#if only i were a show writer...

[obsidianbit]

I love this gay ass show with its literally life ending injuries that heal immediately, but only when convenient to the plot, and its ridiculous use of modern phrases, and its laughing in the face of historical accuracy, and its kissing the face of the fans instead of trying to outwit them, and the way everyone involved in the show seem to go 'I KNOW RIGHT! I'M EXCITED TOO!' instead of mocking the fans

#i have so many feelings #i can't quite express the way everyone involved seems to want us to love the show #like when you love something so you show it to a friend and vibrate with excitement while you watch them love it #so that you can scream about it together #it feels like djenks and the writers and the cast and the crew are in on the joke *with* us #which contrasts so sharply to the way so many fandoms find themselves to *be* the joke #the joke being how much we love the show #the fact that everyone involved cares *so much* about the show is really obvious #not just this is a fun show but this is a *meaningful* show #i truly have never felt so much like i have a community as i have with this show and the fans of it #it is also one of the only shows i can think of (maybe some of neil gaiman's adaptations?) where the trademark over analysing and meta #and theories of the fans isn't ridiculed #this ties back into the being in on the joke thing #back when we didn't know blackbonnet was going to be *canon* canon #and djenks reaction to us freaking out that we were RIGHT was basically #well yeah? #i want to write a love letter to everyone but i don't know how #ofmd #mine #our flag means death #david jenkins #ofmd s2 #ofmd 2 #kissing david jenkins on the mouth

[muffinlance]

Do you get the impression the live action is treating us like utter morons?? Like I thought that making it aimed at an older audience would open the doors for more subtle story telling, but no, they're just using monologues to tell us eveything! Like in the second episode Katara's like 'oh his power isn't that he's the avatar, it's that he ~connects~ to people'. Girl we're not idiots we can see that!! And the first episode with Aang's goddawful 'I don't want this responsibility' monologue

THIS, YES. The word that keeps coming to mind is definitely "subtlety". The show for literal children? Had it. The remake for adults? Not so much.

#This is literally Storytelling 101: Show Don't Tell #I'm sorry scriptwriters I know you were working before your union won minimal staffing in writers' rooms and decent pay and all that #but You Know What You Did #Also cgi artists plz unionize #A few more hours on Momo would have maybe taken him further out of the nightmare monkey puppet category #I know some people are reporting him as cute #But all I can see is a creature from the Magnus Archives #that thing is the skin of Momo being worn by something that doesn't quite move right underneath #And maybe it is looking for a better fit #Don't let it touch you adorable child actor Aang #avatar the last airbender #atla #natla #Anyone looking to block the live action posts I'll be tagging all of these with that natla tag going forward #But yeah not going to post about it much #I came I saw I deemed it not worth the hours of my life it asked #I can literally write a better Avatar AU than this #Anyway back to Toph beating up Blind Zuko! #*write write write" #(their big budget fanfic can't hurt me it can only introduce more fans to the original)

[mamawasatesttube]

timcassie is so compelling to me. they were not into each other even a little bit. it was such a messy coping mechanism fuelled entirely by grief. they were making out with each other because they were both substituting each other for kon. cassie was far more aware she was doing this than tim was. unironically, dating a girl here is one of the gayest things tim has done

#rimi talks #it is SO messy and its so fun. i don't think geoff even realized the implications but they sure are there when you read it #god... you know its BAD when modern comics have me missing tt03 of all Fucking comics #but like. todays ''tell don't show'' writers would N E V E R do something this interesting #tom taylor would be all. oh! tim we shouldn't kiss. i'm just substituting you for kon because i miss him and you were his best friend! #and then he'd have tim go oh wow cassie you're right i didn't realize that! my bad. all forgiven? yay!!! :) #GOD YOU KNOW ITS BAD OUT HERE WHEN I THINK *GEOFF* DID SOMETHING RIGHT. GOD. GOD #GEOFF MY MORTAL ENEMY GEOFF. grits teeth yeah geoffrey i have to give you this one............ #its just such a deliciously unhealthy coping mechanism. theyre a MESS. theyre using each other. theyre only able to go on bc of each other #its not a romance but it IS a codependency #bart isn't even dead yet when this happens. like. he's just off being the flash. #bart (extremely depressed bc he couldnt stop sbp and hold him in the speed force forever): :| ok #not his circus. not his monkeys. #well it is his monkeys even if he left the circus. but he's too depressed to deal with it #but its so fun. this relationship is haunted. there's a ghost in the middle. they both want to kiss him instead of each other. #tim #cassie #timcassie

[butterflysonnets]

yes i'm rooting for m*leven breakup because byler is neat but mostly? i'm rooting for m*leven breakup for the sake of el and mike.

to me, their romance was always a puppy love born out of a combination of social pressures, naïve curiosity, and a lack of true understanding regarding intimacy and romantic love and what it really is. it was real in that they do truly, deeply care about each other and they are close friends, maybe even shared an attraction, but a maturing romance is so much more than that. they've grown up and out of being boyfriend/girlfriend, and that's okay! i think television/film needs to show more often that most of us don't have definite "soulmates" or first childhood loves that we spend our whole lives with. it doesn't mean these relationships meant nothing and didn't impact us, it just means they've run their course and that something else is in the cards, and this is part of life!

i've always felt el was at her best and most confident self when broken up with mike, discovering who she was and what she liked alongside another girl her age instead of just relying on mike for mentorship on how to live in the real world. she deserves more of an opportunity to find herself, her autonomy, and her independence, and to love who she is, and she's made it clear she's felt insecure in the relationship with mike because she isn't being loved and understood the way she wants, needs, and deserves from someone who is her partner.

also, it's okay if mike doesn't love her in "the way he should". he is not obligated to love her romantically and stay in a relationship with her just because she's a girl, because she "needed someone", or because he cares about her a lot. he shouldn't be pressured into a romance if it's not truly coming from his heart. he deserves freedom to find out and honour who he is, too, instead of just staying in his non-functional first relationship — one he got into as a child, essentially — and defining himself that way because it's what's expected when a boy and a girl are close. he loves her in some way, yes, but it's okay if he doesn't feel comfortable or secure being her boyfriend anymore, for whatever reason that is. he's felt insecure too, and that's valid and it matters.

they are their own people and are steadily growing and changing every day. they need time to figure out who those people are, and it's become clear (at least in my opinion) that those people aren't meant to be a couple at this stage.

they deserve freedom. they deserve to grow up and be authentic to themselves and not feel like they need to lie for the sake of a relationship. they deserve to move on from this version of their relationship that isn't making them happy and rekindle the best part of their bond: their strong, beautiful friendship. they don't have to be a couple if it doesn't make them stronger and better and happier people.

i think it would be healthy and wonderful for a show, especially one consumed frequently by young adults, to show a relationship starting, progressing, and ending on good terms in this way. sometimes things don't work out, and that is okay.

#eve text #elmike #stranger things #byler #only tagging byler because i feel like yall will like this take lol #tagging tagging tagging WHAT ARE EVERYONE ELSE'S THOUGHTS #god i can't believe i'm making a post about stranger things. this feels like poking a bear #i'm not particularly anti m*leven but like... they'd have to do something pretty special at this point for me to feel like it's viable #i'm seeing the bts of s5 and it's got me Having Thoughts #elmike friendship is something i am so passionate about #even before i ever liked byler (didn't ship at all until s4 even though i knew it was a thing before) i've felt this way about elmike #i always believed they were close friends at heart and needed to break up #the romance part of them felt very distinctly young and very much “he was a boy she was a girl” to me #and it hasn't deepened into anything more mature and i don't see how it could based on the current state of the writing... #the fact that lumax exists — a young relationship that is actively maturing and is healthy — makes that clear to me #and the “love confession” in s4 and how disingenuous and miserable it felt was just the nail in the coffin #also the fact that will (who is IN LOVE with mike) was instrumental in making it happen? ... uh... okay... interesting choice… #fucked up and reductive if they make it another queer unrequited love sacrifice for the sake of pushing the heterosexual agenda YUCK #so i really hope the speculation about a m*leven breakup is real!! i think it just makes sense for their characters but who knows #i don't believe in the notion of love at first sight or one true love and i think the writers don't too??? #love to me is an accumulation of experiences and we inevitably choose it at some point rather than fall into it... but idk #tv is so fixated on keeping couples together... sometimes it's just not reality guys especially with young people... LET IT GO... #like i said though i'm not 100% sold that they're going to give up their “golden couple” LMAO #stranger things hasn't historically subverted too many tropes if i'm being honest #anyway i seriously need this season to come out quickly... i'm so bored and getting my master's is crushing my soul #i need frivolity #ALSO btw i won't respond to hateful messages about this so please don't bother. it's not that serious. this is a netflix show

[diathadevil]

Do you ever think about how Fakir, after him and Ahiru finally broke everything that kept the town of Goldkröne in the ghostly hands of its writer, after they finally have some air of peace over the town finally being able to live in its intended early 2000s environment, that Fakir still feels at times like it's not real and that for a while he fears that if he closes his eyes it'll be back in Drosselmeyer's control. Like it just doesn't feel real to him during that first year of calm, until he feels the dull pain on his recovering hand injury and Ahiru who follows him without a pendant anywhere to be found.

He doesn't feel it's real, the calm finality of this town, but he makes sure to feel the scar on his hand. And he makes sure to hold the little duck and realize that she is who she has always been. Him and the town are finally living peacefully.

#dia talks #princess tutu #He probably starts planning on writing Ahiru into the world mayyybe like 3-4 months into his recovery #he doesn't know what a cell phone is yet but he sure as hell can look at a bookstore and ask for a notebook and pens #i bet that first year in Goldenkröne must be hell because trading deals bring all sorts of new things into the town #Just Fakir going “what the fuck is a scooter?? Wait what's a CAR---” #he ends up having to read a bunch of newspaper articles about “Goldenkröne booming in German tourism!” #Actually does he even know his country's name... Did they all even know they lived in Germany and not JUST a city???? #Drosselmeyer would've really pulled one on them for only talking about the city and its outskirts and NOT the country it resided in #But let's assume they did know. Fakir would have to figure out so much has changed in 2002 Germany compared to whatever time they were in #My god just thinking about the thought of Fakir learning what a television is... or a radio for that matter has me howling internally #local amateur writer is put into a coma after hearing for the very first time german rapper Sido #alternatively: local amateur writer's brain explodes after hearing german Happycore artist Blümchen and dance pop group No Angels #ptutu spoiler #i know its a +20 old show but just in case people wanna watch it i love it enough to tag the post show headcanon #ptutu analysis #ptutu headcanon #ptutu post canon #Also sorry i keep jumbling between Goldkröne and Goldenkröne in the writing its 4 AM and the german part of my brain is a mess lmao #(its supposed to be Goldkröne but for some reason I keep making it into the attribute word Golden so dont mind the mistake) #(if you do i will sob please be gentle towards my polyglot self)

[buggachat]

Does the game end in the reveal???? Cause I need something to soothe the angst!

oh, definitely not. I mean, I haven't beaten it or anything yet, but the game is definitely going for a "could take place mid-season 3" feel. It's not going to have any status quo changes or anything

#mrots spoilers #miraculous rise of the sphinx spoilers #i wonder if any of the show writers worked on the writing for this at all? because it seems like it was originally written in french #and the characters do feel very in character and the situations do feel kind of straight out of the show #sometimes the dialogue is a little Off but only in a ''this seems like a strange translation issue'' and not the meaning of what's said #and that one gabenath flashback cutscene definitely has ''this feels like the writers of the show were consulted and this is actually #giving us real lore'' vibes #i dont know any of this for certain it's just the Vibes i get!!! #anyways this tag rant is all to say that i doubt anything in this game is going to directly contradict or override anything in Actual™canon

[fairyroses]

She was the only thing I was living for. I’m sorry for your loss, sir, but right now we need to get you airborne. Police will be here any minute. I’m well aware of that. I’m turning myself in.

— SMALLVILLE, “Bizarro” (7.01)

#it's wild how they were actually doing some interesting character work with lex in the beginning of s7 #('I wasn't miraculously saved so I could run away from my demons. I was brought back to face them' etc etc) #only for them to just go 'nah' midway through and toss out all nuance and complexity in favor of a million veritas-related retcons 🙃 #not sure if that's because of the writers strike or just this show's usual incompetence but it's a real shame either way #anyway I really liked this plot/scene #lex didn't kill lana but he knows he fucked up in a multitude of other ways in his relationship with her #so he's willing to be punished for a crime he didn't commit bc he doesn't know how else to make up for what he's done #(also him keeping the cute photo of them folded up in his pocket is so heart-achingly sweet I actually can't take it) #smallville #smallvilleedit #svedit #lex luthor #lexana #dcmultiverse #sv 7x01 #my gifs #god this gifset has been languishing in my drafts since *checks* FEBRUARY?!?! jfc... #I guess it's a good thing I have so many unposted sets saved since I don't actually have time to make new gifs for the next few months #but still. lol

[widevibratobitch]

ive been neck deep in fitzconte the last few days and it's amazing the things people can do with a character who has 4 minutes of screentime, says like three lines in total and also never actually directly interacts with the character the fandom decided is their bestie their pal their sweet cheese their good-time boy. and lover.

the cheetah is a homoerotic allegory yes yes we know.

#but the fics ive read. holy shit. there are so many incredible writers in this fandom. obsessed. #anyway. friendship ended with fitzier. now fitzconte is my best friend. #(<- a joke obv im a fitzier girlie forever and ever. but when you CONNECT the two... my goddd. now i feel im alive) #also its so funny how the fitzconte fics seem so much more like rpf than say fitzier etc cause like. #since we got next to nothing of these two in the show - the fic writers' obvious next step is to turn to their actual life history #since they were buddies irl and all. the clio shenanigans are just a well that keeps on giving. #where would we be without that cheetah fitzconte nation huh #the terror #fitzconte #i used to occasionally dab my fingers into this ship but now that ive read some fics where they're oh so delightfully toxic... im in love <3 #i still only like it in a very very specific way tho

[pharawee]

Boss Thawatchanin as BU & Gap Jakarin as DA — NORRASING (2023) · pt. 1/2

#norrasing #norrasing the series #boss thawatchanin #gap jakarin #gap jakkarin #norrasingedit #thai bl #thai drama #bl drama #bl series #my edits. #no subs we gif like europeans #here it is - the gifset(s) i made just for me #because i'm probably the only one who watched this lmao #negl you're not missing out on much #these two were the best part of the whole cheesy fantasy series #and they only really show up in the third part #i came across some tweets by their writer and he was incredibly excited for this pairing #and also it's boss so i started watching #(plus gap is going to be in idolfactory's the sign) #i regret nothing these two are angst and h/c personified #they're reincarnated demon besties/boyfies #only of course they don't learn until later and it's delicious~

[n7punk]

i will never forget being alone on the opposite side of the country from my family waiting for my college orientation to start, turning on the hotel TV and stopping on rerun episode of phineas & ferb out of nostalgia while i wait for it to be time to go, only to watch the disney channel original series phineas & ferb imply that dr. doofensmirtz is trans by giving him udders when he transforms into a were-cow. at 8am

#ive never forgotten this. its like a formative memory #because like. ONLY female cows have udders. and not even all of them do! i dont think they get proper udders until they calf #so the implication is what. that dr. doofensmirtz is a no-SRS trans man and i guess hes the one who had his daughter? #like. i know thats not what the phineas and ferb writers intended. BUT IT IS WHAT THEY WROTE #either that or his egg hasn't cracked and the were-curse brought out his true form LMAO #like. there's no cis explanation for this #words and things #literally every time this show comes up i mention this and no one ever gives a shit lmao

[alicentes]

FTWDs final season could have been so much better if it was revealed that Troy was running padre and controlling madison (as revenge) this whole time. He knew enough about nick and Alicia to make madison think padre knew who and where they were this whole time. And here are some other reasons how this storyline would make sense and be more interesting:

- Troy has a military background so him taking over and running a military base makes more sense than two teenagers building it up by themselves because all the adults died.

- taking and training up children to be solidiers also would make a little sense because of his own fucked up upbringing and the idea he has of the type of people who were made for this world. He would have probably had the same idea as shrike, that the kids stood a better chance at padre than with their “weak” parents. The mother of his child dying for being a good person and not getting to raise their daughter (who would not be named after his abuser) could have also played into this idea of the kids being separated from their good parents.

- shrikes radiation cure experiments: Troy ran walker bite experiments before, just to see how people would turn. So it would also make sense if the work we see shrike doing was something he approved of or an idea he himself came up with. As for shrike, it would make sense that she turned out this way if she’d spent years being mentored by someone like troy otto instead of becoming evil and stealing children just because her dad died.

- the scene where madison smashes the glass to expose “padre” would have been such a good and shocking reveal if it was Troy. Imagine Madison finding out that Troy is not only alive but had been the one running this the whole time!

There’s also a lot of other things I would have done differently for the other characters too and I would have liked Madison to have a little villain era and do some really fucked up shit as she tries to take down Troy and padre. How dark would Madison go? Would she survive with her humanity still intact?

I know I’m just talking into the void here because no one care about this shitshow but I just hate it when shows have a plot that could have been good, maybe even great but then completely miss the mark and fans come with better theories and ideas with minimal effort and thought.

#somewhere dave erickson is screaming (and relieved that at least frank dillane stayed away from the show lmao) #fear the walking dead #ftwd #madison clark #troy otto #i also would have had s7a focus on strand vs alicia but v differently with only alicia’s ending staying the same pretty much #then 7b would have been wrapping things up with morgans family and actually seeing the group being taken by padre before having a time jump #then season 8 would have been the much better padre/troy/madison arc #the way these writers reaally do not know how to write for troy and madison #it’s like they tried doing what they thought DE wouldve done with them but couldn’t decide if they wanted them to be villains or be redeemed #anyway i will always mourn the arcs we were meant to have in season 4 #madison becoming the villain vs nick and alicia and whatever was planned for troy #troy was only killed off bc dave didn’t trust the new showrunners with him and he couldnt save the OGs by killing them too lmao #but i am glad alicia is alive and we got to see daniel sharmans acting bc most of the cast were only giving about 20% atp #but who can blame them? the writing got to new levels of bad in s7/8 and their personalities were changing every few episodes #actually to be fair they did the best with what they were given they just seemed done #i only tuned in to alicias episodes in s7 so my opinion on the rest of it is from what ive read bc i just could not get through it #so my opinion on the characters full arcs in s7 may be wrong

[starrrbakerrr]

i love when a rina moment randomly pops in my head because i just feel so at peace, happy and content. we really won that against every off. and against the fans of two more popular ships that constantly invalidated rina and us. all we had was s2 delusions and tim’s vague words. trusting a showrunner is terrifying because 90% of the time they managed to mess up something and i can say rina is the first tv ship that didn’t disappoint me at all.

#it was the homecoming scene btw 🥹 #it’s a Disney ship so it’s hard to make things problematic but still… #it’s been so long since I’ve watched any scenes of them I need to #rina #hsmtmts #text #side note #i often think about Ben and felicity and they had such a wonderful build up only for the writers to make them both cheat in the last season #and they were still endgame but i couldn’t be happy about it #it’s one of the shows where I choose to ignore the final seasons and act like they don’t exist #because the writers can’t think of any conflict other than a cheating storyline

[dreamlanddoll]

Re-watching hazbin hotel rn with a fresh perspective and honestly??? A lot of the things people criticize it for are such small issues and at the very most issues that MOST good shows have. Like, the writing isn't perfect but it's so endlessly charming and fun and beautifully animated that it's really not as bad as people make it out to be.

#and im saying this as someone that used to be a hater #personally I LIKE that theres lots of characters #and its not really the writers fault that they were only given 8 episodes for their first season #i think they did ok with what they were given #idk man #like im not a hardcore hazbin defender/vivzepop meatrider (I kinda cant stand her actually) #but people go SO HARD IN on this show in particular like.. why #it could be better but it couldve also been a lot worse #idk man i like it it makes me smile #its a cute show and i like the songs #hazbin #hazbin hotel #hazbin critical

[bumblingbabooshka]

[TUVOKTOBER: Day 9] Ballet with the Captain.

#Tuvok #bea art tag #tuvoktober #Janeway would love doing a ballet recital if there was significant lore in the holonovel about the stakes and so forth #Tuvok does not want to do a ballet recital. He does not see how this is enjoyable. #Janeway canonically took dance lessons as a kid and Tuvok just seems like he would have too. #They were both forced to take piano (or its equivalent) and dance - and they both hated it at the time #But Tuvok stuck with lute & Janeway quit both to go on to other hobbies (she had/has a lot) #<- gets bored a bit easily and likes the excitement of a new challenge #Janeway...ok. I think she would make her romantic interest in this holonovel be: #A brilliant but sort of dismissive reporter who's an amazing writer but gets stuck doing pieces he has no passion for. And she draws his ey #bc she's so good at dancing and they have flirty banter where she shows him how dancing isn't boring or dumb and you KNOW she's putting in #scene where she like makes him dance in the rain or something. And he's graying despite only being a few years older. #The holonovel ends with him appreciating dance and writing an amazing article about the performance which she reads after #some sort of misunderstanding only to realize gasp! He really DID love her! And she opens the door but he's already there (he came to #apologize) oh Kath will you ever forgive me? of course...[kissing] #camera pans over to Tuvok who's like “=_= ...” #st voyager #st voyager fanart #also Janeway is a rose & Tuvok is an orchid

[ardentpoop]

it's driving me fucking nuts that mary only ever tries to contact dean lmfao

whenever she gets his voicemail im like hey have you tried calling your other son. remember him. they're literally always together if u wanna talk to dean so bad

#i know it's to ramp up the goddamn suspense but STILL #only time she's reached out to sam so far is when they were both icing her out and dean was ignoring her messages #bc she knew sam would be the easier one to crack #im trying to be patient w her! however i did not trust the writers to handle her arc well from the start #i was expecting her to be there as an accessory to dean like so many other characters are #thus far not AS bad as i was expecting but the favoritism rankles given.....the rest of the show #i hope they at least acknowledge it later #liveblog tag #12.20

[tiredguyswag]

i think instead of putting the blame on the writers of the series we as a fandom should shift it to the corporate office like im 101% sure that's where it went wrong. also netflix has a bad habit of cancelling great shows with latine leads like that may not be what happened here but it DOES happen

#and thats just capitalism babey!! #it kinda feels like the writers had a lot of ideas they didn't wanna throw away #and as they were nearing the final episodes they just went OH SHIT and with good reason! #eight episodes was not nearly enough to finish telling that story #felt like there were so many storylines they wanted to explore even in the season like some of the dialogue was definitely hinting at smth #but then!!! you get!!! eight!!! fucking!!! episodes!!! #and yes i agree that there are a few parts that are just bad writing full stop #but it couldve been such a great show if it only had more time #and it feels wrong to put the entire blame on the writers without saying a word to the corporate offices. i know one of you fucked it up #carmen sandiego #carmen sandiego 2019 #carmen sandiego netflix