#(that the show does not shy away from)

[introspectivememories]

touch-starved bernard dowd is sooo canon to me

#hs!bear who had a reputation for sleeping around not bc he particularly enjoyed sex #but bc at least during sex sm1 would touch him #and he'd give anything to be touched like someone wanted him and not bc they were obligated to #college!bear who was initially interested in the pain cult at first but became hooked after they patched him up gently #hs!bear who would drape himself all over his friends and hope this time they wouldn't push him off #bernard dowd who goes his whole life being told by his family that he's too touchy and it makes people uncomfortable #bernard dowd at a young age creating rules for himself after being told time and time again that he makes people uncomfortable #and being unable to follow them bc he loves these people and he knows no other way to show it #bear watching his family shy away bc they don't enjoy and he knows that but why does it feel like they just don't want his touch? #bear breaking all of his rules and hating himself for it. loathing himself bc don't you see bear? you're too needy too touchy. you make #people uncomfortable. and the thing about children who grow up loathing themselves is that they rationalize any affection they recieve #someone from his family hugs him and he thinks to himself: they're only touching me bc they have to. they're uncomfortable doing this. #they're only doing this bc everyone knows how much you like hugs. look dowd you've made someone uncomfortable again. #so he categorizes every touch as Fake or Real but bc he grew up like this every touch is Fake. bc no one really wants to touch him. they're #only doing it bc they have to. bc they're obligated to. #bear who walks around feeling like a stranger in his own skin bc no one will touch him and if they do touch him he can't recognize weather #it's Real or Fake and so the cycle continues. #bernard dowd #dc

[vero-niche]

so as i was first watching the OP this particular sequence caught my eyes immediately:

that is a very distinct framing, with kazuki's back perfectly in the middle with the camera steadily getting closer, and then his ex-wife (?) "blooms" out. but, if it were to symbolize love/grief, i think the camera would've approached from the front, and the blooming would've happened in his heart/chest.

from the above sequence only, my mind immediately went "he's gonna get shot in the back" - then, as i was doing the screenshotting for this post, I noticed the part right before it:

a bullet going through a cake/muffin, which is absolutely kazuki's thing, and then this followed by what i'd call the "bullet pov", used in other movies/shows too leads me to the prediction that he is absolutely gonna get shot and i think somehow it's gonna be connected to his ex-wife.

#follow for more (probably unnecessarily) deep analysis of this silly ass show that got a death grip on me within 2 episodes #putting my film analysis minor to good use on tumblr.com lmao #i might be entirely off of course but like. thats a VERY specific framing #especially with the blooming's shape looking as it does. not unlike to a bullet wound #and in that interview with the director he said he didnt want to take the topic of life and death lightly #plus they arent shying away from showing violence so. methinks malewife gonna get rekt (but not die) #buddy daddies

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

Villain enjoyer but not in a "i can fix them" way or "i can make them worse" way or "i can fuck them" way or "they did nothing wrong actually" way or combination of any of them but in a secret sixth way (i can dissect them under a microscope, write my thesis paper on my findings and then discard the remains when i am satisfied)

#this is most villains but specifically #philip wittebane #emperor belos #Like all of the reasons mentioned are valid for liking any character #But sometimes a character is enjoyable because of the stellar literary analysis essay you can write about them #A type of character you would have enjoyed studying and writing about in a literature class #Or atleast i would it's fun #Belos is one of the most intriguing characters i have seen in toh or really any piece of media #Like dude is an absolute bastard just all round terrible but man they went off when they wrote him #He's a symbol of evilness of conformity its victim and its perpetrator #and the show does not shy away from the damage he has done #empty thoughts #the owl house

[daxite]

ok after watching oppenheimer i can safely say with confidence that 90% of people here clearly did not watch the fucking movie and those massive posts going around with thousands of notes are for the most part complete horsehshit lol 💀

#dax rambles #not saying there haven't been any valid criticims against the movie there absolutely are lol #but like a core fucking key factor about the movie is that it's about...the fucking western side of things the american propaganda and #how horrifically awful the US government was with handling the entire fucking situation #and ultimately it's a biopic about oppenheimer obviously #i understand the argument that people have about criticising the lack of the japanese perspective in the movie and shit but like #the movie isn't about the japanese side of things it's about how shittily america handled it lol #and it does not fucking shy away from how the government did not value their lives at all #there's also the whole debates about “oh he wasn't shown in a bad enough light” but i think whilst the movie obviously favoured oppenheimer #it didn't exactly show him as a fucking saint #in fact it's a pretty big part of the movie showing how people saw him as this fucking patron matyr figure but he was fucking far from that #like yeah no shit oppenheimer wasn't really a good person lmfao but i don't think he was this completely evil remorseless induvidual either #his actions post-war kinda show that which was also another thing in the movie lol #you can argue about the sensationalisation and hollywoodification of things and i'm honestly inclined to agree with a lot of that but that #is a whole other different debate lmao

[peachheadjones]

No thoughts, just that one scene from season 2 where Jug sits with the Serpents for the first time except instead of inviting him to sit down, Sweet Pea makes him climb on his lap

#did i also mention jug is soft cute shy in a white pink plaid skirt bc he is #and he still feels safe enough to DO IT. idk i get really 🥵 at sweet pea showing jug off in front of others #jug doesn't feel the need to do that bc he figures. if sweet pea'll walk away from him he'll do so willingly #he doesn't see himself as a threat at all. lol little does he know. #jugpea #jughead jones #sweet pea #jughead x sweet pea #southside serpents #riverdale #sweet pea riverdale #sweet pea x riverdale #text

[twistedeveryway]

Do you think there's anyone who watched the new One Piece without knowing it's based on an anime and was like "hey what the fuck"

#not 'knew it was anime but never saw it' #I mean fully did not know it was based on anime #because this is the first adaptation I've seen that does NOT shy away from its anime roots #and as a fan of the og it's dope but imagine watching it expecting a regular pirate show or something

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

Curse Servant concept: Foreigner Draupadi with her being possessed by C'thalpa

Given what they did w Yang Guifei that wouldn’t even surprise me. That being said she had 5 kids not six so it wouldn’t be a perfect matchup. Not that that’s ever stopped fate before

Honestly I get worried about draupadi getting put in fate for a lot of reasons esp bc even if they don’t do weird stuff with her origin there’s a very good chance they’ll look at things that say ‘yeah the inciting event for the kurukhestra war was her humiliation and desire for justice’ and be like ‘ah so all those deaths were her fault and her fault alone. Got it. Time to make weird comments abt her being tainted and obsessed with vengeance and sexualize the shit out of her despite her being a sa survivor’ which just. Leaves a very bad taste in my mouth because they’ve done similar things before in varying degrees and it’s definitely more complex than that, but how they’ve angled the war so far makes it seem like one where they want to remove the nuance to…idk make it more pro-kaurava? Or they’d do some wack shit like ‘she and karna were Secretly in Love’ or ‘she resented having 5 husbands’ or whatever and just. Idk man I don’t want to see that

And even if they DID write her perfectly and she was a fully realized human being given the respect she deserves the fandom is obsessed with ntr and goblin r*pe and I can’t deal with the knowledge people would put her in some scenario like that w/o understanding every guy who thought they could try shit like that ended up getting literally dismantled.

#there’s a lot of discourse about her and her relationships even irl-esp in regards to her spouses’ reponse to the dice game #and I just don’t trust a game like fate to give it any nuance rather than being like ‘well she was pretty and rude so’ #‘she was mean to karn in some versions so she deserved it :(‘ #‘oh but karn didn’t do anything wrong to her in our version don’t worry! he’s perfect ✋😊🤚’ #esp bc the dice hall was more like the last straw of a long line of insults to their family #and in some cases it was even planned by her and krish in some accounts iirc? #don’t quote me on that tbh #I’ve been thinking abt this again bc of bhim showing up and seeing a post where someone mentioned that fgo shys away from saying ashwa #killed children. which. yeah they avoid mentioning who he killed #and it does make me kind of :/ bc idk if they’d acknowledge how much she was wronged given they don’t for juna #tbh I do think she could be an avenger but I don’t characterize her as being ‘vengeful’ if that makes sense. idk #my asks

[so-that-happened-huh]

seeing the preview for ep 10 i kind of immediately recognised what the episode was going to be about, not just on the surface level but what it's going to talk about and it made my heart swell. and yet YET this show caught me by surprise by how intricately it navigated through the nuances of disabilities and society. as the episodes go by, the questions, thoughts, pacing, dilemmas are lathered in greyness and it drives not just the characters but also the viewers' motivations and understanding of the world in a very realistic manner. i have fallen in love with this writer's careful yet powerful writing style that says out loud what can sometimes be twisted in interpretation and interprets clearly that which is unsaid.

#extraordinary attorney woo #moon ji won my beloved #not to say i will entirely trust the show blindly because i do that a lot and i wont make the same mistake #but everyday although my mental illness is not visible to neurotypicals eaw makes me feel seen #its a show made for everyone and does not shy away from metaphorically punching ppl in the face #love it so much #i need to be more vocal about my love for park eun bin but words fall short as always

[youngpettyqueen]

(Different anon) Wasn’t part of that episode like “they want to try to get her to the states because she’s less likely to be mutilated or outright killed than if she stays in Korea?”

Did the writers actually show their work on that one?

I'd have to rewatch to be sure on that one, I feel like that's right? I remember they wanted to try sending her to the States after they went over it with Korean officials and found out what she would be facing if they gave her to a Korean orphanage

ill be honest I have no idea how much the writers showed their work, im not super familiar with Korean politics/views concerning mixed race children from the 50s- specifically the time of the Korean War 1950 - 1953- so I have no idea how accurately the show captured it. I know MASH very accurately captured what an actual MASH unit was like, but I cant speak for how it captured Korean culture. if someone's more versed in that, please feel free to hop onto this post!

that said, I do think this episode was one of the rarer ones from later on that was more self-aware in that it acknowledged that the presence of the US army in Korea was making things worse and creating all new problems. the later seasons tend to lose that awareness, or they almost seem to lean into it before pulling back (see Dreams as an example of that one), but Yessir, That's Our Baby really doesnt pull its punches and makes it very very clear that the problems here are a direct result of America's presence in Korea and American imperialism, and because of that this baby wouldn't be any safer in an American orphanage than she would be in a Korean one

#mash #again if someone else can answer this please feel free to jump onto the post #I really have no idea how much the writers showed their work #but it does feel like one where the writers were like. aware of the direct harm America's presence was causing #in a way a lot of episodes in the later seasons shy away from

[buffyspeak]

aldertree does lots of shadybad things but there’s also some simple stuff that shows he’s not fit to be the nyc institute head. he does not have the kind of care and respect for the people working under him that he would need to be a good leader. the fact that he’s unreachable in the city of bones because he’s more interested in interrogating/humiliating (because the questions about clary are Really unnecessary) jace than being there for his people while strange demon attacks are happening. and like sure, he didn’t originally know that it was an attack by valentine or that the demon got into the institute - but that’s sorta the problem! how could he know! he was UNREACHABLE levels of of not there. it seems like this demon case was strange to begin with. they had a lot of people working on it. alec and lydia have to take charge as authorities because aldertree is unreachable when he arguably shouldn’t have even left!

#shadowhunters rewatch 2023 #victor aldertree #i’m trying to be acutely aware of how i’m phrasing this bc it’s not lost on me that the casting and show running crew maybe didn’t think #through the optics or nunaces of such a highly antagonistic character in s2a being a character of color #especially when so much of his antagonism is tied to prejudice and mistreatment of downworlders who are a clear fantasy racism metaphor #(that the show does not shy away from) #so i try to be mindful but at the same time. god. the character does and says so many things that make me angry #the actor is delightful though #the acting in this show is. variable shall we say. #and nick sagar is so grounded in his character that it really complements any and all of his scene partners

[screentunes]

going to start watching fourze >:)

#i generally shy away from shows that are like. over 20 eps long but kr does something to my brain #this is going to be the second season i watch yippeeee #personal

[bellamygateoldblog]

i don't get it I DONT GET IT what part of "you can't even write it mike" isn't clicking HE CANT EVEN WRITE IT

#like he cant even write it down of COURSE hes just shy and has trouble expressing himself #he can go on a rant abt how shes the most incredible person in the world (that is him EXPRESSING himself btw #how does that not count as him talking about his feelings with her...ur just sayin that cuz his feelings arent the ~right~ ones 🤣 ANYWAYS) #but he cant write the word LOVE #he can say all that but cant write ONE WORD while she's miles away from him and he doesnt have to face her #HE DOESNY LOVE HER GET A GRIP #not in a romantic way anyway (which...this show p much emphasises that love is something u only feel for romantic interests so) #HES NOT SHY HE JUST DOESNG LOVE HER IM RIPPING MY HAIR OUT

[rustystars]

i LOVE farah. woman whose special interest is Gun. & buddy is she hyperfixating

#dghda #when she & todd went on their crazy summer of love running from the cia. & the whole time hes riddled with maladies #shaking like a wet chihuahua meanwhile she's hacking into government servers to leave her job application #as if she's not treasoning her way through a relationship. shes SO fun #& i love that the show didnt shy away from like. Yeah this is a mentally ill woman. she's loveable & kind & passionate & great & she's #also has sever ocd. like! they never infantalized her or mocked her which was fun. shes fun shes wacky. she has a machine gun #ALSO CAN I JUST SAY. she & todd are SOOOO funny elijah wood with his huge wobbly doe eyes #who will jump dirk in a second if dirk has like. a dollar in his pocket that todd wants. & he & farah spend s2 terrified to hold hands #like its sweet! theyre sweet. she spoons him...... man. i miss her

[simmonsized]

I've fallen down the rabbit hole of watching raising dion and tbh so far I'm really enjoying it like. There's this kind of perception around the ways to be a perfect parent and this takes that and hits it with a broom because there is no such thing as perfect because parenthood is so messy and on top of that they deal so well with grief and the messy complicated completely nonlinear experience of grief and balancing that while raising a child as a single parent even with a support system and not even mentioning the super powers thing it's just

Really interesting idk

If it's been cancelled please nobody tell me I'm living my best life and I don't want my parade rained on just yet

#me trying to explain grief to someone like grief is a box with a ball inside and the ball gets smaller but the box does not #but some days it is nOT a box some days it is a swirling black void where a person should be and you might like #break down or snap or yell at someone and not even mean to #and in this case maybe you yell at or scare your poor kid because you are just so afraid of losing them too anyway it's just #a really cool show once again nobody tell me #it also doesn't shy away from racial bias affecting kids too and how like. this is something that white kids don't deal with on top of #once again also super powers and Parenthood and loss of a loved one #so anyway im living out here #deeply sad but living

[pleuvoire]

as a kid i thought the animorphs were so cool and wanted to be one of them so i could turn into an animal and go on cool adventures while also understanding that the protagonists were heavily impacted by what they went through and that war is bad and messy and no one really wins. fantastic balance of escapism-for-kids and grim realism

#i think it's because the series does not shy away from showing the horrors of war ptsd etc #but ALSO doesn't shy away from showing the kids having fun with their powers and doing cool one-liners #it's never completely one or the other. just like real life

[garden-eel-draws]

Okay, so I'm currently in the middle of a watch/rewatch of Miraculous Ladybug, because it's a cute action cartoon with fun villain designs and I keep hearing rumors of bonkers lore that I missed, so I decided to catch up with it. The fact that I'm happily a few episodes into Season 4 should tell anyone familiar with this show just how tolerant I am of status-quo-focused, highly episodic cartoons with inconsistent lore that doesn't always make sense. I'm a longtime fan of Transformers G1, so that kinda set the bar for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That said, I am STRUGGLING through "Ladybug & Cat Noir: the Movie". The one that was made a musical, for some reason, and that I unfortunately can't watch in French because I have..."acquired" it.

At every turn, I'm just going "why???". Mostly when it comes to wtf they did to the characters in the title. Why are their personalities like...half-inverted? It's like half their cartoon personalities (I know they ain't that deep, but they're existent/consistent enough that this is bugging me) have been flipped backward. One moment they act recognizably like the versions in the show I've been watching, and then they're back to Generic American Sassy Protagonists 1 and 2. Maybe a lot of it is just the English voices that don't quite fit, but it's all so off! Given that a major guy working on the cartoon directed and wrote this movie, I'm just baffled.

Also, apparently this film is the second most expensive ever made in France??? And it made back half its budget. Ouch. Watching it, I understand why the fandom didn't exactly flood the theaters, but ouch.

#eel speak #rant #today i'm watching #miraculous #why is marinette quiet and shy. where is the bubbly manic earnestness. why is she able to shut up. #why is adrien not drinking his wife guy juice. why isn't he reckless and punning and running at the danger instead of away from it. #it's like their personalities (such as they are) were ironed out flat! how does a guy in charge of the show make his own characters OOC? #je suis desolé mes miraculers if you guys love this movie. i genuinely like the show (and the fanfics) but this film is hard to watch >_<'' #granted i'm only halfway thru so maybe they snap into character later on but it's very uuggghhh so far