#and it's great

[aplpaca]

every martha wells book is like we are going to explore these abandoned/mysterious structures or so help me god

#murderbot #system collapse #see also: witch king. books of the raksura. etc. #and it's great

[i-eat-deodorant]

[ the fray, the fretful harmonies, it twists the good in me ]

#narilamb #cotl narinder #cotl lamb #i listened to this song on repeat for like more than 4 hours #wheeeee #their relationship is so unhealthy i want to dissect and examine it under a microscope #neither of them are okay #and it's great #my shit #tw blood #tw scars #not doing my read more thing because i actually want the visibility and i think i'm the only one that does that #my tumblr won't let me add community labels? so if anyone else could that'll be great ty! #tw gore

[natjennie]

the thing about yonderland is that its so deeply weird and there's no explanation for it and there doesn't need to be. it's just a really strange show. and it's hysterical and heartfelt yeah but mostly it's like. what's the silliest group of guys we could come up with? okay now do that 50 more times. and also it'll take a lot of setting up and costuming and shit for a 30 second joke. and it rips.

#it's so weird and also good #it's like a bunch of high school theater nerds set loose in the childrens section of barnes and noble #it's 6 adults just having a playdate with some puppets #and playing pretend #and it's great #yonderland

[myjollyfroggyfriend]

the funniest thing about cooking crush is that you never know what you might get from the new weekly episode. Maybe it'll be a ghost story, maybe a dead body, maybe a random tango scene, maybe a character strongly advocating for sex work rights (as he should).

you just never know.

#and it's great #comedic gold I tell you #cooking crush #gmmtv series #offgun #tenprem #neo trai

[yesokayiknow]

I just got done rewatching ashildr’s episode and she asks why he hasn’t made Clara immortal and it makes me wonder what would Clara do with true immortality and no doctor … like that girl would burn the planet just for some fun. Thoughts on what she’d get up to?

tbf that's just her canon ending! she's just immortal now with no doctor! and before you're like well actually she still has to die one day it's like. does she tho. like i truly believe she'd get ten years in and be like wait this rules actually i'm not giving this up and then sends a flesh copy or clone or smth to gallifrey to die in her place. boom free immortality absolutely zero drawbacks she will never regret it and definitely won't spiral into a deep period of depression once she realises that she will never ever be able to stop that everything will just keep going on and so will she. forever. that day will never come!

and yes of course she burns planets. she's like i am doing this to save the universe. and sometimes it's not a lie! hahaha classic clara. the flux happens and she's like well really any planets i may or may not have destroyed for definitely good reasons don't really count now do they and everyone's like yes they still fucking do and she's like 👍 <- is already committing another genocide

#a thousand years later she's like why did i do that. why did i do that to myself. this will never stop not ever i can never stop. why #and the immortal me's like told you so #clara: there is no way in hell you can remember telling me anything. #the immortal me: yeah but i start every new diary by writing 'i told clara becoming truly immortal is a bad fucking idea' on the first page #asks #actuallypjo #doctor who #clara oswald #man i gotta finish the clara & martha thing bc martha's accidentally making her a better person by saying damn bitch you live like this? #and it's great

[eskawrites]

okay who’s gonna take one for the team and write a super soft ptsd/recovery ronance fic with the title ‘if you wanted you could do no harm’

#is it gonna be me #ronance #can you tell it's been on repeat all morning #the thing about maya hawke's music is that i'll be vibing to the song as a whole right #and then out of nowhere one specific line will sucker punch me and ruin my entire life #and it's great #ANYWAY do you see the vision??? #idk i can't fully put into words what i'm thinking but i'm THINKING #like #something-something post-canon they've won and they're still so angry #(nancy is so so angry) #something like the closure nancy fights so hard for in s2 but on a much bigger scale #looking at all the terrible things the government has done and how none of this would've happened #she never would've lost ANYTHING #if it wasn't for their actions or inactions #something-something a la katniss at the end of the hunger games choosing peeta over gale bc she chooses peace over war #healing over anger #bc there will always be someone to fight and something to fight for #but how long can you really stay in battle? #at some point the something you're fighting for has to be yourself #at some point the strongest thing you can do is choose to heal #SOMETHING-SOMETHING KERREK IN CRITICAL ROLE C1 #a hammer to fight vs a hammer to build #do you SEE the VISION

[dream--evil]

It's hilarious when you think about it.

Fred Krueger is fear personified. He gets you from inside your own head when you're at your most vulnerable. He's inevitable, in a way, and he's never really destroyed for good. He always comes back.

And he's also literally Just Some Guy™ who got Home Alone'd by a teenager armed with light bulbs and trip wires who called him lame to his face and made him explode into 80's FX glitter.

#a nightmare on elm street #freddy krueger #he's terrifying when you think about it and a total dork when you think even harder #and it's great

[lipstickchainsaw]

Krouse/Noelle

This one has been languishing in my inbox for a while, but I do want to get to it.

I think these two are fundamentally teenagers, and this is the core part of their tragedy. If they'd been two years older when they got together, this would've gone so much better.

Krouse is a very talented guy. He is mostly talented at video games, but he is really very good. He is very good without even having to work that hard at it, and this is a fact that has gone a little bit to his head. It leads to him being something of an arrogant prick, which can irritate his friends, and especially irritates his not-friends, but the frustrating part is that he often is good enough to back up the arrogance.

He becomes the Travellers' leader by virtue of being decisive. By this I mean that he makes decisions, he cuts the knot, he makes the call. These decisions are very rarely good, but when everyone else is still reeling and too stunned to come up with anything, doing something is better than doing nothing, and Krouse is always there, making decisions.

The problem is that Krouse was only ever good at making decisions for himself. Even in their pro-gamer days, Krouse excelled in going off on his own to make key plays, rather than working directly with the team. He's, uh, not that good at keeping them in mind, let's say.

For her part, Noelle is the star. She is the strategist, the leader, the one who puts their plans together and adjusts them on the fly. Krouse may be talented, but Noelle is good. She's good because she gets it, and then works to refine that understanding into excellence. She does know how to work with a team, not just in the game, but also to manage the team outside of it.

She also has an eating disorder, but this notably doesn't lead to an insecurity that affects her abilities here, and she does a pretty good job of establishing her boundaries, at least initially. She is not looking for a relationship, and that's fine. She does not feel the need to talk about her eating disorder with anyone other than her closest friend, and she's good at sticking to that, too.

You can almost see her going by a checklist of how to set boundaries, in a very teenager kind of way, because it doesn't come with the skills to respond when someone ignores them.

And Krouse sure does love ignoring boundaries. I don't even think he does it on purpose, but a part of him takes 'you can't do that' as a challenge, and when Noelle rejects Cody, he sees that as a way to prove himself better than him.

Similarly, he doesn't accept when Noelle tries to break up with him, because it doesn't make sense to him. He, too, is following a very teenager script for doing a relationship, because when your partner is obviously distressed, you shouldn't abandon them! But he lacks the understanding, or the respect, for what his partner is saying, and so tries to force her into being stronger than she is to break up with him.

And so she doesn't. Even though it's bad for her, and a lot of Krouse's interest and attention is making her spiral and messing with her process of dealing with her eating disorder, because she hasn't told him about that. And she does like him, and wants him as her boyfriend, but she doesn't quite grasp that him not respecting her boundaries is a red flag.

And then their world goes to shit, Noelle becomes her own worst nightmare, spitting out twisted and hateful versions of themselves after they come into contact with her, and Krouse gets the ability to always be somewhere he shouldn't be, but never quite able to be where he needs to be to help the one person he cares about.

Wildbow has said that he didn't really know how to write romances at the time of writing Worm, and I understand what he means. Krouse and Noelle aren't a teenage romance that would show up in a romance novel.

But they are a very strong example of a teenage romance as a tragedy, because if either of these people had had just a bit more experience in relationships, they would've been able to navigate their problems so much better, and Krouse might not have ruined everything.

D: I’m neutral on it

#ask game #wildbow #parahumans #worm #noelle meinhardt #francis krouse #totally forgot krouse's first name #anyway these two are a disaster for everyone around them #and it's great

[iamthecomet]

BOO!

AHH!

#Comet comments #gremlin ♥ #he looks insane here #and it's GREAT #per #unmasked ghoul

[onlytibki]

One thing not many people are noting that OPLA got absolutely right about Zoro's character:

For the early stages, this man is a SERIAL KILLER first, pirate second.

Even after taking on the pirate label full time, the only reason he wasn't known by a similar reputation to Kid's, is because he's a massive fucking softie with a big-brother complex the size of the ship.

Zoro takes one look at [Rika's first attempt at onigiri, Chopper's young but steady hands, the little kids crowding him at Water 7] and immediately melts into a green goop with three swords tied to it.

#one piece #so many people called him out about making a living through blood and violence #including himself! #in OPLA #and it's great #Roronoa Zoro #has a soft heart and blood on his swords and the two things are not mutually exclusive #edited bc there were no kids at Enies Lobby #thank God #can you imagine if they found some munchkin about to walk through the Gates? oof

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

Just So-rang making the best expressions in The Forbidden Marriage:

#the forbidden marriage #yi so rang #park ju hyun #she's so silly #and it's great

[house-of-mirrors]

To the couple other people voting smash on the Sapphir'd King poll: you aren't alone in having bad taste (affectionate)

Now from a deeper analysis perspective, there's just something philosophical about the seductive nature of a king of death. War, workworlds, high-risk adventures, the hour trade, foolhardy quests for glory and riches, and on and on. There are thousands of appealing ways to die or kill others in the sky. And he's there watching and waiting. From the Royal Society:

But the Azure, the enemy at the Gate, has not turned its gaze away. I feel its light like breath on my neck, I feel its Law. It hates us. [...] We feel the full force of its glare. I see shades, spirits, phantasms. Sometimes, I think I am being toyed with. Just the other night, I awoke to a beam of blue starlight, right over the scope. I crept out there, and stood, alone, on the edge of night. I felt judgement. All that I am could be boiled to atoms and scattered to the farthest edges of the horizon, and still it would pursue me until not even the wind dares howl my name. And once I am less than the smallest molecule of dust, it would forget me utterly, its attention fixed on some grander design. This is the nature of our enemy.

And yeah the "you are mine" line was hot

#they didn't have to write that dialogue but they did #and it's great #sskies #sunless skies spoilers #the judgements

[razzle-zazzle]

can you tell us more about branch villainous parent idea you have?

Had to put this one under a cut bc it got long sorry.

tl;dr ancient troll sorceress who kinda made herself immortal but then spent centuries trapped underground adopts one (1) small gray trolling when she escapes in the hopes of using him as an agent in her big revenge plan

Okay okay so. I was listening to "The Monster Under Your Bed" by Madame Macabre (among some other songs) and somehow ended up creating a silly little AU where Branch is adopted and raised by something a little bit eldritch and a lot bit unsuited to taking care of a child. So meet Lola (<- placeholder name)!

Lola's a Pop Troll... or at the very least, she used to be. Her backstory starts a good few centuries before the Bergens even show up, but just long enough after the splitting of the genres that most Pop Trolls at the time only had a vague idea about the existence of other genres. Lola was just like any other Pop Troll, really—in fact, she was even quite a catch! A love of singing and dancing, a clear voice and pretty face; she had quite a few admirers.

But, well, her story's not as well known, in the days of Trollstice, but for those who do know it, it's a cautionary tale. Because Lola, like any Troll, was able to use her song to affect the world around her. And she pushed the limits of this power, often in... well, it was more carelessness, at first. A descent into destruction that started slow and snowballed, until she was pretty much a step away from Evil Sorceress. At the end of her tale, in an effort to put a stop to her, a small band of heroes used the Pop String to defeat her, sealing her body underground in the roots of one of the many Troll Trees of the time. Thought dead, Lola became a cautionary tale about the dangers of using one's song to destructive and selfish ends.

Except she didn't die. She was already beyond death, at that point. So for centuries, she remained trapped, unable to pierce the barrier sealing her in her tomb. And in those centuries, the Bergens came, discovered the Trolls, and Bergentown formed. In those centuries, the number of Troll Trees diminished down to one, caged in the center of a dreary town.

Enter Branch. From stage top, falling from the tree after being pushed out of the way by Rosiepuff. Branch, who's small and scared and curls up in the crook of two roots, where a small patch of either-lobelia-or-rhododendrons-I-haven't-quite-decided-which-flower-works-best-yet are growing. The barrier containing Lola has eroded slightly, over the centuries, and the slow genocide of the Pop Trolls by the Bergens has only sped up the process. She's still trapped, but now there's a small hole that light can sometimes get through.

When Branch first falls into Lola's tomb, he almost doesn't make it out alive. Why does she stay her hand, though? Is it because she could see a kindred spirit in the Trolling that had lost all hope? Because she saw in him an opportunity to escape her tomb and finally enact revenge? Because centuries buried underground can tire a person out immensely, and the thought of expending energy to kill one little Trolling was too much for her that day? Whatever the reason, Branch manages to climb back out. But he comes back, again and again, just to... talk. The scary lady trapped underground understands grief, after all, and Branch feels safe underground where the Bergens can't reach. No matter how much the shadows move and hiss and cry. But going in and out stretches the already weak barrier to its limits...

There's only a week or so between Rosiepuff's death and the Great Escape, in my headcanons (something something Chef randomly going in and eating Trolls outside of Trollstice in flagrant violation of rules or tradition purely because she can), so only a week or so after their first meeting a Bergen's shovel both clears a path and snaps what little remains of the barrier, loosing Lola upon the world.

When she "adopts" Branch, it's with a clear goal in her mind: raise this little gray Trolling to be an instrument of destruction, groom him for the eventual role he'll play in her revenge scheme. There's just one problem:

She gets attached.

#ask zaz #dreamworks trolls #lola placeholder name #that's her tag for now ig #i also need like. a tag for this concept LMAO #but i'll put this much out in the world and see what people think of it #but yeah lola goes from ''oh good something to kill'' to ''i will use it to escape and THEN kill'' to #''i will use this thing in my revenge plans'' to ''well now i just wanna teach lil baby bones all the things'' to #''THIS IS MY SON NOW'' #and it's great #lola's so fun fr fr. immortal and gory and unapologetically mean #beneath the lobelias au #<- tentative name for now

[natjennie]

I'm rewatching ghosts with my sister and my new favorite hobby is catching who wrote each episode and what their characters are doing in it like. I think the show benefits so hugely from being written and acted by the same people, it feels so genuine because they have like, a vested interest in their characters. idk if this makes sense but it's like role-playing, having the same people writing and acting. it's so self indulgent and fun. most shows aren't written like that and there's definitely a time and a place for both types of productions, but there is such palpable theater kid goof off skit energy in a delightful way. so charming.

#this is a bunch of people doing a bit in a waffle house at midnight #and it's GREAT #same energy as ofmd honestly #bbc ghosts #ben willbond writing redding weddy is so. he gets it.

[lewmagoo]

time for my favorite part of the night: rotting on the couch watching youtube videos before i head to bed

#i spend about an hour just chilling #letting myself unwind and not think about anything #and it's great

[diver5ion]

#black adam #adrianna tomaz #was awesome and badass #sarah shahi #was in this more than i expected #and it's great #movies #//