#IT MAKES ME GO INSANE

[dangeroustaintedflawed]

[elexuscal]

thinking about the Good Place, specifically season 1 and the start of season 2. And like how they serves as a meta commentary on what sit coms and tv is in general these days. You come up with an initial premise and the premise is GOOD. But inevitably that premise cannot keep forever. the characters need to grow and change. But that premise is the show's identity. So the writers fight to keep the status quo! or maybe not the writers, but the producers. And you can feel the story and characters themselves bucking the restraints, trying to change, as any single change-- a dramatic reveal, a pair of characters hooking up, a new life choice-- threatens to ruin that status quo forever.

So what do you do? You make the characters forget. Forget the lessons, forget their character growth, break-up with their partner, return to the will-they-won't-they, forget, forget, forget. Reset; start again. Do it again, a little bit differently. Now they're neighbors. Now they're cowboys. Now there's a dog.

Or zoom out beyond individual series; look at the endless re-releases and reboots and adaptations. Do it again, but this time...

How long does it go on before the characters themselves rebel?

[devils-little-mouse]

𝑰 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒖𝒕𝒕𝒐𝒏, 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒂𝒍.

[shoyowo]

this is a fairly obvious parallel so im not going to waste time talking about that, this is more so about the second panel.

why are two CLUB teams playing at a world stage? by digging a little, here's what i found-

The FIVB Men's World Club Championship is a tournament held at the club level. To qualify you'd either need to be a wild card invite - which shows the calibre of your club to be recognised at world level, or traditionally by winning the continental cup - CEV for Europe & CSV for South America.

what im getting at is the sheer level of dedication it requires to qualify and participate in the club championship tournament. quite frankly, it isn't as prestigious as other cups as well and YET kagehina are there, facing each other. they qualified (which is a whole cup in and of itself) AND got past every other opponent in the club championship to meet each other at the highest stage !!!

"(...)that means you're going to stay on the same playing field as me the whole time right? (...) or the top of the world stage?"

that's exactly what they did. that's why the fact that furudate drew club championship finals as the last panel makes me go kinda insane. they stayed on the same playing field by literally being one of the two best club teams in the world.

[beanghostprincess]

Usopp gifts Sanji one of those plants that grow over the walls, telling him that it will keep him company and make the kitchen look cozier since he spends most of his time there. "Talk to it! I'll grow faster and healthier and perhaps you won't get a panic attack every two seconds that way!" and it sounds like a personal attack but it does work in the end. Sanji talks to the plant constantly while cooking, always, always thinking about Usopp when doing so. So now they have one of those plants covering the walls of the kitchen, Sanji has never felt more comfortable while cooking, and he keeps saying it grows so much thanks to their love.

[peanutbutterex]

Everyone is always talking about the stiddies but not enough people are talking about the chEDst

[tinynap]

sapnap when he does that thing where he rubs the palm of his hand over his chest and/or shoulder >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

[literallykaidou]

[stephstars08]

I have no fucking idea what it is but every time I see one of my crushes wearing his hat backwards, it makes me go down to my knees!!!!!!🥵🥵🥵🥵

Here are some prime examples:

[rlconasty]

I’m being assaulted by ads at every possible turn…I can’t even avoid them on my audio book or just reading apps…

[pealeii]

i love crossing a bridge sm it’s not even funny “maybe we’re sharing this beautiful night/me on the left bank you on the right” hoLYYY i got chills just from writing that

[chronic-cynic]

I fucking hate it when people are concerned about my well-being. Please, just keep your pity to yourself. I’m 110% alright.

[whalesforhands]

given the options in love and deepspace and you still pick the childhood friend… 😭 nvy does it mean we need to be YOUR childhood friend to have a chance with you?

i have a soft spot for childhood friends trope specifically anon

[jujapaya]

Do you ever think about a movie night in the Mission? I do. It’s becoming a problem.

[beanghostprincess]

forever obsessed with the concept of luffy being all shy and embarrassed when he realizes he's in love with zoro because he has never felt this way before instead of being his usual blunt and direct persona

[shall-we-go-far-away]

okay, okay ep. 5 & 6: holy shit that was one hell of a ride wasn't it? (maybe whoever is reading this also saw my panicked posts from wednesday, yes I was losing my mind)

I'll try to do this as structured as possible but I can't promise anything so prepare for it to be just as all over the place as wednesday's episodes.. get ready, buckle up I have a lot of things to say:

first and foremost: FUCK YOU TAEHYUNG!! I was trying to be nice last time giving him a second chance and all because yk, I thought maybe just because he was annoying once, doesn't mean he has to be all the time but fuck was I wrong.. is he genuinely so stupid that he doesn't realize how his words affect jaewon or does he just straight up choose to ignore it?? or is it simply the mixture of both because wtf dude?? this guy is so blinded by his jealousy it's crazy like bro, how about you try and make it less obvious?? and considering how angry and uncomfortable he makes me (and jaewon) I was sooo glad jihyun and aeri were there and so happy to see they quickly picked up on how jaewon reacted and then decided to team up against taehyung (rightfully so)

especially jihyun (my cute little bean) was so attentive the entire time he really took one look at jaewon and immediately recognized something was off.. and because he was watching him so closely his reaction to jaewon slamming his hand on the table came almost naturally

moving on to aeri, I still think she's a bit much but that's probably because I'm introverted as fuck and she's clearly not.. I do really like her and jihyun's dynamic and loved their little class-skipping-shopping-sequence like you go besties!!

back to the junior-senior get together: that cut to jaewon being absolutely wasted was kinda scary and really shows how much he's struggling with everything and that he doesn't know how to properly cope with it.. and this little part of dialogue really stuck with me so once again props to jihyun for this simple yet very deep response

"you're not acting like yourself."

"hey, what is 'acting like myself'?"

"that's up to you."

I just feel like jaewon never heard something like this, he always had to fit into this box that the people around him created for him so someone saying who you are is up to you is complete news to him

harsh cut to jaewon waking up and the flashback with his brother: that shit hurt!! for some reason I expected his brother to be closer to him age wise (not that this would make him dying any less horrible) but when I saw jaewon with this little boy that just shattered me and jaewon just sitting there sobbing and desperately trying to put the camera back together was so painful to watch

skip to the beginning of episode 6: the scene of them in the car was also kinda hard to watch seeing jaewon so out of it like he wasn't even fully there (a quick round of applause for lim jisub who portrays this haunted look very well) apart from that I really liked that even though jaewon didn't answer jihyun's question he didn't let go and kept asking until eventually he gets an answer from jaewon

and now we're at a point where things started to get a little confusing for me:

while watching I felt like something was off, I couldn't pinpoint what it was (most of the time my brain has all the pieces of information but I can't put them together) but the episode felt different and then I saw a post on here (I tried not to read too much because I wanted most of this post to be my own impression) that said we might be seeing everything from jaewon's blurry, medication induced view which is why some things don't seem to add up and I think that's true or at least somewhat close to what was happening

I was actually debating which route to go with because so many possibilities about what was actually happening in ep. 6 came to my mind at first I actually thought jaewon might've overdosed in the car and ep. 6 didn't happen at all but were a hallucination or nightmare (what made me think that was the weirdly bright lighting and everything looking kinda blurry which always was an indicator of a dream or something unreal happening in any sort of media I've ever seen) but I don't think so anymore I would actually go with what I mentioned above and this blurry look comes from jaewon's medication

OOOR they chose this lighting to show how this entire trips feels like a dream because it's only jaewon and jihyun, completely separated from other people and far from their actual lives so of course that feels somewhat dream like

what I'm trying to say is: I don't think the entire episode was fake

I think making it all fake would be a waste of an episode and judging from the rest of the show so far it doesn't really seem like something the creators would do.. I think?? (maybe that's why I want some of the theories here to be true so bad because I don't want this episode to be wasted as a dream or whatever)

I would also agree with others that jihyun is probably fine, maybe a little shaken and scared but not physically hurt.. I think we see the accident happen from jaewon's pov and he's imagining it way worse than it is

nonetheless that shit scared me, how the entire mood switched and went so dark all of a sudden and then jaewon screaming jihyun's name.. I think the worst part were the silent credits and damn, that silence was loud.. let's just say, I cried..

alright, I think that's it.. I kind of lost focus in the end so idk if I actually said everything I wanted to but I think I covered most of it