#this gifset must've been done

[storkmuffin]

Saw you say recently that you felt a bit like a bull in a china shop in the bs fandom and I just wanted to reassure you that you're absolutely fine. We've seen a lot of discourse, John Silver is a hotly debated and incredibly divisive character especially through the lens of the finale, and I'm fairly sure when the finale first aired that wars broke out. (I am always grateful I wasn't around for that period.) And even your comments on how Madi's agency was handled, the racist and sexist undertones of the end, are brought up by loving fans. We have a dead dove channel in our discord server exactly for those types of discussions.

This is very much a fandom that went "oh this show is complex, huh" and then proceeded to put on their literary analysis glasses and hold a Thomas Hamilton-style salon over any and all aspects of it. (...Once we get over our emotional breakdowns of course.) Anyway, I'm glad you're bringing some of these topics back through your live watch thoughts. Your afterthoughts are even more fascinating - at least to me, once you were completely done I thought "oh, that's it then" and mourned a little for how your love for the show seemed to be killed. But now I'm seeing further afterthoughts and really, I should've known there would be more thoughts, bc this show refuses to let go of a person once it's solidly dug in its claws.

Anyway. What was my point? Oh yeah. Thank you for sharing all your thoughts, emotions and reactions. The positive, negative, critical, all of it. Fandoms can always use a critical eye, and I feel like this fandom in particular has plenty of people (not necessarily all, but definitely a lot) who are welcoming of it! It's good for the fandom ecosystem

Oh what a really kind message!! Thank you for putting things in context - that the discourse has been here since from six years ago (when the last episode must've aired).

I still love the show, loved the show even when I was like I am DONE IT"S OVER I refuse to watch the last twennny minnitts nooooo (have still refused). It's because Flint is freshly dead. Flint died on Lunar New Year 2024 and I can't have his killers (John Silver and Jack Rackham, in different ways) talk in my face right now. Maybe when I'm done grieving I can put my big girl panties back on (uhh in this metaphor I am weeping with my bare ass out I guess) and watch the rest of it.

I saw the various gifsets of Thomas and James embracing and art based on that moment throughout my liveblog, and what I had thought was that it was James' hallucination as he lay dying or something, where he imagines the afterlife as a place where you try to fruitlessly farm your legacy in a place nothing will grow, but at least Thomas will be there. He wouldn't think Miranda wants to see him in the afterlife because he caused her death directly, but Thomas was killed by his father and so he wouldn't necessarily be angry with Flint.

But then to have SILVER narrate it the way he does using phrases like he unmade Flint and he returned him to his original state and so on was an exceptionally cruel blow.

I really dislike having feelings, so it takes me a really long time to actually have them, and work through them. And Black Sails is, in a very rare way for television that I've experienced, a work of art, so I expect to be resonating about it for a really long time.

#black sails asks #storkmuffin liveblog

[jeysuso]

If you feel comfortable thoughts on Jeys teqction/behavior at Night of Champions? I love seeing your thoughts pop up

hi angel. i've been thinking about how to respond to this because, i'm not going to lie, i did kind of... zone out of everything that happened in NoC as soon as jimmy got that second kick in. but i've watched it again today to see if i feel any different, and i'll put the rest under a read more cause it's long.

jey's reaction is heartbreaking. it's classic stockholm syndrome to me but it's also another instance in which his choice gets taken away from him. his voice doesn't matter. he tells jimmy that they have to be better than what jimmy just did, he doesn't want jimmy to do it, and yet jimmy does it again. and this isn't me taking digs at jimmy (i have a whole gifset for that, trust), but this is just the way i saw it unfolding in front of me. jey was terrified of roman but as soon as roman put hands on his brother he tried to step up. and jey was happy to take all of the heat off of jimmy and place it onto himself, again. he thought he might be able to get through to roman and couldn't, obviously. but his shouting for him as jimmy pushed him away from the ring? haunting. like a lost little boy. the vulnerability was... i don't even know how to describe how painful it was for me to watch. he, just like jimmy, was desperate to get back in roman's good graces. knows better than jimmy (i said what i said) what it's like to be on the opposite side to roman, fighting against him. in detail. and he was trying his hardest to keep things from just reaching that boiling point but it wasn't enough. everything he's done - every decision he's made. turning on sami, coming back to the boodline to protect jimmy. sacrificing himself yet again for the sake of the family. all for it to ultimately mean nothing. i can't even imagine how powerless he must've felt. how terrified he must've been, knowing what he knows about the power roman has. because regardless of whether roman deserved it (and i'll never say he didn't, because my issue doesn't lie with jimmy kicking roman like so many people seem to think it does) he is still the tribal chief. unless the elders are gonna come in and rip that pretty red necklace from around his neck, he's still the head of the goddamn table, and he still wields enough power to fucking ruin those boys. something jey was all too aware of, considering roman not only threatened to have jey disowned from the family but threatened to have jimmy disowned from the family too because of jey's actions. he's done nothing but fight for his brother and it wasn't good enough. because here we are now, with jimmy probably in more danger than ever, and jey still stuck under the hold roman has over him. because that's what happens to people who have been victims of abuse. it isn't easy to get out of. it isn't easy to find the courage to get up and leave, or fight back. it's probably one of the hardest things a person has to do, and - not to get tmi, christ over a wrestling storyline too - but as someone who has experienced similar to jey in a different dynamic, you absolutely are aware that it's happening to you and there's nothing more... painful, knowing you don't think you're strong enough to do anything about it. and that's essentially all i saw yesterday. was someone essentially being called weak by his own fucking brother (and people can tell me what he meant to say but he said what he said. end of story.) and thrown into the deep-end head first, being expected to float alongside him. it was awful.

#anon ask #💜 #ask

[impulsea]

loved your tags on that last gifset you rebloggued. i love how you talked about ariel's compassion because i think that's a trait of hers that gets WAY too ignored by many people.

Thank you, friend! I think most of the Disney movies, people watch passively because they've been so familiar with them for years so they're not reacting to the scenes or digesting them for what they are. Which is easy to do, considering. But! I really try to make it alive and immerse myself in that world to bring authenticity to the characters. It wasn't until a few years ago that I realized how frightening the ordeal must've been for Ariel. To be tossed from the ship like that into the sea, to see so many humans cry out and jump into the ocean, to see the threat of fire for the first time and have splinters and broken wood flying at her through the whipping rain. All foreign sensations and elements and fears and experiences for her.

Also, one of my major breakthroughs with that character, came when I realized what saving Eric meant. Even though we view Ariel, and I mean we as a society, as defiant and confident and headstrong, up until this point she's been pretty...obedient isn't the right word, since she forgot about the concert in the opening act and she does go to the surface right after the fight with her father, but she...she attempts to assimilate and always has the lower hand in arguments. She isn't actively defying her father to his face or in a way that's completely putting herself in danger of his wrath. It's somewhere in the middle. Like she omits parts of herself to maintain a semblance of peace. She'll go to the surface, but she won't tell him about it. She'll go exploring shipwrecks, but she won't bring anyone else along. She'll home an entire grotto of treasures, but she'll do it in secret so he'll never find out. Even when she sees Eric's ship, she watches safely from the distance, not daring to interact with any of the humans. But, when Eric falls into the sea and she wraps her arms around him and brings him to shore, she's actively breaking the most important of her father's rules- not just to her, as a daughter, but to all his people of Atlantica: contact between the merworld and the human world is strictly forbidden. She was presumably the first to ever break this rule and she did it without a second thought, because she saw someone else's life at risk. Just as Eric had done for his dog just a few moments earlier- which gives me so many additional thoughts about how perfectly suited they are to one another, but I digress.

Ariel's actions might be rash at times and she might not always present herself in the best way and most of the time she does things that just seem to defy logic, but it's all an extension of her incredibly big heart. She sees people for who they are, she refuses to let others influence her views or beliefs or her reads on another person and prefers to be informed of their character through their actions. In other instances, she could believe that same character is capable of reforming should their actions be less than savory. And while I disagree and agree with certain parts of this ideology, how beautiful is it to go through life with an entirely untainted view for humanity and who and what people are and the autonomy and freedom to experience it for yourself, firsthand, as opposed to only knowing life and people through someone else's beliefs or stories or warnings?

#- message in a bottle < #anonymous #ask #the little mermaid

[b-rainlet]

okay but where is my hot helaegon wedding night these writers expect me to believe aegon creampied his sister?? PROOF. want to see with my own eyes.

I know this is a ship specific ask but tbh, why do we see so little of anything regarding the greens??

Like, we don't see Helaena/Aegon getting married, we also don't see Viserys/Alicent getting married but both of these scenes could've been direct parallels to the fucking awful wedding Laenor and Rhaenyra went through (that is by far my favourite episode from the show btw, I would've eaten up more weddings full of tears and terror, like pls give that to me).

Also, I just know that if we would've gotten a scene of Alicent walking 'down the aisle' (if you even do that in Westeros lmao) there would've been swarms of people making gifsets of that and putting it next to Aegon's coronation going ' Two Lambs willingly going to their own slaughter to please their family'.

Also also, this show is full of scenes where babes are birthed and yet we don't see Helaena birthing twins?? Like that's not an even bigger effort and more dangerous than birthing one babe?

(I heard that in the book, Rhaenyra dotes on Helaena, it would've been interesting if we would've seen her getting anxious hearing Helaena is gonna have twins, considering what childbirth did to her mother and yes I know she's not around when the twins are born, but word does travel, she must've heard of it. )

But considering we don't even see Maelor, what can we expect truly.

And just, the more I think about it, the more I'm like: !!!

They could've done so much in terms of paralleling both Aegon/Alicent and Aegon/Rhaenyra.

Like Rhaenyra, Aegon understands that it's his duty to produce heirs but does not restrict himself when it comes to seeking pleasure (unlike her, he doesn't get too much flack for it, which also could've served as an interesting dynamic between these two - which the writers do hint at, Rhaenyra being jealous of Aegon, but not just because he's a threat to her as claimant to the throne but also because simply by being a boy, he automatically has more Freedom than her).

But at the same time, Aegon has absolutely no Freedom at all! He has to do what is expected of him and unlike Rhaenyra, he can't fuck up too badly and still have the King on his side.

He's in a cage and he has the burden of needing to appease his Mother and his Grandsire just like Alicent had to please her Father and he knows all he can do is pull a little at the leash around his neck but run free? Never.

Anyway, both Aegon and Rhaenyra are mirrors of each other in the worst way (Both the queer ones, the debauched ones, the ones seen in brothels and known for siring bastards) whereas Aemond is 100% his Mother, the one to contrast his brother, the dutiful one, the one with value and honour.

And what about that wedding night you were talking about anon! Imagine Aegon on top of Helaena, eyes closed, grunting and thrusting with a pained expression on his face (and he's imagining he's far away, imagining he's fucking some servant girl or a whore but not his sister, never his sister) while Helaena is lying on her back, just taking it, looking off to the side and you're struck with this thought that - besides all the love Alicent has for her children - Helaena grew up to share the same Fate Alicent had to endure, confined in a tower, made to produce heirs, no worth to her other than her ability to conceive sons.

And maybe Aegon tells Helaena he's sorry (maybe after but maybe during, whispering the words into her shoulder when he's getting close, rubbing his tears into her skin) but Helaena just goes 'I know' with that far away look, and they don't cuddle but Helaena reaches over to hold Aegon's hand while he keeps sniffling and that's enough for the moment, more than their Mother would've gotten.

#anyway duty is just an endless loop of pain you're forcing your children through #Just like you had to endure pain and sadness and loneliness #in the name of honour or virtue or whatever else that's supposed to be greater than you #none of this makes any sense I am sorry anon #I know you wanted a sweeter take on their wedding night #thank you for the ask tho I love asks! #hotd #(also I am a firm believer that out of the two of them Aegon is the crier) #(He's a sniffling wheeping teary eyed pathetic weirdo hoping to garner sympathy)

[mattikitku]

I thought, that I've never been in the closet, but it turns out, that one must come out officially. Interviews with you after the medal race weren't a breakthrough for me. I had talked about it [having a girlfriend] before, but for some reasons it wasn't published.

Katarzyna Zillmann casually greets her girlfriend Julia Walczak on the Polish national TV after she and her crew won the first medal for Poland in Tokyo [28.7.2021]

#olympics #tokyo 2020 #rowing #katarzyna zillmann #team poland #poland #moje #this gifset must've been done #i love how she did it so casually as it was something so common #when in this country it isn't and the whole fuss about it proves it #but small things like this #little gestures #especially on the national tv! #they really matter #way to go kasia!

[black-quasar]

it's the way the camera cuts right to dean

#has this gifset been done before? i feel like it must've been at some point #i wanted to rewatch the episode but ended up making this aksksjsjsjsj #supernatural #spn #dean winchester #destiel #deancas #castiel #spn season 12 #b-q

[letteredlettered]

So I just saw a gifset of Patrick meeting David for the first time again and honestly, you could feel that his fascination grew into genuine interest the more David talked. He literally couldn't stop grinning at one point. I always wondered though, what do you think he would've done if David hadn't left him 3897 voicemails? I feel like Patrick must've been so relieved David made it so easy for him to insert himself almost seamlessly into David's life but what if that didn't happen. More hikes?

This is an interesting question, because it’s my personal head canon that it was in fact the messages that made Patrick start to get interested in David.

Like, I think Patrick did find David funny the first time they met, and sure, David’s cute. I’ve also think it’s highly likely that Patrick has heard David isn’t straight, and David doesn’t really present as straight, so I feel like that is something that makes Patrick interested right off the bat. But David comes across as pretty clueless in that first meeting, so while cute, queer, and amusing might be enough for Patrick to want to know more, I feel like to me it’s not enough for Patrick to think “this guy is special and I want to know more.”

Imo, when David returns, Patrick is different. He’s less generically amused and polite and more privately delight and both more warm and more sassy. He thinks David has a brilliant, creative idea, that David’s been aware and observant enough to see a need in the community and fulfill it, and that as good as this idea is David is unrealistic and needs help. He’s heard David be anxious, self-conscious, eloquent, pretentious, ridiculous, earnest, and smart. I think those messages make Patrick really, really interested, to the point where after hearing them he’d go out of his way to insert himself into David’s life--but not really before then.

So, in answer to your question, without those messages . . . who am I kidding, David would’ve kept flailing and messing up on his little form and Patrick would’ve gotten to know him anyway. But OKAY let’s say Stevie helped him fill out the form--David would have still said something ridiculous when he brought the form in that would necessitate Patrick having to help him. But OKAY if David didn’t, eventually when the store opened Patrick would have gone to see it--let’s face it; it’s the only store in town--and probably would strike up a conversation because Patrick’s interested in business and would want to know how it’s going. And then he would find out what a disaster the business end of it is and he’d offer to help.

So yeah, I don’t think Patrick would’ve actively pursued him? But I think they are closely enough connected by the town and nature of the business that they would have enough chances to interact, and that these chances would get Patrick interested enough to want to help David. I mean help his store. That’s it; that was his whole motivation . . .

#schitt's creek #david rose #patrick brewer #david/patrick #Anonymous

[elizabethrobertajones]

I just watched 4×07 the other day and I was wondering how heavy and important it must've been for Cas to confide in Dean with his doubts, which are considered so bad by the angels that they could cast him out of Heaven. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TALKING ABOUT IT, and I love your little post series. Keep up the good work!!! 😗

Not to sound trite or anything but this is exactly why I’m doing it :D I figure I’m going to hit a lot of patches people don’t think about all that much or are sooo long ago all the squeeing about them got done years ago… May have pretty weirdly coincided with your brainwaves in particular since I’m like 5-6 posts in but I hope I’m covering all the obvious ground :D 

I mean obviously people are constantly going back and giffing it… *I’m* constantly going back and giffing it, and a lot of the gifsets so far I’m recycling gifs or whole posts that I’d already made… But I guess it’s a series about asking us to remember and pay attention more than just reblogging the gifs. To really remember HOW huge all these things are in their journeys and not just remember “oh this happened” but to sit back for a mo and appreciate just how much has gone into their story :D

… I don’t know how not to sound like I’m talking myself up but I have sort of wanted to do something like this for ages, after a much earlier round of coincidentally getting “Dean doesn’t love Cas???” “Cas doesn’t love Dean???” anons back to back. It’s really fun to be settling in actually collecting up the moments :D

Edit: my little post series so far

#Asks

[the-reason-to-sail-home]

Ooops, my mistake! Haha I must've been really really tired. I've had a pretty crazy week, a ton of studying and even more for the next one. I'm in my first year of uni and exam session is coming up so :( But yaay, it's finally weekend, have you got ant exciting plans? :) I see that you're a writer! I'm gonna have to check out your fics, I haven't really read any cs ff in quite some time, so it's awesome that I got you ;) Lovely rose sounds great ♥ I hope you have an awesome day! - cssV ;)

Oh! I forgot to ask, is there anything specific that you’d like to receive? ;) I usually make gifs, so if you have any ideas or suggestions, I’m listening

Goodness, I’ve been there and done that a billion times before. I feel ya. It’s my first year of uni too, but I’ve learned a lot so far. If you ever need any study tips I’ve got your back ♥ In America, our winter break begins a week or so before Christmas and ends in the middle of January, so this is my last weekend of free time. Really, I’ve just been doing nothing. How about you? Any fun plans? 

I am a writer! I’ve been really trying to put myself out there a little more. I’m really excited and honored that I could help bring you back into the ff world. 

As for my present. Hmmmm. I will absolutely love whatever you can make for me! ♥ If you need ideas, though, it might be kinda neat to have a gifset based off of or inspired by one of my fics? I also really like things that are Lieutenant Duckling related and AU related in general. But really, even if you just wanna take a cute CS moment and gif it, that would be more than fine too! I love gifs and I have full faith in your capabilities!! 

Hope to hear from you soon, love! ♥

#cssv #my lovely rose