#From A Practical Standpoint

[mumblesplash]

don’t let the superhero costumes fool you they’re just here to shoot people 

[cowboylikesel]

actually now that i think about it hen becoming captain of the 118 would make a lot more sense than reinstating the asshole that had to leave because of several HR violations of the same team. it would also be such a satisfying way to introduce new viewers to several of her storylines and to tie together a number of things this season:

- her learning to believe in the trust the team has in her and their willingness to follow her lead (-> the death of ortiz’s son and the cruise ship)

- giving her more power and leverage in her fight to get mara back (-> the department would not make her captain if the things that councilwoman brought up to the judge were of any real concern)

- really doubling down again on the firehouse being the place where she belongs and that her decision not to become a doctor was the right one because this is where she can protect her family the best and where her leadership personality gets to shine (-> karen and denny almost dying in that explosion showing her where she wants and needs to be)

- a big fuck you to gerrard who tried to get rid of her at the beginning of her career only to be passed over by the department for the captain’s position in favour of her

- bobby calling her mother hen and insinuating that she’s raising the new generation of LA firefighters in the same episode where he tries to say goodbye to this being his role in feels very intentional

- not to forget that she was actually acting captain during the rescue mission at the start of the season where she literally saved bobby by filling his shoes (!!!) and got a medal for it

- with her spot on the team opening up it would also open up the possibility for buck to reevaluate his own position and what he wants his future of his career to look like (-> now that his romantic relationships aren’t the main source of conflict anymore maybe we’ll get to see more of his character development in his professional life)

in conclusion: everything burning to the ground could be the perfect opportunity for growth and bigger and better things to come

[ladystoneboobs]

A memory prodded at Theon. In one of his rare curt letters, Lord Balon had written of his youngest brother going down in a storm, and turning holy when he washed up safe on shore. -Theon I, aCoK

this little glimpse of balon/theon's strained long-distance relationship kinda fascinates me now. can't believe i'm going to defend balon as a father to theon in any way, however small, but i feel like hindsight has kinda blinded fandom into thinking balon gave up theon for dead and gone the moment he gave him away as hostage. this also carries the underlying assumption that balon was always going to rebel again making theon's life already forfeit to him.

thing is, while balon undoubtedly called his banners before theon came home, that also coincided with robert and ned both being recently dead, making that 2nd war seem really opportunistic. as if the only thing balon learned from his first rebellion was that king robert was strong enough to defeat him, the only man capable of defeating the great balon. so when that enemy dies, balon's crown is all but won in his mind, and with the death of ned too he could use his next war to take revenge on the (dead) man who took his son from him. maybe with robert's lifestyle he could have hoped to outlive him despite being older than robert, but robert and ned together? that must have seemed like a miraculous chance straight from the drowned god himself, a chance to rise up and take revenge that it was his duty to take for his people, even if it meant risking the life of his youngest child who'd been gone for 10 years anyway.

but before all that, even if robert being still alive was the real deterrant keeping him from warring again, he was, in effect, not only keeping theon safe by paying the hostage-ransom of keeping the peace, he was also keeping up a bare minimum connection with theon through rare and curt correspondence updating him on family events like aeron getting born again (and i'm assuming that's also how theon knew what asha's ship was named). idt we should so easily ignore that this is a society which views kinslaying as a grave offense regardless of circumstances or personal feelings, and one which greatly values male heirs over female heirs. i doubt balon was so much a feminist girldad that he just switched 12yo asha into the son slot right away as soon as all her brothers were lost. imo it was more likely a gradual process done not so consciously as asha proved herself worthy growing up and theon's time in the north stretched on and on. all until such point as asha had achieved son status and only son status at that, (maybe also coinciding with alannys leaving him so he had even less reason to keep up with her baby boy?), and then theon could be written off as belonging to the enemy, no longer ironborn or a son of balon, so sanctity of greyjoy life no longer applied to him. (real ironborn greyjoy son already killed by darth greenlander theon, from a certain point of view.) only then could balon be a not-father to theon, not welcoming him back home or even giving him a chance to prove his loyalty by providing intelligence on the northerners and the lands they were about to invade. (which could have made balon's war plans a touch less stupid. see, it all comes back to criticizing him in the end.)

in fact, come to think of it, i wonder if one thing ned and balon had in common is just not thinking of the danger of theon being executed as a hostage, not taking ownership of that possibility bc it hadn't happened yet. and hey, if it ever did come to that they could each tell themselves it would be the other guy's fault really, i was just doing my duty to my king/as a king to all my proud people. and that meant their actions didn't have to be obviously at odds with ned's view of himself as a good man opposed to killing children or balon's view of himself as great greyjoy patriarch and victim of the greenlanders (who could ofc prevail against them all if given the right chance).

[witchern]

look. idk how the LAFD works. and i'm not an HR professional. but like. when a captain gets so many complaints filed against him that he's eventually fired, why would you.......rehire the same man......to the same house.......to preside over mostly the same subordinates........

[grubloved]

magic, again, as a word not for a metaphysical supernatural energy field or something but instead as a word for the human behavior of making meaning. religious action is magic, ritual is magic, anthropomorphization is magic, placebo is magic. magic as the word for the phenomenon of connections being created where there materially are none, of placing proximate actions in an ultimate context, of the ways in which that actively affects human life and behavior and subjective experience

[jenny-dreadful]

sometimes u see a post that’s on something like “if you think locker rooms should be sex-segregated at all, you’re a t*rf” and you just gotta go “whoa buddy ykw. i’m not sure that’s it” and keep scrolling

[ghostypetrainer]

Dont know how old Ingo is when he evolves but I can't help imagining Emmet and Ingo's reunion after Emmet leaves his parents just being like:

Emmet: Ingo! I missed you! I can't belie- wait, what the fuck *grabs Ingos face, stares very hard*

Ingo: !! Emmet?

Emmet: Ingo... did you... fucking file your teeth??

Ingo: uhhhhhhhhhh

Yeah, he would leave before he evolves in this version! So... yep! The razor sharp teeth would be a huge surprise for Emmet! He definitely didn't have those before! Ingo wasn't included in any family photos or anything, but he would think he'd remember his brother having chompers like that!

But also:

Emmet, noticing Ingo's black nails: Oh, did you start painting your nails?

Ingo, sweating: yes. I'm goth now.

[klapollo]

what do u even do in a termination meeting ive never been fired before

[avephelis]

sigghh. new psg you could have been so awesome to me if you just fucking did right by garterbelt.

[witchblade]

in terms of like. personal love in my heart. It's jak series -> -> -> sly series -> spyro the thing -> that awful beast crash bandicoot -> ratchet and flank. Flank. Flank. Flank. Clank.

[ousamakun]

ms sena...........

[fancysasquatch]

I've started listening to an Anthony Bourdain audiobook at work and it's making me yearn for the kitchen

[musical-chick-13]

Ugh, I'm two seconds away from writing a DW Character Analysis™ post re: River in the Christmas special, and I need somebody to stop me.

[marklikely]

i mean from an objective standpoint lawrence lost his game he didn't do the thing the tape told him to do but he still gets to live bc he problem solved and escaped the room alive so i see no reason why adam couldn't have done the same if he had just also cut his foot off

[fagsex]

me trying not to KMS because its thunderstorming

[soft-jihyo]

personally really hate the "devs should just make all characters bi so nobody feels excluded" take.