#why this scene is badass

[captainfloorouat]

Dream Team

#once upon a time #captain hook #emma swan #captain swan #david nolan #why this scene is badass #why they're so precious #ouat savior #ouat s6 #crazyforouat

[ruubesz-draws]

Wwwweeeeeee~

Ion dude probably regretting his life choices

That one scene from the Monarch series ep. 10

(Inspired by this gif:)

#godzilla #monarch legacy of monsters #ion dragon #episode 10 #you that fight was straight FIRE!!! #i loved it #and godzilla entering that scene #*chefs kiss* #why is he so cool and badass #ion dragon dude ain't got shiz man #dude wasn't built for this lmao #everyone is roasting him #it's kinda funny ngl #anyway godzilla is awesome as always #my boy is giga CHAD #do not repost #my art

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

How to easily distinguish the Stone triplets from one another:

Eliot:

Jacob:

Alex:

( Inspired by this post.)

#leverage #the librarians #almost paradise #christian kane #eliot spencer #jacob stone #alex walker #don't get me wrong they're all smart yet dumb badasses #but they all have subtle differences! #why yes i am of the opinion that the boys are separated triplets #eliot and alex are confirmed to be adopted so it's possible #i love them all #I'd been wanting to gif this for a while but couldn't find the perfect scene for alex #then season 2 provided it! #and so here we are! #ghostly'sgifs

[rustygateofme]

#rottmnt #rottmnt movie #rottmnt spoilers #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles the movie #rise of the tmnt #rise of the tmnt movie #rottmnt Leo #rottmnt leonardo #the fact that Leo is the one suffering #he also said badass #good for him #but seriously the way it’s placed? chefs kiss #the only obvious one is at the start (also corpses? I feel like I know why the future scene was cut) #if a kid is watching they definitely wouldn’t notice #but us? they knew what they were doing #it’s just going to be another episode filled with silly jokes for kids :)

[variousqueerthings]

VERY RAMBLY BUT I think rose and martha are like the inverse of one another in terms of narrative, in that they both meet a doctor who is deeply deeply hurt, but the doctor interacts with them about it so differently, because of where they're at with that hurt, and the doctor is like "hey, I'm suave and vulnerable beneath the surface, which is quite attractive, want to travel in space and time in my whimsical timeship?" and they both go "oh heck yes!" and then it's like splintered glass from that point on, like martha lives in a funhouse mirror of rose's story -- up until she makes it her own of course and she does call the doctor out on it relatively early on, although rose continues to have that haunting effect

so rose has this bubble created around her that is perfect and unchangeable almost, in which nothing bad can ever happen (except for all the times it does but huuush, we'll be together forever forrealsies don't look at that big ol hurricane hurtling our way), which then inevitably bursts, but is always there-as-memory, because rose becomes something of an impossible ideal to some extent

and martha isn't protected at all, and has all the badness spilling out on her because the doctor is unable to contain any of it (and maybe is relieved to finally give up on being strong), and subsequently all of the promise of wonder has an air of sourness to it, and the doctor will always feel incredibly guilty about how it all ended

but crucially there's a lot they have in common, that is quite different to, say, donna (who is woven in in her own, interesting, way) -- they both become attracted to this powerful, interesting, and suuuper traumatised being, they're both taken along on a journey of promised wonders, they're both incredibly reliable to the point that the narrative is retroactively fitted around how much the doctor's belief-systems revolve around belief in their companions, with many others from the past given their dues (starting with sarah-jane), and they both do see wonders beyond their comprehension (and so does donna, but again, there's something a bit different there to poke at in another post...),

except where for rose this wonder helps her break out of the path that was set down for her and become who she always had the potential to be in a way that is mostly framed as a positive (although with some -- I think -- under-analysed caveats...) and she will be forever thankful for the doctor arriving in her life, martha's is more like an awe that the universe is so hostile and so lonely and so heartbreaking, and so she needs to become more resilient and more ready to make choices that are terrible (from travelling the broken world for a year to the osterhagen key....), and so there's another story about someone who becomes strong and tough (just like rose) but it's because the doctor wasn't really able to be there for her, and while I don't think the show (from memory) ever has her totally regretting the doctor dropping into her life, there for sure is some solemnity to how her story ends, a bit of a dampener in comparison (even tbh in comparison to donna, who yeah, gets her memory taken, but is suggested -- now confirmed perhaps? -- to get more of her life in order/feel more self-confident, also partially because of that subliminal influence of her time with the doctor)

and this isn't to say that it's all-bad for martha! her working for UNIT and Torchwood has a lot of very interesting facets to it, and she is fulfilling her potential to be this impressive, capable person, but the ways all of this was built up to is so heartrending

rose coming in and "saving" the doctor, except it was a bit of a lie, because the second she wasn't there they crashed even harder than before, and martha coming in with the idea that she could save the doctor and walking away when realising what it was doing to her life, and both rose and martha irrevocably changed to the point that the person pre-doctor is barely recognisable in them anymore, both take on the doctor's self-sacrificial traits...

and also the idea that rose gets the fantasy, but it's the fantasy a-bit-to-the-left (funhouse again) because there's always something a bit disconcerting about the lengths the doctor goes to to maintain the bubble, to the point of offering up the alternate-him/tentoo so that she can still have it, even though the actual physical doctor that shared it with her isn't actually there! and martha gets the glimpse of the fantasy, and then has to come to terms with the fact that she's not the person it's "for" and reassess her relationship to the idea of a fantasy in the first place (it helps that martha is an incredibly practical, pragmatic person, but it's still so... ouch)

I don't think it was intentional, but this also fascinating from the perspective of rose as a white woman and martha as a black woman -- who is the fantasy for, to the extent that strange and universe-breaking events go into maintaining it, and who has to be practical and pragmatic and self-reliant?

and also, it's got more tragedy in both cases -- rose as a spectre/haunter of the narrative is always a little bit intangible when she's looked back on (even though in the story she's in she's incredibly real and well-rounded, every time I go back to s1 I am struck by how grounded she is in reality), and I think that's something interesting in terms of her mother's warning in s2, how if she travels with the doctor "forever" she'll become something else, something not her

and martha's mother warns her as well, although she's not completely sure of what, and in contrast to rose this warning comes into very painful fruition, harming her entire family (except, maybe her brother? I wonder if there's anything written about that), but where rose is so omnipresent, martha tries several times to take herself out

(also something about both of their mothers being their anchor-points)

there's something there that's at the centre of both rose's and martha's arcs:

is the change they're going through because of the doctor... good? good for them? good for their families? good as in they're becoming better people than before? good for the world they inhabit? is it good for the person they used to be? did they become better than that person? can they ever truly deal with or even begin to comprehend how these events made them who they are? can they even connect who they are now to who they were then? was this good?

they both become these larger-than-life people, somewhat without noticing on both parts (but the narrative does notice), one of them a ghost, and the other a soldier -- one of them an increasingly intangible, ever-present idea, and the other someone who has to fight every step of the way

it's just a bunch of things I've had going through my head that I can't quite formulate in coherent essay-like sentences, but for sure it's there

opposite sides of the coin, rose tyler and martha jones

I do wish they'd had space in the story for them to talk

#martha jones #rose tyler #doctor who #dw #i also wish they'd had space in the narrative for them to make out but youknow #i know that rose and tentoo is generally interpreted as a net-positive -- including in a subsequent comic #but it was always very eerie to me #this also to deal with the fact that while i looove martha's arc in s4 #hers was the weakest goodbye scene in the final episode imo #because the pair the spares makes it seem like there wasn't a lot of thought put into it/where she is now #and like sure they're both hanging out with jack at torchwood but it's so out of the blue #and then she finishes up with a gun in her hand -- far cry from where we met her even in poison sky #working for UNIT but! --- but does fit somewhat from where we saw her end s4 when she was ready to destroy the world #but it's still sort of disconnected from the story? why is she there? why is there a sontaran there? why gun and not medicine? questions #questions for which the answer presumably was: because she looks badass but i need More than that! I need Answers! #argh martha i want so badly for them to at least mention you in the specials. where are you 🥺🥺🥺 #gun to your head rtd do it! #doctor who meta

[evankinard]

just rewatched the entire cruise ship arc with my mom so here's my takeaways

I missed so much the first time cause I was liveblogging these episodes deserve to be watched with full attention and all together

yeah the entire arc but ESPECIALLY 703 is legitimately phenomenal television I can't remember the last time I watched a cable show and felt genuinely impressed like this it truly rivaled the tsunami arc

I don't know what's in the ABC water but the humor in season 7 has been landing every single time these episodes were SO fucking funny without undermining the intensity of the scenes chef's kiss

my mom loved it so much we weren't even 2/3 of the way through 703 and she was asking me to rewatch these episodes again in a few days

#it wasn't until this rewatch that i realized i literally had no idea what was technically happening in the cruise scenes the first go around #like i was paying attention to all the emotional and badass moments but i had no idea where they were going or why everything kept explodin #i need to figure out a way to liveblog without missing the entire show this isn't sustainable #weewoo brainrot

[lord-squiggletits]

Bolts upright from my bed

In an AU where Pharma lives the Adaptus thing and comes back on the Lost Light, wouldn't he find out that the crew had to deal with being cornered and nearly killed by the DJD and a bunch of other Decepticons?

And then Pharma could get to be like "oh I see :) you were under threat by the DJD :))) why didn't you just run? Oh you couldn't and had no means of escape? Funny :)))) didn't you call for help? Oh you did right??? And did anyone come???? :)))))) did anyone come in time to save you from the DJD????? DID THEY????? DID YOU JUST CALL FOR HELP AND RUN AWAY AND THE DJD JUST LET YOU GO????? :))))))))))) OH THE DJD BLOCKED COMMUNICATIONS AND HAD YOU SURROUNDED????? OH HOW TRAGIC I GUESS YOU COULDN'T ESCAPE AFTER ALL AND A LOT OF YOUR FRIENDS DIED :)))))))))))))))) AND THE ONLY REASON YOU WON WAS BECAUSE YOU HAD A LOT OF SUPERPOWERFUL FIGHTERS ON YOUR SIDE???? WOW IMAGINE WHAT MIGHT'VE HAPPENED IF YOU HAD NO FRIENDS AND BARELY ANY MILITARY SUPPORT AND THE DJD CAME HUH??? WOW WHAT A RELIEF THAT DIDNT HAPPEN"

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In other words, I'm pretty much convinced that the reason Pharma is remembered as "the evil cowardly doctor that murdered innocents to save his own skin" instead of "the Autobot that got mindbroken by Tarn into thinking that making a plague and killing everyone was his only way to escape" is because he got introduced before the DJD were established as a pants-shittingly evil and sadistic group of freaks, and unlike Rodimus' crew he didn't have the luxury of being a main character whose thoughts and experiences were shown on screen. Pretty much his reputation as "crazy token evil Autobot" was sealed from MTMTE #5 and by the time MTMTE #50-something brought Dying of the Light, Pharma was a footnote in the story and never got to have this new information about the terror of the DJD factored into his own character.

#squiggposting #pharma apologism #i mean isnt there literally a scene in dying of the light where tarn talks about how drawing out his strike #makes the enemy suffer more from degradation and panic #and megatron says that he wrote the DJD manifesto to be about systematically isolating and tormenting targets b4 actually killing them #and when they send out an SOS its not received until literally weeks later #and pretty much the only reason most of them survived was bc of spark trauma magic #and having a mad scientist that could make super badass upgrades and weapons #but oh when PHARMA doesnt call for help and doesnt run away it's just bc hes evil and cowardly #i mean i know in the text he says that he just wanted to get away with his name cleared but like #how can you look at what the DJD did in future chapters and go oh yeah pharma did what he did #just because hes prideful and didnt want to ask for help or get caught for his misdeeds #like sure that's the only part the narrative shows but that's prolly bc pharma wasnt meant to be that deep #from a doylist view there wouldnt have been room in the story for this random side villain to get a sad backstory #anyways it just really. gets my goat lmao #the difference b/t pharma and the LL crew on necroworld in terms of audience sympathy #was basically just placement in the story and screentime #hence why pharma is just a crazy evil doctor who sucks at being an autobot #and the LL crew are brave heroes and friends making a last stand against evil #good for the LL crew that they could actually fight back but uh. pharma couldnt #abyways sorry for being weird about pharma on main it will happen again

[castelled-away]

So now that we know the marriage market/schemes of the ton are not Benedict‘s cup of tea & he spends the better part of s3 running away from debutantes who want to marry him… I need Sophie (or whoever is going to be his love interest in his season) to be the incarnation of the word no. I need this lovely lady to be absolutely uninterested in this jokester puppy of a Bridgerton so that he HE has to run after HER. And she’s just like no thanks & completely uninterested & pragmatic/down-to-earth all the time until he like…cries & begs her to marry her I guess?

#bonus if she has like a clear life goal that she is working towards achieving all the time bc honestly I need someone who has their shit #together for Benedict bc I feel like this loser is just floating through society without any plans whatsoever and it’s getting annoying #we don’t even see him draw as a background scene and not even a throwaway line said abt one of his sketches or smth????? #I really LIKED Benedict as an artist in s1 & 2 and NOW he’s just whoring around???? I am so confused by you puppy boy WHAT DO YOU WANT WHERE #DID ALL OF YOUR HOBBIES AND PASSIONS GO #but. like. on another note he did a rly good job hanging out *cough cough* with that widow bc I could tell she’s a badass so I can’t really #fault him for that one. but WHERE SRE HIS HOBBIES #which is also why I wouldn’t mind making his love interest older than him? bc maybe with an older women we can get someone who knows what #they want & who can give him a bit of direction in life???? #benedict bridgerton #bridgerton #ignore me pls I’m just rambling and saving my thoughts here on tumblr so I can go back to them and see whether or not my predictions/wishes #came true:) #minee

[ourmondobongo]

I'm sorry, but

Isym x Mappa portraying crystal clear suffering Levi:

Isym x Mappa portraying resigned Captain Levi helping to kill the kid who he wanted to save until 5 minutes ago:

#Why is it SO HARD to adapt Levi's contextual mood/feelings in the freaking animation my god #already preparing myself for FANTASTIC action scenes but also almost stoic/borderline 'feral-angry badass' for the heartfelt ones #is this his personal character curse?! #And by heartfelt ones I mean 136 #Will them allow him to cry on 139 tho?! #Or the other tear up moments in 138? #tw negativity #there comes a probable disappointment

[toytulini]

saw fanart yesterday that i was ehh on

but it brought me to the conclusion that, if shrek was a lesbian, if shrek was a woman, i think she would be exactly the same as canon movie shrek, actually, and in fact. to the point, she would be so indistinguishable, that i can no longer be convinced that canon movie shrek isnt a he/him lesbian, and im excited to rewatch all the movies through the lens of percieving shrek this way. i think it will be based. excited.

#toy txt post #okay i think this post is sufficiently distanced from dunking on the fanart so i dont have to banish it to the drafts #have you no love in your heart for bald lesbian shrek? #smh turning him into a lesbian should not be that scene in shrek the third where they pluck his brows and put him in a wig #disclainer the fanartist is in their rights to draw whatever they want to draw yadda yadda i know #i simply think the fanartist is wrong ♡ also weird to choose to draw a scene with human fiona. instead of ogre fiona #idk i think i was approaching in slightly worse faith last night when i first saw it and im feeling more forgiving now. #maybe theyve drawn other scenes with ogre fiona and thats just the one that made it on my dash. idk #i did scroll through the shrek the third tag specifically looking for the scene where they dress him and fiona up #and saw the far more unforgivable sin of an edit of shrek with defined abs. far more haunting. no shrek of any gender would ever have abs #fuck i dont even think the human version of shrek that was specifically supposed to he conventionally attractive had fucking abs #i was also being unfair last night in the group chat scoffing at this persons taste in human fiona like why would you not draw like #the badass warrior fiona she was so cool. but thats unfair of me. ppl find beauty everywhere #but also really no ogre fiona? when like a big theme throughout the series is accepting her ogreself as she is and that shes still #beautiful like that? #....im gonna try to find that fanartist and block them so they dont see this post tho i dont want them to feel bad vdjsjdvjsgigdgri #which is why im making a post on my own blog the next day and not interacting with their post

[asyipyip]

jesus christ episode 5 of arcane was so fucking good

#i am gonna finally finish watching it #do not ask me why i havent finished it yet i dont fucking know #its so god damn good im just fucking terrible at watching things if i have free time i play video games lol #kara stop blogging #arcane #but it was so many banger scenes!!!!! SO MANY BANGER SCENES #the scene where vi spots caitlin in the brothel fuckin rizzing up a woman and vi just gives a little shocked 0_0 :) #the whole dynamic flashing back and forth of jayce being on a fucking HIGH while Viktor is sinking lower and lower into his work and illnes #the badass shots while enemy plays of the underground selling its grit #then the upbrupt stop of the music when it suddenly jumps to jayce sitting in viktors hospital room #viktor asks how long they thing he has and before jayce can answer it JUMPS IMMEDIATELY BACK INTO THE UNDERGROUND WITH THE SONG STARTING- #LIKE IT NEVER FUCKING STOPPED #AUGH #THATS GOOD FUCKING SHIT DUDE!!! THATS CINEMATIC AS HELL!!! #oh the way they portray powder/jinx's flashbacks are so fucking good. so expressive in just how much shes haunted by what happened #how her guilt manifests into ghosts that she cant escape from #genuinely incredible. what a show. #i want to watch another episode but its 3 am

[coffeewithcutcaffeine]

Girlie Writes about a Warlord but Is Scared Shitless of Writing Battle Scenes: A Memoir.

#tried to work on a big battle scene today and almost started crying hysterically #why is it so difficult to describe MOVEMENTS #why does he fight like a badass in my head but i cannot put my visions into words #i need divine intervention at this point skdskdjfksk

[fizh-face]

SEELE ARC!!! SEELE ARC!!! SEELE ARC!!! SEELE ARC!!! SEELE ARC!!! SEELE ARC!!! SEELE ARC!!! SEELE ARC!!! SEELE ARC!!! SEELE ARC!!!

#honkai impact #seele vollerei #veliona #spoilers? #spoilers. #FINALLY #AHAGAHAHAGAHAGA #WOOOOOOOOO #currently chewing on my floor boards #why is girlie driving project bunny?? #looks badass doing it tho #what’s up with that one scene with vel all tied up?? #SO MANY QUESTIONS #maybe this will give me enough motivation to actually play the damn game

[i-mode]

last rb related i keep thinking about how like a dream come true couldve singlehandedly made me a persona fan at age 8 if i managed to find out its name earlier

#so backstory ​i used to be hyperfixated on pokemon when i was younger #and one of my favourite series was pokemon golder (which looking back Did not hold up all that well but it was 2014-15 so it was expected) #and in the scene where gold asks jasmine out on a date that song played #and i was so fixated on it for some reason. it was really nice to me #i rewatched that scene over and over again jus to listen to it #eventually i jus asked ppl in the comment section if anyone knew the song name but i dont think anyone ever replied #so 8 year old persona 4 fan nero was never meant to be :-( #my souyo fanart wouldve been so awesome though #this also doubles as my first exposure to the persona series as a whole now that i think about it #so thats badass #idk why i even posted abt this. being on the internet in 2015 had been on my mind a lot lately. it was an interesting era #text tag

[bornunderpunchestheheatgoeson]

listen if youre online arguing about what "true punk' is youre already too far gone. ok now that being said i have a secret opinion to share ⬇️

#i know how lame it is to care about ''posers'' like literally who cares we're all adults just do yo thang #but.............. the more time i spend in my local scene(s) the more i become aware of ppl who are like aspirationally alternative #like you wanna be edgy bc you think its badass and counterculture #but you dont have the backbone to do anything for yourself without worrying about how others will see you #like youre so deadset on fitting in to this one subculture but you seemingly dont particularly like anything about it? #all you want is to look cool in front of your peers so you just absorb whatever is popular with them at the time. #opinions music attitude appearance all based on whatevers trendy. which we're all guilty of i know #but why try so hard to fit into this idealistic 'punk' label. it sucks and is so lame and everyone can tell how hard youre posturing #and not to throw stones in glass houses but these ppl r so awful to talk to #seemingly never attempted an original thought in their life. speaks exclusively in twitter/tiktok/tumblr memes or buzzwords #never really listens to you and only factors in your opinion after he's run it by the ppl he wants to fit in with #um i mean they 🧍 #could be thinking of a specific guy i know. maybe #anyways i think im discovering in real time what a ''poser'' is and its making me feel like a cranky old man #always have to remind myself to be empathetic and not judge too harshly bc literally who am i and who cares #but it still gets my goat occasionally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mugiwara-lucy]

Top 10 anime fights right here!! 🤣

#one tree hill #one tree hill rewatch #mugi watches one tree hill #oth #oth rewatch #brooke davis #rachel gatina #peyton sawyer #like Peyton was a BADASS in this scene! she tackled Rachel for punching brooke but something I don’t understand… #WHY was she fighting the mascot! 😂 All he did was try to pull her off and she’s choking it and even kicked it in the balls! 😂