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imo the worst thing matt ever did in the show was that shit with melvin in season 3. homie talking about how "he made his choice" BESTIE MELVIN TOLD YOU HE BURNED DOWN HIS WORKSHOP AND FISK BUILT HIM A NEW ONE!! melvin's ass did NOT want to cooperate. unless I straight up missed something smh matt was being a little bitch for leaving melvin there to die AND think it was justified.

narrative wise though this fucks because I always thought melvin and/or betsy was doomed ever since matt promised to protect them. I mean to be fair I'm pretty sure his promise to melvin was to protect BETSY and in s3 he did go warn her. lovely cinema when betsy told matt that melvin had considered him a hero. MWAH! matt I have beef with your actions but they are so fun to analyze <3

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Sunday Sleep

cover photo edited from a painting by Canadian surrealist Rob Gonsalves.

Poem typed below in case the photos are illegible-

Sunday sleep

usually escapes me

But not this day,

not this day.

The blue fades away.

I wasn’t alone.

The sun was in my eyes.

An angel saw my mind.

Curse Heaven's tears and sight.

I was praying that I’d be dead

By no North star, I was led.

Baptize me,

flood run over me.

I never pray.

First, this day.

Curtains fall away.

I wasn’t alone.

There was nowhere to hide.

All was white hot sunlight.

I feel the sea-tide rise.

I wasn’t praying. I was dead.

Water this rose and poppy bed,

new and old, violent, amber reds,

Monday's mercy

this day evade me.

Again this day,

again this day,

lastly, this day.

I am not alone.

Dawn, no graces disguised

Today is his and mine.

You come when I call,

appease my anger.

Strangers, not at all,

but filled with danger.

It smells like pine and fresh soil, and like there’s rain in the air,

but when I look at the sky, it’s so Goddamn clear.

Curse Heaven's tears and sight.

Cradling my head, the warmth is wet.

“Was it all I could’ve said?”

I seize this day of rest,

somehow, I've been blessed.

Thieved time, I drown in light.

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The Lullaby

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oh my god @soullessjack lol

John Winchester finally came face-to-face with his tormentor after twenty-three years with the only weapon sure to kill it in his hand and he gave it up and his life just to save Dean. John Winchester had the opportunity to kill the thing that killed his wife and ruined his life and possessed him and hurt countless others and threatened to corrupt Sam irreparably and he let it get away just to save Dean. John Winchester had the chance to finish his life's mission and to ensure the salvation of Sam's soul and then to kill himself if he had to but his death would be meaningless if he couldn't save Dean. John Winchester signed up for eternal conscious torment on the spot and without hesitation just to save Dean. John Winchester looked at Dean and thought I could kill your brother with my own hands but I can never bear to watch you die, not even as a martyr, not even if I follow right behind you. He thought I could save him or otherwise kill him, but if it's between your life and stopping the evil he may do or become, I choose you. John Winchester walked out of hell to Sam having just been killed and resurrected, and the last thing he ever did before he went to heaven was save Dean's life again, and look at him, and smile at him, and touch his shoulder one last time. And you crazy people expect me to care about anything else.

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Why do fandoms see friendships between male leads as romantic?

<a pro-shipping post>

As a person somewhere on the ace spectrum, I don't appreciate the heteronormative standard that romantic/sexual relationships are "more" than friends. I believe all forms of love can be equally intimate and fulfilling. However, I do not fault fans for putting on shipping goggles. As long as our culture as a whole puts romance on a pedestal, people will have their fun. I don't have an issue with this. I heavily engage with ships myself. What I do scorn are writers who fail to create the compelling heterosexual relationships because they neglect developing their female characters, and their chemistry with the male leads. I believe the lack of written chemistry is an extension of lazy misogynistic writers generally giving female leads little to no complexity, other than directly stating such rather than showing how. It's a classic case of "show, don’t tell". Straight couples are canon, taken for granted as given, and thus, writers don't feel the need to justify why two characters have a strong bond, or like each other at all. Worse than that, to further "sell" the love of on-screen friendships, many shows will draw comparisons to romantic relationships. How is the audience meant to interpret the characters' feelings for each other in this strange paradox where the canon straight relationships have no written chemistry, and the supposed platonic bonds have constant romantic connotations?

I recently rewatched the 2015 Netflix Daredevil show, and I see Matt and Foggy's relationship as full of romantic feelings, as well as his canon relationship with Elektra. I think Elektra was interesting and well-written, actually!! And her chemistry with Matt is believable. Karen, on the other hand. They did her a disservice in many ways. Now, with Matt and Foggy, it's not that I find everything they do as loving friends inherently romantic, it's just that the writers make it difficult to see a connection that rivals theirs anywhere else because all the "romances" are so underdeveloped. And it doesn't help that they keep throwing in little comparative remarks to explicitly romantic things.

Like, "sounds like we're getting married,"

and "you're not going to kiss me,"

or "Yeah, you're just a guy, right? A really, really good looking guy."

Of course, these moments could happen in an entirely platonic relationship, but this is a tv show where each moment is carefully written with the intention to communicate something. Genuinely, what am I supposed to think? Perhaps the writers were going for, 'Wow, look how deep their friendship is!!!' but comparing their relationship to romantic ones is just a bit confusing, you see? Or at least, it's highly likely even that's what the writers were trying to say, but they're not making it easy for me to understand what I just watched solely in the context of the show. Maybe they explained at some point at a convention or in a tweet how the audience is meant to interpret Matt and Foggy's relationship as depicted on screen, but that's besides my point. Art is a figurative form of communication. So if an artist has to explain (communincate) what their figurative form of communication was communicating, then their art partially failed at being art.