#The Shape of Water Spoilers

[delioncourtes]

Please don't die. I'm here now.

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH - 2.03 The Innkeeper

[a-driftamongopenstars]

Crow in the last cinematic of Season of the Wish please don't repost or claim as your own

[jaskierx]

so i’m still thinking about this

about how in the shape of water, eliza is presented as a social outcast, how she has few friends and those that she does have are marginalised (a Black woman and a gay man), how she is mute and communicates through sign language

the amphibian man is presented as a misunderstood being, a creature who appears monstrous and has done things that cause him to be feared (including responding to a threat by severing his attacker’s fingers. sounds familiar huh)

and they become friends and lovers because eliza is the only one to see past that, to disregard the legend around the amphibious man and see him for who he is, to discover that he’s a person as much as she is, to spend time with him and bring him snacks and introduce him to music and protect him from people who want to harm him

and they end up being able to communicate in their own way, adapting to each other’s environment - eliza teaches him sign language, and when they escape to the sea at the end of the movie the amphibious man’s healing power allows the wounds on eliza’s neck to become gills

it’s absolutely no coincidence that it’s stede who is on eliza’s side in the shot despite him being the ‘creature’ and not the human

it’s absolutely no coincidence that they chose to reference this movie in a story about an outcast who looks at a character that everyone believes is a monster and simply sees a man, about them learning to communicate through stories and metaphors and restaurant themed improv, about the two of them falling in love because they understand each other in a way that nobody else ever has or ever could

[ming-sik]

this may be a controversial opinion but i think taking the time to establish water guns as a rozemyne invention perhaps entirely for this moment several volumes later where ferdinand pulls out a fully realistic handgun is in the top 10 aob worldbuilding moments of all time

[youshouldseemeinadeerstalker]

Our Flag Means Death S2E3 — The Shape of Water (2017)

[themajesticriptidehorse]

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[qwanderer]

Lot of thoughts this morning about how the key lime pie in Loki S2 echoes the key lime pie in The Shape of Water; it's not about the pie, it's about the company, and the unspoken gay feelings that can never be spoken lest terrible things result.

[alifeinneverland]

This shot reminded me so much of...

[oblivioustothevampirediaries]

incredibly bad quality; has this been done yet?

[luckycheesefoodie321]

VINDICATION

FINALLY A LOVE TRIANGLE THAT HAS THE GODDAMN GUMPTION TO CHOOSE BOTH AND THEN BOTH TO CHOOSE EACH OTHER

Never forget this is a book about aliens destroying the world and the world responding by making big ass robots (in this case made out of alien husks) and needing paired pilots to drive them to kill the aliens.

These paired pilots just determined a third is what they needed to make them a balanced match.

[dawnlotus-draws]

Homesickness : a BitB comic (careful! Heavily implied spoilers)

Spoilers ahead and in the tags.

What’s up my brain’s consumed by these guys, this comic was inspired by the numerous headcanons Ive seen around about Rolan’s time away from Galloway, and how the hivemind would.. keep in touch. Huge inspiration from @/willotstreet’s post about Rolans alcoholism

[blueearedslider]

[rt8815]

I didn't hate the finale.

It's not exactly what I'd hoped for either.

I might just need to digest it for a few days.

[jaskierx]

the shape of water (2017) dir. guillermo del toro / our flag means death s2e3 (2023) created by david jenkins

[aghoulstation]

Losing my FUCKING MIND RN

[golvio]

I want to make a version of the TotK Goron quest that isn’t weirdly racist, about how the mythic concept of the Underworld is a real place that people, in fact, make a living out of going down to in order to bring things back. About a group of miners who walk that tightrope between the realms of the living and the dead as casually as an office worker would drive their daily commute.

About how, in addition to the raw gem ore and precious metals, they also bring back all sorts of stories about what they’ve encountered down there in the darkness beyond their lanterns, including the reason why the safety handbook has that funny rule about only eating and drinking your own rations you bring with you. And that other odd rule about never accepting food or drink from anyone you encounter down there, even if you’re absolutely certain that dimly lit figure in the lamplight holding their canteen out towards you, whose face you can’t quite make out, is your coworker.