#and then the ending BLINDSIDED me

[inappropriatestork]

So I've been staying off Tumblr for MONTHS to avoid Good Omens season 2 spoilers because I was having a whole executive dysfunction thing and took forever to get around to watching it.

Well, today I finally did, and I realize I'm late and all, but WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK WAS THAT.

#i will be suing david tennant for emotional damages immediately #because his FACE and his voice breaking #i haven't cried this much over tv/movies in YEARS? #i was EXTREMELY not expecting that ending #it seemed to be SO COMPLETELY setting up for them to FINALLY figure shit out #and then THAT???? #how much i end up liking or hating this season depends on how things ultimately end up i suppose #and lord knows how long we'll have to wait #i quite enjoyed the rest of it up until it punched me in the face #although i still don't really think a s2 was needed #finnemore's writing was as good as i hoped #i really liked the job bit #i was deeply bemused but enjoyed gabriel and beelzebub #and then the ending BLINDSIDED me #it's in character i guess #aziraphale's whole identity is so tied up in being an angel #that he can never quite let go of his belief in heaven even when they've demonstrated their utter corruption repeatedly to his actual face #while crowley has never had that loyalty to either side #but HOLY SHIT #and oh joy #now i have like 3 days to prepare myself for the likely emotional devastation of ofmd s2 #good omens #good omens s2

[inquisitor-apologist]

Thinking about how, at the end of the day, at the fatal moment, the sunset of the Republic, it wasn’t Yoda, or Obi-Wan, or even the Chosen One himself standing in the way of Palpatine. It was Mace Windu.

Mace Windu, the inventor of Vaapad and Master of Form VII, the Jedi's strongest duelist, the only person to ever defeat Palpatine in combat. Mace Windu, Master of the Jedi Council and the youngest Master ever appointed to it, the revered leader of the Order. Mace Windu, who forgave even those who tried to kill him, who risked his life over and over again for his troops, who, after 3 years of desperate war, tried to negotiate with battle droids. Mace Windu, who knew the clones were created by the Sith and chose to trust them, who saw every Shatterpoint in the Republic, and loved it still, and fought for it until his last breath, until he was betrayed by Anakin, who he believed in and trusted despite everything.

Mace Windu, High General and hero of the Republic, the embodiment of the Light, the last and greatest champion of the Order, the best Jedi to ever live.

#I’ve said my piece goodnight #don’t play with me Mace Antis I have receipts for every last one of these #pretty much everyone agrees that he was the best duelist there was and he obviously won the fight #Anakin's choice wouldn't make thematic sense otherwise #also vader did not defeat palpatine in combat sorry he just grabbed him while he was distracted #it literally had to be a fair fight and Anakin had to be the one to choose to create the empire that's what the prequels are about #Star Wars databank calls him ‘revered’ shatterpoint tells us he was the youngest (real) member of the council #Boba Fett (tcw) and Prosset Dibs (comics) tried to kill him and he asked for amnesty and forgave them #literally just watch the Ryloth arc he spends most of his screentime saving his men #in tcw season seven he pleads with the battle droids to surrender hoping that no one else has to die #there's the part near the end of tcw where the council realizes that the clones were created by Dooku but Mace and the rest of the council #trust the clones so much they're willing to ignore it #the scene from Mace's POV in the rots novelization talks about how much he loves the republic and how he was blindsided by Anakin's betraya #because he trusted him!! we see in aotc that he has more faith in Anakin's abilities than Obi-wan #and he defeated the most powerful sith of all time single-handedly #BEST JEDI EVER!!!!!!!!!!!! #sw prequels #star wars prequels #prequel trilogy #sw prequel trilogy #star wars prequel trilogy #sw rots #star wars rots #revenge of the sith #star wars revenge of the sith #galactic republic #pro mace windu #mace windu #pro jedi order #pro jedi

[life-winners-liveblog]

dl! Scott really be acting so big despite the fact that he's the version of Scott with the least amount of kills on it's series

Like even the softest version of you that placed 10th got more kills then you buddy, and i mean your only kill is only by technicality because you only killed yourself

****

#/Your point? He still came 10th he was killed by Tango out of all people/ #/and all his grief over Jimmy was an emotionally charged didaster.. why did he think marrying someone in a death game would work out/ #/And the winner Scott? Last life me? Martyn litterally exploded himself with a crystal on accident and Ren got attacked by every mob ever/ #/Limited Life me naively made no plans in case of betrayal and got blindsided by Martyn just at the end ruining what had been a good game/ #/I died on my own will... At my own hand and on my own terms which is more then any of the other mes can say/ #/Killed by an angry firey man... Killed by literal smiting... Killed by a traitor in fire... I chose my death and that will always be true/ #asks #trafficblr

[permanentreverie]

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#ok so mini rant session #i am doing a bit better today - little less distraught over getting fired from a job i thought i was doing pretty good at and i was trying #really hard and genuinely enjoying #and just more baffled because truly i had no warning and i was completely blindsided #i was in the middle of a 3 month trial and i would have a review at the end in which i would be offered a permanent position if it went well #and i thought i was making my way towards that! granted i was still making mistakes but genuinely not of such a great scale i thought it #called for my immediate dismissal #that being said i was still VERY MUCH IN TRAINING. i had only been there A MONTH AND A HALF learning COMPLETELY NEW SYSTEMS #and i was told that i had been there a few weeks already and that i wasn’t catching on quick enough. that there were some areas i was #understanding and others i just simply wasn’t #and i asked what areas specifically so that i could learn more and try harder #and they didn’t give me a specific answer. #ok and so. so. i have this insecurity. #that at first impression people will like me. that they may think i’m pretty or kind or funny or whatever #but then they spend time with me or get to know me and realize that that’s all bullshit. #that i’m actually not pretty and im mean and loud and selfish and lazy and rude and etc etc etc #MASSIVE fucking insecurity in that like that’s why i genuinely don’t have friends or a significant other #and that genuinely i’m just a Bad Person #and when i was fired? i was told ‘a persons true colours show after a few weeks’ #so that’s MAJORLY fucking me up. #when i was hired i was boasted to about my boss’s hiring process and how she’s ’only been fooled twice’ #and the morning before i was fired in a meeting my supervisor told everyone that i was doing quite well. #so yeah i truly had no fucking warning. at fucking all. #hurt and confused and angry and baffled and did i mention hurt #anyways if you’re still here i’m sorry i know this is not a good look for me

[iansfw]

Let Ricardo take charge

#damien didn't want to ortega to see him make weird faces and silly noises because he thinks it will turn ortega off #something-something “i've seen the people he dated before. of course they all look and sound hot during sex. couldn't be me.” #“could never be me” #hence the shyness #and now during the heat of it ortega's been taking it a bit too slow for damien's liking because of his own non-communicative ass #like dude JUST SAY YOU WANT YOU INSIDES MESSED UP JEEZ #but don't worry he'll grow more confident soon where they end up with their usual banter and get more playful in bed #*coughs* the blindside costume ric bought in halloween *coughs*

[skinreflectsthesun]

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#the surprise call I had with HR yesterday was about as pleasant as a tag team rectal exam #and it was right at the tail end of my day and just completely fucked my evening #and the vagueness of the purpose of the call was just hilarious #when I asked why I couldn’t have known in advance about the call #why was I ambushed basically #thinking I’m going into a typical one on one meeting with my manager only to be completely blindsided #and at the end of the call when they’ve basically good cop bad copped me into a corner I asked them why I wasn’t made aware of this meeting #in advance #and they said oh we didn’t want to cause any stress by letting you know about this meeting in advance #and it would hinder our investigation #and I’m like right so you could come to this meeting prepared with a whole list of examples of my conduct but I couldn’t come prepared #to defend myself??? #are you fucking serious #anyways I’m genuinely concerned about not having a job here soon #and my daycare just increased their rates #and my job is who we have insurance through #so #yeah #I’m goddamn stressed out

[sysig]

First name basis (Patreon)

#Doodles #Helix #Max Vyer #Dexter Favin #Inspired by Dexter's visit with ZEX - Dexter's syntax was something I was extremely looking forward to! #Since we're in his head in Defeated (and the very end of Helix) I was very curious how a different player would write him :3c #I was so focused on ''sir'' that ''Mr. Vyer'' instead of ''Max'' completely blindsided me lol ♪ #He switches to Max fairly early on but it killed me every time hahaha ♪ #When would he have called him that! Before they got comfortable with each other maybe? :3 It got me thinking ♫ #And thus the classic ''So and so was my father'' bit haha - Max acting so~ charming hehe #Set very early on of course - even Max calling him ''Dexter'' instead of ''Dex'' - they're really quite comfortable with each other in Helix #That little implication of distance before they settle into their eventual relationship ah <3 Little signifiers my beloved ♪ #The timeline's still a bit loose in my mind but they would've known each other for 6+ years by the time ZEX comes in so that's a while! #Although Max was already calling him Dex by the time he was 18ish so there's that haha #Have I mentioned lately that timelines are some of my favourites pfft #It's been a while since I've worked on one <3 It's still so fun!! #I do love Dexter's professionalism haha ♥ He refers to Max as Max in his head in Defeated of course! #Mirrors DAX referring to ZEX by his name in his head but calling him sir or Admiral out of his mouth <3 <3 <3 #Although DAX also refers to him as the Admiral in his head too it's all cute! I enjoy all of it so much ♪♫

[a-sour-nectarine]

Constantly trying to determine which is actually more harmful: holding my phone and everything else I am trying to see 4 inches from my nose, or just wearing my glasses

#the end of my contact stash blindsided me #so im stuck without contacts for a few days #its killing me

[cerealbishh]

"Thank you, Jake."

"Always, brother."

#cbs fire country #fire country spoilers #fire country 01x13 #jake crawford #bode donovan #bode leone #jordan calloway #max thieriot #man that hug got me good #they love the same people and they are protective of them #i am so happy to see their relationship being repaired #it's obviously not going to be the same as before bode left but hopefully it'll be better #they're obviously different people #but i feel like they're seeing eye to eye and the good in each other? #i think it's beautiful #i do agree that jake should've talked to bode before his parents though because he was blindsided #the genuine smiles? #jake calling him 'brother'? #oh their family will be mended by the end of the season

[lee-hakhyun]

your summary of the latest ch gave me chills ngl can’t wait to read ur translation too!! jung munho… is he dead?

yeah. there's no saving him now

these deaths are.. really not doing good to lhh's mental state. for me, it's honestly harder to read than the main story... kdj's deaths were all justified in his own pov, it really cushions everything for the reader. but this.. lhh is seeing his readers die in front of him, and his reactions are heartbreaking

#and these readers. all they did was read a story. and now they're sacrificing themselves in a story they should have never ended up in #i said something like this in discord but this is like.. #this must be similar to how kimcom reacted to kdj dying #it's. really hard to read #ask #orv side story #orv spoilers #genuinely worried lhh is going to snap. he doesn't even have time to grieve. #GET LHH OUT OF ORV. I NEED HIM HAPPY. TAKE JUNG HEEWON TOO #honestly i left some things out of the summary because the ending completely blindsided me #the outer god started talking about ■■ getting mad before it left.. #there's also the whole recorder of fear thing which. i hope someone else can theorize about i don't think enough for this

[girlwithfish]

also my ex was convinced i cheated on him before i officially got out of that apartment and stuff and i can find screenshots of texts before i "cheated" where he repeatedly told me he broke up with me so Broken up was def in both of our dialogues. like yeah sure babe. ur just triggered i slept w someone else after enduring horrible abuse for a year+ and i stayed faithful to him the entire time too and he did not even deserve that and actually cheated on me when we were still together😭😭😭multiple times. Lmfao

#like i foudn a txt of him even insisting he was the one who initiated the break up cuz i like said it too and hes like i broke up with u x #oh but i cheated on u🙄 #But u broke up w me🙄 #Lol #that man did not deserve my loyalty im sickkk #i was sooo trusting too i felt so blindsided and sick when his like weird internet sexting shit got out and he betrayed my trust severely #lol #and continued to do so until the end of the relationship like id always find shito n his phone 😭 #just fucked me up so bad cuz i felt sooo bad and dumb for never ever suspecting hed ever be unfaithful to me or betray me or disrespect me #that way..... now im suspicious of anyone i date like u cant trust those mfs literally any man w a phone is a MENACE #they always hide somethin idk😭

[elegyofthemoon]

Spell your URL!

Spell out your URL using song titles that can describe your muse/OC, then tag as many people as there are letters in your URL!

OO thanks so much @cove-holdens !! This seemed like fun so I'll try ; v ; it's probably going to be pretty length though (> _ >) so i'll just put it under a read more

BUT want to tag beforehand idk enough people with ocs i think so i just toss it to @fayesdiary, @narzissenkreuz-ordo, @lemonbronze, @garlandgerard (i THINK you have some ocs sorry if i am misremembering), and whoever else I follow that has ocs :D let me get to know them!! (also of course no obligation <3)

I'm too fixated on my OC Octavia so here we go lmao

E - "Escapism" from Steven Universe: "I guess I have to face/ That in this awful place/ I shouldn't show a trace of doubt/ But pulled against the grain/ I feel a little pain/ That I would rather do without"

L - "Letter" from the Fragile Dreams OST

E - "Extraordinary" by Clean Bandit: "Am I the only one who sees what you've become?/ Will you drift away?/ We're running out of time, two wrongs can make it right/ Could I make you stay?/ People making choices, they can't fake/ Sacrifice it all and maybe say"

G - "Get Your Wish" by Porter Robinson: "Don't say you lose just yet/ Get up and move ahead/ And not only for yourself/ 'Cause that's your role/ The work that stirred your soul/ You can make for someone else"

Y - "Youth" by Daughter: "We are the reckless, we are the wild youth/ Chasing visions of our futures/ One day, we'll reveal the truth/ That one will die before he gets there/ And if you're still bleeding, you're the lucky ones/ 'Cause most of our feelings, they are dead and they are gone/ We're setting fire to our insides for fun"

O - "Octave of the Maushiro" by Chewie Melodies

F - "Future Friends" by Tilian: "Slow down/Give me a reason not to slow down/ I can feel the bottom and it's cold now/ I'm on the outside looking in/ So I'm calling on my future friends"

T - "The Hymn" by FLOYA: "I hope you understand that I cannot stay/ Don't expect you to feel the same/ There's a dream that I have to chase/ I'm feeling alive in the unknown/ Dancing to the hymn of the wind/ And though you and I are on our own/ I know you're close whenever I feel alone"

H - "here and now" by Tony22: "Here and now i'll find my hope/Yesterday is far gone and tomorrow never comes/Here and now's where I belong/So tired of using the present moment as my stepping stone"

E - "Eternal Sunshine" by Jhene Aiko: "Is it strange for me to say that if I were to die today/There's not a thing that I would change, I've lived well/ Maybe I have made mistakes and been through my fair share of pain/ But all in all, it's been okay, I've lived well"

M - "Miss You" by trentemøller

O - "Old Weapon Testing Ground" from HSR OST

O - "OUTRO" by LUCY

N - "North" from the Ender Lilies OST

#this was fun because i had to go search around a bit #askdfjahl i have an octavia playlist but theres only three songs on there 2/3 of them were listed #the instrumental songs are ones that ive mostly written to for octavia myeheh #or it just gives off certain vibes for them #speaking of octavia #i had a call today with my friend and i accidentally rambled (i was off in my own world tbh LMAO) #about transduction arc and i was like AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #but talking about it? it made me a little more motivated to write it #but HH WHEN? #ngl if i just dip out in june just to go insane in writing ✌🏼hbd to me ig lmao #but 'future friends' the more i think about it the more it reads a lot like transduction arc!octavia lmao #dont ask about the arcs im just rambling to myself LMAO #girls on a mission to destroy herself and shes only being stopped by the friends she kinda blindsided #oh god now that im slowly finishing this... #its mostly instrumentals LKAJSDAHF #okay only SOME of this ive written to #but theres certain vibes to them that give off octavia vibes #which is weird bc a lot of it feels like they contrast one another #like outro for example feels like the happy tranquil ending for them (fitting outro) #miss you feels like when they're lost in themself. which fits the vibe for octave #asdlfkadsjhaflk #tag games #again no obligation #also im sleep deprived idc if im posting about octavia here hi LMAO #and im about to do another one bc im just digging lmao #but anyways ~ #to tag later #bc i want to put this on the other blog for octavia #and then dissect it out further lmao #for octavia

[mars-ipan]

started gomens s2 with my family. they still cannot see them as anything but platonic. i am simultaneously amused and worried

#marzi speaks #amused bc: #it’s funny that they aren’t used to picking up queer subtext. they see good buddies i see the love story of the century #genuinely the show hints that they look super in love to everyone around them several times and bc it’s never stated my parents don’t see it #they are going to be so blindsided by the end of the season #worried bc: #the end of the season fucking murdered me. it killed me so dead #i need them to also be murdered by the end of the season #if they are not emotionally invested in this relationship. how will they be properly tormented #so anyways. i thought i was dropping subtle hints during s1 like oh! oh they care about each other ! #i have to get a LOT more obvious. a LOT #thankfully s2 also gets a lot more obvious so maybe together i can get them to see it #they already compared the ‘i am not fucking helping gabriel’ spat to them (textbook old married couple) so maybe it’s a start

[fairytalefragments]

✦ hey everyone! just wanna say sorry for how slow things have been around here lately, I'm very much still running the blog, stuff irl has just gotten all mixed up and it's left me with way less time and energy to edit. which in turn also ruins my motivation but I'm hoping to work out a new routine and get back into the swing of things! i appreciate everyone's patience about this too, truly it means a lot! all of that said i hope you're all having a good/night! take care 💙

#storytellers tale #// sidenote i did finally finished watching the megireco anime and the ending got me all messed up. #//i had already spoiled the game story for myself so it really blindsided me ahskdha

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

having thoughts about like. how the flashbacks we see of setrákus, pittacus, and celwe are ambiguous enough--the tiny slices we get of their dynamic, and all of the missing context in between--that pittacus' nastiness toward setrákus might be in response to setrákus being abusive toward him while they were growing up. and setrákus' nastiness toward him might be in response to pittacus being abusive toward him while they were growing up. or maybe they were just shitty to each other and in general, with celwe and Everyone Else getting caught in the crossfire.

the authors probably intended for it to be the first option, to the extent they were thinking about it in those terms at all: pittacus grew up with a friend who's been shitty to downright abusive toward him, and by their big confrontation he's had enough time away from him to unpack how fucked up his behavior was, and understand his tactics in order to call them out. you could interpret it that way, and were probably meant to, and it would make sense.

but... that assumption is kind of the problem, to me. because the other very much valid way to interpret what we see is a certain kind of abuse that's bad enough by itself, but is primarily aimed at neurodivergent and otherwise marginalized people in particular. (and setrákus is autistic as fuck.) and it's abuse that widely goes unseen and ignored, and is most often perpetuated by people who know they can afford to do it, or think they can.

might have to come back to it in more detail in a reblog, honestly, because it's a lot to talk about; but essentially it comes down to silencing someone by either openly dismissing what they say as nonsense that no one can understand but them, and isn't important enough to try, or disguising it behind a bad faith ''attempt'' to understand so they can say they tried and there's no point. it's a lifelong trauma which has shaped enormous parts of my personality and how i communicate, i can spot it a mile away, and i see all the hallmarks of it in their relationship and how setrákus is affected by it.

and that bothers me. it bothers me a lot that we're supposed to see one and not the other. it bothers me that it's not even 'pittacus' behavior is genuinely shit, but it's somewhat more understandable in the version of events where the context is that he was abused'; he's framed as the hero of the situation either way, who's acting out of pure kindness and reason and good intent. it bothers me that the person who is easy to interpret as having been abused this way would, even then, still be depicted as the Abusive Hate Sink Incarnation of Evil. (because he is abusive, and he is very much an evil son of a bitch. regardless of who was worse in his relationship with pittacus, that's true.) and it bothers me that that framing makes it harder to explore how the cycle of abuse manifests in this scenario, because it absolutely is a thing that happens and is worth telling stories about.

just, i don't know. thoughts. hm.

#lorien legacies #pittacus lore #setrákus ra #LL tag #LL crit tag #the crit files #abuse cw #abuse apologia cw #ableism cw #fuck off pittacus #i think the thing that seals it for me the most is that pittacus tried to Talk Some Sense into Him(tm) for like two minutes #and then when he threw his hands up and went 'whatever' he expected that to be the end of it #not 'okay dude listen whether you agree with me or not i can't let this continue and if you fight me on it things are going to escalate' #he just immediately assumes that *the disagreement* and whether it has any bearing here will be over the moment he calls it quits #all he has to do is plug his ears when he's done being indulgent and things will go right back to the arrangement that suits him #setrákus and whatever goals and opinions and feelings he had might as well not exist anymore #he'll go home to his wife (who he's been abusing; and who pittacus outed to him as having leaked the info that led to this outcome 🙃) #and forget about all of this. as far as pittacus is concerned setrákus has no actual choice; stupid or otherwise; but for it to Go Away. #and he is C O M P L E T E L Y blindsided when 'i decided it's not worth the slight effort to communicate anymore' isn't the end of it #like. i know people like this. i know this pattern. #and that combined with the fact that before he ~grows up and matures into a kind loving understanding leader~ #what we see of him as a kid is the really blatant mask-off flavor of insults; dismissal; talking-over; and accusations of overthinking it #it reads to me that that's never changed; he just figured out how to hide it behind a bad faith veneer of 'well i tried uwu' #anyway. do not like this man do not like this framing setrákus is a nasty piece of shit but also unfortunately in some ways very relatable #caveat also that 'i'm not debating this anymore either shut up and leave it or things will escalate' can be and often is abusive lmfao #generally speaking the pattern is that if it's going to be your problem and not theirs if they don't understand and communicate with you #people like this will stop bothering to pretend your opinion or what you have to say matters the moment their 5m (tops) of patience runs ou #pittacus just really tips his hand here because he is *so* certain that him deciding he's done trying to understand #means setrákus' concerns and opinions might as well evaporate into thin air #that he ignores the extremely obvious danger that he might put up any further resistance at all; despite setrákus clearly being Unhinged

[sortarapunzel]

just sliding in here to say that i really loved reading your tags on my loki post!! i agree that it’s not really a choice between the two, but it’s about loki learning and growing from both sylvie and mobius (and the two of them learning and growing as well) but the whole point being that sylvie and mobius both represent important parts of loki’s character and he’s learning to hold both of those sides of himself at the same time.

anyways thanks for the thoughts!!! i enjoyed them!!!

!!!!!💛!💛💛!!!!! yeah it is absolutely fascinating how they both represent elements of loki past and present, and I loved how you phrased it with loki struggling to grow without giving up his core identity!!! he's torn between these two people, who both stand for and fight for specific things-- and yeah, it's not a choice! And even if it were, Loki is desperately fighting against making it :P

#i really hope we get to see more of loki+sylvie pushing mobius and mobius+loki pushing sylvie and that its not just #wishful thinking and me reading into things #thank you for this lovely ask! I really enjoyed your post and the thoughts it's unlocked about the show #marvel #loki spoilers #asks #also. just cause i have nowhere else to put this. can someone please talk about the way loki said 'but we /are/ gods' to silvie - #- at the end of that pie room convo #like hello???? #i can't tell yet it he said it because he believes it or if its another unreliable character thing but man. #showstopping stunning brilliant #it's one of the points where you can really tell loki and sylvie differ #probably bc of their differing upbringing #ugh im also. so attached to syvlie as the loki variant that mobius doesnt understand and is thus able to be blindsided by #he's studied so many loki variants but sylvie evades him! #it's a fantastic set up for the sorts of confrontations we saw in the last episode #ok im done i promise