#2. to make the differences stand out

[eplapourdissant]

Parallels Differences

The similarity between the Wall Slam Scene and the Kiss Scene have been pointed out repeatedly.

However, I don't think I have seen anyone talk about how they represent their respective seasons:

Crowley pushes Aziraphale against the wall.

Run away with me.

Crowley pulls Aziraphale towards him.

Stay here on Earth with me.

[cozylittleartblog]

me omw to scare mormons out of a wendys!! 🍂🖤🍟

ootd from like 2 weeks ago and yes that really happened

[martyrbat]

rip to bruce but if i fumbled her i would literally kill myself

[crystalpallette]

frye inspires this sort of manic "i can do whatever i want" kinda will in people and god. I sure did do whatever I wanted here

[puppppppppy]

oooh wait so the plot hole of “why doesnt a spirit medium just channel the victims spirit” is literally bc the DL-6 spirit channeling cant be repeated huh

[uniquecellest]

dark phoenix is honestly the worst X-Men movie bc "oh it's the final one to tie into the original trilogy" Jean dies in dp though so how does she come back? Same with Raven she dies yet she's alive a few years later in the og trilogy? And honestly it felt like a person who worked on it (idk if I need to blame a writer, director, producer, whoever) straight up has never consumed any sort of X-Men in their life and just did Google searches (no shame bc more info) yet somehow came out with a massive hate boner against Charles???? Like who worked on Dark Phoenix? Charles' own family? Like I swear Brian Xavier, Sharon Xavier, Kurt Marko, and Cain Marko were brought on to work on this film???

I even talked about this movie over the holidays with my dad (bc i asked for xmen movies that weren't dp or the wolverine trilogy) and he said Dark Phoenix is to explain how Jean got her powers. Which is cool and all but I need another movie to explain how we got from where were in Apocalypse to Dark Phoenix and another that explains how Raven and Jean are alive???

Like if I am to believe that Dark Phoenix happens a few years to a decade prior to X-1 then how does Dark Phoenix and The Last Stand depict two different origins on how Jean came to be with Xavier and whether Erik was with Charles or not??? How do Raven and Charles believe they're not longer siblings?

Raven literally says in X-2 thst her family tried to have her killed. To me that implies her entire family (specifically I think she mentions just her parents implying she's an only child) which could be what happened prior to meeting Charles but in the prequels Raven and Charles do have a sibling bond even if they disagree they have a sibling bond and yet that's gone by the 2000s?

Literally i would have been chill with Dark Phoenix if Raven and Jean didn't die. If Raven had lived she and Charles could have bickered more, Raven - unaware Erik had also been captured - tries to save her brother from going to the containment facility. As Jean dies perhaps the Phoenix force ends up re-writing history as Jean has studied under both Charles and Erik and wishes they were both there when getting her to go to Xavier's school. Giving Raven and Charles a more estranged relationship. In the end they all mourn Jean but we see Jean parallel Wanda at the end of WandaVision where she's living in a cabin in the forest trying to control her telepathy on her own. But at the very, very end, we see Jean walk up to Xavier's school returning home.

[thesimquarter]

some 81x33 GIFs I made a while ago

[punchouthottakes]

FLAMING HOT TAKE INCOMING, DISCLAIMER FIRST: punch out is a game with no lore and little to no characterization so it’s natural that different people have different takes on a character and I 10000% respect that and I love seeing how people interpret stuff differently from me!!!!! this is not a dig or a diss this is just personal observation!!!!!!!!!!

i don’t get why the overall fandom consensus is that don flamenco is head over heels in love with the blonde lady [that the fandom calls Carmen (this I do understand why)] in his cinematic trailer. it’s always been apparent to me that this guy is supposed to be like a casanova/serial womanizer/harem enthusiast douchebag kinda guy.

1. country of origin and profession: every enemy character in this game is supposed to be an exaggerated cultural stereotype/caricature, so it’s natural to assume that most of their character traits are not meant to subvert audience expectations, and flamenco is no exception! Spaniards are stereotyped as carelessly romantic, and toreadors seem to be associated with more socially conservative or dare I say, sexist/woman objectifying behavior. it would be logical to presume that flamenco also embodies these traits

2. contender intro slideshow: most people (and I as well) like to use the final slide of his contender intro as evidence of his romantic status. however, I fail to see how it shows him as faithful; on the contrary, the fact that the girls around “Carmen” are a. (for one of them) also wearing roses - the same color as the one he’s giving her, in fact - and b. clearly looking shocked and disgusted seems to show me that those girls were also the object of flamenco’s short-lived affection and that the blonde girl is just his next “target” so to speak.

now how to justify his in-battle voice lines referring to his affection for carmen? well look no further than Carmen, the opera by Bizet, where the titular Carmen ends up being with a toreador (like don flamenco). it could be possible that he uses “Carmen” as a pet name for all of his flings rather than the actual name of his one true love

please feel free to prove me wrong bc I see nobody else with this interpretation and I wanna know why everyone agrees that he’s a faithful boyfriend/malewife lmao

[marigraphia]

Hey remember when Kory was a Justice League member with a bangin' costume

[bittersweetresilience]

say hi to me i don't know, i just remembered being so much brighter, i guess

cigarette ash like wildfire burning holes in the nighttime open scars feel like barbed wire white lies flying high like a ceasefire dropping flags on the shoreline this is as far as i can feel right 'cause what you don't know can haunt you

and all we ever wanted was sunlight and honesty highlights to want to repeat let's get away from here and live like the movies do i won't mind when it's over at least i didn't think for a while

don't drag it out living like that doesn't mean a thing

so let's, make a great escape and i'll be waiting outside for the getaway it doesn't matter who we are we'll keep running through the dark and all we'll ever need is another day we can slow down 'cause tomorrow is a mile away and live like shooting stars 'cause happy endings hardest to fake

and i wanna let you know i wanna let you go but i just can't bring myself to speak but this is how it goes the end credits, they roll this bridge was built over kerosene but we can watch it and all i ever wanted was sunlight and honesty highlights to want to repeat let's get away from here and live like the movies do i won't mind when it's over at least i didn't think

so let's run, make a great escape and i'll be waiting outside for the getaway it doesn't matter who we are we'll keep running through the dark and all we'll ever need is another day we can slow down 'cause tomorrow is a mile away and live like shooting stars you can wish away forever but you'll never find a thing like today

[coquelicoq]

i fucking love prereading. getting documents about what's going to be discussed in a meeting and reading them and then going to the meeting and having context for all the things that are happening. if i could do this in all areas of life i would. send me a list of the words i'm going to need the definition of in order to understand what you will be talking about. give me a rundown of what topics might come up during this social encounter. provide detailed documentation of what to expect in a new setting. i will read the fuck out of that shit.

[relaxxattack]

question for hs2 readers who said the writing on this new update felt noticeably different— what about it felt different? would you be able to elaborate on that with specific details besides vibes?

[silver-grasp]

I think it's really funny that TLT1 Xiaoge with Yang Yang is probably the most unsettling and feral Xiaoge, from what I've seen so far (which makes total sense), but is ALSO the show that has the shot of him sitting in the boat like a sopping wet kitten looking completely adorable. That post that's just a compilation of Xiaoge gifs kills me every time because of that. Guy who's silent and terrifying and aloof and does insane shit like crouch on the floor and hiss at a creepy coffin but also is going to sit in a boat and look like a wet kitten if he gets the opportunity.

[genekies]

tag vent

[annyankers]

I’m once again irrationally mad about how people complain about the magic metaphors in buffy work (the whole dark magic=addiction, wicca = gay shit thing).

Like I cannot express how frustrating it is to see people bitching about how things like Dark Willow “don’t make sense” because “magic/Wicca was a originally metaphor for queerness“ or whatever as tho the first two major episodes in the series where magic was used (1x3 “Witch” and 2x8 “Dark Ages” ) weren’t all about the dark/inappropriate/destructive/abusive use of magic.

People loooooooveeeeee Giles’ past as Ripper and delight over things like “Band Candy” where we see him go Full Ripper but cannot for the life of them seem to remember that we first even LEARNED ABOUT THAT PART OF HIM IN DARK AGES WHERE HE TALKED ABOUT BASICALLY MAGICALLY PARTYING SO HARD HIS FRIEND DIED. THIS IS OUR FIRST MAJOR CHARACTER EPISODE THAT’S GOT MAGIC AS A MAIN FOCAL ELEMENT! THIS IS THE ORIGINAL METAPHOR!

The queerness is still kinda baked in there because of the Ethan Of It All but it’s first and foremost a metaphor about like, all the shit that classically leads to substance abuse and the worst outcomes that can come from it. Willow and Tara are an example of the “good” side of magic ( I’ll say Jenny is also in this section but they do so fucking little w/ her technopagan-ness so). They’re also pretty explicitly said to be “Wiccans” which I also have some issues with because of how Wicca is portrayed/talked about in the show (the Silver RavenWolf energy of it all is so galling). But like, that’s literally a whole fucking different subsection/practice of witchcraft/magic. This is like getting mad at water polo for muddling the metaphor of jet skiing. Like yes, they both are water sports but I think you’ll that they’re not the same fucking one and work completely differently.

Magic is not just 1 set of spells and rituals, it’s a multifaceted, multilayered, multi-pathed thing. With Giles we see how it can go Very Wrong and with Willow and Tara in S4-5 we see how it can go Very Right (and how it can be used to help get the Gay in the show around the Fox Censors). Willow increasingly having issues with magic/substance abuse is NOT a mixed metaphor/bad writing/ruining the gay metaphor and implying gays are bad. It’s USING THE OTHER ALREADY ESTABLISHED MAGIC METAPHOR AS PART OF HER CHARACTER ARC. WILLOW CAN BE QUEER AND ALSO HAVE A SUBSTANCE ABUSE ISSUE! GILES ARGUABLY DID IT FIRST ANYWAY (again, the Ethan Of It All)!

Willow has ALWAYS been insecure, a lil bit of a control freak, someone who wants to be HER REAL SELF and also someone TOTALLY DIFFERENT. Like she wants to be Willow but only if it’s a Willow who’s better/cooler/stronger/prettier etc. Someone who’s not the “pathetic loser” she still sees herself as even in season 6 and hasn’t totally shaken in season 7. These desires both to feel more In Control/Better and Not Yourself are classic reasons people will turn to substance abuse. For Willow is it MUCH easier to do a wizard spell to “fix” a problem than it is to like, fucking confront her issues of self-loathing and self-worth and like.... go to therapy. And that’s what gets her in trouble just like it has for so many others before her. Like in many ways Dark/Addict Willow is like seeing Giles’ Ripper Era live and on screen plus maybe a lil bit on steroids.

Magic can be used as part of more than 1 metaphor and the substance abuse metaphor came first. Stop pretending like it never existed in the show until season 6.

[sskk-manifesto]

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