#across the entire series

[jessieren]

Aaannddd with alarming speed we’re back to Moustache Monday again…

@librawritesstuff favourite day of the week… ummm… possibly

How can you not love that smiley face and its smiley tache

#shaun evans #itv endeavour #endeavour morse #moustache mondays #morsetache mondays #he’s always cute when he smiles #with a tache or without #love the tache cake #it’s a masterpiece #as is the tache itself #I love how no one mentions it #across the entire series #no one goes… errr hang on what? #not strange when he pops to see him #not bright #not Thursday #nada #I mean you’d mention it right #Thursday mentions when he doesn’t iron his shirt #but nothing about the tache #no… seriously mate… what? #no jokes about caterpillars on his top lip #nothing… #Joan kind of mentions it #at the fete.. #with the ‘you don’t look like you’ #but that’s it #anyway….

[loki-us]

Loki literally stares directly at Mobius for almost 10 full seconds before announcing what his time slipping is really about. Sylvie is behind him the entire time and Loki only turns around to say he can rewrite the story, to tell Sylvie what he’s already decided to do. There is absolutely no doubt who Loki is referring to when he discovers what’s really driving him.

#this scene will never not make me go feral #Lokius #im screaming #loki #because Loki knew mobius liked working there #so he wanted to save the entire TVA for mobius #and that love saved countless lives across the entire multiverse #thoughts-theories #loki-us blog #loki s2 #loki season two #loki season 2 #loki show #loki series #mobius #mobius m mobius #it’s about who #Loki 2x05 #science/fiction

[krashlite]

The brainrot took over and I spent all morning rambling/psychoanalyzing BigB and Grian cause they make me crazy

So it’s been established that Grian + Scar and Ren + BigB are soulmates. No matter what they will find each other- even outside of DL. Fate chose them and continues to choose them

Grian + BigB on the other hand are not soulmates, they just chose each other. It’s rare that they cross paths but typically they’ll stay nearby whenever they do.

3L had blue sword boys (BSB) which was the two of them and Martyn, though Martyn was the only one out of the three that called on the alliance. The desert’s first plan happened at BigB’s castle- an action that steered Scar away from BigB and towards Dogwarts even though aiming for BigB probably would’ve gotten them more immediate results- something I know damn well Grian shoots for. I like to think this was because B was Grian’s backup plan if Scar did die. “Your job isn’t to steal cookies, it’s to do murder” if that was the sole reason for changing targets then why not just attack BigB instead of stealing his cookie?

They didn’t cross paths on the battlefield iirc, even when the desert stormed Dogwarts for the final time. BigB was absent when the desert went sky high and was largely uninvolved in most of the war. Though he sided with DW he didn’t fully stand against the desert, he didn’t stand against Grian. And when the desert stormed DW, BigB was mostly on the outskirts of that fight, which I think was because he’s scared of combat. EDIT correcting myself here but BigB was in fact shot by Grian, even if unintentionally

The next time they see each other is when Scar comes along to sic Bdubs on BigB. The whole time Grian is begging BigB to “do something!!” And saying he can’t watch. EDIT 2 I watched the clip back and Grian specifically told him “don’t go out without a fight.” DON’T GO OUT WITHOUT A FIGHT.

Even after BigB panics and attacks him, Grian is still distraught over the fact that he’s gone. He even justifies BigB attacking him as it being revenge for the arrow

I’m also fascinated by B’s decision to attack Grian instead of the other two reds. Grian was the only yellow name left, which was probably the reason why B went for him over Scar or Bdubs. It could be a fun idea for BigB to see that he was never truly on the desert’s side and attack Grian as a response to that. Yes Grian was pleading for him to do something, but he made no actual attempt to save him. Grian was going to let them kill BigB, and B knew this

Anyways

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LL they didn’t really interact much- which does come into play during DL

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In DL Grian and BigB found each other day 1, but alas, not soulmates. But there’s a couple things established in their first interaction. Grian suddenly dropped like 6 hearts bc of Scar and started panicking asking for food. This established pretty much immediately that Grian’s soulmate wasn’t going to save him and BigB was.

BigB, on the other hand, though Grian’s disappointment, reads that Grian would have truly valued his company- not to mention how he knows that G would’ve taken the lead on things B feels he’s weakest at, considering they have past experience

Enter Ren! Ren is someone who truly does value and care about BigB but he is very bad at actually expressing this. He tries spinning negatives into positives instead of working through them- which isn’t a flaw necessarily but it is something that clashes with BigB

I would like to specifically point out that instead of listening to BigB when he said he doesn’t know how to build and teaching him some basics- Ren instead leans into the fact that BigB is bad at building. He decides they should make the ugliest base as a sort of inside joke but I can’t help but feel like BigB was a little hurt by that. He laughs along, but damn.. Ren intended this as some harmless fun but fails to recognize that it’s not what BigB wanted, nor what he needed. BigB does learn to love the base for all its goofiness because he loves Ren, and wants to be there for him

Box pretty quickly becomes about what Ren wants- not through malicious intent but because they have different personalities. Ren is very loud and outgoing while BigB is more reserved.

Ren is someone who tends to jump into things headfirst while BigB tends to follow. Ren also has a habit of not listening to people- something he did in past seasons as well. DW almost crumbled because he failed to listen to Martyn, he got tunnel vision in LL while building the shadow fort and failed to save Cleo- not even realizing she’d died when the betrayal happened on his front doorstep

BigB, on the other hand, needs to be listened to. Again, he’s a lot more reserved than other people but truly shines when he has a spotlight on him. LL was wonderful for this since, after his betrayal, the main plot thread of the fairy fort centered on him- on how his mistakes led to their demise and how it was up to him to fix the situation he caused. BigB stayed closer to his team than ever before, making sure that they knew he was trustworthy. However, B also ran away from the true issue, which was that he had betrayed Cleo. BigB was too scared to try to make amends with them after Cleo burned the fort to the ground, fearing for both his safety and the safety of his team.

Back to DL! BigB overcompensated for past mistakes by fully mirroring whatever Ren did, all the way down to getting a matching pair of sunglasses and dog ears. He didn’t agree with Ren’s decision to ban Pearl from Box, but stood by the decision since Ren had made it. Largely, BigB didn’t feel heard in the relationship- something that’s later discussed in couple’s counseling

Putting a pin in that!

On Grian’s side of things he is in! An entire mess. Not only is he paired with a past fling, but Scar is almost constantly causing problems for him. He’s taking large chunks of damage, getting himself into stressful situations for Grian, and Grian has to drag him everywhere in order to get them to get along. Scar wasn’t even going to base with him, he was perfectly content in them living in separate bases when Grian needed to stay with his soulmate. It comes down to safety for Grian- he doesn’t think he can rely on Scar to keep the both of them out of harm’s way. In fact, Grian has to hurt himself to be with Scar, even in their first interaction with the stalactite!!!!

Grian feels less like Scar’s partner and more like Scar’s mother, having to constantly watch after him and make sure he’s out of trouble. I think Grian even remarks that being with Scar is like watching over a toddler.

Scar’s behaving like this both to try and get Grian to be less uptight about every little thing and also as a means of getting back at him for said little things. Grian didn’t want the pandas in the house? Fine, he’ll hop in some powdered snow. Grian’s upset by him taking damage? Fine, he just won’t eat for a bit. Scar knows it’s not as serious as Grian’s making it out to be but does nothing to reassure Grian.

All this does is push Grian away, so it’s absolutely no surprise that Grian runs off. He tried! So hard! To fix the relationship and doesn’t see Scar putting in the same amount of effort. Again, Grian is his partner, not his caretaker. He shouldn’t be expected to constantly clean up after Scar

No G wasn’t perfect but goddamn

BigB on the other hand, has already been established as a Safe person. Both this season and in past seasons. Remember, Grian was completely absent from the fairy fort plotline, never actually crossing paths with the consequences of the betrayal. This affects both of them. Not only does Grian perceive him as safe, but BigB knows he has nothing to prove to Grian. He is loved regardless, while with Ren he feels the need to prove himself CONSTANTLY with little acknowledgement.

They both felt undervalued with their soulmate but were valued with one another. However, neither one of them wanted to actually leave their soulmate, which is where things get tricky. They were fully in the wrong for cheating on their soulmates, even if they did have a reason for doing so

But anyways

BigB got caught between Grian and Ren, the more he leaned to one side the more he lost the other. This is the same issue he had in 3L- coincidentally landing between the same people.

Both of them kept the other a secret to protect their peace more than their soulmate. Grian even goes as far as to gaslight Scar when Scar clearly knows he’s being cheated on. BigB also lies about Grian’s involvement in his and Ren’s 2nd death, leading Ren to focus solely on Bdubs.

Ren does this to find a target to defend BigB from rather than actually addressing the root of their problems- Ren’s inability to listen. He thinks that if he just Shows BigB how good of a soulmate he is, he can keep BigB at his side when that’s not what BigB needs. So now Box is caught in a cycle of trying to prove themselves to the other

Scar, on the other hand, doubles down on his behavior instead of making any changes. The only thing he does change is how much he listens to Grian. He basically becomes Grian’s lackey, which was meant to address the fact that Grian feels like he has no control over his circumstances. However, he fails to recognize that the reason G thinks he lost control is because Scar himself is a rogue element.

So both sides continue to get worse in trying to course correct- which causes both of them to get into increasingly dangerous situations

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Also side bar, in writing this I realized if you swapped Grian for Ren they would be perfectly functional on both sides- since Ren’s course correction matches what Scar needs and Scar’s course correction matches what Ren needs. Ren needs support while being a protector and Scar needs someone to stand by him. Grian needs someone who’s safe and BigB needs someone to guide him

It’s a really funny coincidence but anyways

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Ultimately it was Grian’s impulsiveness that did them in- all four of them. He set the trap at Box trying something ambitious, and he went to get a warden for a last hoorah. I like to think he was emboldened by the fact that the soulmate feature had less emphasis to him in those final episodes. He was thinking about BigB and not Ren and considered Scar entirely separate from him. It also doesn’t help that two of the three soulmate couples that stayed together- were either dead(ranchers), or distant from him(clockduo). Boat boys fed into his chaotic nature through being silly goofy guys

Even after Grian ended his season, BigB still forgives him. He still cares!!

I’m not normal about this season whatsoever

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In LimL they really don’t properly interact until the very end but we’ll get to that.

BigB’s POV really reinforces that Grian is a loose canon. This was established in DL but LimL reinforces this in a more Romanticized kind of way. Grian’s sort of framed as being dangerous in a fun way and not the “oh this one’ll kill me and dump my body off a bridge” kinda way. He’s a Bad Boy, not a Bad Guy

On the other side of things, Grian’s POV reinforces that BigB is “safe.” The only conflict he has with the Nosy Neighbors is the Judge Judy and Executioner plotline- which Grian doesn’t take seriously whatsoever. Meanwhile, the Bad Boys have conflict with literally everyone else on the server

So when Jimmy and Joel die, it is zero surprise that Grian comes running to BigB again! BigB can’t save him, he can’t even save himself, but goddamnit Grian still trusts him and BigB’s too nice for is own good

And once again!! It’s Grian’s impulsiveness that gets them killed

I would like to also point out the moment where B has 45 seconds left on his timer and while Pearl is desperately trying to save him, Grian sort of stands off to the side and gets ready to crit BigB out if he has to. Remember- Grian was fighting a losing battle to save his boys, it getting to the point where it just wasn’t worth the cost. He hesitated because he didn’t want to lose BigB but wasn’t quick to save him like Pearl was.

And honestly it’s no surprise that Pearl was so quick to give him time. She spent the last season completely on her own and had nobody to turn to. Everyone she tried to stay with turned her away, and BigB was arguably the only person who didn’t outright shun her. Remember, he was only going along with Ren’s decision and I think she knows this. Now in LimL, Pearl has him as someone she can fully rely on, someone who stays at her side no matter what and I also think she panicked at the idea of being alone. Grian has a habit of making selfish decisions, and she knows that won’t bode well for her if it’s just the two of them. Plus she fully understands the power of a sacrifice and what it means to others. Hell, her victory was given to her THROUGH A SACRIFICE. Pearl knows damn well the amount of kindness it takes to do something like that, so her jumping to save B makes complete sense

I also like to think this calls back to 3L, with Grian not moving to save him from Scar and Bdubs. In both situations, Grian thinks BigB was going down anyways and is too scared to do anything to save him. But while BigB couldn’t do anything then, he can do something now. Grian is grateful for the extra time but I can’t help but think this pushed BigB away

Pearl was the last of that trio iirc, with both BigB and Grian dying in clumsy ways

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SL they coincidentally wound up on the same corner of the map and most of BigB’s silly goofy behavior was directed at Grian but I really need to watch their POVs again to do a proper analysis so we’re putting a pin in that until later

#anyways this is barely proof read so sorry if I come across as a rambling lunatic #DL was an entire mess for them and their soulmates and they did not handle it well #trafficshipping #including that for DL mostly #grian #bigbst4tz2 #trafficblr #life series smp #I’m normal about them I prommy #these two are The toxic yaoi for me rn so don’t mind my insanity

[markantonys]

what she says: i'm fine

what she means: the purpose of elayne's COT bath scene is to show how taxing the reality of being a ruler is. even while taking a bath, which should be a moment of privacy and relaxation, elayne is still surrounded by people and still working, hearing reports and giving orders and mentally running through all the hundreds of issues she needs to deal with, and she can't even finish her bath without being interrupted by somebody demanding her immediate attention. and yet the only thing fandom got out of this scene is "haha elayne's obsessed with taking baths because she's a spoiled princess"

#justice for the COT bath scene!!!!! #i would bet my bottom dollar that rand actually has more bath scenes than elayne across the entire series #gee i wonder why she gets hate for them and he doesn't #elayne trakand #wot #wot book spoilers #the wheel of time

[spoileralxrt]

This feels like a hot take nowadays, but Jara (Jason Todd/Yara Flor) was the best possible relationship that could’ve come out of the Elseworld’s Teen Titans. Do I think the series as a whole would’ve been better without a romance plot? Yes, of course, but man do I love Jara.

First of all, both of them are dealing with the pressure of carrying on the legacy of two of the original Teen Titans. I see Cara fans saying “oh, but Batgirl is a legacy name, too,” but it’s really not the same. Cass had Barbara in her corner while Jason and Yara didn’t have Dick or Donna in theirs (at least at the start/not in the same way that Cass had Babs.)

Also, despite the fact that the romance plot from #27 to #36 was forced I admit, they had chemistry before that. Almost from the start, before they were really friends or got along that well, they had banter! There was tension! There was already foreshadowing for the relationship that would blossom between the two of them by #5. 

The specific moment of foreshadowing that comes to mind in issue 5 is Roy’s thought boxes on page 26, where Roy compared the two to him and Donna. Most people say this makes no sense, that it would be better to make a comparison between Dick and Donna, I say this was purposeful to hint at how their relationship would develop.

And at the end, Yara was the one who was there for Jason after he killed Condiment King, helping him as he tried to figure out what it meant to have blood on his hands. All the others, especially Roy, turned their back on him without even asking why he did it (which I suppose we should blame the writers for more than the characters, and how rushed the entire ending is).

In conclusion, whether you like the ship or not, the writers were pushing it from the start. If you’re an Elseword’s Teen Titans fan, you can’t ignore it. Stop getting pissy when people enjoy the CANON ship, and stop trying to make a perfectly normal friendship a romantic relationship… but also qpr cara would slap.

#does this make any sense? #unreality #im so insane about them i can't tell if my thoughts are coherent #i just hope its enough to get the point across #jason and yara are so important to me. they helped each other so much!! #they're 100000% not a perfect ship but they're the best we could've gotten #the entire team was a hot mess though tbh 💀 #as big of a jara fan as i am i will honestly say that the series would've benefited more if it didn't happen #elseworld's teen titans without romance would've been peak #dc #yara flor #jason todd #jara

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

Need asoiaf fans to be disabused from the notion that anyone “deserves” the Iron Throne. Not a single person deserves it, doesn’t matter how good they are. And I’d take it a step further and say that no one deserves to be king or queen or lord. We shouldn’t be equating kingship/queenship with a happy ending. This series does so much to criticize this awful system so it’s particularly jarring that people will go “I want my fave to get their happy ending and sit on the iron throne”. That’s…kind of antithetical to what the series has shown us so far I think.

#asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #people if there’s one thing you ought to take away from reading this series #it’s fEuDaLiSm bAd #that’s like super consistent across the entire system #it sounds reductive but like grrm has spent a lot of time showing us just how rotten this all is #the iron throne is pretty much a physical representation of this rotten system #and I also see people being like ~I want my fave to be the hero because that’s what they deserve and that’s a happy ending~ #as if grrm isn’t taking his sweet time deconstructing what it means and costs to be a hero #spoiler alert: it costs a lot!!! #being a hero isn’t going to be a walk in the park guys #my hot take is that part of the reason why people don’t like bran as king of the 7k is because they had thought the IT going to their #fav was the happy ending #so that’s why we get a lot of ~what’s bran’s tax policy~ #not to say that everyone asking that is asking it in bad faith #but so many people in this fandom think that certain roles are owed to their faves #gonna prepare a truck load of popcorn for when ADoS comes out because oooo the drama #btw this is not directed toward a particular fandom - because like half of the people who read this books think like that

[somnas-writes]

Thinking about how if MCGA gets an adaptation is gonna be either A. toned down/altered to accommodate the sheer amount of violence OR B. it’s gonna be book accurate but have such funny CGI

Like Hearths magic? Alex shape shifting? All the giants and large beings that appear? JACK???

#the actor for Magnus is gonna have to act across from a green foam sword #plus they’ll probably have to change all the music that Jack sings #bc Jack sicks lots of pop😭 #Jack likes white girl music it’s canon #somnas.rambles #mcga #magnus chase #magnus chase and the gods of asgard #I love Magnus #and the entire book series #praying that one day we get a mcga adaptation #that’s book accurate with funny cgi #but also one that’s respectful about every character #pls do not show me Sam removing her Hijab I will blind myself #also black Magnus is happening (It’s true I’m rick)

[columboscreens]

#columbo #season 5 #identity crisis #i really think hands down columbo's secret to reading people isnt that he's a ghost or clairvoyant. he just looks into their eyes #look at the soft lil smile of self-assurance when he makes eye contact with brenner #how he figures out the belly dancer is shy just by looking into her eyes from across a room #how he talks about eyes (victims. suspects. random people) in general throughout the series. jennifer wells in etude in black comes to mind #anyway hope you have a pair of really dark anti lumbo sunglasses #he'll have this big hunch about you but he'll spend the entire episode wandering around sad and confused because he can't see your damn eye #eyes

[junonreactor]

someone tell me why so many 'western fantasy' setting kr webcomics have some kind of weird orientalism arc and the 'modern/dungeon break'-ish ones have some kind of weird nationalism arc. do they think that's a prerequisite for the setting. does it make the domestic audience more invested/engaged in the setting somehow. are they just so tired/brainless that they are slapping in "easy" plots and that's what they default to. can we do what bad kdramas do and start hitting people with cars in dramatic slow mo so people can have angry hospital hallway confrontations instead

#literally you will be reading a totally normal unremarkable woman meets unbearable man story #and suddenly they will introduce an Ambiguously Middle Eastern Country #that is either or both mystical and barbaric. or they will introduce one (1) character who is basically a caricature. #or you will read about someone going to fight giant lizard cats in a dungeon portal and suddenly #you'll have an entire mini-arc dedicated essentially to Korea Number One BTW!!!!! like wh #like yes racism obviously but like it really is copy-pasted arcs across series. #and if it only happened once or twice it would be a weird and bad but 2 nickels situation #but this happens like 70% of the time with the mediocre copy-pastes. are you all working off One Master Copy. can i see it #ein babbles #to delete #i'm going to make that neocities page and it's just going to be a journal complaining about every other bad webcomic i read

[r0semultiverse]

Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake finale spoilers without context

#all im gonna say is that if you know you know! lol #iykyk; not sure if I should tag this as spoilers or if this is incomprehensible enough to not need one 😂 #you're welcome to take guesses on whats going on with adventure time fionna & cake if you want lol to avoid spoiling anyone though I'll #neither confirm nor deny your guesses lol #some of these are very specific references so I think i'll just post it lol #by the way; I'm counting episodes 9 and 10 as the finale since they dropped in pairs of 2! #all of this is seen in those two episodes though; in one way or another; you'll see if you haven't yet! plz go watch it on HBO Max! #boosted numbers & stuff could get us more adventure time spinoff series or even a F&C season 2 (though I don't think one is needed tbh) #I wouldn't be upset though if they somehow came up with more material to cover for a season 2; there are little loose ends left over #but I'm not sure it's really enough content for an entire 2nd season unless we're going to lava world; apocalypse world; tiny world; etc. #the lich could also come back for however many times he has if it's a different instance of him from across the multiverse; but idk #tried to get a little bit of everything in this post without giving it all away; hope I did okay in that regard! #if you can tell me the collegehumor reference without looking it up; you get a cookie! 🍪💜 #mine #op #adventure time #fionna and cake #atimers #casper & nova #cheers

[popsicle-stick]

yknow. the superstore writers were nuts for that. i really did, honest to god, think that amy and jonah were broken up for good and that was how the whole thing was gonna end. i'd already gone through the five stages of grief and i'd reached acceptance and reframed the whole thing as a Tragedy in my head. what i was NOT prepared for was america ferrera reappearing for the ending and the amy/jonah relationship getting salvaged from the abyss within the space of two 20 minute episodes. insane. and they're married! love is real!!!!!!!!!!!! love is so real!!!

#please ignore me i just need to exorcise my inner 14 year old about this. anyway so i have. uh. been watching superstore #this is all about a sitcom. unbelievably. yet this couple were conveyed so insanely well throughout the whole thing #i haven't been visibly deranged about superstore here because i've been quietly watching the entire 6 series and avoiding spoilers on here #of course the end was kinda rushed due to time limits but i was genuinely impressed how they managed to make it feel as natural as it did #that was good writing man. i almost cried a bit #often when this sort of thing happens in media it can come across as corny & forced but idk. this hit different #it was a genuinely good & poignant end #superstore

[skyarly]

man when I watched all of pokemon within the span of 4ish months I was so upset after gary's last sinnoh episode knowing he wouldn't appear until hundreds of episodes later (I knew this because of the Gary Oak Wiki) but man some people had to LIVE THROUGH THAT IN REAL TIME dear god I can't imagine. I was devastated for the time it took me to watch black and white, xy, and sun and moon (no idea how long that took, it was all starting to blend together honestly. when I said I pounded through sun and moon in a week I wasn't kidding) older fans had to wait for years that's terrible

#I'm in a weird gray area between old and new fan tbh #I used to watch pokemon as a little first grader except I would always watch the first few episodes and skip to the last in the season #I went into the series with extremely vivid memories of like a collective 15 episodes across the entire anime #and movies I did watch some of the movies #pokemon #pokemon anime #gary oak #gary pokemon

[khufiya-khaufnak-antariksh]

So earlier today I introduced some of my WIPs to some new people, and I realised that many people might not be familiar with those two WIPs.

Kriya Petri: fantasy (with body horror & dystopian elements). Setting: A country called Fillor on a planet called Thuluke. In Fillor, to bind yourself to the one you love, you require a trinamate potion to seal the bond. 'Trinamate' is marriage (though that is a rather crude translation of the word). But to get a trinamate potion legally, the couple needs to be… acceptable. A man and a woman who plan to have at least one child. Yes, it's been 1000 years since the global apocalypse, but 'sufficient reproduction' is still a concern among the Filore people (plus it's a moral virtue for the Divine Monarchy, who reside on the cloudlands, with an iron grip on the institutes of Fillor). A potioneer wants to elope with their lover, but the pair is, let's just say, not acceptable. So what are they to do? The potioneer brews a trinamate potion on their own, finding the closely guarded methods & ingredients for the potion through who-knows-who, bunch of shady people. The potion explodes. The potioneer knows the punishment for something like this. They'll be condemned to Kaewoe (so will their lover, if anyone finds out), a realm so deep below the ground that it's close to the core of the planet. Kaewoe, where the mind & body are destroyed by the horribly high concentration of magic. Kaewoe, the names & lives & loves of all who enter it, all slowly turned to unknowledge. Good thing stealing identities is absurdly easy in Fillor! The potioneer wipes all memory of their crimes & love (or else the Thought magicians would know), flees to the city of Naebo. Their name is now Kriya Petri,

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Welcome To The Real World: scifi, fantasy, surrealism, horror, tragedy

This one's in very early stages Inspired by Frankenstein Setting: The Great South Asian Rip in Reality, where physics (time & space both) is just completely twisted. The year is sometime in the 2070s. Sometimes it's the 2040s outside the Rip. Depends when/where you step out. Moh-maya, reality's very fabric & everything that keeps up the illusions that comprise reality, are very malleable in here. Main character: Kabir aka Moksh. A closeted Indian trans man who lives a double life, perhaps even a triple life. One in which he's a cis woman & a regular bright STEM student (STEM studies also include study of moh-maya). Another in which he's just some guy with good friends (the most authentic of his lives), where he goes by the name Kabir & uses moh-maya to present as his true self. If only temporarily. (it's painful, mentally & physically, whenever he has to revert to the female form). The third is some mad scientist bullshit, he's going by the name of Moksh among his fellow mad scientists & his main project is a moh-maya Frankenstein's monster that others can share their consciousness with, such that they can experience shape-shifting more easily & go where they physically aren't, do things they physically can't. Let's simply call it the 'entity'. Due to many reasons, creating this entity is pretty illegal. Hence the new name & collaboration with fellow shady people. the plot, put shortly: he starts doing vigilante justice w/the entity & then goes far & gets more & more consumed w/work & things go verrrrrrryyyyyy wrong despite starting with (dubious but) good intentions.

in this second one i neglected to mention the fact that you, as the reader, get front row tickets to the main character's spiral into madness & justifying murders thru the entity + the entity is a whole person & has opinions + a whole lot of other stuff, I DID mention that this WIP is in very early stages but holy fuck i could go on & on about it (just not in a way that can be packaged in a structured & sensible introduction)

#i have re-written the introduction to kriya petri so many times because it's hard to know WHAT parts i should talk about first #and this introduction still isn't concise. currently i'm not really in the phase where nailing the introduction is super important but #it's still at least a LITTLE BIT important. but i never seem to get it right. i think this one IS an improvement over my other #introductions to this wip because it gets the MAIN FOCUSES across (and even without talking about the other major characters it at least #touches upon the issues kriya has which will be common with the other characters. so it works). #still not entirely satisfied BUT this is my 'baby' wip cuz i started it when i was 14 and it's grown so much in the past 4 years #and honestly i should probably just read a bunch of scifi (finish octavia butler's series lilith's brood maybe since i finished the last #book recently) because before i wrote this intro. THAT was what made some of the worldbuilding aspects 'click'. #i really need to make the amphibious nature of the thuluken humans play more of a part in their culture as well! #i just realised that so many aspects of this world have been DISCONNECTED! they need to be woven together! #it's midnight and i'm sleepy. why am i sleepy i could be working on this (or on my college assignments [it's okay i've got a lot of time #for them & am making progress on them at a steady rate])

[mariocki]

An uncredited Jacqueline Hill appears as an unnamed Irish barmaid in The Vise: Death Pays No Dividends (1.5, ABC, 1954); in the UK, this episode wasn't seen until 1960 as part of ITV anthology The Crooked Path

#fave spotting #jacqueline hill #barbara wright #doctor who #the vise #classic doctor who #death pays no dividends #the crooked path #1954 #classic tv #oof. ok. here goes. the story behind The Vise is needlessly convoluted and frankly absurdly confusing. the Danzigers were a pair of #American brothers who moved to the UK in the early 50s to produce tv film serials‚ The Vise being their first major production. the used #British casts‚ writers‚ crews and directors but the series was being explicitly made for American tv; the ABC mentioned above is not the #Associated British Cinemas group who were one of the big four franchise holders in UK television‚ but the American Broadcasting Company for #whom this series was being made and who transmitted it across the pond. there the series was The Vise‚ and then when recurring character #Mark Saber became popular‚ it was retooled as The Vise: Mark Saber and then again when the series later moved to NBC it became Saber of #London. despite being almost entirely a british production‚ The Vise was never seen here in that format; the episodes were split up and #appeared under various different anthology titles including The Crooked Path and Tension‚ sometimes not appearing on uk #screens until years later (if indeed they did all end up getting a uk showing). others were edited together into loose portmanteau films #for cinema release. Mark Saber‚ to add confusion upon confusion‚ was a pre existing character who'd been around for several years before #The Vise and had had his own series (albeit with a different star) already on American television (itself having gone through several #titles‚ including ABC Mystery Theatre and simply Mark Saber; that latterly being one of the titles which later Vise episodes went out under #back in the UK). i know. i know. my head hurts too. #regardless of the (very confusing) background‚ the series is quite a lot of fun and rather better than its reputation (it's true that #the Danzigers were businessmen first and artists a very distant second). it has an unmistakable wash of the USA about it despite featuring #almost zero americans (it has a host delivering to camera introductions‚ which feels very american‚ but even he's not a yank; Australian #actor Ron Randell got the gig and very good he is too). it also has a definite degree of luridness which I'm not certain UK tv was quite #ready for in 54 (stories typically involving adultery‚ blackmail and some really quite suggestive scene settings). poor Jac doesn't get #much of a part‚ but she does get a few lines (it's not unusual that she's still uncredited‚ with most Vise eps seeming to credit only 3 or #4 main players and of course Randell). her Irish accent is pretty good but she doesn't get any closeups alas

[crepuscularqueens]

miranda's green dress haters... perish.

#'it's not historically accurate!!!' idc it's hot #to be clear <- guy who took history of costume design classes. i am aware. have you considered she looks so hot though? #(also black sails is a show that is doing so much about telling of tales and evoking the sense of idealized memory in these sequences...) #(i think it's intentional. there are other wardrobe aspects in show that aren't entirely accurate either but it's okay) #(the point comes across to the audience. it's supposed to be like a play! it's supposed to be!) #the point was to give her a dress that she looks fucking stunning in. mission accomplished be a loser somewhere else #god idk the mission to get all wardrobe in films and drama series to be entirely historically accurate is kind of exhausting to me #it should evoke the era. sure. in some dramas it is more important than others it really depends what kind of story you're telling. #in this show its a set piece it sets the scene it's helping tell the story on another level than simply this is the exact year it is #you're so boring im sorry. you simply didn't get it.

[findinghomesomehow]

Porchay to Kim : I love you the most. I'm so lucky to have you.

Porsche : FORGET THE FACT THAT I'VE RAISED YOU THROUGH EVERY SINGLE DAY OF YOUR LIFE

#i just came across a screenshot of that polaroid with this note #porsche would have been so mad #and jealous that chay told somebody else that he loves them the most #porsche is petty when it comes to chay let's be fair #and he's valid for that #man spent his entire life raising this child and the child goes out telling this to somebody else #kinnporche the series #kimchay #kim theerapanyakul #porchay kittisawasd #kinnporsche the series #porsche kittisawasd