#You deserved so much better

[emptyportrait]

[immagrosscandy]

y6ch18 feat. hora de aventura reference

[s1llycilantro]

i couldnt find the motivation to finish it so this is all ur getting no render for uuuu

[spectrestardust]

“She wanted to shout, but she lacked the strength. She wanted to laugh at the heavens, at the fleet and the Death Star, but she lacked the strength for that, too. Instead she turned to Cassian, who still waited in the smoke. She stumbled to him, smiling like a child, and did not speak.”

Rogue One Novelization, Alexander Freed

[kismetconstellations]

There are so many ways that Voltron: Legendary Defender failed its characters. From the unfathomably idiotic decision to kill Allura off in the finale, to putting Coran through the pain of losing his family twice over, to all of the "jokes" at the expense of Hunk's anxiety, weight, and stomach problems.

But, to me, the most egregious example of this will forever be the numerous ways that Shiro was mistreated, even though I fully believe that most of them were unintentional and the fault of incompetence, rather than maliciousness.

I never expected a show with a TV-Y7 rating that was made to sell toys to children to address this character's extensive trauma in any meaningful way. And, perhaps there was a push behind the scenes to sideline him in order to bring Keith to the forefront, due to Keith being the head of Voltron in previous incarnations, and Shiro essentially being a Canon Foreigner created exclusively for this series.

But, when you have: - A poorly executed attempt to recreate Shiro's fight with Zarkon in the Astral Plane, void of the stunning visuals, impressively fluid fight choreography, and emotional and narrative stakes.

(Shiro fighting the show's main villain and his predecessor hand-to-hand for control of one of the most powerful weapons in the universe, vs the Paladins fighting shadowy, faceless foes with long-range weapons that none of them- aside from Allura- have any personal connections to or conflict with, even once their identities are revealed, inside of Honerva's head.)

- Shiro, the previously "undefeated" Champion of Zarkon's gladiatorial arena and a highly trained and skilled martial artist, being slapped across the bridge of his own ship.

-Shiro's personal abuser telling him that the arm that was forcibly grafted onto his body in an attempt to turn him into a weapon for the Galra Empire is "the strongest part" of him,

Slav, an ally, echoing the sentiment and arguing that Shiro would be "even stronger with two robotic arms", and the first half of Season Seven confirming as much by depicting Shiro standing, often completely mute, on the sidelines

until he's outfitted with a new prosthetic arm. Only then is he actively allowed to participate in combat, again, and promoted to Captain of the Atlas.

-Shiro winning an intergalactic arm wrestling tournament to prove that he isn't a washed-up retiree (at the ripe old age of twenty-six), with that prosthetic.

-Said prosthetic being a mirror of his abuser's.

-No acknowledgement of Shiro's essence being transferred into the body of his clone that is down an arm. Or, how he's coping with not only not having a right arm at all, but also having been dead for a huge chunk of time, trapped inside the consciousness of the Black Lion and watching on helplessly as someone wearing his face tried to kill everyone he loves, and then resurrected to be suddenly "retired" through no choice of his own.

-Aside, of course, from an all-too lighthearted and chipper comment on routine helping him get through "being in the infinite void of the Black Lion", and a throwaway quip about how "having my consciousness transplanted from the infinity of Voltron's inner quintessence into the dead body of an evil clone of myself" has left him "a little out of sorts".

-And, Shiro not getting to kill his abuser, or even best him in combat.

Instead, he lies beaten and helpless, once again, as Keith, his replacement, takes Sendak out.

It crosses the line from clumsy writing to infuriating negligence and ineptitude.

The repeated violations of Shiro's autonomy, and what seems by all rights to be unintended ableism, even though it borders on outright disrespectful, went above and beyond any terrible writing and direction that I anticipated gritting my teeth and slogging through when I decided to finally bite the bullet and watch this show. It's utterly baffling to me that no one seemed to stop and realize that, "Hey, maybe introducing and then reinforcing the sentiment that a disabled man's prosthetic is the 'strongest part' of him, and he's effectively weak and useless without it, is a bad idea", at any point in the creative process before these episodes made it to air.

I wholeheartedly believe that as much as other characters were wronged, Voltron: Legendary Defender and its notoriously hellish fanbase that was more concerned with who these characters were having sex with than the actual plot, did not deserve Takashi Shirogane.

Shiro; a gay man, ace pilot, ambitious space explorer, and scarred trauma survivor who was abducted and forced to kill for the entertainment of his captors, subjected to unimaginable torture, and had his body modified without his knowledge or consent twice, yet never let any of his experiences, no matter how grueling or dehumanizing, stop him from being gentle, compassionate, noble, brave, self-sacrificing, and everything that epitomizes a True Hero, right to the bitter end.

[some-pers0n]

Tui: "So, here's a character who was exiled from the RainWing village. Why? Well, he has a physical deformity in his snout that prevents him for sleeping for too long. Yeah, this interferes with him getting his needed amount of sunlight to change his scale colour. This makes it so that everyone hates him. Mh-hm, yeah, that's why they exiled him. They thought he was a freak and a horrible monster because they couldn't understand him. Yeah, he couldn't show emotions like the rest of them, so they kicked him out. Forever."

Also Tui: "Anyways yeah he was an asshole and deserved it. Yeah. He deserved it. Why? Because he's mean and grumpy."

[janetsnakehole02]

i’m so so happy that the writers really stayed true to the essence of polin from the books and didn’t take away from their key moments just because the show’s plotline was different

now if only they had done the same for the couple before them 🗿🗿

[cordelia-street]

whatever you do, don't think too much about sejanus plinth

[reri20]

He’s just a little guy

[lovl3igh]

BRIDGERTON FRANCESCA BOOK SPOILERS

breaking my silence: i don't like michael at all and seeing francesca with john here with their silent chemistry made me sure i'm gonna cry my eyes out when he'll die bc 1. well he'll die and she'll lose the baby 2. frannie is gonna be with (🤢🤢) michael

like?? this is just two moments, he's disgusting basically the whole book. can't believe there are people who are annoyed with john, find him boring or whatever just bc they want her with michael... as if he wasn't in fact the worst book bridgerton man

[worstloki]

Verity Willis deserves more appreciation not just for putting up with Loki and associated shenanigans but for dealing with truth magic her whole life only to wind up with a friend known as a liar who is surprisingly sincere

[ughalicesblog]

credits: itsheartstopperquotes on instagram

[adm-starblitzsteel-4305]

So, I saw the post about Adam Wingard will never return back to direct the upcoming Godzilla x Kong sequel. So sad about that. The sense of your creativity is one of the key aspects I am very proud of your work. Well, hopefully the next MonsterVerse director would be cooking with solo movies.

Manifesting about the movie shall be on 2026 or 2027 IDK, but I'm betting for it.

[lucy-moderatz]

Why don't you go chase an asteroid?

[ohheyitsem]

I am so intensely physically ill after watching genloss. I loved it, don't get me wrong, but the absolute dread it instilled in me is something else I swear. I wasn't terribly bothered until Niki died. Despite knowing it wasn't real, something about how abrupt and senless her death was incredibly disturbing to me. Then, the ending when Ranboo died so quickly with absolutely no theatrics. I literally have no words. I am unwell.

[filmbuehne]

Saw BNHA spoilers on TikTok… I'm not fine and I want Shigaraki to get redemption even more, like, fuck AFO you crusty clown ruined my boy's life since even before his birth.