#S2E9: Snow

[tani-b-art]

After, and only after Mercedes saw that she herself is a masterpiece, a beauty, a work of art, by way of Farrah showcasing her art through her own art of photography, was she able to appreciate the art in her sister Keyshawn (when they locked eyes while Keyshawn was performing was such a fulfilling moment) AND then was she able to release and receive what her new dream could be. She had her "aha" moment — a moment of unveiling the possibilities for her next phase (which it's seeming like she's gonna repurpose her gym to a studio to cater to adult women — a heels and stilettos type of class, for now).

Mercedes has been holding her breath under water and finally came up for air. To get that much needed breath. She was able to exhale. Seeing herself as the art she is, released what she needed to move forward. Miss mama was in total awe with herself! "I never thought I'd be on a wall like...I look like gravity don't exist." (cries tears of joy).

Farrah's dream reawakened because of Mercedes, her muse. Mercedes is discovering her next dream through Farrah, her appreciator and connoisseur. Their art really brought them together and reignited their dreams. Art truly does connect souls. (The artist in me was just on cloud nine with this episode!)

And what Farrah was telling her...how art, the art of Mercedes, makes you understand there is a God. Chiiile, Mercedes is good because we would've ran off together right then and there.

She came face-to-face with her own breathtaking art. Sis was sooo happy and proud (anytime Mercedes is experiencing happiness, I'm happy because she deserves to be happy). Farrah truly captured her in all her essence.

Y'all peeped those conversations the art patrons were having as Mercedes walked through the gallery...confirming everything about her strength and beauty and gift? Delightful! She needed that because she's been hearing the opposite lately. This exhibit, she didn't have to prove her value, the art enthusiasts saw it themselves and voiced their appreciation — therefore valuing her with their positive words. Mama still got it! Then later on, Lil Murda tells her she's a legend as she sits on the throne! She is. Praising her and giving her her flowers now. Farrah and Lil Murda were the voices of acknowledgment she needed from the people she knows. Who she's familiar with. Those encouraging and kind words complimenting and recognizing her was affirmation for her. Farrah and Lil Murda lifted her up right when she needed it.

What a full circle. The first time they met, Mercedes critiqued Farrah's art and now Farrah is critiquing hers.

Farrah turned The Mercedes Experience into an art exhibition (swoons). This is love. An act of love. She loves her!

Just get married y'all!

[Who is behind Mercedes & Farrah's story arc?! You/y'all deserve the world!!! We deserve a spin-off! And who was the actual photographer because those photographs of Brandee are beautiful!]

#Mercedes & Farrah #Mercedes Woodbine #Farrah Haynes #PValley #P-Valley #P Valley #wlw #Black love #Brandee Evans #Shamika Cotton #S2E9: Snow #quick thoughts

[frosty-the-killer-doll]

okay but why does caitlin know so much about mistletoe? down to its genus and origin! it's clear the snow system had an interest in botany before khione

#snow posting #in s2e9 running to stand still #caitlin snow #the flash cw #the flash #cw the flash

[misty-caligula]

Okay this is gonna be long, but I’ve got a lot of ground to cover so please bear with me. In a real way, this is my series thesis.

I’ve said before, many times now (like a cycle) that for me the most important scene is ep 1 act 1 scene 1. There’s something There that I have been struggling to see clearly, struggling to articulate, and s2e9 really finally gave me the last pieces for it.

I think that Pit Girl is the point of the entire story. But not in the way that I thought going in. I feel like I’m rambling, so I’m going to try to structure my thoughts.

Imagine you’re a new viewer. You haven’t watched yj start to finish 30 times, you’ve never even buzzed before. You turn on the tv and the FIRST thing that happens is you see ... brutality. A half dressed girl chased through the freezing woods, murdered without a chance. They drag her through the snow, string her up, pour her blood on the ground. Hack her into unrecognisable chunks. Sit around in scary outfits and rip at her, with a huge focus on the teeth, as horror music plays. Then, Misty takes off her mask, puts on her glasses, and does the worst possible thing. She smiles. Directly at you.

Again, forget everything you know and go on vibes. You’re seeing the teens pre-crash, and you’re seeing them in the third timeline, fully formed, with horror motifs and covered in fur. You’d be mistaken for thinking that you were seeing start and end. Except that... we know, and you know, that Pit Girl is the middle. These monsters somehow came back from this. How? When they’re so so so far gone?

Hence the show. I know I’m not breaking new ground here, but bear with me. I’m going somewhere.

(Edit: Readmore added because honestly, LONG post)

You’d be forgiven, fresh-faced new viewer, for thinking you were watching some kind of gross-out slasher. But what happens in S1? Restraint. Laura Lee, the first non-crash victim dies at the end of episode eight. Jackie end of ep 10. (For the sake of this thesis we’re going to be almost exclusively focused on the teens.)

And yet there’s this tonal shift, It’s like ... inevitability. Like watching a crack in a window that’s very slowly spreading. Everything is steadily Getting Worse. The weather is slowly getting colder, the days are getting darker, food’s getting scarcer, life is getting harder. But so much of this difficulty is coming from external events and pressure. Yes, cracks start to show in the internal relationship dynamics, of course, but if food was plentiful, if shrooms were less so, if the weather were better, then they could probably work out a very long term stable situation. Sadly for them, things are not stable, and the pressure is building.

Then Jackie dies and the glass gets a really big break.

It’s worth mentioning at this moment that Jackie at any time could’ve come the fuck inside. Safety and warmth and even love were available to her. All it would’ve required was for her not to be the centre of the world. To make actual goddamn concessions and join the team. Which is why she couldn’t possibly make that choice, because she had to be invited, she had to be apologised to, she had to be accommodated. She couldn’t see the rest of the ‘jackets as being people who just like her were in a really shitty situation. She saw them as being external, as being in cahoots against her, as being part of some Thing that she wasn’t in on. She couldn’t let go of the society they’d left, and she preferred to die. Which sure is a choice...

Keep all of that in mind though. We’re taught to blame Shauna for Jackie’s choices. Let’s stop with that. Jackie chose not to assimilate, she looked around the cabin at the team eating the bear and praying to the wilderness and instead of just paying lip service to fit in, like Tai, she decided to put her foot down and make a Thing of it. She decided that being Right was more important than being Included.

Seriously, keep that in mind, we’re coming back to it. Cycles, you know...

Season 2, everyone’s hungry and hey we have this spare Jackie lying around. And we joke like “ha, you gonna eat that?” Only...

No. They WEREN’T going to eat her.

Really think about that for a second. They put her in the meat shed. With the bear. Think about what that does, psychologically. Linguistically. The meat shed is made to store food. The bear has a word: carcass. Day after day after week after month they carve progressively more pathetic chunks from it, subsisting on what little it offers. In the EXACT same room, sitting right there is Jackie. Her body has a different name. Corpse. With many different connotations. At NO point does ANY of them raise the fact that they’ve taken their friend and added her to their meat stockpile.

Because they haven’t. Instead, they’ve added a new sub-room. The meat shed is now also a morgue. And nobody ever once had to say it. They got it. We got it. You got it. And while they starved and their bodies BEGGED for food, Jackie’s corpse lay there, frozen and fresh, and stubbornly refused to become a carcass, because they wouldn’t let it. They knew that there were more important things than meat, even when they were starving.

The bacchanal was a mistake. A literal error. It simply wasn’t planned, wasn’t meant to go down that way. Maybe if they HAD considered that route earlier and had a discussion about it they’d have been prepared, psychologically, maybe if they weren’t so starved. Who knows. But in the middle of the night they were offered a way out, and they took it.

But Shauna took it first.

Even in their state, even faced with an ideal roasted feast infront of them, they waited until Shauna said it was okay. Because Jackie was Shauna’s friend, and they knew that she was still a person. That this was still a corpse first. It was Shauna who was able to give them permission to survive. To turn a friend into a meal. It was not their place to take that step. To shoulder that guilt. So Shauna did it for them.

The next day they’re devastated. The heavy reality sets in, now the hunger is settled. And Jackie’s carcass is far too real, they can’t change her back into a corpse. Nat tries, bless her heart. But Tai’s screaming reaction at having eaten Jackie’s face is only an externalisation of the grief and horror and agony they’re all going through.

And after Jackie they starve again. Hope and heat and light dwindles further. Every single day they all take another step towards death. That’s what starvation is, it’s the same thing as dying, you die a little bit every day until you can’t die anymore.

Kristen falls. Misty doesn’t even consider that she might bring her back as meat. If she had’ve, she might think, maybe she’d be considered like ... heroic. It doesn’t even occur to her. She’s not going to LET those bitches eat her one and only friend, and she goes out of her way to protect her.

Shauna has her horror show birth. And, no matter WHAT the context is, she produces.... meat. In the most awful, brutal way. And while the fandom made so many jokes and stuff, the reality is that yes... at least to an extent there was real nutrients there. And it was never once even brought up as an option, by these desperate, starving girls. 

When Coach tries to kill himself, here’s a ready source of willing meat. And Misty uses it as a threat to stop him. But it’s hollow, she’s just putting on fake fangs to try to keep him safe. She’s not actually that vicious thing that she’s pretending to be, just like she’s not actually homophobic.

When Lottie tells Misty to eat her if she dies, Misty fights her on it. Lottie has to insist. Then when she tells the rest of the team, they are so overwhelmed with the selflessness of the gesture that it inspires them to twist it into their first hunt. That’s what it takes. The hunt is an act of self-sacrifice and love.

And so we get to the hunt. The proto-pit-girl, we’ve come full circle and we start to learn all these answers to questions posed in act 1 scene 1. And they’re not the answers that were assumed.

How do they get to the point of eating each other? They sacrifice themselves willingly, for the sake of each other’s survival.

Why do they hunt the way they do? Because Shauna just can’t stand to murder a friend in cold blood, a friend she cares for and has no reason to hate.

Why the spike pit? Because it keeps the blood off their hands. Because it lets them blame It and preserve a tiny fragment of their innocence.

Why the weird symbols? The ritual itself? Because they need SOMETHING to hold onto, to make it all make sense.

Why so brutal? Is it? We THINK it’s brutal. It’s certainly bloody. But Pit Girl dies almost instantly. Her pain is over fast. She doesn’t have a good time going into it, obviously, none of them want to die. But she chose to run, she could’ve taken the knife instead. And the spike trap was efficient. Yes they drag her through the snow and string her up, but it’s mechanical and just part of the process and she’s dead already. Her pain is over fast, it’s not sadistic.

Why do they chop her up into chunks like that? Because nobody wants to eat her face. Because nobody wants to struggle with her humanity, they want her to look just like any other meat. So that they might be having deer or bear or ... friend. They’re eating because they are biological machines that need to eat, that NEED death to survive. They didn’t ask to be made the way they are, and they’re doing their best to cope. Shauna, probably blindly, takes on that responsibility, to transform their friend into unrecognisable meat to change a corpse into a carcass. She takes that pain for them, holds that sin for them, out of love. So they can eat, so they can survive.

What’s with the creepy horror masks? During the ritual they can’t handle being themselves. They create alternate versions of themselves to hold what must be done. The masks aren’t there to scare anyone, because there IS NO AUDIENCE. The masks are there to hide behind. That’s why Misty takes hers off at the end of the scene. The ritual is over and they can go back to being people again.

Why is Misty fucking Quigley in charge? Because she CAN be. Because she’s strong enough. If Lott/Nat/The AQ is the goddess/queen, Misty is the priestess/handmaiden, tasked with actually carrying out her orders. She interprets the queens words when she’s too weak, she provides counsel when she needs it, she tells the team what they need to hear in the moment, she gives out the micromanagement. Misty’s the power behind the throne, because when she says she’ll do something she fucking follows through. No matter the cost. And what the team NEEDS, whether they choose to admit it or not, is a backbone.

So...

They bring home Javi. The music uses a reference that’s never been done before. It uses the spiritual powerballad that was playing when Laura Lee tried to fly away. It builds the expectation of Great Things, of big, potent ...

And then it just stops. As the girls are faced with the reality of what’s laying on the table. The cold, blue corpse of a soft child who never hurt anyone. No matter what they do, no matter how hard they try they just cannot make him a carcass. But they have made the choice already, and if they turn back now it’s not like it’ll bring him back. They’ll just be starving and regretful as he rots.

So Shauna, blind and shaking, does the best she can. And when she brings in the meat, she - of all people - understands EXACTLY what Travis is going through. She knows what he needs. Because she’s been here. With Jackie. So she brings him Javi’s heart. His core. His love. His soul.

(She doesn’t bring him Javi’s head. She cuts that off and puts it aside so nobody has to eat his face... Some things are worth more than pure nutritional survival.)

And Travis, god bless him, does the only thing he can do left to respect Javi. He takes his heart, and he bites it, raw and bloody.

It hurts him to do so. It disgusts him so much, but he manages not to throw up. It disgusts the girls too, but they watch on, horrified. And that’s the POINT. Travis makes sure that before they do this, before they do what they have to... that they all remember this is Javi, this is human, this is a person. And he preserves the horror. For all their sakes. And only then, after he’s given his blessing, after he’s done his human acts, do these starving, ravenous girls allow themselves to reach for their food.

S1E1. Act 1, scene 1. We do not know who Pit Girl is. We do not know the exact circumstances that get us there. But we do know where we started now. What the original meaning is behind each of these little things. And it’s not brutality, not barbarism. It’s love. It’s not lord of the flies, a bunch of monstrous human-shaped creatures giving in to their primal nature and predating on each other. It’s a team of terrified people desperately clutching at their own humanity as hard as they can. Trying SO hard not to let that glass break, to not become the thing that the framing of act 1 scene 1 tried so VERY hard to convince us they were. Context changes everything.

And the proof is in the pudding. After they eat Jackie the shock explodes throughout the cabin. The atmosphere is thick, and horrific. Now with Javi, reduced to simple meat, carefully and lovingly seperated from what made him human, so they can grieve him while they sate their natural needs, the mood post-eating is calm and soft and warm and loving. For once they’re all together,  with grateful full stomachs and in a time of peace and plenty. They’ve done the impossible and maintained their humanity and love for each other and their respect for Javi in a nearly impossible situation.

*takes a deep breath*

Which brings us to THIS asshole.

Right from the start, Jackie is only kind of part of the team. She’s the team captain, put up there by Coach Martinez, but not because she’s the best of them but because she can maybe wrangle them into doing better. And they KNOW that she’s not really one of them. They plot around her, and just don’t bring her in on it. They put up with her, more than loving her, she’s just kind of forced upon them. But she does her best, to try to maintain some semblance of order, giving pep talks and the like.

Wait, Jackie? I mean coach. My bad.

Anyway, so Jackie has one friend, Shauna. She SEEMS popular, and everyone talks to her, but Shauna’s the only one who actually likes her. And Shauna’s her connection point to the team. She’s got one foot on each side, and is torn as to where her real loyalties lie.

Sorry I’m talking about Jackie again.... weird.

In S1E9/10 Shauna finally chooses the team, for real. And Jackie tries to pull her back away, but Shauna puts her foot down. No way, she counters, I’m ON the team, you’re the odd one out. Why don’t YOU leave, Jackie? Jackie looks around at the burgeoning cult, she thinks “Look at these evil monstrous bitches, and now Shauna’s one of them TOO?” And instead of finding a compromise, instead of doing introspection, instead of anything like that, Jackie goes and freezes to death because it turns out that sheer rage won’t keep you warm in sub zero temperatures. Because no matter what happens, Jackie’s Right and it’s more important to her to be Right than Included. If she’s not in charge than why is she even THERE?

Hold on, I see my mistake. Let me backtrack.

Right from the start, Coach is only kind of part of the team. He’s trying to hide from his real life, from Paul and the complexities of being genuine in society by taking on the job of coaching the ‘jackets. And they KNOW that he’s not really one of them. He’s just the guy they have to listen to, because society put him there. But he tries his best, giving pep talks and the like.

So Coach has one friend, Natalie. He SEEMS popular, and everyone talks to him, but Nat’s the only one who actually likes him. (Ignore Misty, a schoolgirl comphet crush is not the same thing). And Nat’s his connection point to the team. She’s got one foot on each side, and is torn to where her real loyalties lie. Sometimes she’s on the bench with Coach, complaining about the state of things. Sometimes she’s in the thick of it with them all, and Coach is nowhere to be found.

In S2E9, Nat finally chooses the team, for real. And Coach tries to pull her back, but Nat puts her foot down. No way, she counters, I’m ON the team, I’m worse than them, you’re the odd one out. Go, save yourself, you don’t belong in this place. Coach looks at a table covered in blood and gore, at Nat’s face, at the rest of the team pledging fealty to her. And instead of looking for context, or looking for compromise, or even remotely trying to understand what he’s looking at he thinks

Look at these evil monstrous bitches. They’re eating each other. They’ve all gone mad. They’ve even gotten Nat now. There’s no hope for them, there’s no hope for anyone out here.

And he decides that they’re corrupt. That the way you deal with that is fire. And he’s wrong.

(I have a theory that he’s gone and jumped off the cliff, that he set the fire to clear the corruption, and now like Jackie, unable to live in this situation any longer, he’s decided to die himself. I’d not be surprised to find him in s3e1 that way)

Jackie was a frustrating, difficult person. Because no matter how things went she just COULDN’T let go of the fact that she was trying to fit a mold that just didn’t suit her. She was raised with super high expectations, when she was really just kind of mid. And that’s fine, honestly, most people ARE mid, that’s why it’s mid. But she refused to see that those around her were shedding their social pressures, were adapting to the wilderness. They weren’t having a good time, they weren’t hunting and foraging because they were out there, camping for fun. Nobody wanted to be there. They were just trying not to complain about it, because they were all in the same boat.

Coach is similar. He simply won’t adapt. Refuses to. I mean this is a guy who’s STILL trying to live in the closet when there’s open lesbians making out in public around him. Who thinks of others as inherently monstrous when he himself, as a gay man, should know better. Because that’s what trying to fit your society-assigned role does to you.

It’s no accident that he and Jackie both spend a long time in the woods and neither of them can do something as basic as start a fucking campfire. Javi, a little kid, survived for MONTHS on his own in that cave. Coach couldn’t make it a day alone. Jackie couldn’t get through a night. They both rely so heavily on the team without ever once recognising it. Because SOMEONE was keeping the fires going. They both just ... refused to engage.

And just like Jackie can’t see that they’re not having fun out there in the woods, on the knifes edge of survival, Coach can’t see that they’re not having fun when they are so desperate they feel it’s warranted to sacrifice one of their own. He always thought of them as monsters, and he just sees what he expects to: a bunch of stupid useless teenage girls, finally doing what he always expected they would.

At any point... At ANY point he could’ve come in from the cold. He could’ve just accepted reality as they have. He could’ve taken some meat and accepted the price, as they have, joined them in their GRIEF about it, shared their humanity, and survived. Just as Jackie could’ve come in from the cold, and become part of the whole. But instead, they sit in the cold, consumed by their bitter hate, and decide that no, it’s everyone ELSE who’s wrong.

And who emerges from the burning cabin? A bunch of scared kids. Shauna, the FIRST cannibal, who saves Jackie’s prom dress before anything else. Travis, who grabs Javi’s wolf. Nat who grabs the ammunition - that they NEVER use on each other - because if they lost that they’d get SERIOUSLY desperate. And they protect each other, they make sure everyone makes it out. These supposed monsters who are so far gone they don’t even care about eating each other go out of their way to save each other, not just themselves.

Because Coach is wrong. Just like Jackie was wrong. Just like WE were wrong, in s1e1. Which brings me to my actual point.

This question is asked so many times in S1 it’s almost a mantra. And the ‘jackets’ oath of silence really builds up that it must’ve been something REALLY bad, right? But S2E9 has really made me recognise that fundamentally... Act 1 Scene 1 is entirely what everyone who asks this question is expecting.

Imagine they DID know what really happened out there. With that bloodthirsty fucking look in their eyes...

They’re not looking for an answer. They’re looking for a story. For an exciting spooky nightmare they didn’t take part in, so they can get a shiver and a thrill they didn’t earn.

They’re not looking for a love story. They’re not looking to hear how HARD these scared, tragic, broken people fought to hold onto their morals and their humanity and their sanity even against their own survival. They’re not interested in Shauna blinding herself just to try to stop her hands from shaking. They’re not looking to hear about Travis choking down the blood of his brother just to make sure that he can really FEEL it. So he can share the guilt, and never ever pretend like it’s Just Meat. The look in his eye when he can’t think of any good response to Van’s arguments that he needs to let Javi save him. What they want is...

They don’t want the context. And if the ‘jackets ever did try to tell anybody what actually DID happen out there, all they would see is ... Episode 1, Act 1, Scene 1. A bunch of monsters. Eating each other. Just like Jackie. Just like Coach. Just like we did, on first glance.

I’ve been saying this whole time that Yellowjackets is doing something really special. That it’s letting us see behind the curtain, that while everyone’s asking this big question, “what really happened?”, we’re the ones who get to know. Because it can’t be told. It can’t be spoken. It can only be seen. Experienced. I think that S2 has finally finished the first major arc in the teen timeline, that we now have the context to understand what comes next. And I do believe that it will get messy, it will devolve. Into fighting and screaming and battles. It’s tragic, but it looks like that’s the downward spiral, spiraling. As Travis and Nat deal with the guilt of what they did with Javi for each other. As Shauna and Nat butt heads and people pick sides. As Misty Mistys. As resources get even more desperate now their shelter is gone. As potentially new people (hikers? other cabin people?) get brought into conflict with them (I believe the cabin is a smoke signal, personally).

But don’t ever forget that we got here with love. Expect that the downward spiral will be lubricated with toxic, broken, codependant, self-destructive love as well. Watch them love each other to death... they’ve already begun.

#yellowjackets #spoilers #theories #Long post #no really long post

[nerd4music]

Megan Thee Stallion as Tina Snow P-VALLEY | S2E9: Snow

#megan thee stallion #p valley #p valley starz #meganthestallionedit #pvalleyedit #tvedit #** #*gifs #**tv #flashing gif

[atomicradiogirl]

house md christmas episodes ranked with commentary:

s1e5 damned if you do:

overall: 4.5/5

medical case/patient interest/plot twist: 4/5 pretty interesting patient and case plus the copper IUD allergy twist was sooo smart

hilson: 4.5/5 they had christmas dinner together <3

medical malpractice: 2/5. house’s mistakes were rectified by cuddy, minimal antireligious remarks against nuns, no breaking and entering. house prescribed a patient cigarettes.

christmas spirit: 5/5 christmas songs used throughout and a patient was santa. as christmassy as it can get.

s2e9 deception:

overall: 3/5

medical case/patient interest/plot twist: 3/5 interesting concept but the overall twist wasn’t that shocking or interesting and i didn’t really connect with the patient all that much

hilson: 1/5. they have 2 interactions and they’re all cordial but nothing too special.

medical malpractice: 4.5/5 breaking and entering and obvious HIPAA violations. house flirting with lab staff to get what he wants. house falsified blood tests. poor treatment of a suspected mentally ill patient. house drugged a patient outside of hospital grounds with the risk that it could kill her.

christmas spirit: 1/5 just because it’s christmas time and there are decorations and it’s snowing does NOT make it a christmas episode. there is one christmas song at the end but no one says merry christmas. they wasted my TIME.

s3e10 merry little christmas:

overall: 3.5/5

medical case patient interest/plot twist: 4/5 interesting patients and commentary about disabilities and being “normal” and parenting as a disabled person.

hilson: 2/5 tritter arc plus wilson’s betrayal is so… but i love angst. at least they interact this time. wilson refuses to testify against him though. wilson still wants to spend christmas with house “thought you’d prefer people over pills” but house rejects him :( house ODs on oxy and wilson leaves him alone

medical malpractice: 3.5/5 house makes fun of little people. breaking and entering. HIPAA violation plus being rude to a grieving widow but he’s detoxing so i guess it makes sense. house tries to steal oxy from a dead man.

christmas spirit: 4/5 christmas songs used plus lot of decorations plus snow. christmas tree opening and PPTH has a whole nativity scene in the lobby. tritter wishes house a merry christmas.

s4e10 it’s a wonderful lie:

overall: 4/5

medical case patient interest/plot twist: 2/5 didn’t really care but it went along with house’s “everybody lies” philosophy. house performs a christmas miracle yayyy. the twist was cool

hilson: 4/5 “you are so full of love… or something” they’re so :) they interact a lot in this episode. “happy solstice house” :-)

medical malpractice: 3.5/5 why are foreman and taub questioning people?? house and a patient flirt? going through a patient’s computer.

christmas spirit: 4/5 house throws away all the diagnostic room christmas decorations. christmas songs used. secret santa!!! wilson in the reindeer hat!!!!! “you wouldn’t hang dreidels from a christmas tree” “you could”. house singing “god rest ye merry gentlemen”. house had a christmas epiphany!

s5e11 joy to the world:

overall: 3.5/5

medical case patient interest/plot twist: 3.5/5 general patient case isn’t that interesting but the clinic case of virgin conception was CRAZY (even though it was faked by house but whatever)

hilson: 4/5 wilson’s gift and note “greg - made me think of you” and an antique medical book?? that is sooo cute. also the way that wilson lied about a girl giving house the original gift because he was probably embarrassed to admit it was his but then he admitted it hehehe. house didn’t even open the original present.

medical malpractice: 2/5 shockingly minimal but house did fake a patient’s test results just to win a bet with wilson. cuddy does breaking and entering.

christmas spirit: 4/5 christmas music used. house says merry christmas. i mean it’s christmassy but not like that christmassy.

#house md #christmas episode #christmas with some medical malpractice #it was so hard to give overall ratings #hilson #episode rankings #my thoughts #i did this on a plane #hate crimes md

[pumpkinfreak]

Watching Hannibal for the first time S2E9-E10

Let's take a moment to assess what in the Kentucky fried hell is going on in this story. So Far.

Hannibal knows that Will knows he's the Ripper. Will is trying to play the player by allowing Hannibal to manipulate him. Under the guise of Will accepting the fact that he and Hannibal are the same kind of monster. Everything Hannibal does to Will at this point in the story is to test him and get him to accept his true nature, so they can be friends. In reality, Will and Jack are working togother to catch Hannibal, so everything Will is doing is just an act. Hopefully.

I need a nice no-think palate cleanser after this. I better now have to use any brain cells when I watch Yellowjackets, or I'm coming after everyone who voted in the poll and backing them into a pie, I will then feed to their families. Just one giant people pie. I'll break hearts and world records.

Back on track episode 9

Long story short, someone takes their Freddie Fazbear cosplay too far. Makes a suit out of prehistoric cave bear bones, and goes postal on some random people. Hannibal then directs this person, who was a former patient of his to attack Will. Will beats the holy hell out of this guy and brings his dead body to Hannibal. Stating that now they're even after having both sent people to kill the other.

This episode opens with Jack and Hannibal having dinner togother. I feel like we need to acknowledge that Jack and Will are knowingly eating Human meat and organs. I would be so pissed if I was Jack's wife. I'm laying in a bed dying of cancer, and my man is out eating gourmet human meals with a serial killer. You are out of Will I'm leaving everything to my cat.

Margot and Will also meet in this episode. Margot is quick on the uptake and is just like "Wow our therapist is a psycho!" and Will is like, "Sister you do not know the half of it."

One of Will's dogs escapes in this episode and his little sausage body barely clears the snow he had to run through. It was much much-needed moment of levity.

Ep10

Pookie is going a little bit off the rails. He is devolving, and Hanni is super into it. I'm not, I want my sweet baby boy back, but I don't think he can hear me over the sound of his own psychotic breakdown. Will admits that he felt more alive than ever when he killed the bear suit guy, and Hannibal says that he should honor the bear suit guy. So Will mutilates the body and merges it with a cave bear skeleton in a museum. It...it's something...

Then Will is of course called in by Jack to analyze the crime scene Will Made. Will has a hallucination that the bear suit guy thanks him and that this event is a part of their becoming.

Also, I hate that there's more, Margot's bother, Mason, shows her his pig pit. Where he attends to feed living people to pigs, and he fully attends to feed her to said pigs, if she doesn't get in line.

Hannibal's right. Mason needs to die. Like yesterday. Unfortunately, Magot cannot just kill Mason, because all their family's wealth would go to the Southern Baptist Convention. So Hannibal tells her to go get pregnant then. Who does she pick to be the daddy, Will of Course?

What proceeds is the weirdest sex scene. David Lynch would be proud. Will knows this is Hannibal's doing because Margot already told him she's gay. This scene is intercut with Hannibal and Alana having sex and Will imagining Alana and Hannibal having sex. Except Will sees Hannibal as the goopy deer man. I'm really glad this show was produced for NBC and not HBO.

Some poor bastard had to put on a mask of Mads Mikkelsen's face. Plus other makeup and had to simulate sex on some other poor bastard. Imagine having to lay in a flesh-toned body suit, or worse be actually nude, and staring up at this lifeless replica of your coworker's face. Now add like twenty other people on set watching it happen. People left work that day changed forever and for the worse.

One more thing, one more. Freddie is getting suspicious of Hannibal. So she goes to Will's house. Goes to his shed, because she has more hair than brain, and finds a bunch of body parts in a freezer. Will shows up, and this encounter does not go well. We cut to Jack telling Will that Freddie is missing, and then Will and Hannibal go home and eat Long Pig.

I'll probably post again later. Stay safe, and don't sleep with goopy dear men. Do not investigate sheds, ever. You have a fifty/fifty shot of it being lawn care equipment or something from the pits of Hell.

#hannibal #will graham #hugh dancy #mads mikkelsen #first time watch #horror

[mlobsters]

supernatural s12e16 ladies drink free (w. meredith glynn)

s12e16 / hannibal s2e9 shiizakana

okay so it's kind of generic dead boy and girl in snow but the fur on her jacket and the positions and the grunty growling presumably werewolf just made me think hey it's a way less gory version of the hannibal scene

MICK My report to the home office ran long. We've had our hands full since... (Dean and Mick look down at a blood stain on the floor) Well, best not to dwell on that. DEAN Wow. That is some world-class repression. You are British. MICK We prefer to call it a stiff upper lip.

you're one to talk there, dean

SAM Wait a second. You killed them all? Even the ones that weren't hurting anyone? MICK Sorry? SAM I mean, werewolves aren't like most monsters. Some can control it. I mean, we – we have a buddy got bit. Nothing but beef hearts ever since. MICK And you trust him? Well, killing is a fundamental need for werewolves. And monsters don't just stop being monsters. DEAN Well, Garth did.

was wondering when this would come up

poor sammy. but dean's too excited for free and fancy shit. thanks for throwing us a bone, meredith

so old mick here lied about the girl being bitten, actual crisis of conscience or setup for having to kill her later to prove his point or...

(yay it's claire/kathryn keeper of my favorite hair on the show)

CLAIRE So, your foreign exchange student is totally lame. DEAN Yeah. He's Sam's best friend. (Sam sighs deeply) They're like nerd soul mates.

you jealous, dean-o

why is the moon literally being erased by cg, forgot to make the cloud?

secret third option, return to the hospital to kill her quietly before she's even turned. but he's sorry! oh how convenient she turned right as he was about to kill her so he had to fend off her attack

CLAIRE Sam, no offense, but who do you think the kids are gonna wanna talk to? Me, or some old skeezer?

skeezer lol

DEAN Yeah? I used to think the same thing. Well, here's a little tip. Things aren't just black and white out here.

took a minute but he came around

should have seen her getting bitten coming but i 100% didn't

SAM Mick, you killed a kid. We're not angry. We're done!

he gonna stick to that?

there's something about the way she said "unless i break out" that really worked. and the music was appropriate and far enough behind the dialogue it wasn't obtrusive

MICK The subject died in agony. Sorry. CLAIRE Yeah. Maybe second time's a charm. DEAN Hey, no, no. You don't get a vote in this. CLAIRE It's my life. I get all the votes. DEAN Sam, you wanna back me up here? SAM It's her life.

of all people, sam's gonna back her up on this topic 24/7

dean really in full-on protective dad mode this episode. i must have learned this little werewolf lore tidbit in fic and didn't realize because i honestly thought we already knew this sire business, or made some inference from the vampires 🥴

kathryn newton is so good as claire

they remembered to put the moon in a spot that vaguely looked like it was obscured by clouds, good job team

very special episode where mick learns things aren't black and white, after all

CLAIRE Right. Eat me, Teen Wolf.

lol tell him, claire!

BARTENDER It's not like I want to do this. My pack, we were happy. We didn't hurt anyone. And then hunters with weapons that I've never seen before, they show up and... take out 20 of us, just like that.

ha ha so bmol is to blame for it all because they went after the veggie wolves, i snorted. hammering us over the head with their point again

and the very special episode where claire learns again she's loved by her family and not in fact better off alone

always laugh this show makes blood draws happen in any old place, just slam a needle in, bing bang boom done

wish they'd leave her hair what i assume is her natural texture (wavy), whenever it's overly Done like this it doesn't really vibe with what she's usually got going on. was gonna bitch if dean didn't get a hug goodbye from her :p

really glad they didn't kill her off. feel like if this was in the early seasons, she would have died for the manpain of it all

#gore #supernatural #spnwatch #spn 12x16 #spn clip #meredith glynn #blood #hannibal

[panda-wearing-pants]

Best Life Series episode #7

S1E7: Scar rebuilds Joel's roof, Grian sets up TNT around the bunker, the Battle of the Red Desert, Jimmy is eliminated, Scott and Grian lose their first lives, Cleo, Bdubs and Tango go to the desert to help, but Cleo and Tango are killed, Martyn is killed by a skeleton while trying to escape Scar and Scott, Cleo attacks Ren but is eliminated by Skizz, the Pizza and Crastle Alliance meets at the Crastle, the red army attacks and Skizz is killed by Grian

Dangthatsalongname: The one where they all BLOW UP!

S2E7: Mumbo and Skizz are hired to kill Etho by Grian and Impulse, Mumbo knocks Impulse off of the ghast farm, Mumbo and Jimmy trap Mumbo's bunker in an attempt to kill Grian, but they are both eliminated, the boogey is rerolled because Pearl lost power, Martyn tries to boogey kill Grian, but Joel steals the kill, Lizzie kills BigB with firework rockets, and BigB is blown up by one of Pearl's trapped chests while going back to get his stuff, Martyn uses a TNT minecart to kill Tango, Grian and Impulse spawn the wither in the snow fort, Etho tells Bdubs to kill a red to get a life back, he kills Lizzie but is killed by Grian before getting a life from Etho

Grian: BETRAYED

S4E7: Joel and Grian fall off the ladder to Bread Bridge 2, Jimmy acciedentally shoots Grian off the ladder, Grian kills Jimmy, Skizz finishes his affirmations. Grian kills Scott, Tango, Impulse and Etho with a TNT minecart, Bdubs and Scott allow Jimmy to kill them for time, Jimmy falls off Skynet and is eliminated, Grian and Joel have a funeral for Jimmy, Skizz lets Etho eliminate him, Joel kills Grian and Scar, but is killed by Scott twice and eliminated, Grian joins the nosy neighbors

MCSKIZZLEMAN: UNTIED!!!

S5E7: Etho and Skizz are the Devil and Angel on Cleo's shoulders, Grian gets a pet magma cube named Etho's Dishwasher, Scar sells Joel Lizzie's spine, everyone but Cleo, Grian, Martyn, and Scott are infected with the boogeyman curse, Scar burns down the Heart Foundation, Scar accidentally kills Gem, Pearl and Etho summon a warden

Geminitay: How I killed the Entire Secret Life Server (nearly)

S2E9: Pearl blows up Ren on the Green Life Club dancefloor, Martyn is the last yellow, and is killed by Pearl on Magical Mountain, Grian sets off a TNT trap at spawn, which doesn't kill anyone, I'm the following battle, Joel kills Cleo and Etho, but Scott kills Grian and Joel, the final four agree to have a free-for-all, and Scott wins

Dangthatsalongname: The Final Life

#3rd life #last life #limited life #secret life #life series #traffic series #traffic smp #Best life series episode

[ladamedelafleuve]

yellowjackets s2 finale predictions (WILL UPDATE)

ok thursday may 25 11:55PM EST Yellowjackets s2e9 “Storytelling” predictions as someone who hasn’t seen the last 4 episodes:

-Kevyn Tan dies

-Lisa accidentally kills Walter

-official crowning/reveal of the antler queen (my money’s on Lottie OR Shauna)

-everyone else converges on the compound: Jeff and Callie, the cops, Simone and Sammy, and the press because they’ve been looking for Tai

-a scene of the women in present day slipping in/out of their teenage selves (similar to when Nat laid her head in Lottie’s lap), most likely when they’re on drugs or in the throes of a ritual (wildcard)

-Travis declares he loves Nat and that’s why he let Javi go + Nattravis big makeup scene

-a flashback scene to pre-crash WHS that shows more of the team’s dynamic off the field (possible wildcard)

-Alive Mari reveal (wildcard)

-ghost Laura Lee makes an appearance (wildcard)

-at the end, the snow has melted and it’s now officially spring in the 1996 timeline

-Ben gets sucked into whatever cave he found

-none of the core 6 adults die

#yellowjackets #here we go

[sonicskullsalt]

Favourite things about TLOVM s2e9

(possible spoilers because I watched the campaigns and might reference them)

Boulder, Parchment, Shears

Liam O'Brien's monster voice

🎵 Grog and Kevdak got Bad Blood 🎶

Promise you'll try to love again - I will do my best 💜💛

Baby Pike's missing tooth

Occupado?

Scanlan and Kalie's looks mirroring so perfectly, his beret and her hair, the collars, the colours in general

Tabaxi mum and baby 🥺

The snow during Grog and Kevdak's first confrontation is a great callback to the scene with Earthbreaker Groon. Where does your strength come from, Grog?

What you did was very brave. - Yeah, brave. That's me.

Come on, big boy.

Dr. Dranzel's Travelling Troupe

Let the man have his autograph!

Usually, it's Grog making fun of puny Vax. Now, it's monster voice Liam calling Travis' character slim

Pike slamming into that barrel

Pikelan hug 💜💛

But what if I need you?

Travis Willingham yelling "Kevdak" like that

#critical role #tlovm #tlovm s2e9 #vox machina #my post

[tani-b-art]

Mississippi and Uncle Clifford

She narrated her fairytale origins and now she gets to watch her conclude it. Keyshawn feeling unwanted by Uncle Clifford really tore me up. But she gave her her farewell blessings. And when she ran up to her and fell into her chest and hugged her...

She's such a mother to these girls. A mother many of them, like Keyshawn, have never had the joy to have.

Loved their scene.

#Mississippi #Uncle Clifford #Keyshawn Harris #PValley #P-Valley #P Valley #S2E9: Snow #Shannon Thornton #Nicco Annan #Uncle Clifford is like a fairy godmother #Katori Hall

[frosty-the-killer-doll]

"he's just as stubborn as all the rest of my male patients in this place" SO FUCKING TRUE CAITLIN

#in s2e9 running to stand still #caitlin snow #the flash #the flash cw #cw the flash

[martianbugsbunny]

OUAT Thoughts Pt.14--Episodes 8-9

I have watched through S2E9; spoilers DNI. Also, spoiler warning for anyone further behind than I am.

—I only had to wait 3 episodes. Belle and Rumplestiltskin have gone out for burgers. (They did not, however, eat the burgers. You know, world-saving, life-or-death interruptions. The usual.)

—I require Ariel content. She’s been mentioned twice, but I haven’t seen hide or red hair of her yet. And although I’m sure I could write loads about why OG!Ariel bothers me, she also has good qualities that I think OUAT would handle well.

—The Queen of Hearts has gorgeous clothes.

—That being said, I’m terribly disappointed that she turned out to be Cora. Let me preface it by saying, it makes sense, and I understand why they did it. However…I love Wonderland. It’s one of my favorite childrens’ stories (not to mention a historically significant one) and it’s also one of my favorite Disney movies. I would’ve truly loved a Queen of Hearts who was just the Queen of Hearts in this show. She probably would’ve been amazing. She may even have been the noble warrior queen I want some depiction of her to be. I wish we had gotten that. Also, I despite Cora with a vengeance, and I would rather the Queen of Hearts were a villain I could love.

—Y’know, I think sapphism would be a much more compelling motivator than pining after some bland-ass semi-dead guy. Also, Mulan deserves to be in a queer relationship, because the original Disney Mulan is one of the most accidentally queer movies I’ve ever had the fortune to behold. And another also, Philip has 0% personality. Mulan should be with an interesting person.

—What I’m trying to say is, Mulan gave Aurora back her heart. Mulan is protecting the heck out of Aurora. Aurora doesn’t get along with anybody but Mulan. Mulan and Aurora should go have some sapphic adventures together and forget about Philip.

—I kind of want Rumplestiltskin and Regina to be petty frenemies together now. Like, they can barely stand each other, but they still throw some shade on everybody else’s business. Maybe they sit back-to-back in different booths at Granny’s, so they can plausibly deny that they’re hanging out.

—I don’t feel sorry for Regina, but I loathe her less. Emma and Snow should’ve let her come to dinner with them.

—Way to flip the narrative! I love that Snow had to save Charming the same way he saved her. Their relationship is filled to the brim with reciprocity, so it really works for them.

—The beating sound in Cora’s heart vault gives me anxiety.

—I guess the other acceptable outcome for Mulan and Aurora (yep, back on it) is a lovely little polycule with Philip. If they insist on both being in love with him, while having possibly the most chemistry of any two characters that aren’t Snow and Charming, then that’s what they should do.

—My relationship status with Hook is currently love-hate. He’s not an evil person, necessarily, but on the other hand he’s a sneaky jerk *and* he’s trying to kill Rumplestiltskin. It’s complicated.

—Red looked lovely as usual in episode 9. I don’t always like her clothes—mostly because some of them look uncomfortable—but her red flannel, and her fluffy dark red jacket, and her jewelry are all gorgeous. Also, she has strong facial features, and she’s really pretty.

—Pricking Charming with the spinning wheel was cool. Does the curse travel from the needle into him, or is it still on the needle, too? If so, is there a magical decontamination process?

—Belle finally got to wear some yellow. The dress was pretty, too.

—Emma’s heart being unstealable is probably cliche, but I love it anyway. Especially because she’s surprised about it.

—Rump hiding the squid ink on that note was some real smart planning.

—Did Hook kill the last giant? He didn’t say that he did outright, but the fact that he had the magic bean kind of implies that he did. Shame on him.

Bit of an aside, but my dinner tonight was a wine-based beef stew and horseradish dumplings, and I absolutely believe that’s the kind of food Rumplestiltskin would enjoy eating. (Who knows, maybe it’s the kind of food he would cook for Belle.)

#once upon a time #ouat #Snow White #prince James charming #mulan #aurora #prince Philip charming #regina mills #rumplestiltskin #belle #rumbelle moment #Captain Hook #red riding hood #Cora #queen of hearts #martianbugsbunny reviews

[nerd4music]

P-VALLEY S2E9: Snow

#p valley #p-valley #p valley starz #pvalleyedit #tvedit #** #*gifs #**tv

[totaltozier]

Hawkins Middle Snow Ball ‘84

#stranger things #stranger things 2 #chapter 9 #the gate #s2e9 #finn wolfhard #millie bobby brown #noah schnapp #caleb mclaughlin #gaten matarazzo #sadie sink #mike wheeler #jane hopper #eleven #will byers #lucas sinclair #dustin henderson #nancy wheeler #madmax #snow ball #hawkins middle #edit #gifset

[violetganache42]

VioletGanache42's Holiday Watchlist

The holiday season is coming up once again and I am here to bring another watchlist just for the occasion! When I made my Halloween watchlist, I ended up liking the idea a lot to where I decided to do something similar for the holidays. Here, you'll find a festive collection of movies and TV episodes and specials; although a majority of it is Christmas, I also made sure to include any Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and New Year stuff I enjoyed. I even threw in a few winter-themed episodes for a couple of shows, mostly for shits and giggles.

Much like my Halloween watchlist, this will also be under a "Read More" because of its length and I want to surprise you with any more additions in the following years.

Happy holidays, everyone! 🎄🕎🎉❄️ (I wish there was a Kwanzaa emoji for iOS and Android.)

Movies

- Klaus

- Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas

- White Christmas

- The Polar Express

- Journey Back to Christmas (@real-life-pine-tree recommended this to me because even though it's a Hallmark Christmas movie, she described it as the inverse/subversion of the overused and clichéd Hallmark Christmas movie formula. Honestly? It's a much needed breath of fresh air.)

- The Nightmare Before Christmas (also counts as a Halloween movie)

- Arthur Christmas

- Home Alone

- Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

- A Muppet Christmas Carol

- Elf

- Fred Claus

- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (officially confirmed by writer and executive producer Philip Lord)

- The Santa Clause trilogy

- Spirited

- Scrooge: A Christmas Carol

TV Episodes and Specials

- DuckTales (2017)

S1E9: The Impossible Summit of Mt. Neverrest! (Optional; although the episode is set during Christmas due the network prioritizing the holiday over continuity, it's not the main focus of the episode.)

S2E6: Last Christmas!

S3E18: How Santa Stole Christmas!

- Amphibia - S3E10: Froggy Little Christmas

- The Ghost and Molly McGee - S1E10: Festival of Lights/Saving Christmas

- Mickey's Christmas Carol

- House of Mouse

S3E19: Pete's Christmas Caper

S3E20: Clarabelle's Christmas List

Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse

- The Proud Family - S1E11: Seven Days of Kwanzaa

- Mickey Mouse (2013) - S3E21: Duck the Halls: A Mickey Mouse Christmas Special

- Mickey Saves Christmas

- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius - S2E9: Holly Jolly Jimmy

- The Fairly OddParents

S1E13: Christmas Everyday!

S6E11: Merry Wishmas

- SpongeBob SquarePants

S2E28: Christmas Who?

S8E23: It's a SpongeBob Christmas!

S13E5: SpongeBob's Road to Christmas

- Rugrats

S2E14: The Santa Experience

S4E1: Chanukah

S7E13: A Rugrats Kwanzaa

S9E3: Babies in Toyland

- The Powerpuff Girls (1998) - 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas

- Phineas and Ferb

S1E3b: S'Winter

S2E37: Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation!

S3E27: A Phineas and Ferb Family Christmas

S4E1: For Your Ice Only/Happy New Year!

- Milo Murphy's Law - S1E34: A Christmas Peril

- Big City Greens

S2E4: Green Christmas

S3E16: Virtually Christmas

- Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale

- How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)

- The Year Without a Santa Claus

- Santa Claus is Comin' to Town

- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

- Frosty the Snowman

- Hawkeye Season 1 (It is set during the Christmas season.)

- The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special

- Regular Show

S4E9: The Christmas Special

S6E9: The White Elephant Gift Exchange

S6E10: Merry Christmas Mordecai

S8E23: Christmas in Space

- Toy Story That Time Forgot

- The Santa Clauses

Other

- Chibi Tiny Tales

Ep. 14: Christmas Crashers

Ep. 56: Snow Day

Ep. 57: Bad Breath

Ep. 58: Gingerbread Brat

- Sonic Mania Adventures - Part 6 (Holiday Special)

- Sonic Presents: Chao In Space - Official Animation

#my post #watchlist #my watchlist #christmas #hanukkah #kwanzaa #new year #new year's eve #new year's day #christmas watchlist #holiday watchlist #christmas recommendations #holiday recommendations