#and on the other hand babygirl :(

[yrsonpurpose]

Henry’s beside him, holding his hand, and he’s holding Henry’s hand back, so at least that’s something.

[nekrosmos]

Lazy mornings 🍵​

This is inspired by this short fic by @on-a-lucky-tide <33

[unexpectedbrickattack]

violemnce

Text from each panel in order:

"Hello?? My order..?"

--

"I guess you all must-a been VERY happy that Pep went inside [the tower] scared instead of angry"

"What do you mean by this, little gnome man?"

"Oh! Just that he is-a good with weapons! Knives, butcher knives, you-a know; Kitchen things! Sharp things! Very glad no one was hurt!"

--

"little gnome man, I must head home. Good day to you."

[lastminutestarwarsfan]

Can someone please explain to me how in the name of God Palpatine was even able to gain so much access to Anakin? It's implied he's been keeping him close since Phantom Menace. Like I can understand after he's been knighted but as a padawan???? And not just ANY padawan but the notoriously unstable, taken-in-far-too-late-trained-by-a-barely-qualified-freshly-knighted-king-of-sass-and-oh-btw-we-think-he's-the-chosen-one padawan?? That one??? Surely there must have been parameters in place to protect Jedi children from just this sort of manipulation???? Not to mention keeping a close eye on this one in particular???

Like if it weren't so sad it would be (and admittedly is) hilarious how oblivious everyone is.

Like just imagine fucking Yoda and Mace chilling and thinking to themselves "Hmm where's that boy Anakin, you know the one we really did not think it would be a good idea to train lmao" and someone just cheerfully reasssures them "Oh don't worry his kindly pseudograndpa who is definitely not grooming him has taken him to the Opera! For cultural enrichment" Like??? Honestly I know no one suspects Palpatine is a Sith, but he's sure as hell a creepy old politician with a propensity for hanging around little boys. How is no one's alarm bells ringing?? How are the pedophilia accusations not pouring in??

[bougiebutchbinch]

okay but I love that

Ed canonically rode Jack's chode so hard he almost snapped it

Stede and Mary had THEE most awkward, lacklustre lights-off sex

Izzy is theeeee slut of the Republic. Everyone gives him mad respect because they know he can take them (not in a fight)

None of them are each other's 'first' by a long shot! They're all experienced, for better or for worse. With the exception of Stede, they've probably had objectively BETTER sex with other folks than a fumbling first time with each other.

But you cannot convince me that this fumbling first time between the three of them when they're all well into middle age, wasn't the best sex of their lives.

[basilacademia]

Quickly finished this sketch of Joxter I've had in my folders for months for the girlies because I heard season 4 dropped

[nerd-elf]

Such a precious moment 🥹

[m4rs-ex3]

tdp s6 really said this one's for all the daughters out there. stay safe girlies

[beelzeballing]

actually i dont think ive posted my thoughts on ofmd s2 overall here yet have i?

ok here goes: i think it had incredibly high highs, and at some parts i genuinely enjoyed it more than i did the first season, episode 6 being peak imo. however, it had equally abysmal lows with some glaring writing-, tone- and pacing issues that all came to a head in the finale.

i once read someone say that, if you ever feel like a finale ruined the whole story, maybe you should take another look at the story. there were most likely cracks and problems all along, and the finale did nothing besides dashing the hope that these would perhaps be addressed later. very rarely do genuinely well written stories go completely off the rails in the finale and ruin the whole thing.

i think this is applicable here in some ways, SPECIFICALLY in regards to edward. good god edward was a MESS this season, and it's so sad because i loved the starting point! the kraken era was absolutely terrifying and iconic as FUCK but... they shouldn't have leaned so hard into the drama and trauma of it all. don't get me wrong, i loved that it did. it's one of my favorite parts of the season and i'm so glad we got it. but if they wanted this arc to work with the overarching plot as they wrote it, they would've had to lighten up the tone here CONSIDERABLY. had they played the kraken era for comedy then sure! edward's bad youtuber apology would've been funny. his fast redemption would've been less jarring. the lack of consequences less disturbing. but as it stands in the show, this arc is too dark to function with the later episodes.

i feel like they wanted to have their cake and eat it too here. they wanted the gritty drama of ed coming off the hinges entirely but also didn't want to deal with the aftermath of such a heavy arc in their silly pirate romcom. be that due to time constraints and budget cuts or because they were simply unwilling to, doesn't really matter in the end. the result is the same either way: a very tonally messy season with some accidentally troubling implications regarding abuse.

and mentioning troubling implications regarding abuse; izzy. my poor, poor izzy... his arc was absolutely glorious. i liked izzy the second he showed up in s1 and i was absolutely EATING this season up in that regard. and i think in this case, they genuinely did fuck it all up in the finale with that one stupid choice:

choosing to kill izzy was the DUMBEST thing they couldve done here.

ive talked about this over and over and over again. ive reblogged so many meta posts. and still i am left absolutely flabbergasted by how stupid of a decision this was. the fridging, playing at the fallen woman trope, killing the beating heart of the season and the character who delivers what is essentially a thesis statement, killing off the character whose arc is about coming to terms with his disability, having him die in edward's arms, comforting him and apologizing after an entire season of finding community and love outside of edward, the absolutely godawful pacing of it all, the extremely easy and obvious solution of just having IZZY become the new captain of the revenge to mirror s1 and hammer home how much he has developed since then in one go... i could go on. and i have. it was a stupid writing decision, completely fucked the tone and pacing of the finale and took away attention and time from things that really would've deserved a better wrap up (lucius and black pete deserved better)

now. the whole prince ricky & zheng plot line... yeah that shit sucked ass, sorry. they bit off more than they could chew here. i honestly think those are the arc words of this season:

✨️ bit off more than they could chew ✨️

right off the bat: i think he was good as a concept. bringing in a foil for stede who just doesn't Get It as stede does could've made for very good comedy and drama (and to be fair there is some of that). but that shit got away from them extremely quickly. nothing about how he's implemented past his first episode works, and i think this is very specifically because he's mostly played as the comic relief in his debut episode. making this completely bumbling fool, who gets his nose hacked off on his first job, the main villain of your entire season is... definitely a choice. idk. he didn't work for me at all.

ok wow mentioning shit getting away from the writers. this definitely got away from me. this was supposed to be a short lil post. well. i guess tl;dr i loved this season but jesus christ there was a lot wrong with it. if you want to hear more thoughts. ask box is open. be my guest. i have more to say so even if you dont ask i might add more to this at some point but im tired and have work tmrw.

[kingsmoot]

this like. really really really hits a nerve for me in an acutely painful way but. the way alicent has always been openly resentful and dismissive of aegon since he was a preteen, and has physically beaten him and been overtly emotionally incestuous and crossed significant physical boundaries with him and. aemond was always her little baby who she wanted to coddle and protect but she never. actually did anything to protect him from aegon. just like she never actually did anything to protect helaena from him, and actually championed their betrothal even when rhaenyra presented a politically desireable alternative. and now that aemond is an adult and a kinslayer she will plainly and unabashedly call him a monster to anyone that will listen. but she won't. ever admit how she failed him. just like she will tell aegon nothing is expected of him and he should sit contentedly as a figurehead while the adults make decisions. because she has never actually permitted him to make any of his own decisions. because decisions have consequences. and up until brother barbeque, anything aegon did was something alicent would clean up.

[saltpepperbeard]

Stede and Ed + Their Colors

[kidvoodoo]

Here to stay or just to play?

[ghstslut]

easy access

[obsmiechujek]

idk Nanami I think I'm with Gojo on this one

[lesbianwyllravengard]

Leon Kennedy is the type of dog person to be all like "oh I hate cats they're evil" but then Luis brings home a cat and he ends up loving it

[leslieseveride]

lucy is the dictionary definition of that one quote, “you take care of everyone, but who takes care of you?” and i would just like for once for someone to turn the tables on her and give her a gift basket.