#and it gave me the ick

[omakosohc]

when the va’s ruin the immersion by showing themselves

[almondcroissantsandink]

Ambrosius was in charge up putting up the wanted posters

[blorbocedes]

look at his gleeful fucking laughter at the podcast host making the same old tired 2011 "women can't drive" jokes, when asked if he thinks women are good drivers his response is 'good is subjective.' can't even say a yes without adding it's a subjective opinion to hold

34 year old grown ass man, can't even say why there's no women in f1 beyond 'umm there's only 20 of us.' he just fucking loves going on podcasts and laughing at women's expense, don't think I forgot about the eastern european pussy either!!!

god. spineless. [x]

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

“I wanna brainwash you into loving me forever” is one of those lyrics that’s cute in the context of the song about a new love but painful in the context of “pulled him in tighter each time he was drifting away” and “every breath feels like rarest air when you’re not sure if he wants to be there” and “you swore that you loved me, but where were the clues? I died on the altar waiting for the proof” and “I wouldn’t marry me either” 😵‍💫

[finisnihil]

2.2 Sunday analysis spoilers ahead

I think a scene that perfectly sums up the Dreammaster and his relationship with Sunday is the one where he’s breaking the news to Sunday that Robin was shot.

Sunday has just appointed head of the Oak Family, given a position of upmost power. The Dreammaster leads in by giving Sunday Robin’s letter and then he innocently asks if she mentioned a stray bullet. A stray bullet? Why would she mention a stray bullet? Robin is safe and happy, wherever could she run into a stray bullet?

Well, a war broke out on that planet she sought it out because of it. For the sake of the Harmony and saving lives… she went to the front lines. You know, where stray bullets tend to shoot down innocent birds?

Well, holy shit, is she okay? Of course I mean it only struck her neck directly but I guess because she is doing such glorious deeds Xipe saw fit let her sing a while longer still. You should write to her- oh no, you stupid boy, only after you finish your pressing work now that you're head, hm?

Let's break down the interaction, shall we?

Firstly, this show was meant to sever Sunday's trust in Robin and isolate him. Robin is the person Sunday cares about the most, his life is but a tool to maintain her happiness and he's not quiet about the fact he'd chose Robin over the Family. When Robin didn't want to sing for Ena in the final plan, Sunday betrays the Dreammaster by taking her place as the sacrificial lamb instead. Point being, Robin is Sunday's only real support system and his only access to something that hasn't been rotted by the Family's corruption. The Dreammaster starts the conversation by highlighting how Robin withholds information from Sunday. She didn't mention getting shot, she didn't mention going to a planet because of war, she didn't mention anything. She isn't telling Sunday when she's in danger. Sunday is already terrified of the world around him, of how bleeding hearts like his sister's and his suffer for their kindness. The Dreammaster going about things this way instills a layer of distrust, Sunday can't trust Robin to be honest with him, he can't trust Robin to be safe, he can’t trust her to trust him. Thus, Robin is taken out of the equation and Sunday is alone with only the Dreammaster in his ear.

Next, we drill in a blame of the Harmony. Robin serves the Harmony like a good child of Xipe but it's precisely that which put her in harm's way. Would she have gone into that situation if not for the ideals of the Harmony? The Dreammaster twists this logic in Sunday's head, whispering it was the Harmony that got his sister shot and mockingly noting that maybe the only reason Robin wasn't dead from it was because she served Xipe so well; he implies that if she failed to meet that nonexistent standard next time, maybe Xipe will let Robin die. Sunday can't trust Xipe to protect Robin because it was Xipe's will that almost killed her. Now he's more vulnerable for the ideals of Order to sing their claws in.

Finally, Sunday's lack of control is emphasized. Sunday has just been appointed Oak Family Head but he still has no control over anything. He can't act out of line because those who supported him may stop and if he fails to uphold the pristine image of the Family there will be hell to pay. Still, I think the most sinister thing about his lack of control is seen when the Dreammaster stresses that Sunday can only write back to Robin after he has finished his "outstanding tasks". He was just coldly told the person he cares most about in the world was almost killed without her deigning to inform him, and he can't even talk about it with her and make sure she's okay until he does his paperwork. The position of Family head is nothing but a formality and it isn't enough to save Robin, it isn't enough to save anyone. Sunday has never been in control so maybe... He should create a world where he has it through Order.

In the credits we see the Dreammaster refered to as "Sunday's Servant" but it's obvious the Dreammaster was the one who manipulated and pushed Sunday to this point, intensifying his trauma and pushing Robin out so he could be the only whisper in Sunday's ear, so he could warp Sunday to be the vessel of Order he wants from him.

This entire scene would have gone so much differently if the Dreammaster actually cared about Sunday but we can tell he doesn't. From the start Sunday has been a bleeding heart that bleeds more heavily every time he tries to alleviate suffering. He's trapped in the cage of Penacony and has come to think the buildup of broken dreams and pain he's exposed to is the way of the entire universe. Robin escaped but Sunday can't.

Sunday is ultimately responsible for everything he did but you can't ignore that the path he took to get here reeks of the Dreammaster's malicious influence. Gallagher notes Sunday is just like Misha in a lot of ways and I think that's why the Dreammaster honed in on him so intensely. Sunday had the potential to ruin everything if he took the path Robin and Misha did so he had to have his wings clipped and taught to think a cage means love, that Order is the way, not Harmony.

It's genuinely such a good sequence, the tension of it all makes it work so well. The fact that Sunday is haunted by it and that the Dreammaster so successfully got into his head without him really noticing. He basically did what Aventurine bragged about doing, exploiting Robin's suffering to hit Sunday where he's soft. The Dreammaster functionally set up a bomb and coaxed Sunday into being the one to set it off.

Sunday is a wonderfully written antagonist, but the Dreammaster is a wonderfully written villain.

[cottoncandycasketspray]

[stvrlitsky]

I just want to say one thing and that is I don't just hate Caleo, I despise it with my entire being. I'm sure a lot of people will understand why and no one can convince me otherwise.

[rosepinks-world]

imagine being in a relationship with Billy and finding out he hooked up with maeve so whilst Hughie and butcher leave the motel to go on a food run you get your revenge by sleeping with soldier boy. when they get back, billy sees you proudly leaving soldier boys room, naked with messy hair not even attempting to try and be secretive. Hughie is covering his eyes with his mouth wide open as butcher stands there speechless in complete shock. You simply walk past him and pat his chest.

“We’re even now babe.”

[the-inner-musings-of-a-worm]

i love andrew minyard okay? he’s a complex, interesting, and smart character and aftg is what it is because of him. but, but here me out here, the scene where they’re shopping for clothes at the mall and andrew is just throwing stuff on the floor? i can excuse the violence but there is no reason to make the life of a minimum wage customer service employee harder. what’s ur excuse huh blonde boy? what trauma made you do that?

[autistic-daydreamer]

Question for my KOTLC fans out there: what is something you read in the series that you couldn't defend the possible reasoning it was written. For research purposes (and specify what book)

[sparklingchim]

[reyreadersblog]

I'm sorry but "british" and "Savy" are NOT it😭😭

[imtomiee]

Yeah...I guessed that jake was gonna be hotter than his brother even without knowing what gitae looked like

And I was fucking right 🙂‍↕️

Is this? (Bro thinks he is a carnivore cause wtf is he doin...)

Hotter than this?

Also, gitae is his half brother right? They have different mothers I think (cause they dont really look alike, very disappointed😞)

Oh and bonus points for jake because he eats pickled radish if I remember correctly and DOESN'T eat RAW meat cause what the actual fuck☹️

Edit: actually..he is kinda a manwhore idk im starting to like him now hmm

[stardust-kitten]

i’m sorry (not really) but few things hit the spot quite like imagining someone who is too embarrassed to call me mommy normally being so overwhelmed with pleasure and agony and desperation that the pathetic pleads of “mommy” leave their mouth before they can even think about it

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

Randomly thinking about “tolerate it” (narrator voice: it was not random) and how under the cloak of fiction it is ostensibly inspired by works like “Rebecca” (which Taylor said she read during the 2020 lockdowns I believe?), with the line of “you’re so much older and wiser” indicating that the speaker is significantly younger and inexperienced compared to the person she’s speaking to and a pretty direct reference to the plot of the book.

But I saw something somewhere once that stuck with me about how it might not be referring to relative age between the characters but chronological age as in the passage of time in a relationship. And that made me think about how in a contemporary context, it might not necessarily be referencing an actual age gap between the two characters, but rather a sarcastic or cynical response to the man’s claims that he has matured (“you’re so much older and wiser [than you were before/than you were when we met/etc.]”), which then made me think about that line in relation to the woman. And that it could be taken like, “you act like you’ve matured so much in our time together and like you know everything, while I’m supposedly still stuck as the girl I was when we first met.”

Which then made me think of the “right where you left me” of it all and did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen time went on for everyone else she won’t know it and the bit in Miss Americana where she talks about how celebrities get frozen at the age at which they got famous, and how she’s had to play catch up in a lot of ways not just in her emotional growth but kind of in general. (Which also made me wonder if she’s ever been called out for immaturity/lack of curiosity/lack of education about things in her life…)

Which then made me think about the rest of the song, and @taylortruther’s posts yesterday about “seven” and “Daylight” and the way Taylor idealizes her youth yet contrasts it with an almost sinister reality in its wake, and the line, “I sit by the door like I’m just a kid,” because the discussion raised that her relationship let her recapture some of the childlike joy and wonder she’d lost. So this line is a double-edged sword: the speaker sits by the door with childlike hope that the person will come home and cherish her, but on the darker side, feels like the child dealing with the monsters she doesn’t have names for yet and the feelings of isolation she felt as she aged.

I’m not saying the song is necessarily autobiographical; like most of the songs on folkmore, it’s clearly a fictionalized story based on media she’d consumed and created, but we know a lot of the fictional songs were infused with her own feelings and experiences and… This idea swirling in my head picked up steam and now I kind of can’t stop thinking about it. Sorry but I’m a little obsessed now.

Like maybe it might start to shed light on why she identified so strongly with the novel in the first place…

[danhowellz]

absolutely fascinated by the way dan pronounces the word "bath" in the typical (uk) southern way and then less than a second later pronounces it the typically (uk) northern way (notice the long "a" sound followed by a short "a" sound) (video below ⬇️)

the impact phil has had on his vernacular (and vice versa) is so interesting to me. they've literally changed the way they speak bc they've been together so long and i wonder if dan has even noticed this or if its just a subconscious thing and it's so ingrained into him that it's not something he's ever picked up on. i remember there was a british dialect quiz that went round the internet a while back that guessed what part of the uk you're from based on how you pronounce certain words and i'd be fascinated to know dnps results 👀 anyway this was long and rambly and i just find this so interesting