#actually every episode does

[ofswordsandpens]

I'm sincerely very happy for anyone who is enjoying the show but every time I see takes that the show has improved the book characterizations or that the book characters are underdeveloped in comparison to the show...

#our experiences are very different lmao #pjo show crit #sure the show isn't completely out yet #but id argue that the characters (namely the trio) seem way more developed and well-rounded in the book by this point in time (episode 4) #and look im not saying every change the show has made is bad #but by and far there has yet to be a change to characterization that feels like an IMPROVEMENT from the source material lmao #the closest contender I'd say is show Percy does seem a tad angrier than book Percy #but again I wouldn't call that an improvement... its just different and I think that /change/ works because it feels like the same essence #but even that has had some issues because I feel like the show has inadvertently cut down some of Percy's canon book empathy here and there #I think the show has nailed Annabeth's pride and intelligence and her warped worship of her mother #... but they've also made her hyper competent to the point that she's not making half of the mistakes she did in the book #which ISNT good because book annabeth is smart but she isn't infallible #its a big point that she has the theoretical intelligence but none of the real world experience/application #she gets tricked by medusa and goes to visit the Arch just cause she loves architecture and that's okay!! she's twelve and a nerd! #I also dont like that they've cut/toned down her little crush on Luke #actually they've not even showcased the familial bond between annabeth and Luke either in the show so like lmao #and then grover #by now grover's fear of failure and repeating this past mistakes and wanting a license has already been acknowledged in the books at least #in the show?? not so much #and his canon book suspicions and wariness of medusa... were given to annabeth #like medusa in the book was Grover's moment to shine cause his instincts were right! #and in the book fight he even very intentionally attacked medusa #but his highlights there were cut completely in the show #and finally sally #...idk who that is in the show but that's NOT my sally jackson #percy jackson #mine

[grimaom]

celebrating 25 years of farscape

day 5: what makes farscape truly special?

↳one thing i love about farscape is how it embraces its weirdness, making it a very unique show and watching experience.

#like season 1??? #so camp #in the best way possible #and the weird episodes are just so good #i love how random this show can get cause no other show does it like farscape #there was too many scenes i wanted to use #to many good moments #this is also a comfort show for me #cause it’s gotten me through some tough times #i’m rewatching it rn cause i was going through a break up and the way it actually made me feel better #cause i watch one episode a night and it just gave me something to look forward to every night #now i’m at the end of s2 and i’m feeling great #farscape #farscape 25 #gif

[wingheadshellhead]

Steve Rogers & Tony Stark in Avengers Assemble 1.25 "The Final Showdown"

#marveledit #steverogersedit #captainamericaedit #tonystarkedit #ironmanedit #stevetonyedit #stevetony #superhusbands #stony #steve rogers #captain america #tony stark #iron man #marvel #avengers assemble #type: gifs #universe: aa #episode: 1.25 the final showdown pt. 1 #& #original: gifs #original: aa #it's actually super interesting how much the aa (and emh) writers believe in tony as a character #like the absolute blatant difference when a writer genuinely understands and sees his value #vs comic writers who just get handed iron man runs on a silver platter #tony carries the burden of being The Leader of the avengers in aa more than he does in most universes #where even steve frequently defers to him which i think is quite unique to aa #and it's wholesome Because steve also believes in him so much #every time tony wants to give up or back down or take himself out of the equation steve is standing there going “no WE NEED YOU i NEED YOU” #the BACKBONE of the avengers and also tony's ability to grow and flourish as a team leader

[theaxolotlkween]

Silly little comic I made.

#the burnt lettuce part is probably true tbh #van kleiss just seems like the kind of guy who would smell like burnt lettuce #even after he’s no longer literal dirt just figurative dirt #rex actually does regrow limbs he’s like a freaky little mechanical axolotl boy #i wish we’d gotten to see what rex regrowing a limb actually looks like in the show and not just in the comic #it probably would’ve looked really cool and i want to see it #van kleiss probably learned that rex could regrow limbs by nefarious means and rex probably doesn’t remember it #which is probably for the best that man has traumatised him enough #i honestly didn’t mean to have van kleiss deciding to be a dick by giving an answer to noah and not rex #but i didn’t want to just have him stand there in the background because that’s boring #and it somehow fits the pettiness of who he gives information to willingly because it’s not rex and it almost never is #every time i watch the show noah and rex become even more boyfriends to me #also i think noah deserves to get in a dig at vk every once in awhile #like van kleiss did almost have him killed and he had to see van kleiss stabbing rex in the first episode #and van kleiss turned him into an evo once so like #yeah he should get to roast him sometimes #sarcastic unhinged trans noah my beloved #generator rex #generator rex fanart #genrex #genrex fanart #rex salazar #noah nixon #van kleiss #noex #theaxolotlart

[applebees4prez]

when i say that this was my 9/11 i fully mean it. i would pull out my computer and write it myself if it weren’t so personal to dan. i will go into debt to make this happen. @danielhowell if there is anything i can personally to get dan is not okay out into the world i will do it i don’t care if i’m a freshman in college i would die for this.

#DINOK MY BELOVED #i’m getting way too fucking emo about this #actually idc #this is everything i could ever want #not only is this concept so fucking interesting and cool #but i love dan and everything he does so much #i have full trust in everything he creates #idc if it’s parasocial #i went to wad it was the best thing ever #i’ve watched every dd episode five times as they came out #daniel howell is a true creative visionary who should get to run wild #but also i need to go back to the plot #not only is it a reflection of dan’s life #but so many people are actually going through this same thing #and will continue to #i go to class every day and see the guys who are business majors or whatever #and i just want to scream in their face that there is more to life than d3 sports #also as somebody who’s interested in dan this is everything to me plotwise #like yes queen i am also incredibly grateful that you dropped out of law #i am so happy that you have become comfortable not just with your sexuality #but with who you are in general #you don’t know me but you raised me #and i am so proud of you #AKDHAKDHSK SORRY IM DONE NOW #BUT I COULD GO ON FOR HOURS #daniel howell #dan is not okay #dinok #why i quit youtube #dan howell

[angelsdean]

me, dean, and everyone else watching: ok sure, sammy

#vics spn rewatch #spn 1x10 #the apology is made worse by j*red's inability to actually sound sincere #he's doing his fake sympathy voice and it is so. grating #adds a fascinating unintentional layer to sam as we've talked abt before #and it's like not necessarily a Bad thing to perform rather than feel sympathy #but like. this is very much a non-apology and dean knows it and we all know it #sam DID mean those things on some level. maybe not as harshly as he said them bc his anger WAS being heightened by the ghost #but those feelings were real #and sam is allowed to feel them. but they are in many ways. a projection and also unfounded #sam literally could leave at any time and dean would let him go (as we'll see in thee very next episode!!) #just bc he feels those feelings doesn't mean they're inherently true #dean isn't keeping him trapped. dean isn't just blindly following orders. dean Does have a mind of his own #and in fact dean isn't being all that great of a dutiful son bc he actively is not all that interested in finding john!! not the way sam is #and you'd think for dean being the one to initially show up and ask sam's help that he'd be more invested in finding john #and making sure he's actually alive instead of following random coordinates to a case. and taking on every other case they find too #anyways. sam's feelings of anger are real bc he feels them and it's okay to feel things #but he's massively misinterpreting and projecting things onto dean #and then he feels guilty (like post-possession) and tries to swipe it all under the rug and claim he didn't mean any of it #but he Does. and dean knows it. everyone knows it. #his perceptions do not align w/ what's really happening. bc he doesn't have the full context. #bc he doesn't know just how complicated dean's relationship to john really is. bc he was sheltered from a lot of that. #he sees dean desperate for approval and a good little soldier #when in reality dean was playing peacekeeper and mediator and punching bag most of their childhood. #and rn dean doesn't really care that much abt finding john. he just wants to hang out with his brother #not samcr*t btw. we love all this abt him it's spicy it's crunchy it's tasty

[howlerbat]

“The first thing Elenor Guthrie asked for the moment those gates closed behind her was Max. That’s how valuable she could be to us. And you want to trade that away for twenty men?”

“Those twenty men are your brothers.”

#black sails #maxes monologue about the chair is something that can actually be so personal #DOES EVERYONE UNDERSTAND. DOES ANYONE HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY #james flint #billy bones #insane. i am going insane trying to write a coherent meta about them and every time I just rewatch whole episodes #and become more insane

[supreme-leader-stoat]

"Unreality" Jesse what the fuck are you talking about. I'm a real person urban is a real person robb wells the actor is a real person this is a real post. where is the unreality.

#this is why I hate this stupid tag or at the very least how it's used #like in theory yeah help people who have paranoid episodes or whatever fine #but nobody can ever agree on what ''unreality'' actually MEANS #what is unreality? #it's sarcasm. it's photorealistic art. it's play-along memes. it's when you use figurative language. it's lies. it's literally any fiction. #it's someone in your inbox saying you're harming people by not tagging a post about alien bone fungus from a sci-fi art account #it's that thing tumblr does every year or so where they pick up on a technical term and run it into the ground #so that whatever use it might have had gets diluted into nothing by overuse

[threetrenchcoatsinatrenchcoat]

psst Jenna Stoeber is writing for the next season of Um, Actually! every day my dream D20 cast grows closer toward reality

#put my girl in the dome #i will now be listening for jenna's patented laugh from off-mic for every upcoming um actually episode tho she probably won't be in person #polygon #um actually #jenna stoeber #vox media how does it feel to lose this bad

[demigodofhoolemere]

I’ve been watching The Power of the Doctor with subtitles on and they’ve already been pretty poor throughout, with an absurd number of very obvious and bad errors, but I have to pause because now I am absolutely HOWLING with laughter. During the scene where they’re reversing the forced regeneration, and the Master says, “I erased you, Doctor,” for some terrible and hysterical reason, THIS is what the subtitles say:

#actual tears in my eyes #how do you mess up this badly?!?! #and i’m assuming they’re probably the same quality of subtitles on every episode? if so YIKES #literally what the crap are people who actually need subtitles supposed to do with this lmbo #HOW DO YOU NOT MAKE SURE YOUR SUBTITLES ARE ACCURATE. HOW DOES THIS STUFF PASS. #i can’t breathe #doctor who #the power of the doctor #the master #dhawan master #subtitles

[caduschka]

Still obsessed over the implications of Cronus with no memories being a fundamentally good and helpful person.

#Class of the titans #class of the titans cronus #Does he outright have to decide to not follow his instincts of wanting to do good? #Does he wake up every day and choose to be evil? #Because whatever could have actually made him that way otherwise #The whole story hinges on him being a power hungry tyrant #From him killing his father to wanting to destroy his children #So why is he actually somehow somewhat a good person underneath that #It certainly makes for a fun episode premise but it doesn't really feel thought through #Don't get me wrong I love everything about this though #Jesus christ he just saved Theresa #He has a protective streak holy shit #gnawing on him #He's my little freak 🥴🥴

[sonknuxadow]

i cant get screenshots of it because my laptop starts shitting itself every time i try but "i find my magnetic personality quite attractive" "and yet when youre near me i feel repulsed" LOVE LOSES 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

#sorry i hate it when people make every little interaction they have about shipping but when i saw this i was like Lmao. love loses #simimlar energy as knuckles saying he would hate sonic if he was a worm in the twitter takeover #tailstube #tailstube spoilers #idk how to tag this #also if theyre doing a thing wiht talking to the hedgehog characters i kinda wish they had gotten silver and amy in there #not just sonic and shadow #but whateverrrr i get itttt its the year of shadow and theyre trying to talk about his Lore a little bit #and also 4 guests for a normal episode might have been a bit much #i know the holiday special had 6 guests (7 if you coutn eggman showing up at the last minute) but that episode is a bit different #in terms of what theyre actually doing so theres more room for more characters. does that make sense

[zevranunderstander]

no hate to people who are into that shit but I just saw a post that was like "how the succession characters would react to you having a panic attack", and um. well. they would do absolutely nothing

#succession #myposts #like shiv watched tom have a panic attack every second episode #tom might do something like give you a shoulder massage but he would say really cringe unhinged shit while doing it #kendall roy would just stare at you and then akwardly talk about how much he supports women #roman roy would actively make fun of you and call you a baby #logan would also mock you but in a way that actually hurts and not like roman who just sounds like a baby who just discovered insults #thinking about this is so funny #i think the two okayest responses would be greg (panicking himself and unhelpful but at least kinda trying) #and Conor (is way too self-absorbed in trying to help but like. at least he does *something*. i think hed be okay at this)

[musashi]

on this almost christmas i would like to share with you my absolute favourite thing that happens in the entire goodbyes anime

#turnabout goodbyes #pwaa #ace attorney #larry butz #manfred von karma #fave episodes #fave scenes #three nights at feddys #simmering sapphire #utilfam #(he kilt larey) #this makes me go fucking INSANE every time the way he just THANOSES HIM #i am constantly saying mvk kins thanos as a joke but i need you to know its not a joke actually. he does

[inkblackorchid]

Sigh.

Screw it, I have to talk about it. Watching episodes 56 and 57, but especially the latter, hurts my heart every time I do it. Yusei has had some emotional moments up until this point, but I would, without the shadow of a doubt, claim that this is definitely his most emotional moment in the entire show. And the thing is, it's so unnecessary, and not in the "this is a poor writing decision"-kind of way. Quite the opposite. Allow me to elaborate under the readmore because I have a feeling this post is going to get long.

A question I had for a long while before I really started bothering to analyse the show, especially for fic writing, was when and how Yusei found out that his parents were leading developers in the Moment reactor that ended up causing Satellite's separation, killed presumably hundreds of people, and caused a lot of the misery in his own life, too. The thing is, the show never gives a definitive answer to that. Only context clues. We can infer from Yusei's reaction the first time Goodwin mentions his father and the Moment research before the signers depart for Satellite that this circumstance isn't news to him. Furthermore, we can infer from Crow's reaction to the impassioned speech Yusei gives in episode 57 that he must have known about his parents' identities for a while.

Personally, I take this to mean that Yusei has known about his parents' involvement in the Moment research for several years at this point—in fact, I'd go as far as saying that he's known about it since his childhood, and there's a reason why I think that: To a child, the line of thinking "my dad developed this giant machine that ended up blowing up and killing a lot of people, even many of my friends' parents" makes complete sense. (Even taking into account the cover-up the city did, pretending the whole explosion was a tectonic shift—because you can't convince me even for one second that the people in Satellite who lived close enough to the reactor didn't see that the Moment explosion happened first.) And I really feel the need to stress that this explanation is something I think especially a child could have come up with. Because with all the context the show gives us about the Zero Reverse incident, it's easy to see that there were a lot more factors involved there than just "man built bad machine, bad machine exploded". In fact, this drives me up a wall so badly I need to dig into it for a second.

With all the exposition Roman/Rudger gives us in this duel, we learn several things about the late Professor Fudo. Chiefly among them, three things: He was extremely smart, he had a project with the potential to change the future on his hands, and most of all, he was extremely passionate about that project, to the point of Roman/Rudger making this comparison:

The reason I'm mentioning that is because despite all the above-mentioned factors, Professor Fudo was 100%, completely ready to shut down his entire project when he realised it could become dangerous for the city and its people. And as someone who's worked with people engrossed in their own research projects, albeit in a completely different field, let me just say this: Giving up a project of this scale is not a decision you make lightly. Scientific research, as intriguing as it sounds and looks from the outside, can be an absolutely draining affair of trying to get funding for an idea, and fighting to keep that funding later down the line, sometimes even forcing you to pay for things with your own money for a while just to keep the project alive. At a point like the one Yusei's dad was at here, this project would have already had exorbitant amounts of money put towards it, not to speak of countless hours of labour from qualified professionals. This would have been a humongous undertaking, not to speak of the fact that it was likely to be the thing that could have defined the Professor's entire career (even though I don't think that's why he was so invested in it). So I'm going to say it again, because this drives me nuts: Deciding to not simply change the direction of a project like this, to not simply try a different approach, but to instead step away, install containment seals and shut the thing down entirely, taking the whole damned idea back to the drawing board, is. not. a decision any self-respecting researcher would have made lightly. And that's without talking about the sponsors' reactions to the Professor deciding to shut the project down.

The Professor may not have been willing to risk the city populace's lives for this project, but the sponsors certainly were. And so was Roman/Rudger, because by that point, he'd already been tempted by the darkness to give in to his worst impulses. It's honestly tragic because with all the facts laid out like that—everything from the project going out of control due to factors Yusei's father couldn't control, to him deciding to shut down what would have been the project of a lifetime, to Iliaster using their shadowy machinations to tempt Roman/Rudger, to him replacing the Professor as head of the project at the sponsors' behest because they wanted a return on what money they invested into it, all the way up to Roman/Rudger purposefully blowing up the reactor in order to be reborn as a dark signer—I, for my part, couldn't find it in me to blame Yusei's dad for everything that happened. Sure, he's somewhere at the start of the causal chain that lead to the Zero Reverse, but saying it was his fault is vastly oversimplifying the whole dilemma, in my opinion. Unfortunately, we all know that there's one person who can't find it in himself to forgive Professor Fudo for being part of the chain of events that led to the Zero Reverse.

And you know what makes this extra painful? Not only is Yusei blaming his dad, who was trying his damndest to prevent this catastrophe, for what happened, he goes as far as blaming himself for it, too, on behalf of being the late Professor's son. What drives me absolutely insane about this is that there's no need for him to. Even if the Professor had, somehow, been directly responsible for the Zero Reverse, that would still not make Yusei, his son, in any way culpable. None of what happened was even remotely Yusei's fault, and he couldn't have done anything to prevent it, either. He was an infant. This is what I meant by it being unnecessary above—Yusei is carrying this insane amount of guilt around, even though there's no reason for him to. Though I don't think he could be convinced of it, come hell or high water, Yusei is blameless when it comes to the Zero Reverse. What kills me is that Crow even tells him as much:

But. BUT. There's one more thing I absolutely need to stress: While seeing Yusei shoulder all this blame for a thing he's not responsible for and that I don't consider his father responsible for, either, is painful to watch, my frustration with it does not come from the fact that I consider it sloppy writing, or a character inconsistency, or any other such thing. In fact, I think it's the opposite. Granted, this is obviously built on my headcanon that Yusei has known who his parents were since he was a child, and thus came up with his rather simplistic, causal explanation of "my father invented a thing that caused a horrible catastrophe" without looking at (or even being able to look at, considering how hush-hush the public maintenance department and M.I.D.S. apparently kept the Zero Reverse thing) all the additional factors surrounding the Zero Reverse. And that this simplistic, condemning view of his father and his past had several years to fester, at that. But assuming for a second that this guess of mine is correct, I think the writing around Yusei's guilt complex is actually spot-on. Being confronted with this as a child, he would jump to the conclusion that his father was the reason the catastrophe that changed the lives of everyone he cares about for the worse happened. He would think that as that man's son, he has a responsibility to make up for his father's devastating mistake. And he would willingly put on blinkers, never stopping to consider whether there could have been other factors that contributed to causing the catastrophe, and never stopping to consider whether the friends he's so dedicated to compensating for the losses his father caused them even actually think that he's to blame.

It's like. My frustration with this aspect of Yusei's character is endless. I want to shake him and tell him to stop being so stupid and taking the blame for this insane thing. But at the same time? That's good character writing. That makes perfect sense. And my frustration is earned because I can't help but feel that this is exactly what Yusei's complex is supposed to evoke. So yeah. I love this writing choice, and I want to throw something against the wall every time Yusei gives this speech.

#yusei fudo #yugioh 5ds #professor fudo #zero reverse #character analysis #this whole thing makes me want to bang my head against the wall every time #idk if anyone actually thinks that yusei's dad carries any blame like he does #but if anyone like that is out there: for one please tell me why you think that (I mean this sincerely) #and for two feel free to call me a professor fudo apologist #zero reverse was neither yusei's nor his dad's fault and this is a hill I'm willing to die on #ANYWAY #orchid watches 5ds (again) #episode 57 #orchid rambles

[meownotgood]

I love a sign of affection so much but I especially love itsuomi like he does not PLAY

#HE'S GETTING IN THERE #I might read the manga actually when the anime is over lol #because I think the art is really pretty #and I'm invested...... #ugh I love a romance anime where there's no putzing around #or love triangles or any nonsense #itsuomi is loyal to his girl and he does not mess around he knows what he wants 👏 #the black roots this episode.... screaming #AND THE FACT HE'S VOICED BY AKI IN THE DUBBBBBBB #HNGNGNNFFHHH I CAN'T EVEN #I freak out every time I watch the dub I can't handle absbjajja #just u wait for the next episode to come out in the dub #I'm going to be. insufferable