Absolutely hysterical when people are like "When you say that Mike could have a vecna vision next season you're trying to turn him into Max and steal her narrative >:( " when Nancy quite literally had a vecna vision spanning several scenes including a UD one , an "exposing extremely plot relevant creel things to the audience" one AND an hnl one. Like on the screen, prominently, where you could see it by wAtChInG ThE sHoW. It's almost like people don't mean an identical scene to Max but instead a usage of the incredible plot device that is Vecna visions outside the 4 cursed victims and the specific way they were targeted for the gates...Mike is the character paralleled to Max's bottling up her emotions explicitly, which is something that Nancy also does and Vecna capitalized on? Without killing her? But that's somehow never mentioned by anyone criticising these theories? Because it would disprove the supposed uniqueness of Max being targeted in the narrative? Yeah
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Sam & Powers
I can never articulate how disappointing it was for Supernatural to focus so much of their time and effort on Sam’s powers and everything that comes with it in the first 2 seasons only to bring it back in season 4 and even season 5 even more in depth than before to then just drop it after that and only mention it once every 2 seasons. I feel like it was such a core theme in the beginning of the show that was used so well to tie up what they thought was going to be the season finale in season 5 that once they realized they were going to continue the show they decided it would become too boring or repetitive or something to use more when they were SO wrong. Sure if that’s ALL they focused on then that would make sense but what they did didn’t make any sense at all because how can you take something that was such a big part of one of the main characters and erase it all? One of the things that drew me to Sam’s character in the first place and that helped cement me as a Sam girl was the fascination with his powers that he was slowly coming to terms with. What made his powers different than a lot of other pieces of media that I’ve consumed is the concept that they were forced upon him by a DEMON through his BLOOD! How is that not compelling?? He literally states in the show that he has a sickness that is pumping through his veins that he can never get rid of so why shouldn’t he do good with them? Like !! There was so much potential here!! I’ve always felt when they said that Azazel’s death just...made Sam’s powers “go away” it was a flimsy excuse to get rid of them and only use that plot when they felt like it (i.e drinking demon blood) but if they never had Sam’s powers function like that they could have created a whole plot where Sam comes to terms with his powers and realizes they aren’t going away but they aren’t inherently bad, that he can choose what he wants to do with them, re cementing his autonomy that is so often lacking in the series!! He chooses to help people with these powers (without needing to drink demon blood) and explores them and accepts them!! The route that the show ended up taking never sat well with me because it felt like he just internalized his powers because of what other characters said about it and how people literally tried to kill him because of it and that just feels wrong. Like the show tried so hard to just magically turn him into this Normal Guy TM when Sam is Not Normal and that was the whole point!! He deserved to be as freaky and as comfortable with it as he wanted!! And then in season 15 I almost felt like they were going to do something freakish with his character again because of Rowena’s comment about him being the “closest to a witch” among the characters in the room and then she left her spells and potions and everything TO SAM and it would’ve been so cool to have him dabble in witchcraft and would make so much sense with his character yet he uses them once and then it’s never mentioned again. By the end of the show he’s living this normal life when after everything he went through and everything he discovered about himself throughout 15 YEARS, I don’t think that’s what he would’ve wanted anymore. Supernatural had so many brilliant ideas & concepts which is why I think I’ve continued to be so obsessed and intrigued by this goddamn show, but so so many shortcomings.
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i just wanna point out that, like. it's okay to disagree with the main character. just because they're the pov of the story doesn't mean they're infallible or that their word is law? you can like that character that tried to kill the mc. you can think the mc made the wrong choice. you can forgive things that the mc would never forgive, or choose not to forgive things that the mc does, because you're not the main character. you are the reader of the story, and just because you can't change it (and it's not the author's responsibility to capitulate to fans) doesn't mean you can't form your own opinions about it. it's fictional! that's the point! have fun with it!!
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real talk I'm responsible for most of the graphics for this fic but the thing about writing something based on nostalgia is that sometimes the nostalgia is actually something that's still within your grasp
aka, most of the LJ icons were made fresh for the first chapter but since Knives has a fucking paid account he has a large-ish collection of icons. and I have a graphics journal on LJ that I have run on and off since 2004. so.
the name icons are ones I made in 2005-2006 and I recolored/edited for this but other than that yeah they're fresh from the sparkle graphics archives (before I had really refined my style into sparkle all the time) aaaaaand some of the others from the time I made "anti-love" icons for fucking valentines day because I was an edgy teenager XD
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somehow went from writing a cover letter to researching how to get visas for several countries. what really gets me is that both of these are actually useful pursuits for me rn. what is my life. why is my life.
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I'm learning about how G-forces (or load factor, to use the technical term) affect stall speeds for ground school rn and now I'm wondering why the TGM crew weren't stalling their planes on the high G climbs.
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