#i desperately want to make gifsets for this show but idk if my connection will handle it lol

[laufire]

Ministry of Time 4x01

I know nobody here cares much about this wonderful Spanish show since it doesn’t have teen drama (look, I enjoyed quite a few things about Élite, but if I could pick ONE national tv show to be popular on tumblr... And fuck Netflix for taking it down of its page so I can’t recommend it left and right too), but whatever. I want to talk about it xD

It took me this long to watch it because the time period (Francoist dictatorship) is one I always have to ~prepare myself~~ in fiction lmao. The episode itself dragged a little bit and it didn’t have a lot of its usual humor (that seems to be compensated in the next, which I’ll watch tomorrow), but given the situation that’s fitting. And it was full of amazing highlights, say:

LOLA MENDIETA.

Irene fangirling over a young Berlanga, one of my favourite directors, and insisting he must go into film.

LOLA MENDIETA teasing Pacino while she has him cuffed to the bed (I was unsure about this romance --like it in theory, wasn’t sure of how they’d do it--, but I really liked how they wrote it this episode).

Alonso, XVI century soldier, just wants to be a stay-at-home dad and says he watches tv shows for romantic advice (his current wife is a doppleganger of his previous wife and she’s called Elena. I know what show he’s been watching, js). I am, however, horrified that he cut off his hair OMG.

LOLA MENDIETA putting The Mission before everything, her relationship (which she identifies as a problem for “their” jobs but clearly meaning “his” lol) included, at all costs. Also, the phrase “yes, [me and my old sweetheart] fucked like bunnies”. And, ofc, the moment she has to slap the hell out of Irene to maintain her cover, my reaction was “look at my ship goooo” xDD

FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA. Just tell me he’s secretly alive too and make him a regular, is all I ask. That and seeing him interact with Velázquez ofc.

LOLA MENDIETA speaking against and clearly not making much of an effort on the whole “protect the timeline by stopping Franco’s assassination” mission (and in fact trying to assist Julian once it’s obvious something is amiss). Oops.

Julian’s return with bonus amnesia AND him trying to assassinate Franco (he continues to be relatable lmfao). I had missed you buddy. And I’m so eager for more interactions between him and young!Lola, I feel it could be an amazing dynamic.

LOLA MENDIETA shooting her old sweetheart without flinching after discovering he’s a traitor (and him saying he hadn’t bothered to try to run away because he knew she’d hunt him down).

Pacino hugging his pillow because he misses sleeping next to Lola d’aw xDD

LOLA FUCKING MENDIETA

[Caption: picture of Lola Mendieta staring directly at the camera while pointing her gun ahead.]

#lola mendieta #el ministerio del tiempo #julián martínez #irene larra #alonso de entrerríos #emdt thoughts #my thoughts #talking to the void #lola x pacino #pacino #i desperately want to make gifsets for this show but idk if my connection will handle it lol #anyway. tomorrow onto the next one! which has almodovar; 80s; and velázquez drama lmao #scopophobia cw #gun cw #favourites: smash the system #i love her so freaking much your honor

[logically-asexual]

okay i'm already procrastinating and i don't plan on sleeping any time soon so here we go.

☆ ✩ my personal ranking for every season 1 Sanders Sides episode. ✩ ☆

i think it's going to be pretty similar to @dukeofonions' but let's see if i find something new to contribute haha. i see you didn't include that one about Patton in the Big Game or whatever, so i'm not including it either xd. also i think i'm going to count Accepting Anxiety as one episode only.

edit: i finished and now i dare you to drink a shot of water every time i say the word spanish or a version of the word comfort and become very well hydrated.

#16 I'm in a Disney Show

(i agree with dukeofonions here) i always forget this episode exists. it was ok in terms of being happy for real life Thomas but as a Sanders Sides episode it didn't do anything. the sides were just giving their opinions but it wasn't very funny or interesting. also i'm bitter because it made me look up the episode he was in and i didn't like it at all. i don't know if i'm too old for those Disney shows now but Thomas was literally the only good part of it, everything else was really dull and boring imo. a waste of time.

however, Logan supporting clickbait is one of the funniest things ever, and i'll never forget it.

#15 Becoming A Cartoon

i didn't hate this episode but it was just .. meh.. you know? several factors contribute to this. one, i couldn't feel much nostalgia for Butch Hartman's shows because i watched them in Spanish, and everything feels really weird when they speak English, i don't like how my old cartoons sound in English. two, it was disappointing to me because we were all desperately waiting for Plot™ and instead they give us this short episode about nothing (oh how the tables have turned now it's the other way around haha). and three, i didn't like the style of the animation :/ their faces and expressions freaked me out, Roman's douchey face still haunts me.

#14 Way Too Adult

here i'm biased because i don't like Patton much, and i didn't back when i watched the series the first time either, so this video was a little disappointingwithout the rest. also it wasn't relatable to me because i am still too young and dependent on my parents haha. but Patton is funny and it's funny to laugh at Thomas' struggling.

#13 The Dark Side of Disney

i've never been a fan of Disney movies. i actually never watched Mulan or the Lion King or Aladdin as a kid, so meh. i liked the ending, though, it was cool to see Virgil have fun and be right for once. it does make me a bit uncomfortable because the way Thomas tries too hard with Virgil's mouth movements and his low voice reminds me of a guy that had made me v uncomfortable not long before watching that video. so an icky feel overall.

#12 A New Year of Lying to Myself

this video was actually kind of fogettable to me. i had a hard time connecting the voices in the song to the characters and idk. i don't love it nor hate it, just .. neutral.

#11 My True Identity

pretty much the same opinion as dukeofonions, again. it's a good introduction and it's good that it was the beginning of it all but on its own it's not very special. i think it's awesome on Thomas to have come up with such a clever idea, like choosing the dad, the teacher and the prince and putting them together and match them with thoughts?? that fit so perfectly?? it really is just very impressive when you think about it, that it was just a random idea he had for a short 5 minute video.

#10 Taking on Anxiety

i liked this video a lot because when i watched it i had recently been a lot on tumblr, and found out through relatable posts that i had anxiety. so watching this video was really fun and it made me happy to feel so seen, specially the intro when Thomas just talks about what it's like to have Anxiety and Virgil is so smug about it.

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okay now that those are out of the way things are going to get hard... all the following i love with all my heart so i'm going to rank them based on the smallest things.

#9 Growing Up

once more, Patton isn't my favorite. so that's why i'm putting this here, plus the echo at the end askjhsahg, but i love love this video. i remember we were waiting and oh so ready for the angst of nobody taking Patton seriously. and we received!! i love that though Roman and Logan are antagonists here, they're both so happy about Thomas wanting to have a healthy life. and i just adore the way Logan admits his mistake at the end and asks Patton directly. my heart... also aw.. the nostalgia. i remember none of us knew how to spell Patton's name and were writing it in very funny ways until Thomas and Joan told us lol.

#8 The Mind vs The Heart

when i watched this video the first times i didn't like it much, because i only had eyes for Virgil, but later i came back to it and loved it. so taking that into account i'm putting it here. logicality was the first ship i ever shipped in the show because i saw a gifset on tumblr of Patton screaming "what do you know about love?!" and Logan "apparently more than YOU" and the caption said "MARRIED", and i thought hey yeah... anyway. i love them. they're both my dads since that day.

this video is so so so relatable and i love it. Logan and Patton are so much fun arguing and i love how they compromise at the end and work together. im reconsidering.. i might move it higher? no, fine i'll leave it here.

#7 Making Some Changes

this video was absolutely hilarious. i personally couldn't see it as the Sides still once they were acted by Thomas' friends, i enjoyed it more as that bunch being silly and trying to be the sides but failing in so many ways, while sometimes nailing stuff suddenly. i really don't take this one too seriously as an episode. except Joan!Logan and Valerie!Logan, my beloved... i love how Joan acted as Logan and their voice and that they kept their ace ring on.. there's a reason i had them as my icon for so long. and Valerie looks a bit (a lot) like me with the glasses and dressed in dark colors, plus she spoke Spanish and there's .. no words to describe the joy i felt when seeing/hearing that. wait i'm getting emotional...

#6 My Personality Q&A

when i watched this Virgil was my favorite side and i didn't care much about the rest lol. when i heard his answers i related to him SO much it was scary, and also his voice is so soft and it was all very comforting. it was also when i first starting looking at Logan with more attention, because when he brought up Big Hero 6 and Fall Out Boy and said he didn't sing and would recite it like a poem? it only took a couple seconds but my brain said "me" and never went back.

now this video is a little underwhelming to watch for me, most of the appeal for me was in finding out the answers, and also watching it when we didn't know a lot about the sides. now we know more and want to know more so it's not as fun to me as it was first.

i wish so bad they'd do another one, although i know it would be more difficult with a much bigger audience, i think they can manage and i just need it. the chaos.. the energy.. they all being so savage with each other, learning little random facts about them you didn't expect.. i need it.

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oh boy top 5 here we go. the next three are practically a tie. i can't choose.

#5 Alone on Valentines Day

i love Valerie, and the idea of this video was perfect and so perfectly excecuted. every side just giving their crazy opinions on how to woo a random stranger, i laughed SO much. first with Logan speaking simlish out of nowhere? at that point i didn't know practically anything about the sims except that it was some video game and the whiplash of Logan going AYO and the rest killed me. then when Roman whipped out that dialogue in Spanish??? my life was completed. i've never felt more happy than i did in that moment gosh. just the hilarity of Roman's drama, the shock of them speaking Spanish suddenly like that, the absolute JOY of seeing a creator i like speak (may i say) perfect Spanish, the other characters' faces after that.. never been happier.

also the conclusion was so cute. Virgil solving the whole problem without wanting to. i loved it.

#4 Am I Original

i think this video speaks for itself. it was fun to watch them all do the ideas Roman had, plus Logan and Virgil nodding at each other, (i love them so much), plus the angst at the end of Roman's perfectionism, plus Roman's just perfect name. this video has it all.

i think Thomas posted it kind of late at night and i watched it at 7am in the classroom as i waited for my classmates to arrive and the class to start. (i usually was like 40 minutes early to school due to mom’s work). i had to contain my laughter and it wasn’t easy.

#3 Losing My Motivation

i started loving this video after a while, when Logan passed Virgil in the position for my favorite side. but once he did this episode was beautiful. it's so funny and i love Logan and Patton's dynamic so much. and the video also so damn relatable in general. i felt so seen with it because they named all the problems i have when procrastinating, down to Patton's vague explanation of his feelings, it's exactly how i feel every time i want to do stuff. and the plot twist! i can hear the dramatic sound effect and see how they all turn to Logan clearly in my head, and it always makes me smile. plus there's so much Logan angst that can be dug up and overanalized. i love to watch it over and over.

#2 Accepting Anxiety

this video was perfect. everything we wanted. we knew it was coming and it delivered perfectly, better than any fanfic done in the waiting time. the week between the parts was agonizing but in a fun way somehow. i remember precisely when i was watching part 2 in my living room. i screamed. and i cried, a lot. i was feeling terrible at that time in my life and Thomas was such a comforting presence and i can't begin to describe how this episode made me feel.

and later it is always fun to rewatch with all their different reactions to being in Virgil's room, the energy of that was on point. Thomas is such a great actor and the characters where just amazingly performed. plus it gave so much to talk adn think about, the idea of the rooms, lots lots of insight into the characters, foreshadowing, so much. it's just perfect i have nothing else to say.

#1 (for purely emotional reasons, ironically) My Negative Thinking

i think Accepting Anxiety is the best episode of the season objectively but my favorite is My Negative Thinking. because i love Virgil and Logan so much and seeing them argue together was and is great. the comfort.. i can't repeat that word enough throughout this post. it's such a soft video while not being overwhelming with Patton and Roman's outbursts. just quiet (mostly) and clear and with perfectly timed humour.

Logan my beloved.. learning spanish... helping me with my own anxiety.. and their debate was so good. and the fact that they were friends i- i can't. Virgil didn't think Logan liked him and Logan told him explicitly that he did and the casual softness of it i cant even. Logan is happy that he tried.. it's just marvelous. Virgil and Logan as best friends will always be my favorite pair, and their dynamic will always be what i strive for in any relationship i might form, with both sides silently comforting each other within their own limits and realistic perspectives. so nice.

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so yeah. that's all. thank you if you read all the way up to here. ♡ ♡ ♡

#sanders sides #thomas sanders #logan sanders #virgil sanders #patton sanders #roman sanders

[sometimesrosy]

Could you explain the tags you posted on the posted on Clarke watching bellamy sleep? How was she protecting others over people she loves in s6?

Anonymous said:i just saw your post about Clarke’s protecting -people progression through the seasons, where it ends w/ the most recent season 6. What’s your take on that development and what it means about her character journey? Do you think it’s good progression? where do you think it might lead for season 7? i think i read clarke’ll be almost obsessed with not loosing anyone else she loves. Considering her pattern of development, do you think that’ll be a positive thing?

I had two people ask a similar thing so I figured one answer would do. 

That gifset, where we saw Clarke watching Bellamy waking up after she’d kidnapped him from his spy mission during the conclave, reminded me, suddenly of the scene where she watched him sleeping and then put his name on the list to save him. 

I started to think about that character progression.

I’ll be honest, i don’t have a total handle on it, it’s a thing I’m still thinking about so I am leery of making a proclamation as some sort of definition. That’s why i put it in the tags, those are often just thoughts, sometimes that haven’t been all thought out yet. 

Clarke would do anything for the people she loved. This is canon. And in season 5, Echo pointed out that her people had shrunk down to just one person, madi. And with Madi, we saw that her efforts to keep her safe had become negative. Kidnapping, restraint, sacrifice of other people, torture, refusal to hear what Madi said, reversal of her previous philosophies, revenge. 

I think the progression is neither good, nor bad, it’s a STORY. To make a story, there have to be goals and obstacle and set backs and failures. Clarke, as a hero, has her OWN narrative within the larger narrative of The 100. Her saving her people is part of that narrative. There’s a purpose to it. We’re still on the journey, the narrative, so we don’t have the entire context yet. 

We see her efforts to save her people have various effects on her character, from her rising strength in season 1 to her collapse in season 2 to a rising loss of faith in humanity and herself from season 3-5. season 6 shows a return to herself, a return to humanity and a return to the hero that she was as a girl.

Oh. Hey. You know there’s a saying in recovery from trauma and abuse. Unfuck yourself. Like the goal is to get back to the you before you were fucked with. Pardon the language, but I love that word and that’s a very good way to put it. The 100 has a character progression that shows Clarke strong, then Clarke slowly getting totally fucked, then not as slowly, unfucking herself. 

When Bellamy put the flame in Madi, the faith and hope that she was starting to regain, the desire to step back into the hero ring, completely fell apart. He was her last connection to humanity, and in her retriggered trauma, it felt to her that he betrayed her. So she did an abrupt about face on her development and regressed, not just to an earlier traumatized her, but to... well... to the person who traumatized her. She acted like Lxa outside of the mountain. So sad too bad good bye I’m out. 

And then we had that delightful scene between Clarke and Echo and FlameLxa where she is called to task and Echo called her on her betrayal and told her Bellamy was alive, and Madi told her what Lxa said... that her betrayal of Clarke was absolutely wrong and the worst mistake of her life. Which points out that this WAS the incident that was being replayed. And, because Clarke had made the development she had over the six years, she was able to shake off the trauma and reverse again, and finally do the right thing.

Okay, but how does that lead to season 6? There was a lot of her facing herself and her feelings ABOUT herself and what she deserved, from the attempted eclipse psychosis suicide, to monty scolding her for giving up.. because THAT IS NOT DOING BETTER. A reminder that Monty was actually her. She doesn’t want to die, even though she hates herself so much. She had to make peace with herself. And you know what? I think she needed Bellamy’s forgiveness. 

Right? She made the floating lantern only for what she did to him. Okay so her mindspace didn’t show Bellamy in it... because she was too afraid to face him... also in canon, wasn’t it?  But when she was ready to fight back, she reached out to BELLAMY, and Bellamy dropped everything and fought for her. 

Bellamy reaches in, and with the power of his love, NOT A WEAKNESS, draws her out of death’s arms, and they are together, the way they are supposed to be, the head and the heart. They move on to save their people, and sanctum if they can, but what happens?

They save sanctum, but CLARKE loses her mother. CLARKE pulls the lever and FLOATS her mother with her own hands because she can’t let her kill the eligius prisoners. People she barely knows. She sacrifices her mother, or her mother’s body, for them. That was the lever this time. Abby is killed. (Yes Abby was already dead, but she did not want to do that, she still held out hope she could get her back even if she couldn’t.) It was also a reflection of Clarke’s INITIAL trauma, the death of Jake, which she was there for, which she watched, from her mothers arms.

OH DEAR GOD. When she floated Abby this time, she ALSO had her arms around her. But this time she was clinging to her desperate to keep living or if not, to take Clarke with her. OH. MY. GOD. That is freaking evil. I mean it’s great. But wow JR way to not pull any punches. 

We KNOW Clarke though of this as a loss. Probably tied up with Abby being a host also, but it was part of her final dialogue. “I did the right thing and I lost my mother anyway.”

She saved the world and sacrificed her mother. Partly not her fault, of course, but she pulled the lever. And in this story, Clarke is always responsible for pulling the levers and leaving someone outside, no? Leaving someone to die. 

So I’m going to count Abby’s death as Clarke’s sacrificing someone she loves. And it’s always been Abby who Clarke loves, even before she loved Bellamy. Abby was the first, and also the deepest pain when she thought she’d betrayed her. The first forgiveness, too.

Anyway, watching Clarke cycle back through her trauma’s is also watching Clarke heal and become stronger. 

Good? Bad? IDK. Hard. I think that’s good. It’s a post apocalyptic survival story. This story is about surviving trauma and either rebuilding the world and redeeming humanity or losing yourself and dying. That’s part of the reason why we get so many of our beloved heroes dying painfully and failing to be strong, or good. 

Because the truth is, yes, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but that means that it DOES kill some people. They dont’ get stronger. They break. And watching the stories of the people who break ALSO makes us realize that it’s not some fantasy of all the pain being worth it. Or some sort of fucking gift. It’s not. Watching Clarke almost break, seeing her pain, even when she does succeed, even when they save sanctum, their people, and the sleeping army, we know what it means, and that she might NOT win... the goal or her own soul. Because we’ve seen so many people lose, including her. 

“Was it worth it?”she asked. 

They have to keep fighting anyway. They have to hope it’s worth it. And we have to ask ourselves if our own struggles and failures and pain are worth it. I think that’s a profound question, so I guess, in the end, I think it’s good.

#the 100 #clarke griffin #is the hero #character development #hero's journey #trauma #recovery #post apocalyptic science fiction

[princessarya]

Season Seven Opener : DRAGONSTONE

Because I love visuals so much, I have rarely voiced any opinions about the show or the books on this blog. I have always wanted to avoid ~discourse, and honestly, I just love gifsets and pictures so much. However, this season I have decided that since I have an active blog I would like to talk a little bit about my feelings on each episode for what that’s worth.

So if you would like my thoughts on the season opener, it’s below the cut!

First let me just say that yes I have read and adore the books. But in my mind, they are  almost two different stories, and I value each of them for different reasons, so I am not going to spend a lot of time talking about the differences or comparing them to one another.

That said, let’s dive on in!

Overall Score : 8/10

What I Liked :

I loved the opening scene. I know a lot of people don’t care for the logistics of how this happened both in the finale of season 6 and I am assuming in the opening scene as well, but I am livinnnnngggg for Arya’s revenge.

LYANNA MORMONT CONTINUES TO SLAY. I love her as a character, I literally get excited whenever I see her on screen. She really epitomizes being a northerner for me and she’s just 12/10.

Ed Sheeran! We knew he would be appearing and I think they did a great job of sliding him in there. That whole scene was completely brilliant and serves as a great reminder that the Game of Thrones is really hurting most of the common people. Plus, we get to see how human the Lannister army is and how rich they are are at least still portraying themselves to be because the armour was so high quality.

Jorah inquiring about Daenerys was a really nice touch, and obviously we are supposed to make some connections between curing greyscale and the dragonglass that is so abundant on Dragonstone.

THE GIANT WHITE WALKER! Whenever I see the white walkers I get goosebumps! So that scene where they are just marching toward the wall right after that huge Arya scene - I was practically all goosebumps. I cant wait for the battle scenes we will be treated to later in the season.

I enjoyed seeing Bran and Meera. I think Brans may be some of the most interesting scenes this season which I am very excited for.

I love those dragon statues outside of Dragonstone. it felt so good for me to see Daenerys in the place she was born. I don’t believe she was born to rule the seven kingdoms, but she was born a Targaryen, and it feels good to see her at her family seat.

What I Didn’t Like:

Why did they spend three precious minutes on Sam emptying chamber pots?? We get it - he’s unhappy. And why does Gilly get to stay with him? I know logic is not this shows strong point, but I just could have done without most of the Sam content in this episode.

I hate that Arya is headed to Kings Landing. Like most people in the world, I am desperate for the remaining Starks to make it back to one another. I don’t think Arya will be successful at killing Cersei so I really hate that she’s being wasted again when we just got her out of a huge plot suck in Braavos. She specifically mentioned she was going home - did she just mean Westeros? Surely by now she would know the Starks had taken back Winterfell, why would she not at least stop there before making the revenge journey? 

To be honest, I am losing interest in Jon really fast. I was VERY put off when Jon just assumed the KITN position over Sansa, whose I believe it rightfully is, but I was willing to overlook it because I have been so invested in his character. I get that he has actual leadership experience and I get that he is a male, and I get he is a battle hero, but honestly Sansa has been nothing but right in my opinion. Maybe I’m biased towards her? He literally says “be smarter by listening to you?” and I’m screaming at the TV “YEEEEEEESSSSSSS”. The thing about Sansa that makes her such an asset is that she really does personally know most of the players in the game and she knows them well. Not to mention she has literally spent the entire series learning from her mistakes and learning to play the game. Jon doesn’t know how to play the game and he doesn’t even realize it. Anyway, the least he could have done when Sansa disagreed (and the room supported her) was say “okay, ill take it under consideration and decide at another time”, even if he wasn’t really going to. I know thats not good TV but, that is way more respectful to his sister. And then to turn around and say she is undermining him. I don’t know I could go on and on about this situation, but to me it’s so toxic and it actually makes me root for Littlefinger which is just ...wow.

I just felt like the scene with the hound was a little too long. I could have gotten the same idea in way less dark screen time. I’m all about his redemption journey I just felt like it was a long scene.

What I am hoping for next week:

I would be really bummed if Arya spent all this time in the Riverlands and didn’t even catch a glimpse of Nymeria. I would love for the wolves to be a bigger part of the show, but I get that most of them are dead now so :/

I think we all hope to see Gendry at some point!

I am actually hoping Jon leaves the North sooner than later now because idk I think once he’s out there on his own trying to negotiate with these people he’ll realize what an asset Sansa is.

If you made it this far, thanks so much for reading! if you’d like to discuss any of these things my inbox is always open! I only ask that you respect my opinions because I will certainly respect yours!

Enjoy your week and I’ll post another one of these after Episode Two!

#game of thrones #got #got thoughts #.txt #s7 #got spoilers