#Penultimate hate

[slashermary]

local lovesick vampire calls himself the big bad but is actually the most pathetic man alive. undead. whatever. it's spike🫶🏻

#hes so patheticcccccccc i'm obsessed with his dykey ass<3 SO this is an in order playlist! bc i cant NOT organize a list #opening track kim petras in the next life to puddle of mudd's she hates me about sums up the the vibe. he is so easy to make fun of! #but also i love his earnest victorian ass as evidenced by the penultimate on the street where you live drop🥶enjoy! #its fun to get back to my roots (posting btvs stuff that gets like at most 20 interactions) feels right #my playlists #caroline.txt

[konakoro]

Oh god is the season going to end with Marie, Jordan, and Emma traumatized, alone and on the run, with Cate and Sam either dead or evil, and Andre

Well Andre's character has just been metaphorically falling down stairs the last few episodes so I'm not expecting much at this point tbh

#gen v #gen v spoilers #i don't want cate and sam to be dead or evil or both but man they killed the main baddy off in the penultimate episode #it's not looking good for either and i hate it #that's why they had emma and sam bone last episode. so they wouldn't kill him off as a virgin #please prove me wrong I'm begging

[opheliaintherushes]

Also, not to draw comparisons between a masterpiece and a crack show, but the dreamlike scene of Nucky being shown the television in "Eldorado" by a Gillian-coded woman as a sign of a future-of-out-reach is how you properly draw a story to a close and comment on its medium.

#how cool would it have been to have the Riverdale gang receive their memories via comic pages? #or have THIS be the black-and-white episode and things turn color as they remember watching on this 'of the future' color TV #well one more week for you guys to hear my Riverdale ramblings #what can I say? they ended or canceled all my other shows so I have nothing else to grumble about #I will say that redeeming Betty's mom in the penultimate episode is almost as bad as redeeming Ryan's dad in the penultimate episode #man I hated that sublot #Boardwalk Empire #Riverdale

[astriiformes]

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#really genuinely disheartened by the news about the latest toh ep leaking weeks before it was supposed to premiere #because like i would never watch an episode early when it's not what the creators want. that's a terrible thing to do #but it seems like a lot of other people just do not care #and so instead i have to just sort of. lock myself out of the fandom for a while #which given how few things i have to get excited about these days.... eurgh #i was really excited about the timing of this one; it's right after tlovm comes back and right around the time the semester starts #and i'm sure it'll be fun to watch when it actually comes out but #not the same as the whole fandom being hyped about it #which for the penultimate episode of a show that was cancelled early? sucks #and i hate how many people seem to not care or think it's okay to watch the leaked episode just because other people are doing it #like i don't hang out in fandom tags fortunately (for many good reasons) #but going 'well. guess i have to avoid ao3 or checking out new followers' blogs' and things like that is :/ #even the little fanwork discord server i'm in that i usually feel like is a nice space has folks that just... don't seem to care #and i like that space a lot but i'm considering muting it which makes me sad #i just don't get how people could be so disrespectful to the folks creating stories they love. that's awful #idk. guess i'm glad i have other fiction to care about right now #anyways! that's me done being sad about something relatively silly! #but :/

[samasmith23]

I’ve gotta say, Persona 5 Royal’s penultimate boss battle with the corrupt politician & candidate for Japanese Prime Minister, Masayoshi Shido, was FREAKING phenomenal!

Not only did I love the unique music for this fight, but the symbolism embedded in Shido’s golden lion & pyramid statues comprised of hundreds of regular humans was brilliant in conveying his distorted desire to both ride & subjugate the masses towards ruination for his own self-gain, and his Bane-like roided out second form showcases just how deep his ultra-nationalist “might-makes-right” ideology truly goes! And getting to fight Shido one-on-one as Joker in the final stage was so intense that I had to constantly stay on the defensive whilst timing my offensive techniques just right in order to avoid fatal damage from his powerful arsenal of special attacks!

You better believe that beating the royal crap out of and changing the heart of this dirtbag Donald Trump-wannabe fascist was oh so satisfying! Yes I know that Shido was meant to be a pastiche of Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe, but every time I heard Shido’s dialogue I got some seriously uncomfortable “Make Japan Great Again” vibes from the bastard! I mean… Shido might as well wear that ugly red MAGA cap, he gives off the same kind of hatable energy…

Plus, it was satisfying getting revenge on Shido since he was also the one responsible for giving the protagonist Joker a false criminal record at the start of the game because the latter rightfully tried to stop a drunken Shido from sexually harassing a random woman on the streets, but Joker accidentally broke the Shido’s nose when he tried to pull the latter away from the woman. Unfortunately, Shido then used his powerful political & police connections to try and ruin Joker’s life by falsely accusing him of assault & battery, even blackmailing the woman he previously harassed to publicly testify against Joker.

So having the opportunity to beat the living crap out of Shido's shadow-self in the Metaverse was unbelievably cathartic!

And as I previously alluded to, the soundtrack for this fight, “Rivers in the Desert,” only serves to elevate the tension & atmosphere of this boss battle! BOTH the instrumental & vocal versions!

#persona 5 #persona 5 royal #boss fight #penultimate boss #masayoshi shido #phantom thieves #p5 joker #p5 protagonist #Screw Donald Trump #Donald Trump is a fascist #anti facist #anti nationalist #MAGA is a hate group #video games #jrpg games #Youtube

[master-missysversion]

Yknow while it has some good moments I think It Takes You Away is probably the weakest episode in series 11, and it's a shame because I do genuienly really love Orphan 55, also written by Ed Hime, it's one of my favourites. But I'm never really that excited for it takes you away

#doctor who #media review #this isnt hate by any mean bc i do genuinely enjoy the episode #but it just doesnt hit as much #which isnt great for the penultimate episode #series 11

[sob-dylan]

i’ve had this cold i’m currently yoked with for about a week and now it’s developed into an ear infection and possibly even tonsillitis 😖 i’m sitting in urgent care to hopefully score some antibiotics, so i’ll figure it out soon enough.

the worst part is that it’s the penultimate week of the semester, and i’ve been able to get so little work done cause i’ve had to stay home for the past 6 days 😵‍💫 🔫

#thankful it’s also my penultimate semester of grad school #so it’ll be the last winter where i’m fighting off an inevitable sickness while suffering through finals season #and hopefully i’ll get sick less frequently not having to be in school ever again #uggggghhhhh i hate being sick!!!!!!!!!!! #personal

[neonun-au]

i wish everyone would stop saying anything they make that doesn't reach a certain arbitrary number of notes a 'flop'. just stop saying 'flop'. so what it didn't get hundreds of notes? so what? maybe the timing was weird maybe no one's really online at the moment...and so what? the people who do enjoy it enjoy it and as long as you are also one of those people then....so what?

#its just so....self pitying and like #idk i hate it i always have LOL #i get you make something and you want people to enjoy it and appreciate it for the time you put in but #literally if the validation of notes is the penultimate reason youre making stuff youre gonna be fucking miserable lol #its just setting yourself up for failure #you can shift perspective...... #mads.txt

[naysaltysalmon]

Words: 6,409 Genre: Angst/Romance & Action/Thriller Rated: Explicit (violence, torture, abuse, sexual abuse)

Pairings: NieYao, 3zun

Characters: Meng Yao/Jin Guangyao, Nie Mingjue, Nie Huaisang, Wen Xu, Wen Ruohan, Lan Xichen, Wen Chao Relationships: Meng Yao/Jin Guangyao & Nie Huaisang, Nie Mingjue & Nie Huaisang, Meng Yao/Jin Guangyao & Wen Xu, Meng Yao/Jin Guangyao & Wen Ruohan, Lan Xichen & Nie Mingjue, Lan Xichen & Meng Yao/Jin Guangyao & Nie Mingjue

Summary: Meng Yao is kidnapped by the Wen, and Nie Mingjue and Huaisang must justify going after him. On the precipice of one of the deadliest cultivation wars, Meng Yao fends for himself in Qishan. Meanwhile, the Nie brothers face many setbacks, within their clan and without, from those who seek to use the vice general for political ploys and those who believe him unworthy and replaceable. Although Nie Mingjue is determined to bring Meng Yao home, even if he does – will Meng Yao be the same when he returns?

Preview:

“Meng Yao… thank you for saving me that night.”

This was the last thing Meng Yao had expected to hear from the young master. Some petulant whining about the hardship without him in Qinghe, maybe – the crying after exiting the tunnel with Clan Leader Nie, yes – but Nie Huaisang’s gratefulness, his embarrassment?

Meng Yao was dumbfounded, mouth open, wishing he could see his face.

“It was my fault we were out there so late,” Huaisang went on, in a strangely mature tone. “For putting us in danger. I can’t imagine… what you went through in Qishan. Da-ge and I have been worried sick… I’m so glad you’re back safe.”

Huaisang said no more. After a few moments, there was a breathy exhale. The shadow behind the screen wall was mercurial, moving in a way that made Meng Yao realize Nie Huaisang was crying silent tears.

Still, Meng Yao’s vocal chords refused to work.

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#NieYao #Meng Yao #Nie Mingjue #Nie Huaisang #Jin Guangyao #3zun #MDZS #Mo dao zu shi #The Untamed #fanfic #fanfiction #nayraider #wow i posted this to the wrong blog at first #that was embarrassing #ch13 is a few edits away from being finished #we'll see if it's truly the penultimate chapter #this is supposed to be a link for ch12 specifically but Tumblr decided to change their link post system and i hate it

[impossiblebird]

if the world falls to pieces - chapter six

read now on ao3

(Thomas makes him want to try. He gives him the courage he needs to say yes; to reach for that lifeline with the chance it could keep him alive. He makes him want to live, and Stars know he would follow him anywhere.)

“Do you really think we could do it?” he asks, voice just barely above a whisper.

Thomas looks at him, silent, but worlds of feeling lie in the place behind his eyes. “I think we could,” he says. “I think we have a chance.”

the updated playlist (nine! new songs)

#if the world falls to pieces #penultimate chapter my loves #this one is 7k so longer than the others (let’s pretend it didn’t take almost a year to write from start to finish lol) #and you might love me for it you might hate me for it and yknow what that’s okay #i promise i feel the same #but go leave kudos n comments i’d love to hear what you make of it ;) #the maze runner #tmr #tmr fic #newtmas #newtmas fic #newtmas fanction #ao3

[greenhomeresident]

| 3-9th oct. 2022 |

this week, i watched episodes 3 & 4 of happiness. i really love the pacing this show chose for its ~zombie apocalypse~ mayhem - we’re now a third of the way through the series, and it’s only now that dozens of people are running and screaming for their lives together. the social politics are as frustrating as they are engaging, and i like that we got to see more of tae-seok’s personal life, some of what made him the man he is now. as ever, i am desperately hoping sae-bom and yi-hyun can be happy together, and survive this chaos! considering one of the zombies in the underground car park was running at fucking weenie speed, i am… stressed. about their survival chances.

i also watched the final two episodes of little women. and oh man, what a finale it was.

first off, episode 11?? that was some intense shit, from start to finish. much as i hated jae-sang, there was something so deeply haunting about him walking to his death, stepping off that building with zero hesitation. and i have to admit, that scene when sang-a was threatening to kill injoo’s family had me in actual tears. as an older sister, it was straight-up nightmare fuel. and then the trials… mister ~i only care about money~ throwing himself under the bus like that for injoo?! inkyung getting kidnapped only for her and the kidnapper himself to end up breaking headlines on the evening news together?! and then here i was thinking to myself yet again, how is this not a finale episode?? only for that ending… goddamn.

and as for The finale episode herself…

this ending is everything to me. i love how much in-hye has grown, and how all she wants, in the end, is to be able to give something back to her sisters who gave up so much for her. i love that a lot of the 70 billion won ended up in the family pockets. i loved jongho getting a badass moment, and him and inkyung finally being happy in love together!! i loved sang-a’s fucking bond villain scheme with the hydrochloric acid. i love that even though injoo and do-il didn’t exactly confirm their feelings for each other, do-il practically confessed it anyway. “you shouldn’t have done this if you thought i loved her.” yes, do-il!!

this show has been full of twists from the beginning, and i’ve hugely enjoyed every episode of it! (even when i was fearing for some of their lives) i feel like this show did such a brilliant job staying true to a lot of the themes of the original little women novel, and giving us a trio of sisters to root for so wholeheartedly, while also crafting a completely new story.

#kdrama review #little women #happiness #at this point i expect happiness to be stressing me out majorly because i hate zombies!! #(and yet i continue to watch kdramas featuring them anyway...) #i just really need my core 3 to survive okay everyone else is fair game in an apocalyptic scenario #but the couple and the little girl #i need those three to make it to the end in one piece!! #also i was Not expecting the penultimate ep of little women to hit as hard as it did #like i'm not kidding tears were streaming down my face when sang-a gloated to injoo about plotting to murder her family #i knew the show couldn't be about to let her win!! i knew that!! but it was still gutwrenching to watch!! #and now... what will i be looking forward to every weekend? #i'll have to find something new to watch! #(yes i have two other dramas currently on the go. yes i still want a shiny new third thing anyway.)

[selfinflictedgunshotwound]

won’t call what i’m doing “relapsing” bc that feels incredibly disingenuous but i am definitely backsliding again <3 why do i always wanna force myself back somewhere i don’t fit anymore. there’s nothing else for me there, nothing to accomplish by waiting or feeling this way, and yet.

#and yet............. #truly need therapy so bad but i'd be so embarrassed to announce these thoughts to anyone but myself #i hate the part of me that believes in things despite having no genuine reason to believe them. #wanting something to be true doesn't make it true dipshit <3 #idk honestly maybe i was expecting to backslide bc usually after an obsession is over i delete EVERYTHING related to it #but i didn't this time bc it felt like. The Penultimate One. the absolute last of the last #and i had too much sentimentality about the period of time i spent obsessed even though i was hurt and angry and depressed and destitute #(undeservedly btw LMAO ik i have absolutely nothing to do w him) #i just wish i was normal idk anymore #i'm never gonna get better and no one will know how to deal with me so i'll end up killing myself but it's swag #truly just don't know what to do or how to proceed with my life anymore. i'm so trapped by everything and there's no hope or way out #so of course i go back to the last semblance of happiness i 'had' even tho it was just me being delusional again #what can be done about it! no one will save me! ^_^ #oh well

[welcometogrouchland]

local girl did work for three minutes straight without stopping to listen to music for 45 minutes. 15 dead 11 injure d

#ramblings of a lunatic #why!!!is!!!writing!!!so!!!difficult!!!rn!!!!!!!!! #im being VERY brave about it but still #its fine its fine im almost done with the intro to ep 3 (gonna finish the base of the scene today b4 tweaking and planning the part tomorr) #*tomorrow #well maybe not tomorrow. i have to be up early tomorrow. but u get the idea #and THEN when i have the opening all donezo i get to go redraft episode 1 to my liking (theres like. 3-ish? changes by scene count?- #-and probably just dialogue/characterization tweaks across the board. as much as i wanna im leaving the actual plot points in tact- #-bc if i dont i'll be here until i turn to stone!) #and THEN i get to do an actual redraft/iron-over of episode 2 #(one scene needs to be added for thematic relevance and i gotta keep it short then i gotta redraft one scene to have better dialogue- #-then i gotta fix up some ending bits and add a better thesis statement to the penultimate scene- #-and THEN i gotta redraft the very last scene so it seques better into episode 3!) #and when all thats done then im gonna try and knuckle down for the next few months to get ep 3 done #aiming for late december deadline...we'll see what happens #u guys hold me to that. if it's jan 1st and theres no 3rd enterprise script feel free to send me anon hate /hj

[calamity-unlocked]

pffft i actually wrote almost 7k words the last three days. None of it atobaoi though. It's been a month since the last update so that means I'm unofficially officially late. whoo boy someone hit me with those ‘its ok not to be productive’ memes please.

Good news is, I wrote almost 7k words in the last couple of days. Some Exu Calamity stuff (pov from elias as he loses his dad and is comforted by every member of the ring of brass), some original work. little blurb without context for the latter be upon ye.

“Boy,” he grumbled. “Know that there are few things Ylfa hates more than feeling like a coward.” His regretful tone made it sound like an apology. Yaran nodded and with his numb lips tightly pressed together, he accepted the last gift Ylfa would ever give him. He tried not to scoff at how meaningless it was, though he knew he should be lucky that she had even thought to give him anything. A couple of small silver and copper coins stamped with the mythical shape of a sverttkettir; a signet ring that held no sentimental value but that could be pawned off for more coins; a separately packaged box with edible treats; and finally, folded twice without a seal, a small note. Her handwriting was more familiar to him than her voice. It made only sense, since they had exchanged more written words than spoken ones. He took in the harsh black lines before their meaning sank in. She wasn’t very good at writing – before he came into her life she probably didn’t have much use for the skill. After he was gone, would she still write? Or was writing letters just another bother that went away as soon as he left? He forced himself to focus on the parchment, and swore. That bitch.

#daily fic snippet #im struggling a lot with atobaoi #mostly because of the size of the chapter #its a big boi and i want to so the penultimate chapter justice #its tricky because new elements get introduced #which need to be balanced right #or its going to be too crowded and messy #anyway context bc youre still reading for some reason #original work set in an alternate iceland #in which the þing in the year 1000 didnt result in christianising the country #rather keeping the pagan faith as well as seperate monotheism #it has a lot of elements of nordic and icelandic folklore #story is about a brother and sister who hate each other #but then their chieftain and dad gets killed #sister tries to kill his killer #while being very gay #brother dips and starts learning bloodmagic #while being very aroace

[clownboy-yeehonk]

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#so my grandma died #its ok bc shes been sorta fading for a while we knew it was coming sooner rather than later #the aide said she was talking to my grandpa last night and hes been dead since 2014 #and its nice to think that he came to come pick her up #funerals are always weird bc were not a very dramtically emotional family so its a lot of talking about the details #what hymns she wanted where the repasse should be what food theyll be serving what were all wearing #and its funny bc my grandma was a penultimately particular woman who wrote down precisely what she wanted done #down to the shoes she wants to be buried in as if anyone is going to see her feet #but GOD forbid she walks through the pearly gates BAREFOOT she could never #she died in the middle of the night and my dad joked that she probably did that so it wouldnt be a big scene in the middle of the day #when they came to take her body from the house #and on one hand like dad that is your MOTHER #but also objectively hes probs not wrong she would have hated a big scene in the middle of the day with neighbors watching #and i gotta request time off work and im asking my managers how i submit the request and i dont wanna say SORRY bc like its my dead grandma #but also ya i was supposed to be training a new girl this week at work 🙃 #like obviously were all really sad but theres so much to get done that you end up discussing all the details #shes def in a better place like i do believe shes with my grandpa again and she went peacefully and thats very much a blessing #but i have no idea what im gonna wear to this thing #and that feels like a dumb thing to fixate on! but alas #here we are

[saesyndrome]

ive talked about it before but it just strikes me as so odd how fucking different season 5 of bojack is. in episode 10, diane talks about regretting how she wrote bojack's character in the show because the focus has been taken off of the fact the character is a bad person and instead focuses on making you sympathize with him. OBVIOUSLY this is a thinly veiled critique of bojack horseman himself... OBVIOUSLY this is the writers (or at least the writer of this particular episode) expressing frustration with the way that bojack has been received by the audience: as someone to relate to and as a prop for shitty people to justify their own shitty behavior. it's NOT subtle, and i still think it works well.

so its so. odd to me. what they do in season 6. again, i swear that... they didn't intend for the show to go on this long. they didn't think they'd have more than 5 seasons. because the continuity just... doesn't account for season 5 AT ALL. the thesis of the show completely disregards season 5. YEAH princess carolyn adopts her baby, but that's kind of the... only significant thing that happens that carries over into season 6. and, honestly, i dont think we even needed the minutiae of that

it's just so weird. season 5 implies a completely different ending for the show than we get. even if the last thing that happens in season 5 is bojack going to rehab. like... idk. it doesn't make sense for them to build him up and have him improve just for it all to be shot down and then... everyone forgets about it. and he still has all the friends he had before and only faces minor consequences in the grand scheme of things.

like... why didn't he die? the foreshadowing for bojack's death is extremely present throughout the show... why didn't he die? i don't get it.

#it's so weird man... i fucking hate season 6 i really do #season 5 i have issues with but i do think... the thesis of season 5 is so strong. and the penultimate episode is so strong #and idk it feels like season 6 shat all over it is all. whatever.