#i really wasn’t expecting that

[the-midnight-sugar1]

I don’t think he hears genuine laughter very often

#I love the idea that pomni laughs at one of his jokes #like a really stupid pun #and he wasn’t expecting her to laugh cause no one does #not even kaufmo could get laughs and HES A CLOWN #And he’s just mesmerized #when was the last time he heard someone laugh? like REALLY laugh? #idk but I think he’d want to hear her laugh again #tadc showtime #showtime ship #caine x pomni #showtime tadc #pomni x caine

[prrttycrier]

camden just came on shuffle i nearly fell out of bed, i was just chilling then BOOM ‘i never said it but i know that i can’t picture anything past 25’ at 9:50 on a sunday night

#jay’s music 🎵 #i really wasn’t expecting that

[seraphdreams]

SER WAKUI POSTED ABOUT THE NEW MANGA COVER AND I THIBK ITS SANZU BBECAUSE THERE WAS PINK HAIR IN IT BUT IT WAS CURLED ARE WE GONNA SEE CURLY HAIRED SANZU 😻??

i seen i seen!!! to me his hair looked slightly wavy but i hope we get to see him with his hair down or bonten hair, I CANT TAKE ANOTHER SECOND OF THE TIRED ASS SIDE PART

#his outfit is so… dark #i really wasn’t expecting that #seraph.replies!

[fizzytoo]

simblr mutuals i think you guys should indulge in more games (lovingly)

#*fizzyspeaks #i mean this in a way like post other games or talk about other games. i'd love to hear your opinion on them or just plain ramble about why #you enjoy it or not #obv you can run your blog however you want. i'd love it regardless #edit: i mentioned this in a most clarifying what i meant - #-but this post was made really with my mutuals in mind. i didn’t expect this to leave my sphere #i enjoy seeing my mutuals talk about other games they enjoy #this wasn’t supposed to come off as a “simmers arent real gamers” take. i don’t mean that

[violetmusic]

The Percy Jackson Movies: the ideal adaptation for anyone who hasn’t read the books but likes the concept

The Percy Jackson Series: the ideal adaptation for new fans and younger fans

The Percy Jackson Musical: the ideal adaptation for older fans and fans who grew up with the books

#I was thinking about why the show was bothering me a bit #because it’s really good but #it’s so geared for younger audiences #and for some reason (as an older fan) I wasn’t expecting that? #but I went back to the pjo musical and it was just what I needed #but both the show and musical are very good #just very different in tone I think #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson musical #pjo #pjo series #pjo tv show

[illuteridae]

really enjoyed demonology by @mouseonamoose , drew this to tie me over until the next chapter of angel-centered therapy

#can’t even tag the author properly ah well…. anyways! really didn’t expect to love these fics as much as I do #I’m usually very picky lol #can’t wait to see where this newest one is headed. aziraphale is just more interesting to me as a character and it’s sooo good so far #anyways if this wasn’t obvious #my interpretations of aubrey thyme/davey. theyr silly to me :) #good omens #demonology #does the fic have its own tag? well see #aubrey thyme #david hampson #rogart

[prince-kallisto]

WAIT WHAT????

RAFIKI???? 🤯🤯🤯🤯

Jack gained +100 Wisdom

BUT IS HE BASED OFF NOTHING OR WHAT??? 🧎🧎🧎🧎

#we all flopped as a fandom #pack up your bags everybody 🫡 #I’m…really surprised #I wasn’t expecting this #twst #twisted wonderland #twst spoilers #twst Jack #twst Jack howl #Jack howl #KallistoPost

[louieshalo]

demiromantic asexual riz gukgak save me… save me demi/ace riz who can’t distinguish his romantic feelings for fabian from his platonic ones

#the demi experience of ‘is this a crush or are we just really good friends’ #yes im projecting shut up #not to mention fabian whose comphet goes so hard he can’t even consider the reason he’s constantly bringing up riz around girls #mazey ily but baby do not date that boy #this has me thinking about that sophmore year moment where murph implies riz stayed up all night to watch fabian dance in fallinel #like I’ll throw up wdym he didn’t want to dance but still stayed to be with fabian #maybe this is the day I finally open a document and write a little scene about that #because murph simply cannot insinuate that and just expect me to move on #like. sorry ? he was there all night just watching him ? no way that wasn’t a night of an intense examination of his life and feelings #not that I don’t love the idea of aroace riz #it just fucks me up so bad when I read into all the accidental subtext murph and lou add so casually #dimension 20 #fantasy high #fhjy spoilers #fabriz

[forgetme-eternally-blissfully]

The White Star learns that Cale Henituse transmigrated from a body that he stole. He learns that the person inside Cale Henituse lived with the same curse that the White Star has to.

“Cale Henituse,” the White Star sneers, “or should I address the person inside of Cale Henituse?” Cale stiffens. What is this crazy bastard saying now?

“Yes, the man inside of Cale Henituse. How did my curse feel?” He shouldn’t know this information, but he does, Cale realizes. He has an informant on a god’s level. Raon flinches at these words, and Choi Han levels a deadly stare at the White Star. Oddly, Cale thinks, the blood draining from his face, it feels like he’s glaring at him. Cale doesn’t know why but it feels like he made a mistake somewhere down the line.

“You know the one. I’m sure all of your friends do too at this point as well. Was it fun? You must’ve lost your parents, or even been abandoned? Abused? Did everyone you care about die in a horrible accident?” Cale struggles against the sparking Records, trying to keep his mind on the White Star. In a way, Cale has experienced it all.

The past is the past.

“Raon, he’s stalling.” Cale whispers as quietly as he can, and Raon silently sends out the message to everyone. They need to be prepared. The White Star wouldn’t reveal this knowledge for no reason.

“Cale Henituse, you lived terribly, didn’t you? Yes, you must’ve been pathetic. No wonder you’re like this… You cling onto everyone you know but keep them at arms length, never daring to let the little bug within you know what counts as love, and what counts as use.” The White Star drifts closer, threateningly, and everyone flinches into position. Their eyes are shaking.

“You whiny bitch.” The White Star flinches, pausing in the air. “Do you think that’s how I lived? Is that how you see my actions?” Cale scoffs in disgust.

He’s wrong.

I took everything I could until everyone was gone.

I was selfish.

“We are nothing alike. We are not the same. You may be a disgusting liar, but at least I’m honest trash.”

I barely care about anything because it was always taken away. I don’t care about things because I don’t remember how.

“White Star, do you know what the difference between us is?”

Two similar existences stare at each other.

“Cale Henituse, stop rambling,” the White Star frowns.

Cale rushes at the White Star suddenly, grabbing onto his arm. Before he can shake him off, Cale whispers.

“I’ll tell it to you as a secret.”

Confident as ever, the White Star humors him. Cale whispers even quieter.

“You knew how to care before you chose to lose everything…”

“… While I never had the chance.”

An explosion erupts from their location.

Cale coughs up blood, smiling at the dour expression of his enemy.

“You throw everything away, but I hold everything as close as I’m allowed. As close as I’ve ever able to hold anything.”

Cale drops his expression, glaring up at the disgusting person in front of him.

“Just out of arms reach.”

The White Star launches an attack, and the fight begins again.

#does anyone feel like a bit of angst? #I just thought of what a confrontation between the two would be like #maybe I’ll think of his companions’ horrified reactions later #anyway I was just pondering on how Cale really does try to act similarly to how he thinks on the inside #sometimes he’ll put on an act but mostly he doesn’t hide his expressionless face or lie too often about his current state of mind #ofc that could also be bc he has next to no emotional intelligence. but he really does try #it’s just that everyone assumes that there’s a lot more going on behind his guarded mind (and there is COUGH COUGH it’s just different #and less normal than they would expect) #this was really quick so don’t mind any awkwardness I’m not good at action scenes and I wasn’t thinking abt the setting #not a reblog #tcf #trash of the counts family #lcf #lout of the counts family #cale henituse #Kim Rok Soo #white star #tcf spoilers #trash of the count’s family spoilers #lcf spoilers #lout of the count’s family spoilers

[sketchnwhatevr]

Saw paramore live for the first time ever a few nights ago and I had the time of my LIFEEEEE

#I WANNA GO AGAIN #I wasn’t expecting them to play decode #when it started the whole stadium lost their shit LMAO me included #these turned out WAY more detailed than I anticipated #my brain was like GO OFF #and I’m glad I did bc I’m pretty proud of these #I don’t think I’m really that good at coloring and rendering scenes fr #but this was a pleasant surprise #I’m learnding 🥹 #my art #my boards ✨ #paramore #hayley williams

[lulu2992]

So Greg Bryk regularly goes live on Instagram to chat with his followers and answer a few questions, and almost every time, someone asks if he’d like to play Joseph Seed again if he had the chance, to which he used to always reply that, yes, he absolutely would. However, in early 2022, he didn’t seem so sure anymore and said it would depend on the script (the question was specifically about a potential Far Cry 5 movie) and the writer(s). Then, a few months later, he implied he didn’t feel like playing the Father ever again because he thought the character’s story was “finished” and that Ubisoft should focus on creating new things instead…

Well, on October 14, 2023, he once again went live on Instagram and, when people mentioned Far Cry 5 in the chat, he revealed that he had reached out to Dan Hay and Drew Holmes, two of the game’s three main writers he’s become friends with, and that they had visited him “on set” (I’m not sure what he was shooting) the day before. In the past, he had already explained several times that he had loved working with them and thought the story they wrote (along with “JS”, Jean-Sébastien Décant, the game’s third main writer) was fantastic. This time, he added that Far Cry 5 was really “special” to him because the writers “cared a lot” about creating something great with amazing characters, and that he thought the whole Seed family was really well-written.

A few minutes later, when he was asked which character he would like to play again if he could, he said it was hard for him to choose because he loves them all, but he eventually picked Jeremy Danvers (Bitten) and Cobbs Pond (Frontier).

Then, surprisingly, he also mentioned Joseph.

I don’t know why he changed his mind again or if the fact he contacted Dan Hay (who doesn’t work for Ubisoft anymore) and Drew Holmes (who recently became the new IP Director for Far Cry) means anything, and I’m not sure I want more Far Cry 5 content to be released anyway (for continuity reasons), but I guess the Seed family’s return, as equally exciting and truly terrifying as this eventuality sounds to me, isn’t completely out of the question anymore in Greg Bryk’s mind!

#someone also asked if the book of joseph was canon but as expected he had no idea #actors rarely know that stuff and I’m not even sure he got to read it... #but yeah the boys’ awful childhood is definitely canon the writers have talked about it several times #far cry 5 #joseph seed #greg bryk #okay but... listen #I wondered if I was just imagining things when he first mentioned collapse during a live stream and I thought he looked a bit upset #the dlc wasn’t out yet but I was pessimistic so I concluded my fear probably was the reason he seemed unenthusiastic/disappointed to me #then when he said he didn’t feel like playing joseph anymore I once again wondered if it was because of collapse (which was now out) #but I told myself I was most likely influenced by my own negative opinion and he simply wanted to focus on new projects #but... now he’s happily talking about the original writers and how much they 'cared' about making something good #and he seems really enthusiatic again about possibly reprising the role in the future #so is he implying that he thought the other writers (the dlc’s)... didn’t 'care'? #does he also think there were problems with the seeds’ characterization in collapse?? #is it possible that I wasn’t just projecting after all??? #???? #...okay maybe I’m still projecting #but the timing is a bit suspicious isn’t it?

[reesiereads]

James and the Dupes (Goosebumps 2023 Analysis 3/5)

If you haven’t read the previous two parts of this analysis I highly recommend you do, however the jist is that I am attempting to show how each Biddle item is purposely symbolic of the kid it’s tied to.

I’ve already discussed Isaiah and Isabella so let’s talk about James.

(Spoilers below the cut, I seriously recommend watching the show first before reading, it’s definitely worth it)

James is the point of view for Goosebumps’ third episode The Cuckoo Clock of Doom, however James’ object is not the clock for which the episode is named. When listing the objects in Go Eat Worms Margot specifically says James’ object is the “dupes” aka the duplications of James that the clock created. I’ll be discussing the significance of this in a moment but keep this in mind.

The Cuckoo Clock of Doom starts once again the night of the Halloween party at the Biddle house and with James hitting his head for the first time on the cuckoo clock. James is disoriented and it’s implied he hit his head fairly hard but he decides to go through with the party anyway and it’s through his actions at the party this first go around that we see the most vital aspects of James’ character.

James goes throughout the party talking to just about everybody. He knows all their names, he’s personable and friendly, he’s a complete social butterfly. It’s very obvious though that he isn’t actually saying anything of substance; it’s all small talk. He knows everybody and everybody knows him but none of them are his actual friends. James’ demeanor through this scene is also very (for a lack of a better word) safe, it’s the sort of polite but casual tone you take when trying to make friendly small talk and it’s the sort of tone that while very forced very few people could take issue with.

When James stops to talk to Isaiah this very palatable tone fades but not completely, there’s still a very obvious amount of effort and energy being pushed into what James is saying. His words are casual but his body language and tone are practiced.

Essentially, James is a performer. His given description prior to the shows release labeled him as a “class clown” and this trope is a perfect encompassment of everything James embodies. He’s funny, he’s charming, just about everyone likes him but nobody actually knows him. He’s got a sort of casual confidence about him that is a complete act, but he’s so at arms-length with everyone around him that most don’t recognize his facade.

There are two relationships that perfectly show James’s true character: Sam and Isaiah.

Sam is the boy James likes but we aren’t given much of an indication why James like him other then that Sam is hot: this is deliberate.

See, Sam is the perfect vehicle to showing how James conducts most of his relationships. He approaches a person, he makes some small talk, he finds a topic the person likes and (whether he has any knowledge or interest in the subject) tries make himself palatable by discussing it. As a people-pleaser myself I can say with full confidence that this behavior is done with two goals in mind: to make the other person like him and to keep the conversation on the other person so he doesn’t have to talk about himself. This is the main reason Isaiah tells him he needs to stop trying so hard to be liked, because this people-pleasing behavior hinders James’ ability to form actual deep connections.

The reason James doesn’t take this advice is because that’s exactly what he wants. What the time loops reveal is that even when given the opportunity James will not be himself. He’s presented with the perfectly opportunity to try and be himself with Sam, being completely able to just reset the night once again if it goes wrong, and instead James abuses the time loop so that his lie about sharing interests with Sam will be more convincing.

This is further emphasized by the clones words to Sam. While yes, the clones are being purposely cruel to try and ruin James’ life, a majority of their words are rooted in some kind of truth. They are James and they are using the exact information and feelings James has to manipulate the people around them. When ruining James’ relationship with Sam the clone specifically states that Sam is “too clingy” and I believe this is the exact reason James was interested in Sam in the first place.

James went after Sam, a person he seemingly shared no interests with and only found attractive, because James assumed he could have a very (for a lack of a better word) shallow relationship with him. James was never looking for anything serious and his comment about “I don’t know anything about soccer but I don’t care because Sam is hot” emphasizes that. Why would James want a deep emotional connection with someone when he doesn’t even have a relationship like that with his best friend?

Isaiah is James’ best friend however his actual relationship with Isaiah seems to go roughly the same as his relationship with just about everyone else. Sure, they hang out a lot but most of their interactions seem to be James hearing Isaiah out about his issues and them talking about their crushes. Isaiah does question about James about how he’s doing but James either deflects or avoids the seriousness of the situation.

In The Cuckoo Clock of Doom Isaiah and James have a discussion after James’ botched attempt at talking with Sam. In this discussion Isaiah immediately knows James was not being himself when talking to Sam and encourages him just be himself rather then trying so hard to be liked. This, on it’s own, seems like reasonable advice however what’s interesting is James’ response: “that’s easy for you to say.”

Isaiah questions what he means by this and James, clearly uncomfortable, says nevermind and essentially forces the conversation to be dropped. Despite Isaiah being his best friend it’s very clear James is not comfortable being honest about his emotions with him.

The questions comes up again once James is found however and this time James is upset enough by the discovery that Isaiah, his best friend, doesn’t know him well enough to know if he’s a clone or not, that he elaborates. He states: “It is really hard to be 1 of 6 gay people in a town.”

The crux of James’ behavior, the reason he people-pleases and dances around serious topics is because he feels othered. He feels different from the people around him and he’s scared of the judgement that could come from that. A lot of his behavior reads as a sort of compensation, as if he’s trying to be as palatable as possible so people will like him despite the fact that he’s queer.

I imagine James also feels isolated the same way Isabella does, at least in an emotional sense. He keeps everyone at school at an arms-length and his relationship with his Mother is implied to be rather distant. She treats him more like a best friend then anything and paired with her alcoholism there is a very clear emotional wall between the two of them. There is no one James feels safe to confide in and I imagine it’s only worsened his feelings of otherness.

Now, finally, let’s discuss the Dupes:

The Biddle Clock and Dupes (roughly) work like this: When making contact with the clock a person is trapped into a time loop from the time of hitting the clock. The loop is restarted if the person attempts to leave the Biddle property. Every loop creates a duplicate of the person from an alternate timeline which Biddle is able to communicate with and who act as Biddle’s minions. The duplicates have all the information the original person had during the loop and, as their forms are goo of some kind, can likely change their appearance at will.

The duplicates take James’ place for roughly a week and during this time they set out to ruin James’ life as throughly as possible by destroying all his relationships. Sam is broken up with on ground of being “too clingy,” Isaiah’s relationship with Allison is worsened and his feelings for Margot are revealed which are things James likely knew a lot about as Isaiah’s friend not to mention the clone picking on Isaiah’s insecurities, and based on the comments about James’ mother James feels some resentment for his Mom’s behavior which the clone is more open about then James would be.

No one recognizes that the clones have taken James’ place despite them not acting very in-character. The people the clones strive to ruin James’ relationships with also all react very volatile to the clones’ behavior, showing how despite James’ efforts to be very likable his efforts haven’t fostered very strong relationships.

The message of the episode is fairly clear: If you keep everyone around you at arms-length and try too hard to be likable then you are inevitably going to be isolated as none of your relationships will have any kind of stable foundation.

#goosebumps #goosebumps 2023 #goosebumps analysis #character analysis #reesie rambles #(I really wasn’t expecting this one to get so long lol) #James Etten

[raggedy-spaceman]

nobody:

historians discovering obvious love letters between two men:

#good omens #good omens 2 #radiotimes #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #anthony j crowley #david tennant #michael sheen #I really wasn’t expecting anything different especially after reading some articles about Ed and Stede even AFTER the kiss lol #hope Neil sees this and destroys whoever wrote this #mine

[diorsbrando]

i like ‘em a little insane, covered in blood and severely mentally unstable <3

#ʬʬ.sosa speaks.com #!tw blood #!tw gore & violence #the grimm variations #the way i watched this on netflix but IMMEDIATELY ran to a streaming site to rewatch…. #just to take screenshots……im so insane #when i tell you #for 10 minutes i could NOTTTTTT get past the scene in the first 4 photos #i was feeling so so so so crazy and extremely feral it was hard to contain myself #bc i wasn’t expecting it at all #i have so many things to say about this episode 😭😭😭😭😭😭 #aside from this man it was actually really good the plot twist was plot twisting !! #the cinematography the music the animation the voice acting ALL A1 & TOP TIER #they did not have to make him look this DAMN GOOD??? he’s so deranged you guys i wouldn’t wanna be alone with this man 😭 #but at the same time………………..👀👀 #idk i want him to choke me while he deep in it and say compliment my every body part #not just in a romantic way but in a ‘i want to eat you and satiate my ever growing desire for human flesh and authenticity’ kind of way too #the fact that in the eng dub he’s voiced by ray chase makes it NO BETTER! his voice was so sexy here

[malinconicos]

me before ep 5 came out: yeah I mean im sure there will be some physical fighting. I mean there’s so much tension there and they both have like superhuman strength and are mad dramatic. im sure we’ll see it. it’d be unrealistic not to. of course. of course. of course. of course.

me after ep 5 came out:

#wasn’t expecting the brutality #that being said it’s horror and the violence is to be expected #like I get that #it was just really visceral and it made me sad :( #iwtv #tvc #amc iwtv #amc interview with the vampire #interview with the vampire #EDIT since I posted this as soon as the episode dropped and there wasn’t backlash yet: #this is not a callout for what happened #im just saying seeing them fight like that made me sad #i don’t really have a lot of opinions on it atm

[luckthebard]

Finally tuning into Burrow’s End and I absolutely love the characters. Jasper especially is fun to see on an video AP after hearing him on podcasts only previously. But I absolutely adore that Brennan took his “beleaguered person who wishes they weren’t in a ttrpg and is angry at all the danger” NPC type and decided “but what if as a PC”

#dimension 20 #Brennan was like ‘I love playing mother figures annoyed their children are adventurers’ and he’s valid #I will say I’m glad I saw a few people commenting on how good this season is #because based on the marketing I was expecting something TOTALLY different #and what the marketing framed was something I really wasn’t interested in #burrow’s end