#and seasons 3 and 5 were GODTIER

[cerastes]

Was Wisadel's backlash at all comparable to the Chalter incident and do you think it would be enough to make them ignore her for a bit, or do you expect them to give her a skin on the more normal schedule for limiteds? I know there are a lot of complaints that even went beyond gameplay stuff (like being a limited alter of a limited) but I generally shut out the community when it gets super annoying so have no clue how big the stink actually got.

As far as I know, there was no backlash for Wisadel, but I’ve also not had my finger on the Arknights pulse as of late, so maybe I missed it, but, again, as far as I know, there wasn’t anything like with Chung the Hung, which makes sense, all things considered, because Chung didn’t get her backlash due to being overpowered, it was a molotov cocktail of factors which included being overpowered. Wisadel had some complaints, such as what you mentioned — limited alternate of a limited — but nothing much beyond what limiteds get.

Wisadel as a while evades the Chung trappings:

Regardless of your opinion on her actual design, Wisadel’s artwork is of good quality. It’s proportionate, well drawn, stylish, the whole deal. Ch’en the Holungday famously had really awful E2 art.

Wisadel is overpowered, but she’s a character that’s been ingrained in the narrative since day one and this “upgrade” is tied to her actual growth and role in the main story. Ch’en was overpowered, but while you can make an argument her growth is part of it (since it’s offhandedly mentioned in her Files, I guess), it’s tied to an overall filler summer event, has her in a literal swimsuit, firing a jury rigged Super Soaker for more damage than several of her contemporaries could manage combined per shot, all while having three Skills that were all basically the same and S3 being the best one by far, which also used the Ammo mechanic so you could have insane practical upkeep on it. Comparatively, Wisadel actually has three distinct Skills, which leads to the next point:

Wisadel is actually entertaining and satisfying to look at: The bombardment S2, the huge death beam explosion of S3, the graphics, the sound effects, the sprite animations, Wisadel has actual flair. Ch’en the Holungday is painfully boring to play and look at, all Skills have the same animations, the same dull sound effect, no variation or flair. Her skin definitely helped on the flair department, like 3 years later.

Though you could (correctly) argue that Wisadel might also be doing this for limited alts of limiteds, Ch’en was setting a very awful precedent: Overpowered Summer Units, maybe even Overpowered Seasonal Units, a hallmark of trashy gacha design. Hypergryph had tested the waters with other scummy strategies before — the period of time in which Thorns and Surtr, AKA stupid strong characters, among others, were rapid fire releases with no accompanying lore or event to give them a place in the world the way others have, which haunts them to this day as ‘lorelets’ — so Ch’en In A Bikini Godtier didn’t sit well either.

Wisadel wasn’t the only good unit out of her banner; regardless of your personal take on Mizuki as a unit, he was widely agreed to be, and thus, perceived as a nothingburger of a 6*, and La Pluma, who is definitely a good unit but was a new archetype at that time, so people were cautious with her, so there was a clear winning roll and losing roll. Wisadel was joined by 6* Logos, who could easily be the limited 6* in any other banner, and 5* Fang, a highly anticipated character. Overall, the perception of these banners could not have been more different.

The overtuning of Ch’en is but one in a cocktail of complaints people had for her, basically. Any complaints there were over Wisadel were a fraction of what Ch’en got.

[bitchmilsky]

ive probably posted abt this before but... i miss fetch :(

[fishoutofcamelot]

Hi there! I hope you’re well. I just wanted to send a message to thank you for the elyan content 😍 he is my favourite knight but for some reason I never see much of him on tumblr! So it’s awesome to see him on your blog. I hope I didn’t bother you with this ask 🙈

I AM doing well, actually! And you didn’t bother me, asks will probably never bother me <3

I could go on for a million years about why no one makes content about Elyan - and sometimes forget he exists altogether - but I don’t wanna start drama so we’ll just. Not touch that topic with a 10-foot pole

BUT! Elyan IS a fantastic knight, and the fact that he is your favourite knight too is very iconic and sexy of you. Elyan fans/stans are the sexiest members of this fandom. That’s not even opinion, that’s just science

So! Here’s a list of Elyan headcanons, because he’s worth it:

Elyan is ace. Them’s the facts

He’s also gay but in that stage where he’s questioning if he might be bi. Unfortunately, he died before reaching an answer

I hate to talk about Hogwarts Houses in 2020, but he is one hell of a Hufflepuff. Elyan is his name and protecting his loved ones with life and limb is his game. It is very easy to earn his loyalty, and once you have he will ride straight through Hell for you

Elyan likes hoods. He wears hoods whenever he can (i mean c’mon, that outfit in season 3 was serving some killer looks)

He’s just a protective older brother to literally everyone in Camelot. Yes, even Gaius

Gwen, Elyan, Leon, and Merlin have family game night once every month. They all gather in their old house in the lower town to get drunk, play some dice games, and spend the whole night goofing off

Only a few people know about game night. Even fewer people have seen it with their own eyes. Arthur and Gwaine frequently try to sneak in to see game night for themselves, but somehow never succeed

Elyan loves swimming. They don’t get many chances for it, but whenever they do, Elyan is the best swimmer out of all the knights

He’s also like. Really good at sneaking up on people. Consistently rolls high on stealth checks

Out of everyone in the Round Table, Elyan is the most easily spooked. He hates it when they gather around the fire to tell ghost stories, bc he will NOT be able to sleep the rest of the night after that

Why do people think there’s no dynamic or chemistry between Elyan and Gwaine??? Those two had a SOLID friendship and I will not stand for this disrespect (also, Perelyan is good but Elyaine is godtier imo)

Elyan is bad at blacksmithing. Like really bad. No one even understands how that works, considering he spent his whole childhood training under his father. All the blacksmithing talent apparently went to Gwen somehow

He likes bugs. When he was a kid he would go out in the woods and collect beetles and stuff to stick in little terrarium jars. He’d even give them names and backstories and personalities. Sometimes he would sit under a tree and tell Gwen stories about all these adventures his bugs would go on when no one was looking

Leon HATED bugs, and got creeped out by them, which meant Elyan was legally obligated to harass him about it

Elyan doesn’t get much chance to catch bugs anymore, but he’s also the only member of the Round Table who can put up with spiders

Spider in the armory? Everyone is freaking out while Elyan just calmly picks it up and lets it outside - but not without lots of snark and eye-rolling, of course

The reason Elyan ran away from home was because his mother had died and he saw it as a personal failing. He felt that it was his fault she was dead, because he couldn’t protect her, and left Camelot because he couldn’t bear the shame of guilt

In the last few years of his time away from Camelot, Elyan fell in love and lived out an mlm cottagecore fantasy where he and his lover raised wyverns together. But when Morgause came to capture him, she killed his lover and burnt their wyvern farm to the ground

Elyan tries not to let his grief be known, though. Not just because he doesn’t want to burden Gwen with his pain, but also because his lover had magic and he could get arrested for having fallen in love with a sorcerer

Morgause had Elyan captive for a while before Gwen showed up. She even used the nathair on him in small increments; not long enough to kill him or damage him irreparably, but enough to make him suffer. It’s for this reason that Elyan was able to bounce back from being tortured by Morgana whereas Gwaine didn’t survive it, because Morgause had already microdosed him with that kind of pain two years ealier

Still traumatizing, though. Like. This boy is EXTREMELY traumatized, can someone please get him some therapy???

Moving back to Camelot with Gwen was simultaneously healing and harming. Healing, because  he visited his dad’s grave, rebuilt his relationship with Gwen, and his companionship with her, Merlin, and Leon helped him move on from the pain of his loss. But harming because of all the anti-magic prejudice that surrounded him, and every time someone said magic was evil it was like another dagger in his heart. That was his dead lover they were talking about and calling a monster. Someone who was kind and compassionate and funny, who didn’t have a lick of evil in them, who would have burned at the stake by Camelot’s laws

Elyan didn’t think about what it meant to be a knight of Camelot when he agreed to be knighted. But he was just so determined to fight and kill Morgause, the woman who had killed his lover and his wyverns and abducted him from his home, that he didn’t even think about it. He just wanted Morgause dead. It wasn’t until a few days later when he realized that being a knight of Camelot meant enforcing Camelot’s anti-magic laws, and this realization naturally caused him distress

Instead of abandoning his knighthood, Elyan found a compromise. He would support Arthur in everything, until magic got involved. If Arthur ever captured druids or put sorcerers to death, Elyan decided he would smuggle them out of the city. He would never actively kill or capture those with magic, and would sometimes even try to sabotage efforts in capturing harmless magic-users

Elyan knew full well what Dragoon was doing. He knew that Gwen and Arthur’s love was true and required no enchantment, meaning Dragoon had simply framed himself to get Gwen out of a jam. He appreciates Dragoon, and even though he supposedly killed Uther, Elyan can’t even fault him for that. Elyan wanted to kill Uther too

Merlin is the little brother Elyan always wanted, and Elyan is the older brother Merlin never had. They act so much like siblings it’s not even funny, and some people question if they were actually raised together 

He and Merlin like to team up and tease Gwen. They’ll walk behind her and chant stuff like “Gwen and Arthur sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G”. They’re like children, and it’s both very funny and very annoying

Gwen gets her revenge, of course. She always gets her revenge

They also team up to be like. Super protective of Gwen. The vetting process Arthur had to go through - between Elyan, Leon, AND Merlin - in order to date Gwen was ridiculous

Arthur: Merlin I’m literally your boss. Your friend. You've been my personal manservant for like six years now

Merlin: Yeah, which means I know exactly how much of a dick you are

After being possessed by the druid ghost, Elyan is a lot more in tune with the supernatural

Am I suggesting that Elyan can now see, talk to, and interact with ghosts, and even starts a little agency where he goes around helping them complete their unfinished business? Why yes, yes I am

When Gwen was banished, Elyan wanted to go with her. But she asked him to stay behind and keep an eye on Agravaine, as she suspected him of treachery, and to stop him from taking over Camelot should Agravaine make a move. And, well, Elyan has never been able to say no to his sister

Elyan and Merlin decided to try and find a way to prove Gwen’s innocence. There’s no way she was acting of her own accord, after all. There was some kind of enchantment at play, there had to be. Merlin doesn’t tell him about Shade!Lancelot directly, but does propose it as a theory regarding how Lancelot had come back from the dead. Elyan supports the theory 100%

About two months after the wedding, Merlin and Elyan locate the enchanted bracelet, and Gwen and Lancelot’s names are finally cleared

In Avalon, Elyan, Freya, and Lancelot spend the whole time watching/narrating the events of season 5 like sports commentators. They are all mutually exasperated at Merlin’s antics

When Arthur shows up in Avalon, the only reason Elyan doesn’t punch him in the face is because he’s too busy restraining Lance from doing the same

He does, however, give him a strong talking-to about how “all your magic and you still can’t save my life” is a horrible thing to say actually

Lancelot, however, is more upset about the “I guess I was wrong” speech

Gwaine shows up in Avalon like. SUPER traumatized. He died while being tortured by a nathair, died in a way that he perceived to be failure, and he’s kinda messed up because of that. Elyan, who has already had a few years to cope with nathair torture, is the one who helps Gwaine heal from his trauma

In the 21st century, Elyan gets reincarnated along with everyone else. His childhood is plagued with weird dreams, dreams that terrify him. Snakes and pain, wyverns and fire, all of it. He meets an old man who calls himself Merlin, who helps Elyan through the pain of remembering his past life. For once, Elyan gets to be taken care of instead of the other way around. For once, he is allowed to be vulnerable and weak and struggling. He doesn’t hide his tears. He gets the help he needs and works through his trauma

And one day, many years later, he is walking down the street when he sees someone who looks oddly familiar. The face of an old lover, perhaps

Thanks for the ask! <3

[marciego]

Top 5 Violetta storylines

- madrid!!! : obvious choice, but when something is good it's GOOD. i WISH we'd spend more time in madrid because absolutely everything about these episodes is godtier. leonetta and dieleon are so strong, francesca's relationships with everyone were perfect (that nel mio mondo scene with leon? was the best thing ever?) and obviously OBVIOUSLY it has podemos. also dieletta's story finally culminating which leads me to:

- diego and ludmila's deal/dieletta's story: i think this show has a tendency to have its plot points fall flat, like we'll be dragging it for way longer than necessary and when the reveal happens it's honestly disappointing. but this one? THIS ONE? it had it all. honestly everything about this plotline was great, there's a reason everyone's favorite part of the show is madrid and while it's not the only one i think the way dieletta's story was handled is clearly a big reason why.

- angie leaving for france: another storyline they knew how to handle. while the reasons she's leaving are sad, everything about it is amazing, from antonio setting all of this up for her to violetta and pablo supporting her even tho they hurt, for the first time in s2, it felt like angie's priority was finally herself and it was just. so good.

- art rebel: the art rebel creation was one of the best parts of s3 honestly. diego was still with the band, marco was still here, gregorio and diego had the best relationship in the whole show, it was just good vibes all around and i really loved it. i think they should have reopened art rebel way earlier at the end of the season because i think we all needed that mood back

- ludmila's arc: so i'm not sure if i ever said that, but i actually never watched s3 when it was airing. i lost interest a bit before the beginning of s3 in my country, but years later i heard ludmila had a redemption arc in s3 and actually a good one, so in 2018 or something i started violetta again to see that for myslef, since ludmila was already one of my faves. and oh boi, how happy i was with it. there ARE things i disliked about it (ludmila shouldn't have to forgive her abuser <3) but overall it was SO GOOD and The best part of s3. i remember when the whole sister thing with vilu came up i said "there's no way they're gonna make me believe that" but they DID they really ARE sisters can you believe it. anyway i love her and i love her arc and there's so much love put into it, she gets redeemed but doesn't suddenly change personality or whatever, she's still the same bitch we all love but now she's happy and loved too.....amazing

[secretly-of-course]

It feels impossible for me to choose a favorite episode so here are my top 5 in chronological order lol

1. Were We Ever— I love everything about this episode. The protest plot was amazing and I loved how Andi called attention to the fact that the dress code unfairly affected girls more than boys. Seeing Andi stand up for herself to Metcalf and then later to Jonah felt so good. The line, “I never stood up for myself before today, but I want to again tomorrow, and the day after that,” resonated with me so much. It’s a lesson Andi needed to learn at age 13, and a lesson I myself needed to be reminded of in my early 20s.

2. Cyrus’s Bash Mitzvah— This episode has so many great moments: the Jewish cultural representation, Cyrus coming out to Andi, the dance number, Walker’s introduction, the fortune teller, the beginning of Jonah’s panic attack storyline, and Bowie’s letter to Andi. Tbh only one thing could have made this episode better (Disney release the deleted Tyrus scene challenge).

3. One In A Minyan— godtier episode!! Again we have some awesome representation (disclaimer: I’m not Jewish but I love to see positive representation of different cultures and truly enjoy learning about them). There are so many great lines in this episode: “It is your choice who you tell and when, but you shouldn’t be afraid to do it.” “I never knew how much I needed a friend like you.” “That’s gefilte fish, skip that, and I’m gay.” Even the purely comedic lines were great: “You can pray but you don’t count.” “Who’s Marty?” Plus, the episode concludes with some superb Tyrus content making this overall a perfect episode.

4. One Girl’s Trash— I love this episode so much. I was so surprised and impressed that they were able to bring the racism and micro aggressions storyline out of subtext and openly discuss it using the word “Asian” so nothing was left ambiguous. I felt so immensely proud of Andi for taking her negative experience and using it to create something beautiful and inspire change. Trashing Stereotypes: Do You See Me Now? is a masterpiece and no one should have been surprised that Andi got into SAVA after making it. On top of all that, Jonah provided some great comedic moments to round out the episode, “What color? I only have green.” “I could try a coughing fit.” *groans*

5. We Were Here— This entire episode was so great. I would love a season 4 but honestly it makes me happy that we were at least given such a wonderful goodbye episode. There are just so many amazing moments in this episode: Bexie’s wedding dance (to THAT song from Bowie’s video of Andi and the background song of when Andi first called him Dad!!), TJ shutting Kira down, THE BORN THIS WAY SCENE, the return of the bracelet and Jandi ending up as friends, Muffy recreating the banter from when they first met, THE BENCH SCENE, and the Andi Shack/ SAVA reveal. On top of all that the outfits were all on point and the song choices had me emotional. The only thing I would have changed is that I think the good hair crew should have let Jonah be in the picture with them. Lastly I have to appreciate that two of the most romantic lines in the entire show were spoken in this episode: “Buffy, I’ve never changed my mind.” And “Is there anything you want to tell me?” I’m getting emotional just thinking about it. I don’t think we could have asked for a better ending than this episode.

[ad1ostoreador]

𝙲𝙷𝙰𝚁𝙰𝙲𝚃𝙴𝚁 𝙸𝙽𝚃𝙴𝚁𝚅𝙸𝙴𝚆. ( repost, don’t reblog )

NAME:  Tavros Nitram

ALIAS:  Tav? Pretty much just Tavros.

AGE:  Somewhere between 10 and 11 sweeps.

FAMILY:  Fairy bull lusus (deceased).  2 eggs (not yet hatched).

SIGNIFICANT OTHER:  <3 Gamzee Makara (bubblymiracles).  Kind of a bit of a possible <3< thing developing for someone, but they haven’t actually Talked about it yet, so nothing official.

𝙿𝙴𝚁𝚂𝙾𝙽𝙰𝙻.

RELIGIOUS BELIEF:  When you’ve had tea with the creator of your world and also played a not-insignificant role in its creation yourself, it’s hard to define your feelings on the subject as ‘religion’, but... he does wear facepaint, sporadically, and will defend certain elements of clown religion (as he understands it) pretty fiercely when he thinks it’s being dismissed/mocked. Mostly it’s a nebulous sense of the Muse/Lord as a ditheistic conceptual pair, though he would never really express it that way.

SINS:  greed  /  gluttony  /  sloth  / lust /  pride  /  envy /  wrath

VIRTUES:  chastity  /  charity  /  diligence  /  humility /  kindness  /  patience  / justice

PRIMARY GOALS IN LIFE:  To free people from SGRUB/the Furthest Ring and Alternia, or any situation where they’re trapped and unhappy and hurting. To help people who need it, or put them in touch with someone who can. To not be completely insignificant.

KNOWN LANGUAGES:  Standard Alternian. English. Scattered bits and pieces of a largely extinct rustblood dialect he picked up from pre-Exile movies.

SECRETS:  How he is really feeling, almost ever. (This is often a secret even from him.) His struggles with chronic depression and feelings of inferiority/insignificance. 

SAVVIES:  Navigation. Memes, weirdly.  Anything to do with animal behavior. Certain kinds of games. Cooking. Rapping.

𝙿𝙷𝚈𝚂𝙸𝙲𝙰𝙻.

BUILD: scrawny  / bony  /  slender /  fit   /  athletic  /  curvy  /  herculean  /  pudgy  /  average / solid beef, ok? stronk, idek

HEIGHT:  6′6″ (tbh he was originally intended to be 6′3″ after pupation but I got tired of everyone he ever met being 5 feet taller than him when I’d always envisioned him as unusually big for a lowblood, so I went a bit higher than I’d first planned, when he pupated. it was futile and made no difference, except now there is a subset of people 2-3 feet shorter than him, too.)

SCARS / MARKS:  A tattoo at the base of his throat of a small bronze heart with Gamzee’s sign in purple on it, made to look like kintsugi.  Nose-ring. No visible scars, since godtiering. Formerly, several across his lower back, hips, and a couple on his legs. A few smaller ones here and there, of varying origins.

ABILITIES / POWERS:  High level communer, capable (at peak condition) of successfully communing with Gl’bgolyb and other horrorterrors. Some unexplored ability to affect weather and wind. Very good navigation abilities--he is almost impossible to disorient, even in the absence of normal planetary magnetic fields that would justify his direction-sense. Big ol’ wings.

RESTRICTIONS:  Chronic depression wipes him the fuck out periodically. Too much contact, for too long, with a horrorterror could have significant adverse effects on him. Has active PTSD/triggers related to his past abuse. Cannot wear a normal fucking shirt, because wings and also horns.

𝙵𝙰𝚅𝙾𝚁𝙸𝚃𝙴𝚂.

FOOD:  Spicy cuisine above all.

DRINK:  the Alternian rustblood equivalent of Mexican hot chocolate.

PIZZA TOPPING:  Experimental. He’ll try most things.

COLOR:  Red. Purple.

MUSIC GENRE:  Electroswing.

BOOK GENRE:   He’s not really much of a reader, but if he were and had had access to such things growing up, escapist fantasy would have been his jam. 

MOVIE GENRE:  Again, escapist fantasy is good. Even mindless superhero romps.  His actual favorite movie, though, is Ferdinand, though he’s a little embarrassed to be criticized over it. He sees a lot of parallels to his own life in it, whether consciously or otherwise (and it is absolutely the story of a Page of Breath's journey).

SEASON:  All of them are nice for different reasons.  He does prefer warm weather to cold, though, especially since pupating with wings.

CURSE WORD:  He actually almost never swears.  It’s very rare for him, and he is most comfortable not using such language.

SCENT(S):  Probably something cooking-related.  Maybe a certain type of candle would have fond associations for him, too. The scents of home and security are always good.  Petrichor.

𝚁𝙰𝙽𝙳𝙾𝙼.

BOTTOM OR TOP:  Top-leaning switch.

SINGS IN THE SHOWER:  Probably cannot carry a tune with both hands and a bucket, and isn’t really inclined to sing, but sometimes he whistles a little. Rap is a different story, of course.

LIKES BAD PUNS:  Secretly, yes. Get him started and he’ll pun hard and long.

tagged by: N/A

tagging: Whoever wants to.

[jcforsapphics]

Fake our way to love- chapter 2

Important: they're all 16 here, and everything that happened in the show is canon expect it happened when they were 15 and Buffy and Marty never talked after Andi's party. (Right now it's a few weeks after season 2 episode 5)

"So, what exactly are we going to do?" Buffy asked TJ the next day when they sat on a bench outside the cafeteria

"Well... We're going to pretend we're dating." TJ replied matter of factly

Buffy rolled her eyes "yeah, no shit, dumbass. I meant, how are we going to convince people we're dating?"

"Oh." TJ blinked "well, I already started convincing people yesterday. I told Jason I think you're hot and that I think you're into me too, and he said he'll tell the other teammates so they won't ask you out. So that means the entire basketball team knows, and Ralph dating Tiffany, which means he'll tell her soon- if he haven't already- and she'll tell her friends and bam! The entire school knows."

Tiffany Stein was one of those popular girls who gossip about literally everything possible.

There's a new couple? She's the first one to know. A couple that just broke up? She witnessed the break up. One of the students is secretly gay? The moment he's out, he's out to the entire school thanks to her. Including teachers.

The teachers at Grant high will deny it, but they listen to every gossip coming out of Tiffany's mouth. Some of the gossip, was even about them.

And the gossip was always true. It wasn't just false rumours. Tiffany had eyes and ears everywhere. She had so many sources, no one knew who they even were.

But the moment one of her sources found out something they were hundred percent sure was true, they immediately told Tiffany who told the entire school.

And what her sources didn't found out for her- she witnessed herself.

And Ralph always told Tiffany everything he knew. So it was safe to say everyone in the school will know soon.

Buffy nodded, like she agreed it was a smart thing to do.

"Ok, that's good. So we're good with the school knowing. So the big problem right now is to get my friends to believe we're dating. It might be kinda hard, since they know I hate you- no offense."

"None taken."

"So convincing them will be pretty hard. Any suggestions?"

"Umm..." TJ mind was blank "I guess I didn't think this through."

Buffy looked annoyed "you're kidding, right?"

"I didn't think you'll say yes!" TJ defended himself and then hesitantly added "why did you?"

Buffy looked around to check no one was listening (listening will be pretty hard, considering they were the only people there) and then leaned closer. "You promise you won't tell?"

TJ nodded. He was definitely curious now. "Yeah, totally."

Buffy sighed.

"Ok, so not that long ago, a good friend of mine came out to me. I won't tell you his name since I'm the only person he came out to and he only figured it out very recently- but I promised myself that if I can help someone who's confused and or insecure about their sexuality, then I'll help them. And the first person who needed something sexuality related- turned out to be you! So yeah, I felt obligated to help you."

TJ nodded. That made sense. TJ noted to himself to thank the person who came out to Buffy if he'll ever find out who he is.

Before he could help himself, the next words came out of his mouth:

"Maybe you should set me up with that guy."

He immediately blushed after saying that.

Buffy snorted "it'll kinda ruin the whole 'stay in the closet' thing, don't you think?"

TJ laughed nervously "uh, yeah, I guess you're right. So how are we going to convince your friends?" He changed the subject quickly

Buffy rolled her eyes "nice way to change the subject." He blushed. "It's going to be hard to convince both of them, but Cyrus will be easier to convince. He has this weird belief that people can change and, you know, become a better people. It's stupid, but if I'll tell him I finally listened to all this crap he says about 'people can change' and all that shit, and decided to give you a chance and then fell in love with you or whatever, he'll probably buy it."

TJ nodded. He decided not to mention the fact that Cyrus sounded like a really nice person- and really cute, too.

"But I tell them everything. How come I suddenly have a boyfriend that the last time they heard about him, I completely hated him? Again- no offense." Buffy added

"Again- none taken. How well do they really know you?" TJ asked

"They know my entire schedule. Like, when I have to go to the dentist and stuff." Buffy explained

TJ blinked. "Your friends knows when you're going to the dentist?"

Buffy sighed. "We're really close."

"Yeah, I'm starting to get that." TJ nodded slowly "ok. I have an idea. What if you'll tell them that because you told them all those bad stuff about me you knew they probably won't approve of me and you really liked me and wanted to see where exactly we stand with our relationship before they start with the whole 'he's not good enough for you' speech."

Buffy blinked. "That is... An actual good idea. How the hell did you came up with it?"

TJ shrugged. Buffy shooked her head.

"Doesn't matter. How did we start talking?"

"Ummm..." TJ tapped his fingers against the table

"I got it!" Buffy called after a few seconds "you came to apologize to me a few weeks ago. Because of Cyrus and his constant talking about forgiving people, I decided to forgive you. We been talking ever since, and then yesterday you asked me out, and I said yes!"

TJ nodded. "Yes! That's good, that's good... We might actually be able to pull this off!"

Buffy shooked her head. "Not might, Kippen, definitely. I'm only playing for win. When I'm in on something, I'm in all the way."

TJ couldn't help but smile at Buffy's confident and adore it.

"Ok. Definitely going to pull this off. Definitely." TJ said as he extended his hand for Buffy to shook it. She did.

"That's not the beginning of some awesome friendship, Kippen." She warned

"I'm well aware of that." He nodded

It was the beginning of hopefully successful fake relationship.

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final black mirror s4 thoughts

this is really late but idc

USS Callister: Probably my favorite episode of the season! All the performances were so good. This was the most fun I’ve had watching a Black Mirror episode yet! It was gripping in both the visuals and the story, and I was the most nervous I’d been since Shut Up and Dance towards the end. I really loved USS Callister and it’s probably now in my top favorites! Truly godtier. 

Arkangel: Uhhh this one was okay? I wasn’t particularly invested in the story or the characters, but I was entertained so like???? I thought the story was kind of predictable but that didn’t necessarily take away anything from the episode as a whole. Honestly, this one was just your average, entertaining for the time being kind of deal. Also 15 year olds don’t look like that are you kidding me. 

Crocodile: The worst. This might be one of my least favorite episodes of the whole show. It started out so promising and tense but ultimately led to nothing but being needlessly fucked up. It was visually gorgeous in terms of setting and cinematography but otherwise...yeesh. This would have worked better as a miniseries, but obviously Black Mirror doesn’t repeat stories. This was just a massive disappointment dont @ me

Hang the DJ: This was such a nice fresh start after Crocodile! It’s pretty standard Black Mirror regarding the theme of how technology affects relationships (ie Be Right Back, The Entire History of You), but didn’t seem like a tired repeat of another episode. Frank and Amy had such good chemistry and I actually got really invested in their arcs. Also the cinematography was really gorgeous. It’s no San Junipero, but it’s really great. 

Metalhead: Again, just average. I definitely enjoyed it, but something about it just didn’t totally work for me. Some sequences went on for a little too long and dropped the tension. This was incredibly well-produced and edited, but ultimately kinda forgettable. It’s in the lower half of my total ranking, but a perfectly acceptable episode. 

Black Museum: Wow! I was a little nervous going into this one because I heard it was pretty graphic at times (admittedly, I did look away), but I was pleasantly surprised! It’s like if White Christmas and White Bear were combined and it actually worked well. This was truly a wild ride from start to finish. The ending was iconic

OVERALL: A fine season. Half the episodes were good, the other half not so much. It was kind of wild to see so many uplifting endings in Black Mirror, but it was a good change! If there’s going to be a season 5, I hope it’s stronger and has at least one classic dark twist. I’d give this season a 3/5.