#Head Top EP

[piowasthere]

i swear i hate Reed, Davis, Kat- every single one of them- what is this acting bro???

bro's acting sounds more convincing than me having a genuine break-down fr- like how do u even do that???????????????

they do this every. single. time. i swear- who allowed them to do that to me- who i ask- /pos

[EP: Moon's BREAKING POINT in VRChat (SAMS)]

[arcanescreencaps]

can you do some firelights screencaps?? just some of the characters (bird girl, scar, ekko) and the base aside from the tree if that makes sense

[sourscratched]

play it by ear s2 scribbling

[seagreenstardust]

When Katsuki Bakugo needed saving, Izuku came up with a plan where Todoroki, Iida, and Kirishima went rocketing across the sky to reach him.

When Izuku Midoriya needed saving, it was Katsuki, Todoroki, and Iida who went rocketing across the sky to reach him.

Both times, our Twin Stars decided to set their own needs aside and allow the other’s trusted friend to take the lead in bringing them home. Izuku knew Kirishima was the right choice to get Katsuki away from the league quickly and safely, and Katsuki knew Iida was the better man for the job of catching up to Izuku and bringing him back.

Can we please just take a moment to appreciate the parallels. Please.

[andi-o-geyser]

smh he can't touch his balls because he's falling out of a window to his death

[spnregular]

anyway i actually sort of think that if dean didnt take sam having his own life as a personal insult, he wouldnt have killed amy pond

[sarucane]

Ed Teach's Stories

From practically the moment we meet him, Ed's identity is unstable. We know who is he (Blackbeard) from context, from the story told by the the room around him, by Izzy and the flag his crew. But the thing is, Ed doesn't fit the story of the Mad Devil Blackbeard. Two of his first few words are "good" and "love" for crying out loud. He's called "Blackbeard," but his beard is grey.

This instability exists because Ed himself isn't sure what story he's telling--or wants to tell. "I shouldn't be bored, I'm fucking Blackbeard!" All through his early episodes Ed is in increasingly desperate tension with his own identity. He's trying to tell stories within stories, wanting all the stories to be true at the same time, yet aware of the reality that the world is constantly trying to wipe one or another of the stories away. And not really trusting that he can tell the whole story of who he is.

In the first season of OFMD, Stede wears a different outfit every episode. Yet Stede remains the same: despite his internal tensions (almost despite himself) there's a stability to his identity. But all through both seasons of OFMD, Ed putting on a new outfit means he's trying to tell a completely different story about himself.

And underneath this cacophony, there's Ed. And Ed is himself a chorus of stories, a living contradiction. A patricidal murderer who was protecting his mother; a paragon of masculinity who longs for softness and fluidity; a man renowned for violence and madness who has in fact carefully cultivated that reputation and is extremely careful with his violence; a killer who doesn't kill, yet who does kill all the time just at a bit of a remove; a half a dozen names and personas and yet always Ed; unloveable, yet deeply loved.

At the beginning of the show, Ed isn't actually good at telling his own story. He's good at listening to other people's stories, and conforming himself to them often without conscious effort. But when he tries to really tell his own story--asking Stede to run off to China, singing his break-up song song, going to become a fisherman--he fails. We don't understand in the first season why his judgement clouds, why he becomes weak when he tries to tell his story. But in the second season after spending half an episode in Ed's mind, a painful truth is undeniable: Ed, like Stede, doesn't think he's worthy of telling his own story.

So instead of telling his own story, Ed let other people tell his story. In the first season, Ed built off what Izzy told him he had to be. But he couldn't lose himself in Blackbeard, no matter how hard he tried. So in the second season, when Ed couldn't face living with his contradictions anymore, he wrote an ending worthy of Blackbeard.

All this, because Ed thinks he can only be "himself" by telling one, single story about himself. By denying his contradictions, rather than embracing them. Splitting himself in two to tell himself a story, rather than telling the story himself.

What Ed doesn't believe or trust is this: For Ed to really be himself, he has to be impossible. Two contradictory things, at the same time.

The second season of OFMD is about learning to embrace all these contradictions. In each episode of OFMD, character look at the same object or situation (a wanted poster, a unicorn, a velvety suit, a relationship, a past trauma) and they tell two completely different stories about it. Sometimes one of those stories turns out to be wrong, but more often than not both are true, and something else--something beautiful-- is born from the place where those contradictions meet. And the characters, Ed most of all, learn to accept and balance this dissonance.

Thematically speaking, I'd argue that's why the second season of OFMD is more fantastical than the first: fantasies are contradictions, real and not-real at the same time. And isn't that what transformation is, in the end? What you are and what you are not, meeting and becoming "you"?

Transformation isn't all good. At first, Ed's fantastic stories hide his pain or invoke despair

But later, the fantasies make their way into reality. The impossible begins to shape reality--and opens a way for hope.

In the last episode of S2, Ed emerges from the waves as the kraken--but there's 3 musical tracks playing, three themes: the kraken, Ed, and Blackbeard. Then he reads a love letter, and has a deeply romantic moment with his boyfriend. He puts on a new outfit to escape the British, yet his personality doesn't change at all. When Izzy first apologizes to him, Ed says "I'm the one who should be apologizing," but then Izzy changes his entire understanding of their relationship. Becomes the first family figure to offer Ed permission to be himself.

Contradictions galore, and yet Ed is still Ed. Both who he was formed into by other people (his father, Izzy, Pop Pop) and yet who he is.

In the final scenes, Ed begins to finally accept the tensions of his life. He tells Zheng that yes, he wants to kill Richie--but he doesn't go on a revenge quest. And while before his forays into being someone else meant changing his name, his clothes and mannerisms, his whole story, he doesn't act like that at all in the last scene of the ep.

And Ed's been able to do all this, to come this far, because of Stede. Stede, who Ed was drawn to because he was a "fancy man who leads a brigade of imbeciles," yet had won a fight with Izzy. Stede, who looked at Ed at his lowest moment, after Ed had admitted that the entire basis of their friendship had been in bad faith, and said, "I'm your friend." Stede who, even knowing Ed wouldn't want to hear from him, poured his heart into letters about how their bond was unbreakable.

Stede is everything he is, all at the same time. And when Ed was drowning in his own contradictions, (a rope tied around him that he could not undo and yet had put on himself) trapped somewhere "inevitable, yet impossible," Stede appeared as a fantastic, beautiful creature and brought him home.

Stede lets Ed be everything he is, and sees it all as true and worthy of love. Even when Ed fucks up, it's all right.

And sometimes, telling two different stories about something doesn't lead to a fragmented self, doesn't drive people apart.

Sometimes, it means understanding. Means acceptance, safety, connection.

From discordance (contradiction), harmony. A gentleman can be a pirate. A man can be a bird, or a unicorn. Izzy can have been one of the good ones and a fucking nightmare. And Ed can tell all his stories, they can all be true--and he can still be Ed.

[noisesfrombeyondtheuniverse]

If someone tried to summarize the entirety of 3rd life what do you guys think the most important parts from session 1 would be

[sadpanda]

HTTYD making a lot of noise on all the socials…like what do y’all know about my niche little fandom?? Name 5 hiccup NDEs QUICK ✋🏻🤨

[samanthamulder]

I feel like I’ve lost sight of myself, Mulder. It’s hard to see, let alone find in the darkness of covert locations. I mean, I wish I could say that we were going in circles, but we’re not. We’re going in an endless line -- two steps forward and three steps back. While my own life is...standing still.

THE X-FILES GIF MEME — [1/20] EPISODES layout adapted from: x + x

[misspoetree]

Happy anniversary to the episode that presented us with:

Porsche and Pete physically fighting each other

Porchay telling Kim that he loves him and Kim having the most painfully awkward reaction to have ever been caught on video

Smiley Breakfast

this WASN'T THE FUCKING PLAN

the reveal of badass Kim and the Black Tank Top (of Death)*TM

Big sacrificing himself (my Big deserved better agenda will never end)

Vegas Tawan MARRIAGE PROPOSAL flashback

Tawan offing himself

A big fucking explosion

The orange jumpsuit*TM

What's in the box?!?! (It's Ken's head. Ken's head is in the box.)

Electrocuted balls and the beginning of VegasPete

Kinn literally forgetting Pete exists

And, of course:

A FART JOKE TO TOP IT ALL OFF

Episode 10, truly the most unhinged of them all.

[youandthemountains]

Top Ten TOS eps to me are:

1. The Man Trap - even before I cared about bones at all, this episode is so interesting and so complicated and so horrific and so loving. I haven't stopped thinking about it since I watched it

2. The Corbimite Maneuver - i love the character dynamics in this episode so much, I love the exploration of the enterprise as a work environment and the management styles involved, i love the development of the conflict and the solution.

3. The Galileo Seven - again, love the character dynamics and exploration of management styles here. hard disagree with I guess everyone else that this is an ep where Spock is just right and everyone should have listened to him - he's new to leading an away team and has to learn how to effectively act as a leader and I think that's more interesting actually

4. Arena - THE GORN ARE NOT MINDLESS VIOLENT BEASTS JUST BECAUSE THEY OPPOSE AND FRIGHTEN OUR HEROES AND THAT'S A POWERFUL COLD WAR EP AND IT'S SO CRAZY TO ME THAT NEW TREK APPARENTLY FULLY JUST GOES BACK ON ALL OF THAT??????? also again an ep where a lead character is allowed to be wrong

5. The Devil in the Dark - I <3 horta, I <3 bones, I <3 spock, I <3 trying to understand in the face of legitimate fear, I <3 a happy ending, I <3 a background build of horror when you understand the real situation

6. Operation Annihilate - always thinking about bones silent in his office refusing to accept forgiveness. again generally am so interested by the character dynamics and working relationships in this ep. that pain globule is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen in trek

7. Errand of Mercy - I love again how very postwar this ep is and how it shows that Starfleet itself is not a product of a utopic society but an imperfect attempt at achieving one after war. I love again that it's an ep where our leading characters are confident and wrong.

8. The Immunity Syndrome - I love an ep based around speculative science drama esp with McCoy as a scientist, and of course. of course. Wish me luck.

9. For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky - listen. the dramatic name. Natira. this ep is tailor made to my interests. we don't talk about the Instrument of Obedience enough. Did I mention Natira.

10. The Empath - I can't destroy life, even if it's to save my own....

[puppppppppy]

who up seeing their disorder in a fictional character but feel like its not their place to put a name on it

[unholyxvoid]

sometimes i see a man and go "eh" and then i see that same man afraid or in pain and suddenly its "he kinda" and "would"

[mudstoneabyss]

i need to relisten to all of wtnv but more importantly i need to keep note and make a compilation of every time a man moans or whimpers a little sexual style in it

[aroanthy]

me and the worstie watching the cycle continue as direct result of our actions we have complicated feelings about together <3 on a more serious note, no one ever talks about how touga is present In The Arena for nanami’s duels and i think we should fix that. it’s sort of an unhinged detail that reveals so much about the kiryuu sibling dynamic and also i do just think it’s funny (agonising) that anthy and touga have to stand in the arena together like 😐

[ID: a shot from episode 32 of the anime ‘revolutionary girl utena’. in it, anthy and touga stand side by side, watching nanami’s second duel with utena (off-screen) with unreadable expressions. /end ID]