When the westerners see a post complaining of russophobia they imagine a young queer intellectual stuck in russia, hating the regime to the core and being all bleeding heart for the suffering Ukrainians.
Meanwhile, the same very person complaining of russophobia in one post boasts about literal war trophies brought from the occupied Ukrainian territories by their war criminal father in another, fills their artworks with modern russian military symbols, and tags the posts about their relatives participating in invasion with 'lol memes'.
It is honestly funny how much goodwill russians are still given for absolutely nothing while Ukrainians have to constantly prove that we deserve, well, to at least not be massacred.
and then more missiles. and more. and shahed drones after that.
I know you most likely won't see it on the news in your country. But despite the low media coverage, Ukraine needs you now more than ever. Now that we receive no military aid from the US. Every penny counts. Please, if you have any funds to spare, consider donating to one of the Ukrainian non-profits listed here.
Thank you.
The attacks continues still, but we're alive so everything will be alright.
something im really looking forward to in the new season is that the gang really seems like they are going to actually be acting more like friends. like yeah they are nasty and awful people, but they are nasty and awful together.
Expanding a bit to agree with you but these soldiers are NOT a character in a show, movie, book, game, or whatever. They're NOT playing a written role that they drop after recording. They are NOT some Alternate Version of themselves from a dark!fic. They are not a kink indulgence in a work of fiction. They are ACTUALLY LIKE THIS in real life and there is NO SAFEWORD, and NO END SCENE, and NO FINAL CHAPTER with who and what they are. They're real, they're factual, and they're garbage.
going off of your BEAUTIFULLY worded post(s) about byler being inevitable and treating queer characters with respect, do you think they will explore byler's sexuality with a sex scene or just keep it to a kiss? Or perhaps another kind of scene?
Honestly...I don't feel like a sex scene is likely? Not because they're too young or anything. There have been sex scenes between people Will and Mike's age on the show before--thank you Steve and Nancy--so that wouldn't be the issue. Nor do I think it would be an issue with them being a queer couple.
My prediction--and I could be wrong; this kind of depends on how the rest of the season goes with regards to the main action plot--is that Will and Mike are going to get together at a climactic moment. Maybe leading up to the final clash or during it. And sex scenes really need time to breathe. Steve and Nancy had sex at the beginning of Season 1. Jonathan and Nancy had sex in the middle of Season 2. They had time.
But I think, if the writers waited until the final season of the show to make this couple canon, it's because it's important. Not a romantic subplot, but plot. I think, in some way or another, the romantic plot and the action plot are going to be intertwined, and they're going to climax together. You know, like they're having SE-- There'd just be no comfortable place to fit a sex scene at the height of the action. Like, imagine trying to fit a Lumax sex scene when they're in the attic at the end of Season 4. It just doesn't go there. They got the cute little doodle scene instead.
I very much think Mike and Will are going to kiss, though. I'd be shocked if they didn't.
So basically what I'm saying is...I feel like Byler is going to be too important for a sex scene to happen. I could see a scene early on portraying some sort of sexuality, particularly from Mike's side, to show to the general audience that something is happening, that it's not just one-sided. For instance maybe they'd have to change clothes in the same room for some reason, a la Joyce and Hopper in S4, and Mike would look just a little too long before turning around. But a full-blown sex scene...probably not?
The more specific stuff like this gets, of course, the harder it is to predict, so I'm a little less certain about this prediction than Byler simply being canon, but, yeah, gun to my head? Kiss, absolutely. Sex, probably not.
Okay I'm reallllly done waiting for the official press to release the plot and this week at work is gonna be incredibly rough for me so I'm gonna throw all my evidence down tonight for this episode:
Directed by Heath Cullens and Written by Megan Ganz:
This is airing as Episode 4, but was written and filmed with the production code 1602:
Episode 1602 was the first episode filmed for Season 16.
(Further, Health Cullens is labelled as the director here for 1602, whereas we know Richie Keen directed S16 Episode 2 (1604), Frank Shoots Every Member of the Gang)
We have a BTS video from Rob for this episode, celebrating the first day of filming:
Notice the outfits? C'mon who could forget that ugly fuckin' shirt Glenn-Dennis-is wearing?
Now the title "Frank Vs. Russia" kinda tells us everything else we need to know about spotting clips for this one. So here's a compilation of stills for you:
And so, per my deductions I've written my own summary.
Frank Vs. Russia: "When Frank and Charlie visit Bonnie for [insert some family member's name]'s birthday, Charlie discovers Frank was once a competitive chess player. The two take on a local chess tournament where a Russian kid is favored to win. Meanwhile, Dennis attempts to help Mac and Dee with their struggling dating lives by teaching them a revised version of the D.E.N.N.I.S. System."
ah, I love to start my day with the obligatory dumb and pointless mass air raid on our power infrastructure
once in every 2-4 weeks
I wonder how does it feel, when millions of your taxes get spent on the missiles to hit transformer substations somewhere in Odesa or Kyiv, while you continue to live somewhere in russia, in a wooden barrack built under the tsar, with a stinky outdoor shitter, without running water or hopes for the future? Must be a funny feeling.