#I just watched episode 9

[that-nerd-who-writes-fanfiction]

If I had a nickel for every time Santiago Cabrera played a character on a BBC show who was a noble, loyal and highly skilled knight/soldier, who served the king, was a hopeless romantic with only one or two main love interests, the Queen being one of his love interests who he an affair with, leading to life-altering long-term consequences, for both him and the Queen, I’d have two nickels.

Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

I’m not even mad, BBC writers were either onto something or on something when they wrote Lancelot and Aramis.

I’m sure there’s more comparisons, but I’m not finished watching yet so I’m just hoping Aramis doesn’t get banished or anything. They probably won’t kill him, but *

*it was at this point that I realised there’s been foreshadowing and I’m not saying anything because I don’t want to jinx it so I’m just gonna leave this here.

[thegrumpydockworker]

Stupid, sexy Barnabos

[hyperiionvii]

in purgatory's shadow/by inferno's light

[marshmallowgoop]

No matter how special it is, a kid's lunch is still just a kid's lunch.

I dunno, I liked "The Genius Restaurant" (Episode 1,089).

Happy (belated) birthday, Jimjam.

[Song link] [YouTube link]

[theultracharmingladynoire]

We call everything on the ice "love".

[kirichiro]

The way I groaned when he said Capricorn As a Capricorn it hurts

I told my dad I had "Owner of a Lonely Heart" stuck in my head, he just shuffled through our vinyls and pulled out the 12-inch record

For emotional support Niko :(

Yes, hide behind the LIVING girl Edwin.

She's here to save the day!! Queen Niko has arrived!!

Some of my favourite scenes from S01E03 of Dead Boy Detectives "The Case of the Devlin House"

[stripeydnp]

when the fuck are they gonna release golf with friends #10**…. i want phlonde golfing…

[mastersoftheair]

on the point of including black people in the show (or any period show), a lot of the outrage can sometimes come across as performative to me. it's one thing to feel upset about how little screentime black characters get compared to white characters (a valid criticism, believe me, I Know! give me an hour and i could talk your ear off about how this constantly annoys me as a black person who's damned to enjoy period pieces), but it's another to Only get upset while not actually creating content for said black characters, Especially when fandom (not just hbo war, but in general) is famous for taking Extremely minor characters and creating entire worlds with them, to the point where you wouldn't know they're minor characters at all until you check out the source yourself. richard macon, alexander jefferson, and robert daniels each have only 20 or less posts about them (at the time of publishing this post). in my own fandom experience (within fandoms both big and small and old and new, whatever), i've seen more content (posts, art pieces, analyses, fics, etc) made for minor white characters in less than a mere week's time (it's not a competiton lol i'm just giving a perspective here). so idk. obviously, there's nothing anyone here can do about a show that's already been filmed and released. we got what we got. thas it. at least in the great wide world of fandom, you can actually do something about it, turning the big into small. there's precedent for that. otherwise it just feels like complaining for the sake of complaining

[ender1821]

A Pearl and Gem clip that didn’t fully make it into their episodes, taken from Pearl’s stream (I loved this part and just had to save it somewhere)

transcript below!

Gem: I’ve put the rest of the packed ice in here for now, but we can grab it here if we need it.

Pearl: Okay, sounds good.

*moment of silence*

Pearl: Did I just say “sounds good” to you putting items in a random chest?

Gem: Yep.

Pearl: What are you doing to me?

Gem: You’re welcome!

Pearl: *anguished cries*

Gem: I’m loosening you up!

Pearl: That’s not how it’s supposed to work…

Gem: Welcome to the GeminiTay Effect, where we’re unorganised and a little bit insane!

Pearl: Who invited me to this nightmare?! Oh wait, you did.

Gem: You accepted!

Pearl: Ah, gleefully so.

Pearl: I’m currently just tweaking the path shape-o!

Gem: Uh-huh.

Pearl, reading the chat: “Not random, it’s a project chest”, okay, that does make me feel better, I’ll take it.

Gem: If that’s all it takes, I can say that about every—

Pearl: No, you can’t, because it never gets organised!

Gem: *laughing*

Pearl: There’s a difference! There’s a difference—

Gem: I mean… I dunno— There’s not— it’s a fine line!

Pearl: No! No, no no. If you have things messy all season, that’s not the same. A project chest is something you make temporarily, and you organise it after you’re done with that piece. Not the entire mega-base! A piece of the mega-base.

Gem: Mhm…

Pearl: Yeah! You know I’ve got a point!

Gem: No… I dunno…

Pearl: No, no, you know. I know you know. No denying it.

Gem: I love the way you say “no”, I just wanted you to say that more.

Pearl: Oh, it’s because it sounds Australian, is that what that is— Do you want me to say “alright”?

Gem: Yeah, ‘cause it sounds Australian.

Pearl: I know you like the “alright” one.

Gem, in an Australian accent: Alright.

Pearl: Alright, mate.

Pearl: What did you say? Oh jeez…

[bbygirl-aemond]

thinking about how alicent is the only person who tells rhaenys she should have been queen without having something to gain from doing so. sure, corlys says rhaenys should have been queen, but we see again and again that power is his top priority and rhaenys has got to know that if it didn't bring corlys personal gain, there's no saying he would believe that. sure, her children have probably told her that, but again it's difficult to divorce that from the power they would have gained.

for alicent, it's entirely the opposite. she would have less power if rhaenys had become queen, because her husband would be a prince instead of king. and yet.

and yet.

i just think it's very telling. i mean, eve best also point blank says the same thing, so it's not just me. she says this makes rhaenys "look at alicent for probably the first time." it makes rhaenys "take alicent seriously." it makes her "quite impressed by [alicent's] strength and tenacity." it makes her see that alicent is "remarkable."

[lynnbutlertron]

Projecting onto mr b by giving him the autism t-rex stance . T-rex claws.. ?

[citricjoy]

things that could’ve saved outsiders 2016:

• gave the farrell women leg hair wtf

• gave hasil + sally ann the most screen time. by a big fucking margin

• explored the farrell’s culture more instead of just showing a couple mountain parties and shallow expressions of a nebular sort of ‘worship’ for their depthless folksy religion

• made big foster’s rape an actual plot point with narrative weight and consequence instead of using it as a graphic pre-intro sting and then never giving him any notable trauma or feelings on it at all nor have him even mention it to the rest of the family

• gave krake the second most screen time

• had even a single person acknowledge the farrell <- -> feral thing that would’ve been funny

• made kyle gallner wear a collar and bark like a dog

[nientedal]

Is it worth watching Megamind rules? I know I’m not the target, but I’m curious yet also really really nervous. I know it’s for a younger audience but I’m still very on the fence and nervous. Also, love your writing

Omg, thank you, and thank you also for asking and yes yes yes 100% it's worth watching! It got crapped on by a bunch of people who decided based on the trailer alone that it was going to suck (how fun, a movie about a guy who everyone decided would be bad despite not knowing him got a spinoff show that...everyone decided would be bad despite not watching it, lol), so there's a lot of hate out there for it. I'm assuming you've caught wind of some of that, and that's why you're nervous? But for what it's worth, I was staring at the screen like :D basically the whole time.

Some more specific notes below the cut, but the tl;dr is please do give it a chance, if you can find the time. A G-rated direct-to-stream spinoff show wasn't what a lot of people were hoping for, and there were some folks who watched it and didn't care for it. But from a writing and storytelling standpoint, I think it is genuinely good! If you go in expecting a cute kids' show with some silly jokes and social misfits finding their way forward together, and keep an open mind, I don't think you'll be disappointed-- in fact I think you may be pleasantly surprised.

Just a gentle heads-up on some stuff because I'm not sure what you've heard about the show yet, and I'm also not sure what your existing expectations are!

The show was given a shoestring budget and not a lot of time to go from writers' room to final product, and yes, there are places where you can tell. But that was always going to be the case-- Dreamworks was absolutely not going to be spending big bucks on a franchise they've barely even acknowledged in more than a decade-- and it wasn't the fault of the people making the show. And even with the low budget, I think the animation is still genuinely solid, especially in later episodes! The people who worked on it really did a great job with what they were given.

And the writing!!! Holy shit!!! My skin is clear my crops are watered etc. The original writers handled this project and they absolutely delivered. Megamind & Roxanne's whole Thing progresses and grows and blooms in a really sweet and realistic way. Roxanne & Chum have a great dynamic. (Minion's name needed to be changed for legal reasons, but the writers worked that into the show and I gotta say, as a trans person, it was really lovely to see everyone else respond to "actually, because of [spoiler], my name is Chum now" with "oh! cool okay" and just keep rolling. I love that that was modeled for kids.) The character development is tangible; we get to watch Megamind really grow as a person and come into his own over the course of the series. And the new characters are really fun-- I genuinely enjoyed Keiko and everyone else.

Even if you never watch it (it's OK if you don't!) please just know: this was not a cash grab; Megamind Rules was made by people who truly cared about this world and these characters.

It's also worth noting that Megamind Versus the Doom Syndicate (the extended pilot) recaps a bunch of the same lessons as the original movie, so it can feel a little bit "...didn't we JUST do this??" but I'm pretty sure that was because Dreamworks didn't want to rely on kids to watch a 13 year old movie rated PG instead of G in order to get context. So like, I get it. And it's still cute! But it did mean I was nervous about what the rest of the series would be like until I was laughing my ass off halfway through Episode 2. If you're nervous, you can probably skip MMVtDS.

But yeah. I truly do think Megamind Rules is worth watching, and I've been so sad about the reception it received. Thank you so much for asking about it, and not just deciding it sucks and moving on. I appreciate you.

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

YOU ARE SO WRONG YOU STUPID TWINK. GET FORESHADOWED IDIOT.

[firehandlerfred]

Watching critical role but starting at campaign one so everytime i get a cr post it's like dodging a fucking bullet

[andtheylive]

remembered my beef with ryan murphy. alexa play it’s all coming back to me now by celine dion