#I just finished arc 1 of season 3 yay!!!!

[3584-tropical-fish]

The woman who emerged was tall and shapely, with glossy black hair pinned back in soft waves, smooth alabaster skin, and amber eyes. She wore a fine gray wool suit with a narrow, pleated skirt and a graceful swing coat and matching hat, and a deep red blouse printed with white lilies. Her fine leather t-strap heels matched the blouse perfectly. They made a sharp clicking sound as she ascended the marble steps to a pair of wide double doors, already peeling off her gloves as she walked.

Pretty Polly Barrow ily <3

[localfanbaselurker]

Watching Voltron: Legendary Defender for the first time and recording my thoughts

S1-2 | S3 | S4 | you are here! | S6 | S7 | S8 |

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This one is not as long because I literally finished it like two days ago as I write this so the thoughts are still simmering down but I need to remember them before I watch s6

Pre-S5 thoughts

-> I hope we get Keith back, his near sacrifice really scared me at the end of S4. I want my son back.

-> pLEASE let that poor girl get her father back. Oh my lord. Give him back. Pls. I can’t wait anymore. Will the real Sam Holt please stand up? Please stand up?

-> FRICK Lotor I know they’re probably gonna give him some backstory or whatever on him being a good guy but I DOOOOONNNNNNT CAAAAARRRREEEEEEEEE. I do NOT like him and they can never make me. he is EVIL and you cannot tell me otherwise.

->^“but laura-” idc. I don’t trust him. His voice is too American-Psyco-y. He is a little scheming cunty little elf. He’s onto something. He wants something out of this.

->^I will miss his team of lesbians tho. They ate.

->There seems to be a lot of hints towards allurance! I hope they get a good arc. They are very sweet!

-> I hope we see more of Matt! It’s like that one quote from Brooklyn 99. “I’ve only had [Matt] for [an episode and a half] but if anything were to happen to him, I’d kill everyone in this room, and then myself”

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Post-S5 Thoughts

-> my suspicions of Shiro grew bigger and bigger as this season progressed. I think I have it figured out by now. 🔍🧐☕️

->^Lotor low key ate her up with this

->^i think that’s her main arc: she needs to let go of the thought that all galra are evil (which she has fair reason to do so), as it is a war, and things aren’t all black and white. As much as I hate to admit it, I feel like having Lotor around this season will help her character development.

->^I wrote that at the beginning of s5, I was right, it did help a little (though then they brought up the fact that Lotor was half altean so maybe she just thinks he’s good because of that—let’s hope not)

->They did not, in fact, bring Keith back. Very upsetting.

->WE GOT SAM HOLT BACK!! THE HOLTS ARE BACK!!! THEY HAVE FOUND THEIR FATHER!!!!

->^That was an emotional episode for me. I cried when they didn’t find him in the “prison” thing and I cried again when Pidge ran into the hologram thing. They make me feel so weak. I was so happy when they got him back fr.

-> And then I cried again at the end of episode 3 cus he was like “I decided im leaving, good luck out there, kids”. Bawling.

->Speaking of episode 3… 🔍🧐

->^and episode 4…and episode 6… 🧐🧐🧐🧐

->^🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐

->^me rn vs. you guys probably.

->^He’s 1) been listening to everything Lotor says, ignoring the team and going behind their back/without consulting them. And 2) Being uncharacteristically hostile to everyone. I swear I felt like I was reading a really OOC fanfic nearly the whole season.

->^Yes, Shiro is leader-y, but he also (s1-2) tended to listen to his team and have unserious moments. I feel like he’s lost all of that. And I think that last picture is all I need to know.

->(moving on)There seems to be a big focus on Lance this season (yay!) I really hope it’s not for the usual reasons characters get extra screen time (because I would die). I feel like they have been leading him to be the black paladin with how leader-y he has been this season but even if that’s not the case I do still feel they are going to do something really important with him for the next season and I am so excited to see what they are going to do with him! 😊

-> if Keith doesn’t leave the Backyard of Malnutrition next season im going to make myself go inside the show and personally take him out

->/j/j/j…or is it? ☕️🧐 (someone needs to take this emoji away from me it’s made me too powerful)

->WE GOT KEITHS MOM!!!!

->^I was so shocked I literally slammed my computer shut (not that hard, im not a psycho dw)

->^HE GOT HIS MOM BACK!!! I cried after that episode because can you imagine? He just got her back and he thought she was dead/abandoned him for like his entire life. And now he has her back and oh my god I need to open ao3 where are those “first time calling <someone> mom/dad” one shots.

->^AND KROLIA. SHE JUST GOT HER BABY BACK!! Stop im fr crying as i type this. guys. Fuck. I genuinely can’t handle family-related stuff in shows like I will cry so hard. It doesn’t even have to happen on screen my brain just makes the scenarios for me and I obey and bawl my eyes out.

->They are trying to make me like Lotor and Allura together…it is almost working. Almost. I still don’t trust him. And I like allurance better.

->^i just KNOW she was internally kicking her feet and giggling at this. “Then you’re…🤔😯 Half altean 🤭🤭😍😍😍”

->^speaking of that ep, I was sooooo happy for Allura because she finally found a way to still be connected with her dad/culture after having to lose him in s1 and not being able to pilot red in s3, absolutely overjoyed for my best girl!! 🤍🩷🤍

->I absolutely LOVED episode five’s subplots. We have: A-plot) Keith+ his mom going on a mission together, B) Lotor +Allura finding altean stuff in Haggar’s lair, and C) my personal favorite, The garrison trio getting up to shenanigans with a galra robot thing.

->^Later Pala-dudes is my hero, too, lance

->^^Look at those dorks. I love them so much.

->^See this is proof that Lotor is actually Evil™️ and Not Good™️ because he immediately went to violence and trying to fight to greedily get what he wanted while Allura saw the right path and allowed the secrets to be shared with her willingly in this essay I will-

->When is Lotor gonna find out his mom is haggar?? Hopefully s6 cus I can’t take this anymore. the evidence is RIGHT THERE, bucko. Figure it out already.

->If they want me to like Lotor they better work extra hard next season. I’m beginning, BEGINNING, to actually, kinda-sorta-maybe actually like him. BEGINNING! And it is a rough start at that. But im defrosting my built-up dislike for him. It’s a burn slower than 300k words but it’s getting there. They’re gonna hold hands any chapter now.

These are thoughts I’ve been compiling for a while. I will continue to post my thoughts on the tag “laura’s first vld”

I finished Season 5 on 07/13/24. I have not yet started season 6. Stay tuned!

[acearcane]

Who’s your favorite TUA character?

I’ve done been asked about my hyperfixation‼️

Because I’m incapable of being normal about Umbrella Academy rn, I’m going to rate all the Hargreeves siblings by way of choosing a favorite.

Going from least favorite to favorite (I like them all, but some are more precious than others):

7. Allison. Don't get me wrong, I love all of the siblings. For me, what really makes the media is the characters, and all of the Umbrella Academy characters are unique, endearing, yet flawed. That being said, Allison is the one I connect with the least, and also after season 3... well...

6. Diego. He would be higher, but I didn't really start to like him until season 2. Like Allison, Diego's one of the ones I connect with the least, although I do find his character arcs very compelling (and heartbreaking, to be honest).

5. Luther. Luther is very much back and forth for me. Like, he's such an idiot towards the end of season 1, but AMAZING in season 3. Honestly, I just love the trope of a big blond himbo, so even if Luther is as dumb as rocks, he's so endearing.

4. Viktor. He explodes things. He's just three apples tall. Viktor is just a little guy, and I've been his firm supporter since season 1. (Like, my sister keeps dissing him and I'm ready to throw hands). Plus, I really love Elliot Page, so like... Viktor, ya know?

3. Ben. I don't wanna let my men-loving show, but like, Ben's gorgeous. He's so hot. Ahem, anyway-- I love the whole concept of him being Klaus's conscience and voice of reason (even if Klaus never listens) and the only time I cried while watching this show was at one of his scenes. That being said, I don't really like Sparrow!Ben. I won't count him out quite yet though, we still have season 4.

2. Klaus. He's hilarious. He's sexy trash. He's wife material. Klaus is very much a close second when it comes to my favorite character, if only for the fact that he never irritates me. All of the other characters (except maybe Five) have moments where I'm screaming at the screen because they're so dumb (affectionate) but... never Klaus. Live love Klaus. He's great.

1. Five. I. Fucking. LOVE. Five. Which sure that's probably predictable, he's a fan favorite, but he's freaking hilarious, one of the deeper characters in the show (in my opinion), and his actor does a brilliant job with all of his quirks and mannerisms. Plus I hardcore headcanon him as either ace or aroace, but maybe I'm just projecting. But anyway, he's the new blorbo consuming my brain, and when I attend my first convention this summer (yay me!) I really want to cosplay him.

I'm so sorry for how rambly this was. If you can't tell, I'm very hyperfixated rn, and my sister hasn't finished season 3 yet so I'm practically vibrating with spoilers. I feel a little awkward being so obsessed with it cuz the fandom seems to be dead, for the most part, but hey-- I'm having fun. And that's what matters, right?

To all of my beautiful mutuals who followed me for Owl House content-- I am so sorry. The hyperfixation will return, the big ones always do. I'll try to feed you once in a while so you don't starve. Love you <3

[maycat-19-142]

Todoroki x reader training camp

A/n: this is going to be a short series with 4 parts over the arcs of mhs season 3 and 4 every part it one arc | enjoy

⚠️: fem reader, spoilers for season 3, uraraka pucking, fire, you training for like 7 hours. You calling him sho, the villain attack, toga and knifes. Kidnapping, spelling mistakes, swaring, compress is referred to as "the man" a lot. Passing out, angst, light fluff.

Quirk: magic- you can do everything scarlet witch can basically

Word:2,770 wow longest thing I've written

Non of the characters or quotes are mine they belong to the original creator that said don't steal my work ©️Maycat-19-142 2023

Part1/part2/part3/part4

You woke up and immediately got to training with your class. You are in the hero course and have a control based quirk so you have to do focus traing. That is how you ended you using you quirk to juggle three 10 pound rocks while jogging.

You hatred it but "it would help" at least that is what momo said. You finished your 4th lap as you saw class 1-b. Mr.vlad was talking lile this was a game show. You saw your friends from middle school setsuna and you waved causing you to drop 2 rock almost hitting aizawa.

You got scolded by aizawa then you started to run again. You ran and to make you lap go faster you watched you classmates while trying to keep your quirk running to keep the rocks up. You ran and saw iida pass you as he was also running laps.

You saw sero and kaminari on the mountain and uraraka pucking in by some trees. Yiu then felt a blast of heat and then cold. You looked over to see yiu boyfriend in a barrel of water freezing it and bolting it. He looked so tired.

You kept running for almost 6 more hour with only three 20 minutes breaks. In that short time you just drank water and went to the bathroom. Finally you got the ok to stop and go wash up for dinner. You fast todoroki and just waved as you walked to the girls drom.

Later on all of class a and b got to the cooking stations. You walked over to momo,mina, and todoroki who were talking about their training,but then you heard ragdoll yell that it was time to cook and not to make it sloppy.

You got sent to a fire station with mina, uraraka, and sero. "Hey todoroki can we get some fire over here" mina yelled as he walked over and lit the fires and muttering a small "here let me" as sero. Fiddled with the flint he had

"Thanks sho" you said as he got called over to start another fire "no problem [nickname]" he said kissing you cheek. You heard and yell and saw Bakugou had exposed his station. That was Bakugou alright.

You worked on the meat rhe other hero course kids did there jobs. In the end you had barely enabled curry but it was still good after 7 hours of training all day. Sero then accidentally insulted momo by comparing her quirk to poo. Todoroki had to stop yiu from punching him in the face.

The next day was the same as the last but you got to spend time with todoroki in the morning. You talked as you cooked breakfast because you both got breakfast dute that day to you got an hour of uninterrupted time together cooking. That was until the bakusquad showed up and it was loud.

You started the same exact thing to did yesterday except to had 2 more rocks. So lap after lap to ran with the rocks now totaling 5. On one of your breaks you and todoroki were sitting together in silence till yiu heard pixie bob. Yella that you got to play a game today after training. Yay you thought more training. Todoroki look over and said "if we're not on the same team I will try my hardest to beat you." You just smiled and said "same to you sho"

Later you and shoto were moving fire wood for dinner shoto stopped to talk to deku. Yiu just kept walking to get the wood to mina. After that you started getting ready for the game and yiu got paired with deku. You started talk about things like home town and his mega crush on uraraka. Thay made him turn red.

Yiu walked over to todoroki who was with bakugou of all people. "You ok sho" you asked him "just odd gut feeling thats all." Said calmly "you think you going to lose" teased he just shock his head as him and bakugou got called to go next.

You heard a yell and a fire smell. You looked back to see pixie bob get thrown back and hit a staff held by a person with short red hair. You run in the forest to find and warn them of rhe attack. You find tyu and uraraka first and they are not sure of what is happening.

You then say you got scared and ran ahead of deku and yiu wanted to join them. They had no idea of the attack so it was best to keep everyone calm. You then start walking.

You start to fell guilty and just say it "there is an attack" tyu look at you and said "I thought so" uraraka looked shocked "why didn't you tell us"

"I did not want to scare you" yiu said and uraraka just nodded knowing she would do the same. You look around you and see and girl in a school uniform. It is different than your but it is a school uniform. She has a knife and is wearing battle gear.

In that moment you heard a familiar voice in your head "every one in class-a and class-b in the name of rhe prohero eraserhead you granted permission to engage in combat i repeat use you training yiu may fight these villains." It was ms. mandaly.

You faced the girl. She lunged at uraraka and hit her arm. She started bleeding. Uraraka grabbed her arm and both yiu and tyu asked if she was ok. She said she was fine so you turned to the girl again. She had 2 blonde buns and the knife she has was covered in uraraka blood. "Shallow not much blood" rhe girl said looking at the knife.

"Who goes slashing people out of know where." Tyu asked the girl

"Who are you" you asked preparing to attack her

"I'm toga, jeez you 3 are super cute uraraka, tyu and [lastname]." The girls now known as toga said

"How does she know our names" uraraka said to toga

"Maybe the sport fest" you wishpered.

Tyu said "we know nothing of her so we're at a disadvantage stayon gard" yiu nodded in agreement to tyu's statement

"There's not enough blood, normally i would suck it straight from the cut but no time. Alright girl this machine will start sucking it out as soon as I stick it in you. All get what I need and move on, so who's first" toga said calmly. She then lunged again at uraraka and tyu rapped her tongue around uraraka waist move in her out of the way.

"You got to get back to camp we have permission to use quirks to protect ourselves not to counter attack I'm sure that is what mr.aizawa meant." Tyu said throwing uraraka up in the air

"[Yourname], tyu come on" uraraka yelled out to you.

"We're coming uraraka" you yelled as toga lunged again hitting tyu tongue and below your ear with double sided knife.

"[Yourname], tyu, [yournameI, tyu I like it" toga said "what cute names I think I'll call both of you that too"

Tyu yelled back "no only my friends get to call me that." She lowered in to a fighting stance. But toga hit her hair with a nettle from her support gear pinning her to a tree. She then started to dance and say that she was tyu friend.

"We're coming tyu" you and uraraka yelled as you ran to her. "Oh your bleeding tyu you couldn't be anymore adorable i love boiled, we're going to be such good friends" toga laughed

"Get away from her" uraraka said as she when to hit toga and toga hit her hair. Uraraka then started using Marshall arts she learned with gunhead.

"Uraraka that was amazing" you and tyu said at urarakas bravery

"Tyu can you use her tongue to restrain her hands or is your tongue hurt and [yourname] can you use you quirk to lift her." You nodded and tyu also nodded.

You heard toga say calmly "uraraka your delightful to you have rhe same smell as me you got a crush on someone am I right. So do I and let me guess you want to be exactly like that special person huh. I can tell to love sick girls." Uraraka looked horrified as toga continued "first you Model you self after them by dressing lile them thing is that is not enough yiu have to got further then you realize yiu want to become them. Ones yiu get to that point there is no going back that is how love is right, who has your eye I love people who have been slashed up and smell of fresh blood. That why I always end up cutting them. Hey uraraka this is fun right just 2 girl talking about our crushes."

Then uraraka got stabbed with a part of toga gear and it started to pump her blood "uraraka" you and tyu yelled. Yiu started to run run to her but uraraka said "stay back i don't want yiu to get hurt too."

Toga just started to say over and over "suck suck suck suck" you heard shoij and saw him and deku and yiu and tyu yelled "help us help her" Toga then jumped up out of uraraka grip and moved to the tree line "stop" you yelled running after her but tyu grabbed your arm to stop you.

Toga them said "there are too many people and I don't feel like getting killed tonight todeels" but then she stopped as she saw deku covered in blood on shoij's back "yiu and uraraka tried again to go after her but you got stopped by tyu again "we don't know her quirk"

Todoroki,bakugou,and tokoyami joined deku and shoij "are you all ok who was that girl just now" Todoroki said with a worried tone "We're fine sho and that girl was a villain she was crazy"

Deku said slowly "uraraka [lastname] your bleeding" todoroki eyes widened a bit as he walked closer to you and saw the cut under your ear. "You're sure your ok [yourname]" todoroki said quietly. You knew he was worried he never called you by your name ever only if he was mad or worried he always called you a nickname.

"Sho I'm fine just shaking up that's all" he nodded and you put yiu arm around him. He couldn't hug yiu due to the fact he was carrying a boy from 1-B.

"Deku what happened to you, you look horrible" uraraka asked the green hair boy on his classmates back "join our group we are protecting kaccan and making our way to camp" tyu replied calmly "if you're protecting bakugou shouldn't he be with you guys" "what are you talking about he is right behi-" deku was cut of to see bakugou was not there.

Deku looked shocked as he looked around to see no sign of bakugou. A male voice coming from a tree said "nice trick a I took the lad you talking about with my magic. Talent like his would be squander if he was cast as a hero. We'll give him a grander stage were he can truly shine."

"Give him back" deku yelled at the man in a long yellow coat. your hand stated to glow with yiu magic as you prepared to attack him

"Give him back what a odd thing to say bakugou don't belong to anyone he is his own person don't be arrogant"

"We'll stop you" deku yelled as todoroki froze the ground "why the aggressiveness we much show him whatelsethereis other than hero life" said he man a he jumped to avoid the attack

"It is not just bakugou he took tokoyami to." Shoji yelled "if you are monologing just because you think you've got use beat your mistaken" todoroki yelled

The man said simplely "sorry habit of mine I used to be and entertainer you know. Tokoyami was a bit if improv on my part. When I saw tokoyami take moonlight down so fast I thought I must take him too"

"You basterd" deku yelled as you flew up and thought a blast at him and todoroki gave the boy for class 1-B to uraraka. The ice blast todoroki shot was one of the tallest you have seen every in the time you have known yiu boyfriend

"Apologize by slight of hand is my specialty" he yelled as he jumped and escaped. He started to talk in his com. You landed from the air and stumbled back a bit. Yiu felt todoroki catch you "you ok" he asked

"Yup just thrown off that's all" you said standing up and fixing you shirt. And get ready to go after the man and your classmates.

"We'll stop them" said todoroki and deku as you all stated to run after them. You and you class were struggling to keep so yiu took flight to follow him. You got close multiple time but he always out ran You.

Then you saw todoroki deku and Shoji fly though the air to catch up with you in the air and they hit the man to the ground. You tried to soften there fall with you quirk but it didn't work as well as you thought. The 4 of them landed on he ground of a small clearing that had other villains around it like the girl that you fought earlier. "who are they" you heard one of the villains that you do not recognize said.

A blast of flame went out and it hit you flannel lighting it on fire. You heard todoroki ask if everyone was ok you yelled that you were fine as you took of your buring flanel. a villain jump and tried to attack todoroki but he was blocked by an ice wall. toga charged where you were with the hurt deku. you blocked her attack as she tried to pin deku to the ground and get his blood you tried to get her away from deku by she almost cut you and shoij knocked her off of him.

she threatened to cut you and shoij even thought yall were "not her type" you saw shoji pull 2 marbles out of his pocket and he said "these are tokoyami and bakugou"

"color me impressed" the villain said as todoroki made an ice wall to block the villain he was fighting. you and the other students there ran to get out of the clearing but a nomu and a smock villain showed up and blocked you. the smoke villain said "it has been five minutes so let's go dabi" toga said "sorry deku but see you later ok"

all the villains slowly entered the warp gate made by the smock based villain. "they don't have the kid" he villain said as you looked up and he continued "i wanted to let them gloat for a bit because they thought it was so smart to check my pockets, but let me explain a basic thing. if i'm showing something shiney it is because they is something else i don't want you to see" he then moved his mask to show on his tongue was bakugou and tokoyami. the marbles that shoij had took to their normal form as todoroki's ice. deku then charged at the man with bakugou and tokoyami as you tried to stop him but he just moved to fast for you so you joined in the sprint to get them both back.

"forgive me" the masked man said as he moved in the gate to escape. then Aoyama hit the man's mask and broke it. the man spit out of marbles and shoji was able to grab one that had tokoyami in it. dabi got to the one with bakugou in it after he blocked you, and todoroki for it. you and shoto slid on the ground as you missed bakugou. you were able to catch shoto so he did not get hurt anymore than he already had been.

all you hear before passing out was "checkmate" from villain and deku yelling "BAKUGOU NO!!" and then it all went black. The next thing you knew was waking up in a hospital with jiro and hagakure. the rescue of bakugou was done and all might retired after a extrem fight. you saw todoroki in the chair next to you bed he had bangges and small cuts on his face but he was ok and alive

I loved this but it took like 2 hours 👏 have a good day and night 🌙

Pixie out 🧚‍♀️

[librathefangirl]

COMING SOON: A Libra NNT Analysis

It's happening people! We're in the final week of this semester's classes. Yay! 🥳 Which means I'll have more free time for what I want to do, including:

Answering the asks that's been in my inbox for weeks now.

Finishing that Meliodas' sleep headcanons post that @7-ratsinatrenchcoat encouraged me to actually write (it's coming! hopefully soon)

Getting back to writing and actually updating my ongoing fics! (as well as new ones because my wips list just keeps growing)

But that's not what this post is about. This is about my Meliodas' Demon Secret Breakdowns(?) (I haven't decided on what to call them yet). Some of you probably know this by now, but one thing I will talk about repeatedly is Meliodas' demon secret, especially in regards to the earlier seasons - you know, when it was still a secret. (For example, see here, here or here).

And that's what this series of posts will be about too. Me looking back at season 1 and 2 (and a bit of 3 as well) with Meliodas' demon secret in mind and just... overanalyzing/rambling about it. How does his secret actually develop/get revealed? How does actually knowing Meliodas' full truth change the way those earlier scenes play out??

Right now we're looking at a series of 8 parts (of varying lengths):

Part 1 - Pre-season 1, Meliodas' history from the curse and all the way up until the start of season 1. Key moments include: a demon-free Britannia, Meliodas' immortality, Danafor, coming to Liones, and what the fuck do each of the Sins actually know?

Part 2 - Season 1 part 1, episode 1 through 13 (Introduction, Forest of White Dreams, Baste Dungeon, Capital of the Dead and Vaizel Fight Festival arcs). Key moments include: Meliodas' immortality (again), Dalmary, and Vaizel.

Part 3 - Season 1 part 2, episode 14 and 15 (Armor Giant arc). Key moments include: Dale, and - yeah, Dale. That's it. It's all about Dale. (There's just so much symbolism to unpack there).

Part 4 - Season 1 part 3, episode 16 through 24 (Kingdom Infiltration arc). Key moments include: the Coffin of Eternal Darkness, Ban and the goddess, the red and gray demons, and Hendrickson.

Part 5 - Signs of Holy War + Season 2 part 1, Signs of Holy War and season 2 episode 1 through episode 12 (Post-Kingdom Infiltration, Albion, Istar, and (part of) Ravens arcs). Key moments include: Ban Vs Meliodas, the goddess in the horn, Gowther's reveal, the Albion and Ten Commandments, and Istar.

Part 6 - Season 2 part 2, episode 13 through 24 (Ravens, Great Fight Festival, and Defensive Battle for Liones arcs). Possibly some season 3 episodes as well? Key moments include: Great Fight Festival, Meliodas Vs the Ten Commandments, Meliodas' death, Meliodas' resurrection, Meliodas Vs Fraudrin, and post Meliodas Vs Fraudrin.

Part 7 - Meliodas and Ban, from first meeting up through season 3 episode 1.

Part 8 - Meliodas and King, from first meeting up through season 3 episode 7 (up through the Memories of the Holy War arc).

[newpathwrites]

Thoughts on season finale - spoilers under the cut:

1. Din Grogu???

2. I liked it overall - very much a Star Wars ending I think, but I worry that Din is being phased out. He’s not on Mandalore and no face reveal requiring PP’s presence on set. That’s concerning, though I’m happy Din clearly still has a role to play in the franchise.

3. So the darksaber is meaningless then I guess? They created this powerful lore for a single season arc just to destroy it.

4. Din’s fighting skills are back! Those scenes were awesome between Din, Bo, and Grogu against Gideon. Such teamwork using each of their skills. You go, Grogu! And the Bacta spray was hilarious!

5. Mandalorians working together, and Bo and the Armorer leading the charge! My feminist heart loves it.

6. I now like Axe. He’s cool in my book.

7. Ragnar finally finished his induction into the tribe, yay!

8. Why no acknowledgment of Paz?

9. Din x Bo? Why spend an entire season building this relationship so methodically (more than any relationship previously on this show) just to let it fizzle out at the end with no explanation or closure? Maybe it means there’s more to come. But it’s just weird to me - be it romantic, platonic/familial, or a more courtly thing. They were basically ‘partners’ on some level for quite some time. And then they kill Gideon and just… nothing after that…. Might need to write some missing scenes 🤔. Pedro… tell us… what did she do to you???

10. There are no other spies - they got us good on that one.

Anyway, it was a great finale even if I think there’s some weirdness and loose ends. All of my predictions were wrong lol! And my fic is in fact totally irrelevant now (but it was fun writing it, nonetheless).

[daddycest-hub]

Yay to your Okay! :)

Don't apologize for things that are out of you control, am I a bit sad and miss being naughty with you? Yes.

But I mostly just feel bad you can't enjoy your time and brain as much as you deserve! :( :)

What's up in TV Showland? ;3

I'm sorta OK/with a bit of Lost in a Brain Fog-itis. :) :/ :P

Thanks for being understanding <3 I'm finding time to rest where I can, I just haven't been in the right headspace to write things is all

Well.....

I've been keeping up with Tracker and Fire Country. Oh! And the start of Jared/Camden's arc in Fire Country starts this friday! We already have a promo with him ;)

I also finished season 1 of Blood & Treasure and I've started season 2 this morning

I finished season 4 of The Vampire Diaries and I'm starting season 5 today alongside the spinoff, The Originals

I picked up some DVDs this weekend so I was able to start watching the Buffy spinoff, Angel! I also picked up Buffy season 4

And.... I think that's about it! I know it's a lot but I'm having a good time with it

Oh, I'm sorry you've got brain fog :( I've been there. I hope it clears up soon <3

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#5

June Log 2022|Mid-2022 Log

“June?  What happened to May?”

Recharging.

Well, finally at the middle of the year.  Definitely falling behind my goals, but I have come to some realizations.

First and foremost, while I was looking forward to writing a book around the next year, I’ve come to realize it might be better to hold that off in favor of my planned webcomic.  We’ll see what I stick with by the end of the year, most likely.

I don’t have a second one, I don’t why I acted like I did.

I will say though, I think I need to introduce more routine in my life.  That way I can chip away at stuff more and feel more productive than my usual random bursts of 10k words in one sleep deprived night.

Other than that, June’s here, and I’m going to be swapping out other goals for new ones.

Yay.

Goals for 2022

Rewatch Red Vs Blue

Actually finished season 1.  Plan to finish the rest maybe around August.  Though I think I’ll only go up to season 14.  (Looking into the newest seasons some other time)

One inked and colored drawing a month (even if it’s just monochrome)

Failed and not continuing.  Maybe next year.

Doodle/Drawing Challenge (365 Days of Red-X)

Starts this month on the 8th.  (Was supposed to be May but I got the date wrong).

Finish two one arc of Three Strikes (other than the first arc).

Behind this one. so adjusting it to just one arc.  That arc is about 3 chapters, but could stretch to 4-5.

Finish plotting at least two books of a novel series.

I got this.  Partially.

Design the main cast of a webcomic I’m planning.

I have IDEAS.  Just trying to figure out what I want.  Thankfully most of them wear uniforms.

June Goals

Read Lightning Thief

Actually surprised I didn’t read this earlier considering I was interested in Greek Mythology when I was 12-13.  Fun book so far.

Also what the fuck’s with this kid.

Finish Chapters 2-3 of Three Strikes

Finally got free time AND the drive to write.

I swear once I actually get on a roll it’s over for my procrastination.

For a bit.

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2 notes - Posted June 2, 2022

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Okay but Deliver Us is great

3 notes - Posted February 12, 2022

#3

Another year another Tarah.

Decided to add some simplistic shading and give them some clothes for the first time (i still don’t have an entire outfit in mind).

Some notable changes that I’ve made to the 2021 version:

- Disgruntled Tarah

- Bye, bye back hair ombre (it felt too overpowering when I gave them clothes versus when they didn’t)

- Simplified the hair because it’s painful to draw.

- Simplified their facial markings because it looked way too much like overexaggerated eyeliner.

- Ears! I love tufted ears and need to be contained.  But also didn’t like the overly large/fluffy design.

- Rounder nose (might change back)

- Choker that totally has no relation to the plot.  Absolutely not.

4 notes - Posted April 30, 2022

#2

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Teen Titans (Animated Series), DCU Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Red X/Barbara Gordon, Red X & Dick Grayson, Red X & Jason Todd, Red X & Original Characters, Red X & Bruce Wayne, Red X & Teen Titans, Red X/Komand'r, Red X & H.I.V.E Five, Red X/Kyd Wykkyd, Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Red X (DCU), Teen Titans (DCU), Dick Grayson, Koriand'r (DCU), Garfield Logan, Victor Stone, Raven (DCU), Original Characters, Batfamily Members, Bruce Wayne, Barbara Gordon, Jason Todd, Komand'r (DCU), H.I.V.E Five, Jinx (DCU), Kyd Wykkyd (DCU) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Red X is his own character, Morally Ambiguous Character, Unreliable Narrator, Depression, Dark, Relationship-centric, Family, Team as Family, Canon Disabled Character, Romani Dick Grayson, Barbara Gordon is a BAMF, Multiracial Jason Todd, Underage Drinking, Implied/Referenced Underage Sex, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Background Relationships Summary:

One for the money.

Two for the show.

Three to be ready.

And four more to go.

___

He's a thief; he has been all of his life, and he is more than likely to go to the grave with this fact eternally hanging over his head. It's the only thing he's good at; that and ruining things for other people. In some screwed-up way, watching people get what they deserve is even fun for him; it's karmic justice.

But just like every other person, he has flaws and makes mistakes now and again.

And at this rate, they're going to catch up with him.

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Rated M for Mature Language and Violence.

5 notes - Posted January 12, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

I find the outrage about The Batman not being for kids funny because I've seen at least one person boldly say: "Has there EVER been a child-friendly Batman movie?"

Like Lego Batman didn't come out a few years ago.

16 notes - Posted March 6, 2022

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Hey! Secret Santa again! Just wanted to let you know that I have started your fic and it will be a canon divergent/fix-it fic (though I’ll keep the season it’s from a secret).

Some random questions.

What’s your favorite holiday?

Which of your fics is your favorite? Why?

Any new ideas for fics on the horizon (not counting your CSSS fic)?

Hi Santa!!!!

OMG IM SO EXCITEDDDD!!!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 those are my favorite!!!!

Ooh boy random questions yay!!

1. Favorite holiday:

Christmas!!

2. Favorite of my fics:

Ahhhh I have like over 25 OUAT fics now?! When did that happen?!

Hmm… I think one of my favorites to write was Firsthand (a Neverland oneshot) cause it felt like the first true OUAT fic I wrote when I got into the fandom and it feels really nostalgic to me because of that :) and I also really loved writing Hell to Pay (Underworld fic), Don’t Let Go (White Out divergence) and Begin Again. Those I wrote out of emotions I was really feeling with at the time (and Don't Let Go was a SS fic so it reminds me of Christmas and the fun I had writing it!) so it’s like I put everything I was feeling into them, and whenever I look back on them it feels like a sort of time capsule in a way. 😁❤️

3. New ideas:

Ahahaha too many! Sadly I have a very serious case of Lack of Muse(TM) going on right now, but I do have a very long list of both half written and unwritten CS stories to write haha. In addition to hopefully finishing Lost and Found in January haha, here’s some:

- a canon divergence where Hook was in Neverland the whole time s1 and s2 were going on and when Henry gets kidnapped and brought there he lands on Hook’s ship and Hook gets the chance to right the wrong he did with Bae

- A Tangled OUAT arc, like, as if the show had done one canonically ;) (obviously imagining they would have gotten Zach Levi to play Flynn). Also imagining a bromance between Flynn/Eugene and Killian😏😆 However I also had ideas of Killian and Flynn adventures in the Tangled world soooo lots of Tangled things? Hahaha

- a story bringing Emma and David closer as father and daughter 🙂

Those are 3 of what looks like 30+ I have here lol but I don't want this to get too long 😂

Thank you for the ask Santa and I can't wait to hear from you again and read my present!!!! :) :)

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Watching the Rise of the Titans movie and I'll be documenting all of my thoughts/reactions here. [Spoiler Warning]

So instead of reblogging every new update, I'm just going to have this post up on my phone as I watch and type my reactions in a bullet list format.

Nari's human disguise is so cute. As someone who does have a cottagecore aesthetic, I want to cosplay her so bad

Are Skrael and/or Belroc non-binary coded? Regardless, I'm also obsessed and I want to fuck Skrael and be Belroc.

STEVE CARING ABOUT JIM BEING HURT YESSSS!!! My god his redemption has probably been one of the greatest there is because he doesn't just suddenly go from being a bully to a completely good person. You can see the gradual shift in learning better throughout the shows which is awesome.

IN NEW YOOOOOOORRRRRRRK!!!!!! CONCRETE JUNGLE WHERE DREAMS ARE MADE OFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!

The mugshot montage reminded me of season 1 of trollhunters when toby and Jim were arrested at the museum.

STRICKLER PUT A RING ON IT??? HE'S THE ONLY DILF IVE EVER ACTUALLY AGREED WAS HOT WYM I CAN'T HAVE HIM??? well I'm still really happy about his arc over the series probably one of my favorite character growths.

Eli my guy got his growth spurt!!! As an 18 year old who is still 5'0", I'm happy but envious for him

So I went into this movie without watching any trailers or promo, but I doubt anything could have prepared me for the existence of mpreg. In fact, I wasn't going to document my reactions until I saw that.

NAMURA!!!!!!!!! MY BELOVED!!!!!! I CAN STILL THIRST FOR YOU WITHOUT GUILT

The coach teacher just called the kids zoomers so I have to dock one point from my final rating just because of that. Unforgivable

Those husky animation models suck lmao

Oh fuck the titans got power ranger zords!!

God why did they include the mpreg??? This movie would have been perfect without it.... After that plot point being revisited only one time I'm already beyond done with it

Like it's bringing me back to the v*ltron days where they're was a suspiciously high amount of klance omegaverse and mpreg fics and art created and it physically hurts because Steve and Keith's voice actor is the same person meaning this is especially cursed to me since I was unfortunately in the v*ltron fandom and remember all of that

But like on another note, how old are these characters again??? I haven't checked any wikis because of spoilers but is Steve an adult??? I know aja might be technically a lot older than 18 because alien but is whatever age she is equivalent to an adult as far as emotionally and physically in Akaridion development??? IS THIS A TEEN (M)PREGNANCY IN A KIDS SHOW????

Like bruh I saw a singular post on here before going into the movie that was like "rott spoilers without context" and there was a pregnant belly but I was absolutely not expecting the actual context of it. I'll find the post after I finish and edit this post to tag the creator right here: @makoden

This entire post is just gonna be me ranting about mpreg huh

Anyway I love the whole roundtable allusion to the legends of king arthur (not the toa version but the one he's based off)

THERE'S 3 TO 5 BABIES????? I need to take a break bruh this is just too much

Alright I've taken a 30 minute break got some food and did some things i love (decompressed by tactile stimming with some owl plushies and watched some videos on my favorite owl, Garu. He lives in Japan with his owner and is a domesticated eagle owl who basically just acts like a sky cat. If anyone else needs some eye bleach, here is their YouTube channel)

Blinky and ARRRGHHH!!! saying their "if one of us doesn't make it" talk my god one of them is going to die I can see it and I will be utterly crushed. Jim can't lose another father figure and Toby can't lose his wingman again I will riot if this happens

On a similar but unrelated to the movie note, can we just talk about how toa started with Jim having 0 dads and (if strickler and blinky live to the end) will end with 2 dads? Like I just really feel happy for him that he has two dads who actually figured out how to put the past behind them to not have any infighting between them so that both of them are healthy father figures. Jim has already been through literal hell and back losing his actual humanity in the process so if he loses one of them, I'm going to be really pissed because at this point, this is just Jim torture porn. Y'all know how as SpongeBob SquarePants went on, the show just became Squidward torture porn? It's starting to feel that way for toa and I really hope they cut the shit by the ending

Jlaire is such a good ship but like I feel like it's too perfect they never disagree with each other

YESSSSSSS Someone finally doesn't treat toby like a fat waste of space who messes stuff up!!! I think out of all the characters that would have been most deserving of a rewrite, it's Toby. Sometimes I just feel he's only comic relief and any heartfelt moments he's had in the series was also born of stupidity (ie his flour baby project being unharmed was seen by him as divine intervention from his parents but was actually just Eli and Steve behind the scenes).

Ohhhhh yesssssss Archie's father!!! I was hoping I'd see him again because we got so little of him last

Ooooooooooh Asian trollmarket!!!!!

Oh never mind slavery trollmarket

Bruh titanic camelot

I feel like we're not seeing enough of the villains because I completely forgot about the power ranger zord things

NAMORA NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MY LAST CRUSHHHH

STRICKLER NO NOT YOU TOO PLEASE

WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE ONLY TWO CHARACTERS I SIMP FOR ON THIS SHOW DIED WITHIN FIVE MINUTES OF EACH OTHER

THAT WHOLE ASS RANT I WROTE IS COMING TRUE FUCK THIS MOVIE THIS SERIES IS JUST JIM TORTURE PORN

WAIT JIM'S SPERM DONOR INFO?

Oh thank God I don't want to know anything about that person

For the record, I call that man Jim's sperm donor because he has no business being called a father to him. All he did was donate some swimmers to the creation of him and give him abandonment issues

Oh another blind troll elder???? This fucker is just if vendel was a bad guy

Bruh I was grieving

PACIFIC RIM WITH GUN ROBOT VEX AND THE BELROCZORD? I've never seen that movie but I know the reference

Bruh Blinky doesn't read horoscopes? Does he realize conspiracy theories are just the manly version of horoscopes?

NO DON'T KILL VEX STOP KO-ING FOUND FAMILY MEMBERS

Oh thank God he's okay

NO NOT ARCHIE AND CHARLEMAGNE OH MY GOD

oh never mind they're just gonna coup de tat I believe in them :))

But I want to see him again

But I'm glad to see vex

Yay they're in arcadia!

But yeah I wondered why the trolls and Merlin didn't keep the whole "daylight doesn't hurt trolls" feature from the eternal night but now Guillermo del Toro I see you were playing the long con in that just to kill my girl Namora :(((

Oooooh I love the animation of the Narizord over Chihuahua!! It looks very good and realistic (if only they could have put some of that into those huskies from before smh)

Bruh the character designs of the arcane order are so good I want to be them

Nari making sure the Skraelzord doesn't crush the bus

DAMN DOUBLE HOMICIDE

Bruh I'm just glad we finally have an answer on why arcadia had everything going on as opposed to literally anywhere else!! I always found that as a weird coincidence for plot convince.

BRUH WERE BACK TO THE MPREG IM SO JEALOUS I FORGOT ABOUT THAT EVEN THOUGH IT WAS BECAUSE I WAS GRIEVING THE LOSS OF MY LOVELIES.

Oh that's real convenient that the ninth configuration meant all of them. Way to not decide which character gets more attention. Though it probably was a smart way to not have any infighting in the fandom between each character's stan group.

Bruh I just realized where is Barbera did they just ditch her on the Camelot ship???

And where are the other trolls that migrated at the end of trollhunters s3? They said something about new jersey but obviously Jim and the other main characters got on Camelot instead.... This feels like a plot hole

And we never learned the process of how changelings are made and bonded to humans and stuff. We just know it's super painful but I'm curious ffs!!!!

THE DONT THINK BECOME HERO SPEECH ALL SAID TOGETHER!!!

BRUH THEY REALLY HAD TO SHOW HIM GIVING BIRTH??????? WAS THAT AN ABSOLUTE MUST??????

Plus the main audience for this series is little children (the rating for the movie is literally TV-Y7) so even though my adult ass is not in the target audience, I STILL DONT UNDERSTAND WHY WOULD MPREG AND ANAL BIRTH WOULD BE AN IMPORTANT THING TO 7 YEAR OLDS???? THIS IS A LITERAL FETISH HIDDEN IN KIDS CONTENT ITS ELSAGATE ALL OVER AGAIN Y'ALL 😭😭😭😭😭

Though it's probably hypocritical of me to think fetishes don't belong in kids tv when I've openly admitted to thirsting for strickler and namora

HUZZAH

NEW AMULET WAZ GOOD????

STAB THAT BITCH JIM

WAIT NO I SAID STAB NOT GET STABBED

Alright good job just missed the directions at first but you fixed it

SEVEN KIDS?????????

T O B Y ????????????

W A I T NO

N O

IS HE ACTUALLY

OH MY GOD THERE'S HOPE

NO THERE ISN'T

F U C K THIS SHIT THEY REALLY JUST HAD HIM TO BE BULLIED THEN KILLED

Y'ALL IM ACTUALLY CRYING THIS NEVER HAPPENS

I NEVER ACTUALLY GET SO EMOTIONAL OVER MEDIA THAT I CRY IT ONLY HAPPENED ONCE AT THE END OF VOLTRON BUT AHHHHHHHH

W A I T

HE'S GONNA BE BROUGHT BACK?????

HOLD UP THEY'RE JUST GONNA BRING ALL THOSE DEAD PEOPLE BACK??????

WAIT IS HE

BLINKY CALLED HIM A SON

HOLD ON IS THIS GOING TO BE A CLIFFHANGER???????????

BRUH THEY REALLY JUST CAN'T END THE SERIES WITHOUT CLIFFHANGERS like there's always an open ending

TROLLHUNTER TOBY????? You know what forget the whole rants I had on how toby was written they just redeemed it all

And that's all! I'd rate it a 6.5/10 because it's definitely the weakest of all the sequels but still had amazing animation and some good plot points. It's just really hard to look over the bad stuff enough to rate it any higher.

[luna-rainbow]

Sorry, didn't mean to go off on in response to that ask 😬😖 but it's so frustrating how both Sam and Bucky got nerfed so hard in regards to their abilities. Idk whether it's laziness, or lack of understanding around fight choreography or what.

I remember watching as it aired, and Bucky's downgrading was so obvious to the point of it being painful (like the fight on the trucks. Barely able to stay upright in a fight against untrained (albeit) super soldier's, when we have literally witnessed him mowing through multiple highly trained super soldiers before.)

But after it finished, and after rewatching tws and cw it struck me how much they downgraded Sam too. We've only seen him fight in short snippets before, but he is highly competent. And there's no doubt in my mind that he's even better than what we've seen.

They didn't have to downgrade Bucky in order to showcase Sam, because Sam was already on par with Bucky, just with a different skillset/fighting style. They could have been presented as equals, and complementary to each other, but instead they... Idk even what they did really. It's sort of like they pitted their styles against each other's instead of using it as an opportunity to show how they grew and worked together as a team. Idk... Sorry to rant in your inbox, feel free to ignore 😅

(Yay I finally got the chance to answer! (And sorry it got super long)

Honestly I’m on a bit of a TFATWS criticism spree here so please stop reading if you love this show.

I think the problem is (at minimum) twofold:

A) Most of the action scenes only served to move people from place to place without regard to what this meant for their characterisations.

The net result is that out of all the characters it was John Walker who got the main character treatment of having a logical character arc and fight scenes that all served to build on his character.

1 - Truck fight: Sam and Bucky are BOTH nerfed in order for Walker to save them. This was supposed to establish Walker as well-intentioned and on par with our heroes. Except both Sam and Bucky were clearly punching wayyyy below their movie level while waiting for him to arrive. 2 - Wakandan fight: This fight served as a turning point for John as he became overwhelmed by a sense of inadequacy. However, to set up this fight, SAM went out of character to stop John from taking Zemo (this part was completely inane because Zemo ran away after this so clearly they didn't need him). And don't get me started on how Bucky went out of character to upset the Wakandans in the first place to set up this fight. 3 - Lemar/Flag Smasher death fight: I mean, let's be real, the protagonist of this entire fight was John. The target was John, the death was John's friend, the one who underwent major character evolution was John. Sam and Bucky were both on the sidelines, pulling their punches (although there's adequate in-plot justification for this). 4 - John vs Sam & Bucky fight: I already wrote half a chapter with Sam raging at Bucky's awful fighting style here so I'm not going to do it again LOL. But even SAM was brought down a peg to let John be a threat. Sam landed like...3 punches before he was pinned down and had his wings ripped off. And the characterisation in this fight? I'd say it built more of John getting deranged with the serum (don't @ me, he aimed for Sam and Bucky's heads multiple times while they were down)...with maybe a character beat for Sam coming to terms with the shield at the end. 5 - Final fight: Sam got some good sequences (I'm not sold on the Batroc fight), but John was able to finish off his character arc by a redemption. I'm not going to comment on Bucky because it will just remind me of Spellman's infuriating quote.

In other words, John was the only one in the series where the fights themselves told a coherent story, and in fact Sam and Bucky’s characters were warped to facilitate this. Examined purely from the quality of character development to the care paid to consistency and continuity, you’d think John was the main character, and that’s just...ironic.

B) A conscious decision to make Sam and Bucky not carry any arms against the Flag Smashers.

I feel like this is to parallel current events with Sam and Bucky representing police, and the Flag Smashers representing POC youths. Without getting into whether this allegory is appropriate or effective: it takes away what Sam and Bucky have been using in previous movies. Sam was always backed up by guns in the air, and Bucky also either used guns or knives. The easy fallback is to say that they seem weaker because they're not using weapons anymore, but it doesn't have to be this way.

As I said in my earlier post, Gundam Seed showed it is absolutely possible to have a main character who is staunchly non-lethal but still kicks major ass.

I know Kira has a lot of detractors but here's his signature move: disarm enemy armoured suits without killing the pilots. (GIF by mecha-gifs)

I know this is obviously a completely different type of fighting but Kira, as a main character, sustained this philosophy for the majority of 2 seasons of 50 episodes. He also started off in a basic suit which doesn't let him disarm multiple enemies like this, so his earlier fights were all "hand to hand" fights but he still managed to (mostly) avoid killing people. What I mean is, if they really tried, they could definitely make Sam and Bucky kick ass while being non-lethal. They just...didn't try.

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The twist wasn't predictable they were foreshadowing it the entire time ,this whole episode was character work. The parallels of butcher and Homelander becoming their fathers and repeating the sins of the past etc. It's fantastic and so much better than twists that make no sense happening just for shock value and no one expecting them because they're just a mess. This twist ties into the narrative so well and propels the entire story in a different direction

Been contemplating whether I should respond to this or not, seeing how I haven't rewatched the earlier seasons prior to this one, and my judgment might therefore be interpreted as poor gripes that hold no weight. But everyone is entitled to have their opinion, and considering I already bashed on one aspect, let me elaborate on how I came to said conclusion:

Keep in mind before I dive into my tangent: Your emotional response to anything is valid and an individual experience no other person can criticise or take from you, yet can easily vary.

Here's where ours may differ:

I personally checked out somewhere amidst season 2 in terms of investment for this show but finished it nonetheless. (My main gripes, eloquently phrased by someone far better with words: here!) Season 2, for me, just didn't hit the marks. The characters felt foreign to those we got introduced to in Season 1 – barely any of them had well-written, fully-fleshed-out character arcs that made sense, and didn't feel contrived. 

While the boys has always been a satire on modern culture – Season 2, and now 3, on top of everything, feel like a one-sided shoehorned political stance made by the writers of the show. (Once again, best explained by someone more eloquent than me: here!) My interest for season 3 only got sparked by a promising-looking trailer – that, judging by it, would finally pick up the "main" motivation again, and progress the story, rather than running the same circles/concepts Season 2 did – and, of course, a new, popular addition to the cast. The latter aspect, evil tongues might argue, was used for marketing purposes, considering this actor ranks high in popularity – he could convince viewers who felt dissatisfied with Season 2 to tune back in and additionally increase viewership.

Now, here's my problem that carries on in Season 3:

-This show, since the beginning of Season 2, has felt like plot points our characters have to meet instead of them naturally progressing. 

-The characters either don't develop or keep running the same circles differently, best example: Maeve, Kimiko, Frenchie, Hughie, A-Train, Deep. They keep inserting subplots that scatter in multiple directions with no ends, no connecting tissue to our main story – and if there is, then that's their justifiable contribution to the story. Maeve has been a strong character in Season 1 and gradually became less interesting in Season 2. Now, she's reduced to a bland character who merely helps set the plot in motion – her only purpose is to supply Butcher the Compound V doses for them to juice up. Kimiko and Frenchie were interesting characters with intriguing backstories who each had an important role in the team. Now, they're the sidelined lovey-dovey couple who the writers seemingly have no idea how to incorporate into their story, other than making stuff up to justify their involvement in the plot. -> Cue: Kimiko's very impulsive decision-making regarding her powers, the call-backs to her brother, Frenchie's sudden Russian mafia subplot, etc. They both just feel like empty tag-alongs, that show up when needed, and then disappear.

A-Train, in my opinion, should have died when he dragged Blue Hawk. Not only did his obnoxious, too-on-the-nose story lead nowhere, but he also survived and lived to see another season.. yay? And Deep has not seen development since he got kicked out of the Seven. Or Noir...Or Ashley.

-Starlight has been a mole ever since Season 1, and, if I recall correctly, has been found out there as well. Yet they keep portraying her in the same light: The anxious hero sitting on hot coals, threatened and put in nerve-wracking situations to up the stakes for the boys, waiting to bust, yet they never go beyond with her. As do her and Hughie's conflicts in their relationship, they keep cycling back. She lost all appeal to me when her character got reduced to a social media star rather than a selfless hero with real powers – lo and behold, her mighty leverage: Followers. (Who Homelander could not be bothered by one second and then frightens the next.)

-Speaking of: It might just be me, but he gets less scary as well. I genuinely loved him in Season 1 – the unhinged, unpredictable "hero", rein by the only woman who comes through to him and holds some form of control over him. Only for her to be killed by his hand, to eliminate his weakness. But do we get the rampant unstoppable force of nature? No, we revert back to the same state with a different person holding the reins: Stormfront. Even now, in Season 3, we still have not seen him as the unhinged monster – several characters talk about him a certain way, but it doesn't line up with what we see as the audience. 

Also not a big fan of humanising him by establishing his origin with Soldier boy – he's a disconnected, apathetic Supe with a god complex. I would've preferred if they'd let him be the product of his environment and not a carbon-copy of his ruthless father, who happens to be him, had he lived in another time with fewer insecurities and issues: a rampant monster.

-This leads me to the focal point of this tangent: Soldier Boy. We all knew he'd be the new season's baddie. They wouldn't hire him for him to make a few limited appearances. We knew, they knew, promotion proved it. Soldier boy's supposed to be Steve Rogers, a man from another time, if he were a cruel, selfish nob who only ever got positive recognition by the media. (Which, admittedly, is a fascinating yet frightening take, especially him being confronted by all these modern developments, ex: Technology, Gender roles, sexuality, etc.) Going from this alone, he'd HAVE to be greatly tied into past affairs and serve a purpose for being brought back into current times. Seeing how the Homelander's genetic experiment turned out to be a massive focus last season, it was a reasonable guess these two would have some sort of connection. He's a new character from old times, played by a famous actor – of course, they'd play the father card. 

To me, it was predictable. 

"Foreshadowing is a literary device used to give an indication or hint of what is to come later in the story. Foreshadowing is useful for creating suspense, a feeling of unease, a sense of curiosity, or a mark that things may not be as they seem. In the definition of foreshadowing, the word “hint” is key." – meaning: if you can guess it before diving into the story, it defeats its purpose and thus doesn't work.

They strived to subvert expectations but played right into them, which is why I proclaimed it a disappointment. As you might have noticed, I didn't like Season 2 and have not been swayed by the current airing one yet. I hoped for a turn as they did with Stranger Things when things went downhill, but was met, as of yet, with the same concepts presented differently. With characters gradually losing their appeal and motivations, with shoehorned politics, very convenient solutions presented in a moments notice, and a rather dull storyline, all baited by the appearance of a beloved actor. The dad-twist feels to me like the key element they build their story upon while padding the rest with subplots. 

I'm entitled to my opinion, which is not immune to criticism, but affected by biases and emotional responses. I respect that yours is different, hence why you perceive and draw varying conclusions. Both are good, both are valid. If you enjoy the content they put out, then I'm happy for you! This novel-like response is not to diminish your view or to take a defending stance regarding my previous statement(s) but to heighten the derivation on how I came to my conclusion.

I hope you enjoy the rest of the season, have a lovely day and thank you for your mail in my inbox! :)

[the-lady-bryan]

some observations i’ve made recently about my kid and power rangers

for context: i own the following on DVD - MMPR 1-3 (including the Alien Rangers arc), Zeo, Turbo the movie, Turbo the season, In Space, Lost Galaxy, RPM, Mystic Force, MMPR: The Movie (1995), Power/Rangers (2017), that one weird Live Show that they did back during MMPR days

also, my kid is 7.

SO! Power Rangers Official has been uploading entire seasons and recently added ALL of MMPR S1 to Youtube. They also have at the time of writing this, the Megaforce and Jungle Fury seasons steaming in full and on a loop. They’ve got a good portion of Dino Thunder posted as well, and some other seasons, too. Well, when I’m sick and too lazy to pull out my DVDs i just hit up Youtube or Dailymotion (for the episodes i can’t find on youtube) and watch Power Rangers to make myself feel better while stuck in bed with a cold or stomach flu or whatever’s wrong with me.

well, my son’s decided to climb up in bed with me and curl up and watch it with me.

last weekend and earlier this week, i’ve been sick with a wicked cold after getting over an even more wicked stomach flu that lasted about 5 days. so i’ve been watching A LOT of Power Rangers recently. as a result here’s a bunch of cute things my kid does that i’ve noticed...

the moment he hears “After 10,000 years I’m free!” he comes running into the room from wherever he is in the house. kid literally drops whatever he’s doing and runs in to jump up on the bed and settle in.

he loves the zord fights more than anything else

he tries to physically fight goldar. i have to keep him from punching my monitor or throwing my laptop because he really hates that guy and wants to hit him so badly every time he fights the red ranger. when it’s on the TV, he will get up, slap the TV, shout “bad doggie!” and then get back on the bed.

he shouts “oh no!” every time the putties, tengu bird things, cogs, and other henchmen show up. he does this without fail every time.

when it’s putties, he also starts making the same noises they do and then giggles about it.

when the zords are animals he’s like “raaaaaawwwwrrrrr!” when they’re cars he’s like “VROOOOOOOM!”

after Tommy, Kat, and Co. give their powers to TJ and the rest in the Turbo season, he refuses to watch the rest of the season. i have tried to get him to finish watching it with me, but he throws a fit, gets up, and leaves. or he’ll slam my laptop closed before storming off. it really makes him mad.

he doesn’t get mad about In Space for some reason though despite most of the rangers being the same people from the rest of Turbo.

he annoys me while watching the 1995 movie until i begin quoting Ivan Ooze dialogue at him. after which he shouts “hiyah!” and pretends to karate chop my arm. he does this for the whole damn movie after ivan ooze first turns up. if i don’t play along, he slams my laptop closed or turns off the DVD player in a huff.

he will watch the 2017 movie but only because he likes the music. when there’s not music playing, he goes off and colors or something else. the moment music he likes comes back on, he comes back to watch.

also from the 2017 movie, he likes billy the best, and will carry around the blue ranger figure he stole from me. (he also stole my pink and red rangers from this movie, too. but he only carries the blue one around.) he gets really upset - like full on ugly “its the end of the world” cry with snot everywhere - when billy dies and i now have to skip that part and go straight to the part where he’s alive again.

he only watches RPM for the zord fights.

he’s not fond of Lost Galaxy or Mystic Force.

he yells at Mesagog during Dino Thunder. his favorite thing to yell is “BAD DINO!” and swat the tv or my computer with his coloring book like he’s swatting a bad dog for pissing on the carpet or something. he will also sometimes yell at Trent when he’s evil. when he yells at trent, it’s unintelligible shouting. after trent is no longer evil, he will sit and say sometimes “i’m not doing anything bad”.

he now also says “i’m not doing anything bad” during MMPR where tommy is the white ranger. - i think he’s come to associate this phrase with all white rangers at this point.

every time Tommy is shown in the opening credits for Dino Thunder, he claps his hands and shouts “YEAH BOY!” and then goes back to whatever it was he was doing once the open credits are done.

Dino Thunder specifically - if he looks like he’s not paying attention, he actually is. and if i turn off the episode or pause it, he gets mad and yells until i turn it back on/unpause it. then he’ll go back to looking like he’s ignoring the thing.

he doesn’t care much about Samurai, but Ninja Steel is one that makes him lose his shit. he fucking loves those ninja stars.

what we’ve seen so far of Dino Fury - the moment he sees the T-Rex zord in the opening, he’s right there, nose to the screen, clapping excitedly. he also tries to use my broom as a sword while the episodes are on. this has caused a broken window and quite a few lumps on my head when i haven’t been able to get it from him fast enough and replace it with a much less deadly wrapping paper tube.

even in seasons where Alpha in any form is NOT there (so everything post-zordon era) when robots are shown other than zords and megazords he shouts “ai-yai-yai!” - this was fine... until seasons with lots and lots of robots as bad guys.

[blackbatpurplecat]

What do you think of Catwoman in the video games (Arkham City & Knight, Tell Tale, Injustice)? Which are you favorites and do you think TPTB would ever come out with a solo game of her's?

Yay, finally I get to say something NICE! XD Short answer: They’re (almost) all great! My absolute favorite is Catwoman in the Telltale games!

Very long answer incoming:

Lemme rank them from the one I like the least to the one I love the most. That’s probably the easiest way to answer this. There are many more games Catwoman is appearing in but they’re not really worth mentioning here.

3) Catwoman in Injustice 1+2

Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of Catwoman in those two but that’s no big surprise when the cast is bigger than the one in Avengers: Endgame. She’s fantastic in the tie-in comics but I can’t count those here.

So in part 1, she’s Bruce’s ex who ratted him out to protect him and after everything, she still wants to redeem herself and get back together with him. I liked her purple-gray costume (the weird steampunk one with the tail... not so much), I liked her voice-actress who also voiced her in the Arkham games, Grey DeLisle. I liked her cunningness, how she quickly figured out that Cyclops was a different Cyclops and made him blow his cover.

I understand that Selina would do something more selfish to protect the man she loves. She wanted Supes to spare Bruce and for that, accepted that many other people would die - BUT I will never understand WHY they wrote her arc like that. Why not write her as Bruce’s loyal partner and girlfriend? Why couldn’t she be on his side in the fight against Superman and the Regime? Even Harley and Luthor were! At least, they didn’t make her entirely evil, she did have good intensions but was misguided. And her ending had a feeling of hope in it.

Years later, she’s apparently reached her goal of redemption, found her way back to Bruce, and is now working as a double agent for the Insurgency. This time, she has more than only two scenes but we don’t learn much more about her, her relationship with Bruce, or her arc. You gotta read the comics for that... And again, not a huge fan of her costumes in this one but it’s cool that you can modify them to your liking. 

Her ending is the worst in this however. After what she’s been through with Bruce, after fighting with him, against him, redeeming herself, earning his trust again, and getting back to his side, she... just leaves him because she got bored. Wow. What fucking idiot wrote that?!

All in all, she’s a minor character in both games, her arc happens mostly off-screen, they don’t do anything new or outstanding with her but I enjoyed seeing her. Too bad, you can’t play as her.

2) Catwoman in the Arkham games

Now THAT’s more like it! ❤️Back then, I only bought Arkham City because you could play as Catwoman in it. I didn’t know much more about the game, I had never played its predecessor, I only wanted to play as Catwoman - and boy oh boy what a glorious purchase that turned out to be!

To this day, I still adore Arkham City, so much so that I bought it three times (CD + Steam + PS4). I can play it in my sleep! And it made me buy Asylum, Origins, Blackgate, and Knight, half of them were good and some also had Catwoman!

City - Her part in the game is a short side quest that’s not really connected to the main story: Catwoman wants to steal from Hugo Strange’s vault, convinces Ivy to help her break into it, then she leaves her loot behind to save Batman’s life, then tracks down Two-Face to get her stolen loot back, and after finishing him, retrieves her loot. She then decides to stay in Arkham City because it’s still dangerous there a.k.a. fun!

While it’s a shame that Catwoman and Batman only meet twice, they do save each other’s lives. The banter and flirting could certainly be better in this though. Her story isn’t anything new BUT it’s perfectly executed and it’s exactly what Catwoman’s like. She’s playful and seductive (they could have turned down her horniness about a few points - but you gotta please the fanboys *sigh*), she’s looking after herself, she only does what she wants (so she won’t return the plant to Ivy who had treated her so badly), but in the end, she does the right thing by saving Batman because she has a good heart.

While her side story felt tagged on, I really enjoyed it! I just love playing as her, beating up thugs, using the whip, and crawling on the ceilings. Also you get to wear the BTAS suit AND the purple Long Halloween suit! YAY!

Blackgate - It starts with Batman chasing Catwoman across the rooftops for the very first time, that’s just a fantastic intro! And I really liked their fight towards the ending for its very interesting execution. This time, Catwoman is not playable but both a suspicious ally who helps Batman with information and an enemy Batman has to defeat. Which I get because they’ve basically just met and don’t know each other yet.

The lack of trust is also the reason why Catwoman’s playing him like she is in the game. She figures him out rather quickly and cleverly uses his urge to save and protect others against him to get access to what she had been told to get from Blackgate. Manipulating Batman into helping her completing her mission is a real Catwoman-y move so the Arkham games continue the trend of “getting” her character. Well, except for having Catwoman lick herself like a cat.

Knight - Selina’s third and last appearance in the Arkham games. She’s kinda playable and she’s no enemy BUT she’s a damsel in distress... ... ... Okay, Knight, what do have for us?

Riddler, of all people, has captured Catwoman and uses her to play with Batman. Well, at least it proves that everyone knows about the relationship between the Bat and the Cat (yet Catwoman keeps saying they’re not close - oh honey, no one believes you). Selina’s wearing an explosive collar and Batsy has to find Riddler trophies and complete riddles (and for some fucking reason drive races!) to unlock the keys to set her free.

Catwoman’s kinda playable since you can’t explore the city with her but you can switch to her while you’re solving Riddler’s contraptions or fight his robots. The dual team feature in the game was magnificent in general. I would have loved to play more as her but at least, she’s not just sitting around waiting for Bruce to save her but is partaking in her own rescue.

The chemistry between Bruce and Selina is the best part of this Riddler mission. Neither fears nor takes Eddie seriously and especially Selina drops so many awesomely annoyed comments and jabs against him, but gets increasingly more worried. While we saw BatCat meet in Blackgate, in Knight they’ve known each other for years and it shows. There’s no other character in the game Batman talks to in the way he talks to Catwoman. It’s... casual, funny, flirty. Additionally, you can clearly hear his worry for her in his voice. In the end, Selina even comes back to help Batman with Riddler even though she didn’t have to - she wanted to! And offers more of her help, it’s so obvious how much he means to her.

I love Batman and Catwoman working together and flirting and bantering while fighting other Rogues but the only thing that’s holding this back from being perfect is the series’ idiotic insistence that Bruce is still mourning the al Ghul chick which we all know is bullshit. And Selina doesn’t know Batman’s identity?! Come on.

To sum it up, I really liked Catwoman’s attitude and portrayal in Knight but would have loved to have more of her in the game. What we got was passable enough to have fun with. Bonus points for the 90s Balent suit you can put her in!!! If only there was an Arkham game in which both characters were playable and constantly working together, now THAT would be my dream!

1) Catwoman in the Telltale games

Where do I start? The voice? The charm? The complexity? 

She’s not playable but that doesn’t make this game and her in it less perfect. We again meet a clever, confident, I-mostly-care-about-myself Selina who’s great at fighting and stealing and manipulating. She’s caught Harvey in her trap to get close to his buddy, rich boy Bruce Wayne. She instantly finds out that he’s Batman (same way he finds out that she’s Catwoman) and they form a rocky alliance which either blooms into something deeper or not, depending on your decisions.

The makers of the game understand her the way Rocksteady did but add a softer layer to her. She’s playful, seductive, and doesn’t take no shit from anyone and in episode 3 of the first season, we see a vulnerable Selina for the first time. A woman who doubts she could ever be more than a cat burglar. She does take pride in her skills and doesn’t apologise for what she does (she even says “you shouldn’t trust me”) but you notice that she’s longing for a connection, for someone who trusts and relies on her without weighing her down. 

I personally had the impression that she felt a bit honored that Batman would support her and have faith in her the way he did in my playthrough. It gave her a chance to prove to herself that she could do more, be more. And that it felt good to have someone she in turn could rely on and trust which proved to her that the world maybe wasn’t as bad as she’d thought, that she could let her guard down once in a while. There was also another side we don’t see often on her: She didn’t want to face Harvey at the hospital. Maybe due to cowardice, shame, you decide.

Her last scene in season 1 wasn’t the best, it was just her going back to her old ways, seemingly leaving behind her character development from previous episodes but she probably wasn’t at the point of staying and saving people yet. It was the usual move to save herself and telling herself that she’s a bad person who doesn’t have feelings for Bruce. Changing yourself isn’t hard, it’s not changing back to your old self that is, and I think that’s what happened there, she simply fell back into her old self. 

In season 2, she returns as the thief we all know and love. They didn’t change her, her actions and dialogue lines fit the character we met in season 1. This time, we also see her vengeful side as she’s trying to get revenge for her dead friend, Riddler, and she won’t let anyone get in her way, not even Bruce.

Later, she wants Bruce to tell her that he needs her and he can’t take down Harley and the rest without her, proving she wants to be needed and trusted as I’d mentioned before. Same goes for admitting that it means a lot to her that he lets her into his secret life. Season 2 shows us that everything from season 1 did leave an impact on her and her development is slowly moving forward. One lovely example is her being surprised by a hug in S1 and in S2, she hugs Bruce first.

To put lots of rambling briefly I LOOOVE Telltale’s Catwoman! She’s not just a cunning thief but a woman with feelings, hopes, fears, layers. I really hope we will get a third season someday, especially since we didn’t get any closure scenes with Selina, no matter which Joker we fought in the last S2 episode.

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Now regarding her own game... She had one already with a 1999 Game Boy Color game. Nothing huge but I count it. Especially since she’s wearing her 90s suit in it. 😉

I would very much welcome a Catwoman game with her as the lead! An Arkham like game: open world Gotham, you get to meet many Rogues, you have to flee from Batman and/or fight his kiddies. Maybe you need to team up with Harley and Ivy, or with Batgirl! OR make it like a Lara Croft game with lots of breaking and entering, and stealing valuable artefacts.

Alas, I think the chances of getting a Catwoman game are very slim! DC are so focused on Batman and Superman, they won’t spend millions of dollars on the production of a game that’s... not starring at least one of those two. I mean there’s not even a Wonder Woman game so why would they make one starring Catwoman? A shame really.

[bookwormdeen]

Love 101 (Aşk 101) Theories and Connections

Hi! I am back again! This time I have theories. I was reading some theories about the TV show and guess what? I played Sherlock and investigated some of them. Follow me! 

I did a playlist to you listen while reads my crazy text.

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I put there some 1990-2000′s songs + covers + songs from the show

I don’t know turkish songs, if you know share.

SOME FINDINGS AND OBSERVATIONS

1. Eda is the source of problems

Don’t judge me. Eda is a good person and character, I love her draws and attitude. I want to prove another thing here. Let’s focus in three big confusions that happened: the debate one (EP1), the broke up of their early friendship (EP3) and the laboratory fight (EP7). All of them had Eda involved in the first moment or as a catalyst that only made things worse. 

In the debate she messed with lights and threw a sticker in Kerem’s face. When Sinan panicked with Işık act, Eda said “We were not friends anyway” and she hurt Kerem’s feelings too. She burst and everyone went sideways. And she played with Burak, that later provoked that huge fight in the laboratory. 

“Troublemaker is you middle nameeeeee” - Olly Murs song. 

I think that Eda is a match to where is the fire. This can explain why she feels guilt of something. She was the center of another problem. 

Also, the older Eda feels sorry for what she became: what her parents wanted. She lost her attitude, angry and fire. Something happened to her prefer marriage and children. Remember when Sinan told her that she prefers someone making her decisions? This happened because she was running away of something, a problem that hurt her feelings. She ran away from who she was. Heavy.

2. Something surely happened to Sinan

Now don’t cry thinking he is dead. I will present some things to push that away. First: Love 101 is a comedy-romance. Meaning: they don’t go really deep into mind problems, they make it a trait (like eating disorder, depression, mania). So, Sinan did not commit suicide or died, because is too heavy to let the story proceed.

Second: Is love 101. How to love. How love create, ruin and heal. Is admiration, passion, entertainment.  If he dies the episode will be named after what: Lost, Hurt? I will not even come closer to it.

Third: Is a kid’s show (PG-13 rated). Do something big as a death will hurt the plot’s drama quality. And, suicide can’t be portrayed, so chill out kids. A thing that is possible is accidental death (Sinan, the guy that was hospitalized in the fight, Kemal or Burcu). 

Fourth: He is the narrator big love. Sinan appears a lot because Işık likes him the most and wanted to know him more deeply. Even if something really bad happens to him (STOP), we will not know now but very later in the show. She would crash with his death and she seems quite calm now, not crying or grief, just nervous to see them and not lose the house. She even sits in his bed, upstairs. So they were quite a romance. 

YES. I AM HOPEFUL. Stop saying that Sian dies because I will not take it. I will hate Netflix and the world.

Sinan is a good person reader. Is impressive actually. He hides his emotions but read it very well. He has scars. They eventually will come between him and Işık. Surely.  

If he is not dead, then what?

Something, maybe his grandfather’s death or university mixed with group fight and love problems will make him go away and never look back (that house for him is a sad place guys). Maybe he left without talking to anyone and Işık couldn’t contact him, but, for love, she stayed looking his house. Or maybe they were not a thing anymore (runs away).

Oh, and the prison choice (cringes). Seriously? He spend all his life alone and then, maybe, more 20 years alone? Unacceptable. 

People told me that his name appears in the prison scene but I really couldn’t see it. Does anyone have it? In my opinion, would be unfair make a person so lonely like this all his life. The show wants to end it with hapiness, how it would be possible after all this pain? If Sinan was in prison, no one visited him? that hurts.

The thing is, we will know what happened to him slowly because it is a result of what made the group went sideways and don’t talk for 20 years. What I mean: big huge separation situation --> Sinan leaves or dies.(no,no,no). 

So his abandoned house is a proof that something surely happened.

3. The show may have a format to keep interest

Cliffhanger = More seasons, more public. Smart move. The show is simple but want it to get attached emotionally and mentally. I learned with Sinan, yay.

The plot may go: (counting 8 episodes)

Take in count that the house is dangerous to stay in. So, they might take it to another place and see each other’s lives closer. This is excellent to the plot. I don’t think they will cry and hug in front of the door. 

We will also supose that is 5 people. 2 we already know.

1 --> More story, solve some mysteries (who is at the door); things get good at first moment (love and self acceptance); 

2 --> Things get bittersweet (love but parents and more problems). For me is by the end of the Ep 2 and on. 

3 --> (if only one more season, a forth person appears by S2E4, then a fifth by the end or S2E7). This person (for me not Sinan yet), will clarify somethings and contribute to the story with more details. Problems that start to hurt them. So, EP 5 - Ep7 will hurt.

4 --> Things get really bad; if they have a third season, we will not have the forth person, will end up just like S1E8 or, as I said, he will appear in the S2E7. 

If only a second season, EP 7 - EP8 the fifth person appears and they finish the story together, end.

Following all my theory it will go like this: Osman - Kerem or Sinan. I am not sure who will take up all the heavy stuff and end up being the last. For now they put this weight in Sinan and maybe is to play with us. 

4. What bound them, can destroy them

The thing is, they are a thigh fit as a group. Emotional and explosive. They lash at each other and have some friction along the way. Osman is more neutral. In the episode 3, where they cry and do crazy things after their fight, Osman is simply not there. He is simple, only said: You got what you wanted Sinan. Done. 

So, they can fall apart actually without big evens like death and murder. Somethings hurt deeper, like words, misunderstandings and separation. Their parents evil powers for example. I mean, in their first fight they were arguing about a test. Simple things + emotion = BOOM

5. Character development 

Here we go. Remember I said that Osman doesn’t have emotional outbursts? 

He goes on with his business and things. We see him crying with his father and being upset about his business fail but he always get over with using a plan. Unfortunately, his leadership will not keep the group bonded but he is the healing remedy, surely. I hope he open up more. Be more more emotional besides his carisma and soft friendship. He is a good boss, good son, good friend, bad student; what else more? He is such a good leader. Will he sacrifice himself for all them?

And, who is Kemal really? He is a sweetheart with an armor but what happened to him, besides being an ex-basketball player? Will his romance really last? The characters in the show are deep, they have personality. Kemal seems simple to me sometimes. His relationship with Sinan can develop and we can see more of his demons (besides his attitude) and story.

All they got better but we have a way to go. Kerem has to be less violent, Eda has to try being herself again; Işık has to be more mature because Sinan will need her a lot and if she can’t stand up her mother it can go really wrong. Sinan has to confront his parents more, get less lonely somehow. He is the only one that is slowly healing himself but nothing changed: he still lives alone, this still hurts. 

We will see they get much better, but, again, they end up not really good 20 years later. We will see a regression in so many points.

 6. They maybe can be students still

Words matter. A lot. Before the boarding Karakis (the principal) said that a friend of his would call the Minister and make that a majority board. Maybe he rushed it to grab the teens and the expulsion is not valid. Also, for me, Işık was only suspended. Why burn her uniform? (Her mother will kill her, I would too).

The scholar year in Turkey ends around June. Why expel them so close to the end? And, I think that are finishing the 2 year of High School, not the third. If not, they lose the hole Burcu-Kemal arc and their common place.

Maybe they can all move to a nearby school, even with bad records, and have another challenges. This is unlikely, even if I think that school conflicts got saturated. 

The other part of this theory is my home-made timeline. In 19th May, the would have an event that is important in Turkey (the red umbrella ones). They were close to finish the year and go to summer time (I want this really, would be fun).

7. No earthquake okay!

I saw some theories about it. Nobody will die in the 1998 and 1999 earthquakes. They were far away from Istanbul and the only one that got to the city were far away (geographically) from the school and Sinan’s house. I made a post about the locations, see here.

I received more of Burcu dying in a earthquake. In my CURIOSITIES post I said that Sinan was taking Işık home after being in Eda’s house. Eda lives in   Kadıköy in my opinion, so Burcu does too. This neighborhood is in the Asian side, while the earthquake affected the European side. Very far away. For me is kinda impossible to make this a bid thing. Why Burcu would be so far away from her house, the school that she teaches? Strange.

8. New challenges

Burak told Eda: You don’t get to play with people lives. Ouch. Is true. Not only him had his chance being the “villain”. We have...  The english teacher that likes Kemal; the professors; the parents being mad about the speech thing and even a few classmates (if they come back). 

Their parents seems to be in a contest of who is the worse, maybe not Osman’s father, that’s why I think that he is more calm and centered, despite being money drived. Society pressure (college, money, marriage) will get to them too.

9. The true always comes out

Well, well, well. When one makes a plan, in the movies and TV, they always confess it, but in Love 101, this moment is not entirely solved. Sinan told the group that now Kemal knows about the set up? Probably no. Eda finds Burcu’s behavior strange but it ends there. Oh-ohh. Ops.

 Maybe their teacher now will not stick out for them anymore. She was afraid of deciding their lives but they were deciding hers. If they come back to school and do something wrong again it will be worse. 

What if Karakis discover about Burcu’s bold move with the fire alarm? He is pissed more than never now. No laboratory; he didn’t get to humiliate the group. He will be worse than ever if they come back;.

10. Yes. 5 plates, cups and chairs. 

The camera angle wants to play but if you pause, you can see two times the same thing, inside and outside the house.

11. The guy in the farm is Osman. End.

Now, Sinan may be in prison or a successful person (the one that is eating). If you consider that the one that has his letter in the pocket is Osman again, Sinan is the only one that is hidden. He did not appear yet. Pick one and Kerem is the other.

If you have questions like me, see HERE.

Leave comments so I can investigate your theories, haha!

See my first edit here (Sinan x Isik). With HALSEY’S SONG, BE KIND.

XOXO. 

[pumpkin-lith]

Clone Wars Saved...ish

What the hell did I just watch ?

Let’s start by saying that 1) spoilers alert, not necessarily coherent but definitely there, I’ll put on a read more, but unspoiled mobile users, just in case it fails, scroll by and 2) @norcumii had warned me. And yet I didn’t quite expect that because, how could more clones ever be bad !

Oh boy.

Thanks to @shadow-spires for being my emotional support watchbuddy. I needed it more than I thought I would and we’re only three episodes in.

Some context : I’ve watched... only a few episodes of the show before, despite probably being able to give you the plot of all 6 seasons and quote lines and scenes, thanks tumblr and my own love for clones. And I hadn’t really looked at the bad batch half-rendered episodes because I still had trouble with the graphics of the actually finished show, so...

But I was ready for this, for feels, for finding Echo again and, finally, get 66 and murdered by Dave Filoni. Set up a meeting time to watch some eps with shadowspires, fun when there is a twelve hours diff between us and here we go.

Let me tell you, there was a lot of yelling in all caps in the chat side bar...

Trying to keep mostly in order of the episodes :

- WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO KIX’S HAIR ? Why ? Why hair and no more tattoo ??? Is this supposed to be red corsair continuity ? But then WHY IS HE HERE AND NOT ALREADY ABDUCTED ? Is this merch reasons ?

- Two seconds in and WOW I hate the Bad Batch. And this does NOT get better. I’m really tired of the Muscle is Dumb trope, Tech is like a human C3PO which urgh but fine but then KEEP CONSTANT (this is going to be a major point of my yelling), if Hunter says you chatter all the time THEN DO but no, we won’t here a single random fact ever again for three episodes, and Crosshairs chats and snarks a LOT for someone ‘not talkative’. 

- Regs. FUCKING REGS, urgh, I hated that word the INSTANT it was said. Canon isn’t as heavily into the Vode An fanon loves, but WOW fuck that. Strike team or not, you’re not supermen, you have to rely on intel, be supplied, you’re not a bunch of mercenaries, you’re a MILITARY STRIKE TEAM, you must interact with regs a lot so it means you’re a bunch of condescending assholes ALL THE TIME.

-Also fuck 1) that team’s dynamics and 2) the “two teams do not get along” trope, fuck it with a SHOVEL.  1) You’re a Commando Team. In an army three years deep into war. You’re comrades and probably have save each other asses hundred of times. So why can’t you behave ? And I know people do not always get along, or even best friends sometimes irk each other, but, look, consistency, if you think you’re with lesser people because regs (can you tell I’m not over that either), you present a united front and you don’t bitch at your teammates in front of them. 2) YOU ARE MILITARY. Trained for 10+ years, there’s DISCIPLINE there, even a maverick strike team, when Cody is down, you OBEY THE SECOND IN COMMAND. I don’t care if you have a better plan, you TELL the officer, you don’t just tell him to shut up and watch. AND YOU DON’T GET AT EACH OTHER’S THROATS.

-Did I mention I hate everything about Dumb Violent Muscles unable to control himself or follow a plan ?

-Of course the one time we could see Cody in charge, he’s hurt and useless.

-WHY. IS. THE MEDIC. GOSSIPING. INSTEAD OF KEEPING WATCH OVER THE WOUNDED BROTHER ???

AND WHY DOES HE HAVE HAIR DAMMIT

-The tactics Mess out of order :  Why is nobody blowing stuff up, a group able to single handedly take on 100+ droids is getting pushed back by thirty later on, why not trap the outpost to blow up the incoming droids, the analytical droid cannot comprehend why the clones would leave the outpost while in full view of the cyber center and it has to be pointed out to him, WHY DID NOBODY TRAP THE FUCKING OUTPOST TO BLOW, why does the tech guy LITERALLY NAMED TECH doesn’t hide/erase what they did to the computer, why if he didn’t have time DIDN’T HE BLOW UP THE COMPUTER. 

-And for a plot point being “droids analyzes our tactics so we always have to change them”, it means that no one ever attacked a front door and drew all the droids there for a second team to sneak by the back door. Somehow.

Ep2 & 3 :

- Why is “this may or may not be Echo” matters on a tactical PoV ? I get the emotional one, of course, but having the Bad Batch question it at the beginning and later on starting a fight over it has no other reason than to go for another round of We Do Not Get Along Trope. The Seps have either a PoW or an Algorhythm allowing them to win battle, no matter what it is, you have to go and rescue/take it. WHY ARE YOU ARGUING.

- I know this is the funny part of ‘Anakin and Padmé are the less subtle ever’ and it was funny (I didn’t hate ALL of the episodes, see ?), but why is she explaining to Anakin why he fights three years into the war other than reminding the public, this is the LEAST EFFECTIVE PLAN ever to hide from Obi-Wan with Rex obviously standing guard.

-Not a critic, just fucking amused : if someone isn’t aware that Padmé and Anakin are a thing, there is a lot of subtext to thing Anakin and Rex have a hidden fling. I don’t even ship it and I could see it x)

- Tell Padmé I say hello. TELL PADME I SAY HELLO. Obi-Wan fucking KNOWS, maybe not the whole “married and pregnant” but hellooooo that was blantant cue that he’s aware they’re together, at the very least so very close friends that they sneak private calls during a siege if Anakin is really dense, we have ONSCREEN PROOF that Obi-Wan SAID OUT LOUD something about it and it makes Anakin thinking Obi-Wan doesn’t know and couldn’t understand in RotS even STUPIDER. Good job Anakin.

- This Galaxy has the most efficient Google Translate ever. Either it’s a known language of the planet you’re going to, and then by doing research amidst the prep to go to the planet everyone or at least Rex as Captain would put the translator to the spoken languages there on his helmet, or it’s an unknown one and yet with two sentences, Tech’s tech (urgh) is able to translate and analyses it well enough to speak it back to them. Wow. 

- WHY. IS. THE. JEDI. NOT. USING. THE. FORCE. You’ve worked with Echo before but there’s no mention or even trying to feel him, fine, better have another fight of whether or not he’s truly here, two droids manage to get the drop on you, two droids manage to get the drop on you AND SOMEHOW AREN’T IMMEDIATELY BISECTED, Two droids manage to get the drop on you, survive, AND GIVE YOU ENOUGH TROUBLE YOU NEED SOMEONE TO SHOOT ONE TO GET OUT OF IT. 

- Echo, my poor baby TnT I knew this was going to hurt, and it does, it does so much. 

-And we’re RIGHT BACK to full on rage rather fast. We go from “he’s so weak he can’t walk, he doesn’t remember anything after the Citadel, he’s so out of it he doesn’t know where he is and ‘notices’ Rex being here two or three times” to “He can walk, he can be yeeted into a vent, he can tightpole walk, he can shoot while standing, he knows the whole base’s blueprints and also all the Separatist’s database.” in like. Five minutes. CONSITENCY FOR FUCK’S SAKE. Why is no one carrying him, why don’t we even get a fucking HUG ?

-Why was everyone yeeted by Dumb Muscles WHEN WE HAVE A JEDI HERE. WHY STILL NO FORCE ??? Clone-yeeting is like Anakin’s favorite pastime, he should have thought of it FIRST, My Moment Has Come.

- Oh FUCK NO. WHY did you even GO BACK TO THE NATIVES’ VILLAGE ? You got dragons, you fly back to your ship that wasn’t damaged in anyway, you evac fast and clean, DONE ! Why go back ? Anakin even says that the Techno Union will strike for helping them BUT UNTIL YOU WENT BACK THEY DIDN’T KNOW THE NATIVES HELPED YOU ! They had no problems until now ! DON’T INVOLVE CIVILIANS ! If they had gone with the plot point of having the natives pick a side and be the ones to save them from that pole by flying to get them, then yes, totally, stay and help and defend them against the retaliation massacre ! But since they didin’t, do NOT go there and draw to them a retaliation massacre.

-FUCK that speech. Sorry Rex, but FUCK THAT. Again, civilians. You are supposed to be the GOOD GUYS trying to STOP THE WAR, not draw innocents into it when it could be avoided. AND THEN LEAVE WHEN YOU JUST TOOK DOWN ONE ATTACK AND THE TECHNO UNION WILL SURELY COME WIPE OUT THAT VILLAGE FOR HELPING YOU AND THERE’LL BE NO JEDI TO SAVE THE DAY.

-Why is everyone suddenly dumb.

-Fuck that “good old days” bullshit. I’m sure there were good times, but your good old days are three years of war and losses. Gimme “now everything will be alright”, because for once someone survived, for once the future is looking hopeful, give me them hoping that it’ll be okay and then gut me with the sheer irony of it all because I know 66 is looming. AND FUCKING HUG HIM DAMMIT, he was almost catatonic thirty minutes ago, at least HELP HIM into the ship rather than leave him standing here alone.

-And no mention of Fives, of course. Idk it may be in episode 4, it BETTER be in Episode 4, otherwise this is “it be like the good old days, yay, btw Fives’ dead”.

I am SO ready for the damn Bad Batch arc to be over and hoping the actual original content is way better. I wished they had scrapped that disaster of an idea full of bad clichés. You want a strike team to go with Rex ? I’ve got a strike team for you : Jesse is an ARC, Kix is both a medic and seen many times with a rifle (AND THE COOLEST HAIRCUT, get us Bly there and give him a tracking speciality with the many ‘primitive’ planets he was on, and we have Aayla for the muscle. That would be badass.