#I’m praying for everyone

[9x19-balaclava]

Thank you to everyone that wished me a happy birthday here!

[cowboygenes]

The Life Cycle of A Star

[cordiallyfuturedwight]

kim taehyung as dril tweets ✰ layover edition inspired by @hopeinthebox | scans by @kpopscans

[novelconcepts]

[polin-erospsyche]

So apparently my shift in obsession from this

To this

Is a normal process?? Like apparently I’m not the only one?

Honestly it’s a little funny how Netflix gave me Polin, made me so invested I revamped my whole blog for them, then left me out in the cold after the end of season 2 with withdrawal symptoms only for Amazon Prime to be like “oh you like historical shows that are not historically accurate, with great characters, a strong kick ass female lead and a very tortured by his feelings little bean as a male counterpart? Oh you like great and fun family relationships? Oh you like angst, an enemies to lovers story but also two people who become friends and know each other better than anyone and slowly fall in love? And political intrigues and shenanigans? Oh you’re in withdrawal from a great love story? Do not move! We have just the thing you need!”

My conclusion is I have a new obsession and I’m a sheep cause I fell right into the marketing trap 🙂‍↕️

[voidcanarys]

had to make an ubers one because of the leaks

[i-may-be-an-emu]

Hugs (if you want them) for all my american moots and honestly just everyone who’s scared 🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂

[thunderc1an]

:(

[lesbianfakir]

Something I think about a lot is that how inciting incident of the collapse of drosselmeyer’s tragedy isn’t some big dramatic moment. The beginning of the end for drosselmeyer is found in the hours fakir and duck spend searching for mytho. It’s when fakir realizes duck has seen him in his weakest moments. And not despite but because of that she genuinely admired him and shows it through her kindness. All of this is absolutely crucial because in the minutes before Princess Tutu’s impending doom, fakir grows fond enough of duck to intervene in her death. What seems like a filler episode of little consequence is actually what sends drosselmeyer’s grand finale careening off course.

If he had done nothing she would have given her life for the prince, vanishing. From everything we’d seen so far it is in fakir’s best interests to let Tutu die. She turns into a speck of light, vanishes, and now there’s no one left to return mytho’s heart. Fakir is free to do as he sees fit. He can keep stalling the story, let Tutu die in the chapter of his own death and then never flip the page.

But the thing drosselmeyer doesn’t count on is that in the hours they spend searching for mytho it dawns on him that he genuinely cares about Duck. And because of that he won’t sit back and let her die, even knowing he may very well die in her place. This is the first big act of rebellion against drosselmeyer’s story. Instead of simply accepting his fate, fakir does something clever: he twists it. He accepts that yes, he must die, and, instead of trying to circumvent that, he instead chooses to destroy the means of shattering the prince’s heart, thereby saving Tutu and passing the torch on to Duck. His whole life has been about being mytho’s one and only protector, and yet after only a few hours he grows to trust Duck so much he wants her to take over in his place.

And this is where the emotional core of Princess Tutu lies. Drosselmeyer consistently expects his characters to screw over everyone else in favor of playing to their own interests. But a spark of genuine friendship is all it takes to derail everything. Duck chooses to be kind to fakir despite everything he’s done and in turn fakir trusts duck with his life’s purpose. It was never about the grand tragedy or the bigger picture. The true revolution lay in the small moments.

[dysabria]

i can not afford to get involved with this show right now because this is a queer found family of my dreams and even just from gifsets i can feel my brain itching to grab hold and become my new hyperfixation

[carpetbug]

a little mullo for your troubles

[thetorturedlovergirl]

Started third doctor’s serials and I only have three things to say:

The intro scares me, Liz Shaw should marry me and the Brigadier is gay af.

[l0v3-h3arts]

Guys it's fine, he'll just pull a sakir and win the gp!!🤪🥲

Por favor, dios🙏🙏

[what-even-is-thiss]

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[jekinabox]

some rambles on my takes on Curly from Mouthwashing

I understand that a lot of people see Curly’s reaction to Anya telling him about her SA and what he did after as him ignoring it for Jimmy’s sake- and maybe that’s true, the point could very well be that people (especially those close to the abuser, especially men) will just set that kind of thing aside because the abuser “wouldn’t do that” or “will be better” or whatever, especially because Swansea ends up doing the same thing when Anya tells him, as well as the consistent theming of responsibility and trying to fix things.

But I think that maybe there’s more to it? If you don’t, feel free to look away, this is just my thoughts and take. But I think If the story is about SA and the consequences of not rooting the people out, I don’t understand what Diasuke’s role in it could be, so that just isn’t the moral of the story that I see. Of course, if this is how you see the story, that’s ok! People can have different views on media, and art is as much about people’s different responses to it as it is about what the creators meant.

Onto my little ramblings about the guy!

1- I think it’s very probable that Curly’s been manipulated by Jimmy, and for a long time. They’re “best friends,” and Curly believes Jimmy “won’t try that bullshit with me” even though he clearly does. Even at the birthday party, Jimmy is uncaring to his “best friend,” and during the confrontation near the cockpit, Jimmy outright twists what Curly’s said in the past. (Not to mention what he does to Curly afterward, but that doesn’t exactly count since it’s afterward.) I also wouldn’t be surprised if Jimmy helped Curly out of some situation in the past due to his savior complex and Curly now feels like he owes Jimmy something. It’d be easy for him to overlook Jimmy’s smaller problems if he feels he owes Jimmy something, especially if it’s something bigger, and he seems more of the “deal with it” kind of person anyways, so he’d obviously toss any grievances aside since he thinks everyone needs multiple chances. At first, Jimmy probably unsettled him. But he got used to it, just like his job. He deals with it for the last day, then another, then another.

2- Curly seems legitimately concerned when Anya tells him about everything, at least when he gets confirmation. We don’t see much after the she asks him about the locks on the doors, and we don’t see how much he actually learns, and thus no clue as to how bad he believes the situation may be (Harassment is nothing to scoff at, but if he just believes someone’s being a creep or annoying her, he’s obviously going to try to learn more and deescalate before anything else.) We also never see how much or what they say when she asks for the gun, but what we know is that Curly is freaking out when he thinks she has it, and actually believes it at first to be that she wants to kill herself due to the recent termination of their jobs. He’s first confused, then after her few words of explanation says he’ll talk to Jimmy. We never see an actual talk, but he learns definitively of what happened only “1 day before the crash,” and it takes time to sort through emotions, plans, and decisions, let alone when someone you thought was good did something like that and if you realize that they were a shitty person all along. Curly also then needs to decide what they’re going to do with Jimmy (they can’t lock him in the cockpit or medical because they need those, nor the hold because he would obviously mess up whatever they’re shipping as a hissy fit against them, and considering you get pay docked for complaining, using the cryopod or the gun would probably make this whole deal worthless for practically everyone.) Even if he did decide to just get rid of Jimmy, he’s not going to tell anyone that in case Jimmy finds out, and especially not Anya, since she seems forgiving enough and in a bad enough spot he has no clue what she may try to do if he tells her “I’m going to go kill Jimmy.”

3- Inaction and not taking responsibility doesn’t feel like Curly’s issue. Curly has the responsibility of everything on the ship, even baking a cake, and even when told not to tell his crew about the loss of their jobs, he still does. He even takes roles that aren’t his, like doing Jimmy’s psych evaluation when he sees Anya’s uncomfortable. This is why he and Jimmy are the two characters we play as, and are seen as opposites and each other’s foils. Jimmy’s whole thing is unreliable narration. By the end of the game, he’s convinced himself Curly crashed the ship and he’s the better man for leaving Curly alive after what he “did.” Jimmy’s an aggressive man who uses people for just what they can give him, and he causes problems for the express purpose of trying to fix him so people worship him, but messes up even with all the time in the world to “fix” things. Curly’s the one blamed, but he’s a genuine guy who tried his best and gave people the benefit of the doubt until he couldn’t anymore, but didn’t have the time to fix anything because Jimmy broke that chance.

4- My main bit is over, but another piece of his psychology- Curly probably hates himself, considering how Jimmy talks about him seeming like he’s at the edge of a bridge with cinderblocks on his feet, and if he hates himself, a way he may try to cope is by insisting everyone isn’t tied to their worst moments! Just like how he talks about how pain is a symbol one’s alive, which sounds like another coping mechanism. Jimmy isn’t the only one who hopes it hurts.

5- And Curly was right, most of the time, about how bad things don’t define people. Swansea’s rude and abrasive at times, but a pretty good man in a bad life. Diasuke was unplanned for the journey, but he’s a good intern who’s trying his best. Anya may have only completed the Pony Express medical course, but she keeps Curly alive for four months, even despite his quadruple amputations and missing skin and the complete lack of a lot of medical equipment that she could’ve used. The unfortunate thing is- his kind nature let bad things in, and it was so slow and manipulative he didn’t even necessarily know, consciously, how bad it was, until Jimmy crashed the ship, got everyone killed, and fed him his own leg. 99.9% indeed.

[redhotarsenic]

Okay so I feel like I’m showing this off a TAD bit too much but I was thinking something along these lines vibewise?