#rachel talks about stuff

[cyclone-rachel]

all the positive reviews for the percy jackson series just make me want to cry in the best way, I can’t wait to see this show it’s gonna be so good

#percy jackson #rachel talks about stuff #like this is surely going to be the kind of adaptation that 13 year old me was waiting for #when i first read the books and saw the trailer for the movie

[tending-the-hearth]

thinking abt tlt, som, and ttc era percy

percy who's still struggling to find his footing at camp, and every single time during those first three prophecies, he's seen as the outcast, and never once brought into the fold until he comes back after finishing the prophecy.

there's always something that pushes him to the outskirts, something that gives the other campers fodder to make fun of him or completely ignore him.

he thinks he's found his place after the minotaur? nope, turns out everyone sees him as a bad omen and he doesn't make any friends because the entire camp refuses to be around him.

he thinks he's found his place after lighting thief? restoring zeus' bolt? NOPE he finds out tyson is a cyclopes and his brother and now one of his closest friends + the campers are icing him out and grover's not around.

he thinks he's found his place after sea of monsters? restored thalia's tree and hey, now he's got a cousin? NOPE he's pushed aside in favor of her by the campers and chiron and is seen as incompetent and his best friend has been kidnapped and he's being blamed.

rereading those first three books now is so painful, because the way percy gets treated by the camp hurts so much, because literally all he wants is to be accepted by this group of people he should have so much in common with, but every single turn meets him with more people pushing him away.

and it isn't until battle of the labyrinth, until he's named as the child of the prophecy, that people actually start to treat him as one of them.

#the amount of stuff that is kept from percy makes my blood boil #sometimes i think abt how thalia treated him/talked down to him in ttc and i get upset #also ofc this is not excusing percy's own behavior towards tyson in som #AND THE FACT THAT CHIRON PROMISED TO TEACH AND TELL HIM SO MANY THINGS #THEN TURNED AROUND AND TAUGHT THOSE THINGS TO THALIA AND COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT PERCY #thinking abt a percy who absolutely has trust issues #and his circle of real trustworthy people is SO small #literally it's only annabeth grover hazel frank and rachel #sometimes i reread the 'percy gets betrayed' fics and i'm like he's so valid for all of this #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson #annabeth chase #grover underwood #thalia grace #chiron

[cryscendo]

kurt hummel in every performance

5x07 - Puppet Master

Into the Groove - Pamela Lansbury

“Okay, look, guys, I know it's untraditional, but you have to trust me. I was there at Callbacks. I saw it all, a vision of perfect clarity. Every seat was occupied. A quiet hush fell over the expectant crowd. As Pamela Lansbury made their way to the stage, and the opening notes of Madonna's 1985 single hit "Into the Groove" begin.”

#glee #kurt hummel #elliott gilbert #kelliott #rachel berry #hummelberry #kurt hummel in every performance #my stuff #song: into the groove #episode: puppet master #love love LOVE this song #also the world wasn’t ready for kelliott the way i was and i will not stop talking about it

[homosandhomies]

during the s3 nationals win, if you look closely you can see

-sam kissing puck on the head

-mike saying to the group “I LOVE ALL OF YOU!” (or something like that? i’m not totally sure)

-rachel spinning artie in circles as santana sits in his lap with the trophy

-kurt holding hands with rory as they jump up and down

#the reason i don’t post about glee often is bc i’m usually talking about it in the tumblr family tree server 😭 #glee #summer says stuff #new directions #sam evans #noah puckerman #mike chang #rachel berry #santana lopez #artie abrams #kurt hummel #rory flanagan

[milogoestogreendale]

autistic people on their way to kin every single character in mythic quest

#community nbc #community #mythic quest #just thinking about how literally every character is me!! #jo talking about “doing friendship wrong” #poppy being bullied as a kid for being weird and an outcast #and poppy not understanding jokes/sarcasm #brads stimming #ians learning difficulties #rachel's... everything #i dont even know where to begin she is so much like me #i feel like i overthink things a lot and im really earnest about the stuff i like #dana hyperfixating on the things she's passionate about too!! #david is me in so many ways #i dont have time to get into any more but why is literally every single character relateable

[decent0distraction]

I often forget that season 3 and a lot of season 4 of Glee exists

And when I am reminded, I am …disturbed

Also Run Joey Run. I love it, I do, but also. Traumatizing. As is most of Glee.

#ok but seriously #i’ve seen all of glee and if you asked me what happened in season 4 #my answer would be #marley rose #hats #new york state of mind #something with Rachel Berry #um #joe #I don’t know his last name #i can’t remember if Emma and Will are married yet by season 4 or if they were just talking about it #lady Gaga performance but specifically Blaine in that green sparkly thing he’s wearing #also that last one but Sam instead of Blaine #oh and Rachel is in New York and Kurt eventually gets into the same school as her and other stuff happens #I can’t remember the name of the school they go to NAYDA? NYDA? #I do remember that Rachel and Kurt look amazing #season 5 Kurt is dressed really stylish and mature and Rachel too after a while #is season 4 the one where they do grease? #and that’s what you missed on glee

[mifithemuffin]

spent like 40 minutes this morning listening to the recording of a twitter space where japanese aod fan bought an official aod anime english dub and went on talking about different approaches to the source material in the translation while admitting to understand little to no english words. she dutifully replayed some of the moments to highlight her thoughts and observations, as well as to share some of the research she's done on particularly interesting phrases (Zack's "peekaboo" from the first episode notebly being one of them)

i literally couldn't stop smiling the whole time because hey, we do that too! as international fans we overanalyze the words used in the source material all the time! we also may not understand all of the phrases! we do our research just to excitedly gush about the implications and the context around certain words! and we also compare translations with the original!!

knowing that jp fans can treat a translation with just as much passion and care is such a delight! feels like a gentle handshake from overseas full of mutual understanding

#she also talked about how both Danny and Eddie use the word ''sweet'' towards Rachel #(''sweet girl''/''my sweet Rachel'') #and she tried to tie in Zack's ''sweet!'' exclamation as an indirect praise towards Rachel as well #god i LOVE listening to all of the different ways people think and connect stuff in their heads #especially when talking about languages #oh she also said that Danny uses tons of flowery words #while Gray sounds truly Shakespearian #ok ok i'm done #for now #but i enjoyed this podcast immensely

[sznofthesticks]

having an identity crisis and feeling like i need to change some things on my blog. be patient with me friends pls

#i just feel like the swiftieism is completely gone #i still enjoy some of the music #but just don't really want that stuff on my blog anymore #none of the lonestar stuff is going #and this is still very much a 911 blog #but idk what i'm even trying to say #whatever #delete later #rachel talks #swiftie mutuals ily but i probably wont be posting about her music or the eras tour or any of that anymore

[askaniritual]

i think the fact that jean seems really unsure about whether she wants to have a parental relationship with rachel is very interesting too. there's the times she rejects her, of course, but jean also sometimes reaches out to rachel, tries to include her in some way...i think her ambivalence/uncertainty is really interesting contrasted w scott, who does really embrace rachel as his kid, and with jean's own line on children ("i always thought we'd have a girl")

anyway i think your thoughts on rachel and jean are very fun and interesting and yeah i also think it makes a lot of sense that jean might not want to be a mom here, and i think that's pretty sympathetic.

jean and rachel are soooo interesting and so much to me, because of the ways rachel does want that relationship with her dead mother and (like you said) because of what jean's connection with phoenix means for rachel! that's such a cool line of thought, do you have any other thoughts on jean and rachel and phoenix?

yes!!! i think the ambivalence is sooo important because like jean does have kids in her life that she cares for! i think theres a lot of space between like "considers herself this child's actual biological mother" and "is an unrepentant asshole to a traumatized teenager" and that middle ground is really interesting and deserves exploration!

i think all the time about jean inviting rachel to her and scott's wedding because to me that feels like a perfect middle ground of acknowledging like "you are family and i do want you to feel like you have a place with us." I also think it's fine if Jean doesn't handle it perfectly. Obviously very traumatic for Rachel to reach out to her parents and have Jean run away crying but also sometimes that's life! Sometimes you do something you regret in the heat of the moment and you have to walk it back a little!

As far as the Scott/Jean difference I wrote a little bit abt that but I do think its sooo fascinating and I wish current comics would actually like...acknowledge that they apparently had to find some middle ground on that issue lmfao.

The phoenix stuff like. honestly is fully mind palace/me just making shit up lol because I stopped paying attention to what marvel had to say about the phoenix when Rachel had no role in AvX but the way i conceptualize it is like. Jean & the Phoenix are one, and Rachel is of the Phoenix and I think that Rachel feels very instinctually drawn to her because of it. Both because it feels like the power and the connection to the universe itself that Rachel used to hold and because its a force that ultimately feels very maternal to her.

I kind of conceptualize it as something that Rachel & Jean both intuitively understand but that Jean is unwilling to acknowledge, especially because doing so would mean admitting that Jean really is Rachel's mother (in a cross-dimensional, highly metaphysical sense). I feel like in this scenario, Rachel would be the one keeping more distance from Jean because she finds Jean's presence comforting but she knows Jean will always want to maintain some distance between them. So she'd rather have strained silence and stiff small talk than to have an almost-but-not-quite relationship that reminds her of everything she lost and can never have again. Cannot emphasize enough that this is me just saying stuff that I made up lol I just think it's an interesting angle to take on their relationship given the stuff we do get in canon.

#i hope that made any sense i was fully rambling #but thank you for the question!!! i love talking about jean and rachel and their messed up relationship and the phoenix #obvs i have a fic im working on that includes all this stuff so maybe ill finish it someday when the brain worms abate #asks #wellnoe #x men #rachel summers

[hal-o-ween]

The way she holds Lockheed in this panel is so cute, he's like a cat

#excalibur posting will continue. sorry not sorry. #im almost through the excalibur book i have right now but im going on vacation soon and i will definitely try to pick up more excalibur #stuff then. want to talk to the comic store employees about working there anyways #because walmart is truly horrible <3 #also extremely obsessed with how juggernaut was here for like four panels before getting mentally bodied by Rachel #she's so kick ass i love her

[mysteriesofloves]

i know this is touching on like. two entire plotlines we collectively don’t like thinking about but. it is so insane to me that dan told rachel about the blair and marcus thing. babygirl why are you so obsessed with her

#got all cozy and rewatched some fav eps for my birthday and forgot how crazy this makes me… #it’s giving luke and lorelai talking about each other when they’re on dates with other people #he tells her the serena yale stuff too but at least serena is actually his ex who he’s friends with… #ALSO how he tells blair about having sex with rachel in the costume closet like he didn’t have to do all that

[cyclone-rachel]

obsessed with how Earth-2 Lex in the new Suicide Squad game looks inexplicably like Rhett from Good Mythical Morning

#papa don't look #rachel talks about stuff #good mythical morning #suicide squad kill the justice league #also he’s voiced by corey burton which is WILD because brainiac is also in this game #and they didn’t get him back for brainiac? #apparently jason isaacs is brainiac which is cool but corey was right there

[wellnoe]

now that rachel is canonically into women maybe we can get the comic that talks about her complicated feelings on her mother as a model of femininity that is both supposedly aspirational and terrifying.

#is my point here clear? who knows not me #but literally every time rachel talks about how everyone knew her mother was so beautiful her mother NEVER looked as awful as she does... #idk i am thinking #also i am thinking about. phoenix #as a mother to rachel and as a being who gains gender through jean. being passed between jean and rachel... #like there's stuff here is what i'm saying. its not a reach there is stuff to talk about. #i cannot be the one to talk about it as i am. inarticulate. but somebody should. #w.me

[siennahrobek]

any the Mummy (1999) fans out there?

#i love this movie #evelyn is great and rick is hilarious and awesome #rachel weisz #brendan fraser #they’re both fantastic #there is absolutely no the mummy 1999 hate or complaining here #in this space #the mummy 1999 friendly #(i don’t talk about the 2017 one i didn’t even watch it and i #am not gonna #anyways #the mummy #the mummy 1999 #emdraws #myart #tried some new stuff

[theghostofashton]

so much of loser like me was about turning the tables and flipping everything on its head, and i think most striking for me was how that looked for kurt. i’m firmly in the camp that the breakup, while a painful scene and tonally jarring after how joyfully s5 ended, didn’t come out of the blue. there were a lot of hints in 5b (even more i picked up on, on rewatch) that signaled klaine weren’t out of the woods yet. 

particularly, what blaine says in the scene, about how kurt’s been aloof, distant, and not entirely truthful, contextualized with what kurt tells rachel about his intimacy issues. obviously, the few months between these moments aren’t long enough for him to have magically made those issues go away, but i think the contrast between kurt’s demeanor in the breakup scene and the openness he displays in the rest of the ep (especially in the scandals scenes) already illustrates progress for him. he’s not all the way there, but the fact that he’s openly and explicitly admitting that he’s here to get blaine back, his forgiveness, and then his heart, all while resting his hand on top of blaine’s. that’s.....pretty huge for kurt, being both physically and emotionally intimate in that moment. 

it really makes me wish we had gotten more about therapy for kurt, bc as i’ve said before, intimacy is really only the tip of the iceberg. the events of s5 alone are plenty to unpack, tbh. even his body language, comparing the breakup scene and the rest of the ep, is like night and day. there’s so much tension in the way kurt is holding himself in the restaurant. he emphasizes the word exhausting and you can see the physical manifestation of that. i think there’s a case to be made from this body language being pretty consistent through a lot of 5b, especially after the events of bash. this episode sees him reaching out for comfort, being open with his feelings and allowing himself to feel his emotions as they come. i think that’s all incredibly significant, a sign of how far he’s come. he definitely has a lot more work to do, but as we don’t really get anything more about therapy for kurt, i felt like this would be important to mention.

also, linking the pieces i wrote about kurt and blaine’s headspaces post breakup, bc i’m very proud of them and stand by them 100%: ao3 | tumblr

#there is SO MUCH to talk abt in this ep!! #pls lmk if you want to hear about other things #i feel like i've read a ton of meta too so i wanted to write about something i haven't really seen talked about #the scandals scenes the bathroom scene each of their scenes w rachel........ #the idea of being too young and being kids and the way kurt uses that to deflect in the breakup scene is also so fascinating to me #like king the problem is not necessarily being too young the problem is y'all haven't dealt w your stuff and don't talk about it #kurt hummel #glee #kurt thoughts #gr1

[bradleybeachbabe]

uh i just found out that my dad just finished watching outer range…like what??🤨🤨

#rachel talks #i told him about the show since there’s basically cowboys in it and bull riding since he loves movies and tv shows with that stuff #but yet i wasn’t expecting to him to actually watch it but then he told me that he was watching it