#Idk what will happen in S5

[nekogaaaaaaa]

THE POWER TRIO IS BACK!

I miss drawing them together

#On their way to beat up Monarch #Idk what will happen in S5 #I hope they can become friends #please- #I ask ONE thing #not gonna set my expectation too high with this trio to become real #felix graham de vanily #marinette dupain cheng #adrien agreste #miraculous ladybug #miraculous adventures of ladybug and chat noir #miraculous #alya cesaire #nino lahiffe #power trio

[breadsandwiches]

This is all I have to say. Thank you good bye

#the dragon prince #tdp spoilers #tdp s5 spoilers #the way i almost screamed at this #idk what happens in the rest of the season but just know that this is all i needed best season 10/10 #my thoughts

[nimrism]

post-revival merthur where morgana is alive and their biggest shipper

*playing twister*

morgana: okay, arthur, right hand red

arthur: *ends up on top of merlin*

merlin: wait— morgana, you're doing this on purpose, aren't you?

morgana: i stopped spinning about 10 turns ago i'm surprised you didn't notice sooner

#merlin #bbc merlin #merthur #arthur pendragon #merlin x arthur #morgana pendragon #she's their biggest shipper #post-revival fluff because nothing bad ever happens to any of them #s5 finale? what finale? idk what ur talking about #they're all fruity #incorrect quotes #merlin incorrect quotes

[beaulesbian]

#crying about this #we finally see them again! #when there was like nothing about them in s4 it was weird #tbh i almost forgot what even happened in s4 bc it felt a bit rushed? idk. but s5 the first ep feels rlly good #rayla #rayla tdp #runaan #runaan tdp #rayla's parents #tdp spoilers #tdp #tdp s5 #mine #gif:tdp #the dragon prince #the dragon prince spoilers

[butterflysonnets]

yes i'm rooting for m*leven breakup because byler is neat but mostly? i'm rooting for m*leven breakup for the sake of el and mike.

to me, their romance was always a puppy love born out of a combination of social pressures, naïve curiosity, and a lack of true understanding regarding intimacy and romantic love and what it really is. it was real in that they do truly, deeply care about each other and they are close friends, maybe even shared an attraction, but a maturing romance is so much more than that. they've grown up and out of being boyfriend/girlfriend, and that's okay! i think television/film needs to show more often that most of us don't have definite "soulmates" or first childhood loves that we spend our whole lives with. it doesn't mean these relationships meant nothing and didn't impact us, it just means they've run their course and that something else is in the cards, and this is part of life!

i've always felt el was at her best and most confident self when broken up with mike, discovering who she was and what she liked alongside another girl her age instead of just relying on mike for mentorship on how to live in the real world. she deserves more of an opportunity to find herself, her autonomy, and her independence, and to love who she is, and she's made it clear she's felt insecure in the relationship with mike because she isn't being loved and understood the way she wants, needs, and deserves from someone who is her partner.

also, it's okay if mike doesn't love her in "the way he should". he is not obligated to love her romantically and stay in a relationship with her just because she's a girl, because she "needed someone", or because he cares about her a lot. he shouldn't be pressured into a romance if it's not truly coming from his heart. he deserves freedom to find out and honour who he is, too, instead of just staying in his non-functional first relationship — one he got into as a child, essentially — and defining himself that way because it's what's expected when a boy and a girl are close. he loves her in some way, yes, but it's okay if he doesn't feel comfortable or secure being her boyfriend anymore, for whatever reason that is. he's felt insecure too, and that's valid and it matters.

they are their own people and are steadily growing and changing every day. they need time to figure out who those people are, and it's become clear (at least in my opinion) that those people aren't meant to be a couple at this stage.

they deserve freedom. they deserve to grow up and be authentic to themselves and not feel like they need to lie for the sake of a relationship. they deserve to move on from this version of their relationship that isn't making them happy and rekindle the best part of their bond: their strong, beautiful friendship. they don't have to be a couple if it doesn't make them stronger and better and happier people.

i think it would be healthy and wonderful for a show, especially one consumed frequently by young adults, to show a relationship starting, progressing, and ending on good terms in this way. sometimes things don't work out, and that is okay.

#eve text #elmike #stranger things #byler #only tagging byler because i feel like yall will like this take lol #tagging tagging tagging WHAT ARE EVERYONE ELSE'S THOUGHTS #god i can't believe i'm making a post about stranger things. this feels like poking a bear #i'm not particularly anti m*leven but like... they'd have to do something pretty special at this point for me to feel like it's viable #i'm seeing the bts of s5 and it's got me Having Thoughts #elmike friendship is something i am so passionate about #even before i ever liked byler (didn't ship at all until s4 even though i knew it was a thing before) i've felt this way about elmike #i always believed they were close friends at heart and needed to break up #the romance part of them felt very distinctly young and very much “he was a boy she was a girl” to me #and it hasn't deepened into anything more mature and i don't see how it could based on the current state of the writing... #the fact that lumax exists — a young relationship that is actively maturing and is healthy — makes that clear to me #and the “love confession” in s4 and how disingenuous and miserable it felt was just the nail in the coffin #also the fact that will (who is IN LOVE with mike) was instrumental in making it happen? ... uh... okay... interesting choice… #fucked up and reductive if they make it another queer unrequited love sacrifice for the sake of pushing the heterosexual agenda YUCK #so i really hope the speculation about a m*leven breakup is real!! i think it just makes sense for their characters but who knows #i don't believe in the notion of love at first sight or one true love and i think the writers don't too??? #love to me is an accumulation of experiences and we inevitably choose it at some point rather than fall into it... but idk #tv is so fixated on keeping couples together... sometimes it's just not reality guys especially with young people... LET IT GO... #like i said though i'm not 100% sold that they're going to give up their “golden couple” LMAO #stranger things hasn't historically subverted too many tropes if i'm being honest #anyway i seriously need this season to come out quickly... i'm so bored and getting my master's is crushing my soul #i need frivolity #ALSO btw i won't respond to hateful messages about this so please don't bother. it's not that serious. this is a netflix show

[thermodynamic-comedian]

s5 jon with long hair is inspired but have you considered: s5 jonah with long hair.

#longer than shoulder-length. #there's even a canon reason for this headcanon #he was in prison. for all of s4 except the last few episodes. #and i do not think he had time for a haircut in between convincing martin not to kill him and preparing The statement #actually idk what idea i find more appealing. #him getting a haircut and properly preparing and making sure he looks his best when the apocalypse happens #or #him just fucking crawling into the panopticon still in his prison uniform hair long completely feral and ecstatic #tma #the magnus archives #tma headcanons #jonathan sims #jonah magnus #elias bouchard #tma s5

[dazais-guardian-angel]

Chapter 110 is 13 pages long welcome to hell!!! so in a lot of ways this is just more fuel for a theory that I've had for a few weeks now, that's only gotten stronger with each recent season 5 episode, which is that the last episode of the season is gonna end on 110, and that Asagiri/Harukawa and Bones have been collaborating to make this happen, specifically because it's a major turning point that would be the only good place to end the season on.

When we started getting especially long chapters again (like from 25-35ish pages, with the exception of 107.5, the last two being some of the longest we've ever had), at first I just assumed that Asagiri/Harukawa got freed up from some other obligations they'd been having to cause the extremely short/half chapters, like promotional stuff for the anime/Beast movie, or working on light novels. But then 109 happened, with the "supposed" death of Dazai, and heavy emphasis at the end on how literally everyone is at their lowest point right now, and I got to thinking. 11 episodes is a strangely specific number for an anime season -- why not 12, or 13, or even 10, like you'd usually see? Why have we gotten suddenly gotten two 35 page chapters out of nowhere, that's almost unheard of at this point? They're both beautiful chapters, don't get me wrong (as always), and maybe A/H simply just didn't want to cut them in halves because they felt like the full emotional impact wouldn't hit/that there were no good cutoff points in them, but you can't deny that it's surprising, after all the shorter chapters we've been getting. Why has the anime been going at such insanely breakneck pacing for the most part ever since around the Sunday Tragedy chapters, even more so than it has in the past? So much so that it feels dangerously close to overtaking the manga?

Well, maybe, just maybe, it's because..... Asagiri decided a long time ago that whatever happens in 110 is the only point that feels "season finale"-worthy enough, in an arc that still isn't anywhere close to being completely wrapped up, and so both the manga and the anime have been specifically coordinated to reach that part within 2 and a half weeks of each other?

I've seen a lot of people now think season 5 will end with 109, and as much as my sadistic side would find that hilarious, I honestly don't think they'd do that and realistically don't want it to happen; it'd be so cruel to cliffhanger the anime for years like that, and just doesn't feel like a season cliffhanger BSD would do, a series that is ultimately hopeful and uplifting. Seasons 2 and 3 had a positive, conclusive ending; the only reasons seasons 1 and 4 didn't was because they're technically not really full seasons of their own, and are more like the first cour of another "season" that also came out that same year (seasons 1 and 2 both aired in 2016, so they're more like one big season, and seasons 4 and 5 have both aired this year, so they're also more like one big season, again taking into account how episodes 12 and 50 are not satisfying finales like episodes 24, 37, and hypothetically, 61, are). I really can't see season 5 ending with Dazai and Fukuzawa's supposed deaths, Sigma being unconscious and maybe close to death, Atsushi being vulnerable and limbless again, everyone we love still vampires, and the entire world being basically doomed; that's just too depressing and not like BSD at all. However, having said that, if it doesn't end there, there really isn't any good place to end the season before that, either, that feels in any way satisfying or like a finale at all. And so, to me, that only leaves after 109: chapter 110.

I think things are really gonna turn around next chapter. Like I said, everyone is at their lowest point right now, it cannot possibly get any worse, the framing of Dazai, Fukuzawa, and sskk at the end of 109 is telling us that; this is the time for the heroes to finally start winning again, with Aya being so close to pulling out the sword, and for all the thematic reasons other people have talked about to death that I don't need to go into here again. This upcoming chapter being so short again makes a part of me wary of 110 being "the one", so to speak, I won't lie, but at the same time, it's very possible that it needs to be that short because that's all the final episode of the season will be able to reasonably fit in, since it's already gonna be VERY close if they do make it all the way to 109. And at the end of the day, I don't doubt at all that Asagiri and Harukawa can make these the most monumental and game-changing mere 13 pages ever if they wanted to; a chapter does not at all need to be extremely long in order to be an important and impactful one, even if short ones we've gotten in the past haven't felt the most important.

An additional thought I've had, though this is much more crack territory than all this already is, is that since we know from Anime Expo that a Stormbringer movie at some point is highly likely (judging from Asagiri's reaction when someone brought it up), it's possible that chapter 110 and thus the final episode will involve the long-anticipated return of Verlaine and/or Adam, or at least some other major reference to Stormbringer, that would naturally and smoothly lead into a Stormbringer movie to explain things to people who haven't read the novel. It would make a lot of sense, especially since the s4 OP has the Old World sign behind Chuuya, which might be a hint that this has been in the works ever since seasons 4/5 were first in planning with Asagiri. We also know that Dazai and Chuuya's voice actors apparently struggled to record their lines together this season, which probably relates to 101 and possibly 109, but it could be 110 too.... I could be very wrong, as I'm no expert on this kind of thing, but I kinda doubt they would bring Chuuya's actor in for just the vampire growls, and Asagiri placing heavy emphasis on Chuuya's importance this season in that one interview gives me the impression that he's talking about much more than just 101/109. But that's the least solid evidence I have, that's just mostly based on vibes I get.

So basically, I think a lot of factors -- the unusual episode count, how close the anime is to catching up to the manga with three whole episodes left, the seemingly arbitrary recent chapter lengths, and the climactic events of 109 -- can tell us that 110 might be a very, VERY big deal. Again, there's of course no way this arc is anywhere near close to being finished, with so much left to address and resolve, but since it is currently incomplete in the manga, unlike the previously adapted arcs, if the anime was going to adapt it at all, they'd have to find a place that feels satisfying enough to end this season, knowing there won't be more anime for a long time after this, and so I think they specifically planned for that, from both Bones' and A/H's sides. 10 episodes might not have been enough to reach that point, but 12 or 13 might have been too many it wouldn't have been if Bones actually decided to slow down and let the story breathe the way it needs to, but this post isn't meant to criticize the anime, so maybe 11 was just right. And maybe Asagiri and Harukawa specifically pushed to make recent chapters longer than usual, in order to make sure that the manga reached the story content in 110 the monthly release right before season 5 was to end.

Is this just copium? Absolutely. Am I going to look like an absolute clown in two days when this post ages like milk? Probably. But the evidence is There, so let me just enjoy my delusions until Sunday, okay 🥂🫡

#bungou stray dogs #seriously call me a clown and point and laugh at me if I'm proven wrong all you want #but I really feel like there's solid evidence for this #either s5 isn't gonna reach 109 at all (but I seriously cannot fathom where you would want to stop before then) or they'll go beyond it #if they really do end it with 109....... well i'll give Bones kudos for having the balls to do that ig lol #maybe i'm underestimating (overestimating???) them idk #also just to clarify I don't wanna make it sound like I think Asagiri let the anime/Bones dictate the manga's pacing #like I'm sure these were his/their (him and Harukawa's) own decisions first and foremost #not that (if this theory is true) the anime had a major impact on how the chapters were split and that it- #-would have been extremely different otherwise #i'm pretty confident in that Asagiri does not do anything with BSD he isn't comfortable with #and he doesn't let anyone tell him how to write his story #I just feel like he worked with Bones to make this near-simultaneous release happen #BUT if this is the case I don't feel like it had any major effect on the writing/final product that is the manga #like the last handful of chapters have been so incredible #so I at least am still perfectly happy lol #(i mean i'm devastated and a nervous wreck but u know 🫡 in a good way lmao) #anyway 110 in two days please let this theory be true because I need some fucking hope already #please let Oda show up as Dazai's guardian angel to help (see what I did there-) #it would be the perfect way to end the collective season that is 4/5 with s4 beginning with Oda and now ending with Oda #Asagiri are you reading me are you picking up what I'm putting down please please a ghost Oda is long overdue please- #Oda Verlaine Adam just GIVE ME SOMEONE ALREADY 😭😭😭 #MAYBE EVEN A TASTE OF THE FYODOR BACKSTORY TO TIE INTO HIM BEING IN ANIME UNTOLD ORIGINS. THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS

[petitesmafia]

thinking about yesterday's episode and imagine being a Meursault guard that just got taken out by Chuuya and the last thing you hear is "hEEEH" ...idk i feel like i'd sit back up from sheer confusion

prison guard, inner monologuing as they're approaching death: goodbye...my family....my friends...death awaits me bc of the....gravity manipulator...Nakahara Chuu— Chuuya: hEEEH prison guard: prison guard, looking back up: what the fuck was that

Meursault security hearing Chuuya like damn you caught me off guard in more ways than one (pun intended)

#enas.txt #bungou stray dogs #nakahara chuuya #bsd season 5 #bsd s5 spoilers #idk what sound i was expecting to come out of Chuuya's mouth but it fr wasn't whatever that was #i'm ngl i chuckled a little #if i was a guard at death's door i'd be like now wait a damn minute #what just happened

[parttimesarah]

#wwdits s5 spoilers #wwdits s5 #the tension in this scene! #but is it weird that I sense that Nandor has some kind of history with this? #like maybe he knew a vampire who this happened to #idk #I just know Guillermo is BIG worried #I LOVE this setup for the whole season! #wwdits #what we do in the shadows #what we do in the shadows fx #wwdits fx #nandermo #nandor the relentless #guillermo de la cruz #i made these #use them wisely… or not

[m4ndysk4nkovich]

i don’t think there’s been a day since i watched season five where i haven’t thought about monica’s monologue to ian, specifically the line, “you should never apologize for being you. you, ian. i love you”.

#i don’t honestly have anything against her in s5 or s7 #her past actions make me dislike her but idk… she never had any bad intentions and i respect that #she was very sick and frank really did a number on her #regardless- she abandoned six kids #but there’s a special place in my heart for her #every day i wonder what would’ve happened if frank let her stay in the hospital and get better for the kids like she wanted to #shameless #ian gallagher #monica gallagher #5x11

[garkgatiss]

scrolling my dash every day feels like paul mccartney seeing everyone complaining about maxwell's silver hammer. they got annoyed because sherlock s5 took 20 billion years to make johnlock canon. big deal.

#i have my own feelings about the probability of s5 never happening but that's separate from any uncertainty about what they were doing #idk man i just do not relate to the floundering 'what was it all for??' confusion #they repeatedly said they had plans for 5 seasons -- i don't find it shocking that after only 4 the ending is unsatisfactory?

[frozenfrogz]

I’m on my hands and knees praying that byler gets murray’d and I know they will. So this is how I think it’ll go. Murray goes back to his house or bunker or whatever and the party and everyone else needs to tell him what’s going on. They can’t contact him so they need to go in person. (Idk why they can’t contact him but let a girl dream) They decide on sending Will and Mike to go because Will can explain the best to Murray because he can also feel Vecna/One/Henry and blah blah blah whatever. (And Mike is with him because why would he not be?) They get there Mike will ring the doorbell and Murray will say look at the camera. Mike will look at the doorbell and Will will look at the camera. (Like Johnathan and Nancy expect we all know it would be the Wheeler this time looking at the doorbell) They sit down tell him about it and Murray starts Murraying. He tells Mike that Mike and Els relationship is toxic and Mike doesn’t love El, he loves the idea of her. (Just like how it went for Johnathan and Nancy) After all that, Mike will be pacing in a room at night complaining to Will about what Murray said saying it wasn’t true and that it’s ridiculous he said it. Then, Will asks if Murray was right and if Mike actually loves El and not just the idea of her. Mike is at a loss for words and just stares at Will mouth open in shock at the question. Will then will continue and say the after Murray talked to them both he talked to Will separately saying he knows he loves Mike. Will tells Mike Murray was right and he does love him. There will be a moment of silence then Mike will sit next to Will on the bed. They stare into each others eyes then have a soft sweet kiss and because I don’t want them doing what Johnathan and Nancy did cause why would I they just cuddle the rest of the night.

I don’t exactly want the whole confession to be like this because I eat up the idea of them fighting then it becomes emotional and they confess. I still think they will be getting Murray’d but they will confess later on. Mike will just realize his feelings truly then. If the Murraying does go like Johnathan and Nancy’s and they confess by the end of it I think this is how it would go.

#if you read all this #thank you #it took me a while to make #i need byler getting murray’d and if i don’t what’s the point #i haven’t been keeping up with the duffers updates so idk if they have said anything on this topic yet #so i could be wrong and this is never going to happen and they’ve already confirmed that #but then again idk i haven’t been checking #byler #byler is real #byler is endgame #byler is canon #anti midleven #anti mileven #st s5 #st s5 theory

[raayllum]

“Sometimes, I think it would’ve been better if you had just killed me when we first met.”

They’d been staring at the fire, despondent and silent for so long that Rayla hadn’t thought Callum was going to talk at all, everyone else asleep in the vague quiet of the Uncharted Forest. But her head snapped up now, eyes wide awake and sharp, her voice spitting like venom.

“Callum, how could you say that—”

“They have the map,” he says listlessly. “And I have his Key. There can’t be a lot of other ways for this to end. Either you kill me first before the world is doomed, or he will, after—”

“Nothing is going to happen to you,” she says past the lump in her throat, daring to reach for the hand he has curled over his knee, his fingers shaking. Hers aren’t much better, even as she gives what she hopes is a reassuring squeeze. 

She wonders if this is what he feels like, when he’d tried and failed to get through to her after the war that Viren was dead and they were safe. Now they’re very decidedly not safe, Callum’s white shock eyes flashing in her mind’s eye when she lets her thoughts wonder too far, and Viren is somehow the least of their problems.

“It’ll hurt you more this way,” he continues, like she hadn’t said anything. He still won’t really look at her. “Than it would have if we were strangers—”

“You are the reason the world has peace—”

“And I might be the reason there won’t be much of a world, peace or none, aren’t I?” he snaps back, finally looking at her. Then the ire fades, his shoulders slumping. He turns his hand over to lace his fingers through hers, even if she’s the limp one now. He runs his thumb over her knuckles. “No world for you or your parents, or Ez, and I—”

Concerned for his inner circle, like always. For her. Sometimes, she thinks he’d seal all of them up in a little magical air bubble, away from the fighting, if he could, and if push came to shove. 

His voice breaks. “I don’t want to hurt you.”

Because he might, under Aaravos’ command. Because if she kills him, he knows she’ll never really forgive herself.

Callum has never revoked his request though—just selfish and insane enough to keep it, to put that on her shoulders. But maybe she owes him after everything she’s put him through. A way to make her live with the horror she put him through, of surviving without her, of leaving first. Maybe he believes this is her price to pay, even if the thought settles over her like ice, because no—Callum isn’t like her people. He doesn’t believe in prices. He never has.

“I don’t care if you hurt me,” she says softly. “I’m not leaving you.”

She knows she’s said the wrong thing, somehow, even if she doesn’t know how or why by the way he grouses and slips his hand out of hers.

“You should’ve killed me,” he reiterates, “before you fell in love with me.” 

#hey look it's the kids having a Bad Time #when is this set? idk. but assuming a second possession has happened and/or callum has made some kind of mistake #rayllum #alterous rayllum #i need you to kill me #arc 2 #post season four #s5 speculation #ficlet #my fic #i stayed up past my bedtime for this #fic #WHAT IS THIS? IDK. A CONCEPT FOR SURE #mental health #just in case #IDK tw for a Lot of discussions of death? uhh extreme apathy about your own survival? yeah. Yeah #caylangst #good god

[beaulesbian]

you love to see it !! the unconditional trust between them !!

#the dragon prince #rayllum #tdp spoilers #the bow as implication what caused callum's step dad and the king's death! and yet callum sees it and trusts her!! #the fact that rayla had to break into the viren's dungeon to find that and see her parents and runaan and couldnt do (yet) anything about i #and didnt want to tell callum bc she needs to first figure out what happened there that night #she feeling it was still her who caused runaan to disappear - that stuff all from season 1 and her dealing with it slowly now #and then callum still insisting she doesnt have to explain anything to him!! #im so happy theyre back to the mutual trust love and understanding #idk if i want to binge the whole season or save it for watching a few eps a day #but episode 1 was rlly so good #tdp #callum #callum tdp #rayla #rayla tdp #the dragon prince spoilers #tdp s5 #tdp 5x1 #mine #gif:tdp #long post

[muppetbyers]

idk man but i think theres such a connection between will being possessed in s2 and like 'what happens when my boy is gone' and will giving the painting to mike under el's name. just like... will being replaced and then replacing himself. and like his entire person was being replaced by the mf, but also everything that he said was from el with the painting and speech was intrinsically his and his alone. and how his arc since s1 has been about hiding but also being right there. and how its all tied to his queerness. and how ideally in s5 this should lead to will not hiding/moving on from his identity and his feelings, but instead embracing them.

#like what happens when will has given away/up everything that he is. hes already Come Back Wrong and he just like. keeps removing himself #from things. even after it was done To him by the mf/vecna. and like the only people who can 'bring him back' are jonathan mike and joyce #ship of theseus moment (not really) #but also really. i mean idk about actual philosophy but will is the heart of the show like its literally about how people love him so much #and like. his identity and queerness is to integral to it all. and like okay some of his parts were replaced but the love brought him back #time and time again and it will in s5 too. #or whatever that means idk #which is also why will should kiss mike. not the other way round. and i will die on this hill even after it doesnt happen #and also why will just moving on and 'accepting' his feelings are unrequited would be a dogshit resolution to his arc with mike but wtv... #what im trying to say is in s5 will not hiding and being loved and not replacing himself with anything else and kissing boys is not just #smth that should happen bc he deserves happiness. but smth necessary to complete his arc. okay? okay #will byers #byler #i feel like ive made this post 5 times before but its just smth i feel very strongly about sorry #wheww... category 5 will byers moment. #me vs being coherent and concise #mine

[daisysmalia]

I know that literally everyone is saying it but 6b Buddie just feels different like there has been a scene or multiple in these four eps so far that has had a big focus on them (and their heart eyes for one another), one that’s bigger than normal. Like something has definitely shifted this time for real, and I am eagerly awaiting what comes next 😅

#buddie #911 fox #like I was a s6 canon truther since s5 ended #but I was only 50% sure #but then came the couch metaphor #and the camera angles in 6a that always picked up the two of them staring at each other when the other didn’t see #and then everything that has happened in these 4 eps of 6b #and now I’m like 95% sure it’s happening this season #and idk what to do with myself if it does