#And the show never addresses it

[marigoldrory]

In "Eight O'clock at the Oasis" we see Lorelai get emotionally manipulated by Dwight, and Emily, after spending the entire episode struggling to have boundaries with her Mom. In the next episode "Take the Deviled Eggs" we see her get emotionally manipulated by Sherry too.

What is so striking is how intensely insistent all three had to be in order for Lorelai to finally relent. She is very stubborn, hard-headed, and independent, and she fails!! She still fails to not getting roped into a disruptive project for a stranger, she fails to say no to the baby shower of a woman is having a baby with the man she wants to be with, and she fails to have boundaries with her mother because she cares about her.

Lorelai has struggled to have boundaries with her Mom her entire life, and she has to be unrelenting in order to have some boundaries and autonomy with her, so of course she is stubborn and doesn't know when to give in sometimes in other areas of her life.

It is just so interesting seeing the root of that character trait, what circumstances break it, and where there's room to grow.

Especially since in the next episode, "They shoot Gilmores, Don't They?" she emotionally manipulates her daughter into attending the 24 hour dance with her. Rory says no multiple times, explains why it would mess up her plans and her night, which she was excited for, until she ultimately conceeds.

Emily is stubborn, so Lorelai has to be stubborn in order to have a relationship with her, but that bleeds over into her relationship with Rory in ways she doesn't realize is harmful. And she is so panicked about not hurting her daughter the same way that her Mom hurt her, that she doesn't give Rory any space to talk through her feelings when Lorelai does in fact hurt her.

It's real and tragic and human!

[knightofleo]

Angela Orosco Silent Hill 2

[starbuck]

Flint and Billy’s dynamic is really so much because you get the impression that Flint thinks about Billy 0.05% of the time at most, whereas Billy thinks about Flint 80% of the time at least.

And Billy also KNOWS that Flint doesn’t think about him and that’s what at least 20% of his thoughts about Flint are about.

[fairylando]

oh to be a fly so i can spy their debriefs with eachother when something is wrong🦟

[daddyduncan69]

something something the first time i truly felt pity for riko was his death and i think that fucking matters something something

[akalanthis]

angry space toad grandpa lost an ear

[the-witchhunter]

You know those video games where the character has to complete puzzles and work through their trauma to escape/wake up/something? Obstacles getting in their way and being tied to their past as they delve more into their trauma and have to learn/heal from it before they can progress?

Danny has been around a loooong time. He's old, he's powerful, and has a space in the ghost zone that he controls much like a god. The ghosts have long since started leaving him alone, the ones he's friends with have their own affaires to deal with, and in his ever shifting labyrinthian layer he's too powerful, and even outside of it he can still kick their asses.

and he's without a purpose

His friends had long since passed on after leading long and wonderful lives with him, not even leaving a ghost behind. His Family as well. Jazz had never had children, and try as he and Sam might have, half dead as he was he couldn't have children. He had no one left and nothing to do, and all of eternity to do it in.

Thinking of Jazz is what made him do it the first time

She loved helping people with her psychology, and Danny decided to do it in his own way. It hadn't been pretty, and it hadn't been easy, but he had found his method. Some took to it better than others, and many had different theories about his lair and his motives, but he helped people move past their trauma. Some believed his lair was some kind of purgatory, and... they weren't totally off

So, when Danny moved on to the timeline of the DC multiverse, he had some experience under his belt

He just underestimated how much trauma superheroes can have

[glitter-stained]

The first rule of writing horror is looking at the horrors

The second rule of writing horror is don't write about horrible things if you don't want to write horror

[thepurecinnamonroll]

Idc— Olivia witnessing Alex bleeding out on the sidewalk and then being one of the reasons she doesn't bleed out (along with the fact that she literally felt Alex's blood and life leaving her body) should mean a lot more than people give it credit for omg

Just imagine how Olivia feels after seeing Alex bleeding so much while she held her shoulder

And imagine how Alex feels, knowing Olivia is one of the main reasons she's alive

(this actually drives me crazy)

[teapetal44]

The state of the league of villains during act 3 is so sad man. Compress literally gave his ass for the league, got arrested and nobody gaf. Twice’s demise amounted to nothing, nobody cared. The whole discrimination arc Spinner was involved in was a mess. Suddenly Hori decided he cared about realism in his story so Toga dropped like a fly from a simple blood transfusion. Dabi is forced to sit and listen to Endeavor whine and yap about how sad he is about being an abusive pos, all the while nobody actually cares and he never got any real repercussions besides his family being (justifyingly) mean to him. Shigaraki was sidelined for a boring villain and was stripped off all his autonomy and agency.

[ichijokaoru]

one of my favourite kuuga scenes (Tsubaki and Ichijou, episode 38) and then, it’s bestie (Tsubaki and Godai, episode 47) which I think are interesting to watch back to back…

neither of them feature both Godai and Ichijou, but, espeically put together, they’re two of my fave goichi moments… I have so much I could say about them, that I don’t even know where I’d begin

[newtwithinternet]

TDP S7 ending really said "If the world faces a great crisis, the most important thing you have to care about is not resolving it, but keeping your hands nice and clean. no, we aren't saying that there IS a way to solve the crisis without dire methods, we are saying that someone else (who is conveniently stained already) will eventually show up to do the dirty work INSTEAD of you. and you'll be good for letting them do it."

[dukeofthomas]

I need people to realize how horrible 'stalking/constant surveillance/breaking into each other's homes is how the Batfamily show love' is. Like i really need someone to just acknowledge how horrific saying this bullshit is.

Like even fics where they're shown as happy and healthy and with good ties, you've always got this thing where none of them have privacy or any boundaries with each other. Which is directly antithetical to actually having good relationships. And this invasion via hacking and stalking and breaking into homes is portrayed as a positive, good thing; it's just how they show love and care to each other, after all. But for some reason I just personally don't find stalking, lack of privacy or boundaries, and emotional manipulation funny, endearing, or healthy, and just end up disgusted at the attempt to sweep it all under the rug.

[randapear]

one of the best things about writing Lockwood & Co fan fiction is researching the old London style and technology era and then just dropping in HOT TO GO and the latest Spiderman movie.

[foolishlyzephyrus]

they did my boy klaus so dirty this season. literally all character development got abandoned mid arc

[theweeklydiscourse]

It’s a bit funny when ATLA fans who are so deeply attached to the show blame the fandom for the problematic elements of the actual text. They’ll say: “You missed EVERY message that the writers included! I can’t believe that you’re unable to understand the deliberate messages woven into the show!” And then the “message” in question will be a flaw they noticed in the text, an unresolved narrative issue, or an instance of the writers’ biases seeping through the story.

I just wish that certain fans would consider the idea that perhaps the writers were not as all-knowing as they thought they were and that those gaps manifested in the story. Blaming fandom for misinterpreting the story (according to your own interpretation of it) is so ridiculous and indicative of the reluctance to critique a beloved childhood show. ATLA was ahead of it’s time in a number of ways, but we have to stop acting like it is beyond reproach.