#Parts 4 and 6 are the best... Part 6 is genuinely a good movie

[kraken17]

No joke, I've re-watched every Friday The 13th movie over the last twelve days, I need a warm chocolate at the very least least…

[teaboot]

TOP 10 PERSONAL FAVE MOVIES TO WATCH WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE ASS

I don't like movies that stress me out because life is already stressful but I DO love catharsis comedy found family friendship fantasy and violence so here are my top 10 movies and series to have a good time watching

Numbered for convenience but not in any particular order

John Wick 1 and 2: An ordinary man grieving the loss of his wife gets dragged back into his past as a shadowy, invisible world of international killers for hire is slowly revealed to be living among us. A love note to set design, lighting, and choreography. My favourite part is fixating on the symbolism. DO NOT WATCH 3. 4 is okay. DO NOT WATCH 3. There is a dog death in 1 that will make you cry so skip that part if you have to. DO NOT WATCH 3.

The lord of the Rings, all 3, extended edition best watched if you're on the couch with the flu and expect to fall asleep OR if it's your day off and it's raining outside OR if you have like 5 people lounging around in pajamas

Six Underground: Essentially an hour and a half long car commercial music video with found family and a fresher take on acommon plot. Ryan Reynolds essentially writes and directs a Michael Bay movie where 6 independant criminals gather together to overthrow a violent foreign dictatorship. You show up for a dumb heist and walk out ready to build a guillotine. TW for violence, car crashes, chemical warfare, and genocide. A very cathartic ending. Does unfortunately do the whole "vague, impoverished middle-eastern country" thing but the citizens are actually show as human beings which is a nice change of pace and oh wow that's depressing isn't it

The Princess Diaries 1 and 2: A sort-of-a-loser teenage girl, played by a 2001 Annie Hathaway, learns that her late father was a king of a foreign nation and must become a confident and responsible leader for his people. There is a scene in the rain where you will experience emotions. Best watched with snacks. 2 features an enemies-to-lovers type deal with Chris Pine.

Ella Enchanted: A shrek-style semi-musical fantasy romance in which a young woman is cursed at birth to do everything anyone tells her to do. Features several Queen songs and dance numbers sung by Annie Hathaway and that guy who plays the sad dog guy in Hannibal.

Stardust: A huge loser travels from 1800s England (?) to a magical world in order to fetch a fallen star for the insufferable love of his life before she marries a massive douchebag. The huge loser? Charlie Cox. The star? A living person. Also a whole bunch of princes are ALSO looking for them as a race for the throne while discreetly killing each other off. And also a bunch of witches want to eat her so they can be young and sexy. 11/10. I used to watch this 10 minutes at a time on a YouTube channel that posted it in chunks filmed on a digital camera in their living room

The Last Holiday: Queen Latifah, playing someone played by Queen Latifah, has been working an underappreciated minimum wage job for years, living a safe and conservative life trying to lose weight and save money. Then she finds out she has months to live, and decides to finally quit her job and blow it all on one massive luxury holiday vacation complete with five-star dining, making friends and finding love and confidence along the way. It's definitely corny but it makes me so happy thank you Queen Latifah

Zathura: It's the plot to the original Jumanji but in space instead of the rainforest. But listen to me: There's a twist reveal at the end that you need to pretend isn't there. It is vitally important when you get to that part- and you will know what part when it happens- that you pretend it didn't. Otherwise, a fresh and enjoyable adventure for any age!

Redacted cause I haven't seen it in a long time and it may be worse than I remember, gotta rewatch

Bullet Train. You go in expecting a ham-fisted find-the-mcguffin style action comedy and are blindsided by excellent narrative symmetry and genuinely likeable characters. Fresh takes on old themes and creative action sequences. My little brother said "It's good", and he's a man who once sincerely argued that Lord of the Rings could have been better. It's fun and punchy violence with just enough smart stuff to not let your brain get bored

[ohnoitstbskyen]

100 songs to get to know me

I posted this image over on the bluesky, and it got like 100 likes, so now here we are. I was going to write them all up here, but Tumblr imposes a 10 video limit on embeds per post which I find infuriating.

So! You can read the first ten entries here, but you can read the entire list here: https://tbskyen.bearblog.dev/100-songs-to-get-to-know-me/

1. ABBA - Lay All Your Love On Me

I genuinely don't quite know if my enjoyment of ABBA is something I came by honestly, or something which is simply genetically engineered into my Scandinavian soul. I remember hearing my mom blasting their songs on the home stereo in my childhood, and the association has put permanent nostalgia blinders on me for all of ABBA's greatest hits. Still, I think the beat is undeniable and the mournful tone of the chorus adds some real melancholy to the dramatic plea at the core of the song.

2. Afenginn - Oestrogenmanipuleret Basilisk

Afenginn describe themselves as "bastard etno-punk" which is probably as good a description as you're going to get. There's a lot of klezmer and eastern European folk influences here, but what is more important about Afenginn's best songs is that they go hard as f*ck and it's an absolute blast to dance to them at a show. They played this the first time I saw them live, and the rhythm comes back every time I hear it again. Good times!

3. Afenginn - Ralli in D Minor

With 100 slots to fill, I am giving myself permission to allocate two slots to Afenginn, and for the same reason. Ralli in D Minor is less of a dance tune to me, and more of a headbanger, but with a sufficiently loud subwoofer and a game crowd, you could f*ing mosh to this.

4. Anamanaguchi - Prom Night

I discovered Anamanaguchi as the composers of the title track to the Nerdist podcast back in the day, and being unfamiliar with the concept of chiptunes, I was drawn in initially by the sheer novelty of hearing the squeaks and bloops of my gaming childhood employed towards rock tunes and combined with "real" instruments.

Beyond the gimmick, though, Anamanaguchi won me over fully with the Scott Pilgrim game soundtrack, and then 2013's Endless Fantasy, where the gimmick of chiptune nostalgia noise (at least for me) finally coalesced into something that felt entirely like its own thing. Plus I'm a sucker for exactly this kind of bright dance pop, and Bianca Raquel's vocals here are a perfect match for the tone of the music.

5. Jennifer Hudson - Memory

2019s Cats is a fascinating fucking disaster. Tom Hooper is the worst director of musicals in my living memory, the abuse of the VFX staff extended beyond brutal crunch and absurd challenge imposed by a director who had no idea what the hell he was asking them to do all the way into an astonishingly arrogant and condescending joke from Rebel Wilson and James Corden at the expense of workers who were the last people at fault for the disaster that the movie became (look in the fucking mirror, Wilson and Corden, your performances were rancid).

Still, the silver lining of Cats is we got to hear Jennifer Hudson shake the world on its foundations with her rendition of Memory. I don't give a shit what anyone says, this performance is transcendent and no amount of institutional failure can dim its quality.

6. Annette Bjergfeldt - Min Bærende Bjælke

Annette is one of my mother's oldest friends, and a prolific singer-songwriter now turned author. I've been going to her concerts since I was a little child, and while I am absolutely not the target audience for any of it, it has stuck with me as part of my musical vocabulary deep into adulthood.

She has experimented with brass band accompaniment a few times, but for my money, nothing quite comes close to the floating, optimistic vibe of Min Bærende Bjælke. It sounds like a very particular kind of lasting romance, which of course is also what the lyrics are about.

7. Hozier - Blood Upon the Snow

We'll get more than one Hozier song on this list, but Blood Upon the Snow stands out to me as a song which easily transcends the videogame soundtrack promotional tie-in nature of its conception. Bear McCreary's hurdy gurdy and lyrics about surviving through adversity by holding on to existence with your teeth and nails... yeah, it hits with me. There's something real in that.

"The trees deny themselves nothing that makes them grow, no rainfall, no sunshine, no blood upon the snow." Something about that feels real.

8. The Beatles - Something

idk if I really need to write anything about George Harrison's most famous love song that hasn't been written more extensively by a million dad-rock enthusiasts before me.

I will say, this is one of the few songs I listen to regularly that justify the expensive audiophile headphones I invest in. There's a LOT to hear on a good, lossless, original mix of this song, if you're the kind of pervert who gets off to listening to a song a hundred times to focus on different parts of the soundscape. (it's me, I am the pervert)

9. Blink-182 - Adam's Song

I discovered a lot of my music taste as a young man from extremely low-resolution AMVs that my friend used to download off sketchy file-sharing sites. Blink-182 entered my musical lexicon through the one above, specifically, piggybacking off of my teenage love of Dragon Ball.

I never really grokked what the lyrics were actually about, until relistening to the song years later, but something about the minor-key wail of the thing really sat with my angsty teenage soul and has stuck with me ever since. I cannot listen to this song without that music video playing in my head, the song will forever belong to Vegeta.

There's remastered versions of this AMV out there, apparently, but if it's not 144p with tinny audio, it's just not right. That's not what the song is supposed to sound like, not to me.

10. Blink-182 - Miss You

Blink-182 is one of those bands I discovered via anime AMVs and listened to obsessively for a period as a teenager (The Offspring will show up later on this list), and then fell entirely out of touch with for years until discovering much later in life that they did, in fact, keep releasing music. I Miss You from their self-titled 2003 album felt, when I discovered it sometime in the early 2010s, like a much more mature and interesting sound from a band which had gotten stuck associated with my adolescent superpower kung-fu fantasies which I was, at the time, feeling a bit embarrassed about.

The song had a resurgence on TikTok a little while ago as a meme template, which made me listen to the albums again, and rediscover yet again that Blink-182 is, in fact, still putting out albums.

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The rest of the list is here: https://tbskyen.bearblog.dev/100-songs-to-get-to-know-me/

[prettylittlels]

the interview (tom blyth x reader)

the movie (part 2)

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@/addielaruemovie Déjà vú, déjà su, déjà vécu. Out July 29th. World premiere July 17th.

user 1 OML I'M READY

user 2 i need it now !!!!!

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rachelzegler can't wait 🫣

-> user 3 ariana what are you doing here?

-> rachelzegler 🤫🤫🤫

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@/harpersbazaar the cast of the addie larue movie have a lot to say: in this interview they gave us an insight of what the movie's going to be like, their favourite scenes and moments, and their relationship with the author, y/n y/ln.

"she's the best" says tom blyth, recently uprising actor "i know i'm a little biased because i've loved her and her books since forever, but she's truly, genuinely, and gorgeously perfect. she guided us through everything, and we are forever thankful for that"

keep on reading in our website....

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user 4 you could have just said she's like a shot of espresso @/tomblyth

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user 5 y/n is so sweet

user 6 tommy what are you implying????

yourusername i love you guys so much i might start crying

-> tom.hughes_ we love you too ❤️

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@/teenvogue SPOTTED!: author y/n y/ln and british actor Tom Blyth were seen walking hand in hand last night through the streets of London. new it couple loading?

user 7 I TOLD YOU SO

user 8 tom what are you doing w herrrr

yourusername cat's outta the bag 👀

-> user 9 Y/N??????

-> yourusername sorry not sorry

tomblyth damn we look good in that photo

-> yourusername 😍

[stilivstlilnski]

Ranking teen wolf characters to least favourite to favourite characters (this is all for fun don’t take any of this seriously)

25 : Peter Hale - forever hating his characters and I hate how the Jeff keeps bringing him back I don’t care about his storyline arc

24 : Derek Hale - same with Derek like the shit he did with Isaac still gets me like nasty man and I don’t care about The Hale lore passed season 1 it should’ve ended there with Peter being dead

23 : Cora Hale - again she had some screen time in season 3 but just kinda vanished I still think she deserves better because the writers were trying to put her with stiles but failed since stydia so she definitely deserves better character arc

22 : Eli Hale - not the biggest fan of The Hale and it was clear that Eli was a replacement from stiles character in the movie but the the reason why he was a afraid to transform into a wear wolf Jeff you did good with one thing in that movie

21 : Jackson Whittemore - again don’t really care for his character arc considering the hole Lydia storyline like and him being the movie just felt weird considering he wasn’t there for season 3 so it just felt out of place in general

20 : Chris argent : I feel like he had a good character arc considering I dislike his character with the hole Scott being a wear wolf thing but season 3 his character was good written love the scenes of him finding out that Allison and Isaac kiss and he goes not a another werewolf

19 : Ethan and Aiden : idk like I feel like the writers could done more again I can’t really remember from both of the twins characters but like to be honest I don’t remember the twins that much

18 : Hikari Zang - she was replacement for Kira and all we know that she dating Liam other than it was just a replacement for Kira character which is sad

17 : braeden - I love her character and I wish the writers did more with her because she was just gone from season 5

16 : Boyd : I love Boyd and Erica character but Boyd deserves better like I feel like if the writers let him on to season 4 he would have been part of the McCall pack

15 : Erica - love Erica character with the lather jacket gang same with boyd miss storyline arc of her becoming part of the McCall pack “she was trying to kill Lydia” meanwhile the pack letting Theo join their pack during season 6 so i don’t care

14 : Hayden Romero - deserves better than being just Liam girlfriend

13 : Mason Hewitt - I love his character Liam / Mason saved season 4 and it’s sad that the movie barely mentions the dynamic and the fact that Mason became a police but yeah love mason must be protected at all cost

12 : Liam Dunbar : can’t do no wrong the movie fucked him over with nothing to do but Liam will always remain my favourite part about season 4/5 and kinda save season 6 with his screen time with Theo but kinda wish Jeff explore the alpha bond with him and Scott a bit more

11 : Noah Stilinski - out of all the parents he a few of the goods one but yeah I did like when stiles told him about the supermarket elements but yeah nothing much to say

10 : Melissa McCall - honestly genuinely one of my favourite characters like it’s kinda rare from teen dramas that we get a bond between mother and son normally the parents are either shit or the main villains kinda vibe so it was nice to see Melissa like into the grp this is a Melissa Mcall Stan page

9 : coach finstock - honestly genuinely one of the best characters from the show like he kinda saved the movie but yeah perfect comedy timing and nothing bad to say

8 : Malia Tate - I do like malia but it’s just that the writers don’t care about her anymore and it’s sad because she had such a great story arc but after she got with Scott it just went straight out the door considering he was still in love with Allison but yeah the movie doesn’t do her character justice like let me in that writers room

7 : Isaac Lahey - DESERVES MORE THAN TWO SEASONS I love him so much and I’m so sad that the isacc didn’t appear in the rest of the show, but yeah his scenes with Scott iconic “I came to win” Isaac lahey deserves more but kinda glad he wasn’t i in the movie because Jeff Davis would’ve destroyed he character even more

6 : Lydia Martin - in like 50/50 with her character like I’m always confused with the banshee shit like the writers just add shit in there especially within the movie, but her character development though season 3-4 but like season 5/6 is just out the door to much banshee shit that I don’t care about

5 : Kira Yukimura - my best girl who deserves so much better one of the best supernatural lore characters and the way the writers wrote her character in season 5 Still pissed me off like she the main reason why we got season 3B with her family background like treat her with some respect and Arden Cho deserves better also Kira really did have the best supernatural lore but the writers were to busy exploring lydia banshee powers but Kira was definitely a stand out to me during season 4 and I’m sad that the writers brought Peter back AGAIN but couldn’t bring back Kira

4 : Allison Argent : I know a lot of people don’t like Allison (but I do) and I’m upset about the movie but I love her character and I’m forever sad about her death the scene with her crying in the elevator with stiles dad genuinely in my top 5 favourite scenes and i kinda like the development of her character arc with her dad also

3 : Theo Raeken : one of the best aspects about season 6 like season 5 he kinda ruined it for me not the worst villians just the wrong script ( it’s Jeff Davis) but I do like how he tries to spilt the McCall pack up I always thought that was a very interesting arc for season 5 (in my opinion) but yeah Theo character kinda saved season 6 what can I say he was fun to watch

2 : Stiles Stilinski what can I say like he genuinely made that show what it is love him or hate him teen wolf wouldn’t be the same without him and he a fan favourite for a reason and Dylan o Brien deserves every bit of credit for bringing his character to life on screen

1 : SCOTT MCCALL one of my top five favourite tv shows characters of all time y’all just don’t get him “my mom does the grocery shopping” “I’m the hot girl” “Liam were brothers now” iconic like genuinely my comfort character

Also these are my opinions feel free to comment down your opinions on these characters (just be nice in the comments) I got the characters on teen wolf wiki from A-Z to which character shows the most in the show but yeah like I do love all the teen wolf characters to their own but the characters in my top 5 will never change for me but yeah can you tell I’m not the biggest fan of The Hale characters sorry not sorry

[miyaheestar]

Reasons why I am THE GUY fan 🌻🍕

@deezbignutz thank you for bringing this event back, you're the best 💛

1. Guy is the first redacted character that has been introduced to me via TikTok and he immediately caught my heart in no time. My first audio that I listened from Redacted Audio is Getting Your Stolen Hoodie Back From Your Chaotic Boyfriend the Fun Way. And of course my favorite part is "Hi! Hi baby, I love you" because he genuinely sounded so sweet in there.

2. While as others seem to find Guy's jokes as cringe, I actually love it especially after he delivers the joke he giggled like a silly man. I think it's worth listening to his audios again and again just to listen to Guy's silly giggles.

3. To be honest, loving other redacted characters than Guy is pretty hard because I'm just used to listening to his voice and giggling over his jokes while im in bed. It took a while but after Guy, Asher managed to stole my heart yet no one till this day can top Guy. (i mean except honey)

4. Lately when I watch a movie and listen to songs, I always thought of Guy. I don't know why maybe I'm just a lovesick girl who's deeply in love with a pizza delivery guy character. What can I say? I'm just a girl.

5. I've always thought Guy knew that "he's too much/he can be a lot" and he thought of it a lot and when I listened to hbs 2024 no joke I legit cried when he said that because I understand his feelings about this and everytime I see someone saying stuffs about Guy, I just fight my urges to choke em cause I hate fighting 😄

6. I have my icon and guy's icon edited together and my dearest friend @luvranton said my icon and his matched so well together so here it is.

7. I have both of my loving friends here draw me and guy. arts credit to @mhmmaybe and @luvranton 🩷

8. here are some screenshots, both old and new

9. i made some edits and little art of me + guy.. well i made a little animation too but i cant put it here for some reason..

10. I have a totebag with guy's icon, crochet a pizza because i miss him and bought a silly bee keychain and pizza earrings because well.. guy..

11. I dont have much to say than I love guy for who he is. He can be Echo and I will still love him. If you think I'm good enough to be the Guy fan then vote for me! Thank you for spending your time reading this, adios! 🌻🍕

[explosionshark]

top 5 lesbian movies!

Fuck yeah I love lesbian movies let's GO. Also I'm cheating and I'm gonna answer with six

1. Saving Face - far and away our best romcom, even 20 years on. Very earnest, cute but still grounded. Genuinely a lifeline in an era of mostly on-screen misery. We need Alice Wu back so bad.

2. Bound - LITERALLY life changing. Might actually be the first piece of lesbian media I owned. I watched it online in like 14 parts on YouTube in 2008 or whatever and bought a copy at Borders a few weeks later. Anyway who doesn't love a lesbian heist film?

3. D.E.B.S - honestly name a more silly and fun lesbian movie, I dare you. Angela Robinson said "I'm going to make a campy goofy lesbian spy romcom that'll change your relationship to 'A Little Respect' by Erasure FOREVER" and then she did exactly that.

4. The Handmaiden - TWISTS AND TURNS. Gorgeous movie, no one needs me to explain why it rules, it's just really damn good.

5. But I'm a Cheerleader - CAMP AGAIN. Absolute classic, very important to me as a young lesbian, and Natasha Lyonne and Clea Duvall truly have some of the best screen kisses of all time in this movie

6. Bottoms - NEW LESBIAN CLASSIC. Really goofy and fun, I'm so glad we've got our own stupid horny absurd teen sex comedy now. What a huge win for the community.

Shout outs also to Carol (a strong adaptation of the book!) and Love Lies Bleeding (I need to see it more times! Once wasn't enough!)

Ask me my top 5 anything

[honeysorwell]

Two hearts can fix everything

Synopsis of the story + Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7

Chapter 5

Par: Wilhemina Venable x fem!Reader

Tag list: @paulsonix​​ @d14n4ol​​ @harknspet​ @strawberryshorttcakkee and if any of you want to be added just let me know!

Warning: none, I think I’m in my clean era.

Word Count: 1,6k

Enjoy! (I know! I know I promised I would post this chapter sooner but I'm still spending time with my mom and stepdad and we went out drinking and I BLACKED OUT!! It was the only time I've ever just passed out from drinking but it was so much fun, anyway it significantly delayed my plans hahaha! I hope you guys like it!)

After that day, it becomes a natural occurrence for the two to talk about their interests and share moments from their weekends. Y/N receives movie and book recommendations from Wilhemina, and the redhead discovers that the barista is passionate about documentaries and music. It's nice for both of them, to get to know better someone who, despite being different from who they are, still arouses genuine interest in them.

Even though they are indescribably different, they are not opposites. It's as if their personalities make everything that's different about themselves malleable when they talk together.

But the demons that live inside Wilhemina's mind are still not convinced of how genuine the affection that Y/N is showing her actually is. Maybe it could be romantic, but there is an intriguing possibility that all the smiles and compliments are just... friendly.

This should matter less than the spelling mistake that Y/N had made common in Venable's name, but as she gets ready for work, the redhead barely remembers about this mistake.

In addition to her face, Wilhemina also took great care of her hair.

Even with all the care that she needed to take with her spine, the redhead was always really concerned with taking care of her hair in the best way possible so that it would always be healthy. Until today, not a single drop of hair dye had been spilled on the redhead's head, and since the orange-red color always captivated the people around her, she intended not to do it until the grays started to appear. But for now, she would see if what other people saw in her hair was also seen by Y/N.

That morning, when Wilhemina was getting ready for work, her hands were shaking. She always wears her hair down at home, mainly to preserve the health of the strands that remain tightly tied during the day, but that morning she was trying something different.

It's like a research.

That's what the redhead thought the whole way as she guided herself straight to the coffee shop. Maybe it would be better to go to work first, and only at the end of the day try to extract some more heated emotion from the barista. But the redhead still felt as if her body was working robotically, desperate for the reaction trapped in the look that Y/N could give her.

And with that in mind, Wilhemina opened the door of the coffee shop.

For Y/N, that was such a good day already. It had been two days since she hired two adorable teenagers part-time, to help them with money. It was surprising to the barista when Bryan and Andrew - two tall and strong boys, but still with sweet faces that were too young to look more than 17 years old - showed up together for the job interview. They wanted money for an end-of-year trip with some friends, and with strict parents both would have to get the money through their own efforts.

One had light eyes and brown hair with a color that tried to imitate copper, and the other had dark skin and bleached blue hair.

Y/N's first thought was to dismiss them. But her father's soft and sweet voice sounded too loud in her memory saying that everyone deserves the benefit of the doubt.

And even didn't believing in the story about the trip, Y/N hired them along with an adult woman whose resume had experience working in two coffee shops in another city.

They all work well.

The boys are hard-working and quickly learn how to make some of the drinks, listening attentively and carefully to every word Y/N and Anne, the new hire, was saying. It's not really a surprise when Y/N finds the two boys kissing in the back of the coffee shop, in an atmosphere passionate enough that they don't notice she saw them, but when they do, the barista makes it clear that it's a safe environment for both of them.

That morning, Y/N was thinking about how long she was missing just taking a break. Almost 5 months after she opened the coffee shop, the only days the barista didn't work were the 4 days she had a particularly bad flu, and as she watched the 3 hired workers serve other customers, it occurred to her that maybe, once a chain of trust was formed between them, she could do this more often.

It's like a reflex when Y/N looks at the door when she hears the bell, and it's like she forgets how to breathe.

Wilhemina's hair flutters with the force of the wind as the door closes behind her, and even when the redhead approaches the counter, Y/N barely moves. She continues to stare, almost mesmerized by how beautiful the redhead looks.

Just like an angel.

The older woman's beauty was something the barista noticed from the first day she walked into her coffee shop. Even with her hard gaze and expressionless face, Y/N still thought she looked more beautiful than all the works of art put together.

As the redhead orders her coffee, just like she does every morning, Y/N feels like she's still floating. Mainly because there's a softness on the redhead's face when she focuses her eyes on Y/N.

Always have been there?

The redhead's gaze on her back feels like it's going to burn her skin, and even feeling a little clumsily Y/N feels that a part of her likes it. Her hand trembles as she writes the redhead's name on the plastic cup, and then it's like the barista doesn't know how to make coffee anymore.

Hot water spills on the floor, she puts coffee beans in the granulator instead of the grinder, and Y/N almost burns her hand twice.

She feels foolish, but when she goes to hand the coffee to Wilhemina, it's like her soul speaks for her.

"You look very, very beautiful, Miss... Wilhielmina. You always are, but today…” Y/N’s cheeks are so hot as she stumbles over her words, it’s as if the barista feels like her own skin might just disintegrate and her soul could float away with the supernatural weight of how attracted she is to Wilhemina, but Bryan’s laughter brings her back to reality, so she turns her head towards the sound and begins, “Boy, the customers at the tables want to order…”

“I guess they’re not the only ones who want something here…”

Y/N can hear the sound of laughter next to her, and a part of her soul feels frustrated that she wasn't the reason for a genuine laugh from the redhead, but the barista feels her face so red that she can barely look at Venable and is terrified that her words will make her look even more foolish.

“Well, never mind, have a… um… good day... and job, Wilhielmina.”

“Thank you Y/N… And you're also very, very pretty.”, when the sentence is said, so quietly that it almost sounds like a whisper amidst the side conversations in the cafeteria and Y/N almost believes she imagined it.

Because there is absolutely no reality in which someone as gorgeous and with such an imposing presence as the redhead would be interested in... her. But when she looked forward, the woman's lips formed a wicked smile and her brown eyes looked like the most beautiful melted chocolate and Y/N just knows that they were telling her otherwise. And it is impossible for Y/N not to let out a sigh as she watches the redhead walk with her cup in her left hand, and leaning on her cane in her right hand, towards the exit.

But obviously, the redhead's day could not be just smiles and sighs. She is sure of it when Mutt talks about Venable's hair just as she arrives at Kineros Robotics. It is one of the few days that he or Jeff arrives before her, and the redhead knows she will hear all kinds of stupid jokes. To her surprise, he doesn't focus on her delay, but instead on asking incessantly if there is anyone Wilhemina wants to impress with her hair down, however, only a few words intended to humiliate him are uttered by the redhead so that he stops talking about it.

After a few hours of working, she knows that she should throw the plastic cup away after drinking her coffee, but, as an instinct confusing even for the redhead herself, her mind suggests she to just keep the object resting on her desk. When Jeff finds the empty cup, just before the company's lunch break, it is like the biggest opportunity he has ever had to try to irritate the redhead, and he doesn't waste it.

"Wilhemina? Did you order the bartender's head on a silver platter?"

"No, I didn't, Mr. Pfister…"

"But it is something you would do… Yell at him and tell him he is illiterate, you know? The usual…”

She breathes for a few seconds while honestly thinking about how to answer him. But there is no need for more than that.

“It’s absurd how you keep talking as if you know me, which of course you don’t since unlike your old secretaries I’d rather have a gun to my head than have you between my legs. It’s just coffee! Now leave me alone, will you?”

He doesn’t answer her, he even seems a little sad and stuck in a significant loop of self-deprecation for a moment as he looks away from Venable’s, but as if his instinct is forcing him to end the discussion like a petulant child, Mutt mutters audibly before walking away.

“Nice hair, pumpkin head.”

Venable thinks about answering, but honestly, she doesn’t care. It’s absurd, and it makes little sense in the redhead’s head, but all she can think about as she looks at her own reflection in her turned-on computer is the sound of Y/N’s voice telling her she’s beautiful and the hypnotized look in her eyes.

[astraldepths]

Music Meme Time!

I did krinklcut's music meme! :D Here is a youtube playlist of my song choices, and below are my notes about why I picked them:

Epic - Love, and Other Drugs by Family and Friends

I really love the feeling of this one, and I chose it as the Epic song because it starts out sweetly and builds in intensity with the desperation in the singer's voice, then evens out into something slower but still intense, and alternates between those two moods until fading into distortion. 10/10, this is what it feels like to be overwhelmed by the feeling of love!

2. Cheerful - Safari by Teen Girl Scientist Monthly

I first heard this song as outro music in a few of BriTANicK's sketch videos, and that part of the chorus always sort of stuck with me, but I didn't actually look up this band until years later? But when I did, I fell into their stuff head-first. I really just love the vibe they have; it's so determined and hopeful! This is one of their earlier songs (from their first EP in 2010) but their later stuff is also fantastic, and just so…earnest in the way that it is.

(also their songwriter uses they/them pronouns and is very cool! and they're coming out with a new song in January! aaah!)

3. Sugary Sweet - If You Should Try to Kiss Her by Dressy Bessy

If you're like me, you know exactly where I know this song from. <3 It was in But I'm A Cheerleader (1999), and fit in perfectly with the candy-colored world of the movie, with its bright instrumentals and sweet vocals. I love it :')

4. The Good Old Days - Nights Like These by Marianas Trench

I thought about picking a song I liked when I was younger, but I chose this one because it fascinates me. It came out this year, but from the moment I heard it, I felt like I'd always known it. Not in a repetitive way, though there are songs it's similar to, but something about this kinda gave me deja vu.

Also it matches the specific vibe of songs I loved in like 2012-2014, where there was just a certain feeling to the music that's hard to explain? But this one has that feeling, and so it strikes a particular nostalgic chord with me. Also the singers' voices are so goood, god. This song was so good live!

5. Jogging - I'll Be Here Awake by Arthur Yoria

I actually heard this artist for the first time in one of Tom Scott's early videos! He used the song "At Least You've Been Told" in the video "Breakfast: Fortified With Iron", and that one's a good time too! But when I listened to more songs from that album, "I'll Be Here Awake" is the one that I liked the best.

It definitely has a 00s flavor, and it's a nice upbeat song that I put on my playlists for when I need to get shit done. Also how can anyone go wrong with the lyric, "…and crave a little pain when no one's watching"?

6. Unusual - Gay Thoughts by The Growlers

It's hard to pick something unusual, because…I mean...you know how I am about music at this point. xD I'm not really picky, and I can find a genuine love for probably any genre of thing. So I picked a song that felt unusual to me the first time I heard it, because that counts, right?

I don't even remember when I found this, but it was a tumblr audio post, and it was not at all what I expected when I hit the play button. The combination of the style of music with the content of the lyrics is so interesting, and it's definitely a vibe!

7. The Stage - Je N'aime Que Toi from Les Chansons d'amour

There are lots of musicals or operas I could have picked from, but I like this song, so I chose this one. <3 It's from Les Chansons d'amour (2007), a musical film that at the start is about the dynamics of a threesome relationship, but then ends up being more about grief and accepting love after loss.

This song is from the earlier part of the movie, where a couple are having an argument and calling each other sluts, and then their girlfriend is like, "hey! :) it's cool :) I'm here to bring you together!"

The english subtitles in the movie translate this song weirdly (and maybe the other songs too? idk. The translator seems too focused on making the english lyrics rhyme, and they've gotta stop that; it's so strange), so you're better off looking up other translations or even just clicking the "translate" button on a youtube comment that has the lyrics written out. But, still!

8. Yourself - Now or Never Now by Metric

Some of the other songs I'm choosing for this meme are actually on my Selfmix playlist, which is for songs that sort of fit in with my image of who I am as a person. Specifically, "Safari" and "I'll Be Here Awake" are on it, and the song I picked for number nine is the first song in the playlist!

This one, "Now Or Never Now", is right in the middle of it.

With this song I really relate to the feelings of like…stasis, of not being in control of how fast you're moving in life, of having to rebuild your sense of self and learn to take ownership of what you are. This is my favorite part: "Because everything that's under my skin / Where I end and begin / Still belongs to me".

9. Emotional - Nine by Sleeping At Last

Aha you're going to regret putting the sad song last. :)

This is just…yeah. This is a song that I see myself in, and it's an amazing song, but it has to be listened to in moderation.

It came up on shuffle earlier this week when I was driving to work, and I wasn't in a good position to change it, so I had to listen to the whole thing and then take a moment after to calm down. It's a very powerful song, but…oof.

for this meme, I am tagging: @semiotomatics @dasozelotvonnebenan @catsarehumanstoo @aeriialace @chaoticbooklesbian and anyone else who wants to do it!

[616nightcrawler]

6, 7, 8

6. which ship fans are the most annoying?

jeanscottlogan fans acting like theyre canon during krakoa bc they did that weird fucking queerbait. like sorry guys but its not fucking happening. theyre not canon. those are two heterosexual men sharing jean grey bc she's housewifepilled and heterosexual right now. like come on

also cherik bc i know those two old men are fucking but i dont care that much and its not that deep. and i'm traumatized from people creaming their pants over james mcavoy hes not that hot and the reboot movies are genuinely just not good

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

billy kaplan. im sorry im sure hes a nice little gay boy but YA fans always acting like their boring dark hair/light hair gay couple invented the fucking wheel when it comes to comic book gays. im just so over it. and like everything i've read where he shows up was just not that interesting. YA was not that interesting. its just the kind of gay rep i yawn and turn away from i dont care about it one bit and people acting like its revolutionary when northstar was gay and interesting before billy was even a twinkle in wanda's eye is EXTRA infuriating. billyteddy just seems so disgustingly wholesome and the fact that they got married at 20 is offensive to my people (weird flighty gays in ill defined relationships). talk to me when you're so repressed you become a big evil ice monster and kill all your friends, loser

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

akihiro wouldnt stop badmouthing logan bc laura and gabby are in the room. like i get a lot of comments of this nature when i make my weekly akihiro ramble post like "ohhh he's just letting bygones be bygones for the sake of his sisters" like 1) he wouldnt do that he's bisexual and evil and loves drama and being petty and making his problems everyone else's 2) they dont give a fuck they know logan is a shitty old man. akihiro metas written by people who only got into him post-krakoa. you guys dont GET HIM talk to me when you're rereading dark avengers like a freak

i did all xmen for this one bc they're front of mind always forever but I'm gonna throw in some jojo substitutes bc i'm honestly a bigger hater when it comes to jojo:

6. bruabba its not that deep

7. fugo is not important to the plot at all and acting like he has some sort of relevance to giornos life is just lying to yourself bc you want to ship gio with someone more age-appropriate than mista. like i get it but he barely met giorno before dipping just write your au fic where he sticks around and dont pretend that they had some love connection and no i'm not reading that light novel or whatevs i dont care about this irrelevant boy

8. part 5 is not the best part. in fact its probably the weakest plot-wise with pretty one-note characters and plot twists you can see coming a mile away ESP coming off part 4 which has a solid plot. you guys just like the shippable twinks. AND THATS OKAY. but dont pretend. also jonathan isnt boring you guys are just mean and if you skip 1+2 you're weak

tldr part 5 mid

[dramalets]

2024 Watch List pt2

Mr Unlucky has no choice but to kiss - Very, very cute and silly without being slapstick. This gets a bit lost in its own soup and after about episode 4 it drags some. Also just a bizarre and somewhat anticlimactic ending. The leads are lovely though and they do work well together. 3/5 (22/2/24)

What did you eat yesterday S1 - Just perfect. Watching Shiro & Kenji grow together over the episodes is a treat. This is as warm and tender as it is brilliantly observed and funny. A true must watch. 5/5 (24/2/24)

The Sign - This just got lost in itself. It had moments of absolute perfection but there were, for me, too many threads it didn’t tie up. Personally I liked this show the most in its procedural show parts and less in its fantasy elements, where I feel it had the most work to do. This isn’t one I’ll rewatch but I did enjoy the journey. 3/5 (25/2/24)

If it’s with you - Lovely is the best word for this. Just a little warm hug of a thing. A sweet story of first love. 4/5 (26/2/24)

I became the main role of a BL drama - Very soft and silly. Not much happens but the leads are lovely and fun to watch. Would kind of love a spin off about the managers if I’m honest. Zero complaints. Just a cute, easy, quick watch. 3/5 (27/2/24)

Kabe Koji - Very enjoyable. Absolutely loved the manga come to life concept of this one. It was super fun to look at. Personally, I think this could have done with maybe 1 or 2 more episodes. Neither character felt as explored as I would have liked. A nice watch nonetheless :) 3/5 (27/2/24)

The Man who defies the world of BL s1 & 2 - This is so unbelievably funny and well observed. Atsuhiro is a master at comedic faces and they never feel slapstick or overdone. Loved every silly second. 4/5 (28/2/24)

Candy Colour Paradox - This isn’t the best acted thing and the chemistry is only so-so it also really starts to drag in places. (Inserting Izuka Kenta into a multiple episode arc was a choice because he’s incredible and it only serves to highlight the so-so of the leads.) Having said all these things it still has a charm and I still enjoyed watching it. Just perhaps not one I’ll be itching to rewatch or suggest to friends. 3/5 (28/2/24)

Perfect Propose - A sweet six episode watch that’s really all about being human. Kai has to realise that being part of peoples lives is both terrifying but necessary and Hiro must learn to value the role he plays in the world. Just a gorgeous little watch. 4/5 (1/3/24)

Kei x Yaku - Is this a BL? Not really? It’s more like gay romance is heavily inferred but here is a messed up, lovely little found family so enjoy that. This is so much fun and I can’t rec it highly enough. Very much just tune in and have fun. 4/5 (1/3/24)

Cherry Magic - Zero notes. Absolute perfection. TayNew supremacy. 5/5 (2/3/24)

My Personal Weatherman - Just bored me honestly. It’s not bad but it’s not as good as some make it out to be. I think if I’d watched this before the novelist I might have liked it more? Not something I’ll reach for again. 3/5 (3/3/24)

My Beautiful Man s1&2 - This is very Japanese and, on paper, should not have worked for me at all. In practice tho? I loved this. I understand the reasons this is controversial but I also think if you go into this without any of the disk horse you’ll just see it for what it is; a love story between two broken boys with piss poor communication skills and self esteem issues. 4/5 (5/3/24)

My Beautiful Man Eternal - This movie is the third part of the beautiful man series. I genuinely think you could skip s2 and go straight in for this. It delivers what I would have wanted, but was impossible to give in four episodes, from s2. We see Hira and Kiyoi’s growth as individuals and also together and we finish with them as equals, with Kiyoi speaking to his king Hira. Beautifully shot, excellently acted. Will watch again. 5/5 (6/3/24)

[popculturebuffet]

Next up for Warner Bros Animation, favorite character from the 2002-08 half of the Kids WB shows with: Mucha Lucha, Ozzy & Drix, What's New Scooby Doo, Xiaolin Showdown, The Batman, Johnny Test (this oughta be interesting since it aired on three different networks with varying seasons of quality with seasons 1-3 premiering on Kids WB, seasons 4-6 being produced for Cartoon Network, and the revival seasons being produced for Netflix), Loonatics Unleashed, Tom & Jerry Tales, Shaggy & Scooby Doo Get a Clue, and Legion of Superheroes? I skipped Coconut Fred since everyone and their mother despises that show (one of the worst of all time).

Jesus Christ that's a lot. Also look given some past entires here, Coconut Fred is being kept on the grounds that it shoudn't be forgotten just for being horrible. like da boom crew which I thankfully haven't seen. So anyways..

Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island: I saw it at the time and it.. sure does exist. It's a half hearted spongebob ripoff. I'm talking about it because it did exist but don't have much else. Maybe I shoudl've left it out but i've let worse shows have an entry. This is just.. ntohing.

Mucha Lucha: IT'S A WAY OF LIFE! Senior Hasbena who just had a fun voice and a great early spotlight episode. The show itself is one I need to revisit but is awesome as hell, having a nice respect for luchadore culture while also being pretty nonsesically fun. While I would love a full on wrestling action series, this one was still good fun and needs ot be avaliable to stream in some fashion.

Ozzy and Drix: Drix if only because he was my faviorite in the movie. This series feels.. unecessary. It's not a bad idea but both frank's state at the start and Ozzie and Drix ending up elsewehere make it feel like the first film didn't matter and it feels weird to just.. not keep the setting. If they wanted kid plots, Frank has a daughter. That gripe aside the series was ... eh. Not terrible, but nothing really super special either.

Xiaolin Showdown: Jack Spicer. The boy, the myth the legend and Danny Cooksy's best role by a wide margin. A fun villian who was laughable enough to never get boring and stick around long after he'd been outclassed by newer big bads. Xiaolin Showdown is one of the best cartoons of this era, one of the best of this action show block and one of the best. I rewatched it in college and was amazed it held up so well. The show is genuine about our four heroes working, said four heroes while having familiar archetypes for the most part, are great characters who are a load of fun to watch and the format of the showdowns is engagin: while it does usually lead to some form of fight the contest format adds a nice wild card to it: our heroes can end up in a game where telling the truth is the only way out, a soccer match for OMi's soul, or a battle royale with all present. IT's a wonderful show I wish would get a proper revivial. And no Chronciles dosen't count, chronciles can go fuck itself.

The Batman: Another one to revisit and i'd say clayface as the twist of him being someone batman knew and trusted is utterly guttnig. I gave up on this one early for petty reasons depsite having most of the toys: I hated what they did with mr freeze and felt it couldn't compare to btas. Time has passed and with the later seasons adding some nice swerves i've accepted the show is it's own thing, trying to be a more action oriented shonen to forge it's own identity from the more moody btas. And it did apparently get better and better as it went and having seen a later episode or two casually , I can agree. Plus I admit to loving the touch of having batgirl join up before batman. Also the movie where he fights dracula is fucking dope and wel lworth your time.

Johnny Test: I'd say the twins for being usually hilaroius. As for the show.. it's eh. I used to hate it

But I now see it as an okay show that had some fun bits, and what I saw of the revival, as sadly short lived as it was, was better. It's still not AMAZING, but it wasn't the mindless garbage it got labeled as either. Nor a dexter's lab ripoff.. I do think they took some inspriation from it clearly, I mean look at the twins... but when you look at the cast none of them really match up to dexter's aside from the twins, whose crush on gil and age diffrenate them just enough. It's not an amazing show but it's hate was overblown.

Loonatics Unleahsed: Look the base concept of "The looney tunes as superhero: could be fun. I have a batman daffy and superman bugs on my desk as I type this. They did skits of the kind. The problem is lonatics wanted to be batman beyond with looney tunes and it never worked as a kid and dosen't work now.

Tom and Jerry Tales; I love tom and jerry but i've barely seen this.

Shaggy and Scooby Doo Get a Clue: The timing on this one as good as i've been watching through this on and off with @jess-the-vampire recently. I don't really have a faviorite. As for the show itself it's overhated like the last two entries and honestly.. it's okay. It's nothing amazing thus far, trying to be venture bros by having henchman 2 be an obvious ripoff of 21. Which wouldn't bother me if they did it right but instead he's just annoying. That being said it's still not a terrible series: the theme song is terrible but the show itself is solid, having intresting sometimes bonkers plot and shoudlnt' be vilified for breaking formula. It may not entirely work.. but I can respect TRYING something new an dhope go go mystery machine is a better version of this.

Legion of Super Heroes: Bouncing Boy: this series kept his goofy powers but also what works: someone who badly wanted to join the legion, never gave up and then threw in his reboot self's pilot skills and flsehd out his perosnality.

As for the show i'm a big legion of superheroes fan and this show is part of what brought me to the clubhouse. It's a slick show that nicely merges the two continuties it had to work with: the pre zero our one from the silver age and beyond and the reboot that helped ground things (The third reboot, yes three and there was a fourth long after, was just happening around this time so only star boy being black made the cut from there), while keeping the silver age namesan dastetic from before.

The result is a fun show that loves the legion dearly, has a great cast of characters and despite being made to have a teen superman show dosen't let clark overshadow everyone else: he's the lead.. but most of the main cast get a focus episode over the course of season 1. I"ll admit season 2 isn't quite as good as due to executive mandates the female cast is sidelined in places and imperix is a boring villian, while superman x, superman but EDGGGYYYYY just isn't that intresting. But season 2 isn't all bad with some standout episodes, the addition of chameleon boy and a truly chilling arc with brainy and an old friend I won't spoil for those who haven't seen the show. This series is a little seen gem that needs more love.

I realized as we worked on this I almost forgot something important, a series that begs for the spotlight so..

What's New Scooby Doo: We're comin after you, we're gonna solve that mystery. This is a hard one as the gang is reinvented well but i'd have to go with Fred, whose goofiness begins. After the great prequel that was pup named scooby doo and the success of the live action movie, What's New was a reinvention of the franchise in an odd way: it goes back to the gangs old actors , minus grey delise making her debut as daphne, and old style of writing thigns but updates it in a way that dosen't feel too dated now: sure the gang does extreme sports, but it's not to rocket power levels and fits for Daphne.

This series also cements fred and daphne's new roles going forward, roles that helped keep the character fresh despite the dozens of films and handful of series to come. Fred was dialed back from teh conpsiarcy theroist of pup, but instead became the bumbling tourist, a tad awkawrd in places and a tad over excited in others. It added nice layers to him besides solving mysteries and bullying his best friend and it left the door open for him to get reinvented a lot. Daph meanwhile, got a welcome reinvention that let her fit into the classic gang better: like her pup counterpart she often uses fashion, her wealth is more displayed (if not used as a fucntion) but her friendly nature and willingness to get into things (or easliy getting into activties she hated at first), all debuted here.

What's New is a fun series: shorter than you'd think, but having watched it about twice with jess , it holds up really well, combinging the usual formula with some fun hyjinks and creative setups. Sometimes it was bonkers, but it was a solid return to form that let the series experiment more with the next few, and deserves more credit for helping codify a lot of the modern franchise.

[yellowjavkets]

pls talk about ginger snaps i love hearing peoples thoughts on it, i am so mentally ill about this movie ;;;

LET'S GOOOO ok so i have so so so so so much to say

1.) one of the ways ginger snaps really succeeded for me in the way that some of the ways that other movies about the horrors of puberty and womanhood is that it's really willing to commit to the concept of the "benefits" (being perceived as desirable) are only barely masking terrible effects that make her cry in her sister's arms. many other movies of this genre just throw some blood and sharp teeth on a gal and call it a day but ginger snaps has a lot to say about how puberty is inherently horrifying. "i can't have chest hair, B, that's FUCKED" and the taping the tail to her leg being my favorite examples. The dichotomy of thrashing violently between trying to own it and have fun with it and being like "oh my god this is fucking horrible i'm having a mental breakdown"

Spoilerssss under the cut

2.) throughout the third act is a prevalent sense of "we almost made it" because the ideas these characters have are genuinely good ideas and the timing just gets fucked all to hell. I also love the detail that Brigitte kills her sister not as an act of self preservation but simply because she flinched with the wrong hand 3.) i love how layered the foreshadowing is throughout the movie. Nothing comes out of left field the whole movie! I love how mimi rogers does arts and crafts and is always surrounded by flowers and then when Brigitte obtains monkshood it's believable! i love when movies are creative enough to avoid falling into the deus ex machina trap! 4.) this movie has like really really lovely things to say about 5.) i love when horror movies are willing to examine the tragedy of all. So many slashers fall into the trap of being so focused on having a triumphant final girl moment at the end that they forget to express mourning and grief which is imo the best part of any good horror movie. When Brigette hills her sister it's not really a win, and she ends the movies in tears with her dying sister in her arms.

6.) on that note the codependency of a close sibling relationship is probably what sells the movie the most to me. "I'm furious with you and you're my nemesis right now but I would die for you is SO REAL. 7.) my favorite scene in THE whole movie is after ginger kills the popular girl when the parents get home and they just act like it's one of their staged death photos (ties back to the foreshadowing thing i was talking about earlier) I love when horror characters are smart and resourceful and creative.

8.) did you know there's no cgi in the whole movie not even touch up cgi it's ALL PRACTICAL EFFECTS AND MOST OF THEM STILL LOOK GOOD EVEN TODAY

9.) i love that they put the werewolf transformation in the back of a moving vehicle in the dark? muah muah muah muah

10.) every character feels thought through and well developed even if they don't really have a lot of screentime. like ginger snaps is a fairly melodramatic movie but they manage to feel like people through all of that the bully the mom etc

There's more but that's off thje top of my head :)

[thegeminisage]

ok, now that i've watched all of tos (none of the movies yet...) i am going to do the top ten worst and best episodes, according to Me. they are as follows:

WORST EPISODES

10. the savage curtain - idk who thought putting abe lincoln in a cage match with the vulcan version of ghandi against like, ghengis khan and space hitler would be a good idea. but it wasn't. i did like seeing the vulcan father of logic though like "im gonna go sacrifice myself for peace" ok king

9. i, mudd - all of the mudd episodes are bad. he's not charming at all whatsoever. however, this one is better than the other one because uhura gets to pretend to sell out kirk and they're SOOO cute about it. her little giggle when he PICKS HER UP BY HER SHOULDERS and tells her how proud he is. PLEEEEASE

8. charlie x - the entire premise of this episode is that the bad guy is just autistic. and then they make him live on a planet without people because he can't adjust to normal life ???

7. shore leave - obvious racism of this episode aside, the faux-irish jig that played while kirk was being menaced by his extremely unfunny old bully nearly drove me over the edge. we DO love a good mccoy death fakeout tho

6. a piece of the action - if i had any interest in gangster films before this it's all gone now. that being said. i loved when kirk drove the little car. he was so bad at it. he was so happy.

5. mudd's women - like he's literally just selling women?? and the plot twist is that secretly they're ugly?????

4. who mourns for adonias - this is just "what if ALIENS build the pyramids bro" except for the 1960s. nail in the coffin for this one was kirk proudly declaring they didn't needs gods - because they already had the One God, thank you very much!

3. the paradise syndrome - WHY WOULD YOU HAVE NATIVE AMERICANS MISTAKE KIRK FOR GOD. WHY. like i know why but Why. i think the very worst part of this episode was that it had an amnesia plot that would have FUCKED if you had simply removed the people. if there hadn't been people in this it would've been in my top 10 episodes. i think this broke me.

2. the omega glory - this is the same as the last episode except there's no amnesia, and also the "native americans" are white cosplayers who worship the american flag and mistake kirk for god because he can recite the pledge of allegiance yes really. if i had a nickel for every time this happened i'd only have two nickels etc etc at least kirk didn't knock anybody up in this one ig

1. patterns of force - why would you make your two jewish leads wear swastikas and then literally be whipped by nazis. i know he's such a bad person but not even william shatner deserves that. number one worst episode everyone says it's omega glory but it's this one

BEST EPISODES

10. plato's stepchildren - this episode is hard to rank because like it's both good and bad. the torture scenes were genuinely upsetting, especially the ones at the end w/ spock & nurse chapel, because they weren't just violence being inflicted on tied up guys, but they were SUPPOSED to be upsetting, like it was literally the point. and also this episode bears the distinction of THEEE kirk & uhura kiss. literally historic.

9. the trouble with tribbles - i feel like everyone's heard of this but it really is as good as everyone says. sometimes 1960s humor doesn't translate to 2020s humor but it was genuinely hysterical start to finish. also, the distinct trilling sound was so imprinted in my brain i recognized it in the 2009 movie where i had never registered it before.

8. the naked time - aside from the KING SHIT george takei pulled with the fencing this episode also contains the "i am in control of my emotions [sobbing]" moment and kirk & spock LITERALLY having a slapfight. this episode has everything. an absolute masterpiece

7. the empath - i feel like this paired with "the world is hollow and i have touched the sky" really made me a Bones Understander. i feel a little bad about that bc everyone says the characterizations in s3, or actually that the season as a whole, is kinda shaky? but i watched without knowing that and i feel like i Get It now. also, this was the only score i went and relistened to on spotify

6. tholian web - the spock & mccoy episode ever. there's so many things to say about this from the death fakeout to kirk's little space suit but what TRULY got me was the instant and totally nonverbal agreement to lie straight to kirk's face to both preserve personal dignity and troll the shit out of him (while chekov and sulu are like also silently laughing as they listen in no less). what this episode made me realize was that it's a good thing they argue all the time and make kirk play referee because if they were on the same side kirk wouldn't stand a chance. like he'd be finished.

5. the city on the edge of forever - ok, so, this episode made me feel like i was having a mental break. the time travel. spock's little hat. when he watches kirk kiss edith and then goes back into their room to pretend he didn't see anything. mccoy and kirk basically hugging at the end when edith bites it.

4. requiem for methuselah - the first time i watched this i was kinda like :/ because how does kirk fall in love with a woman in FOUR HOURS? that aside the ending scene blew my tits clean off. i paced around my house for like 30 minutes going "what the FUCK was that" because i couldn't simply lie down and sleep after seeing it. rewatching the episode with uh. new context made me like it a little better. but even if it had been garbage the last scene shook me so thoroughly it would still need to be on this list. i'm getting wound up just thinking about it. number one most shocking tos moment.

3. the dagger of the mind - look, i understand that this episode was technically just run-of-the-mill stuff as far as everybody else is concerned but they put james t kirk in a little brainwashing machine. and the machine was shaped like a chair. and it gives people amnesia sometimes. i don't know how i'm expected to behave normally

2. this side of paradise - this is the episode where a flower jizzes on spock and gives him feelings. and look: it's really funny, and there's a lot to love about it. but the ending where kirk hurls verbal abuse at spock for a solid 92 seconds WITHOUT STOPPING followed by: spock beating the shit out of him until he gets his logic back. i have rewatched this perhaps 1,000 times at minimum. what the fuck were they doing

1. conscience of the king - this episode got me into this mess. i don't think i can elaborate further without significant self-incrimination. let's just say what happened was i thought "oh i'll just watch this one tos episode for context for the fanfiction" and one month later i'm writing fic about [redacted] [redacted] [redacted] DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT

ok, that's my list. i thought about doing honorable mentions for episodes that had scenes i liked even though the overall episode didn't make it into my top 10. but then i realized that would mean recapping basically the entire series and this post is already too long. i do have to give the pon farr episode a shoutout though because even though so much of it was offputting there was literally a titty window in kirk's shirt. like, it's the pon farr episode. ok NOW i'm done

[airenyah]

15 people, 15 questions

I was tagged by @belladonna-and-the-sweetpeas <333

Are you named after anyone?

no. there's a video game character with my name and occasionally people will bring this character up and ask if i was named after her but no, i wasn't. my parents don't play videogames

2. When was the last time you cried?

i honestly don't remember, i don't actually cry all that much. (so if you see me say things like "i'm crying" in the tags then i'm actually only crying in my heart, i'm not shedding any actually tears dfkfkjdf)

last time i cried was either bc i was really angry or really extremely overwhelmed with life during a period where i hadn't slept much or was on my period or so. orrr what is actually even more likely is that the last time i cried was when i cried from laughter while being with friends. i cry from laughter a lot, actually

3. Do you have kids?

nope. i think i could be a good mother if i had to, but ngl, motherhood and parenting doesn't sound very appealing to me. i am planning on becoming an aunt tho. i'll let my brother provide the grandkids and i'll just borrow them occasionally, spoil them, and then i can always give them back when they get too exhausting or annoying 😂

4. What sports do you play/have you played?

i play baseball for fun once a year with old summer camp friends. other than that i'm not very athletic. in elementary school i used to go to schwimmkurse (swimming courses) which was super fun and it's one of the few sports that i'd consider taking up again if i were to do any. i've always liked swimming (but only in places where i can see the ground and where the water isn't too cold. i feel really uneasy when i can't see the ground and i also freeze easily so i'm not a fan of cold water)

5. Do you use sarcasm?

sarcasm? me? neeeeever, not at all 🤭

(^^^this answer is sarcastic, the genuine answer is yes. yes, i do. <- for those struggling to understand sarcasm, esp in written form <3)

6. What's the first thing you notice about people?

uhhhhh good question, i don't actually know???? maybe their face, idk

7. What's your eye colour?

blue-gray ish. and i have a yellow/green circle around each pupil. i actually really like my eyes, they're my fave part of my appearance 🥰

8. Scary movies or happy endings?

happy endings for sure!! i could never get into scary movies, idk

9. Any talents?

languages, i guess. at least i'm known as the language genius in my family and my friend groups. but to be honest, there's still a lot about language that i don't know and i don't feel like i'm all that great (esp when my language learning progress feels slower than the one of others. which is totally fine by me bc everyone should go at their own pace, but i just don't like it when people call me a language genius bc i feel like in reality i'm not really living up to that. i just happen to know a little bit more about language than those around me, but compared with actual experts? yeah no, i in no way compare...)

but yeah out of all the skills that i have, languages is one my best ones. and i'm also really good at organizing (aka keeping a million lists and making sure all the props are at the right spots and with the right actors and there's enough spares of everything etc lol)

10. Where were you born?

austria 🇦🇹🇦🇹🇦🇹

(NOT the place with kangaroos just so we're clear dkjgkdjf)

11. What are your hobbies?

(internally) crying over fictional characters, then blorbo-posting about it. sometimes i'll also subject irl-people to my blorbo rants (mainly my mother and some of my friends)

i also take violin lessons and thai classes for fun

12. Do you have any pets?

technically no, but really yes. my mom and my brother share a dog and my parents also have two kitties. i go home a lot bc i don't really like staying in my own flat in the city where i study so they do feel like my own pets as well, esp the kitties <333

^this is nika (the dog) and coco (boy cat). they're besties <3

^this is minou (girl cat). she's the youngest and the smallest of them all, so we nicknamed her "die kleine" (the small one (f))

13. How tall are you?

155 cm

14. What was your favourite subject in school?

german, it was the easiest for me

fun fact: the only subject in school that i ever got a frühwarnung in was english lmao. ("frühwarnung" = early warning and it's what you get when you're about to get an f in your report card for a subject. i got an f in english in my report card for semester break, so i had the whole summer semester to get my grade up to a d)

15. What is your dream job?

director!!!! in theater or film, idk, but i just really wanna be a director. and maybe take some minor acting roles on the side, idk. for now i still feel too shy to do any professional acting, despite having gotten acting training for 3 years djkkdjfg

i'm really looking forward to next summer, bc i get to be assistant director at this one theater that i've worked at as an intern for the past two summers. the assistant directors that i've worked with so far at this theater have both sucked and both times i ended up more or less taking on the job myself anyway (to the point where they even paid me for my work despite my position usually being an unpaid one) and so this summer i was like "uhhh guys so what if for next summer's production i just work as an assitant director right away instead of an intern?" and they were like "omg you're hired" 😂

tagging following 15 people:

feel free to ignore if you don't want to do it or tag me in/send me yours if you've already done it, i'd like to read it <3

@newyearknwwme @moonkhao @visualtaehyun @lurkingteapot @callipigio @waitmyturtles @sunnenfinster @cornflowershade @celestial-sapphicss @killiru @gaym3bo1 @nongnaos @dimplesandfierceeyes @gillianthecat @ranchthoughts

bonus: @telomeke i know you've already been tagged, so this is just to ask you to tag me when you've thought of all your answers, i wanna read yours too 👀

[wonderfulworldofmichaelford]

Psycho Analysis: Yanni Yogi

(WARNING! This analysis contains SPOILERS!)

Case 1-4, “Turnabout Goodbyes,” is sort of the grand finale of the original Ace Attorney, and it ends the overarching story in a very satisfying way. We have the culmination of Phoenix and Edgeworth’s character arcs as well as elaboration on their shared history, we get some interesting developments about the past, and it features some of the most iconic moments in the entire series, from pointing out that it almost being Christmas means it wasn’t actually Christmas yet to cross-examining an actual parrot on the witness stand. Throw in the debut of charming hick photographer Lotta Hart and Larry Butz proving himself to be a bumbling asset, and you have one of the best and strongest cases the game has to offer (though in contrast with a lot of the rest of the series, it feels a bit easy).

Of course, a good case would be absolutely nothing without a good mystery leading into an impressive villain, and this case manages to have two! The first of them is without a doubt one of the single most sympathetic killers in the series, if not the most sympathetic: Yanni Yogi. Formerly a courtroom bailiff, being implicated in the DL-6 incident led to his entire life being ruined even if he was able to walk free. And in 1-4, he decides that enough is enough and he wants to get even. How exactly is this sympathetic? Well, that’s what this analysis is for.

Motivation/Goals: To put things extremely simply, Yogi’s goal is revenge. But nothing about 1-4 is simple, so let’s take the opportunity to do something that will be unique to some of these Ace Attorney analyses: Discuss the victim, Robert Hammond.

Hammond would likely have been worthy of a Psycho Analysis on his own if he wasn’t already dead; the man was a defense attorney who only cared about winning his cases, a very dark reminder that it isn’t just the prosecutors who are amoral in this series. Hammond took on Yogi after DL-6 and forced the poor guy to play the part of an insane man so that he could get out of the murder charges levied against him by Gregory Edgeworth’s ghost. And it worked! Yogi went free! There was just one teeny tiny little issue:

Yogi’s life was fucking destroyed.

Socially he ended up as an outcast, and things got to the point where his fiancee Polly committed suicide after dealing with the backlash. What’s more, Yogi was forced to continue living out his life as a deranged man, unable to really go back to normal. And keep in mind: All of this was done to free him from the consequences of a crime he didn’t commit, a crime he was only accused of because the victim’s spirit couldn’t possibly have known the real murderer was lurking outside the elevator.

It’s genuinely hard to blame Yogi for capping Hammond, because the dude was an utter asshole who demonstrably ruined Yogi’s life. Hammond absolutely deserved what was coming to him. Now, framing Miles Edgeworth, on the other hand… That’s a lot less forgivable. Edgeworth certainly never meant Yogi any harm, and he had just as poor an understanding of the situation as both his dead father and Yogi himself. No one involved here was on the same page, and all of them were being manipulated by the real murderer as part of his master plan to get his ultimate revenge.

Performance: In the live action movie, Yogi is portrayed by Fumiyo Kohinata, and to say he kills it in the role is an understatement. I think a lot of it comes from the movie showing rather than simply telling when it comes to Yogi’s horribly tragic backstory, with him getting to act out his reactions to Hammond’s cruelty towards him as well as stumbling across his wife’s body post-suicide, but he definitely ends up as one of the strongest aspects of an already stellar adaptation.

Breakdown: Yogi actually has one of the more lowkey breakdowns in the series when it comes to sympathetic killers, almost to the point that he doesn’t really have a breakdown. One minute he’s the teetering, goofy old man:

And then one avian cross-examination later, he gives up the goat and reveals his true self:

I actually think the lack of an extreme reaction gives Yogi a unique level of dignity and really highlights how utterly tragic his circumstances were, even if he really didn’t go about things in the best way.

Best Scene: The movie actually shows Yogi finding his wife’s body, and if it didn’t hit home how absolutely miserable and tragic this poor man’s life was before, well, here you go.

Final Thoughts & Score: More than any other sympathetic killer in the series, Yogi is the one who my heart goes out to most.

Yes, he’s not as friendly and charming as Acro, and he’s definitely not anywhere near as sexy as Geiru Toneido, but if you look at the facts this guy genuinely just didn’t deserve anything that happened to him. He didn’t kill Gregory Edgeworth, but no one believed him, not even his own lawyer; said lawyer forced him to pretend to be insane, which even if it got him free ruined his reputation and caused his beloved fiancee to kill herself; he ended up being stuck pretending to be a lunatic for years to keep suspicion off of himself even though, again, he was innocent; and then he ends up being used as a pawn in a convoluted revenge scheme. His only real crime was being in the wrong place at the wrong time on that fateful day.

All of this really helps make Yogi the most pitiable villain out there. He is just a sad old man forced to live as something he’s not, and who lost literally everything. And after all that, the sole victory he managed to achieve was rendered completely hollow by the fact he ended up caught, being exposed in court, and then having the truth of DL-6 brought into the light, something that would have acted as his complete vindication had he not decided to kill. In the end, all he did was ensure his parrot was going to have to be taken in by someone else and perhaps even get himself the death penalty.

Yogi gets a 9/10 from me. A lot of this really comes from the movie more than anything, not because it’s better than the game version but because it expands upon and shows what the game already told us to great effect. He’s a fantastic sympathetic killer and one of the best tragic villains of the series, and the one all others should be measured against.