#even by Netflix themselves

[jancysmixtape]

NETFLIX IS A JANCY!!! I WON SO BAD TODAY AHHHH

#stranger things #jonathan byers #Nancy wheeler #Jancy #Jonathan x Nancy #Nancy x Jonathan #THE ENDGAME SHIP #they also posted a bts of them from season 3 #they are soooo loved #even by Netflix themselves #i might cry #babies!! #endgame #soulmates

[chirpsythismorning]

Nah bc why do I feel like Netflix and the st writers are beefing so hard rn bc of the strike that someone from the production leaked the casting for Linda Hamilton so that the reveal on Tudum would be super anticlimactic…

I also thought Chase Stokes was sort of random for a host, but considering OBX 4 literally just started filming days ago, it’s almost like they’re rewarding those that are being most loyal to Netflix 👀

#byler #one of the most famous signs from the strike was ‘pay us or we’ll spoil succession’… #and ever since then I’ve been thinking about how threatening to leak stuff is a really badass tactic to get Netflix sweating #and then this article dropped and ppl were like ‘that’s not a trusted source’ #and yet the article said they got like top secret insider info… #from who exactly 👀 #no bc fr why didn’t anyone from st show up? #literally Noah Millie and Finn were all in Atlanta at the same time like a week ago #if filming was going to start in June #there’s a good chance at least a small portion of the cast had open availability since filming got stopped #and yet they didn’t line up nothing #either Netflix is bitter and punishing their actors #or they’re just stupid?? #would not put that past them honestly #it would be even more stupid not to realize they’re just hurting themselves tho by punishing the st crew #bc that also means punishing the fans aka your subscribers 🤨 #for legal reasons #I leaked the linda hamilton casting #the writers had nothing to do with it!!

[avatarfandompolice]

So…how many times did Aang use the Avatar state in Book 1? 4 times? That’s all I can think. 4 times within 8hrs is not overuse. Idk where they’re getting that as a risk, or why they’re implying it was somewhat overused in the original???

Also, tweak what? Aang only entered the Avatar state in Book 1 when in the absolute most dangerous and stressful situations. The only way you could make it more difficult to access is if he couldn’t at all…which doesn’t make sense because then he wouldn’t have been able to freeze himself in the iceberg to make the plot even happen.

So yeah, anyone still convinced these showrunners know what they’re doing?

#atla #avatar the last airbender #natla #netflix atla #anti netflix atla #netflix avatar #i don’t disagree with not overusing big power boosts on characters #but idk what they’re even talking about here #the original show didn’t do it so what new limitations do they need to place on themselves #avatar #just why

[imsailorpluto]

Another thing I love love about Bloodhounds is the effortless look of the boxing duo. They're just neck-deep in their little boxing world, training hard, feeling comfortable in their own skin, finding ways to end the bad guys, and looking drop dead gorgeous while they're at it. It's the we're-so-freakishly-handsome-and-completely-unaware impression that gets me every time

#no seriously the lack of ego (regarding their looks) was so refreshing #we're all going crazy over dohwan and sangyi #and this insanity is pretty much self explanatory i mean come on... just look at them #but i keep thinking how modest the characters are #not once do they (gunwoo and woojin) talk up themselves/each other and bruhhh RESPECT #they're just all work and no talk #and apart from them being all in excellent shape and all ... i feel like #this contributes sooo much to their character value that people are going even more crazy about them than they usually would #if that makes sense #bloodhounds kdrama #bloodhounds netflix #kdrama #kim gunwoo #hong woo jin #woo dohwan #lee sangyi

[limerental]

as somebody who had to write a whole background context delivering meta essay for my fave book ship because it's so deeply entrenched in complicated fantasy geopolitics..... yeah. tomek baginksi ain't wrong. your average casual Netflix viewer simply would not care to see an accurate depiction of Witcher books geopolitics on screen. They can barely even handle paying attention when the bard isn't on screen, man

#the witcher #and i say this as someone bummed by the flattening of the politics in the show #who deeply loves those parts of the books #it is netflix execs steps above writers or even showrunners and producers making these decisions about media ok #it is a systemic problem with media and with society in general #frankly i think there are many people whi would love a deeply political fantasy show but it's a small niche! #and actually the bard people are in fandom spaces themselves. many netflix viewers are simply not going to pay attention

[licorishh]

I'm two episodes into the new ATLA show and I literally love it oh my gosh skjdfhakdsf

I'm really not the biggest fan of season 1 of the original show so this is honestly a massive step up for me I'm incredibly impressed

M. Night Shyamalan better be taking some serious frickin notes here like this is how you adapt a show hooooly cow

Some slight spoilers in the tags beware sdfdsf (also since I'm only on episode three please don't spoil aahh-)

#they made aang so much more likeable what!! #he is full of whimsy and joy and happiness and is actually adorable instead of being painfully immature and difficult to watch!! #katara and sokka still have fantastic banter and they're still cracking jokes and not taking themselves too seriously!! #suki still kicks major butt without being annoying and she's still incredibly cool!! (and frickin gorgeous holy crap) #kyoshi is awesome!! #appa and momo look so frickin good i cried!! #GYATSO SCREENTIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #THE BENDING!! THE COSTUME DESIGN!! THE ENVIRONMENTS!!!!! I AM SO PROUD #this is literally everything i wanted in this show i am so frickin happy they are doing such a good job #if they don't make a season 2 i will sob violently i need MOAAARRRR. i need toph in 4k ultra hd I NEEDDDD IT #don't even get me started on the casting. oh my word #gosh i freaking love this show i am so so so so so so happy #everyone on twitter is complaining as usual but HECK them all they need to shut their frickin mouths #they all went into the show expecting to despise it but heck them i frickin love it #avatar the last airbender #avatar netflix

[gracestone]

Favourite Manifest Dynamics

Zeke & Michaela

#manifest #manifestedit #zekaela #zekaelaedit #zeke landon #michaela stone #manifest netflix #manifest nbc #my gifs #my post #fmdgifs #this took me forever #mainly because i couldn't decide on what scenes would best represent my otp #especially when it came to quotes #i ended up choosing these cause they're a parallel #and i just love it when they tell each other that them just being themselves with them is enough #that they have inherent value for who they are #and that they don't need to be more than that #gotta love a soulmates ship who understand each other at their core and who are essential to the mythology of a story! #they even created their own calling and i think that's very sexy of them #also i'll be doing romantic ships first #and then moving on to platonic ones #otp: under the stars

[random-lil-illing]

thinking about my field agent player au... i can't decide whether to give them a white fedora to match carmen or their iconic white ballcap... or both. help.

i just need them in the field please it would be so fucking funny

#carmen sandiego player #carmen sandiego #carmen sandiego netflix #carmen sandiego 2019 #carmen sandiego au #au #player #player bouchard #sick rambles #cannibals rambles #bored duck rambles #ive seen a couple people establish tags for themselves... i want to try it out as well #anyway #player in the field. hed get his ass kicked so bad so quick but hed respond by giving them a virus #i wanna give him a caper costume like carmen/the vile operatives have and i NEED to include a white hat in it #this is non-negotiable. the bitch is getting a white hat whether they like it or not #theyd run around with carmen and hack into things on the spot #do they know how to fight? not even the tiniest bit. but boy can they run and jump #also i hc player did acrobatics/contortion as a kid so theyre extremely agile and fast but theyre kinda weak #they cant throw a punch or kick to save their lives so their best bet during a fight is dogding/distracting- #-their opponent until carmen comes or they can find an escape. they use their surroundings to their advantage a lot #i wanna give them stylised/personalised weapons but idk what. help #art of player in their caper fit coming soon (by soon i mean next weekend earliest) #enjoy the idea #<3

[mostlykind]

mmmm what better way to end a saturday night than a crying sesh <3

#I watched four eps of one day on Netflix #and I didn’t even care about the characters themselves #I just felt a sudden wave of utter misery at the different life I’ve lead #to other people #in terms of uni experiences and love and relationships #and this is gonna sound so dumb but I’ve had low-key had crushes on guys like dex ALLLL the time #and they never like me back #and I’m just sick of fiction feeding me lies looool #like I get its fiction I GETTTTT IT #I just want it to be me for once 😔 #literally why won’t anyone pick me #(said in a non pick me girl manner lol) #this is silly I’ll probs be over it by the morning #rahma’s rambles

[marypsue]

I'd love to hear your thoughts on S1 of ST being a tragedy! No main character dies, so I never thought of it that way before

I mean, nobody has to die for a story to be a tragedy (at least, in the modern definition. I'm pretty sure '(almost) everybody dies' is a requirement of Greek tragedies and Renaissance revenge tragedies). But also, no main character dies in season one...if you take season one as part of a series. Which it wasn't originally conceived as.

I am not going looking for copies of the original pitch bible, because I am lazy, and also I only saw them floating around this webbed site. But the show changed a lot from the initial pitch (Joyce had a Long Island accent! Lucas' parents were divorcing! Murray was there and named Terry Ives! Most of what ended up in Hopper's character originally belonged to Mr. Clarke! The original pitch bible is fascinating). And part of the original pitch was a proposal for possible sequels.

The Duffers' proposal for a possible sequel was "It's ten years later, and Eleven is dead".

So that's the setup. Everything that came after season one was made up wholecloth after season one was a hit and people wanted more, but also people loved the adorable little psychic murder child (cue the Duffers shockedpikachu.jpg) and Netflix obviously recognised it would be a bad call to make a new season without her in it. So it makes sense to take season one as a unit, as a self-contained story on its own. You can also take it as part of a whole, but it makes sense to read it first as a complete story. Especially given the thematic drift of later seasons and the way they are...I'm just going to say it, each new season is very much added-on to what came before rather than being built on foundation that the earlier season(s) laid. It is very clear there was never a planned five-season story arc from the beginning. (This isn't necessarily always a bad thing, when it comes to sequels, but it does mean it makes sense to 'read' each season as its own thing.)

Okay, now that we've established all of that. Season one has one very clear goal, one very clear stake for the characters: save Will Byers from the Upside Down. (I like this. It makes the stakes both extremely high and extremely personal, it makes it very easy to understand each character's motivation, it also keeps the stakes grounded in reality. I like this a lot.) And by the end of the season, that goal is accomplished. So at first blush, you're right, season one doesn't look like a tragedy.

But when you start to unpack it a little, you start to see just how many important things were lost along the way. It's most glaringly obvious with Mike and El, with Nancy and Barb. The whole Wheeler family is fractured down the middle, with Mike and Nancy on one side and Ted, Karen, and Holly on the other, and Karen, who's been trying so hard the whole time to be part of her children's lives and understand what's going on with them, is aware of the ever-expanding gulf between them but will never be able to cross it, and will never fully know why. Hopper's finally managed to snatch a kid out of the jaws of death, save a woman he obviously cares about from the pain of losing a child, and Joyce has finally had someone believe her, support her, trust her. But it became blindingly obvious to me on my fourth rewatch that Hopper's plan, from the moment he went to leave the middle school gym, was always to trade El for Will. And that decision (and the fact that Joyce obviously understands that he did something to get the lab to let them go after Will, but she obviously doesn't dare press him on what) has broken her trust in him, and left him with what looks like an equally heavy burden of guilt as what he was carrying before. The lab stays open. The government gets away with everything. No one will ever know the true extent of the hurt they've caused.

And in the end, none of it even saved Will. He's back. He's alive. But he's spitting slugs in the sink. He's permanently marked by the Upside Down, and by trying to hide it from his family, he's putting a crack down the centre of them, as well. They're losing Will, just as surely as they had when they thought he was dead, just without him going anywhere.

And there's still a hole in the world.

The fragile bonds of community, the things that people share in common, the way catastrophe can bring people together and bring out the very best in them, are the major thematic threads woven through season one. Human connection is the only thing that can change what seems inevitable, the only thing that can bring back what's seemingly lost forever.

And it's still not enough to protect anyone from the random tragedy of the world.

The love was there. The love mattered. The love bent the entire course of the world around itself.

And it still wasn't quite enough.

If that's not a tragedy, then I don't know what is.

#stranger things #the pitch bible is also part of why I think they're gonna kill el for real at the end of s5 #and that the final epilogue scene of s5 is going to be a callback to the eggos-in-the-woods scene #a) the show's ending so they don't HAVE to let her survive. and we all know the duffers love it when other people are upset #b) they've said themselves they're 'going back to season one' #c) netflix would absolutely cream their pants for an opportunity to update the nostalgia marketing for this show to the now-trendy nineties #d) and also would want to leave the door open for 'well MAYBE she survived you don't know that we're not going to resurrect this franchise! #one of many many many reasons why I'm not bothering to watch any more of this show #I'll stick happily with my s1-s2 duology and steal characters from other seasons thanks #it's so frustrating because it's so CLEAR in season one that the love MATTERS #that these people care about each other and that MATTERS #even though it's not enough. #and by season four it's just like. well what if we just kept introducing new characters so we can kill them. aren't you sad about it #like there are so many ways to write a tragedy well and 'kill everyone kind of indiscriminately' is not one of them #okay rant over. i am climbing off the cafeteria table

[dvarapala]

you know that one gif of that white lady pulling at her curtains or whatever because she's mad? that's me whenever i find out spn took bits and pieces of my culture and whitewashed it.

#//first the vetalas; then the rakshasas and now the acheri? come onnnnn!!!! #//this is like jude from the folk of air series getting visha kanya traits and then she's not even indian like shfuidshfisd #//granted i know other cultures poisoned themselves to give them poison immunity too but still #//its like the atla ppl basing their world off of hinduism and buddhism and then only adding actual indian ppl to it in the netflix remake #//bc i did Not forget that they had like 2 indian characters and both of them were mockeries #//or like that dude from got having a character named visenya (which again visenya > visha kanya) #//good morning and welcome to tessa's complain corner bc sometimes (most times) i am annoyed abt ppl taking shit from other cultures #//and then they don't want the ppl belonging to those cultures #//the fairy smut lady did that too #//and then ppl are like: oooh it's soooo cool u came up with that stuff on ur own like. no. they did not come up with that stuff. #//and it's not like i need them to overhaul their shit but like. some acknowledgement would be nice maybe? #outofdoors #queue.

[chirpsythismorning]

Something that does genuinely concern me is the possibility of the Duffer’s being a major conflict of interest when it comes to supporting the strike out in the open. They’re not just writers but also producers and the show runners. Arguably they have the tightest relationship of any production to Netflix, and so just knowing that they’ve always been very much intertwined, are they going to be willing to voice their support for the strike, beyond just being WGA members who likely voted in support of the strike? Like even the cast, complete silence. I know that it can be hard for a lot of reasons, but the complete silence, besides that one writer who posted about it, has me side eying the situation as it’s unfolding.

For the last few Friday’s, they’ve been active posting about stuff, and so are they going to keep that going by posting today, hopefully something to agknowledge the strike, or are they going to just act like nothing is going on and carry on with Easter egg like content? Or worse, are they not going to post at all and so we won’t even know what to think?

It’s just so weird bc they’ve known about this strike for months now. They’ve known about it when they’ve been stringing fans along with little things over the last month. And now, silence, at a time when silence is not the best choice, especially when they are the hugest show in television rn. The duffers coming out and saying something about putting pressure on Netflix would actually have the capacity to get something to happen, and yet they don’t… and it makes me think they’re a conflict of interest bc unlike their writers, they get paid A LOT!

And when it comes to filming starting, I’m concerned that just because they have the first few scripts written and finalized, the Duffers are just gonna say fuck the strike go through with it and start the production for those earlier episodes, either without any writers present bc they’re on strike and so no rewrites, meaning we’re risking the quality not being as good as it would be with them. Or worse, the Duffers are gonna go cross picket lines and scab, and rewrite the scenes themselves essentially going against the strike and their own writers to side with the studios that want it done…

Like I want Stranger Things filmed as soon as possible, I really do. But I also am a little bit unsettled by s5 being soured just knowing they chose a route that sided with corporations and not the writers getting paid mf crap while they are in Netflix’s pockets.

Even though I’m skeptical, I’m still hopeful that they’ll say something, maybe the st writers Twitter will make a statement for all the writers, including the duffers to show their support. But just considering how quiet it’s been, I do wonder how they view the situation.

Do they think it will be over at any moment, without their interference and so they’re just waiting for that? Are they genuinely being advised to say nothing, including the cast and so that’s going to be the case until this is over (if it’s even over any time soon).

Like wtfff is going on in their brains I need to know what they’re thinking about all of this.

Bc them being silent all throughout or even worse doing the exact opposite of supporting the strike by literally starting filming anyways against all of their writers best interests, would be the worst possible course of action. The final season won’t be remembered for all the love and dedication put into it, it’ll be remembered for the greed. And that pisses me off bc the writers don’t deserve that! This is their baby and they’re literally out here risking it all to have a live-able wage, only to be undermined at the risk of everything. It fucking sucks.

#byler #stranger things #writers strike #st writers #duffer brothers #pls st writers Twitter post blatant writers strike solidarity today I swear to god #literally the duffers could protest #the cast could show their support or even protest #and we’d all be going above and beyond to pressure Netflix and other streamers to pay their fair share to writers #but they’re just silent #and so all we’re left doing is going #‘ughh when is s5!? I hope this doesn’t affect s4! I can’t handle any more delays! the cast is gonna be old by the time it airs!!’ #and it’s just all so misguided #these ppl making the show we love can barely afford to make a fucking living #ppl involved with the show make millions and have a huge audience that could make a difference #and it just saddens me that they’re probably being told they can’t #and so they’re just staying quiet to protect themselves and their livelihood #it’s obviously not all black and white #it’s complex #but the sooner more people in power step up #the sooner it will be over #the longer they stay silent #who tf knows how long this will go on

[cup-o-noodlez]

not quite popular enough though, huh netflix?

#i didn’t even have to scroll #that was literally the first in the list #good job netflix #the jokes write themselves #inside job #insidejob #netflix

[jucomx]

Damn media literacy really is one of those skills where you can be blisfully unaware what it means but then just learning what it actually is (i.e. the first step in practicing a skill), is already enough to fundamentally change the way you experience the world.

#like legit i'm rewatching media i watched even just a year ago #but instead of being the cynical consumer i was #i now pay attention to get as much of the meaning hidden in the media as i am able to understand #and just suddenly recognising how much i don't understand #has made me appreciate great writing so much more. #for example #i'm rewatching the hilda series #and all the themes of isolation and adulthood just flew right past me the first time #the way all the side characters are written to have their own lives and happen to interact with the protagonists of the story #like people aren't just charicatures of themselves #and recognising this now feels like a new sense has been unlocked to me #ramblings #hilda netflix #media literacy #writing

[moonlightperseus]

there’s smth funny about the new atla live action remake originally being like “we’re gonna be better than the movie!” and then the story is shaping up to be the same bland grimbleak shit

#sure we have cool special effects and racially diverse actors! but we’re getting rid of all the FUN #it’s so funny seeing these articles keep coming out that keep shooting themselves in the foot before their feet have even touched the ground #this said i will probably give it a try to formulate my own opinions but WHO is giving these article statements. #atla #avatar the last airbender #avatar the last airbender netflix

[venusasnb]

im still so confused how jutuls work when it comes to age and rebirth (????) like do they just down-age or make themselves look older with time to appear human and also how does no one noticed that they look the same every time and it looks like they're inbreeding or idk

#i don't remember the pics they had to show how long they've been doing this #but im thinking that the 'parents' would make themselves look old and #and then 'die' while the 'kids' grow and so on and on #but i don't remember anyone outside the family:/ uhm incest much?? #though i still dont know if it can be applied to them they sure do act like a family even among themselves #a weird one but i mean. look at them. so it's not just an act for other ppl #but also i don't remember are they really related????? did they ever touch this subject??????? #god i need to rewatch to think about it #ragnarok netflix