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#endgame spoilers kinda?
novalunosiss · 2 years
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Okay but-
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Tell me I’m (maybe) onto something here???
Please note: the gifs of Steve and Nancy do not belong to me! (clearly) They belong to @zendayacolemann. I would’ve made them myself (like the gifs of El and Mike) but I couldn’t find any videos of that specific scene so I borrowed these ones. Also sorry for the bad quality ones I made, I am (again, clearly) an amateur but hopefully it gets the point across just as well :)
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pocketramblr · 1 month
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It's all my fault
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confettidogs · 6 months
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!!!The Marvels spoilers!!!
The fact that Valkyrie was there? Even for just a second? And that she gave Carol a kiss? Even though it was just on her cheek?????? Fellow Valcarol shippers how we feeling
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drainbangle · 8 months
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wait omg i’m curious about your unpopular thoughts about temenos writing wise.. i love when people discuss octopath writing it’s really enriching to see what we all have to say about certain story elements. plus you’re like a temenos representative to me. your thoughts about temenos make me go “so true!”
Aw, thank you! It took a while for me to decide on what to write here, since honestly I could go on for… frankly any aspect of this guy, especially in regards to treatment in fanon. But for now, I'll focus on my thoughts regarding how people treat tragedy in Temenos' story— namely, Crick's death— and why I personally dislike it as a writing decision and why I disagree with the idea that it is necessary.
Note: Goes without saying, but this is my personal opinion. If you believe otherwise, then that's all good. I'm not writing this to say that any one person is wrong, just to talk about an issue I have with the game's writing itself.
To start, I'll say that my main reason for disliking Crick's death in SH route is a matter of practicality. Killing him off causes Temenos to lose the main person that he had a fantastic relationship and banter with, and in my opinion, Temenos works best when he's bouncing off another person; not unlike most under the Sherlock-archetype.
Also, genuinely? It works wonders to keep Crick alive, if just because it provides a fantastic avenue to explore Temenos' institutional trauma. Having a character that's lived a different experience but within the same harmful institution opens up ways to explore the scope of its harm. And yes, this is for Crick specifically; not Ort, not the travelers, but Crick.
I think it really adds something that Temenos was raised by the church while Crick converted as a teenager during a really difficult time in his life. These two are good for each other. Crick sure as hell makes it a lot easier to write Temenos in fic.
(If you have a different experience, again, that's cool. I'm glad for you. I, however, will never fail to take the easy way out.)
(This is a lie, I'm over here making up fantasy church law for fic stuff but that's not related to this answer.)
I won't pretend that disliking Crick's death is an unpopular opinion. I mean, "Stormhail Fix-it" is an entire genre of fic on the OT2 Ao3 tag. What I do feel tends to go unaddressed though, is the fact that the idea that Crick's death is canon, therefore it is necessary, therefore it is the best decision; an idea that I wholeheartedly disagree with.
Within the text itself, Crick is killed off in order to give Temenos a personal reason to pursue Kaldena, thus putting him at odds with Kaldena's motivations being driven by her ideology and worldview that, "because humans committed the massacre, it was the gods' mistake to put us here". I also won't pretend that Kaldena's writing here isn't fucking awful, because Crick's death is also a device to make the player want Kaldena defeated even though she is just as much as a victim of the church; and that's to say nothing of her portrayal as an indigenous and dark-skinned woman.
These decisions are ones I disagree with. Killing Crick off was unnecessary to give Temenos reason to pursue the culprit, because Temenos already had someone close to him killed; and that's Pontiff Jörg. He raised Temenos from infancy, but due to the lack of focus on him outside of banter conversations, it's never relevant to his motivations outside of the desire for truth because a crime was committed. 
We also didn't need to kill Crick off to show that the church was a terrible institution, because Roi already went missing in action. The Sacred Guard is the main body of law within Eastern Solistia, it's not unreasonable to think that the reason why Temenos dislikes them is because they clearly didn't do shit to investigate his disappearance.
However, one thing I really don't agree with is the idea that Crick's death is necessary because Temenos' story is a tragedy. And if you asked me why, I'd ask this in turn: why is death the only form of tragedy? Furthermore, why must a tragedy contain only tragic events? That in mind, what gives anything value in a tragedy, then?
Pretend we cannot completely rewrite Temenos' story. Even then, changing Crick's death to a permanent injury, a coma, or whatever is still a tragic event; and that's nothing to say of living with the consequences. Isn't losing your faith a tragedy? Isn't losing something you worked for years to do a tragedy?
Similarly, I'd still argue that it's more valuable to make Stormhail a near-death experience because not only does it show Temenos succeeding in making someone question the church but also the terror that is feeling like you're doomed to repeat tragedy. Even if you really aren't, it's hard to dismiss that feeling; especially when it has to do with being victimized by institutions.
And before someone says, "but bad things happen to good people in real life", I'm not treating these characters as living, breathing people who are subject to things like gravity, hunger, and exhaustion. I'm treating them as choices, and choices made that I disagree with. 
It's why I make different choices. I choose to make Crick have to deal with chronic pain onwards. I choose to make Temenos realize change is still possible. I choose to let them both leave Stormhail alive. Are these better choices? I don't know. But I'll never stop questioning the ones made by the writers regardless; much less stop disagreeing with them.
So, in summary: I dislike Crick's death. I dislike Temenos having to spend the rest of the story without someone he can talk to so easily because Crick's absence weakens a lot of his scenes in Temenos 4. But more than that, I dislike the idea that tragedy is necessary on top of the idea that it is superior. Tragedy's good, I adore the genre; but written in mindful doses and all that.
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t0tentanz · 5 days
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open my eyes to the world all without hope, without pain i'm alone in a world full of turmoil and strife but i'm alive and i know i'll survive i will make it
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mayoiayasep · 10 months
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no bc like thinking about it the amount of love in the love trio is crazy like azz and clara get clingy when theyre away from iruma for too long. both iruma and clara are confirmed to have one of their worst fears being the other two being taken away from/leaving them. azz purposefully lowers the temperature of his flames around clara and iruma so they dont get hurt. iruma calls clara and azz his soulmates in actual fucking canon and they are over the moon about it and take the first chance they have to brag about it. azz has a guilty pleasure stash of pictures of iruma and clara in his phone. "you have the power to make people happy" and "the reason i adore the warm flames that are always protecting us is because they're made up of your feelings and hard work". iruma loves clara and azz clara loves azz and iruma and azz loves iruma and clara. do you get me.
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demenior · 6 months
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Idea to good home:
BeauYasha decide to try the open marriage thing, and immediately pick Jester as the person they would both want. Pop the question, Jester is flattered and all-in, but!!! She has one clause: They have to find someone for Fjord, so he doesn't feel left out!
And it becomes a comedy of errors in which the lesbians and Fjord's very jealous, very possessive girlfriend try to find someone for a one night stand with Fjord and turns out none of them know what his type is, nor can they agree on who's good enough for Fjord.
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sourgrapefox · 1 year
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I may be late to the party but I had the sudden realization that JJ did not care about the treasure for the entire season--even when they were stealing the "cross" back from the train--he only cared about Kie--because she was the true treasure all along. 😭😭
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elkdiaries · 2 years
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notice how mike couldn’t tell el he loved her until will prompted him to do so…
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sun-marie · 3 months
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freuleinanna · 2 years
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last ones standing
Charasters: Laura Kearney, Travis Hackett (non-romance) Chosen ending: everyone dies, except Laura, Travis, and Max Short summary: Laura and Travis in the aftermath of the blood bath occurred at the Hackett's Quarry camp, because I'm a sucker for enemies-to-cautious-slightly-less-enemies trope :) Words count: 1242
Tags: @katnisspeetaprim, @imperfectjam, @b33barlowsstuff (you awesome people asked for a tag, so here we are! If you'd like to, I can tag you in future posts, but I'll also tag quarry works as (# anna writes the quarry))
(I also have to warn you that english isn't my first language, so... yeah)
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(the gif is just to show the characters, it's not this exact scene)
The camp fell silent for the first time since the sundown. It wasn’t an easy silence, though. It had some strange finality to it that gritted on the teeth, and the shivers were dancing all over the sweaty skin. Overall, it felt… well, nauseating. Like that last drink before you black out at a party. Some fucking party.
‘Is this… is this everyone?’ ‘How the damn hell should I know?’
Laura glanced over to find the cop scrutinizing the bodies. Some they found within the camp premises, others they had to drag. Wasn’t pretty. No, sir, it wasn’t.
‘I only met like four of them’, she said gulping down a huge lump in her throat. ‘Care to identify the ones you know?’ ‘Will it help if I do?’ ‘Not really’, the man shrugged, his face wincing for a moment. ‘They’re still going to the lake.’
That flat tone. That mother-hollering flat tone he had. It almost made Laura feel angry again. It almost made her feel again, period.
‘Fuck you, man’, she spit out walking up to him. Travis Hackett, the goddamn ultimate Hacketteer. She pushed him, half-heartedly. The cop swayed, barely even looking at her. She pushed again, harder. Torn uniform, scratches, splashes of blood all over his face. His eyes locked on hers for a second, but he didn’t say a word. She wanted him to. Maybe if he did, she’d feel something, anything, anything but death all around. She pushed again.
‘You don’t wanna do this’. ‘I fucking do’. ‘No, you don’t.’ ‘I fucking do!’ she kept pushing harder and harder, her voice getting higher and higher. He didn’t even protest, just stood there with his eyes wearily closed, swaying, making half-steps back. ‘I FUCKING DO, YOU SON OF A BITCH!’
That last push became a punch against his shoulders, with both of her hands, and somehow took all her strength. Laura stopped, gasping for air. The smell of dried blood hang heavily in the air. She quivered at its familiarity.
‘You done?’ Travis opened his eyes, locking her into place. A shadow of a frown on his forehead. With a gesture close to a comic one he set his sheriff badge straight on his shredded shirt. And with that simple gesture, he suddenly looked unsure. Lost, just like her.
‘Yeah, I’m done’, Laura grumbled, stepping back. ‘I’m so done with you’. ‘Good.’ ‘Eat shit.’
She slumped on the grass, looking at the heap of bodies with glassy eyes. Kids. They were all just kids. She was a kid, too, a stupid kid who didn’t think anything could touch her. Look where that got them.
‘What, no nickname?’
The cop sat down beside her, moving slowly, as if every muscle of his body was sore. She bet it was.
‘Eat shit, Officer Fuck-itt’, she retorted without missing a beat. ‘There you go’, he smirked. Laura snorted. It was the absurdity, it must have been. The absurdity of sitting next to her kidnapper-slash-prison-guard whose werewolf brother didn’t check his voice mail that one time, and now here they were, in a summer camp full of dead bodies. A sudden thought pulled her insides.
‘Are you gonna let me go?’
Travis fell silent for a moment. She heard him sigh, then suck on his tooth with an audible tssk!
‘You killed my family.’ ‘Your family killed, like, a whole bunch of camp counselors. Are we really comparing the body count?’
He gave out a muffled laugh. It was so fucking bizarre to hear that man laugh. She thought all he could do was stare, grit his teeth, and be the creepiest fucker around. Laura turned to look at him over her shoulder.
‘So, is that a yes? I really don’t feel like fighting for my life right now, man.’ ‘You’ve done enough,’ he nodded. ‘Get the hell outta here, I’ll clean this mess up. Not my first rodeo.’ ‘Hopefully, your last.’ ‘That’s the only reason you’re getting away,’ he took half a glance at Laura before pointing his finger at her. ‘No. Just…no. Not a word.’
She mimed utter surprise, but kept all the stingy comments about his way of expressing gratitude and where he could shove it to herself. There was, actually, something else to resolve first.
‘Max is on the island, I need to go get him.’ ‘What, this island?’ Travis seemed genuinely confused. ‘Duh.’ ‘Why?!’ ‘Because there's water around it for safety?’ she was drawling out her words as if speaking with a child. Not a very bright child. The short fuse circuited. ‘No, why on earth would you b-- You know what, doesn’t matter. Go get him and get the hell out.’ ‘We’re gonna need a car.’
A long, deep, exasperated sigh.
‘Fine, take mine.’ ‘Thanks, Officer Di--’ ‘Don’t you goddamn dare.’
And just like that, with his voice, the sun came up. Like a fucking switch. The audacity made Laura shiver. Sunrise spilled over the pile of bodies, flickered in pools of almost coagulated blood. Funny, how emotions work. Now it seemed like the only thing that dragged her through the last moments of the night was Travis Hackett’s dry growl of a speech. But now that work was done.
She got up.
‘Should we leave the car somewhere, or…?’ The cop looked at her with empty eyes for a moment, and then suddenly snorted. ‘What?’
Travis got up too, rubbing his sore shoulder and neck, but there was definitely a shitty smile on his lips.
‘What?!’ Laura repeated impatiently. ‘Yeah, there’s a place.’
To be honest, his smile was starting to look a little neurotic.
‘Either you spill it or…’ ‘I was thinking, the Harbinger motel.’
He could barely contain himself. Laura blinked. Then blinked again. Then she felt her lips spread in the same crazed neurotic smile – and then the laughter came, waves and waves of it. They coughed, and wailed, and probably looked completely and utterly insane, both beaten and bloodied, but that was the most sane thing that happened over this hell of a night.
They had to take a moment to calm down, though. Both got quiet and serious. Travis cracked his neck, let out a deep breath. Once again, he became collected, reserved. A book closed shut. Laura regarded him for a moment. Then nodded.
‘I’d better go.’
And she almost did, except for the hand on her wrist. She twitched instinctively. The cop let go almost at once. His eyes were deadly serious now. The eyes of the man, whom she almost killed, but didn’t, and who almost killed her – but didn’t. Quite a pair they were. Last ones standing.
‘For the rest of the world, nothing happened here. Do you understand?’
Laura nodded again.
‘I can’t hear you.’ ‘I do.’
Accepting her answer, Travis tossed her the car keys.
‘Go, then. Now.’ ‘Are you…’ she hesitated for a moment. ‘Are you gonna be okay?’
He just tilted his head, raised his eyebrows sarcastically. He was really, truly insufferable.
‘Nevermind, got it. Nothing happened, no lurking officers, no werewolves, nada.’ ‘Good.’ ‘Yeah.’ ‘Harbinger motel.’ ‘Heard that one before,’ she scoffed. ‘Better follow it through this time.’ ‘Aye-aye, officer.’
She saluted and was finally able to turn her back on the man. She hoped to never, under no circumstances, to see him again. She tried to shift her thinking to the next steps. She even managed to feel a bit lighter with every step she put between herself and Travis Hackett.
What she didn’t do is say goodbye.
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goblinbugthing · 1 year
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GUYS LOOK
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THEYRE CUDDLING :D
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childofsquidward · 11 months
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Okay, so now that I've had a couple minutes actually gather my thoughts, I feel like the majority of S9 didn't actually feel like a final season. I get that compared to a show like Arrow, there were COVID restrictions in place and a lot of people they wanted to bring back just couldn't be there.
However, I will say that despite all my complaints, I'm genuinely sad to see this show end. I know a lot of people don't feel that way, but The Flash has been with me through high school and then university and now even beyond that. I kinda don't know what to do with myself now that it's just gone and I think that because I was disappointed by the majority of the season, I'm a lot sadder to this show go.
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New images, probably from the statues chapter.
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Lukadrigami increasingly canon
I love my disaster children
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candied-cae · 7 months
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I am so sad that it seems like they're really done with Teal Oranges. Honestly, that's one of the biggest weak points of this season so far.
Season 1 ended not just with Stede and Ed separated, but notably with Oluwande and Jim and Pete and Lucius torn apart. That was something so many of us were so eager to see fixed, we wanted all those couples reunited as they are the two relationships that takes a supporting role right behind Gentlebeard and is able to exemplify the easier and more simple or stable nature of the couples who stay out of the main pairing's drama.
And with the introduction of Zheng Yi Sao and Archie, I like the characters. They're pretty fun, Zheng is so smart and tactful and Archie is so comedic and earnest. Between the two, Archie def needs more building, but I did find the Oluwande and Zheng romance to be genuinely compelling. But only if I wasn't thinking about Jim.
It just feels so sudden to have Jim and Oluwande be done with each other (romantically) considering they were definitely still a couple at the end of the season and it only seems like it's been a couple months since they last saw each other.
Had they just been best friends who ended up hooking up and were probably going to decide they worked better as friends, I would be way more on board and down for these new couples! But it felt like they were pretty clearly written as a serious relationship that we'd see stick together through the end.
And the entirety of us getting closure on their relationship is just- "I've missed you." "I kissed someone." "Okay then." "I also saw her boobs." "Cool, I guess, but I think that's tmi."
And my bestie pointed out, though Olu def seemed to be flirting back with Zheng, he didn't take things to kissing until after hearing that Jim was already kissing someone else. And when Zheng asks him, Oluwande doesn't say yes or no on if he and Jim are over. He dodges the question and just says they're his best friend and family. Which would usually be a kind of line used to mean he was still planning to be with Jim and didn't want to lie, but still wanted to kiss Zheng in the moment so he omitted the reality with a little half-truth.
Which usually would keep my hopes up about a possible polycule (I'm really trying to keep my hopes up about a possible polycule) but we have that article with David calling Olu and Jim exes and saying he wants to use them to represent more complex relationship structures in the queer community with exes keeping healthy friendships and- come on man.
I really don't wanna give up on Teal Oranges, but the more I rewatch and the more I think about them, the more I worry.
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I have SO many questions about the ending of Wakanda Forever and the whole timeline and just so many things
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