#;;arc: renewal

[coquelicoq]

it's about...longevity? stability? it's about natsume believing he'll be somewhere long enough to plant flowers and see them bloom. it's about him taking touko seriously when she asks him to tell her what flowers he wants to plant. it's about making something with his own hands, building a future with the fujiwaras. it's about him repairing a rundown home for someone else, restoring it because it's beloved to them, because it's the home of someone they love. it's about him seeing touko's joy and thinking about the youkai saying we'd like to look upon her happy face forever. it's about the box garden making him think of the fujiwaras' garden and his parents' garden, about the flowers being both the memory of flowers that bloomed there before, and the flowers that he and the youkai planted earlier that day. it's about him waking up in both worlds with sensei. it's about touko finding the petal in his hair. it's about him feeling how he falls short and the youkai saying, but you have such gentle hands...

[watchyourbuck]

Me with abc for treating 911 the way it deserves

[avocadotoast0]

The Acolyte is the only canceled show that's impacted me this deeply. No other cancellation has hit me like this one. I'd trade some of my past favorite shows in a heartbeat for it to comeback. and get the full 3 seasons that Leslye had planned

[umeji-imeji]

Ink study on Welcome to Demon school! Iruma-kun (volume 25, chapter 219) by Osamu Nishi Did I use this prompt to draw my beloved Kalego's back? Yes, yes I did (I regret nothing)

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Thinking thoughts about Abuela being back and with this backstory about her being taken in by charlatans and Eddies whole catholic guilt thing and how the two things kind of play into one another as an exploration of faith and being taken in by something.

Abuela giving all her money to the tarot card readers etc because she was searching for something - for connection (with Abuelo) - trying to recapture what she had lost, and How Eddie has spoken about trying to re-find the magic he had with Shannon - how Eddie hasn't actually fully reconciled the Shannon of it all when it comes to relationships and how his Catholic guilt connects into that.

How Marisol as a physical representation of Catholicism is part of that narrative - how Eddie is entering a place where he has to chose his path - in order to move on from Shannon he needs to fully square the hole - catholic or non catholic. And how that needs to happen first - before he can begin his queer journey!

[afterartist]

I have somehow gone from being the biggest Europa/Ganymede hater to being in fucking shambles about them in under 10 minutes

[hannibal-is-my-comfort-show]

Abigail is just so.

She's a girl. She's a ghost. Her name means "fathers joy" . He killed girls so he wouldn't kill her. He ate them so he could honour her. She wasn't honoured. She died. She died again. She died with each of the girls he killed. She died for the plot. She was resurrected by the plot. She haunts the plot. The girls haunt her. She haunts them. Again and again and again. She wakes up in a cold sweat every night. She drowns in a pool of her own blood. She wasn't loved, not really. Not truly. Only as extensions of guilt. As an idea, not a person. She was the lure, the tool, the bait, never the prize.

When she died, she wasnt honoured, it was just murder.

[jonsnowunemploymentera]

Everyone arguing about Stannis, JonCon, Jaime, god forbid Jorah being the 1000th commander of the NW….when it will be Jon again 🌚

[pegging-satan]

The likelihood of Chuuya being the next PM boss and Kunikida guaranteed to be the ADA president,,, that bitch Dazai is living the y/n wattpad life

[navree]

unfortunately i do think this was kind of a weak season finale, there's a lot of stuff from overarching story arcs throughout the season that feel really unresolved (not in a 'this story is gonna keep on going' way, just a straight up 'we're not addressing this any longer' kind of way).

like, have sam and lois talked? she has a lot of abandonment issues and the last time they interacted he abandoned her and it sent her spiraling, have they communicated about this? why did waller go on the run? did checkmate turn against her? why are slade and lex apparently on the same side now? they hated each other and slade should be thrilled lex's metallos failed, why are they suddenly apparently pals? do they even still work for the government? clark and lois's "break up" and the issues involved in it on both clark and lois's side hasn't ever actually been addressed and it needs to be, are we ever gonna see that? where tf are clark's little shorts????? are they gone forever?????

combining that with the fact that this episode feels really padded (given that there was just this constant circular 'they're up they're down they're up they're down' for like 90% of the fight with brainiac), i do really feel like the story would have been better served if they cut the padding, resolved the brainiac invasion at the end of ep 9, and devoted ep 10 to addressing these myriad loose ends in a tight enough way that the season doesn't feel incomplete but still leaving doors open for season 3. because some of the loose ends are fine, 'oh we don't know what happened to hank henshaw', that's just a good teaser for whenever he shows up next season as metallo, that's a good loose end to have for a season finale. but a lot of these just feel like unresolved plots that aren't getting any resolution ever. sam lane went through an entire character arc and we didn't see any of it and it feels jarring, it feels like a writing fail. which is unfortunate because i really love this show and most of the writing has been very good, especially this season.

so i hope that they're able to be a bit tighter and more cohesive for season 3. and also pay chris parnell a hundred million dollars so he can voice anime slade wilson in every single episode.

[roseetube]

ART DUMP #13!!!! WOAH I ACTUALLY PICKED UP MY WATERCOLORS FOR ONCE :OO

[marc--chilton]

(mgv) wilson lashing out at house for making fun of him for wanting pups and spitting that this, too, can be blamed partly on house, just like how julie said house may not have broken up their marriage but certainly didn't help, either. and house looks away from him, gaze flickering as he processes. his neediness has once again kept wilson from happiness. and if anyone deserves to be happy, it's him.

"pup me, then."

"scuzi?"

and house just shrugs, struggling to meet wilson's eyes. "you have no wife, no girlfriend, and in spite of the fact that you could adopt, you've not done so, ergo you want one with your DNA. i could give you that if you wanted."

"could you?"

"last i checked, i did have those parts, but it doesn't hurt to double check--"

"you know what i mean."

and house drops his gaze again, bounces his cane on the floor. "if that would make you happy.... i would."

the beat of silence is heavy. house can't decipher the look wilson's giving him.

"let me..... let me think about it."

[fanfic-inator795]

You know how most shows (or at least, the last few Disney shows) do a bit of a flash-forward these days?

What if BCGs does the same for its eventual finale - and, what if grown up!Cricket ends up opening up his own grocery store for his happy ending?

We already know, based on his best moments with both the cafe and the veggie stand, that Cricket does decently well when it comes to retail and salesmanship (just so long as he doesn’t try to pull any get rich quick or get out of work schemes, which I’m sure he’d grow out of by the time he reached adulthood) and would certainly have the drive to make it in the business world if he really wanted to.

And, not only would a grocery store sorta represent the show’s ��country meets city’ theme, being the best of both worlds, it would also be a great way to keep Cricket connected to the family business without just making him another Green farmer like how Alice, Bill, and practically every other Green were. Going from farms that struggle to survive nearly every generation to a successful grocery store that can just as easily be passed down would be the ultimate win for this family.

BUT, MOST IMPORTANTLY, it would fully cement Cricket and Chip as parallel characters - two sides of the same coin, with the key difference being that while Chip only cares about himself and thus brushes aside customers, employees and potential business partners/friends alike, Cricket meanwhile is a true people-person and would likely do what he could to make his grocery store one that was welcoming to everyone, rich or poor.

It’d be a sort of full circle moment in showing how much Cricket has grown and matured while still keep to his true nature - that being a kid who, for as self-centered and reckless as he can be sometimes, ultimately cares about others - especially those he considers to be family or friends.

Idk, does anyone else feel like this would be the perfect ending for the show? Flash-forwards are already pretty solid endings imo, and given how much the Greens have already grown over the course of the series, it only seems fitting to end it with the characters fully growing up with the next generation of Greens on its way.

[itswhatyougive]

BABE WAKE UP NEW RHYS DARBY INTERVIEW JUST DROPPED

[peachymaryobrien]

It's so touching to see Kipps change despite everything he's been through.

He is an example of how shine, pride, and "greatness" of Fittis is projected at young people, making them feel like being at this fancy agency is the main anchor in their life, a ground for self-worth. How selfish and cruel it is to make kids more scared of simply growing up and losing their talent than die supposedly with "Honor" and get some crap of a picture on the wall. Fear of being irrelevent, useless. The pain of changing. And honestly, can you blame Kipps, who just wanted to be seen and feel like he's worth it?

He lost his team, lost agents, and in the end, realized it actually meant nothing to Fittis when it was everything to him.

Another broken soul, another victim of The Problem and another castle, crumbled by it. He never wanted you to hate him.

[maraleestuff]

I firmly believe that Clark could have pulled Lex back from total “darkness” if they hadn’t stuck to the “Luthor’s are evil narrative” (see: when Clark found out that Tess was Lionel’s daughter. And Tess is one of my favorite characters, but my friend, my guy, you couldn’t have seen that Lionel brought out Lex’s darkness after years of friendship?? But you saw it with Tess who you didn’t know nearly as long?).

At the Season 7 finale, Arctic, Lex said that Clark turned his back on Lex, and you know what? He was right. But I think if they had followed Clark’s character, that Clark would have actually tried to save Lex. In the Smallville canon, they veered into morally gray characters—Jonathan Kent himself said that Clark would have to venture into the gray area because things in the real world aren’t black and white. He gave grace when Lana stole 10 million (?) from Lex before their divorce, when Chloe has done a bunch of hacking, and even, technically, Clark himself has done breaking & entering (and given multiple concussions/ other injuries).

Clark saw firsthand what kind of man Lionel was��he killed his parents, he electrocuted his son to cover his crimes. In Lex’s memories, he saw Lionel get physically abusive with Lex and Lillian. And yet, despite being captured and kept in a cage by Lionel in the name of protection, Clark was still outraged that Lex killed Lionel. He had the nerve to say that Lex didn’t try hard enough to be a good son (when Clark saw the years of Lex fighting against his father).

No, no, no. Clark would’ve actually tried to save Lex. Especially after the whole “what’s lost can be found again” (which amounted to nothing) and everyone and their mom saying that Clark’s greatest weakness was seeing the good in people. And I think with all the nuance of black and white that Clark has had to face, he would’ve “forgave” Lex for killing Lionel. (I quote “forgave” because it wasn’t really something against Clark.)

I also firmly believe that Lex killing Lionel was somehow how Lionel wanted it to end. Even if he died “protecting” Clark’s secret, I don’t think it was purely for Clark’s interests so much as one last power play against Lex.