#IMHO: the show

[ramen-hamster]

im faggy cunt pleased to meet you

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[wizardemotions]

pinterest showed me some screenshots of posts that gave me the concept for an au where both harry and ron are sorted slytherin & draco is just slightly less rude in the first book. i could go into why i think this makes a lot of sense for ron but i won't. i've affectionately dubbed them the platinum quartet in my head and they will not leave me the fuck alone

[sillyguywithsillydoodles]

(literally) Cheeky doctor

[bearforceone3]

unfinished doodles of guy offering jess scratch n sniff stickers after putting her through hell (he kept them from his teaching days)

[sincerely-sofie]

Thinking about @gehtsis’s children and how terrifying it would be to get their team assigned to help you escape from a mystery dungeon.

If these are what my heroes look like I'm 99% certain I'd be screaming and running the other way. Menacing cryptid-looking grim reaper and cursed psychic clay doll. I love them.

[thecheesecracker]

Baby bats are called pups! :DDD

My first entry for @gothambingo! Work has picked up recently 😭 but I will do my best to do more!!

[piosplayhouse]

Eternally chasing the high I felt when I first saw this pic that rewired my entire brain

[1doesnotsimplyhavejust1fandam]

Had a very real, very scary thought about possibilities. If this is real, if Bobby really is dead canonically and Peter isn’t coming back as anything more than an executive producer, more of the cast than Angela is probably going to consider leaving before or during next season, even if the show gets renewed for a tenth season (which. *sigh* about that for right now). All of their posts calling him their leader, a dear friend, the rock of the cast essentially, and how they or Tim have spoken up about arguing against killing Bobby off because they don’t want him to leave. And the fact that Peter didn’t want to leave in the first place. If it were me, I would feel like fair game for an MCD as well, because if they can kill off the literal rock of the show and one of the executive producers’ character, they can pull the rug out from under any of the cast at this point. And idk about behind the scenes, but the schedule of filming going much later due to rescheduling tells me that the cast doesn’t get much warning. Angela apparently found out that Bobby was going to die from a SCRIPT. This has been poorly handled on so many levels, and if the cast values their peace of mind over trusting Tim to make better decisions for the rest of the characters, it would be totally possible that some of them would be prepared to leave of their own accord instead of being told they’re leaving with little warning or care paid to either their character or themselves as part of the cast family.

[normalbrothers]

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[unpretty]

For coloring books Ive used thriftbooks. I look up flip throughs or videos first to see if I like the art n whatnot. The older mythographic books are the ones similar to what youre looking for I believe. Really busy pages with hidden things. Good luck!!

oh those DO look like the kind of thing i'm looking for, thank you!!

[theragamuffininitiative]

So... are you trying to tell me I should put Numb3rs on my To Watch list? :)

-Rain

...

Me coming over to your house with my Numb3rs dvds:

You resisting:

The Eppes Family and Co. winning you over:

(I know that flipped povs there just go with it ok) And then we say:

And watch my dorky math friends and their fbi besties solve crimes in increasingly ludicrous plots, where the fake draw is math... (and lots of fun guest stars!)

and the real draw is the familial relationships between the characters...

....

... The answer is yes.

Absolutely, yes.

[t4yce]

ALEXIS P BEVELS •  camp wannakiki 1.01 water inspired look

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[leandra-kinard]

On Oliver's social media behavior regarding Bucktommy vs. Buddie

Kind of in line with many of the good points raised by @bbbuckaroo in this ask response, but I wanted to make my own post about it.

I, too, have seen posts that prompted this ask - from more well-meaning people remarking that Oliver could/should maybe say something against the toxic Buddie shippers and promote Bucktommy more, to more critical voices saying he's essentially ship-baiting with Buddie because he keeps posting about them.

As the referenced post says, Oliver "knows how important and pivotal the Buddie FRIENDSHIP is".

So let's look at that from Oliver's (and in connection also Ryan's) point of view for a moment here.

You're an actor who's been playing one half of what is one of the most integral relationships on a very successful show. That relationship has textually always been a friendship, but with elements that make it richer and deeper than most regular friendships; it's a sort of family dynamic.

It could be read as having a potential for romance, and you're open to that, should the writers ever decide that's the direction they want to take it. You have said so multiple times, not just to appease a large group of fans, but because you genuinely mean it. You're open to it, but you don't know if it's ever going to happen, nor do you have any power over it.

You do love the way fans are celebrating this relationship though - whether they highlight the canonical platonic aspects or take it a step further. You "love the love" (as Ryan has put it). It's great, it's heartwarming, it's moving because the potential of that romance and your character figuring out he's bisexual means so much to queer fans who are looking for good queer representation (which your show already has, but there could always be a bit more, right?). You see and want to acknowledge all the creativity people pour into it.

But you're careful after a while, because, so far, that relationship has only textually been platonic, and some fans are accusing both the writers and you of queerbaiting.

So you take a step back, do less social media for a while. You don't want them to think you're confirming anything just because you see value in certain fictional interpretations of the text.

But then you are told that your character is supposed to come out as bisexual; he'll have a romance with a background character they're bringing back for a couple of episodes. While that's not exactly the relationship many of the fans hoped to get, it's still amazing. It's the right representation of bisexual characters that is very rarely done right, and it'll confirm that they always read your character correctly as bisexual. It'll be so validating to the fans to know they didn't misinterpret that, and you're very happy about that.

But you still love the family-like, platonic relationship you've built with the other character for 5 whole seasons before this. And you love the relationship your character has with his son, too. (In a way, Buck is to Christopher what Bobby is to Buck - a father figure).

You want to keep celebrating that because your new romantic relationship doesn't replace the year-long friendship with Eddie. You want to show fans that 'hey, even though this isn't exactly what you hoped for, it's still great; it's important. Eddie and Chris are still and always will be a huge part of Buck's life. Don't worry. Buck will not abandon them. I still see you and acknowledge you, but let's focus on the textual friendship and platonic love here. Which is also very, very important, and very dear to me personally."

And there isn't that much to share about a romantic relationship that's just begun yet anyway, especially with the season being so short and packed with multiple story arcs around the main characters. It's all still at the start, and while it's great, exciting and has the potential to become something lasting, nothing's set in stone yet. You probably also don't want to have people get their hopes up that Bucktommy is 'confirmed' as endgame; and you don't want to put a main character who has his own, very complex story arc going on this season on the backburner.

You've obviously 'done it wrong'. But no matter how else you could have done it, it would have been wrong as well. You probably know this by now, because no matter what you did in the past, there were always people who interpreted your actions and words in bad faith to confirm their own agenda.

So what the hell are you supposed to do other than what feels good to you while applying a little bit of caution?

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Oliver CANNOT get it right. It's simply impossible. If he didn't post at all, some fans would be mad that he doesn't say anything. If he only or primarily promoted Bucktommy, they'd be mad that he ignores Eddie and Chris entirely. If he only promoted Buddie (platonic) and Chris, they'd be mad that he's ship baiting. And if he goes for the balance of putting his character's 6-year history with Eddie+Chris and the newly developing romance with Tommy in perspective, i.e. what he's doing right now, they're still mad.

In any potential scenario, the loud and obnoxiously entitled portion of the fandom would find a reason to criticize. It really does not matter what he does.

So, where does that leave us? Personally, I'd say leave the man alone. Let him post and say what he feels is best, and don't try to look at it under any 'bad faith' lens. He's probably given it sufficient thought and does what he thinks is best and feels right.

[ali3nboyfriend]

one of the things that actually kinda bothered me re: tfone was that uh

so prefacing with in my opinion orion like… at no point showed any real leadership abilities. he starts off just kinda dragging megatron along unwillingly on most of his schemes (and no i’m not calling megatron by his serial number it feels gross when i do) in a way megatron was clearly pretty uncomfortable with. orion was constantly ignoring his best friend’s boundaries. this behavior can make for a lot of good story tension and i honestly didn’t mind it, but when we hit the parts of the story where normally the hero who’s supposed to grow into a leader actually, like, grows, he then ignores his best friend’s emotional needs. if one of my before that point nonviolent friends suddenly said to me “i am going to kill that man” and i knew they were being serious, i might be uncomfortable but my first instinct would be to reach out to see if they are okay because of how unlike them that would be. orion never seems to consider this.

(whether or not megatron was justified in the stance he takes is another topic, but the fact that he jumped there and no one, not even his best friend, checked in with him? that feels so bad to me)

and orion never steps up! megatron takes charge. after megatron is taken, it’s elita that takes charge, and she for some reason just???? tosses the ball to him???? basically goes “okay slugger this is your fight”????

and that’s the part that really bugs me. there’s no real given reason why elita would think orion is best suited to lead. he’s at no point before in this movie given any real indication he has leadership abilities. she has. the people around her are more than willing to follow her command. what’s more, she seems willing and ready to take the reigns. so why????????? is she deciding to step back for orion?????????? when he doesn’t even seem to really want to?????????????

it kinda just. feels disrespectful to elita as a character. it would be one thing if they’d actually built orion up into a leaderly role up to that point, but imho they never really did.

[fishymom-art]

wait why is slenderman 2018 legitimately good

i'm literally so mad that it's good and that i didn't come up with some of the stuff myself AGHHHHH WHY DID GENUINELY LOVE IT

[knightofleo]

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