#the whole season kind of was

[clarahue]

The Love Victor finale kinda felt, idk, underwhelming i guess. 

#the whole season kind of was #glad the added more gays though lol #love victor #benji x victor barley had any scenes #all the main couples broke up then got back together in the last 3 minutes #but i did like victor x rahim friendship #and that they got rid of simon #no offence but he did not need to be in the show any longer

[biruesque]

dead end.

#revolutionary girl utena #mikage souji #mamiya chida #rgu #biruesque art #drawing this was an entire experience idk how 2 say it #i was like yeah i'll draw mikage and mamiya for spooky season #and then i discovered i really really really really hate mikage but in a funny way #like in a obsessed with making him suffer kind of way #and uh. well. this piece happened so um uh #enjoy what came out of being deranged about mikage for two whole days lol

[wren-kitchens]

there’s not enough lizzie ldshadowlady appreciation in this fandom and frankly I think we need to rectify this

she acts terrified of absolutely everyone except her husband, whom she is increasingly exasperated by. she and ren were rivalling dogwarts with their interactions. she was boogeyman twice in two different seasons and essentially did the exact same trap, that failed in essentially the exact same way, and somehow she still managed to get the kill because the person was too confused to process the fact they were being stabbed. she’s a fairy. she’s the shadow queen. she’s totally definitely pearl, she just has an amnesia cold. she spends half her time complaining about her husband, and the other half flirting with him in front of people. her dogs were named dragon, ogre and taxes so they’d be intimidating. ‘and so I left this world how I entered it: confused.’ she griefed the server. jimmy killed her.

#i’m bad at this kind of post but idc #I love her #yes she was only in one and a bit seasons so what #mumbo was only in one season and he gets more love #lizzie deserves so much more attention than I see on here #not traffic life related but she mADE A WHOLE MUSICAL #I FEEL LIKE THATS IMPORTANT TO NOTE HERE #she’s an icon #I love her and I need her in the next season and I need her to team up with pearl because I think they’d be incredible together #lizzie ldshadowlady #ldshadowlady #trafficblr #traffic smp #traffic series #last life

[bookshelfdreams]

fr if "this is no longer the queer joy show" for you, idk what to tell you. maybe next time try engaging with the actual story instead of the version of it you made up in your head

#if you hate ofmd now you never deserved it anyway #like if this blindsided you. if you do not see how it fits in with the whole narrative. #thats kind of on you #it makes perfect sense and its a beautiful conclusion to the arc of this season #and honestly pulling it off took some balls knowing how incredibly normal this fandom is about this character #ofmd s2 spoilers #oh whatever. fuck it. #our flag means death #thoughts

[simplyavatrice]

sometimes the simple truth of being alive just...moves me

#ava silva #avatrice #warrior nun #avatriceedit #warriornunedit #avasilvaedit #alba baptista #albabaptistaedit #it is a very big loving ava silva kind of day today friends #i am deep in my feelings about her #also alba is going to be a fucking massive star and win a shit ton of awards #also taking these notes as a chance to point out to this growing trend i see where people keep talking about ava like she's dead #she isn't #that's the whole point of the end of season 2 #why bea let her go #she's okay #she's alive #and she's literally already back in the world #so let's stop with the ava's dead stuff okay? thanks #anyway #favorite character #number one #it's not particularly close #myedits

[smultronviol]

Ppl going "waaahh unpopular opinion but Alice is kind of annoying and obnoxious and I don't think I'd like be her friend irl" is so funny to me bc like.

God forbid a cast of characters be multifaceted and have actual flaws and unpleasant aspects other than "grr angsty hero" and "whoops i'm so clumsy". Sometimes character dynamics and arcs need to be prioritized above "who would i personally be niceys with irl"

2. bro just WAIT until you hear about season 1 jon lol

#the magnus protocol #tmagp #season 1 jon was obnoxious and sometimes a straight up ASSHOLE and you were supposed to find him kinda grating!!! #yes alice IS a bit annoying and too much sometimes (esp in the first episodes) and i love that <3 #like. its p obvious that she uses the over the top-thing as a shield (to push ppl away/as a defense mechanism/to avoid being vulnerable) #we see her drop the act sometimes w ppl like teddy and sam who she actually feels comfortable around (and who know and understand her) #but like. she's stuck in a job she hates and is kind of afraid of (she KNOWS smth abt the horrors and is keeping her head down to survive) #(shes obviously afraid of sam going to far bc she KNOWS its dangerous) #so yes her act gets too much sometimes and yes sometimes she crosses the line into straight up mean (esp against gwen) #(but their dynamic is a whole other can of worms) #but like. i'm pretty sure its supposed to be seen that way. the audience isnt supposed to just find her kooky funny #the facade is supposed to be dismantled by the viewer etc etc #kind of like SEASON 1 JON the obnoxious bastard!!!!!!! #like. if you ever think alice is too mean towards gwen pls listen to s1 jon again and how he speaks abt martin?? #from a position as his boss no less? ngl i wanted to throttle him sometimes #you kinda forget abt it in the later seasons and if you only engage w fandom content. but like. go back and listen to the shit #he actually says. jesus christ man. i remember kinda hating him in the beginning #and to be clear i love jon! i think hes a great character! #and like. its almost as if his early season personality and facade was an important setup for his character development #and relationships with the other characters??? #but anyway 'alice is kind of annoying' is not an unpopular opinion its literally the FUCKING POINT #and both her and jon are my sweet baby angels <3 #alice dyer #jon sims #(and obviouslyyy you're still allowed to dislike a character ppl can have their own opinions etc etc etc. i just personally find it funny)

[dogmoder]

people who think that jimmy should've taken the 7 years deal

#bcs #better call saul #bcs spoilers #better call saul spoilers #jimmy mcgill #specifically One Guy i saw on reddit but like anyone who thinks this kind of missed the point of his actions imo #the whole show has been about this guy and his inability to cope in healthy ways - his brother hating him and later his eventual death #after that howard's death and his divorce #we see hints of it during the early seasons - whenever jimmy feels dejected #or put down he goes back to cons and scams so he can feel like a winner again. so he can be on top for once #the whole saul goodman persona is him trying to distract himself from how devoid his life actually is of any deep meaningful relationships #jimmy confessing in the finale is his acceptance of what he's done. he's finally stopped running from everything #is he going to die in prison for his crimes? maybe. but he's finally stopped lying to himself #he can finally start to move on after repressing everything all these years #it's a bittersweet ending but it was perfect imo

[milk-ducts]

you can see the sniper i have trained on immortal in the background .

#nobody fucking talk to me #what even was this scene. #Some kind of boundary kate was enforcing?? #was this supposed to be a ^fuck you rex^ moment #if so they fucking obviously FAILED #IM NOT SIDINF WITH IMMORTALS OLD ASS #THIS IS FUCKING predatory i dont even need to explain this????? #dont come at me dudebros #w the whole ^oh hes 100000^ technically everyones young 2 him #i will obliterate you ;; shes not even in her 20s yet #invincible #invincible season 2 #invincible spoilers #atleast cecil is here … #i dont gaf ab rex being ^ntr;d^ #this isnt NTR this is immortal being a NASTY ASS FREAK #omni man do ur shit #immortalomni nation.. we have lost . #kate blink twice if hes holding you hostage

[thefirstknife]

i unironically hope Eris stays in her Hive form at least physically bc im already loving how both her & Immaru are pointing out Ikora's (and humanity's) inherent dehumanization of the Hive.

Eris being all "If this form does not leave will you still view me as a friend?"

Immaru when asked where the Experiment Subjects come from and responding with "Don't act like you care."

Honestly, it's so good. I really love the Eris stuff and some of these questions being posed. A lot of people react negatively to Eris doing this, forgetting that Eris has already been part-Hive for a long time. She was just hiding it behind the eye cover.

Technically, nothing inherently changed about Eris; she just embraced that part of her. And that's super important for her arc I think because she's been on a journey of accepting her trauma and her losses for a very long time. We helped her face her fears and traumas in Shadowkeep and she came out of it victorious. And the story never treated it as her traumas being gone; she still has them, but she has the means to tackle them and handle them and live with them. Since we helped her, she became more open and more involved with what we do to save our home, even if it meant tackling dangerous things.

And the thing is, now that her traumas cannot be exploited by Darkness anymore, she's capable of involving herself in these things, knowing that she has friends to fall back to and a support system and better mental fortitude. We've seen it through her endurance beneath the Pyramid on Io, and her grasp of stasis, and her dealing with the Crown of Sorrow and egregore and the Lunar Pyramid nightmares. And now with her embracing her Hive self. It doesn't change anything about her, but people prefer when she hides it so they don't have to see it. And she knows it (Sororicide lore book, page 1):

It's a perfect example of how we inherently view the Hive as untrustworthy. Obviously, there are good reasons for it! The Hive have caused immense pain and trauma to pretty much everyone in the universe, Eris included. It must take an incredible strength of character to embrace the fact that you're physically half-Hive, creatures that traumatised you in the first place. No one else has dealt with anything similar so naturally they're afraid for Eris. But I believe in her strength. And so does Drifter and Drifter is never wrong:

He'd read the reports. He saw the theories on VanNet. He didn't trust them. He trusted her.

There's a cutscene that people skip and can cause people not to see it, I recommend replaying the thing on a different character or seeing it online, but it shows Eris taking off her bandage in front of us:

It's such a powerful image to me. A symbol of her taking off her mask. Not pretending to be the same as us anymore. Because she isn't! The Hive are a part of her and have been for centuries. And she's always been in control. Our mistrust has always hurt her, but before this, we could act with pity towards her. Now that she's fully in Hive form, people's perception of her changed, for really no good reason other than prejudice. She is still Eris.

I definitely think that eventually we will have to reconcile with the idea of the Hive not being inherently evil in totality as a whole group of people. Obviously this is going to be difficult, especially when their leaders act the way they do, but eventually I do believe we will have to accept some of them, even if it's only Eris for a start.

#destiny 2 #destiny 2 spoilers #season of the witch #season of the witch spoilers #eris #immaru #hive #ask #long post #there's just something about like. eris embracing her full self that's so incredibly powerful to me #and that the way we tolerated her before was steeped in the whole. 'as long as you're sufficiently similar to us you're fine' vibe #but she isn't. fundamentally she has been changed to her core and she kept it hidden #we could only see the light of her third eye and even that made people suspicious of her just based on her physical appearance #but beneath that bandage has always been Hive eyes #the hive killed her and the hive saved her. i can't even begin to imagine what kind of complex emotions that would bring her

[silo1013]

salvaged from the office fire in 1998

#my art #the x files #dana scully #fox mulder #alex krycek #i was talking about this on twitter yesterday but #i have a LOTTTTTT a lot of thought about this part of season two #mainly because i think that while scully probably realized she was never going to find peace ever again after emily #i do believe that the last time mulder ever thought everything would be okay was right before scully’s abduction #which is also kind of why i think mulder was closer to killing himself in ascension than in gethsemane #at the end of season four mulder is kind of resigned to his and scully’s lives unravelling #he’s more suspicious and slower to trust then he ever was #while ascension was the first time he was like. Oh okay. It’s over for us forever and ever #and the fact that he was still open and still kind of okay before that just kind of makes it worse #that he was just betrayed and left hanging and lost everyone he thought he had in one fell swoop #ascension jades the fuck out of him and you can see it. like through the whole series there are threads of it #his tendency to rely on skinner regresses for a while. he becomes even less functional when scully is gone. #he has far less patience for his informants and he refuses to rely on anyone the way he tried to on krycek #like it’s just. such an obvious shift in his character that you can tell his mindset about his and scully’s life has changed #and that’s a huge part of the show’s tragedy i think. ​there is no peace. there is no rest. it’s never going to be okay

[brainworms-all-night-long]

Sorry for making this my entire personality lately but the amount of beef Shadow has for an 8 year old cringelord[affectionate] is peak komedy to me

#sonic prime #got a screen recorder I will become even sillier #sorry if you were expecting an edit Im not on that kind of level yet #maybe one day... #also yea I have a whole gulash about the whole idea that sonic was responsible for Nine existing in the first place #these two are so fucked up but Im.not getting into their tragedy on a goofy fucking meme post I made insted of sleeping #miles nine prower #nine the fox #shadow the hedgehog #sonic the hedghehog #sonic prime spoilers #sonic prime season 3 #sonic shitpost #video

[mirabel-on-a-bicycle]

Here's the thing about the royal family not fully understanding that Wilhelm and Simon were *truly* in love though.

And subsequently, why Wille's coming out to the entirety of Sweden was so so powerful: them not knowing, or simply refusing to acknowledge this, no matter how many times he tried to tell them, actually gave Wille a much higher edge over everyone trying to cover up the scandal, even if he didn't realise this at first.

Every single person had a misunderstanding that this was something he wanted. That they were doing him an obvious favor by helping him cover it up, preparing a speech for him, threatening him whenever he got sidetracked. Or at least something he'd see sense in once he got past that "hormonal driven teenage tantrum" and understand that covering it up was the best course of action. Of course he wouldn't bring the other boy and his feelings into all of this. Simon was just an experiment right? Who'd go so far as to sabotage themselves to bring justice to someone they didn't even love and care about?

And this. this exact misassumption was what eventually brought them all down in the end.

Take August for example. If he had secrets and lies as his weapons and to keep his crimes in the dark, Wille had the truth. A whole truth bomb in the palm of his hand, all this time. And no matter how ballsy Wille was trying to be in that "I'm gonna slowly ruin August's life" mission of his, he was still fighting fire with fire. He only won when he clashed against August as an exact antithesis of him in that coming out speech. August's whole plan was doused only when Wille spoke the truth and refused to play along with his games.

I mean really, had he not done this, what would've happened at worst? August would've.. gotten voted out of being rowing captain?? Maybe he would suffer a bit then, but would it really matter in the long run? August knew that, and so did Wille, deep down, but he ignored that part and instead convinced himself that he was at least doing something to make himself feel better.

Because honestly?!

August never understood, or even cared to! He'd pretend to be sorry whenever needed and go right back to being where he was if needed, as long as he was gonna be king. The moment August actually. genuinely lost to him was when Wille did something not out of hatred for August, but out of love for Simon. And when he did, without having August in his mind, but the person he loved and cared about, he made it impossible for August to go anywhere from there on. It wasn't revenge, it was reconciliation that finally got him. (And simultaneously saved Wilmon's relationship too, for that matter 👀)

This has such poetry in it btw?? I can't properly explain it, but it does remind me of atla and Zuko's arc in a way. How there's a whole world of difference between his firebending when it's fueled by rage, and when it's fueled by wisdom, focus and harmony within the elements. The difference in outcome is so visibly there when the motivation is switched, and when Wille has love and understanding and bravery in his heart instead.

The whole time, the entire Hillerska staff, student body, royal court and royal family and tHEIR ROYAL FAMILIES- *deep breath* WERE AFTER MY BACHCHA had anticipated Wille to lash out for having his royal image tainted and getting at odds with his family but the fact that he'd do it on Simon's behalf never even crossed their brilliant little minds. They had equiped themselves, sure, but never for this >:) Because for all their brains and strategising, no one had actually sat down and thought for once that Wilmon were actually in love. There was a power in it that no one had anticipated.

#like sir. SIR. #did you not consider them an actual threat?! ahhahahh well SIKE #young royals #young royals analysis #wilmon #prince wilhem #august young royals #august horn #young royals season 2 #OH GOAH and now i can't stop thinking about the kind of conversation he's about to have with kristina like #she can scream and trash around all she wants wille literally has the upper hand now omhsgg #they can't touch him?? and to think the way out was there all this time? #august is dead basically the whole country is gonna hype this case up now #the royal familys gotta look nice and definitely not homophobic to the public and wilmon can be together at least for the time being #AND THE TENSION EVERYWHERE #oh god. s3 is gonna be rollercoaster on fire isn't it :'''

[loptrcoptr]

Mizu, after six months of learning English from Fowler in the hold of a ship, taking her first step into London proper: excuse me, sir, where might I find the House of Lords?

The north Londoner she unfortunately picked for directions: oww righ’, youwull be wan’in’ thee houses ‘a parlermen’. We-uhll, take a leff up there pas’ the bridge, see, an then head norf fer a ways an—

Mizu: this… is not… the same language? Is it???

#I for one kind of hope the boat doesn’t make it past that thunderstorm in the last shot #if only because I think splitting the party for a whole season would be a tough dynamic to pull off #but if they do get all the way to London I will die laughing at Mizu the out of place foreigner with a fuckin Irish accent 😂😂😂 #blue eye samurai #blue eye samurai spoilers #everyone she talks to will be like ‘is this what people mean when they talk about the black Irish??? what??’

[parttimesarah]

#wwdits s5 spoilers #wwdits s5 #the tension in this scene! #but is it weird that I sense that Nandor has some kind of history with this? #like maybe he knew a vampire who this happened to #idk #I just know Guillermo is BIG worried #I LOVE this setup for the whole season! #wwdits #what we do in the shadows #what we do in the shadows fx #wwdits fx #nandermo #nandor the relentless #guillermo de la cruz #i made these #use them wisely… or not

[exit-pursued-by-a-squid]

Ok I haven't seen a post about this yet so I'm breaking my no-original post streak to say:

Can we pretty please talk about the exchange between Cleo and Etho in the most recent secret life session where Cleo is saying that, right below teammates, Scott is someone that she'd never kill unless it came down to Scott vs. Cleo's team. And Etho just goes:

"Oh, so he's your Bdubs, basically."

And Cleo responds, "Yes, he's my Bdubs."

WHAT IF I WENT INSANE

WHAT THEN

Anyway the bonds between the players in this series that transcend the boundaries of each season and carry over throughout multiple seasons are something that is actually so special to me.

#secret life #life series #etho #bdubs #ethoslab #zombie cleo #zombiecleo #scott smajor #bdoubleo100 #this also applies to other teammates/duos #like how skizz and tango always end up together #their friendship simply cannot be beat #or the increasingly strange and convoluted but (for better or worse) unbreakable bond between grian and scar #or just the whole shenanigans of cleo and etho being divorced last season but roommates this season #and bdubs and scar are still kind of their sons and there's still a little bit of that family dynamic thing going on #also shoutout to cleo for shouting “I'm gonna get married to etho!” on the EP 1 of the season DIRECTLY AFTER they played a divorced couple #or scott and pearl's rocky but healing relationship from last life to double life to secret life #boat boys. no explanation needed #anyway #thinkin about them

[laceratedlamiaceae]

Colors in Calypso's Birthday

When I was first scanning through this episode to make gifs, I thought I had messed up the color grading because of how drastically everything shifts, but it's actually just how the episode looks.

At the beginning of the party, there are multicolored lanterns all over, casting a purplish glow over the scene.

When Ned Low attacks, we see some of the lanterns flicker off.

When Ned is on the ship, everything is cast in an eerie blue-green.

After Ned is dealt with, some of the lanterns stay off and there's still some blue and green light, but there's also some yellow to balance it out.

#our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd meta #kind of? i'm sure someone could write a whole thing about what this means #ofmd season 2 #ofmd season 2 spoilers #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers