#The Greater Hater

[willmelon]

i was re-watching 'the greater hater' and during this scene i noticed a very faint box and some text towards the lower left corner (you might have to adjust your brightness or move around to see it). it says '14:9 safe' - i'm guessing this is something that got overlooked by the production staff :0

kinda curious to see if other episodes have this left in! what do y'all make of it?

[purple-pigeon99]

alcornstudios:

Here are a few more roughs from last Monday’s season 2 premier!!!

[ferryfoam]

I think about The Seige of AR-558 all the time. It's probably one of my absolute favourite ds9 episodes (along with In Purgatory's Shadow and By Inferno's Light which can not be topped) that one part where Julian is treating the wounds of one of the star fleet officers who've been essentially abandoned in this war zone and the officer is clearly so deeply traumatised by his experiences there is one of the most poignant moments in the entire show to me. The dialogue is so good and it really reminds you that this is an actual war theyre having, not just some flashy space battle where the good guys win and then everything is fine- it's had lasting impacts on these people who star fleet is meant to protect but really they send out a group of officers to a planet and then leave them there for months longer than they were supposed to be and so utterly do not care about these people because they see them as disposable. Even after Sisko and the ds9 crew realised how awful the conditions were everyone was expected to stay there - a position too important to the federation for them to let these people go home but not important enough for them to send backup or replacement officers (I though Quarks presence in the episode was really good as well for providing a perspective of someone not in StarFleet and a lot of the things he said about human nature and the actions of the federation really reflected how I was feeling about it as well haha)

Also the music was really good

(Edit if you want to hear more of my take on star fleet corruption I have put it in the tags)

[smallandalmosthonest]

seeing a lot of stuff on my dash and i'm chronically incapable of letting things be:

tldr: the show setting up numerous tiny obstacles/indicators that bucktommy was heading for a breakup pretty much from the start =/= tommy was a jackass and a bad boyfriend and everyone secretly hated him

"eddie had to say athena was bobby's wife bc tommy didn't know who athena was" i'll give it to y'all, this line seems clunky to me, and strange. however. tommy stole a helicopter to help rescue athena and bobby from the cruise ship, not only does he know who she is, they presumably met during that whole ordeal. it is possible that he didn't know she didn't take bobby's surname/didn't know her rank, but my initial read of those lines was eddie knocking the wind out of buck's investigation-mode formality, in the sense of "you didn't 'contact srg grant for an update on the investigation', you texted your bossdad's wife, u dork"

tommy got buck basketball tickets as a little nod to the close-watching audience that a breakup was imminent, not some indicator to all audiences that tommy is an awful bf. because buck probably never admitted "i actually don't like basketball i just showed up that day because i was compelled by bisexual chaos energy" because. who would admit that. also i doubt most of the general audience rememebered maddie's line about buck not liking basketball as evidenced by my mom, a ga member, whose response when i asked her what she thought of the gift was "those were probably expensive." she, and i will go on record saying my mom hates bucktommy for bad reasons*, also said she "thought it was a cute gift because they played a little basketball game before they started dating"

buck asking if tommy had any history with women =/= buck not knowing tommy is gay. this is literally just a question about tommy's past being introduced as a vehicle for the abby reveal. especially since buck only realized his own queerness six months ago, him being curious about this makes sense. "six months is so late to be asking that" well you see it's a tv show that spent like half of that time on hiatus so we could not see things happening and since, again, it's a tv show, the audience needs to see things happening

"tommy didn't tell buck about the engagement" he did tell him, though. at dinner. we saw it happen. "he should have told him sooner" he told him when it came up. "after six months!!!" which is objectively not a long time to be dating someone.

"buck didn't tell tommy about abby" this is a genuine question: do y'all seriously, within the first few months of dating a fellow grown adult, sit down and go through a list of every one of your exes? why WOULD he tell tommy unless prompted? and when it was prompted, he DID tell tommy. so like. what else do we expect here

tommy not being in the 118 groupchat is also very normal. athena's in there bc she's bobby's wife and hen's her best friend and she's known then all very closely for almost a decade. yeah we got a beat of specifically showing that tommy was not in the groupchat at that was presumably foreshadowing the breakup, but tommy not being in the gc in general is not some sign that the relationship was toxic, it was a normal moment highlighted for narrative purposes

[clover-the-awesomest]

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Y O U H A V E M A D E A G R A V E M I S T A K E

You know, it’ll be fun to talk with you about our favorite WOY episodes. @clover-the-awesomest​. 

What do you say, buddy? Doesn’t that sound like TONS of fun?

[gigginox]

"i dont like ranni cuz of what she did to godwyn" ok well did you consider that maybe godwyn just had bad vibes or something. god forbid women do anything

[is-that-sand-in-my-waffles]

Thurfian wakes up every day and consciously chooses to be a hater and honestly? Good for him.

[sillywoyscreenshots]

[1tsjusty0u]

man. totk couldve been so good

[brakingpoint]

i desperately need to remake my driver tier list bc the way my opinions have shifted since march…

[buttered-milky]

I will not write an essay on this for now but I think Miquella is a very interesting study of what can happen when children grow up in high control religious societies with only a few ways of escape and no external support system

[devilsskettle]

what i’ve been working on recently is antagonizing people less and part of that is identifying a positive feedback loop in my thought patterns that feeds into that and it goes like this:

antagonizing people -> bad faith interpretation of every action by misrepresenting all actions as somehow hostile -> defensiveness and righteous anger -> judging other people the way i assume i’m being judged -> difficulty feeling sympathy for people even when they need or deserve sympathy -> antagonizing people -> etc forever and ever

luckily i think i’m okay about not being actively hostile to other people lol even if i feel like they might be hostile to me but it’s pretty mentally exhausting to see everybody as a potential enemy and carrying around all this paranoia over whether or not they’re taking little jabs at me or undermining me or being rude or judgmental or condescending or even slightly standoffish like stopppp you don’t even care about other people’s opinions so why does it matter. and why is it literally every single person you interact with every single day, not every single person in the whole city hates you, especially total strangers. settle down

[musical-chick-13]

ACTUALLY, you know what, I think I will read TLT, because its existence seems to be making all the fandom misogynists mad.