#Diana wtf I’m MELTING

[plantdad-dante]

Book #91 - Queen Of Air And Darkness by Cassandra Clare

(I truly intended to leave it alone for a while. I did. But then my mum did Spring Cleaning and found a Complete Collection of Sherlock Holmes, and just like. handed it to me. And like, now it's sitting on my shelf and... yeah. well. I needed to know what happened to Ty. Okay? So. Here we are.) Gonna list the positive shit first so people can stop reading halfway through. I still love Ty (and Kit). His subplot was the one that actually got to me sometimes (especially the lake. wtf, how dare u). I'm seething at that ending, and that I will have to wait three ages to read from them again, but it still stands out as the best. (also, something that occured to me during that beach party... Herondales can see ghosts, yeah? Does that mean Jace could see Livvy? Technically? Is that something Livvy's ghost (and Ty) need to account for from now on? That there is this one random person who could blow their secret wide open?) Mark, Christina and Kieran are cute. That's it. Like 'em. They're sweet and adorable. It makes me happy that Diana is happy. And yeeeeeah, the Malec wedding made me feel fuzzy inside. Fine. I'm not immune. ... That's it, rest is exhaustion. If I had to describe The Dark Artifices in one word, I would probably go with bloated. Reading it feels like reading something incredibly drawn out, but it isn't really. It's just hellishly long, because there is just too. much. stuff. in it. Cut a character or two. Cut a needlessly descriptive paragraph in half. Or just cut all of it. Cut the fucking 120 pages trip to an alternate universe that only focusses on the two characters that annoy me most and that doesn't even utilize their full angst potential. (which also reminds me - am I the only one severly disappointed by the lack of wrap-up for the curse?? you can't just promise me interesting lore and then land on "and then everything worked out fine The End", ffs) There are 100 pages of fluff wrap-up. My brain has melted. On the other hand... It was quite funny how the book still expected me to pay attention to all the other plots going on while there were Shadowhunter Nazis actively taking over their fucking gouvernment. Like. Priorities? Never heard of her. Maybe the curse could still have held some of my attention, if I didn't find E and J so annoying, but alas... I wasn't even invested in their plot and I was still let down. In summary: I have learned I deserve better. I deserve to not touch another Shadowhunters book for a really really long time.

[80smikewheeler]

If I were dating you, I'd regularly take you on cute dates like going to the drive in movies or just laying out underneath the stars. I'd buy you stuffed animals for special occasions and try to give you as much hugs as I could (cause hugs are my drugs, lmao). 😉

Oh wow Diana…You’re making me go weak in the knees!!! I’m practically melting at this to be totally honest!

It’s like you’re a fucking mind reader or something, (or you just telepathically know me so well already…😏) ! I’ve ALWAYS wanted to go to the drive in movies, but it’s not really a ‘thing’ over here, so I’ve never been able to go!

I’m in actual love with looking at the stars and the sky at night! [I kid you not, I actually stand outside of my house, even when it’s freezing, at night sometimes and just stare up at the sky for so long and admire the stars and imagine up lil things in my head], so I think lying under the stars with you would actually make my heart explode! My lil heart wouldn’t be able to take the adorableness of it all!! 💖

You’d honestly be the best damn date out there! Bitch, we need to meet on an astral plane and snuggle up under the stars together already! Meet me tomorrow night babe? 😏💕✨

I love you Diana omfg! 😘

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Doctor Who, but Chronologically 22

Turns out, that last one was a two-parter, because now it’s 1893 for the Crimson Horror and we are in Victorian Yorkshire with Matt Smith and Clara and the lizard woman and Catrin Stewart and Strax. We still don’t know wtf is up with Clara, and the Victorian trio spend a lot of time asking, but the Doctor just hand-waves it as ‘complicated’. Honestly, this whole show is complicated, look how many hanging plot threads there still are.

So, this time, Diana Rigg is a Bible-bashing lunatic who wants to bring about an apocalypse using the bodily fluids of a gross red leech thing from the triassic. She is using a diluted version to ‘preserve’ a bunch of people to repopulate the Earth. Her daughter Ada is blind and is played by Rachael Stirling, her from Tipping the Velvet which is also about period lesbians, but also Rachael Stirling is literally Diana Rigg’s daughter in real life, so that must have been a really fun job for both of them. 

Anyway, for a very simple story, the writer and director chose a very good and interesting way to tell it by jumping around in the timeline a bit - the Scottish lizard and her wife and the Welsh potato are the stars of the episode initially, trying to find and save the Doctor. Jenny (Catrin Stewart pretending to be English) gets to beat up a bunch of men in a catsuit at one point, for which I am always a slut. Then the Doctor and Clara take over for the second half. In the end they save the day by Strax shooting Diana Rigg over a bannister, and then Ada beats the leech to death with her stick. Overall a really fantastic campy episode, loved it.

Shout out to one of the more charismatic supporting casts we’ve seen, too - there’s a guy who is trying to investigate and gets the Victorian Trio involved, and his role in this story is play his part with quiet dignity and solemnity and then to undermine it by fainting when confronted with aliens. So he does this on seeing Vastra, Strax, and the dematerialising TARDIS. In actuality I think Victorian freakshows would have inured the man to this sort of thing but fuck it, I laughed like a goose, the actor nailed it. ALSO, THAT MORTICIAN. My god. Did he need to play the role Like That? No. Was it reflected in the script? Also no. But my god, WHAT a character. What a performance! Adored him. I almost want more Victorian Yorkshire episodes just for him.

A side note - having watched so many period episodes in a row now, it’s becoming very obvious that they’re reusing the same few sets and then just claiming they’re different places. Honestly, it’s almost like the show was never remotely intended to be viewed this way.

Anyway, not too much plot here, though at the end of the episode we learn that this version of Clara is a nanny and her charges have inexplicably worked out that she’s a time traveller and have assembled photos. Also one photo is Clara from the last episode, so she’s now confused as to when she was in Victorian London. But... that’s about it. No further questions, no further answers.

Let’s check the list!

“She” (an unknown person) is returning (perhaps River returned as Missy. Maybe Me? Maybe Clara???!)

There is something on Donna’s back

An entire planet, Pyrovilia, just… disappeared, somehow. (Maybe because the TARDIS is exploding??? Saturnine was also lost, and that WAS because of the TARDIS exploding. The lion man’s planet was also lost but he was a bit of a knob about it if I’m honest.)

Amy is maybe dead (she’s not)

The Doctor has been cubed (he’s out, but how?)

River is possibly blown up  (unless she’s Missy)

The TARDIS has blown up  (It’s fine now. Except it’s sort of melting now because it’s corrupted, but it’s fine again)

The universe appears to have ended  (the universe is back again)

The Doctor has employed(?) Nardole (And Nardole was “reassembled???”)

There’s a vault in the TARDIS and it contains Missy but we don’t know why (sometimes she knocks for the bants)

What has happened to all these companions and where are the new ones coming from?

There’s an immortal Viking girl now. Her name is Me and she’s now looking after the people the Doctor abandons

Who/what is the Half-Faced Man that the Doctor talked about?

Why, when the Doctor saw the ship’s computer set to the Promised Land, did he say “Oh not again”?

What’s With The Silence?

Why was Rory entirely unconcerned by the entire world suddenly going silent when that is Not Normal and should have been, at the very least, extremely disconcerting?

What did the Doctor do to Queen Lizzie One?

Who is Captain Jack Harkness? (Is he the one who gave the companions a warning about the lone cyberman?)

Why is Amy seeing a one-eyed woman in a vanishing window?

What’s with the Doctor’s future involving getting shot by an astronaut?

Is Amy pregnant and why is it inconclusive?

Who is Sarah-Jane Smith?

How is the Doctor Bill’s teacher and why/where does he have an office?

What is going on with the Cyber War and the Cyberium???

Who did the Doctor lose to Cyber Conversion?

What happened with the Other Cyber War?

What happened with the Third War that deleted the void?

Why does Rose seem particularly important?

What’s with the statues you mustn’t blink at?

What order do these Doctors go in? (Eccleston, Tennant, uncertain.)

Which companion just... forgot the Doctor, and how?

What is the Flux and what did it do?

Who is the mysterious Victorian man who met Yaz?

Yaz and Vinder are about to die as Mori/Mwri/Muuri

There is a Lupari shield around Earth.

What’s a Time War?

What’s the Rift?

What’s Bad Wolf?

What happened with Amy’s pregnancy?

In which war did the Doctor become a war criminal, and how?

Who is the Master?

Why has Amy forgotten Rory?

Is Rory plastic or not?

Why is the Doctor sulking on a cloud?

How exactly does the Doctor have a cloud?

What exactly happened with Strax to, uh, tame him?

Which friend killed Strax?

Which friend brought Strax back?

Where did this lesbian lizard and human couple come from?

What happened with Clara as Souffle Girl and the Daleks?

How does Clara actually join?

Why so many Claras?

[austerlitzborodinoleipzig]

Ranking the GPF programs - Junior Pairs

Thought it was a bit too late to be doing that... And now Worlds are cancelled, and my country has entered full confinement mode, so let’s do this. 

SP

6 - Yulia Artemieva/Mikhail Nazarychev - Senza Parole, by Il Divo

One thing I hate is that trend to take iconic pieces of classical music and slap lyrics in italian instead of the melody. Here’s it’s Moonlight Sonata. To me it feels like a cheap way to do deep emotionsTM. So yeah. I hate the music here. The choreo is... unremarkable. 

Costumes : 5/10 boring grey. 

5 - Ksenia Akhantieva/Valerii Kolesov - Interstellar OST

Their last season’s SP. The music is nice, there are some nice touches here and there and a build-up to the step sequence... And since they are quite musical, the step sequence is always quite nice... Decent.

Costumes : 6/10. I like Ksenia’s new dress, with the silver top. Dislike Valerii’s silver suspenders. 

4 - Diana Mukhametzianova/Ilya Mironov - Czardas, by Mario Monti

I kinda miss their crazy FS to the Crack of Doom. Music was.. WTF to put it gently, and a bit overbearing, but that was original. 

But I like Czardas. Has been done a lot, but the music is great, and the choreo here is very nice. Mostly my problems here lie with the execution. M/M are still rough around the edges, and their skating skills are not the best, tho they have improved over the course of the season. They struggle with the steps, and tend to be a little wooden sometimes. 

Costume: 10/10. First of all, they get bonus point because pants for the lady. Then, I just love the details, Ilya’s vest and red belt. The embroideries on both their shirt. The golden seams on Ilya’s pants. Diana’s red and green ribbons in her dress. Everything has been thought through. 

3 - Annicka Hocke/Robert Kunkel - Wasting My Young Years

Here I don’t really like the music, but I like the choreo, and especially the lift. Nice execution, and Annicka always sells the mood of the program well.  

Costumes : 6/10 I like Annicka’s purple and pink dress, over the white shorts. Robert is just a block of black...

2 - Apollinaria Panfilova/Dmitry Rylov - The Matrix OST

I appreciate P/R going out of their comfort zone and testing different styles of skating. This is commendable, and I think they pulled off this challenge quite well. It took some time. At the beginning of the season they tried too hard to be intense, and ended up as rushed and frantic. Their performance at Junior Worlds in that aspect was much much better. I have a problem with the step sequence tho. Again, it looks to busy and frantic. And it’s mostly because the steps are not choreographed on the music. 

Costume : 9/10. Polya looks great in that pantsuit, but it doesn’t sit so well on Dima. 

1 - Alina Pepeleva/Roman Pleshkov - L.O.V.E., by Michael Bublé. 

A small gem. It’s not groundbreaking or anything, but it’s fun and cute. Great choreo with nice transitions here and there (that entry into the death spiral is still one my favorite of the season)

Costumes : 7/10 a bit basic but well done, and I love Alina’s red dress. 

FS

Mostly a great selection. I can’t say I hate, or even dislike any of them.

6 - Diana Mukhametzianova/Ilya Mironov - Chess

Okay. Don’t enjoy the music, and the choreo is unremarkable, but you know, it’s all right. 

Costumes : 6/10 a bit old-fashioned? idk, the chess pattern is cute, but I don’t like the cut. 

5 - Ksenia Akhantieva/Valerii Kolesov - Shine On You Crazy Diamond, by Pink Floyd

Again, one of those programs designed by your coaches to make you grow as an artist. Some nice touches here and there. Ksenia and Valerii definitely lack the polish and fluidity of movements to sell it, but it’s a step in the right direction. 

Costumes : 5/10 actually the only thing I remember about the costumes, is that there’s pants for the lady (good)... and that’s it? 

4 - Alina Pepeleva/Roman Pleshkov - Roméo et Juliette, de la haine à l’amour

One thing I like more than trashy french musicals is Russian skaters’ love for said musicals. Les Rois du Monde is an absolute BOP, and having that music be the climax and triumphant finish of P/P’s FS is everything I never knew I needed. Lots of things I like here: the death spiral, the choreo sequence, the lifts, the combined spin... Yes, it’s nice. 

Costumes : 8/10 Honestly I don’t really like that type of costumes, and I did not like them on Volosozhar/Trankov either. Also the story behind the costumes : obviously that’s an hommage to V/T but, that’s mostly an hommage to the costume designer who passed away last summer. So to honor her memory, and because they had a Romeo and Juliet FS, the coaching team decided Alina and Roman should wear those costumes. Alina’s dress is Tanya’s. Roman’s costume is basically a new costume all-together because he’s taller than Maxim so alterations were made for the costume to fit. 

3 - Annicka Hocke/Robert Kunkel - Do You Love Me/Cry To Me

Unpretentious fun jukebox program, that allows Annicka to shine, and show her bubbly personality. What else could you ask for?

Costumes : 9/10 Simple, but I love that summer party vibe. 

2 - Yulia Artemieva/Mikhail Nazarychev - Queen medley

One of my favorite programs of the season actually. I actually like the music cuts here, and I like the energy of that FS, and how into it Yulia and Mikhail get. Also the ending pose is cool. 

Costumes : 6/10 I like the idea. Yulia’s costume is cool... Mikhail’s one is weirdly cut, with a big piece of illusion fabric on the belly... Why??

1 - Apollinariia Panfilova/Dmitry Rylov - No One Ever Called Me That

That program is just a never-ending flow of gorgeous elements. It’s one of those programs that I can’t remember anything about after I finish watching it... Sounds like a failure, and it should be... Except here it works. It works because Panfilova/Rylov’s skating is so beautiful I could just watch it all day. So I don’t care if I keep forgetting what that FS looks like, because every time I watch it I experience it anew. 

Costumes : 9/10. I’m not fan of white on ice, because I think it tends to melt with the surroundings, but I love the shape of Polya’s dress, I love the neckline and the details. 

[huntypastellance]

wonder woman???? wtf does ww have to do with klonse?? not gonna read that post bc it looks like garbage. lord pastel lance, would you dare to grace us with a brief summary of that segment?

i know both lauren and joaquim (i think some other people working on VLD have too but i’m not sure) have worked on DC stuff (lauren also really loves wonder woman), and i’m pretty sure they probably gave allura a lasso because of diana. allura and diana’s headpieces are also incredibly similar + this. so, the fact that we got a scene between keith and lance that’s eerily similar to a scene between diana and steve (who are openly stated love interests, if u didn’t know)

>Allura does not have a lasso, she has a whip

>Allura’s headpiece does not look like animated WonderWoman’s headpiece (Lauren only worked on the animated WW movie)

>Allura’s headpiece only vaguely resembles DCEU WonderWoman’s headpiece (which Lauren didn’t work on & also DCEU WonderWoman came out way after VLD had finished finalizing its concept designs!)

Like We said, this part gave Us permanent brain damage. It melted Our eyes out of Our sockets.

The person who wrote the meta also started the war on twitter between the Bubblelines, the Korrasamis & the Klantis.

They’re also kind of an ass, which you can see from these segments here:

i mean, yeah, they say all ships are valid (lol they’re not but whatever) but when they say that, they’re talking about fanon. they’ve shut down sheith in canon so many times now by enforcing their brotherly/familial relationship in the show. they’ve killed nasty shidge, too.

here’s something an anon sent to me after someone else said they were afraid of sheith being canon (LMFAO, here’s my response to that) rather than klance and i 100% agree with them: 

“the sole fact that both cast and crew have joked about it [sheith] PUBLICLY (im pretty sure bex even said it was an inside joke) PROVES it would never be canon, bex even said "sheith confirmed!!” or sth on her tumblr… and i have no clue how ppl would use this as proof when its the complete opposite. their ndas wouldn’t allow them to speak so freely abt a confirmed relationship. meanwhile klance (even tho its the most popular ship) is barely ever joked about or even mentioned directly… HMM…“

second, i would bet all my money that so many old cishet fans of voltron—more specifically, middle aged men who were fans of the old voltron—haven’t even picked up on the development of klance like we have.

[nebula83]

SAILOR MOON ETERNAL PART TWO LET’S GOOOOO

SPOILERS AHEADDDDDD

Michiru’s fanboy is a bit scary O.o

Headcanon: Michiru and Haruka collect ALL gossip magazines that feature them to read the articles ad have a good laugh

I’m having FEELS about the Outers family they’re all adorable

poor Michiru

HOTARU-CHAN IS SO CUTE

CUTIES

A Look (TM). Perfect. Iconic. Flawless.

I LOVE THIS SCENE SO MUCH

DRAMATIC ENTRANCE (WTF Hotaru you’re still in your underwear)

SATURN GETTING A TRANSFORMATION SEQUENCE

SATURN GETTING A TRANSFORMATION SEQUENCE

SATURN GETTING A TRANSFORMATION SEQUENCE

PETALS!!! NOW IT’S A PROPER OUTER SENSHI INTRO

BADASS

AWWWWWWWWWW

Look at my girl Usagi. So determined 

Zirconia’s voice is SO fitting

Saturn being an absolute badass I HAVE GOOSEBUMPS

CUTIES

Also, little Mamoru saying that his dream is living with Usagi and going to school with her while knowing that Mamoru was orphaned at age 6 is a real kick right in the feels

HER

WHAT BRAND IS YOUR LIPSTICK NEHELENIA IT LOOKS GORGEOUS

Headcanon n.2: Mercury is particularly sensitive to the heat and tolerates cold better, having mainly ice powers

MINAKO I’m 100% she’s having flashbacks of the first arc when Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen are struck by Beryl

Ok, in this melting has been replaced by turning into stone, still unsettling, less disgusting

PLOT TWIST: Diana saves the day, the Dead Moon Circus is defeated by an ENRAGED TINY KITTEN

I’m glad they kept some secondary character like the Menads even if they’re not absolutely important to the story

TINY SENSHI

TEENY TINY PRINCESS SERENITY (I think she was probably BORN with the odangoes)

I have always loved this image

HUMAN CATS!

Surely that’s a lot of princesses

AAAAAAAAAAAA

CONGRATULATIONS MAMORU YOU’RE A SAILOR SENSHI NOW PREPARE TO WEAR A SAILOR FUKU

Congratulations Chibi-Usa for upgrading from kissing horses to humans, I guess

DIANA HOW DARE YOU BE SO CUTE EVEN IN HUMAN FORM

WHO GAVE YOU THE RIGHT

I kinda miss Lilac Endymion

PRINCESSES EVERYWHERE

SAILOR QUARTET!!!!!

OK HELIOS NOW YOU’RE SHOWING OFF

Where did the Outers find other clothes than the ones they were wearing before joining the battle?Is this scene taking place hours/days later?I’m confused

yeah probably it is (anyway look at these CUTIES)

MY GIRL USAGI

I LOVED EVERYTIHNG BYE I’M CRYING

AAAAAAA THE END TITLES LA LA LA NEVER GIVE UP 

[elektra359]

A description of Justice League the film by someone whose only previous exposure to DC is wonder woman, which I saw 3 times

- who the fuck was fuckin, water Thor? Literally Thor, just with water???? Big symbolic warrior tool, godly age, ability to drink a lot, control of one element, and that fucking hair included.

- if water Thor cared so much about Atlanta or wherever the fuck he was from, why didn't he give a fuck about climate change??? It's going to kill everyone he knows???

- what was the deal with that Jewish twink whose only legitimate skill was being able to go real fast. Why was he one of the only two likeable characters in the entire fucking movie. Also where can I marry him.

- why is the twink's superhero name The Flash? The flash is the bully from Spider-Man wtf

- why did fuckin farmboy mcwholesomedick have a costume that so dramatically accentuated his superschlong?

- on that note, why did he look like a fuckin serial killer or a child predator or something???? Was I supposed to like him?????

- and, to add on even more in my anti- superman rage, why did he melt into the arms of Amy Adams and fly her to some classic 1920s wheat farm. What's even the deal with him and Amy Adams. Are they married? Were they on a break??? Wtf???????

- I didn't see the last movie but did Batman dead ass kill superman????? What the actual fuck???

- that was a really dick move when Batman pulled out the old emotional sucker punch on Diana by bringing up Chris or John or whatever the hell his forgettable ass name ass

- also does his mask have built in angry eyebrow lines or does he just have really strong facial muscles that make it do that

- the sexual tension between Bruce and Diana was horrible they probably fixna be awful for each other. So nasty and forced.

- why did they go to so much effort to make aquaman cool or whatever when they immediately afterwards gave him a humiliating humbling scene?

- why did the flash have a constant pissing contest with superman when superman could easily beat him in every way. What's rage, pussy

- it legit kept giving everyone such a complex and difficult backstory and then not explaining or including it in the story

- Diana is a blessing, so is Barry

- fucking Infiniti stones lite wtf those fuckin cubes

- who thought that resurrecting superman was a like weird or freaky, clearly not Batman

- god I'm gay for the flash

[bibliomorgan]

the huge absurd supergirl/wonder woman headcanon i have

The whole episode featuring Diana giving an interview for Kara Danvers and Cat Grant supervising. - Diana only agrees with the interview if it’s Kara Danvers who do the questions.

 - Lena Luthor fangirling Diana FTW since she’s a tiny wibbly wobbly little Irish girl.  - Lots of flashbacks of Diana pure awesomeness.   - Lots of cool jokes about League of the Justice.

 - Lena is so extra and cute (also WW fangirl) she dedicates an whole day of charity at the Luthor Children’s Hospital with WW theme. Diana shows up because Kara told her about.

 - Diana is so awesome and humble she suggest Supergirl theme for the charity too.

 - Autographs: Lena Luthor shows Diana her 4 years old picture she took with her real mother, dressed in WW costume, for Diana to sign.

 - Diana signs the pic, answers in gaelic for Lena. Lena melts, Jealous!Kara just “WTF u do wif my bae?!” - Jealous!Kara saying: “Oh go ahead, gush over Wonder Woman… Why do you never praise Supergirl like that?” Lena smirking: “Bae, I’m wearing SG underwear, wanna see?” *insert the eyebrow thing™*

 - Alex, crying all over the phone because she can’t be in National City right now, Kara puts her back on voice speaker, Diana thanks Alex for being an wonderful sister to Kara. More fangirling coming.

 - Plus 1: Lillian Luthor waits on the line for an autograph (blink-and-miss scene).

 - Plus 2: Lena seeing her adoptive mother at the line and decide to not warn the police or Supergirl. They share a faint smile and bling, fades to black. The whole episode is about praising Diana and fangirling, that’s all folks.