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One of my favorite things about season three was the extraordinary gentleness Alex was met with when was pulled out of SCORPIA. Mrs. Jones wasn't angry, she was distraught at the pain he was in. Smithers and Crowley were protective and reassuring, Jack and Tom and Kyra were patient and so so accepting and loving. After four episodes of watching Alex spiral into darkness, you see him pulled forcibly back into a life he was walking away from, and you can see he was CLEARLY expecting anger and retribution. But instead, he was met with understanding and grief on his behalf, and he was so confused because SCORPIA are very very good at what they do, and they got in his head. This show really did such a fantastic job of reinforcing that, while Alex did make some bad decisions, he was manipulated and lied to and beaten and those things were not his fault.

#screaming and crying because this was such a beautiful detail #and you worded it perfectly op #it gives me so many feels #i am in love with what they did here #“understanding a grief on his behalf” #he's so bewildered and they just love him so much and are so glad he's okay and it gets me in tears every single time #he doesnt realize he is so worthy and deserving of that kind of loyalty and love #i can't handle it

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❃ Gilbert and Anne in AWAE 2.06 "I protest against any absolute conclusion"

#his little laugh #it was at this moment he knew he was done for #if he still feels that strongly about her #when he hasn't seen her for months #and with a haircut like that #it's all over #he's laughing at himself like im so screwed #absolutely whipped

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Calvin O’Keefe 🤝 Gilbert Blythe

#the only boyfriends you will ever need #do you understand #tell me someone gets it #the way they look at anne and meg means so much to me #my standards are so high because these two #calvin o'keefe #a wrinkle in time #a wrinkle in time book #a wrinkle in time movie #meg and calvin #gilbert blythe #anne of green gables #anne with an e #awae #anne and gilbert #shirbert #i think everyone deserves to be looked at like that

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Gilbert Blythe being like "guess I'll die" after the girl of his dreams rejects him and then actually almost dying for real is the most iconic thing I've ever seen. Bare minimum if you ask me

#we need to talk about this more #because he is the realest #he's doing the most #and then immediately recovering when he finds out she does love him #there's no one like you gilbert blythe #he's just a boy

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To the people saying "Jason wouldn't have jumped into tartarus for Piper, like Percy did for Annabeth" as a way to demean him. Jason, plunged into the sky from the grand canyon to catch Piper in the first few pages of the lost hero without even knowing who she was, and without the knowledge that he could fly. so he basically jumped to his death attempting to catch her. In the first few pages of his journey, he didn't mind dying to save Piper, and ironically, that's also what he did in the last few pages of his journey. Y'all just be making the most out of pocket claims abt jason fr

#he deserves all the love #he would have jumped to save any member of that team #if it was piper leo or nico #forget about it he would jump without thinking #in the end he sacrificed his life to save piper's #don't for a second think he wouldn't have jumped in to hell with her

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Alex and Kyra's story is not talked about enough I think. Who else writes a love like this? It wasn't even really romance, it was I don't trust you. I will trust you when you tell me the truth. I will trust you because I want to live and you are my only option. I trust you because you saved my life (you trust me). Trust that I will come back to you. Trust that I will be there for you. Trust me not to judge you for your past and I will trust you enough to help (please let me help, I will always help). Trust me to stay this time. Trust me with your secrets. Trust me with your darker secrets. Trust me to bandage your wounds and hold your hand. Trust me to pull you back from the edge, trust me to pull you up from drowning. Trust me with all of you (I trust you with all of me)

#this is a banger op #im thowing up they mean so much to me #this is why they're so important #their whole relationship is built on trust

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When Yassan killed Max while he was unarmed, Alex felt responsible. He didn't pull the trigger but he might as well have, he got them in and past the security, and he was complicit in the man's murder. He was horrified and disgusted, at the murder and at himself. He was terrified of what his friends would think of his involvement and he couldn't bear to see their faces when they found out.

He somehow started seeing himself as culpable for something he was actually a victim of, Alex began to think that because he witnessed and unknowingly aided something he wasn't okay with, that meant it was his fault and because he wasn't able to stop it, that made him responsible.

Scorpia efficiently isolated him from everyone he loved and when they discovered they couldn't break down his morals and convince him to become a killer they were in the perfect position to convince him he had no family outside of Scorpia, and no worth to anyone now that he was tainted with someone's murder. He was trapped.

Julia takes advantage of his vulnerable emotional state and influences him to make the choice to kill Mrs Jones, but his moral compass and compassion end up being strong enough to keep him from going through with it.

He underwent some severe manipulation at the hands of Scorpia and almost didn't make it back. He deserves so much respect for being able to be true to himself even when he was so angry and couldn't see a way back.

In addition, Jack and Tom would have taken him back with no qualms regardless of whether he actually killed anyone or not, they're the kind of people who make that type of manipulation tactic completely ineffective. There is nothing he could do to make them abandon him. There are no lengths he could go that they wouldn't follow. He may not have understood the depth of their love for him, but I think he started to when they welcomed him back with zero questions about whether he killed Max or took revenge on the person who killed his dad. They didn't care, they were just happy to have him home.

In the same vein, I appreciated Kyra's hand in all this just as much as I did theirs. By holding him accountable and making him explain exactly what happened to make him feel like he couldn't come back or let them in she broke the hold of that manipulation. By explaining that "breaking into a house isn't the same as murder" she helped him see that even though he felt guilty and responsible and stayed away from them because of it, he wasn't. When she refused to let him off the hook it showed she cared, she cared that he was scared but made the right choice despite that. She cared that he was manipulated and didn't want that to happen again.

In essence, love pushed Jack and Tom to welcome him home no questions asked no matter what, and love pushed Kyra to hold him true to who he is. And again I circle back around to the fact that love is the most powerful thing in the universe.

#but i digress #alex didn't deserve any of it #he's the sweetest boy #this hurt my heart so bad #that he was so scared of what they'd think #and he didn't even do anything wrong #he was in such bad shape #alex rider #alex rider s3 #alex rider tv #alex rider spoilers #alex rider season 3 #alex rider season 3 spoilers #tom harris #kyra vashenko chao #jack starbright #mrs jones #yassen gregorovich

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going to need some “i survived the jatp season 2 rumors war of 2024 (victorious/covered in blood, sweat, and tears)” tshirts and mugs prepared already

#stop please #i won't even live to get a tshirt #please let the rumors be true #im not gonna make it if they're not #help me #i know it won't be revived #but the delusion has consumed me

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i’m sure this has been done before but like. yeah. The Department really did a number on this kid

#you have no idea how hard i laughed #when i tell you i was on the FLOOR laughing #this happened #dont tell me it didn't

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Willow 1.04 “The Whispers of Nockmaar”

#i'm so sorry everyone #i'm having a big sad right now #and i really don't think this is helping but if i have to suffer so do you #i'm so nostalgic for all these old cancelled shows rn #something about the lost potential gets to me #i miss them more than anything

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i need season 2

#HOLY #this is so tragic and lovely #i'm throwing up #IM SCREAMING #im crying my eyes out

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sometimes i am doing fine and then i get struck by an intense yearning for a show that was cancelled too early

#julie and the phantoms #lockwood and co #shadow and bone #lost in space #willow 2022 #anne with an e #maverix

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Good morning to everyone, except Netflix who keeps cancelling perfectly good shows for no fathomable reason. Fuck you in particular actually.

#i've reblogged it before and i'll reblog it again #thanks a lot netflix #thanks a lot #take everything #just like sheila did #shadow and bone #lockwood and co #anne with an e #julie and the phantoms #lost in space

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JULIE AND THE PHANTOMS (2020) S1 EPISODE 07 - EDGE OF GREAT

#i miss them so bad #the way they look at each other is everything #the season 2 rumors are making me SICK #don't get my hopes up like that #im going to cry again #i feel it

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💐🌷spread the love to the people you’re glad you’ve found in this corner of the internet 💐

aww thank youuu :)

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You got them? Alex Rider, S03E08 - Invisible Sword

#IM YELLING #his faCE #ahhhhhh #excuse me while i cry #yeah just touch his face so tenderly and expect me not to freak out about it #hes home #otto farrant man that you are #this is absolutely perfect

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Can you see it? Can you hear it?

#help me help me #this is not okay #not in any way shape or form #the two things I consistently cry over #I can’t do this right now #I’m not emotionally stable enough #nothing is fair #I’m throwing up #op this is not okay #the most devastating cross over in the history of the world #enjolras and grantaire are orpheus and eurydice retold