#sam lesser

[socialanxietyrabbit]

SPOILERS for Locke and Key season 3 episode 8 (final episode)

Ok, I'm done. Wow, feels weird, honestly. Can't believe it's actually over...

So, first up, Gordie and Sam. I knew it, I freaking knew it. Doesn't mean I wanted it to happen though. Gordie dying, actually giving his last breaths to make sure Kinsey, Tyler and Ellie would make it out alive... ouch. Even worse, he tried to stop Gideon from breaking free. He tried, knowing that he was gonna die, to create a literal mental block strong enough to withhold Gideon. He didn't know the echo's strength so he failed, tragically. I know he was really only important for one episode but I hoped he'd make it. And as for Sam... as mentioned in previous posts, I cared a shit ton for that guy and his involvement. He definitely deserved better that that. Although I know that it was meant as payment and "debt forgiveness". Still hate it.

Now, Gideon. Wow I hate that guy. Cheers to the actor though, I don't know his name, but the way he delivered, man, he made me angry. Real impressive acting. And super happy this dude is gone!

Rufus, Ellie, Jamie and Josh, you know I love you guys, you're great, please always stay the way you are. Love how things ended for them, eventhough I'm a little sad Josh is never gonna know the truth and Jamie will forget eventually.

Duncan and Brian deserve happiness more than anything. I love them.

Gald to know The Savinis managed to finish the film and that it was really such a big success! Good for them. I could've watched the Q&A for hours, no problems. Really surprised Scot showed up but yay! (Shave though, please. He looks so... mature. Old.) Cool line with the Good, Better and Excellent thing. And I'm happy Kinsey might join him soon <3 I would have liked to see Jordan again though, just for old times sake, yknow?

I'm glad Tyler has found his peace, or at least some kind of it. I'm still not a huge fan of the whole Carly-thing, but a road trip sounds great and if Tyler really likes Montana so much, that's amazing! I know he'll miss keyhouse and I think he's gonna come back a lot of times, as often as possible. Even without any event, just because he wants to.

I know Nina is gonna do fine. She has Josh and her Kids and Ellie. She'll be happy. Bode too. He found a best friend in Jamie and is working on being on good terms with Josh (which, BTW, amazing! Love how the made that little peace offering. I think these twos will have a great relationship and will become very close friends).

Now as for what actually happened... I do like that the keys are gone now. And I like how they chose to resolve everything. Throwing the keys in meaning closing the portals was brilliant and brings everything to a nice end. I loved the montage for it, showing bits and pieces of what the keys did and what the characters went through with them (not everything, not a lot or even the main points, just moments were it fit, nothing to sad or emotional, just... epic, in a very simple way). It was well done, that's all I have to say.

And for maybe the most important scene I can just say yes. Yes, wow, thank you. I honestly had a few tears forming when they saw Rendell again. The conversation with him brought me closer to crying than anything this season has and the hug at the end let the tears spill. It fit perfectly but was also so sad to just suddenly see them in the hallway again, still hugging, just without Rendell. It was good to have that last conversation, I think.

For now, that's all I have. It's literally 45 min till midnight and I want to sleep, but watching it was worth it. Feels like some weird sense of closure at the moment.

#netflix #locke & key #locke and key netflix #locke and key spoilers #locke and key season 3 #tyler locke #kinsey locke #bode locke #nina locke #sam lesser #gordie shaw #locke siblings #savini squad

[effyoukeyhouse]

I didn't read the Locke & Key "...Only Bad" edition YET, but I read the summary on the wikia, since it snatched my interest as soon as I read the description: "an all-new ending… only bad." Ever since I finished the comics I've been hungry for more content about the Locke family after the canon series, so how could I wait to get a copy?

Spoilers under the cut.

Trigger warnings for: death, depression, suicide, mentions of sexual assault, alcoholism below

HOLY MCFUCKING SHIT

And of course, since I'm a slut for canon divergences and AUs, my mind tried to speculate on how the series would diverge from there, how the plot would proceed. I wondered about how Tyler and Kinsey would find the keys and stop Dodge without Bode, but I came to one conclusion in the end:

The plot wouldn't proceed at all. Because when you think about it, Bode is the reason his family survives the first arc of the series. And his death would spell that of his family's.

Tyler

In Issue #4 of "Welcome to Lovecraft", there's a scene where Tyler is stewing in his own guilt and self-loathing over what he believes is his part in his father's death. In the comic, it is strongly implied he's contemplating suicide, and in the audible it's confirmed.

But Bode comes and interrupts him, asking about a knock-knock joke. After Bode leaves, Tyler puts any thoughts of suicide out of his mind, fearing how it would affect Bode.

But now? After seeing his little brother get literally sliced in two by a freak accident? So soon, after his father's death, the death Tyler believes he's responsible for? Not to mention the likelihood of Tyler's guilt-warped mind twisting Bode's death into his own fault too? Not only would there be nothing to stop Tyler from committing suicide, it’d be likely he’d do it much sooner.

Kinsey

In Issue #3 of the first arc, Kinsey was constantly reliving the moment she was hiding with Bode on the roof while Sam was looking for Tyler. Not just while she was breaking down in her room by herself, but she took this everywhere she went. Kinsey responded to her trauma by keeping her head down and staying hidden in social settings. She seems to find a healthy way to deal with it at the end of the issue, but we see that wound reopened after the news of Joe Ridgeway's death comes out in Issue #2 of the "Head Games" arc.

Kinsey is ultimately afraid of losing people, a fear set off by her father dying and reinforced by both Joe Ridgeway dying.

If Kinsey saw her little brother die from simply a freak accident that could happen to anyone at any moment? Literally the same day Kinsey herself said she couldn't stop crying over what happened? She only spiral further and further into her own fears and grief, taking an even heavier toll on her than what we saw in canon. Kinsey wouldn't be able to get to a better state like she did in canon, probably not heeding Ellie's advice or taking Jackie's offer of friendship.

Nina

Through most of the main series of Locke & Key, we see Nina's alcoholism and her mental state get progressively worse, until it escalates to her hitting Kinsey in Issue #6 of "Crown of Shadows". The grief over her husband's death and the trauma of her sexual assault makes an unhealthy combination with the fact that she doesn't talk about her problems with anyone. So, she lets herself stew in her grief and drown her sorrows.

If Bode died when and how he did in "...Only Bad"? With her previous trauma still fresh in her mind? Nina's alcoholism would get a whole lot worse and a lot faster, and even more so after Tyler commits suicide. The resentment and anger between her and Kinsey would very likely get worse and come quicker too, considering they’re both in terrible places mentally and emotionally.

Duncan

Something to note about Duncan is that we never see him properly grieve his brother. He says in Issue #2 of "Welcome to Lovecraft" that keeping himself busy helps. A personal headcanon of mine is that Duncan has this "I don't wanna burden others with my problems" mentality, so he just shuts it in and keeps quiet, which seems consistent with his canon personality.

But it would wear down on him so much harder if Bode died so soon after his brother did, with Tyler following not long after. And Duncan would try to be there for his last two living relatives, trying to be the peacekeeper or the shoulder to cry on, not just for them but in an attempt to ignore his own grief, and that would very much put a lot of strain on him too. I can even picture him starting to resent Kinsey and Nina, wanting to leave but unable to leave them like this and feeling trapped as a result.

Dodge

Bode was Dodge’s ticket out of the Wellhouse in canon. He was young and naive enough to trust a mysterious voice in a well, and could be convinced to get them the Anywhere Key after Sam arrived. Neither Tyler (if he were alive at that point) nor Kinsey would be as receptive to a mysterious voice in a well as Bode would be. So, Dodge had to trust Sam to get them out.

Which would probably go as well as it did when Sam tried to get the Omega and Anywhere Keys from Rendell.

Sam

Sam would come to Keyhouse similar to how he did in canon. He’d demand the Anywhere Key and the Omega Key, and neither Nina, Duncan, nor Kinsey would know what he was talking about. Even if Kinsey, the last living Locke child, found a magic key, she probably wouldn't think much of it. Why would she? It's just some old key. And as in canon, Sam wouldn’t notice the Anywhere Key in Kinsey’s bracelet. None of the Lockes would be able to give Sam what they don't know about, and he would almost certainly kill them all.

In Conclusion:

Tyler would commit suicide over the combined grief and guilt of his father's and brother's deaths. Kinsey's fear and grief would multiply to a debilitating degree with no hope of things getting better. Nina's drinking problem would worsen at a quicker pace. Duncan's grief and stress would wear him down and make him a mess alongside his last surviving family. Sam would kill off the rest of the Locke family and go back to jail or get shot to death. Finally, Dodge would stay trapped in the Wellhouse, and with no living Locke children to come to the house and find keys for them, probably forever.

It really is an “Only Bad” ending.

For everyone.

#locke & key #locke and key #comics #bode locke #tyler lock #kinsey locke #nina locke #duncan locke #dodge #sam lesser

[samsdei]

Thomas Mitchell Barnet &  Coby Bird

#thomas mitchell barnett #coby bird #locke & key #sam lesser #rufus whedon #netflix

[melyndadwest-blog]

Guardian Deity Spirit Danny

"In the spiritual realm, there are specific steps a being can take to ascend to the status of a god, with certain restrictions defining what a god truly is. Typically, a deity emerges as a result of being worshipped by a group of people, their worship infusing them with divine energy and granting them godhood.

They can be born from an unconscious belief or concept, such as the worship of the moon or nature. Over time, this belief gains sentience and power through the devotion of their followers.

They possess spiritual powers and establish a cult, amassing considerable influence and strength.

They are born from another god.

They achieve godhood by defeating and absorbing the essence of a pre-existing god, embodying their concept.

This means that even if a being is incredibly powerful, like Clockwork, they must be worshipped by someone to attain godhood. So...

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

In the Infinite Realms, time operates differently than in the outside world. I believe that since the Realms exist beyond space and existence, serving as the cosmic glue holding the multiverse together, they remain separate from the flow of time.

So, my idea is this: Danny is already immensely powerful, as he embodies the balance between life and death. Because of his connection to Clockwork, this being occasionally sends him on time-traveling missions, perhaps for preparations related to kingship. As a result, he appears in various places throughout history, safeguarding people and cultures. Over the centuries and millennia, people begin to worship him, seeking blessings and offering sacrifices.

Usually, this would lead the Justice League to believe that he's simply a very old being. However, what if he truly is ancient?

As I mentioned earlier, a god's powers are derived from belief, and this belief gradually transforms the deity. Here's my take:

Batman might insist, "I know you're Danny Fenton," until a summons or a crisis causes Danny's godly side to surface. This aspect of him is truly ancient, as time doesn't flow conventionally in the Infinite Realms. Consequently, Danny could be three years old in terms of his death, yet also an ancient entity. Nonetheless, he remains physically too young to fully comprehend his true power and existence, resulting in considerable confusion.

Ultimately, there are two interpretations:

The Justice League ends up believing that Danny is either a) a vessel for a god, b) a sort of priest, or c) the physical incarnation of a bored god curious about experiencing humanity.

Ghosts do not treat him like a typical ghost child because, due to the nonlinear nature of time in the Zone, his core possesses the essence of an ancient being. The ghosts perceive him as the rebirth of balance, incarnated as a human to restore equilibrium.

Feel free to use this concept for any story or interpretation you find compelling."

#dpxdc #dc x dp #danny phantom #ancients #Cloakwork Is a knowing bitch that orquestrated the whole deal because he wanted to hang up with his Bestie Balance again. #For aproximation Jazz Sam and Tucker starts to become some sort of spirits #(lesser dieties that have much more power than mortal #Amity Park really are not human anymore

[thetarttfuldickhead]

So it’s later in the evening and the cooking’s all done and Ola’s out and about in the restaurant, saying howdy to all the boys —

— and there is Jamie, nifty in blue and his ICON cap and pleasantly buzzy from all the drinks Dani mixed, and Ola doesn’t exactly corner him, but he stops by and, “Ah, you must be Jamie! I’ve heard so much about you!”

Jamie blinks a couple of times at that, trying to imagine all the times Sam might have talked to his extremly supportive dad about him, and succeeding only far too well. “Oh. Uh, yeah. I mean… I’ve, uh. I’ve tried to do better, so. But. I guess. Uh. Yeah.” And he shrugs a little, unhappily, because he really doesn’t know what to say to this gentle giant of a man whose son he terrorized for six unfortunate months a couple of years back.

Ola just looks at him, frowning but not in a nasty or angry way. Cocks his head to the side. “Yes. Samuel’s told me.”

Jamie makes a face at that but before he has time to say anything else – offer any apologies – Ola plows on: “He’s told me about his very good friend who’s been such great support to him in this last year, in spite of him not having much support of his own.” He pauses, making sure that Jamie is hearing him: “I’ve been glad to hear he has such good friends. Samuel has been very fortunate.”

“Oh.” Jamie blinks again. And again. His eyes are wide. A slight shine to them, maybe. He looks away from Ola; away from Sam, happily (and inexpertly) (but still succesfully) flirting with Simi by the bar.

And Ola puts his arm around Jamie’s shoulders and it’s warm and it’s heavy, but it doesn’t weight him down; it grounds him. “Tell me, Jamie,” Ola rumbles, as he gently guides Jaime to one of the stuffed benches by the wall. “What do you think about—“

(And if Sam looks up from his conversation with Simi and if his eyes stray to the men on the bench… he’d smile, yeah, soft and aching and pleased with the way Jamie – seemingly unconsciously – is leaning into Ola’s touch, listening and grinning and gesturing wildly as he answer whatever questions the older man asks of him. Sam sees them, and he smiles.)

#i mean #since simon my need for ola to adopt jamie as an extra son is SLIGHTLY lesser #but jamie still need and deserve all the dad hugs SO #ola to the rescue it is! #sappy sappy sappy #WELL SOMETIMES WE NEED A SOFT ENDING AND WHAT OF IT #you can’t tell me sam wouldn’t be SO PISSED anyone could have a dad as bad as jamie’s #and wouldn’t IMMEDIATLEY want to share his own #bc jamie’s his friend now and jamie deserves better #ola obisanya #jamie tartt #sam obisanya #3x07 #ficlet

[l0uterstella]

VOTING FOR SANRIO'S 2024 CHARACTER RANKING STARTS ON APRIL 11!

#USAHANA MY BABY YOU'LL GET A HIGH RANK THIS YEAR TRUST #lowkey dont want cinna and kuromi to be top 3 this year but i know thats impossible #give the lesser known characters a chance </3 #imagine if fragmem gets on #sanrio #fragaria memories #fragmem #hello kitty #cinnamoroll #my melody #kuromi #pompompurin #badztmaru #keroppi #tuxedo sam #little twin stars #VOTE FOR THESE FELLAS HERE OR ELSE (JOKE) -> #hangyodon #usahana #wish me mell #cogimyun

[neverswungonswingingstars]

Lestat in The Thing Lay Still

#some of the lesser used screencaps and not the ones of him covered in blood that i look at daily 😂 #interview with the vampire #iwtv #sam reid #lestat de lioncourt #amc iwtv #amc interview with the vampire #amc immortal universe #1x7 #1x7 mine #the thing lay still #iwtv s1 #mp

[talesfromthecrypts]

Sam Reid as Hugo Fraser-Tyrwhitt in The Riot Club

#the riot club #filmedit #sam reid #sreidedit #mygifs #imagine wanting to bang lesser nepo baby max irons but i forgive you <3 #if you think he hasn't always been cunty you have not seen his movies thats all there is to it #like 75% of his roles are fruity as hell like #all of you need to embrace tradition (watching every movie in an actor's filmography and going oh i see)

[shallowseeker]

Dean is, on the whole, way more resilient when Cas is around. When Cas is near, Dean absorbs the hit a lot better. Whether that's Sam's death, Mary's world-hopping, or Jack's running away.

When Cas is there, Dean has hope. He calms down. The ground is more level beneath his feet.

#dean/cas stuff #dean/cas #the same is true to a lesser degree for sam like when he's in the hospital and cas shows up or when he turns to cas to heal jack #cas is so damn *reliable*-coded even when he's fucking everything up #you can see it when they delay grieving jack #the fact that cas fireman-carried jack's body meant there was irrational hope hanging on #when they make it to the crypt... sam and dean both turn to cas as if there's something he can still do #sam tries to fill cas's shoes after he dies - to carry on #dean just crumbles

[adreamoverlife]

Is this a safe place to admit I don’t really like the way Castiel is often talked about in relation to destiel or will I be crucified for the second time

#listen okay #I get it I get it destiel website #but #I really hate the way Dean is often used as the ONLY bit of free will Cas has #and that Cas ’belongs’ to Dean #I like can’t stand it #especially when Sam is often used as the butt of the joke as being lesser to Dean #like Cas did rebel before Dean multiple times #he really WAS in love with humanity!!! #and making his character solely about Dean removes a lot of the things that make him interesting to me #this kinda goes hand in hand with the way Dean feels more…. centered in the later seasons?? #ill probably make another post detailing this but #I don’t hate Dean or anything but there’s certain things I find very strange in later seasons is all #and by strange I mean I wanna put all the supernatural writers into a box and shake them around a lot #Castiel #spn

[starleska]

Chester V really is the epitome of manipulate, mansplain, malewife huh 😳

#my secret plan is to simp for well-known characters and then gradually introduce lesser-known ones to diversify the blorbo ecosystem #anyway might i interest you in this flexible bastard? he's awful 🥰 #chester v #flint lockwood #sam sparks #cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2 #cwacom 2 #cloudy with a chance of meatballs #cwacom #starleskatalks

[socialanxietyrabbit]

Don't know if it's just me but s1 ep7 is one of the best episodes Locke and Key has. Everyone's acting was A++, the suspension was just right and the Locke family had some pretty big bonding through trauma moments. I love the way it ended with Sam Lesser's kinda-redemption and Nina's response to what happened being falling back into her addicting seems extremely close to reality.

#locke and key netflix #locke & key #nina locke #sam lesser #locke siblings #netflix #show recommendations

[effyoukeyhouse]

#locke and key #locke & key #comics #textpost #lockeandkeyedit #sam lesser #dodge #tyler locke #brinker martin #bode locke #kinsey locke #jackie veda #duncan locke #ellie whedon #daniel mutuku #lucas caravaggio #mark cho #jordan gates #rendell locke

[mywingsareonwheels]

Listening to the BBC radio adaptation of Pratchett’s Night Watch (which is great, incidentally, and I will link to below) and fully realising that not only is Vimes an influence on Endeavour’s Fred Thursday (that goes without saying and has been confirmed by Russell Lewis as well as being just obvious once you know both characters pretty well :) ), but a couple of Igor’s lines (ones definitely lifted from the book) are suspiciously close to the sorts of things Max says. I mean “I find that when I’ve got someone on the slab and had, you know, a rummage around...”... (We are talking about the young Igor working for the Watch, after all, and he’s pretty much a pathologist...) Russell Lewis, you are a beautiful Pratchett-obsessed weirdo. ;-)

Here’s that link. Not all the episodes are up yet, but the first three are. The first episode’s only up until 16th May 2023 so be warned... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/b010ns42

(Night Watch is fantastic. It also comes with some content warnings especially for things concerning childbirth and political oppression. Also also it itself is partly an AU of Les Miserables which means that Thursday is based on a (heroic but very cynical) character who is both Javert and Valjean at different points in this story which is PERFECT because of course Roger Allam has played both, one in the musical and the other in the radio adaptation :D ).

#itv endeavour #gnu terry pratchett #night watch #sam vimes #fred thursday #igor #discworld #discworld igors #bbc sounds #also this stars #philip jackson #as vimes #and he's pretty good #also also i can't find an actually full cast list for this version anywhere but i have a suspicion that was anton lesser as ridcully #and possibly also as lu-tze who is just called sweeper here #he's definitely been involved with other of the radio pratchetts so it seems not impossible #but i'm not 100% sure because neither role is credited anywhere #les miserables #kind of #russell lewis #and his pratchett obsession

[winniebee]

its late and im sleepy so i might be remembering things wrong but something that really gets me abt c!dream is that he isn’t mad at, or at least doesn’t do anything about, any of the other people who knew about the torture and did nothing. he wasn’t mad at c!bad or c!ant. and the only revenge he initiated completely on his own without prompting was against c!q. I wonder if he was even going to do anything about c!sam until he found him face to face in the prison, or if he just though that c!techno would finish him off. but then sam was there and dream decided right then just how much he had to say.

#because he was betrayed by sam #and he says this #he thought sam was his friend #but he also felt betrayed by george and sapnap and to a lesser extent bad and ant but he didn’t seek them out to hurt them #and even though the way sam hurt him was more extreme and direct #dream isn’t really seeking to hurt sam during daedalus either until right at the end when he snaps #he just argues until he has nothing left to say and realizes he’s dealing with a lost cause #so I wonder how different things would’ve turned out if sam wasn’t confined to the box #and dream didnt spend days with him debating the ethics of torture amongst other things #allowing his more intense emotions more time to boil under the surface #what would he have done instead #if anything #what a wonderous thing proximity is #cdream #csam #dreblr #buzzzz

[ardentpoop]

the way this show treats sam is frankly fucking unforgivable lmfao i'm seething again

#also the gabriel redemption arc pissed me off so bad #first you have sam nurse and coddle LUCIFER in s11 and now more of the same with gabriel who psychologically tortured him #to a lesser degree yes but STILL. you have sam who always pushes down his own shitloads of trauma as the sole person in charge of #coaxing every other character in the damn show into the light. empathizing with characters who were assaulted and isolated and tortured #without being able to really heal from or even openly discuss his own experiences with the same shit. FUCK!!!! OFF!!!! #spn #liveblog tag #13.17 #13.18