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the story must flow

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YETIDE BADAKI AS NEERA KETOUL IN STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS - 2.02 - AD ASTRA PER ASPERA

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It's been 10 years and how the fuck did Zuko mess up TEA?????

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“They finally made this theme more blatant-" Why does it need to be blatant. What's wrong with subtlety? Concepts can be underused but subtlety is not neglect.

Blaring all your concepts and themes is not good writing. It's so disruptive to a story's flow when the characters look off the screen to be like "See? This is the concept. The idea. The theme."

If you can feel the hand of the author becoming too heavy that's bad.

For example: I see people saying Azula's abuse in ATLA is more blatant in the live action and it's good because "it's being discussed more". It already was discussed at length. The show made it clear she was a victim at every turn, every behavior, every reaction, it came from a place of trauma. It was made clear that she was scared of ending up like Zuko because Zuko was an example of what would happen to her if she failed. When she says she's better than Zuko it wasn't just because she was raised to think hersef superior to him but because Zuko failed and failures get mutilated and exiled, failures are abandoned. In that final Agni Kai the music is morose and somber because this isnt some epic battle its a fucking tragedy, the burning out of "Ozai's brightest light" and Azula finally succumbing to her terror and trauma she was repressing now that her worst fears are realized. How can you see a fourteen year old girl chained to a sewer grate wailing and writhing and breathing fire desperately as unsympathetic? Even Katara and Zuko are horrified as to what has become of her.

The writers weren't looking us in the eye and saying "See? She's a victim too" when they wrote this, they weaved it in. They weaved it into her obsesison with symmetry, her extreme perfectionism, the way she talks about Ozai, the ways she calls herself a monster, her isolation from those with healthy home lives, all the ways she held herself together and ultimately all the cracks and seams that she shattered down when she fell apart. It did not need to be blatant to be clear.

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What Was I Made For - Track List

I wanted to make a playlist that had songs about the female experience from the rage and the sexism to the joy of being a women.

LINK to spotify

King - Florence & The Machine

"But a women is a changing always shift shape, just when you think you have it figured out something new begins to take"

2. Labor - Paris Paloma

"you make me do too much labor, all day, everyday, therapist, mother, maid, nymph then a virgin, nurse then a servent"

3. Norman fucking Rockwell - Lana Del Rey

"'cause your just a man it's just what you do, your head in your hand, while you color me blue"

4. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (The spotify session cover)

"oh mother dear were not the fortunate ones and girls they just wanna have fun"

5. I Don't Need a Man - Pussycat Dolls

"I dont need a man to make me feel good, i get off doing my thing"

A few more mentions (but there a lot more on the playlist)

The Man- Taylor Swift

You Don't Own Me- Lesley Gore

Prom Queen - Beach Bunny

Angry Women - Ashe

Material Girl - Madonna

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oh stede. a man who's been so thoroughly starved of self-confidence for his whole life that every time he gets a morsel of it he blacks out and enters a fugue state of hubristic bravado and commits interpersonal atrocities.

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Our Flag Means MINOR CARDIAC ARREST

A few moments I think we need to appreciate:

Izzy genuinely dropping a banger cover of La Vie en Rose. I am patiently awaiting the TikTok edits.

"I did it for the LOLZ"

“You know whatever this is, it's just gonna turn me on”  IZZY ON GOD. OMG.

Stede really just went "YONK" to Ed when he came to the door to comfort him.

izzy making THAT innuendo. you already know I don't gotta tell you.

Did. Did he just set that man on fire? Wha- what. Stede? STEDE.

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Not Ed being all “you torture like a bitch” chill until Stede starts to get tortured and then he’s ready to fuck him up 

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I do NOT like THE VIBE IM PICKING UP I swear to CALYPSO if Stede and Ed part ways again I'm gonna find a ship and throw myself off of it

(if it was any other year I'd live but after good omens my mental stability rides on this)

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Eps 7 is giving mean girls and Stede is Cady. 

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“Why you dressed like a dirty ass orphan” “Blackbeard are you a poor now?”

Yooo why is everyone attacking ed, he’s trying something new OKAY leave him alone

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So we’re all pacing in our rooms rn right?? Is that the general vibe around here?? I keep seeing comments like “chewing on my own leg” and “eating my drywall” and I somehow understand what they mean? My heart won’t stop pounding

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NO CAUSE IM FEELING A NORMAL AMOUNT OF EMOTIONS (IM NOT)

An engagement! In EPISODE 5!! What are they gonna do in the finale?! I am honestly concerned for my health at this point.

YOU WEAR FINE THINGS WELL!! Excuse me!! Had to pause and make sure I wasn’t reading an exquisite ao3 fic, I’m throwing up crying and rolling on the ground

I’m not used to my serotonin levels being this high I’m unhinged

Did anyone else have to like hide from their screen and just like replay the scenes multiple times like in small doses until the heart palpitations stopped no?? just me??

Also why we moving past the fact that he turned into a bird so fast I think we need to talk about this

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loudly going "YOU'RE GOOD YOU'RE GOOD" to myself to ward off the memory of every embarrassing thing i've ever done

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how I would describe the new episodes as ao3 tags no context.

temporary character death. Black beard being a scary pirate. Idiots in love. Reunions. Blackbeard typical self-destruction. Alternate universe - Inn Owner. Self-esteem issues. Bearded Stede Bonnet. stede merman AU. the swede/Spanish jackie. good soup.