#AND OWEN WOULDVE GONE BACK

[queatherine]

td spoilers episodes 9-13 (long post; more in depth thoughts towards the end)

ep 9:

the dudes being there for priya awwwww that was so sweet !!

hey julia, is that car cool enough :)

sighhhhh mkulia

julia is that tiktok lumberjack lesbian,, i think shes canadian too

ep 10:

listen, i think we could all agree that the moment damien found that immunity idol way back when sealed his fate that he was NOT going to be a finalist,, so i wasnt surprised, just saddened

julia manipulation truly is everything i love evil women

ep 11:

MACARTHUR??!?!??!??!? truly not the cameo i expected, but i did not mind it!!

can we stop this annoying distrust arc between priya and caleb?

cant believe they killed off raj

so like,, did dinosaurs just never go extinct in the total drama universe??? is this one of the insane lore bits like 9/11 never happening (or happening some time after 2009???) 9/11 was the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

CANT BELIEVE THEY VOTED OFF RAJ NOOOOOO IM WAYNE FRRR

ep 12:

me 🤝 priya afraid of lighting + thunder

OLD MAN TENNIS YAOI????!?!?!?! PULLED THEM OUT OF THEIR GRAVES FOR THIS CAMEO WOW

can we stop this annoying distrust arc between priya and caleb? pt2

i dont ship juliayne (juliayne shippers i do not hate you please do your thing i love you), but goddamn i want more interactions between theyre sooooo silly

ep 13: listen, i think wayne winning is fine. do i love himbos? yes. was i rooting for him in the finale? yes. in the grand scheme of things, do i think he is a good finalist? no. we can all agree that hes very much an owen, and i dont mind that!! i actually think having a fan favorite, comic relief, underdog third party winning makes sense in this season, because i dont think caleb or julia winning would be a satisfying end (especially how they were handling them by the end)

caleb's story was messy, and at the end of the day (and i know that the intentions changed), he did start his alliance with priya to use her. him winning, after all of the drama, after priya was gone, wouldve just idk felt shitty. he did get the girl in the end, which concludes his story better than him winning it. (if im comparing this to the tdi 2007 final three,, i guess hes the gwen)

as for julia, she had two seasons to be villain, and it was amazing. she is so good at what she does and she is such a joy to watch. and we all know how total drama handles its villains, they need to get their comeuppance. did bowie double cross her last season? yes. and she came back still was the main villain and was AMAZING at it. but she was still the villain for another 13 episodes, AND HER GETTING PRIYA OUT LAST EPISODE, she cant win. was her just desserts satisfying? meh. nice callback to heather (we all know julia is the heather of this comparison), though i can understand people who dont like this callback and think its tiring or something. they couldve done something else, but im not mad (i kinda fuck with the mullet). i just see no satisfying way for julia to win with how she was presented in these seasons: she was not world tour heather, with three full length seasons and a greater threat to overcome; she was island heather, and therefore could not win.

overall thoughts of the season:

im someone that thinks the hockey bros jokes nearly always land, so i enjoy the shit out of them (i think im in the majority?)

im someone that did not like priyaleb at first, grew to being more neutral about it, but still found it to be a bit tiring. i like priya, i like caleb, i dont like tiring romantic subplots, and it sucks that that was the entire thing for these characters this season

the julia mk duo was AMAZING, one of the highlights of this season and one that i never wouldve expected to be real. mkulia wins in my heart and i hope they start their podcast (JULIA WAS GOIGN TO USE THE MONEY TO START THE PODCAST WITH MK HOLY SHIT GIRL IS IN LOVE)

it sucks that certain characters really got nothing this season (millie, nichelle, emma, and even axel to an extent).. but i get that characters like millie and emma already had a lot of screentime last time and someone has to be an early boot (just realize the ones i listed off were all women,, damn the writers fr just hate women)

at the end of the day, i really enjoyed this season. and i think the most important part of that enjoyment was this was the first time i got to watch a season and have no idea what was going to unfold. i watched the first four season of total drama when they were airing, but i was a little kid with poor comprehension skills. the first three seasons aired before i knew how to read (i learned to read late). and with tdpi, rr, and tdi 2023, i watched them after the fact and knew who the winners were going in. this was the first season i watched were i truly did not know the winner, and that added to my enjoyment. not to mention this being the one and only time i was present in an online space to talk about show as the episodes dropped. this season was a bit messy here and there, but it delivered some great stuff. i found myself laughing out loud and just having a good time, which is all i need out of my silly little cartoon

#total drama #td spoilers #total drama spoilers #total drama 2023 #someone gave me a microphone

[cosmicanger]

yea winter and Johnny Depp are very similar, they both take their stylings from how homeless people layer (most non-Black fashion is literally make an object pulled from the poor Black experience but pricing it where most poor Black people could never afford it, “luxury” is just anti-Black classism) and both do DARVO when someone with less power than them tries to hold them accountable.

I do not have the power to “cancel” winter in anyway so I do not understand pinning me as the violent one when I cant do anything to winter. winter and followers have “cancelled” me with the power winter has through social capital. winter and the abuse by proxy is violent. also why we acting like I called an actual proBlack person a c**n like winter has the fucking Beatles as his header like y’all acting like Im coming for Rick Owens Malcolm X when winter barely know any theory and Malcom X wouldve called winter a c**n too and Malcolm X was calling Jackie Robinson a c**n like and Malcolm X aint even the most the radical Black person from that era like 🛑 stahp (also this is a prime example how Twitter is slightly more “progressive” than Tumblr cause calling a violent Black cis man a c**n wouldnt be dragged for this long 🤣) like he couldve just taken the initial crit a while back and got over it but i bruised winter’s ego so winter continues to enable violence onto me that I cannot do onto winter or would need to cause I can fight my own battles, winter hiding behind a block and using Black MaGes he tokenizes as shields, disgusting.

this is gone too far and everyone sees all of this even if they don’t like my posts or winter’s cryptic shade he throwing at me. people see what has been happening on both sides so yea anyone enabling winter in any way at this point aint shit to me. people are afraid to be vocal about winter cause they see what is happening to me for so long. like im not the only Black person who dont fuck w winter, like goddamn. i dont wish this bullshit on any Black person who actually isnt a non-Black apologist.

the other thing, i admitted have a slightly above beginner knowledge of fashion history. I like fashion a lot more now cause I can sew but I more deep dive into theory and art. So my slightly above level fashion history I know can keep up with winter and other platformed microcelebs on here but none of come even close to me when it comes to art, craft, film, theory so again none of this shit is merit based.

people gain social capital by enacting anti-Blackness, enabling anti-Blackness indirectly or centering non-Black content/non-Black content creators. In this global anti-Black world, power can come from social capital. like if I did not need to post non-Black content to get likes to gain social capital to use to b00st Black f*nding on here, i would only post Black content. And you say, oh some blogs only post Black content. yes but the actually pro-Black ones dont have a lot of social capital to use because they are also “cancelled” for calling out the anti-Blackness on here and the radical chic/neoliberal ones or the very conservative ones are the most popular.

it is not “cool” to try to materially help Black “publicly” online and no one wants to admit that aloud, that’s why they only share Black f*nding when it won’t affect their social capital much. everyone knows if you post Black f*nding often, the algorithm fl*gs your account and brings traffic down on your account, which in turn affects your social capital. like ppl truly do not care that Black f*nding is life or death. yes a like can materially affect ppl, Black or non-Black. posting non-Black designer & non-Black art is more important than tryna materially support poor Black ppl everyday? like it’s not much labor for some of y’all to copy paste a link or text. yea Tumblr is a sea of anti-Blackness and abuse apologism.

this bs w winter could be settled easily but winter has too much hubris. the reason winter and others get more likes for posting the same thing as me is because winter and others have a lot of power for being anti-Black and a lot of anti-Black non-Black followers. I will continue to run a blog that is better than all of the ppl who hate me on here combined. 9 out of 10 ppl on Tumblr are very anti-Black.

#wintercorrybriea #wintercorrybriea2 #winter corry briea #corry briea #johnny depp #wearmeoutttt

[63883728]

i want to kms

im so tired of the weight of the world felt through human emotion

owen says to embrace it cuz when ur gone u wont feel anything and at least sadness and pain or wtvr is smth

idk u made me want to be better but is it worth just being better for u? and is it even enough of a reason to change? and u would never take me back so… i wouldve changed for u

i feel too stuck in my ways, i still remember what they said, how they set me on this path but now i want off it, i want to be on your path.

im so very sad like i dont want to feel anything

i hate feeling the passage of time

[total-ass]

we don't criticize tda enough. so many characters were de-railed and people ignore it because of Lindsay's development.

for starters I don't think tdi Gwen wouldve dumped Trent over his mental health. she didn't communicate well with him in tdi but after all they went through in tdi I refuse to believe she'd dump him cuz he was throwing challenges.

Trent was also wrote poorly. Nothing that hasn't already been said.

Leshawna wasn't really derailed but everyone but heather turning on her and for what? Being annoyed by the people she's been isolated with for 2+ months??

they made Beth WORSE?? I don't get how?? she says shes nice but shes just rude??

Izzy was fine. but the way she was voted off by justin was just poor writing. "wow Justin manipulated lindsay and beth into voting off izzy!!!" how?? Beth and lindsay were getting over Justin. Lindsay also liked izzy. Wtf?

Heather was okay. Made a lot of sense for her to be how she was. Also feels like it made her change from tdi to tdwt more natural.

Duncan was good. Controversial ik. Yeah he said THAT problematic line but he had development. i like that his conflict with harold was resolved (and didn't start again randomly in tdwt COUGH heather and leshawna).

i don't like harold but good for him getting closure on duncan. better than tdi for sure.

Geoff and bridgette... what happened. more so an issue of them from tdi post their eliminations w the kissing. Elimination fodder, their previous friendships ignored. I know they wanted them gone early for the aftermath but just keep them round a while and have someone else host instead.

Courtney. Courtney. Its not the fact she had advantages cuz she was cheated off of tdi. But she was awful to duncan. Lost a lot of respect for her character then.

Owen was around too long idgaf. he was just the butt of fat and fart jokes. why

JUSTIN ok fuck justin. Shut up you arent smart justin. yea he was fun to watch but they made so many characters dumb for him to work. I get that gwen had morals back then (not a lot but yk) but why did she feel so pressured to vote herself off and lose challenges cuz trent threw challenges. she didn't ask him to do that. if she didn't say anything then hed have continued. she didnt do anything wrong. then beth and lindsay being in some unspoken alliance with him. then they decide hes not hot and split from him. no development. they were there to eliminate izzy. also people are so against antag rewrites but justin is a canon antag rewrite

DJ... poor DJ. He was in characte when votin himself off but he shouldve went further. honestly I can't complain when tdwt exists lol

Lindsay is good tho. shouldve won but that wasnt possible.

#total drama #anti tda #gwen criticial #td trent #td leshawna #anti beth #td heather #td duncan #td harold #courtney critical #anti owen #anti justin #td dj #td lindsay

[emmas]

so i finished tlou and i have.... thoughts

first of all I’m SO glad i didn’t spoil myself before playing lmao it really would’ve ruined a lot. That being said I kind of..... felt Joel’s death coming? idk i just knew they were going to kill him in this game. I didn’t think it would be so soon tho...

but other than him dying, which made me cry, the first 12-ish hours were fucking amazing. I couldn’t stop playing & when i wasn’t playing i was THINKING about playing. Ellie & dina have SUCH a good dynamic i love them together. Their banter, dina actually helping in combat etc it was all great... until they made us play as abby again.

I was ok with like the first couple hours? seeing more of the wlf & the stadium & their conflict with the scars. it was interesting to see imo. but it dragged on for SO damn long holy shit. Like in the present time, you KNOW abby is holding a gun to ellie’s head in the theater. So you just want to go back to that asap. so after the first couple hours i just... wanted it to be over?

it also didn’t help that abby’s story was all over the place. your time with Ellie was straight forward. you know what she wants, you always feel like the story is moving forwards but abby... was a mess. you’re trying to get to the aquarium, you meet yara & lev but leave them behind, finally get to the aquarium, you get a cut scene and then.... you teleport back to yara & lev... you pick yara up and teleport AGAIN to the aquarium... it just felt like the only reason why they didn’t want yara & lev to go with abby in the first place, is so that she and owen could have that alone time together and that wouldn’t have worked with the attention on yara’s arm...

I liked lev & abby’s team up. Lev is by far the most useful companion to have in combat and their dynamic was nice. but i just did not care about the plot at all.. that hotel section was phenominal gameplay wise... but i just wish we got to go through there as ellie. bc i was just tired of abby & i didn’t care about yara’s meds & i just wanted to get out of there & move the story forward so we could catch up with the present time. I just constantly felt like ok now get back to the aquarium find your dead friends and go to ellie. but every. single. time. it was just ONE more thing that they came up with and it was just exhausting to me.

the scars island looked absolutely phenomenal ngl but the reason for being there was once again just stupid. lev runs off so you and yara go after him!! but yara dies so you left with 2 people to rescue 1 and 1 dies so you leave with 2 again....

and then we FINALLY get back to ellie but we have to fight her? I can’t believe they made us choke ellie out like that. it was fucking brutal i never wanna see that again i felt sick pressing square over and over again... i’m glad no one actually died tho i guess. but i screamed when abby was about to kill dina jfc.

and then i thought the game was over. those farm scenes were lowkey weird. i liked seeing domestic dina/ellie but it looked like the game was gonna end right there and then which wouldve been awful considering we just played the past 6 hours as abby which i didn’t care for at all. so i was glad it wasn’t over but it also felt kinda weird.? it was just cut scenes, time goes on,... they survived abby & seattle ah yeah ok but ellie goes back out there tho. 

and then we had to play as abby AGAIN bro i was done afdgjfd but i actually don’t...hate the ending. Ellie leaving dina & continuing her revenge was.... yeah. but i’m glad she ended up not killing abby. it was heartbreaking to see ellie like that but I’m glad she got closure and then just let it go. 

Idk what people are freaking out about re: the ending. I thought dina & JJ must’ve gone back to jackson and thats where ellie set off to? not sure why people believe she’s off to survive on her own but ok.

anyways, the first 12 hours were perfect and i enjoyed myself a LOT. abby’s part dragged on for so long it exhausted me & was followed by that weird farm time jump/that looked like an ending but wasnt an ending? i’m glad we ended the game playing more of ellie. I waited SO long for this game. i’m glad i didn’t get spoiled. I’m glad ellie or dina aren’t dead. i’m glad ellie got closure and is now doing somewhat better. I think if abby’s part was like.. 5 hours shorter it would’ve been 9/10 but having us play as her for so long and so close to the end of the game... ruined a lot of my mood tbh. The dogs & being able to go prone were great additions to the game. the new infected spiced things up (shamblers were scary at first but easier to kill than they look but the STALKERS CAN SUCK MY DICK) The acting was Great and the facial expressions were beyond amazing. ashley is SO good as ellie, her acting in joel’s death scene made me cry. the world looked gorgeous & I didn’t have any glitches. I also really loved the skill trees & amount of guns/things we could craft.

OVERALL things could’ve been better but I enjoyed myself and i’m glad the game exists.

#tlou #the last of us #rambles #video games