled up the list.

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“Hey Warriors, when did you say your leadership retreat was again?”

“Starts the Friday after next. The twelfth, I think?”

Four’s face dropped. “I hate you,” Blue said, but Red thought that was too mean and backtracked. “But like, not actually. I love you.” They frowned. “I just hate you right now,” Vio clarified.

“Sorry,” Warriors said, wincing.

***

8 People Who Pay Income Taxes + Wind Play Pretend Every Friday

Oct 3, 7:03

God

Next session is on the 19th. Be there or be square. 😡:)

Monsterfuck-ling

Don’t hate me…

God

Warriors, don’t do this

Monsterfuck-ling

I don’t get back until like 1 am on the 19th

Four demonstrated extreme maturity and did not rip up their session notes, but it was a very close thing.

***

“That’s okay, Sky, it would suck to lose your scholarship, you should definitely study,” Four said very very nicely, even though his insides were turning into lava. “How about the thirty first?” he said tightly.

“Isn’t that Sadie Hawkins?” Time said, and why Time knew that but not the correct way to eat cereal was beyond Four.

“School dances are the worst, Time,” Four said, gagging. “We have Dnd.”

“Wind’s totally gonna get asked though,” Legend said with a snicker, carting his brand new antique clock through his and Sky’s dorm room. “And he won’t say no.”

Four flipped him off.

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Mom said it’s my turn on the valid

Oct 17 9:17

Rainbow

Did anybody get asked to Sadies?

*looks Titania in the eyes while eating all her apples*

No lol

Mi patria es la mar

Nope!

Punishing me for wondering what rocks taste like is thought crime

Nop

Ha. Suck it, Legend.

***

“Finally, Dnd tonight!” Four shouted, practically bouncing down the school hallway with Wild on his heels. “You’re in charge of bringing food by the way.”

“Obviously,” Wild scoffed, rolling his eyes. Then he stopped. “Wait, tonight?”

Four’s gut went cold. “Yes tonight, where’ve you been?”

“But tonight’s Sadies!”

“And nobody is going! I asked, remember?”

“No, you asked if anybody got asked! Four, I did the asking!”

“It’s a girl’s choice, dipshit!”

“Well it’s not like a girl was gonna ask him!” Wild shouted back. His face went red and he added more quietly, “And maybe I was having more of a girl day anyway.”

Oh for Hylia’s sake, Four suddenly felt like a very strong competitor for Wild’s idiot title. Sure, Wild had been questioning for awhile, but this was the first time he’d said anything definitive about it. But couldn’t Wild have his highschool romance on a night that wasn’t dnd night? Four hid his face behind his AP Stats textbook and walked away.

“Hey, you can’t get mad at me for rebelling against gender norms, Four!” Wild called after him. “Gender is a social construct!”

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Even God can’t hear us here

Nov 3, 7:13

Wild stop changing my name to ‘real life furry’

Okay real talk for a second, I think Four might implode if we don’t play soon

Wild Child 💛🤍💜🖤

Real talk: he bought me a calendar last week

Swashfuckle

Oh! Muppets right?

Wild Child 💛🤍💜🖤

Nah mine was pride themed?

Monsterfuck-ling

Guilt motivated?

Wild Child 💛🤍💜🖤

Oh no doubt

*and you all thought I couldn’t RP a barbarian*

I think he’s just given up at this point

Clock

Can we all commit to next Friday, November 10th, 6 O’clock?

Four glared at the screenshot Legend had sent them, but beneath Time’s question was six whole ‘yes’s’ so he would take it.

8 Flaky Whores + Four Play Pretend Every Friday

God

Be there or somebody’s body is gonna get harmed

Swashfuckle

Yessir!

Nov 10, 5:24

Wild Child 💛🤍💜🖤

[A selfie of Wild, who has a butterfly bandage on their temple and scratched up arms and hands. Behind them, Hyrule is in a hospital bed, looking ridiculously banged up but offering a thumbs up to the camera anyway. Wind is giving him bunny ears and Twilight has his head in his hands.]

Wild Child 💛🤍💜🖤

Hiking accident beat you to it Four

*and you all thought I couldn’t RP a barbarian*

[A picture of Four with his face resting on a pillow of crumpled up character sheets and dice. His DM screen has half-fallen on his head. Warriors looks on in distaste and concern.]

*and you all thought I couldn’t RP a barbarian*

He’s been like this for twenty minutes

Wild Child 💛🤍💜🖤

Hyrule says he’s sorry but also he has a Grade 2 concussion so like take it with a grain of salt

God is Dead 🌈

The Lich King kills all of you

God is Dead 🌈

Except Hyrule’s sorcerer because he’s too high to understand his sins

God is Dead 🌈

The end

Wild Child 💛🤍💜🖤

What about me?

God is Dead 🌈

You specifically go to hell

Wild Child 💛🤍💜🖤

Homophobia

God is Dead 🌈

BITCH I’M GAY

Swashfuckle

Homophobia

Dragon Hoard

Homophobia

Monsterfuck-ling

Homophobia

Clock

Homophobia

God is Dead 🌈

I hate all of you

Wild stop changing my name to ‘real life furry’

So… next Friday?

#linked universe #lu fic #dnd #crack #request

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angieschiffahoi · 1 year

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do i hate most contemporary television?

yes.

is it because of diversity like most crybabies who complain about tv shows being ruined?

heck no.

it’s because everything is make it or break it, female led shows are either niche, teenage focused and dropped (girls5eva, the wilds, motherland, santa clarita, warrior nun, first kill, dickinson, yellowjackets, the sex lives of college girls), bad because trying to be woke for the wrong audience and with the wrong writing teams but with INSANE budgets (…yeah, I don’t need to mention what right?) or objectively VERY GOOD but cancelled because crybabies mistake “female lead” for wokeness and rally for it to be cancelled (basically everything else)

i’m tired of having to defend great diversity from bigots when they bring up fake wokeness as an excuse and i’m tired of having niche but good shows cancelled because they are not trendy enough

TV IS NOT A TIKTOK VIDEO

it’s NOT ABOUT VIRAL OR CONTROVERSIAL it’s about content and content is not written by algorithms (i.e.: good but unoriginal cinematography, oneliners, nostalgia, nerdy things but made cool, grimdark vibes but Lite etc.) but BY GOOD INSPIRED WRITERS WITH AN ORIGINAL IDEA

if you just wanna keep making your viral shows save money and have an AI write them, maybe that way you’d save enough money to pay for another season of something worth saving

#angie rants #ignore #some of the shows i mentioned haven’t been cancelled… yet #i doubt girls5eva is going to survive another season #😔#yellojackets may have a chance

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squeemcsquee · 2 years

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Anime Iowa 2022, Friday

Hooray! This year, we were at Anime Iowa from the beginning! We went up Thursday to get settled in the Homewood Suites by Hilton – not the host hotel, but very close to the con (5 minute walk, roughly). Not gonna lie, I’m torn on the idea of staying there the next time we attend Anime Iowa – I loved having the convenience of a mini kitchen area for saving costs on food.

And the walk wasn’t bad, unless you’re bogged down with purchases from the various con vendors. You can see the con hotel from the edge of the parking lot of the Homewood Suites.

On the other hand, it was harder to get going back to the con again sometimes after settling in the room for a meal.

The complementary continental breakfast offered by the hotel was also a strong point in its favor for future Anime Iowa trips.

On Friday, we headed over to the con at about 1130. As expected for a Friday, crowds were somewhat sparse.

Once we collected our badges, we split up – @lechevaliermalfet headed to attend a Gundam panel and I headed toward Main Events for the AnimeIowa Idol Showcase. While I was watching amateur idol groups, @lechevaliermalfet was people-watching, as his panel was unfortunately cancelled.

With time to kill after the idol showcase concluded - well before the Marketplace opened – we hit up the wetland park behind the convention. The area really is quite pretty and its easy to see why it’s a popular place for cosplay photoshoots. It’s also not bad for Pokemon Go.

After the park, we took a lunch break. When we return to the con, we wandered to video gaming. Anime Iowa doesn’t do an arcade, and we didn’t feel like waiting around for a console to open up. But by the time we decided this, the Marketplace had opened, so all was well.

In the marketplace, we made sure to stop by RightStuf’s booth, as they were running giveaways all weekend. But, unlike our last two Anime Iowa trips, we didn’t win anything from Right Stuf this year. Oh well – we tried!

The selection of artists and vendors on hand was nice. You had your usual mix of sword vendors, artists, cosplay dealers, etc. Wild Bill’s was present and we once more realized we’d forgotten our mugs & coupons. Maybe next time?

After wandering the Marketplace – and miraculously not yet spending $$ - we hit up the Right Stuf panel. As usual, they had a demo regarding the superior quality of their packing. As usual, despite being thrown, kicked, etc., the set within the package was unharmed.

We left the panel with a resolve to obtain a copy of Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei after hearing about the efforts the team made to explain all of the gags present in the show. When your reference book is thicker than the actual disc set itself, you know you’re in for an interesting time! Sadly, we had to order online as we didn’t see any copies at the booth during the con.

After Right Stuf, we had plenty of time for a dinner break before returning to the Main Events area of the con for Sh*t Cosplayers Say, which was an 18+ event. Hosted by LaVie Cosplay, who run a podcast with the same title, the panel is styled after Jeopardy. Phil the Fridge, the podcast mascot, was on stage.

Some lucky panel attendees got to play Phil the Fridge, the shape-sorting game for toddlers.

Attendees were treated to categories such as “Iowa Man” and “Drunk O’Clock.” Many anecdotes were shared that sometimes seemed too ridiculous, even though all were true. This is a panel I highly recommend trying to catch if it’s at a con you’re attending.

When the panel released, we went out to join the line for the Drag Show. This is probably where one of my biggest complaints about this year’s Anime Iowa was most evident – masking was not enforced and we were crowded into that room. I don’t believe there were any empty seats once the ones reserved for Sponsors and non-attendees were freed up (they had to be unclaimed for the first 15 minutes, I think, after seating began). Yes, non-attendees. Anime Iowa sold wristbands this year that let folks who didn’t want to attend the con come in for the Drag and Burlesque shows. On the one hand, I understand that this means more money for the con. On the other – especially since the Main Events room for Friday was only half the size that was allotted for Saturday - many con attendees were disappointed because they weren’t able to get into the room for the show.

And it was a spectacular Drag Show. The crowd got into it, sometimes singing along with the music that accompanied a performance, sometimes whooping for a specific move. I was somewhat hoarse by the end, myself.

When we exited the drag show, it was clear that there was no way we would be able to get back into Main Events to attend the burlesque – we would’ve been much further back in line than we had been for the Drag Show. So we went to the Family Programming room for the Art Jam, instead. It was basically quiet time to doodle whatever we wanted.

We probably chilled there for about 30 minutes or so before deciding to call it a night. We took a stroll through the back patio party as we headed back to our hotel. Caution tape and a tent marked a mini dance area, where a DJ was busy entertaining. We also watched a Star Wars cosplayer practicing with his lightsaber. Another joined him for a short duel.

And thus concluded our Friday.

For all Anime Iowa 2022 posts

Friday

Friday cosplayers

Saturday

Saturday cosplayers

Sunday

Sunday cosplayers

#anime iowa #anime iowa 2022 #con review #con report #prose and cons

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hellolimitless · 2 years

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Your HS vs FK analysis makes sense. I think people compared the two purely because the watch hours for both are readily available, and HS is also a recent queer teen show. While completion times aren't as readily accessible (and not from Netflix) for both shows. I also suspect that Netflix tracks unique user views which means same account watching a show a million times = watching 1 time to Netflix. So fans binging it repeatedly won't help. Nonetheless, if FK had bigger views and lower completion rate, then most of those views happened in first half of the season, meaning that's a problem with the show clicking with a wider audience (either due to story problems or marketing attracting wrong audience problems), and not marketing reach itself. But if the views were overall lower and completion rates higher, then the problem would be marketing not reaching enough people. I am curious what were HS' completion rate. As well as knowing if Netflix uses unique viewer numbers or just views total would help. Regardless, I am bummed that unambiguously from start wlw in lead role with the character not primarily written for straight audiences don't have staying power. I am also sad every time I see social media filled with accounts who hate these shows - often even before release - and seem unable to believe that others could love the show, and make it their business to produce post after post bashing it. I may be in a bubble but I feel wlw lead shows are overly targeted. Curious about your thoughts on the qualitative experience ?

@icantthinkofaname133 i tried to search the completion for Heartstopper, I couldn’t find anything but I am sure it’s high, not only because it got renewed but because the show was easy to watch and not long. Netflix are very secretive about their numbers and it’s true that the hours watched data kind of don’t mean anything. For First kill, it’s coming from people who basically only watched the first couple episodes as it was tracking up until the 12th of June and Fk was released on the 10th. I wrote the post of the fk and hs analysis with obviously knowing what is the problem and where it’s coming from, it’s stemming over the fact that wlw rarely get any rep, even on shows that have queer couple as secondary couple, it’s almost always a male couple but like I said this issue that is important to be brought up can be without saying gay are too privileged in the media. Actually I have the contrary impression of you, I feel mlm shows/movies are more targeted as people believe gay has too much representation and are always centered in media : all the biggest queer movies in the media are starring gay men (Brokeback, CMBYN, Moonlight), all the biggest queer shows are about gay men (Love Victor, Heartstopper), gay couple are the majority in term of secondary couple in straight media (Lone star, Sex Education) and of course almost all the upcoming queer projects are about gay representation ( RWRB, My policeman, Aristotle and Dante) like I said gay men and gay representation suffered for years and years, it’s still up to very recently that real change were seen even if we are still far behind. Love Victor came out not even 3 years ago and they got moved from Disney+ to Hulu because the gay rep was deemed not family friendly, it’s only for the 3rd and last season that the full show was aired on Disney+. Lesbians rep is a little behind but it will get there and it’s important to call out the over-cancellation of wlw centric shows, but I am going to be honest I hate that it’s with First Kill that the argument is being pushed, yes First Kill is the last prominent cancellation of a sapphic show and 2022 had been the record for sapphic show to end (The Wilds, Killing Eve, Gentleman Jack) but i believe it’s not First kill they particularly want as honestly the show was not good and yes I know it didn’t stand any chance as Netflix did not care for it a bit, but I believe First Kill being cancelled as a show is the best thing to do if they are not going to make any effort and the product was already not good in season 1. Now there need to be more wlw produced shows or movies, Casey mcquiston wrote two sapphics book they should get their own adaptations, they are going to have the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Releasing high quality wlw centric shows with multiple seasons, and also start to give trans masc some rep as really their representation is abysmal.

#first kill #heartstopper

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