#colin from maine

[reidiot]

it's always "wyd" and never "who's my damaged little girl?" smh...

#who tf allowed the bathroom scene??? #bathroom scene #not okay #not okay colin #colin from maine #im not okay #not okay movie #colin #dylan o'brien #fandom #the maze runner #tmr #teen wolf #the death cure #stiles stilinski #the scorch trials #movie scenes #damaged #quotes #it's always wyd #darling of tumblr #daddy issues #dylan obrien #dylan o'brien imagine #imagine #zoey deutch #i am not okay #he laterally stepped on me #hulu #disney plus

[witchofthemidlands]

i should not have ordered that laszlo's witch hat sticker 😭

#I AM LOSING MY GOOD LADY WIFE & LASZLO 😭 #I AM LOSING THE SIRE & THE BARON 😭 #THE GUIDE JUST MADE IT TO THE MAIN CREDITS 😭😩 #i may never emotionally recover from this 😩 #nadja of antipaxos #laszlo cravensworth #the sire #baron afanas #the guide #guillermo de la cruz #nandor the relentless #colin robinson #what we do in the shadows #wwdits

[time-is-restored]

btw this might be me swinging a bat at a hornets nest but like. absolutely none of my disappointment from the tl finale comes from ship baiting or any relationships that didn’t happen (though to be clear, i think the tedbecca fake outs were meanspirited and served no narrative purpose - in noted contrast to the season's earlier jamiekeeley fakeouts, for example, which were explicitly there to demonstrate jamie's growth + maturity)

tedpendant is a really fun concept for me, and i LOVE the characterisation + thematic potential there!

but as someone who personally resonated with a lot of ted’s struggles, the idea that ted could leave richmond so… seamlessly, for lack of a better word, really doesn’t sit right with me. the thesis of the shows entire first season - assuming it can be said to have only one - was about how everyone needs the love and support of a community, whether that comes in the flavour of someone who hypes u tf up or someone who will relentlessly call u on ur shit (or, as happened quite frequently, both!).

rebecca, roy, jamie are the clearest examples as the characters with the most screentime: they were all deeply isolated and disconnected from the people around them, and that was making them miserable. the connections they made with the team, the vulnerability they finally allowed themselves to express (the ghost banishing ceremony comes to mind!), and them going on to want *more* out of their life are what made their arcs about *progression* rather than *regression*. without that clear theme of compassion + community inspiring positive growth in everyone who encounters it, there is, frankly, no season one.

my personal favourite scene from season one comes right after michelle walks away from ted, when they’ve agreed to get divorced. ted sits down on the bench looking gutted, and a little shell shocked - and beard sits down with him. hands him the drink, and they sit there together. silent, but together. to me, that scene is an implicit promise from the episode, to the audience: ‘it’ll be okay. it’s going to be hard, but ted isn’t alone, and his friends won’t leave him behind.’

it also makes it clear to the audience that ted isn’t the saintly-giver-of-grace who needs nothing in return, as one might assume on first brush, but rather that he’s Also struggling with his own shit (as is everyone, always, in real life!) and he has something he needs from the people around him too.

and looking at the text of s3, and the conclusion to his arc in the finale, i just don’t believe that he got it. he wasn’t just sad that he was leaving (which would be understandable!), he was completely closed off. unresponsive to the people around him reaching out, borderline confused as to why they were trying so hard!

(side note, while i completely respect the read of ted and trents last interaction being rather rude + ooc on ted’s part, i personally read a different motive into it. for me, it was more like… he didn’t understand where trents enthusiasm was coming from? like, he read that as trent being too invested in what other people think of him, and responded in a way that he hoped would emphasise that ted doesn’t *need* to laugh at everything trent wrote, bc trent Already Knows that he’s done something really cool and kickass, and he shouldn’t value anyone else’s reactions above that. basically, based on his demeanour in the episode, i genuinely don’t think it would’ve even occurred to him that trent was more invested in HIS reaction than he would’ve been with anyone else.)

again, looking purely at the text, the show had already established that ted has really strong depressive + avoidant tendencies, as well as panic attacks (largely triggered by his fear of not being ‘good enough’ in various roles, ie: a father). we saw one area he was able to calm HIMSELF abt these fears (worry for henry, which is a Hell of a choice considering the ending…), but in literally every other heightened moment, he had to rely on his support system to help him make the choices that he WANTED to make, rather than ones inspired by avoidance and fear (ie: confronting michelle abt jake, talking to his mum abt why she was visiting + his dads death).

and to be clear, this is a GOOD THING! we’re not supposed to go through life alone, no matter how bad OR well we’re doing. rebecca and keeleys friendship isn’t worth less for all the scenes where they’re both in good places. if anything, the opposite is true - it’s lovely that they both have someone who want to celebrate the achievements in their life!

and fuck it, we’re sure as hell not supposed to go through life with exactly one (1) person whom we expect to fulfill ALL of our emotional needs at all times either! like, im sure i don’t need to labour my point here, but tying everything to one (1) person in ur life doesn’t make u any less isolated than if u were going it completely alone, whether it’s a family member, a friend, or a partner. i won’t pretend to know the first thing abt what it’s like to be a parent, but i don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that no parent would be at their best if they had absolutely no support/camaraderie/general love provided to them from Anyone other than their child.

so when ted is SPECIFICALLY shown to be in a bad place, over and over again (did he come to terms w his fear to be close to henry overnight???????), and then removed from his community? of COURSE the audience is left feeling unsettled, and like the rug has been pulled out from under them. there was no time in this finale dedicated to how ted would still be in contact with anyone from richmond. no promises of visits, or phone calls - fuck, nothing about emails!! according to the text, we might as well assume this is a clean break (and the maybe-dream-sequence does Fuck All to assure us otherwise. if ted doesn’t go to beards wedding, what WOULD he go to????). and since the show has ALSO completely failed to give us even an IMPLICATION of who/what ted’s support system would be in kansas, there’s… a reasonable argument to be made that this is It for ted. that, after two seasons doing NOTHING but attesting otherwise, the audience is supposed to suddenly believe that ted can (and SHOULD!) pull himself up by his bootstraps, and cope entirely on his own.

that, to me, is a betrayal of the show’s premise. we were promised a show about how, no matter how dark things may get, none of the characters would be left to struggle alone. and then they ended the show with ted alone.

i don’t know. i guess if i had to give this post a tldr; if anyone has any gen fic/meta/Literally Anything in the pipeline, i would absolutely love to be tagged/directed towards it. i’ll be endeavouring to write something myself, as well, but it might take a while before i can return to my WIP, lol.

#this is the most measured version of this post i was capable of fghjskdjhgfdgjhsfd #the least measured one is just the aromantic flag with the ‘we are going to beat u to death’ meme overlaid #look ik this is hardly impartial wrt very small + insular communities like nuclear families #but its fucking impossible to go into media analysis and not bring Anything from ur real life in there w u #so im trying to forgive myself for being a little hashtag Vulnerable + Opinionated on main #in the spirit of what this show could’ve been lol #if not here then where etc etc #Ted lasso spoilers #Ted lasso meta #Ted lasso critical #also just to be clear here im being dead serious abt that last point #im spiritually doing the jamie run to demonstrate to u all how badly i want gen shit #please. p l e a s e . #okay wait last ramble here but. this is also why the lack of information we got on trent was so crushing to me #like ur telling me this man went through the incredibly painful + harrowing process of breaking out of his (comfortable! safe) shell + #cynical journalist persona. came out to someone VERY important in his life. and has done nothing but face the music wrt acknowleding #his past mistakes + endeavouring to be better and kinder. and we never get to know if he has ANY support through all that? at all? #is he dating? what's his family situation like? does he have full custody? any friends from work? any friends period????? #like i can should must and will die on the beard + roy + higgins + colins are trents best friends hill but #its like the premise of the show stopped mattering just in time for him to be left in a legitimately depressing limbo #like 'yes everyone needs love + support bc life is rlly hard. but we're tired of making a show abt that so This Is All Ur Getting #+ screw anyone's personal life that u didn't already see in s1. You Know Enough.' #anyway i love u all this is a very silly show and im gonna go play t.o.t.k for a few hours o/ <3

[dollypopup]

listen, i'll say it

if S3 doesn't give us significantly more Colin scenes, it'll be a failure

Colin is completely underdeveloped as a character. He has gotten just about 0 POV. All we know about him is either filtered through Penelope or in an ensemble scene with everyone else. And at this point, even if S3 is half and half, it still won't be fair. To balance out the discrepency, it should at *least* be 75% Colin and maaaaaaaaybe 25% Pen because we've gotten nothing for him

I ship Polin, I like Pen, but I'm over getting Pen's POV all the time. We've had enough of it. We've certainly had an unfair amount of it in comparison to his. I'm sick of seeing all the Whistledown behind the scenes and all her quiet contemplative moments when Colin doesn't so much as get 5 minutes focused on him being on the boat, or on his travels, writing his letters or talking through a problem to himself.

I love Colin. He's my absolute favorite character. And it sucks to have a favorite character who is *supposed* to be a lead but has had a grand total of nothing. Bton stripped him of character qualities and threw them onto Benedict, gave Colin like 5 lines, and filtered near all his 'development' through Penelope. Aside from his 'everyone says that [I'm Daphne's favorite]', our literal second scene of Colin is through Penelope's eyes. Everything he says, everything he does: it's always through Penelope's eyes. And I'm over it. I wanna see the world through *Colin's* eyes. And it would only deepen the narrative if we do.

Listen, the directors and showrunners have called Colin 'stupid' or 'dim' or 'not smart enough for Penelope'. The fandom has been rather blatant with their disregard of him, calling him boring, that he's not leading man material, writing him as a cardboard cutout in fics, assuming he's an empty charmer (hmmmm, just like what he's upset about in the books), and it's all because he's been denied a narrative. Colin is a rich, nuanced character. He's funny, he's kind, he's compassionate, he rejects toxic masculinity, he's got imposter syndrome like nothing else, he has a very unique role in his family and experienced a very unique perspective after his father died, he has hobbies (writing, boxing, fencing, studying, traveling) and strong values. But we've barely gotten any of it. Sure, we're *told* some things about him, but we never *see* it.

So if S3 is going to be his time to shine, his season, his falling arse over elbow in love era, they *have* to give us his perspective, and I don't fucking want it all to be his perspective about Pen. I am *tired* of Colin as an extension of Penelope. Penelope has had so much room and time and care to be a character on her own. Colin has gotten nothing. And that kind of dynamic does not a good love story make. And if all that underdevelopment wasn't to pull an Uno Reverse on us and give us a season that focuses on him and builds him up, what was it even for?

S3 should be Colin's story

#polin #bridgerton #colin bridgerton #penelope featherington #bridgerton season 3 #yeah yeah penelope's a fan favorite #i wonder why #maybe it's because she has the lions share of scenes and development compared to literally every other character #and i get it: she's a main #but so is colin #why do constantly have to undermine him in order to prop her up? #did we *really* need all those 'pen writes LW' scenes when we haven't even seen Colin in Greece? or gotten him writing letters on the boat? #did we need all that unnecessary backstory when the only scene we got of him processing his broken engagement on his own was him in bed #for 30 seconds? #do we really need to center penelope's point of view for every single aspect of their relationship? #colin is supposed to be falling in love in season 3 too #give us his fucking perspective!!!! *show us* who he is #what he wants and values #AND we'll finally get Penelope from someone else's eyes. . .who ISN'T Penelope #how can you NOT want Colin pov??? #the writing has failed him *and* us because we don't even fucking have POLIN right now #we have Penelope and a sexy lamp she throws her romantic feelings and frustrations and expectations onto #and before the 'bton is aimed at a specific audience' bit (namely women) #some of us wlw (who often find ourselves relating to the male love lead *because* we both love women) also deserve a slice of the story #it's not just you straight girls out here #and as a wlw? right now the fanon version of penelope is the kind of woman i'd run crying and screaming from

[corruptedcontainer]

Gwen and Lena

#the magnus protocol #my art #mine #gwendolyn bouchard #lena kelley #only missing colin from the main lineup now

[freakshowcowboy]

everyday i fall a little bit more in love with colin hughes

#i binged the first 2 seasons Pretty fast so i had a lot of trouble keeping straight who each character was outside of the main cast #so it wasnt until s3 that i was consistently aware of whos who #and bc of that i was neutral-positive on colin until isaac walked away from him and he looked so devastated every bone in my body started #screaming for me hoist him unto my bosom like a wounded bird #but now im rewatching ted lasso and seeing all the moments i hadnt fully recognized as being colin im just. ogh. i lovge hiim #yeehawing #ted lasso #colin hughes #hes so special.......

[ilikedetectives]

*grab a mic and inhale* Baby you my ANGELLLLLLLL

#I had to delete this frame from the gif *sad cat noise* #I love one evil drow woman #I will somehow finish the main campaign asdasd #colin mumbles

[inspectormonroe]

9.117 Play the Game

#andrew monroe #colin tarrant #series 9 #the bill #play the game #gif #gif reblog from main #philip cato

[one-true-houselight]

Hey, anyone more familiar with season 2 beats of Ted Lasso want to chat to help me with another fic idea?

#Ted lasso #trent crimm #I do not have time to rewatch but I have Ideas tm that I want to explore #the main idea I need to talk out: #basically doing a study of Trent getting the panic attack tip and what he decides vis a vis quitting and such #but I need refresher/reminders about Nate’s season 2 arc so I can write that accurately #so please hit me up! #my other idea that’s more Just Sad: #Trent gets tipped off that some new journo got proof about Colin and was gonna out him #Trent goes and is like ‘you can’t do this. I’ll pay you’ etc #person is like hell no my boss is making me/this is my career/etc #so Trent goes fine how about an equally ‘good’ story: I’m gay #and basically takes the bullet. and the fall out from that #wheeeeeee #I am rotating him #I have. so many thoughts about authenticity as a queer person and as an autistic/adhd person #and all this stuff #aaaaaaaa

[skymantle]

hey. electracey counts as a final girl

#she's the only main teacher to survive the tv series. aside from like. colin i guess but he just walked out of there #really do like the (possible) double meaning of 'and thats why WE couldn't survive without electricity ! ^__^' #know it's not the same timeline but i do like to connect it to the teachers being controlled via the simulation machine #dhmis #logs

[crunchie-morris]

Something about the way that I’ve seen about 1% of the posts in the Not Okay tag talk about Mia Isaac’s moving performance while most of it is fawning over Dylan O’Brian feels very,,,,✨life imitates art✨ to me

Anyway, Mia Isaac’s performance was chilling and beautiful. She portrayed one of the deepest fears (and unfortunately for many, lived experience) of this generation’s kids and she did so with such honesty and commitment. If you need one reason to watch Not Okay, it’s her.

#in a movie where the white protagonist capitalizes off of this young black girl’s fame and tries to steal her spotlight #only for the response of the movie to be focused on the white male love interest #just…hmm #don’t get me wrong Dylan o’brian was great in that film #‘Colin. you’re from Maine.’ killed me #but like? #I cannot find anyone talking about how Mia Isaac put her heart and soul into her performance #in a satire she brought heart and realism without it feeling out of place which is an incredible feat #anyway stan Mia Isaac #not okay #not okay film

[fightingdragonswithwho]

hate to be a hater on the main … but this season of ted lasso excels (once again) at team dynamic and the found family elements and i think the finale absolutely nailed that, i cried, i laughed, it was perfect on that. now as for the individual stories and relationships… yeah, let’s leave it at that

#(rant below ignore me) #i think making longer episodes allowed them to add stories that felt so pointless to me #what was the point of zava? to make jamie understand something about himself? could have done that better with just the roy plot #i would have understood roy and keeley breaking up of it was like ‘let’s both grow as individuals’ #and roy kinda did but apparently not enough because his plot at the end is how he do better so i guess he didn’t #jamie had the best development only to then lose part of it by throwing the random video comment?? like why?? #keeley my love … from the random friend that added nothing to the story to an undervelopped love interest plot line … they did u so dirty #why the hell was ted so emotionally off this last episode instead of actually talking the time to proper end things with london and everyone #rebecca was SOBBING and ted was like ‘well gotta go’ ?? #it’s not about the ship or anything but what ?? and rebecca … love that she stayed with the club #but to have her end up with some random creepy man she met once and whose name WE DONT EVEN KNOW #i have no issues with ted going home to his son. it makes perfect sense. but it felt so weird #the nate plot was wrapped kinda poorly too?? #sam colin and most of the guys from the team were amazing #and the found family and team dynamic was still amazing as always #the beard and jane relationship was always weird to me because it feels like joke after joke of.. abuse? #do they get married or was it a dream?? and if so was the whole sequence a dream? and if it wasn’t WHO DID THE CGI FOR THE WEDDING 💀 #we spent more time with these characters this season and it doesn’t feel that way and idk this season felt weird at so many points #I LOVE THIS SHOW I DO!! first 2 seasons are one of my all time favourite seasons of a sitcom!! and i still enjoyed a lot about s3 <33 #anyway sorry to be a hater on the main but it was just a weird season to end it on #anti ted lasso #<- i really don’t wanna upset anyone i just felt like ranting a little 💀 pls don’t hate me #ted lasso spoilers

[whispers-of-gallifrey]

I love the scene where Nyssa threatens Borusa to stop the Doctor's execution. She's lost Adric and Tegan (her new family after she lost her home) and now they're trying to take away the doctor from her when everyone knows he's innocent and...I just love her so much she needs a hug

#nyssa of traken #doctor who #arc of infinity is great it has nyssa as the main companion it has romana and leela references it has tegan it has colin baker #it has a giant robochicken what more could you want from a doctor who episode

[alicuntisms]

colin at the soiree is the dumbest box of rocks. 

#one day i'm gonna do a rewatch for mr mashed potatoes #it is just not this day lol #'i am a woman?' 'you do not count. you are my friend.' #BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA #HE'S JUST SO DUMB AND FUNNY #my dude she wants that potato d #again....all of this shit should have been saved for the first half of s3 #it does not belong in this season #and you cannot convince me otherwise #you can have an 'ensemble' show while still sticking to the format of the meatier bits of plot being given to the main couple #like the at the royal race #we didn't need to see prudence cheering at the end #unless it was in passing #why do we need to actively focus on that? it adds nothing to the overall show #other than dragging the focus away from where it's supposed to be #like we can keep the pre-polin lead up moments #but it's only because colin is a bridgerton #and that family is basically it's own main character on its own you know? #but all the LW stuff? the stuff with cousin jack? with philippa's wedding? #all of that belongs in s3 when the featheringtons step into the light as a main character family #the way the sharmas did #god i need to be in that writer's room with a rolled up newspaper just so i can bonk them on the nose when they come up with crap ideas #literally that is my dream job lol

[genreawareness]

bangs fist on table. wwdits 4 WILL feature memo trying to move on with a serious boyfriend and it WILL feature shameless nandor being jealous drama and it WILL end with nandor crashing guillermo's wedding

#from the desk #im nandermo truthing. #i just cant see any way theyre going to get around this at this point #like what the hell are they gonna do? give nandor a wife that they permanently add to the main cast? #theyve already been very blunt about the fact memo's in love with him #theyre both established as into men #i really dont think after nandor was so depressed he literally fucking defanged himself they can get away with giving him #a gf instead of a Wife He Lives With #and that seems so insane when theyve said like Out Loud memo's in love with him #also adding a series regular in a show thats been running for three seasons seems. unlikely. #if they were getting rid of colin i MIGHT buy it but theyre not #i am taking arguments btw i love trying to solve tv promos like a math problem

[inked-out-trees]

Ok!

12 for Trevor

13

And I think 18

ok!!!! :)

sorry i rambled a lot so i'm readmoreing this LMAO

12. Character + Dialogue (Trevor)

“I’m putting up a sign. If your name is Annie Twilloil or Francis Beaumont, fuck off. Rabid cat inside. Or whatever.” Trevor waves a sleepy hand in the air. “Something something I’ll bite you.” (Chapter 2)

13. Talk about your growth from your first fic to now.

oh boy. it's been almost eight years. or maybe it has been eight years. you're sending me back to wattpad, buddy, i don't know if i can forgive that (fully joking).

i started writing my first real fic (for academic purposes we are talking about the first thing i posted, not all my elementary school flights of fancy) in junior high, mostly in spurts on the bus or back and forth on a shitty little usb drive that also carried my schoolwork. i'm pretty sure the main document was password protected and in a folder labeled something totally innocuous because i was thirteen and painfully embarrassed about writing supernatural fanfiction as though anyone else would ever use my memory stick, like, ever. flash forward to today where the writing folder on my laptop is 90% fic and i Do Not Care Anymore! but still with weird titles because that's just how these things go.

(but also shoutout to my first fic, which according to wattpad is still #939 in supernatural fic after alll these years. it's got a little medal next to it and everything. fuck yeah!)

when i read it i see a lot of things that mark a young writer - mostly characterisation issues, things that could be portrayed better, I hadn't gotten the hang of internal monologues yet so it's quite painfully objective (in comparison to my current taste and style). but, like, honestly? not bad. not bad at all. full respect to thirteen-year-old me for sticking through and writing, like, a full 50 thousand word thing without even realising it.

("alright, i did the math and, with various author's notes included because i wasn't going to put any more effort into this than what wattpad gave me, our wordcount for this fic was... 52,385. my third longest fic to date" -from a conversation with a friend a couple months ago, timestamp almost 2am. moral of the story: wattpad give us word counts please)

ANYWAY. aside from the, you know, wattpad stuff, what propelled me forward on that particular fic was both the existence of a full story in my head (and then some. rest in peace to the abandoned sequel) and some pretty cool folks to share it with. not stopping - and, indeed, writing more spn stuff before finally metamorphasis-ing into a theatre kid - was prompted through friends. so. friends are the reason for everything. another reason for everything was my move from wattpad to ao3, which happened somewhere in my move from junior high to high school (very symbolic i know) and subsequently allowed for such things as: greater audience! a comment section! sophistication! all the cool kids use ao3!

and, like, even ao3 era onwards. from 2016's newsies works to now there's like. improvement in plotting and planning! character voice and internal monologue! fun with structure! music! all these funky fresh things that i'm always so excited to work with. i don't even really have words to describe it anymore i just think it's fun as hell. it's just like. i will keep writing and i will keep getting better and these things are perpetual. and in several years with even more work under my belt i will be able to look back at what i've been doing the past couple years and do the exact same thing.

but all my love remains to the password-protected word docs that hold those supernatural fics from an earlier time. some of them saw the light of day and some of them straight up did not. all of them are still in my heart.

18. Share a line from a fic you'll never finish.

("cornley time travel au: is significantly better written, stronger interpersonal relationships, i actually know what i'm doing / supernatural OC apocalypse fic: written when my hubris knew no limits, has demons in the story. oh and em-dashes. i only started using em-dashes in like 2017" -same conversation as above)

remember how i wrote a sequel (threequel) to the lookout mmnis? i was also fully prepared to write a sequel to flat pack attack. rest in peace to flat pack attack: homeworld which will probably never see the light of day. the idea was good and a kid can dream

SAMPSON: You ever heard of… (reading from a page) a tailsman?

DELTA: Is it a talisman you mean?

Sampson squints at the page.

SAMPSON: No, this says tails. Like a monkey.

He sticks a hand near the base of his chair and does a tail approximation.

oh and secondary shoutout to another abandoned newsies au that drew on my experiences with high school theatre tech, aptly named welcome to hell - its namesake was something like:

He catches a glimpse of the whiteboard once again before he leaves. Someone, probably Jack again, has wiped out most of the letters in HOTEL CALIFORNIA - now it just reads WELCOME TO H EL L.

#i didn't want to put it in main post but another one of my favourite trevor lines is just him swearing up a storm #'trevor thunks his head against the nearest tree. 'fuck! bloody fucking shit arse cunt!' <- chapter 1 #sorry for the bigass ramble for 13 but if desktop tumblr didn't want it so badly it shouldn't have made 13 bigger than the other numbers #flat pack attack homeworld: in which ben steve gets sucked into the ikea monster dimension #helen steve goes to rescue him with the help of the newest ikea employee nora and her shapeshifter girlfriend #meanwhile sampson is dabbling in necromancy in order to bring HR back from the dead and delta von tassle is ''helping him'' #(appearing and disappearing at random points. being catlike and cryptic. telling sampson about his time in vegas with HR) #and colin is on a month long off-the-grid camping trip and is having the time of his life while everything else is utter chaos #THANKS FOR THE ASK I LOVE YOUU