#god just. everything about that episode

[vvanillavveins]

"I’ve tried spending more time with dad in my dreams and in my art. But he’s- god, he’s impossible. Just give me a straight answer, man. A word, a gesture, a look at your face even. I think he was like this in real life, Cecil. I think his ambiguity, his vagueness, is why mom hated talking about him. He's not enigmatic or magical. He is fucking frustrating. All these cryptic images, but I don’t think there’s much to understand about an absent father."

#OH MY GOD THIS EPISODE #OH MY GOD I AM NOT OKAY #I THOUGHT I WOULD BE OKAY BUT CLEARLY I WAS A FOOL TO BELIEVE THAT BECAUSE OH FUCK I AM ACTUALLY NOT OKAY RIGHT NOW #crying and shaking #side note: i would die for abby's VA- her voice is absolutely perfect for this #i know i'm just imagining it but abby really does sound related to cecil #god i love everything about this #wtnv 246 #wtnv spoilers #wtnv #wtnv podcast #welcome to night vale #wtnv cecil #wtnv abby #abby palmer

[canonicallyanxious]

[neverafter episode 9 spoilers]

everything about ylfa's flashback scene made me feel fucking insane. the wolf is death and the ending of stories. the wolf ate ylfa's grandmother because it was time for her story to end. but for whatever reason it's not time for ylfa's end. for whatever reason the wolf wanted ylfa to live. the wolf ate the grandmother so that she could die, and ylfa ate the wolf so that she could live. the wolf wanted ylfa to live, and at the deepest core of herself she wants to live too. i'm scratching at the WALLS. LIKE "i met death and death wants me to live" EMILY SAID IT SO CASUALLY BUT LOWKEY THAT'S THE RAWEST SHIT I'VE EVER HEARD IN MY LIFE!

also though you need to eat to live and the consumption of stories to stay alive beyond the end of your own story... i am Thinking...

#sarah.txt #dimension 20 #neverafter #neverafter spoilers #dimension 20 spoilers #d20 #idk why eating/consumption as a theme has been making me feel so unhinged lately but they really got me with this one #god there was so much shit that happened in this episode that was METAL AS HELL #if i let myself talk about it i just won't go to bed tonight and like i'm sleepy skfnskdjfnsd but holy shit. #but also like... this consensual consumption in ylfa's story #like. the wolf let ylfa eat him. the wolf WANTED ylfa to eat him. #versus the stepmother erasing 'or perhaps consuming' her own story and everything inside of her trying to claw its way out. phew. #consumption gave them both power but in such different ways! godDAMN! #d20 meta #story meta

[figsandphiltatos]

the raw power of gorgug and kristen synchronized second hand embarrassment is unspeakable

#okay i have more clips from this episode #i feel bad because emily and brian aren't in this one but it might be one of The Best in fantasy high #purely because lou is on an absolute TEAR #everything he does is fucking astoundingly funny in this episode #like he is on fire for real #god i love fabian he's THE WORST #his character growth in this season alone is astounding like in junior year he's sooo much better at just. not being selfish lol #love this guy love his fucked up family dynamic where his parents try to fight him to the death all the time #love the idea of being raised in a family where emotional vulnerability is almost always substituted for violence #i'm normal about him #fabian seacaster #kristen applebees #gorgug thistlespring #fantasy high #fantasy high sophomore year

[panncakes]

"Drive safely."

LAWS OF ATTRACTION (2023)

#laws of attraction #laws of attraction the series #charntinn #tinncharn #jamfilm #film thanapat #jam rachata #mine* #loaedit #bledit #the way tinn visibly works up the courage to say something and then immediately back tracks #how despite charn having been flirting with him since the first second and they had a genuine Moment but a few hours ago at most #he is still such a school boy with a crush trying to play it cool when he is the one taking initiative #and god how delighted and fully charmed charn is by him and his awkwardness #and the endless lingering stares as tinn moves to go when he actually really doesn't want to go #im so obsessed with everything about them #theres absolutely no reason for this gifset ot be this long but i just really love all their nuances here #especially tinns bc we've seen so little of it around charn until this episode but look at his little face!! #give him a reason to stay charn!!

[mcybree]

coughs. Everypony who wishes to hear about scott secret life episode 7 and is old enough to catch their own prey please gather under pride rock or whatever the fuck they say to call an emergency meeting these days. I need everyone to know why this episode is so unusual for him… I take back anything I have ever said about gem in my entire life that implied disinterest; Gem and her zombie apocalypse scared the SHIT out of Scott. NOBODY HAS EVER MANAGED TO DO THAT BEFORE.

#I WILL ELABORATE SOON IM JUST LIKE. REELING RN #ohhh cscott I love you. I hate you #also gems episode is really fucking good guys. She seems fascinating Im thinking about her character bc damn!!! #sorry to the anon who sent in the cleo and scott question btw I’ll get to it its just!! a very interestinng dynamic and I want to make sure #I have everything I want to say sorted out for that 👍 dont want to waste the opportunity hehehoohoo #that.blue.mf #cscott HAS been scared before to be clear but never in this way. Ohhh my god

[katabay]

Omar El Akkad's forward to the Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights (trans. Yasmine Seale)

#book club tag #thought about making a book club side blog. but actually. i will keep it here but i'll keep the prev tag as it's dedicated tag #also the joy of reading and finding beautiful turns of phrases is 90% of why i include citations in much of what i post #and i want to pass that happiness on to whoever might find a similar delight in reading it. you know?? sometimes i don't have art #to go with it. i just really! loved what something had to say! i got nothing else to add! anyway. book club tag. will be the tag for this #also this is like. GOD. this is thee creative statement of the century. the drive to tell stories. i love!! this forward!!!!!!!! #i was listening to the Something Rotten spoilercast episode about Alan Wake 2 and I'm OBSESSED with everything they had to say #about how this is a game that's very aware of the creative process. it is!!!!! IT IS!!!!!!!!!!! YES!!! #this is. poetry to me. i will be turning this around in my head and also chewing on AW2 forever

[theelast-straw]

hell yeah put that man in extensions

#been waiting for this since the stills asjdhjsa #god i just love everything about this episode so far #the sign #the sign the series #straw watches things

[brookheimer]

"I think [Roman's relationship with his siblings at the start of the season] is actually something close to healthy for once, y'know? I think we've been sort of competing with each other and just been sort of under Dad's, y'know, spell a bit -- we love each other but have no means to sort of express that or show that with each other. We're not gonna, like, get together and hang out. Like, we always needed the business to hang out with each other. I think Roman doesn't really have anyone else. I think he has the siblings and the people he works with. I don't think there are like friends, he doesn't have a- a partner, there's nobody else, so he needs the business in order to have relationships with people, including the ones he loves. So when he gets cut out, he at least gets cut out with the siblings, and it's like 'well, we have each other, but we can't just hang out, we need something.' So we form a business together, we're puttin' this thing together just, I think, I think it's a good idea and it's good to, y'know, have our own business and be our own people and be separate from Dad, but I think it's more so that -- for Roman anyways -- it's more like so I can keep hanging out with you guys and we can have a relationship, because otherwise if we don't have anything we're never gonna see each other.

And if we have our own business and it's successful and we do that, then there's potential to have a relationship with Dad, now that we're not working for him. We can actually, like, -- I think for Roman anyway, I don't if the siblings feel the same way -- it's like yeah, Dad hurt us, but also, y'know, I think I want to- I'd like to get to a place where I see him on his birthday and Thanksgiving and stuff. I think I'd like to get back to hanging out with Dad. And if we have our own business, then maybe we can get together and have a Scotch and talk about our different companies and ask for advice here and there."

-- Kieran Culkin on Roman in S4E1 for Rotten Tomatoes TV

#sorry to post another typed-out kieran interview about roman but i swear to god every single time kieran talks about roman it makes me #fucking weep i swear to god. like he wants the hundred so he can be with his siblings!!!!!!!!!!!! that's his main rzn!!!!!!!!!!!! #and that way they can have a relationship w their dad that isn't about business!!!!!!!!!!!!! #and then the rest of the episode happens and everything goes to shit but STILL. god #kieran culkin #roman roy #i'm literally just collecting a veritable weaponry of proof that roman cares about his siblings so that when things inevitably go terrible #down the line and rome betrays them i can just point to this whenever ppl are like HES HORRIBLE HE NEVER CARED AB THEM. that's my goal here #succession #long post #100 #casey shut the fuck up about roman roy

[ibrokeeverything]

TBB S3 has launched me headfirst back into the star wars brainrot. Like, I'm going to be so annoying and so incapable of being normal

#the first three episodes were SO GOOD y'all #not to mention that they were absolutely gorgeous #the animation and direction truly just keeps getting better #this show is stunning!! #im having too many thoughts to talk about the characters and plot but oh my god did i enjoy them! #my baby girl omega is everything 🥹 #also im devastated that she was there long enough to grow a ponytail but im also digging the look #its super pretty! #anyway #go watch the episodes!!! #the bad batch #star wars #tbb #tbb season 3 #tbb spoilers #the bad batch spoilers #the bad batch s3 #spoilers

[heartslobbf]

the thing about rgu episodes 35&6 is its just like...... everything is veering towards a car crash but more than usual. and everyone is more aware of how car-crashy things are going to get than usual, but its like. no one is like ‘hey what if we didn’t get into a car crash though’, or if they are, they’re expressing that sentiment in the worst way possible (shoutout anthy and touga). you have so many tiny and horrendously fucked up moments in those episodes like juri saying utena ‘looks like a girl now’ and making miki consider whether or not that’s a ‘good’ thing, or utena falling asleep at the table with her earrings as anthy just Watches, or the scene where touga holds a carrot in various initially amusing and then promptly emotionally devastating ways as both he and the audience make a series of crushing realisations neither of us are totally comfortable accepting

its like. throughout all of this acknowledgement of ‘hm. this is bad’ everyone is filled with inaction. we are all trapped in our coffins!!! people are prosing but that’s about it. all of the student council know who end of the world is, and they don’t tell utena. im not blaming them for this because its masterful, compelling writing that serves to elevate the show and its themes, but i am pointing it out because what’s endlessly relevant in utena analysis is recognising when characters make choices that ohtori frames as a natural progression or event that is immutable. anthy and touga voice wow i cant believe at least one person has to die at the end of this duelling game, which we like have to do btw. yeah. what do you mean this is all constructed and therefore can be dismantled. oh my god im going to kill you what the fuck. i dont want to kill you. i dont know how else to get you out of this situation. guess ill try and remove you from the system, thereby proving it is a structure that can be left behind and undermining my fragile worldview ive believed to have kept me ‘safe’ all this time. why are you guys talking about coffins so much omgggggggg shut up shut up shut up

#one day ill write my essay about anthy and touga and their dynamics w nanami and utena. bc it makes me BONKERS #i mean generally one day ill write my anthy and touga essay bc its like. god im so autistic #theres a reason my pinned post is anthy's 'betrayal' theres a reason i have probably watched eps 35&6 the most #theres a reason im obsessed w aou's symbolism ESPECIALLY in the movie manga actually #anyway normal normal normal (lie) (am thinking about birdcages and eggs) #remember in episode 11 when touga was like hey anthy one day im going to own the key to this birdcage that youre in. and its like #touga. touga youre in the birdcage too rn #touga kiryuu will be like if a chick cannot hatch from its egg's shell it will die without being born 10 minutes later me and the coffin <3 #and then u have anthy loml anthy the character of all time..... cannae even make little jokes about her arc bc its like. Oh #have u ever killed something good for u just to be certain ure the reason u can no longer have it.......... #have you ever died and been dying over and over again have you ever been so numb and yet so angry. so bitter. so resenting. #everything the same over and over and over again. and then something changes a bit. wahhhhhhhhhhhh #i PROMMY i am normal about anthy himemiya (i cant think about her without crying) #revolutionary girl utena #rgu #shut up daisy

[quietwingsinthesky]

See, the thing about the Amy episode that makes Dean’s actions so reprehensible is not only the part where he doesn’t trust Sam and goes behind his back to kill Amy or even the hypocrisy of Dean ‘you can’t change what you are so you’re going to kill someone eventually’ Winchester sparing the kid right after stabbing his mom, it’s that Amy is very explicitly supposed to be a Sam parallel. There is no other way about it, from the they’re both freaks part of it to Dean dropping the line about ‘the other shoe’ right before he kills her, she is Sam, how Dean reacts to her is supposed to give us insight into how he feels about Sam. And Dean. kills her.

The not very subtle subtext being that Dean is ready to off Sam if he goes too far off the deep end? He’s aggressive and mistrustful of Sam at every turn in the episode, lays the feet of it all at Sam’s hallucinations maybe leading him astray, but end of the day, Sam’s crimes here are A) was tortured in Hell and B) is traumatized by that in a way that makes Dean’s life more difficult.

And it is hard to watch. To spend this whole episode with Sam being completely functional on his own, making a rational decision based on past experience and on all the information about Amy he has available, and for the episode to end with, ‘but yeah, if dean thinks sam goes too far, he’s probably gonna kill him. because sam can’t change or be fixed, so it’s for the good of everyone that he be put down.’

#and then of course there’s the issue of the subtext setting something up that gets no resolution like. there is no point where dean is ever #really going to be able to kill Sam. no matter how bad his hallucinations get. not even a mercy kill crosses his mind later that season #which means that the Amy episode gets rewritten later from ‘explicit Sam parallel’ to ‘well we can use this for Brother Drama™️’ #god. god. and really what gets me about the Amy episode in general. like Thee Horrifying Part to me. #most of their hunts are very life or death. that’s how we get around the morality of it. either they kill the monster or it kills them. #Amy’s. not that. Dean tracks her down while she’s running and kills her while she’s asking him not to. #like if she had attacked him the scene would be totally different. but she doesn’t. she doesn’t even fight back. and he kills her. #like she has a kid and Dean is an unfriendly hunter in her motel room. it wouldn’t be out of the question for her to try to kill him #to protect herself and her kid. but she doesn’t. she doesn’t. I don’t know what you can take away from that except that she was telling #sam the truth about not wanting to be a murderer. if she won’t even try to kill Dean to protect herself. #there is no way to look at this episode that makes Dean come out looking good unless you’re willing to claim everything Amy said was a lie #AND that Dean would be right to kill Sam for *checks notes* Being Visibly Mentally Ill #fucked up. why’d they do this. #spn #dean winchester #sam winchester #amy pond #like to be clear if you’ve got a different view on this that’s. not the above thing I just said. please tell me. #because from where I’m standing Dean doesn’t come out of this clean in any way

[headaching]

*guy who hasn’t posted in 8 weeks voice* um. hi for the love of god hello

#i miss you i miss you i miss you imwgonna throw up #i went to absentee mutual island and it was full of mirrors 😔 #god do you guys even laugh at that meme anymore ive been gone so long #probably but still #just wanted to pop in and say im okay! but going through a really bad depressive episode and i feel like all my energy is going toward #the baseline obligations of my job and surviving. i don’t want tumblr to feel like an obligation but sadly that’s where im at rn #but i don’t want you to worry about me! im okay!!! #and if you’ve sent me a message/ask well. i love you dearly and im so sorry i don’t have the spoons to interact rn #but i’ll be back as soon as i can! im moving soon and taking time off at the end of the month for a trip #ily guys so much and i hope everything’s been good <3 mwah mwah #side note ive only been gone for 2 months why does tumblr look completely different hello

[tropiyas]

people weren’t kidding. sopranos is a good show

#i’m only 4 episodes in and i’m calling it a masterpiece #there’s something about the way that everything in the show works so far #and that it’s dramatic and also funny. just like breaking bad and better call saul #but sopranos tries (and imo succeeds) at a much more consistent balance of drama/humor and PLOT #and the characters. my god all the characters feel so real

[thesorrowoflizards]

listen the mastermind job has flaws but i kind of. love it?

#yes his ability to make people magically fall asleep--alphas theory aside--was ridiculous #but my god. there's both some really funny moments #and genuinely good emotional beats #the whole thing about sophie not being in the book #and honestly i just really like the character of the fake mastermind guy hes so funny. scrungly. #and the whole insight into nate being the only one to appreciate the accountants at IYS #and this guy being like 'he was so supportive! and kind!' and they'r elike #'NATE? NATE FORD? WHO TALKS TO YOU LIKE YOURE DUMB?' #'always there with a nice pep talk....' #'HIS PEP TALKS LITERALLY MAKE PEOPLE CRY YOU FUCKING LUNATIC!!!' #and how he's genuinely so earnestly like 'no let that guy go! threaten me all you like but don't hurt him!' #and everything about harry being kidnapped #getting the goons to fucking unionize basically lkgjfgkhjgh #and nate being so proud of them.... #there's so much going on that is excellent #i get why it gets back flack for really being a highlight of a persistent problem in l:redemption (ie the sillier tone #/stretchier reality/more librarians-esque shenanigans versus more grounded og leverage) but like. i genuinely really like this episode lfkg #i love this silly little character i love the crews interactions etc #im only halfway through my rewatch so i may have forgotten something #gertspeak #leverage redemption #leverage #'i make lists. groceries mostly.' - harry the funniest lawyer alive

[camellcat]

it's irritatingly funny that I can find books for almost any other series like it's nothing and yet somehow doctor who continues to evade me. I just. can't??? none of my usual sites have them, and looking online brings me nothing, and I ??? where are they ?????

#y'all I just wanna read the monsters inside #and I am the master: legends of the renegade time lord #but honestly I just wanna read every book with rose tyler pleaseeee #do you understand how easy it is to find books on like literally ANY other freakin series #in fact the only time I have ever struggled is when it's new #or if you're warrior cats ig. those bitches actually give me a quite a fight too #BUT IN THE END I STILL FIND THEM #AND I HAVE YET TO FIND ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE BLOODY STONE ROSE #(okay admittedly I found the monsters inside FINALLY. but at the time I had not) #this is the same as trying to download the episodes themselves as well ohhh my god why is everything with this show such a STRUGGLE #doctor who #hold on. to make things clear actually. this post is talking about piracy. I am talking about the whole “read online free pdf” type thing #just so that no one links me something where I have to use money. cause I don't got none fvkmfvkmvf

[creed-of-cats]

There's something about that first meeting with Bruce, Terry and Powers that really gets me. Its so, so early in our titular heroes' partnership. They're still testing each other, weary about how the hell they're going to do this without someone ending up dead. But in this moment, Terry goes at Powers and the only thing holding him back is a single moment of looking at Bruce, and he backs off. This kid, who grew angry at a single comment from a high school friend or his dad being disappointed in him just a short time before, keeps his cool in front of the guy who murdered his dad. Just because just Bruce walking away says not now, not yet.

Terry obviously wants revenge on Powers, but I feel like it's not discussed much that Bruce does too. Batman is not the only legacy the Wayne's left in Gotham. Their company funded a lot of the welfare and social programs in a corrupt system, and it's an incredible amount of power in the hands of someone who doesn't care or is actively malicious. But that was the Bruce Wayne side of the mission. And the problem with that is that Bruce never really just let himself be Bruce Wayne. He had to have both or nothing, put every single part of himself into the mission.

Terry reclaims Batman, and with someone else under the cowl, Bruce finally reclaims Bruce Wayne. Powers and his hold over Gotham couldn't have been broken without Terry and Bruce working together, both in ways that would've been practically impossible without the other. When Blight dies, there's not even a question if they'll stop. Their redemption is already too far along.

I think part of the reason why Bruce kind of has this begrudging respect, this love/hate relationship with Terry's penchant for forgiveness is how it extends to him. I'd like to think that at first, Terry may have had resentment for what Bruce did with his company. If Bruce hadn't given up, Powers wouldn't have had the power to do what he did, and get away without legal consequence. But I'm not sure he would've held on to that resentment for long, or have it more then a thought in anger. Terry understands what causes someone to fall. As Terry said in the first episode, Something happened to you, and it wasn't just that you got old.

Bruce trains Terry, sees the potential in him to become Batman. But Terry also sees that Bruce could be better and pushes him to do so. He offers Bruce forgiveness and a second chance from his past failings. To make it up to the city he poured so much into and then abandoned. The really interesting thing is that Bruce doesnt offer that back, Terry's drive to be a better person is solely from himself. Bruce hates himself enough to stay in his misery, but Terry is the city's answer. So what? Life is not over. It's never too late. The push to take a risk and care again, about Batman, about himself, and about Gotham.

It starts here. When Bruce finally stands up to Powers, the figure of guilt and anger both if them share, and says no, I'm not going to let you do this anymore.

#sorry im rambling a bit #ah just really love this show #and everything it represents #it is such a trip going from rewatching clips of return of the joker to the first few episodes #because they are so close yet so far #but they already are helping each other from the very first episodes and its ahhhh #idk i have a lot of feelings about semi-sentient gotham finally having enough and sending terry to the mansion #in need but i prefer in love #wake up!! #here's another kid!!! he's going to roast you every five seconds!! #he's going to fly through the city and see the sunrise and make a stupid joke and you are going to feel alive again dammit!!! #sorry dear god im tired #batman beyond #bruce wayne #terry mcginnis #tumblr mobile pls dont mess up my tags #meta