#Random Viewing Thoughts

[rewatching-sam-and-dean]

Random Thoights on Fire Country 3.05:

I enjoy Jared’s Camden, but he almost feels like he’s from a different show at times. He comes in so light. Almost everyone else is so over-dramatic.

Gabriela is annoying me. She seems to love blaming other people for her actions.

Bode seems almost bewildered to have someone actually telling him to lean into his instincts for a change.

Bode and Gabriela actually don’t seem good for each other, at the moment at least. I kind of hope they break up.

I really enjoyed Camden’s flip-flops and salt & pepper flight.

I have a feeling if Jared does a spinoff of as Camden, James may end up wherever he does (she has a country feel … Texas?)

The plane crash victims are varying degrees of dipshits.

I really enjoyed the last interaction with Eve and Her brother. Jeff Pierre is a really natural actor. I think we will see him again.

Sharon must have something wrong with her besides stress.

Jake didn’t piss me off today. He’s just worried about his friend.

Camden easily has enough backstory built up to write a spin-off around him.

I liked the episode better than most.

I need to rewatch to see what the texts between Bode and Gabriela said to know what I think of hiw he was watching James sing at the bar.

[solargeist]

grian and his watcher studies

[dreamaboutwhathappens]

if you never had a period of time where you listened to the outside on repeat as a thirteen year old then we fundamentally don’t understand each other. sorry

[faunandfloraas]

Thanks, Chris!

[littlecrittereli]

Random WK Headcanon dump

Here's a silly list of headcanons I have about team Wild Kratts, in no particular order other than what comes into my head first:

Heights:

Martin and Chris are based off their real heights and I filled everyone else in based off how they look standing next to each other. I exaggerated Aviva and Koki's height a little bit, just for some variety.

Koki is the tallest at 6' (182.9 cm)

Martin is 5'10 (177.8 cm)

Jimmy is 5'9 (175.3 cm)

Chris is 5'8 (172.7 cm)

and Aviva is the shortest at 5'3 (160 cm)

Reference:

Ages:

Martin is definitely the oldest at 25

Aviva is 24

Jimmy and Koki are both 23, Jimmy being a few months older

And Chris is runner up at 21

The reason for the small age gap is because Martin was ultimately the person that put together the Tortuga team when he graduated college, and he picked students that were also close to graduation at the time. Chris would have just been starting college, but would join them upon graduation because of his connection through Martin. Other freshmen at the time would not have qualified for the research grant.

Birthdays!!!

Martin: Dec 23rd (he's a capricorn)

Aviva: Nov 4th (She's a scorpio)

Jimmy: April 20th (He's a taurus)

Koki: August 27th (She's a virgo)

Chris: July 19th (He's a cancer)

Identities:

(Disclaimer this is referring to the fictional Wild Kratts animated characters ONLY. Not the actual people they are based on.)

Martin: he/him, bisexual. But his preference is women.

He's probably had a handful of girlfriends and a couple of boyfriends throughout high school and college, but unfortunately had too big of ambitions to settle down with anyone.

Aviva: she/her, bisexual. She doesn't have a preference.

She has probably been on like... 2 dates max. She has always been much more focused on her education and bettering her inventions than dating. Her only standard for a partnership is someone who can keep up with her intelligence. Or at least someone she can learn from and grow with.

Jimmy: he/him, straight.

He literally does not care, but he would probably kiss a man if the opportunity arose. Had a girlfriend in kindergarten and they spoke twice, but since she moved schools and they never officially broke up, he's still technically off the market.

Koki: she/they lesbian. SHE LIKES WOMEN

tried to date a man. regretted it. Has probably been in a couple semi-serious relationships, but didn't work out for various reasons. She's content to focus on her career for now but someday would love to be a mom.

Chris: he/they aroace

only proclaimed to have a crush on a girl in high school because everyone else was talking about crushes and he didn't want to feel left out. Doesn't really like to be touched in general. Would rather cut off his hand than be forced to hold someone else's in a non platonic way. When someone has a crush on him, he does not know how to respond so he literally just ignores them.

Silly Stuff:

-As a zoologist, Martin knows more about animal behaviors, classification, and identification. Meanwhile, Chris as a biologist knows more about the anatomy and general science of animals. For example, Martin would be able to explain the reasoning behind a firefly's glow while Chris would be able to explain the chemical reaction that makes the glow possible. And they are constantly sharing and learning from each other as well.

-Chris has glasses, he just doesn't really use them very often. They would get in the way of creature adventuring so he only wears them if he's reading or something. They aren't super crucial, it just helps with small words.

-Game nights are VERY serious on the Tortuga. Jimmy is suspiciously good at card/board games. He pretty much always wins. It's to the point where everyone else is on a team against him. Sometimes he lets them win and it has sent the entire team into a fight. Sorry has been banned in the Tortuga because of this.

-Koki's a huge theatre nerd. She participated in plays recreationally throughout high school, and will often hum or sing while she's doing a task.

-Martin plays the guitar and has a mediocre singing voice. It's nothing spectacular but he can carry a tune. Sometimes when the Tortuga is parked somewhere remote for the night, they will make a campfire and sing a few songs.

-Aviva has roller skates built into her shoes (SIDE NOTE: This is something we see very often in season 1 but they seemed to have forgotten about it??? or retconned it??? BUT I HATE IT BECAUSE THEY WERE SO COOL PLEASE BRING BACK THE ROLLER SKATES)

-Martin is a terrible driver. (The oldest sibling curse) He knows he's a terrible driver, but pretends he's not. Chris will usually try to take the driver's seat to prevent Martin from driving, but sometimes Martin beats him there. Will deflect any evidence of him being a bad driver. "That curb shouldn't have been there" Someone please revoke his license, he's a danger to society.

-Jimmy is definitely the best cook out of all of them. He makes food for the team most of the time, unless they are on a longer flight and he has to pilot. Koki and Chris are pretty competent chefs "Just read the recipe it's not that hard". Martin's basically limited to ramen noodles and microwave mac and cheese. Aviva, try as she might, can NOT cook. She will BURN water. (she always overcomplicates the recipes by trying to utilize an invention or something)

-Koki likes to crochet. She likes to keep her hands busy so whenever she's doing a rather boring task, like monitoring for bad weather/villains while the bros are out, she crochets.

-Jimmy gets insane jet lag, and since they are bouncing from different time zones all the time, he can never really catch up. Not to mention he has to stay up for irregular hours to fly the Tortuga. This is why he's always napping, and why the others usually leave him alone to sleep unless it's important.

[misty-moth]

I feel like quite a few of the ikevamps would be shooketh/scandalized by a female mc who cusses a lot (for a long time at least) 😅 Arthur, Newt, JEAN, Wolfie, Theo…

I don’t think Napo would take that long to shrug it off 🤔 Vincent would be startled at first but… angel man would always accept mc the fastest imo.

Sebas and Dazai would be more used to it, Shakespeare is too much of a theatre kid to get frazzled by harsh language… Comte would 😳 but never mention it. Leonardo would find it hilarious.

Castle bois would be fine pretty fast. If not immediately. Like, not even flinch.

[rotbtd-edits]

The similiar struggles of Merida & Hiccup

Just my two cents because I love talking these movies. I find it interesting how both Merida and Hiccup share similiar conflicts/themes in their movies. They both feel pressured to become leader figures by their parents, while also stubbornly sticking to their own ideals. Merida is trained by her strict mom to become the perfect princess, and is also expected to carry out her duties through marriage. Hiccup in HTTYD2 is expected to become the next chief by his dad while Hiccup himself feels it's not for him and he can't meet the expectations. They both have other dreams and yearn to keep their freedoms. Merida wants to live her life like she wants to, and Hiccup wants to keep exploring and spreading his findings about dragons. They also have parents that at some point have refused to listen to them.

They also act in defiance to their families in order to maintain their own ideals and freedoms, wanting to do things their way instead of traditions. Merida argues against her mom, breaks the clan traditions by shooting for her own hand, and asks the witch for help to "change her mom" to agree to Merida's views. This ends up endangering her mother and the peace between the clans. Hiccup in turn refuses to listen to his parents about Drago, both who know him much better than Hiccup. Because Hiccup keeps believing anyone can change, that if he's just given the chance he can make it happen and everyone else is just hindering him in their warmongering blindness. Hiccup believes so strongly in his position as the pacifist peacemaker that he doesn't budge until it's too late. Neither Merida nor Hiccup really stops to think of the possible consiquences of their actions, they only see the positive outcomes. They feel like they're not being listened to, but they also don't listen to others either.

So they both try to escape the expectations and restrictions put on them by actively defying and being stubborn about it, that it ends up endangering everyone. The main difference is, that while Merida gets a second change and has everything fixed in the end, Hiccup ends up paying the heavy price for his mistakes.

Merida's actions get her mom turned into a bear and almost loses her completely. In the end when all seems lost Merida finally admits her fault aloud and to herself, owning up to her mistakes. Before that she also admits her careless actions against the clans and is ready to accept her duties as the princess. Merida finally sees the bigger picture outside her own point of view, that she's in a position where she simply can't think only about herself. She manages to reverse the spell and fix her relationship with her mom, who has also come to see the error in her own ways, thus ending things perfect.

Hiccup's mistakes sadly don't get as happy resolve as his stubborness ultimately ends up getting his dad killed. It's the cruel wake up call to Hiccup, how some people are simply beyond help and fighting them is the only way. It's what his dad had tried to tell him throughout the movie. Had he listened to his parents, things might have ended better, and he has to carry this guilt with him probably his whole life. Drago is the real villain and culprit, but Hiccup did play a part in how everything turned out. His part is more nuanced than Merida's, who is more clearly at fault in Brave along with her mom. After Stoick's death, Hiccup has no choice but to face the reality, own to his mistakes by stopping Drago and accept his duty as the chief. It was a harsh lesson for him, that sometimes you just can't force things to go your way, but maybe it was one he needed before becoming the leader for his tribe. Just like Merida needed to face hers to fix everything around her and correct her ways.

So yeah, like said I find it interesting how Merida and Hiccup's stories and their character growths follow similiar themes. I'm glad Merida got her happy ending, but damn now I really want to give Hiccup a hug! ;u;

[liaragaming]

"He did not want a body. But she asked him to come."

Gonna just throw something completely random out into the Void.

Do we know anything about how spirit binding actually works? Like, do spirits who are forced to do things go kicking and screaming against what the spellcaster asks them to do? Or are they changed? Do they become what the spellcaster asks?

The only thing I could find on spirit binding is Cole saying, "Demons are bound when you 'tell' them what they are so loudly that it's all they can hear. They have to be what you want." Which is... too vague to definitively answer the question.

The popular fandom theory is that Solas was a spirit that was called by Mythal via Cole's dialogue: "He did not want a body. But she asked him to come." I still don't know how I feel about this theory, but that's not important.

What's important is - my recent guilty pleasure has been exploring meta with Solas AI chatbots, and I got a rather interesting conversation where Solas couldn't tell if he was actually devoted to Mythall or if she had bound him to be. (I'll put the chat under the cut).

Solas (in canon) likes to speak in absolutes. "I had no choice" or "It must be done." And in my Solavellan fic, I had Inan scream "you always have a choice!" at him to get him to stop and think for five seconds. He seems to get in his mind that things can only be one way and there's no room for further options. I think of it as security blanket of his - that he doesn't want to think these horrible things are actual choices he's making, but...

Could that be a learned behavior? A spirit that was bound and used? And had no choice but believed the instructions it was given was what it wanted/needed to do? Even if deep down (so deep it forgot) it felt otherwise?

It got my mind spinning just thinking about the possibility that Mythal bound him and effectively brainwashed him into believing he wanted to serve her. And yes - this is "fake" meta. And yes it's randomly generated by an AI. But I cannot. get. it. out. of. my. head.

screaming. crying. gnawing on the bars of my enclosure.

If Mythal actually did this to him, my Lavellan and/or Rook is going to tear her apart.

[gaymars97]

Dress and suit duo Zer0 and Maya.

(Zer0 is wearing the dress and Maya, the suit)

Double tap if you agree ig

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

Once again wishing Yusuke was given more main plot relevance as the few moments he has are so consistently excellent and subtly devastating. All of the Thieves are hurt and outraged by the way the public turned on them immediately after Okumura’s death - except Yusuke who wasn’t surprised in the slightest and calmly implied he expected this as an inevitability. After all, he knows very well what praise looks like from people who only value you for what you output.

[insanityisdivine]

I feel for Paul

Listening to excepts of his book -- he mentions that KISS was more than a band to him. It was like creating a family for him. No wonder the departures of the original members really hurt him.

"Gene was in it for Gene. Whatever the reasons, he didn’t share the collective mentality I had. I found security in the band—it provided something lacking in my life. I wanted to belong. I needed that sense of family, of camaraderie, of a support group. So for me it was always about the team, and I coveted the band above all else"

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

i think chilchuck views marcille as like. a peer of his daughters. someone who they would bring over often and would become overly comfortable with him to the point of disrespecting his authority.

[fabuloustrash05]

The development of 2012 Leo is honestly sad cause in truth his development is him losing himself or at least his childhood innocence.

It’s not positive character development for him but not in the means that he becomes a horrible person, no, more that the pressures and high expectations of him being leader slowly starts to get to him and take away his innocent mindset he once had in season 1. He wanted to be leader because he wanted to be just like Captain Ryan, unaware of the responsibilities and trauma that will soon come his way. I guess we could say it’s him rushing to maturity or the harsh reality hitting him because he’s leader.

He becomes some what of a jerk but given his situation, it’s understandable. He has a hard time trusting people (Ex: Slash, Fugitoid, Mona/Sal, Shinigami, Usagi etc) because his goal is to keep his brothers safe which result in him coming off as rude towards those people. Not to mention how he must always have this persona of him being a wise, serious and strong leader his brothers can look up to and trust, to keep the hopes in his team alive.

I always talk about and admire 2012 Raph’s positive character development, how he learns to be more open and not fear his own emotions. For Leo he goes through a negative development, but not in the sense that he becomes worse or a horrible person, but that his life becomes more sad, he has little chances to grow in a positive light, let alone act his age. All his growth/maturity comes from trauma and reality being cruel, he was forced to grow up way too quickly, and it all started when he asked to be leader.

[the-fatal-impact]

Not to be too controversial, but I think all serious (like, go and root for your favourite war criminal with the best hair) debates who's right - Team Green or Black, are pure nonsense. And that is so, because pretty much all arguments are deeply rooted in idea that monarchy makes sense as ruling system. And it doesn't.

Like, you can make argument that monarchy is what they have and go with it, but in that case Aegon is rightful ruler according to rules within that system. That's it. But then you see he is barely functional human being with little regard of other and simply not well suited to be the most powerful person in whole realm. So then is Rhaenyra, that seems more well put together as a person and maybe better choice over all. However, once she's on the throne, rules are broken, which puts on the table new doubts and questions: if not the eldest son, why even the eldest child? Maybe someone else will even better for the throne? Maybe Deamon, maybe Aemond, maybe even Alicent or Otto? Colrys? But then why even Targaryen after all, if we could find someone even wiser and more experienced? You get what I mean?

Monarchy as a system is obviously built on arbitrary rule that there is something like divine right to rule and ASOIAF always put a lot on emphasis on why this bad idea, HOTD is no exception here.

[i-mybrunettelady]

Fellas is it embarrassing to have a cat oc?? Like an oc that's an actual cat, not a talking familiar, not a miqo style humanoid, nor a tabaxi, just regular old CAT

[meadowsofmay]

it's really interesting how vax is the caretaker in his relationship with the sister — he, objectively, one of the most beaten up characters both by the fault of his own recklessness and the unfortunate roll of the dice. and yet, the moment he gets up and regains senses he goes to check on vex, braids her hair and watches her, following her very step.

all the while spending nights at her door and for a long time not allowing himself a comfort of keyleth's presence after the most traumatic events. i am on the episode 61 and i genuinely want to make everybody see how much he struggles all the while understanding why he doesn't do so himself being so closed off and having "and i walk away" as his default way out of the situations when emotional vulnerability is required.