#damn i'm so predictable

[umblrspectrum]

alright fuck you if you haven’t seen the episode yet Thats On You its free on youtube why are you going on a murder drones blog why haven’t you w

#remember that old post about growing a dd arm in place of a regular one? #new idea #knife hands #(rad as hell) #anyways fun fact someone ended up tracing over that post so #i take that as confirmation that i'm a decent artist #am i doing the glare thingy right cause it looks wrong but i dont know how else to do it #i remember seeing an post with biological weapons uzi before ep 4 was released #seeing if i can go find it cause God Damn #it predicted where this episode was going #yea she chases people she doesnt like with it #this is a lot of tags #art #artwork #murder drones #murder drones uzi #murder drones uzi solver #not tagging lizzy cause shes lame

[raayllum]

when both claudia and ezran are angry and unwilling to let the death of their fathers go next season

#tdp claudia #tdp ezran #claudiez #home is the first grave #the parallels. we're gonna be eating so good #s6 #arc 2 #predictions #s6 wishlist #like a parallel claudiez arc is not something i ever dreamed of but damn if i'm not excited #the dragon prince #tdp #mine #let ezran be messy

[stars-n-spice]

FUCK!

Bad Batch Eve y'all, how are we feeling?

If they do another one of those timeskips things and don't show us the aftermath of what happened on Pabu I'm going to go absolutely feral.

Ugghh

Also, also-

Half of me wants to see Hunter and Crosshair's interaction to either go like,,

Hunter understanding the circumstances and respecting Omega's decision and him reassuring Crosshair it wasn't his fault because that'll show actual character growth for Hunter (Force knows he needs it) and they go on to develop a plan to bring her back.

BUT!!!

The other half of me wants to see them fight and for Wrecker to have to break it up or something because they're all emotional and they've got so much going on and I just want all of them to have a collective mental break down and cry together.

Either way!! It will be depressing, I will cry, Crosshair will blame himself and I'll eat my arm.

#i'm not actually able to watch the next episode until friday #so i'm terrified #yet ignorance is bliss #and i will live in unbothered fear for two days until i can watch the episode #oooh boy #no but seriously #if we don't get immediate aftermath or maybe like the next day i'm going to go absolutely insane #THEY CAN'T KEEP PULLING THESE DAMN TIMESKIPS WHEN THERE ARE HEAVY CONVERSATIONS TO BE HAD!!! #UGH!!!! #anyways #eating my arm #tbb #tbb s3 #tbb spoilers #tbb s3 predictions #tbb hunter #tbb crosshair #tbb wrecker #tbb omega

[daddy-ul]

I had asked James to write a bit about what 72 Seasons meant to him. But even before we received that, Lars shared that James did say one thing he thought was particularly interesting, which was “prisoner of childhood.” So Lars was the guy who distilled a lot of what James had to say into a phrase that became extremely powerful for us creatively. It was a brilliant synthesis of all the ideas behind 72 Seasons in three words.

-David Turner about the concept art and design of 72 Seasons

#metallica #72 seasons #james hetfield #lars ulrich #so what! #david turner #(d)jinn all'opera #yeah yeah i got around reading it just now #AND I'M SHARING THIS #bc i am so damn predictable. hence the tag... #jh and lu #an xl kind of friendship #GET YOURSELF A FRIEND WHO LISTENS TO EVERY WORD YOU SAY AND GIVES IT BACK DISTILLED #and let me tell u. jhet is not very verbose so to summarise his concepts... not bad #also this was from an email between james and #dt but ofc Lars also read it? maybe he heard james talking abt? and then of course he hit the nail abt what was the essence for his friend #dont look at me. i am not normal abt this and yall know it well #jinn out #soph. if you see this..... THEM. RIGHT???? /THEM/

[nightmanatee]

the centenary bingo! (actually the 2 of them)

i-

okay i promised to make thasmin centenary bingo and there’s like less then 2 months before the centenary itself so i guess it’s time to post it! i’ll leave the explanations below so you could understand some of the variants that i chose:

okay the basic bingo:

1. anything you don’t like counts 2. i mean THE time has said that it’s permanent 3. c’mon let 13 repeat prem’s fate 4. yaz’s doctorification 5. 6. any sort of timeskip counts. even the one between the eps if it’s anyhow stated 7. she’s already almost done it. but give me something ELSE 8. 9. 10. “mains” as in not only dan or yaz. kate, ace count too( 11. 12. 13. i mean... 14. 15. like the master poisons her and 13 has to take that away 16. 17. “lucky in dice unlucky in love”. or 13 just reveals it to everyone dfkjdfkj 18. 19. i mean it’s TRUE already 20. same as 2 but this time for thasmin specifically (to skip time to make their relationship last longer etc) 21. her - 13 22. 23. 24. to 13. i can see him talking to 13 to make her change her mind. 25. it’s actually clarafication haha.

AND THE CRACK BINGO (thanks the discord moots for bullying me):

i don’t think it needs any explanation haha

#overall i'm kinda scared for the first one bc the april bingo was ALMOST correct #they just needed to KISS damn #i've tried to make this one more open to interpretation so i could win any way but still #thasmin better kiss y'know #thasmin #dw #doctor who #13th doctor #yasmin khan #yaz khan #centenary special #centenary prediction #thirteenth doctor #13 x yaz #sorry for any mistakes i'm tired #also feel free to add things

[bishopinblue]

I will never, for the life of me, understand why people who can't lift, drive or are uncomfortable being near a deceased person get into the funeral business. Please, for the love of God, do something else instead of being a tourist for this industry or think it's an easy paycheck or treat it as something you can just pick up every now and again! It's not! It literally puts so much more stress on the few of us who actually care about this job and work hard to keep this up. It's not a one man job, sure, but babysitting other employees is not something I'm being paid for when I'm doing the whole job myself 3/4 of the time!

#bishop speaks #I'm just so damn sick of people working with me who think it's not that serious or don't have the dedication for this kind of work. #Death can't be predicted. Be available just a little bit or please get a different job! #It's literally running the few of us who do this full time into the ground. #I'm so sick of seeing this over and over again since day 1 I entered into this industry!

[hua-fei-hua]

due to a series of wacky hijinks, am watching a recording of a peking opera called "a drunken concubine", but the only subtitles are in simplified chinese so like fuck me i guess. anyway having read a summary in english beforehand i at least know the gist of the plot, and i am, like, surprisingly enthralled by what's going on

#the very delightful parts are when i Understand The Dialogue ofc. every so often i pause to look up repeated phrases #not gonna lie i was expecting to get kinda bored w/it n close the tab but i'm just like 'damn... what drunken antics are next.' #花話 #but it's also fun to watch bc i'm like 'this would make for a solid script [for competitive speech] if it were in english' #like imperial court drama? already pretty solid premise. 4-5 diff chars w/speaking lines is a good limit #n they have distinctive personalities to draw postures n voices from #(this is probably kind of incomprehensible considering how Niche competitive speech is as an extracurricular lol) #but anyway a lot of scripts that are supposed to be comedic are mid bc they're like predictably fake #AND ALSO MOST OF THE COMEDIES ARE WRITTEN FOR MALE PERFORMERS. the ones written for girls are so trite it's infuriating #they're also kind of stereotypically misogynistic. like tbh. which is probably why i never picked scripts from our dropbox stash #idk maybe i also don't find a lot of the comedic scripts to be funny bc 1. tumblr humor; and 2. i take writing humor Very Seriously(tm)

[plushchimera]

can’t wait to discover all possible situations where I can plug in my dragon blood

paired with every obnoxious “I am magic” sorcerer-specific lines

#anya plays bg3 #ok i'm switching tactics i think #i'm gonna pick either gold or brass dragon #and just throw fire bolts #with predictably disastrous effects #yes i did test it a bit today #that's a lot of explosions #i've watched the intro cinematic #who knows how many times at this point #and it's still so damn cool #a little over 2 weeks till full release #time to get system requirements anxiety :)

[talentforlying]

none of the muses on my hellblazer multi are linked to the canon of my constantine portrayal, but i think that i am going to bring my ellie's canon divergence over here (summary post) in regards to hellblazer #104 & its ramifications in 125-128, bc that still does not sit well with me and i will be annoying about it forever. john constantine respects chantinelle in this house, even if they did still betray each other in the end; they simply have too much history for him to be so pointlessly goddamn cruel when he knows full well that she would probably have agreed to a trade of some kind instead.

#( ooc. ) OUT OF CIGS. #paul jenkins' mistreatment of ellie + his correlating mischaracterization of john might be my roman empire actually #you're telling me john 'you could have bloody asked you know. that's all' constantine would pull a stunt like that? Nuh Uh Babes #besides the obvious He Would Not Fucking Do That. john is simply too savvy to just carelessly burn a bridge like that #on a personal level? he knows how much he owes ellie. he knows how much she's lost. he can relate to her struggles #pragmatically? he knows how smart she is. he knows she's seen him operate behind the scenes well enough to predict him #he knows she's patient as hell & VINDICTIVE as hell. he Had to know there was no trump card that would let him get away with wounding her #would he still manipulate her in some way if he felt it was necessary? yeah duh. but that's my point: this Wasn't Necessary #why burn one of your most consistent allies/most skilled assets when you don't have to. makes no damn sense #and if it Was necessary it sure as fuck wouldn't have happened like THAT #also? ellie is too fucking smart to even have Begun falling for a ruse that transparent. she knows exactly how he operates #hell it was part of her Goddamn Job to fake emotional connections for leverage! she would see through him like glass! #and she already knows that he's not interested in her like that (hellblazer 60 anyone?) so even if she did think his feelings had changed.. #why would she not ask more questions......idk justice for my girl she's so much smarter than all that bullshit #this has been my ted talk #( headcanons. ) I'M JUST LIKE THE BASTARDS I'VE HATED ALL ME LIFE. #sched.

[straydogged]

I am 🤡 so incredibly dysphoric

#its been. a while since its been this bad #I wish I could just. make this body mine. do what I want with it. take t. get top surgery #I wish I could feel something other than guilt for wanting to do those things because #it's not just my body. I'm not even the only host. I can't predict what the host lineup will look like a few years down the line #I would be betraying so many of the others to pursue medical transition #and my ribs are a mess. idk if I can bind but I have to. I have to start binding again. #safety be damned. #I can't do this anymore

[niuxita21]

I also started One Night, aka the "Jodie Whittaker as a married lesbian" show, and while I get that the show wants me to ship her character with the woman from Wentworth (because idk she's the woman from Wentworth?), I don't see how I am supposed to do that when Jodie's smoking hot wife's fake British accent is THE sexiest thing that has graced my ears in a while like ????

#thoughts no one cares about #I did predict this would happen didn't I #I just didn't think it would be QUITE this bad omg #kat stewart the woman that you are #I'm gonna end up watching that show five bedrooms (even though she's australian in it and also painfully straight) aren't I? #why is life so hard #too bad vicki is clearly gonna get the short end of the stick of tess's trauma #and her kids are ungrateful little brats aren't they #show some damn respect to the hottest fake british woman that has graced television in a while smh

[raayllum]

Filling in the timeskip gap: re Rayla & Claudia

Honestly the more I think about the more convinced I am that these two did run into each other at least once, probably more early on, into the timeskip, and here’s why:

Rayla never says she was hunting Viren prior to season four, only that she didn’t find him when Callum asks.

In 4x05, Callum says, “Then we have to find Claudia and stop her.” Rayla says, “How? I spent every moment of the past two years of my life hunting her, and I failed,” to which Ezran scrounges up a way to hopefully find her.

Rayla is also the one who asks, “How do you know?” very carefully when Soren deduces it was his sister who killed Ibis at the Storm Spire. 

We know Claudia had to collect rare/powerful ingredients for her spell to bring Viren back and that Stella is an orphan that Rayla found all alone.

The last time Claudia and Rayla saw each other was the dragon in 2x07 and before that with the illusion trick in 2x03. While either of those could’ve given Claudia the incentive to trick Rayla, she also had no reason to think that plan was uniquely Rayla’s, and there seems to be real vitriol between them that didn’t exist in S2 in general. But their encounter in 4x09 seems deeply personal.

Although angered by Viren’s choices/possible survival in TTM, Rayla’s letter (released in tandem with the season) was primarily about protection, not revenge. While things she was previously doing to protect people / redeem herself (the assassination mission) are things she came to call revenge (“Justice will not be denied” -> “How can we take vengeance for an act that never happened?” -> “When I first came here, I was on a journey for revenge”) it is possible that Claudia gave her a reason to seek real revenge, rather than just wanting to protect the world / Callum and a grief-stricken gut reaction. Which also fits with her choosing to go after Viren again now that she truly knows he’s alive

Which is to say, if Rayla saw Claudia - the only other potential threat other than Viren - and if Claudia had murdered/killed Stella’s family (playing into Rayla being unable to save someone to Claudia, compounding so much of her fears of failure and desperation) that’d fit all the criteria needed to explain well, a lot of the above, y’know?

#raydia #timeskip shenanigans #arc 2 #s4 #tdp #s5 speculation #like i had speculated that she ran into kim'dael and that was the revenge but she specifically says #hunting claudia (not viren not viren & claudia - just claudia) so like #that's the revenge and i'm so damn curious #predictions #sort of

[hirazuki]

Oh damn, the new RuroKen anime is out and already four episodes deep? LMAO I've heard nothing about it. Like, nothing. Zip. We really are keeping it on the down-low, huh? XDDD

#i had completely forgotten it was even a thing that was happening lmaooo #like. i get it. totally. 100% here for the approach. #(both because of The Reasons but also because i enjoyed the old anime a lot and see no reason it requires a redo) #(like. the story wasn't incomplete or anime-only right??) #i'm just impressed at the level of silence like DAMN Y'ALL i didn't even get the slightest whiff XDD #and yeah predictably i will be watching bc i'm very very curious #but i'm strictly a pirate about all my online viewing so. my conscience is clear. #withoutwords

[lizard-dumbass]

I have a prediction that in the first episode of season 3, all the coven heads (including Raine of course), aswell as everyone else who was affected by the draining spell, will wake up and they'll be fine physically for the most part (perhaps a little weak). But everyone still has to flee because the Collector is destroying the place, and everyone who was affected will have lost their magic.

#lizard-dumbass talks about stuff #text post #the owl house #toh spoilers #raine whispers #eda clawthorne #toh theory #edalyn clawthorne #eda the owl lady #darius toh #eberwolf #i just want them to be okay #especially eda and raine #perhaps eda could go into harpy mode and fly her and raine out of the area #if she has the strength then she could take eberwolf and/or darius with her too #i think alador stayed outside of the area where where the draining spell took place #which means that he can shut off the abomatons keeping citizens trapped inside the ring #allowing everyone to escape #we'll have to wait and see what happens lol but this is my prediction #i'm gonna be so damn sad when this show is over

[supernovaa-remnant]

crying over how beautiful the space metaphors in my fic are as if I weren't the one who wrote them in the first place sjhdkshjkshss

#I'm sooo predictable I see a space metaphor and I'm like damn so true this writer was onto something #then I'm the writer hsdkjshksdhs #it's good tho I think it's always nice to feel pride in something #and I will always feel pride in my space metaphors in fics o7 #stella rambles

[bugsbenefit]

i don’t know if anyone has pointed it out yet but it’s not leaving me alone.

so s5 is supposed to be a return to form of s1 meaning there will be some parallels, either plot wise, character arc wise, references, etc. (s4 also had a bunch of refs to s2, literal horseshoe narrative, bla bla we know we know)

right, so looking back, very big part of ST is the way the story is told through multiple povs, which makes sense since the show has an assembly cast. but just like any other season, s1 isn’t focused on all the characters equally it has clear main characters. (like how s4 focuses on characters like, El, Max, Dustin etc. while the whole Cali crew has Very little actual plot relevancy).

and right off the bat after Will goes missing, E1 makes clear which characters are going to Tell us the story: we have Mike, almost everything we see the kids do is from his perspective. then, after S1E2 El becomes the other primary kid pov (she stands out as only getting a pov from E2 onwards, since she only shows up in the woods at the end of E1), we see her past at the lab via flashbacks and her general perception of the world outside the lab. meanwhile the teens have their own plot and two primary povs as well, Jonathan and Nancy. first revolving separately around Will and Barb and later merging into the same goal they work on together. the same goes for the adults were we get Joyce and Hopper, at first investigating separately and then ending the season going into the UD together.

there’s three overall plot lines (kids, teens, adults) that end up merging in the end. (Will is his own party here in the UD who makes appearances for all groups occasionally but who’s pov we don’t get. however, he’s still THE central character that’s started the whole plot to begin with even without us seeing his perspective)

all other characters that are in the show by then get a different treatment to those main focus characters. we only see their povs when none of the other main narrating voices are present. (e.g. Dustin taking over as a focus only Once and it’s after Mike jumps off of a cliff and we aren’t supposed to know if he’s okay yet (this season does him dirty poor guy). Lucas going on his sick solo mission where he abandons both Mike and El which gives him a few minutes of screentime that’s centered around him and him only. or even Brenner, who’s pov we actually get 3 times this season when he’s alone and evilly stalking and scheming and we have no other way to see him be silly and evil than to hard cut to him)

(unrelated tangent but Steve is pretty funny actually because we get his pov multiple times but he’s COMPLETELY removed from the plot, he doesn’t even know something weird is going on. he’s just busy trying to save his relationship with Nancy the whole time and doesn’t even catch a Glimpse of the supernatural hell demon haunting the town. until it tries to eat him in the finale. which also only happens because he wanted to go see Nancy again and ran into the trap... this guy is on a completely separate mission the whole season. everyone is living sci-fie mystery and Steve still thinks he’s in a coming of age romance movie... the lad is going through it this season he’s so clueless)

so TLDR of all of this bc it’s really just a general observation of the way S1 is told which might be boring if you watched it recently:

season one stands out by having 6 main POVs: Mike, El, Nancy, Jonathan, Joyce, and Hopper

right

sooo. now why...

that’s literally just all our s1 povs. nicely lined up and even split into three way kids, teens, adults formula. the only difference being that Will is actually included here, standing with Mike, instead of being stranded somewhere in the hell dimension.

like... that feels INCREDIBLY intentional. they even went out of their way to drag Nancy (and Nancy only) away from the rest of the Hawkins crew who went to the school - just so she could stand on the hill with them here. it’s those 7 characters for a reason, the narrative goes out of it’s way to make sure all of them are here. and all of them just happen to be the exact same characters who Started narrating this whole story to us?

(also sorry but did they just abandon Argyle out in the woods picking mushrooms for this?? i get he isn’t part of the og gang but Damn, just because they want to go stand on a hill doesn’t mean they can just fuck off when the evil spores start raining from the sky. they literally switched Argyle out with Nancy for this)

if i were to make a guess, I’d say s5 is going to have them be the main pov’s just like in s1 to close the story off in a circle. (even the narration would be part of the horseshoe narrative then lmao)

and that would also make sense for the characters. literally half of them were trapped in the stoner van for the whole of s4. they’ve been excluded from the plot for a reason and it gave others like Max and Lucas the room to shine as the main characters. i think the next season will have the same 6 povs closing the show that started it, with the exception that Will is now part ALSO a part of these povs. (the main character, according to what the Duffers say, even)

I’ve seen people say this shot looks like group ups for s5. and i agree. the different plot strands we’re going to get will definitely be centered around these 3 groups (maybe 4? El standing on her own could mean a Lot here, she could potentially fill a role similar to Will for example, where he would occasionally pop in with all of the 3 parties and make appearances everywhere. so it could also be 3 groups but El swings around between them?).

but yeah anyways. i’m calling it now. those 7 are going to be the main povs of s5.

#literally rolling back into town just wanting to narrate and then seeing Hawkins like DAMN that's what i'm working with? #the town's FUCKED #but seriously it being these exact 7 characters is SO intentional especially since we're already being TOLD how s5 will parallel s1 #stranger things theory #st5 predictions #st analysis #st5 speculation #stranger things #mike wheeler #will byers #el hopper #jonathan byers #nancy wheeler #joyce byers #jim hopper