#Break-the-status-Quo

[boozemusingsandboom]

Sober Curious? Here's an Invitation and a Recipe for You

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Sober-curious has recently become a phrase that sparks debate. When I was drinking, and for the first couple of years that I was alcohol-free, I loved a good debate. I thrived on arguing the pros and cons of a situation. I was determined to fight for right and I got a powerful rush out of defending the truth … The truth … The only truth in the sober-curious debate that matters to me now is that…

[6-2-aestheticsofhate]

The Gabriel tarot necklace being him with both swords out and, from what I've gathered, the two of swords card means being at a crossroads and having to make difficult decisions or even being at an impasse.

I also want to point out the text on the store page is from the cutscene where the council tore out his light and gave him a difficult choice of either killing the machine or dying. You could also argue this is meant to reference Gabriel's confusion and how difficult it was to finally realize God is not absolute and neither is he and no one is better than the other.

Disclaimer: I have very little experience with tarot readings or meanings and I got most of this from a few Google searches. Sorry if this is inaccurate!!

[foolsocracy]

never write a directionless fic. cause why is pete having a breakdown over the shop that gave him cheap ass egg foo young closing . How’d we get here

[mutalieju]

When Garth Ennis writes the Punisher he genuinely engages with the idea of what kind of a person you'd need to be to be the Punisher. To be a marvel comic books vigilante like that. And the answer Ennis arrives to is that you can't be a person in any real sense, to be able to go in and kill people and do it forever, because what is the Punisher gonna do if not that? Stop? Change? Die? Of course not, there will always be a new Punisher comic.

When Ennis has approached the question of how it'd possibly ever end (like in the fittingly named Punisher: The End) the answer is that Frank Castle would keep on killing until there's nothing left to kill and then he'd die. Because the unending status quo by its very nature requires an inhuman killing machine. Even when Ennis writes about the start of things (in Born) there's no real change beyond Frank just admitting what he has always been.

This is btw why I also don't' agree that Billy Butcher from The Boys is similar to Ennis take on the Punisher, because the narrative Butcher exists in has consequences. There is a scene in The Boys where Mallory describes Butcher as someone seeking an unending war (as the Punisher does) but Mallory never understood Billy as a person. Perhaps Mallory, who is in some ways less of a realist, can believe, or want to believe in a person like the Punisher being possible.

No, Butcher was capable of change at least once and changed first when Becky gave him the belief things could be changed for the better, and later on after Becky's death where he took every lesson he had learned to become the worst possible version of himself. There were several times when things could have ended quite different on an individual level...

[mike-wachowski]

im genuinely so scared for these last few epsiodes. everyone splitting up, the show has been laying the groundwork for these factions and now were seeing the beginning of that starting to form. ive always said that the way the adult yellowjackets act has always indicated that whatever they "did" in the wilderness was worse than the cannibalism, even when it stopped being about survival, and to me i always imagined the only thing worse than cannibalism would be the needless killing of each other, not for survival or even for ritual but just for violence, for war.

before season 3 started i made a list of s3 predictions and one of those was a "yellowjackets civil war arc" and as much as i saw that coming im not ready for it, im not ready for them to all turn on each other and become what we see in the pilot because i think once the yellowjackets turn to that violence that is when we see them lose their humanity for good, and we'll finally see what that terrible guilt they've been carrying for so long really looks like.

Tai said it this season, "teen angst bullshit" is going to get them all killed, because they dont have "teen angst bullshit" anymore, they've created their own society with rules and politics and rituals and governance and what used to be teen angst bullshit is now savagely othering, unstable, and explosive, and were about to watch it all go up in flames

[notbecauseofvictories]

as a sidenote, it's very sad that I can't find a gifset showing just how incredibly handsome bashir salahuddin is in South Side, because he is.

[min0uet]

#1 thing i'm most afraid abt in the revival is the candace characterization actually bc we are in a paradox here

fact: candace's endless torment was part of the backbone of the show, one of the constants that kept the plot structure going. phineas and ferb must always do something new. candace and doofenshmirtz must always lose. any exceptions to these rules can't be permanent. status quo must be upheld.

fact: candace against the universe's character development seemed to finally be breaking this cycle. candace isn't alone anymore, she's letting go of her obsession to see the support that was always there for her and thus she's escaped her sisyphean cycle. to go back to the old status quo after this would be massively unsatisfying.

fact: the reboot is supposed to take place AFTER candace against the universe.

so what do we do now

[demodraws0606]

Me : Okay so clearly this arc is focusing on training each of the character, before we head up to the 3rd most important location where the plot might start to pick up. Tsukasa's event might be an arc ender in this case a-

Colorful Palette : TSUKASA BECOMES A DETECTIVE !!!!!!

Me :

[anger-and-red-flames]

Me: throw this war criminal fascist character to the gulag where they gotta produce items like school books to improve the material conditions of the people she oppressed

Arcane fans: actually you need to be thrown into the gulag!!!!

Other Arcane fans: I hope a billionaire steals your work to train the dream-crushing-machine!!!!

Me: yeah you surely sound like the kind of person to think there is nothing wrong with arcanes caitvi

[biceratops7]

Succumbing to the insanity again…

Still absolutely insane by this devastating line delivery, it’s just the perfect mix of defeated and apologetic. He wants to accept Crowley’s offer so badly, he always did, but even still the panopticon of Heaven and Hell looms near. They’re both aware of this wish to be closer, and Aziraphale’s just too tired to hide it. Because even after achieving the impossible and saving the world from a 6,000 year plan to destroy it, he still doesn’t feel safe enough to simply stay a night at Crowley’s house.

In fact the whole scene reflects this. There’s no score save for the few tentative notes when Crowley invites Aziraphale over, and it bears a somber, almost melancholy demeanor. Not at all what you’d expect from two people who just stopped Armageddon against all odds.

I think that’s really why this ending feels familiar but not redundant, it’s telling in the best way. This is the second time, (the first being the band stand scene), where the show makes it explicitly clear that they love the Earth because they’ve come to love each other.

[ineffable-romantics]

Guys, it just occurred to me that they were on the wrong sides of each other for the kiss.

Crowley was on the left, and he's almost ALWAYS on the right. Aziraphale is on the right, and he is almost ALWAYS on the left.

All I'm saying is, if the s3 kiss happens with them switched back, I'm never shutting up about it.

[notyourtoday]

By @arianajasmine on Instagram.

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[cabeswatersedge]

Thinking more about something Lisa said in the documentary, about Wille realizing he can’t both be a Prince and be with Simon:

So August never really became like a complete good guy. We got some more of his backstory to explain him, and I think he definitely grew as a person. But in episode 5 we see Vincent do that microagression against the other student (when they’re talking about the seniors superlatives) and August doesn’t stop it or call it out. August hasn’t become like a great guy, just a better guy than he used to be. He fixed some problems with Hillerska by changing the hazing ritual, but he isn’t suddenly fighting for social equality or whatever. Like he didn’t get rid of the hazing just adapted it. And that’s how it’s supposed to be. August doesn’t need to be a great person to be a great Prince. Because the Royal family’s job isn’t to be leaders or rally for change, their job is to uphold tradition.

Wille’s journey was never about learning to become a better Crown Prince and revolutionize the monarchy or upend the system. His journey was to realize that he could only grow and become who he wants to be by leaving the system entirely.

[shinysteph]

Is this a safe space to say I liked the bnha epilogue and didn't see anything wrong with it? 🧍🏻‍♂️it was just a fun little bonus chapter I honestly don't know why people are upset about it

Anyway I love Shouto and I hope he enjoys his bowl and chopstick making classes

[heartbreakercupcake]

its funny how I draw fanart for these pieces of media and these are my over all thoughts on them generally looking at it on its own

[emblemxeno]

I genuinely love Rex as a character. He's just genuinely a good person. He meets Pyra once and decides that he personally will take her back to her home, not just to help her but in hopes of helping Alrest by proving it's real. I would die for him your honor.

HE'S SO GOOOOOOD

And like... it's not a coincidence that he's a young protag either, cuz young people (including kids and teens) are so often rebuked and pushed aside when it comes to important discussions or voicing problems with the world. "Just wait til you grow up, it gets worse!" is what so many adults tell kids. It's sad.

But he doesn't lose his love for people or the world and genuinely wants to do things to help everyone, even if it's considered a pipe dream. And it ends up that the "pipe dream" is actually pretty fucking simple because it comes down to "if we're all good to each other, we wouldn't have to search for Elysium because it's right here where we make it." UGHHHHH IT'S SUCH A GOOD STORY AND REX IS SO GREAT