#but lets have a little faith in them

[steviesbicrisis]

Jumanji kind of AU where Steve and Eddie are frenemies (aka they would like each other if they weren't both dumb) but they're stuck together helping Dustin's mum to clean up her attic. Or better, Steve is cleaning and Eddie is snooping around, despite Steve's scolding. In his snooping, Eddie finds a worn-out notebook and a set of two dice he has no intention to put back in the box he has found them, no matter what Steve says to him.

They argue about it, then fight, and finally wrestle for the items, making the dice fall on the ground and land on a 2 and a 3.

Suddenly the room around them shakes, and before they realize what is going on, they find themselves catapulted into a fantasy land where creatures like trolls and dragons are very much real and alive, and every step of their journey seems to be described inside the mysterious notebook.

Eddie's thrill about being stuck inside a D&D campaign goes away quickly once he realizes that only Steve has the physical abilities to do the heroic acts he has always dreamed of. Steve, on his part, has difficulties relying on other people, not even when Eddie is the only one with the knowledge that can get them out safely.

Will they learn to work together or are these two idiots destined to be stuck forever?

#I'm asking because I actually don't know #they're so dumb they might stay there forever and argue #but lets have a little faith in them #maybe they work it out and become a famous dragon slaying couple #I would love that for them #steddie #steve and eddie #steve harrington #steve x eddie #eddie munson #steddie au #prompts #steddie prompt #steddie idea #jumanji au #stranger things

[dirtytransmasc]

the Sully kids' reaction to Jake saying Spider "knew everything" breaks my heart.

they knew him better than anyone else, better than their parents. they knew his love for Eywa, for Pandora, for The People, for the clan, for their family. they knew he would never tell the RDA anything... not willingly at least.

they knew they were leaving because Spider would be tortured for information, he'd be forced to reveal their home, their plans, their numbers, their weaknesses. their brother would be tortured and they were being forced to leave him behind.

they knew they were being forced to find a new home, without their brother, because their dad knew he would be tortured.

#I like to think. for the sake of my sanity. Jake knew Spider would be loyal to them. that he would only blab once broken by torture. #anything else would kill me. the level of anger would be lethal. #but regardless. I think the kids would also need to believe the same thing. they *need* to think their dad has faith in their brother. #but back to the reactions themselves. the heartbreak and confusion on Kiri and Tuk's face. the way Lo'ak looks dissociated. #we can barely even see his face. but even Neteyam looks surprised and painted. even if its kept under a calm guise #(I will never let anyone convince me 'tey didn't love Spi. James. give us more about them please. more than these little crumbs) #they were just little kids and he was their big brother #he was Lo'ak and Kiri's best friend #Tuk was his baby #I feel it in my bones that Spi and 'tey were brothers with a complicated history. I know 'tey was scared to lose him. #I don't have proof but I know James is cooking up something with them #they would never believe Spider would just give them up. but that opens up their minds to so many things to think about #they had to be so scared for him and angry he was being left behind #(especially since in the comics Kiri. Lo'ak. and Tuk risk their lives to save him when he was kidnapped by Nash) #avatar 2 #avatar the way of water #spider socorro #miles spider socorro #miles socorro #kiri sully #lo'ak sully #tuk sully #tuktirey sully #neteyam sully #lo'ak #kiri #tuk #tuk tuk #tuktirey #neteyam

[worstloki]

My issue with Thor not ‘realizing’ why Loki was acting off in Avengers 1 isn’t that Thor didn’t recognise Loki was acting unlike himself—Thor did note that—or that Thor didn’t figure out what was wrong—he did try asking—it’s more along the lines of Thor giving up, and that he accepted Loki was bad now within two days while knowing something was off when Thor himself behaved just as bad for much longer before without any specific compromising event.

#Thor was happy go kill for so long and Loki waited for Thor to get better and then Thor KNOWS something is up #and he still accepts Loki is evil now and never questions or visits Loki in prison again #he moped around about it because of duty and depression but that he had such little faith in Loki #like either his little brother really did go mad out of jealousy and rage AND is permanently like that with no resolution between them #it’s ridiculous #I like the Thor in my head who never believed Loki had actually gone mad and went after the infinity stones bc he suspected #the one that would not only trust Loki to get them off Asgard in TDW but knew Loki had the throne after and let it be that way #bc he knows his brother and wouldn’t stop believing Loki can ‘get better’ even if he’d truly gone mad #like I get that Thor in Avengers 1 would have been conflicted and could’ve taken everything at face value #Loki was DEAD and now he’s not of course Thor isn’t going to be thinking straight #it’s easy to look at Loki and assume he spent a year plotting revenge after faking his death #but Thor had time after to cool down and only gave Loki a chance in TDW when there was no other option #like did he genuinely think Loki will try to kill him #is Thor scared of Loki now or what #Thor’s spending so much time thinking of what he’s lost that he develops depression but doesn’t ever voice or support the idea that maybe #Loki was forced to do the invasion #AFTER he asks ‘who controls the would-be king’ like come on Thor just ask a follow-up question #Thor autistic king distracted by ‘YOUR father’ discourse fr #T-T #I simply don’t think Thor would have given up on Loki even if Loki stabbed him sorry #it wouldn’t even be bc he’s naive it’d be because he knows and loves his brother #and he’d keep hoping for a change of heart #he wouldn’t ditch the issue unless it was to go under the radar and that’s never explicitly implied #unfortunately #:(

[svtskneecaps]

i'm mourning the loss of purgatory's Government Assigned Team Dynamics (because i'm a sucker for shaking up dynamics and the forced interactions of people who may not otherwise have spoken) so please indulge me with your dream egg parenting group i'll start, bagi tina and rivers [i'm right]

#qsmp #i have REASONS okay it's more than vibes #first of all any good egg polycule needs its touchstone its Daily Logger someone who can be relied on to KEEP THE DAMN THING FROM DYING #(of neglect specifically) #bagi logs in every weekday she's extremely consistent and she's already proven to be smitten with these eggs. bagi's the touchstone #tina's a 'wobbler'; she's consistent but not a daily logger so she can be relied on if bagi's out for a week #between the two of them i have full faith they can keep the kid from neglect and spoil the kid to pieces #but vic you might say what about rivers wouldn't she just be third wheeling on bagina WRONG #well maybe right but WRONG because eggs have personalities of their own!!!! they're little people!!!! #if rivers is third wheeling then SO IS THE EGG THEY'RE IN THIS TOGETHER #anyway rivers at least at the moment is what i like to call a Wildcard #when she does or doesn't log in is pretty random and sporadic and inconsistent #that might change if she had an egg idk i don't know enough about her because she's a WILDCARD 😭 #but anyway having bagi and tina as reliably keeping their kid from dying of neglect means she's free to keep her stream schedule #considering bagi interacting with egg trump at dia de muertos i think we can safely say she's not going to let rivers be erased as parent #probably would function like a roier-jaiden situation; bobby wasn't any less jaiden's son even though she didn't log as consistently as roi #AND IT WOULD FORCE RIVERS TO INTERACT WITH THE SERVER. I MISS HER DAMNIT. MY SPANISH ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH AND I MISS HER. #shut up vic #block game brainrot #but yeah rivers can keep her streaming schedule and still come to hang out with her egg kid when she's able #i lost the plot there bc tumblr's glitching on my phone bc it updated ios last night and everything's bugged to hell #i can't see tags after i write them it's wack as fuck #my secret secondary take is tubbo and pol have to be in the same government assigned parent group #tubbo seems to function better as weird uncle / fun godparent so having pol there is him as TUBBO'S touchstone in terms of the mature one #then tubbo and pol as consistent loggers can be the rest of the group's touchstone in terms of the kid not dying to neglect #long tags

[themyscirah]

I should make a post about how insane Diana being chosen as champion is at one point. Like yes ik in most versions it was an anonymous competition but like the sheer level of trust and hope and desire for reconciliation and peace that comes with that gesture is a so insane to me. Hippolyta the woman that you are...

#just so crazy to me. also the amount of FEAR hippolyta and the amazons must have been feeling like that. like i know were told the story #through dianas pov but no WONDER they didnt want her to go/were scared of her going. #like she was the ONLY child in thousands of years and the only one who didnt live firsthand the cruelties that lead to them moving to #themyscira like hippolyta is one of the characters of all time to me but just like #having to send your only daughter out as an emissary of your culture to a world she has never been to and knows little of #and you havent been to in thousands of years. yet the last time you were there your entire society were captured beated and sexually #assaulted for just being themselves and expression their culture... #hippolyta omg just... damn #the weight of this isnt acknowledged nearly enough imo. like diana isnt the ambassador because shes “the princess” she has this job because #she doesnt carry the weight of this past violence the same way (as she never lived it) #and so this lets her trust and be open in a way that some of the other amazons cant. its a new beginning for the relationship between them #its the ultimate show of trust and faith of peace and friendship between the groups #like shes their heart shes their future #and yes in most versions they dont know diana is going to be champion until after the competition and shes usually masked but this doesnt #make the meaning her specific story adds to the role less true #wonder woman #diana of themyscira #hippolyta of themyscira #blah

[joshuaalbert]

another thing I do wish had at least come up in ds9 while talking about the bajoran faith is the idea of just like. secular bajorans. I think the way they’re written that’s kind of ‘everyone just believes in the religion and that’s it’ is honestly a little flat? but I think there would be people who have a very complicated relationship with the prophets, who maybe didn’t believe in them before the events of the show and now maybe they have to but they think of them more as the wormhole aliens rather than gods, or just don’t believe (anymore, if they once did) that they should be worshipped because they allowed the events of the occupation to happen. but that wouldn’t mean entirely disengaging from the practices of religion as a community thing, or as comfort in times of need bc sometimes that sense of ritual can be a good one, who still wear the earring not so much as a sign of faith but just as a sign of being bajoran and being connected to their people.

idk not to sound like I’m overexplaining secular approaches to an ethnoreligion when that’s a lot of people’s lived experience but I’m just kind of thinking about what it would look like in this context, and I don’t know that it ever would have been a whole plotline but I think a mention could have been interesting. maybe something as small as rearranging duty schedules and it’s something that would interfere with religious services, but a couple specific bajorans are willing to take that because they’re not religious, and it’s a one line mention (which is the kind of thing ds9 often did well so it would feel natural), but it makes them a little less homogenous as a species.

#i don't really count the pah wraith cult for depth honestly like. it's never really about them #sometimes I feel like the show dropped the ball a little on bajorans other than kira and winn #like people always joke about how boring bareil and shakaar are and then idk that anyone else really gets talked about #and even if you expand to other shows you get ro laren and sito jaxa but let’s be real it’s mostly me talking about the latter #the few one-offs on voy don’t really have much going on (which is a bummer it would have been nice to have a recurring maquis bajoran) #and idk about later shows really but the prequel types won’t have anything so. idk. #I think just. adding a little more individuality in terms of things like faith could have helped the perception a little? #idk this became a grander statement than it was meant to be I’m really just rambling #and now im trying to tie it back together and i really cannot. good luck. #san rant #im sure this is a post someone else has already made but im always just doing whatever.

[hamofjustice]

it's nice that we're getting anything i guess, but, i'm gonna be what may come off as a little petty and whiny here; it'd be cool if either iteration of the gen 9 anime so far was actually about gen 9's characters instead of using them as cameos to promote original stories we have no investment in yet

it's like, i dunno, like the bait and switch with sonic appearing in wreck it ralph ads, except if wreck it ralph existing meant there would never be a sonic movie, and if you were invested in those characters and recognized they weren't generic platformer mascots, sucks for you, nobody cares

maybe they're just giving the DLC space to do its thing with them first (if they do anything at all...) but idk, i was cautiously optimistic about nemona in horizons, only for her to be a character of the day that the episode wasn't about, and pretty excited by "gen 9 prequel anime" only to find out it's going to be like, four short stories about OCs who have quick brushes with them. these are like the lacroix hint of what an anime about the game could've been like and you're left to imagine the rest yourself

i shouldn't be that surprised if the gen 8 anime reduced hero of galar hop to a character of the day with a level 5 wooloo in order to let the galaxy revolve around ash battling his brother because epic charizards, but man. what if it wasn't like that that now that ash is gone.

we haven't seen penny and team star at all because they're the hardest to talk about without bringing up the trauma of school bullying and the fear of being yourself at school when you're way too young to be dealing with all that drama responsibly. she's still learning to love and forgive herself and feel wanted.

arven's story is about, like, being a latchkey kid to a self-absorbed parent, being unsure how to feel about repairing the relationship or how seriously to take them saying they love him, and struggling to make friends due to misdirected resentment toward people he's jealous of for having apparently normal families and the stubborn self-reliance he was forced into. he's still trying to process things, find himself, and let people in.

nemona is supposed to have been a directionless lonely and depressed kid who hated being called gifted when everything was hard for her, until she met the player character and gained a peer who understood and appreciated she was a little different and she didn't have to mask her true self to have friends anymore. she's happy for now, but may still be under a little too much pressure to be perfect at the expense of her own personality, and probably won't deal well with being abandoned.

as much as they resonate with adults and are a little darker than usual pokemon fare, they're also smaller scale and realer. they are all stories that are explicitly about and meant to be relatable to kids going to school! y'know, your audience! you don't need to paint over them with 3-4 new characters and new stories every time like there was nothing there, or something shameful you need to sanitize and cover up! you can just use the game the way it is!

this got a little more heated than i intended, i just feel a little ridiculous waiting anxiously for loose scraps of a sign that this story isn't over and in the trash already and nemona's life-changing attachment to the player character isn't going to go totally ignored, as we are bombarded with what is supposed to be followup material that almost all seems eager to talk about literally anything else like they think the main story was a mistake they need to run away from

now, i'm not one to complain about original stories being told, but this was already a story that had room to grow. imagine a world where the gen 9 anime was actually about nemona, arven, penny, and the friend who brought them together. or what their lives were like before that friend came along. every episode. that would get me to watch the anime again and whatever movie came out for it. ask yourself why we don't have that, or even the traditional, like, 1-2 characters tagging along with the MCs per region thing that would leave us knowing them better than we know some irl friends

how was starting over with 100% original characters and new lore that might conflict hard with the upcoming DLC the safer bet? why is a 44 minute miniseries specifically for fans of the game making up OCs for them to get invested in and scrambling to tell their stories as quickly as possible before throwing them in the trash instead of being about the damn game?

sigh. i shouldn't get invested in a series that's about selling monster plushies just because it had one story that stuck with me

#paldean winds seems to mostly be making fun of the infodumping fat pokemon nerd character until he gets his own episode #y'know. the one that represents a lot of their viewers #while nemona is right there outside the window hyping up little kids about battles as usual because they don't hate her like her peers #honestly her overhearing the conversation and looking a little uncomfortable about it would've been a good touch #confirmation that the subtext i noticed is actually considered part of the canon and not a happy accident they'll never talk about again #something i have only gotten from pokemon masters so far #pokemon sv #pokemon #nemonaposting #pokemon scarvi #pokemon scarlet and violet #yada yada ten million other tags #'well at least there's the manga' the manga that inserted its own wacky main character that will probably also revolve around him #idk that one could still be good but it's also an AU and not the versions of the characters i'm invested in if that makes sense #i've been begging for pokemon to feel in touch with its audience forever and as soon as it is they treat it like a hot potato #i feel fucking obsessed because of how long this tease has been stretching on for no good reason #they could've just let us ACTUALLY hang out with the friend trio in vanilla postgame and shown them in the DLC a single time #and i could have had a normal social media presence for the past 3-6 months #instead of dreaming about a pokemon npc last night because of how little faith i have in her getting any justice outside of a fucking gacha #i am so sorry that this is who i am now except for the 2-3 of you who follow me specifically because i post these things #pennyposting #arvenposting

[hongjoongpresent]

Just finished I feel you linger in the air. Definitely liked this show more than usual

#I cried a solid 8 times during the last 2 episodes bye #I counted. I kept count #dude u don't understand man #the way he hugged those drawings? nah. no. nope. no nahhhh bYE GOOD BYE #it was OVER for me #I was like nahh I'm not gonna cry AGAIN and then I cried. again #and rhe last scene. because imagine not crying during that last scene #this show is definitely going on my possible rewatch list. dude #show of all time I adore them #jeed like uhhh .. I may be a gay a little is that okay.. and jom like girl what do u think I've been this whole time. yeah slay #everyone being super confused about why he seems to have gotten over Ohm literally overnight is pretty funny though #that was fun #this show HAS to be top tier in my ranking like I cannot in good faith put this show a tier BELOW like. never let me go and the eclipse #my best show ever tier is getting real full but in my defense many shows are the best show ever

[eleilinnrallin]

Me: Hey I'm trans.

People: Read The Bible

Me: only finding affirming things in bible study ... Yeah I'm doing that. I'm trans.

People: >:[

#personal #fr it's a little ridiculous #I'm just. so tired of *gestures at the State Of Things* #tired of people saying I'm an ''ideology'' and that I should be eradicated #tired of people saying my friends should be eradicated #tired of people trying to take away our access to safety and medical care and the ability to use the bathroom #like come on I just want to live #just let me be my genderfunky little Christian self #I am legitimately going to be moving to somewhere safer after college because there's no way I'm gonna feel safe here #but even so depending on how other things go... if national stuff goes down hill #it's going to be devastating #(main post only vaguely connected to this ig) #oh but also so many people just. don't get how genuinely hard it is to be queer and Christian #we were ''discussing'' why it can be hard to have faith in sunday school today #and like I brought up some very real reasons I struggle with faith sometimes #(other people. policies actively harming us. being called wrong and bad and whatever when we very much aren't.) #and the group just kinda backed off and was *scared* to have an actual discussion #like they didn't know how to react #and a lot of my queer friends aren't religious anymore so it's hard to have conversations about specific things like this with them #also genuinely when I've been studying in the bible I don't find anything anti-trans #I just find things that are really good to me and helpful *and that are supportive of me being trans* #yet for some reason I'm the bad guy #for some reason ''love others as I have loved you'' #and ''greater love has no man than this; that a man should lay down his life for his friends'' #has turned into ''eradicate trans people'' #''force people to either conform to your idea of Right or be severely punished'' #''it's ok to blatantly misgender and disrespect people'' #i. just. want. to. live. #I want to be a college kid messing off with friends and going to classes and not worrying about getting kicked off campus #I want to be able to sing in a register I can't reach by an octave when I try sing it

[jek11]

Lego Monkie Kid Top Tier Chart: except im being brutally honest

🏆S: you gave it your all- Lady bone demon.

🥇A: your given potential led to your position- Posessed wukong, Mei, Mayor.

🥈B: you had potential, but your a fucking pussy- Nezha, Macaque, (Samadhi fire) Mei.

🥉C: you’re only here cause you’re hot- Spider queen, princess iron fan, Syntax.

💎D: you spend more time on talking than fighting/you’re annoying as shit- sun wukong, red son.

💰E: You’re pretty useless/very little potential- little girl, mk.

🪙F: just throw the whole damn character away/below useless- Tang.

#Half of these votes are from twitters perspective #I’d say lbd gave them more character #so if mk had been possessed (he has been only manipulated by lbd) he would’ve been higher on the list #possessed wukong spent more time on fighting than talking unlike the original #the the mayor did have quite the mouth he still got his shit done #red son focused more on others than himself #the little girl can redeem herself #but I doubt she got passed down lady bones powers #the passed down powers should go to the mayor tbh #the mayor has been nothing but faithful to her even when she was locked up #all the little girl did was be a hostess #which isn’t much cause all she had to do was let lbd take control #and suffer unbearable pain (like every else has) #I have nothing to say about tang #him and his wasted potential #top tier #lego monkie kid #lmk mayor #lmk lady bone demon #lmk lbd #lmk macaque #lmk mk #lmk wukong #monkie kid mayor #lmk mei #lmk tang #monkie kid mei #lmk red son #monkie kid red son #monkie kid

[mothheart]

now that i know it's definitely not just a pipe dream and maybe even likely. i desperately need more carlos and kevin interactions

#can you imagine... #carlos was at such a low when they saw each other last #neither of them got really good closure bc carlos is so excessively non-confrontational and all he could do was leave kevin a letter #and not that kevin wasnt also at a low. i wouldnt consider delirious happiness a high !!! #but hes definitely at a Low low now. after. all that #idk what direction it'll go in but it would be fun to see kevin losing his faith #and seeing how miserable he really is come to the surface #bc he doesnt have the delirium of being the smiling gods Most Special Boy now!! clearly. even if its not necessarily true what lauren said #even if it was just to get under his skin. #but what was my point. now carlos is happily married with a son and a career hes passionate about #even though carlos is clearly going through it after lubelle. kevin wouldn't know that at a glance. #i dont think a lot of people would since hes so bad at letting anyone in like that ! but like anyway. #i think my point is. i'm so curious to see how kevin would feel. like. seeing his old friend/crush presumably living his best life #with his double whos life could have just as easily been his #and cecil is fucked up theyre ALL fucked up but kevin probably woulsnt be too focused on anything deeper than surface level glances #and anyway we've seen all this with kevin who's pretty much always been the one who doesn't despise cecil and a silly one-sided rivalry #but what if it isnt so one-sided after all. what if kevin was just so blinded by the smiling god's Love(tm) #that none of that is really true at all. and now he doesn't have that convenient little distraction anymore. :) #i do firmly believe that the pre-strex kevin we saw in triptych was Really Him before all of this #i just think it would be fun to see the chaos he has been barely keeping contained now too :) #<- deranged individual #idk if this makes sense or gets my point across adequately but oh my god i have Thoughts #miles rambles

[childofaura]

Ok I thought I was gonna be making one nitpicky rant about TLoU show deaths but

I guess I’m actually making two. Because I saw another death and while I find there was nothing broadly wrong with it, there was some cinematic choices that drove me bonkers that I just wanna stress over.

So the rest will be under the cut, but for starters, this is about Sarah and Tess

Ok so Sarah isn’t really the meat of this rant, but I do want to talk about her death scene in the show because several things about it had bugged me. And please, I’m not really here to talk about the race swap. Overall I think it’s a little sus, moreso because the actress is the daughter of one of the executives of the show; so it suspiciously indicates nepotism. But the actress herself actually managed to do a pretty great job for Sarah’s death so really I couldn’t give a shit. ANYWAYS, the show’s death. What bugged me about it was the fact that there were CUTS while Joel is trying to comfort her and struggling to pick her up. The beauty of the cinematic choice in the game, where it turns into one continuous shot the moment Joel crawls over to Sarah, is that it inherently puts us in that moment with Joel, and by panning the camera over instead of cutting each time, it really shows how Sarah is right at death’s door, like you can HEAR the exact moment that she cries her last little whimper and just... goes quiet, right when the camera pans towards Tommy’s face. The problem with having scene cuts is that it drags the scene out in such an awkward way. Plus, Sarah’s still actively crying while Joel is screaming for Tommy to help him, and then the moment it cuts to Tommy the audio just cuts out very clumsily. As it cuts back to Joel Sarah’s just already dead, and additionally it makes no sense for Tommy to call to Joel to have him realize Sarah’s dead when she was still screaming and crying right as the camera cut. And then additionally, I’m not fond of the addition of Tommy saying Joel’s name, it feels almost... cold and detached. Like the tone of that line is “Joel she’s dead, it’s too late”. Whereas in the game, he’s moving towards Joel and Sarah and he’s in so much shock because he’s watching his niece dying in a crying, bloody mess.

So long story short, nothing wrong with the scene itself (though I gotta say I don’t think I’m a fan of Pedro Pascal’s line deliveries while he’s trying to stop Sarah’s bleeding. That’s less of a “one’s better than the other” and more of “that’s just my opinion that the emotion of the line delivery in the game was better”). Scene stayed true to the game.

But ohhh, OHHHH, you wanna know which death REALLY ruffled my feathers? Tess. Tess’ death was done so damn dirty in the show compared to the game (and side note, I hate the change to Tess’s character design. I loved the short hair held up by the headband, and I loved the short sleeves that showed her arms). I think by changing the entire death in the show, you take away from the character herself, and let me explain how.

In the game, they get to the Firefly meeting place, the Fireflies have been wiped out, and we find out Tess has been bitten. The military shows up, and Tess tells Joel that she’ll buy them some time and convinces both him and Ellie to leave. And the IMPORTANCE of her line “I WILL NOT turn into one of those things!”, which I’ll talk about. Joel and Ellie leave, Tess composes herself and gets ready to fight the soldiers. As you leave, you hear gunshots and hear Tess scream, and you find out she took out two soldiers; there was six guys and Tess took down two of them. This death is a perfect encapsulation of Tess’ character: resilient, stubborn, tough-as-nails, takes matters into her own hands. That is a death that treats the character with respect and actually plays into the character’s personality. It FITS. Tess is a woman whose life, her choices, it’s all in her hands and she will do what SHE wants to do.

In the TV show, they get to the Firefly meeting place, the Fireflies were killed by infected, and everything still plays out the same with Tess’ infection reveal (and I gotta say I’m not a fan of the dialogue choices nor am I a fan of the fact they tried to heavy-handedly push how Joel and Tess are a couple with the cuddling scene, whereas in the game the ambiguity of their relationship plays better into that final scene. I like the “Look, there’s enough here that you have to feel some sort of obligation to me” way more). Joel hears the infected, Tess starts tipping over some gasoline and grenades, and Joel and Ellie leave. Tess is panicking and frightened as the infected approach and flood in while trying to light the lighter, and then the BULLSHIT. The FUCKING KISS from the infected. And no I don’t wanna hear any ‘bUT it’S NoT A kISS, iT’S INfeCTiNg HEr’ excuses. It’s a fucking kiss disguised under the thin veneer of being some cool new infected lore, and it changes the entire death from a defiant last stance to a creepy, voyeuristic scene that’s going for a cringe-out factor. Like... Sure, you COULD explore that method of infection, it COULD be a neat behavior that we haven’t seen before.

But you don’t do that for Tess. She’s the wrong character to explore that with, and the show better actually try to stay consistent and show that again if people are gonna use the excuse of that scene being necessary. And the reason why it bugs me so much is because Tess, despite her short time in the story, is such a poignant character. She’s Joel’s partner, she’s OUR first partner. Taking that power out of her hands, putting her in this freaky powerless position where it’s like she’s being taken advantage of, does not compliment the character, especially when the death is a very easy to pull off trick that only solely relied on the lighter not working for cheap tension. If you wanted to give us a tense action scene, they could have actually shown us the Tess gunfight scene from her perspective, maybe give her one or two more kills than she had in the game. But this death was really insulting to the character.

TL;DR I’m incredibly autistic about all this dumb shit and it really just boils down to a difference of opinion.

#The Last of Us #TLoU #The Last of Us HBO #spoilers #I don't know if I even need to be putting spoilers for a nine year old game lmao but let's do it anyways #And honestly it's all just a matter of getting my knickers in a twist; I know there's a lot of people who are fine with it #And I'm not knocking them; that's their opinion #But I swear if it turns out that they don't EVER show that mouth-to-mouth behavior from them again in the show I WILL be pissed and call BS #And this isn't me saying the show is BAD; I think it's fine and I think at least (besides Tess) they're doing a faithful #and relatively thoughtful adaptation #I guess to me this doesn't seem like one of those franchises that needed a show adaptation #If you ask me we should have gotten a TV adaptation of Death Stranding #Just cast everyone from the game and boom; you have the perfect show #But anyways post edit in this section of the tags: why am I so ass-blasted over how Tess was handled? #1) I may be a little gay for her lmao; she was just one of my favorite characters #2) As someone who is so deeply invested in the character of; well; character this one really rubbed me the wrong way #And now that I type this I'm actually very nervous over how they're gonna handle Henry and Sam #You leave my boys alone you monsters; those guys practically wrote themselves all y'all need to do is follow the game #And let them die as they did; no M. Night Shamylan (however it's spelt) twist where Henry's infected instead and Sam shoots him and himself

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okay so i got accepted into my top college ed and everyone was really happy and IM really happy i agree but my brain sees an achievement and just thinks of the catastrophes that will follow said achievement so now i'm thinking about how i'm going to be in debilitating, crippling debt and IM NOT EVEN SURE WHAT I WANT TO DO. WHAT IF THE MONEY IS WASTED AND I FAIL (LEISTER)

#and also the stunning lack of faith my dad had in me getting in was really. just. wow. he refused to believe i would get in the whole time #which stings a little ig #but i'm happy!!! but im not??? #but i should be happy!! one of my good friends is also going to that school #every at school td was congratulating me and its a good fucking school to get into #so i'm happy!!! but i'm also worried?? #i feel like i should be happier. and let myself enjoy this triumph over the weekend. but all i want to do is plan. #plan out my next steps figure out how to save myself from overwhelming debt curse my parentals for saving literally nothing for college #and both FINALLY getting raises and better jobs only the year before i started applying to colleges #which good for them but shitty for me considering that it ruined my chances of getting a lot of financial aid when prior to those #very sudden shifts in wages and job qualities we had less that half of the income we're making now #so i dont get any college savings bc they didn't have good enough jobs to save up and i get less financial aid bc their tax returns from #last year make it seem like they're rich or smthn now #and it still stings that my dad's acting like my acceptance was a miracle (which i agree suqran allah first and foremost subhanalah) #but it disregards all the hard work i put into making this happen??? #and the fact that my mom didn't even believe me at first #idfk #i SHOULD be happy. i AM happy. why can't i just let myself be happy for a weekend #tw swearing #swearing tw

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Hi! Could you explain your thoughts more on Klaine, I believe you said they’re (your thoughts) are complicated?

Hey anon! I’ll be honest, I don’t want to get too into the specifics, but I can explain my feelings a bit broadly, and hopefully this will answer your question.

I want to start off by saying that Klaine is a very well-developed relationship, especially for Glee, so there is a lot to consider there. I really like their story, I think they’re both interesting as individual characters, and their relationship with each other is also interesting. They’re in my top 3 ships, I’ve written fic and made gifsets about them, I just generally have a lot of love for them.

All that being said, because they have so much development and screen time, that also leaves more opportunities to find problems with their individual characters and their relationship. And I think we all know that the writing on Glee wasn’t always the best, so there were issues there, but there were also issues between Kurt and Blaine just by virtue of them being human and having flaws and those flaws sometimes clashing. That actually makes them more interesting to me, because complex and nuanced characters and relationships just give you so much more to think about, so I’m certainly not saying that I wanted their relationship to be picture perfect, nor am I saying that any relationship should be picture perfect, because everybody is going to have issues sometimes.

However. With Klaine in particular, I personally think that they were different enough to be ultimately incompatible – or at least, not compatible enough to make it worth being with each other. I think the effort they would need to put in to make their relationship work isn’t worth what they’d get out of it after all that time, they would spend most of their time being unhappy, and I don’t think they should have been endgame. And to be clear I think that this is on both sides; it’s no secret that Kurt is my favourite, but I’m not trying to put all the blame on Blaine here, I think there are reasons on both sides that make it ultimately not the best relationship for either of them.

Now, obviously canon disagrees with me, because they got therapy and they grew and learned to be happy together and got married and were having a child together five years later. They love each other and that is, canonically, enough for them to be able to make it work and it’s worth it. I’m not really interested in that argument because this isn’t about what is or isn’t canon, this is about my personal interpretation of and feelings about what’s presented on screen. I’m not here to tell people they’re wrong for thinking Klaine are meant for each other or anything, and like I said earlier, I love the ship, I’m a content creator and Klaine is the focus of a lot of the things I’ve made, so I’m not trying to say they’re a terrible ship. I just have complicated feelings about them because of how much screen time they have and what was shown to us of their relationship, and that’s not something that really becomes and issue for any of my other main ships since they aren’t canon and don’t have anywhere near the amount of screen time.

Another thing I suppose is that in general I’m not a huge fan of the “high school sweethearts” trope. I find it unrealistic. Obviously it does happen sometimes in real life, but I just think it would have been a more interesting story (to me personally, not necessarily objectively) for them to be each others’ first in so many ways, but then as they grow up they aren’t a good match anymore, and they move on to new people who are a good match. But at the same time, I also recognize that this is not real life, it is a television show, and sometimes you want to keep your characters together and have a happy ending, or you just plain don’t want to bring in new characters for something like that, or whatever other million reasons they could have for ending it the way they did. So, again, I’m not trying to tell anybody that I’m correct, it’s just how I personally feel about it.

I just have really strong, really conflicting feelings about them, and if I started getting into all of the details I would never post this answer, and even if I did I’d probably get hate for it and I don’t really want to deal with that. It’s actually the reason I got into fandom; I finished watching Glee, and I was so pissed off about Klaine that I started reading Klaine fanfiction to try to fix the issues that I had with them. And of course that led me to the larger fandom community, and I started writing, and well, here we are. So, maybe that will give you a hint as to just how strong those complicated feelings I have are!

#hiding the rest under a cut because I want to draw as little attention as possible lol #this really is just personal opinion I'm not trying to convince anyone they're wrong I'm just sharing my thoughts because I was asked #and so I'd like to ask that nobody tries to convince ME that I'M wrong either please #this is fiction and we are all entitled to our own interpretations and this is mine #the way I interpret this show brings me a lot of joy and that matters to me more than interpreting it the 'right' way #especially since there is no one true 'right' interpretation #anyway I guess I should tag this #it's not really anti but I would like to be safe so: #anti klaine #normally I would tag something like this with the characters but I don't really want it showing up in either of the tags #and it's not anti either of them it's just saying I don't think they should be together so I don't think it warrants anti character tags #so I guess I'll just not use any character tags. please let me know if you think I should for filtering purposes #glee #ask #mine #anonymous #my opinions #also I turned anons off again because I don't want to deal with potential hate for this even though I think I'm being pretty reasonable #if you genuinely want to have a discussion in good faith you can send me a non-anonymous ask #but I won't be engaging with anyone who is trying to change my mind #simply because I participate in fandom because it brings me joy and that conversation would not #this is a lot of disclaimers I'm sorry #but also when I originally started drafting this answer I had two paragraphs straight of just disclaimers so. I think I did pretty well

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The absolute last way I want the finale to shake out:

The entire group gets Vecna’d. We see about 10 seconds of everyone else going thru it before focusing on El for another ten minutes straight. She breaks free on her own and confronts Vecna irl by herself. She holds her hand up and screams really loud and he dissolves into flakes. She has a nose bleed. Everyone is free. Epilogue 

#stranger things #stranger things season 4 #el hopper #vecna #my thoughts #likeee at least s3 did something a lil different #if i have to give them credit for anything alksjfksd #i just #have absolutely no faith in the writers #and el getting her magic powers back and showing up to be a superhero and save everyone singlehandedly #would NOT be a good narrative conclusion to her arc this season!!! #its not enough to think of a happy little thought and defeat the big bad with the power of love #you have friends! you have family! #let her be surrounded by them and let them help her #idk im just worried lmao

[assignmentimprobable]

I could preface this by saying I hate drama, or I usually keep my mouth shut but like. Nah. I just want to say that y’all need to stop plucking people’s posts out of their very limited and isolated contexts to make rallying cries. Some people are dead serious about their takes of questionable nature, and other people are likely posting it with the intent to joke around. Just because you’re annoyed by it doesn’t entitle you to air people out who are otherwise minding their business and doing their own thing.

#burn book drama #I am here for the shitposts and meta- not a full timer by any means #but like this habit of policing other people’s little fun interactions for the sake of having something to put them on blast? #that’s annoying behavior. now YOU are annoying #the queerplatonic GooseMav thing is likely just a placeholder for male friendships with an intense intimate component #that doesn’t cross into romance but many ppl would take as shipping fodder #I’m like 99% sure that’s what people are referencing when they post that #Yes. it’s just friendship. it’s under the umbrella. *Here* #but outside in the grass and cars and buildings or whatever. straight people do not include these in their definitions #and those definitions touch us by default whether we like it or not #this isn’t actually that deep but I kind of just feel like all of this is a bigger issue with fandom practice in general #this is the ‘let’s experiment with ideas and formats’ box #why are you complaining when people do that!!! #is it annoying and formulaic when you see a trope repeat itself outside of the established characters bounds? yes #but like barring people perpetuating heinous shit like the racist practices that permeate all fandoms #or people being plain disgusting (like genuinely gross) and bad faith in their engagement #what the fuck have you got to complain about on some large platform? #it’s funny and maybe even affirming for some people to say what’s really on their minds #but you’re recreating the echo chambers and flame wars you complain about #why is this in the tags. why am I bad at stringing this into a post.