I feel like sparring with Suguru (especially with cult leader! suguru) he would be sooo intimate and mischievously coy with you. Like, it'll be the little fragile finger grazes slipping across your hips, agonizingly slowly. The hot, prodding whispers of encouragement and slight taunt bellowing directly into the depths of your ringing ears. And god, don't even get me started on the way this man swiftly and easily maneuvers manhandles your every abrasive attack, how easily he pins you to the nearest solid object. Hips solidly connected with yours, eyes leering ever so intently and strictly into your own — creates a massive swarm of unwarranted butterflies deep within your fluttering tummy.
Tallulah's letter reminded me of a sentiment I have seen before in another SMP. Although, Tallulah's future seems much happier than his.
It's impressive how someone can recreate the exact same backstory while trying to change it.
He said to his daughter, "I want to give you the option if you want a weapon." Seemingly not wanting to repeat his mistake of forcing his son into a war. While not remembering that, his son told him that he just wanted him to stay and supported him even if he didn't follow his father.
Now, both are escaping their father's enormous shadow that looms in their tired eyes, their prophetic nightmares, and their identical pasts; all while showing that they are not just his son and daughter.
Peak Gabv1el development (for me, at least) is when someone calls V1 an object and it's Gabriel who go off on this someone, like, he will not allow anyone to entertain that notion. This angle will defend V1's autonomy and sentience with his life.
I think it's sweet and it's a great way to show how far their relationship and bond (romantic or platonic) has gone. Gabriel going from calling them a thing to not letting anyone to call them that and even taking offence (probably more than them) to someone thinking of them like that? How can I not love this? He's the king of fast character development. XD
can we please stop with the ‘Mickey is objectively a bad person’ shit PLEASE.
I get it comes from a place of holding him accountable for his actions which is fair but going straight to “he’s a bad person” just completely disregards so much of his growth and development, and the nuances of the show.
I get Mickey fans got a reputation in the past for excusing everything he does and yea that’s annoying. But to counteract that by saying “he’s objectively terrible!” is so one dimensional and also completely goes against everything that shameless is about.
the point of shameless isn’t that all of these people are terrible, it’s to show the effect living in poverty has on a person and the lengths that are necessary to go to survive in that life, and the mistakes that ultimately causes people to make along the way.
no shameless character is perfect. that’s the point. even some of the worst things that characters have done have been because they are victims of their circumstances and situations. they are nuanced complex characters that can’t be put into boxes of good and bad
they’ve all done things to hurt other people and themselves. but the point is is that most of them have good within them, but all the factors against them make it harder to let that out.
“He’s a bad person” is a lazy reading of the show that completely lacks nuance in my opinion
can we appreciate that the first saw film was filmed in just 18 DAYS, AND IN THE ONE BUILDING??
EVERYTHING WAS FILMED IN THAT ONE BUILDING, IN JUST 18 DAYS?!
fun fact: in some of the ending scenes, whilst one part of the building was being destroyed, the production crew and actors were in the other half filming!
The thing about Gunn is that in his early appearances he does, in a lot of ways, represent the ideal that the first episode of ats is pointing Angel towards. As Doyle puts it, Angel's problem at the start of the show is that he wants to help people but he's also completely cut off from them. He wants to help the helpless but in a way where he's apart from them, watching over the world but never part of it. And then you see Gunn, who is also a protector but he isn't cut off from the people he helps at all. He knows them. He has a very clearly established role as a guardian figure in his community but he's also very much a part of that community. You see him at the party in First Impressions and he's saying hi to everyone he sees, there's a real sense that he's the kind of guy who everyone knows and who knows everyone. His desire to protect people doesn't come from a nebulous sense of justice and seeking redemption (well, not entirely), it comes from a very real sense of obligation to the community that he's a part of and the people he knows and cares about. Protecting people is personal for him in a way that it isn't for Angel at the beginning. They're such perfect foils for each other and the fact that the show just sort of forgets that that's how they set up Gunn and ends up making him just "the muscle" is like. one of the greatest injustices in the show imo