#but you gotta understand forgiveness doesnt me absolution

[whatdourelfeyessee]

JASON SUDEIKIS WE NEED TO HAVE A TALK ABOUT THE EMOTIOMS YOU ARE MAKNG ME EMOTE

#ted lasso #ted lasso season 3 #just watched mom city and im gonna go bonkers #the moments where rupert and jamies dad had something almost soft about them #rupert and Rebecca cracking up when no one else was #jamies dad smiling softly when jamies scored a goal #like!!!!!!!! #it doesn't erase them being HUGE pieces of shit #it just shows that even the worst of us are still human #and the best way for you to heal is to understand that and move on #like..... #i get why the word forgiveness makes people upset especially when it comes to jamies dad #but you gotta understand forgiveness doesnt me absolution #it just helps you let go #like i hate them both dont get me wrong #but i think its important to understand that they can get second chances even if its just on themselves #rupert can let his ego go and become a good father and the people he hurt dont have to let him back itto their lives l #jamies dad can get sober and better amd become a good man and jamie still doesn't have to let him have a go at being a father #both of those things can happen together

[bugsinshoes]

ok so i just watched @fordtato and @hkthatgffan 's respective videos about their interview with THE alex hirsch and i wanna just say OH MY GOD like SERIOUSLY

im gonna put my thoughts under the cut so theres no spoilers if you havent seen it already (BUT GO WATCH THEM NOW PLEASE !!!) + its gonna be LONG so BEAR WITH ME

ok, so i have MANY thoughts so sorry if none of this is coherent 😭 (this is not in chronological order of when the questions were asked, just me spewing out my totally normal thoughts about this interview so apologies for that)

starting off:

THE BABY IS SHERMIE?!?!?!? IM SO SO GLAD WE FINALLY HAVE CONFIRMATION WE CAN FINALLY LEAVE THIS TO REST !! I WAS RIGHT THOUGH SO HA !!! ACTUALLY SCREAMING !! TIMELINE BE DAMNED (also another thanks to hana, your timeline video is genuinely awesome. i never shut up about it. ever. any time i talk to my friends abt gf and i need to refer to the timeline i go: "IN HANA'S VIDEO-") anyways, i do understand it was a last minute decision on the writer's part of "oh. dipper and mabel need a grandfather, its not ford, and its sure as FUCK not gonna be stan sooo... third brother?" and i do understand alex being like, "oh, this is about ford and stan only having eachother" so i think making shermie younger was a GOOD THING? like, stan and ford had 18 years of just them so shermie wasnt in the picture, so stan and ford technically grew up on their own so ig it works? also, when stan got kicked out, he never got to see shermie grow up, probably only saw him at events when he had to pretend to be ford (post-1983) and as for ford himself, he was too busy in college and gravity falls to really visit the family so... it works! (despite everything)

that aside, lets talk about THE CRUMBS??? like i have some quotes here because i have a LOT to say:

"theyre both so damaged and they desperately need each other" - alex hirsch (talking about stan and ford)

LIKE SUIUHUSHUSH i HATE these brothers SO MUCH (LIES) i cant actually properly express my thoughts because WOW like its clear that they both have their own trauma and they NEED to address it but theyre both too STUBBORN to do so. theyve both been alone for 40ish years so of course they need each other. they grew up by the hip, so theres no surprise that they both need each other (whether they like it or not)

"[ford's] grateful for the forgiveness he thinks he doesnt deserve" -alex hirsch

ford thinks so lowly of himself at times it HURTS. like the lines in the journal about "only then would the freak return a hero" or about his guilt with bill and everything its just so important to his character im so glad we got so much ford content in this interview. like i am EATING ALL THIS UP RN

"[ford] has to always have a mission in front of him, because if he doesnt have a mission in front of him, hes thinking how have i treated people in my life?" - alex hirsch

ford distracting himself with things instead of facing his problems. probably something he had to do a lot, especially with his time in the multiverse. but it really hurts because i can imagine in the 60s, they never had any great coping mechanisms? so i can assume ford was just conditioned to distract himself from stuff so he never learned how to deal with things. and i KNOW in the journal hes like "i meditate!" and im sure that does help somewhat, but it doesnt address the issue itself soooo... sorry ford, but you cant just breathe your way out of everything

ALSO alex calling ford and fiddlefords falling out a "BREAKUP" (air quotes used) BUT A BREAKUP??? this is just adding fuel to my fiddauthor-infested brain rn. i CANT

and alex saying mcgucket is thinking like, "oh i gotta be a better partner" is HEART SHATTERING like the whole talk about fiddleford being "the building guy" who is kind of just there to make machines and please ford. its honestly so heartbreaking because fiddleford loves ford so much he'd leave his wife and child to go to absolute nowhere, oregon and the fact ford is too arrogant to see fiddlefords admiration and overall love for him its just IUIUAHHAS

and i do wanna say, i KNOW bill played a big part in this, by stroking fords ego and buttering him up with his kind words because he knew exactly what ford wanted to hear and that really affected how ford and fidds' relationship was like but THATS A TOPIC FOR ANOTHER TIME. all i know is that ford isnt entirely to blame, but he still is a massive arrogant asshole and he wasnt the best person to fidds at times (love him tho <3)

but im actually so happy because this interview sheds SO much light onto FORD bcs we BARELY got to know him, and hearing it from MR HIRSCH HIMSELF is just so good because we KNOW its a reliable source because its coming from ALEX YK??? like he wrote ford so he probably knows "oh yeah, that man is guilt-ridden as FUCK" and im so glad we get some crumbs of this guy i cant get enough of him !!! (impatiently waiting for the book of bill)

ANNNDD THE TALK ABOUT MAYBE GETTING A SEA GRUNKS SPINOFF/MINISERIES??? I WOULD EXPLODE GENUINELY ANYTHING WITH MY FAVOURITE OLD MEN PLEASE !! i would genuinely love to see more of their dynamic and how everything is after weirdmaggeddon and like dealing with trauma and UGHHH i would kill for stan/ford content PLEASE

also...

hippie ford.

hippie. ford.

i am never getting over this (im internally SCREECHING)

ANYWAYS THAT WAS MY RANT ABT MY FAV THINGS FROM THE INTERVIEW THAT WAS A LOT GODDAMN

im genuinely so happy with all the questions that got answered, as well as getting some deeper insight into characters and stuff. IM NEVER GETTING OVER THE AMOUNT OF FIDDAUTHOR CRUMBS YOU GUYS

im gonna end this by saying another MASSIVE thank you to hana and hk !! you both put so much effort into your respective videos and it was super super cool !! this was totally worth the wait !!! :D

#yapping #gravity falls #god that was an amazing 2 hours of my life #time to rewatch them again and again until the book of bill releases #btw hana if youre seeing this i loved your puppets #they were very silly #also cant wait for that rob interview. super hyped

[tojikai]

I gotta say, it was lovely to see Satoru reflecting on how much of a piece of shit he was to Y/N. I’m currently drinking a cup full of his tears 🤭

It’s incredibly frustrating that it took him seeing her with Toji, a man that’s treating her right and how she deserves for him to realize how badly he messed up. Seeing these little snippets of how he had done the things to Y/N with Naomi as they’re happening to him with Toji… IT DOESNT FEEL GOOD DOES IT SATORU.

We haven’t seen much of Naomi but her actually referring to herself as Mama when it came to Yui? WHEW. It was one thing for Yui to do it on her own but for Naomi to encourage it had me so annoyed 😭 Luckily Satoru nipped that in the bud. I’m trying really hard to not think poorly of her because maybe she’s just bad at understanding coparenting and Satoru has shown Naomi that he puts her above whatever Y/N wants/thinks so she’s used to that. At the same time I feel like it’s basic empathy to get both parents permission before doing huge things like that… IDK I flip flop between both. What I do know is that it’s Satoru’s responsibility as he’s the father and he needs to advocate for the mother of his child even if his girlfriend doesn’t like it. Also that little dig Toji made (accidentally) that made about disrespecting her parents made her leave 🤭 I got a kick out of that.

But now that Satoru has admitted he’s still in love with Y/N I think he needs to break up with her. It’s unfair of him to lead someone on like that when he’s in love with someone else. Even if he’s not going to try and get back with Y/N, it’s just a terrible thing to do to someone.

Toji and Megumi oh my god they’re so CUTE. I want so much happiness for them 😭 Yui and Megumi being thick as thieves UGH i’m so happy that they’re all happy and if they’re endgame I wish them all the love and happiness oh my god.

Throughout all this, is it bad that I kind of still want them (Satoru and Y/N) to end up together? I know they’re toxic, I know Toji is absolutely lovely but if Satoru works on himself and actively works for Y/N’s forgiveness I’d love to see them happy 😭 sometimes it does take seeing what you’ve missed out to put your ass into gear and fix what’s wrong.

I wonder who he called at the end, I think it’s either Toji or Naomi… and I wonder if either person would tell Y/N or Satoru about the call. Or just stay silent and pretend it didn’t happen to keep things as they are. AHHH THE DRAMA! There’s so much I wanna say but I can’t remember it all so I’ll leave it here!

Kai you absolutely ate this chapter and I thank you so so much for the update. I’m super excited to read the rest! Do you have an estimate for how many chapters you think Sundered is going to be?

Thank you SO much for sharing your work and I hope you have an amazing weekend 🫶🏽 much love!

satoru's indifference regarding Yui calling naomi mama led her to think that it's fine. and the fact that it was never addressed/got avoided in those few weeks gave her the impression that yn sees no problem w it :(( and yeppp, satoru still having feelings for yn while with naomi, i could say it's inevitable, considering how rash and quickly he moved to naomi. it's truly sad :(( as for the call AAAAA we'll know ;> anw thankss so much for this, i enjoyed reading it <33 have a nice day !!

#🍭—kaitalks #f: sundered

[inkybinkyboink]

hjsfhjdjd forgive me father bc i have stooped so low as to write hond grocery store headcanons bc thats what its come to

k so clopin right like it’s been discussed how this man is with strangers so i dont think hed be super endearing but i think he definitely understands how shitty kind of blue collar jobs can be, how the cashiers and managers are actual people with lives so he says hello and bags to make it a little easier. he’s the saint that actually leaves the heavy stuff in the cart or lifts it up for you to scan instead of crashing it down on the belt. man buys a lot of fruit, no pun intended he strikes me as a very fruity person. that and a lot of cooking and baking supplies, tomato sauce, spices, lemons and limes, flour, eggs, that sort of thing. coupon king like this man pulls them out of the weirdest places its insane. gets really excited when he has like points to redeem. also came up with the headcanon that even if hes not directly friendly to the person behind the counter, he’ll get up to defend them in the blink of an eye. like if someones visibly stressing them out he’ll straight up tell them to fuck off like hes ready to fight.

then we got esmerelda who’s kind of the opposite, she’s super nice to the cashier, uses endearment terms, SUPER patient if she’s buying like alcohol and the cashier is underage, like doesnt mind it at all and tries to make small talk while they’re waiting. lets people who have more stuff in line before her, just like a really calming presence but also the prettiest person you’ll see the entire day. gets a little bit of everything, lot of bakery stuff, frozens and stuff, drinks, ahh i wanna see her getting like birthday party supplies because i feel like id just be really excited for her know?

oh my god phoebus my man ok so like dude is the king of the deli section, he’ll pick up dinner a lot on his way back from work and pull up in uniform with like a bunch of food or whatever. on a warm day he pulls up in like just a tshirt tucked into pants or whatever, his hair finally tied back and out of his face. i feel like he’s also really chill, very kind but so awkward at making small talk, and he feels bad about it. he does his groceries groceries during the quiet hour days, i think that loud noises stress him out, i will die on this hill. just like your average guy, doesn’t say much, BUT, if you have like a button on your uniform that he recognizes, or like a reference or something, he fucking breaks the silence and points it out of nowhere and “hey i know that!” and then you immediately lapse into silence again because he’s too sheepish to continue the conversation, and you laugh about it with your friends later.

quasimodo’s fun bc he gets a lot of cooking supplies but then tells you what he’s using them for. like he’ll get berries and pectin and be like “im making jam :)))” or “i’m gonna try baking bread with the special flour.” like it’s really cute and he’s all polite and bags his own things and uses the cashiers name and compliments them very formally like “you did a lovely job, (name)” and then is on his merry way like he’s such a homie. definite;y comes in multiple times a week bc he keeps forgetting like one thing, and then he needs something else, etc etc. has definitely come in with both esmerelda and phoebus and theyre the best friend group you’ll see all day.

claude frollo is the worst he would buy like one thing, and its like clam juice, and still manage to stress me out about whether im ringing it in properly. if he’s buying more stuff he stares at the monitor and will immediately point out the slightest mistake. he’s a karen, he wants his deal or nothing at all. but then when you do give it to him because “the customer is ALWAYS right” he becomes really falsely nice and u just gotta grit your teeth and try not to tell him off. is absolutely that bitch who complains about the slightest thing. throughout your entire transaction you’re waiting for him to verbalize some sort of insult towards you as a queer person. claude frollo is the guy clopin tells to fuck off 100% like thats the dynamic we’re going for here.

jehan frollo is hella chill, always goes with florika, like couples coming thru the cash is stressful bc why are they SO judgmental, but then he’s like “hey i like your pronoun button” and all is well with the world. he’s like “yeah, my nephew’s friend is gay,” and then just starts rambling abt cool gay ppl and florika very gently goes “babe i need to pay” and scoots this 6ft 1 guy a few feet to the right while he keeps talking about drag shows or something. theyre both just very friendly and they’re the kind of people who remember you and say hi again if you run into them again. somehow the groceries they buy are cool? they buy like breezers and limes and avocados, and like soup ingredients if that makes sense. like you know theyre boutta cook up something GOOD for a friend gathering. 

thank you for coming to my brainrot/way of processing work with me.

#hond

[maehemthemisfit]

Like I said in the tags in the last post I absolutely love rivals to lovers- friends to lovers is better than love at first sight but still a meh for me. The reason being is that none of you have gone through any conflict- you haven't worked through anything to get to know each other or improve the relationship, you've just always been alright with each other and in my opinion that might make problems down the line as you haven't exactly seen the real you (of the other)

Basically, it's a lot better than love at first sight because I don't understand how that even works but the fact that the two of you don't get to work through each other, witness each others worse and eventually get to the best is probably the reason I don't like it as much as rivals to lovers. I mean I love rayllum and Lumity (and those are just a few examples of we'll done rivals to lovers)

I also completely agree with you in hating the copy-and-paste shy reader that isn't even able to formulate words or function with the crush- especially if this goes on for multiple seasons *ahem* Marinette and also the no personality protagonist who’a basically a self-insert and apologises, is clumsy and probably wears glasses is studious, and classified as the “nerd”

sorry apologise for the ramble ehe

No need to apologize! I get the friends to lovers thing tho! I dont usually write it either but I am, I like to add conflicts, whether external or internal for both characters, so in a way it can be accomplished, maybe its not as satisfying, but I like the idea of ruining their relationships and letting them be bitter and angry at whatever upset them... or maybe endanger their life heh! Then they start reflecting more on things and how it ends depends on the plot

ONE THING I DO LIKE TO DO IS- when two characters had a fight and the person who was really in the wrong eventually apologizes, the other character doesnt go "aww forgive and forget" right away, It might be petty but yk sometimes not everything can be fixed with an apology, gotta work for it

#1eaf! #moots 💖 #answered 💌 #[🍩] mae . • . ° inbox ♡⁠˖

[autevi]

a roundup of things i have screamed at my friends on discord about CH Cherryh’s Invader

this is the second book in the Foreigner series, some mild spoilers may be contained within, but honestly, the whole series is just one long Bren Cameron and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

also forgive me for misspelling anything, i read Foreigner last year but i’m listening to Invader on audiobook so the spellings are not in my recent memory buffer

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It’s so funny how Bren is always focusing on the wrong things I love it so much He understands so much and so little

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Jago, banichi, tano, algini, ilisidi, cenedi, and the lady damiri’s entire household staff: my poor little meow meow the paidhi Bren: what a shame that the atevi have no word or concept of friend or love Also Bren: you have to understand, nadiin, that humans don’t have the biological imperative of association or manchi.

Jago, extremely offended that barb dumped Bren: that bitch Bren: I could never think that Jago considers me a friend. She’s atevi Bren, describing jago and banichi in such loving language but they could never love me back

This is the funniest take on pining

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@darling-child-tisarwat  here’s my favorite bren line ever tho i think it’s from book 1: “we have to like somebody, we’re bound to like somebody, or we die,  banichi, we outright die.” not dramatic at all

Me: He’s so dramatic and has NO IDEA he’s so obsessed with conveying the right micro nuances He had NO CLUE

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bren: gets injured, yeeted to mospheira and back in 24h, deals with pain and planetary and personal and professional crises, doesnt sleep or take meds, absolutely gluts himself on information overload and stress banichi: i will lay down my life to protect this delicate and dramatic little thing

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@sylvanauctor jago: i'll never betray you nand'paidhi bren: she's just saying that to be nice

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God I just realized he must be in his twenties He’s a baby!!! (i say this with all the creaky age of a 31 year old) Apparently he’s 27 in inheritor

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Shannon:  Can’t stop imagining Banichi and Jago as the confused but loving coparents of a very excitable little dog. Something fluffy and yappy

Me:  fhsdfhgfd gotta make sure his little outfits and hair ribbons are all just so brencameron frisé banichi and jago to other atevi who dont know the paidhi: he's temperamental but he's very darling once he gets used to you. and so terribly loyal!

Shannon:  He’s not committing a terrible faux pas on purpose, he’s just  a little puppy!

Me:  paidhi bren cameron: god. i'm so sorry. i pissed on the carpet. i'm SO sorry

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bren: jago what is going on. where's banichi jago: *crickets* banichi: *shows up 45 minutes late with starbucks* gaslight girlboss gatekeep

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bren: god. im so sorry. i'm such an idiot. god. you must all think me SUCH a clumsy fool tano: literally everyone here is pulling for you what the fuck bren: i cant fail at this terribly important job. i MUST say the right words. it's terribly important that i dont fuck this up tano: you've received two proposals of marriage and several bags of mail from school children

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bren: they have no concept of friendship every atevi except jago, banichi, and tabini: i shouldnt be telling you this but-

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@cassyblue/Erin: im still mad that bren is straight like that man is at least bi

me: i have not gotten to any point that confirms or denies this please let me live in blissful ignorance sure he's only mentioned dating a woman but he's clearly in love with both jago and banichi this is another reason he is hilariously adjacent to ivan vorpatril in my head (the other reason is how they think about/mentally categorize the overload of incoming mail)

Erin: Hes like Ivan if ivan didnt grow up in a toxic masculinity world

Me: bren: at home on mospheira no one gives a fuck about politics as long as their vacations arent affected ivan: literally everything about my life is dominated by politics Erin: i dont think Bren could survive alys hed just got mowed over

Me: ALYS. ILISIDI.

#invader #cj cherryh #cherryh #foreigner series #ancillari reads #autevi

[sanstropfremir]

it’s the episode 8 review!!! how many episodes is this show supposed to even be?

the stages from the episode feel like such a grab bag.... i still don’t understand why they didn’t put all the skill stages together, and then did the normal two episodes of the third round. i guess it makes sense that they didn’t want to have six stages in one episode and then three in the other two, but eh. 

feeling kinda average on these as a whole, there’s a lot of good elements going on here but probably because of my own preferences (i don’t listen to ballads or blackpink) none of them really hit all the buttons. hopefully this will be a shorter review because i'm only going to do a quick rundown of the vocal stages; i dont really have that much to say about them because they are (intentionally) not very stage picture focused. i'll do the normal stage breakdowns for the other two though, even though i won’t rank them because we still need to see the other four!

vocal stages

sf9 + tbz + ikon

not much to say here other than wow, that’s RED. glad to see some more specific use of spotlighting and i always love when they light things on fire. i do wish they had fill lit with a brighter amber so we could actually get a bit more detail on their faces, especially because there’s six of them. i appreciated the simple blocking and only using one of the ‘stages,’ this stage didn’t need to be anything complicated and it wasn’t. i don’t love spinning camera shots because they make me a bit ill, and i'll forgive the constant cutting because it's a vocal stage and there isn’t any other real movement that we should be paying attention to. not my favourite of the two, i found it visually a bit too repetitive and complex at the same time. always love a crushed velvet suit though, so bonus points for that.

atz + skz + btob

i was braced for the worst and i dont know what kind of miracle happened but it was listenable! like i said, not a ballad fan but i could listen to eunkwang all day. i love a good plinth for a ballad stage, they’re one of my favourite devices in kpop design and i especially love it with a good groundlevel fog. glad they kept it black and white for the first half of the stage, it was in line with the blooming flower projections, and it made a very clear colour arc. they kept the visuals clean and simple with very little blocking at all, a very smart choice for this stage. not sure why they decided it would be the chanel time stage, which i disapprove of because i don’t like chanel, but i do love eunkwang’s shirt with the cameo buttons and the massive turnback cuffs, very 17th and also 19th century. i know they never do it because they dont read on stage normally but yes absolutely more thin chain pendant chokers on men, thank you! i also liked that there was emphasis on a more traditional lighting scheme, there weren't any crazy concert effects, just some good directional beam spotlights and the rear stacks in the climax. 

third round stages

ikon

costume

the first look for them is definitely my fabourite of theirs so far. there’s enough variation in the jackets that the base layer of tshirt and jeans don’t look too repetitive. and i do love a good statement jacket. my favourite is probably donghyuk’s because i'm a sucker for fringe always.

i don’t like the backup dancers costumes, but given the way i’ve reacted to every other all black outfit for this entire show i don’t think anyone was surprised about that. these ones particularly irk me because they’re very matte; there's pretty much no texture or pattern differentials to define the shape of the limb, which makes them disappear when theyre all grouped together (mostly on the women). i think they probably were intending to make a statement/emphasis on the hands because of the sleeve cutoff point, but there were so many arm movements that were just totally missed because the costumes were just black voids. most egregious parts are here, with the female dancers up center. i can barely tell what the movements are unless i’m paying specific attention to them because there's so many black shapes. maybe it was the point for it to be an indiscernable writhing mass, but it wasn’t my vibe.

don’t love this styling on lisa. i hate peeptoe shoes in general but peeptoe boots are the worst offenders. they make you look like you have duck feet, no matter who you are. especially with a flat cutout like that. a universally unflattering shoe, and i would know, i worked in a shoe store for two years. this whole look is just pg-13 rihanna cfda awards 2014 and really nobody should try to run up against rihanna.

also i have to mention this because it’s actually really bothering me, but lisa’s backup dancers are serving very allgemeine ss looks and i do not like it. generally when we see ‘military’ uniforms in kpop theyre usually modelled off older styles (pre wwii) of western uniforms that usually aren’t in circulation, and they’re usually non-matching and embellished in ways that are deliberately not military. i know logically that it's a budget constraint+they’re backup dancers+current trend thing but the clean lines with only button detailing and the all black and that specific harness shape? it hit my brain the wrong way. i mean, technically those uniforms are designer because hugo boss did them, but the uh..... girlboss move didn’t land for me.

this is my PERSONAL OPINION please for the love of all that is holy do not come yelling at me about this. it’s all under a cut, you chose to read the post.

set

very glad to see some busy kitschy sets! this is a massive build, since there’s essentially three full sets here: the temple, the jungle, and the first tiny room. and all of them are very heavily decorated. 

the starting room is just five walls on casters (wheels), that have been set into place with the cameraman and ikon inside at the start, and then once they exit the walls can be easily struck and rolled off set. simple, smart, and convenient!

i missed it the first couple times around but glitching out the projections in the temple for a split second was a neat little trick.

the silver and polygonal nature of the tiger/panther/cat(?) head is a bit disconnected from the gold and the aesthetic of the rest of the stage for me. the difference between the original room set and the jungle tracks, but the cat head isnt able to make the same leap for me. i'm also not a fan of mixing metals so maybe that’s why.

the tiger/panther/cat(?) head is a fun physical transitional device; i'm a big fan of tunnels and small transitory spaces like that and if they’re well dressed like this one they do so much for establishing place and mood.

i'm very sure i’ve seen this style of polygonal animal head with laser eyes before....i cannot for the life of me remember where or for what. i know wang yibo did a panther stage for sdc3 that had a human formation panther with green laser eyes, i wonder if i'm just crossing wires.

OH nevermind it’s because it looks like the witcher medallion. wires were definitely crossed.

lighting

using purple/teal lighting for the jungle was a smart choice because purple is the direct compliment to the gold and also is much more flattering on humans than green. green is one of the colours that humans can see the most variations in, so when something is green when it's not supposed to be (like human skin), we register that very quickly and associate it with unease and sickness. you know how old fluorescent lights have that greenish tinge that kinda makes you feel ill? it's your cone cells and your brain recognizing that you’re looking at things that are not supposed to be green.

very clean colour arc, i love to see it.

sound

it’s.....fine? i don’t listen to blackpink and have no opinions on their music other than it's not my type. i dont really know what the thematic connection to the visuals is, which is not strictly necessary in a lot of cases, but i don’t particularly care for the conflation of ‘savage’ and a (presumably) precolonial religion that’s assembled from stereotypes of real colonized cultures. you can come at me about how ‘it's not that deep’ all you want but i am here specifically doing an in depth analysis, and i gotta point it out. i'm not here to pass judgement on you if you didn’t realize or don’t care or whatever, i'm just saying that it's important to consume content with a critical eye. what you do with that information is your own personal choice, but you should be aware of it at least. 

staging

they took a big risk eating popcorn right before singing, and we definitely got some residual mouth noises of them trying to clean out their teeth. eating on stage is difficult in general because you have to make sure it's not going to dry out the performers mouths, because they dont have access to water and it takes WAY longer to chew and swallow something than you would expect. there’s a LOT of testing that goes into making stage food and guaranteed it’s not made out of what it looks like or what its supposed to be; i worked on a production of amadeus were we did literal weeks of testing amalgams of different desserts to make sure that salieri could actually eat the ones onstage without totally drying him out, because fun fact about that show, salieri doesnt leave stage like, at all, so there was no way to get him water. poor bloke.

i thought the blocking of this was really smart. the long take from the ‘normal’ room and transition into the jungle was super slick, even if that weird circle the camera did while pointed up at the ceiling was unnecessary and pointless.

bobby’s ‘acting’ was extremely funny and that’s the only way people are allowed to act surprised now. edvard munsch scream style only.

the pacing is a bit off and this time it wasn’t mnet’s editing that fucked it up. as fun as it is to have a feature, clearly she wasn’t allowed within proximity of the rest of them for covid or other yg related reasons, but it made for some extremely long transitions, especially the one out of her verse. it kills the momentum of the stage in that beat, even though they manage to pick it up after.

this is a very simple little narrative arc that’s easy to follow and doesn’t require any extra explaining. which is exactly the kind of arc that groups should be doing at this stage in the game. this is a good formic step up for ikon!

i thought the turning off of the monitor at the end was fun and a good callback to them watching the videos at the beginning of the stage. a nice clean way to make it circular.

skz

costume

FINALLY something different on the skz boys! these were mostly fun eboy looks for them, and i like it on the basis that it's not the same as the last set of costumes.

bang chan out there with his thigh OUT and a (fake) bridge piercing? LOVE to see it. great work.

(copy-paste every thing i’ve said about backup dancers wearing all black)

the backup dancers that were dressed as bystanders/extras were great! they should have kept that with all of them because it would have given a little more shape to the choreography and establishing what function the backup dancers were supposed to have.

set

that is meant to be a giant rice cooker on stage, right? i think so because it's a god’s menu mashup? if that's not a rice cooker i have NO idea what its supposed to be

there’s only two large setpieces here, which was a smart way to go. i LOVE the subway car doubling as the truck, even if the truck itself makes no narrative sense. what a fun way to double the use of a single big piece. you’ll be able to see the way it moves in the full cam but it splits down the centre and there entrance doors at the back with attached stairs that bang chan and the dancers use to climb up.

lighting

not a whole lot happening here. i like the cool white leds in the subway car and the contrast with the more warm tones of the outside, which is good atmospheric establishment, but i can't discern a visible arc. 

not a fan of these projections; they’re in line with what we’ve seen from skz so far, which is: extremely literal. i dont think they’re that distracting, but they’re not to my personal taste. they really should have kept the comic panel theme that they did for changbin’s first verse, because that was inventive and fun to watch! and a great atmospheric indicator! i would love to see a bit more experimental projection use but it's hard when they don’t have a lot of time to build these stages and the lighting team is definitely working remotely.

sound

i love that they made the choice to do some actual talking, it’s a good gimmick and it works for the deadpool/comic book/fourth wall break theme, but australian accents take me the fuck out i am so sorry i cannot listen to either felix or bang chan speak english without laughing uncontrollably. 

i don’t like this arrangement but i'm not surprised about that, given my predilections. i'm also tired of skz shouting STRAY KIDS in every performance they do. i know on music shows it's probably more relevant and yea producers tags are a thing but we’ve been watching this show for nearly two months at this point. we know who you are, you can stop yelling. be more creative with it!

staging

my biggest issue with this stage is that it doesn’t have a payoff. there is an arc here: they’re stealing the truck, but why are they stealing the truck? who are they stealing it from? who are they fighting against? it's kind of important in a stage where the theme is stealing and fighting someone that you tell us who that is. in both of ateez’s previous stages were they were both stealing (rhythm ta) and fighting (wonderland), they made sure to show us who the villain was. there needs to be tension for a big blowup climax to actually pay off. whether it be against a a balloon arm kraken or a fascist government. this stage could have reached that next step if they’d just done a little bit more exposition. 

there were a lot of fun choreo moments here, and this is probably my favourite choreo of theirs so far. i thought the whole first bit in the subway car was excellent and a very fun play on those viral videos that we used to see roll around every so often of dancers doing routines in subway cars.

did it need the guns? not in the slightest. more on this point later. i could talk more about weapons and weight here, but i’ve done that several times already.

like with the tbz game of thrones stages, theyre relying a little too much on the audience's preconceptions of the source material in order to carry the theme. the guns are there because deadpool likes guns, but they don’t actually use the guns for anything? the most we get of the stealing segment is felix and the safe, which admittedly is a great bit with him leaping over and under the ‘laser’ lines (theyre likely led strips). because comic books are by nature procedural and deeply tied to narrative, it's unsatisfying when there’s no tension and no payoff.

HOW did we manage to get two stages that are blackpink covers with remote/tv static gimmick and durags? i know the slot machine of kpop tropes is not very big but surely the probability of hitting triple sevens on this one was pretty low. i’m pretty meh on both of these stages overall. skz was unsatisfying but i loved the choreo in the subway bit so that bumped it up a little ahead of ikon’s in my personal preferences, but i'm reserving my actual rankings for next week. assuming we get the other four stages next week and they dont do something stupid and only show two. which they very well might. i’ve stopped trying to understand why mnet does things the way that they do. 

as always the ask box is open, drop your comments/questions/personal opinions, i love to hear ‘em! but don’t be rude just because some of this is touchier subject material.

#kingdom #ateez #btob #ikon #sf9 #the boyz #stray kids #military uniforms are a weird one and i always find it a bit....(squiggly face emoji) when they get used in kpop stages #everybody is one of the exceptions because its used as a direct critique #but this is a very personal opinion as someone who has done a lot of historical research on military uniforms in particular #so im hyperaware of that kind of thing #be cool about this one people please and thank you! #im so glad this came in under 3k #kingdom review #kpop analysis #text #ive had to write a lot of deeply critical art practice analysis in the last week and i would like to sleep

[madlymiho]

Hello! Can I request hc for Crocodile Doflamingo and Kid with SO that back from their mission badly injured, but keep hiding it coz he doesnt want to be consider weak.

Hello!!! Mmmh me love the three of them!! 🙈❤️ You got it anon! I love these headcanons!

Crocodile :

• Crocodile trusts you. He trusts your skills and your abilities, and he's not that worried whenever you go on mission. He believes that you are aware of the dangers there, and that you wouldn't act recklessly. Well, at least he hopes so

• So when you're getting back from your mission, he greets you with his eternal look over his papers, just to make sure that you are in one piece. He doesn't smile, nor say anything, but simply asks if everything went well

• Crocodile feels the lies within your answer, but he choses to act as if everything is alright. Since you don't seem to share what bothers you, he decides that perhaps, you have good reasons to act this way. Maybe you have been injured and you are ashamed of it? He just silently promises himself to investigate

• You are certain that Crocodile didn't notice your conditions, but he definitely did. He even asked Daz Bonez to check at the trash cans of the house, making sure that there were indeed some bandages inside. He lets you hide yourself for a little while, just to see how far you would go acting this way

• But after a day, or two, Crocodile would just abruptly steps into the bathroom while you are changing your bandages, a serious look within his cold eyes. He doesn't need to talk, one stare of him makes you understand that he knew for a long time

• Crocodile isn't the most demonstrative partner, and silently, he just picks the bandages on the sink and starts to apply them on your skin. He will lecture you, for sure, but not today. Today you need to get better because he doesn't want you to stay that way

• You awkwardly explain yourself about your behaviors. The fact that you are afraid of his opinion. That you didn't want to worry him just because you were hurt. But Crocodile doesn't talk. He sometimes looks at you through the mirror, his eyes neutral, before he continues his ministrations

• As he brushes your shoulder for a second, he informs you that there's a doctor on their way, and that you have to go to your room and rest. It's a cold and strict order, ignoring all your previous statement, but Crocodile squeezes your hip for a second. You know it's his way to tell you to get better, because he has been worried, despite his cold features

• Before he leaves the room, Crocodile tells you that you're not weak, and you shouldn't hide something like this from him anymore. It sounds cold, harsh, bitter. But through this sentence, you understand how attentive and caring this reptile could be towards someone he deeply loves, and respects

Doflamingo :

• Doflamingo is certainly one of the most complicated partner to fool when it comes to the people who share his life. You are his family, his possession, his entire world. He wants to know everything about you, and even if he seems careless, he's not an idiot

• He appreciates your boldness, and the fact that you are strong enough to go on missions of your own. He wouldn't like to have someone weak by his side, especially if you share his bed. You gotta have that wild spirit, and it's definitely something he enjoys about you

• But he hates when you lie. And right now, as you are paler than usual, he knows that you're fooling him. He knows that there's something you keep from him, and you better be sure that he will know what is your little secret, because he wouldn't appreciate any form of betrayal coming from you

• His eyes and ears are everywhere, and soon enough, Doflamingo understands that you are just trying to hide your injury... and he definitely feels weirdly proud about it. You are fierce, just like he likes it, but he needs to make you confess that you need his help, that he's the almighty god who will save you

• So Doflamingo acts way more clingy towards you. Always purring in your ears that he can't wait to undress you, chuckling when he feels your body flinching because he's brushing your skin a bit too close from your injury. You feel that you won't be able to escape his poisoning touch for too long, because you also miss it as well...

• This little game lasts until Doflamingo understands that you wouldn't be able to bear it anymore. As he traps you against a wall, he makes you confess the truth, one hand almost threatening to press the sensitive area around your injuries. It's terribly unfair, frightening, but it's just the way he is... you shouldn't have lied to him in the first place

• You try to argue that you believed he would see you as weak person, yet, it makes him only grin madly. He softly kisses your cheek, his devilish laughter escaping from his throat. You don't know what it means, but there's something strangely tender in the way he's fondling your arm

• Doflamingo does everything to heal you after that. Good doctors, stitches, regular checks up with well-knowns surgeons. He wants you to be all patched up to handle him and what he plans to do to you... He craves your body, your soul, your heart

• Within his tender and possessive gestures, you finally start to believe that Doflamingo doesn't see you as someone weak, on the contrary. You have been able to resist his intense aura while you were so badly injured, and it's a proof for him, that you're probably made to be his life time partner... a weird way to tell you how much he loves you

Kid :

• Kid was absolutely against your mission in the first place. Very possessive and jealous, he didn't want you to run away for weeks, abandoning him like this to do something stupid and meet new people... so no, he's not really in the mood to greet you when you come back

• You knew that it wouldn't be an easy return, but now that you are severely injured, you just want to escape his wrath and impossible mood. And since he seems more than ready to ignore you, you decide to hide your injury

• Kid is all grumpy. He doesn't understand. Alright he's very angry and moody, but why aren't you begging him to forgive you? You always seem to disappear in the bathroom for hours, and you are so pale... so sick. He clicks his tongue, trying to forget about it with heavy sessions of binge drinking

• He really didn't notice that you're hiding something. For him, you're just playing with his nerves, and soon enough, you'll have to explain yourself, otherwise, he might just burn your entire furnitures in your room and smashes everything you care for! Your distant behaviors piss him off soooo much!

• After a week, Kid just... smashed down the door of your current room (the guest room of his boat), ready to tell you so many dirty words, just to make you cry and understand that you are a piece of shit... but he sees your bandages, the blood, the needle you're using to stitch yourself all alone... and it shatters him so deeply...

• He suddenly shouts so many questions, half angry and half worried. Why did you hide this? Since when are you like that? Why the fuck didn't you say anything? He's crossing the distance between the two of you, circling your jawline... and you see the despair within his eyes. He's really worried, and it's the first time ever you see that in his stare

• You don't have time to do anything that Kid is already yelling in the corridor for the doctor of his crew to get his ass right there. He's a wild tornado, waking up everyone onboard because you're hurt and he can't let that happen! Not under his watch!

• When Kid comes back to you, he asks one more question : why did you hide it from him? And as you reply that you were afraid he would consider you as a weak person, you feel his hand on your nap, and his lips strongly on yours. He calls you moron and doesn't add anything else. But it makes you smile so much...

#one piece headcanons #one piece headers #one piece imagine #sir crocodile #crocodile one piece #donquixote doflamingo #doflamingo one piece #eustass kidd #eustass kid #doffy #kid one piece #one piece hc #one piece #fluffy hcs

[5-falsehoods-phonated]

for your bad things happen bingo: prank gone wrong with romantic intruality? happy ending though? :3

Thank you for the prompt!

Knot A Prank

Summary: Patton tries pranking Remus in an effort to make him feel more welcome. It does not go as planned. (Happy ending)

Warnings: mention of bugs, unintentional strangulation, non explicit sexual innuendo, cursing, caps to signify shouting, injury

Prompt: Prank Gone Wrong

Ships: Intruality, Patton x Remus

Wc: 1672

AO3 link

Learning to live with Remus since he began coming around more often was...interesting to say the least. His suggestive language and random bouts of murderous imagery was something that concerned Patton in the beginning, believing it couldn't be good for Thomas' mental well being and moral standing for someone like Remus to have as much room to talk as he did. But the more he was around the more he began to understand that he really was just an excitable person who couldn't stay on one subject of conversation for mode than a few minutes to save his life. When Patton began humoring him, listening to the more vulgar ideas and getting used to his presence in kind, the duke seemed to get a little calmer, pick fights a little less...leave less fake blood on the carpeting.

Through all that the most he brought to the mind space they shared was pranks in any and all forms. Jump scares that sent Virgil clawing and hissing his way up the fridge and sent Remus cackling. Filling Deciet's gloves with copious amounts of mayonaise amused him to no end when said side would pretend he didn't even notice, delicately excusing himself with a far too put together expression. Making Roman's sword melt and snapping it back together in a hiding place, gluing pages of Logan's books together and fixing it just before he lost his cool, even pranking Patton by replacing the pepper with ground up crickets. (Which he didnt notice until he tated a distinct lack of peper flavor on his eggs that morning and Remus casually mentioning it, though after the initial shock he had eaten them anyway, much to the dukes surprised amusement.)

Everyone had been more than a little surprised when Patton had simply taken the pranks in stride, finding them to be a nice day to day mix up as long as they didnt go too far. He even began learning more about Rrmus as time went on. His favorite pastime was defacing disney coloring books, which Patton had a hunch was just to get to Roman. He liked doing his nails and had even offered to do Patton's at some point, to which he refused only because he hated the feel of it. He liked cooking and was surprisingly good at it when he wasnt trying to put something completely inedible on their plates just to see their reactions. His favorite desert was, again, surprising in its simplicity and healthiness, which is what Patton was making now to lure the other to the kitchen.

No one had managed (or tried) to prank Remus back since he began coming around more. Whether thay was from fear or lack of trying Patton wasn't sure but he was fixing that today. He smiled as he heard thumping down the stairs. Game. Set. Match.

"What the hell??"

Patton whirled around and tsked. "Language Remus."

Remus raised an eyebrow and tugged a bit at his arms, huffing when they only tangled further. Now that he was trapped the ropes that were slung in the doorway were clearly visible, hung in such a way that it was easy yo get tangled and hard to get out of. With Rrmus dangling in the middle of it Patton smiled at his pranks success.

Huffing again, Remus spoke up in a sultry tone. "Oh Daddy, if you wanted me tied up so badly all you had to do was ask."

Heat erupted under Pattons skin as he sputtered. "Its a prank! I wanted to prank you since you're always pulling them on the others!" He gestured to the freshly dipped caramel apples. "So I made your favorite desert and you're trapped and cant have any."

"You...know my favorite desert?" All suggestion left his voice as he stared at Patton with barely contained adoration.

"Of course! I...wasn't fair to you before so I'm trying my best to make up for it."

Remus cackled. "By tying me up and refusing me my sweets?"

Admittedly it was a lame prank but it was his first he'd ever pulled! He wasn't really sure how it was supposed to work. "I didnt think this through very well..." he admitted, shame faced.

Laughter dying out Rrmus shook his head. "Hey no it's fine Patty whack, just means we gotta work on it a bit! How about-"

Remus was cut off as he was pulled violently downward, turning both of their complexions pale white for entirely different reasons. While it was possible to resist a summons, catch a side off guard or in a vulnerable position and it became that much harder.

"Remus! No, no, no this wasnt- okay just hold on I can-" Patton rushed to start tugging at the rope, cursing both his stupidity and the timing of the others. Another tug sent Remus down further, ropes tightening and catching his fingers which he snapped back with a yelp, watching helplessly as the other gurgled and struggled against his confines. It was tangled everywhere, swinging around his arms and legs, one tangled loosely at his waist and another pulled taunt right under his jaw. He was beginning to turn red, fingertips blushing as their circulation was cut off and mouth gaping in an attempt to get air into his closed windpipe as Patton tugged valiantly at the rope, at his clothes, at anything as tears ran down his face while continuing to curse. It was just a harmless prank it shouldn't have- HE shouldn't have-

He laid a quick hand on Remus' cheek and sunk out quickly, popping up in the living room in the middle of the others' debate.

"The pranks cant have been that detrimental to Thomas' mental well being but it would still be a good idea to address it as a possible- oh Patton, you aren't-"

Paying Logan no mind Patton looked straight at Thomas and screamed. "STOP PULLING!"

Instantly the room fell silent and Tbomas' hand flopped to his side while opening his mouth in question. Not even bothering to explain, Patton quickly sunk out again, rushing to the Duke's side and frantically pulling away the rope, finally able to disentangle now that it was loose. He gasped sharply as Remus did nothing but fall limply to the ground, rope burns standing out an angry red around his wrists and neck. Seeing he was breathing, albeit shakily, Patton quickly scooped him up and moved him to the couch, biting his lip in guilt ridden worry as he noticed dark bruises already beginning to form. He heard a soft whoosh behind him and turned to see Logan standing shocked in the doorway. All at once he burst into tears again, clutching desperately to Remus' hand.

"Help me."

Snapping out of it Loagn took quick strides to examine Remus, hissing in sympathy at the discoloration. Poking and prodding got barely a wince from the unconcious side but Logan seemed satisfied, turning to Patgon with a furrowed brow.

"I'm going to get ice and vaseline. Stay here."

Nodding numbly he pressed the hand he was still holding his cheek as he continued to cry, guilt twisting his stomach in tense knots that made him want to puke. It was just supposed to be a harmless prank but he had been stupid and careless and now-

He watched as Logan came back to lay a thin towel and an ice pack over Remus' neck, taking the hand gently away from him to slather vaseline on the worst of the rope burns before wrapping them in soft bandages. Satisfied with his work Logan turned to look at him.

"I assume those ropes in the doorway are what caused this."

A fresh batch of tears cascaded down Patton's face as he practically wailed into the reclaimed hand. "It was an accident I swear! It was a stupid prank and were gonna have apples after but I couldn't get the ropes undone and oh god what if he died? Lo, what if i killed him, he can't-"

"Patton breathe." Sucking in a huge breath his sobs stuttered out and left him silently shaking, the reassuring hand on his shoulder doing little to ease his worry. "Remus will be fine, and as figments of Thomas' imagination we are unable to die anyway. It most likely won't even take him that long to heal, I promise you. What you did was done with little forethought but that doesnt mean him being hurt was your fault."

Patton sniffed. "It doesn't?"

"It was just unfortunate timing on both our parts. I'm sure Remus will forgive you readily enough."

"He already does." Patton gasped and turned at the slightly raspy voice, finding the injured side smiling Foothill up at him. "Hey Pattoncake it's okay. I've done worse to myself."

Crying with relief now Patton through himself on the other, unabashedly dusting kisses all over the other face as gently as he could. Remus laughed, tugging the other on top of him and only wincing slightly at the pressure, squeezing him tightly in his arms as be continued go be bombarded with love.

"Remus I'm so sorry I-"

"Hush it's fine. It was exhilarating until I passed out." Waggling his eyebrows for effect he let out a relieved sigh as Patton giggled. "This just means I'll have to teach you how to pull pranks that couldn't kill someone if they were real. No harm done."

Neither of them noticed Logan leave to dispell the others worries, too wrapped up in eachother figuratively and literally to pay any attention. Remus expression grew serious however making Patton suck in a worried breath.

"I seem to remember desert being a thing, and seeing how I almost died I'm thinking I should definitely get first pick."

Laughing softly Patton leaned up to give him a quick peck on the lips, earning a rare blush in return. "Of course!"

He watched as Patton left. "If this is what I get for almost dying I should do it more often."

"Absolutely not!"

#bad things happen bingo #sanders sides #false writes #sanders sides fic #ao3 #prank gone wrong #ask #request fill #patton sanders #remus sanders #logan sanders #intruality #patton x remus #patton sanders x remus sanders #false bthb

[masonsystem]

the only things i really liked about advent children were marlene characterization, addition of denzel(although his character was regrettably less fleshed out), cool fight scenes and vincent being absolutely hilarious. aside from that everything is so fucking WACK. i know advent children was like completely money-motivated which is why they just fiddled the canon to get another sephiroth vs cloud. but like having sephiroth resurrect in canon after the og plot really undermines the og ending like mannn seeing cloud banish sephiroth from his mind(and apparently the lifestream? idk a video said thats what happened) was a very berry good, Final ending. that finality is just pulled under the rug when hes bought back thru some wishy washy geostigma shit...

also aeris and zacks depiction in the film pisses me off lol. like not the way they appear but the fact theyre like fuckin communicating with cloud somehow.... like WOT. (the one instance i will forgive is when zack offers cloud help during the seph fight cuz that was thematically fitting and cuz like. since cloud embraced zacks dreams it makes sense that hes like. "talking to himself/talking to himself which is based of zack". if u get it then you get it.) like what made aeris death so effective(and by extension zack) was that it was realistic. we dont meet her fucking ghost or anything after her death(yes i know theres that easter egg in the church BUT THATS NOT WHAT I MEAN...), the last words u hear from here are those in that dream. once she dies u never ever get to hear her speak, shes missing from the whole showdown with sephiroth, bc she is DEAD. shes gone. it can be argued that zack communicates with cloud after his death as those voices in his head, but that could be much more easily be viewed as an allusion of clouds severe trauma. zack and aeris gets no parting words in the og(my man zack doesnt even get an fmv LMAO), no reappearance in the ending(aside from the last thematic shot of aeris), nothing like that... that is death. that is loss. they are gone and there will always be that missing piece and its not going to get filled, bc death is final.

BUT THEN ADVENT CHILDREN SPITS ON THAT AND IS LIKE huwaowkakwhw ACTUALLY aeris is still conscious and ~Kind Of Alive~ in the lifestream because she is an ✨Ancient✨and consciousness never ends if ur a cetra i guess. and she can talk to cloud sumtimes because WHYYYYY NOT and also ZACK CAN TOO because. uh. hes friends with aeris? 🙃 like ok that completely ruins all the finality and messages about death the og game conveyed UGHHHHHHHH ok. Ok

BUT PUTTING THAT SHIT ASIDE.... geostigma is sooooo fucking weird??? like i get what it is jenovas infection in the lifestream bla blah bla but like. WHAT DOES THIS BRING TO THE TABLE. its just like "wow life after meteor sure does suck!" like yes it does BUT WHY DOES IT HAVE TOO.... literally i cant understand what geostigma does to the story aside from building a premise to have the climatic seph and cloud fight. like i honestly think they were like 'we gotta animate seph and cloud fighting' and just built a barely held together storyline that let that happen.. yeesh

#and im not even getting started with the whole wacko shit with the remnants MANNNNNN this shit is so wack

[anuspastor]

💙 10 Characters Tag 💙

Rules: Make a new post, name 10 characters from 10 different fandoms that you like, and then tag 10 people. 

@grimmy88 tagged me and imma just be directly disqualified since I don’t even have 10 lmaooo

Aye lets begin (also the order doesnt really matter)

10. Our Lord and Savior Je🅱️us

9. Thicc Je🅱️us

8. Gay Icon Je🅱️us (fellas is it gay to love yerself?)

7. Bitch tf... Je🅱️us

6. Take a Fucking Sip Babes Je🅱️us

5. Lil’,,, lil’ baby,,, LOOK AT HIM sobs miserably

I mean this b0i will “fawn over visitors but eat those who tried to escape” which ultimately means u either give him belly rubs or die. And I’m jumst,,,,,,,,,smol bb,,,,,,,

4. Tom - Tom & Jerry (is it even considered a fandom??)

I love him, I truly do. I’ve always found the way he’s been treated unfair and always rejoiced when he’s formed a friendship with Jerry at the end of an episode. He might be bad and he might be a lil’ dummy, but hE TRIES SO HARD.

3. Atreus - God of War Ω

He might be a recent supplement to the fandom, but I’m already in love. I mean, he’s just so cute and kind, and smart, and benevolent. He doesn’t really understand some things, but he feels them strongly. He had found it in his heart to forgive his father who’d treated him more like a distant soldier than his own son. He’s just such an interesting character and I won’t spoil too much!

2. Ellis - Left 4 Dead 2

M choice might be cliche, but I don’t like Ellis for the cliche things (too much heheh). Where do I even start! He’s kind and smart, handy and brave. What I like most is his ability to not overthink -- he’s out there just living and experincing. He doesn’t let a few inconsistent voices hold him back or slow his momentum. Yes, that does come with its trouble, but he takes it so gracefully and naturally that you never feel like he fails. Also he’s the first character that has made me comfortable with appreciating himbos. I’ve never really been particularly fond of them (probs bc ive been fucked over by a particular one for m whole life), but Ellis has shown me that there IS another way. And ofc he’s just.... he’s a southern cutie what can I tell ya.

1. Classic Lara Croft - Classic Tomb Raider (gotta end the post w a POW)

(art credit to Gabriella Liv Eriksson)

I just love her, man. She’s such a nice role model. She’s just an absolute queen, living her life to the fullest. She’s so beautiful, so smart, so BADASS and so, so, so strong (physically and mentally). The classic games also have an amazing story and reveal so much of her REAL character. She isn’t doing it for her lover, a distant relative or somebody else -- she’s doing it for her, because she wants to.

Anyway, those were m “10″ characters lmaoo

Don’t have 10 ppl and ain’t really that interested, so imma break the rules like an absolute unit and end the cycle for me here.

Thx for taggin me grimmers

#we did it b0is #revealed m true jesus obsession #damn i can probs obsess for PAGES about these chars

[australian-desi]

Qurbaan Hua ~ Episode 10-14: Of Murder, Bel-Gadis and The Death of My Favourite Character

There’s a lot of shouting, sorry in advance 

Episode 10

Wow he really had the audacity to ask forgiveness 

Do not tell me he’s the one that killed Saraswati 

He’s trying to intimidate her??????? With what????? 

She actually packs a punch, she pushed him right off of her

See this is the stuff I love about her 

SHE LOCKED THE DOOR FROM THE OUTSIDE AS WELL!!!!!! OMG WHAT A DAY IT HAS BEEN A TELLYWOOD CHARACTER WITH INTELLIGENCE 

And that’s on saying Sarasti instead of Saraswati you swine 

Where is this goddamn mandir, and why did she not take a car or something 

He’s found her (it’s not her fault, she tried her best to hide) and omfggggg she’s right next to a cliff 

I THOUGHT SHE DIED IN CHILDBIRTH OR SOMETHING WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS 

HE THREW HIS HEAVILY PREGNANT WIFE DOWN THE STAIRS AND HE WANTS TO BE THE HEAD PRIEST

HOLY SHIT 

OMG 

WHY AM I HERE 

AND HER COUSIN IS JUST WATCHING THIS HAPPEN

ofcourse Neil’s rakhi breaks just as is sister is dying 

NAVELI BE OUT HERE ACTUALLY JUSTIFYING KILLING HER SISTER WTAFFFFFFFFFFFF 

CAN NEIL LISTEN TO HIS GODDAMN THIRD SENSE AND GO GET HIS SISTER FFSS

WHAT DID I TELL HIM, TAKE YOUR SISTER AND LEAVE BUT NOOOOOO 

MANS IS KILLING HER RUTHLESSLY 

He’s also comparing a position to the love of his unborn child????????????

HOLY SHIT THIS MAN IS GOING TO PIN THE WHOLE MURDER ON DOCTOR BAIG 

KILLLLL MOIIIIII

I KNEW THIS SHOW WAS INTENSE BUT I WAS NOT PREPARED FOR A FULL FLEDGED MURDER 

IT TOOK NEEL AN UNANSWERED PHONECALL, BROKEN RAKHI AND A LECTURE FROM A SAGE TO GET OUT OF THE VEHICLE

NOT THE FEELING OF IMPENDING DOOM AND PANIC 

Here Daddy Pandit is preaching that all human beings are equal, and being Hindu does not make you better or worse than those of other religions 

If these are his thoughts, why does he refuse medical help from people of other religions, I do not understand 

Ummm surely the doctor can tell the marks all over her body are from being physically assaulted and not just from a trivial fall

GOTTA LOVE CHAHAT, WHO IS A FRESH NEW DOCTOR, WAS ABLE TO TELL THAT SOMETHING’S UP, SHE DIDN’T JUST FAINT AND NOT A SENIOR DOCTOR

ALSO SHYAM1.5 IS OUT HERE FULLY READY TO SHIFT THE BLAME AS IF HE BROKE A GLASS OR SOMETHING AND NOT FULLY KILL HIS WIFE 

Episode 11 

Neel, is still running around the house screaming for his sister when it is quite clear no one is there, so good on him

Again I say, for a doctor this man is quite daft - DOCTORS ARE TRAINED TO LOOK FOR ABUSE

The fact my girl has to conduct CPR in the hospital really shows how much it is lacking in medical technology, so I guess Anjali2.0 was fucked from the start

And he’s now talking to Daddy Pandit, who is continuing the pooja as if Neel isn’t even there 

VYASJI IS USELESS, GO LOOK FOR HER ON YOUR OWN YOU DIMWIT 

This dumbass doctor is asking him point blank if it is a case of domestic violence as if he will just admit to it

YOU CALL THE POLICE FOR THE INTERROGATION YOU DONT JUST CONDUCT IT YOURSELF IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HALLWAY 

Pehla banda dekha jo pandit banne ke liye itne paap ekhate kar raha hai 

Also since when did pandits become gunde 

The baby has survived?????? Wow I am proud

Well this is just, holy shit, ummm, religion is an absolute joke when taken to these levels and like the joke is really all on them, because one of their own is a murderer/abuser/womaniser/manipulator 

SARASWATI GET UP AND MURDER HIM BACK COZ WTAF

CAN THE DOCTOR MOVE OUT OF THE GODDAMN WAY SO IT DOESNT LOOK LIKE SHE’S POINTING AT HIM

I KNEW THIS WOULD FKN HAPPEN

HOLY SHIT AND SHE’S GONE 

There goes the only person in Neel’s whole household (apart from Neel) that I liked 

These people are proper dumb, she was clearly pointing at the doctor 

AND IS NO ONE LOOKING AT HIS GLEE OF HIS WIFE’S DEATH

ITS DADDY PANDIT NOT GIVING A SINGLE SHIT THAT HIS DAUGHTER IS MISSING 

HOLLLYYY SHIETTT NEEL GO SEE YOUR SISTER RATHER THAN CARRYING OUT YOUR AINVAYI KE DRAMATICS 

GOOD NOW SHE’S DEAD AND YOUR KAMINA JIJA IS ABOUT TO GET AWAY WITH IT

Omgggggg why have they hit me with the manpain so early in the show, im going to cry 

Holy shiettt my dude is going to get so fucked over this, I can’t 

Episode 12-14

Basically, I’m just very triggered by this whole thing

Neel has lost all sense and is after blood, because murder as revenge does not count as a paap apparently 

Chahat is the only one with half a brain in this whole show, the person with the other half is now dead #rip #IAmStillTraumatisedFromHerDeath

Daddy Pandit is a horrible actor, coz I felt nothing, when he sees his daughter’s dead body, and the fact that I showed more emotion at Saraswati’s death 

Fake Kamini knows something’s up between Shyam1.5 and Naveli, and she does not bat an eye which is worrying 

When Neel ‘saved’ Chahat it was quite hot, it got me going (coz his whole body covers hers, and she clutches on to him tightly and that whole thing)

Ofcourse she faints coz she wouldn’t be an ITV female lead if she didn’t 

Gotta also love how dramatic Neel got, with the whole, the person who’s blood I’m after, his daughter is in my arms, and my sister would also want me to avenge her death

Neel darling, yes she does want you to avenge her death, but I really wish you were a bit smarter to know/bother to find out who actually killed her even though I know this whole thing is a mess, you are an emotional mess and can’t think straight, but please calm down and think 

Also, if I was Daddy Pandit or Neel I would’ve lost my faith in God a long long time ago, so proud of both of them in keeping this religion thing up

HAVE THESE CRAZIES REALISED THAT THE CHILD IS WELL AND ALIVE 

OMFG THAT IN ITSELF IS ENOUGH PROOF THAT THEY DIDN’T KILL SARASWATI

COULDN’T THEY GET A POST-MORTEM REPORT DONE AS WELL WHICH WILL TELL THEM SHE DIED FROM TRAUMA NOT FROM POISONING 

Awww that scene when Saraswati’s spirit comes to Neel to snap him out of his bullshit, that was sweet, hopefully he calms down and is able to get some much needed therapy, and go live happily with Meera

Who am I kidding

HOLY FUCKING SHIT, HE HIT HER WITH A BELL, AND IT FELL AROUND HER NECK, AND THEN LIKE A BEL-GARDI, HE IS DRAGGING HER 

OMG WE’RE LITERALLY AT THE POINT WHERE THE ABUSE HAS LED TO A COMPLETE DEHUMANISATION OF THE FEMALE LEAD 

ALSO ENJOYED THE WHOLE BELL HITTING HER MAANG, SO IT LOOKS LIKE SINDOOR - THAT’S VERY VERY FUCKED 

I CANNOT

WHAT THE FUCK

WHY AM I WATCHING THIS

We’ve gone from occasional forceful arm grabbing to tying a bell around the girl’s neck AND PULLING IT BY IT 

and I’m also lolling at the warning about how they don’t promote this behaviour

OMG DADDY PANDIT IS THE ONLY ONE WITH HUMANITY IN THIS WHOLE VILLAGE HOLY FUCKING SHIT (he’s said how burning the hospital down, going after their life, rioting etc. is not okay and is against everything he has taught his followers) 

NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS DID I THINK THIS MAN WOULD COME OUT AND BE THE MOST SENSIBLE

And he’s keeping her hostage, lovely 

It’s amazing how it’s taken them this long to call law enforcement

Well Neel has well and truly lost it, now he’s having another go at his dad

And Mami has found out that Chahat is in a room and coz of the blood/bell/sindoor situation has assumed that she’s Neel’s gf who he has just gotten married to

I don’t blame her, that’s on Neel locking a woman in his house 

Now I’m wondering can this show get even more fucked than it already is

#qurbaan hua #Karan Jotwani #Pratibha ranta

[spellcastersjudgement]

For the ask thing - YuGiOh. XD

Hell yeah let's do it. Since you just said yugioh I assume you mean DM so that's what I did but ofc if you meant gx or smth I'm happy to do this shit all night

Favorite character: seto freakin kaiba babey

Least favorite character: bandit keith he brought nothing to the table

5 favorite ships: I'm multiship trash so theres a lot I gotta narrow down but probably puppyshipping (joey/seto), polarshipping (joey/mai), buddyshipping (joey/tristan), peachshipping (téa/yugi), and trustshipping (seto/ishizu) obviously I love puzzle and pride and all that good stuff too so this was actually a hard one to answer

Character I find most attractive: mai valentine could punch me in the face and I'd say thanks

Character I would marry: JOEY in a heartbeat I love him

Character I would be best friends with: probably mana her and I radiate the same unhinged energy

A random thought: I will never forgive season 4 for what they did to Mai's character. Resent and remember

An unpopular opinion: I'm not up with the duel monsters discourse so idk how hot this opinion is but the decks in this series are absolute trash there is no synergy in how they're built and if the duels werent scripted theres no way joey seto or atem wouldve won anything

Canon OTP: yugioh doesnt really have canon otps but puzzleshipping was heavily ridiculously implied so let's go with that

Non-canon OTP: tie with puppyshipping and polarshipping. Or we could just say fuck it and put joey mai and seto together because I love that ot3 shit

Most badass character: seto kaiba is an unhinged child billionaire that blew up an island and later built a space elevator I love him

Most epic villain: thief king bakura was my favorite even though he started making a lot of sense near the end of the series #justiceforkulelna

Pairing I'm not a fan of: there are a lot of ships that I dont understand in DM but none come to mind that I actively dislike

Characters I feel the writers screwed up: Téa and Tristan deserved better. If I say any more than that this ask is going to turn into a novel because I have a lot to say on how these two were treated

Favorite friendship: joey and yugi babey that's the good shit

Character I most identify with: I feel mai valentine in my soul

Character I wish I could be: my boy seto

#novas-grimoire #asks #ygodm #this was so much fun thank you!!!!!

[polyshipprompts]

My boyfriend and I have been together a year. We are poly, he is my primary partner. I love him, more than I ever knew I could love anyone, and I know we are meant to be... but he doesnt want to involve guys that much in our poly adventures and.. we were drunk as heck at our best friends house and after my bf fell asleep, I did things with our friend that I didnt plan on doing and idk what to do bc this friend is a guy and I'm scared I will develop feelings for said friend. (To be continued)

Part 2 of the conundrum. Both my bf and this friend are bisexual, which is why I feel like it *could* pan out but I am freaking out because I dont have anyone I can talk to about this, and I completely rely on my bf for everything, financially, and our house together is paid for by him bc I am unable to work right now. I like the friend, but I dont want to ruin the friendship we have, I'm just so sick of my bf being 100% ok with me being with girls, but we cant explore guys. Idk.

Part 3 of bf/friend conundrum. I feel horrible because I sincerely didnt want to be unfaithful, but I was too scared to ask my bf if he wanted to explore, with this friend, before he fell asleep. I feel like utter garbage and even this friend likes us both, idk what to do...

okay so. first things first, have you told your bf what you did? because you absolutely should come clean. what you did is not polyamory. what you did is cheating.

i understand feeling frustrated about your bf not wanting you to be with other guys, and it does seem like a weird thing because while i don’t know your bf, most reasons i can think of for a restriction like that aren’t great ones? however, i feel like that’s something you should probably have talked to him about before things got to this point, so you could come to an understanding or something. it’s still a boundary he has and it’s rude not to respect it, and it’s even ruder not to respect it while he’s completely unaware.

i don’t have a solution or anything for relying on your bf. i understand it’s probably a reason you’re reluctant to say or do anything, because you don’t want to put that in jeopardy. in the worst case scenario, are you sure you don’t have some kind of safety net in place, like there’s literally nowhere you could go if things go badly?

anyway. it seems you’re not 100% sold on dating the friend either and in the best case scenario where your bf forgives you and is willing to explore this, i’d still say you probably shouldn’t do it. getting into a relationship you’re not sure about is not a good idea, in my experience

however. from what i know about the world, most results tend to be somewhere in the middle between best and worst case. which means your bf probably WON’T kick you out, but i’m also gonna be honest, he probably won’t be very happy about what you did, and he probably won’t want you to date the friend. up to you whether or not you want to accept that, but definitely you need to talk and communicate with your partner about these things. that’s how any relationship works, but especially with polyamory because things are more complex when more people are or could be involved.

of course, i could also be way off-base w/ my thoughts on the matter. i don’t know you, i don’t know your bf, i don’t know your friend, and i’m also not a professional advice-giver. i am going solely off what you’ve said here and my own feelings on the matter. still. i can say with 100% certainty that communication needs to happen here. you need to come clean. this can’t be a secret forever, and the longer you put it off the worse it’ll be in the end. like a band-aid. just gotta rip it off and do it

#not a prompt #long post #Anonymous #question

[bibbleboo]

Could we get some headcanons/more background on Abbey and Doyle’s kids? 🥺👉👈 I love the premise of this AU

YEEEEE (im just gonna ramble a bunch about the backstory i have so far but ill put it in bullets so its easier to follow lol i apologize for it being long as fuck-)

OKAY SO,,, first of all,,, doyle and abbey timeline,,,, [i am looking respectfully]

in this au, they get back together and have a sort of ‘lovers pretending to be enemies’ chaotic on again/off again hookup thing off to the side just between the two of them thru like Most of the final season, they try to keep it a secret (especially doyle who doubts the saturdays would be hAPPY if he was seeing her again) but in the end, saturdays ofc find out, probably are unsure about it at first, but she gains enough of their trust to be there for the big finale battle in the weird world mansion.

when shit goes down and argost becomes the vessel for the two opposing kurs (regular kur, and the anti kur from zak monday) and they like. explode his matter or w/e, i imagine instead of kur just completely disappearing, the ‘anti kur’ gets shot back to its universe, while original kur gets forced into a new vessel in this universe... the closest of which happens to be the unborn child abbeys unknowingly carrying. basically, what if the two kurs just LOOKED like they evaporated but actually did what happens when you try to like tape two same sides of a magnets together and they YEETED-

So thats how we have Parker, their firstborn daughter! and this... also implies ‘Parker Monday’ exists which. 8^) i havent thought about yet so forgive me on that but hoo, 

they dont know parker is kur, they got no idea and rly just assume kur is gone for good. but after they find out abbeys pregnant (which is a huge emotional trip for both of them in its own right) they do eventually sort of agree they dont want their kid exposed to that whole world of mystery. like, ik its a vital thing to the whole family, and ik these two people were probably voted least likely to ‘settle down’ in high school, but i cant imagine they didnt escape the kur/zak situation without a LOT of trauma, so while the saturdays stay in the cryptozoology field, doyle and abbey slowly pull away from the mystery and mercenary stuff, and also instead of going for big dollar lifestyle settle with ‘independently wealthy’ parenting.

also, neither of them really . grasp the concept that theyve even started a family, and are ‘together’, and that this is REAL, until around when she gets pregnant with their second daughter, Kendall. and then theyre like. oh nooo wait are we actually like boyfriend and girlfriend EWW-

when kendall is born parker is 3, and the next like 10+ years are pretty smooth sailing. as far as what the kids know/see, they probably know the cryptids when theyre little but. (tw animal death sORRY TO BE DARK I JUST??????) idk,, how long komodo dragons live/how old komodo already is and i definitely dont know Anything about giant prehistoric birds and am not even sure if science knows that lifespan, so. im not sure how long they could really be in each others lives??? i almost imagine parker would have memories of them that she assumes she remembers wrong, like “oh yeah they used to have a lizard and a bird... my imaginative little kid brain thought they were a komodo dragon and a dinosaur”, and as for fisk im still working on it but i . actually kind of imagine he might have a much longer lifespan (since lemurians are like ancient or w/e? and also if hes by dna like a gorilla cat or w/e gorillas at least live long af) and also feel like once he got older and settled down a bit he might live somewhere in the woods, maybe even his old tree? and the saturdays see him ALL the time obviously, but hey zaks gotta go to college eventually, a gorilla cats gotta eat bugs in forest, we all have to grow up and leave the nest sometime,

so idk the last time parker has actually seen fisk and she might assume he was an imaginary friend or smth but, 1. if i do write a fic they absolutely have to meet again, 2. overall the vibe is they know the saturdays are cryptozoologists, like, the same way josh gates does destination truth, seeking answers and studying, they dont really. know that theyre REAL. to them its like, a hypothetical science. (this is also part of why they dont realize parker is kur, she isnt around cryptids and therefore whenever her powers would actually show up they wouldnt be recognized) anyways parker isnt embarrassed or put off by it but just thinks its a little wacky, meanwhile kendall is obsessed with the world of mystery/paranormal/cryptic lol

speaking of the girls personalities;;;

parker is like. not really normie/preppy, even if she seems it at first glance, shes nice and has a good head on her shoulders but also is a teenage girl (inherently unhinged) and shes THEIR teenage girl (+5 feral) so despite her success and charm shes also very witty/crass when she wants to be, and deep down shes closer to the kind of person that would on pure inexplicable instinct put something random in your mouth when you’re yawning so you bite down on it afterwards. or like. that video of the girl singing in the bathroom while her friends curl their hair and she grabs the curler to use as a microphone before realizing its burning hot??? shes. the voice of reason, but the voice is usually shrieking in fear, making a cursed joke, or half the time whatever shes saying is actually smart. she kinda wants to go to college and travel, but struggles with indecisiveness and anxiety, so she has no idea where to go, what to major in, etc. and is again kinda just livin thru the typical teen life in that regard

kendall on the other hand is like. weird kid culture, the kind of kid that believes they are secretly a new supernatural creature each year (mermaid phase, werewolf phase, alien phase, etc), probably completely accidentally starts cults or witch covens at school (didnt realize teaching peers how to become ‘blood brothers’ and ‘make potions’ from puddles and stolen school supplies would be taken so seriously by parents) , very into emo/scene/punk/alt culture but not rly in an overtly dark/edgy way, more of a having fun and expressing self way. she wants answers for everything, really loves mysteries and being open minded, and definitely a rebel/adventurer at heart, even if she gets naive or in over her head sometimes.

the girls get along well! parker is not dismissive of kendall she just. isnt really into the same stuff/is more freaked out by it most of the time, but she would tag along on certain adventures, especially if it was to keep her safe. and kendall definitely directs gentle mockery towards parker a lot but does see her as a good role model and guiding figure, their bond is really strong!

other details !

doyle and abbey prob decide to say fuck it and get married after kendall is born, they probably have a few rough patches but nothing is more important to them than the kids now and in the end they understand each other better than anyone else so . canon tension idk her! family ftw! power couple! they intimidate the teacher during parent teacher conferences together hand in shady little hand !

their parenting style is exactly what one would imagine, 70% fun and sass and controlled chaos where theyre the bigger children than their children, 15% ‘this is how you hack the government and dual wield swords-- i was not supposed to teach you that im sorry’, and 15% actual guidance / emotional depth / etc. flaws might be overcoming their own immaturity for the first few years, and then being lowkey overly protective (while claiming they arent, but just bc you semi jokingly tell parker she should join the football team doesnt mean you dont actually hide 60% of ur life from her and check that her bedroom windows are locked every night and have 24 people listed in her school emergency contacts and used to cut up her food till she was 7 and-)

so abouT THE BABY BOY (Phoenix), 1. his middle name is leonidas bc im gay and i love emotional turmoil babes , 2. fully unironically the idea behind such a late pregnancy is abbey would be mid fourties when hes born right. so like. [has two kids] ‘ok birth control time’ [when theyre teens many years later] ‘ok im old enough to stop taking this’ [the hyperfertility curse that plagues many women rears its ugly head with one last hoo-rah]

and finALLY a very quick elevator pitch of what id write an actual fic to focus on;;; kendall sneaks into the attic to look for old shit bc they BOTH know their parents have been hiding stuff over the years, she finds things like a cryptopedia (now offline), the claw, maybe even a piece of the kur stone, and ropes parker into the long haul of figuring out what all this stuff is. and ofc the second they ever find the naga relic and parker comes face to face with it, [rest in rip] time for mom and dad to find out and all this kur shit to start ALL over again-

#long post/ // #tw animal death ment// #GOD THIS IS SO LONG IM SRY-- #idk what to call thsi au forreal yet so ill just tag it as #dabbey baby au #TY FOR ASKING THO HEART HANDS