#(( oh lord i ship it idgaf))

[chuckeroo777]

Frieren Liveblog- Chapters 13-16

Last we left off, our trio of weirdos managed to get past customs without much issue, much to Frieren's chagrin. What will happen next? Let's find out!

Remember, this is a first read-through, so no spoilers please.

Huh. So Flamme isn't just a legendary mage, she's THE legendary mage. Frieren may have watched humanity develop magic from the very beginning. Not escaping the Paleozoic accusations, is she.

Stark did not sign up to be a surrogate father.

I suppose it's hard to figure out what level of respect people want when you've been traveling with someone as laze fare as Frieren.

I wonder what happened? They wouldn't exist in the first place unless they had a stable population at some point. What drove their numbers down to such dire levels? Is there still a small elven civilization, or is it all nomadic wanderers like Frieren?

What did she see in this idiot?

Ah. That's what she saw in that idiot.

Follow-up questions, my dude.

A precious image.

She absolutely didn't have her staff two panels ago. Guess she has hammerspace magic. I'm guessing that suitcase is bigger on the inside too.

I dunno, you seemed to respect Qual to some degree, and the dude clearly developed new forms of magic. Demons seem pretty sapient to me. Evil, but sapient.

Frieren exudes a frighteningly powerful aura of IDGAF.

Oh, hey. It's her. The last spoiler I know of. I mean, not that it was much of a spoiler. "There is a demon lady somewhere in the story" is pretty vague. I only know of her because I saw someone shipping her with Frieren. I'm going to hazard a guess that they never actually meet in the story and/or have zero romantic chemistry.

Hmm... This is all pretty tragic. I wonder what the truth will end up being. Can demons peacefully coexist? Or are they truly bound to their monstrous nature?

Whelp. That moral nuance didn't last long.

Whelp. Those negotiations didn't last long.

Good lord, these guys are practically AI chatbots. All context clues with no deeper understanding.

Dude, she's an elf who's unflinching at the threat of death, and you're just a doofus in suspenders.

This is badass and everything, but the mood is sort of ruined because it reminds me of the last scene I read involving wires.

God I love these goof-balls.

"It's symbolism" No, you're just a slob Stark.

It was at that moment they knew. They f***ed up.

Frieren is never one to ignore the path of least resistance.

Oh dear. I don't think I've seen Frieren grin like that before. Guess we now know what really gets her going.

Gah, a cliffhanger! Alas, I'm out of time for tonight, so it will have to wait for next time. I'm curious if we'll actually defeat Aura, or if she'll be a recurring antagonist.

[dukeofdelirium]

Let’s talk about something more positive: what are your top 10 gay ships?

Oh god idk if I have 10 but let’s see!

1) lawlight. 1000000000% LAWLIGHT lmao! I’m obsessed. OBSESSED with them. I’ve been obsessed with this ship for over 14 years. They make me actually rabid and crazy like nothing else. Everything about this ship and their dynamic drives me nutty. They are the only real “enemies to lovers” ship I’ve ever gaf about or probably ever will. There’s something sooooo Shakespearean tragedy coded about this pairing and they are genuinely so fun to analyze to me. I’ll never get bored of them!

2) byler! Definitely byler!!! I love this ship so much. Best friends to lovers is always gonna be my favorite overall trope (despite the lawlight obsession) because I just think it’s gahhhh so sweet!! Mike and Will being together will be the perfect conclusion to stranger things imo and I’m so excited for the final season!!

3) korrasami! I remember when they went canon. I was so shocked I didn’t even believe we actually WON with a gay ship. This pairing was groundbreaking for cartoons and is the reason we have gay rep in kids shows now too

4) zukaang! I am a multi shipper so I ship Aang with Katara and Zuko too. I love Zuko and Aang’s dynamic and I think there is a ton of canonical support for this ship, too. I guess they’re technically an “enemies to lovers” but I don’t rlly think of them that way. Anyway, I think they’re cute!

credit to Noquelle for the fanart!

5) patrochilles, obviously there’s the Iliad but there’s also a novel called The Song of Achilles which I highly recommend if you’ve never read it and want gay rep. It’s a beautifully written novel that is about Achilles and Patroclus and makes an argument for the interpretation of them being lovers (which was common in ancient times)

credit to awanqi on Twitter for the fanart

6) frowise??? Samfro???? Sam and Frodo from The Lord of the Rings! I’ve always loved these two. And if you think the films are gay, the books are gayer. They cuddle, hold hands, kiss and tell each other they love each other in the novels. They are precious and I love them soooo much

7) this one’s gonna sound silly but me and my friends ship quimbry (Quil and Embry) from Twilight lmao. We wanted gay rep and then it just kind of snowballed. I have like 7 fanfics on my ao3 written for them …. 😂😂😂 idgaf that they’re fanon either cuz they’re real to me and I’m obsessed with them. My ao3 is the same as my tumblr btw if you wanted to read my fics! it’s dukeofdelirium

8) (edit I can’t believe I forgot them!) WILMON from Young Royals! Such a sweet pairing and I was so obsessed with them when I watched this show. Such a good show too. Highly recommend and the actors had amazing chemistry

9) REDDIE? I remember this one breaking my heart a bit. I’m not a hugely active shipper of it but it’s cute and really sad

10) Jack and Ennis from Brokeback Mountain:(((( this movie really and truly ruined my life and did something to me when I watched it as a 10 yr old. Somethin about growing up in the south as a closeted gay boy…. Heath and Jake were insane in this film their chemistry was nuts

Hmmm I can’t think of anything else at the moment! I’m very particular about the stuff I ship, it rlly has to scratch a niche itch in my brain for me to be really and truly obsessed with it.

Thanks for bringing something positive to the ask box! :) what are your favorite gay ships, anon?

[loisfreakinglane]

GoT!

HAPPY DAY AFTER GOT FINALE ANNIVERSARY DAY

The first character I first fell in love with: 

i was in love with sansa from second number ONE

The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: 

absolutely theon. what a fukcing JOURNEY we went on with him like good god

The character everyone else loves that I don’t: 

god. a lot probably? jaime's on this list lol. he's fine but i'm not emotionally invested in him at all. idgaf

The character I love that everyone else hates: 

she's loved by many now but my god stanning sansa was a fucking WAR back in the day. otherwise tho? catelyn my love. oh man and ppl turned on samwell SOMETHING FIERCE toward the end there but i adored him all the way thru. hizdahr was right. cersei was an iconic villain i love her. MIRRI MAZ DUUR WAS THE HERO OF THE LHAZAREEN PEOPLE.

The character I used to love but don’t any longer:

100% dany. it was wild going back to my s1 liveblog bc i really was rooting for her initially. but her slow descent into villainy wasn't in a fun baddie way alas

The character I would totally smooch: 

robb. grey worm. margaery. missandei. OBERYN

The character I’d want to be like: 

master of disguise, lord of secrets, always in a fun outfit, secretly playing the long game for the good of the realm? LEMME BE VARYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The character I’d slap: 

my hand would fall off from all the slapping i'd do in this show. and it would be worth it.

A pairing that I love:

sansa/happiness

A pairing that I despise: 

every single sansa/gross elderly man ship. every last one. also i haaaaaaaated what jon/dany did for both of those characters. it's a yikes from me

[blxkebowdonna]

*dips and kisses you*

Without any indication, Blake suddenly felt herself fall before being also caught. Her eyes widen before soon she felt lips press against her own. When she realized just who it was she didn’t resist and let it happen. However when they pulled away she couldn’t help but feel rather flustered. Her cheeks suddenly reddening in utter embarrassment but also warmth.  “W-what was that for, Izuku?”

[mikasaku]

the naruto fandom on tik tok is so intolerable of fanon ships it’s honestly scary like GOD FORBID a naruhina shipper hears you say that you ship narusaku oh my god. i stg i saw this one narusaku post comparing a narusaku and minato x kushina scene from like a movie or something and a naruhina shipper reposted it like “y’all cant let hinata have anything” wtf this gotta do w her?? like all they did was ship narusaku.

don’t even get me started if you ship something GAY oh my lord. “they are married they aren’t gay” idgaf ino and sakura are girlfriends! as a multi shipper i get soooo heated over these 15 year olds bullying me like inosaku and narusaku are good ships suck my dick.

[doctordiscosbignaturals]

ranking the doctors based on whether or not i could beat them in a fight:

one: no fucking way

look ik that he’s an old man but he beat the shit outta that one guy in the romans AND the robot-him that the daleks made. he also did NOT hesitate to try bash that caveman in the head with a rock so he definitely wouldn’t hesitate to beat me within an inch of my life.

two: probably

first off, let me clarify that i would never hurt him, i don’t think i could physically bring myself to do it. but if i had to, i’d totally win. bring it on little man. also; he doesn’t have a very good track record in delivering punches or defense BUT; he’s more flight than fight, and im a shit runner. so if he got away, there’s no way in hell i’d catch him again. i still say the likelihood of me winning is relatively high

three: oh hell no

the man has a pHd in kicking ass. he would fed-ex same-day ship my ass directly back to my maker.

four: definitely

idgaf that he has like a good foot on me; knees only bend one way and it ain’t backwards or sideways motherfucker come at me. i would kick the shit outta him, no doubt.

five: absolutely

this one it pretty self explanatory; what are u gonna do, twink? huh?? you gonna swing ur stupid little cricket bat at me?? id like to see you try. the only thing i’m worried about is he’s got a lot of backup to call on but one on one, id totally kick his ass.

six: no way

i mean he strangled peri so- he would beat the shit outta me, man idk what u want me to say.

seven: absolutely not

he’s a sadistic, manipulative, little man. i love him. he also: terrifies me. he’s the first version of the doctor id be scared to fight.

eight: bring it on, pretty boy

again, same with two, i would never hes so sweet and id feel terrible but, if i had to id win:

-THAT BEING SAID-

war: tell my mother i love her

eight im pretty sure i could take but war would kill me; he’s called the fucking WAR DOCTOR. THIS MAN SURVIVED A LITERAL W A R. he wouldn’t want to obv, but that’s the only way i can see this scenario playing out.

nine: i’m going to the hospital

i don’t think he’d want to fight me, he’d go easy on me bc he is a sweetheart. but: he would totally wreck my shit.

ten: let’s go, pretty boy, round 2

pre-christmas specials before he kinda went down the dark path, i totally win. the man in a bean poll, i could crush his head with my thighs. BUT: post-time lord victorious ego-trip, he would put a gun to my head and shoot me point blank, execution style.

eleven: i’m not afraid to fight a child

again, pre-emo phase, id totally win but like post-season 7, i think we might be evenly matched. i feel like he’s got a lot of pent up rage. but then again, so do i.

twelve: absolutely fucking not

this man could end my life with a LOOK, besides from seven, he’s the only other version of the doctor that would have me shitting myself if i ever had to square up with him

thirteen: lmao nah

id let her beat me up, no cap 🥴

[mariaiscrafting]

no, you know what, I’m going to stop vague’ing on the dash. my anger is about to get extremely direct and enraged, so fair warning, but I don’t care about anyone’s comfort right now. I’m going to get fucking mad, and you all will fucking deal.

not a single one of us has the right, or should even have the option, to guess about ccs’ sexualities. I’ve kept my mouth shut when it comes to people analyzing george/dream and guessing they’re some kind of queer, but I’m fucking done. I’m going to go into every single reason “truthing” about ccs’ sexualities is just so beyond fucked.

first of all, this is in response specifically to ranboo and tubbo truthing. being a kid and getting thrown into such a massive spotlight, where you will undoubtedly be subject to some fuck shit eventually because the internet is full of thousands upon thousands of people, is already terrifying and anxiety-inducing and damaging enough. but for their own audiencemembers - their own supposed fucking “fans” - to take it one step further and speculate about their sexualities? oh, for the love of god. I can barely believe I even have to explain how fucked that is. it is one thing to be friends with or close to someone in real life and recognize your own queer struggle in them, to approach them with sympathy and support in case they are questioning. it is another thing entirely to speculate about the sexuality of someone you don’t even know, and to then take it a step further and “truth” about your fucking theories. you are not an expert, you are not their friend, and you are not a fucking oracle. you can guess all you want about a cc’s sexuality, you can comment on how their actions or behaviors or words resonate with you when you were questioning or closeted, but to go ahead and take your own speculation as truth is arrogant, presumptous, and damaging as all hell. 

I can just imagine what it would’ve been like if I’d grown an online platform that ripped me of my privacy when I was a teenager and trying to figure out my own sexuality. if I had a section of my audience analyzing my every social media post, the inflection in my voice and the nature of my laughs, my every interaction with my best friend, you know what I would’ve done? retreated so far into the closet that I would probably have tricked myself into thinking I was heterosexual. I would’ve been so fucking terrified and felt so stripped of any privacy or control I had over my own goddamn thoughts; do you understand how fucking vile that is? have none of you ever been terrified of giving away your own sexuality through your mannerisms and facial expressions and words, while you were closeted? have none of you ever experienced that utter fucking terror when you notice someone start to question your sexuality, the immediate urge to retreat and back up and act and believe the complete opposite just to prove them wrong and go back to the safety and security of them believing you were straight? for fuck’s sake, now imagine that feeling amplified a hundred fold, applied not just to one instance or one person in your life, but to thousands. do y’all not understand just how a) morally fucked it is to inflict this same kind of practice onto someone you supposedly care about and support, and b) potentially psychologically damaging this could be to ccs who are closeted, especially the fucking minors? oh my fucking god.

that isn’t even to point out why people do this shit - which is to project and find solace and derive some kind of enjoyment out of cc’s. that’s what cc’s are there for; they are entertainers, first and foremost, which continues outside of streams and bleeds into fandom culture and the kind of enjoyment fans can make out of interacting with other fans and creating their own fan content. the problem with this fact is that fans take it too far, like 85% of the time. cc’s aren’t just there for our own enjoyment. they are fucking people, oh my lord. they are real people that we will never know, and while we may have our fun with our little theories and talking to other fans and making and watching cute compilations and writing fanfiction and making fanart, we are just deriving entertainment from the parts of themselves they choose to show us. that persona they put on for the stream, that is not 100% them. they are real, rounded, 3-d, full people who we only ever get the privilege of witnessing a small sliver of. and we need to fucking remember that, because we can’t just keep running with the ideas of ccs that we have in our heads and treating them like they’re malleable characters for our own entertainment. 

anyways, specifically about truthing (and mind you, this is the point in the rant where a little of my anger starts to seep out because I’m tired and it’s 1:40 AM and I have class tomorrow): there’s so many things that can be said about gaydar. I’m not here to argue whether or not it exists, or the details of the morality of straight versus non-straight people engaging in the practice of truthing. I’m just here to say that, even if you believe gaydar exists and can be accurate when employed by non-straight people, that still only applies to people you fucking know. what you see of a cc is not “getting to know” them. what you are seeing is one face of a multi-faceted jewel, cut in far more ways that you can ever hope to one day perceive. your theories are just those - theories. whatever you might think of the giggles you heard or the pickup lines you saw uttered or the softness you imagine between x and y, human interaction is far too complex and laced with meaning for some rando on the internet who watches youtube videos and twitch streams to fully grasp from two entertainers working from behind a screen. your gaydar is not going to fucking work through a screen, fuck off with that shit.

another thing that’s fucking bothering me so much is this assumption that comes with being at all open about queerness when you yourself are not queer. ik this is just one of the many factors “truthers” use to justify the findings of their totally infallible, prophetic gaydar, but it’s a factor nonetheless, and it bothers the fuck outta me. someone being willing to express support for lgbt people or donate to lgbt chairities or open to conversations with other lgbt people about lgbt endeavors is not evidence of queerness. to say that it is contributes to the harmful belief that cishets still have that they cannot be any of those things - that is, exceedingly open about and to queerness - without being perceived as queer themselves. 

anyways, and now we are at the bottom line, which is that, this entire conversation wouldn’t even have to be had if people just fucking listened to cc boundaries. ranboo and tubbo do not like being shipped. it is that fucking simple. i know that it is tempting to ship two people you think are cute together. i know it is tempting to indulge in a dynamic you find comforting. but idgaf. temptation is not an excuse. find some fictional characters to ship, and kindly fuck off.

[whentheynameyoujoy]

Yup, Sure Was a Finale

I had an epiphany. The reason why I never re-watched the final two parts of Sozin’s Comet even though I’ve popped in episodes at random many times over the years isn’t that I can’t bear the sadness of seeing one of the best, most engaging narratives out there come to an end.

It’s simply that the finale isn’t all that good.

Some honorable mentions of what was enjoyable.

(+) This

Just this.

(+) The Church of Zutara has another convert

“Are you sure they don’t get together?” Hubster, 2020

(+) The tragedy of Azula

And the fact that it’s acknowledged as such. I hope Zuko will do his best to get her help and have a relationship with her…

(+) Sokka being a big bro

And the whole airship sequence in general. It’s wonderfully paced and plotted, with moments of humor, real stakes, Toph being both badass and a scared crying kid, Sokka strategizing and protecting, Suki saving the day, and non-benders being instrumental in thwarting the bad guy firebender’s plans. Would be shame if Bryke never portrayed them this capable ever again…

And now for the main course.

(-) Blink and its over

The wrap-up feels too quick (hashtag Needs More ROtK-style False Endings). A part of this is due to how fast the story goes from the thick of the action to hastily tying up a bunch of loose ends, but the larger issue is how Book 3’s uneven pacing comes home to roost. After spending half a season on filler episodes that at best subtly flesh out established characters while dancing around a huge lionturtle-shaped hole, and at worst contradict the theme of “no one is born bad” with “you’re a hot mess because your great-grandfathers didn’t get along too well”, the frantic “go go go” rush of the second half screeches to a halt with “they won and everyone was happy because now the right people have power and it will be all good from now on yup nothing more to deal with baiiiii”.

Yes, I know, it’s a kids’ show. But goddamn, this particular kids’ show has proven so many times it can do better than the expected tropiness. Showing the characters in their roles as builders of a new world was the least that could have been done.

Oh well!

(-) Ursa

We’ll never know. There will never be a story that delves into this. Yup. Shall forever remain but an intriguing mystery. Is good, though. Mystery is better than a story where Ursa shares her son’s penchant for forgetfulness. Imagine how embarrassing that would be. Speaking of which…

(-) What does Mai see in this jerkbender?

Look, I like to harp a lot on the mess of inconsistent writing that’s Mai but let’s unpack this scene from her perspective, shall we?

Zuko forgot about her! It totally slipped his mind that the one person who prioritized the safety of his dumb ass was rotting in the worst prison in the Fire Nation—because of him! And she was rotting there long enough after the final Agni Kai for the news of Zuko’s upcoming coronation to spread and her uncle to feel sufficiently secure to release her. But then the coronation scene is attended by every single member of Gaang & Friends that was imprisoned?

So what this tells me is that either a) the invasion force had the ability to break themselves out the whole time and for some reason decided not to exercise it until after the war was over, b) Zuko forgot about them as well and no one thought to remind him there were prisons full of POWs until Mai arrived, or, and that’s even better, c) Zuko took care to free every single resistance fighter while making sure Mai would be the one to stay behind bars.

Never thought I’d say this but Mai? Honey? You deserve so much better.

(-) “What does Katara want?”

Asked no one in the writers’ room ever, apparently.

This is not so much anti Cataang as anti romance stories that pay attention to the needs, opinions, and wants of only one partner in general. Over the previous 60 episodes, Katara actively expressed romantic interest in Aang exactly, wait for it,

Once.

And it got retconned out of relevance by the following two interactions where the possibility of a romantic relationship came up, making the Headband dance pretty easy to reclassify as just one of those examples where Aang “teaches” Katara to have fun (as if one of the main obstacles to her having fun wasn’t him constantly fooling around and offloading his duties). And because the writers not only didn’t succeed in portraying Katara’s internal state of mind, but also failed to root her reluctance to pursue a relationship in outside circumstances that could change, her sudden state of unconfused once Aang steps into the spotlight has a single canonical explanation that as much as approaches coherency.

The fact is, though, that trying to interpret canon Cataang from a Watsonian perspective is an exercise in foolishness. Because there is no Watsonian justification for the ship and never has been. Bryke simply conceived of Katara as nothing but a tropey prize for Aang, never saw her as anything beyond that, and were perfectly happy to go on and immortalize her as a passive broodmare for the rest of her life.

And I fully intend to die mad about it.

(-) Iroh dips

OK, it’s been long apparent that the show doesn’t intend to do anything about Iroh’s complicity in AzulOzai’s regime in any meaningful way, and that his sole motivation for doing anything whatsoever is Zuko whom he views as a replacement son which is supposed to be good for some reason. But the finale has him abandon even that, and instead turns him full-on YOLO, idgaf anymore. It really throws Iroh’s supposed love for Zuko into doubt when his last act in the entire show is to take a half-educated 16-year old with no political savvy or an heir to secure a dynastic continuity and plomp him on the throne of a war-mongering imperialist regime where the entirety of the militarist and ruling class is guaranteed to fight him tooth and nail for power.

(I sure hope Mai’s ready to start popping out babies by tea-time otherwise the whole country is fukd in about a week)

Christ, how hard would it be to have Iroh keep the throne warm for a few years while Zuko is getting ready to succeed him? Not only would it make the whole FN reformation bit quite likelier to occur, it would require Iroh’s hedonistic ass to actually sacrifice something for once. And not having Zuko ascend to power, instead spending some time bettering and educating himself first, would be a wonderful message that no matter what you endured and overcame, you never stop growing. A kids’ show, remember?

(-) The conquering of Ba Sing Se

Gee, I feel so blessed to have my attention diverted from battlefields which actually matter to an old dude vanity project I would have been perfectly happy to assume resolved itself off-screen.

The White Lotus in general just bugs me. I was fine with the individual characters and their overall passivity when they were portrayed as lone dissenters living under circumstances where it wasn’t really possible for any single person to mount a meaningful resistance. But as members of a far-reaching shadowy organization that’s left the real fight to a bunch of kids for 59 episodes straight and didn’t turn up until a perfect opportunity presented itself to take control of the largest city in the world and bask in the spotlight?

Yeah, no.

Similarly to the lionturtle-ex-machina, the White Lotus represents a huge missed opportunity for a season-long storytelling. Here’s just a brief list of what they could have been doing throughout Book 3:

orchestrating a Fire Nation uprising;

gathering those directly persecuted by AzulOzai’s regime to help Zuko keep his hold on power once he’s crowned;

establishing themselves as a viable alternative to Ozai;

sabotaging Fire Nation’s war efforts from the inside;

countering Fire Nation propaganda (Asha Greyjoy’s pinecones, anyone?);

running a supply network to alleviate the suffering of Earth Kingdom citizens.

Instead, they sit on their asses until the time comes to claim personal glory.

You know what, good on Bryke for making me conclude that in comparison, the Freedom Fighters were perfectly unproblematic, actually.

(-) Fire Lord Dead-by-Dawn

Yes, a kids’ show, I know! But ffs, this is the same kids’ show that came up with Long Feng and portrayed courtly intrigue, kingly puppets, secret police, spy networks, and information wars. Was it really too much of me to expect something other than “enlightened despot solves everything”? Especially if said enlightened despot has persisting anger issues, no personal support system, no base of followers, and no political experience whatsoever?

If Zuko’s actually serious about regaining the Fire Nation’s honor (i.e. by dismantling the country’s military machine, decolonizing the Earth Kingdom, paying reparations to everyone and their lemur, and funding any and all cultural restoration projects Aang and the SWT come up with), then there is no way, no way in the universe that he doesn’t face a civil war, deposing, and execution within a month.

One reason why his future as a Fire Lord seems rather bleak is that little’s been shown about the actual subjects of AzulOzai’s regime. While we get a vague reassurance that “no Toph, they’re not born bad” (le shockings), they largely remain a voiceless uniform mass of brainwashed clapping seals. What is their view on the Fire Nation’s crimes? Do they associate their condition with their country’s war-mongering? How will they react when Zuko starts dismantling the country piece by piece to rebuild it, bringing it to economic ruin? What will they do when noble Ozai loyalists come out of the woodwork and begin rounding them up under the banner of “Make the Fire Nation Great Again?”

I have no idea, and Zuko doesn’t either because he’s unironically more qualified to rule the Earth Kingdom than his own people.

You know what would have been better? Fire Lord Iroh, White Lotus pulling the strings to maintain the regime, and Crown Prince/People’s Champion Zuko travelling the Fire Nation with Aang and an army of tutors to promote the new boss, only to realize that absolute monarchy is kinda crap for the people he’s one day supposed to rule and gaining their support by ceding some power to them.

I’d laser holes into my TV due to how much I’d enjoy watching that.

(-) All hail Avatar Rock

Literally and metaphorically. Aang doesn’t sacrifice anything, gets everything, and the clever solution of going about getting said everything is handed to him on a silver platter, requiring no active participation on his part whatsoever.

He doesn’t work to unblock his chakras, spiritually or physically.

He only speaks to his past lives to get a pat on the back and a bow-tied solution he could mindlessly follow.

Energy-bending doesn’t require any sacrifice from him, leaves no lasting marks, and only serves for the narrative to praise him as the rare individual that’s unbendable and thus so very very special.

The most infuriating thing is, however, that Aang is clearly shown as being able to beat Ozai without either the Avatar state, or energy-bending.

And he chooses not to. From this moment on, Aang no longer fights to save the world. He fights to preserve his beliefs, going directly against the instructions of his past lives and effectively reneging on his duties as the Avatar.

Again.

It’s not like you can’t portray Aang’s faithfulness to his spiritual beliefs as the key to beating Ozai and saving the world. But that’s not what the show did. There is no link between Aang sparing Ozai and securing a better future, quite to the contrary—Ozai’s survival ends up being a massive problem for the continuation of Zuko’s rule, and consequently a threat to the world at large. His survival benefits Aang and no one else.

Aang’s spiritual purity and his status as a savior of the world are allowed to coexist only due to a deliberate stroke of a writer’s pen.

And I hate it.

Welp, nothing to do about it now except to bury myself up to my tits in fix-it fics I guess.

[dykejet]

oh u want random ramblings about aus in your inbox? ok so i have this au where instead of killing azulon ozai is banished and gets zuko-ed in the face by his fire lord zuzu (hes a git i know)

next up: bato and co. have been patrolling the earth kingdom and find half-drowned ozai completely unaware that he's a fucking prince

he's half-drowned because some pirates attacked him and he's never worked a day on a ship in his fkn life

anyway he ends up in the south pole in the care of a healer called yura and she's a lesbian and also a dick to him. hakoda appreciates his muscles but doesn't appreciate his general personality. yura already wants to punch him (he gives them the fake name 'shiro')

trashlord zuzu gets a ransom letter and is like 'u have a random noble? idgaf u can keep him' so hakoda and yura are now in possession of bastard man who keeps on blacking out

eventual redemption thru penguins and people repetitively insulting his goatee to follow </3

POGGGGG !!! Every fn members’ redemption just involves doin menial work for the first time. God bles. I love Yura already only character ever. For a sec I thought trashlord zuzu was Zuko and thought they just crowned annoying 10 yr old Zuko for some reason😭 redemption thru Hakoda, a healer lesbian, penguins, & goatee slander ... ugh so true so powerful

[zumpietoo]

Since IDK what asks she got, noooo....but again, KokeJ did talk about Barfie's "past" (the FB kids)...and, again, we know there's some sort of preggo stick...

ETA-----myyyyy, what a lot of notes/need to reassure themselves!

Oh lookity, Liar of Slizzy on her other account can't jump in fast enough! And you "forget"? Sure, Jan.....

And, again, please tell us how you know the test is negative? And if it is? Slizzy looks pretty bummed about it...

Also, I thought none of them knew anything that's gonna happen past the day of filming? (TBF, kinda obvious Cole's talking about Tabi's time travel/joining soooperrr teens)

Scratchy actually being honest.....hmmm....plus maybe "unexpected" because even she realices there IS no Jizzy...

Oh good lord, Izzy, nooooo....moar like she finds out some shit AND joins Super Teens. Cuz if she could change shit, wouldn't she change that Picky Percy gets to go there? Or her fam even leaving Plaiderdale, so she could've grown up with them/always been with Jughead, etc?

Again, noooo...Liar of Slizzy. Also love how all of you ignore that Jizzy has been fully redlined from questions to Cole.

(like I said, a LOT of notes)....

Whatever, Scary Starey.....and yes, a year ago sane peeps knew Jabi was happening, Jizzy weren't getting back together and Barfie was possible (tho I thought it moar dramatic, but still)

I'm guessing that IS Peather----and IDGAF....also, the entire point here? Is, again, that Picky Percy has them facing trauma in a negative way----not to address it, to use it to torture, manipulate and enslave them.

It's funny how Snorty ONLY notices this for Jabi....and ignores that Cole never really discusses ships or ship names. Even at the height of Jizzy AND SH, he was never into talking about it.

AND, ignores RAS said "Jughead and Slizzy", not Jizzy, while affirming "much moar" for specifically Barfie and Jabi....

Also, no, Snorty, tho, TBF, Cole has never been one to talk heavily about ships, as noted. Funny how you ignore, again, Jizzy has clearly been redlined from him discussing, period....and he only talks of Slizzy in terms of Barfie,,,,,and, again, LBR......Slizzy was running around Paleyfest like a toddler who pooped her pants AND on a sugar high AND throwing up left and right, so it was clearly awkward AF...

No, Liar of Slizzy, you wish it was. It wasn't.

Sure, Jan Scary Starey....

Wow, ummmm.....who TF is this noobie and have they ever considered watching the show? It's only been the season's tagline.

Again, who is this person who hasn't watched in 2 seasons?

Annnddd....Izzy, who does watch the show isn't much faster on the uptake, huh?

[tellywoodtrash]

immj2 05 + 07.12.20 lbs

05.12.20

“tum saari property mere naam karoge.”

BITCH WHAT NOW???????????

V like dadiiiiiiiiiii ko dhokaaaaaaaa?!!!!?!?!?! oh ho, lagta hai pair chhoote chhoote V ko asli waale feels aa gaye dadi ke liye, free of charge!

THIS MAN AND HIS FACE NEED TO BE STOPPED SO HELP ME GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

also what else that tongue do (other than throw constant taane to guilt a bitch) baby boy mmmmmmmhmmmmmmm 😏😏😏

riddhima thinking ki property meaning khatra and she can’t allow it to stay on dadi, she has to take it on herself, so that if kabir tries hurting anyone, it’ll be her.

this one’s paar ki nazar has recognized that train of thought, i think.

she’s like think whatever you want idgaf, just do whatever the fuck i say or else. and don’t even think of charging me an extra paisa. jaake bhaanda phodna hai toh phod lo, phir you won’t get your remaining 4.5 cr. DAMN GIRL, WHERE THIS SHAATIR TAKE-CHARGE SIDE OF YOURS BEEN ALL THIS TIME???????/

hubs thinking same thing. he’s never been more turned on by her as when she’s using maximum brain.

“kya hai?????? aise taad kyun rahe ho?????????”

“taadna ekdum free of cost hai. only for your pretty face!” I HATE HIM.

LOVE THIS TROPE. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE.

face change from smiley eyes to shaatir eyes, as he contemplates the facts before him. unf, the things it does to me to see him emote.

lijiye, iss show ke Idiot Brothers. and their plans to prove it’s not vansh and to get riddhima thrown out. i’ll pass.

but this one’s face tho. cutest. 

same, aryan. mera bhi yehiiiii reaction hai. taareeef karoon kya uskiiiii, jissne, tumhe banaaya!

some rando has come and is like hi, i’m your new lawyer; your old one appointed me before he left. no doubt he’s been sent by kabir.

V’s face: chutiya samajh rakha hai kya???? that’s not how this shit works.

v is like you’re here about my will and lmao riddhima’s all happy thinking oh vihaan has started my work already. SIS TILL NOW WHAT HAS HE DONE ACC TO YOUR PLAN? TELL ME ONE (1) THING THAT HE’S DONE LIKE YOU SAID.

yadda yadda yadda lawyer is like the property cannot be transferred for a few months. because Reasons. sure. sounds legit.

kabir is ecstatic. needs to learn to hide his MWAHAHAHAHAHA MERA CHAAL KAAM KAR GAYA FACE better if he wants to win at this game. he’s up against poker face all india/tellywood champion.

fb to kabir bribe/threatening lawyer. zero surprise.

V telling dadi idc about all this, meri asli daulat toh aap hai. lmao he really just does not give the other grandkids a chance to be #1 in dadi’s books.

ishani is pakka sure this is vansh bhai itselfffffffffff. and lmao angre’s suspicious face. they’re legit like:

V trying to negotiate salary increase (10% per month!!!!!!!!) and riddhima’s like bhakkkkkkk, sabzi mandi laga rakhi hai kya maine? yeh faltu ki bargaining nahi chalegi yahaan, jo karna hai karlo.

ishani’s back with bhai’s favvvvvvvvv chocolate cake and.... OH NO HE WAS SO FUCKING RUDE TO HERRRRRRRRRRRRR. riddhima ko sabak sikhaane ke liye ishani ko kyun sunaaaa rahe hoooo!?!?!?!!?

anyway riddhima tried to sametofy that raita by apologizing to ishani and.......... that went as well as expected.

kabir and aryan watching and lootofying mazze.

lmaooooo aryan tubelight ko situation samajh hi nahi aaya and kabir is just like

lmao have you seen a more pitying look????

angsty piano playing time.

lmaooooooooo she’s like “jahaan vansh banna tha, wahaan bann nahi paaye, yahaan yeh karke kya kya fayyda hai?” which......... troo. i really like this give-no-fucks version of riddhima who says what’s on her mind, instead of just doing lengthy internal monologues of stupidity. 

as,kjdlkasjd;lksjd;lkjsa;ldkjsa;lk she’s like vansh never yelled at anyone if it wasn’t a big deal. to which V is reacting just the way i am rn.......

‘lmao reallllllllly??? i don’t remember it like that.’

more lecture and yeah, i relate to him.

ishani over here crying to angre about bachpan se leke aaj tak vansh bhai ne kabhi nahi daanta. which again i’m like?????????? i have literally only seen V1.0 yelling at ishani for some bs or the other. literally never has he shown her any pyaar; the most he’s ever mellowed at her was when he gruffly told her sunny’s “truth” and made her understand that the wedding with angre would be good for her. nostalgia comes with some reallllll rose tinted glasses huh, ki everyone’s whitewashing asshole!vansh this way.

soft ship gently chugging along!

anyway angre has a plan and ishani like so help me god imma murder this fucker if he’s not vansh. there’s my girl!!!!!

this one is driving a hardddddddd bargain and wow, really going to town on that piano. riddhima doesn’t find it shady at allllllllllllllllll that he’s an equally good piano player as vansh huh? zerooooo thoughts about that.

“gunaah karne waale se bada gunehgaar hota hai gunaah sehne waala.” bhai waaah, isske victim complex ko mera salaam, ki bechaara is ONLY GETTING 5 CRORES, BOOOOOO HOOOOO.

“jabse tumse yeh deal kii haina, badi gandiiiii waali feeling aa rahi hai!” lmaoooooo yeah sureee, i can see how torturous it is, to be paid OBSCENELY to......... play yourself.

“mujhe teen guna chahiye. i want triple.”

BITCH WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF 3X SLKJDFSLKJFLDK 15 CRORES I KNOW TERA HI PAISA HAI BUT HADH HAI BHAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII?!?!? YOU SOUNDING A LOT LIKE THIS GUY:

oh boy ishani and angre have entered hearing about “triple”.

badi safaai se he said OH I MEANT IMMA BAKE A TRIPLE LAYER CHOCOLATE CAKE FOR YOU TO SAY SORRY.

softttttttttttttttttttt siblingssssssss. baaaaabies.

but hubs and wifey have come with some stress relief for bhai, lol.

lmao riddhima’s reactionnnnnnnnn.

lo ji yeh bhi aa gaya rang mein bhang daalne. wants to make things interesting via bet. some realllllll high stakes shit. good lord, don’t be gross and bet riddhima or something, maharabharat style.

aaaaaand it’s on!

no point screaming in your mind, riddhima. should have sent him to basketball camp before you recruited him.

"bohut mazaa aayega!!!!” lmaooooooo seeeeee, i told y’all. all this big baby legit wants is someone to playyy with himmmmm. have you ever seen him look THISSSSS HAPPY EVERRRRRR??????????

——————————————————————— 

07.12.20

lmao @ his purposely bad dribbling.

stressing Dollar Biwi out some more by saying he hasn’t even watched the game on tv.

unffffff. Chehra Appreciation Break. these go out to my girl @nawaazishein​ (she knows exaaaaaaaactly why.)

riddhima is like when you pick teams, pick me, and kabir is here to talk smack and say everyone’s gonna find outtttttt nowwww.

ok great, whole fam’s here. there’s a chalkboard set up for the score and everythinggggg. coz as per usual, no one else has nothing else to do. not even catch up on their podcasts or play some candy crush or nothing. they just wanna watch these two grownass men having a pissing contest.

V wins the toss but aryan’s bitch ass lies and says kabir won it. K selects riddhima first.

he knew that kabir’s dumb ass would do exactly that. besides, he’s seen riddhima play. she sucks ass at it. best if she brings down K’s team from the inside, lol.

V’s picks: useless!chacha, angre. K’s pick: aryan. rules established, ki after every 10 points, rival team se player will be out.

all i can think of rn is that everyone went and changed and riddhima’s gonna play in her sari and heels?!?!?!?!!!?!?

game faces on!

lol such bball captain and his gf head cheerleader vibes. CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh god are we supposed to sit and listen to chachi’s commentary?!?!!?!?

please note i’m literally only watching this ep to see the boys’ shirts move and expose chest and abs. 

riddhima gets the ball and is standing there in one place dribbling so that V can easily intercept and he’s just..........

............. imitating a frilled dragon or some shit?????

kabir just took the ball from her and scored.

first basket he made and he’s already telling vansh to give up. dude, hadh hoti hai overconfidence ki.

V like haar-jeet ka faisla end mein hota hai. i would say i’ve already won, getting to see this much sweaty neck and chest, mmmmhmmmmmm.

SCOREEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! i mean, yeah V scored a point in the game or whateverrrrrrrr, BUT **I** GOT TO SEE SOME TUMMY WHEN HE JUMPED UP!!!!!

lol idk what the sassy finger wave was for, but i liked watching it.

THIS DUMBASS. SOMEONE PLEASE JUST PUT HER OUT OF HER MISERY.

aryan’s out.

AND I SCORE AGAIN!!!!! ouff, the things i have to resort to coz they don’t gimme tellywood men shirtless anymore.

useless!chacha’s out.

askljdlkjlkdjlsakjdlsakjdlsdjlaskjdlj bechaara kabir.

“you. out, please!”

sureeeeeely he will not pull the kkhh move in front of the whole fam??????/ will he?????????

look at his face, ki awwwwww, how cute that she’s trying.

riddhima is so stupid, if she scored all these points, why didn’t she pick V to leave the game instead of angre!?!?!?!!?!?

BITCH DID THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“isski har harkat vansh se kyun milti hai?????” idk sis, take a wiiiiiiiiiild guess. if it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck........... MAYBE THE FUCKING 6 FOOT 2″ DUCK LOOMING IN FRONT OF YOU AND RUNNING HIS HANDS ALL OVER YOU IS YOUR FUCKING HUSBAND??????

the way he’s smiling is practically challenging her to figure it out.

she’s still like nope, not him. just a coincidence. while she mulls on that brain fart, imma stare at rrahul’s chest some more.

of course.

YOUR WHOLEASS FAMILY IS STANDING THERE WATCHING THIS OMG I’M DYING OF SECONDHAND EMBARRASSMENTTTTTTTT FUCKING TAKE IT TO YOUR ROOM YOU WEIRDOS

“yeh bonus hai. free of charge. just for your pretty face!”

this dumbass is also hung up ki how overnight he became good at playing basketball. abbe oh gobar ganesh why can’t you just accept it’s him?!!?!?!?

aryan’s like dude, it’s him. i’ve seen him play. this is him.

but there must be somethinggggggg unique about vansh’s style right????

ahaaaa, ambidextrous.

kabir legit threw something like that looks like a clown’s nose. i guess he just carries that around full time coz he’s a 🤡🤡🤡

blah blah we already knew this from the precap. i’m just fwding to when he plays with the left and wins.

lmao V’s faaaaaaaaace. when kabir finally gets his day of reckoning, vansh is really nottttttt gonna hold back.

never seen ppl THIS happy to see a left handed person, lol.

“vihaan vansh ki tarah left hand se khel sakta hai??????”

CUTESTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lmaoooooooooo his face is like jo toota nahi tha, woh bhi tod ke rakh degi.

lolllllllllllllllllllllllllllll. asshole.

uh huh honeyyyyyyyyy. did the Vansh Move.

asking how you did all this when i never told you these facts about vansh?

“tum zaroorat se zyaada sochti ho, Sweetheart.”

DUN DUN DUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“kya aisa humne pehle kabhi nahi kiya? kya yeh pal humaari zindagi mein kabhi bhi nahi aaya, riddhima?” he said her name The Vansh Way, not The Vihaan Way!!!!!!!

“tum mere......”

“haan riddhima, yeh tumhara veham nahi hai. main vihaan nahi, vansh hoon. tumhara vansh.”

haaaaaaye bechaari. at this point i’m feeling quite bad for her. it’s not her fault she’s so stupid. ab hai toh hai. kya kar sakte hain. bedagarkkkkkk ho tera, vansh. may you die of blue balls for fucking with her simple mind this way.

i just did my homework reallllllllllly well, it seems. so my 3x payment is totally worth it. god i wish that pool was full, so that i could dunk his head into it and hold it there for a few minutes.

THIS ASSHOLE DOESN’T EVEN FEEL A LITTLE BIT BAD FOR WHAT HE’S DOING. LIKE, THODAAAA TOH HE SHOULD FEEL.

and then he turns around and looks at her like this!?!?!?!!?!?!? OUFFFF. FUCK YOU MANNNNNN.

blah blah talk about how now everyone must be convinced (except kabir) but yeah, i’m just here for The Face.

JFC SIS. AT THIS POINT YOU JUST NEED TO PULL A KHUSHI KUMARI GUPTA SINGH RAIZADA AND YANK A FEW HAIRS OUT FROM HIM AND ISHANI AND SEND IT FOR A DNA TEST.

shhhhhhhhhh, koi hai. yup. and not at all an excuse to get touchy touchy with wifey and give her some more mindfucky clues as to who you are.

someone’s watching us, we gotta sort out the property shit realllll quickkkkkkkkk.

he has An Idea, it seems. oh boy.

[themadvigilantist]

just a thought...

....technically, my hot takes

i could rant about doctor who head writer(s) choices and call it out all day long about why [insert action by # doctor here] is just half done or has an allegory to what's happening now but, the doctor would be absolved from said thing because 'it was to save the world/current time period/person here' excuse.

like i could tell you that:

'the silence vs the doctor arch' is actually just an allegory of police brutality towards pocs in history due to systematic racism that's looked away/forgotten about and how the public/the government uses the whole 'but yall killing each other too excuse' or as the silence put it 'you should kill us all on sight' to shift blame of the non-poc's choice to do the same to pocs but, to a horrifying degree ie what 11 doctor does to the silence AND THE RAMIFICATIONS IT CONTINUES TO HAVE EVEN NOW I AM. which makes the doctor a villain especially because he's known as the man in the blue police box or as a 'hero'. And the abuse towards river song in show and by rose stans?? Oh the disrespect?? Her entire arch with the silence is an allegory of black woman being the most disrespected despite going above and beyond and hiding the pain because 'the doctor doesnt like endings'. And both the silence and her are just brushed aside like..... the water parallel. i just - oof but its too early for that moffat drag

or like the constant disrespect to pocs in rtd's era. which made 12 cringe later on with the first doctor but that him cringing on what he did in his tenth incarnation - yeah rtd aint safe either. he allowed girl in the fireplace to be on our screens.

how the doctor treat river the same as jack and donna combined is something that need to be talked about right now. and how even river in her audios with tenth doctor shows that ten really wanted donna back. like his whole vibe was ‘fuck everybody else tho but, donna’ and i just I HAVE QUESTIONS (both as a romantically platonic ship but more importantly, like ten where are you set at? time lord victorious wise with river? where r u? because you and river talking like ‘time lord victorious’-era and i really need that cleared up.

or how when 9 says he the last of the time lords but both iris wildthyme and him were on earth at those times and that he would’ve felt them LIES. SHE WAS THERE! HER TARDIS WAS THERE TOO IN THE FIRST EP OF ROSE! WACK! ‘im the last of my kind weh’ no tf ur not. ‘i would’ve sensed them *taps his temple* in here* APPARENTLY NOT DUMBASS

the whole master/doctor on the eiffel tower - i can drag BOTH DOCTOR AND THE MASTER FOR THIS BABE - yeah chibnall aint safe just because he got ~diversity~ nah i can drag him too.

i could also offer an addition of sorts to dhawan!master's reveal of what hes done to gallifrey by showing her that what he had done was the final act but what tecteun had done before hand was destroy her true home - her forgotten home, pre-tecteun. Just show her the world that she never had the chance to know - the chance to discover - to learn about and of and where she really came from and destroy it. Just to justify further on why he destroyed Gallifrey like that and how the previous thing would just play further into the fact that tecteun and gallifreyans were actually using gentrification on the doctor the entire time and by destroying her home would be stripping her of her culture and then try to pass it off as ~cute~ or a ~style~ so im glad he just chose to straight up kill the colonizers i mean gallifreyans by turning them into the one thing that made them feel the very consequences of their actions and choices on what they done to the doctor. (With the cybermen tech).

i can even drag iris wildthyme by her roots for how she treated panda. idgaf he’s a sentient stuffed panda I WOULD KILL HER ON SIGHT. ‘oh i made sure in every timeline of your existence that you would die just to keep you from being stuck in a painting even though every single version of you would be financially doing well without me and would kill themselves because of me manipulating the situation so you would do that over and over and over BUT HEY YOU’RE NOT STUCK IN A PAINTING!’ i couldn’t be panda, she would be dead. there would be no more iris wildthyme adventures. i rather be stuck in a painting than travel with her ever again or i would just kill her. on sight. no hesitation. sorry katy manning but, you just gonna have to be jo grant forever.

I mean i could go on, i could but, im sleepy while typing this and yes i've been sitting on all that to myself for years but ... i still watch it and it does small steps to address things but, as far as im concerned - [skips several pages] my ending would just be us having a martha audio with ten (because consistancy) and martha series separate from torchwood ok? like rose got one, jackie got one, lady christina got one, fucking jenny got one, every river audio sound like iris wildthyme (and the newer ones with ten is him thirsting and missing DONNA. like rose whomst? apparently in big finish 10 only knows rose tyler when her name misspelled and smudged on his hand) and donna's audios clearly superior amongst all them, so its martha's time to shine. Give her three audios with him.

Because the timelord victorious audios clearly just skipped martha in the trailer and i cant stand here with him having that much thirst for donna and him in the same breath not say martha's name.

Give her some audios with him. Give her standalone audios too and for once, not let her talk about the doctor. I miss noel too, put him in there too.

[yikeswtfmate]

700 Followers Celebration Writing Challenge!!!

Hi. Hello. Hi! Excuse me, but there are over 700 of you following me? First of all, why? Please explain, I’m a dumbass, I don’t deserve you. Second of all, thank you so much???? I never even dreamt that there would be so many of you that would even want to read my nonsense. I love you so so so much, you’re all precious beans and I don’t know what I did to deserve having you here!

So, guess what? I’m doing a writing challenge! It’s the first one I’m doing so ya know, go crazy, my babies, I cannot wait to read your works!!!

Here are some rules and whatever:

You don’t have to follow me, but I would obviously love you forever if you did

Due date: let’s make it July 2, 2020 so my birthday can be extra sweet

The tag: #yikes700challenge but please feel free to send me the link as well or tag me in the post, just to be sure Tumblr won’t mess this up

Send me an ask if you wanna participate, let me know which prompt you want and the character/ship you wanna write for

Anything Marvel is obviously a priority, anything Charlie Hunnam related is more than welcome, and everything Henry Cavill in general

Please no noncon/dubcon, underage, incest and all that jazz, we’re here to have a good time

One person per prompt for now, but we’ll see how this goes I suppose

No word limit, but please please please add a keep reading break if it’s over 500 words bc we don’t want to flood people’s dashes!

That’s it, I think! Have fun! Stay safe, wash your hands and happy writing!

 Prompts after the break!

Movies:

1.     Breakfast at Tiffany’s

2.     Bridget Jones’s Diary

3.     10 Things I Hate About You

4.     When Harry Met Sally

5.     You’ve Got Mail

6.     Pretty Woman

7.     How to Lose a Girl in 10 Days

8.     Legally Blonde

9.     Four Weddings and a Funeral

10.  Notting Hill

AUs & Tropes:

1.     Coffee shop

2.     College/ University

3.     Royal

4.     Roommates/ Neighbours

5.     Soulmates

6.     Bookshop

7.     CEO

8.     Mafia

9.     One bed

10.  Fake dating

11.  Accidental marriage

12.  In vino veritas

13.  Blind Date

14.  Enemies to Lovers

15.  Friends to Lovers

Songs:

1.     Hozier – Movement

2.     Harry Styles – Adore you

3.     Florence + the Machine – Moderation

4.     One Direction – Little Things

5.     Leon Bridges – River

6.     Billie Eilish – party favor

7.     Lizzo – Boys

8.     Dua Lipa – IDGAF

9.     Nelly Furtado – Maneater

10.  Charlie Puth – How Long

11.  Steppenwolf – Born to be Wild

12.  Queen – It’s a Hard Life

13.  Bon Jovi – You Give Love a Bad Name

14.  Nancy Sinatra – These Boots Are Made for Walkin

15.  Blondie – One Way or Another

16.  Rosenfeld – Do It For Me - @your-persephone-writes​ with Bucky

17.  Zara Larsson – WOW

18.  Marian Hill – One Time

19.  ZAYN – wRoNg

20.  Hozier – Toxic

Books:

1.     Pride and Prejudice

2.     Wuthering Heights

3.     The Lord of the Rings AU

4.     Hogwarts AU

5.     A Discovery of Witches AU

Dialogue:

1.     “Behave.”

2.     “Do not say I told you so.”

3.     “You really shouldn’t trust me this much.”

4.      “Can I kiss you now?”

5.     “Is that my t-shirt?”

6.     “You’re staring.” - @chaoticarson​ with Raymond

7.     “Are you flirting or starting a fight?”

8.     “Oh, you’re still alive.” “Don’t sound so disappointed, I might start thinking you like me.”

9.      “Damn right I’m pretty.” “I said petty.” - @nekoannie-chan​ with Steve or Rumlow

10.  “You! You are – ” “Beautiful? Smart? An inspiration?” “An idiot.”

11.  “What’s the plan?” “The what?” “Are you serious right now? Do you want us to die?”

12.  “How do you remember that? You were very much knocked out at the time.”

13.  “Can someone explain to me, in very small words, why I’m being paired with her?”

14.  “That’s my ex. Would you mind if you’d pretend to be my boyfriend for the next few hours?”

15.  “Bite me.” “Where?”

16.  “I’m sorry but it’s very hard to focus when you’re not wearing a shirt.”

17.  “Fuck you.” “Not with that attitude.”

18.  “That’s my good girl.”

19.   “Stop biting your fucking lip already!”

20.  “Oh, fuck off with your stupid eyes and your stupid face and your stupid mouth.”

[stuckinapatriarchalbullshitland]

A Truth Like A Cathedral

Oh boy. This is all a hot mess isn't it?! Firstly, the girls and management realise that their fanbase is 95% non-straight teenage girls, right? There were so many plaid shirt and beanie wearing girls holding hands at their concert that I wasn't sure if I had the wrong date and had turned up to a Tegan & Sara gig ^o) Why oh why are they drawing attention to their dislike of the camren ship?! Are they trying to alienate the people buying their records and going to their concerts now? Do they not hear the screams when camren interact on stage? HALF YOUR FANBASE ARE CAMREN SHIPPERS FFS. And I'm not talking about the crazies that insist on commenting "camren" all over the girls social media and tagging them in manips and lord knows what else. I'm talking about the quiet shippers; the normal ones who just love the camren friendship or yes, like the idea of them being a couple but don't throw it in their goddamn faces. And another whole bunch of harmonizers are Laurmani shippers, or Laurinah shippers, etc. And we can all sit here and pretend that those ships are just seen as 'friend' ships but y'all know that shit is NC17 on the low... I am actually quite shocked by the tweets on Capital's twitter right now. I literally have no idea why they're addressing a fan ship on a massive radio show. What are they expecting to happen? They've just put this whole camren idea out into the wider public arena. Honestly, I can't even fathom their reasoning AT ALL. Does management (I'm assuming this was either managements idea or at least run past them) think this will shut the camren shippers up or make a blind bit of difference to how they interact with the girls?! Now who's delusional! I mean, has no-one on their management/PR team pointed out that a bunch of hormonal teenagers shipping THE PUBLIC PERSONA'S (let's be real none of us know the real people) of a couple of girlband members is really not that much of a problem? IDGAF how many offensive tweets the crazies send to them or every person in their lives - PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET DO NOT KNOW YOU LAUREN AND CAMILA, THEY DO NOT KNOW YOUR LIFE. THEY HAVE NO BEARING ON ANYTHING YOU DO. Lauren preaches so much about social media not being real. Does she hear herself being hypocritical when she whines about what camren shippers say/do ON SOCIAL MEDIA?! Guess what, Lolo? Celebrity isn't real either. We see an illusion of who you are and make our fuckin assumptions! Yay it's all a game! Maybe y'all should start playing it? Secondly, this whole Camila and Shawn thing. It's all been so cringingly orchestrated. From the set-up interviews on red carpets, to the social media appearances, to all this camren denial just before the single drops. I really hope whoever masterminded this whole thing gets fired. It's all PR 101 and it's transparent and Jesus, I could have done a better job of it. I have no idea if Camila or Shawn is gay or straight or in an actual relationship with each other, what I do know is whatever we've seen of their relationship has been fantasy. It's like they took the "How to make a starlet into a star!" handbook from 1953 and ran with it  Aaand can we just take a minute to think about the fact that Camila would rather be seen as desperate (actual word she used. WTF) and thirsty than in a relationship with a woman? Wow. Yeah really towing the line with the whole girl power/feminism thing there Mila... It's like everything surrounding this group is cheap: cheap tour costumes, cheap stage production, cheap management/PR. FFS hire some professionals. I cannot even. How did they manage to fumble this group??? They're 5 smart, hot, talented young ladies. You even have Little Mix right there in your stable as a blueprint?! IDEK where I was going with this rant anymore. TL;DR: Girls: Quit being babies and please realise that celebrity and the media ain't that deep. Record label: Throw money at them, get them a new stylist and choreographer. Me: Stop obsessing over b-list maybe-gay celebrities with great legs.

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I found this jewel in an old Camren gossip website from 2015 and I think it’s perfect to picturing what’s happening now with Camren. The post is talking that interview with the radio station Capital FM in 2015

And there’s the second part of the interview...

The funny part of this old post:

HALF YOUR FANBASE ARE CAMREN SHIPPERS FFS

This is something that I (even when I came late of the ship) already knew and I wrote a post about it.

It’s crazy that reading this old stuff now I feel like I’m in 2015 discussing the exact situation but in 2019. 

Gosh, I wished a time machine to remember the old days I never thought that it would be the same old bullshit.

I forgot to mention that I’m agree about those toxics CS that loves to goes to the girls friends and family to bother. That part shouldn’t be allowed. 

[signoraviolettavalery]

oh lord. If Malex is actually still with other people at the end of season two, next hiatus will make the current hiatus look like a cake walk. I dont even want to think what the fandom would look like.

I mean, I’ll just....leave. Like, I’m already not planning on watching s.2 at all until I know how it ends, but if this is what they do to season 2 then I will just abandon the show completely. Not even catch up on it after the entirety of s. 2 has aired. Stop engaging with it. Do my utmost to find another fandom to invest in. Like, there’s will-they-won’t-they, and then they’re stringing fans along with the ultimate cruelty because you don’t know how to write relationships. So idgaf what the fandom will look like, because I don’t plan to be around for it if that’s the case. There’s such a thing as cutting your losses. You’re not obligated to stick around to have your heart torn out, and you’re certainly not obligated to put yourself through years of misery on the off chance that a queer ship might have a happy ending. You don’t owe that to anyone, and you certainly don’t owe it to Carina. 

[dachi-chan25]

GoT S8, Episode 1: The Pointy End Recap Part 2.

-Once they are alone Tyrion muses about her title and she about his while throwing some shade at d, Tyrion says the last time they saw each other was at Joffrey's wedding, Sansa gives a half ass sorry for leaving like that and Tyrion is still salty about it (like fuck off) Sansa is like we both survived so... Tyrion makes a remark about how everyone that underestimated Sansa is now dead and she looks proud (damn right that is my girl) which in this case sounds ominious af for D. Then Tyrion proceeds to show how far he is into the lizard cult, by trying to sell Sansa Stark of all people that bs of Cersei sending the armies, and Sansa in not so many words calls him and idiot (my girl is not holding back her punches and I am here for it) and Bran is just staring at them probably enjoying the drama as much as I.

-Jon is on the godswood in front of the heart tree (you know what? ?? If aegony was real at all she would be there with him, he would like to show her the place where he grew up. he would be like i am really sorry about my people not wanting you here but you'll see they'll warm up to you once they see what a good queen you are or something along those lines, maybe even a kiss in front of a heart tree, a sacred place where you can't lie) but no Jon looks worried and fucking miserable

-Arya sneaks up on him, they banter playfully and can you believe??? He straight up casually mentions he died (👀👀) they hug and it's very heartfelt and brotherly (honestly no stark reunion has been filmed like the Jonsa one, ofc one can argue they were the very first reunion, but duuude the music, the snow falling softly around them, how they get a close up on both Jon and Sansa's face, the nuzzle, and how bloody long is that hug, as well as the fact that neither of them has had a follow up like just drinking having a good time together) they talk about Needle and Longclaw (like if you don't get how different are the Jon - Arya interactions played against the jonsa ones then idk what to tell you) Jon says something that really bothered me at first but then I really thought about it and I came up with why:

1) He is an asshole so far up D's ass he forgets Sansa is the one who really gave him a reason to fight for the living again, and that she literally saved him in the BotB, and that she made him a fur and called him a Stark, or that she has been doing an excellent job preparing for the war against the AotD , but this can't be, I would believe it if this was a season 4 or 5 or even a season 1 and I knew nothing about who Jon is and what he wants, and after seven seasons I know Jon enough to say he would never think this.

2) He is hurt about Sansa still not trusting him to protect her and their home,and is salty cause she really thinks he didn't listen to her when he did. I mean doesn't it remind you of that argument they had about Sansa undermining him, he was desperate to know that Sansa trusted his desicions (super unfair to sansa still cause she doesn't know anything about Jon's plans) he says sansa believes she is smarter than everyone, when he knows she is not seeing he listened to her and is appeasing D so they have a chance against the NK. And i believe this one because it doesn't destroy Jon's character.

Now he says this to Arya and not in the Great Hall (that would have been super shitty of him and would go along with number 1 case) because he and Arya used to poke fun at Sansa's expense when they were kids and he thinks Arya would agree with him and trust him, but she is totally on Sansa's side and defends her (yasss this is what we deserved after last season's shit show) that Jon wasn't expecting it (dude he was joking he doesn't say it with hate or anything like that) much less was he expecting Arya to say Sansa is just trying to protect the family (as if he wasn't) and we see number 2 is real when in a very vulnerable voice he says 'i am her family too' , like he really wanted Sansa's support and trust in the Great Hall and he thinks she is so angry and trusts him so little that she doesn't even consider him family anymore (i'll be crying in the corner excuse me) even more so when Arya makes that remark of not forgetting about that (like seriously we have seen this boy for 7 seasons like how could he ever forget about his family???) And duuude I can't even begin to imagine how sad and alone Jon felt. They hug again and Jon closes his eyes (important detail)

-We cut the scene to Cersei looking like the evil queen she is, smiling while Euron's fleet arrives with the Golden Company when Qyburn informs her that the Wall is no more, and she looks so pleased (dude also in the Recap at the beginning of the episode the really drove home that d was fire and the nk was ice, and i mean GoT starts with Robert's Frost poem about how ice and fire are destructive forces of nature) .

-We get a glimpse of the Golden Company, and then we get a scene with Euron and Yara, Euron is being an annoying piece of shit.

-now we are in the throne room, Cersei welcomes the captain of the Golden Company (his name is Harry but I can't remember how to write his last name) but she is disappointed about not having elephants. Euron is disgusting again, Cersei is savage with him but he starts complaining and is so insistent that Cersei finally gives in and fucks him.

-Bronn is having sex with some prostitutes, the only intresting thing about this scene is the girls talking about the Loot Attack and the horrible deaths of the guys who fought there (apparently Ed Sheeran's character face got burnt off and if that is not an attempt to show D as a villian then idk what that is) Qyburn arrives and says Cersei is summoning him, she is willing to pay and give him a castle if he goes north and kills both Jaime and Tyrion (also I feel Sansa's kidnap plot is gonna happen).

-We get a post-sex scene of Cersei and Euron, and Euron is fishing for compliments but instead annoys Cersei.

-While Euron is trying to measure his dickin' abilities to Bobby B's and Jamie's my boy Theon rescues Yara, who decks him in the face for not fighting for her, but still they escape (I have so many doubts about this, like Theon went to Braavos and back or he just waited, and how did he know he was coming back to KL after he supposedly betrayed Cersei,and if he knew it was a ploy why didn't he warned D or Jon through a raven) Yara wants to take the Iron Islands (I don't believe she gives a fuck about D she just wanted to take back her home) but she knows Theon wants to fight for the Starks so she tells him to go, and it's a good scene.

-More refugees arrive at WF, and we get a sense of the camp and how big is this army, we get a glimpse of Alys Karstark (she is wearing something similar in cut and color to Sansa, and i do believe people are gonna think Sansa is dead at some point) then we get Davos,Varys and Tyrion talking while they watch Jon and D at a distance. Davos tells them the northerns are not gonna like D, Tyrion is worried, but then Dadvos proposes a marriage between Jon and D (duuude I said he was going for this since last season but he only says it until now, this ship is doomed) and this would be a pretty good idea if the people didn't hated her and feared her already but Davos is not a good politician cuz he wasn't raised for it, he is loyal and all you want but he doesn't know the north. Varys is like nothing lasts and I don't blame him cuz he has been unimpresed by D since Mereen, and now he gets to see Sansa's savvy politics and A+ administration while he probably thinks Jon is just another dumb asshole thinking with his dick.

-D and Jon are walking around, and who is brought up in this conversation?? SANSA fucking STARK! !! Even when no northern lord liked her D is just whining about Sansa not liking her (they really trying to sell this triangle when I know, I see I hear with everything Jon does that Jon has no romantic feelings for d at all) and Jon's deadass answer is "well she didn't liked me either when we were kids" (i call bs cuz whe sansa tried to apologize for this he said there was nothing to forgive so this is not serious) he was trying to joke to light the mood, direct the conversation to how alike he and d are instead of a "I'll talk to her don't worry bae" duuude D is really dumb, but she is annoying again implying that if Sansa doesn't respect her she'll do something about it, we don't get to know what but you can see when d is not looking at him that Jon is not happy about what she just said (but also I don't think jon gets that it was a threat cuz he hasn't seen d's uglier sides and I believe he think he has, and he thinks he can manipulate her not to do anything rash).

Some dothraki riders inform D that the Dragon's are barely eating :0:0:0 oh noes!!! If only someone hadn't burned food during the Loot Attack (idgaf about the lizards at all )

Jon and D go to check on the dragons, and D prompts Jon to ride Rhaegal (Jon while not as afraid as before is still weary of dragons) Jon doesn't seem to want to and says what will happen of Rhaegal doesn't want him to and d basically jokes about Jon dying which is not cute or flirty cuz Jon looks scared af. We get further proof D is flying by the seat of her pants and doesn't know shit about how to control her dragons yet she probably thinks Rhaegal likes Jon because they are meant for each other or some other self important bs.

And Jon is not thrilled dude he almost falls off (you ruined horses for me is bs) and we get Varys, Davos and Tyrion see him on the Dragon. Tyrion looks worried.

Jon somehow takes the lead and takes D to some waterfalls, and she is like we could stay here forevaaaaa and he is like we would be too old (the romantic interactions are still at 0 the chemistry is again flat, Jon's responses are awkward and not romantic) he practically tells her she doesn't belong in the north and she asks him to warm her, they kiss (bland passionless) Jon opens his eyes to stare at the dragons, d is like don't be silly darling, he kisses her again and then fucking turns her around so he can stare at her dragons while kissing her. Peak romance amirite ?? Lmaoooo Pol!Jon is real sorry not sorry he had to stare at the dragons while kissing her making the dragons and not the kiss the focus of the scene. I do believe this was just to appease her and keep her happy and commited to the cause after everyone treated her like she deserved.

Gendry is working at the forge, and Arya enters, the Hound is being a cunt, and tells Arya she is a cold bitch for letting him to die and Arya couldn't give less of a fuck. She and Gendry flirt hard like pls make this canon, and pls don't let d burn my boy.

K Imma need a part 3 cuz the Jonsa scene!!!!