#I want to watch s6 already 😭😭😭

[pheonixrainbow15]

Sorry for being a little basic with this interpretation but, I'm 75% sure that it's just innocence. like, for some form of irony because behind it is a dark mage's lair that has imprisoned at least two beings, and held the remains of assorted animals. The picture is of a kid with some sheep. The painting is a visual way of saying, "There's nothing to see here!"

That's the post. :)

[batsplat]

speaking of smallville now that was certainly a show. how many seasons did you manage and when is it best to stop? I am currently at s2 and already I would kill every other character for lex, wyd it’s only gonna get worse 😭

lmaooo okay so I got to. six. which actually kinda kills me because I swear I poured my heart and my soul into that stupid show, it drove me insane it left me a lesser person and I BARELY GOT HALFWAY

my basic analysis of the default journey with that show that I'm going to pretend is universal is like. it hooks you with something compelling in s1 and you still have enough naive faith to give it benefit of doubt that the writers actually know what they're doing, because you just wanted to have a bit of fun but, hey, these characters are actually more interesting than you expected!! then in s2 you're starting to get doubts but you're already kinda too deep. then s3 breaks your sanity and makes you scream and at this point you just see how far this shit goes. then s4 is.... mid..... but is also in a way the last remotely palpable season? and then at some point in s5 you're just like. wow I don't even enjoy the hate watching any more. and s6 is. yeah. eventually there was one storyline that is so insanely uncomfortable that it's just. enough. enough!

[mild spoilers to follow]

if s2 drives you insane on lex grounds then!! boy!! s3!! the thing about s3 from lex's pov is that. okay it's extremely angsty and does increasingly radicalise you... I have to say I started this show in a very innocent jokey 'oh ho ho I heard they have some good superman/lex luthor queerbait in that noughties show!!' and was ready to be a lex fan like. as a bit. and y'know my readiness to adopt morally dubious characters is pretty high anyway. but the first few seasons made me go?? okay but he genuinely isn't even the villain?? like I'm not even saying this for the bit, he LITERALLY is not the bad guy in this story?? guys??? and then by the end of season 3 I had been completely radicalised to the 'Actually Lex Luthor Should Turn Evil And Kill All Of You People And I Will Cheer Him On' stance. but what really, really, really kills me is that after all that, they still manage to bungle his transition to evil. like, they ignore all the very obvious reasons for why lex would turn evil after all that, and just come up with completely new ones? that have fuck all to do with this character you've been writing up to that point?

and the worst bit. the WORST bit. is that after all that, he literally does not even have fun being evil. like, you know that season one episode where he's being mind controlled and does his gay little swagger. this scene, yeah:

first of all, again, they ended up erasing lex's canonical motivation for turning evil, which is being so queer-coded he might as well be wearing a sign with slurs around his neck while he's stuck in a small town in fucking kansas. like "you think I don't see the way your parents look at me? the way half the town looks at me?" okay, great, love how this entire arc is eventually concluded by having the show say the entire town including clark's small-minded parents were 100% right to be suspicious of him, that there was something fundamentally defect with him basically from birth and he was always going to turn out to be evil. I feel like you definitely thought through the implications of what you wrote here!

but never mind all that, my actual point is that lex is having fun here!! this is one of several episodes where they're 'foreshadowing' lex turning evil by 'having a paranormal reason to make lex evil for a few minutes' (some subtle writing, this), and he's generally having a lot of fun with it!! he's leaning into the camp of it all!! he's freed from all his nasty and completely unnecessary inhibitions like 'not killing everyone in smallville' which. good. and he's just having a great time. and then he becomes a villain and he's literally just miserable all the time!! it sucks!! like omg if you're going to butcher his writing and ruin the character then at LEAST let him have some fucking fun?? at least let him experience joy at his own depravity or whatever? like he doesn't even get to do any fun villain monologues at clark, he's literally just sad clark isn't his friend any more while clark is giving him the homophobic dog slur. and then also about twice a season something paranormal happens to clark and he physically assaults lex to the point where he like, almost kills him, and then after that everyone pretends it didn't happen and clark never apologises and continues to burst into his room demanding answers. like omg?? lex, they hate you anyway, can you please just attempt to shoot clark?? also, obviously the turn to villainy should have been in large part motivated by lex finding out clark's secret and going?? the fuck is wrong with you for not just SAYING this?? (plus finding out everything clark did to lex in season three to keep his secret like it's genuinely so fucked up #lmao) but. I hate to break bad news to you about where we're at with the whole 'does lex know clark's secret yet' situation at the point where I gave up. genuinely what is the point of all this building and perfectly interesting character work if you're NEVER gonna deliver

but quite possibly an even worse sin of the later seasons that genuinely broke my brain was the treatment of lex's father. like, not to give the game away too much here, but the show's philosophical stance on rotten apples ends up being.... well. it's interesting which characters this show feels is worthy of redemption!! also interesting when they retcon several seasons of writing for the show that already very much set up why a character would actually perfectly legitimately go insane and instead settle for 'well his father sure did know there was always something wrong with him'!! watching some season 3 and season 5 episodes back to back would leave your face scarred from the amount of whiplash in the writing. the whole thing's kinda incompetent and dumb but is also like?? actively a little bit evil when you really think about the implications of what they're writing here

anyway. it's a brave stance on superman to go 'okay but what is being a superhero really about if not a whole whole lot of gaslighting'. and I do love the clark stalking room!! but the problem is, they could've played the clark/lex dynamic in a kinda tragic 'wow clark really has been so blinded by his parents that he's gonna end up destroying his relationship to lex because he just can't be honest with him and lex really needed one person in his corner who actually trusted him but clark wasn't the right person to provide that' way. they could've played it in a sort of fun 'yeah this is kinda fucked up and weird and toxic how they simply cannot stop doing dubious shit to each other' way where you just kinda roll with how terrible the whole thing is. but they don't go for either of those!! they're so stuck with treating clark's parents as the moral centre of the universe, with their "marriage is SACRED, clark" schtick and all that (yeah, there's an episode where clark gets lectured about the importance of the bond of marriage, this is a thing that happens) that they're blatantly unaware of what story they're telling but ALSO just refuse to lean into the batshit insane elements and just have!! fun!! and it's one of those things where you really do feel like an idiot for even thinking about this stupid fucking show so!! much!! but I swear, I swear they had a dynamic that hit like crazy in season one... also some of the fic out there for them is CRAZY like it kinda does make it all worth it but still!! still!! this shit infuriates me!!

anyway, here are some bonkers plot bits I remember happening in this show for you to enjoy if you continue in this endeavour:

the lex luthor slut shaming episode

clark kent slut shaming lex luthor, which is conceptually funny anyway but becomes funnier if you just read it as clark being unable to figure out he is actually just subliminally attracted to his friend. like, okay, clark being disappointed at lex for sleeping with thirteen different women, I see you

like. multiple lesbian lana moments. she's constantly getting herself in lesbian situations. and I get this is some kinda weird fanservice-y shit from the showrunners but, sue me, I thought lesbian vampire lana was cute

which is a thing that happens

they get spike from btvs to tell clark vampires aren't real, which is the one funny thing they wrote in about a season

the native american stuff is always deeply uncomfortable but it becomes even weirder when they invent some native american prophecy *deep sigh* to explain how lex was always evil

clark steals a car from lex several episodes after committing like, one of the most obscene acts of betrayal it is possible to commit against a friend (lex is unaware of this and possibly never finds out? I think the writers maybe forgot about this.) and lex is just like. it's fine <3 I know friends sometimes have to do crazy shit for other friends!! you're my friend, right?? and clark goes... yeah. sure

I vaguely remember lex buying stuff the american football high school team at some point and showing up to the lockers to give a speech and it's just?? this is right after the friendship break up and it's basically lex talking right at clark and he's talking about the importance of fresh starts and it is so fucking funny

the one episode where lana is in paris. they had built up to this for ages as like a whole thing where lana finally frees herself from that miserable town and all the people in it (don't ask how the 'lana knowing clark's secret' situation develops. it doesn't) and then she's there for. one episode

martha kent tells clark how they can't harbour illegal immigrants at one stage?? she eventually changes her mind I think but what even was that all about

the papa kent goes into politics arc. shoot me

lex becomes like. possessed by zod. which somehow manages to make everyone involved more dull

silver kryptonite makes clark paranoid, which ends up being pretty funny because he genuinely talks the exact same way

lex thinks clark can throw him across the room because he's been hypnotised

lex starts capturing various clark super powered friends and delivers these gay villain monologues to them (like genuinely, in one of them he's got shirtless aquaman strapped to a gurney and he's like, leaning over him, teasing him with a glass of water) and they're some of the best bits of the show

clark discovers the clark stalking room, which I will say was very funny

chloe basically saying lex always sends clark these massive gifts as a way of keeping his affections which?? clearly true but I thought we were keeping that the subtext

clark gatecrashes lex's wedding high on red kryptonite

one of lex's old bullies gets killed by like, a statue falling from the top of the building they're standing next to and stabbing the guy and then some of the blood splashes on lex and he's just like ?? bleh. fantastic scene

and THEN there's several scenes with his father where lex is like 'well that sure was a nice shirt :(' and lex's father is berating him for his lack of humanity. or something

there's an episode where lex is split into good lex and evil lex and it's genuinely the only worthwhile thing the show did that season. like the writing is still kinda incoherent but, crucially. it sure is fun

the spirit of lex's mum tells him she thinks he sucks

worst show in existence. I'll never forget it

[typicalopposite]

Did I finish s6 just to nose dive right into s7 because I had a watching partner to share side eye, knowing smirks with (because he knew what was coming too)… yes.

But let’s back it back up…

I loved this season! 💕 but it felt like it went by so fast!! Where s5 felt like it was 80 episode by itself 6 felt like it was only like 8… idk

Anyway poor Bobby and Athena can’t ever get a moments rest! OMG I knew the little girl storyline was coming, and it still shook me! That episode has me hugging my babies extra tight and I CRIED at the montage of him catching her and Athena catching him. 💔💔💔💔

Hen taking on so much and just wanting to do it all instead of feeling like she’s letting someone down! I feel that! But her breakdown at failing the test 💔💔

And poor Buck searching so hard for some meaning to his existence 😭😭😭 BBY YOU MATTER SO MUCH TO SO MANY!WHY CANT YOU SEE THAT!?

Tomorrow. TO👏🏼MOR👏🏼ROW👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 it feels like a Karen Begins or a HenRen begins and was one of my favorite episodes! I loved it so much and was sitting on the edge of my seat (read: laying in bed… anxiously) the whole second half! I was sooooo scared! And I knew it wasn’t gonna end bad! 😭😭😭

BUCK BEING THE DONOR! I love that for Connor and Kamryn but I fear that for Buck! Buddy this is not how you find a purpose. It’s a good gesture… but eh idk. It’s sad for him. But him running to give the donation was hilarious.

Now that I’m making this… I think I slept through What’s your Fantasy which could explain a part of the season feeling shorter ☠️ I wonder if I did this on other episodes 🤔🤔☠️

In a flash 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨 knew what was coming and was fully prepared and still was like panicking the whole time ☠️ but I did enjoying the what if storyline and Buck realizing how important he is!

Poor Wendall! And man! With Hen almost losing Karen then almost losing Buck… and Bobby almost losing Buck then actually losing Wendall these writers just love torturing these poor people omg!

I KNEW MADDIE WOULD BE THE ONE TO PROPOSE THE SECOND I SAW JEE WITH THE RING! And I still sat and watched the story play out like the Jeremy Renner heart eyes gif! And the ring 😂😂 I loved it!

I loved the fact they brought Jeff back and had him help save Bobby just like Bobby saved him! 💕💕💕

I’d say onto season 7 but I already finished the 5 eps and AM IN LOVE WITH ABC for taking the show… sooooo yeah 😂 bring on the wedding of the century and all the craziness coming with it! I’m so excited!! :) ONE MORE DAY!

This was a very wild and AWESOME ride! I love this show!

[localfanbaselurker]

First time watching Voltron: Legendary Defender and documenting my thoughts

This is Season 4

S1-2 | S3 | S5 | S6 | S7 | S8 |

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<this one is going to be shorter, as I have only recently finished this season, and the grief is still fresh (lol), so the thoughts are only just starting to simmer. strap your asses in>

Pre-Season 4 Thoughts

-> Keith joining the blades is going to be a huge plot device, I feel

-> PLEASE for the love of CHRIST let that poor little girl find her brother and father. If they are dead dreamworks better be ready to catch these hands

->I’ve heard people claim this is the “last good season”, but i stay strong 💪 and will watch till the end

->wouldn’t the paladin switch not make sense now? Cus shiro is back as the black paladin and it makes no sense for Lance to be red like it originally had? If anything, he should’ve gone back to blue, and Allura to red, because Allura is very accepting/encouraging of shiro’s role as leader. I guess they didn’t wanna do it all over again. But I digress 🤷‍♀️

->im gonna miss my Pookie (🤍❤️🤍)

Post-S4

->do they do this every two seasons?? Have an epic battle where they have a big preparation and say it’ll 100% end the war but it doesn’t and something crazy happens after they win and it sets up the next season??

->FUCK YEAH PIDGE GOT HER BROTHER BACK IM SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP 💪💪🔥🔥‼️‼️‼️🙏🙏🙏🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️

->^genuinely cried so hard during this scene. would’ve cried more if I wasn’t recovering from the initial shock.

->^cried during this one too, but it was happy tears. I could actually just do a whole reaction post to this episode alone. (if you want me to js say so in the rbs/replies)

->the callback to s1! “color-coded of course, because what are we? animals?” AHHH! I’m going insane I love these siblings sooooo much

->okay I’ll stop gushing over them now

->^only valid reaction to meeting Allura. Homegirl is beauty incarnate

->I LIED. im not sorry im never shutting up about them. SHE SHOWS HIM AROUND THE CASTLE AND TELLS HIM EVERYTHING AND EVERY DETAIL AND SHES SO EXCITED CUS SHE JUST GOT HER BRO BACK AND IS JUST RAMBLING ABOUT HER NEW HOME AND ALL THE COOL STUFF SHES BEEN DOING AND HES JUST LISTENING AND IS SUPER EXCITED WITH HER AND ITS SOOOO AMAZING AND ADORABLE AND I COULD DIE

->AND THEN HE TELLS HER HOW THEIR DAD WOULD BE SO PROUD IM DYING IM LITERALLY DEAD STOP.

->AND AND AND THEY WERE ALL WORKING TOGETHER W HUNK TO MAKE THE GALRA TRACKER THING AND THEY WERE BEING SO COOL WITH EACH OTHER AND BEING NERDS TOGETHER AND AND AND AJEUWNDUWJEBEURBDGWUDKAODHD

->okay. ive calmed down. i am normal and can be trusted to simply watch a show.

->^Get his ass, Zarkon. I needed his smug ass to be humbled so bad. Only time I will agree w Zarkon fr.

->i do NOT like Lotor. Can you guys tell already??

->THE SCENE WHERE THEY TRIED TO GET MILKSHAKES AND WERE SHOCKED TO FIND OUT THAT YOU NEED TO MILK A COW STOP.✋ 😭. My high-score on the giggle-meter went up by 300%

->bro I SWEAR shiro looks different. there’s just something about him. the hair gets a pass cus how good of a haircut can you give yourself in space, yk? but that nose scar is definitely a different shade #notmyrodrickshiro

->THE VOLTRON SHOW.

->^Just. That entire episode. It’s getting a whole post actually I need to yap about it.

->^her armor is colored in a way which makes it look both pink and red while making it look like a trick of the light in a way to symbolize that she is acting as keith yet while being a paladin herself and that being unknown in the public eye and showing how they have to cover that up, any suspicion being thrown as a trick of the light. Oh vld animators ily 🫶

->on another note tho why do they always draw lance and shiro to have 30 pounds of ass. what.

->loved when those lesbians decided to take down lotor. Queen shit 💋 we stan 🙇‍♀️🙏

->Lotor is so stupid and pathetic and annoyingly smug and sus and admiral-zhao-y and I hate him but he’s SOOO FREAKING HOT and I can’t hate him completely because he’s so attractive but that just makes me wanna hate him more. He’s a walking red flag but the flag is heart-shaped and honestly idk what to do w that.

->^WHAT. stop. honestly that’s the real reason he was banned from the empire my ass would not want that fucking FREAK within a 30 light year radius of me either

-> while s3 was the klance season, s4 is apparently the allurance season, they have a lot of sweet moments. (granted all started by lance but still, you can almost see allura swooning)

->^pookie. what are you doing… pookie.. no. stop. i don’t like where this is going…

->^POOKIE NO. STOP. ✋ STOP. SAY SIKE RN.

->^oh thank fuck for Lotor.

->^^wait what. why Lotor.

->^^^heartbreaking: worst person you know doesn’t something good for once.

->he definitely wants something out of this. I don’t trust him.

These are thoughts I’ve had compiled for some time now. I will continue to post my thoughts on the tag “laura’s first vld”

I finished this season on 06/30/24. I am on S5E3 as of today (07/06/24)

[moreofaloner]

Just random thoughts about s6 part 1:

How many times are we gonna see Daniel Larusso being conflicted and imbalanced by life, and people only for there to be a big life lesson that he "learns", and then ignore that same lesson all over again??

How is he only making mistakes with Johnny?

Didn't we see the whole sharing karate ideologies in seasons 4&5??

And why did we have to get Mr Miyagi involved 😭

I know people are excited, but I liked the image of Mr Miyagi I had.

I'd rather see at the final season a Daniel Larusso that has inner peace that resembles that of Mr Miyagi. Let him be a good sensei for one season, instead of one who is favoring his Miyagi-do students and is so insecure about Johnny.

Instead they could give all this screen time to Miguel who stood in the sidelines mostly.

The good things of the older folks:

Johnny accepting a job from Daniel was top tier, and I love that he's a good salesman.

The new Miyagi do logo!! Such a subtle little change that I loved!

Daniel being ready to let the name of the dojo go.

The gender reveal party!!! Baby Lawrence being a pain in Daniel's ass before she's even born was what I needed!

Johnny Lawrence felt more stable, happy and sure of himself than we've ever seen him this season.

He's good with his sons, he's good with the mother in law and the gf/baby mamma and he's gonna be a girl dad.

We can see that leaving behind eagle fang for Miyagi do isn't easy on Johnny.

But he tries to make it work, especially because he wants a future with his family.

We got to see him and Devon work together, and I loved having that dynamic back, him fixing Tory and Sam, and the exchange he had with Miguel and Robbie before they fought shows to me how much he wants to do right by both of them.

But Johny Lawrence isn't Miyagi do.

We spent half of season 2 watching him fixing cobra kai's philosophy. Then another season of him creating eagle fang and trying to teach these kids to be badass and honorable. He does strike first, but when it matters and after some consideration of the consequences (he still needs to work on it though).

Him leaving behind all this progress to just follow Miyagi do, and not mix the two seems like all this development goes to waste just like the time we spent on it.

And the show is called cobra kai, I'd love to see some redemption. I'd love to see Johny taking over once again and making it what it was supposed to be.

(I don't see it happening though🥲)

Turning back to season 1, Miguel and Johnny benefitted by the way of the fist. It just needed a bit of tweaking so they don't become the assholes they became at one point in time.

Bring me girl dad Johnny Lawrence PUH-LEASE! I want it already

Chozen was perfect as he always is in this show. How dare kumiko not return his voicemail (I hope she's alive).

For Amanda Larusso I have only one thing to say; How could she not go after Tory??

How did all of them leave her alone?? (That actually is a rant on its own)

[fangirleaconmigo]

Watching S6 of Justified. (About halfway through) And man, this show allllllmost knows what it has. It’s gets 90% of the way there then fumbles it. I mean I still love it but listen…

They’re like…Raylan and Boyd are thee dynamic, the narrative foils, the life blood of this thing.

And you’re like yes.

And then they’re like…

And so the best way for us to build tension and drama would be for us to pit them against each other over Ava.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭

It doesn’t work!!! Like! At all!!

Firstly, Boyd has always treated her like thee queen, and suddenly they have him treating her like a possession he’s pissing all over. She’s being downgraded to plaything and trophy.

No.

If they were fic writers I’d be like…OOC my dudes.

Second, they’ve already made it clear that Raylan does not have feelings for Ava, and nowhere in this story have we gotten any other message. I mean he was a fuck boy, ghosted her, and now he’s actually kind of a dick to her. When she’s yellin at him, I’m always rooting for her.

So. I dub this shit contrived and weak. No. I could buy these three in many different configurations. I could buy Ava fuckin off to be hugely successful and leaving these two in the dust.

I could also buy them in a poly if she never had to deal with Raylan’s shit. Like if Boyd were assigned to Raylan exclusively. These three could be like an open triangle, or a V arrangement here. Because here is what the narrative has established:

Ava is sick of Raylan’s shit and wants nothing to do with him. As she should. Ava loves Boyd.

Boyd adores his queen Ava and his princess Raylan and wouldn’t have it any other way.

Raylan is codependently and homoerotically obsessed with Boyd.

Got it, Justified show runners?

I will never fall for the “oh Boyd grabs Ava’s ass in front of Raylan to show him who is boss” or “Ava kisses Raylan out of nowhere for no reason once and no one mentions it ever and we know she is sick of him but still we’re supposed to care”

Dumb! and! stupid!

Justified writes the best female characters, then when they need drama, they reduce miss Ava to this, no no no. She is not a possession, and those men have no reason to fight over her.

You’re almost there, Justified. So close to getting it.

[riacte]

rria . ria dont convert the timestamp of receiving this ask to est but i finished false episodes and i get it i understand the devotion and the homies and the protectiveness hoyljjy fuck save me 🦅🐕save me. beware of dog reapers watch out rendogss about false false false you won💥💥💥😺💥💥💥💥💥💥

RIGHT. THEY ARE SO SWEET IT MAKES ME WANT TO EXPLODE.

When I was watching the first part I was like ohhh she sounds SO soggy when he’s not talking to her. I don’t think I’ve ever seen her this soggy. And then it was slowly building and oh we’re really in it now.

BUT THE REUNION SCENE IS SO!!!!!! They’re so happy for each other 😭😭😭 False saying he deserves the win even though it’s her who won 😭😭 Ren coming in like YOU WON!! YOU WON!! :DDDDD

And I was already screaming and dying. But you can really tell how fond they are of each other. And False being more excited for the cool hat than the Demise prize and he literally promised to give it to her tomorrow when things had calmed down— and she won!! All the dots are connected.

And the end. MAN. “Watch out, Rendog is about” in all caps. Her putting his name and head on her build. And the giggle before the cut. And I’m left sitting here like OKAY THAT JUST HAPPENED. WOW.

I feel slightly insane because it’s like …??? It’s so obvious how core and special their friendship is to both of their contents on HC. Take a quick scroll through their thumbnails and they pop up every now and then. All the collabs. AND STANDING NEXT TO EACH OTHER IN GROUP RECORDINGS (this always happens). We even have major standout events like Blue9 and BRR and S6 neighbours. And now Demise because DUDE. THAT WAS CRAZY.

And still Tumblr (and both of their Twitch chats) seems to be the only site in which people majorly care about their bond? Does that make sense. Tumblrinas screaming and crying and filling up the main tags. Actually Twitch chat is the mvp here because I feel like every single stream of theirs has a mention of the other and chat is like :DDD we love you and the other person :DD. They’re invisible on blue bird site and THANK GOD and STAY AWAY. Orange app is a bit better bc at least the Mc Championship guys recognise them but you know when there was a post back in HC Reddit then asking for “underrated” duos and we had to post FalseRen because other people weren’t. Are they underrated? Do other people think they’re popular. Like Ren isn’t usually paired with False in fanon but I think most people have the awareness to include bits about their friendship? But still? I would’ve expected more… why aren’t they more popular like some other duos even after the five million obvious / dramatic / cute / wholesome stuff 😭 Ren’s favouritism gets worse every time I check in 😭

(I know. It’s because fandoms tend to like same gender pairs. But it does notttt explain why everyone happily pairs up Stress+Iskall and Joe+Cleo and it’s all recognised and these two are like …? oh yeah they’re friends. Right. They’re friends.)

Anyways this got long. That vid makes me soooo happy and it’s sooo good. I know Ren is probably going to make his next ep thumbnail his really cute hut but if False is also on there or it’s titled after something like “WE DID IT FALSE” I would further explode into millions of pieces. 🥺

[rebelrayne]

Babesss omg Hamish essentially crying that he wasn't going to find his match as MC was in the hideway was * chef kiss*

I hope he finally gets to pick us at the next recouple but I sadly doubt it :")

Hi Anon!

Why is the fact that he threw a grown ass temper tantrum attractive???? Not allowed. Bad Hamish. Illegal. Ugh, I didn't even wanna go. Lyle was trying to get MC in the mood and I just wanted to storm out idk why we were forced to go. And just watch, like, it'll be the same as S6 where they're like, "Oh well you've been so many times already."

Like so tf what?? I didn't wanna go 😭😭😭😭

I'm actually so so so scared about next week. Like, I'm 50/50 on it. Either it's gonna be great and the birds will sing and the sun will shine bright rays down on us as angels sing...

Or it'll be a fucking dumpster fire where we're stuck with prev LI AGAIN. I can't take another long stint of Lyle istg. I hate him so much (no, he's lovely but I hate his ass).

I do think that either way we'll get another Hamish moment. Sadly, this will be soured by Zeph most likely and he'll be able to take dates or something. Cutting into my Hamish time is NOT it, Zeph. I beg, leave me alone so I can twirl my lil necklace and giggle as Hamish flexes his biceps for me jokingly.

[nathaaaan]

Randomest update ever

I just finished watching the rest of Miraculous (S6???? ep 15-26)

I HAVE SO MUCH ON MY MIND OMG, so I will put a collective of all my thoughts in this tiny device. Maybe a few AU’s here and there, but mainly thought dumps.

First… WE COULD HAVE HAD ZOÉNETTE???? Like Zoé and Mari? I can see it now! Zoé and Mari holding hands as they walk off into the distance with Adrien in the background with this face;

No but srsly, it would have been so funny to see the ship, the show had been egging on for years, to be completely disregarded and tossed aside.

I would draw that vision, but alas, I CANNOT DRAW PEOPLE 😭

Tbf, Zoé and Mari actually make sense. Or Zoe’s side of the affection anyway. Marinette had helped her realize that nobody would treat her like garbage, aside from Chloé, there in Pari. All she ever did was respect Zoé. That’s enough to have someone’s adoration (see what I did there? ;>) …probably.

Anyway, Hawk-Moth… This dude… I love villains, believe me, I do, but I don’t like Gabes. He’s been bested by two/a team of teenagers too many times, and even when he’s so close to victory, SO CLOSE, he fails. again, and again, and again! I like Lila more because she actually commits to the role of the villain. Gabes is better when it comes to not villainy.

ONTO THE COOLER…NESS. Now, I suppose you all (or whoever is reading this) understand how the Miraculous of the Snake works. The ability to go back to an exact moment in time with Second Chance.

Now, what if that power had… a consequence? For instance, Ladybug had gotten hit and her wildest dream had been revealed. When Luka used Second Chance, it sent him back, yes, but what if it created a whole nother world? What if anytime Second Chance is used, it creates another world for another possibility? Meaning that the old world, the world Ladybug’s identity was revealed, has its own story after Second Chance is used. As well as the world where Cat Noir’s identity was revealed.

So then what happens to the holder? I’d say that their consciousness is transferred to the new world, which is how they retain their information. Well, what happens to their bodies? Hard to say, but maybe their consciousness is replaced and they’re forced to de-transform. Or maybe Second Chance doesn’t work when tried again.

I see an AU that goes like this—Luka opens his eyes only to see Marinette still living her wildest dreams. He used Second Chance already. Why didn’t time rewind? He sees the dreams man aiming for Cat Noir, and swiftly saves him. They run away and hide in the sewers. Luka tries again and again, but Second Chance won’t work. They both de-transform and Sass explains to Luka why Second Chance won’t work, or rather, it did, but Luka wasn’t transferred to the new reality, all while Adrien is gapping over the fact that Mari is LB. Second Chance won’t work even if he transforms again.

The two of them now have to face the “live your wildest dreams” man without Second Chance, or the Luck of the Ladybug. Can they do it?

The Miraculous of the Ladybug still exists, it’s just that dream man has it.

Will I write it? Probably not. It’d be very cool to see someone else’s take on such an AU. Plus writing block.

I’d much rather draw about it. ALAS, I CANNOT DRAW PEOPLE. 😭😭😭😭😭

I might just have to write it, the more I think about it, the more ideas I get. CURSES.

Anyway, for the last episode, I was really rooting for Bug Noir to end Gabes. 🙄

There’s so many things I want to talk about, but those things have been long forgotten, and I need to find something else to do before I die of boredom.

[daniclaytcn]

hi again!! i realized i never updated you with my thoughts on s6, so here they are, rapid-fire style:

overall i think episodes one and two were very weak, but the rest of the season has been pretty decent. 6A was definitely my least favorite batch of episodes if i had to pick, but watching it all at once wasn't that bad and 6B has been very promising so far.

athena's cold case episode was really sad and unsettling, but i'm glad they did it and i'm very happy that she got to have that closure and revisit the case that made her want to be a cop. that's actually one thing i've been really liking about s6, that we've gotten to go back and tie up a lot of old threads from previous seasons.

the noah storyline was really weird and imo it should have been a longer arc with a better payoff for him. he wasn't a bad guy and i'm a little sad about the way they treated him.

idk what it is about maddie and chimney but i feel like their relationship has been a little off in 6A. i liked all of their domestic scenes with jee-yun, but i also think some things were very rushed (like the scene where they got back together). maybe it's just that they didn't get a lot of screentime? 6B has been better though and i'm glad the writers are finding their groove with them again.

on a brighter note, season six eddie is making me very happy. after his breakdown in 5B, he seems so much more at ease and more comfortable in his skin now and i'm so proud of him :)

hen might be my favorite character this season. her trying to do so much in episodes one and two, failing and having a breakdown but then convincing the prof to give her another chance and nailing it, and then eventually deciding that being a doctor wasn't what her real dream was and that her family was more important? i loved every second of it, and i think that aisha hinds's performance was nothing short of magnificent. i also loved the henren flashbacks!!

i kind of wish that they'd brought in the priest from s1 or another old character instead of wendall for that storyline. i enjoyed it regardless and i really loved all of the grant-nash family scheming, but i think it wouldve been more impactful if we had actually already known this character instead of just pretending like he'd been here the whole time. it's not a huge complaint though bc i do think bobby saving tamara and shutting down that fake rehab center was very healing for him....and did i mention how much i loved the grant-nash stuff? if there's one thing season 6 is doing right, it's the grant-nash dynamic. i miss michael and harry, but everything with bobby, may, and athena has been amazing.

sorry for the long ask, i just have so many things to say 😭 and i have even more to say about 6B + the buddie of it all, including the sperm donor plot, so that's gonna be a separate ask!!

-NewTo911Anon

hi again! i mostly agree with all of this! i actually thought 6x01 and 6x02 were two of the better episodes of the season, so i'm surprised you didn't like them (though i do understand that the blimp call was disappointing). the devil you know was SUCH a good episode, same as tommorow, and you're absolutely right that hen's arc has been the best one this season!

i agree with you about maddie and chimney: the premier was promising for them, but they just kind of...settled back into their relationship with each other with no bigger hurdles? i was hoping for there to be a little more of them having to work things out; i appreciated that 6x01 showed their lingering insecurities, but...idk. unlike the other seasons, they really haven't had a proper arc this season (as of yet). even maddie has just kinda been drifting from episode to episode, and hasn't really had a proper storyline, which is very uncharacteristic of the show.

home invasion and what's your fantasy have been the weakest episodes imo, and i completely agree with you about the noah arc; it could have been a really good storyline for maddie to mentor another dispatcher while trying to adjust to being back at work after her extended absence, but they had to go with this extremely out of touch plot that was in very bad taste. i'm pretty sure the noah thing is one of the aspects of the season that i will not change my mind about, even after a full rewatch.

it was nice to hear from you again!

[battydora]

omg im rewatching my hero academia because i needed to catch up on the plot and understand it fully before watching s6 (because i kinda lost trail of it and i want to polish my mha oc!) AND I'M ALMOST CRYING, IZUKU HAS GROWN SO MUCH 😭😭😭😭😭😭 i'm seeing details i never noticed until now and i'm loving this so much. i just started and i'm only five episodes of s1 in but i'm so so excited already, i love this show with all my heart ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

[emodennis]

I don't know if you've been asked this question already and if I've just missed out on the discourse (sorry if this is common and boring!!!), but do you remember at what point watching sunny you became convinced that Dennis was bi? (I'm guessing this is your interpretation based on your amazing Dennis is Gay video on yt?)

I was filing away things in the back of my head right from episode 1 but mainly from around s4 and s5 onwards (I remember thinking the show seemed edgy, so they would try to do more than the average show from that time, while still being of the time). But it was still a bit of an ironic joke thing for me, until I realized around s6, and then s8 especially, that they were starting to take "Mac is gay" quite seriously in their writing.

i don’t think i’ve been asked this question before thanks for asking!! and thanks for your kind words about my video!!

yes, i am a bi dennis truther. however, i was not very perceptive nor analytical for the first 3-4 times i watched the show. i would pretty much always watch it high (and still do), not think too deeply about it, and just laugh. it was only after the always sunny podcast came out that i actually started thinking more about the show and the characters. i actually didn’t interpret dennis as bi or ship macdennis until it was pointed out to me by the good people on youtube and ao3 😭. i think i started shipping macdennis first, and then started looking for evidence that dennis also loves mac, and is therefore into men.

tbh i think a big part of me not interpreting dennis as queer is because i hated him so much for so long. he represented everything i hate about straight, creepy men in my mind so i wouldn’t have wanted him to be queer representation. but after i started falling for him, i wanted him to be queer so bad :,)

but if i had watched the show after i was on tumblr and had “i love evil people” and “everyone is gay” as an inherent perspectives going into the show (as i now do), yeah i’m pretty sure i’d see it from s1e1.

[sallysellsseashellssundays]

Disclaimer: This post is going to be Anti Moffat for anyone who’s reading and is a fan you’ve been warned.

“The Impossible Astronaut” episode was an interesting start, there’s a lot to unpack from it really! I think I’m finally liking Amy more, but River had some moments I really didn’t like.

The Good: There were some pretty funny moments here- Canton telling Nixon he was his second choice for president, Eleven taking notes in the Oval Office, Rory being the one to gently lead Canton through the madness that is stepping into the Tardis! I liked Canton’s character and I really liked that Amy kept insisting they tell the Doctor she was trying to be a good friend to him, although I’m not sure if she’s supposed to tell him if that’s what the creepy alien wanted too. She also meant well with trying to save his life so we’ll see where that goes... Amy taking a pic of the alien was so clever, and she showed so much empathy being upset about that woman being killed, she’s definitely much more likeable and more like the type of companion the Doctor would want to travel with! Also I think it’s fascinating that apparently Rory and Amy aren’t full time companions like Rose, Jack, Martha and Donna. I think I like the change actually makes for something different.

The Bad: I’m a little taken aback at how Eleven seems less kind than I think the Doctor should be. I don’t remember everything about S5 and maybe he already was like that, but it seems very noticeable now that I’m watching again.  He was actually quite kind and Doctor-ish in the Xmas special so the change is difficult. He’s very distrustful of even Amy making her swear on something that matters when they don’t want to tell him about his death. The last time I can remember him being unwilling to let a friend into his life was with Martha and even then he seemed to have complete faith in her being there for him. For this to be S6 and for him to still act like that with Amy is a shock to me. It also made me sad that he didn’t ask Amy if she was ok when she first got sick or that he didn’t insist on going into the tunnels with River since it could have been a dangerous situation (isn’t he worried about his friends’ at all??). The weight comment was completely uncalled for too, if that was his weird way of referencing her pregnancy it didn’t sit right with me.

The River: Oh boy. First, when she shot the doctor’s hat off him from a far distance she seemed pretty cool, but then she couldn’t hit the astronaut from like 15 feet away... Moffat please she’s either going to be a great shooter or an awful one please give me good continuity here  😭 😭 😭 Second, when she said that companions do as they’re told it rubbed me the wrong way because they really aren’t there for that imo. She seems like a veteran companion in that she knows a lot and she immediately takes the lead from Amy and Rory plus she knows a lot about piloting the Tardis. And that feels a little weird to me to have a character come in and be so knowledgeable when even the Doctor doesn’t know that much about them, but I suppose we’ll find out as we go along...it just makes me feel like it’s a bit off since usually the person that’s “mysterious” is the Doctor. I’m still trying to get used to Amy/Rory and Eleven as the Doctor so to have a new Doctor-like character is...well I’ll just stop there.

The Worst: River talking about how the Doctor interacted with his past and that being why they can’t change things and then Amy telling her time can be rewritten with River disagreeing...was that literally not just the plot of “A Christmas Carol”???

The Unresolved: So looks like we have a storyline with a mysterious girl in an astronaut suit that Amy just shot trying to keep the Doctor alive in his future. Also, he’s 908 here but 1103 when he dies so we’ll see what he does in that time. Curious to find out just how tied River’s timeline is with the Doctor’s- if he actually dies then what happens with everything they’ve done in her timeline? Lastly, there’s the super creepy alien things that you only remember when you see them and want Amy to tell the Doctor...hmmm...

Overall, I found it interesting for the series intro episode, although there were some negatives I don’t think it ruined the experience for me, I liked it!

[kazumahashimoto]

ok i wanna start by saying jaxon is such a fucking dick for being one of the top bladers in the country and then going back and fighting a bunch of amateurs 😭😭 so fucking funny. but to that effect i gotta say i think jaxon is like the best they've ever done of this type of character. burst really suffered from running so long imo, because the powerscaling was completely busted by the end. never forget bel beating lui with ease in the very first episode of s6. but what i mean is, they WANT a character, a MAIN character that's able to completely sweep the competition without sweat, but they also want to pull a valt and have the character be new to the game, so the audience can learn alongside them. but you cannot have your cake and eat it too! aiger failed especially in my mind because he came off the tail OF valt, and i'd say the same of hikaru, hyuga, and bel as well. splitting these two ideas into two characters works much better! and i especially love that they DID start robin with that same hikaru and hyuga flavored "but i've never lost before :(" after having only trained for one month battling against people who don't care that much 😭 i love it.

and for jaxon, instead of Actually making him a novice, he's just cosplaying as one. which again. is such a dick move 😭😭 and so funny 😭 like they haven't really touched on how morally questionable that is but jaxon's just such a sillygoofy guy you get swept up in how much fun he's having!!! i love that too. it looks like next episode is gonna drop some more jaxon lore which is SOOOOO exciting. i'll hold my thoughts on that. but he's really looking up to be a much more complex character than just "the dumb one" :3!!!! but ANYWAY like this just proves to me you can absolutely make the "undefeated" character work in this setting without making it boring. predictable, maybe, but not boring. watching jaxon fight is fun even if i know he's gonna win!!! and everybody else knows he's gonna win too! i feel like bel failed at this because he was 1 kind of the only Actual Character in s6. right? like ranzo was there and he was funny but he was never a challenge, bashara too. and then bashara ditched them so the main group was just bel ranzo and hana. beyblade does not work with no supporting cast! i feel like they would've learned that from s5 😭 and even with pri added for s7 he was still just. flat. i love a pompous self centered character but when they're the only character with a personality it's hard to make them like. charming 😭 but jaxon is one of THREE main characters! all of whom have their own personalities, views of blading, and overall goals outside of reaching the top! i'm sooooo glad they went back to this style, i swear the beyclub is a huge reason why s1 is so beloved. the dynamics between all of the members was what hooked me into the show to begin with!! but now i'm just complaining about the later seasons of burst.

i feel like jaxon is very quickly reaching up to my favorite characters of all time list. and soooo much of that is due to aj beckles' performance. i can't remember if i already said this but genuinely like. i think i would have liked jaxon anyway, regardless of who played him, he just has a lot of traits i love written into him already, but GOD the PERFORMANCE. UUYYGHHHG REMINDS ME HOW MUCH I LOVE VOICES!!!!!!! his inflections, the melodic way he speaks, raising his pitch at vowels where you can just hear the smile on his face like GOD. absolutely incredible, especially for a character with a mask (and kind of shitty animation) where SO MUCH of the characterization is forced upon the voice alone, he's doing so so fucking good. he just infuses so much WHIMSY into him it's perfect. it's fucking perfect. jaxon is so pointedly focused on just having fun, and that comes across flawlessly. but the calmer moments hit just as heavy, if not more so! since he seems to be so carefree, when he slows down and acts more serious, that melody to his words becomes much more sinister. i am. so excited to see more of his backstory, cos it's looking to be a lot heavier than he lets on.

i also love in this episode the reveal that jaxon is actually, even stronger than he is in legal matches?!?!?!? doing the backalley battle and cackling while he breaks the set and taunts his opponents to get back up 😭 i'm so obsessed with him. kinda reminds me of free's story from s2 actually now that i think about it. and that's really cool to have on the main team!! i am sooooo curious to see if they do anything similar to how free's story ended too. noooo clue how anything's gonna go with khrome, or with that other guy they revealed last episode?? very fun. i'm so excited. i love jaxon so much. spinning him around

[shitouttabuck]

I don't want to be a mood killer ofc and you're free to delete this but I really wonder wtf happened with Buddie in 6A. we got the Buckley Diaz family dinner in episode 1 and then their relationship was almost entirely forgotten about it until episode 10 in 6B (arguably 12, since the lightning strike was a group thing and Eddie played little to no part in the coma dream ep...but I'm not here to debate that 😭). We got so much packed into episodes 12-13, and some interesting stuff in 15, but then it was like they were totally forgotten about again. The s6 finale was the only finale in the entire show (post s1) to not feature any Buddie scenes and it felt so out of place to have them not interact at all. I'm not gonna say something like the showrunners are out to get us bc I don't believe they hate Buddie or anything but I do agree with your anon and wonder what changed between s5 and s6.

hi bud! not a mood killer dw i think these are all fair writing decisions to be wondering about

this is all just my personal vibe from watching the season as it aired (i haven’t rewatched it since) but i think maybe because early in the season we were seeing a lot of buck’s sperm donor arc struggles (which. not my fave arc) and i guess at that point theyd already decided it’s something he goes thru with? in my mind i can’t see a conversation w eddie where he’s encouraging of it lmao esp with all his own My Kid Is Growing Up dad stuff. hen was the best person to talk to thru that anyway and Def if they were going to make it happen

i actually really really liked that eddie wasn’t in his coma dream at all! it made these two things so much more impactful for me: that eddie was the first thing he remembered when he woke up within the dream, and that eddie was the person he went to when he was struggling after. he’s buck’s first port in a storm, always. he’s real, always.

i think the last few episodes were confusing in a weird way where they backtracked on a lot of stuff they’d laid out before. cemetery scene you’ll haunt me on my deathbed….. maybe it was bad writing, maybe they’re laying out stories for next season! i really enjoyed the kind of scenes we did get of them together, big&important talks and just. small goofy interactions. but as for the lack of buddie in big patches i think it was a very buck-heavy season, and adding more buck-and-eddie scenes than we got might’ve taken away from eddie’s own storyline, which was figuring out who he is and what he wants away from being a dad. and i hope. i HOPE. that will eventually bring us back to buck. because at the end of the day, they are exactly what the other has been missing, and right now they’re too close to see it clearly

[daltonblaine]

'ur insane girl. as if it's a completely black & white situation and not a messy ass high school relationship with two fucked up people' !!!! THIS. i hate it when people either 100% blame blaine or 100% blame kurt in their messy situations (and 99% of the time, i see people blame blaine which pisses me off lol) bc they're both dumb and they both make mistakes and they're both just MESSY TEENS

Exactly 😭 apparently this is a hair trigger for me LOL um. some thoughts on this whole situation that no one asked for:

either type of stan/anti makes no sense to me because the fact of the matter is that blaine didn't cheat out of nowhere. was it a warranted/excusable response? absolutely not, but at least it's narratively understandable (which i value more than my fave being constantly morally pure LOL)

people say that cheating was an exceptionally nefarious & extreme response because from "what we've seen" kurt's only ignored 1 call from blaine and even "wasted his time skyping with blaine" (bitterly quoting an anti's post here LOL)

BUT i reject the idea of downplaying what both blaine & we as the audience were clearly meant to feel: a character with established abandonment issues, with no close friends around him anymore, started feeling truly abandoned

we're MEANT to feel conflicted about it because it's not a black and white situation. singularly taking the side of either kurt or blaine in this conflict makes you look ridiculous

i can understand why blaine might've cheated, but i mean. i think everyone agrees it was probably the worst choice he could've made. which, obviously, makes it impossible to take blaine's "side" in this conflict because at the end of the day cheating is cheating

but to immediately one-sidedly villainize blaine and claim kurt was completely guiltless also makes me tilt my head? it's not so cut and dry from here because some people will undoubtedly disagree with me on this, but from how i see it, klaine had already gone through this whole "what if you leave me behind" issue in s3. blaine had admitted his insecurities to kurt, who had acknowledged them and told him that they'd figure it out no matter what. and then what blaine was afraid of in s3 exactly happened once kurt left, with no proper communication from kurt's end

not so simple as "he cheated" on kurt's end, but kurt was unconsciously? doing something that was stretching thin the already-fragile balance they had on the account of blaine's established issues (and kurt faced no narrative consequences for this, i.e. we barely saw any kind of introspective kurt pov of the break up the same way we did with blaine, which i think is one of the biggest reasons why engagement era klaine didn't work out as they planned - that communication issue wasn't resolved even after they got back together)

honestly it's less of a finger-pointing blame game for me than thinking that miscommunication is klaine's biggest demon. i've talked about this before but the dichotomy of kurt & blaine's general reactions to conflict (kurt tending to pull away vs blaine tending to cling) makes communication EXTREMELY important in their relationship ... which i don't know if they really accomplish but hopefully now that they're going to therapy by s6 they got that figured out 😭

final note though - some of the standards people have for ships in fandom feel a bit shallow like if i wanted an unproblematic, conflict-free, safe ship i wouldn't be watching glee ... the morality cat fights people get into esp in regards to ships (but more often characters) have always been something i've never understood LOL i always have things to say about klaine because they're imperfect and complex. glee is an equal opportunity bad romance writer (makes all relationships fucked up on some level) LMAOO #GayRights