#THIS WAS NOT WRONG OF TIM JFC

[dylanconrique]

oh i hope we get a super soft “i don’t wanna be mad at you” chenford hug and tim wipes away a single tear from lucy’s cheek.

#*and this is icarly! #you know these two lovesick buffoons are gonna end up missing each other and feeling so stupid for fighting #bonus points too if tim proclaims to her 'no ones gone out of their way for me before. i'm not used to it' #cause correct me if i'm wrong but aren't they going to be arguing over how tim got into metro???? #we all know why she did it she hated seeing tim so miserable and wanted him to be happy #but i'll bet you my life savings that that just doesn't compute in his head at all #rachel probably did things for him but they weren't together that long and i don't feel like they even saw each other that often tbh #and ashley was so controlling over him jeez #sorry i'm done jfc #the rookie #tim bradford #lucy chen #chenford #otp: you know me so well

[cainware]

Damian, flatly: How does one accurately express that they have "grown weary of life and her cruel games but continue to live because at this point you just want to see where this is going" to their school counselor?

Tim, tiredly: "My life is in utter disarray, yet in spite of that, I spite of every set back I must face, I will rise to the occasion at any opportunity. For my past may have led to my present situation, but my present actions will shape my future. The next events will either we legendary or disastrous. Failure is no longer an option, the ball has hit the ground and now the only option is to bounce back or die trying."

Jason, completely apathetic: "fuck it we ball"

Dick: please for the love of God just take a nap, all of you.

#source: literally the urban dictionary definition of fuck it we ball because a friend sent me a screenshot and i wheezed #incorrect quotes #batfam #damian wayne #jason todd #tim drake #batfamily #a friend sent me this definition and i havent stopped laughing because i mean technically its not wrong?? but jfc did socrates write it?? #dick grayson #cainschatter

[bonesbuckleup]

So I’m new to reading comics. I’m not someone who grew up with access to them, and no one in my immediate or extended family really were into them, and, to the best of my knowledge, most of my friends were in a similar boat. Basically, I’m an adult, and I’m new to comics, and I’m really enjoying exploring them.

I’m bringing this up because I found my way into DC comics via tumblr, which is arguably still the most centralized hub of fandom life, which means I entered through the recent issues. Because I’m me, I also immediately started making shitposts. Inevitably these shitposts have broken out of my dumb curated little enclosure to interact with bits of the fandom I’m generally unfamiliar with. Namely, gatekeepers.

Throwing this under a cut so it’s easily bypassable 👍

It has happened with literally all of my Batman posts that break ~500 notes. People show up in the tags to rant about how sick they are of people on tumblr getting characters wrong, or not understanding canon, or getting mad because of something getting ignored that happened in canon 20+ years ago. They start off by attacking immediately, and getting angry, and ranting about how new fans are so awful/annoying/stupid/etc.

I’ve been in fandom spaces for Far Too Long, so I’m used to dealing with input like this. But if 14/15/16 year old me was met with the kind of vitriol that shows up in my notifications sometimes? She would’ve disengaged with the material entirely and never interacted with the fandom again. She would’ve actively told people to stay out of those spaces because of how mean and unwelcoming many of the people were to her.

Listen: I do get it. It’s frustrating when someone misunderstands a thing you love. I really truly do understand. At the same time, though, we’re talking about characters who have been appearing for 20, 30, 50, 80 years. Characters who have had hard resets and retcons done 3+ times. Characters who have been written by tens or hundreds of different writers and drawn by just as wide a range of artists. It is next to impossible to pick one version of any of them that is The Definitive Version.

And to use myself as an example? Like I said, I’ve been reading these comics since March-ish. I work full time. I hang out with friends. I am querying an original book. I’m reading other books. I need to cook and clean and grocery shop and take walks and get writing done. Most weeks, I spend 1-2 hours reading comics, if that. I had to start somewhere, so I went with some Tim-centric runs (Lonely Place of Dying, the Contagion arc, Battle for the Cowl, Red Robin and related issues, and am now right around where Steph has the baby in his Robin run) and am now wading into Nightwing (1996). So the versions of the characters in my head are related to these moments in time, the early/mid nineties and 2009/2010ish eras. Those versions of the characters may also directly contradict your version, and that’s okay!

What’s not okay is how people immediately see a post and assume the worst instead of taking the opportunity to introduce a new fan to your version of these comics. Taking 2 seconds to be kind is the same amount of time it takes to rip someone’s head off. Like, instead of “jfc, I can’t believe this is framed as a joke when it’s canon, I’m so sick of this, try opening a comic,” try, “Hey guys! This is actually in canon! If you like this concept, check out these runs/issues for how it plays out.”

You all have a really great opportunity to expand your fandom in a dynamic and interesting way. It just makes me sad and a little frustrated to see people moaning about how comics aren’t appreciated enough, and then actively chasing away people who are new to them. No one is going to be able to absorb nearly a century’s worth of content overnight, and expecting them to stay out of fandom spaces until they have a sufficient knowledge base (whatever that means to you) literally defeats the point of fandom.

EDIT: also, just a quick note, for every interaction I’ve had with a gatekeeper in some way, I’ve had 3 interactions with wonderful and helpful people who have directed me to runs/issues that I may enjoy. This is definitely not an “all fans” complaint. There are just some very loud voices that sure are yelling a lot.

Anyway.

Those are my Monday thoughts.

Do with them what you will.

#oversharing etc etc #will probably delete later #🙃

[murderballadeer]

Omg no I thought u would have critical thinking skills and not succumb to the hive mind of tumblr calling any real feminist a terf . Guess I was wrong

jfc do you people never stop? the user in question self identifies as a radfem and like six posts down on her blog there was an original post that referred to a trans woman as a "tim" ie trans identified male. i'm open to being corrected but that doesnt seem to me like i'm "calling a real feminist a terf" it seems like the user in question is, in fact, a trans exclusionary radical feminist. i'm very aware that certain tumblr users have a tendency to respond to any kind of feminist discourse with things like "sounds terfy" and believe me i'm aware of how and why that's a problem – i just don't think that's what's happening here. also it's funny how people only say this kind of thing when it's in response to someone blocking an obvious transphobe 🤨 it's almost as if it wasn't about feminism but about trying to convince people that you can't be a real feminist if you don't hate trans women, and i'm sorry to say that's bullshit

[doctortwhohiddles]

Yes Gatorshit, I'm sure going after Ben's parents will make him love you. JFC, what is wrong with her? Wanda and Tim love their son, it's pretty damn obvious. To accuse them of grooming him and using him as a prop is fucking disgusting. As Patty no sense of decency left?

#haters #gatorfisch #wtf is wrong with her? #fucking hell #truly extreme derangement syndrom

[lingeringscars]

one tree hill!!

send me a fandom and i’ll tell you…

the first character i ever fell in love with: haley probs

a character that i used to love/like, but now do not: probably carrie lol

a ship that i used to love/like, but now do not: i don't think there is one??

my ultimate favorite character™: jake <3

prettiest character: haley

my most hated character: dan jfc

my OTP: j.eyton

my NOTP: keep the adults away from rachel

favorite episode: to wish impossible things (1x18), unopened letter to the world (2x15), others

saddest death: keith

favorite season: a large part of me wants to say 2 for jake i think. maybe 4 tho?

least favorite season: 5 because of lindsey's treatment lmao

character that everyone else in the fandom loves, but i hate: ...karen maybe? idk that's harsh i just disagree with A Lot that she does

my ‘you’re piece of trash, but you’re still a fave’ fave: tim probs. does he make me uncomfy A Lot ? yeah. do i still find him sometimes enjoyable? yeah

my ‘beautiful cinnamon roll who deserves better than this’ fave: lindsey

my ‘this ship is wrong, nasty, and makes me want to cleanse my soul, but i still love it’ ship: don't have one

my ‘they’re kind of cute, and i lowkey ship them, but i’m not too invested’ ship: maybe lucas x anna?

#ttrgrl #thanks for asking #answered

[cluescorner]

Every conversation they have feels like walking through a minefield, though even that may be an understatement. You don't tend to feel love for the explosives that threaten to detonate and destroy your body and soul. Yet Bruce does love his son. Even with his always-armed fuses that could be tripped by the slightest movement it deems 'wrong' and nitroglycerine tongue spitting words that all but scream a desire to ignite then eviscerate everything Batman holds dear, Bruce loves Tim enough that braving the minefield is a foregone conclusion. He will do it because the alternative is never talking to his son again. Bruce would rather endure tonnes of tnt than experience the crushing nothingness of before.

^^^Is the most insane thing I've ever written and it's for my silly little writing challenge that has quickly evolved into something I can no longer contain my genuine enjoyment of writing. Like, oh my god I might be posting fic of this thing. I don't even like publishing my writing but I might just fucking do it at this point because jfc why do I have over 1,000 words of describing ONE RELATIONSHIP.

#randomizedrobinsau #it lives in my head rent free now wtf is going on #I am used to making amvs in my brain for the base characters. WHY AM I DOING IT FOR MY GOOFY FUCKING AU?? #I was listening to goddamn Compass by motherfucking Mili and I thought of my fucking randomized Damian setting off on his own path #both finding his own way after his life was dictated for him by forces outside of his control and moving past his rocky introduction #into the family because as he's matured he's slowly realized that (while everybody involved could have handled it better) it was #absolutely because the circumstances at the time (coupled with the existence of the family's vigilante lives) were utterly horrible #does he forgive them? not entirely. is he going to leave behind the hurt because fixating on it is helping nobody and as much as #Damian's family has hurt him...he loves them and understand why it happened. and they love him and have displayed #that through both words and actions so many times. everything is genuinely better now. so Damian will let this be water under the bridge #as long as his family can accept his decision to focus less on vigilantism and more on his own aspirations. #if they can let him be an occasional participant and emergency reserve member rather than the daily patrols and constant efforts #oh my god #THAT IS THE SHIT I AM TALKING ABOUT #I WAS LITERALLY ONLY GONNA TAG THIS AS THE AU #AND NOW I'VE GONE ON A RANT ABOUT A RANDOM FUCKING AMV I MADE IN MY BRAIN TO DESCRIBE DAMIAN'S FORGIVENESS #WHAT THE HELL #this can't be healthy...but I already knew I'm not exactly normal so this isn't THAT surprising

[not-yet-usernamed]

(#58, did Jon record the conversation in the bathroom???? There's a fuck ton of reverb hgdccghbhjj- Hes a bit sane about Martin but my god could you not spy on Tim he did nothing wrong jfc) -[𝟺𝟹𝟸]

(i forgot which one 58 but its most likely in artifact storage or the tunnels)

(tim breaths and jon is like 🤨🤨🤨)

#possessed posting #(i cannot respond to the rest my break isnt that long)

[onlyhereforangst]

#one of these is not like the other

#chenfordedit #therookieedit #chenford #the rookie #tim x lucy #tim bradford #lucy chen #tuserbecca #usercher #usersuz #tuserlena #usertimlucy #LISTEN #THIS WAS NOT WRONG OF TIM JFC #HE KNOWS SHE CAN HANDLE HERSELF #LUCY IS NOT 👏🏼 A 👏🏼 DAMSEL 👏🏼 IN 👏🏼 DISTRESS 👏🏼 #STOP TRYING TO MAKE HER ONE #SHE SAVED HERSELF FROM A GD SERIAL KILLER PEOPLE SHE CAN HANDLE AN IDIOT HITTING ON HER #AND TIM FUCKING KNOWS THIS #BECAUSE HE KNOWS *HER* UNLIKE ANYONE SHE'S EVER DATED #THIS IS GROOOOOOOWTH PEOPLE #OPEN YOUR EYES #i digress #happy hump day

[kitkatpancakestack]

You have talked about how easy it is to be desensitized to the sheer intensity of the love story we're watching unfold (and I agree!). How it keeps getting louder and LOUDER, but as overwhelming as it is, I do think we aren't fully wrapping our heads around how unsubtle it all is.

If we step back and think about how much has transpired in the first half of Season 5 alone? I mean...

It's not like it's Eddie and Ana's baby, Buck.

I don't panic.

That could be called repression.

The place where this heart's coming from, that was a tragedy. But once we land? It's gonna turn into a miracle.

He takes Christopher there all the time. Got the place memorized.

You need to tell me if something is wrong.

That's not how you talk about someone you're in love with. I've been Ana.

Maybe you should go home first?

I thought I could make it work, the idea of us.

It's your mess now.

Warzones are my thing.

You're the guy who likes to fix things.

Maybe she's the one who needs taking care of?

You're stuck with us.

Or better yet I'll shoot him. Then find his kid and shoot him too.

Eddie, he's dead...But his heart isn't.

Did he get to see his kid?...No.

A man was shot and buried alive tonight.

You don't talk to the women you're dating. You just go with the flow and find yourself in a relationship with no idea how you got there or what to do when things start to go wrong...Yeah, who does that?

I mean like a big-time long-lost-love kind of thing. My abuela loves a good telenovela...Oh and you don't? I know you watch them with Christopher...It's how we practice our Spanish.

I love you...Good.

Maybe I'm just not doing it right...He misses his mom, that's not your fault.

Buck and I got caught up in that prison escape. Neither of us got hurt, so I didn't see the point in telling Chris.

(And don't get me started on the lesbians and the ticking-time-bomb oil well...)

It's all utterly insane! Just the first half of the season! (And I know I'm missing a bunch.)

I know we're all on tenterhooks waiting for the inevitable emotional breakdowns. But look how much has happened! That is just making the build-up to the catharsis that much more intense and delicious. Can you imagine the payoff? Oh boy...

I'm just sitting here trying to process 5A and wondering if you want to spiral with me?

Oh ho ho @yramesoruniverse the festivities are over and it's time to return to our spiraling, I see. *pulls up chair* *sips mimosa* alright then, let's get into it!

I obviously can only speak about what I personally perceive about the show, but for me, at least, I feel like I'll sit down to watch a compilation on YouTube, or I'll tuck in for a short binge, and when it hits me in quick succession like that, I'm always like, "Jfc, this is not as subtle as I thought it was, is it????" And thus I get more unhinged, and the hell cycle repeats.

All the quotes and moments you posted about s5—it was insane seeing all of that spliced together. I was hit with another is this seriously all canon? moment. We literally got:

Eddie ending things with Ana in the queerest fucking way possible

The ongoing metaphor of Eddie and his heart this season

The straight-up callback to the shooting during the hostage episode

The balcony scene's implications which get less and less subtle the longer I think about it

The constant placement of Buck and Eddie in scenes/emergencies/situations that revolve around children and parenthood

. . . And more that I'm too lazy to recount right now

It makes me insane? Idk, maybe I just have Hiatus Brain. But I also saw how 911LS was bringing in BTVS veterans onto the show, which made me think about how Tim was a part of that universe, which made me spiral over your post about the Willow/Tara and Buck/Eddie parallel again with the shooting scene and how it's way too on the nose to be happenstance. And then yesterday I saw this post by @hmslusitania about the jaw-dropping parallel between the ending scene in 5x10 and a moment in the movie Love, Actually (which I have not seen, so I cannot verify firsthand but I trust the source) and it made me spiral even more!

There's just so much. My head is spinning. If someone made a spreadsheet of evidence to try and convince a third party that these two idiot soulmates were destined to be together (I'm not saying someone should do that but someone should totally do that 👀), that shit would be hard to refute.

You got me in it, now. Anyway, you know I'm always thrilled and ready to spiral with you <3

#yramesoruniverse came out swinging #like always #it's answering asks hours #buddie #meta #I guess #more like spiraling #it's spiraling over 5A hours #posts that will age like fine wine when buddie goes canon #K spirals

[outrunningthedark]

HOLY CRAP! JFC! SWEET HOLY MOTHER OF GOD! What was this finale?! I mean SOOOOOO much amazing - like straight-out-of-fanfiction - Buddie content...not gonna mention all the stuff I didn't like....but Tina...Eddie made Buck Chris' legal guardian! Buck staying with Chris during Eddie's hospitalization! Eddie called Buck 'Evan'! which I didn't know how much I needed until now 🙏🙏🙏 in a sense I can't WAIT for season 5....but then again I'm kinda scared seeing some of the writing directions Tim&co decided to take (with TK and Buck) ...even if they are temporary 🤔

SO MUCH GOOD STUFF TO SCREAM ABOUT! 💖 Buck becoming visibly angry and rolling right under the fire truck 💖 Buck lifting Eddie into the firetruck with what seemed to be little effort (I want those bloopers 👀) 💖 "Stay with me, okay?" 💖 "Are you hurt?" *Buck suddenly remembers he's covered in blood* *doesn't want Eddie to worry about him* 💖 The way Buck's anxiety was seeping through his words as he said "We're so close. I just need you to hang on." 💖 "You okay, Buckley?" "No." 💖 The view of the universe poster in Christopher's room as Buck talks 💖 "Your dad is tough as nails. He's a fighter, right?" (Wow, Buck. Does Eddie know you admire his strength?) 💖 Buck allowing himself to cry in front of Christopher once he finds out Eddie's surgery was a success 💖 Buck and Chris literally leaning on each other for support 💖 The revelation that Buck is staying at the Diaz house while Eddie is recovering in the hospital 💖 Christopher teasing Buck about his loud snoring 💖 Buck telling Carla "The team feels off without Eddie." 💖 Buck being angry with himself that he "couldn't do anything to protect [Eddie]" 💖 The kiss being immediately followed up by Buck running to see Eddie and sharing a relieved smile 🥰 💖 Christopher getting to talk to his dad 😊 and Carla reassuring Eddie that she and Buck have everything under control 💖 Buck telling Eddie that Carla offered to have Christopher stay with her, but Buck wanted to maintain a sense of normalcy for him and decided to stay until Eddie got better 💖 "I kinda lost it when I told him you got shot. I should've held it together." BUT YOU COULDN'T. BECAUSE IT'S EDDIE. 💖 "You were there for him when I couldn't be. That's what matters." 💖 "I think it might have been better for him if I was the one who got shot." Eddie: *is annoyed* 💖 Buck driving Eddie home from the hospital 💖 "It's in my will that if I die, you become Christopher's legal guardian." ----PAUSE---- BUCKLEY-DIAZ FAMILY IS OFFICIALLY CANON!!!! 💖 "My attorney said you could refuse." "You know I wouldn't." "Nah, I know you wouldn't." 💖 Eddie made Buck Christopher's other legal guardian knowing his family would probably fight for custody, but he trusts Buck to fight back 💖 "No one will ever fight for my son as hard as you. That is what I want for him." 💖 Why is Eddie telling Buck this information NOW when he changed his will a year ago after almost dying in the well collapse? "Because, Evan. You came in here the other day and you said it would have been better if it had been you who was shot. You act like you're expendable. *audible sigh* But you're wrong." 💖 Buck watching his boys reunite at home Heteronormativity aside... I had a good time! BT becoming a couple just as Tim is being less than enthusiastic about EddieA*a makes sense, annoying as it is. Now it's Buck's turn to be involved with someone else while Eddie is on the outside looking in. Although, given what has transpired in the last 24 hours, I am not expecting the Buckley-Diaz boys to suffer as a result. Their interactions will carry a different vibe now that Buck knows he's basically Christopher's other parent. Girlfriends come and go, but that family is forever.

#oh-look-theres-me #johanna 😘 #911 spoilers #tv: 911 #tv: 9-1-1 #christopher diaz #eddie diaz #evan buckley #buddie #buckley-diaz boys

[mrchalamet-mrstyles]

Once more it’s seems like you don’t understand. No one is complaining anything. It’s just a fact that a lot of what he publicly does is a little bit artificial and not that spontaneous anymore…think about his last story, just to mention one. Is there anything bad in it? No. Is it a waste that he’s not so fresh and genuine anymore (as he was at the beginning of this unbelievable journey)? Yes, it is. This is not Charmies or Lilothée (which are per se two embarrassing expressions). Everything is planned. Everything is pr. It’s just sad.

"No one is complaining" as you complain about him. Okay.

And jfc, what was wrong with his last story??? He isn't allowed to post photos of himself on his own goddam ig???

But at least we agree on one thing- I abhor the monikers Charmie and Lilothee. Lilothee isn't a ship. It's REAL. And I support Tim and Lily not a make believe fantasy that needs a ship name.

[unironicduncanstan]

rating disney movie sequels ive seen from worst to best bc i can

12. pocahontas II: journey to a new world - caught sight of it on my tv one time, and as a child who was probably still identifying as republican at that point, i s2g it was so racist i could not finish it. ‘wait till he sees you’ gives me fuckin hives

11. tarzan II - its. tarzan as a kid. like just more young tarzan adventures and dont get me wrong its a cute idea but after about 5 minutes it gets so boring 

10.  atlantis: milos return - this one gets a lil bit of a pass bc from what i heard it was supposed to be a better sequel but that got canned and they were working on a spin off series too so they just like. took a couple of the episodes they were working on and stitched it into a movie. its like a bootleg parody of the first film and my family and i despite loving the original , once again, could not even finish this one. the only memorable part for me was kida picking up a life preserver presuming its a game and milo telling her you throw it to someone whos drowning and she responds “does this not make it difficult to play the game”

9. beauty and the beast: the enchanted christmas - not that bad, tim curry plays a great villian per usual, its just kinda confusing where and how it fits into the plot of the first film. and its like. Dark? perhaps scary? for a christmas movie??? i remember my mom didnt want me to watch it every year she’d dread it bc it was such a bummer lol

8. brother bear 2 - ok nah introducing the new girl character was actually a baller move, and the concept was pretty cool. they just didnt make it fit very well and ngl the entire rest of the movie also feels disconnected from the first. had a lot of good dots but no good connection ya dig. also even though they tried in the end it was still just a ‘we have to give this character a love interest’ movie which kinda trumps the whole reason the first movie revolved around brotherhood. it aint wife bear

7. cinderella II: dreams come true - i barely remember it i am literally just giving it this high of a rating bc the romance between the baker and one of the stepsisters was so fucking wholesome. that true love lives in my head bitch xoxo

6. the rescuers down under - i never saw the original so when i saw this on tv i thought it was the original , thats how quality it was imo. i just hardly remember it and had no real urge to seek it out again for years. its eye catching but not super duper memorable

5. the little mermaid II: return to the sea - ik most of the plot is just the first movie reversed but i actually rly liked the character melody and how they inverted a lot of the concepts, its just. a lot of it includes secondhand embarrassment and some of it rly is too lazy for me to ignore. solid B- for me

4. the lion king II: simbas pride - INCREDIBLE soundtrack, nothing can beat the first but its still Baller, and the newly introduced characters are all iconic. my only qualm is how like. the concept of bigoted simba is very hard to watch which ik ik it makes some sense with the events of the first movie but jfc my man does not have a great look in this one

3. mulan II - most ppl hate this one?? but i actually rly loved the princess characters and the music as well, i watched it a LOT growing up. the whole mushu trying to break up mulan and shang thing is equal parts entertaining and frustrating. and the animation is a tad bit... off. but like am i ever gonna FORGET mulan hanging off the bridge and reaching for her man and screaming with her entire heart? or the way she kinda parallels his ‘ping, hold on’ from the first movie with ‘shang, hang on’? no

2. peter pan II: return to neverland - broe....... howd they take the racist misogynistic trainwreck that was the first film and make this. its so fucking good, it has emotional depth and speaks to kids who feel they are being forced into growing up too fast by showcasing wendys daughter going thru WORLD WAR II and making her an incredibly realistic portrayal of a traumatized kid, pairing her with the happy go lucky peter pan and the lost boys who CANT grow up, symbolizing the death of her innocence with the way that her not believing in fairies is slowly killing tinkerbell, it all just makes for a really impactful movie. and even in a kids movie sense its just so entertaining and at times really funny and/or whimsical? not to mention the ‘i’ll try’ song/scene gets me crying every single time. beautiful movie dude the only reason its 2nd is bc it is , So emotional that im not always in the MOOD to watch it bc i have to prepare a little

1. the lion king 1 1/2 - god yes i fuckign loved and still love this one so much. the music is fire the comedy still makes me laugh so hard and the whole idea is so fucking genuinely clever. god bless whoever came up with this one i had it on dvd and im p sure i watched it for years till it was so scratched up it wouldnt play anymore, 11/10

[buttercupbuck]

Ok, a bit off topic but with all those Taylor post i started thinking like...I love her, i love her and Buck’s friendship and i can much more easily tolerate them dating than EddieAna. But i think/hope that they won’t be endgame for one reason in particular and that is the fact that we already know her, but never considered her an actual potential love interest until a few episodes ago. Now, had there been signs back in season 2 that they would go there, it would be an entirely different story. Had they shown or even just mentioned her ONCE over the course of almost two entire seasons, it would be a different story. Had we actually SEEN her character development, it would be a different story.

But like this she’s just an old fling we hadn’t heard of in ages, did a complete 180 while absent and then turned up to almost immediately (this does NOT qualify as a slowburn Tim, jfc) start a relationship with Buck. I absolutely understand why people love them and enjoy seeing them on their screen, like i said, i do too, but let’s not act like this is incredible storytelling. We like them because they are great characters on their own and have good chemistry, not because there’s some epic story there.

tbh i think it’s just a consequence of the writers not really planning their storylines that far out. for the most part, most storylines feel pretty organic and intentional (like all of the buck begins stuff, which fit in so well with everything we already knew about buck despite the secret being invented the summer before they came back for s4), while other storylines do suffer maybe a little bit from that. but i mean idk i doooo love the trope of someone who was very wrong for a character at one point in their life coming back later and having something new, but yeah i am also a little surprised they didn’t try to allude to her in the episodes before (kinda like how they did with abby in 3.16 and 3.17) just to remind the ga about her! but it is what it is

but yeah omfg tim is bananas when he says it’s a slow burn bc it’s just not. but not every romance has to be that (even though i would like it to be). it’s still a good story imo but it’s not like Epic or whatever. i think what was great about madney and bathena is that we had such a good idea of their characters before they fell into relationships and it felt all the more fulfilling when they did because we knew all the ways in which it was meaningful for them (and that’s the same reason i love buddie so much too), so if it’s intended to be endgame (and regardless tbh) i hope we get to know more about taylor so we can kinda get that same understanding from bucktaylor as well 🌈 i love all of her development in s4 so i hope they keep up with it in s5

#ask #anon #bt

[the-last-rat-standing]

And another thing!

Okay, so not only did they throw an absolute wrench into the Ducky/Shannon/Gibbs continuity last night, but, jfc, they got Gibbs’ wedding anniversary wrong.

”Sturgeon Season” took place in November, based on the show’s own black screen at the beginning. Gibbs texts (!!) Tobias in last night’s episode to get a sit-rep. Tobias basically says the 2 weeks aren’t up yet. So “Everything Starts Somewhere” takes place in November. Put a pin in that little bit of info-

November.

Tim’s work anniversary is coming up and he invites Gibbs for drinks. Gibbs tells him he’s had enough of anniversaries. We find out later it’s because his anniversary to Shannon has just passed. When do you think they were married?

That’s right. Not November. 

According to the show’s own goddamn canon, (”Hiatus II”), they were married in April, 1982. 

April.

APRIL.

It is so damn disheartening to find the writers just don’t seem to give a shit. So long as they can crank out another episode, who care if it completely negates anything? But you’d think they’d at least get Gibbs/Shannon right, considering it’s the one dead horse they can’t stop beating.

#ncis #jfc #where is the show's bible???