#(but also literally! fuck disney for taking their time away. fuck man)

[rosemary-sins]

i cant believe im going INSANE i cwnt believe im going CRAZY going STUPID going aaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

(everyone say thank you @ the owl house crew ily)

#(spoilers) rants in the tags #petal down #toh #toh s3 #toh s3 spoilers #flapjack. flapjack i. saw it comign but oh f uuuuu #they confirmed masha/vee (or the closest we'll get) and like! oh my GOD? #i love them i love them so much #also camilla just choosing to go w them. f UCK man #god n the lumity bits and the fact that they were just fine w everything #i mean i expected them to be fine w everything but oh my g od it was still. #man. 'no more secrets' if i had a dime man #the shipping bits we got were good. crumbs but do good. thank u. gimme raeda now #(also once more say it with me FUCK DISNEY FUCK DISNEY HARD. i know we shoudl focus more on what we have n what we have is so fucking good) #(but also literally! fuck disney for taking their time away. fuck man) #shit all that stuff w hunter though he really just never fucking wins #also confirmation on evelyn being a hot witch gf! fr belos gets no bitches #caleb can get it good for him good for him #part of me wants darius to adopt hunter and the other says hes hunters weird uncle instead. n like camilla adopts him. give camilla more ki #kids #coughs. god i miss raeda #shit like 100 plotlines went by all at once irs almosr too much lmao #shit man. it was good though. it hirt in a good way. #also hunter w the little wolf shirt i cant believe god is real #also qhere te FUCK is luz palisman. also basically confirmed its gonna be a snake tbh. like all the snake themes eunnin around #the lamp the shirt she was wearimg etc etc. maybe its a red herring idk. i wanted a bird but i love snakes so this works too #also they were fucking INSANE for that one animation scene yall fuckin KNOW the one holy SHIT HOKY SHIT HOLY SHIT... #my eyes are fucking blessed rn god infucking love it

[audhdnight]

Btw, if a disabled or mentally ill person (or honestly just anyone who’s really burnt out and exhausted with life, such as caregivers) tells you that they have to use disposables to clean and function in their day to day life, and your response is anything remotely like “well you’re a horrible person because that plastic you just used is killing the planet” I need you to know that you are ableist, classist, and just a shitty person, and I hate you.

Yes, I know that using paper towels and Clorox wipes is not as sustainable or healthy for the ecosystem as just using regular towels and rags. However, I am fucking exhausted all the time, and if I use regular rags, I will not have the energy to clean them. They will sit in my kitchen and get moldy and have to be thrown away anyway. And then my family is living in unsafe conditions because we’re breathing mold spores.

Additionally, we are fucking poor. We don’t have a washer and dryer. If I want to do laundry I have to load it all up in my car, drive across town to the only laundromat, spend most of my day switching things over and waiting for machines to open up, spend about thirty bucks (probably more, because the dryers are shit and never actually dry things on the first cycle), load everything back into the car, drive back home, and then sort and fold and put away everything I just washed.

That is not feasible most of the time, because I am disabled, I don’t have that money to spend, and I am the primary caregiver for our baby who has extreme sensitivities to changes in our routine. I can’t just take him to the laundromat with me, and I don’t have anyone to watch him while I go. Most days I’m not physically capable of carrying baskets of laundry to and from my vehicle. And again, we can not afford the laundromat. Anything that I can do to reduce the amount of laundry we need to wash in a month, I’m going to do.

All of this to say, please for the love of god consider that there are literally thousands of reasons someone might not be doing “clean living” or choosing the most eco-friendly option all the time. We can’t all cut out disposables. I already feel guilty enough that I can’t just function like a normal person, you do not need to butt in and make it worse.

If your activism for the environment and the earth goes so far as to make you apathetic to the struggles and needs of the real actual people around you, you need to reconsider where your morals lie.

(It’s also worth noting that every regular person on the planet together does not generate ANYWHERE NEAR the amount of plastic and toxic waste in a year that mega corporations do in a matter of weeks or months. I’m not saying that the average man doesn’t need to make as many good and healthy choices as they are able, but seriously, most of us are not the real issue here. Go fight the logging and fracking companies killing the ecosystem. Go attack the capitalist mega-corps like Walmart and Amazon and Disney and Apple that discard so much plastic they are almost single-handedly killing the oceans themselves.)

#ableism #classism #ecofriendly #global warming #environmetalists #disability #plastic waste #recycling #things that fucking matter #burnout #mentally tired #mentalheathawareness #chronically ill #text post #nightramblestm

[aristocratic-otter]

20 questions for fic writers!

Thank you @artsyunderstudy for the tag!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

28, though one was a round robin where I only wrote one of the chapters.

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

838, 380. Subtracting Birthday Man (the round robin fic), I've written, by myself, 799, 248. I'm not surprised. I'm not good at brevity. (And I have over a hundred thousand words in unpublished fics right now 😅)

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Only Carry On, though I've made a habit of sticking Simon and Baz into fandom loves of my youth.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Oh, Have You Seen The Fairies Dance, my CORB from two years ago, writing to art by @krisrix. 562 Kudos

Playing With Fire, Treading Thin Ice, my pinch-hit CORB, also from two years ago (I sense a trend), writing to art by @steppjes. 453 kudos

Back To Start, my Simon youthens Baz into a baby fic, 447 kudos

A Fucked Up Cinderella Story, a Simon as escort fic, and my first collaboration with my dear friend (and a brilliant artist), @frjsti. 339 kudos.

A Real Doll, my first real PWP (ok, it sort of has a plot) (a very thin one), written for @captain-aralias's Monster Under the Bed Fest, 331 kudos.

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Yes! It means a lot to me to hear how folk enjoyed my work, and I appreciate how much effort it takes to reach out sometimes, so I want to show my appreciation. I should be better at commenting myself!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Readers nearly burned me at the stake over my ending to The Blue and The Gray, where Simon rides away with his Union troop, leaving Baz behind at his plantation home. Even the 'happy ending' epilogue I wrote, to get them back together, is bittersweet, because Simon is damaged from the war and it will be a long road to recovery (or at least the length of the Oregon Trail 😉) (If you know, you know).

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I only do happy endings, but, like Ashton, I tend towards angst a lot of the time. So I think that my most meaningful happy ending is in New Year, New Me, which takes Simon and Baz literal to the end, of their long lives together (with a gorgeous song written by @moodandmist and @cutestkilla!)

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Not yet! I've gotten a few corrections, which I honestly don't mind. I'd rather be corrected than leave a glaring error in a fic. I agree with Ashton, this is an incredibly kind fandom.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Uh <looks side to side shiftily> yes? Like, a lot? It's funny, because I'm ace, but I find all the ways humans can relate to one another through sex fascinating, even if I don't need those things for myself. I'd say I write mostly bonding through sex? Occasional fucking just 'cause it's fun, but mostly soulful, loving sex.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

Not crossovers precisely, (I don't mix in characters from other fandoms) but I'm extremely guilty of throwing SnowBaz into any story, show, or movie I've loved and putting them through their paces:

The Watford Games: Simon and Baz in a Hunger Games Scenario

The White Chapel: Simon replacing Olivia Newton John in the movie Xanadu

The Snow Fox: (unfinished) Simon as the Francis Marion Character in the old Disney TV show, the Swamp Fox.

Episode 2: The Naked Next, (gift fic for @raenestee) (I blame this one on @facewithoutheart), Simon and Baz in the Star Trek Universe.

and, Stars, Flowers, and Children, an unpublished (part done) fic set in the universe of the movie the Blue Lagoon, and To Heal a Broken Mind, an unpublished (nearly finished) fic set in a scenario similar to the TV show House MD.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Fingers crossed, but no, I don't think so. Probably hard to pass off a seventy thousand word fic as your own that you just popped up with out of nowhere.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Only the round robin fic, Birthday Man, where each of several fic writers wrote a chapter for Simon's birthday celebration, and the Star Trek Universe fic, The Naked Next (linked above). But I'd definitely give co-writer credit to many of the fandom artists I've worked with, because their work either inspired my words, or they even helped guide the evolution of the fic in the background. I especially have to give credit to @krisrix, @ivelovedhimthroughworse, @frjsti, and @artsyunderstudy for being brilliant at helping me flesh out the fics they did art for!

14. What’s your all time favorite ship?

Gee. Bet you can't guess.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

This is a tough one because I've (so far) never not finished a fic I've committed to (I've got a few paragraphs of a few random ideas in my files, but nothing I ever advertised or put much effort into). But I'm also perpetually in the middle of at least five or six fics, so leaving one dangling remains possible, even if I desperately hope it won't happen. I guess I'll mention Westward Son here, because though it ought to be finished in the next couple of weeks, it took me two fucking years to get there!

16. What are your writing strengths?

I don't get writer's block. I think my habit of fic jumping helps with this; if one fic is dragging, I can spend more time on another until words start to flow for the first one again. I do force myself to write at least a sentence every couple of days, even on the draggy fics, though. I think I'm decent at characterization? Especially Simon, because I identify with his way of thinking a lot. I also think I'm decent at giving the reader a strong visual of what's going on in a scene (hopefully).

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Plot and tech. I can write plot, but not snappy, quickly resolved ones. For me to find my way to the end of a plot usually takes several thousand words. And that's a weakness, not being able to write short. I don't know how to be interesting in small bites, I guess. And tech: I'm intimidated by incorporating modern tech like social media, etc. in my fics. I always feel like I can't format it correctly or make it look/sound realistic enough, so I tend to avoid fic ideas that are tech based, like text fics or social media fics. Aaaaand now I'm writing a fic based in Tiktok, a platform I do NOT know well. Pray for me.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I've done it once (in The Blue and The Gray), but I'm nervous about it. I think I'm afraid of misinterpreting a connotation of a word or phrase. I researched extensively for the Spanish lullaby in The Blue and the Gray, and even the Greek and Latin phrases in Back to Start and The Watford Games. I don't mind it in fics, so long as the meaning isn't integral to the scene (like using French swears in a fic set in French Canada) (@bazzybelle, I'm looking at you!). If the meaning is integral, I tend to prefer the translations be not far away (like at the end of the fic), but rather just a few lines down (like at the end of a chapter), because it's frustrating having to jump back and forth to get meaning from what I'm reading.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

CSI, on fanfic.net. But I only wrote one fic. Don't look for it. I didn't have this username and I'm not interested in reliving that part of my life 😆

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

I think it will always be Back to Start (linked above). I still love the premise and it was the first fic that made me feel like a real writer. You don't forget that feeling. It's my baby.

How about, instead of tagging folk, you consider yourself tagged if you're one of the many people I mentioned above? 😂

#20 questions #tag game #twenty questions for fic writers #fanfiction

[tunashei]

First impressions of Animoprhs!

I'm listening to the Animorphs series while I work, through Animorphs Aloud - a fan made reading of the series. Here are my first impressions/random thoughts about them! Spoilers below if you haven't read them.

Book 7: The Stranger

I often think how you'd REALLY react if you were faced with something paranormal or magical, because it wouldn't just be the monster or ghost or superhero you have to contend with - but your entire knowledge of the universe flipping on it's head. Legit consider how insane you'd go if you found out monsters were *really* real. And they do this to a random person in the start of most books! Ha.

Kind of surprised they consider a human-alien relationship with any sort of seriousness. How progressive. But then there's been a few hints towards Rachel liking Tobias and he's...a bird. Rachel is very open minded.

Somehow I have my doubts Rachel will move away. The clue is the 47 books that come after this.

Man I feel for Tobias, having to spend the rest of his life as a hawk while potentially watching his friends move on. It's not like he can make new friends. Also how long does he even live? Does he have a hawk lifespan now of 10-15 years?

Rachel wants more firepower and she skips the POLAR BEARS? GIRL. Those things are fucking terrifying! Though I did do a bit of research and turns out when Polar Bears and Grizzlies compete for food it's usually the Polar Bears that leave.

Also I have a hard time believing a bear has more 'firepower' than an elephant. Bit easier to move around and get into places as a bear though.

Still can't get over the frequent use of the slang 'hooked up' to mean meeting. Very different meaning nowadays.

The mental image of them fitting pretty much a centaur into a dressing room is very funny.

Wow. Stopping time definitely blindsided me. This Ellimist is like a god?? Was not expecting that.

The descriptions when the Ellimist is showing off the beauty of earth make me very sad I will likely not get to experience it. It's so sad to know coral reefs exist out there, beauty unparalleled, and you can't simply go and see them. Not without money. It's a cruel joke that we're placed on such an amazing planet and yet how little of it we'll see.

Man this is a genuinely tough decision. I really like Cassie's perspective, that humans are now the endangered animals potentially rejecting the one thing that could save them. Honestly if what seemed like a literal god told me the fight is unwinnable I'd probably give in and tell them to take me to a new planet.

Aaaand now the kids are getting eaten alive. I LOVE the amount of traumatising scenarios in these books. Main reason I started em. Feel a bit bad for the Taxon, imagine eating some innocuous snack and it swells up and bursts you from the inside.

Ax has a thing for cutting off people's arms.

You're the second largest carnivore on land Rachel, Polar Bears got you beat.

Also Rachel totally just murdered a bunch of human people.

Now...time travel? Hm not a big fan of time travel.

Damn the Yeerks invested in free, superfast and wide-covering public transport? I'd vote for them.

This is why I don't like time travel. Is it deterministic? Can it be changed? Boggles the mind. The implication is they refuse the Ellimist's offer and stay and fight, and lose, and Rachel becomes a controller. But why would Ax being there mean the future has changed? Did future-Rachel lie about there being six humans to Visser-Three? Why?

PFFFF I'm sorry but as horrifying as the idea of them killing and consuming Tobias after being infected and turned into controllers is, it's also like Disney-level villainy.

If this is the future and it can be changed, why can't Visser-Three kill them? Sure he wouldn't have controller Rachel so the future would be different but the goal of invading would work?

Well this is looking bleak.

I wonder who is keeping Ellimists in check that they even need rules.

Surprisingly quick and efficient mission! And that's the end of that one. A bit confusing, but I wonder if the Ellimist stuff will get clearer later on.

#animorphs #animorphs aloud #book #reading #audio book #first impressions

[twasday]

ℝ𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕠𝕞 𝕋𝔽 𝟙𝟜𝟙 ℍ𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕟𝕟𝕠𝕟𝕤

Characters: Simon “Ghost” Riley and Jonathan Price

Genre: Fluff, A Little Angst

Warnings: Violence, Cussing, Could be OOC idk 

A/N: These men have an absolute grip on me, it is so unreal. I had other works planned but I just played MWII 3x over and now I have to condemn them to my thoughts. If someone had told me 5 months ago that I would now be obsessed with those 4 hunks, I would have laughed in their face. Also, Merry late Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!!

Simon “Ghost” Riley 

He’s in Tyler, the Creator’s top 10% of listeners according to his Spotify rap (this is me reflecting).

He’s a picky eater and defends beans on toast with his life.

Cornhole is his favorite sport.

I sincerely think he has really bad social skills but in like an anxious way because he’s scared of rejection.

He’s obviously a heavy weight due to his build but when he does manage to become drunk, he’s one of those emotional and affectionate drunks that gives those “yk I love you right” speeches.

He and Johnny accidentally have matching plaid pajama pants.

One time Price let him take a hit off his cigar and ghost had a coughing fit for like 2 minutes straight and right after that, he got up and walked away like nothing ever happened. If anyone brings it up he denies it immediately.

He carries a joke book in his suitcase.

He’s so bad at sharing food to the point that he stabbed Gaz in the hand with a fork once when he tried to sneak some food off of Ghost’s plate.

His favorite color is purple. 

I think his love language would be gift-giving and words of affirmation.

He collects sand/dirt from every place he goes to in a little jar in layers. 

He cannot drive to save his life, but only Price knows that.

He actually hates running, he prefers lifting more than anything.

He has like insanely good metabolism so he could literally drink a six-pack and some ice cream for a whole week and still be fucking ripped as shit.

Jonathon Price 

He only began smoking just to fit in with his peers then he was suddenly locked in for life and couldn’t live without his cigars.

He once gave Gaz a goose for his birthday and made Gaz take pictures with it. 

Laswell and him actually dated until she came out to him as a lesbian.

He was Laswell’s best man when she married her wife.

He makes 141 take Christmas family pictures every year.

He snores like a revving engine “hAAAkk ShHooo”

He can handle spice really well and loved it if Alejandro cooked for him. 

His favorite color is blue.

He made 141 get Life360.

Every time he comes across a cute dog video he would show Gaz or send it in the 141 gc but no one ever responds.

Speaking of that, he believes a lot of stuff that comes from Facebook unironically.

He’s a big fan of The Smiths.

He tends to be more into older women.

Ghost threatens to choke him out a lot because of the affection that Price shows him but they both know that will never happen.

He uses the pouting face emoji in a serious way.

his favorite Disney Princess is Tiana.

SPEAKING OF TIANA, he loves black women with a passion.

I don’t think he would ever settle down to have kids, he likes to keep himself busy a lot so he could marry but never have time for kids. Deep down, he doesn’t think he deserves to have the joy of kids in his life.

He listens to Adele on the helicopter to his next missions. 

He dresses up as a ghost for Halloween every year.

#mw2 #Modern Warfare #call of duty mw2 #call of duty #mw2 2022 #mw2 fanfic #ghost #cod mwii #tf 141 #task force 141 #video games #simon riley #simon ghost riley #jonathon price #john price #captin price #kyle garrick #kyle gaz garrick #soap #soap call of duty #price #soap mctavish #johnny mactavish

[skerplesc]

wanna take a bit to talk about the lingering will fights from the perspective of someone just finishing kh2 without having the context from bbs. (very long post warning)

i personally only was able to play the main games in order after 1.5 + 2.5 was released. the viewpoint that i'm working off of here is that of a person who knows that there is more context, but does not know what that context is.

so let's take it from the top here. you are [PLAYER NAME] and you have just kicked good 'ol Mansex's ass into double nothingness. you boot up your save, it's a kingdom hearts game so obviously there's going to be wild shit, but the info you get is that something is up in disney castle, of all places. adding to that you also know that's where the cornerstone is. you know. the thing that doinked you back into the goddamn '20s. so you decide to check it out. load into the hall of the cornerstone and you find a portal. cool! where does it lead?

fucking nowhere!!! :D

it's worthy of pointing out that everything has gone dead silent, save for an ominous blowing wind a cloud of dust kicks up in front you, and within it resides a man in armor with a keyblade you've never seen before (note that this is before the point in the franchise before you learn that they used to hand the things out like candy). this man starts "talking" to you incredibly slowly, and i say "talking" because he's just making noises like the goddamn Skyrim perk screen.

he starts out by naming two other folks by the names of "Aqua" and "Ven", and for anyone who knows their classical elements this should immediately set off massive red flags because that's the same name scheme that Sora and Co. work off of. at first he thinks he's met you, but then corrects himself, saying "you're not the one i chose". before you have time to question ANY of this shit, he's accusing you of being the Big Man himself, Xehanort and gets his ass up.

what ensues is a world record speedrun in throwing your head to the pavement. hard.

whatever happened here was SERIOUSLY not good, and clearly ended with the result of this guy, at the very least, letting Xehanort get away. the dude that just made you eat a full serving of dirt is AT MOST equal to Xehanort in power, and could very well be weaker than him. you have no idea if this happened in the past, or that portal just took you here. hell, maybe the reason why the cornerstone took you here is because this hasn't even happened yet and you're going to have to stop it. the armor certainly looks more advanced than anything you've seen so far and he's got attacks where his keyblade transforms into a massive cannon like some Iron Man shit.

so, having just experienced that, you get to the grind. you hit level 99. you take care of the Absent Silhouettes. you take care of Mushroom XIII. you take care of Sephiroth. hell, you potentially even take care of the entire Data Organization, and this guy is still probably kicking your ass.

here's where i want to stop talking about the fight itself being and start talking about the music. Rage Awakened, the song that plays in the fight against the man who you will come to know as The Lingering Will, is. fucking. ballin'. maybe the only theme to a fight that i like more is Dismiss, but that's an essay for another day. It obviously captures the typical sense of grandiosity that songs that Yoko Shimomura is known for, but unlike, say, A Fight to the Death (the song that plays in the fight against the mech that Xemnas summons and the subsequent Armored Controller forms), Rage Awakened is sadder. look, i'm not a music guy, i don't know literally anything about musical theory, but all the string instruments used in it almost make it sound like the song itself is crying. I'm also not sure if it's intentional or not (it isn't mentioned in the khwiki article), but to me at least it sounds similar to the motif from Dearly Beloved. i'm not great at making audio comparisons, but take a listen:

and this is why i wanted to bother making this long-winded essay in the first place: it's no deep analysis to get any of this. the design of the game itself, in the aspects of the gameplay, the writing, and the music, convey all of the prior 729 words i have written here without you even really consciously realizing it. it's so meticulously planned and designed to convey the idea that something awful happened, and it happen to a group of friends clearly not unlike your own. you can immediately sympathize with whatever this guy went through without knowing so much as a lick of it. and knowing that it's the product of the very same guy that tried to do the very same shit to your own friend group is the icing on the cake. there's a fantastic sense of solidarity between the different eras. it feels like a lived-in universe with things going on everywhere all the time. you're not alone in the experience you've been through and you're not alone in experiencing the same conviction to protect your friends. tl;dr, kingdom hearts game design good :)

#skerplespost #kingdom hearts #game design #long post #also it's too much to go into here right now but knowing that xehanort and even the foretellers before him went through the very same shit #but each group reacted in their own unique way #really ties everything together #leave it to nomura

[sepublic]

Clouds on the Horizon!

            …I know we called Alador a rat man, but THIS is ridiculous! Seriously, how’d he even do that, I’m confused?

         LUMITY KISS LUMITY KISS THE WAY THE ANIMATION UPGRADED!!! The animation was so SMOOTH the animators knew it had to count. The way Luz’s vines were so FLOWER filled like from Reaching Out, responding to what Luz wanted as she mentioned at that episode when showing how to grow flowers… The Lumity and Raeda parallels! The twins! EMIRA AND EDRIC NNNOOOO!!!!! I can’t believe they got put away for the final battle this literally hurts so much, and what about Bump and the other students? Not my Blight twins…

         ODALIA THAT BITCH! Doesn’t Odalia realize SHE’s gonna die too… Or does she really think Belos will exempt her and Alador’s sigils?! I was half-expecting a twist where it’s revealed that Odalia didn’t have a sigil this entire time, making her all the more deplorable, especially in light of her husband having one… Glad we got to see a look at Oracle magic, or rather some confirmation in its ability to summon ghosts to fight with!

         The way Odalia left… It kinda feels like it’s alluding to her finding a new partner, but I’m not sure if we’ll even get to see her again? IS IT GONNA BE TIBBLES?!?! That’d be an embarrassing for her as an ending revisit to all of the cast members… Also, apparently someone’s keeping an eye on the rebels?! Is there a turncloak, is it Eberwolf?! Or Darius… No… NO! Maybe it’s just the Oracle Head using some sophisticated magic… Maybe teaming up with the Potion head to make a scrying potion? Oh fuck…

         LILITH! I love seeing Lilith voluntarily step up to take the fall for her sister this time, what a WONDERFUL culmination to her arc! And King, wanting to help but he’s still the youngest of all and if he bleeds, that could be a revealing liability… This episode seems to confirm the implication that Belos is manipulating even the Collector as well, so will the Collector preemptively betray him in retaliation? He doesn’t seem to realize King can hear him but maybe he does… Either way, that connection is def coming into play! And the Collector pointing out to Belos how much HE’S changed, and he’s still having freakouts… How the human world has likely changed!

         Okay! So they’re not ignoring Hunter’s identity crisis as a grimwalker, or Luz’s guilt for helping Philip! Glad to see that confirmation and I loved seeing them team up together… Also I TOTALLY saw that switcheroo as soon as ‘Luz’ did the golden warp TO PROTECT WILLOW!!! Speaking of which, Willow new design! And Gus, too, flaunting that trophy he took from Adrian! My boi I love him… And just his and Hunter’s teamup, him using that same darkness spell from Bria against Kikimora! I saw it coming, Luz was bamboozling Kikimora as a means to get to the castle! Poor Kiki, she got DEMOTED instead of promoted… YIKES. Imagine if after all this, as a cruel joke, Belos DOES keep his promise and let Kikimora live out of a sick and twisted sense of humor.

         Odalia that BITCH. I’m glad to see Amity get PISSED at her mom so openly, and I’m glad to see Alador go against her! With him destroying the factory, that’s him destroying any more Abomatons in the future… Hopefully we can see him override the Abomatons against Belos this finale, that will DEFINITELY help because Belos has made the mistake of positioning them in fairly critical places, like his own throne room during a private conversation with Hunter!

         I hope this finale we get to see the remaining Coven Heads, at least voices, names, and a brief show of powers. A part of me is hoping we’ll see the remaining four side with Belos in Season 3 so we can learn about them, but I’m not holding my breath… Dammit Disney. And RAINE! Raine wanting to protect Eda, that last banter… Luz asking them to look after her, Raine never needing to be told that but. I REALLY don’t like where this is going. I’m getting kinda scared and concerned for another cliffhanger where Eda is sacrificed… But hey, at least we got Katya hanging out with Luz and King for once, and a look at her beetle palisman! Yes! I’m imagining the off-screen interaction as they flew to Blight Manor.

         Oh god I’m so scared. Things are closing up… I love Luz promising a slice-of-life date and mentioning the trope. And the palisman egg! That’s SO kind of Luz to let her palisman choose that for itself… But will we not see until after the final battle? Will the egg hatch until the final crucial moment? Ngl at first I thought it was a reference to Azura’s blue staff which it could ALSO be that… Just god, I feel like there’s so much we’ve had to drop; This subplot of Odalia’s new partner, the remaining Coven Heads, the beach episode, confirmation that Steve and Mattholomule being half-brothers would be explored. The concealment stone was a nice touch…

        BUT WHO’S KEEPING EYES IS IT EBERWOLF AAKDHFKDAHDKFKGKSK or maybe. Maybe! Maybe the Oracle Head is just POSSESSING someone and there isn’t an actual traitor per se! I wish I hope… THIS CAN’T BE IT! I NEED MORE DANA!!!

#the owl house #luz noceda #amity blight #lumity #alador blight #odalia blight #the owl house kikimora #the owl house hunter #raine whispers #eda clawthorne #edalyn clawthorne #king clawthorne #the owl house collector #theory #speculation #analysis

[whoiwanttoday]

The Met Gala was last night and if there is one thing the world waits for, it's my take on the Met Gala. By the world I mean literally no one but two to three people might be mildly interested in what I have to say. Basically the world. Anyway, I thought it was a strongly solid event this year. That is in the sense that so far nothing has stood out as like an all timer Met Gala look. I could be wrong, sometimes it takes time in both directions as there is stuff that I once was huge on that I still like when I see it but had forgotten existed in between and stuff that over time has moved into one of my favorite looks for some people. This time though what really stood out is there was nothing that was terrible. A lot of years there are some real stand outs as, "That's a mistake". It helps that this year was a lame, lazy theme. Just a fashion designer as a theme sorta allows people to just wear nice clothes. Which they did. Some honorable mentions before I get to this are Ke Huy Quan who just makes me happy every time I see him and I was so glad to see him looking cool and happy and it really didn't matter what he wore cause seeing him at the Met Gala was enough to remind me of the year he's having and let me go, "Man, good for him. I'm so happy for my favorite Goonie". Billie Eilish and Kendall Jenner also both get shout outs as being on my shortlist and I liked them both. Billie stood out as it looked ok in long shots. It was a black dress, nice enough. But on close ups it blew me away. She looked beautiful head to toe and the all black dress was fascinating up close. Just great. Kendall Jenner seems less popular but after wondering for a bit why I liked it I realized the entire thing is cut like a superhero costume from some indie comic. Like... change the color and it's basically Atom Eve's costume. Also it's shiny. A nice blue as well. I liked it. There were other good ones but if you want a look into my mind and why it's so late for me to post know these are the names I slowly whittled away at and it lead to two people who I have just kept going back and forth on. Jenna Ortega and Anne Hathaway. Both looked great but I went with Anne for a few reasons. First, I have been into Anne Hathaway for so long and she looks so good still. It's been like 20 years she's been one of my favorite celebrities and it's sorta crazy what a ride that's been from people being like, "The Disney Princess" and teasing me for being into a Disney Princess to her being a big deal then dealing with a backlash to now her comfortably being an elder statesmen that most people seem ok with. It reminded me of some of her other old Met Gala looks I really liked and so you know what I did? I sprinkled some of them in with more recent stuff. Second, as I was still deciding an old photoshoot of Anne popped up on my dash and I was like, "Man, she's so beautiful". I took that as a sign. Then finally because @thunderstormofoblivion told me to and anyone who knows me knows at the end of the day I do what @thunderstormofoblivion tells me to do. So I am posting Anne Hathaway. Today I want to fuck Anne Hathaway.

#Anne Hathaway #brunette #Actress #whoiwanttofucktoday

[clockwork2018]

Lab Rats rant? in 2022? more likely than you think!

ok let's get started. also I apologize in advance I'll probably get carried away and start talking about Marcus a lot

why did the Lab Rats kids ever forgive Douglas

and before anyone comes at me I don't have an issue with Douglas but that man did some pretty fucked up things ESPECIALLY to his kids??

he experimented on them when they were literal babies and wanted to make them bionic soldiers and rent them to the highest bidder?? like i don't know about yall but if I ever heard my dad wanted to sell me as a kid i would get as far away as possible

he proceeds to fake his death and build an android to "befriend" and capture the lab rats so he could take control over them with the triton app and make them do whatever he wanted. also don't even get me started on Marcus oh my god.

he makes an android and then realizes "well shit he's not gonna last long with all these bionics in his body". he probably doesn't really care at first but then oops! turns out his android son has feelings! who would have seen that coming!!! and before anyone comes at me yes Marcus does have feelings like cmon. he could have easily fooled Leo if he wanted. in the ep "Concert In A Can" at the end he could have apologized to Leo and maybe he would have bought his lies after a while! but he didn't apologize! this guy went at Leo for NO REASON. he would have had an easier time fooling the others if he befriended Leo too but he didn't cause he's just a kid! he wanted some drama in his life and what's more dramatic than having an arch nemesis? also he's literally in drama club. come on now.

plus he mentions he has pizza nights with Douglas which would be kind of weird to have with an emotionless android just saying...

and you can say "oh he's programmed to fake emotions!" or whatever. no he isn't. or maybe he was but then learned to have real emotions from Douglas or whatever. the point is this boy has emotions!! just watch the episode in season 4 when he confronts Douglas and tell me he doesn't have emotions.

anyway back to Douglas he lies to Marcus about him DYING before 16 and even says he's gonna buy him a car at 16?? he didn't HAVE to lie if he was emotionless, why would a robot care? but Marcus does have emotions and the news would give him psychological torment and Douglas KNOWS that and that's why he lies. anddd I don't know about you but that's pretty fucked up!

he also just. allows Marcus to attempt to kill Leo. he doesn't say "hey maybe don't kill my brother's brand new kid" he just lets Marcus do his thing. and Marcus does his thing because Douglas is his only parental figure and Douglas is Fucked Up™

then he allows Marcus to kill Leo again!! and when his plan fails and the lab rats escape he leaves Marcus to die even if he knew to some degree he had emotions. so that's fun!!

anyway I have a love hate relationship with Douglas. I think he's a fun character and the episodes with him are great it's just that HOW IN THE HELL DID HE GET A REDEPMION ARC OH MY GOD. I'm not saying people can't learn from their mistakes and grow as a person but this guy tried to sell his own kids!! and kill Leo who's very much a kid!! I have no idea how or why the lab rats crew forgave him but it's probably cause it's just a Disney show for kids and I'm looking too much into it. but that's why it's fun!

at the end of the day as I said it's just a silly children's show from 2012 and I have way too many feelings about Marcus to not be biased lmao. this is all /lh and its totally fine if you disagree :) also it's like 3 am so if there are any mistakes no there aren't

#lab rats #lab rats disney xd #douglas davenport #marcus davenport #leo dooley

[yandere-daydreams]

I feel like malleus honestly fucked exactly one time and it was because some desperate noble girl tried to babytrap him but hes so terrible at sex (no lube, abysmal foreplay, dick is way too big and he doesnt have enough consideration in him to accomodate or slowdown according to his partners needs) that when the girl finally got him to cum and leave she ran away and told all the other women and malleus is now on the blacklist of all women in his kingdom

Malleus has no idea though man thinks he did well and even when Lilia confronts him bc of the rumors Mal straight up is like "she came too its fine" and the more lilia berates him it changes to malleus blaming her for being bad at sex

Or alternatively Malleus believes only men enjoy sex while its supposed to hurt for women. Either one is plausible.

i can't believe i've started another 'does this terrible man also have a terrible dick?' debate, but i don't think Malleus is,,, like, strictly, bad at sex? like, don't get me wrong, he's never going to make you cum, but i think it's more of an attitude thing than just raw lack of skill. he simply is not a considerate man. he'll literally roll his eyes if you complain that he's too big or that you haven't cum yet or that his horns left holes in your ceiling, again. ask for lube and he'll laugh at you. try to spend the night and he'll either call his guards to drag you out or propose the next morning. he knows what a clit is and here he can find it, but he's not going to bother to look because he's literally a bastard and he cannot be bothered.

ALSO - i'm prepared to take out a collective hit on anyone who implies any of the fae are repressive/conservative about sex in any way. they're the sluts of folklore. they're the biggest whores you'll find in all nine realms. even the disney faeries (Maleficent and Tinkerbell my loves <3) are prepared to throw down at any time. Malleus definitely knows what sex is and has chosen purposefully to use his (literal) monster cock for evil, and he's got no one to blame but himself.

#personal #anon ask

[theprinceandthewitch]

@master-of-the-aus

Okay, I'm gonna try to articulate myself as best as I can even though I havent had a good nights sleep in three days AND I only slept for 4 hours last night. But this is just me ranting about the MID romances this show has:

Okay so like, i know you're asking about the most recent episode, but honestly no future episode of TOH can elevate it above MID tier. The things that will always keep it Mid in my eyes are:

Lumity

Huntlow

The weird ass tendency to fuck around and waste time like with that dumbass body swap episode and that budget eating asshole Mr. Tibbles.

A complete lack of forthrightness by NOT trying to condense this story into about two seasons worth of story. Animation is super expensive - not even a studio like Disney will let you suck away their money for something not on brand.

Under utilizing the disability themes when it comes to Luz - specifically how her position as a magicless being in a magical world would effect her negatively. Hunter said, in so many words, that if it wasn't for Belos he would not have had a future on TBI. There's clearly some discrimination against magicless beings that's never really explored, which would have been much more interesting than wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars on a plotless body swap episode and that Mr. Tibbles leech.

I've already talked to death about Lumity. And for Huntlow... well I think it's funny that people are NOW trying to parallel them with Caleb and Evelyn The Wild Witch.

Which doesn't work because it was LUZ who enticed him with magic he hadn't seen before, just like Evelyn did with Caleb. Not only that - it's pretty much confirmed at this point that the Witch Caleb ran away with was a Clawthorn.

You know, the family Luz is heavily associated with because one of the family members is her guardian and mentor. This specific family member also happens to be the most powerful wild witch on The Boiling Isles. So it doesn't make sense that Willow, a girl that is not under the guardianship of a Clawthorn and whose identity isnt heavily associated with wild magic/witches (like Luz is), to be the one who parallels Evelyn. Also it's heavily implied that Caleb ran away with an expecting witch... and that directly parallels to Hunter (aka the grimwalker that looks the most like Caleb) running away with Luz - who is expecting her Palisman to hatch.

LIKE... insanity. Absolute Insanity to even SAY Willow parallels Evelyn. ALSO - Flapjack was Evelyn's Palisman. And who was the first person to introduce Flapjack to Hunter? It sure wasn't Willow!

MOVING ON...

His first positive connection with someone was with LUZ and not Willow. He literally defies the man who gave him everything for Luz - do you know how crazy that is? That Hunter would take on punishment from a man he knows is merciless just for A WILD WITCH? And the majority of this fanbase think it doesn't mean anything. VIOLENCE. NOTHING BUT VIOLENCE IN MY HEART.

They made Luz OOC in Hollow Mind just so Hunter can hide out at the school for a whole week - a whole week without telling any of his friends he was there. I am not sure why this was necessary, no matter how much i ruminate on this point - it just doesn't make any sense to me. Anyways, they do that dumb thing where Hunter knows Willow - a girl he played one game with (and i guess talked to in between the timeframe of ASIAS and Hollow Mind) - better than Gus who has known Willow for years. I could be more forgiving of this if we were actually shown Hunter is good at seeing through illusions and if Gus was actually out of it - but Hunter is not good with illusions because he fell for the Belos illusion AND he couldnt tell if a staircase was real or not.

LIKE... MID... VERY MID. WHY? Why does this show have the most mid romance? Did they put him at the school just so they can have their Huntlow content? Instead of putting him with the Clawthorn sisters - adults who can keep him safe and teach him wild magic (ya know... the subject he's interested in), so he can better defend himself and not rely so heavily on a staff, they put him at the very VERY unsafe location at the school just... so they can have their Huntlow moment i guess?? MURDER AND VIOLENCE.

Literally if Lunter was the endgame pairing this show would have been S tier... I'm also gonna add that if AmWillow was tweaked a bit to where they were a rivals to lovers pairing then this show would have been a masterpiece. Hunter and Luz already have THE set-up for a great enemies to lovers romance.... you just show that same love to AmWillow and you would have got a money maker of a show.

But nOoOoOo we have to deal with the most MID romance options on the list even though Luz and Hunter parallel past lovers who are deeply tied with the main villain... it makes me want to rip apart my drywall with my teeth.

#lunter #toh critical #i dont get it... i dont get it... #if i was given an opportunity to make an animated show i would go crazy with passion... #make a whole moneymaker so that i can use that money and recognition to make my own shit

[demonkidpliz]

Things I learned while re-watching Star Plus Mahabharata (Part 22/many):

Lol. Bhim knows Dhrishtadyumna is incapable of killing Drona in a fair fight.

Ek hi marg hai. Cheating. Cheating is the marg.

No way was the Panchanjanya this big fr.

How does Sanjay know so much? Isn’t he like a charioteer or something?

These formations are all very complicated and unnecessary imo. 

Once the armies meet don’t the formations break?

Who is this Susharma? Is he the dodgy fellow who had the suicide corps?

Yudhisthir is…I can’t even bring myself to say it anymore. He’s being a dumbass.

Oh good, it didn’t take Krishna long to change his mind. This is what happens when you use dharma like a fucking weapon.

The only thing Bhishma cares about is the throne of Hastinapur. Good for him. Stay away from this toxic family, Bhishma. They’re not even your family!

I am amazed at Dhritarashtra. Man knows Krishna is literally God. Why did you let your sons agree to fight this battle? Surely you knew they were all going to die.

Who’s this dick trying to stab Drupad? Oh! It’s Ashwatthama!

Who kills Drupad?

Oh! I am sad to learn that Dronacharya kills him. Sad. I always shipped those two.

My man Drona really killed his Guru-bhai and would have killed his Guru-bhai’s son too.

Arjun is also flying now.

Bhim just kicking people out of the way. Is my jam.

I don’t think Pitamaha would actually kill any of his grandsons.

Side note - Starbharat’s classification on Disney+ Hotstar as a “dramedy” is sending me.

Duryodhan is also flying.

Ha, Duryodhan and Bhim trash talking is my jam.

Duryodhan’s hair game is so on point. He’s my favourite anti-hero *sings Taylor Swift*

Is there anything Yudhishtir can do?

What is this scam? Only Yudhisthir can kill Duryodhan? Isn’t Bhim Yuvraj if Yudhisthir is king? Then he should be able to kill Duryodhan who is also a Yuvraj (don’t open that can of worms, Pri).

Wtf why is Duryodhan bringing Shantanu into this? Let my horny on main man rest peacefully in his grave.

Like do we realise that none of the Mahabharata would have happened if not for Shantanu’s tharak?

This Dhritarashtra has the most slappable face I’ve ever seen in a mythology serial.

Arjun casually giving orders on the battlefield as if his brother-in-law isn’t the commander-in-chief.

I love you Pitamaha Bhishma, but now it’s time for you to die.

#mahabharat #mahabharata #starbharat #starbharat recap #siwt #disclaimer guys: these are my own thoughts and ramblings while I watch this unhinged show #you might not agree wiith me #you probably won't #but you don't have to correct me

[submergedmemory]

@odd-kid-42

the way I typed out this big long thing the one time i decided not to answer an ask in a different word document only for my BROWSER TO CRASH AND LOSE EVERYTHING LOL NO TALK ME I’M ANGY

1) Describe their first date.

A little chaotic lol. Morgan gets "paid" in expensive opera tickets for a job she did, and she figures since she can't sell them she might as well use them, so she invites Glenn, on the “condition” that she gets him weed, which she does, like a true gentlewoman. Like the way you buy flowers for your date.

Turns out the tickets are for Puccini’s Turandot, which is awkward because 1) it’s in that uncomfortable liminal space of “racist but seminal part of opera canon,” in the same way Madama Butterfly is (also a Puccini work. Funny, that) and 2) Glenn’s kind of high so when the part where the Prince and the titular Turandot sing a love duet to each other almost immediately after a character has been tortured and then kills herself out of love for the Prince (spoilers for a 100 year old opera ig) Glenn just goes, “HEY MAN WHAT THE FUCK,” which makes Morgan basically howl with laughter and the two are promptly kicked out.

Personally I would have just let them stay, the opera’s basically almost over by that point, but that’s just me. Anyway, Glenn’s feeling bad but Morgan’s just like, “It’s cool, dude, shit’s racist anyway.”

They go to a bar and get a little tipsy, tipsy enough for them to come up with the brilliant idea of breaking into the classroom where Morgan does her piano tutoring (I’m assuming there was some shit-talking regarding this while they were at the bar which lead to this brilliant idea). Morgan shows off her mad skillz, Glenn is suitably impressed, and they almost get caught by security while they’re fucking around, so they hide under the piano, where the heady combination of booze + weed + adrenaline + proximity + general feeling of “wow, Morgan’s so cool” = Glenn kissing Morgan.

They leave and head to Morgan’s apartment, where things very quickly escalate, but then very suddenly and very quickly de-escalate, and the night ends with them both sleeping together, in a very literal sense, with both of them deciding that they’ll deal with things when they wake up in the morning together.

So you know, all in all, a pretty good date.

39) When and how did they admit that they loved each other? If they haven’t yet, why?

I’ve thought up a lot of situations and a lot of scenarios for these two, but the one I’ve always had trouble on was this one! I don’t actually know if they have ever said the actual words out loud. Morgan is very taciturn and guarded so she would rather show her love through her actions rather than words. Glenn is emotionally constipated in general anyway, so he also tries to show his love through his actions, with slightly less success than Morgan, but he does try. I also think both of them grew up with parents who didn’t outright say the words “I love you” to them, so for both of them it’s really awkward hearing it, too.

I think for Morgan in particular, the closest she’s ever “said” it was during a trip to Disney World. It's their first trip together as a couple, Morgan's first time ever on any Disney property, and probably their last hurrah on the east coast before they head west to California, so naturally they're both feeling like they're young, dumb and full of you know.

It’s their second day there, Morgan’s still a little bit low-key drunk from doing the Drinking Around the World challenge the night before, Glenn is basically dead on his feet from trying to do the same, so she parks Glenn on a bench so she can get them both water (and a dole whip for Glenn), and it’s taking a weirdly long time for Morgan to come back so he goes to look for her only to find her basically unleashing a no-holds-barred beat down on a face character.

He spirits her away to their motel room before she gets arrested, or worse, banned from Disney, where he patches her up and cleans her injuries (all cosmetic, thankfully) because neither of them have health insurance and want to risk going to the emergency room, and Morgan tells Glenn, (again, still kind of drunk and also wired from the adrenaline and the pain of her injuries and also from having to see a shitty person from her past in a place that’s supposed to be happy and fun) that he’s, “the only mother-fucker who can handle me,” which, as far as Just Morgan Things go, is basically a love confession anyway.

Anyway, that's why I draw Morgan with a slightly fucked up right earlobe.

21) Do they enjoy domestic life?

I had this whole long answer about how they both want kids (and Morgan wants a house, eventually) but they also both want to keep their jobs but with the type of career they have (Glenn’s is obvious, Morgan is principle dancer on tour in her prime) makes it really hard to be domestic and stay at home all the time, and even when one (or both) of them is at home base, neither want to do the stay-at-home spouse thing, but since they’re committed to staying together, they work it out, but not without their fair share of arguments and compromises, but seeing as how it all got deleted, I will just say, “not at first, but they manage and eventually they do grow to appreciate it,” and link you to this ship meme I did a long time ago to keep track of my own shit of cute couple-y domestic things they do.

15) What songs remind you of their relationship?

You just wanna know my Glenn/Morgan playlist ;p Well it’s a work in progress so maybe later.

I originally listed only 2 songs, but this time I will list 3, you’re welcome.

Blues for Klook – Eddy Louiss

The figure skating fans will know what this piece is. No lyrics, just mood, and what a mood it is. Dark, brooding and very sensual. I don’t often portray Glenn and Morgan like this, but I do think people see them as pretty sexy, individually and also definitely together in a moody, “mad, bad, and dangerous to know,” sort of way.

The Day Before You Came – ABBA

It's funny, but I had no sense of living without aim The day before you came

Probably my favorite ABBA song, despite the melancholic, wistful feel if you take the lyrics at face value it’s about a person recalling their previous dull and monotonous life before the titular ‘you’ comes along and changes things. This is also a song that is apparently subject to much more sinister interpretations, such as the ‘you” being dead or even a murder. Glenn would appreciate the conspiracy theory-ness of it all.

Marauders – Thao and the Get Down Stay Down

I got that poison Carve it on out Barely served me then And it only hurts me now My darlin’ Your patience Rain it on me I know daughters of marauders are just so hard to please

Of course I have a Thao song for the occasion. Sometimes you bring baggage into the relationship and the kindest thing you can do it ask your partner to help you bear it.

Honorable mentions include: Nature Boy (Nat King Cole), You and I (Lady Gaga), The Ugly and the Beautiful (The Real Tuesday Weld), Venus in Furs (Velvet Underground)

#that's all she wrote lol #thanks for playing despite my browser betraying me i loved answering the questions #dungeons and daddies #dndads #dungeons and daddies odyssey #dndads odyssey #glenn close #morgan freeman #musicverse #Youtube

[elderflowergin]

SBS Hyena, episode 1 rewatch (part 6 - final)

Hee-jae, nursing being stabbed by his client with a mechanical pencil. Put a pin in that.

He’s so handsome and stupid and angry and horny in this suit all at the same time. 9/10. I'm docking a point for being so shit at negotiations. That’s what a supposed ace looks like when he’s on the backfoot. 

That line. The single sexiest line of dialogue ever uttered in a Kdrama. 

Prior to this exchange, it’s Yoon Hee-jae who comes to her, which is, to him, a kind of concession, and he’s the one talking, the one making offers/counter-offers, getting up, sitting down, generally being terrible at his job. This is such a satisfying moment for Jung Geum-ja that you’d expect her to play it large and dramatic, which would also be consistent with how Kdrama usually goes (and she does have loud/high-key moments in this show, which don’t always work.)

But instead she’s cool, mildly amused and a little pitying;  altogether, it’s low-key balls-in-a-vise-grip. Ridiculously hot. 

This is the look of someone who knew that Yoon Hee-jae would hold onto this card like it was his Hail Mary, and that he would do so without quite interrogating what it would mean for him. And she was right on both points. 

Okay, let’s have it out about The Con: I felt very conflicted when I first saw it, and I’ve seen people call it outright abusive behaviour, which isn’t an exaggeration so much as maybe mislabelling, though your mileage may vary on this and that is fine. We all did the thought experiment of “what if the genders were reversed”, and yes, that does feel grodier in some way I can’t parse.

2023 me isn’t as bothered as I once was, for some reasons. Jung Geum-ja is by miles and miles the better lawyer than Yoon Hee-jae, but it took fraud for Jung Geum-ja to best him. That’s not a bug in Jung Geum-ja’s moral fabric; it’s the feature of the system that is absolutely stacked against her in every respect. I respect a woman taking an advantage where she can in a fundamentally tilted playing field.

Also, I think there is something so delightful and fun about Kim Hye-soo playing this ultra femme-fatale type - like her iconic role in Tazza The High Rollers - intent to get something out of a man so she can pursue a greater goal, and instead of losing at all and getting prison time she…gets everything? And the man? It’s a dream. Maybe even the dream. 

With respect to Yoon Hee-jae, I think what bothers him more than the con itself is that she had sincere feelings for him and won’t admit it. His ego was bruised, but his heartbreak takes precedence for him. Even when the con is used by Ga Gi-hyeok in a lousy betrayal later in the show, Yoon Hee-jae is not fussed in the least with respect to Geum-ja; his disappointment is directed at Gi-hyeok, and I think it’s because Geum-ja by then has made it clear that she is his person and someone he can trust to have in his corner when he’s all alone. 

Okay, back to the show. 

Finally, Jung Geum-ja gets attacked by her gangster client, and then they beat the shit out of each other. It is brutal, drag-down knuckle-busting fighting. This isn’t K-drama fighting - it’s Disney+ Kdrama levels of blood and bruising. It is grinding and ugly as hell.

Which really, circles us back to the start of the episode. Yoon Hee-jae, working out, working up a sweat in a controlled environment, panting, perspiring. The appearance of effort being expended, but it's all constructed; meant to be a show. Yoon Hee-jae, pondering his loss as he stares at the mark on his hand made by his client. 

And then there's Jung Geum-ja, a woman literally fighting in the streets, for her fucking life, bruised and battered within an inch of her existence. You know watching her that this isn’t her first fight, and it won’t be her last. She'll appear in the next episode, pale, drawn, with cuts still on her face, in a puffer jacket in what is certainly not puffer jacket weather. Still hustling away, ten times harder than Yoon Hee-jae who mopes while his files get taken away from him. 

Her battles were never not harder than his by magnitudes. There are no passes for women like Geum-ja. No second chances. Nothing else could have illustrated the sheer blunt force of Jung Geum-ja’s willpower, her smarts, and her hustle compared to Yoon Hee-jae. 

I’m sure the premise of “these two wildly different people will have no choice but to fall in LOVE” has been done and done well before. The audacious thing the writer has done here is to say, well, could you imagine two more different people than these two? And not just two different people, but two different people who were briefly brought together and then broken apart by the loss of trust? They couldn’t work together for five minutes if their entire lives depended on it…or could they?

Can you imagine them getting along? Working together professionally? Can you imagine them being each other’s person, the one they trust above everyone else? Can you imagine Jung Geum-ja trusting Yoon Hee-jae, and vice-versa? We can. We gave you the Nora Ephron watch ad romance; now let us deliver the real romance, at this difficulty level.  

You have to admire the balls of a first-time writer - Kim Ru-ri writernim - making that kind of audacious bet, and then delivering on it.

This brings me to the end of my rewatch of episode 1 - thank you if you made it this far!

#sbs hyena #sbs hyena rewatch

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Not a question but I remember you posting something like why they refused to Shang as Lonnie's father when introducing her. So, I found these:

So do you think it's very weird what Disney is doing to their own characters?

In terms of Descendants? Yes. Like, what they did ANY Disney character they introduced was weird in general. Let's use the most obvious example: Beast and Belle. Beauty and The Beast showed Belle as pretty much the hero who doesn't take Beast's shit to the point she shuts him up when attending to his injury when he thinks he can win the argument, and we see Beast slowly soften over the movie as he slowly falls for Belle and even in the village, Belle basically called out Gaston's shit and prior to all that, she did pretty openly tell Gaston he has a backwards way of thinking ("Gaston you are positivity primeval."), and Beast's curse eventually broke because he learned to love another and earned her love in return.

Cut to Descendants....where suddenly, Belle isn't openly calling shit out and is basically just there a-lot of the times, not even opposing Beast's decision to imprison children on an Isle and not even supporting Ben at Family Day, allowing Beast to lead Belle away. And then you cut to Beast who....look, did this man get cursed again??? Because only explanation I'll take for why the heck this man thought it was okay to leave children imprisoned on the Isle and even briefly appose Ben's idea before Belle, in her one moment of OG Belle personality, points out she gave Beast a chance. And that's just ignoring how they proceed to treat their son in D2-D3...aka favoring Mal over him....

And like, other examples include: Leah, who they turned from a women who tried to calm the situation with Maleficent by thanking Maleficent at first, clearly being kind-hearted, to....a women who willingly emotionally abuses her grandchild and Aurora and Phillip let this happen. Fairy Godmother, someone whose meant to help people, including kids, in need, also willingly went along with imprisoning children and was in favor of Mal's choice in D3, also got ruined. Only pro is her maybe in D1 and her relationship with Jane, that's fine. Snow White....look, we didn't see much off her, so.... Cinderella apparently is fine with the way Chad acts, as is Cinderella's prince, but again, we can assume they have a good relationship with D3 Chad wanting Cinderella in wake of Ben finding him in the closet. Mulan and Shang....honestly, they sound okay. They sound like they taught Lonnie good values and seemed to have learnt from the OG Mulan film, and I will accept them going by Fa family, cause really, Mulan's the hero of China....but confused on why the family tree says 'Fa Mulan' and 'Li Shang' like....are they married or....

And don't get me started on the villains. They can't even make their mind up on Maleficent's fucking title, let alone why the fuck Jafar has been turned into a joke now when he was creepy and scary as shit in OG Aladdin and Cruella is maybe the only scary villain of the four at this rate, not gonna lie. We barley saw Ursula, can't say much on Hook beyond a cameo in the books and Gaston never appeared in either medium. Dr. Facilier and Smee are maybe the only ones to make sense to make sympathetic and good parents, but do not TRY to make Tremaine sympathetic. Bitch is one of the most abusive stepmoms in Disney history for a reason. And Hades....no, no. Don't get me started. I don't wanna go into a long rant, but they did him so dirty and basically had the audacity to use him to justify freeing literal villains from the Isle...

#i am not going into the books #because i dont recall alot of the fourth book even #let alone how they handled certain disney characters #but descendants in short did not know what to do with their own characters #so makes sense they fucked up with the new characters

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Do you mind if I ask your top 10 favorite characters (can be male or female) from all of the media that you loved (can be anime/manga, books, movies or tv series)? And why do you love them? Sorry if you've answered this question before.....Thanks...

Thank you for asking!!!!! Love a chance to talk about myself.

The way I got this ask and like IMMEDIATELY forgot any piece of media I have ever consumed?? If I forgot any of my faves... sorry to them!!

Also, a running theme for most of my faves is that they have overcome being otherized and/or trauma and came out being pettier and more self righteous, lol.

Uchiha Sasuke from Naruto. Pettiest bitch alive and he DESERVES IT! Should be pettier.

Wei Wuxian from MDZS/The Untamed. Went through hell, kinda literally, and did awful things but still chose to do the right thing, every single fucking time.

Fenris from Dragon Age. Watching him emerge from such an awful place and learn to let people in, while remaining sooo rough around the edges, was lovely.

Spock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! From both TOS and AOS, less so from Disco/SNW, because he's just so fucking funny and also watching him be so repressed and then be forced out of that repression is fun. I love him. Baby boy.

Joy from EEAAO. Loved watching her anger, loved watching her creativity, and I loved watching her anger make her mother change. I love that she was able to give up the anger because she was finally seen and her hurt was legitimized.

***** ****** from ******* ******** because *runs away*

NGL.... it's still my boy Edward Elric. In many ways, I should let him go. But he was my first rep of atheism in literally the funniest fucking way ("Yeah I've seen God but... nah.") and I still enjoyed his journey, even if I now have major issues with the narrative and apologism and recognize Scar as a far more compelling character than Edward. Sorry to everyone but when I saw Edward at age.... 13, I did not realize what war crime apologism looked like. At least I let go of stanning Mustang. Cause I wanted that man carnally for a long time.

Sook-hee from The Handmaiden. Watching her fuck shit up was cathartic.

I need to finish my watch through (bingewatching two seasons in a week was mentally taxing, tbh) but Flint and Max from Black Sails. Again... love a selfish character who has felt left behind by the world and so they take what they can from the world. They deserve it!

Recency bias I guess but I'm REALLY loving Frieren from... Frieren. Watching her learn to value other people while going around with her lil :3 face is nice.

I feel like this list is leaving a lot of faves out--my lovely Sailor Jupiter who I imprinted on like a baby duck and have carried in my heart ever since, Dimitri Fire Emblem, Qifrey, and probably so many more. The characters that I love just for horny reasons (Yae Miko, Kaveh, Tighnari my beloveds). Characters I love for their potential (Finn, Poe, and Rey from Star Wars)(Also Cassian but I guess I could love him more if I watched Andor but I will not be watching Disney+ shows.) Characters who I love now (Louis, Lestat, Claudia from IWTV the show) but haven't finished their arcs yet, so idk how I'll feel int he future. Etc etc.

I will also say that this list feels a biiiiiit swayed by characters who I have experienced more in fandom. There are characters from one off books, video games, comics that I CONNECT with more, maybe idolized more, but engage with less often because there's no fandom, so they come to mind less immediately. And they've been butchered less by fanon, so I don't project onto them as much. Like they are FULLER vessels, which means they have less room for me to go "Oh, yeah, we are exactly the same. Let me into your brain."

This list is mainly of characters I love to play with like bratz dolls in my brain and is less about like... maybe heavily fucking with them while consuming their media and then being able to let them go when I'm done.