#and we should acknowledge that

[messing-with-my-zen-thing]

I think that people who want to watch Tron Ares should watch Tron Ares, and that people who don’t want to watch it shouldn’t, and that we shouldn’t preach at people about either choice.

[fandomsarefamily1966]

Based on this poll:

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[hikaaa-bi]

yeah. i mean i never saw willow as being toxic or violent, but i just don't think they're a good match. first off, hunter needs a lot of therapy to cope with everything he went through. poor guy didn't even get to process his emotions regarding Belos, Flapjack's death, finding out he's a grimwalker, etc. all that was pushed aside for Willow's insecurities again.

and I'm not saying that Willow can't have her own problems. first off, her arc was finished earlier on so idk why they pulled in the whole half-a-witch thing. just seemed really forced. secondly, the creators knew they were on a time crunch and they couldn't fit a lot into the last season. why sacrifice a huge part of Hunter's character arc to go back to an already finished arc and stir it up? just for shipping material? because that's the only explanation I can find for it.

there was so much they could do in s3 but they wasted time with huntlow, hexside students and whatnot.

may you tell me why u dont like huntlow? /gen

i also dont rlly like the ship that much

I’ve headcanoned willow as romance repulsed aroace since season 1 aired and headcanon hunter as aro

I also didn’t like the implications in the show for hunter getting close to her. Like it seemed like he was treating her as a replacement for belos, someone assertive to tell him what to do, someone he was used to being around

Like he LITERALLY only called her “Captain” until season 3 and started liking her bc she pushed him around, pulling him into the ground, telling him what to do, etc. like I don’t think it was intentional but yikes, doesn’t seem very good in that light

Oh and willow didn’t show ANY interest in hunter until he got magic, guess him being disabled made him less desirable what a good message for kids /sarcasm

Also the fandom around huntlow is just not good, like I literally got called a bigot for not liking huntlow despite being someone who they said needed the rep (chubby, white and another race, not straight, unpopular in school, need I say more?) not to mention how the shippers treat willow. They only like her when she can be “hunters strong gf” and can be glued to his side like a puppy

And aside from all that it’s just a REALLY boring ship and iirc was mostly forced in my stoyrboarders so it wasn’t even Dana’s vision for the show, which explains why it was so rushed and left bad implications.

TLDR: huntlow is boring, left bad implications, and made the fandom boil one of my fave characters down to “hunters strong gf who can fix him”

[stormyoceans]

talk to me about bottom fadel and service top style. fadel who never trusted anyone 100% and always had to be in control to survive but gets so overwhelmed as soon as style takes charge. style who is able to bring out fadel's soft side and asks fadel to lay himself bare for style in every possible way

sorry but no one can convince that style wouldn’t love to take care of fadel until fadel comes completely undone under him and that fadel wouldn’t love to give up control and let style do whatever he wants with him

[cam-stopped-eating-candles]

Stoic and held together fanon Annabeth is OUT. who wants my list of every single time she cries in the first series instead

[bellshazes]

i don't think the life series is "about" anything at all. it's not about survival or winning or player dynamics, or any theme. however i do think that the entire series - third life to present - is unified by a game design philosophy where all mechanics are engineered to disrupt the game as it has been played.

third life was initially pitched as "a[n ...] experiment" and its opening question was fundamentally how long can this last, which scar quickly proved was not long at all. it's easy to forget that it was not always a given that seasons would last approximately eight weeks and how the breakpoints of red/yellow violence would fall.

last life attempted to disrupt the established social norms by a) attempting to ban acting based on prior season's events and more importantly b) introducing social deduction mechanics which destabilized all alliances by default. similarly, although the ban on continuity never returned, double life's gimmick at its core is just another disruption of social dynamics. limited life iterates on last life's boogeyman dynamic while applying a different kind of time-limited pressure; secret and wild life are carousels of disruption to social play and "regular" or survival gameplay.

nevertheless players have defined the real rules of the game - the game-as-played which gives the series continuity - through their playing of it. both in spite of and because of the mechanical disruptions, conventions around sportsmanship and acceptable behavior are deeply entrenched. kills that are "illegal" by the written rules matter less than the player perception of them; the desire to invent social punishments for explicit infractions died with etho in the third life firing squad. players judge kill attempts as acceptable/impermissible by their relative status of reds vs. yellows, as the rudeness of ending someone's series early far outweighs the obvious strategic benefit of eliminating reds first. history persists, only as much as a given set of players negotiates it should. everyone should be along for the ride for as long as possible, but it will end.

ultimately life seasons are designed to make it difficult to play as you always have, and the players derive fun and drama from balancing their leaning into the gimmicks or into their habits. unfortunately this tension is deeply compelling and leads to wildly divergent opinions on what is "good" or "authentic" about a season or gimmick or episode because where the "good" tension is depends on the viewer, the point of view, the episode, etc.

[towl]

GAGAMARU GIN Blue Lock ⚽︎ EP29:"Flow"

[danandfuckingjonlmao]

had a dream dan got cancelled so he and phil hard launched in his apology video for damage control

[moeblob]

A lil guy !

[kindaasrikal]

I love knowing that Lloyd willingly grew up and became older using tomorrows tea, but constantly regrets it in a way he never thought he would. He is 16, 18, 20, 25, and still he never actually feels that age. This body is his but it’s never going to be right. It will never be the right body until he is much older. When his body no longer ages and his mind has no reason to age.

[roughentumble]

OH but Rogue goes to get that mani-pedi with Wade and she fills him in on the drama, admits that she was pining over their universe's original Logan, Jean found out and got all weirdly possessive over Logan even though Rogue never intended to even think about making a move, and even now that their Logan is gone Jean kinda lords it over her. Then she's swearing Wade to secrecy with a sacred ritual of the time honored pinky promise

and wade's promising he'll never ever ever breathe a word of this to anyone and would NEVER EVER break a pinky promise. but he's also vibrating with the need to tell her that while he and logan are definitely for sure getting married someday, they are also in a fully open relationship

[glitter-stained]

I used to dislike Lazarus Pit Madness headcanons but I've seen people say "he doesn't need magic madness he has normal madness" and "why would you need a magical explanation for his behaviour have you people never heard of cptsd" and while I understand the sentiment (and Jason definitely has cptsd) this is exactly what I'm talking about when I say dc has a dangerous habit of demonizing/villanizing mental illness and it has a real impact on the fandom's perception of mental illness. Winnick isn't the worst when it comes to Jason's writers but the fact that he wrote Jason as both a brilliant hypercompetent villain and a sympathetic character that makes you go "oh hey, he has a point..." should not distract you from the fact that no, decapitation is not a common symptom of cptsd.

[gayassmullethaircut]

Need more Dwayne lore did they pick him up at a skatepark?? For all we know bro could’ve been minding his own business chilling with Tony Hawk until he turned into a vampire

[1doesnotsimplyhavejust1fandam]

Need an acknowledgement after Buddie goes canon of them having had latent or explicit feelings for each other for years. This isn’t a case of “oh, we were best friends for years and then one day we woke up and were in love.” This is a case of “we’ve been best friends for years, and we’ve been falling in love with each other since the day we met. We just didn’t understand it yet.” We’ve already had Buck’s realization that he’s bisexual, but his arc was chock-full of obliviousness to his attraction to Eddie, his feelings for Eddie, whose attention he actually wants. He still doesn’t really get it, but he gets that he likes men too, at least. Eddie is a whole other ball game. From the Catholic guilt to the toxic masculinity to the childhood emotional neglect to the pressure he keeps putting on himself to perform in relationships. He’s repressed as hell, and he isn’t to “I’m gay” yet, but we see hints of him understanding that how he feels might be a little different (his pause at “follow your heart, not Christopher’s” from Carla, his two talks with Bobby, admitting to performance anxiety on dates to the whole team, his talk with Buck about Marisol being an ex-nun, his acceptance that Ana and a ready-made family was the reason for his panic attack).

We know that the two of them are bad at identifying how they really feel, or at least allowing themselves to feel it. So, it makes way more sense for the show to admit that they’ve had romantic feelings for each other for years, rather than trying to convince the audience that what we’ve been watching these past seven seasons isn’t a product of two characters’ struggles with their identity and relationships. And while I’d be satisfied with a light-hearted snark from Hen or Chim about how they’ve been seeing it for years, I’d be so much happier with a full circle moment of the boys actually fully knowing themselves, acknowledging that they were never just best friends, they just didn’t understand it yet. It would show their series-long growth, as well as being an enormous tip of the hat to the audience. Because we aren’t misinterpreting it. We’re reading the queer-coding directly from the show, yes through subtext of course, but also the literal text. There have been so many moments deserving of acknowledgement in this regard, and I would hate for Buddie to go canon without it being clarified that those moments were exactly as queer and/or romantic as we thought.

[princehendir]

Killing myself in front of Meredith & Orsino to permanently alter the nature of their bond