#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

[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.

[piosplayhouse]

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

[normalbrothers]

s01ep01

[saints-who-never-existed]

Gore's death being overshadowed by Franklin's is one thing but Franklin also completely overshadowing Bryant's death is another thing entirely, and I want to talk more about it.

Our bright brother, Lt. Graham Gore

vs.

It took Bryant. He weren’t no best man.

Like, damn. The only posthumous mention he gets and it's not even a kind one...

[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.

[hickeygender]

of all the star wars movies, which of them do y'all 1) enjoy the most 2) consider the best quality and 3) think you've rewatched the most. add your answers in the reblogs or replies, i'm genuinely curious how much of an overlap there is within everyone's three answers. mine don't overlap at all! they're revenge of the sith, empire strikes back, and the force awakens :^)

[knightofleo]

"[Celine Dion] is kind of a..."

[skydaemon]

so wwdits ended

[ominousvibez]

never expected them to give wyldfyre, of all people, a romantic sub-plot in s2p2 but it actually works pretty well ngl

[t4yce]

ALEXIS P BEVELS •  camp wannakiki 1.01 water inspired look

↳ for anon

[softness-and-shattering]

So I put on this netflix show, in their tradition of being extremely obvious with names its called Mech Cadets, and its an alien-mecha human-pilot fight-the-giant-bug-aliens story. My first complaint is that the alien mechas are called Robo's. Wow exciting /sarcasm. Anyway thats totally forgiven because 1 the story actually makes choices and puts the characters through consequences instead of like hinting at oh it something bad gonna happen psych we dont have the guts for that. Its a kid/teen show so its not super dark but it follows through and goes the places it needs to.

2, and maybe most importantly, I gotta talk about the disability rep. There's four teens chosen by the alien mechs to be their drift-compatible pilots (I think im using that correctly? Im not super informed on the genre but I know some), and we see straight away that one of the guys has a prosthetic leg from the thigh down, and uses it as an example to tell the main protagonist, hey none of us are perfect we dont have to be perfect we just need to be human. The next episode the mechas are given human-designed weapons to fight with, and the disabled kid gets these flippy sticks I cant quite work out. One of them gets a staff, the other gets this glove for punching, story moves on. Then a bug-alien-antagonist gets into the teens dorm and while fighting it, the alien dismembers the guys prosthetic. He immediately grabs his crutches and goes to town on it with his crutches, and balancing on them to kick with his one good foot*. Then they disconnect the rest of the prosthetic and use its sharp edge to kill the alien. And then he just moves around on his crutches with no comment and Ill cut myself off there so I dont spoil the whole thing.

Except, a couple episodes later, Im watching him in the mech fighting and moving around, and I realise that his giant fuck-off monster attacking weapons ARE A PAIR OF CRUTCHES. Theyre his fucking WEAPONS. Thats cool as fuck!

[canichangemyblogname]

Look. This is probably an unpopular 911 opinion...

In regards to season three and the lawsuit plot, it seems to me like most of the fandom thinks Buck was out of line and that it was egregious how the lawyer brought up relevant-- and, yes, personal-- aspects of Hen, Bobby, Chim, and Eddie's past during arbitration. Workplace exclusion can constitute a form of discrimination, so the lawyer laid the foundations for a history of disparate treatment at the 118 by bringing up things like Chim getting stabbed.

I don't personally think the things that the lawyer brings up are particularly tasteless. They're not even previously unknown. Hen had a different career before becoming a paramedic. Bobby is a recovering alcoholic (the fire service and the 118 know this). Chim was stabbed, and he also suffered a major brain injury (and was back to work w/in a month of both injuries, even though he hadn't yet received his final brain scans or a clean bill of health when he returned the first time). The only thing that I can see as potentially irrelevant and a low blow was bringing up Shannon's death.

I feel like some at the 118 (Eddie and Bobby) give Buck too much grief for who he turned to and why. Buck needed someone to acknowledge how he felt and just listen without judgment and without shutting his concerns and desires down. He wasn't getting that from his friends and family. He felt isolated and like the treatment he was receiving was unfair (because he was being iced out), so he turned to that lawyer, who, yes, clearly cared more about his paycheck than his clients. But rather than understand this, many at the 118 took Buck's actions as a personal and petty attack and continued to get more passive-aggressive with him, further icing him out. And that doesn't help their case, imho.

Narratively-- because I, as an audience member, know that Bobbby doesn't think Buck is ready because Buck reminds Bobby of himself and because I know how Bobby has always been too lenient on Buck-- it seems like Bobby pushes all the other characters in a way he doesn't push Buck. In giving Buck more leniency and more time away to properly heal (despite Buck-- I'm pretty sure-- being cleared for work), he inadvertently discriminated against him for a chronic illness.

Like... if Buck's medical team and the LA fire admin cleared Buck for firehouse duty/work (and I'm writing this under the assumption that they did, but maybe I'm wrong [you can correct me if I'm wrong]), then the only thing keeping Buck from firehouse duty and the only reason he has been iced out of firehouse duties is because of how Bobby views his chronic illness and views Buck differently from the rest of the team.

There's good reason the city decides to settle. (Also probably because the writers didn't want to turn the show into a courtroom procedural.)

Do I think Buck had other options? Absolutely. Do I think this was the best course of action? No, this gets worse for him. Do I think the show would have been better had the writing acknowledged the time it should take for a person to heal with other characters-- like Chim-- instead of just Buck? Yes. Chim should have had more time. Bobby should have had more time. Even Eddie should have had family leave after Shannon died. Could all of this been avoided had the characters actually communicated? Also yes.

The show is wildly fiction, and that fiction has led to a somewhat uneven representation of severe and disabling injuries. Ultimately, it seems to me more like a writing inconsistency they tried to rectify with more in-show drama.

[helluvapurf]

[normalbrothers]

peaky blinders (2014, colm mccarthy)