#(I suppose it does make perfect sense to post this in honour of my tragic spotify wrapped 2024. ahem.)

[ai-the-broccoli]

I finally remembered today that I never actually posted this on tumblr. the first piece of DN fanart I ever did lol. it's very messy

[witch128chick]

I love Amity being a gay disaster in the whole entirety of this episode

Willow's like: bitch you gay

I just- i love them okay :(( their story is so tragic omg

Also Lilith panicking bc she STILL can't take Eda in is such a good resource for angst. Like Lilith babe what were you put through :(((

I think this speaks for itself

(Can't wait to explore this in my fic)

Fire glyph!!!

Let's overanalyse this shall we

So in Amity's flashback the Banshees are on the right side representing the "good" team, the one we're supposed to be rooting for

And here in the present the "good" team is still on the right side, with Amity still being in the middle

It means that she changed the people around her and allowed herself to be who she wants to be with them while staying true to herself

Idk if it makes sense but to me does

Say it with me!

"Hahahaha who's Amity???" "Aaaand scoop!" "Oh... wow.... sports....."

Amity i love you sm you're THE representation of people whose brains shut down and can't focus around their crush

Like omg.. she's smart yea? She's cool. She's top student and stuff. Then Luz appears and:

Sooooo ADORABLE

Found familyyyy

Found familyyyy pt2

Also i love how Amity's welcome in the owl house and they all hang out together

Eda probably tells embarrassing stories about her parents

But omg look at them just chilling!!!! T_T

(Side note: i saw someone point it out that Amity got her teammates hurt bc she made the wrong decision. And here she got hurt while doing the right thing. It's perfect.)

I'm scared of the episode following this

But also super excited bc that's like my topppp fave ever

I had sm fun with this episode, it gets a 10/10!!!! Honestly i love it sm might be in my top 5 i think

JOCK MITY!!!!

This is such a looong post but it gave me serotonin which i was lacking a bit now but it's fixed

The headcanons i have for this episode are kindaaaa- idk? Interesting? But i love the vibe so i'm gonna roll with them and enjoy this rollercoaster

Anyway!!! Here's a 🍅 for you in honour of Miss Blight

I wasn't really in the mood to watch today's episode but then i was like fuck it it'll make me feel better

AND DAMN YES IT DID!!

IT'S WING IT LIKE WITCHES TIME!!!

(I always promise myself not to take too many pictures but i always fail. Now i might have broken a record bc i think i'll reblog this TWICE. I just have a lot to sayyy)

(And also i officially reached the episode that i'm currently writing in my HUGE fic which btw is SO FUCKING LONG ALREADY!!! but ughh it needs to be edited and finished ffs)

Yk i'm a sucker for ANYTHING that has to do with Amity's Grudgby past. And that includes how her quitting affected the friendgroup i just wanna know aLL THE DETAILS

You are, mate, one of the most relatable characters on the show

Okay so yes Amity's so obviously not here. And Boscha just addresses this later with "she's gone soft" but girl you don't really seem to care and i wanna know why!!!

My best guess is that she tries her best to pretend and eventually make herself believe that she doesn't give a fuck about Amity while deep down she's screaming (yes i firmly believe she has a crush on her like cmon)

This episode's meme faces!

Boscha i get it you wanna beat Luz in this but i have to tell you that she's so far ahead of you (she already has like a bunch of meme faces)

Okay but. This. THIS!!!!

Do you understand how IMPORTANT this is???

Aahhh i could go on and on about this

But all i'm gonna say is that both Amity and Boscha have their hands in their pockets as to come off as cool and unbothered. But who's actually unbothered is Amity. No matter if she isn't the captain anymore or that she no longer hangs out with them. She still has the upper hand. And that's bc she's grown

I. Just. LOVE. Their. Dynamic.

ICONIC

This episode has SOO many iconic moments i swear

Okay okay OKAY soooooo uughhhh

She's more confident now that they're fixing things with Amity (i wanna see more of that!!!)

Guys. I don't think you understand. I LOVE THIS likeeee they're not besties BUT they hang out again that must feel good yk to have that back

(I have an experience with that i might talk about it some time)

Okay... time for a reblog!! (Enjoy this until then <3)

[pluviophile-bookworm]

AWAE 2x10 rewatch: thoughts and reactions

So this episode kicks off right where the last one ended - with Billy getting hurt after Cole has had too much to take. To be honest, this episode is already too much for me to take, too. Cole is heartbroken, I am heartbroken, pretty much everyone involved is. But then Anne speaks those wise words: ‘It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it. And you bring so much.’ I’m glad someone finally told Cole how much he means. He deserves all the good in this world. 

What is Rachel’s problem with Miss Stacy? So she’s a little unconventional. So what? We need people like her in the world. 

I see Bash is still with Mary, and he’s willing to let her ‘take advantage’ of him. And I guess it’s repairs season as everyone prepares for the spring. At least I think they’re preparing for the spring. I’m not quite certain of the seasons anymore with all the drama going on. But it was winter a couple of episodes ago, so I figure…

I seem to be empathising with everyone today. I’m just as broken over the story club having been destroyed as the girls are. It’s hard to get over the loss of something so important, something nearly sacred.  But I know they’ll get over it one day. 

I’m still quite depressed over this grey and black episode, but I can’t get over (in a sort of positive way, I guess) how Anne and Miss Stacy talk over each other in this scene and finish in unison with ‘If I could take it all back, I would.’ This scene is so well executed, I just love it so much. And then it’s all heartbreak and tears again as Miss Stacy tells Anne she’s on probation and will probably be let go.

I know Anne is supposed to, as Jerry said, be so happy about the fox trap being removed, but there’s been too much for her to handle and she just breaks down. I think I can’t possibly proceed with this review. This episode is too depressing. I’ll leave this post in my drafts and see how things go later on. Or maybe I should just let it go altogether, or I should just keep going until it’s over… but I can’t. So I’ll stop here for now. 

Alright, I’m back. It’s been a week and I think I’m ready to go on. I’m not quite sure, though, so it might just be another week before I can finish this. I’ve been putting it off long enough. 

Bash is still in the bog with Mary and things are getting serious. The way he looks at those children, I think he wants some of his own, With Mary. And he’ll have one. Too bad we couldn’t see her grow. #renewannewithane Is this battle lost?

Is Gilbert thinking of selling his house? I can’t even comment on that. But that substitute teacher... that I can talk about. Only Phillips is worse than that guy, and that’s because Phillips was a straight-up bully. But this man is absolutely the strictest, most boring teacher I’ve seen in this series. I didn’t even remember he was there at all. Of course, he’s only there for an episode and he’s got nothing memorable about him, so that must be why.

I think I mentioned it last time, or was it the time before, perhaps in my reaction to 2x8 - when Miss Stacy assigned Anne that essay on gossip, I thought it too bad that she couldn’t do the same with Rachel. And now Marilla agrees with me. Good thing she was there that day to see what a great teacher and person Miss Stacy really is. And now she’s really had it with Rachel. To be fair, Rachel deserves to be put in her place every once in a while. 

‘But we’re not heroes, Anne, we’re just girls!’ Oh, come on, Ruby, how can you say such a thing? Have you not been friends with Anne for a long enough time to know that... how did Diana put it now? ‘A hero is a person, and that person can be any person.’ Ever so eloquent. 

Moody wants to help the girls save Miss Stacy, but why am I sensing it’s just because he’s feeling guilty about dropping the light bulb? Either way, the light bulb gives Anne an idea, and thus Team Potato Light Bulbs is born. That’s what I like to call the four of them - and the rest of their classmates, once they join in. 

You know, Anne has taught Marilla a lot in this year that they’ve been a family. And now she has something to teach Miss Stacy too, even though Miss Stacy is supposed to be the teacher. Again, good thing Marilla was there to witness the class that day.

Cole has come to the Andrews’ house to apologise, even though Billy totally deserved what came upon him. And he confirms that last part by calling Cole ‘freak’ once again. But Cole is a man of honour and grace and he goes through with the apology and walks out of there as the bigger man.

Gosh, Bash is thinking about proposing, and I can’t even with how awkward he is. He’s fallen hard - but I already knew that. And then he sees Mary with a strange man (who is actually her son) and totally misinterprets things. Does this episode have to be so depressing? I hope the better part of it comes soon enough, or else I might not be in the right condition to finish this today. 

Alright, things seem to be taking a turn for the better... everyone is hurrying somewhere, and the town hall meeting will decide it all. I’m nervous and excited and that’s when I know what’s going to happen. Imagine how I felt when I first saw this episode? Well, you probably felt it too, so you don’t need to imagine anything. But doesn’t this part of the episode provide such scope for the imagination? Even the second time around.

That’s it. They’re on the train, and Gilbert has seen them, and he cannot believe his eyes, and now he’s joining them , for his own reasons, but still. And then there’s that iconic moment with Cole where he tells Anne ‘You know Gilbert has a crush on you, right?’ and she’s like ‘No, he doesn’t!’ and he so does... and Cole’s not being ridiculous, he’s being insightful. Or rather, he seems to be the only person around there who’s not totally blind.

Gosh, an actual power walk. I love this. This episode is finally getting better and I’m all in for it. 

Is that what Mary thinks of Bash? That he’d leave her if he knew she’d had a child out of wedlock? Who’s thinking less of whom now? Bash would never.

Of all the ways to propose Bash had thought of, this must have been the one he’d never even considered. And yet the question is out. And is that kiss enough of an answer?

When Gilbert asks Bash to sign the deed to the farm as his partner and his family, I am reminded of when Anne signed the Cuthbert family bible. This is an official document uniting them as family - making their bond as official as can be. And once Mary becomes Bash’s wife, she will be part of that too. And that will happen soon enough. This episode sure is taking the long-awaited turn for the better.

Aunt Josephine, always to the rescue. And she’ll help save more than Miss Stacy today. I feel like this episode is all about family - lost family, found family. Mostly the latter.

And Diana apologises for her narrow thinking. She’s changed. I knew it was inside her all this time. It’s just how she was raised that stopped her from releasing her full potential. This girl deserves the world and will get it. I have just one issue with her, but it belongs in season 3, not here. Not yet.

Sure, the kids are ready to speak for Miss Stacy, but she’s come to speak for herself. This is amazing. Potato light bulbs forever! AWAE teaches the important lessons. Too bad it had to end. 

Is that what I think it is? Is Rachel coming to apologise? Apparently everyone can change for the better. Well, not quite everyone (looking at you, Billy), but the world isn’t a perfect place. And yet even Billy left the fox alone after all. 

The wedding... I always cry at weddings. 

‘I wanna be with my family’ - yes, because he has one again. How beautiful.

‘Tragical romance and all...’ That one speaks for itself. 

Let’s sum up: things are so tragical that they make me stop watching before I’d hit the nine-minute mark; Bash and Mary’s relationship grows quickly; Marilla and Rachel have their greatest falling out over Miss Stacy, just to prove the impact she’s had on everyone and everything; girls can be heroes, and so can be clumsy, awkward boys; Cole is a bigger man than Billy - but then again, when has he not been?; Bash meets Elijah - the wrong way; Team Potato Light Bulbs play stowaways; Cole is insightful - if insightful means ‘not blind’, that is; a proposal goes not quite as planned; a new found family is made official; Aunt Jo to the rescue; Diana is more open-minded; potato light bulbs forever; everyone can change; a cry-worthy wedding adds a new member to Gilbert and Bash’s found family; ‘Remains to be seen’.

[etoiledunord]

Thoughts on The Magicians S3

(Only slightly late to the party this time!)

SO MANY SPOILERS BEHIND THE KEEP READING LINK

* Is the Monster who/what I think it is, based on the books? I mean, it seems to have changed/evolved some, possibly due to killing everything else in the castle, but it feels like it could indeed be the same as in the books. It’ll be interesting to see what they do with that.

* I keep going back and forth with myself as to whether Penny 40 has been written out. On the one hand, we have book canon, Penny 23′s appearance (and the truth key including him), and the way other characters have begun referring to Penny 40 in past tense. On the other hand, we have Kady not about to give up Penny 40, and the fact that it would be very useful to have someone on the inside when dealing with the Library. When Penny 23 went through the portal, I actually thought ‘Well, there’s Penny’s new body.” (Oh, and I just googled and found an interview where the writers say that they have two Pennys and haven’t forgotten that.  So yay for that!)

* Iirc, in the books, Penny and Julia aren’t even aware of each other’s existence (beyond what Penny may learn via the Libaray).  This makes the soulmate thing particularly amusing and wtf to me.  Then again, the same can be said about Penny and Kady/Asmo, but at least the show built their relationship up so it makes more sense in context. (tl;dr: I like show Penny and don’t want to give up the OG version of him, I like him and Kady together, and the whole randomly in love with Julia thing just strikes me as pointless and kind of ridiculous.)

* Is Hyman still around? Did no one use the truth key to tell him to gtfo?

* I bawled like a baby over the mosaic timeline. I have a weakness for the trope where weary heroes get quiet happy lives, and Eliot’s death was so sad. I was slightly off-put by how easily they both left behind everyone else they cared about, but I guess it wasn’t like they could just go home, even if they wanted to. I want more information about how much they actually remember about that timeline. Also, going by the show’s time travel rules, Quentin’s grandkids and their descendants are probably still running around Fillory, so that should be interesting.

* I am not ok with Benedict’s death. I wasn’t ok with him being a comic relief character in season 2, either, and the whole thing where he just jumped off the ship because of the depression key was awful. I mean, his death in the books only really had the purpose of being tragic, but the fact that he grew into himself first and then was killed by someone else makes a big difference, imo. I’m kind of glad that he at least got a decent afterlife, even though I’m not fond of the Library, because Benedict in the Underworld in the books is one of the more disturbing things I’ve read. Maybe he can also participate in the whole dealing with the Library thing in season 4.

* What’s-her-name, the head Librarian--Zelda Schiff, according to Wikipedia (okie doke). I want to punch her in the nose. Just, wow, I didn’t realize I had so much anger for obstructive bureaucracy. Also, for someone who knows as much as she does, there’s a lot of hubris in playing god like that when actual gods are likely to get cranky about it.

* The younger Floater guy was annoying and I’m glad his penis was bitten by a mutant toad with fangs.

* Omg, how did I forget Poppy?! She... was turned up to 11. And I’m kind of bothered by the fact that she slept with Josh at some point in the past. Josh and Poppy being happy is one of my favourite things about the third book, and the fact that in the show they didn’t just fall in love and live happily ever after is a little disappointing to me.

* I’m tired and not up for really getting into this, but I feel like half the history of Fillory is based on what secrets Jane kept from herself. It seems that time travel works on a closed track (like in LOST), given that post-Beast-death Quentin gave pre-Beast-death Jane the time key, thereby proving before any time loops were created that Timeline 40 would be the successful/non-reset one. And at least some version of Jane had to know about the Quest in order to tell Margo where the time key was. But the Jane who called Quentin “the volunteer tomato” in season 1 didn’t know that that would be the successful Timeline, right? Hell, maybe Jane knew that she had to die in order for the Beast to be successfully killed, kind of like how you can only force yourself to make a jump when you know there’s no safety net. In any case, time travel is confusing and rife with possibilities.

* The show took most of the book characters and made them more sympathetic and likeable. The two big exceptions to this are Alice and Mayakovski. This is kind of interesting, given that they were the characters that the books depicted as being the most like what Quentin wanted to be--skilled and sure of themselves. I’m therefore annoyed at Alice being scared of what she’d do with magic to the point where she tries to stop other people from having it, and at Mayakovski being a pervy old man. Like, neither of them were perfect in the books, but they’ve obviously been changed to be less honourable, and it just feels like it’s a way to make sure that, despite being more skilled, they’re not “better” than Quentin.

* Other than that, though, I spent the whole season going “Alice who?” I get that Quentin’s supposed to be longing for her and Alice is supposed to be reticent due to everything that’s happened, but that doesn’t work as well with Alice actually being alive and doing things. Quentin could pine for dead/niffin!Alice in the books without it really impacting his story or relationships. But with Alice there, it just feels like they’re exes with a complicated past and not much present. Quentin’s relationship with Eliot was much more important to me instead.

* Poor Dean Fogg. Timeline 40 finally kills the Beast, and just when you think everything’s going to move forward and be ok, you’re stuck with no magic. I would drink heavily in your situation, too.

* Bloody ghost Eliot scared the crap out of me.

Ok, I’m done for now. If anyone wants to flail with me, go right ahead. ^_^