#but the point is

[pseudophan]

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#daniel howell #dan and phil #mine #my gif #sry this is ugly cause i deleted the colouring i made before noticing this #and im lazy so this is rushed #but the point is #foreshadowing

[isogenderskitty]

underneath all that denial and being flippant about it steph is Definitely a hopeless romantic and no one can tell me otherwise. this girl can and will spend all day talking about how she definitely does not want to kiss some dweeb in suspenders & then will start giggling twirling her hair and kicking her feet because he bought her a coffee or held a door open for her or some shit. she talks like her heart is made of steel but it’s made of fucking porridge

#i also have a heart made of porridge and would melt if some twink as sweet as pete did those things for me #well maybe not the coffee i hate coffee #but the point is #at least i’m honest about being this pathetic #🙄 /lh #lautski #starkid #hatchetfield #npmd #i’m being silly if that wasnt clear and they are everything to me

[paperglader]

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Help me power this shit up for this thursday pls

#Imogen has to step up already #IT’S BEEN TWO WEEKS #that tag’s like 90% dead every time we’re on break #it’s been way too long since I’ve read a good fanfiction #AND I MISS LAUDNA DAMN IT #imogen has to feed us this week or else HAHAHA jk jk #😡😡😡 #no but seriously I want some canon soon #cause the math in my head says that we got like two more eps of this team #maybe three if they take too long #but the point is #Imogen needs to step up already #imodna #critical role #imogen temult #laudna #imogen x laudna #bells hells #campaign 3 #c3

[ineffable-endearments]

So what I'm wondering is if the Fall is going to be "You are free to go" writ large, with violence.

Basically, the Fall as Heaven being unwilling to accept any questioning and choosing to kick its people out instead of reasoning with them.

That also works in a metaphorical sense if you want to change the celestial order of things. If Aziraphale and Crowley are an eventual microcosm of Heaven and Hell, then their reconciliation of their philosophical differences could lead straight to the reconciliation of Heaven and Hell.

Obviously, if you're going to draw these massive parallels and then imply that things are different this time around, you need to demonstrate the differences, too. Like, OK, Heaven split into Heaven and Hell during the first Great War, so what's different this time? Why is reconciliation possible now?

And I think the difference is gonna come down to love. Specifically: messy, unhierarchical, free-will human-style love. Did humans "invent" it per se? Probably not; it seems like all beings are capable of feeling affection and concern for each other on equal terms. But it's a way of life here on Earth, and it survives here on Earth in a way that it simply could not in Heaven or Hell. This counts close friendships and familial relationships, too!

There will be other differences, too: Aziraphale, possibly Heaven's symbol, will have to learn to listen, REALLY listen, to Crowley, and everyone he considers "beneath" him in the hierarchy, and will have to learn to accept criticism and disagreement instead of stonewalling it.

BUT. I think his motivation for learning these things is going to be love. Love as the catalyst.

People say "love isn't enough" a lot about S2E6, and in one sense, that's absolutely true. Mere strength of emotion wasn't enough to keep them together at the end of Season 2. But maybe the point of love isn't always to stay together. Maybe love is a success in some way when it makes you grow or teaches you something or pushes your story forward. Maybe it's a kind of success if you're making a big decision and you remember your love for someone and how it's changed things. I'm literally desperate for Aziraphale and Crowley to end up together, and I think they will. But the time they're apart is a part of their relationship, too. Love isn't any more black and white than good and evil are; just because it doesn't always work as glue doesn't mean it isn't working in some other way.

#good omens #good omens 2 #go s2 #good omens 2 spoilers #go s2 spoilers #BTW when I say 'reconciliation' #I mean peace #Aziraphale and Crowley could maybe be the heart of it #the intimate parts of Heaven and Hell that really fit together #but I'm not saying that's going to be true of all angels and all demons #or even the bureaucracies of both #just that there will be no war or distinction between sides anymore #you could go on forever with speculating about this lol #what would it look like #but the point is #no war

[honeydewdonutgirl]

Okay, but this has been boiling under my skin for years. Rewatching Enchanted and I made it to the ball scene and it alway makes me think of how people criticize this scene. I get it, the “reveal” moments in teen movies where the nerdy girl turns “beautiful” is insulting to many young girls who look like the before. But like, ya’ll need to stop including Giselle in those freaking lists.

First: The “reveal” moments always acts as a permanent shift. It’s a make-over that cannot be undone by movie standard, because the characters do not go back. It is an inherent statement that this “new look” is an improvement upon the character and that going back is a down grade. This is important to understand because…

Second: …this doesn’t apply to Giselle. The “reveal” for Giselle does not mean what many other “reveals” often do. Giselle’s reveal, in her modern attire, is not a statement on a shift in her personality, but represents a shift in her desires. The modern look she’s sporting is strictly about a visual depiction of Giselle’s desire to remain in the “real” world with Robert. It is also juxtaposed by Robert wearing fairy tale garb. Both, in a way, showing their desire for each other by presenting themselves in a way the other is most familiar. And as is shown very shortly after, it is not something that changes Giselle’s personality or the quirkiness that defines her character. It lacks a permanent shift that would other wise be making a statement about her “prior” personality. In fact, the ending of the movie tries to further celebrate Giselle’s personality and the impact it’s had on those around her in the short epilogue scenes.

To conclude: Giselle’s “reveal” is an under rated form of visual storytelling that gets overlooked because it seemingly falls into the same categories that other, much less metaphorical “reveal” scenes fall into.

#Enchanted #disney #disenchanted #I’m talking movie like #princess diaries #she’s all that #miss congeniality #even my big fat greek wedding and the breakfast club #I just want people to appreciate the metaphor #it’s not like other movie #sorry bad joke #but the point is #it really isn’t like those other movie #why would it go out of it’s way to make Giselle this loveable character only to change her #which is why it didn’t #the movie actually likes Giselle

[etoilesombre]

A real conversation in my home this morning:

Song Lyrics: "...it's not a happy ending..." [Halsey if you're wondering] My 7-year-old: Well how do they KNOW? It's their song can't they just change it? Me: Well, sometimes you know the outcome of things. I mean, if you make stories long enough, eventually everybody dies. But even without that, what if you already know what happens later? Like, if they made a prequel of Frozen about Anna and Elsa's parents, you'd sorta know what has to happen to them right? 7: Well that would make the movie not very fun. Me: I don't know. Sometimes it's interesting to see how things happen, and sometimes you're surprised still. So, the pirate show I'm really into, it's a Treasure Island prequel. So I really like Flint, and I know he isn't really going to get a happy ending and that makes me sad, but I'm still interested. 7: But that's different, he's evil. Me: Oh. Ok, good talk. Nice knowing you for seven years. Get the fuck out of my house.

#i'm kidding we had to talk for 20 more minutes about moral ambiguity #and how who is telling the story matters #and there are different versions #but the point is #i have failed as a parent

[carolinemurat]

Who has the better dick Murat or Junot ?

@your-dandy-king would come first. Always. Sorry, Andoche, but you know I cannot abandon Joachim.

#exchanges with the queen of naples #king of naples my beloved #junot is a close second #but the point is #we were in an open marriage #we had lovers but stayed married

[lediz-watches]

Mom Can't Cook: A DCOM Podcast

It's a podcast. You don't 'watch' a podcast. I appreciate that. I'm still going to rant about it because I just finished another listen-through and, much like the hosts themselves, simply must talk about how I have spent many hours of my life recently.

So if you have never heard of Mom Can't Cook, the short version is two grown-ass men watching and recapping Disney Channel Original Movies from the late 90s-mid 00s.

But what it really is, is this:

Friends, there will be a time in your life as a consumer of media in which you start consuming a media that you KNOW is going to be bad. Maybe you loved it when you were younger, maybe you couldn't be bothered reaching for the remote, maybe you're just that bored, maybe a friend or a family member or a child you're babysitting is making you sit through it, but the point is, you consume the media. And it's as bad as you thought it would be. It annoys you. You hate it. You want to throw things at it. But you keep sitting through it. You can't stop. You must continue to consume it until there is nothing more to consume. You are, you realise with dawning horror, a little bit in love with this thing. You have spent hundreds of hours and possibly actual money on a thing that you knew, objectively and academically, was absolutely terrible. And yet. And yet.

You enjoyed yourself.

And you must confess your sins.

That's what this podcast is about.

It's actually Luke Westaway and Andy Farrant, two British internet personalities ostensibly employed in games journalism, recapping Disney Channel Original Movies from the late 90s-mid-00s. During lockdown, they spent Friday nights watching these movies together (I suspect in lieu of going to the pub), and now they simply have to talk about them because DCOMs are the kind of insane fever dream you simply must talk about and they are slaves to the grind internet personalities who try to make content out of everything.

I love it for a number of reasons:

Luke and Andy are very fun to listen to in general. They are very good at playing off each other, building on each other's ideas, getting increasingly ridiculous and yet somehow never managing to reach the heights of a Disney Channel Original Movie from the late 90s-mid 00s. At least, they haven't yet (Ninji from Oxtra Mario Golf came close, but that was technically Mike's fault). I think they consider it a challenge.

Andy in particular has these beautiful turns of phrase that perfectly encapsulate the feeling of an adult watching the kind of insanity that seems perfectly reasonable to a kid watching a kids' movie but, twenty years later and as the wrong audience, can only be described as mildly traumatising.

Luke is wonderful at just... embodying the part of you that gets swept up in the madness, knows you're getting swept up in the madness, tries desperately to hold on to sanity, and then can only take solace in the fact that maybe it won't be so bad to go insane because hey, it's kind of fun here...

By the time the Disney Channel reached my country, I was too old (/too young) to be watching most of it, so while I may have seen ads for them, I never saw these movies. And now, I'm too infected with Cultural Studies to get through them without dissecting their context and what they're saying and why and ugh... Listening to the recaps allow me to experience them without actually having to watch them.

Regardless of how they actually feel about it, Mom Can't Cook always feels to me like a bit of a love letter to a guilty pleasure. The DCOMs are bad, and Luke and Andy will go into detail about how bad they are, but it had this thread of affection to it that I adore. Maybe it was lockdown, maybe it was just time spent with friends, who knows, but they got something very important out of these terrible movies, and they're passing that on to their listeners (Honestly we should be compensated for this trauma). But jokes aside, this podcast is actually representative of why I love fandom, and being online, despite what a terrible place I find it most of the time. It's representative of why I occasionally post to this blog. I love talking about the things I consume. Whether they're good or bad, they speak to something in me, and I want to talk back! So it's... indulgent and wonderful, and I love it. And I love this podcast for speaking to that part of me.

I intended to write short reviews on spotify, but I listen on my laptop and spotify doesn't have that functionality on PC for some reason. And by the time I was confident enough to rant like this I couldn't remember individual episodes well enough to go back and do it on my phone. So it will be a next-time thing.

But in the meantime, I must share the lines that now live rent-free in my head:

"With the unearned confidence of a Marnie". I desperately need this down the leg of some workout leggings, and yet for some reason it isn't even Tshirt merch. No one will understand why, but I need it on workout gear specifically.

"But why did they give up their hands?" I bought this shirt, and I'm going to buy it again because I bought two sizes too big for reasons that I swear made sense at the time. It makes me grin every time I look at it.

"But there was simply no time/budget." I think this is more about Luke's delivery whenever he says it, but I love it. As a person who works in projects and actually does need to live with the consequences of terrible compromises fairly often, it also speaks to my soul.

"And I hate him." Again, it's in the delivery. Mom's got a date with a vampire remains one of my favourite episodes at least partly because of this one (two? Three? I don't remember how often it got said) line.

"Because [insert noun here] is good, actually." Whether sarcastic or not. It's just a turn of phrase that now exists in my head.

I just... I don't know what the hosts intended, but what I hear is the incredible affection for this waste of their Friday nights. For stupid, terrible, insane entertainment that we watch and consume and struggle to comprehend and yet which entertains us. And I love that so much.

Because entertainment is so important, and so wonderful, even when it's objectively terrible or just plain nonsensical, because it - ack. I'm just getting way too philosophical about what entertainment is and how we respond to it, so I'm just gonna leave this one here.

Mom Can't Cook is a good podcast. I'm so happy it exists.

#Mom can't cook #andy farrant #luke westaway #podcasts #entertainment is good actually #celebrating guilty pleasures #The rants I could go on about some of my truly terrible entertainment choices #This is probably why I world build in fandom #But the point is #sometimes you just need to enjoy what you enjoy

[jacky-rubou]

^ person who wants to enjoy Ford Pines without worrying about his morality for five seconds.

#gravity falls #ford pines #stanford pines #fandom #let's be clear that i am on his side on most things #but the point is #i don't wanna feel like i have to take a side #i prefer ford over stan and that shouldn't sound as controversial as it does #morality police made liking characters a chore #cuz now you have to 'justify' your love for a character #especially if they're so-called 'problematic' in any way shape or form #'problematic'? yeah they're that way to push the plot forward #perfect characters aren't interesting #but if your fave character is flawed in the 'wrong' way then welp #then you have to bow down to the golden child in apology in order to escape the wrath of liking the wrong character more #rambling in the tags

[if-th3n-else]

Remember when tv shows seasons were so long, the writers were allowed to not only slowly build the plot and characters but they also had fun by making musicals episodes, Christmas specials, Halloween episodes and generally just some random episodes that did not make the plot advance but were amusing to watch?

#misc #ok I'm not personally a fan of musicals episodes #but the point is #writers had fun #actors had fun #viewers had fun #i love it when shows take time ok #yes i am acting like a boomer what about it

[probablygayattorneys]

Hands down funniest part of Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box is the part where he almost loses a swordfight against a guy in his seventies.

#professor Layton and the diabolical box #Hershel Layton #anton herzen #like he doesn’t look it #but he very much is a senior citizen #(I know we don’t know exactly how old he is #Vivian thinks he’s in his late sixties #but I think he’s probably in his mid-late seventies #) #but the point is #he put up a DAMN good fight #queue takumi defense squad

[larathia]

I realize a lot of the fandom doesn’t really want to think about this, but it’s very important to remember that at all times, all times, Hanako never once, not for one instant, forgets that he is dead. That he is not just the ‘weird classmate with cool powers’ or some kind of neat secret friend, the way Nene and Kou often treat him as. He. Is. Dead. He went through the experience of dying. He has long been aware of what being a ghost means - that he will never change again, while all around him students will laugh and learn and grow up and grow away and classes will change and uniforms will change and technology will change and music will change and he will never change again. He will never grow up. He will never be married, he will never have kids, he will never even graudate from that school. He’s watched entire classes of students enter the middle school door and walk out the high school door, the whole process. He’s seen that several times - kids younger than Kou, becoming kids older than Teru and just...disappearing out into the world, while he stays exactly the same.

A big part of understanding Hanako is understanding that he never forgets this. Ever. Nene can forget it, Kou can forget it...Hanako never forgets it. He tries to remind them of this fact - most recently in the last chapter we saw him in - but he’s also seen this happen enough that he knows that Kou and Nene can’t really understand what it means. 

But Hanako does. When he’s acted to protect them, or even when he’s acted to cage them, there’s a kind of temporal panic behind that. They will grow up. They will, like every generation before them, eventually grow beyond him. They will change. I think it’s what keeps him from being attached to Kou, and it’s also what sends him into a panic with Nene. Because he can’t grow with her, and he knows it, but he would give anything to give her something that she can take with her into the world of him. And while he knows her fate is to die soon - that she is in effect fated to be just like him, never to grow up, never to change - you can see how much he hates it in just how hard he fights for that not to be her fate.

#toilet bound hanako kun #kid would rather give Nene a life he's never part of #than have her be just like him #just as lonely as he's been #and I know the fandom wants for this to be mutable #and maybe it is #maybe Hanako will get a second life somehow #but the point is #Hanako doesn't know that

[hatchetation]

me from a year ago can’t imagine current me voting for mon/sam of gap the series over luisa/amelia of #luimelia in autostraddle’s march madness. love surprising myself lmao 🥲

#i mean gap the series didnt exist a year ago #but the point is #i was OBSESSED with luimelia #but my little obsessive heart has moved on #still love luimelia tho #gap the series #sam x mon #luisa x amelia #luimelia

[helloidkwhatimdoing-0]

ONLY EDITING LEFT ON MY HISTORY COURSEWORK

#moss mumbles #well #editing and the bibliography and the appendix and going back to fix the referencing on the earlier paragraphs #but the point IS #THE MAIN WRITE UP IS DONE #GET FUCKED HISTORY COURSEWORK

[joon4jun]

Whether its only one moon in the sky and saying you are also only one for me or the moon looks beautiful tonight Or wish we are also like those two moons always together, Moon is always romantic.

#i don't know how to describe it more fluently #but even a little bit of mention of moon in romance gets me #doesn't matter tragic or lovely #every moon allegory is beautiful #first time using the word allegory #don't know if i used it coorectly #but the point is #one moon is soo beautiful #two moons are even more beautiful #midnight museum #midnight museum the series #kathadome

[abuckygirlarchive]

times that bucky has “died”

1. 1945, caught on a missile drone plane. his arm got damaged in the blast and he fell to the ocean below and should have drowned. instead he was iced like captain america and was found by soviet soldiers who took him to department x

2. buckycap era, defeated by sin/skadi wielding an asgardian hammer. his arm ripped off and the hammer stabbed through his chest. he was revived by nick fury who gave him a dose of his own infinity formula. after this, he let the world believe he was dead for a while (fear itself #3)

3. shot and fake-killed by the kree supreme intelligence in order to defeat them and free aarkus. (he obviously gets highly theatrical about it as if he doesn’t have plenty of past experiences to draw from) (all new invaders #4)

4. 21st century, zemo still lives and has again strapped bucky to an exploding drone missile. he relives his first death and falls into the ocean, but is saved by namor. (captain america vol 8 #25).

#let him live #idk how accurate this is tbh my memory is the wORST #but the point is #LET HIM L IV E #bucky barnes #winter soldier