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forever-rogue · 2 years
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the modern! Eddie is so good. but what about reader is also a Tolkien nerd, maybe not as big if a nerd as Eddie. and bc that tv show is bad they go back to rewatch the LOTR trilogy for the 2053964th time to forget ab the show💀 (I totally ranted for days ab the trailers of the rings of power, and my family is definitely tired of hearing about it)
okay, but i'm already in love with modern!eddie 🥺 every eddie tbh
every time you looked at the clock you were expecting to see that several hours had passed...but each time it was only a few minutes. friday evenings working at the bookstore were usually uneventful but today it was downright boring. you really just wanted to be off so you could go over to your boyfriend's place to spend the evening with him.
almost as if he knew you were thinking about him, your phone dinged several times in a row, all texts from eddie. you couldn't help but laugh at the silly texts from your metalhead.
this show sucks so much. why did we watch it?
why am i rewatching? you're not even here for me to complain too.
we should start one of those online petition things to cancel the show. tons of other people would sign it!
i wish you were off already. miss you, baby.
you were sure that if anyone was watching you, they'd see you grinning at your phone like a lovestruck fool. which you totally were.
i'll be off and over soon. and then you can complain all you want to me, honey boy.
you set your phone down but he responded almost immediately.
can we rewatch lotr tonight? it's not a want so much as a need. i need you and some proper tolkien. and maybe pizza too if that sounds good.
how anyone could be afraid and intimidated by eddie munson, certified dork, nerd, geek, and practical puppy was something you would never understand.
sounds perfect to me. don't forget the blanket fort! i'll see you soon.
fuck, you're right. i love you so much, princess.
i love you always, honey boy.
now all you had to do was survive another two hours before you could run out and get to eddie. longest two hours ever. but they would be worth it.
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sasukeheart · 2 years
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i HAVE to talk about the last five minutes of the episode ‘the end of tears’ post vote1
after naruto and sasuke’s battle, kakashi comes and picks up naruto. pakkun and him decide that taking care of naruto is a priority right now.
at the same time sasuke is worn out, his chakra is so depleted that he’s trudging through the forests, taking small steps. clearly in pain, clutching his left shoulder. it is pouring. very very heavily. c already made a post talking about how sasuke’s pain is often depicted in the series using the rain. and it’s so important in this scene particularly.
as sasuke is walking alone away from the battle scene, he keeps getting haunting memories of his parents, and of itachi. there’s a moment between all this when naruto’s eyes open for the first time. at the same exact second, sasuke turns his head back towards the direction where naruto is, almost as though he sensed him waking up. because they’re so deeply connected. insane.
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he turns back around, closes his eyes and genuinely looks so in pain from everything that happened today, everything he did to naruto, everything he felt he had to do to him. i can’t explain the state i am in, the state of my heart, he was my best friend
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the rain continues to pour. and he gets this flashback specific flashback at this point
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the insane thing is. the rain stops right in the next second. it’s so sudden- we don’t know what brought about this state of calmness. especially after he’s revisiting one of his most haunting memories.
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the scene progression is very quick and we see sasuke say this, addressing itachi
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this is the moment he feels like some of his agony and pain is lifted, the moment when a sense of calm returns to his world, at least briefly. it’s when he decides he’s not going to kill his best friend.
the memories of his parents were literally just playing in his head, the pain is always so fresh for him. he knows what’s at stake but after going through his battle with naruto, seeing his best friend unconscious because of him…almost die because of him…he decides he will find another way.
it’s insane to me that people believe sasuke is apathetic towards naruto, and that he genuinely wanted him dead. the narrative could not have been more obvious. the pain of losing naruto that too by his own hands is too great for sasuke. when he walked away from naruto’s body, he made a decision. he didn’t do this on a whim. he made a promise, and he kept it.
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we-are-inevitable · 3 years
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guys oh my GOD i just found my newsies rants from the first BIG night of my hyperfixation and. hng. there's so much good content in here
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*messages copy and pasted under the cut!
NOTE: all of these messages are from April 19, 2020- the first day of my newsies hyperfixation!
listen racetrack and crutchie are some of my babes and i fucking love them
BEN TYLER COOK IS THE ONLY VALID RACETRACK AND I DESPERATELY NEED THEM TO REDO THE CAST ALBUM TO GIVE HIM THE SPOTLIGHT HE DESERVES
I CANT LISTEN TO KING OF NEW YORK ANYMORE BECAUSE. IT ISNT RACE. dont get me wrong racetrack from the soundtrack is like. really good but he ain't livesies racetrack good
also everyone ships race and spot which is valid but idk I just feel like race and albert have more in common?? like. spot is a great character and all of the Brooklyn Newsies deserve so much more screentime and so much more content but i just feel like the only reason people like race × spot is because of the Inner-Bourough Relations and the territorial stuff (bc the brooklyn bois are pretty spooky) but race × albert is so much cuter ?? like they're both Manhattan newsies and they share a lot more screentime and they have a lot more in common and like !! their interactions throughout King of New York makes me cry so hard i love them so much
something is telling me that if i dont learn All Of The Newsies by tomorrow i'm gonna scream
so i think later today i'm gonna rewatch livesies, then watch 92sies, then make myself a google slides presentation with a pic of each newsie and their name so i can figure this shit out
JACK AND CRUTCHIE ARE BROTHERS BUT WE STILL STAN THAT JACK/RACETRACK DYNAMIC
if anyone tries to tell me that racetrack ain't Jack's #2 Dude i WILL bite i dont care
like??? we literally see race kinda take charge after the bulls bust up their strike and jack fucks off to be Emo On The Rooftop (which is still valid and i love him for it) but race steps in and lifts everyone's spirits again and god i love him for it
it's real "Loving Racetrack Higgins Hours"
OH OH OKAY SO THE EMO ROOFTOP SCENE
LIKE. FUCK. people kinda got on Jack's case for leaving after the big fight breaks out and the bulls take Crutchie, but what else can he do? jack is 17. he's scared. he's dealing with his own trauma after what happened to him at The Refuge (which is never explicitly stated, but his reaction leads me to believe there was definitely some kind of ab•se (and its canon that the officers at the refuge don't feed the kids as they should)). he's seen as the tough guy, as the leader, as the father figure for all of the newsies, but he's a kid. he put his life on the line for them, but that's too much responsibility for a teenager.
jack got thrown in the refuge- a jail for kids- because he stole food and clothing for the other boys. he did everything he did for everyone else, without ever taking his own feelings into consideration; it was never a case of "what's in it for me?", it was always "will this help the guys i love?" and that is Jack's biggest quality i think.
anyway- so, he disappears after the fight because he's guilty. he watch his best friend- no, his brother- get taken by the bulls and watched the others he loves get hurt, and he couldn't stop it. again, this is a 17 year old we're talking about. his whole Santa Fe scene is the most pivotal part of the show in my opinion? like- we see Jack having a breakdown, essentially. "just be real is all i'm askin', not some paintin' in my head" is such a painful line because he's holding onto the hope that somewhere he's never seen is good enough to risk leaving his life behind for, and we see the struggles between wanting to stay and help his friends and wanting to get out and live and be able to have a life where he doesn't have to live with such a huge responsibility on his shoulders.
ALSO THE WHOLE THING WITH THE GUYS THINKING JACK IS A SELLOUT BECAUSE HE GOT MONEY FOR TRYING TO CONVINCE THE NEWSIES NOT TO CONTINUE THE STRIKE HURTS MY HEART
like Pulitzer basically said "if you don't tell them to stop this, i'll personally make sure all of them end up in the refuge" and even used Davey as a plot device, since Davey is one of the few that has folks and a little brother, and Pulitzer essentially said "you wouldn't want your pal Davey getting separated from his family, would you?"
Jack believed in the Strike, and he believed in the Newsies, but he couldn't handle the risk of more of his family getting beaten and thrown into The Refuge, and it kills me to see that he couldn't tell the others why he suddenly had a "change of heart", and that they all think that jw just gave up on them until they realize later on that Pulitzer manipulated him right where it hurt most
I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS ABOUT NEWSIES AND NO ONE TO TALK ABOUT IT WITH SO UH,, IM SORRY YOU GUYS GET THE SHORT END OF THE STICK
listen i could write an entire essay over Santa Fe and i love that song and it's just such an iconic "I Want" song and !!! fuck !!!!!! it's so sad but it bops!!!!!
"folks are fightin, bleedin, fallin, thanks to good old Captain Jack! Captain Jack just wants to close his eyes and GO"
and then theres a really long pause and his voice cracks and the next line just ?? hurts me ??
"let me go, far away, somewhere they won't never find me, and tomorrow won't remind me of today"
HE'S SO SAD AND STRESSED AND HURT AND GUILTY AND JUST WANTS TO LEAVE THE SITUATION TO PREVENT ANYMORE BAD THINFS FROM HAPPENING ADN I JUST WISH I COULD HUG HIM
i just realized ive been ranting for 30 minutes i love u all goodnight
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ettadunham · 4 years
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A Buffy rewatch 7x16 Storyteller
aka the lies we tell ourselves
We did it, guys! We made it to the last season! Also, hello if you’re new, and stumbled upon this without context. As usual, these impromptu text posts are the product of my fevered mind as I rant about the episode I just watched for an hour (okay, sometimes perhaps two). Anything goes!
And in today’s episode, it’s Andrew time. So I guess we’ll need to talk about him, huh?
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I’ll just get this out of the way right away: I’m not big on Andrew. I know that he’s well-loved by a lot of folks, and also, that I’m not alone in having a bit more resistance towards him… (So, he’s basically like each and every Buffyverse character ever? Except Warren – we all hate Warren.) And I get it. Both of those sides, I guess.
It’s not that I hate Andrew though. It’s just that there’s a reason why he was part of the Trio, and while I think there’s a lot of interesting narrative fuel there, I have a hard time forming a deeper connection to those characters. Including Jonathan.
But much like Superstar was an interesting, highly enjoyable Jonathan-focused episode despite any future misgiving I might’ve had of the character, Storyteller does the same for Andrew. There’s a lot to like here, and we build on Andrew’s character massively.
Andrew, in this episode in particular, is presented as an audience surrogate - one of his character’s biggest appeal imo. He understands and appreciates that he’s in a story, surrounded by all these larger than life characters. Buffy is the hero. Xander is the unappreciated sidekick that Andrew stans, and has a crush on. Dawn is a cutie with a weird backstory. Willow and Anya have these rich, ambiguous, dark patches in their past. Spike has… abs, I guess?
The way Andrew integrates himself into these stories is where things get interesting though.
He mostly sees himself as an outsider, a storyteller, and therefore detached from the actual canon world of the show. And when he does integrate himself, it’s just another story, another character. And as Andrew tells the tale of this person, who looks like him, and sounds like him, the story changes with the narrative.
You see, Andrew didn’t want to kill Jonathan. That’s not what happened. It was an accident! He was possessed! It was what the story wanted him to do! He had no agency whatsoever.
Which… is pretty meta. But in the world of the show, it’s Andrew lying to himself about what he’s done and why. About who he is.
So, maybe it’s part of the gay subtext, too? Except... is it subtext? Is it, really?
Is Andrew relentlessly gay-coded, or is he just gay on the show? How is that a taboo, when we already have main queer characters in the cast? Are they not textually acknowledging it because it’s so clearly the case, or are they playing coy for shits and giggles? Is it supposed to be funny?
It’s all a bit murky with the intent. But I do think that there’s a more favorable perspective here somewhere. The scene where Andrew is re-playing Xander and Anya’s exchange is a bit weird and obtrusive, but there’s no actual joke here about how Andrew’s clearly using it to fantasize about Xander. It is weird and obtrusive because he recorded them having this intimate conversation, yes (which, again, is more meta than anything else…), but not because he has a crush on Xander.
So, that’s something.
Staying on topic here, did we seriously break up Willow and Kennedy for 1 whole minute of overall runtime? Are the writers intentionally making Kennedy’s character to be as thin as tissue paper? After the end of the previous episode, were they immediately like ‘oh, shit, now we have to build her character to explore this and get them back together, quick, let’s have them make up offscreen at the beginning of the next one’.
And I guess I kinda appreciate the background storytelling element of it all. To just have them reunite as one of those side stories we don’t see, because we’re so locked to Andrew’s perspective. Kinda? Maybe?
Mostly though, it’s just cheap and lazy.
Seriously, I don’t even care about Kennedy, truth be told. Or this relationship. I’m okay with it because I like Willow and I want her to have nice things, and not be miserable. And I guess the writers are aware of this, but still. They’re not even trying at this point.
This is also the episode where Xander and Anya don’t get back together. But they do have sex. Now, this is a relationship where I am actually invested in both characters – just not necessarily in them, as an item. It’s all… *shrug emoji* The whole having sex to get over each other is a nice callback to how their relationship started out in the first place though.
Speaking of callbacks, the high school going all Hellmouth-y had some nice moments of that too. Like Buffy stopping a shy girl from going invisible. The scene with the nervous guy apparently actually exploding into bits and pieces was a bit extreme for the comedic tone of it all, but that only made it even more of a S1 homage.
And then there’s the scene with Andrew and Buffy over the Hellmouth seal.
There are things about Storyteller we could dissect, and I could sit here talking about my own ambiguous feelings on Andrew all day, but this scene? This scene is one of the best of the season and no, I’m not taking any constructive criticism.
It’s a great character building moment for Andrew, but we’re also adding to Buffy’s character too.
The episode earlier already lampshaded the Season 7 Buffy Speeches counter that I talked about earlier, but here, Buffy also acknowledges it.
ANDREW:  “You said we could all get through this.” BUFFY:  “I made it up. I’m making it all up. What kind of hero does that make me?” ANDREW:  “No, you’re doing great. Really. Kudos.” BUFFY:  “Yeah? Well, I don’t like having to give a bunch of speeches about how we’re all gonna live, because we won’t. This isn’t some story where good triumphs because good triumphs. Good people are going to die! Girls. Maybe me. Probably you. Probably right now.”
And I said at the beginning of this post, that I’m not big on Andrew, but the truth is? This episode gets to me. This scene gets to me. And every time I watch it, I like Andrew a whole lot better.
…That is until I rewatch season 6 again, and he plummets back into his starting point. It’s a vicious cycle.
But maybe I’m looking at it in the wrong way. This isn’t a cycle after all. This is part of the show’s themes about change and hope, and giving people the chance to grow.
It is, after all, Andrew’s tears that close the Hellmouth. His tears of regret. He admits to and acknowledges what he’s done, and it breaks the cycle of evil for the time being. It doesn’t change what happened, but it does change him. By taking responsibility, he takes charge of his own life instead of playing a character in a story.
Andrew may have stopped following the First’s instruction a while ago, but by not taking action, by being a spectator, he was still an agent of the First. No wonder then, that him breaking out of that state weakens the First as well.
Huh. Maybe I’m just underestimating my own attachment to Andrew after all.
We can all do better if we’re allowed to change. But we also need to be honest with ourselves and acknowledge our missteps in order to do that. Otherwise, we really are just in a vicious cycle, doomed to repeat our worst mistakes.
So... be more like Andrew, and break that cycle, I guess?
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ofodinn · 6 years
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13, 8, 3
Interview the Writer -- > @mo-mo-and-porkchop​ -- > Accepting!
how are you?
Oh boy, this question came through at an interesting time. I kind of want to punch many things, in the face, atm. It’s nothing against anyone on Tumblr, well mostly. I have some annoyance there, but yeah, I’m super annoyed right now, and I’m just doing things in photoshop, like the aesthetic for my innocent ship (sort of innocent) that makes me happy, because baseball pissed me off today.
Are the Cubs still First in Spring Training? YES. That is shocking, as we usually suck in Spring Training, even the year we won the World Series. But, losing to the Diamondbacks today, sucked. I don’t like losing, even if Spring Training doesn’t matter, and when our offense can’t even put up a fucking run, it’s annoying af. It’s already hard enough for me because we had the minor leaguer playing First Base today, because in Spring Training, our starters that play 162+ games a year, only do a couple AB’s, every other day or so. But when our offense is horrible, it pisses me off. 2-0 is embarrassing and to make it worse, I had to listen to AZ announcers and when they insult our players, I get annoyed.
But our manager says ‘take an hour and then move on’ so I’m trying to move on. but, I am still pissed, and the stupid At Bat app hasn’t updated standings, and the fuckhead Brewers are in first on it, and they’re fucking not. We’re still in first. People need to get on their fucking jobs.
Okay that was a rant and this is just Spring Training which doesn’t count. Wait until the actual season. I’m unmanageable. 
8 games won in a row, was fun.
do you follow canon, or dump it in the trash?
I follow canon, other than my Blood is Thicker than Water verse where Ragnar doesn’t go back to England, my The King is Gone but not Forgotten verse where he goes to Hedeby when he leaves, my Down but not Out verse where he never leaves at the end of 4, my This is not the End vese where Ecbert saves him from death. But, I do also follow the canon of that timeline, as well. So really I’m canon, with just a few divergent verses. I’m pretty okay with Ragnar’s canon, really. 
how do you get yourself out of a writing funk?
I’m not really like that? Well there’s the Jax issue. I’ve been there for 2 months. He wakes up for @alwaysfine‘s Tara, and a a couple others when he wants to,  but other than that, he’s just been pretty silent so honestly, I don’t know because I don’t know how to fix it. I do replies on him and power through, but honestly, I just don’t have the drive for him right now and have no desire to rewatch, atm. I definitely have 0 desire to be used for smut.
With Ragnar, he just gets quiet some days, but he honestly pops up within a day or so. Alfred, he never shuts up, literally. He’s been sleep rambling to Siggy for two days now. 
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