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I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

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📷 Damiano David by Brendan Wixted

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📷 Damiano David via Instagram

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I Did Nothing

Just like how Noah Stilinski got a huge moment in “Sundowning,” I think that Chris Argent got a very powerful and very insightful moment in “Relics.”  I hope that they keep this trend up, because I’d like to see all the characters get defining moments in the last season.   (Especially Scott, because goddamn it, ‘being sad’ is not a defining character moment.  Tell us why!  Please.)

I know that some people disagree with me about Chris Argent’s character arc, though you know that I believe in it.   (@bigskydreaming I know you respectfully disagree, and I understand your points.  I seriously do.)  But the story he was telling Malia was not only an attempt to make up for what he had done, but contrition – the acknowledgement that he had done wrong.

To remind you, he was telling Malia of a time where he saw someone go into a blood lust and justify it by using circumstance and other arguments.   We know he was talking about Kate, but he admits he knew she was lying and he damns himself with “I did nothing.”   That’s not blaming the victims.  That’s not blaming Kate or Gerard.  That’s not excusing his actions.  That is contrition.  And then, after admitting he’s done wrong, he’s indicates that he is going to make up for it.  He offers to help Malia with her control issues.   

I know that some people feel that he hasn’t had a satisfactory arc, but to me this was a perfect example of someone expressing the steps necessary to make up for what he did.  

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THE SOPRANOS → 3x03, 6x08 TEEN WOLF → 2x09, 2x02 SUCCESSION → 1x03, 2x10

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#aidia for sure!!#i dont think any team with scott would win and isaac doesnt have the backbone to look him in the eyes and go “focus!!!!!”#i do understand dethan like i think danny would be good but i just dont think they would care about winning#lydia on the other hand wants to win and would 100% scream and throw orders at aiden or even throw him off her team if hes not good#she would win your honor#teen wolf#lydia martin#me and prev we get each other 🤝🤝

I'd say the opposite. Scott's the strategic thinker, the one who plans things out and sticks to that plan. he's the one who stays focused on a target. And he'd keep Isaac on track.

It's not like Scott is Stiles who'd get distracted by pretty much everything. Nor does Scott have Stiles impulsiveness.

The only thing that might stop Scott and Isaac, would be Scott's tendency to overthink things, and to question himself too much.

Danny and Ethan would distract one another too much.

But yeah, Lydia would probably win; because Lydia won't lose no matter whom she's stuck with.

The Bake-off is, in this instance: 1 cake, 1 batch of muffins or cupcakes, and 1 misc. baked good, e.g. pie, bread, etc. Every allied character not competing are the judges.

Also feel free to share what baked goods you think the couple you chose would make! Or what all of them would make. Or what the judges' opinions would be. Or just vote and do nothing else (It's not that serious of a poll lol, do as thy please as long as it's civil)

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Victoria De Angelis on the Loud Kids Tour Gets Louder (2022)

I Wanna Be Your Slave in San Francisco, California, USA

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Endless List of Platonic Relationships That I Love - Liam Dunbar and Scott Mccall

"You're not a monster. You're a werewolf like me."

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i will say, the worst thing that happened in fandom was when shipping just became “i ship this bc it’s gonna be real” and not just “i ship this bc i think it’s a fun dynamic to explore idc what the writers are doing that’s not my business”

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wow! your understanding of this character is so. . . Unique! just wondering by the way but when was the last time you directly interacted with the source media

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Victoria De Angelis on the Loud Kids Tour Gets Louder (2022)

In Nome Del Padre in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA