#wb angel

[straightbaittournament]

only the option with the LEAST votes will be eliminated. propaganda under the cut (and more always welcome!):

jean-luc picard and beverly crusher:

They have a number of romantic moments throughout the TNG series from arguably the first but DEFINITELY the second episode. but they only get together (briefly before divorcing) in an alternate timeline episode which is also the season finale. Also they have a kid together in Picard but are still not allowed to be together She was married to his best friend and he was in love with her but wouldn’t say anything because he wouldn’t want to damage his bestie’s marriage and then his friend died and they met again years later and shared a lot of romantic and sexual tension for years. He openly admitted (under mind reading) that he had loved her since his bestie was alive but felt he couldn’t act on it. In an alternate future they got married. In the canon future they got together and broke up repeatedly because trauma makes relationships hard sometimes and they have a kid together who is named after the aforementioned bestie. An episode forcing them to share thoughts makes him openly admit that he loves her and has loved her for years even when she was married to his best friend.

kit herondale and livvy blackthorn:

They were literally straight bait. So Kit, Livvy and Livvy’s twin brother Ty were a trio with their own side plots in TDA. And well. We literally meet Kit when Ty breaks into his house and puts a knife to his throat and Kit gets distracted by Ty’s eyes. Then later Kit and Livvy have a few moments and kiss once. Then Livvy dies. There are some necromancy shenanigans. Kit confesses his love to Ty then immediately flees the country. Like Kit/Ty was clearly endgame from the start but Livvy and Kit just made out once.

galo and aina (submitted as lio and galo):

Iirc, the whole time the audience was set up to believe that Galo will get together with a teammate named Aina (i might be completely wrong but i think she showed romantic interest in him). That's what usually happens, anyways. However, studio trigger turned that premise on its head with Galo's budding relationship with Lio. In order to save Lio, Galo kissed him. They kissed.

jeff winger and britta perry:

the show starts off with jeff creating the study group so that he can get with britta, they serve essentially as narrative foils, with jeff not caring about people and britta caring too much about people, they nearly get married on THREE (3) separate occasions, they're secret friends with benefits for an entire season but break up when the group finds out, they're the only two people from the core group left in greendale when the show ends; but in the end they make jeff's "true love interest" the girl who was half his age when the show started (36/18)...

angel and cordelia chase:

They met as characters on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but their dynamic doesn't take off until the Angel spinoff Because the showrunners of Angel didn't go in with the idea of putting these two together, the characters' friendship was allowed to develop organically without the assumption of romance, which then made the realization of their feelings for each other more satisfying. Unfortunately the shadow of Bangel (Buffy x Angel) still held over Angel's character, so I think it was a hard sell at the time and didn't gain a lot of popularity in the years since. Both these two characters grew alongside each other, supported each other, and despite knowing that they loved each other, let each other go to pursue their destinies. A really underrated het pairing!

matthew and mary crawley:

They spend multiple seasons full of tension to get their happy ever after. There are so many tropes used between these two. They finally get their shit together and get married, and then have a beautiful child together. Matthew is so happy about his child being born that he doesn't pay attention to the road and fucking DIES IN A CAR CRASH. And that's how their story ends. It makes me so livid every time I think about it lol they really killed him off like that right after and I mean RIGHT AFTER his child is born. It's so foul and every man that they set Mary up with after that doesn't feel nearly the same

keiichi maebara and rena ryugu:

Fluffy harem romcom twists into yandere horror, but then twists again into a story of friendship triumphing over everything. Really holds for any pairing with Keiichi, but the rooftop battle in part 6 is just too good. A recent manga spinoff has them married to total randos, so their respective sons can have the same kind of relationship.

raleigh beckett and mako mori:

Literally everything about the writing of Pacific Rim make it seem like they're setting up for a romance between these two and then they just. Don't. Despite this, "drift compatable" was one of the most popular AUs for couples after the film came out for a hot minute because of how romantic they made the concept seem. *gestures to the entire movie* seriously (note: "drift compatible" essentially describes an in-universe quality of the relationship between raleigh and mako, meaning this quality was so romantic that it would be implemented for other ships in au fanfics)

kagome higurashi and inuyasha from inuyasha:

Long time until they get together, with teasing moments

bow and glimmer:

They didn’t get together until the VERY END of the whole show and even then it was a little ambiguous (was it a BFF “I love you?” 🤷🏼‍♀️)

good luck everybody! now go vote!

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[douglasbradburyverne]

Buffy the Vampire Slayers (1997 to 2003), Behind the Scenes photos

#buffy the vampire slayer #nostalgia #television #90s #2000s #the wb #buffy summers #buffyverse #behind the scenes #making of #spike btvs #angel #willow #rupert giles

[comfortfoodcontent]

1998 Buffy the Vampire Slayer Magazine Ad

#the wb #the wb network #wb #wb network #90s tv #tv #90s #1990s #1998 #buffy #angel #buffy summers #buffy the vampire slayer #sarah michelle gellar #david boreanaz

[weclassybouquetfun]

I have a passing knowledge of Jaime Reyes' Blue Beetle from the character's appearance on SMALLVILLE, BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD and these panels.

Milagro, you are so real for this.

And this is where my true knowledge about Blue Beetle comes from - Ted Kord's Blue Beetle and his friendship with Booster Gold.

Blue & Gold Forever.

So with only knowing the bare minimum about Jaime I was able to watch BLUE BEETLE with no expectations. It's an incredibly vibrant, fun and heartfelt film. I'm concerned at its low box-office showing, but films with bigger leads and bigger budgets have also failed at the box office, or at the very least, didn't recoup it's budget and marketing. There has never been anything that was a guaranteed box office success. I would rather it tried to get eyes in theaters than get lost on HBO Max where it was originally slated for release. Here's hoping National Cinema Day on Aug 27th (where theaters are selling tickets for $4 for all formats) will bring more people to the tent.

Too true.

My thoughts on BLUE BEETLE

Nothing but SPOILERS.

THE GOOD

Xolo Maridueña (COBRA KAI) is a great Jaime. If you have seen Maridueña across these five seasons of COBRA KAI, it's not surprising. He has shown consistently that he can play humour, dutifulness, vulnerable and excel at action.

Big up to COBRA KAI's annual blow-out fight sequence.

Oddly enough, at the end of the film I didn't think we got to know Jaime beyond a cursory level, but I'm sure if they did a deep dive on him I would complain about that too as my issue with origin story films is that so much real estate is given to building up the history of the character, that the plot and action seems relegated to the final act. But I guess BLUE BEETLE gave us all we need to know about Jaime.

Good egg, duty bound, gets hard from hugs (and kudos to this film for actually having a character who gets horny. Comic book films are nearly always a sexless thing, but my guy Jaime pulling his shirt down to cover his crotch after Jenny's (Bruna Marquezine) tale of woe was refreshing.)

-Really liked Jenny Kord. She wasn't the typical damsel in distress. She's formidable in her own right. She and Jaime doesn't feel rushed or shoehorned in. I especially loved the fact that they didn't just make her the love interest,

Though she and Xolo are great together,

but also gave her - in the Reyes - a new family. If she and Jaime were to go pear-shaped we can just know that Jenny still has a place within the Reyes clan.

-We have not one, but two new members to the Legion of Great DCEU Family Members. Joining the mom and dad of SHAZAM, AQUAMAN's dad, THE FLASH's mom is BLUE BEETLE's Alberto Reyes (Damián Alcázar) and Nana Reyes (the Oscar nominated Adriana Barraza).

Still waters run deep and Nana proved that. She's not just up in her room sewing and watching reruns of "María la del Barrio". She is sitting back waiting to showcase her experiene while fighting in the revolution.

And Alberto Reyes! He was this film's King T'Chaka. Always with a wise word, strong, caring. I hate that he had to die and I think it's a worn out trope that a hero has to suffer loss in order to come into their greatness, but it worked. Long Live Alberto Reyes!

Just enough George Lopez to not be annoying. He's funny, but only in small doses IMO so he was just good enough and used well enough that it wasn't eye-rolling. I really loved that he wasn't just there for the obvious comic relief, instead Uncle Rudy is a brain.

The opening along had me hyped. It set the tone and it lent to idea of the scarab being from space, but the inclusion of a classic Blue Beetle comic sketch just ::chef's kiss:

-Director Ángel Manuel Soto listed which stories he pulled from for this film,

but I see a lot of BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD episode "Fall of the Blue Beetle" in the bits where they go to Ted Kord's home/lab.

-The way they took OMAC/Kevin Kho backstory and merged it with Carapex's. In the comics OMAC was a Cambodian child of war, in this film Ignacio/Carapex was left an orphan and trained by the School of the Americas (rebranded Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) whose training manuals advocated tortuing and blackmailing civilians. Using Kord Industries as not just a amorphous shady big tech corp, BLUE BEETLE's writer Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer and Soto tied Kord Industries to the realties of what big corporations are doing globally.

This ties into another thing I loved about the film - it had a strong cultural identity. From Nana using Vivaporú (Vicks Vapor Rub) as smelling salts to rouse Jamie, to El Chapulín Colorado(!!!).

The idea of gentrification that affects people across colour lines and specifically targets people of lower income.

The full integration of Jaime and Khaji-Da being exemplified by Khaji-Da (voiced by singer/actor Becky G) speaking Spanish.

THE BAD

-Is there someone with less screen prescence than Susan Sarandon? I don't know how she was ever a thing. I guess they needed a "name" but there several other actors like Anjelica Huston or Sigourney Weaver who would have done something more with that role. Carla Gugino. Anyone else!

-The establishing CGI of Kord Entrerprises was basura. There was a tangible change in F/X as if mid way through post-production they found out WB-Discovery was moving it to theatrical release and they effects crew got a cash infusion.

-While I came around on the character towards the end, I wasn't a fan of Milagro. Glad they aged her up but she fell into the trope of annoying movie sibling and it grated.

THE REST

-Harvey Guillen's character died in the film (good!) and he appears to be dead again on HARLEY QUINN (not good. There is no way Nightwing's death sticks).

-Soto and James Gunn says that Jaime has a future in the DCU. While an interview snippet is making the rounds where Soto says he would like Jason Sudeikis (TED LASSO) to play Ted Kord, I don't really believe that is true as the source is from an online site I'm not familiar with and people lie for clicks.

Yes, Buster. All. The. Time.

-While comics! Jaime lives in El Paso, Texas, film! Jaime lives in Palmera City - on El Paso St. - which was created for the film (and appeared in the comics months ahead in a tie-in). Soto found inspiration in Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico. But I wonder what Palmera City's real-world city will be when James Gunn finishes the DC Map that he say is being redone. Maybe because over the years Metropolis has been Chicago/Delaware/New York.

Metropolis is not in Delaware, GTFOH.

#Youtube #blue beetle #blue beetle movie #blue beetle 2023 #jaime reyes #xolo maridueña #angel manuel soto #dc comics #comic book movies #movies #film #dcu #wb/dc #harvey guillen #bruna marquezine #spoilers

[vampandvisiongirl]

Here's to us

the generation that watched their favorite shows live

that had to wait a week for the next episode (multiple weeks for holiday breaks & months for summer breaks)

the generation that cried with how a particular episode ended or had alot of feelings and then (painstakingly) had to wait for dial up to pass to log onto a fairly new Fan Forum (hey, the internet was just becoming a big thing) so you can talk about it.

the generation that was a complete "The WB" whore and watched just about every show they had.

the generation that wrote fanfiction and helped spark Fanfiction.net or Archives of Our Own

the generation that got to be the last great generation where we played outside all day and came in for dinner just in time to watch a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Dawson's Creek or Angel.

the unique generation that has knowledge of life before the internet and life after it. Nobody else will experience that.

Here's to Us. Cheers.

#millenials #here's to us #the wb #angel the series #ats #buffy the vampire slayer #buffyverse #dawsons creek #90s #early 2000s #late 90s #2000s internet #charmed #felicity #7th heaven #roswell #I see you #I am you #the wb faces #crawl #the wb promo #i remember #nobody else will experience that #probably the best promo of all time #im not crying #Youtube

[skullislandproductions]

Special spot on the WB lot. Building 131, home to Warner Bros. Cartoons after their move to Burbank in 1955.

#Spike Brandt #Looney Tunes #Merrie Melodies #Warner Bros #Warner Bros Animation #WB Lot #Friz Freleng #Chuck Jones #Bob McKimson #Mel Blanc #Bugs #Bugs Bunny #Daffy #Daffy Duck #Porky #Porky Pig #Los Angeles #Burbank

[paceypeternathanslawyer]

One Tree Hill Meme {1/187} Season 1 Episode 1: Pilot Nathan & Haley In Every Episode

#giffing the top 2 characters in each ep #i just felt myself yearning to gif nathan and haley in every ep so this series is meant to fulfill that urge #and to give these two angels some much deserved love #it's gonna focus on them both as a couple and as individuals #and it will focus on the good and the bad #let's be real it's mostly good but nathan had the whole bad boy thing going in the first episodes so it's hard to ignore it early on #this episode had almost no naley #i had to milk it for all the naley i could possibly get lol #one tree hill #nathan and haley #nathan x haley #haley x nathan #naley #haley james #haley james scott #haley scott #nathan scott #naley edits #one tree hill gifset series #oth edits #one tree hill edits #otp #pilot #the wb #the cw #my gifs #james lafferty #bethany joy lenz

[kingmlem]

I don't care what anyone says.

This:

Is a literal sweetheart. Y'all are just mean.

No, I will not:

Be taking criticism

Shut up about this

#mlem plays #gotham knights #wb montreal gotham knights #i love him #i love his character in the game #i would let this man do unspeakable things to me #and then let him cook me breakfast in the morning. #'but mlem he's ugly-' LOOK AT HIS EYES #this boy *feels* it. whatever *it* is. #also we stan a therapy king #love that for him #jason todd #thank you for coming to my ted talk #its my mental breakdown i get to choose the hyperfixation; gotham knights #i reiterate; This man/baby/angel deserves fucking recognition and i will die on this hill. #that is 100% my number 1 fictional husband #your honor #he's my babygirl

[bonobochick]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ep 1x07, "Angel."

Some old school love. 💖

#buffy the vampire slayer #buffy summers #angel #btvs #angel btvs #romance #otp #kiss #the wb #hulu #90s #sarah michelle gellar #david boreanaz #true love #surprise #vampire

[dylanrosales25]

#drawing #music #2010s #lollipop chainsaw #video games #tech n9ne #tara strong #10s #ebah #evil brain angel heart #zombie hunter #juliet starling #wb #warner bros #warnermedia #wb games #cheerleader #hip hop #rap #extended playlist #ep #album art #strange music

[blanketforcas]

if you use the angel card to ungay that angel i will kill you on sight <3

#he's a trans man next question #idc about (head)canon re gay or bi #this isn't gender studies babe this is television the point is a man confessed to another man and THAT was the issue the big wb problem the #reason why everyone (not misha) was weird about it #like it's so disgusting to go the ~ complexities of gender/angels ~ route when it's clear you're just using that to be a dick

[tvthemesongs]

Angel intro

#angel #the wb #1990s

[magnificent-winged-beast]

not jensen qrt jp and liking his tweet about saving windy but ignoring all of misha's posts regarding that matter. why is he always catering to jp? i don't fucking get it. 🙄

Anything about the Tall one, I don't care at all and try to stay away from him and his fanbase. So no drama here.

#Whatever #I not aware of the last J2 drama #I hope Misha is well away from that and can have the support for GK away from them #I don't care about the Winchesters either if it gets can for good or is renewed #I don't have a horse on that race #Even if Cas has been obviously baited to appear there... No... Thanks #This clown has another circus to attend and care to for #And of course I'll be there with full make up wig and nose IF the Winchesters is renewed and use Cas to bring me back.. Hell yeah #But I will not ask for this keep going or being canceled #CW and WB took my will to care about a TV show passionately as I use to with that 15 years of TV #That was about Bros and eye fucking BETWEEN and Angel of the Lord and the righteous man

[vhstve591]

Me at the Warner Bros. lot in July 2009:

Mom took this photo at the perfect spot. We were touring the studio's New York street taking pictures and she thought it would be perfect to have me in front of the water tower. Many of the facades and structures in the street date back to before talkies emerged.

#warner bros #wb #los angeles #2009 #burbank #warner bros studios

[incandescent-creativity]

Oh am I dumb? Is my vision so near sighted I cannot see the easy answer in front of me?

One of the biggest reasons I find writing LiaHT and its sequels is setting up Heaven. Hell and demons are easy; they are ghosts tormenting humans and occasionally checking in with each other as they try to stay under the angels’ radar.

But the best I’ve been able to do for Heaven is “idk there’s an insane amount of angels and they run everything”

BUT NOW

(tldr humans have the creativity and drive that angels get burned out of them when they Ascend, so Heaven is organized and run by humans with angelic supervision, rather than the structure-less mess I have going on now)

Heaven! is supposed to be enjoyable! right! Isn’t that the point? You get to do what you like, for as long as you like, without issue!

With the amount of human souls that are around, surely a number of them must enjoy organizing things! administrative work! clerical stuff! architecture and design! Why should they not get to do that??? Hello?

I am thinking of the “some people just want to be secretary” post. You know the one.

This allows the angels to allow the humans to sort of... run themselves. Angels don’t retain any memories of their former human lives; they are burned out of them when they Ascend from human > angel. 

So the angels struggle to match human creativity, and the archangels don’t have a prayer (ha). So the peaceful productive option is to just let em create what they want.

Within reason, of course! Humans can’t even manipulate the Heavenly realm. That is a service the angels can provide with their magic. There are entire organizations, staffed by human and angel, that evaluate proposals. If these proposals get approved, the angels go out in teams to reshape Heaven into what the humans want!

I am also very pleased that this contributes to the “Heaven is extremely bureaucratic” theme that I have going on.

AND this creates a very open, friendly, “We’re here to help!” vibe so human souls view angels positively while ALSO allowing angels to operate on a more secretive, manipulative level. 

For example, the humans might propose some changes, but angels are the ones to approve those ideas, which lends itself very easy to making sure things align with agendas. And when they construct them, they often build in surveillance options, too. Magical ones, probably. That’s a detail to work out later, if it ever becomes plot relevant (unlikely).

#anyway apparently the solution to my wb-ing woes is ''talk to luc'' bc then i'll figure it out #thanks luc #my worldbuilding #inspo: liaht #liaht angels #inspo: heaven

[makymakvrchat]

MakyMak at Warner Bros Studios

MakyMak at Warner Bros Studios

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