#best season of anything ever

[thequeenintheeast]

So I’m a thinking about what exactly went down the night Linda died now that I found the Nadine/roy wedding pic he hands to Loraine. He looks very upset and Nadine is just vacant staring. The wedding pic on the wall of Roy’s house has them looking at each other smiling. Pretty sure the pic he gave Lorraine is a far more accurate portrayal of that day. I’m thinking Gator told Linda that Roy raped Nadine while she was away presumably trying to set up a way to leave with Gator and Nadine. Linda went crazy they had a big fight and he threw her down the stairs or smashed her into wall and she died. I don’t think it was premeditated and it genuinely really upset him. So he married Nadine right away to make killing his wife “worth it”. But clearly they were not suited at all and all they did was fight. Nadine felt very guilty about Linda and disassociated to the point she literally thought Linda survived the fight and ran away. Very clearly Nadine had a bad childhood and I think Linda was the first “real mother” she had. The whole thing is so sad.

Also from the way Roy was crying about his mother’s napkins I’m thinking she did not die she left and did not take him. Which made him feel like he needed to do everything in his power to ensure no one ever left him again. Which he did through physical and emotional abuse. Which as Nadine said is just pissing on a window to clean it. Because as he said to Nadine he would “let her go once she begged him to let her stay.” Also interestingly enough for a man we saw casually shoot two guys in the head over the course of the series he wouldn’t kill Nadine himself. Because I’m pretty sure killing Linda devastated him as he said to bowman “he never wanted to feel that way again.” The acting in season 5 really drove it home. Def up there with season 2s acting to flesh these characters out.

Additionally the not changing the bedroom was another tell as he insisted he was his happiest but it’s very clear the time with Nadine was the worst he ever felt too and he felt angry that she got a happily ever after and he did not.

I have so many more thoughts this is just Linda’s death thoughts. Stay tuned for separate gator and Nadine posts.

[turtleblogatlast]

One of the funniest parts about the whole “Leo not giving Draxum any grace” idea is that Draxum is one of the ONLY notable older men in the show that Leo isn’t willing to give a proper second chance to OR really hear out in the first place.

No seriously it’s genuinely a Thing.

[pyr0cue]

Imagine thinking a tragedy is caused by characters existing and not because of like. The choices they make.

[ivypond11]

it's been a week and i still haven't recovered </3 so i did a little sketch with this scene between normal and scary because it fucked me up and i need more moments of them comforting and caring for each other

[cassberry]

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I love @/inkghouls baby boi Trivia Bot so much. Music from Oli's episode!

[thecryptidbard]

“Oh fuck it these can’t all be clever” my girl. My beloved Guide. My sweetest blorbo who did absolutely 100% all of the crimes, who did so in the most elaborate dramatic way possible, who literally put on such an unnecessarily extensive show for…I can only assume the documentary crew and her own enjoyment and satisfaction?? Who sat kicking her legs, head propped up in her hands asking Laszlo if he’s *suuuurre* he doesn’t want any help??? Who came to see them all in their cages and LITERALLY said *teehee 😁* . Babygirl really said I am going to snap so goddamn fucking hard and completely, but I am going to do it with SHOWMANSHIP and PIZAZZ, she made SUCH a good murderboard (that says *OUCHY!* on it!!!) and then after all that just went….oopsie!! My bad!! Truly my hero you GO babe you’re doing GREAT please please never change

[drowningmoon]

I cannot believe that we didn't even get a fucking fist bump

[fieldofheathers-stuff]

The Silco saga, Part 3: The Eye

*This is the third (well, actually fourth) post in a series I’ve lovingly dubbed “The Silco Saga, a retrospective after Season 2”. It’s halfway between flow of conscience, meta, headcanon and review, spawned from my Arcane brainrot (and recent S1 rewatch) and vaguely aimed at trying to reevaluate the entirety of Arcane with a focus on my Main Man™ Silco. Here is Part 1 (on how S2 handled Silco and Jinx’s relationship), Part 1.5 (miscellaneous thoughts regarding timeline issues and Silco’s actions towards the kids in S1ep3), and Part 2 (Vander and a bit of Zaundads, yaaay).

Please feel free to comment! I love hearing different perspectives on this show.

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This will be a short one, but I need to get it out of my system. I just... love, love, love Arcane's use of visual language (and specifically character and environment design) to wordlessly communicate story beats. The whole show is just a perfect synergy of writing and artistic talent, where both contribute to craft a deeply layered and meaningful story.

Silco's eye is such a perfect example of this. To use the eye as a symbol of his corruption post-drowning is such a genius intuition, because it's symbolism is so immediately understandable yet also layered with meaning that is incredibly specific to his character.

There are plenty of characters in popular media where facial disfigurement is used to convey duality and corruption (the most obvious example being DC's Two-Face), and Silco could have easily gone down this well-traveled path of character design. However, by focusing on the corrupted eye in particular, this element instantly specifies the meaning of his mutilation.

Vander's violence didn't just impact him phisically. His scars don't serve just as a constant reminder of the ways in which he (and the world, since the Pilt's toxic waters are an effect of Piltover's exploitation of the Undercity) wronged him. The violence inflicted upon him distorted his vision of the world, metaphorically and literally. He is forced (first by Vander, and later by himself) to view the world through a monstrous filter.

I wonder whether him having to constantly inject Shimmer into his eye is meant to symbolize - or rather mirror - the coping mechanism he uses to deal with his trauma. Silco is shown constantly revisiting The Drowning™ as a crucial moment in his development as a person, and while in his personal narrative he reframes it as a positive and cathartic experience, we are aware, through his flashbacks, that the moment was anything but. Him needing to constantly inject Shimmer into his eye is the physical equivalent to the psycological ritual of "healing" he performs by reframing his trauma as a moment of self-improvement (and literally dunking himself in the Pilt, Silco you madman).

It's only logical, then, that the injections don't seem to work long-term. It perfectly mirrors his psychological state: as the story goes on, we see how his narrative of death and rebirth is just a superficial fix, a solution which could perhaps be sustainable for him alone, but inevitably crumbles as soon as he attempts to apply it to another person (Jinx). Jinx's tragic arc in S1 reveals the fault in his vision: there is no healing to be found in rewriting your past by cramming it into a narrative that suits your feelings and "killing" (denying, hiding, repressing) the bits that you don't like - or that are too painful for you to face.

It's deeply symbolic, then, that he still keeps his scars in the Best Timeline™ of S2ep7, but there's no sign of infection or (what I assume is) Shimmer corruption: the wounds are still there because the past can't be changed, but he is shown to have been able to shape it into something stable, manageable. It's what healing actually looks like: it's neither a return to an umblemished state, nor a rebirth into something completely new, but rather an integration of the past and present self into a whole that is not just the sum (or, in his case, a subtraction) of its parts.

[fear-no-mort]

thinkign about how alone and unloved morty was for all his life and rick was the first time anyobdy ever put such an amount of intense attention and dependency onto him . and rick had a whole new family and losing them made him stop seeing the value in other people as a whole and morty was the one and first thing that woke him up

[seokmattchuus]

And if I said I still don't hate shauna, then what

[girlstalkmichael]

Just finished Brooklyn Nine Nine and oh it is such a perfect show from start to finish

[bobbysdeath]

ok wait so this line of thought is inspired by discourse but i cannot stress enough how much this is NOT a discourse post and if you try to bring that energy to this post i will block you. but what is the meta people have thought up for why eddie actually calls buck "evan" is 414? because i know its framed as a significant moment for them and everyone knows that but i genuinely cannot figure out why the writers made that choice and i feel like i'm missing one piece of the puzzle. season 4 dedicates itself to a lot of recurring themes for buck and the whole season kind of is one big arc for his character. they make it a point that the buck vs evan thing is symbolic for him and he lays it out very cleanly at the end of buck begins: "buck. that's what people who know me, that's what they call me." they also make a point of it multiple times in the season that eddie knows buck especially well, with the whole "i had to do it -> i know you did" lines that comes right before that other scene and then the "you knew i wouldn't -> i knew you wouldn't" lines that comes right before eddie calls him evan. anyways this post has no solutions because i am actually still confused by this and if anyone smarter than me wants to explain to me what they think that last scene meant in the context of the rest of season 4 please please please feel free to

[iarrelm]

An early morning conversation about tea got a little out of hand

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

Thinking about how Ninjago S2 is probably one of my favorite pieces of television I've ever watched. It flows so well off of season 1 and allows those arcs to spread and grow.

It gave us the Mega Weapon, the Stone Army, the Overlord, lore for the Destiny's Bounty, let us actually meet Zane's dad, Misako, cured Garmadon, gave Lloyd his best arc (which the movie pretty much pulled from and the show still does), still is the Overlord's best defeat,

The characters actually have interesting dynamics with each and every one of each other that allows them to truly feel like a found family with history (and both Jay AND Kai get to react to things that happen to Nya, not just her Yin),

We got one of my favorite 3D-animated fights of all time,

And let's be honest, the show peaked right here (in a positive way).

[elizabeth-mitchells]

OKAY YAY FINALLY FINISHED WATCHING THE EPISODE (there's a power outage so i dont have internet so i cant post my regularly scheduled silly little screenshots so instead. huge rant in the tags of this post <3)

[demadogs]

noooo dont watch that show that didnt have the story mapped out entirely when the first season came out and started out incredible but then in later seasons starts feeling super disconnected and unplanned… youre so sexyy ahaha