#I'm sooooo normal.

[solidaritygaming-fanblog]

"I'm so normal" I say refreshing the tag feed while on my fanblog listening to a song about religious trauma headcanoning the Watchers using gentle touch to make themselves seem trustworthy and safe to Jimmy

Anyway (ignore the tags) he's coded like the lyrical part of Silly Billy :P

[theminecraftbee]

actually you know what. i'll make a post outside of the fic too. sort of losing my mind that, when cleo and etho were doing stuff they hadn't done before as a last hurrah in their episodes, cleo took etho to burn stuff down. you know, given etho's previous track record and motif with fire. and he has so much fun doing it! he's laughing! he's making jokes about it!

then the thing that etho takes CLEO to do. is to take wardens to the surface and dodge them! it's a very not-cleo thing to do because she wouldn't even know how to do that mechanically most likely, and also it's a level of risk beyond anything she'd normally pull in the life series before a desperate hail mary. and she ALSO has fun! she has such a good time!

it's just. they both share parts of each other that neither of them would have experienced without each other. and then they have so much fun with it.

and then they die. which is why they bothered sharing those in the first place.

this series, man,

[mimogutz]

5 freddies at day or whatever

[minho-knows]

LEE KNOW for DAZED KOREA

[birdperselias]

working on something soooo diabolical n twisted rn

unknown/nth by hozier x birdrick save me

[moonlight]

Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark

The Hunger Games (2012) dir. Gary Ross

[incesthemes]

god i just love heart. it's such a good episode. sam doesn't want madison to die because madison is an allegory for himself and sam does not want to die. he doesn't want to be a monster. he sees himself in madison and he desperately wants her to be good because if she is good then so too, maybe, is he. and killing madison is admitting that there's no hope for him and that he can't be saved.

what's particularly thrilling about this episode though is the way this allegory interacts with dean, and particularly the developing relationship between sam and dean.

namely, sam refuses to let dean be the one to kill madison. he takes up the mantle and expressly disallows dean from being there when the bullet is fired. throughout the episode, even, dean is sent on the wild goose chase while sam stays close to madison. and oftentimes, these chases are initiated by sam, who urges dean to follow the trail. it comes off, in the end, as if sam is trying to actively prevent dean from interfering with what he needs to do. which is, ultimately, to kill madison.

when sam begs dean not to be the one who kills madison, he is ultimately talking about himself. the message of the episode is that he doesn't want dean to kill him. this is a striking difference from playthings, where sam begged dean to kill him. sam spends much of this span of time between the two episodes grappling with the depth of dean's love and his fears of the inevitable (his own monstrosity). and the turning point of these episodes appears to be the direct midpoint between 2x11 and 2x17, born under a bad sign—it's where dean insists that he will save sam no matter what happens. and from then on, sam's fears turn from the inevitability of his monstrosity to the desperate hope that dean will, in fact, save him. his dependence on dean for stability and hope is growing, and he comes to trust in dean as the only person on earth who can save him from the promise of the monster.

madison is therefore a conduit through which this discussion about their fate is had: if dean is successful in killing madison, then it becomes a confirmation of sam's fears. if dean kills madison, he is killing sam. he's going back on his promise to sam. it's a betrayal of the highest degree, and sam must prevent that at any cost. and so he disarms dean and sends him away from madison, never lets him get too close. and in the end, when he realizes his efforts were futile, he kills madison himself. metaphorically, he kills himself before dean can do it for him, which is a subversion of fate in itself. he may not be able to prevent the monster, but he can destroy it with his own power, and destiny will be thwarted because dean's hands will be clean.

and as such, this is a microcosm, a foreshadowing, of swan song. where the metaphor becomes real and the monster inside of sam is indeed killed by sam's own hands, leaving dean's bloodless. more than anything, 2x17 heart insists, sam will not let fate run its course. if he can't prevent his own fate, then he will prevent dean's. so he kills madison; so he throws himself into the pit. it's the ultimate act in service of the brother and therefore the ultimate act against destiny. and well i just think that's neat.

[the-headless-horsedude]

The Transformers: The Movie (1986) + Quotes

[thelonelynindroid]

He's so caffeine dependent. I need him

[margaritalaux-antille]

But I want you to know I did save you. Not when it counted, of course, but... after that. Every night after that. I'd see it all again, do something different. Faster or more clever, you know? Dozens of times, lots of different ways... Every night I save you.

[alittlemoretime]

spike in that one s5 episode when buffy bursts in while he's painting his nails

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

The Horse and the Infant and I'm Just a Man perfectly sets up Odysseus's character arc (so far).

In The Horse and the Infant, he asks the men

"What do you live for?  What do you try for?  What do you wish for?  What do you fight for?"

and Odysseus answers that he lives for Penelope, he tries for Telemachus, he wishes to go home, and he fights for his family. there's his entire motivation, laid out clearly in the first two minutes of the musical. the 'why' of everything he does.

and how determined is he? what would he do to get home? what wouldn't he do for his family?

we learn that in the next five minutes. he's faced with a baby who, if left alive, will kill Odysseus and his family. Zeus assures him of this, he knows for certain it will happen.

but it's just a boy. Astyanax is a child. Odysseus is a father, Odysseus loves his family and he loves little boys. he begs Zeus for an alternative, any alternative. his first idea is to raise Astyanax himself! he doesn't want to hurt the baby. he'd rather die than hurt the baby ("I'd rather bleed for you"). but, Zeus promises him, this is the only way.

Odysseus holds Asyanax. he sings to him. he thinks of his family. he cries.

then he kills him.

Odysseus will do anything for his family. he will do whatever it takes to go home. he doesn't want to. he wants to be kind. he wants to greet the world with open arms. he wants to have mercy. his choices haunt him.

but, even if it means going back haunted and changed, he is going home

[smileyobrien]

:)

[godsworstson]

he looks like he bites people for fun

[lesbianmarrow]

smashed

[crowclubkaz]

BLITZ CONFRONTING HIS SELF-HATRED?? STOLAS AND BLITZ HAVING AN HONEST CONVERSATION ABOUT THEIR RELATIONSHIP???? FIZZ AND MAMMON??????? HARVEY GUILLÉN??????? VIVZIEPOP THANK U FOR MY LIFE