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DOCTOR WHO
Smith and Jones (3.01)
#doctor who#dwedit#rtdedit#martha jones#tenth doctor#david tennant#freema agyeman#marthajonesedit#tenedit#timelordgifs#userbbelcher#chewieblog#usersource#tvedit#scifigifs#scifiedit#tvarchive#dailyflicks#the doctor#denim rose graphics#brotp: if that's how you still see me#love this season#it's such a comfort season and era#until the end lol; that's just trauma#but she was like fresh air
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(on my hands and knees begging tumblr to not mutilate the quality of this drawing 😭) anyway, coming out as a secret marvel fan to announce that i really enjoyed the recently she-hulk run w/ Jen and her boytoy and am sad to see them go. Jack pls dont disappear into the ether i just got attached to you (ID in alt)
#marvel comics#sensational she hulk#sensational she hulk 2023#she hulk#jennifer walters#jack of hearts#jack hart#im typing thrse tags on an ipad rn (hell) so im going to be brief for once but yeah i reslly enjoyed this series#it was a sweet slice of life breath of fresh air and i found myself really invested in the relationship between jen and jack#Lowkey tempted to hop onto avengers just to keep up w jen#maybe- maybe not. We’ll see! Either way thse two are cute lol#this came together surprisingly quick for his detailed it is (by my standards lmao) and that makes me#nervous. Mainly#theres bits that r off but overall i like it#tried to fit lettering in but it didnt work lol#anyway#i know the authors on tumblr. Rainbow rowell if you somehow find this hire me /j#i dont think thats how it works since theyre a writer and not an editor lol#ANYWAY I REALLY NEED TO SLEEP#goodnight to all 8 ppl who will reblog this#mine
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The way Carla showed up absolutely smitten down bad horrendous in the gayest of outfits she could find just be called a friend ohhh the PAIN
#the way carla is the one thats down bad is such a breath of fresh air though#thank u corrie for girlkisser carla connor we all say in unison#shes so incredibly sexy though LISA PLEASE#shes clearly been through this before shes like augh she's just straight its whatever#but with carla literally turning up in this how could u at all think this is a straight lady#lisa ur so funny sometimes#coronation street#swarla#carla x lisa#i love lisa swain SHAKES HER affectionately#carla connor#lisa swain
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Remember when the Audrey villain leaks came out and then we saw the offical c4 and s3 outfit reveals and saw the c4 on the isle and the s3 in an auradon forest and we all thought there had been some sort of time spell where Audrey twisted time and instead of the c4 coming to Auradon it was the s3 so Audrey stayed with Ben and there was a whole adventue to fix the timeline? no? just me? okay
#i remember the theories they were so interesting#like how dr. Facilier ran an underground motorrace and the vks had to race to get the key to Hades lair#and we all thought Harry and Gil had dyed their hair blue becuase that reveal photo of the s3 looked so odd for Harry's hair lighting and i#looked blue#and we all thought Audrey had gone to a wishing well like in ouat and had cast a time spell and the vks had to work together to get their#timeline back#Uma#Mal and Audrey and Hades are the only ones who remember the last timeline#aka demi-gods#person who cast the spell#and god#and Mal goes to see Hades and confronts him cuz hes a god and might know where cronos sundial is so she can get her timeline back#but she also notices alto of the isle is-way better than what she and her friends had done?? theres fresh food-no one is wearing ratty old#clothes that were trash from auradon#the air is better#and theres no propagana pictures#Mal asks-not so descretly-what happened and Hades just goes 'uma.'#Uma made it her whole ass mission to make the isle a better place in gernal becuase even if they're steadely getting kids off-its still a#really bad place and-ya know-HUMAN RIGHTS#Ben is very supportive and the isle becomes less an inhumane prison and more just a isle of solitude where the villains live without magic#the barrier was edited personally by FG and Uma to allow fresh air and water in and out of the isle becuase it was really fucked up that#once ANYTHING gets in it cant go out so the isle waters were really really poluted and bad and FG was like- "how did i not know it was this#bad!?“ and uma is just like ”....really?“#anyway i have feelings about the fandoms old theories about d3#anyway Mal goes through teh deliema of either going back to her timeline where the isle is still really bad but shes happy or#stay in the timeline where the isle is much better but she's still stuck and not with Ben/becoming queen#so she has the same choice in this alt timeine that she gets in d3 but its much more-just on her-becuase she knows Uma wont twist back#the timeline-shes happy#Harry and Gil are happy-lots of kids are already off the isle#and Ben looks happy too...hopefully
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remembering that jolyne is hated by large large swaths of anime fans always shocks me to my core like she's literally just a funnier & kinder carbon copy of her grandpa. you know. the guy who is almost universally beloved and lauded in shonen spheres. man i wonder what fundamental difference between her & the other joestars leads anime fans to shit on her no matter what
#broadcast#she is legitimately one of my favorite characters evah like stone ocean is soooo good and she's so funny. way fonder of her than most of th#joestars#like. what a breath of fresh air after giorno...#jjba
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while i do ship glimmadora, i think that adora staying single in the end would have been a powerful statement too. she has her friends by her side and maybe she finds her family as well, and her arc is resolved by her finding peace within herself and not needing a romantic relationship to validate her existence.
carmen sandiego does this pretty well tbh, while carmen did have romantic tension/coding with some of the other characters (especially julia), in the end, her search for her family is prioritized over her relationship status. the series ends with her finally finding her mother, giving us a satisfactory resolution to her arc.
#i love carulia too but i like seeing protagonists not always being pushed into a romantic relationship#it's like a breath of fresh air#spop critical#spop salt#spop discourse#spop#spop criticism#she ra#carmen sandiego
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natlan 5.1 was batshit insane but i won't deny cookery when i see it. last 1/3 of the archon quest is just brilliantly done in my opinion, from writing to level design to soundtrack. just genuine excellence
#sev.screams#natlan#the character centric parts were rather weak to me#ororon has an intriguing arc but i don't care enough about him to care about the arc#similarly i only felt a surface level investment with a lot of the other main cast; though funnily enough excluding citlali#she's a breath of fresh air amongst the cast and i really enjoyed her screentime#there are a lot of story decisions in this quest that i'm impressed and glad hoyo decided to take; it adds a layer of realism to natlan tha#was missing in inazuma and ultimately i believe was the reason inazuma flopped as a nation#there is real tangible weight in the things that happen in natlan; i felt moved by the story and i think that's the hallmark of a good stor#i hope in the next archon quest they don't undo or undermine these decisions in any way. they truly contributed so much to the overall tone#of the story that to remove them would be like taking the legs out from underneath it#writing aside the environmental storytelling and level design also contributed so much to crafting the atmosphere of this quest#it felt gut wrenching in a way inazuma never did. for even the briefest moment these npcs were people and you were watching them struggle#a poignant beautiful desperate struggle that i think is so incredibly human and both moving and heartbreaking to witness#also helped by the exquisite ost. hoyomix has certainly not lost their touch even with yu peng chen gone#despair hope triumph relief; all captured so wonderfully in a score i know i will be listening to for the next few weeks once it drops#i'm rambling so much but. i liked this a lot and i can only hope hoyo sticks the landing on this one#i hate having high expectations but i can't help it for this one i fear
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can i say i love that Heinrix's design is like a middle age man? he s not also like perfectly pinterest model handsome
#heinrix van calox#like...he looks like how i imagine a#man whove been doing what he s doing for decades to look#rogue trader#xx#ALSO STOP AIRBRUSHING HIM YOURE KILLING HIMMMM where r his eyebags where s his wrinkles binch#(lovingly)#he looks like he d be nice to hug#i find it interesting that the male li is Cassia who has her... oddities but lets be real she s v young and v cute#compared to Heinrix who is in fact not cute lmao (this is a compliment btw)#sort of a fresh air after all the...... ifs and vns...which i love but cmon
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I’ve seen several things about how Moonpaw has to be a Nightsun kit because of her name being a mix of both of theirs. At first I thought to myself ‘that’s a funny reason. The cats don’t really name their kids like that. Nightsun wouldn’t do that.’ And then I thought about it for a few seconds and came to the conclusion.. No, they definitely would. These two are sappiest most insufferably romantic couple in the series. Cats have to tell them to stop staring at each other. Breezepelt of all people is all ‘STOP TALKING LOVEYDOVEY IN PUBLIC’. They’d do something stupid like this. Thunderclan would collectively sigh and try and move on with their lives after
Drew this on paper and colored digitally for the funnies
#I actually quite like nightsun. it’s a breath of fresh air to have two cats in a romantic relationship in the series not have to be all#dramatic about their relationship. no ‘but why is he like that’ like with squilf and twig. no ‘but this love is forbidden…’ as with-#-bristleroot violettree tigerdove etc#they have open discussions and don’t keep secrets for extended periods of time for No Reason either#they just. are sappy. I think they’re actually just hilarious#warrior cats#Nightheart#sunbeam#warriors#the broken code#a starless clan#changing skies#moonpaw#I’m still 50/50 on whether she WILL be their kid#on one hand.. good job spoilinh it if she is Erins#plus again. the name is silly and dumb if she is their kid#on the other hand. we need the obligatory thunderclan legacy protag. unless finchlight gets married it’s practically gotta be their kid#anyway Nightheart would totally be the dad to sob when his kid was born#comic#illustration
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My Favorite School Spirits Scenes&Dialogue
[Feel free to use any of these as writing prompts]
CW: School Spirits Spoilers, Innapropriate Language, Mentions of Murder
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(Maddie and Simon walk into the auto shop looking for evidence)
Simon: Talk about a perfect place to dump a body... He ever bring you here?
Maddie: .....
Simon: Oh jeez. This is where you guys hooked up?
Maddie: I'm not answering that.
Simon: Classy guy.. What, was the dumpster behind the Jack In The Box already taken?
Maddie: Oh, grow up. You tried to make a move on Celeste Molina at the bowling shoe return counter.
Simon: That was eighth grade!
Maddie: It was ninth! You just looked like an eighth grader.
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Xavier: And you know what they say...
Maddie: What do they say?
Xavier: Bros before... strong, independent women with bright futures, it's a very popular phrase.
Maddie: You're stupid... you're lucky you're cute.
Xavier: What the Lord deny in brain, he deliver in beauty.
Maddie: And boy did he deny.
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Maddie: Look, I can't really chat right now because I've got some holes in my memory to fill.
Wally: Hey, that's why I'm here, I can totally help you fill your holes.
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Maddie: ...Excuse me?
Wally: Oh, uh, obviously I did not mean for it to come off that way.. it was more of a hypothetical "I can help you figure things out if you need it."
Maddie: Okay... I can handle it myself. And I don't need to take advice from someone who looks like they're headed to aerobics class.
Maddie: You were murdered by your guidance counselor?
Rhonda: Yep. Guided me straight to the light.
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Rhonda: There's still people in this school that count on you. Dead people.
Maddie: Since when did you stop majoring in who-gives-a-fuck?
Rhonda: We all have to pitch in, pussytoes.
Maddie: I'm sorry, what did she just call me?
Charley: I.. I think it's probably a flower...?
Maddie: 'kay...
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Simon: You hate scary movies, just own it.
Nicole: That's not true. I liked Scream.
Simon: That's scary satire, doesn't count.
Maddie: And you closed your eyes the second the movie started.
Nicole: No I didn't.
Maddie: You spent half the movie looking for that twizzler you dropped on the ground.
Simon: And you don't even like black licorice, that's Maddie's thing.
Nicole: Yeah, well, Maddie didn't invent black licorice.
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Charley: The bigger disappointment was me thinking I would get to haunt all the assholes who tortured me while I was here. But uh, instead, I was haunted by all the jokes they made once I was gone.
Maddie: What do you mean?
Charley: I was a gay kid in the 90s who died because he was allergic to nuts.
Maddie: ...
Charley: Okay, that's where you're supposed to laugh.
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Simon: Nicole, you were supposed to give me a ride this morning. To school? Remember?
Nicole: I had stuff to do. Sorry.
Simon: I figured, you were AWOL all weekend, didn't answer a single text.
Nicole: I had an application deadline, okay? So the video statement was due, my portfolio looks like it was slapped together by a third grader, so..
(A minute later, Simon opens up her binder and looks at her portfolio)
Simon: Hmm. FYI, you're a very impressive third grader. I mean, I'm impressed.
(He turns to a page that's full of half a dozen photographs of Maddie)
Simon: Uhh.. and a little concerned. Damn, she knew you took all these?
Nicole: I took a bunch of you too, you're just.. not photogenic..
Simon: Yeah.. but.. this is intense. I mean, it's cool, it's just a lot of maddiemaddiemaddiemaddiemaddiemaddie —
Nicole: — What are you trying to say?
Simon: ..Nothing. Hey. Breathe, stop doubting yourself, okay? If admission asks why you're obsessed, say you worshipped her. Tell 'em she taught you how to parallel park.
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Maddie: Seriously? All we do is haunt the halls of the stupid school, and none of you have seen anything suspicious from Anderson?
Wally: Well, one time I saw Mr. Anderson misspell the word "Fundraiser" on a Boosters Club poster, and I – he forgot the D. I feel like that's pretty suspicious coming from an English teacher.
Charley: Wally.. I'm pretty sure that was a pun..? So I'm assuming he probably did that on purpose....
Rhonda: Sorry, sweets, we don't just stand around staring at the living all day.
Maddie: No.. you plan weekend fun. Like movie nights.
Mr. Martin: Well, we do what we can to break up the monotony, Maddie, that's all.
Charley: Well, if I may.. to be fair, watching the same five sports movies over and over again is kind of monotonous, Mr. Martin.
Wally: I thought you loved "Rudy".
Charley: No.
Wally: Wow. Just w– I can't even.
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Rhonda: How are you not pissed right now!?
Wally: I am pissed, Rhonda, I'm just trying to make sense of this all, this is very new to me, I don't know how I feel —
Rhonda: Try not to lose it in front of your crush.
Wally: OK, YOU DONT HAVE TO BE MAD AT ME RHONDA -- I DIDNT DO ANYTHING, BE MAD AT HIM —
Rhonda: I am mad at him.
Wally: Okay, you said you wouldn't bring that up again —
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Maddie: Have you seen my teacher Mr. Anderson?
Dawn: You mean like him with a murder weapon? Or your dead body?
Maddie: Yes!
Dawn: Nope! Though I am pretty easily distracted...
Maddie: Is it the.. bad acid?
Dawn: ....?
Maddie: Charley mentioned something about that..
Dawn: Well no, I've never taken drugs! I just meant from all the new ways you kids have had to connect... (starts talking about the internet)
Maddie: Okay.. well I've got to go talk to the bus crash kids.
Dawn: Oh, good luck. Those banjos are all bongo, if you know what I mean... You should let me come with! I speak bongo.
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Nicole: I'm sorry, when did you become all Scooby Doo?
Claire: ...
Nicole: I mean, two months ago, you were wiping your feet on Maddie's face, now you're... what? Trading in your pom pom for a trench coat?
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(Charley laying on the indoor pool bleachers with sunglasses over his glasses, smelling sunscreen)
Charley: Ah, I love this smell. Coconut, verbena.. you close your eyes, you could be anywhere. Miami.. Aruba...
Rhonda: Yeah, and then you open them, and there's a band-aid floating in the surf.
Charley: I miss a good sunburn.
Wally: I miss Debbie Gibson.
Rhonda: ...??
Wally: What? I thought we were talking about stuff that we miss.
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(Emilio walks past Charley and makes him gay panic)
Rhonda: Dial it downnn.. just because you smell like an Almond Joy, doesn't mean he knows you're here.
Wally (to Maddie): That's Mr. Figueroa. Emilio. He was Charley's crush when they were still students here. He sponsors the.. L-G..T —
Rhonda: — B.
Wally: B-T-Q club.. and Charley never misses a meeting.
Charley: I only go for the refreshments.. and uh, you're one to talk. You hit the gym every day to impress some boneheads who only know you as a name on a scoreboard.
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Charley: Okay, let's try hypnosis.
(Dawn randomly spawns in the back, sitting at the table eating the burrito)
Dawn: Oh, God no... Not that.
Wally: Hello, Dawn.. uhhh, how long — how long you been sitting there, girl?
Dawn: Since I smelled the burrito 😊
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(The ghosts are gathered in a circle so they can begin the anti-seance as Dawn waves an old, burnt Brussels sprout around as a substitute for sage)
Dawn: Settle, settle, settle, settle. We're under Capricornus.
Rhonda: ...who?
Dawn: The stars. Close your eyes, look inward, right to the back of your skull. What are you seeing, Mads?
Maddie: Uh, not much, it's dark..
Dawn: Dark!
Rhonda: Maybe it's the back of her skull.
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Xavier: I just -- I feel like I'm walking into a trap.
Maddie: Funny. I don't recall you being scared when you were hooking up in your backseat.
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Rhonda: If I thought it would help me cross over, I would go out there and tackle someone.
Mr. Martin: Okay, that's the spirit.. I think.
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Xavier: I wasn't tampering with anything, dad.
Sheriff Baxter: Man, how stupid do you think I am? What are we, runnin' neck and neck in the dumbass derby?
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Wally: I wanna make sure she's okay!
Rhonda: Let's check the faculty lounge..
Charley: She didn't say she needed a nap.
Rhonda: Maybe she went to speak with Simon. Sorry.
Wally: Why are you sorry?
Rhonda: You wince every time you hear his name.
Wally: This is not me wincing, this is my happy face.
Rhonda: Ah, could have fooled me.
Wally: Look -- I know she's still trying to figure her stuff out, but I can wait. We're not even at halftime.
Rhonda: I don't know what that means.. but if that is your happy face, remind me to hide when you're really happy.
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(Maddie and her mom arguing before Maddie's death)
Maddie: You wanna take everything that dad gave me? Here. Take this.
(Maddie rips her necklace off and hands it to her mom)
Maddie: You could pawn it, get 40 bucks from it. Buy yourself a fucking welcome mat.
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Xavier: If I ask her about the phone, she's just gonna bail!
Simon: Stop being a fucking coward!
Xavier: A coward -- FUCK YOU SIMON.
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Simon: SAYONARA, SHIT RIVER!! Northwestern won't know what hit 'em!!
(proceeds to bump into somebody walking through the hall as he says that)
Maddie: Slow your roll, we're not even in yet.
(Bell rings)
Mr. Anderson: You degenerates are late!
Nicole: I'm not even in your class..
Mr. Anderson: You're still late.. and degenerate.
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Claire: What did you tell the police?
Mr. Anderson: I told them the truth. That I took that money to pay off my dad. Is that okay with you? Cool. Can I go?
Claire: Did you say anything about me!?
Mr. Anderson: Y'know what? I don't remember! 😛
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Mr. Martin: It sounds like you're struggling. Write your obituary.
Maddie: Uh, no.
Mr. Martin: Everyone here has written one. It helps us to focus on the highlights of our lives, the sweet victories.
Maddie: I've gotten out of writing papers before because of cramps. I'm pretty sure death counts as a good excuse.
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Simon: Happy?
Maddie: Yeah, I'm thrilled. My DNA is on a boiler room wall and my piece of shit boyfriend might have something to do with that. Does it get much happier!?
Simon: Oh, so now you come around? How many times did I tell you that dude was sketchy?
Maddie: This isn't about him keeping hand lotion in his glove compartment, Simon.
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Simon: Bathrooms.. you're not gonna linger and wait there... right?
Maddie: ...
Simon: MADDIE
Maddie: Relax, I left before I saw anything.... But you should really wash your hands more.
Simon: Okay and now I'm hanging up. Byeeeee!
#been writing this for 3 hours straight pls help#also the one with maddies mom is just sad tbh#but maddie finally standing up to her mom was like a breath of fresh air#its sad that those are the last things she ever said to her though#ignore how long this is#idk why I made this so long#i was thinking maybe if people wanted some funny quotes from their fav characters#but yeah just enjoy this or something. i guess most of these would only apply to supernatural whodunit stories like this one#if people ever wanted to actually use these dialogue lines as writing prompts#also no need to credit me for this if you use these for ur stories/fics#idk where i was even going with this#school spirits#maddie nears#madison nears#rhonda school spirits#mr. martin#mr martin#charley school spirits#xavier baxter#simon elroy#mr anderson#dialogue prompt#school spirits rhonda#writing#writing prompts#sheriff baxter#sandra nears#nicole hererra#claire zomer#wally clark
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magnus chase and the gods of asgard is refreshing in a way where no one is actually chasing after magnus and magnus isnt actively chasing after anyone else. like yea he drops subtle hints that he has feelings for alex but he doesn't even recognize or understand these feelings until the last 100 pages of the last book and he's a real one for that tbh
#magnus chase supremacy#like everyone was after percy#and percy was after annabeth in the last couple pjo books#carter was after zia#and sadie after Walt and anubis (which is gross btw)#then yk everyone on the Argo liked eachother💀#Lester was still getting over his past lovers#and then he had that thing w reyna that she quickly shut down#but mcga was a breath of fresh air#it wasn't focused on his romantic feelings or past relationships#mostly bc he didn't even understand his own feelings cough#and I liked the way alex and magnus' relationship played out#not officially official#but official enough to kinda be considered canon#did you know that I love magnus chase??#mcga#magnus chase#magnus chase and the gods of asgard#riordanverse
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ok, so my own final (and very, very fresh) thoughts, bc i wanted to wait until i'd watched everything to make a sweeping opinion of the whole series, and it's quite opinionated. and long. probably too long. i write essays for fun (everyone point and laugh):
my personal (and very, very fresh) ranking of the hbo war shows (not including gen kill bc that's a different war, sorry) goes- band of brothers > masters of the air > the pacific (it's the same for my title score rankings. that hasn't changed yet)
my main points of contention with MotA are 1) the nine episodes, 2) the length of the episodes, and 3) certain editing choices. nine episodes, compared to the classic ten, isn't Nearly enough time to showcase all that they wanna showcase (especially when the episodes are as short as they are, once you get past the recap and "next on" parts). and they wanna showcase A Lot! there so much going on! i'd ask them to pace themselves, but they literally Can't!
i mean, the editing choices are a Whole Thing! practically gives me whiplash sometimes lol. i feel like the weaker episodes still have parts that are Really good, but like. Individually. they don't work together as a stronger whole, which is to the episode's detriment. rather than jumping around (as the show often did), they could've benefited a lot from focusing on the One Story instead of squeezing three more stories into there (i say that, but i think the 4-5-6 episode run (all with multiple stories per episode) did this very well while Still being very good episodes, so it's not like it Can't be done, it just didn't work for 7, 8 and (partly) 9). granted, i suspect a chunk of the weird editing can be blamed on, well, there being only nine (and not all that long) episodes and no one wanting to cough up enough money for a tenth. ugh! i'm blaming both hbo And appletv for this (and covid19 ig). it's just One More Episode, how much could it cost?? and on the subject of episodes, why no episode titles? you used to love episode titles! i could've brainstormed episode titles for them For Free!!
when it comes to the characters, the rankings remain the same: BoB > MotA > TP. it's not totally fair tho, since BoB followed the exact same (and large-ish) group of guys from beginning to end, so you're Gonna know who they all are and get attached. this wasn't the case (for me!) when watching TP, since, unlike BoB, they jump around from group to group. i never felt like i got to know them all that well, outside of the main characters. i think MotA almost hits that sweet spot, especially knowing they had those two main things going against it: large cast And jumping from group to group. there's a case to be made for bias here (i Was the blog blogging about everything MotA for like. years.), but i still think they found a good enough balance of fleshing out the main characters while Also helping the audience get to know about a bunch of minor characters, of which there are a shitton (and their personalities, motivations, backgrounds, quirks).
there's also the representation of women. actual angel renée lemaire is and will always be a cut above the rest (bastogne is just That Good, argue with the wall). she's written so well that it almost makes me forget about how a bunch of women are portrayed in carentan. i have...issues with how women are portrayed in TP (even tho i love lena), so there's that. MotA falls in the middle (again) bc there's Way more women on-screen, but the writing can be questionable. balanced (as all things should be?) captain l'sandra wing-westgate is a character of all time, but episode 7 birthed the craziest discourse known to man (the hbo war fandom), but it wasn't all that unwarranted. manon and michou were sooo cool, but we didn't see nearly enough of them (another victim of the 'editing too many stories into one episode' problem. why not a whole resistance episode? or at least as the only b-plot?). paulina was interesting, but fulfilled one of those 'attractive foreign woman gives sage advice during/after sex' tropes (there's probably a tvtropes page for that idk). so many red cross girls, but none of the in-depth payoff :/ epic highs (multiple women!!) + epic lows (writing women??) = pretty tolerable. not great, not terrible. it was aight. i trust the fandom to build on this tho.
narrative is the big one tho. it's the whole "doing so much with so little" thing they've got going on (i'm ignoring their big budget here lol, could've been bigger). rather than having one main story with many connecting side stories (like BoB), it does the TP thing where there's many semi-connecting side stories set in the same general area. it helps that there's crosby's narration (i enjoy narration, sue me!), and he helps everything connect, sorta. but there's still other side stories that have Nothing to do with him (sandra's side gigs (revealing what she did takes away the mystery of what she Might be doing), the tuskegee airmen, quinn and bailey's eurotrip). would it have helped if there were two narrators (say, someone like rosie)? idk. gonna sit with that one. if there's a through-line, it's not super obvious like in the other two shows. which is insanely funny to me bc i literally like TP less, but that show's got an Extremely tight through-line all the way down. i can't lie and say it doesn't!
back to budget- i've seen people criticize this show for being called "masters of the air" when there's not much of "the air". ig that's fair, but there's the money issue, again. also, it'd get very repetitive if they were always in "the air". there was enough confusion about identifying who was who with the masks on, so imagine if that was Every Episode. out of All the issues the show has, this is the least issue-y. again, that's just my opinion, and it could change.
another budget thing (i think??)- idk enough about costuming and hair for period pieces so i can't comment on that with my 0 background in it, all i Can say is that i knoooooow people were clowning on marjorie cleven's hair in episode 1 (and i could see why, no such thing as 1940s beach waves). but from what i could understand- that actress' addition was a last-minute thing (bc i had No idea who the hell she was and i already found someone cast for marjorie all the way back in 2021). maybe there's something to say about the quality of rush jobs, but i really do think it was the most last-minute thing bc it came out of Nowhere, and timeline-wise, it looks like that bit was done long after everything else had been filmed. outside looking in, it seems something probably went wrong/didn't work out with who or what they already had and there wasn't enough wiggle room (time and money) to fix it. this isn't me being an apologist (lol), but i feel like a theorist at a big board bc nothing adds up! and i wanna know what happened! i'm just speculating! speculating on this blog is All i did for like Years lmaooo.
this is more of a side thing, but some of the lines in MotA feel really on-the-nose, almost corny. and that was Gonna be a knock against it, but there's some equally Extremely on-the-nose lines in both BoB and TP (Especially in BoB), so if i give MotA shit for it, i'd have to give all three shows shit for it lol. none of them are free of cheese.
another silly aside- no peaches, no main gingers, no main eugenes! we can't have 'em all, but c'mon!
there Is some good tho lol. one thing that MotA really has going for it, that i think the other shows have less of, is- and GOD it feels so weird to call this "world-building" when it's actual goddamn history, but- it's got world-building. maybe that isn't the best word for it. but i like how much Bigger ww2 feels in this show. BoB is one stop, then the next stop, then the next stop, which is, admittedly, good from a narrative-perspective (easy to follow), but not as good when you want a scale of how devastating the war is (in fairness, it was filmed in 2000). even TP feels pretty "enclosed" in a way. there's island-hopping, yeah, but all the damn islands look the same (not including australia lol). it's a theatre of the war we otherwise don't really get to see, but there still isn't all that much to see. it's water and sand and rock and dirt. which is the point, but Whatever! would've been cool if we saw sledge and co. in china, but moving on. MotA's able to really show the scale of it, both in the air and on the ground (that scene in germany during episode 6 was both harrowing and fantastic, also the inclusion of the actual children forced to fight nearer to the war's end in the finale). idk i just liked how it was able to zoom in and zoom out (and in and out again) in a way that the other shows weren't.
another thing it's got that the other shows don't is Really driving home how young everyone is (not "child soldier" young, but damn young). the cast is full of baby faces (rip babyface). a lot of ww2 shows/movies don't bother casting to reflect this, but i think overlooking that takes away from the overall impact. you browse through some old newspaper articles or photos of soldiers during ww2 enough and you're gonna Regularly get hit with the face of someone who looks like they could've sat in the desk next to you during a high school lit class. a lot of those b&w grinning faces look like kids bc they pretty much were (more so if they lied about their age). you don't really get that in BoB or TP (it's Crazy when the real life pics of the soldiers portrayed in those shows look younger than the actors).
i'm mixed about the tuskegee airmen. what we have, i love (thank you, dee rees). unfortunately, my biggest irk is that it leaves me wanting more of them, which i won't ever get. speaking as a black person (not speaking for All black people, just how i personally feel about it), having them included feels like a catch-22. if they weren't included in any capacity (all while knowing there were whole tuskegee airmen in stalag iii with the white main characters), there'd be a problem. however, including them (all while having these time constraints and not enough focus on them) leads to the feeling of having them "tokenized" (which i can see). there's no world where there'd be 50/50 split (even a 70/30 split) bc, at that point, just give them a show of their own. but there'd still be a general annoyance that big budget ww2 shows are only ever white. on the other hand, hanks and spielberg and orloff and miller and all the directors (except dee rees) are white, and how good of a story about black people are you really gonna get from the perspective of nonblack people? that in mind, i personally don't feel put-off by having the three tuskegee airmen in the posters/trailers/promos, bc i just Know there'd be a whole nother problem if they weren't included in them at all despite being in the show for however long (it'd be even worse if they made their pictures smaller). like i don't work in advertising, but i don't know if a "sweet spot" even exists for something like this. people would be pissed off no matter what imo (i'm also speaking with a bias here bc i had to browse through sooooo many comments written by white guys whining and crying and pissing and shitting themselves once they learned that the tuskegee airmen were gonna be in the show in Any capacity, so i'm just cool knowing they're in shambles rn (and josiah cross- he played richard macon- always goes Wild seeing his face in the promos, and his joy is pretty contagious).
i give it somewhere like a 7.5-8/10. 3.75 stars out of 5. not perfect, subject to change, gotta marinate, but i'm overall happy with it! MotA's best episodes are better than many other individual hbo war episodes. should i be grading it using the overall sum of its parts, not just the different parts? idk, i'm not being paid to grade lol.
#i feel like i'm knocking the pacific too much in this even when i like the pacific. i just like it much less#i've talked my sister's ear off enough about it (she adores the pacific the way i do band of brothers)#and like i've got plenty of issues with band of brothers but it just does it for me. idk. i'm complicated by avril lavigne#this is an essay. my GOD is this an essay#but better to vomit it all out now so i can look over it later and see how my opinion changes over time. i want to archive my fresh thought#masters of the air#hbo war#masters of the air spoilers#mota spoilers#band of brothers#the pacific#for once i'm not spam-tagging those. i talk about them a decent amount in here. sorry for the people who don't go here tho#long post
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I want a romance with the same tension as two male friends who the author refuses to make canon despite the fact that they associate each other with the sun and would die in the others name.
#Some male characters in media: "You're the most important to me! So much more special than my canon girlfriend who will not get#the character development she deserves. You're like the sun. Fresh air in spring. My heart calls your name when we're apart and I yearn for#your hand to graze against mine for only a moment.#Those same characters an episode later: ���Anyway you're like my totally platonic brother. Because no homo.”#Having a lot of thoughts about how m/f m/m and f/f dynamics are often portrayed this afternoon#mod rambles
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it's wild to see reasonable men on facebook posts with those gooner edits of video game women. chuds tend to post those "woke DEI!!!" tweets and to my pleasant surprise, the comments are full of men roasting them and telling them to go meet a real woman instead of watching porn 24/7
#t#in a surprising turn of events#facebook is the least braindead website#there are some chuds but they get quickly shut down by men#someone posted lara from the tr anime#and all the men were like 'wdym she looks fine???'#a breath of fresh air ngl
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Brb crying I rewatched the trailer for Mutant Mayhem and I just noticed that April's a little bit more in the plus size area and it's making me lowkey scream cuz as a plus sized gal myself seeing one of my favorite characters being this way as well is absolutely fantastic! Not to mention that she's super adorable too!!!!
#oli talks#ooc#muns ramblings#mindless ramblings of a madman#teenage mutant ninja turtles#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rise of the tmnt#tmnt#rottmnt#tmnt mutant mayhem#teenage mutant ninja turtles mutant mayhem#mutant mayhem april#tmnt april#rottmnt april#April O'Neil#listen it's like a breathe of fresh air seeing this like I never thought in my wildest dreams that a plus sized April O'Neil would happen#and yet here she is looking exactly like that and I hope to God that she stays that way I love her already
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What would each Marauder characters smell like in Amortentia:
James: Broom polish, cinnamon, fresh spring air, oranges (like a tangeriney smell) .
Sirius: Hairspray, Ash (the smell of a campfire), vanilla lip balm, basil.
Remus: Black coffee, a brand new book, caramel, whiskey.
Peter: Sunscreen, watermelon (but the artificial smell), mint (fresh, like you’re smelling the herb directly), fresh laundry.
Lily: The sea, strawberries (fresh not artificial), lavender, dewy grass.
Marlene: Broom Polish, cigarettes, rain, apples.
Dorcas: Coconut, Acrylic Paint, Cold Air (it has a fresh scent imo), Cherry Coke.
Mary: The Earl Grey Tea She Drinks, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Sweet Cream, Her Vanilla Purfume.
Regulus: Cold Water, Pine, Musk (it’s in his cologne), Expensive Ink.
Pandora: Seaweed, Limes, Rosemary, Soil.
Barty: Oil (don’t ask why), Cedar, Rain Water, Copper.
Evan: Sandalwood, Coffee (with milk), Coconut Conditioner, Grapefruit.
#cinnamon is a very common spice for Indian cooking and used in garam masala and chai tea so it would make perfect sense for James yk#some of these makes a lot of sense to me#like Dorcas and cold air#yk on cold days but it’s sunny and clear there’s a cool smell it’s fresh#that that’s the scent#I wanted to make Remus smell like chocolate but caramel is a warm smell which I like#Peter is 100% dead on to me#Sirius smelling like hairspray is so funny to me#Pandora smells like the outdoors#like she spends all day outside#Barty and copper? not sure where that one came from but it fits#yes I was kind of running out of ideas by Evan but yk it will do#also it is rude of me to make Regulus smell like water and it’s also funny#james potter#regulus black#jegulus#sunseeker#sirius black#dorcas meadowes#marlene mckinnon#lily evans#mary macdonald#remus lupin#peter pettigrew#barty crouch jr#pandora lovegood#evan rosier#maurder era#jsp headcannon#jsp- marauder era
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