#I fucking haaaaaaate her

[sochilll]

My professor: you need to follow APA format to the letter or I will fail you on this assignment. I’ve created a model for you to follow for your reference page

The reference page: *single spaced* *no hanging indents* *capitalizes every word of the titles*

[hyperfixationtimego]

OH NEVERMIND. Fuck rosa actually

[darksouls2yuri]

rachel wouldve put something fucked up in that soup like carrots or celery or bacon. not me you get potato garlic onion parsley parmesan.

[gurlbur]

yeah i think black pearl cookie COULD be reformed but she would fucking HAAAAAAATE it the whole time, she'd change and grow as a person but roll her eyes and cross her arms the whole time.

[queseraone]

Rank the episodes of season 6… 😈

This took me forever, because I had to go back and look at transcripts and watch clips for several episodes...

And being the insane person that I am, my ranking process involved giving each episode a grade for (a) the episode itself, and (b) the Chenford.

Fair warning, this is a loooooooooooooooooong post, but here we go (from worst to best, in my humble opinion):

6x10 | Escape Plan Listen, I hated this episode. Take out the Chenford content and it absolutely lands near the top of my list of most-hated episodes of The Rookie ever. Because it barely felt like an episode of The Rookie—it was a constant parade of villains. I don't watch this show to follow random bad guys, I watch for the characters I love. And we spent less than half of the episode with my people (one day I'll re-watch and keep track of the exact percentage). I haaaaaaate Monica (she's honestly like a cartoon villain at this point), and I still have no idea who the Big Bad is/was?? Could someone please enlighten me?

The Chenford scenes were about the only redeeming moments for me. Love, love, loved the return of our beloved Battle Couple™. I loved seeing them riding together (Chenford in a vehicle together is everything to me), and they had some great conversations that very much felt like small steps forward. But those small moments weren't enough to redeem an incredibly disappointing episode for me, so that's why this lands at the bottom of my list.

6x05 | The Vow This episode ranks low because nearly every plotline felt abrupt and forced. There wasn't much follow-up to previous plot (the Budny shooting was apparently resolved to the point that Lucy was okay with being gifted a reminder of a moment that had her breaking down the last time she was on our screens...), nor was there enough build-up to anything we saw. It very much felt like they needed another episode or two in between to fill in a lot of those blanks.

I liked the Chenford (or I guess the Tim and Lucy mostly) because it definitely packed an emotional punch (especially the scene when Tim shows up at her place and she turns him away), but the contrast between Lucy laying awake worrying about Tim and her almost comedic use in Aaron's storyline was jarring, like we were watching two very different versions of her character. We know she's damn good at compartmentalizing, but that felt like a stretch.

6x03 | Trouble in Paradise This one is tricky for me, because while I loved the Chenford in this episode (it included one of my new favourite Chenford moments!), the episode itself was a snooze. I give absolutely zero fucks about Nolan and Bailey, and spending a huge chunk of time following them on their snooze of a honeymoon is not it. I still can't tell you what happened on that island(?), I just couldn't get invested (also that was the least romantic/passionate honeymoon to ever happen). And we had very little of Angela, Nyla, Aaron, etc., so that was a bummer too.

Seeing Tim and Lucy riding with Celina was fun, the Chenford domestic moments were lovely, and it was so nice to see Tim being so supportive of Lucy through her detective exam and with the trophy (!!!!), etc. Great moments, but I just can't get past the dreadful A-plot of the honeymoon.

6x01 | Strike Back My biggest gripe with this episode was that it felt anticlimactic following the intensity of 5x22. Yes, they picked right up in the immediate aftermath, but it was lacking somewhere. I think because they did that time jump and seemed to leave that whole storyline in the dust until the end of the season.

There were things I liked and things I didn't like with regards to Chenford. This episode was a great example of the challenges that come from the transition from TO/rookie to sergeant/aide, to boyfriend/girlfriend. TO Tim and BF Tim are very different, and the lines got blurred a bit. I hated the sprinkler thing (that's not on Lucy or Tim, that's on the other officers, and that's the hill I'll die on), but the conversation at the end of episode was so intense, and that's exactly what I want, the show to make me feel things.

6x09 | The Squeeze I'm going to start this one off by saying (again)—it was Lucy's birthday. What in the Sixteen Candles!!!! This is a timeline fumble, even for The Rookie. In that opening scene at the apartment, I was fully expecting Nolan to open that pastry box and having cupcakes or something, so I was flabbergasted when they just blew past not only the fact that it was her birthday, but that she also spilled so many feelings and he was basically like “okay, cool.” Nolan is a terrible friend (if they can even be called friends at this point).

Moving past that... where the hell was everyone?! Tim wasn't in the second half of the episode, Aaron had all of four lines, Bailey wasn't in it at all... and yet Monica. was. everywhere. Ugh.

ANYWAY. I did love seeing everyone rally around Tim (even though it made it even more obvious when they weren't when it was Lucy going through a difficult time). And the highlight of the episode for me was the Chenford elevator scene. Watching Lucy clearly contemplating, then making the decision to follow him into the elevator—I love that she acknowledged how she was feeling, but still managed to set that aside and be there for Tim. What a showcase of her empathy. (But truth be told, she needed that hug just as much as he did.)

6x07 | Crushed I LOVE seeing them all working together on one case. The team dynamic is a huge draw for me, and it's definitely something they've moved away from in the last couple of seasons (a byproduct of moving half of them out of patrol). So that felt like a really welcome return to their roots.

I really enjoyed watching Tim and Lucy in the immediate aftermath of the breakup. Do I wish we'd seen Lucy opening up to someone other than Sgt. Grey? Yes. But more than that, I'm glad we got to see her processing. She's hurt, she's confused, she's angry, and she's earned the right to feel all of those things.

Dr. London read Tim like a fucking book, and his actions solidified that—this is just another example of the way Tim continues to delude himself into thinking everything's fine, when in reality it's absolutely not (ahem, lie detector scene). I'm really happy that we saw him pursue therapy of his own volition, not because it was department-mandated or because someone was requesting it. Recognizing that you need help is a huge step for anyone, but it feels particularly monumental for Tim.

6x02 | The Hammer What a fun episode! Was it the best? Absolutely not. Was it worthy of being the monumental 100th episode? Eh. But as a whole I really enjoyed this one! It started off strong with the return of “Daddy Cop”—HELL. YES. And I really enjoyed the way they carried plotlines early in the season. Th first few episodes flowed together quite well, and it really felt like it was spanning a handful of days. The group scenes (the bachelor and bachelorette parties) were a lot of fun, I really wish they'd do more of those! I actually liked Nolan and Bailey's wedding vows (it's probably the closes I've ever been to caring about their relationship). I was pleasantly surprised to see Henry again, though it felt like a waste to go to that trouble (on-screen and off) to not have a scene with him and his dad. There are a lot of other characters I would have preferred to see instead of Skip Tracer Randy (Elroy! Ben! Pete!), but I did love Grey's “Sit down, German.” 😂

And then the Chenford. Again, it flowed really well from their tense moment in the previous episode (I'm reluctant to call it a fight), and it was nice to see them navigating the aftermath of that, and then come back together at the wedding. The thing with The Hammer was ridiculous in the most TR way, so I enjoyed that whole interaction. The ring imagery was !!!!, but also feels a little bit cruel in hindsight, knowing where they were going with that relationship this season. But I'm going to stay firm to my thinking that they couldn't possibly be cruel enough to do that without actually making it happen for real one day. ANYWAY. I loved hearing them say “I love you” (though I still wish we saw the first ones), and the dance scene was, overall, wonderful. I loved that it was Tim approaching Lucy, the “it's about damn time” look on her face, the way they come together so easily, the way they look at each other... love.

6x08 | Punch Card Another instance of seeing the team working together, so that contributes to this landing high on my list. (The good parts outweighed the absolute absurdity of Nolan and Bailey seeking medical help when they've only been trying to get pregnant for about five minutes.)

It was fun to see Lucy as a TO. I've long thought that path could be a good fit for her, however I'm not on board with the idea of it being something she resorts to after not be able to pursue the career path she really wants... The show would never do it, but it would certainly be fun to see Lucy be an incredible training officer in parallel to Nolan doing a terrible job at it (no one will convince me that he's a good TO, he's awful). Regardless of the longer term intentions for this, it was nice seeing Lucy work with Celina and to see her kicking ass at it.

And then, of course, the Kojo scene, already such a favourite for me. Beyond seeing my beloved pup again, it was also such an important moment, for Tim, for Lucy, for Chenford. We've seen Tim put on this strong façade (as he always does), but this really shows the audience just how much he's hurting in the aftermath of Ray/the breakup. And it also lets Lucy see that Tim still cares, because until now, she's been more or less been operating on the assumption that Tim walked away easily. It felt so incredibly hopeful, and showed us just how deep their feelings run.

6x04 | Training Day There was a lot to dislike in this episode (Nolan saying the exact wrong thing to Lucy, Angela and Nyla not being as supportive of Lucy as I'd hoped/expected, seeing Lucy struggling post-exam results...), but there was so much to love.

I love Tim and Aaron working together, and Tim busting out a training acronym just makes me so damn nostalgic. And sorry not sorry, it was refreshing to see Nolan get called out (and face repercussions, however minor) for his ineptitude as a training officer. Because while, yes, Celina is a rookie and bound to make mistakes, like Nyla said, “as her TO, that is on you.” I know he's the main character, but I'll say it until I'm blue in the face—it's so fucking boring watching a character win over and over and over again. There's no depth there.

Lucy being an absolute badass was wonderful, and when I tell you my heart stopped when I heard that gunshot, my god. And that hospital scene??? What can I say but the hospital scene!!!!!! That was everything. Great music (*sidebar, they've made some really beautiful song choices this season!!), great to see Tim rushing to her side, and it was just the greatest of the great to watch him supporting her, the way she melts into him, how impeccably Melissa acted that scene... all of it was phenomenal.

6x06 | Secrets and Lies Oh god, what does it say about me that my favourite episode of the season was the one with breakup?!?! 😅 But seriously, the episode gave us alllll the emotionally intense moments, and I'm here for it. Loved the Tim and Angela scenes (my favourite relationship on the show outside of Chenford), loved Nyla working with Aaron again and seeing her dip her toes back into UC work, loved seeing Commander West(!!!!!) back.

Obviously the breakup (and the events leading up to it) was painful as fuck, but they did it SO well. Eric and Melissa acted the hell out of this episode, and it paid off in a big way. It was emotionally compelling and I felt (and continue to feel) so strongly about their scenes. They made it so easy to feel for both of these characters, and that speaks volumes. It hurts like hell, but it was so well done!

Whew, longest post ever! (I suppose I could just have gone 10, 5, 3, 1, 9, 7, 2, 8, 4, 6, but... that's boring!)

Again if I was ranking on Chenford scenes alone, things would certainly shake out differently. And even still, I could probably swap a few of these spots.

Thanks for the fun/exhausting question! 💗

[highway-stars]

I FINISHED DEEP SPACE 9 HERE ARE MY THOTS ::

Absolutely fucking stunning series to the point where I'm like "why isn't this THE Star Trek ppl talk about in their daily lives" but like I get it. It def doesn't have the fun chaotic exploration vibes of the other series but IMO the characters and plots are so multilayered and interesting and so much can be said and explored about them.

But when it sucks it SUCKS. Which I guess is every Star Trek but like. God I hate the Mirror so fucking much. I haaaaaaate the Mirror. Also why did Miles O'Brien send his kid back in time after trying to acclimate her for like a week in that time travel episode that sucked so bad holy shit.

Captain Sisko favorite captain. Far and away the best captain. He's harsh and serious and makes really intense, tough decisions that MAKE SENSE for the position he's in. Picard can be a lawfully good goodie guy cause he CAN and the Enterprise is FUN. Sisko does not have that luxury and it makes him do things that are kinda shitty sometimes and also he's a GOOD DAD and I love him.

Kira worship all day every day 24/7 thank you for giving me a female character in the 90s that isn't just "OUGH STRONG LADY" and actually has weaknesses and depth and can laugh and fall in love while also being angry and ruthless and unforgiving. I love her. I worship her.

Odo was my fav for a while but I kinda hate what they did to his character towards the end. I shipped Kira Odo like I really did but once they were together there wasn't much there. Garak actually ended up being my FUUCKING meow meow sorry I love him like I get it he's precious I LOVE HIM. Pale Moonlight was one of the best PIECES OF MEDIA I've ever watched. Garashir forever.

Every plot with Quark actually made me like Ferengi SO MUCH. I fucking HATED the Ferengi during TNG, but DS9 made them really fun and just so ridiculous I ended up loving them.

Uhhh I have a lot more thots but this got long so idk send me a message so I can talk about My Man Garak

[calamitys-child]

God I haaaaaaate angel I HATE angel what's the point of himmmmmmmm "oouh I thought you'd be taller" YOURE 200 YEARS OLD AND YOUVE BEEN STALKING HER SINCE SHE WAS LIKE 11 YOU FUCKING BROODING MISERABLE NONCE "I didn't say I was Your friend" how long did you spend rehearsing that in the mirror you cant even see yourself in huh. How long. Did it sound cool? Did it make up for the centuries of friendlessness and absolutely atrocious accents? She should have staked you in that alley the first time she set eyes on you. Worst character in the history of ever I swear

[p-perkeys]

I fucked up my neck and I actually don’t know if it’s from aerials or if it’s from work with holding the phone between my face and shoulder for so long because it got progressively worse throughout the work day but now that it’s after practice it’s really hard to even move it without it hurting

ONE MONTH UNTIL NYX

I reread the original over the weekend and I’m rereading it yet again

I’m okay with angsty Laura as long as they don’t make her Logan junior 🙄 I haaaaaate when she’s written like a mini him. Haaaaaaate it.

I hope they use her soft and strange demeanor from the before times.

I hope they make people a little creeped out by her again and make her uniquely sweet and kind again and make her absolutely traumatized but handling it surprisingly well again because why did we stop writing that and instead make her gruff and moody like Logan which she is not

All they have to do is read her original stories and boom - - - that’s her characterization

Like we can keep the foundation the same and just advance it a little we didn’t have to totally write off all the things that made her absolutely lovely and darling

Not to be a bitch about it but you know

So yeah

[padawansuggest]

Okay so my gf and my dad are lucid dreamers who don’t actually know HOW to lucid dream (trust me there are signs you can look it up they both have the capability to lucid dream but neither want to or have tried yet idk man it’s really weird cause they both love naps so much but haaaaaaate dreams) and because of this they both describe their dreams the same way. They 1: hate them and 2: it’s confusing and annoying at best so they just can’t stand the actual dreams.

Anyways. I completely lack the ability to lucid dream. But. I fucking LOVE my dreams that aren’t nightmares, because an unfortunate issue for me is chronic nightmares but otherwise I actually love my dreams and get frequent dreams that would amazing books/movies or fics. Like I have had probably two super good ones in the last month or so. One of them full on had a mixture of a H*gw^rts type school but mix in elements from Breakbills (The Magicians, specifically the part in that it’s a secondary school, not a primary school) and I genuinely think it would make a good novel and sequel and I love the idea still considering it, while the last one I had was like 6 hours ago and it gave me a super good idea for a fic that involves kiddo CodyWan with Mandalorian Empire and a bunch of other epic shit lmao i straight up had to write it out after I woke up and even now it’s still a super solid fic idea and it’s got Lesbians~

Anyways. So what I’m saying is that lucid dreamers don’t have the ability to suspend reality for the plot, because they KNOW it’s a dream and so it’s all just fast and confusing until they actually learn how to lucid dream (mad neither of them are learning that bitch do you KNOW what I would give to have a secondary life in my own head???? Wasted. Rude.) and they even describe it as just annoying flashes sometimes.

So. Lucid dreaming is actually very specific and not the same as normal dreaming in which you suspend reality and go with the flow, and it’s got a lot of major markers that aren’t the same as regular dreaming.

I can overall make decisions in my own dreams. I don’t always have the best options for them, but I can make them. I can choose to look for a book in a store, or I can choose to go into that flower shop. I found that since I learned to make simple decisions in my dreams, while it doesn’t exactly help me realize it’s a dream, it overall can push the dream in one direction or another. Last night I chose to look for a customer instead of just filling an order for them when I realized they had ordered the grossest combo known to man and I was like ‘Imma ask for a second opinion’ and suddenly I was no longer filling orders, but a lost princess who very Futurama style got cryogenically frozen and so did her old gf and now they’re in the future and can finally be together without being sentenced to death from homophobia. It was wild.

Either way. So you know those dreams where your teeth start falling out or crumbling (mine crumble and block my mouth if my mouth is dry irl and I’m all ‘shame my mouth is going to be blocked by teeth for the rest of forever’) and you’re like ‘wow, this sucks’ and let it turn into a nightmare or get weird?

Yeah. So. That. Still. Doesn’t help me realize it’s a dream. At no point in the dream do I have the capability of realizing it’s a dream. That’s not a possibility for me. But. I do… have a way of waking myself up. But I’m not like ‘I gotta wake up’ because it doesn’t occur to me that it’s a dream. I sorta just. Shut down. I’m all ‘yeah it’s time to die’. And. I. Die. I just like kill myself in the dream and wake up with a headache from grinding my teeth.

So. Just a thought. If you don’t have the capability of realizing you’re in a dream and changing things??? Just die. It apparently works.

[curiouschaosstarlight]

For the ask game; 3, 11, and 16 (yes I just randomly generated these don't hold me responsible for which ones they chose)

(I'm gonna assign these Gensh 'cause why not)

3. screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr

I do not have and will not take a screenshot, but I think "everyone only woobifies Scaramouche because one piece of canon says he's nice to children, and they should stop writing" still pisses me off the most, genuinely. It's such a high-horse, full of shit take that you can only really have if you've been deliberately not paying any attention to canon. The ENTIRETY of Sumeru should have put this take in the ground where it belongs. And it ain't even the full tidbit of the thing being referenced either. I think you should honestly quit playing Gensh if you're not actually going to pay attention to the story and lore and get on a high-horse about how other people totes have it wrong. It's fine to have preferences for characters, but genuinely fuck off with the "any take I dislike is obviously wrong and shouldn't be written" shit.

11. number of fandom-related words you've filtered

Not-very-many, but that's because the lack of Gensh people I follow, so it tends not to be necessary. It's like...two or three things, currently? Could turn into more if I actually got more active (or if people would tag stuff I really don't like that doesn't really get tagged)

16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

Polite Answer: A few characters I personally find boring or un-engaging, some headcanons I'm really not into, and one version of a take on a ship that baffles me.

Detailed answer under the read more;

I really don't see the whole wide appeal of characters like Barbara, Noelle, Nilou, Kokomi, Mona...to me, they're all just kind of generically cute and sweet. (And one character I forgot I kind of genuinely despise, but I think I get the appeal so I don't think I can put her here...) I guess I can kind of get it, but the more people angrily try to say how great they are and complain about That Sort Of Take while putting down other characters like Itto, the less inclined I am to even try to like them, and the more resentful I get instead. I also have zero interest in the "pop idol" facet of Barbara's personality, and was more interested in her in the story when she was doing her priest/nun role, since I'm EXTREMELY used to "cutesy bubbly girl who sings" and not very used to "cute-but-serious nun" characters.

(Also call Barbara fucking minor-coded again and I will find a way to rip through this computer screen I swear to god)

Next would probably be Childe being some kind of confident playboy. I think that's born of the English dub exclusively, and has no fitting place in any genuine part of his personality. It's hard to explain, but he gives me way more of an Innocent But Violent Kid vibe, particularly with his devotion to the Tsaritsa. (No this isn't child-coding, this is a description of trauma stuff) And I find that much more fascinating. (Also very funny to think his sex education might be a little lacking if he had to learn from other Harbingers or something) Also I have NO idea why people like him saying "girlie" so much. In every other language, he's far more polite and essentially says some form of "miss", and I haaaaaaate when people call me "girlie" so, so much. That's just a personal pet peeve of mine. Can't trust english fandom with anything.

And basically, in general, if it's the english fandom's version of the character, I pretty much exclusively don't understand it or its appeal. The takes of people that only engage with the english dub and nothing else are generally pretty bad and way off the mark for actual characterizations, especially with things like the Harbingers.

While I've since remembered some ship takes I genuinely dislike a bit, one that baffles me endlessly is Kazuha/Wanderer; specifically the version where they make a lot of parallels between Kazuha and Niwa, but think it's BadWrong to ship Niwa/Wanderer. Like, friend, bud, amigo, chum, pal.......what? You're very, very close to just writing straight up Niwa/Wanderer, what's your problem, why are you complaining?

(...I also don't really get why so many people like Wanderer/Mona. I kinda sorta get the basis, but I also just...don't...like Mona, as previously mentioned, and I don't really know what's so compelling about those two together.)

I'd generally advise to take mmmost of these with a grain of salt. I'm the type of person that can be tricked into liking anything so long as you get me writing it for whatever reason.

But I WILL grow to hate things out of spite also, so. you know.

[tysonfurybattlepass]

If you feel like it, what would you do with Haru and Melon if they were your characters? :3

HOO BOY. ok so. i think it’s a travesty that all the school characters got sidelined during the melon arc but ESPECIALLY haru. she’s stubborn and independent and she deserved to find her own strength as a person outside of her complicated relationship with legosi. i would have at least given her some narrative significance during the fight club/melon arc, maybe having her interact w melon as a student and get curious/suspicious about him. she could be following his trail at the same time as legosi, but from a different starting point, until they both meet in the middle and realize theyre after the truth about the same guy. OR have them work together from the start and learn to navigate each other through their shared goal of taking down melon! the other bunny girl was kind of cringe and boring. i hate “girlboss” characters whose only “tough” trait is being mean to everyone. haru’s struggle with her own fragility and identity as a small prey animal was infinitely more interesting than the hot bunny girl who showed up already way more cool and badass and self assured than the rest of the cast :/

i also HAAAAAAATE how melon’s story got retconned. “haha yeah actually his mom didnt eat his dad that was just for the sillies lol” WHAT??? WHAT?? WHAT????

the fucking driving force behind melon’s severe psychological state is that his mother was clearly abusing him by subjecting him to emotional incest and he killed her when he was made aware that she had abused his father too.

the point when he learns what happened to his father is when he understands that what his mother is doing to him constitutes abuse, and so he retaliates. this is a pivotal moment in his life. to take away the stakes here by saying that it was all a misunderstanding completely delegitimizes the experiences that lead him to where he is now.

also, why would the leopard even say that she ate her husband if that wasn’t true?? like what the fuck was the point of that scene at all if it was never real? god i hate this retcon so fucking much

JUNO ALSO DESERVED WAY BETTER WRITING TOO FUCK i hate the ending of beastars so muchhhhhhhh

[telltalebatman]

i finished the boys s04 last night

i will definitely come back for s05, because now i am deeply invested.

i need them to stop putting hughie in situations stat. i am not even joking. hadn't he been through enough? he had to euthanize his own father. he was raped twice in one season. jesus fucking christ.

i fucking hAaAaAaAtE firecracker. yes, i know that's the point of her, but she is not even FUN to hate. she is just a generic American conservative to me. i could go on tiktok and easily find 5000 people with her exact talking points. where's the fun in that?

sage, on the other hand, is stellar and her mind literally feels like the last piece homelander had been missing as a villain.

speaking of homelander: he is still a very fun villain to watch, but i feel like he lost some of that je ne sais quoi when he moved onto more realistic conservative talking points like "nonbinary socialists". he was more fun when his villainy was purely about the fictitious concept of literal superhuman supremacy over mankind, not when he was ben shapiro but with laser eyes.

the acting in this show is just *chef's kiss*. no notes. stellar performances all across the board.

i know it's terribly cliche, but i love a-train. his path to redemption was long and bumpy and complicated, but i think he finally got there.

why is the deep there? and i'm being serious here. what purpose does his whole storyline serve? it's not interesting, it's not funny, and the shock value of "he fucked that octopus" wears off very quickly. which is saying something, because usually a guy fucking an octopus is something shocking indeed, but... nah.

the fucking batman and spider-man parody got me good, i'm not gonna lie.

once again giancarlo esposito delivers the performance of a lifetime. i could listen to him read out a phone book and i would still be enthralled.

billy butcher, the man that you are.

look at me very bravely avoiding the topic of homelander and uhm. milk. from uhm. a natural source.

[jellogram]

I always feel like I would get my slasher fan card revoked for saying how much I disliked Terrifier. Everybody keeps heralding it as like, the saving grace of modern slashers or whatever. Like it's the first big new slasher villain in a while. And I will say that the actor who plays Art the Clown is fantastic.

But I fucking haaaaaaated that movie. It does absolutely nothing that I haven't seen in a million other modern B-movie slashers I could randomly pick off Tubi. The ONLY reason anyone talks about it is because Art's actor is so good. Everything else about it is either unoriginal or straight up offensive.

Like I get that you want to make a love letter to the iconic tropes of the genre or whatever. But do the tropes you choose have to be all the worst ones? Would you have killed a man the same way you killed Dawn? Did the final girl trope really need to be shifted by having a man come save her? Was the whole "killer dresses up as a woman to be creepy" thing really a trope worth resurrecting?

If you really want to see a modern movie do justice to slasher tropes you can just watch Haunt or Happy Death Day or You're Next. Terrifier is more content to rehash stuff that the genre has long since moved on from, and it doesn't even do it particularly well. I hope David Howard Thornton has a long career as a character actor and I hope I never see Art the Clown again.

[keepsmagnetoaway]

X-Men 101 (October 1976)

Chris Claremont/Dave Cockrum

Just as with last issue, this issue's cover is famous and much-referenced and parodied. Unlike last issue, this one is actually great.

Yup, it's phoenxin' time, and it looks fucking amazing. This is page one.

And these are pages two and three. This rules.

And then two pages after that is this. This issue is absolutely going for it.

And then it...stops. The opening stuff here is killer, and afterwards there's some emotionally good bits with Jean, who after her initial burst of Phoenixing basically passes out and is in hospital for a few days in a coma. The others all come to visit her and Wolverine, in one of his moments of occasionally having a crush on Jean, buys her some flowers (this is very much a plotline that comes and goes, like how Scott's thing for her used to back in the 60s issues), which is sort of cute. I also dig his hat.

But then things take a turn for the terrible in the second half of the issue as a new plotline arrives. I didn't mention this because I don't care about it but two issues ago there was some weird shit briefly shown with someone in Ireland doing something mysteriously villainous, and now it's fully on show - it's Banshee's cousin Black Tom Cassidy, who has come back from somewhere or other, with Juggernaut in tow, to take over the Cassidy family castle (?) and kill the X-Men, and things of this nature.

I haaaaaaate this. I don't like Banshee and his begorrah-bejesus stuff at the best of times, and I really dislike this "welcome to the Middle Ages" version of Ireland that they all inhabit.

There's also this absurdly skeevy moment.

This is a cute character moment just afterward, though.

But, yeah. Going from the high drama of the Phoenix plotline to japes in a castle with a low-budget baddie is quite the shift. I hope this arc doesn't last too long.

[1eos]

Like fr I've known her since I was like 10 and I just cannot believe she's doing me like this when she's had multiple opportunities to pay me back but instead of doing that she moved in with 3 ppl that she barely knows and let them fuck her out of 3k worth of bills and deposits only to have to move out bc they got violent towards her after she got pregnant bc they didn't want a baby there and I helped her moved out even though she owed me money atp and didn't ask for shit in return and she still wants more from me without paying me back? It feels kind of self absorbed to me and I'd hate to end the friendship over it but like this is getting ridiculous, like I have photo proof that she and her nerd ass husband agreed to pay me back and all they wanna do is offer to buy me shit I dont need instead of returning the money when I know they just got the insurance money from their old place burning down

🥴thats so sad. for the both of y'all. i haaaaaaate it when things like this happens btwn close friends bc u wanna keep giving and giving and giving bc you care for them but i learned the hard way you gotta have a cap on giving to ppl who won't give back in return! and like i said even just waiving your gift would be MORE than enough of a sign that she's grateful! my close friends i don't even keep a tab bc ik we have a constant back n forth of support but literallyyyy i could never see myself asking for a gift from a CLOSE FRIEND ik is going thru it (i wouldnt do it at all but im particular when it comes to asking for things) you deserve so much better anon. and im not saying u should cut her off 100% just yet if u don't want but definitely take a step back and tell her straight up she's not get nothing else from you until you get her money. save those texts where they AGREED to pay you back justttt in case y'all have to go to small claims courts but even if it doesnt get to that level DEFINITELY do not go out of your way to always provide for someone who won't reciprocate!!!!

[abirddogmoment]

I’ve really immersed myself in dog training and sports classes since we moved to Edmonton and I have some Thoughts(TM).

(For a reminder, we moved to Edmonton from Yellowknife about a month ago. There are no dog sports in Yellowknife besides one group which does very chaotic agility training for three months in the summer. I gave that group a shot but it did not work for Mav or for me and we bailed after three weeks.)

I’m on week three of a barn hunt intermediate and an agility equipment skills class with Mav. They are taught by different instructors through the same facility. 

Barn Hunt: The class is structured so we usually do a very short run, work on indications or tunnels or building drive, then do a “real” run before the class ends, and there are six dog/human teams. It’s fast-paced but runs extremely smoothly imo. My issue going in to class was that Mav was not committing to indications - either due to not understanding the game or finding it more reinforcing to just keep sniffing bales instead of pointing the rat, and I went in hoping I could train a stronger, committed alert.

My biggest complaint with the class was that the instructor wanted me to grow Mav’s pointing indication to a barking/pawing/biting indication like many terriers/herding breeds do. It left me a bit disgruntled because Mav isn’t that kind of dog; he doesn’t get frustrated enough to start acting out and instead he just disengages from the game (which really, was my issue that brought me to class). I (politely) refused and explained why, the instructor took it well, and we’ve made some tremendous progress since then. The instructor tends to give his feedback in a “criticism sandwich” (something you did well, some things to work on, something you have improved since last time), which makes it much more reinforcing for me (and it seems the other handlers) to keep working hard in the class. I am hella proud of Mav and his improvements, and really enjoying the class so far! I will probably continue on to the advanced one next month.

Agility: I didn’t really have any issues with Mav going into this class. I want to get into agility because it’s such a cool sport, but frankly I am not looking to be competitive and agility in inherently a COMPETITIVE sport. This class is structured so groups of three or four dogs run at a time, on leash. I showed up to the first week of this class and the instructor set us off to loose-leash walking to see how our dogs responded (to body pressure? I don’t really know what she was looking for tbh), and she paused the exercise multiple times to criticize me on small things a) the amount of eye contact Mav was offering me, b) the direction I was pivoting while llw (there were no instructions besides “walk your dog to the wall, turn around, come back”), and c) that I wasn’t building drive before releasing my dog (”ready.... ready.... okay go!”). We have since moved on to obstacles and my issues were similar, so I’ll just use this exercise to describe my Thoughts.

I have a lot of distaste for this class and the way it’s taught. It’s a beginner agility class with no prerequisites beyond [the gym’s obedience/engagement class] or equivalent. The problems I’m having with this class really just boil down to me not meshing well with this instructor, I think. I’m finding this class intense (in the way that lots of competitive agility people are INTENSE, no offense) in that it seems that SPEED and DRIVE are the ultimate goals for the instructor (again, this is an equipment skills class taught on leash), whereas I just want to bounce around with my dog who, at the end of the day, I have to live with in my home. I am not looking to build drive so he’s launching himself to the end of his leash every time we start walking (god it took like 2.5 years to break him of that). I’m not looking for a dog who quivers in anticipation when I put him in a stay. I just want to learn how to safely do pieces of equipment in a way that my handling doesn’t confuse my dog and maybe Q some novice runs in a trial. I absolutely appreciate the tips when it comes to my handling around equipment, but I’m not looking to change my entire lifestyle to build myself a top-ranking agility dog. Again, I have to live with this dog and I ADORE living with him the way he is now. Mav is undeniably well-behaved in class environments - he is engaged, excited to do what I ask him to, but able to focus and not get too excited. I put SO MUCH work into this because I wanted that focus and he had no brain cells until he turned 2. I do not want a dog that can’t keep his brain in his head, and I’d rather Mav be slower and more thoughtful than fast and chaotically drivey.

These Thoughts have gone on long enough so I’ll end them with this: both of the classes I’m taking have taught me new skills, and both have made me a better handler. I got way better at reading Mav when he gets a scent in barn hunt, and I am much better at pivoting and watching my hands when handling Mav around obstacles (and omg, I’ve been practicing). Both trainers are undeniably effective at getting their points across and I have to guess they’re both quite successful at trials with their own dogs. But their teaching styles and the way they treat their (human) students is different, and one of the classes ends with people cheering each other on and thanking the instructor, and the other ends with sullen handlers gathering their things in silence.