#LIKE!!!

[echoesofcamelot]

BBC Merlin was airing for five years casually giving us shots like this one every other episode, how is anyone even surprised it keeps trending ten years after the finale???

I mean just look at them

[weallpartyatybcpatricksfuneral]

i don't ship peterick because calling whatever is actually wrong with them "romance" is a disservice to how genuinely insane they are for each other

[abarelysapientpairofshoes]

Something about the erasure of Siffrin's country being so total that no one seems to know anything about the fucking stars in the sky just because the country was probably known for studying them and for wish craft is absolutely devastating.

[gierosajie]

Do you think Dvalin ever felt horrible about himself, how his wounds and the poison left permanent marks on his form, left him feeling like he's lost his former lustre

And Venti reassuring him still, "you're so beautiful," always looking at him like nothing could compare

[princesaltines]

guilty pleasure

[musclesandhammering]

Ok but wait the reason Lokis are so interested in theatre & Shakespeare & literature etc (fiction in general) is because their prime variant is the God of Stories 😭

[lammydraws]

THEM THEM THEM THEM THE-

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[lizardlicks]

I've been having this thought that I haven't been able to really articulate? And I still don't think I'm going to do it right, but here goes my attempt anyway:

BROADLY SPEAKING, yes, the trope of everyone gets hetero married and has lots of kids at the end of the story is over done, and YES we absolutely badly need other versions of happily ever after because there is no one path to life fulfillment, and no one true way to find or build a family, or even one definition of family!

HOWEVER: it rings a bit hollow to me when I see other people taking this bit of generallized story crafting advise and applying that to katara and sokka specifically. Because they're not the ethnically dominant race or culture in the AtLA setting, not even close. They're based off circumpolar native populations. Their people have survived a century of genocide. Their story repeatedly echos themes of family, community, tradition, being forcefully stripped of it by imperialist colonizers, and the trauma there in. There's pieces of themselves they lost before they were even born, and both siblings are acutely aware of that, though they choose to deal with it in different ways.

I'm not saying that they DEFINITELY ABSOLUTELY must get hetero married and have a million babies to have a fulfilling ending, I hope no one reads this that way. I'm only saying that I think there has been a gap in the critical analysis responses of the broader fandom when they start reflectively sneering at stories that do have them content to stay home and raise the next generation, or whenever anyone laments about post show canon/LoK seems to neglect mentioning sokka having any family at some point it gets push back on with that exact argument.

Consider that it might be better applied to people for whom getting to raise the next generation in some way isn't itself an entire victory fanfare.

[niteyorb]

"I thought Riz would've made a better candidate" so did Sklonda, so did KipperLily, in all likelihood so did BRENNAN. But Riz doesn't agree!!!

And it's such an amazing character choice! Riz doesn't have time to fight against KipperLily's campaign and show her that her idea of "unfairness" is ridiculous, he's too busy flooding his schedule with meaningless extracurriculars so he can get into college.

And I'm actually so proud of him for that. He's got his sights set on his future, he doesn't have time for high school politics. (Until he does, because Kristen wants to do this, and Riz loves Kristen, and work is love.)

[sadaveniren]

This is your reminder that “fandom friends” are just as valid and lovely as “real life friends” and anyone who says otherwise can shove it

[maburito]

!!!!!!

This is!!! I don't know if i can say poetic but I'm!!!!! got so much thought about this scene alone!!!!

[eternallysetinstone]

Very hard to explain to my non Indian friends how a defeat feels more of a victory than ever 😭like yea we lost but we won!

[true-bluesargent]

no plot twist will EVER go crazier than the one in frozen. i need my memory erased of this film so i can have that high again what do you MEAN hans is secretly evil and was all along... 10 year old me was shaken to her core about it

[almondcroissantsandink]

they’re back bb!! 

[angelnicknelson]

actually, there's not enough talk about how nick literally called charlie my love in french, like...