#is what this ep felt like anyway

[walfs]

"if i fail to become the world’s greatest swordsman you’ll be disappointed right?" "you could never fail me."

the entire time zoro is bleeding out and luffy is losing his shit every part of him is moving around to check over zoro except the 1 hand he has latched onto his hip like a vice

"i just need to get zoro's sword ready for him. yknow, for when he wakes up."

entire 1m long dialogue of luffy fretting and being indecisive abt what might help zoro bc he has no idea but desperately wants him to be okay

"i'd eat both arms and legs to save zoro's life."

"he might die, luffy." "and i'd do anything to save him. anything."

luffy perched at zoro's bedside staring at his unconscious body. alone. for who knows how long

"aren't we supposed to talk to him? tell him stories?" "what would i say?" "whatever pops in your head. just... speak from the gut." "my gut hasn't been so great lately." "well... at least he'll know it's you."

"i didn't know what to say before but i know now, and it's so simple. i need you, zoro. i need you to wake up." -> zoro immediately wakes up bc its either that or disobey his captain and he aint abt that life -> luffy full straddling him knees on either side of his hips arms planted either side of his head chests pressed together faces inches apart -> luffy pressing the entire front of himself down in a fullbody hug and then gently petting his head

"it's my fault." "no, you didn't do anything wrong. you acted like a captain." "but our crew is falling apart." "no, it's not. i, roronoa zoro, vow to stand by your side from now until the end. so bring on the marines and the pirates and the sea beasts. you're my captain, luffy, and i'm your first mate."

zoro's fist resting over luffy's heart. luffy reaching up to hold his hand. extended moment of heartfelt silence as they gaze into each others eyes

#it can be yours if you want it #ep 6 personally took me by the hands and led me to the waters edge where the zolu rivers flow free #'drink' it asked of me and i wept as i drowned myself in those waters #because finally i could remember what breathing felt like #anyway im being completely normal abt this

[jamietxrtt]

im still baffled by the general response to ep 8 btw. sure the dialogue got a little cheesy at times, but the dialogue in this show is always like 15% cheesy? that’s why people like it lol.

i thought ep 8 was really good, plotlines were moving, drama was happening, characters and relationships were being tested. juno temple acted her ass off. i wish the whole season had been like this!

i really don’t understand why everyone disliked this ep so much. am i missing something? am i just looking for something different out of this show than everyone else is? i agree that the season as a whole has been… scattered, but i thought this past ep was really good.

am i missing something?

#i also feel so bad for keeley hazell #it seems like this ep was probably somewhat based on personal experience for her #considering keeley is based on her #and i really felt that genuine voice come through in the plotline and dialogue! #for the keeley parts anyway #but people are being brutal towards her specifically #i just. i’m baffled #sure the locker room scene was maybe a little preachy but like. literally this whole show’s premise is ted #standing at the front of a room and telling everyone to be nice #like i thought that was part of what we were signing up for lol #anyway. even with minor issues like that i still don’t understand how it could deserve a 6.6 on imdb????? #that’s lower than signs! i hated signs! #well not hated but yk #i certainly liked it less than this one lol #idk man. im just so baffled. like am i the wrong one here? am i missing something? #ted lasso spoilers

[whenfatecollides]

Xena Warrior Princess 3x07 The Debt (2)

You mean that I should serve someone who hates me. More than that, you need to serve someone you hate. I'd rather die. You've been a dead woman for a long time now Xena, I'm offering you the chance to live.

#xena warrior princess #xwpedit #xenaedit #wlwedit #wlwsource #tvedit #dailyflicks #xena* #gif* #I am 100% on the xena/gabrielle train bc duh but man I LOVE xena's relationship with lao ma and I wish we'd seen more of it in the series... #lao ma being xena's first turning point and helping her gain her consciousness back etc is so important to me... #lao ma is described as both soft and hard and that's exactly what xena needed and yeah she loved her and admired her so much to the point #that she felt indebted to her #xena in the debt ep series is lit like that meme that's like #If Lao Ma has a million fans then I am one of them. If Lao Ma has ten fans then I am one of them. If Lao Ma has only one fan then that is me #If Lao Ma has no fans then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world is against Lao Ma then I am against the world. #anyway I just love it - I just love the idea that dark xena came around to the point of wanting to serve this woman simply because she #believed in her and in how much of a good influence she could be 'I have been blessed or cursed to see into the souls of others. You don't k #know it yet Xena but you're a remarkable woman capable of greatness' #LIKE....... idk it just makes me insane the unconditional support the unconditional love.... anyways

[tragicotps]

Marisa Coulter + Stelmaria Bonus:

#marisa coulter #stelmaria #his dark materials #hdm #hdm edit #marisa x stelmaria #so many lost opportunities here not making them interact at all imo #s1 did it better #s3 is only about making entrances and exits lol #their daemons are mostly just background props #so many things couldve been said without saying anything at all by using them in other ways #most of the time they're not even in the scene while I feel they shouldve been #anyways i wanted to make a set with marisa an stelmaria in the same frame #which was like a needle in a haystack in itself #I'm very interested in what their dynamic would be like #this show would have been better with 12 eps instead of 8 per season everything felt rushed #my edit #mine #gifs look ugly but okay #dont know why im ranting about this 5 years after the show ended 😂

[villainvillain]

oop ALREADY seeing cold takes that are just "i thought the finale was good so if you didnt you are clearly just watching the show wrong and you missed the point of everything ever" like ok can we just accept that the world is more nuanced than that and doesnt always revolve around ur thoughts and opinions

#fionna and cake #literally these two episodes are FINE i dont hate them or dislike them even #nobody is wrong at all for liking them and if you like the finale thats so cool #its mostly just pacing issues and some writing decisions that made the pacing issues a bit worse #but i dont think these episodes are badly written #i just feel like. something weird happened here #the eps feel very different from the others #and whether thats good or bad. well thats up to you #but dont go 'actually you just enjoy the show wrong' if somebody disagrees #thats not smart #jesus christ i cant stress enough i have no overt negative feelings on the eps #im just very underwhelmed #anyways cant wait for my very mixed up thoughts abt this ending to be boiled down to #'idiot is mad that the show didnt spel out every single thing in detail for him' #cuz nah thats not what im looking for when it comes to AT #honestly it kinda felt like things were. #being spelled out... Too much ? for me? #i guess thats the side effect of #a childrens story simplifying the main conflict down to smth digestable #for the main character to read #and then go #'oh. Yeah' #like i see whats there. i really do. i like whats there #i just dont find the execution or pacing very jazzy

[roxyandelsewhere]

Angels’ trueforms in their most memorable moments [25/?] - Cas and Lucifer in the "What a peculiar thing you are." scene in 5x10 Abandon all hope.

inprnt | society6 | redbubble | ko-fi

#twentyfiiiiiveeee #spn #spnart #spn art #trueforms #mine.caro #spn fanart #ok so cas in this one isn't that special. he's pretty much like he was in 4x16 with some extra things so not that different from #the first ever trueform i made!! wow!! throwback monday! the differences are that the Red Right Hand 2: Gay Boogaloo is there #and there's a line like the ones in the fallen angel designs running through the trueform to parallel lucifer's fall like in the ep itself #and i tried out a new color i got recently in the wheels that is SO pretty. it's turquoise but sooo shiny. like the gold and silver paints #the red in the hand isn't as neatly edited as i'd hope for bc i'm still using photopea and it's so laggy #but anyways. cas wasn't the focus here bc he's pretty much 4x16+ftbym. the focus was lucifer bc i chose this moment #to be the one lucifer trueform i'm gonna make bc let's face it #the main things don't change much throughout time. and he had to be different from every other angel #so i thought. what's a deviation from geometric AFS that isn't flowy non-geometric and is clear and noticeable and gritty and grim #and i thought it could be the black and white not being separate at all anymore. a whirlwind of distortion from isolation and torment etc #so i did a basic trueform with a felt tip pen (a new eye design with some spirals sprouting from it and some upside down wings) #and then i smudged it all with rubbing alcohol on a toothbrush. you can still see the pattern underneath all this as the basis #then i did some fuckery with black and white acrylics and a really rough paintbrush. and then i got some crimson red and some silver #i dunked a metal chain in it and i smacked the paper with the chain. the idea was for that to be the vestiges of the angel wheels #crumbled and torn and broken. red and silver. smudged. uglee #and there's the Wanting hands coming from that whole mess. all reaching upwards whereas when cas has them they're reaching everywhere #oh and i added some white paint with a really tiny paintbrush too. and i think that's it #i'll add these to the stores later and i still haven't added zachariah bc i haven't managed to edit the scans with the right specs #but soon #this lucifer has some pollock vibes but it was honestly accidental it just built up as i added more layers

[skoulsons]

My lovely friend @not-so-mundane-after-all gifed this little moment <3

WILL BE PLAYING ON MY TOMBSTONE UNTIL THE END OF TIME 🤠

#I texted her #and I said #hey #when you finish the ep #would you mind gifing a moment #and then I said #you’ll probably know which moment I’m talking about since you know me #and then she finished and ep and was like #is it the shoulder touch #I said yeah 😔 #anyway yeah. #I see physical touch and I turn into a rabid dog #this whole scene #it was so domestic and I was just WAITING for something #I knew there’d be something because I felt it in my BONES #LET THEM HUG FILONI #GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT #THEY NEED TO HUG GOT DAMMIT #ahsoka tv #ahsoka spoilers #ahsoka gifs #sw gifs #baylan skoll #shin hati

[silvermarmoset]

your tags are SO true like it was one thing to bring tennant back pre-ncuti, since the whole point of that was quite transparently to increase viewership FOR ncuti, but to be like "actually tennant!doctor gets to go have his own life and ncuti is a totally different offshoot" is like ....... well.

i'm screaming a lot in the tags but i'm guessing you meant these ones?

#honestly. horrible horrible flex to set ncuti up across from the most beloved doctor from the start?#like i (and im guessing a lot of other people!) will /always/ be drawn to 10 and feel like he's our doctor#don't set ncuti up like that!! deny us dt and MAKE US LOOK AT HIM. this is so SO weird rtd wtf did you do

because yeah. it actually makes me a bit furious because leaving a spare doctor hanging around and sending Ncuti off as a double is just handing the perfect excuse to every bigot who wants to claim that Ncuti isn't the real doctor, the real doctor is back on earth in Donna Noble's garden. Why do that? Why make it easy for fans who want to drop the show now and pretend it's always the old way, forever?

i can think of reasons for doing it this way—like i'm 95% certain this was just a convoluted way to give Donna her happy ending—but none of the possible reasons i can think of justify going about it like this. I love Ten, and Tennant, I could watch him go on adventures forever, but the point should be I DON'T GET TO because because here's A WHOLE NEW WONDERFUL DOCTOR to go on adventures with! The whole constant point in Who is that change and death DO happen, and one of the joys is grieving the old while embracing the new!

But this episode doing this weird little pivot where you can die but still live, where a separate form of you can rest* so you can go on adventures....idk what moral RTD was aiming for here but it feels like he just shot his own next era in the foot for no particular reason beyond "we love Ten" (and we do but. come on)

*(what does that even mean?? canonically we know the doctor is restless and always running into trouble so what was the point of that?? it's confirmed he's going to mars on fun little trips!! this is the same man and you gave him a tardis and apparently there's no sacrifice at all?? what is this!! why!!)

#the giggle #dw spoilers #part of me is like. it's the epilogue! it's putting a button on the old universe and nuwho. but like— #NCUTI IS IN THE SAME UNIVERSE. it's still his universe! what are we even putting a button on here? are you going to tell me that every time #london gets invaded for the rest of the show (and lets be honest its going to happen within like 2 episodes anyway) we're all going to sit #and not wonder where The Other Doctor With His Own Goddamn Tardis is? why he is not helping here? #also. side note. it is not as egregious as *waves hands* everything else about this #but it felt like a very very big disservice to have ncuti's first moments still be david's #because i'll be honest. when david is onscreen i will watch him first. i will watch him and pay attention to him because he's my favorite! #putting ncuti across from ten (THE fave) is making him do TOO MUCH in his first twenty minutes of screentime #felt like setting him up to fail from the get go because of COURSE i was distracted by david tennant it's david tennant. OF COURSE. #just feel like rtd should have known better. PEOPLE DIE. make 10/14 die!! i will hate it but make me deal with it!! #then make me see 15 and fall fully in love with him #can you imagine if nine had been around during ten's first ep? skinny dt wouldn't have stood a chance. thats why we DO it this way russell #you HAVE TO MAKE US DEAL WITH LOSS. ugh im done fuming but yeah not happy w that #i mean. monkey brain me who loves ten and wants him to live forever was delighted. #the rest of me who has a brain and thought processes thought it was dirt and made 0 sense in any way.

[petekaos]

We’re partners.

Shahid Kapoor as Sunny and Bhuvan Arora as Firoz in

FARZI (2023), dir. Raj & DK Episode 4: Dhanrakshak

#farzi #farzi amazon prime #tvedit #dailypoc #pocsource #shahid kapoor #bhuvan arora #indian drama #okay there were some monumental moments btwn the 2 of them this episode but none where they were alone LMAO #i rly had to scrub to find any twoshots bc yasir chacha was with them a lot #they were actually so boyfriends this ep tho ... sunny being protective over firoz eg shielding him from the emotional trauma of seeing #naanu go through so much pain and having to be in this hospital PLUS them being kidnapped and sunny making sure firoz is okay #in the way that his first words after they come back to consciousness being 'firoz are you okay?' AND the give me your hand ... #like what was the reason for that moment. he said it so tenderly too ... #can only explain it this way: sunny felt bad after the whole kidnapping thing and wanted to comfort firoz using - once again! - #physical touch. that's their THING man :(( #anyway i hashtag love them and all and the next eps only get more intense <3 #rahul.gif

[straylaughs]

me having hope for bucchigiri?! to still turn around and impress me is totally not (it deifnitely is) based on the fact that utsumi crafted such an enjoyable experience with sk8 for me that i seriously cannot comprehend bucchigiri?! having no pay off

#i know sk8 has its own flaws but honestly it just has so many things i love about it that i can totally look past them #i can definitely enjoy shows that are fun just to be fun #but i feel like im missing something and im not even sure what it is #i do think one of my wishes would have been to get more exposition on the gangs #but just earlier on #ive seen people say they didn't love this ep #but i actually think it felt the most..story driven then the rest so maybe that's why i liked it #most of the eps were blurring into eachother in my brain #so i liked that there wasn't a sudden cut from the action just to insert the obligatory teacher cat-cafe(?) scene #anyways #we're now officially half way #hoping i can come back to this post and be like haha 'what was i so concerned for' #(coping) #bucchigiri?!

[cloudluvs]

it was incredibly frustrating to see keeley once again be the pacifier between roy and jamie. it's been three seasons and she's still having to deal with their jealously and conflict. like, why do the writers oppose her having healthy relationships romantically and platonically?

#the only one they got right was keeley and rebecca #and even that dynamic was rocky and stretched in season 3 #keeley would NEVER ghost rebecca #anyway. just watched the finale and truly what the fuck #im just. baffled #but about roy and jamie #it was so disingenuous to make them fight in a half-assed dick measuring contest #fucking pick me losers. and im so mad because the writers treated keeley sl terribly this season that the roykeelyjamie conflict #felt like another slap in the face to keeleys arc and characterisation #shes just once again reduced to love interest or boss bitch #cant be both. nope #and it was RLLY insulting to see jamies regression this ep too. bringing up the video was disgusting and i hated that whole scene. #again a slap to keeley #also roy getting therapy should have been established in the first episode #First few episodes at the MOST. Not the last one???? #god. this finale was stupif. hated most of it #ted lasso #ted lasso season 3 #jamie tartt #keeley jones #ted lasso finale

[nutria--oscura]

Yesterday's episode (S2 ep44) literally felt like a fever dream (especially the Normal stuff - my poor boy, fuck)

But scrolling through the tag this morning has be in LITERAL TEARS THIS MORNING (6:40 rn)

#to be fair all the eps since terry died have felt like a fever dream #probably the fact that i listen to them right before i go to sleep doesnt help #but anyways #absolutely terrified for whats to come #dndads #screaming crying sobbing #whispers of the raine

[dykedivorce]

if any other bitch in konoha had been gay apart from sasuke none of this would have happened to my son naruto.

#pussy from the turbotron edgelord 3000 and his whole life went up in flame. NOT worth it #no but fr it's insane how he bamboozled every fan into thinking he was so interesting and cool and badass when . #at the point im at in shippuden hes by far the least interesting of the main characters. one track mind (vengeance) and no depth beyond that #like the other characters rn : sakura coming in to her own ; finding her path and her strength + sharing a connection so deep with naruto #over their common loss that they both just Know although they absolutely cant talk about it #yamato: the only survivor of orochimaru's monstrous experiments on children; kakashi's stand in thats so different from kakashi #it makes you wonder what it would have been like with him as their teacher from the start; #a mystery thats clearly trying his best but whose mission truly is A Lot #SAI: A BRAINWASHED SPY A PAWN FOR A SECRET ORGANISATION WHO CLINGS TO HIS HUMANITY NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES HES BEEN PUNISHED FOR IT #WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH NARUTO FOR MAKING HIM REALIZE HOW DEEP THINGS COULD BE FELT AND HOW DEEP RELATIONSHIPS COULD RUN #WHO HAS BEEN DRAWING A BOOK FOR HIS DEAD BROTHER FOR YEARS EVEN IF HE'S FORGOTTEN WHAT HIS BROTHER LOOKS LIKE #WHO DECIDED TO SPARE SASUKE BECAUSE HE'S LOVED. WHO JUST WANTS TO LEARN HOW TO LIVE A HUMAN LIFE. #MOST AUTISTIC CODED CHARACTER OF ALL TIMES HAS NEVER SUCCESSFULLY MASKED A DAY IN HIS LIFE. #sasuke: sasuke #anyway. im not touching on naruto because i could be here for days #BUT while sasuke on his own so far is very whatever. the narusasu dynamic is truly one for the ages #bc i just saw the ep where sasuke manages to see kyuubi inside naruto and wooshes him away and it's very like. #oh so hes literally seeing naruto's demons and banishing them even as hes telling naruto they dont matter to each other anymore. #oh ok cool cool cool cool this feels normal and not something to obsess over #jesus christ why am i typing all this. who here cares #naruto thoughts

[suddenrundown]

considering faking my death to get out of this project. would still like to get a passing grade for it.

#googles how to get good grades even though you have died #ok this is about be a rant in a half and way too much info so excuse me but #ive been hyperfixating on our flag like crazy all month long #and i knew that and knew that i was going overboard #and i said all last weekend that i was feeling insane about it #but i didnt realize why until last night when i watched eps 6 & 7 and got mildly disappointed by what happened #because up until that point i was just having so much fun so that one small moment of not having fun #felt like a balloon had suddenly been popped and i was like OH FUCK! I HAVE TO DO THIS PROJECT!!! #like girl the reason we were hyperfixating that hard to such insane levels that we made a theory post about when ed and stede would fuck #was because we were avoiding doing/thinking about the project #and now ive just been sitting here still stuck and worried about this damn thing like holy shit when/how am i going to do this??? #like holy shit did you know i was insane because i was stressed? i didnt!! #i have not stopped thinking about our flag all month and i just did not have time for all that! #AHHHH #anyway like......help i have to fake my death #personal

[keepthetension]

been in the Bad Brain place lately, so i've been struggling to finish writing about why chef mhon's character makes sense to me, because of

a) the long-term effects of the WORLD SHAKING trauma of your life partner abandoning you AND of being unable to feed yourself and your children b) being unable to process said trauma much (if at all), as you then hit the ground running to make a living in the aftermath (in a new city with no support and with who knows what marketable skills) c) the stigma of being a divorced woman in a society that will blame you for being the reason your marriage failed in the first place, and will also blame you for any way your children step out of line d) the difficulties of achieving success as a working mother when employers see women as flakier, less-worthy hires, especially in a male-dominated industry

and how no amount of money or stability will ever seem like enough, and how difficult it is to trust anyone plus how easy it is to see everything as a potential danger to the stability you fought tooth and nail for, and how it makes sense for a traumatized person who never had the time and support to work through their trauma to project all kinds of things onto their kids

but apparently she just kinda. walked it off?

#last twilight the series #not trying to say that the way she treats her sons is justified because she's traumatized! #just felt that these aspects of her life were missing from the general discussion about her behavior #and like i WAS kinda disappointed mhok's trauma never came up again so i guess i should be glad that was foregrounded this ep instead #and i didn't think she'd like FORBID forbid day from seeing mhok given her relative chill at seeing them together at the end of ep 10 #just like. would've been nice to get a bit more of the journey she went on #ANYWAY there's no need for me to finish the long-ass post i was writing! so here's a basic summary instead! #again i am NOT saying she gets a free pass because trauma #just fascinating that there's sympathy for some kinds of trauma but not others. and some expressions of pain and trauma but not others #and i get it! she's not just making decisions for herself so ofc the audience reaction will be different! #but i feel like this show is about grief and trauma and support and recovery #and chef mhon is an excellent example of what happens when you DON'T have the support you need for recovery #and your trauma and pain bleed out of you in ungentle ugly ways #(i suppose the other example is rung though that is a COMPLEX situation that is NOT simply about lack of support)

[lesbianpegbar]

IT WOULD BE SO WEIRD IF TWO TIMELINES WERE NOT HAPPENING RN...the eyes were completely different when lu guang rescued cheng xiao shi the first time...theres just no way. he better not get on that boat or i swear to god

LITERALLY LIKE. it would be such a disappointment tbh. it would kinda stomp on all the careful planning and small details they put into s1 that made it so compelling and rewatchable. watching s1 over and over i’d be like OHHH so that’s why that tiny detail is that way it’s building up to this bigger thing. so if they forego small details mattering this season and all of this just builds up to like a basic murder mystery plot or something it’ll just leave such a sour taste in my mouth. it’s like it would be punishing you for paying attention. but obviously i’m withholding judgement until the season ends, all i’ll say is cheng xiaoshi better not get on that damn boat

#and if he does they better have something fucking good as a backup plan #a lot of the cliffhangers have felt a bit more hollow this season bc they’re immediately resolved or don’t matter #like last weeks i literally said i bet he’s not gonna get found out and someone’s gonna call this cop to come look at something #and guess what. #it’s just a little nerve racking and exhausting i’m very scared this season is just not gonna be as thought out as the first #i knew going in that it probably wouldn’t be as good as season 1 so. idk #season 1 is just probably some of the best television i’ve ever seen in my life #and if this season ends up sucking majorly that won’t change but it will be a huge disappointment #anyway. here’s to hoping they can wrap up this season well in three eps lol #link click spoilers #shi guang dai li ren #mine #asks