#because I feel VINDICATION in this chili's tonight

[fantastic-nonsense]

reylos crying on twitter because Adam Driver explicitly confirmed that Bendemption was never originally in the plans for Kylo....this is justice for the last 8 years, actually

[sarcastic-clapping]

it has been literally one (1) single week since i left my job and i’ve already heard about another round of layoffs that happened since I left and i’ve gotten messages from 2 former coworkers telling me they’re also thinking about quitting without another job lined up because they’re having nervous breakdowns. One week. 5 working days.

[butchlesbiancosmo]

but also in the topic of Best of Luck…

that is the look of a scorned dad going STRAIGHT for the yugular, which I am very grateful for because I know, I KNOW, that under the “old management” they would’ve just made him cry for his mommy and get in the way

between this and wanda being silly, I feel the vindication in this chili’s tonight ✊🏼😩

[geneticmisfit]

[auberginesdonthavelimbs]

I am very glad to finally see a definite, concrete manifestation of the Extinction. I’ve seen so much speculation about the Extinction that didn’t make sense to me because it didn’t match my understanding of what the entity was meant to be, and now I think things will make more sense because everyone will be more on the same page.

[darkisrising]

Oh my God, holy shit, someone else remembers the movie Rockadoodle?????!!!!! The number of times I have been half convinced it was some kind of ADD induced fever dream from listening to my mom's Elvis cassettes once too often because NOBODY EVER KNOWS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT! I feel vindication in this Chili's tonight! XD

AHAHHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, man, you're not alone. I, too, have sometimes wondered if I hallucinated the whole thing, lololol. But, nope, it happened! Here's proof:

[stellarspecter]

LMAO my professor changed the "in-class writing exercises" tab on blackboard to just "writing exercises" and I think it might be because I mentioned it on the evaluation thing. I feel so much validation and vindication in this Chili's tonight

[cloakedstoryteller]

Tbh I’m having a great time rn because I quit last season. The reason I quit? I fucking hated Dean Winchester so much I saw red every time he appeared on screen. I have the Dean Winchester and Destiel tags blacklisted because I hate him that much. I don’t feel like getting into why I hate his character after season 3-5ish so if you wanna know idk go find my older posts.

I’m also pretty sure at some point I wished Dean Winchester would step on a rusty nail and die and I feel so motherfucking vindicated in this Chili’s tonight y’all don’t even know.

Do I not ship Destiel because Cas deserves better? Do I despise Dean in later seasons? Did the writers accidentally give me everything I wanted? Yes. But they also did it in the most hilariously awful way possible and I find that hysterical.

[piscescastiel]

i said it in 2014, i pointedly did not say it after that because i thought he was homophobic (sorry again king, that one was on me😔✊) and i’ll say it again now: JENSEN ROSS ACKLES IS A CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED ACTOR WHO DESERVES ACTUAL CRITICAL RECOGNITION!!! anyways i can feel the vindication in this chilis tonight, thank you critics choice awards for having taste

[ouidamforeman]

I have Timeless Children thoughts and you all have to listen to them

Ok honestly I can’t stop laughing???? I mean I have no idea how to judge the actual quality of the episode but I sure had a blast watching it. I think I can conclude that a lot of it was stupid and useless but I’m really enjoying myself and the lore is sending me. Disorganized thoughts below:

-Ok so I did not expect the Timeless Child to literally just be the Other and I cannot identify any emotion I’m feeling about it other than like. Maniacal laughter

-shut up Chibnall what are you doing man. He said he hadn’t read Lungbarrow right????? who gave him a copy

-everything about the Child and the Division???? Is literally the Other founding the CIA?????? I almost had an aneurysm watching this

-I’m serious I Cannot Believe that everyone joking that the Timeless Child is the Other was actually literally right I can’t breathe this is hilarious

-The Morbius Doctors are incarnations of the Other and I’ve been vindicated

-you guys this. This doesn’t change anything about previous lore at all really and I’m losing it. This is all just rehashed Other lore and I can’t believe I’m actually seeing this on tv in 2020

-the Other is on tv!!!!!!!!! The Other being a mysterious being from another universe is on tv!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Other becoming the Doctor is on tv!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-Infinite Doctors!!!!!! Very high quality Vibes

-I’m feeling the Unnatural History energy in this Chili’s tonight. Especially the Doctor basically affirming to the Master that part of their identity is not making sense.

-I KNEW the Ireland flashback people were Time Lords and not only that they’re basically CIA agents I’m so happy

-somehow this all reminded me of the idea that the more the Doctor/Time Lords interact with the present the more origins they retroactively develop. Again see Unnatural History.

-so one story behind regeneration that I’ve liked for quite a while is that Rassilon was messing with Great Vampire DNA, and Great Vampires originally came from a hole the Gallifreyans punched in the universe????? Is the Other/Timeless Child a Great Vampire????? Is the Doctor a reincarnated Great Vampire???????? Is the Doctor a Yssgaroth?????????? I’m crying.

-there’s another bit of obscure pre-existing lore that says the Other was one of the Great Old Ones who came through from the previous universe,,,,,,👀👀👀👀👀

-The above points are just two of many options but all of this is Very Good Old LoreTM. However I’m baffled because it’s all rehashed old stuff under new names????? Like Chibnall you’re valid but Why do it Like This

-in addition to everything I’ve already mentioned, SOMETHING about this episode reminded me of the Gallifrey audios plot with Trey and the Matrix Gallifrey and everyone being asleep and it’s making me feel so weird

-The Cyberium has Validium vibes

-Doctor/Master dynamic Very Good

-I love this Master and I hope he comes back :((( I think the Cyberium will save him from being destroyed with all the organic life tho

-I really really think and hope that Ruth is a season 6b Doctor who was erased from the Doctor’s memory by the CIA Division or something. Please Chibnall don’t blow this for me.

-as delighted as I am to see all this old lore on tv, it’s soured a noticeable degree by the fact that literally almost all of this is nothing new and how utterly sick I am of Gallifrey being repeatedly decimated. It’d be infinitely more interesting to see its society rebuild instead of the show repeatedly writing itself into a corner and leaning on the last of the Time Lords crutch, and one of my biggest DW pet peeves is “so the tv show is finally doing this idea but the eu did it better first,” so

-I’m 900% sure Cyber Time Lords were in a comic with looms in it a few years ago. Supremacy of the Cybermen right. When will original Gallifrey content return from the war.

[frankchurchillsaysrelax]

guys....g u y s.....we were fed well last night. 

i’m still trying to unpack all of it and you will probably see many random little things from me over the next week as i continue to process. but for now i’m going to organize my thoughts by ships because, i mean come on. you guys know me. you know what i’m about. 

under the cut because oh boy did this get long!

max and liz: what should have been

first of all can we all agree that both nathan and jeanine were on fire last night?? as both their young and old selves they just completely blew me away. little baby max was just so happy and hopeful! he wanted to be a writer! he wanted to write a story that people could disappear into and instead he was forced to disappear into the story of his own making. oooh that’s right i’m getting deep up in this chili’s tonight. and jeanine...wow. her performance in the present day scenes was powerful and reminded why i love her so much as an actress. and i said this in one of my live posts last night but she truly is flawless. they really didn’t have to do anything to her except hair and wardrobe to age her down. after all the weeks of speculation on what they were really like in high school it was beautiful to watch their scenes together. there was really something there between them even if for just a brief moment. it wasn’t just max pining for her or her being curious about him. they were ready to go all in with each other and there were genuine and deep feelings from both of them which just makes what happened even more excruciating. i understand now though how max can say he has been in love with her for the last ten years with such sincerity after watching those scenes. my question is though, and it’s a question i really love, how much is he truly in love with who she is now and how much is how in love he is with the memory of being in love with her. for max, liz represents the future he should have had. for him being in love with liz means being that boy who wanted to be a writer and travel the world and follow a girl around the country just so he didn’t have to say goodbye. that future was taken from him not only by what isobel did that night in the cave but also by what she did a week later by sending liz away without a goodbye. i truly believe that he does love her and that they can build a relationship eventually, but i also believe that he desperately wants to have lived that life and that she is a constant reminder of everything he gave up.

michael and alex: what could have been

my boys! by now, if you’ve seen my blog, you all know that i love them. my heart has latched on and it is never letting go. seeing their sweet little baby faces tonight and the way they have always looked at each other has just sealed my fate. oh my god, michael’s happy little baby face. i weep. ok so first things first i need to call out alex manes. you sir have a family cabin that is hardly ever used (proof being that kyle’s dad was able to have a little rehab room in the basement with no one the wiser) and yet you offer the shed behind your house that presumably your father enters more frequently. might this perhaps have been for selfish convenience...ahem? now, malex has had even more speculation over the last few weeks and i have been reading a lot of it. like a lot. but i have been vindicated! i have been saying that i didn’t think they had a relationship in high school and they didn’t, not really. they had a moment. and i don’t think that anything happened with them after that night either. michael was never the same after he took the blame. you can see him visibly shut himself off as he’s deciding to lie to isobel. i doubt that his first thought was to continue pursuing a relationship and even if it was i don’t think that alex was ready to jump into anything after what happened with his dad. whether he was scared or guilty or both i don’t see him letting anything like that happen again. like michael said at the drive in, he’s “just the guy looking for any excuse to walk away.” at the same time michael “is still so good at giving them to him.” alex may not have been fighting for them but i think michael was pushing him away even harder. at some point after that night alex told maria that he would stay if only michael would keep kissing him. he still wanted him, but michael wasn’t giving him any hope. so eventually alex gave in to his father and enlisted. clearly i could go on and on and probably write an essay. what i’m trying to say is that michael and alex only had that one moment, but it was a big moment with a lot of feeling and they were never given the opportunity to become something because of their own insecurities and trauma. in the course of one day they shared their first kiss, their first time, they were attacked by jesse fucking manes, and then michael discovered his sister had killed three people, took the blame for the murders, and covered them up. they never stood a chance back then. oh god and then there’s that photo of them with their guitars smiling which probably means they tried to keep up appearances and act “normal” and no no no i promise i will stop talking about them right now.

isobel and rosa: what was

suck it! i. was. right. i’m tempted to just leave it at that but surprise surprise i have things to say. it is so much more angst than i was expecting and i am living for it! i am all in. the fact that it wasn’t that her memories were taken away but that she never knew it was happening in the first place?? set me on fire it would hurt less. i don’t know what all is going on with isobel (i have theories but i’m usually wrong so i’m trying not to invest myself in them too much) but all i can imagine is in the coming weeks the gang tries to bring the memories from the blackouts back and she has to experience this intense maybe-more-than friendship for the first time while knowing exactly how it all ends. i really want to write a fic but after the fluke from last week my brain just doesn’t seem to be cooperating. i want to see more memories of their relationship and the different sides it brought out in both of them. was isobel always that flirty? was rosa interested? or was that just a progression as the blackouts became more desperate as isobel felt more and more left behind? i have so much i want to say about these two but i don’t know how to say any of it because i just have so many questions! so. many. i don’t want to be mad at isobel because i know whatever is happening isn’t her fault, but seeing what max and michael were like before rosa died, what their friendship was like, how independent the three of them were, how much they lived their own lives and had their own dreams, i am just heartbroken over what they gave up for her. i need to see more about these blackouts for their sake as well. 

@celluloiddreams @roadlesswandered @courtopuertorican thank you guys for getting me into this show. i bet you’re probably regretting it right now though....

[floralmarsupial]

Can I just say that even though the Zodiac quiz was bad, reading the Time aspect column is one of the most validating canon things I’ve ever read concerning Dave Strider. Let’s review- “Their lives are often marked by struggle, not so much because fate has it in for them, but because they are fundamentally incapable of just accepting things as they come.” - Though this doesn’t apply to Dave’s upbringing I think this speaks perfectly about how Dave handles himself in the game. Instead of leaving the Welsh sword (which he is obviously not ready to take at that point) he breaks it off, symbolizing the emasculation his failure to accomplish the task set out before him, this being a continuous pattern of events within the game. “They value action over passive acceptance, even if that may not be the wisest or safest choice.” -It’s this line of thought that makes Dave think so highly of John (and once upon a time Bro) and fuels his inferiority complex within the game, his passive acceptance of things being only surface level as a means of deflection until he’s faced with killing himself and deals with the outcome of Bro’s death. “Don't try to tell a Time-bound to sit still and look pretty. They are very goal-focused, and tend to value the destination over the journey, and you won't find them making that journey in any traditional sort of way. “ -Dave’s actions within the game were probably the most focused on actually playing the game than any of the Betas, the thought process again stoking Dave’s complex as he continually fails to make real impact on the game and most of the important sequences of events are tasked and completed by John. This thought process also makes so much sense for a child to have being raised by someone like Bro, the need to measure up, to be a hero. “To quote cheesy posters found on many a guidance counselor's wall-"impossible is just a word" If you need a miracle, they are who you call. .” -This is Dave’s ultimate wish. To be relied on and looked up to. but in the end is not something he’d ever allow himself to think because at this point he’s proven it’s not true. “At their best, the Time-bound are empathetic and relentless problem-solvers. At their worst they are ruthless, defensive, and impulsive.” YES. YEEESSSSS!!!!!!!! Dave is without a doubt probably the most empathetic of all the Betas in his own right and has some serious moments of being rational. Those are also the traits that make his being paired off with Karkat so perfect, a voice of reason to Karkat’s disorganized sea of emotions, while also being understanding of a lot of his problems because hey, he also has those same problems they just manifest in more low key ways. Though it’s definitely talking about Damara when saying ruthless, Dave is a hundred percent defensive (he’s a defensive support after all) It’s like two months too late but I feel so vindicated in this chili’s tonight y’all GOTDAMN

[thingswelostinthefiremp3]

"if this song sounds bitter, it's because it is and i am" im feeling vindicated in this chili's tonight

god i remember the time i was looking at the genius page for 3 libras which reads to me like a really straightforward unrequited love song and the artist comments are talking about like gorillas and the nature of empathy and shit and im like. tailsgetstrolled.jpeg