#better than tv

[ezamevolni]

Traces: Two-faced 👹

This moment deserves a whole mention on its own.

I found it fascinating that it belongs so much to a kdrama yet happened in real life, was captured on camera, and how we were granted a rare glimpse of a pro-idol switching up his persona for someone. And that someone isn't you or me, it's an act solely for his Jin hyung.

The Jeon Kookie has edge.

160513 Sinchon fan sign

The whole fancam is worth a gander. There's quite a few Jinkook crumbs in there.

Zooming in on the moment that blows my mind every time I think about it... the full sequence starts at around 4:45 when the members prompted Jhope to do the ShyShyShy aegyo (dance move from Twice's Cheer Up).

While Hobi was being cute, Tae mischievously nudged him from behind and he fell, caught off guard. Jin instinctively grabbed Hobi trying to keep him upright but gravity was too strong for them both..

About a minute before any of this happened, Jk had just expertly maneuvered himself from Point A (between RM and Jimin) ➡️ next to Jin

His steps may say 'I'm casual' but his hands say 'It's premeditated and I'm restless'.

After 2seok dived off stage, Tae trudged over to take up the spot where Jin had been standing.

When Tae moved up, Jk stared silently at him. In response, Tae glared back at the younger one with a challenging "WHUT?". Then Jk proceeded to 'attack' Tae:

It was playful with a bit of tension that dispersed quickly. (it looked like Jk was ready to wrestle throw Tae over his leg with the final move)

Namgi on the other end cued the whole team to perform ShyShyShy at that moment so Jk dropped the fight and followed suit.

Hobi and Jin had both returned onstage by then and were also doing the aegyo.

Jhope and Jin were standing to the right of Tae now. From the above screenshots, Tae had thought of something related to the aegyo, grabbed Jin's mic to tell the fans about the small correction, and performed aegyo again on his own.

A teeny tiny glimpse of edgy Kookie first showed up here. Just focus on Jk's expression that went from unamused (when Tae took Jin's mic and started talking) to allowing a grin to spread across his face (after Jin turned to face Tae and him)

It might have looked like Jk was laughing at Tae's aegyo because both Jinkook were focused on him right?

Don't be naive 😈

The split second Jin turned his head away, Jk's laughing expression dropped,

Look at Jk's face closely and try to keep an eye on Jin's actions at the same time lol. It's so quick but it's true: Jk's smile dropped after Jin turned away.

Who was the smile for? >>>> 🐹 Duh.

But other shippers might argue, Jk's eyes were on Tae??!!?, he was smiling for Tae's aegyo!!?!

But I say, just keep watching.

BTW the first gif at the top is from the following moment - 2seok were offcam giggling together and Jk was watching them with a series of interesting expressions:

Read it how you will. There's no right answer.

(I'm waiting for Jinkook to one day do a zoom q&a where we send them clips and ask what was happening here and they tell us exactly what they were thinking. [maybe in a parallel universe.])

Then here's Jk breaking back into a smile the second Jin turned to face him and Tae again:

Look at how slick he was, making sure to turn and fix his gaze on Tae (this kiddo was just vibing out) first, then shifting slightly to meet Jin's eyes before smiling.

Pretended like he hadn't been watching Jin hyung.

So if we go by what Jin saw:

And when Jin wasn't looking:

Indeed, beware the double 🐰.

I doubt Jin watches fancams of their fansigns and mayhaps never seen this whole act by Jk before. If someone did force him to watch, he'll probably say something like "nah, he's been smiling, what are you talking about ☺️" like a Kookie solo

It is that serious though. Jungkook's only a cheerful sunny good boy for his Jin. Anybody else, he don't give a damn. Not even the fans. There's a whole bunch looking right at him. (and also us thanks to the fancam owner 🫶🏼)

Assuringly, Jk knows himself well. When concentrating on a certain one in the moment, he knows he can forget about the countless other presences watching him

Spoken with years of experience, Tae.

#jinkook #kookjin #jungkook #jin #better than tv

[daily-dose-of-dopamine]

Why watch TV when you can watch a hamster running in a ball at high speeds

#looking after someone else's hamster #she keeps running into things and loudly #better than tv #though I hardly watch TV as is #hamster #cute animals

[cwdumptruck]

Do you think Jon-El is sitting in his cell and laughing at the shitshow that is Jon’s life?

#superman and lois #jon-el #jonathan kent #better than tv

[counting-stars-gayly]

I’m actually LOVING how Rick Riordan, and the other writers of the show, took his initial concept of a Percabeth rivalry fueled by that of their parents and kind of turned it on its head?

Now, instead of Annabeth being wary of Percy because he’s a son of Poseidon, he’s wary of her because she made a callous impression on him. They get off to a rocky start even before finding out who Percy’s father is, and when they finally do, Annabeth doesn’t care. Instead of them fighting because of who their parents are, they’re fighting over their own opposed worldviews.

Then, instead of them arguing over which of the gods is cooler and who was right in the story of Medusa, they realize that, just like Medusa, Annabeth is a victim of her mother and that, unlike Medusa, she is a far kinder and stronger person, unwilling to repeat the cycle of hurt. They realize that, like his father, Percy often acts without considering potential consequences and that, unlike his father, he is a far kinder and stronger person, willing to step up for someone he wronged and whom he cares about.

Instead of Percy and Annabeth’s rivalry being focused on that of their parents, it’s focused on who they are, themselves. But the path to friendship is still the same: a realization that they have each other’s backs, no matter what, because they’re not their parents after all.

#i kind of typed this in my essay voice because I knew it would be long so ignore that #also I don’t actually know which of the other writers are playing big parts in percabeth’s story so threats why I put a focus on Riordan #that’s* #aaaaanyhoo if I’m being honest I definitely prefer this version of percabeth #AND I like that Medusa said ‘‘we are not our parents until we choose to be. you three have chosen’’ implying that she thinks they’ve chosen #to be their parents only for Percy to reveal in the next episode that he’s chosen to be better than his father. #that was a really nice touch 👌👌👌 #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo #pjo disney+ #percy jackson disney+ #percy jackson #annabeth chase #Percabeth #rick riordan #Medusa #pjo tv show #pjo tv series #pjo tv spoilers

[diamondsunbursts-and-marblehalls]

percy and annabeth immediately looking at grover when they find out someone needs to drive. grover your "I'm actually 24" is showing.

#he would have driven better than percy and i stand by that statement #grover underwood #percy jackson #annabeth chase #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo #pjo tv show #the lightning thief #pjo tv series #episode 6 #he probably just bikes everywhere though tbh

[bisexualbuckleyy]

ben cutting charlie off while he’s talking by kissing him vs nick always wanting to hear what charlie has to say

ben pretending like he doesn’t know charlie in the halls vs nick constantly saying charlie is his best friend and wanting to hang out with him

ben saying “you know i’m sorry about ignoring you” and “if you’ve finished sulking yet” when he upsets charlie vs nick profusely apologizing when he’s done something wrong and reiterating to charlie how much he cares about him

ben calling charlie desperate and saying he didn’t even like him vs nick constantly complimenting charlie and saying that he loves liking him

ben wanting to keep them a secret because he was ashamed of himself and charlie vs nick only wanting to keep them a secret while he was still figuring out his sexuality and still telling the people closest to them when he was comfortable with it

ben not even wanting to admit that they were boyfriends vs nick loudly and gleefully declaring that they were boyfriends

#no thoughts just nick and charlie #and how much better nick is than ben #it just gives me so much joy how happy nick and charlie are together #they give me so much serotonin #heartstopper #heartstopper tv #nick x charlie #nick nelson #charlie spring #ben hope #narlie

[misandriste]

↳ endless gifs of morgana ∞

KATIE McGRATH as MORGANA 𝕸𝖊𝖗𝖑𝖎𝖓 ⧽ 𝟏.𝟏𝟐 "𝔗𝔬 𝔎𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔎𝔦𝔫𝔤"

#lord forgive me for i am no better than a man... #endless morganas #morgana #morgana pendragon #morgana le fay #katie mcgrath #bbc merlin #merlin bbc #merlin #merlinedit #merlingif #tv #tvedit #tvgif #tvgifs #perioddramaedit #dailytvfilmgifs #gifsbymisa #femalecharacters #tvfilmsource #dailytvwomen #femalegifsource #tvandfilm #televisiongifs #filmtvdaily

[just-being-aroace]

Things that are way better than sex, kissing and romance:

good food

entertaining book

well-made Netflix show

going to bed at 10 pm

music that gives you goosebumps

music you can loudly singalong to while driving

movies you can watch 10 times and they are still great

learning languages

looking at art

wearing comfy clothes

feeling warm, cozy and hyggelig

staying up all night reading

#aroace #aromantic #aromantic asexual #asexual #im very aroace #ace #ace community #aro #aroace community #aro community #things better than sex #hygge #hyggelig #reading #books #movies #tv shows #sleeping #music

[karda]

waiting for the first seaweed brain/wise girl to hit and destroy me completely

#i think annabeth having jewelry in her braids would be cool :--] #drew them a little more grown up than they are. hard for me to draw children lol but ill try better next time #my art #doodles #pjo tv show #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #annabeth chase #fanart #pjo #colors r a mess i kept drawing over and over it again. ignore mistakes it just a doodle .....

[corneliaavenue]

it is so funny that 2010 taylor was shaming people for being known for the things they do on the mattress while she had a song written about wanting to be fucked up against a wall hidden away

#i can see you #better than revenge #taylor swift #speak now tv

[book-connoisseur]

12 year old Percy having to hike all the way to LA from Long Island in 10 days while having to fight monsters with barely any food or drink supply because his deadbeat dad is scared of his little brother, just to find out 4 years later that he could have just hired some emo kid from a casino and a goat with reed pipes and anxiety to help him open up a bunch of rocks in Central Park.

#Percy is better than me because I would have joined Kronos after that #grover underwood #annabeth chase #nico di angelo #pjo #pjo memes #pjo hoo toa #heroes of olympus #the last olympian #the lightning thief #luke castellan #rick riordan #pjo fandom #pjo series #pjo spoilers #will solace #solangelo #pjo books #percy jackson #pjo tv show #percy jackon and the olympians

[professorhayforbreath]

really though why would they cut doa records and make the waterbed store the entrance to the underworld? it should've been the other way around imo. like i remember rick admitting the movie making the hollywood sign the entrance to the underworld was a cool idea, and that worked bc it functioned similarly to the book—a record studio, hollywood, either way it's the same wink wink commentary on fame and glamour actually being a gateway to hell ('selling your soul to the devil'). sure it's cliche but at least there's a thought pattern you can follow there. that was a big part of the fun of the books, seeing the ways the real world and the mythological world blended, and in the show we're losing that. the entrance to the underworld is a goddamn waterbed store because...? no good reason.

#once again tlt musical you are everything to me #famous dead musicians cameoing bc it's a record studio and the entrance to the underworld? genius #why did the musical understand rick's humour better than he does #pjo show crit #pjo tv crit #pjo #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo tv show #pjo show #pjo series #pjo adaptation #percy jackson show

[connabeth]

annabeth teasing percy about him being on the brink of calling her a friend (even though he literally just said he’d turn his back on his dad for her because she's done a lot more for him in days than poseidon his whole life, which goes a lot deeper than maybe friendship) is gold because you KNOW she is never letting that shit slide. down the line in season 2, when she's crying in his arms underwater in a bubble over what the sirens showed her, i hope she wipes her tears real quick and tells him he went through quite the length to save someone he could never be friends with. in season 3, when annabeth is rescued from being kidnapped (after percy sneaks onto a quest he has no business being on yet again because he cares about her too much) and he asks her to dance on olympus during the solstice, i hope she jokingly declines because they could simply never be friends and not friends don’t dance with each other. in season 4, when he’s by default assumed to be a companion on her quest, i hope she goes ‘actually…i only bring my friends on quests with me’. in season 5, when he asks for a kiss for good luck, i hope she puts him in place bc who asks people they’re not even friends with for kisses? when he confesses his feelings for her and is trying to tell her she’s his tether to his mortality and a reason he denied godhood, i hope she goes ‘surely you didn’t think of me. because we could never be friends” before she kisses him. writers do your fucking jobs PLEASE

#percabeth #pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson #pjo tv show #annabeth chase #this episode is laying the groundwork i can already see it #miss adi eudaimmonia could write this a lot better than i could pls make her a writer on the show PLEASE

[rythyme]

alpha/alpha isn't even a canonized AO3 tag yet and Pit Babe The Series is already out here like "there's a special kind of alpha that can get other alphas pregnant 😜"

#''i can't believe we live in a world where live action shows do fanfic tropes—'' nah. it's worse than that. #we live in a world where live action tv shows come up with kinks and tropes that ao3 hasn't even thought of yet #and by ''worse'' i mean ''better'' if you're an enjoyer of unhinged media experiences like i am #pit babe #pit babe the series #thai drama #lgbt drama #omegaverse #theo.txt #100 #500

[labyrinth-archive]

🎶 she’s an actress, she’s better known for the way she surfs-down-a-slide-in-the-genovian-palace-in-the-princess-diaries-2 on the mattress 🎶

#new lyric leak (real) #taylor swift #better than revenge #the princess diaries #speak now #speak now tv #speak now taylor’s version #text #and they said speak now

[buckttommy]

recontextualizing this story through the lens of buck/eddie and what it means for them, is like. it's so interesting because recently, i got an anon that asked me (paraphrasing) if i thought 9-1-1 would actually "go there" with buck and eddie as individuals, and that three main characters discovering their queerness would be "too much" for the general audience. and, like, not withstanding that it's actually true to life — that queer people can and do naturally gravitate toward each other even when we aren't out / passing / aware of our sexualities at the time — it's also just like. the belief (or disbelief) that 911 wouldn't "go there" with their stories also comes with this inherent assumption that there's only one way to tell a queer discovery story.

like. when michael came out in season 1, he was already at the end of his journey. he had already walked through the self-hate and forced closeting and came out on the other side to self acceptance. when we meet michael, he is a queer man, a gay man (because the word is important), who has already stepped into self actualization and is ready to live his truth. this is not the story 911 is telling with buck.

and then with eddie, you have this character that is introduced with the idea of being perfect, as ryan said, of having it all together, only for the audience to realize he's not. only for the audience to realize that he's broken and cracked on the inside and that a lot of it stems from war. but most of it? most of it doesn't. most of it stems from his father, and from how he was raised. raised to shut it down, to swallow things whole even if they hurt, even if they make him bleed. he was told to keep it all quiet, repress repress repress. and so. i know this is an unpopular opinion, but to that end, i don't think an explicit queer discovery storyline is necessary for him, in the sense that, subtextually, i think it's already happened. season 5 was very much eddie's unrepression arc. we dug deep into the things that make eddie diaz, eddie diaz. and a lot of that was war. violence. chaos."warzones are my thing." but if that was all that his arc was meant to be, why have it end with a conversation with his father? they could have played that arc out in so many different ways.

for one, they could have had mills still be alive. they could have had her and eddie reconnect. they could have had her and eddie have a conversation where she shoulders some of the weight that eddie's been putting on himself and have him settle into the peace of the realization that he's not alone in this specific thing, that he never has been, that other people survived what he did and that he can find solace in them. but the writers didn't do that. they took it back to his childhood, to the root of where eddie diaz began and they said, this is where you need to go. this is what you need to address before you can heal and move on. so that conversation with his dad that culminated in him choosing wellness, in him choosing happiness, in him choosing safety in his body for himself has very much always read to me as queer acceptance even if not explicit (due to the assumed barriers that were placed on that story at the time).

eddie has always been with women, eddie has always liked being with women, so i'd be shocked if he's ever even thought about the nuances of his sexuality. but his unrepression in season 5, to me, has always made him open to the possibility of falling into whatever comes next, whatever that looks like.

this is also not the story they're telling with buck.

(as a side note, i'd just like to say that queer subtext is still queer existence. subtext is how our stories have been told for generations, well before we were able to take up space on the page, and subtext is still a wholly valid and beautiful way of telling a queer story. please don't forget that).

so then, finally, we get to buck, and he's so very new at this. so very green he may as well be a blade of grass on a country club golf course. and so, despite the fact that there have already been two queer storylines prior, this is the first time in 9-1-1 (and tv!) history, that we have ever gotten to see an unplanned queer character discover who he is at this intimate, detailed level. we get to see buck's story unfold in real time, we get to learn about who this actualized version of himself is, as he is realizing it, and we get to know and dissect the layers and nuances, the ebbs and flows of his sexuality as he's taking himself apart and seeing what's underneath.

friends. this is the story they've always needed to tell.

and so, when i think about buck and eddie, and i think about their progression toward a romantic relationship and what that would look like, realistically and in the eyes of the audience, buck has really always been the missing key. we've talked about it before — who he is, who he was, has in no way been ready for eddie on multiple levels. whether it was because of his insecurity, his lack of place in the world, etc, buck has always been (for lack of a better word) too immature for eddie. eddie is a single father. he doesn't have time to play games, and though he will always love and reassure buck when he needs it, he doesn't have time to heal buck for him. nor should he. so buck was the only one who canonically, canonically, needed to be yanked from point a to point z.

and. it's like everyone's said, even before the season began — buck has been on a hamster wheel, buck has been stuck in a rut, yadda yadda yadda, which means that, as far as the audience was concerned, what always was for buck (women) is what always would have been. and there was nothing in canon, nothing concrete to disprove them from believing so. so we needed him to fall into something, not just radical, but sometime new.

and when i think about buck, and when i think about eddie, and when i think about their stories both as individuals and together, buck has, realistically, been the only real stopping point. at least with eddie, when the time is right and buck/eddie go canon, we, the audience, can go back in time and we can look at the way he came into himself and settled into his identity as a person, as a man, and say, like, oh okay, this is the moment. you know? we don't need the writers to take our hands and guide us through the same processes buck is experiencing because eddie's already had his ah moment, he's already experienced the moment where he decides that his life and his needs and his joy and his liberation are just as beautiful and valuable and worthy like everyone else's.

so when people ask, like, "would 9-1-1 really go there with three queer discovery arcs?" it's just like. well yes. they already have. we've already there. in fact, we're well into the third and final act. buck, eddie, and the audience, are almost ready — as in, actively ready — for each other. and yes, sure, even after the meat of this arc has passed, there will still be some things buck and eddie need to learn — specifically, they will need to learn that, not only do they have feelings for each other, but that feelings for each other is actually an option — but. for all intents and purposes, this is the crescendo before the final chord. this is it. and the thought that we've been here, that we've witnessed these three beautiful queer storylines unfold with these three beautiful characters (two of which are gentle, loving, present men of color) makes me entirely too emotional for words. tbh.

#what 9-1-1 is doing ... what they have done — despite this long ass post — it goes beyond articulation. it really does. #to comprehend that we are standing on the precipice of something so uniquely raw and life-changing in the way queer stories are told — it #doesn't get much better...more surreal than this. i know it's been said but the level of care and intention that has gone into telling these #stories is in itself a rarity. and the fact that we get to witness it — that we get to spend this time together — with a cast and crew that #loves these stories and loves these characters as much if not more than we do? its powerful as hell. what a surreal experience this has been #thinking many thoughts and crying many tears #tv: 911 #jack.txt #meta #long post