#it's been a wild ride

[adh-d2]

It's not so much that I needed Tech to be alive.

I wanted Tech to live, but I grieved his character when he died.

Then the hints started coming. The narrative focus shifted to this mysterious new character and signaled that he was important somehow. The theories started spreading. Week after week the 'camera' lingered on long, slow shots of a helmet that wouldn't come off.

So yeah, I stopped grieving. The longer it went on the more convinced I became that this must be Tech, because clearly it was someone important. Otherwise it would just be poor writing. This show isn't written poorly.

Case-in-point, what a beautiful finale. My heart was in my throat the entire time. I cried. I loved it. Taken on its own, I'd go so far as to say it was perfect.

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Except for the fact that the CX plotline came to nothing. Seriously. We've followed it all season, and it came to nothing? I'm not even clear on what happened. There were more of them. They were kind of an anti-Bad-Batch? Except not really? There was a big one that pulled Wrecker's signature move. There was one with knives. They were regs? I think? One lost its helmet in a background shot so I guess we can conclude they were all regs. With different builds. And different accents. I suppose it doesn't matter, since they all died after a few minutes of screentime having meant nothing to the protagonists. They were a boss fight. The plot marches on.

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It's entirely possible I got too caught up in the speculation. Maybe when I look back on all the posts I wrote and liked reblogged it will be obvious that we were reaching. But right now from here in the thick of it, I swear there's so much to see! Do you mean to tell me they really didn't notice it in the writers room? That it was all a complete coincidence?

Would it have been better if someone on the creative team had just come out and confirmed that Tech wasn't coming back? I don't know. I don't think they were obligated to. But when a good 50% of the discourse about your show ending is speculation on this particular CX character, and the answer isn't even a different plot twist, but that the character means nothing at all...well, you can see how the team could have avoided some disappointment.

Maybe this is a bad take. I don't know how I feel. I wish I could have enjoyed the finale without having to grieve again for a character we'd already lost.

For now I'll end by saying that I loved this show and I can't wait to rewatch it someday on its own merit, without the spectre of 'is-it-could-it-be-no-please-let-it-be' clouding my judgement.

#the bad batch #the bad batch spoilers #tbb spoilers #tbb season 3 spoilers #tbb season 3 #sw tbb #tbb meta #the bad batch meta #tbb discussion #the bad batch discussion #tbb analysis #the bad batch season 3 spoilers #the bad batch analysis #tbbs3e15 #The Cavalry Has Arrived #star wars meta #the bad batch season 3 #tbb Tech #sw meta #CX 2 #CX Tech #tech lives #fuck that tag hurts right now #damn this post was a novel #thank you for listening if you made it this far #you trooper #ADH-D2's Patented Bullshit #well this whole blog just aged like milk #it's been a wild ride

[caseys-breanna]

Something something Nate seeing Sam in Hardison and making sure to preserve the part of him that's sweet and kind and endlessly selfless and wants to help people and warning him against going down a road he can't come back from.

Something something Nate seeing himself in Parker and guiding her cunning and strategic mind to make sure she's equipped for taking over the job and never has to feel the heartbreak and utter defeat he felt after Sam's death because Parker deserves to be happy.

Something something Nate seeing Eliot and knowing he's everything Jimmy could never be and respecting Eliot's loyalty and diligence and honesty because it's pure as gold and rare as silver.

Something something Nate seeing a chance for redemption in Sophie and making sure to wait for her to catch up just as she waited for him to get better because Maggie was the love for Nathan Ford IYS agent but Sophie is the only match for Nate Ford, the man who doesn't kill you, no, he lets God do it and just makes sure it takes.

Something something Nate Ford masterminding not just the crew but his family.

#been rewatching #it's been a wild ride #leverage #alec hardison #parker leverage #eliot spencer #sophie devereaux #nathan ford #nate ford #this isn't an observation it's just a thought

[sportsthoughts]

ok friends, we're here at the end of the season so

#it's been a wild ride #pens lb #pittsburgh penguins

[andoutofharm]

in spite of it all.....................saturday <3

#it's been a wild ride

[zimszim]

reading svsss and i'm only at the second chapter, the third match with the demons, and it is so... interesting how luo binghe has been treated in this narrative so far... like shen qingqiu genuinely sees him (sees everyone) as a character. he feels guilt and sadness at the way he was treated as well as annoyance for the author, but he really interprets him as a character, including his belief in luo binghe in this battle. the only reason he believes in him is because of his protection by the system as a protaganist. he has foresight, he can manipulate this web of plot and characters as far as the system lets him, but luo binghe sees that as belief in him, in his ability for some goddamn reason and it's just sort of fucked up a little bit! its super cool

#as someone who genuinely did not know anything about this novel going into it #it's been a wild ride #svsss

[jakemcdormans]

Jake McDorman as Wiley in every episode of MRS. DAVIS (2023) ➪ 1x08 “The Final Intercut: So I'm Your Horse”

#jake mcdorman #preston wiley #mrs davis #mrs. davis #mrsdavisedit #dailytvfilmgifs #filmtv #cinematv #tvedit #jakemcdormans #mrsdaviseps #my sweet dumb angel #it's been a wild ride

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

So watching Goblin and thinking to myself, the punishment of the Grim Reaper/Wang Yeo is total B.S.

The guy was brainwashed from toddler-hood to listen to his teacher/adoptive father, who murdered his entire family. So obviously at like what, 17?, he's going to still be taking Park Joong-heon's advice. Kim Shin and his wife's executions aren't really his fault, that's why we have laws about minors and crimes, because he's a kid still and under heavy influence.

But then! He is miserable and insane about it to the point that his adoptive father decides to murder him, which he doesn't care enough to prevent so he just drinks the poison until he really doesn't want to live and then drinks it all.

For that crime, suicide, kind of, I mean you could argue he just didn't try to stop his murder, he goes to hell for 600 freaking years? That just seems overly harsh. His life was already hellish. And the gods basically do nothing about the real criminal, Park Joong-heon, who spends 900ish years wandering around as an evil spirit.

Do better you incompetent deities!

Justice for the Grim Reaper! (Hugs for the Grim Reaper)

#goblin #guardian the lonely and great god #only 2 episodes left! #It's been a wild ride #justice for the Grim Reaper! #Hugs for the Grim Reaper! #he's been so sad #I want him to be funny again

[eliounora]

so I preordered totk from a webstore. by thursday it had not shipped so I cancelled the order and bought it from another electronics store where I can just physically go and pick it up. however, I was traveling to my hometown for mother's day, so I ordered the game to my hometown's location. my bus was there at 19:20, and I planned to pick up the game before the store closes at 20. lo and behold, my mom and I pull up to the parking lot, and the store had closed at 19. we rush to the nearest supermarket and its game aisle, and a salesperson hears me blabbering about zelda. he approaches us asking "are you looking for the new zelda game? we only have two collector's editions left" and I said I'LL TAKE IT. ended up paying a bit more than planned but at least I got the art book. and the game of course

#IT'S BEEN A WILD RIDE #i spoiled the whole story for myself otherwise i would not have the patience to explore the open world LOL #no worries spoilers will be tagged #nor's rambles

[werewolf-transgenderism]

Hi Miles, here are my questions for you (they are about your uni work because it interests me 🙂)

Did you always know you wanted to continue your education past undergraduate? And did you know exactly what you wanted to study the entire time? Many of my friends who go to uni change majors or do not even have one at first, and I think it is fun to hear about people’s journey

OK so. I did always plan on postgraduate work BUT I started college as a biochem major on the pre-med track and planned to go to med school (that, obviously, did not end up happening and in fact I think I would have straight up Not Survived that). after my first year of undergrad I switched to literature and art history because 1) I do not enjoy chemistry and 2) had a little bit of a massive breakdown halfway through that year. I did plan on grad school after that but my specific research interests have shuffled around a bit– before my MA I was planning on doing very late medieval feminist scholarship which morphed into early medieval philology and queer studies in my MA and then I was not planning on doing a PhD after that whole experience but following the start of the pandemic I was like "ehhhh might as well" and now I'm on nonnormative bodyminds and rhetorics in a multi-genre series of 12th-14th century texts! if you told 18 year old me that this is what I'm doing now they'd be like "what the fuck does that even mean"

#it's been a wild ride

[crepuscularray]

Deercember Day Thirty-One: Sangai | New Beginnings

The sangai (Panolia eldii eldii according to current genetic evidence, though Rucervus eldii eldii according to most scientific literature) is an endemic and endangered subspecies of Eld's deer found only in Manipur, India. It is also the state animal of Manipur. Its common English name is Manipur brow-antlered deer or Manipur Eld's deer, though it is also known as the dancing deer due to a particular behaviour: it is believed that the name sangai (sa "animal" and ngai "in awaiting") was coined from its peculiar posture and behaviour while running; by nature, the deer—particularly the males, even when running for its life—stops occasionally and looks back as if waiting for someone.

Its original natural habitat is the floating marshy grasslands of the Keibul Lamjao National Park, located in the southern parts of Loktak Lake, which is the largest freshwater lake in South Asia. The park covers an area of 40 km² (15.44 mi²) and the home range of the deer in the park is confined to 15 – 20 km² (5.79 - 7.72 mi²). Phumdi is the most important and unique part of the habitat; it is the floating mass of vegetation formed by the accumulation of organic debris and biomass with soil, with thickness varying from few centimeters to two meters. The humus of phumdi is black in colour and very porous and spongy. It floats with 80% of its mass submerged in an annual cycle of rising and falling on Loktak Lake, though this has been disrupted by a hydroelectric dam resulting in the deterioration of the phumdi.

The sangai was believed to be almost extinct by 1950. However, in 1953, six heads of the sangai were found in its natural habitat. Since then, the Manipur state government has taken serious and positive measures toward its protection. The number of sangai listed in the Red Data Book was only 14 in 1975. Despite this, its number has since increased to 204 in 2013, and to 260 in March of 2016. The genetic bottle-necking of this near-extinction event may yet have catastrophic effects on the subspecies, with concerning evidence being found in instances such as albinism despite the small population size.

Culturally, the sangai finds itself embedded deep into the legends and folklore of the Manipuri people. Based on a popular folk legend, the sangai is interpreted as the binding soul between humans and nature. The slaying of the sangai, an unpardonable sin, is conceived as the forceful separation of the harmonious relationship between humans and nature. When humans love and respect the sangai, it is respecting nature. In the sangai, therefore, humans find a way of expressing their love for nature. More information here.

References: Deer*, Background.

* If you recognize the source for the sangai photograph, please let me know. I have several saved, this one from October of 2021, and can no longer find a source.

#Deercember final day complete #genuinely shocked I drew 31 days straight #I am so tired #both from today as it is after ten in the morning #and from the month as a whole #but I am also so fulfilled #third day of dealer's choice you know I had to draw my own OC #but at least had the decency to wait until the end #it's been a wild ride #happy to have done it #Deercember #realHum #Art #Drawing #deer #deer art #stone #The Stone Balancer #sangai #Manipur Eld's deer #Manipur brow-antlered deer #Eld's deer #brow-antlered deer #Panolia eldii eldii #Panolia eldii #Rucervus eldii eldii #Rucervus eldii

[muzzlemouths]

What initially inspired you to write dmd?

All the way back in October, when I first became a part of this fandom, I had the idea to create an au where you (y/n) broke into an abandoned, old-timey theater. The kind with a big red curtain and firm velvet seats.

After being dared to visit the supposedly haunted location, you would crawl in through a window and find that the theater's mascots (Comedy and Tragedy) were still fairly operational and putting on performances like nothing had ever changed.

Sound familiar?

I'm not exactly sure why I dropped the idea. I think I might've seen someone else mention they were doing a theater au, too, and I was scared to step on toes with how new I was to the fandom.

But the idea of an abandoned place sat inside my chest for weeks after until I decided I had to do something with it, and at that exact moment I passed a picture of a beautiful mirror from the 1970s (a mirror that would eventually become the inspiration for Sun's rays) and I thought to myself, "man, I really love stuff from that era", and it just sort of...clicked.

I changed Waning Lights to a movie theater and snuck it into the mall as an easter egg for myself. Got excited about the idea and refused to let myself be talked out of this one. And now, here we are!

#dead mall dare au #it's been a wild ride #I still can't believe my spur of the moment decision to switch settings is now my most popular au alksjdhfbgksjdh

[smol-hat]

obviously ik they don't want to change the theme song. but could you imagine the first episode of s4 releasing and they've changed the line "there's something about me that no one knows yet". i'd go feral

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous #miraculous season 4 #i'm rewatching all the episodes #it's been a wild ride

[continentalblue]

My 5 wishes for S5:

YASAMMY!! Give them everything they deserve. If they can focus so much on brookji in S4 then they can focus so much on yasammy in S5. It's about time these two got together

Apparently benrius isn't canon, which is a shame (ah, nostalgia. benrius is how I made a name for myself) However I want lots of scenes between them because what they've got going is good

Give us more ben and yaz bonding, they're so funny together

Show us how Brook and Kenji's relationship changes throughout the season

Show us the campers with their families. We've heard so much about them, and now it's time to see them

#thinking about all the benrius posts I made #it's been a wild ride #benrius might now become canon but in our hearts it always will be #yasammy #sammina #jwcc #jurassic world camp cretaceous #jwcc s5 #s5 jwcc #jwcc season 5 #jwcc yaz #jwcc yasmina #yaz jwcc #yasmina jwcc #brookji #kenjilynn #cool kids #yasmina fadoula #yaz fadoula #benrius #dariben #jwcc sammy #sammy jwcc #sammy gutierrez #jwcc kenji #kenji kon #kenji jwcc #jwcc brooklynn #brooklynn jwcc #ben pincus

[frick6101719]

The Last Songbird ch6

The Last Songbird

Summary:

Time passes. The Lynx is better than she has ever been, but there's a new player in the Barrel with plans to disrupt the life she has built around herself and offer her a new deal.

Preview:

The man arrived; he was young and smiled shyly, awkwardly, looked her up and down and blushed when he saw he had not done so unnoticed. She opened her mouth to tell him he could look as much as he liked, that he could do much more than look, but he turned away before she could speak. He walked to the window, took some contraption from the folds of his unseasonably heavy coat, and began using it to remove one of the golden bars from her window.  Feeling came back with the sudden force of a tidal wave crashing into her, throwing her into icy depths. She was perfect, she had been perfect, he couldn't— “No!” He turned, raising a finger to his lips. One leg was already out the window; his weight shifted, and then he was gone.  Inej was left standing speechless, fear clutching her heart. No , she thought. No, not now, not when everything has been going so well— A hand appeared on the windowsill, then another, both wrapped in black leather. A dark head and shoulders appeared next, and then a body—a man’s body, a different man’s body—was climbing through the window, pulling itself into her room.  Black leather gloves, a dark grey suit, a hat pulled low over his eyes, and she knew. Dirtyhands. Brekker. The Bastard of the Barrel.  Then his head lifted, his eyes met hers, and she knew him by a different name.  “Kaz,” she breathed.  “Hello, Inej.” 

#WE DID IT FOLKS #I have finished this fic #I'm quite happy about it #this chapter took 16 hours but WHO CARES #It's been a wild ride #Kay you're my hero as always #cannot believe it's done #wow #a fic... of mine??? #The Last Songbird fic #Kanej fic #Six of Crows fic #now when will the Fratellis release a version of this song which is appropriately dramatic and sultry for this fic #I need it #I NEED IT SO BAD

[yuzu-all-the-way]

I'm going to end my last 2022 morning by watching the latest YuzuTube video, PYC Seimei and Notte Stellata, and A Fleeting Dream 💙

#it's been a wild ride #2023 better be just as wild #Youtube

[greencreeker]

I went from being in extreme pain from my bug bite, to being extremely itching from my adhesive allergy from the bandages I've been using tending to it after it popped. Today is the first day I feel almost normal in over 2 weeks. I was even able to work out without greatly angering my skin.

#it's been a wild ride #being itchy is hell