#Adam Deni

[ima-super-natural]

I can't believe I watched 327 episodes of supernatural only for my favorite character to be a guy who shows up in 5 of them.

[escapismthroughfilm]

⋆˚｡⋆ ⋆˚｡. ⋆⋆˚｡Arrival (2016) dir. Denis Villeneuve⋆˚｡⋆ ⋆˚｡⋆⋆˚｡⋆

[lvndrlondonfog]

Okay I always love the good angsty “devastated Crowley after the fall” ideas, but I feel like the majority of them surround him being depressed and sad- which was absolutely a part of it, but I feel like a lot of people miss the idea of Crowley being FURIOUS after the Fall. Raging against the injustice of it all; it was only a few questions! How could the very beings he considered brothers and friends do this to him? How could God do this to him? Not just to take away his creations but the very essence of what he was made for? Sure, he’d made a mistake, but nothing so much as to lose everything.

A lot of the other demons are still bitter, and mean, and evil to this day after the Fall; so why would Crowley initially be any different? Even now, despite being always inherently nice (even if he won’t admit it,) another one of Crowley’s core personality traits is that he has a rather short fuse and large explosions of anger and frustration. While he finds ways to vent and manage it throughout the years (ex. The plants,) his immediate reaction being anger is definitely something that is just instinctually there.

But just; freshly-fallen Crowley having to rediscover balance and humanity while everything around him tried to argue that he should let these feelings rule everything and that there was no hope, redemption, or goodness left for him. For the first time since Falling, stepping foot onto Earth in Eden and feeling fresh wind for the first time, seeing the sun (a star, even if it wasn’t on elf his favorites,) being shown kindness by an angel, the very kind of being he’d been encouraged to hate; finally having to stop his spiral of rage and look around for a moment and maybe even begin to accept things.

[skeletonfumes]

[cloudtinn]

"If you could see your whole life from start to finish, would you change things?"

Arrival (2016), dir. Denis Villeneuve.

[elitehoe]

No like y'all don't understand there was a light in Hangman's eyes that I haven't seen in so long like I could cry he was genuinely having the time of his life and that's all that matters ever

[calnexin]

Played Wayhaven... got Adam brain worms

[ijbolbie]

rest in peace adam faulkner-stanheight you would've LOVED vaping

[quaranmine]

one of my favorite jet lag running bits is every time sam tries to make choo choo chew a thing and ben and adam, in control of the episode editing, just add the snack zone intro instead

[lockandkeyhyena]

it’s not abuse if they only ever hit you two or three times right?

[arrakisser]

prescience as a plot device in DUNE: PART TWO (2024) and ARRIVAL (2016)

protagonists paul and louise both use prescience as a trust-gaining tactic — a "narrow way through," if you will. let's start with paul, who treats his foreseeing ability as a sort of pseudo-telepathy. he sees a possible future where he lives among the fremen and hears their personal anecdotes. then, he simply parrots their own stories back to them to prove that he IS the lisan al-gaib, the voice from the outer world, the unstoppable foreign power who can and will not hesitate to lead them to paradise. you can physically feel the buildup of fear and reverence among the fremen in that scene as paul's immense bravado dispels all skepticism.

dr. louise banks exhibits a similar case. whereas paul is the messiah of the fremen guided by the bene gesserit (through lady jessica), louise is a hero of humanity guided by the heptapods. i'd like to bring up that amazing scene where she looks into the future to see general shang at a celebration of peace, and he ends up telling future!louise exactly what past!louise did to save the world — which she uses to her advantage.

as it becomes apparent over the course of these films, there's something so devastating about the course of action taken by both protagonists. sure, they save the world, but what do they get? complete deprival of humanity and what it means to be a human. they sacrifice self-fulfillment for the fulfillment of a larger prophecy or ideal. after all, how can a person look up to their equal?

take paul and his personal relationships for example. chani of course, but also his closest friends and family (jessica, leto, gurney), are reduced to nothing more than simple variables in the prophecy. and take someone like jamis. in the film, there's a moment where paul says "jamis, talk to me," and these visions of smiling jamis fill the screen, and suddenly we're watching one of paul's futures where he and jamis could have been friends. it's genuinely heartbreaking for paul to see all these futures wither away right before his eyes.

the ending of ARRIVAL is equally shocking to me. great, thanks for saving the world! here’s a lover, and a daughter, but wait, you’ve seen exactly how and when she’ll die from cancer. you’ve seen exactly how and when that very lover will leave you as a result of your passive premonition. but how could you have told him, that you knew everything and could only watch it happen? this was louise’s dilemma.

paul could have found a unconditional community, a place he truly belonged to and identified with. louise could have found her own family, with a loving husband and healthy daughter. their finales present them with everything and nothing: they receive all the recognition in the world, leaving nothing to themselves. the paradox of total control while having no control at all.

[escapismthroughfilm]

#205

[bloodycowboyclub]

[killugon-truther]

hxh dude bros be like “you just don’t understand what having a close friendship means/is like” while actively ignoring and denying any and all of the romantic subtext and undertones in and throughout killua & gon’s entire relationship. 😭

[sastielsfandom]

I love the idea that Dean wants Sam to agree that Cas is like another brother. The third Winchester brother and Sam is immediately like no. Dean is offended because wtf Sam he's laid his life down for us. While Sam is trying to actively get it through Dean's mind that there is already another brother which Dean waves off. And also it's cool that Dean sees Cas as a brother figure he just doesn't have that type of relationship with Cas. Which is the wrong thing to say apparently. Because well why aren't the two closer? What does it take for Sam to consider someone a brother huh? Does only blood count is that why he considers Adam a brother and not Cas? Meanwhile Sam is just sitting there thinking of all the reasons it would be very concerning if he saw Cas as a brother figure.

[clayvedevs]

Tennis players as Fëanorians (atp edition)

Fëanor: mr octopus himself, daniil medvedev. He gives off mad, doomed genius vibes. Haunts the narrative (ao 22, ao 24)

Maedhros: immediately my mind goes to jannik sinner for tall, redhead reasons

Maglor: grigor dimitrov. He's in a boyband, 1 handed backhand boys, enough said. Also balding (from stress), bisexual, bulgarian is such a maglor vibe.

Celegorm: denis shapovalov. Tall, blonde, should get a modelling contract apparently. I'm sure denis can talk to animals if he tried

Caranthir: i'm leaning towards andrey rublev for mr "quickest to anger". Red faced, red head, same thing

Curufin: stefanos "daddy issues" tsitsipas

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