#theme: favorite episodes

[hurricanejane]

human wreckage

Under a cut because I became a bloodfreak for this week's @wincestwednesdays and also I couldn't wait.

Theme: Favorite episode, Theme: Blood

CW: for blood consumption (to be safe), purging, choking

Title: Human Wreckage (from MCR's song Blood)

Sam hit a breaking point in those six months. He’d been crazed and sick and obsessed, but he’d stopped crying. He didn’t need to cry. Dean would be back soon. Sam would find the trickster and get Dean back. He would be back. He was already there. He was there in the car. Sam couldn’t listen to the tapes, but he tried the radio and bit his lips to shreds. Dean was in every song. He drove in silence.

Dean was in the food Sam ordered for him. Every meal. More often than not, after tipping it into the trash can, he went to the toilet and purged his own meal. But he didn’t cry. He didn’t need to. Dean was there. He was in the Samulet. Sometimes Sam would put it on and choke himself with it, imagining it was Dean’s hands, punishing him. Sam couldn’t save Dean. But he would. Sam would get Dean back and let him punish Sam all he wanted. He didn’t have that now, so he punished himself. But Dean was there.

He was there in his clothes. Sometimes Sam would lay his clothes out on the other side of the bed. He would shove his face into the pits of Dean’s shirts, the only place where his smell still lingered after so many months. He chased the smell. The taste. He took Dean’s crusty, bloody shirts and sucked, hard, and he knew it was sick and unhealthy, but he needed to keep Dean alive. In his guts, in his veins, Dean was there. He could keep him there, get him there, get him back, if he tried hard enough, hurt hard enough, sucked hard enough. Dean would be back. He didn’t need to cry. Not when Dean would be back soon. Not when he was already there.

#wincest #wincest fic #wincest wednesday #wincest wednesdays event #theme: blood #theme: favorite episodes #favorite episode mystery spot #cw blood #cw purging #cw choking

[yourhighness6]

I've been thinking a lot lately about how so many people miss the point of TSR completely. Like Katara did forgive Zuko because forgiveness is earned and no Katara didn't forgive Yon Rha because she can choose who to forgive/ who not to forgive and no Katara shouldn't have killed Yon Rha because the whole point of the episode is that you don't have to forgive someone to show them mercy. That's why Bryke insisting that Katara "forgave Yon Rha" after the fact is not only fucking stupid because she literally says something exactly to the contrary in the episode and it doesn't just remove her agency it removes the complicated moral theme

#such a complex message its honestly my favorite episode #but I feel like a big chunk of the fandom missed the point one way or another #there is an argument that they perhaps didn't consider the social factors involved in implying katara was just as bad as Yon Rha if #she decided to kill him because that's obviously not true #but still I just feel like with all the people dissecting the episode over the years the overarching theme was kind of missed #we all just focus on the smallest of lines we're ignoring the bigger picture #katara #zutara #tsr #atla #avatar the last airbender

[bulkhummus]

“And family history, after all, is just another kind of ghost story. So ten years ago, on a night just like tonight, when the fog lay heavy on the lowlands, a man drove his sister home. And eleven years on a night just like tonight, their mother died, and it didn’t –mean- anything, but it happened. And the sister stood by and watched it happen and the brother, talked on the radio and didn’t even know that it had happened until afterwards, and there was nothing that they could have done.”

day 3 of @cecilosweek — favorite episode > Ghost Stories <3333

#i know its supposed to be carlos/cecil themed but this is my favorite episode LMAO #when will finknor bring this energy and level of intensity back to the show HUH #just a sketch tonight of my favorite palmer siblings #my brain is soggy lettuce #wtnv #welcome to night vale #cecil palmer #abby palmer #cecilos week 2023

[mangofanarts]

I wanted to draw them playing with ponies so that I could ramble my headcanons in my tags

#qsmp #qsmp sunny #qsmp empanada #qsmp pepito #qsmp fanarts #mmangoarts #I think Sunny's favorite would be Rarity but Rainbow dash is such a close second in their heart #Pepito would love Pinkie pie for her randomness and energetic personality - that's his favorite!! He also really likes Rainbow dash #I feel like he would admire rainbow dash because of how she tries to appear cool in front of others #Empanada's favorite is Fluttershy at first but eventually #she grows to love Twilight and so they both are her favorites actually - she can't pick between them #Sunny hates nightmare moon btw because they make them think of moon and relates to princess luna about disliking that side of them #Empanada doesn't know how to feel about Luna at first but loves her too with that episode of Twilight and Luna #Pepito is a big fan of Celestia because she has a bit of a fun side to her despite how serious she might appear #Sunny doesn't like Celestia and finds her kind of boring - even if they do like her sun theme and her being the leader of everyone #Empanada likes Cadence because of how kind she is and caring but she also finds chrysalis cool as an antagonist #For their opinions on the cmc - Sunny really likes sweetie belle - Empanada really likes apple bloom and Pepito really likes Scootaloo #also I drew Empanada in a dress because Empanada said she liked dresses and the color pink before

[melonpond]

before getting into it I really thought welcome to night vale was like a super creepy horror podcast, I didn't realize it was basically twilight zone but funnier and with the added bonus of making me feel like a schoolgirl kicking her feet in the air listening to Cecil talk about Carlos

#melon rambles #wtnv #the 'this is a story about you' episode is probably my favorite one so far I don't know what it is about it #but the whole theme about leaving everything behind and consequences #made me feel shrimp emotions #also I don't think I've ever shipped something as hard as I ship cecilos #it genuinely makes me so excited whenever they interact #the grip that this podcast has on me is insane #I went from 'huh odd but sort of interesting' to 'if I don't listen to this every night before I fall asleep then what is even the point' #I'm on episode 27 already

[flying-ham]

criminal that there’s no new years episode of it’s always sunny

#how do possibly autistic girls celebrate a holiday #if not with a themed episode of their favorite show #there’s Halloween thanksgiving Christmas st paddys AND Valentine’s Day #but no new years??? #iasip #it’s always sunny in philadelphia #dennis reynolds #mac mcdonald #charlie kelly #dee reynolds #frank reynolds #happy new year #new year

[carefulfears]

the biggest thing about elegy is that it takes all of that unspoken isolation of this arc, and it slowly lets the audience in. the first thing that mulder says about the apparitions, is that they seem to be an "omen." an impending prophecy. and carefully, throughout the episode, both the audience and scully are waiting to see, not who the killer is, but what is being foretold. when they're going over records, and scully's nose starts bleeding, it's the one thing that they can't ignore. she wasn't even there in the previous episode. she was in the hospital. alone. they don't talk about it. she's "fine." she has "always been the strong one." just like in irresistible, years earlier, she does not want him to know how much she is struggling. but she doesn't have any control. it is dripping out of her. the sound of his voice when he says "oh, scully." and how quickly she responds "it's okay. i'm fine."

it's that kind of childlike grimace in him, the same man who flinches away from dead bodies and stares at the ground before his father. and she's so fast to try to restore order. it's okay. i'm fine. don't worry, i'll clean it up. i'll make it go away. when she disappears into the bathroom and sees an apparition there herself...i think she decides to go to the hospital because she just needs space, honestly. she's scared. he offers to drive her, to go with her, twice. asks, "you sure?" and she says, twice, "i'm fine."

elegy builds to two separate climaxes: the first, when mulder comes to scully's apartment. but before that, we see scully in karen kosseff's office, the same therapist that she had gone to in irresistible, and presumably has kept a relationship with in the years since. she tells karen that she's been diagnosed with inoperable untreatable cancer, and when karen asks, "you've kept working?" she answers, "yes. it's been important to me."

she's taken aback when karen asks why, is surprised at the question, and tells her "agent mulder has been concerned. he's been supportive, through this time."

KOSSEFF: Do you feel that you owe it to him to continue working?

SCULLY: (quickly) No. (pauses) I guess I never realized how much I rely on him before this...his passion...he's been a great source of strength that I've drawn on.

KOSSEFF: What happened last night, Dana?

SCULLY: I saw something. I, I don't know what to trust. If I saw it because of the stress, because the image had been suggested to me or if it was a suggestion of my own fears.

KOSSEFF: Your fear of failing him?

SCULLY: (exhales emotionally) Maybe.

this is such a rare admission from scully. first of all, she's being confronted. this is not normal. it is not normal to work to your death. it's like bill tells her, a couple of episodes later, "what are you doing at work, getting knocked down, beaten up? what are you trying to prove?"

(she hadn't even told bill about her cancer. she'd been sick for months. she thought she was going to die in memento mori, she knows she's going to die sooner than later. and she instructed her mom not to tell her brother. from the moment that mulder said "i refuse to believe that," it really was only going to go one way.)

she's being confronted. why are you working? (for mulder). do you feel you owe him? (no, i need him).

she's really alone. she's sick. like, she's really sick. she spent the last case in the hospital. she's having a hard time keeping up. she's thinning, and bleeding, and struggling. but there she goes, every day, at every hour. monster chasing. telling him she's fine.

(so much conflict comes from the way that mulder's ignorance perfectly enables scully's repression)

when he shows up, late, at her apartment, he comes in a mile-a-minute, about how he needs her "help" on the case, before asking her what her doctor said. (her answer, of course, being, "i'm fine.")

he tells her that everyone who has seen an apparition, was dying. every person who reported a premonition, was near death themselves.

SCULLY: Harold Spuller is dying too?

MULDER: Well, that's what I need your medical opinion on.

SCULLY: Well, what if he isn't?

MULDER: I would be very surprised. What is a death omen if not a vision of our own mortality? And who among us would most likely be able to see the dead? 

this is one of the most hauntingly isolating moments of the series...he has just told her that she is going to die. and he doesn't know, that that's what he said. she is forced to process it, completely by herself. and she doesn't believe in ghosts, or "premonitions," but she knows that he is right. (when is he not?)

("maybe harold is sicker than we thought he was.")

the second moment that this episode builds to, is the final confrontation between mulder and scully. after the murder is solved. after harold dies.

SCULLY: I saw something, Mulder.

MULDER: What?

SCULLY: The fourth victim. I saw her in the bathroom before you came to tell me.

MULDER: Why didn't you tell me?

SCULLY: Because I didn't want to believe it. Because I don't want to believe it.

MULDER: Is that why you came down here, to prove that it wasn't true?

SCULLY: No, I came down here because you asked me to.

MULDER: Why can't you be honest with me?

SCULLY: (defensively) What do you want me to say? That you're right, that, that I believe it even if I don't? I mean, is that what you want?

MULDER: Is that what you think I want to hear?

SCULLY: (softly) No.

they come really...close here? to talking about it? she almost baits him several times this season. she spends so much of this arc thinking...maybe, this will be it. maybe if she fucks off on assignment, gets a tattoo with another man, he'll say it. maybe if she calls him out for never celebrating her birthday, he'll acknowledge why this is the year he did. maybe if they spend a friday night with a bottle of wine, they'll talk. maybe if she tells him, those things you believe are death omens? i saw it. he'll know.

i can't remember which one of you said that all of their arguments are just how to love each other. she doesn't want to believe. but she's there, because he has asked her to be. even in all of their repressed denial, there is no escaping what's happening. it hangs over both of them.

i love the moments in this arc where she just snaps. in this scene when she says, what do you want from me? do you want me to just believe you? and her quiet resignation, when he makes her answer her own question. no. she knows that's not what he wants.

MULDER: (his voice softens) I know what you're afraid of. I'm afraid of the same thing.

SCULLY: The doctor said I was fine.

MULDER: I hope that's the truth.

SCULLY: (whispers) I'm going home.

"i know what you're afraid of. i'm afraid of the same thing."

except, no, he doesn't. and no, they are not.

but she knows what he's afraid of, just as her therapist had known what she's afraid of ("your fear of failing him?") and so she dodges his admittance with reassurance. she's fine.

that last scene, when she goes out and cries in her car, and she sees harold's ghost in the backseat. she is so alone. she's working on her deathbed. they don't talk about it. she's afraid, and she's not fine, and she is going to "fail" him because she cannot keep herself alive for him, and she can't avoid it. it's in the backseat. it's in the bathroom mirror. it's bleeding out of her.

#here trish #txf.txt #elegy #DANA LOOK OUT!!! YOUR ELEGIES ARE EULOGIZING YOU!!!!!!!!!! #i was saying last night how much i love ‘gethsemane’ as an episode title #and i think that may be my favorite one #but i love ‘elegy’ a lot too #‘a lament for the dead’ #this whole episode is sorrow for the dead and dying #how we cannot catch up to them #and our dying girl at the center. seeing the omens. knowing what’s coming. crying alone in her car. #this show was always so so so resonant and impactful when it came to themes of grief and loss #anyway. there is no beyond the sea etc etc #also i noticed last night that scully mentions how long they've been together a lot during this arc #'in the four years i've known you' in tempus fugit #'i would think after four years' in elegy #'everything that we've done over the past four years' in reduxii #she's taking stock

[jauntilyplacedcaps]

#glee #gleeedit #mercedes jones #rachel berry #kurt hummel #blaine anderson #bones #hummelberry #klaine #3x09 #season 3 #episode: extraordinary merry christmas #song: my favorite things #christmas special #place: bachelor chalet #theme: christmas #theme: holidays #theme: hand holding #group #black and white

[heritageposts]

updated my desktop theme + tags page

#theme is still a wip but it should be more readable at least #and some of the tags need to be updated #i'll get to it when a new episode of my favorite podcast drops

[itsbinghebitch]

it's forever kinnporsche and vegaspete parallels hours: both captive, both thrust outside of their respective social roles, both brought together by power dynamics fuckery and made equal by their chains. this is where both parties become mirror images of each other (ep6 for kinnporsche, ep11 for vegaspete) and where the romantic inflection point actually occurs. almost any romance between opposing worlds contains that upside down/role reversal beat in the story (think of nlmg where palm and nueng are forced out of bangkok), but kpts does it so well here in the shortest time frame with the simplest symbolism. and for both pairings!!! i will never get over this show

#kp rewatch #only now realized both are my favorite episodes and it's probably due to this very reason #+ to cite the conversation podcast by nini and ben bl works best when side pairings reflect themes in the main pairing #and kpts does that par excellence with kp and vp #while keeping each pairing unique and fresh #truly they need to invent another reason to live other than kpts

[volcanicsleep]

we watched all* turtle media! here's our ranking list!

*we would watch shows from the beginning until we lost interest, then we'd jump ahead in the series and repeat until we had a good overall impression of the show (we mostly cared about characterization and relationship dynamics).

the rankings are not indicative of objective or subjective quality. it's just based on how much we enjoyed them

the rise movie

rottmnt

tmnt (1990) + tmnt II: secret of the ooze [watch together. its a complete experience]

TMNT (2007)

tmnt (1987)

turtles forever

tmnt (2003)

tmnt batman movie

first bay movie

tmnt flash forward

tmnt III [nigh unwatchable]

tmnt (2012) [had to drop it after 4th episode for mental health safety]

honorable mention: turtle odyssey

#rottmnt #tmnt #tmnt 2007 #tmnt 2003 #tmnt 1990 #tmnt 1987 #tmnt bayverse #honestly we thought that the complaints about mikey being abused might have just been like. fandom exaggeration. for like angst stuff #turns out they're all abused and the fandom only knows how to identify the most overt of it #...this doesn't mean they don't love eachother. they do #thats kind of the problem lmao #speaking from personal experience here. but the 2012 family (at least in early episodes) was my family years ago. its abuse guys #therapist identified abuse #this does not mean that if you enjoy 12 you are pro-abuse or anything like that #the media you consume or get happiness from does not determine your moral stances or qualities #also themes like that could easily fly over your head if you've never encountered real life abuse- or you grew up with it being normal #...anyway 2007 isn't as cursed as some of you were complaining #leo just kinda looks like a lizard and everything looks wet BUT OTHER THAN THAT its one of my favorites actually #fights scenes good :3 #except the last one. the movie kinda shits the bed at the end lmao #also: released in 2007: predicts the fucking 2008 housing crash. hilarious. apollo and dodgeballs lol #essays to come about each movie/show or something if me and ahs feel like it lmao #if anyone has good 2012 episodes without splinter we'd like to watch them :)

[awakefor48hours]

#not even a roast #phantom of the theme park is one of my favorite musical episodes of all time #dead end paranormal park #Disney wishes they could write a song half as good as #Just Some Guy and You’re My Frankenstein

[coconut530]

WHY DOES IT SAY MADE ON SATURDAY I WAS NOT NOTIFIED HUHHHHH

ALSO JUST DROPPED OUT OF NOWHERE *AND* IT’S THE PENULTIMATE EP OF S4 WHATTTTTTTTTTTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

#Malevolent #Malevolent Podcast #Had a heart attack after seeing this notification #Idk why ever since the Butcher eps and stuff I’ve just had like intense fear whenever an episode comes out #i mean I guess I can figure out why I mean he was scary #But in all honesty his arc was like one of my absolute favorites #like y’know the eldritch creature stuff still cool but like the novelty of a *human* threat y’know? #Tangible. But still the same scare at the end of the day. AND he’s one of the coolest music themed villains ever so there’s that #Hohhhhhhhhh okay I like wanna listen but there's no transcript yet but also brain is like “You want to LISTEN to MALEVOLENT rn?????? Whaaa? #So uh that's where we're at #OMG IT'S RAINING NOW WHERE I AM THE VIBES ARE FREAKING PERFECT #Well uh. Catch y’all in a bit with the doodle. Ok

[llilli64]

My sister fullfilled my whim and made me a bluey duck cake that looks like giorno for my bday!!✧⁠\⁠(⁠>⁠o⁠<⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠✧

#HAHAHAHA I LOVE IT!!! #it's a late gift #IM NOT COMPLAINING! #porque la neta me mamé xD #wanted a hyperfixion themed bday cake this year #and since bluey has become one of my favorite shows and I like that episode it had to be a duck cake #but currently my main hyperfixion is jjba so LET'S MAKE THAT CAKE A JOJO REFERENCE!! #again I'm aware it was a lot of work for herand couldn't be more grateful to my sister #se merece un premio por aguantar mis pendejadas xP #and you bet she's gonna have an amazing bday gift as well #chismesito 🐍

[magentagalaxies]

HEY KIDS IN THE HALL FANS

as i've probably mentioned before scott thompson is going to be visiting my college the week of his boston show and has agreed to stop by and talk to a few of my comedy classes. one of these classes in particular is "theories of humor and laughter" - a class all about asking the question why do we laugh? looking at it from a scientific, philosophical, and literary perspective, and seeing how we can apply these theories in our own comedic creations.

the specific topic we'll be covering on february 6th (the day scott visits class) is "because of repression/anxiety" (all class topics are phrased like answers to that main question). we'll be reading some articles on jokes & the unconscious, doing a sketch workshop on amplifying awkward moments, and watching a few pieces of comedy that deal with these topics which the professor has already chosen

HOWEVER. he just asked me to pass along any examples of kids in the hall sketches that fit the theme of this class so i thought i'd pass that invitation along to all of you as well so i don't miss any great examples

so, kids in the hall fans, reblog or reply to this post with your favorite sketches that feature themes of repression, anxiety, and shame as grounds for comedy!!

#kids in the hall #scott thompson #kith #my brain immediately went to the sketch in season 4 where bruce's character is in the hospital and his son is trying to call him #because he wants to tell his dad he loves him before the surgery but he can't do it #and scott's character who works at the hospital keeps interrupting because he needs to shave the dad before surgery #and in the end the dad has already left before the son can actually say ''i love you'' and he ends up accidentally saying it to scott #i think fran is also a good character for this theme because she is very repressed but i can't think of a specific sketch #let me know your favorites!! bonus points if you send a youtube link and timestamp if it's a video of a full episode

[aangarchy]

#my personal favorite is the one during seige of the north bc it's all black and white and he like enters the pool of water #this is an atla themed avatar state post #i might make one for korra but she does it less often bc she's able to control it #i also only chose the moments where we see aang enter and exit the avatar state #so the first episode he only enters the avatar state in a flashback and he only kinda comes out of the state at the start #so i didn't count that #i also didn't count the guru bc he never fully entered the avatar state in that episode #also also: i didn't count any spirit world moments bc while he might be glowy during that it's not quite the same #i don't think i missed any moments #but i might have so let me know lol #avatar the last airbender #atla #avatar #aang #avatar aang #the avatar state