#The Blacklist Finale

[nancyjocom]

#the blacklist #raymond reddington #dembe zuma #james spader #hisham tawfiq #these two ❤️ #wonderful to finale see a photo of the two of them! #The Blacklist Finale #behind the scenes #blacklist season 10

[castielmoriarty]

they did not fucking end The Blacklist that way. they did not kill off Raymond Reddington that way. I'm just

#in the words of michael scott it's a hate crime because I hated it #going to forget about it now #fuck #the blacklist #text post #raymond reddington #the blacklist spoilers #the blacklist finale

[atlas-of-a-human-soul]

The Blacklist finale

Am I crazy or was the finale completely unsatisfying? We don’t actually get any answers on who Raymond really was nor what was in his letter to Elizabeth that made her so emotional she couldn’t pull the trigger which ended in her death. I mean, we don’t get any closure on what happens to the rest of the task force after Red was found dead. I wanted to see the next step in Ressler’s life, to see Harold retire and to see Agnes grown up chasing her own dream as suggested by Reddington. I wanted some sort of a conclusion, anything! Left me feeling in a slump after watching so long, invested in the mystery, only to end up with no actual answer to any of my questions.

#the blacklist #the blacklist finale #raymond reddington #donald ressler #i want answers not theories #why did they do this to me #and yes i know i am late since it aired like 10 days ago

[torturedpoetemotions]

Well now I'm curious. How did The Blacklist end?

Under the cut for spoilers, also content warnings and a brief soapbox about authors and writing.

CW for death and brief corpse description.

Red dies alone in a field from what appears to be head trauma and a broken neck after staring at a bull for several minutes. The scene and its aftermath are filmed in such a way that it's sort of ambiguous and not immediately clear whether it's a literal depiction of Red about to be gored by a bull or the bull is a metaphorical representation of Death and Red is just facing his death head-on. I can see both interpretations.

That is, you don't actually see what kills him. You see Red walking, then he turns and sees a black bull staring at him from some distance away. He kind of has a stare-off with the bull, and then it runs toward him in slow motion as he just stands there and faces it.

It then cuts to Ressler in a helicopter. He sees something, sets the copter down, and finds Red on the ground in a ditch, bloody and with his neck broken. As he calls it in, Ressler sees a black bull far off in the field, grazing peacefully.

So did the bull kill Red? Or is that just how Red imagined his death as it came for him and he faced it head-on? I like the latter interpretation better. Because it doesn't matter who killed Red. No one gets to claim that as their legacy or boast about it. What matters is that death comes for us all, no matter our sins or our power. And the scene itself is beautifully acted and shot, I have to say.

But it still seems like a cheap, hollow ending for such a character and such a show. Nothing we've been wondering about since season one is really answered. Red's identity, past, and real relationship to Liz are never clarified. It's a mystery spy thriller with no payoff. Nothing is truly resolved. It just ends.

And sure, life is like that too. That's the defense I most often hear for such endings. But I'm so tired of lazy writing being handwaved with "life is like that sometimes." Yes, but life has no authors! No one is crafting themes and story beats into life! If you're going to write a story, write a story, dammit. Otherwise what's even the point?

Anyway yeah. Adding that to the list of deeply unsatisfying TV and film endings from the last decade. Pretty sure the last show I watched with a satisfying ending that a) wasn't a miniseries with very limited episodes/seasons and b) didn't get retconned and undercut by a reboot no one asked for was...god, I don't even remember. Maybe Buffy?

#the blacklist #swordofsun #ask box #the blacklist finale

[sbeep]

[Baldur's Gate 3 spoilers]

My Dark Urge playthrough has been with Sam, paladin of vengeance, and it's turned into one of the best RPG experiences I've had in a very long time.

#Baldur's Gate 3 spoilers #BG3 #Baldur's Gate 3 #Spoilers #BG3 Spoilers #Baldurs Gate 3 spoilers #Dark Urge spoilers #sorry if you dont have your blacklist on but I played through the dark urge finale and I had to draw something like i have 2 breathe air #*Paladin Sam

[makethosenarratorsfight]

UNRELIABLE NARRATORS; SEMI FINALS

*NOTE; propaganda is out of order due to the post length!

Eugenides Propaganda:

the entire plot hinges on a detail he lets the reader (and every other character) assume is true. I don't want to spoil it because it's a really fun reveal but he is lying from the first second he appears on the page and you can't trust him to tell the full truth about ANYTHING related to himself and his goals. he mostly does it to keep his advantage and not have other characters be suspicious of him but it's just so fun when you realise he's been lying the whole time

Kim Dokja Propaganda:

I haven't read orv but he's fucking gotta be from what I've osmosised

He tries to remove his emotions out of the narrative soooo much, literally the most repressed guy ever. Okay so for context orv is about how this guy, Kim Dokja, has been the only reader of an obscure post-apocalyptic webnovel for years and the novel suddenly becomes reality. And at first you'll probably get the weird impression that his behavior is pretty strange for, you know, a literal apocalypse happening in his world - like yes, he is concerned with survival but he doesn't seem all that scared and he kinda treats it like a video game where he has to grind to make himself stronger and he also treats his companions like a party in an rpg. Then there's also the way he approaches the protagonist of the webnovel, from the start he just kind of describes him as a ruthless psychopath and jerk that is unfortunately a pretty useful ally. And also there's the fact that he carefully omits any mention of his past and when somebody asks if he's worried about his family when the apocalypse starts he just kinda... brushes it off? Anyway so yeah, this bastard is definitely traumatized, although I don't know how much of spoiler territory that would be, considering the fact that literally when he first reveals his trauma he's also unreliable about it. And turns out he does indeed, care A LOT about this world and the people around him. Because well, he kinda didn't care to mention that this webnovel that has become reality was like... literally his whole world before it literally became his whole world. Like, it was the only thing keeping him going for 10+ years and the protagonist that he likes to call a stupid jerk was his comfort character who he pretended to be when he felt like he couldn't handle something in his life by being himself. The protagonist is also canonically the person he loves the most according to a prophecy and he literally can't fathom the thought of him dying, even the timeline versions of him that directly oppose him. And I haven't even mentioned the Fourth Wall yet but I feel like this propaganda is a little long already

misreading the intentions of his companion (yoo joonghyuk) so many time.

YOU DON'T UNDERSTANDDD DOKJA IS SUCH A UNRELIABLE NARRATORRRRRR GOD I COULD WRITE AN ESSAY BUT I KNOW YOU LOVE DOKJA TOO BUT OMG HE'S JUST SO AAAAAAAAAAAH

Rest of Propaganda under cut!

he is the worst like actually. he starts the story talking about how normal and average he is. he is not. he is constantly mischaracterizing his friends and he's so good at lying to the readers that you don't even realize it at first. almost every single time he cries we have to be told by other characters because he never says it himself. there is literally a scene where his narration says "i wasn't crying" and then the in-universe entity that narrates the actions of people (orv is really weird and meta) says that he was, in fact, crying. honestly genuinely anything he says about himself (or doesn't say) cannot be trusted. he is just so frustrating. he drives me mad. i love him dearly. but he drives me so mad.

Dictionary definition of unreliable narrator. Does not tell the reader anything and then things happen and he's like oh yeah btw there was also this and this earlier but i just didn't feel like mentioning it. There's even a thing called the "Fourth Wall" that is able to see through kdj's bs so occasionally you get gems like,

Kim Dokja: I didn't cry

The Fourth Wall: [Kim Dokja was crying]

Imagine being so unreliable as a narrator you need a more powerful narrator to call out the actual narrator.

^ same submission, just spacing it out

This goes into spoiler territory, but; Kim Dokja is in possession of a skill called the Fourth Wall, which on the surface seems like it appears because he read the book that reverse-isekai’d into his own. However, as the story goes on it becomes clear that it’s pretty much a souped up version of his pre-existing dissociation. You cannot trust him to be honest about his feelings, his past traumas or his feelings about his past traumas, not to mention his tendency to just outright omit information that only gets revealed later on either when it becomes relevant or when an outsider POV reveals what’s actually happening.

Exhibit A: he says (in 1st person POV) that he’s not crying. The Fourth Wall immediately contradicts this (as it is literally words of the novel) by saying (in 3rd person POV) ‘Kim Dokja was crying’.

Exhibit B: Fails to mention entire actions when it shows him emotionally honest even in the slightest; we had to read from another character entirely when Kim Dokja was being physically affectionate with his companion. It’s so bad that there’s this entire paragraph about Kim Dokja describing himself hiding his eyes in his hands in jerky, weirdly specific detail and just AVOIDING EVERY WORD THAT MIGHT SHOW HE’S CRYING. The brilliance of ORV is that when you re-read the entire thing you get hints that ‘yes, this WAS hinted at the entire time’ but you have to dig it out of Kim Dokja’s repressed, depressed self-hating internal dialogue with your own two hands.

^ same submission, spacing it out (i really should've done this earlier.)

i am a simple man (not a man). i see a tumblr text post with the words “unreliable narrator in it”. i read nothing else. i reblog & tag #kim dokja okay but in all seriousness i’m just going with the musty basic example: so there’s this moment where he sacrifices himself to save this guy. as he lays on the ground bleeding out, he says “hey, you don’t like me, right? you should kill me to get some money” the guy says “no kim dokja i cant do that (going through the five stages of grief except there’s only one and it’s anger)” the constellations (twitch viewers irl) are like omg he (the guy) doesn’t want to kill his companion (kim dokja) and shower him (the guy) with money kim dokja: oh, he’s not killing me for the money. smart!

as i quote a brilliant youtube video (all of omniscient reader’s viewpoint in 6 minutes) “yoo joonghyuk sees kim dokja as a c_____”

yoo joonghyuk: companion

kim dokja: cunt

^ same submission, once again. spacing it out.

Hides his true feelings, tells the readers what he thinks is convenient for the plot and that his own personal feelings don’t matter or are not so significant. Has unreliable thoughts abt his companion and is a liar. And is also an omniscient reader.

Kim Dokja always perceived his companions in this like nonchalant way like “oh yeah we get along but really we’re just fighting to survive (apocalypse setting) it doesn’t run that deep” when they all do genuinely care for him and he does in turn. He just, doesn’t think of it as an equal relationship? Dokja’ll sacrifice a lot for them but will get seriously flabbergasted if they do the same thing, so fricking problematic. Not to mention Yoo Joonghyuk, his “Life and Death Companion” (read: husband). Kim Dokja always seems to think that Joonghyuk has it out for him, which is kinda true, but he is literally blind to the fact that he’s attached to him. Like, it’s so obvious??? Also they have hella sexual tension but that’s another thing entirely

se get some many pov changes where kdj in his pov just assumed things based on what he knew the characters would do. however because of his interference the characters have changed and he wouldn’t know that if it hit him in the face

He's an unreliable narrator because he lies to himself and thus the audience. He literally rewrote his own childhood core memory. If someone says, "this guy is my friend!" He will go through so many hoola hoops in his mind just to rationalize it. Because he fundamentally believe that no one could love him and even if they did they couldn't know him and he's just gonna hurt them. He cries sometimes in canon but a lot of those times it's not even mentioned as crying he's that unreliable of a narrator. No joke, one time this guys he has a gay thing with called him his "companion" to someone who had just killed him (long story) and this bitch thought "oh wow he's doing it for the coins (another long story) he's so smart i wish I'd thought to that. He's terrible. He literally has an exchange with something called the Fourth Wall (an even longer story) where it said "you're crying" and he said "no I'm not" but he was crying. He makes me insane because the reader is supposed to project onto him. He made me see how much of an unreliable narrator I WAS. ORV is just like that tho.

#kim dokja #kdj #orv #omniscient readers viewpoint #once again #if kdj gets this poll blacklisted again im blowing him up #eugenides #the queens thief #queens thief #unreliable narrators battle #unreliable narrators #polls #semi finals

[autumnslance]

Blacklist Improvements in FFXIV!

Enhanced Blacklist Functionality (removes the player model!)

Mute List

Term Filter (applies to most channels in most circumstances)

Estate Expulsion

Enhanced Lodestone Privacy Settings

These will apply across the offending player's account, though note many of them are stored client-side in some cases.

#final fantasy xiv #FFXIV #FF14 #Producer Live Letter #14 Hour Broadcast #Blacklist #Mute #Filter #Privacy #Lodestone #Estate Expulsion

[tongues--and--teeth]

Inspired by a fic I’m writing :]

#shadow milk tinkerbell kinnie #more like a twinkerbell honestly #anyway #not what they’re called but I FINALLY FOUND A BRUSH FOR HALFTONES #yipppeeeee!!! #I mean. really inspired by a fic I’m writing but uh? #text is ooc but I really don’t care #crk #teethart #cookie run fanart #cookie run kingdom #fanart #my art #artists on tumblr #white lily crk #white lily cookie #shadow milk cookie #shadow milk crk #digital art #pure vanilla cookie #anyway this is a desperately unserious drawing #like WLs hair tho #vanilla milkshake #purelily #shadowvanilla #just for the blacklisting #augh #if I saw untagged pu/re ca/cao id be pissed lmfao

[theslowesthnery]

me when i try to art but it doesn't work out

#final fantasy for blacklist #yeah i gave in to the urge to play FF8 #fucking biggs give me your esunas

[theinterestsofinsects]

#gif #mine #miblin #the blacklist #blacklist #raymond reddington #red #Room 417 #this would have been a much better series finale #rip

[filmnoirsbian]

A middle aged cuckolded man headbanging in the family car to last resort by papa roach as he reminisces about fucking his wife in the art studio of the lover she murdered is something that can be so relatable

#tcp #I'm finally watching yellowjackets s2 blacklist 'yj' for spoilers #yj

[jimmyspades]

#this clip has been sitting in my desktop files for a month and the thumbnail is harold and i'm SICK of him looking at me #I had to finally gif and delete it before I snapped #james spader #the blacklist #raymond reddington #* #i love chef red in his apron he's so sexy and fat...... #up against the counter. please

[prisonguards]

joel sews an extra bit of fabric onto his tunic so he has a lil pocket he can carry jimmy around in if he wants to

he fell out so he got moved to the boob pocket...

#smallidarity #solidaribeans #smallishbeans #jimmy solidarity #empires smp #actually. why not maintag this it can be read as platonic... annoying bestie behavior! #empiresshipping #joel ship / #<- for blacklist maybe #finally drew a little bitty jimmy :) thanks anon 💚 #also I cant decide if I wanna give s2 joel long hair or not yet... #experimenting here #prisspeaks #prismakes #asks

[eorzeashan]

oh my god wait. a much better option than leaving Theron to die in the traitor arc would be to put him in Alliance Jail next to Senator Saresh

#swtor #ooc #theron shan #I'M SORRY TO PUT THIS IN THE TAG #but ik he's blacklisted for some so i have to. #but can you IMAGINE #do the crime do the time #'I see your actions finally caught up to you' ' don't talk to me Saresh' #like. he would probably accept it. bc he punishes himself enough as it is. but howling

[torturedpoetemotions]

Just found out how The Blacklist ended and I'm. Genuinely speechless. Is it just not allowed to have satisfying endings anymore?! Literally the stupidest ending I've heard off, somehow even more random and ridiculous than a rusty nail.

#the blacklist #the blacklist spoilers #the blacklist finale #i was going to go back and watch it all once it was done but nevermind oh my god

[u3pxx]

shes an empath

#sunnysidewips #im gonna do finals after this i have to be in a good mood first tho so .. doodles! gfdfdghk #genderbend #<- blacklisting purposes #disco femlysium